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What's wrong with easy money for computer geeks running code on their video cards?
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Buyback in T minus 1000, 999, 998...
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On the topic of this thread: Darn. :\ I was hoping they'd run out of money so they would HAVE to start cutting out all the crap that we don't need the government running/giving away.
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Well I have no problems building an exe for you or working on other stuff to make the client more 'usable' for you.
However I have my own list of priorities at the moment; if you want things to go your way instead of mine, you'll need to pay for my time. PM for info.
He's right though - it does no good for people to create all of these great tools if they need to be compiled. The need for compilation eliminates 98% of people from ever being able to use them. |
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With all of this arguing, I barely noticed that nobody has gone with public with how much they voluntarily taxed themselves.
Voluntary taxing is worthless, it has to be mandatory and institutional to be useful. Society needs structure. Money is never worthless. Otherwise, the Treasury wouldn't be asking for it. I believe he said that voluntary taxing is worthless. |
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 Just a tip, don't bind MySQL to 0.0.0.0, it has no protection at all against brutte-forcing, rather create a XML or JSON RPC to filter and output data between servers. I was hoping I could bind it to a specific external IP address (mine), but also still have it accessible from the localhost. Evidently not. All it would have been for is convenience, so I can live without that. Thanks for the heads up on 0.0.0.0 though. |
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It's not and investment. It's value doesn't change. The only thing that changes is the value of what you use to buy it.
USD goes down, price of Gold goes up. USD goes up, price of Gold goes down.
Price of Gold in 1950 was about $34. The value of the USD has dropped so much that $34 then is worth over $1600 now. In non Gold terms we can equate this to the price of a really nice suit. Worth about $34 then, and about $1600 now.
This is what the Bankers have done to our Dollar.
It IS an investment. You can't buy things with it directly (except for gas in Ashland). |
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A tax based on usage would ensure efficiency and government leanness. On the downside, it would discourage consumer spending and lower GDP.
Still, it would be a very, very good thing if it were to happen.
That is generally called a VAT or sales/use tax. Been happening for years. I mean as a whole for all governmental services though. |
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That's the point of owning Gold and Silver. It keeps its value against Inflation.
Right, but a lot of other investments grow faster than inflation. Why would I invest in gold/silver when there are better options for investment? |
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The problem is those paying at a much lower rate than us, even though they 'make' much more money and actually do much less work. It's amazing that you can delude yourself into thinking that while you're paying $1,000 in taxes and I'm paying $100,000 in taxes somehow I'm getting a better deal and do less work than you. Just because I don't dig ditches or flip hamburgers doesn't mean the way I make money is any less work. In fact, if your job is so important, why are you making peanuts? Clearly the world values my labor more than yours, hence the fatter paycheck. If you didn't have people like myself that make most of the money, who would you leech off of? And that is why I support any politician, no matter how distasteful, that supports an across the board flat tax with no deductions. Flat tax is a joke. You pay 10% of nothing and I pay 10% of a million dollars. There's nothing fair about that. How about we each pay the same dollar amount, or better yet, pay for the services we actually use? A tax based on usage would ensure efficiency and government leanness. On the downside, it would discourage consumer spending and lower GDP. Still, it would be a very, very good thing if it were to happen. |
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I don't see the problem. I'll take silver dimes any day. Problem is, you're only getting paid $0.40/hr in 90% silver dimes.  I'm just saying, the price of gas only costing you $0.20 in 90% silver dimes is a pretty pointless metric. It's still the same percentage of income today as it was back in the 60's (give or take 20%). |
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Lol that's what they do, and that what makes the problem even worse. Geez us buddy comon. If you don't pay in taxes you pay in a devalued Dollar. Last decades $1 loaf of bread cost $2 or $3 now depending on which one you buy. Your Dollar buys less the more they print. I'd much rather see more money printed to pay down the national debt than to pay it down myself.
I didn't say it would fix the problem with national debt. Pretty sure that one's hopeless. But it would fix MY problems, which currently involve a house I am upside down on and student loans I'm on the hook for. Short term, hyperinflation be really difficult, as wages would invariably stay lower for a while after prices have risen. But eventually, competition in the labor market would force employers to raise wages. The slice of my income that debt payments take out every month would get smaller and smaller, and I would be able to pay them off faster. As an added bonus, my house would retain value, even while the loan against it lost value for the bank. Of course it was ridiculous, it was an exaggeration. It's not impossible though, so long as you live with my parents like everyone else in the Bitcoin community *rimshot*
That's a lot of people living with your parents... |
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Yikes! Figured out the issue... turns out, my my.cnf file did not have 127.0.0.1 as the bind-address. I had changed it in an effort to be able to remotely access the database with MySQL Workbench (which proved to be unsuccessful), then promptly forgot I had made the change. On the next serve reboot, it took the change, and disallowed local access in the process.
Changed the bind-address back to the local IP, and it's working perfect now.
Community help + googling found the problem, so I thank you all for your assistance.
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Ok, I tried starting mysql_safe with --verbose. It didn't seem to change what was output. I didn't tail mysql.log from another login, since the file has remained empty. Seems pointless? Maybe I'm missing something there... I took a look inside /var/log/mysql/ and noticed an error.log file. The lines from the most recent run attempt say this: 110802 17:41:43 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
110802 17:41:44 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 44233
110802 17:41:44 [ERROR] Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Cannot assign requested address
110802 17:41:44 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306 ?
110802 17:41:44 [ERROR] Aborting
110802 17:41:44 InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
110802 17:41:45 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 44233
110802 17:41:45 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
Hmmm... so something is using or binding that port, yet MySQL is NOT already running.  Gawd, this would be so simple on a Windows box too. If only it had the security of Linux... EDIT: I'm going to google around for an answer to the port problem, but if anyone has more suggestions, feel free to chime in. Thanks for the help so far guys! |
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No, it is not running. I thought Aug 2 16:22:24 111-111-111-111 mysqld_safe: mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/111-111-111-111.pid ended meant that the process stopped running? |
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Problem is, you're only getting paid $0.40/hr in 90% silver dimes. |
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I'd much rather see more money printed to pay down the national debt than to pay it down myself.
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this is btc from mybitcoin
It could be, but several of the people who have sent BTC to addresses for their mybitcoin accounts have noted that the funds have not been moved from those addresses. |
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Try to run this command directly in the console:
/usr/bin/mysqld_safe
(it's the starting command for MySQL-server)
Not sure what you mean by "directly in the console". This isn't a gui version of ubuntu. All I have is SSH and VNC to the same view. They should both be the same once logged in, right? Anyway, I tried said command in the SSH window. Now we're getting somewhere... root@111-111-111-111:~# /usr/bin/mysqld_safe
110802 16:22:23 mysqld_safe Logging to syslog.
110802 16:22:23 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
110802 16:22:24 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/111-111-111-111.pid ended
Similarly, the syslog now has: Aug 2 16:22:23 111-111-111-111 mysqld_safe: Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
Aug 2 16:22:24 111-111-111-111 mysqld_safe: mysqld from pid file /var/lib/mysql/111-111-111-111.pid ended
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Just went from 11.7 to 12.4 in a matter of... 10 minutes?
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