I have a better idea.
Let's have IQ tests, then only let people with IQ better than 120 vote.
Why should all the stupid people dominate politics and government?
After all intelligence among humans follows a gaussian distribution, why let the dummies vote and control the flow of society?
Wouldn't society be better run by the smart, not the wealthy?
I don't know enough about IQ tests to go along with this. |
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In the US consumerism creates jobs, which is really dependent on companies having enough money to tell you what you want.
In America, ad space being available is a bad sign.
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If you are a citizen you get a vote.
Here's what your vote gets you, if we fail to distinguish between right and wrong:  The US has the Bill of Rights. |
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The Earth is limited. Capitalism is not. Capitalism is destroying life on Earth and at some point we'll need smart money with AI that allows for a sustainable economy.
There is other solution -- to distribute mankind in the Space. All we need to do this : 1) Cheap method to transfer a lot of people to other planets with speed of light. 2) Nanotechnology for changing those planets into human friendly ones. 3) maybe something else ? That's why I support Bitcoin. Decentralized money will lead to decentralized business will lead to a decentralized civilization that values technology over scarcity. The planet will become sustainable when we stop valuing materials simply for their scarcity. Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen are among the most valuable resources we have. Their properties support life and energy. Just surviving on this planet let alone going to other planets will require a species (probably not us) capable of living sustainably. Isn't scarcity helping the value of bitcoin right now? Don't be so loud. |
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I thought he was born in mid to late spring, when sheep were giving birth, too?
And anyway, this whole holiday was stolen from Yuletide and Saturnalia, which were celebrations during the year's coldest and darkest time, marked by a big "f you" to the shitty period with huge celebrations, excess, and depravity. That fits way more for Bitcoin, as something introduced during a really shitty time as a big "f you" to those causing the situation, which will hopefully, with the help of unrestricted capitalism, bring a long period of unbridled excess and depravity (beyond what we have already seen on these forums).
Yes, most scholars agree that Christ was probably born sometime in spring. My point was that nobody celebrates his death in December. I thought that's when the Sun was resurrected? The sun stops falling on the 22nd, then 3 days later, the Sun rises again? You're thinking of the Winter Solstice. |
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The Earth is limited. Capitalism is not. Capitalism is destroying life on Earth and at some point we'll need smart money with AI that allows for a sustainable economy.
There is other solution -- to distribute mankind in the Space. All we need to do this : 1) Cheap method to transfer a lot of people to other planets with speed of light. 2) Nanotechnology for changing those planets into human friendly ones. 3) maybe something else ? Planet Cracking |
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He doesn't exist. The network created itself. Any writings by him are the accidental result of an infinite number of monkeys typing on the same keyboard. Shakespeare be damned.
Resource-based Economy: Genesis Written by M. Night Shyamalan I'm guessing the "twist" would be that Satoshi is revealed to be RealSolid ;P And then all the nice things were lost, forever, the end. |
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Why does it need anything? It is an artificial construct that exists at our whim. Then it isn't an artificial intelligence. An AI is a set of systems which acts upon an environment and takes actions which maximize success. If owning a datacenter and power generating facilities serve to ensure the success of the system then a learning system will eventually reach that outcome and attempt to achieve it. If the system is incapable of learning then it isn't intelligent. ...and "not intelligent" does not mean lack of value. To bring the thread back (somewhat) to the land of concrete, real world possibilities... there is a huge difference between narrow AI -- a dumb, real world AI that follows a simple script -- and AI found in movies and the heads of dreamers. Narrow AI is feasible with today's technology. Narrow AI is just a list of goals, a series of if-then propositions, along with the necessary code to implement goal execution. In this case, narrow AI may interface with humans through a mechanical turk, to solve discrete problems that require human judgement ("is user interface A or B more effective?"). Technology isn't what is limiting AI, unless of course you are saying that the hosting required to house an advanced AI, would be larger than any server(s) we could hope to build or you consider "programming" (might be a better word for this kind of AI) languages to be technology. |
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Question: How do ANY of you know that that is the full amount deposited on MtGox? You all keep talking as though this is the entire MtGox fund? What if the cold storage is 1M or 2M BTC, and this is just the amount they like to keep on hand to fill withdrawal requests?
We never said that the address contained the entire MtGox balance, only that is a large balance. |
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Until the mathematical foundation Bitcoin has been built upon is proven to have failed, it will continue making progress as a safe haven comparable to gold.
I've followed the gold bugs since the 1970s, the message never changes, you couldn't have picked a better illustration of a stopped clock being occasionally correct. "Safe haven" is a bit of stretch when applied to gold or bitcoin. I'm glad I focused my efforts elsewhere since then, notwithstanding the Hunt brothers silver pump and dump was a little fun. I stumbled across a crafts store that had pounds and pounds of little silver beads *that they thought were shiny coated plastic imitation silver beads and had priced accordingly*. I backed up the truck as they say and immediately turned them over before the silver market collapsed. I sure am glad I didn't makes those beads part of my savings plans. Goldbugs will be so butthurt when UAC perfects alchemy on mars and uses it to chug out gold from their "mines". |
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If German or Swiss industry imported raw materials just as cheaply as their weaker neighbors but paid higher labor costs they would have had trouble competing against similar industries in the weaker nations. However, it was superior German industry that made them stronger and thus compensated for their price disadvantage. China is a perfect converse. Beijing has artificially devalued the yuan to increase export growth. If China floated the currency, then it would have negative impact on growth - the same deflationary impact Zurich avoided two months ago. If my understanding is mistaken, I'd appreciate an article refuting what seems to be standard international policy. None of this however is relevant to bitcoin. If bitcoin is a witch and witches float... Unless we start interstellar or even interplanetary(Earth-Mars Colony) trading, there is no need to worry about how the value of bitcoin affects trading. |
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Hahahahahahaha, I'm new to Bitcoin as well, I think it is a revolutionary idea and it needs coins to circulate hence it needs mners. I've just had a play with bitcoinplus.com  , my quad core PC can get a payout of 0.0000446 BTC once an hour (roughly). I believe solving a block gets you 50 BTC, it would take me 130 years to get that on bitcoinplus.com . Probably because you are CPU mining. Do you have all cores mining, or just one? |
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I will bet if you use this new search technology called "Google" you can search for solar installers in your area and there are probably a dozen or more. I got quotes from 5 different installers. Picked which one I thought was the best one, paid them and then they installed it. Here I even did the first search for you: https://www.google.com/search?q=solar+installers+houston lrn2lmgtfy |
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I'm sure Darin Stanchfield has an explanation. Perhaps he made a mistake and was trying to list another one his domains. Ok I'll play along. Like I said, I purchased the domain for about $2000 in early November. These listings you keep finding are from the previous owner. I bought the domain from HugeDomains. So it's possibly maybe that the previous owner never updated the those listings? Maybe a small chance? Or lets go with your retelling of events. I bought the domain for $2000, spent a considerable investment on the website... And then proceeded to sell the domain for $1,895. Netting myself a sweet -$100 profit. I am truly the mastermind criminal. Could you please contact HugeDomains to have them remove the listing? That would probably stop the confusion. |
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Is it 12/12/11? The calendar year before 12/12/12?
It's 12/21/12 you gotta watch out for  . Yeah, but there won't be a 13/13/13. Unless we rise up as one and demand change!!!! Overthrow the time keeping overlords!!!! If that ever had a chance of happening, the Dr. would make you cease to exist if you had any part of it. Since you are here, you have nothing to do with it and/or it will never happen. |
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But you could sign a legal contract (maybe with a digital signature technology provided by your state) in which you express the legal meaning of the tokens.
Do you really believe that existing government courts are going to enforce these things? Good luck explaining to the judge what a "blockchain" is A series of chained blocks. Obviously. |
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Is it 12/12/11? The calendar year before 12/12/12?
It's 12/21/12 you gotta watch out for . Yeah, but there won't be a 13/13/13. |
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1. That isn't slavery.
2. Yes. Chain of Sand vs Chain of Iron and all that
3. "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
The Union and Confederacy were not united over the issue of states' rights (to have slaves). To some the civil war was the fulfillment of the Constitution.
Every part of the Constitution stands under its bretheren. The Federal government acted out of its allotted powers in every significant action taken in the Civil War. The actions made by the Lincoln Administration were the most unconstitutional in history. The state's powers are not limited under the constitution despite out-of-line court precedents. Only the federal government is limited by it. That's how it was authored. That is the intent of its message. The state's are supposed to be sovereign entities. 1. Not everyone believes that the federal government expanding its powers is unconstitutional. The writers of the constitution knew that they could not come up with EVERY power the federal government should have. 2. The Constitution limits the powers of both the federal and state governments, by giving certain powers to the federal government and certain powers and rights to the citizens which cannot be taken away without due process of law. 3. I do not agree that the Constitution was only created to limit that power of the Federal Government. The original founding father's are rolling in their graves. Go ahead, join the traitors of The Federalist Party and Alexander Hamilton. I'll stand by the constitution as it was intended by its writers. A federal government with indefinite power only leads to tyranny. The founding fathers knew that very well. With no boundaries, you might as well not have a constitution at all. I hope you enjoy the ruins that are America. Breathe it in. Smell that? It's martial law and it's coming right around the corner. If NDAA 2012 isn't stopped, I will be leaving. I am against any government infringing on human rights or the rights of its citizens. I just think the states have not been infringed on given my interpretation of the Constitution. I would rather see the iron chain break then watch the chains of sand twist and clash. Maybe then it could be started over again right. |
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Is it 12/12/11? The calendar year before 12/12/12?
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