I believed all human beings looked for the truth as I do. If you were actually looking for the truth, you'd read more things that challenged your beliefs instead of constantly trying to reinforce them. Hey Kettle. Read Wealth of Nations yet? Or maybe Atlas Shrugged or Fountainhead? |
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Workers don't get exploited because they can choose between 20 other jobs that will exploit them in exactly the same way compete to hire them.
In Mexico, Brazil, China, India, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, and soon Kenya and every other third world country, yes, that eventually becomes the case. With every third-world nation that people have complained about with regards to running sweatshops and exploiting workers for very little wages, that nation eventually (and quickly) reached employment saturation, where the number of cheap jobs greatly outnumbered the number of workers available to exploit. Once that happened, workers started to demand higher wages, and factories started to provide competitive wages and better working conditions to steal workers off each other. Those workers, now earning more money, in turn were then able to get specialized training, get education, move to managerial positions, and start their own businesses. In the end, the economies of those countries, and the quality of life for the workers, had greatly improved. Just compare India, Mexico, and Brazil from 20 years ago to today. This has happened EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. There is NO REASON it will not continue to happen. So we have REAL WORLD EXAMPLES that what you propose would happen is total bullsh~~. |
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Another option is just to go after guys. They're into the same stuff you're into, they don't go crazy once a month, and they already know what you like and how you like it  Besides, if you dress like the guys in the photo (especially the preening one on the right), you might as well go for it. |
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^^^ Because Bitcoin is only By America, For Americans... right?
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Some years ago SL used to charge people for the components of the objects they create; not a new idea, and they moved away from it already.
FWIW, I was imagining a game mechanic rather than a revenue stream. So these resources need to be gathered somehow. This would make the system more of a simulation than an interface. Then we'd see which economic/social model would survive.  Not a new thing of course and probably not suitable for the topic. I was actually thinking of charging for actual resources. CPU cycles cost electricity, and storage of textures and objects requires physical disk space, so costs hard drives. In a way it's like virtual world real estate and resources. Actually it's exactly virtual world real estate and resources. |
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Sadly, until BitTorrent starts working over Tor or I2P, or until we finally get truly distributed wireless mesh networking for all our web access, "ignoring" those laws still won't be easy. We still have to keep an eye on our downloads and stop they as soon as they finish, lest we get angrygram from Comcast (I know I2P is supposed to work with bittorrent, but I had no luck with it). |
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Any examples there where people live peacefully but don't pay taxes to support their country? If not, then on any continent?
Cayman Islands? And you think one guy has any sort of leverage whatsoever against a multi-billion dollar corporation?
Your free market sure gives a lot of illusions of choice, but unless you're an extremely exceptional individual, you effectively have none.
If you think workers in exploiting capitalist markets have no choice, please tell that to the business owners who outsourced to Mexico, China, and India. With labor shortages and rapidly rising wages in those countries, I am sure those business owners could use a laugh. By the way, my parents are poor. They make six figures a year each from their normal jobs, plus own about 4 rental properties, and run a small business from home. Yet their monthly bills are over $20,000 a month, and after all the other expenses (like supporting my younger brother, my grandparents, sending money to family back in our country, paying off loans used for medical expenses for my grandparents, etc), they can't afford any frivolous stuff like eating out, new clothes, car repairs, or most types of groceries. I think they "need" assistance. I an poor. I make a very (VERY) comfortable income, but after all the money that goes to max out my retirement and savings accounts, I only bring home maybe $600 every two weeks. After all my bills and student loans and money I spend on friends and family to help them or keep them entertained, I can't afford things like cable TV, video game consoles, weekly trips to restaurants or movies, new shoes, and many times even a good lunch. I do litteraly live on $900 or so a month. Less than that even. Maybe I'm poor, and "need" stuff like food stamps. That would make coking dinner much easier, since I won't have to do it from scratch so often. My ex-bf in KY lives with his wife, and both of them bring home about $1,000 a month after taxes. No 401k's or retirement accounts, practically no savings accounts, and a lot of the money goes to pay off the wife's old credit card loans. They have nice TVs, a PS3 and an X-Box with lots of games, they have a nice collection of DVDs, and go out to the movies often, they eat nice foods, and buy themselves lots of things like clothes, tech toys, and other stuffs. They are also poor and always broke. But why is it that my poor ex-bf has all that fun stuff he spends money on, and is actually considered poor, while my family and I are usually broke, don't have any of those fun entertaining things, and can't afford to enjoy our lives like he can, but we're supposedly not poor at all? Heck, in the end, he may have free spending cash than we do (moreso, since he's willing to use credit cards) Is it just different priorities? |
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An other thing: if public education aims at providing education to the poor, why on earth is it proposed to everybody???
Does the State assume that every one is a poor thing that must be taken care of?
I should hope it assumes that, rich or poor, kids don't chose what life they were born into, and everyone should be given an equal chance at starting life before they get to a point where they actually can make their own choices, for better or worse. |
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There have been dozens of studies like this. http://psychcentral.com/news/2007/09/10/brains-of-liberals-conservatives-may-work-differently/1691.htmlThe work, to be reported today in the journal Nature Neuroscience, grew out of decades of previous research suggesting that political orientation is linked to certain personality traits or styles of thinking. A review of that research published in 2003 found that conservatives tend to be more rigid and closed-minded, less tolerant of ambiguity and less open to new experiences. Some of the traits associated with conservatives in that review were decidedly unflattering, including fear, aggression and tolerance of inequality. That evoked outrage from conservative pundits. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/28/conservatives-fear-center-brain/A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives’ brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other “primitive” emotions. At the same time, conservatives’ brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate — the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism. That's conservative. Fuck conservatives with a large pineapple. Communists were conservatives. Libertarians seem anything but conservatives. Pro-let everyone do what they want and be who they want to be is just about as opposite of conservativism as you can get. |
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Why? What's the point? He's not even the most obnoxious, socially inept troll on here.
Yeah he is. Speak of the devil!  |
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Why? What's the point? He's not even the most obnoxious, socially inept troll on here.
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i dont believe for a second that any of these guys like women.
So it's not just me! Thanks. |
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Who has more incentive to see bitcoin succeed than the 0.1% holding 50% of the coins?
People who genuinely plan an exit strategy from the current economic model. Consider this comparison with the prisoners dilemma: Lets say keeping the coins equals remaining silent (withholding them is the opposite another hoarder would want) Lets say spending them equals confession (In that case the other one would have more coins which is what he wants) We are currently in a situation where almost anybody remains silent. However there is not enough confession (spent coins overall) so that the prisoner gets free (bitcoin rich equals real world rich). (In our case we would have to apply fuzzy logic since there is no need to totally cooperate or defect however the model would have the pinnacle point at 50%) What about spending a portion of your wealth to improve the economy (on things like app, POS systems, exchanges, etc that actually grow the economy, not on just buying random junk which only transfers the coins from one hoarder to another)? How does that fit into the prisoners delema, and why do you think the 0.1% are NOT doing that? |
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Who has more incentive to see bitcoin succeed than the 0.1% holding 50% of the coins?
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Old coins barely move. You can see that if you dig though the block chain a little.
I mean, fuck not everybody is retarded and some of those startups might have been partially funded by early adopter coins but a majority of the 0.1% still thinks they gonna live their golden years in a castle by doing nothing.
Kinda like all those lazy hoarders with stocks and bonds in their 401k's and pension funds. F those guys, right? |
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*BING-BING-BING*My gaydar is going off like crazy with some of those people... Metrosexuals make me so confused 
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6. Updating Android Just did that and lost my wallet there. 3.8 bitcoins down  The Schildbach client really needs a way to backup / restore 1) Move your coins off your phone 2) ROOT YOUR PHONE! 3) Use Titanium Backup to back up your Bitcoin cliend 4) Copy your TitaniumBackup folder somewhere safe, and encrypt it. That's what I had to do after losing my coins same way you did. I also wish they had a backup option, but until they do, the above steps are a must. |
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It would be safe to say Bitcoin is officially dead when you can't get a pizza (or two) for 10.000 BTC...
It was already like that for months (a year?) once. Maybe it was dead and rose from the grave? If it can do that then death is not so scary, eh? Or that Bitcoin is as good as Jesus. And yes, I do recognize that there is a lot of deep irony in that statement. |
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I am, at least on a global scale.
Can you expound on this point? What does "global scale" defense look like? Do we have that today?
Obviously, some rich fuck can afford some executive security and get driven around in a bulletproof escalade, but that isn't exactly the status quo, is it...
Nor is it particularly effective if you are too much of a fuck, is it... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49276.0 |
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Mockery is a high form of wit.
... Wit what?
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