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5841  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Hi :) on: September 28, 2013, 06:50:20 PM
Welcome Nuno!
5842  Economy / Gambling / Re: Re: max betting on dice sites on: September 28, 2013, 06:48:51 PM
Yap, that sounds like all gambling stories end. Smiley
5843  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Hello on: September 28, 2013, 06:46:57 PM
Welcome to BitcoinTalk, beware of scams! Cheesy
5844  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Hello There on: September 28, 2013, 06:46:11 PM
Hello and welcome!  Smiley
5845  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Hello on: September 28, 2013, 06:45:26 PM
Hello and welcome!
5846  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Hello everyone on: September 28, 2013, 06:41:23 PM
Welcome!
5847  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Hello everyone, good to be here! on: September 28, 2013, 06:40:38 PM
Welcome, still much reading ahead. Smiley
5848  Economy / Securities / Re: [BitFunder] Asset Exchange Marketplace + Rewritable Options Trading on: September 28, 2013, 05:29:09 PM
Is now censured* sorry about that. Thanks for the proof reading Smiley

What about TOR or VPNs? Doesn't that work?
5849  Other / Off-topic / Re: VPS - Advantages and Disadvantages? on: September 28, 2013, 04:05:39 PM
Cons:

VPS server can be hacked and they will access your data = BAD. Happened to my provider.
OpenVZ shares kernel with the host, makes some stuff hard. In the future I'd go KVM route.
Overselling could slow your VPS.

Pros:

Dirt cheap, I pay $5 for 2GB ram OpenVZ from ChicagoVPS, 256MB ram for $1/mo
Great for development environments, easy reinstall of OS

But, everything can be hacked...
5850  Economy / Services / Re: Poker Coaching: Offering you Poker 101 on: September 28, 2013, 03:59:08 PM
Do you have a profile at Card Player or The Hendon Mob?
5851  Other / Off-topic / Re: Let's Count to 21 Million with Images on: September 28, 2013, 03:43:22 PM
5852  Other / Off-topic / Re: intel vPro processor backdoor to make securing bitcoin impossable? on: September 28, 2013, 03:40:02 PM
Here's a very topic relevant talk by Cory Doctorow:

The Coming Civil War over General-purpose Computing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI
5853  Other / Off-topic / Re: Movies they should never remake or reboot on: September 28, 2013, 03:36:15 PM
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey

You, sir, are correct. But can you explain to me why?

If they remade it today they probably would make an action scifi movie out of it. David Bowman would be gunning down HAL 2000 with an M16 and then go after the Monolith with a rocket launcher. The Star Child would be toast before the credits rolled.

In other words, you're saying studio driven material doesn't hold a candle to auteur driven material? If so, and I do agree for the most part, then you're implicitly saying that Hollywood material, and even more so, Hollywood blockbusters are often garbage.

Yes, they are, very often.

It's almost unbelievable $100+ million blockbusters, many times with great actors and directors, with so much obvious plot holes, I simply don't understand how this is possible!

It's because studios want as many people as possible to see the movie, and in order for that to happen, you have to make a movie that appeals to the least common denominator. The best films are the ones where the director doesn't really care about box office numbers, and just makes the film he wants to make, without studio meddling. Design by an artist always beats design by committee when it comes to art.

I know producers get the final cut, but even so, it would be so easy to fix so many movies out there, sorry I can't give specific examples at the moment, you're a movie guy I'm pretty sure you understand what I mean.
5854  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How do you Bitcoin people like North Korea? on: September 28, 2013, 02:56:04 PM
Does anyone know what percentage of the North Korean population has access to broadband internet? 

Probably, only the elite can have Internet access.
5855  Other / Off-topic / Re: VPS - Advantages and Disadvantages? on: September 28, 2013, 02:54:18 PM
If you only need web hosting, use a shared host. If you need more than that, get a VPS. If you need more control and more resources, get a dedi.

Actually, what is a VPS?  Is it a server in the cloud?
And by dedi do you mean a dedicated machine?

Virtual Private Server, it means there are a bunch of operating systems in one computer.

This makes having a server very affordable.

Yes, that is what dedicated is.
5856  Other / Off-topic / Re: Reddit User Running Safe Needle Exchange on: September 28, 2013, 02:50:32 PM
Will all respect but why the hell would you sponsor users to maintain their destructive habbit?

"someone put it like this- I am not in favor of car accidents but I still think ppl need seatbelts." Tracey (Reddit safe needle exchange)

To a lot of people in these forums, a few Satoshis wont break the bank, but it can make a big difference to the cause.

People don't choose for car accidents so I don't think it's a good comparison. She should spend money to help those people break their addiction instead of supoorting them in their use of drugs.

This isn't about drug addiction it's about HIV and hepatitis.
It's cheaper to prevent the spread of these diseases by managing needles than it is to treat these diseases later.

Precisely!

It's public health!
5857  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The Clock is Ticking - Will there be a Government shutdown and how to prepare? on: September 28, 2013, 02:42:31 PM
I don't understand this ObamaCare thing, is it good or not? Will it bring health costs down? Will more people have access to health-care?
5858  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How do you Bitcoin people like North Korea? on: September 28, 2013, 02:38:39 PM
How many BTC are in the NK treasury?

They have all, the new ones being mined are just NK being generous.  Cheesy
5859  Other / Off-topic / Re: Movies they should never remake or reboot on: September 28, 2013, 02:35:06 PM
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey

You, sir, are correct. But can you explain to me why?

If they remade it today they probably would make an action scifi movie out of it. David Bowman would be gunning down HAL 2000 with an M16 and then go after the Monolith with a rocket launcher. The Star Child would be toast before the credits rolled.

In other words, you're saying studio driven material doesn't hold a candle to auteur driven material? If so, and I do agree for the most part, then you're implicitly saying that Hollywood material, and even more so, Hollywood blockbusters are often garbage.

Yes, they are, very often.

It's almost unbelievable $100+ million blockbusters, many times with great actors and directors, with so much obvious plot holes, I simply don't understand how this is possible!
5860  Economy / Securities / Re: Invest in PIF! on: September 28, 2013, 02:18:20 PM
You may get competition in the future, I'm willing to reduce fees to 0.0041 BTC.

Plus, amazing company!
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