Poorer countries get richer too. Working long hours in a factory may not be fun but slaving away in a field is no picnic either. It's something the first world went through a couple of hundred years ago and look where we are now.

That;s where I saw it.

I'm almost beginning to think that BFL was a scheme by a small cadre of GPU miners to keep new miners from entering the game. I know I would have bought another card if the prospect of ASICS wasn't "any day now". Truly BFL has not just screwed over those who have actually given them money.

When a staged rollout goes pear-shaped, you roll back. This should have been the plan from the beginning.

I was surprised to see somewhere it was possible to pay with paypal recently. I don't remember where though. Possibly it was a restaurant.

Not sure why it would have symbols for other currencies present on the design.

No point. You'd only get paid in funny money.

You sound like those are two different things...

No problem. We're not really at odds. Just bear in mind that I grew up in a country where gun confiscation became near-complete in my lifetime. Once the majority does not have a dog in the hunt (if you'll pardon the pun), it's already the endgame.

No reason it couldn't...

Though I think firstbits has a lot of mileage. Perhaps a combination of the two.

I consider that a toolbox containing several screwdrivers, a hammer and wrenches in different sizes has a lot of utility. Yet no one is forcing one into my hands and making me pay for it.

I deny your utility anyway. Government is almost universally inept and inefficient in everything it does.

Alternatives to hunting could be readily deployed for that scenario. Trapping, poison bait, contraceptives... Remember, this is the government so they're not concerned with efficiency.

Come to that, they'd probably just have professional animal controllers. I guarantee that even if you would want hunting to be your full-time job, you either wouldn't like the pay or would be competing with many others for the job.

What they're really looking for right now is for control of guns to cease being a matter for law and to start being a matter for regulation. Once they have "assault" weapons down, watch them tweak the definition of "assault weapon" until they get you. Semi-automatics, guns capable of being loaded with more than one round, ammunition > 22, high fps, barrel length, scopes, gunpowder... Watch them fall one-by-one.

Don't be fooled. It's *your* gun they want, no matter what kind it is. An attack on one is an attack on all. Everything is, indeed, connected.

Though please add a clause excluding Kanye West.

All you might need to sell would be a pre-drilled & tapped rail for the card plates and a pre-drilled baseplate for the motherboard (Though the holes are usually in a line so you might be able to get away with just a few rails for that too).

Not Brazil. That little backwater called the USA. http://www.infowars.com/collecting-rainwater-now-illegal-in-many-states-as-big-government-claims-ownership-over-our-water/

(now I feel grubby for linking to that site).

One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that many of the laws the government passes to allow them to take others' property are unconstitutional and thus illegal and invalid in themselves. This makes actions done under the letter of these laws illegal. Then there are the times when the government doesn't even abide by the law and just does what it wants anyway just because it's more convenient. This is often the case on a more local, individual scale but occurs at all levels.

In the words of a great man, "Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun."

Yay. Back in the game. Just need to make sure I have enough to cash out from Slush.

OK. Possible. Though it seems when I run the miner from the command line, it seems to get into a state where it just can't reconnect (though that may just have been you monkeying with things come to think about it but more likely I think it's when the video driver crashes). So the upshot is the pool is unusable by me for the moment?

Any idea why the old url might not be working? I see that there are people still mining OK with the pool so... I dunno.

Not that there's anything wrong with it but it's basically a set of shelves with a couple of brackets and a bar attached. Maybe a trip to Ikea is in order?


Haha, I'm kidding. I wouldn't send my worst enemy to Ikea.