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6101  Economy / Exchanges / Re: ATM Robocoin Ends Bitcoin Services on: January 16, 2016, 10:25:52 AM
Good since the contracts were terrible for users and new competition went and made them obsolete.
In a pressure industry companies fail when they lack adaptation being first is good but keeping yourself competitive in a new market is important as well.
6102  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Do you support or oppose the death penalty? on: January 11, 2016, 09:57:43 AM
No, mainly because our country has not had it in my lifetime and Prison seems like a greater torture method than death endless time to be locked up and be confined to a small area.
That said I do think I would support a prison fight club like in a few movies if convicts really want to risk it all in a weird way.

Prisons are a method for transferring wealth to the prison community supporters. How? Through taxing the free people to pay for prisoner support. Most of the tax money goes to those who run the prisons and supply inmate care products and services. The inmates receive little, and in a good prison, receive way more than they need for living.

Make punishments to match the crime. If there is murder done by the guilty, punish him with death. If there is foul play when convicting him so that an innocent person is convicted and executed, execute those who did the foul play... etcetera... until all the guilty are executed.

Why must the people who were harmed by the criminals support them in prison? Citizens were harmed by the criminals once. Now they have to pay to support them for life? Very unfair idea.

Smiley

I'm more of a redemptive law sort of person than a punishment one although I'm not against having prisoners do some hard labor to contribute to society from those closed walls in my opinion, I still don't see why governments don't try to make all prisons self sufficient in the first place free labour that has no opportunity to get out of the prison system with all the time in the world, now that is made for milking and to those with a chance of parole due to good behaviour and serving their time a skillset would be useful if they get reintegrated instead of bouncing back into jail.

Good old workyards where they need to knit clothing, breaking rocks under strict supervision to sell gravel, making farm feed to sustain themselves and sell to the locals, raising chickens etc their is a lot of productivity to be had from this labour than sitting them in a bloody cell 23 hours of the day and making them mooch off the taxpayers dime.

We complain because the public system drains our incomes and takes it from tax revenue. Some people argue for privitization of prison and it's a damn good investment with people taking that route for profit but I feel that if government put in some decent labour regulations countries could have a new market for cheap goods and not need to outsource this stuff, bim bam boom problem addressed self-sufficient prisons serve us all following the maxim you do the crime you pay the time.

(Heck with all the exported labour now a-days a convict trying to sell you car insurance working at a call center seems just as good as outsourcing it to India lol)
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/blogs-and-comment/profiting-from-prison-labour/
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/08/prisoners-call-centre-fired-staff

A business is bussing in inmates from an open prison 21 miles away and paying them only £3 a day to work in its call centre.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed that dozens of prisoners from Prescoed prison in Monmouthshire, south Wales, had done "work experience" for at least two months at a rate of 40p an hour in the private company's telephone sales division in Cardiff.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289

Profits are so good that now there is a new business: importing inmates with long sentences, meaning the worst criminals. When a federal judge ruled that overcrowding in Texas prisons was cruel and unusual punishment, the CCA signed contracts with sheriffs in poor counties to build and run new jails and share the profits. According to a December 1998 Atlantic Monthly magazine article, this program was backed by investors from Merrill-Lynch, Shearson-Lehman, American Express and Allstate, and the operation was scattered all over rural Texas. That state’s governor, Ann Richards, followed the example of Mario Cuomo in New York and built so many state prisons that the market became flooded, cutting into private prison profits.

After a law signed by Clinton in 1996 – ending court supervision and decisions – caused overcrowding and violent, unsafe conditions in federal prisons, private prison corporations in Texas began to contact other states whose prisons were overcrowded, offering “rent-a-cell” services in the CCA prisons located in small towns in Texas. The commission for a rent-a-cell salesman is $2.50 to $5.50 per day per bed. The county gets $1.50 for each prisoner.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/forced-prison-labour-carries-benefits-and-risks-expert-1.656049
Better to make em suffer doing labor he-he Smiley
6103  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 500 “Migrants” Break in German Nightclub and Sexually Assault Women on: January 11, 2016, 09:33:27 AM
Now let me see what the feminists are going to do about this.
They are going to run away, just as usual.

I'm personally curious what would happen if a Femen protest met with an army of Muslim men in Germany though
That would be an interesting site to see.
Round 2 Perhaps
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/topless-femen-protesters-kicked-during-scuffles-at-muslim-conference-about-women-10499668.html
6104  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 500 “Migrants” Break in German Nightclub and Sexually Assault Women on: January 11, 2016, 09:19:43 AM
Well the Germans certainly added some spice to their lives, in all likelihood it will be deport detain and ask questions later in my opinion.
That or make a bunch of working camps and labor camps where people do construction, art, and other miscellaneous tasks to keep them busy and avoid them from resorting to crime or rape, I guess an equvilent of an attitude training camp or the worlds largest matchmaking event since the stats seem to be leaning towards a lot of single young men going to Germany.

http://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/6226311-opinion-young-male-refugees-put-germany-on-the-brink/
71 per cent of all asylum applicants in 2015 were men. Among the mostly-late-teenage category of "unaccompanied minors," as Valerie Hudson points out in an important essay for Politico, the ratios were even more skewed: "11.3 boys for every one girl."

As Hudson notes, these trends have immediate implications for civil order — young men are, well, young men; societies with skewed sex ratios tend to be unstable; and many of these men carry assumptions about women's roles that are diametrically opposed to the values of contemporary Europe.
6105  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Trump proposes massive one-time tax on the rich to pay off national debt on: January 11, 2016, 09:06:56 AM
Can America tax its way back to greatness? Donald Trump seems to think so.

http://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/09/trump.rich/index.html

This was written in 1999 but it does make me smile a bit because he can go back to it and be like Look at the Corporate tax rate then and look at it now Is America really doing great when we lost all these jobs and go on a tangent.
(Then at the end but it's people like me who make these jobs so vote Donald J Trump for president)
6106  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 'Mission accomplished': Mexican President says 'El Chapo' caught on: January 11, 2016, 09:03:55 AM
Meanwhile in a drug cartel base in Mexico
(Operating head) : It's time to call the guys again to get El Chapo out
(Members) : No Hodas it's only been six months Ta Hodidos
(Filmakers) : It looks like we have writing material for the next great jailbreak (pending) lol.
6107  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Do you support or oppose the death penalty? on: January 11, 2016, 09:00:18 AM
No, mainly because our country has not had it in my lifetime and Prison seems like a greater torture method than death endless time to be locked up and be confined to a small area.
That said I do think I would support a prison fight club like in a few movies if convicts really want to risk it all in a weird way.
6108  Economy / Economics / Re: CNN: Money is flying out of China on: January 11, 2016, 08:52:24 AM
Good for bitcoin! Probably why the BTC price is going up. Price should continue to go up for a while.
the china stock market bubble burst, we will see how the market will react ', we hope to convince some big shot you convert a lot of money in bitcoin

In classical terms Blood is on the streets someone out there will buy up those positions but right now is not that time
Bubble Pop
The Shanghai Composite closed down 5.3%, and the Shenzhen Composite ended 6.6% lower.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/10/investing/china-stocks/
6109  Economy / Economics / Re: Upcoming Puerto Rican bankruptcy:Any impact on Bitcoin? on: January 11, 2016, 08:50:12 AM
It is very likely that Puerto Rico will be officially bankrupt on 1st January 2016.
Does it have any impact on Bitcoin and/or crypto currencies?
What do you think?

Just some ripples because of its relationship with the United States
Other than a small contagion effect I don't see a strong enough fear correlation unlike Iceland or Cyprus were.
The politicians are eating it up though being election season and all and Sanders press release etc.
6110  Economy / Economics / Re: List of Bitcoin Hostile (and friendly) Banks on: January 11, 2016, 08:43:17 AM
I just read through almost this entire list and basically there are no USA banks listed that will do business with bitcoin related businesses, correct?

I don't think that's strictly correct. If you check the Gemini exchange they offer to link your account to several US bank accounts.

The list is a tad outdated and most entries forget to note Friendly banks but I believe your correct some do have working relationships with services such as Gemini etc in the US.
6111  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Ever dreamed about Bitcoin? on: January 11, 2016, 08:34:47 AM
It's been a while since I dreamnt about Bitcoin however it is 2016 now and I do give it a good thought now and then
Plans to make even more and then roll around in bits Smiley (Figuratively) kind of need fiat bills to do that lol.
6112  Other / Meta / Re: Forum Comparison: Is It Just Me? on: January 11, 2016, 08:32:30 AM
I was looking at other forums in comparison to this. This one seems more user friendly and better at representing data. Is it just me or does anyone else think this?
The forum design is one that I am used to as well out of habit although it was this and invisionfree that I recall using most.
Layout wise its nice to use and familiar although sooner or later the forum will migrate and that will be interesting to use as more features and possibly headaches will appear which is a tendancy of alpha releases.
6113  Economy / Speculation / Re: BTC Price going back to $250??? on: January 10, 2016, 03:43:03 AM
Nearing the Halving it's hard to tell if there will be any sudden shocks but following this trendline
We are at a new baseline price range 1K ftw
http://www.coindesk.com/price/
6114  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: [SPECULATION] Next big thing in online gambling? on: January 07, 2016, 10:08:57 AM
Stuff like this is the next big thing in my opinion
www.battlecoin.org
Little cool games that resemble the arcade machines, but instead of inserting coins you insert Bitcoins and you play against other people and the winner takes it all (or other custom rules).

Dang this is retro that said it looks like an interesting game since it takes Bitcoin and people can bet on it.
Extending from that something like Twitch combined with Bitcoin betting seems like it would become a natural extension to online gambling with e-sports being what it is, although little pvp battles like this that challenge people to games of skill are also good especially with starting chips to get people to try it.
6115  Economy / Securities / Re: Neo & Bee talk (spam free thread) on: January 07, 2016, 10:00:28 AM
Fellow intrepid investors and finance revolutionaries! Our tiem haz cum!



https://twitter.com/BtcDanny/status/682845250084311041
Well this seems like inserting a stick into and watching some meat Roast
And a bit of Popcorn surprised that twitter account even posted something in 2016
6116  Economy / Services / Re: E-coin Fixed signature campaign(Only Hero and Staff/Legendary)||Full on: December 31, 2015, 03:18:49 AM
Well that sucks when the escrow itself is the scam alas another fiasco.
I can't say it couldn't be helped since the forum is suspicious of new campaigns and vouches for escrow that in itself can be a risk, reputation wise it is a bit of a hard hit so even a token gesture would be nice but I guess e-coin is short on the coins.
Oh well tks anyways.

Guess they are,
that's why they are abled throw $190 into their promo raffle,
but aint got the coins to pay out participants.

Well as your personal sig says
There is nothing permanent except change.
(Sorry that just seemed perfect as a reply Tongue no chump change lol)
6117  Economy / Services / Re: ❃❃ ▶▷ BETCOIN.ag ◁◀ ❃❃#1 BTC Casino Sports Poker-Signature Campaign-CASINO BONUS on: December 31, 2015, 03:13:06 AM

- snip -
Nice get for Legendary members still waiting on the RNG here ha-ha
Signing up for this campaign.

Posts:3393
Rank: Hero Member
Address: 1K1WUEbAhsR3D9GAeW5G3ALSVMkYLr68ve

Note: Yes I read the OP but its a habit "I would like to join" keyword activated Smiley
6118  Economy / Services / Re: E-coin Fixed signature campaign(Only Hero and Staff/Legendary)||Full on: December 31, 2015, 02:52:03 AM
I apologize for the bad news , but the escrow for the campaign , i.e master-p seems to have "exit-scammed"[1]. As he was the only person who had access to the campaign funds, I'm sorry to say that the campaign will be discontinuing with no payments for the last month.

Apologies for any inconveniences again
In case the new owner of the "master-p" account returns and refunds(highly unlikely), everyone will be paid out.

Follow-up [1]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306301.0

Well that sucks when the escrow itself is the scam alas another fiasco.
I can't say it couldn't be helped since the forum is suspicious of new campaigns and vouches for escrow that in itself can be a risk, reputation wise it is a bit of a hard hit so even a token gesture would be nice but I guess e-coin is short on the coins.
Oh well tks anyways.
6119  Economy / Speculation / Re: The Christmas 2015 Bubble on: December 25, 2015, 05:22:42 AM
This year, Santa decided it would be easier to make bitcoin go higher rather than deliver individual gifts. 

Well I am always happy to see a greater return on my investment
Price appreciation in Bitcoin after all is a good thing and I am looking forward to seeing what January will bring Smiley.
6120  Economy / Speculation / Re: Will BTC reach $500 during december? on: December 25, 2015, 05:20:10 AM
Since we are at Christmas it looks like $500 will not appear during December although the rally patternwise looks like it will certainly happen in January instead either way this thread will need to edit its op in a few more days and Merry Christmas Smiley
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