People will still speculate, bull and bear alike, even if you scream against it until you are blue in the face.

Why is it not a level playing field though?

Everyone has a choice to participate.

I don't feel bad about gaining money at the expense of others when the others willingly participate in the same activity with the same level of risk and same information available.  It is their fault if they are investing while misinformed, or do not have access to the same level of information (though I'm not sure what "levels of information" there might be in Bitcoin).

I've looked at the link provided by Amanda.  As promised, I will not share the link, but I will comment on the contents.

Every result of any query I run has been published in the past.  Each result is shown in XML format, and has a newspaper title, date of publication, city, state, and country of publication, etc, listed as variables in XML format.  It appears as though there is a vulnerability on the hosting site that allows any person to run queries on their database by simply directing themselves to the appropriate URL.

This is simply a collection of older (and some newer) published articles, digitized using OCR technology.

Rereading your original post, I see that you only say the articles have not been published on the internet, not necessarily a claim of never being published in any medium.  I did find that some of them have not been published on the internet before.  I would caution anyone that reposting these on the internet would constitute a copyright violation, not only of the hosting site (who probably shares all of these to anyone with a membership), but also of the original publishers of the articles.

It's a zero-sum game, as we both agreed upon earlier.  I'm not sure what your point is...

It's only a suckers game if you're the sucker. (You're the sucker).

Lots of people have made a profit, lots of people have had a loss.  Same as in any market.

Oh, I thought by downloaded, you meant purchased on Origin.  Didn't realize you pirated it.

Yes, I know all too well about BF2.  I never played much with bots (silly 16-player limitation, and I never bothered to remove it), but I loved the game and played multiplayer for far too many hours.

Honestly, there doesn't seem to be too many kids playing BF3 on the PC.  I'd peg it as a more mature crowd that the gathering on this forum, at least.

Play multiplayer.  You can't play the multiplayer maps in single player.  The single player is a campaign, so it won't feel anything like battlefield, you're right about that.

There's planes on some of the larger maps...

If you say so...

So why can i find the same articles there? The examples you gave match the text on the articles.

It THE BRANDON SUN Ladies Start Play In 32nd Annual Spiel By KENT GILCHRIST Sun Sporti Writtr The 1968 edition of the Brandon ladies 32nd annuai bonspiel go under way Mbndav with 74 rinks taking part This is 14 fewer rinks than asi year The 74 entries wil be battling for prizes in six events The Curly MacKay and Sons even one of the main events has reached the 32s after the first day of play and the Kaon event will be down to 32s after the 9 am draw today Two local rinks Drew Dickens of the Brandon Curlins Club and Dell Hillman of the Brandon Golf and Country Club are leading the parade in the winners circle after the first day of play Both rinks played and won three saines Monday Picking up two wins in their two sames Monday were Donalda Stunpton and her Riverview quartet Doreen Harris of Virden Nettie Latchani of the Brandon Uolf and Country Club Bonnie Low of Brandon University Doreen White of the Brantion Curling Club Kuth Winder oi Crawtord Park Mabel Mitchell of the Brandon Club Mrs Capon of Belmont Kdie Miller of Souris and Irene Barkweli of the Country Club Mrs Barkwe won her first game by default over Dor Devenson of Neepawa arose over his as Mrs Barkweli was a late entry and bonspiel head quarters had informed Mrs Devenson she was to curl at 2 pm yesterday before the Barkweli entry was made Neces sity made it imperative o move Mrs Devenson to the am draw yesterday but she was not informed of this charo in time and so was disqualified Being a good sport she bowed oui of he Curly MacKay even thus putting things back in order and allowing the draw to run smoothly Strange things were happening when the lirst draws were beiaj made up Doreen White of the Brandon Curling Club and Aiine MacKay cravTi against caih other in the Eatons and when They wenback to tin hat for the first round in the Curlys even Mrs White was again drawn against Mrs MacKay i his wasnt strange enough Dot Graham of Holland ar IHanie Pooe f the Brandon Gof anci Ciwnry Club had he Monties situation iacing them There were only four on the firs day of play be cause he ladies heid their last evening Today they wii be back to six draws Mil he secondary events will be opened today Drawmaster Ilalph Ny hoped to have the finals of all the event played on the 9 pm draw Thursday This is bar ring complications in the iVgs secondary event and the Shaw secondary The ladies are curling at a three the curling clubs in Brandon the Brandon Golf and Country Cub where hf wil paywl the Brands ur Ijegion Club Riverview Three members of the Miichrl rink the Manitoba ladies champions curling in the Ixmspiei with heir own rinks Mrs won both her 23Tes Monday Shirley Bray won ne st HS iid viark is not curling in the bonspiel Some f the favorites were beaten in hc first nay of piay Boyri of the Country Ciub was Doiwr Kunyay was also knocked from one o he f ens s was Doneen Brawn Kuth McLean of the Brandon Clun WHS aiso upset and Beryl Simpson of st one t games Sports Briefs TORONTO CP Bruce Kidd of Toronto the teenage running sensation of the early 1960s will attempt a comeback during the TelegramMaple Leaf Indoor Games March 1 after nearly four years of inac tivity Kidd who owned practically every middle distance and long distance record in Canada be fore he was 20 retired after the J964 Olympics in Tokyo He had failed to win a medal and later underwent surgery to correct injured leg tendons which had forced him to run on the outsides of his feei He ran in a number of On tario distance meets last year but said Im not planning a come back I just run for fun now He will compete in the Cana dian invitational onemile race March 1 as well as in the 880 yard relay Kidd has covered the mile in four minutes and 11 seconds and the twomile event in dur ing a series of tests recently al the U n i v e r s it y of Chicago where he is working on aPhD TORONTO CP Thomas Vernon Avers former National H o c k e y League defeuceman with New York Americans New York Rangers Montreal Ma roons and St Louis Flyers col lapsed and died on the ice in a fatherson hockey game Sunday night He was 59 In 28 fames with New York Hangers in 193536 Ayers col lected a sotal of 350 minuies in penalties while scoring six goal and 14 assists Born in Toronto Ayers grad uated from junior hockey with the Toronto Young Juniors and in 1930 started with the New Haven Eagles of the old Cana dianAmerican Hockey League In he same season he moved on to the New York Americans where he stayed until 1933 He played with Montreal Ma roons in the 193334 season be fore moving on to Quebec of the CAHL St Louis of the NHL in 193435 New York Rangers in 193536 Philadelphia of the CAHL from 1936 to 1938 Her shey of the CAHL in W3S39 and finally Pittsburgh of the CAHL in 193940 LONDON Reutersi George Hackenschmidt once the terror of the wrestling world and known as the strongest man in Bomber Native Series Tied At One Game Each The semifinals of the north division of the Southwest Inter mediate Hockey League started Sunday night in Minnedosa with Neepawa Natives dumping the hometown Bombers 64 Ian Kingdon and Larry Evans fired two goals each for the Natives with Harv Ebner and Barry Brooking tallying one goal apiece Wayne Black scored twice for the Bombers with sin gles going to Terry Wakley and Bob Graham Neepawa scored three goals in each of the first two periods while Minnedosa scored once in the first twice in the second and notched the lone tally in Ihe third period Neepawa took 11 of the 18 minor penalties handed out Last night the fourth place Bombers travelled to Neepawa to meet their firstplace opposi tion and evened the best of three series at one game each with a 51 riumph Dick Boyd led the winners with two goals both in the first period while Garner Shearer Brian Charette and Jim Peltz added singles Tan Kingdon scor ed Xeepawas lone marker Minnedosa led 31 after 20 minutes of play and scored their last two goals in the second pe riod There were 12 penalties called including one gamemidconduct to each club the world died here Monday He was IO Hackenschmidt the vussian lion was world champion heavyweight wrestler for 14 years He won two epic battles with Ahmed Madrali the terri ble Turk HackenschmicU a huge man with a domeshaped head con quered the Turk in seconds in their first fight in 1SXH in Lon don Two years later Hackensch midf beat Madrali in four min utes Hackensehmidt born in Esto nia moved to London in 1945 and five years later became a naturalized British subject JOMBEKLEY BC CP1 Vern Becker of K i m b e r I e y skipped his rink to an 84 win over John Kidd of Vancouver to win the British Columbia mixed curling championship Monday Becker curling flawlessly broke the heart of the Kidd foursome with one lough shot after another Four up coming home he still had to make his last rock to preserve the vic tory The win was his second straight of the day having beat Kidd earlier 73 Becker and his rink now will represent BC in St Boniface Alan March Ujfi competing for the Dominion championship Rounding out the winning foursome were Cherry Sander son third Sandy Sanderson sec ond and Betty Crooks lead LOUISVILLE Ky AP Thirteen thoroughbred mares all of them in foal died Sunday in a fire that swept through a barn at TinDor Farm about 20 miles northeast of Louisville The horses valued at about S200000 were being bred at the farm for five different owners Reds Too Good Olympic Hockey Comment JACKIE MacLEOD denies report Reds Blame Coaches MOSCOW i APi The Soviet press blamed Russias coaches for Soviet failure to come out on top at the Winter Olympics With millions of Soviet chil dren going in for wintersports there is a wide choice to pick future champions from the of ficial news agency Tass said Monday Soviet coaches have obvious ly failed to prepare superclass skiers and skaters for the Gren oble Olympics Tass complained that for IS years running Soviet male skiers have never won gold medals either at world cham pionships or the Olympics with the exception of the 195S relay On skating Pravda gives the view Soviet trainers have lost something in methodical train ing and at the same time have not found anything new The Soviet Union after win ning 11 gold medals at Inns bruck Austria four years ago got only five in the latest Olym pics along with five silver and hree bronze By THE CANADIAN PRESS The concensus of Canadian sports writers after Russias victory in ihe Olympic hockey tournament a Grenoble Satur day was iha Canadas national team was Iwaten by a far supe rior ub The Canadians won a bronze medal losing to Finland early in the tournament and again u the Russians Saturday in the fnal game that decided the goid medal The Russians were defeated only by Czechoslovakia which took the silver medal on the basis of its loss to Canada and a tie against Sweden The game was nn contest says Red Fisher of Montreal Star referring to Canadas 50 loss to the Russians Saturday Canada was beaten by a far better team bu the Canadians did better than anyone ex pected which may be worth something A sampling f newspaper comment Dick Beddoes in Toronto Globe and Mail Canadas national team mane the Olympic competition lively while it lasted Now we can fee cosy again we are back in ihe old groove are clearly represented before the world by loser Aubrey Keiier of Breton Post said We were beaten by a better team The system on which the Ca nadian national team is being built seems to be improving Maybe not as fast as it should Lets no quit as defeatisis Maybe there should be a shakeup in management and coaching Its worth checking Hal Walker of Calgary Her ald There is an attitude of to what about our side getting shellacked by the big bear in Grenoble but nearly everybody is full of gratuitous advice and ready to spank the Nats for their failure Ray Alviano of KitchenirWs terloo Record In previous years the Can ucks were inevitably getting the short end of the stick from ref erees There was no pointing Nats Plagued By Misfortunes Blues Vikings Share First To Taste Victory Vincent Masscy Vikings mov ed into a first place tie with the previously undefeated BCI Blues in the Brandon High School Bssketball League The Vikings squeezed by the Rlues 2925 It was he scconi meeting for the two arch rivals BC won the first contest the first game of the year a Vin cem Massey The powerful Mas sey crew came back Friday night lo defeat he Bines in their own back yard So far this year these two clubs have met three times once in ihe Brandon University Basketball Tournament which Massey won The Vikings now have a 21 record with BCI Three of Massey s starting five all notched eight points each iii the defensive conies Centre loe Burgess Rod Lin denbera and Dwight Kearns all had eight points A Ross had three and Ken Baker two Dan Didttck Gary Smith combination once again proved to be the best for the Blues as they picked up 10 and eight points respectively Centre Lar ry Rorionbush held to four poins and Chuck Corly added three Massey stormed to a half lime load of 21K before BC came on in the last half outscoring their visitors 17R Over at Harrison the third place Harrison Hawks came up with a 5433 win over the winless Lozanski Named To Executive DAUPHIN Special1 Dau ers Association at the groups phin man Bert Snarl was elect organizational meeing held at ed president of the newly form Gilbert Plains recently ed Manitoba Horseshoe Pitch Tea Lozanski and Kudolph Ne r b a s of Grandview were elected the second and first vice presidents of the association wih Miss lean Rudd of Makin ak filling the secretarytreasur ers position Committee members of the newly formed MHPA are Char lie Brandson of Swan River Stanley Safronetz of Roblin Mel Stoughton of Gilbert Plains and Clarence MeTavish of Dauphin Mrs Blanche Brown of Dauphin will act as publicity chairman After ihe official election of officers the new president Bert Snart took over the meeting to allow the organizations members to ratify the various rules and regulations of ihe body such as formally adopting the or ganizations name The new association will be the official governing body for horseshoes in Manitoba All the rules and bylaws of the parent Canadian Horseshoe Pitcher Association were adopted Tne Manitoba segment of Ihe national association was officiali ly formed in an effort lo sain recognition by the Canadian soriation i TORONTO CP I was one of those tours the Canadian na tiona hockey team would rather do without And misfortune dogged them all the way home to Winnipeg No only did they fall from the brink of an Olympic gold medal by losing n to the Rus sian national team Saturday and settle for third place behind Czechoslovakia they also lost Iheir plane home Air Canada Flight 909 on cellardwelling Neclin Spartans Bill Grossman and a y n e Forsyihe paced Aubrey Ferris Hawks with 15 and 12 points each Scot Gordon had eight Garth Dandy seven B Shepp six B Christiansen four with N Joss and M Rankmore with wo points each Me Siadnyk and D Dickson were the top scorers for Neelin with 15 and Ipoints respec tively D Hildebrand and Ken Martinuok scored two points each Neelin held a 75 load after the first 5 minutes with Hawks holding a lfi14 lead at the half In the third quarter Harrison crushed the Spartans outscoring them 171 MARSHALL JOHNSTON shutout disappointing which they were to leave here 31 pm EST developed me chanical troubles and was de layed until after to pm To set ihe team home closer to their expected pm CST arrival lime Air Canada booked them on a Vanguard Flight 453 scheduled in leave Toronto at pm EST and arrive in Winnipeg at pm CST hopefully in throngs of welcom ing fans When the airplane touched down after a flight from Europe via Montreal the players coach Jackie MacLeod and Father David Bauer team adviser were not downcast after losing j io the Russians As defenceman Marshall lohn ston put it I dont think any body really expected to beat the Russians Getting shut out is most disappointing He is one of nine Nationals on the negotiation list of Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League and Monday said he plans to discuss terms with Minnesota managercoach Wren Blair Biair in a telephone interview from Minneapolis Monday said he had no plans for discussing contracts with the Nationals for a few days MacLeod denied plans to join New York Rangers of the NHL the nathy finger at the offi cials this time Maurice Smith of Winnipeg Free Press The Russian bear was sti the Russian po ished poised and allround superb machine capa ble of defeating any team in he world Jack Matheson of Winnipeg Tribune I dont know if we really felt we had a chance against the Russians The whole concept of the national team is wrona But sending a junior team isnt the answer and weve tried he seniors before Id say we need a council of war with the National Hockey League We have to lay ii on the line espe cially to the teams in Montreal and Toronto and ask for help Bill Westwick of Ottawa Jour nal Canadas team gave this country excellent representation throughout the tournament Eric Whitehead af Vancouver Province If you are a realist you have to feel there is no way any Canadian team in the foresee able future can whip the Rus sians on their best day unless we adopt their thoroughly professional approach to prepa ration Marcel of Mont real La More than a bnmze medal was expected from our national team But then on the other hand did we honestly believe it capable of winning a gold In al fairness it must be said that the Russians played a hockey match which was per fect natiitrti tOKrn fin ne ohcr hbfid unex Then were all he offsides tha vrrp Russians managed avoid thi fault Sports Mii Iunne Toronto Star w lim Kearney of Vancouver Sun M were both in Grenoble were both loud in fneir praise of the Rus sians Pro scoiits and other hockey men from Canada here for the iotniymeiu arc senoraMy con vinced ha after nihrep months exposure to profession al rules the Russians 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So why can i find the same articles there? The examples you gave match the text on the articles.

Nope..
Edit: I can give a moderator the link to access it so he can confirm it's legit as long as he promises to keep it for himself and not to spread it.

Ok, let me ask you this then:  How much does it cost you for access?  And who do you purchase it through?

Lol, typical response from someone cornered in a debate with no real responses left.

If anyone can make a profit in any market, then your argument that you can't make a profit trading currencies is null.

You can be plenty successful trading in bitcoins without fiat collapsing.  Plenty of people already have been, and are continuing to do so.  It's just completely naive to think you can't make a profit by day-trading BTC right now.  Yes, it is a zero-sum game, but does that matter if you're the one walking away with a profit?  Smart traders can ensure that that happens for themselves.

Regarding your "contradiction", Bitcoin can be VERY successful without having ANY effect on USD whatsoever.  If a single bitcoin was worth $1,000, then the total eventual supply of bitcoins would be worth $2.1B.  Guess what?  That's still less than 1% of the entire active USD money supply.  A drop in the bucket, in other words, that will have very little or no effect on fiat valuation.

So yes, you sure CAN bet that Bitcoin will succeed while still taking your profits in USD without a problem.  It's not a contradiction unless Bitcoin becomes an actual threat to fiat systems, and it has a LONG ways to go in value before that happens!  I wouldn't see Bitcoin play any role in devaluing fiat until it is worth at least $10,000/coin.  And there is plenty of profit to be made through trading, or even long-term investing, before that point even becomes a reality.