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641  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Chess forbidden in Islam, rules Saudi mufti, but issue not black and white on: January 23, 2016, 05:01:37 PM
BTW if you take a look at the Youtube vids shot by the Houthi rebels in Yemen, you can see the results Smiley. Saudi soldiers sitting in their tanks on a rocky plain (with a bunch of big boulders everywhere around) a hill behind them. Houthis snaking between the boulders and playing a turkey shoot with RPG-7s. No saudis had the brain to send a mg team to the hilltop behind themselves or at least make some sort of infantry screen around the tanks. Perhaps if the officers could play chess... Smiley
642  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Bter Scam Exchange? on: January 23, 2016, 12:22:50 AM
BTer always had "organizational" issues and it's been a bit shady almost since the beginning, but I never had problems with transactions. Anyway it has a quite tarnished reputation, so it isn't the most trustworthy exchange.
643  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Technology vs. Marketing. Which is more important? on: January 23, 2016, 12:15:09 AM
Aren't small community signals crappy tech?

Not necessarily, but that almost surely signals crappy marketing and/or simply bad communication practices.
644  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Hitler's world may not be so far away on: January 22, 2016, 11:34:10 PM
There were not many Jews in Germany at the time of the WW2. Germany was home to 566,000 Jews in the early 1930s (less than 1% of the total population). Compare this to 3,250,000 in Poland (11% of the population) and 725,000 in Hungary (10% of the population). Also, most of the German Jews emigrated to North America and the United Kingdom during the mid-1930s. Around 25% of the German Jews stayed behind in Germany at the time of the WW2, and were exterminated. On the other hand, 75% of the Hungarian Jews, and 90% of the Polish Jews were exterminated by the Nazis.

Just to make a few things a bit more factual.

725,000 was the number of all jews in Hungary (reannexed territories included) and that was 4,9% of the population according to the official holocaust literature and 600,000 were deported (90% died). (Source: wikipedia)
According to the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (1941 census) that number is actually 431,711 and approximately 200,000 were deported but no exact data is available as things got a bit messy and not very well documented when the soviet army reached Hungary in 1944 and the germans occupied the rest of the country. Since the end of the war no data is available but the state paid/paying compensations for about 33,000 holocaust survivors, what makes the number of victims something like 167,000.
Perhaps you might want to review your data sources.
645  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Chess forbidden in Islam, rules Saudi mufti, but issue not black and white on: January 22, 2016, 08:16:23 PM
I guess the mufti realized that if people playing chess, they will inevitably start thinking. A wahhabi who is thinking...?!? That would be the end of the world as they know it Smiley.
646  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Richest 62 people as wealthy as half of world's population on: January 22, 2016, 01:26:28 PM
Ok so a huge wall. Around all our countries. While still making them work for us? Why would they accept that? Why wouldn't they just start working for themselves?
And you want to build a wall around all Europe and USA? Oo

Walls are already there, and more will be built.

"Making them work for us"... well, you see this is one of the problems. According to some researches: "An employment rate of two percent is consistent with the previous experience in Germany of immigrant integration programs, particularly from asylum seekers..." (http://www.bild.de/geld/wirtschaft/fluechtling/nur-jeder-50te-findet-einen-job-43786808.bild.html - sorry it's in german, but on some far-right sites you can find good translations Wink.) So, as you can see they aren't really working for us, but they will cost approximately 55 billion EUR per million immigrants.

Most of the third world economies can't "just start working for themselves" as these economies mainly concentration on raw material production. Without a well developed processing industry (what is here, not there) they wouldn't get too far.
647  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][ENRG]Energycoin PoE (Prove of Environment) Green Cryptocurrency on: January 22, 2016, 10:49:57 AM
Gents! Is there a fresh(ish) ENRG blockchain available for download somewhere?
648  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: The lust for banks...WHAT is going on? on: January 22, 2016, 10:11:21 AM
Pretty funny indeed, many of us came here because we wanted to get rid of our dependence on banks but now we all (or at least the majority of us) worshipping coins connected to banks Smiley. Many people also looking at banks like saviours what will take the crypto scene to the next level by handing over money and "professionalism". ...and I didn't even mentioned the "bitcoin must be regulated to make it's way to businesses" idiots :/.
649  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Distribution models for crypto on: January 22, 2016, 09:18:27 AM
navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography

“MachineGuid”. This key is generated uniquely during the installation of Windows.

The Machine GUID is fixed in the registry, but is changable if you have admin privileges. MachineGuid was quite often an issue when someone deployed several machines from a Ghost image, to resove these issues people made several scripts to change the GUID.
650  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Human capital investments protection on: January 21, 2016, 02:16:25 PM
It's obvious that investments in human capital (education & healthcare) are essential for every country to prosper. However, this type of investment probably is the most unprotected nowadays. In many countries (especially in Europe) education and healthcare are free of charge and funded through taxes, collected from entire population. But there is a catch - many people receive these goods for free, then leave home country, seeking higher salary in another place. For EU citizens its extremely easy (no need for a visa or work permit, just to buy an airplane ticket) and poorer countries suffer from this problem the most (e.g. Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal). Rich countries like Germany, UK and Sweden benefit from this situation receiving large crowd of educated, healthy, young people.

I guess that many people on this forum oppose any freedom restrictions, but let be honest - people who leave homeland for a higher salary right after receiving free higher education and having good health conditions thanks to free healthcare are leeches, who parasite on other taxpayers remaining in the country.

Proposed solution could be introducing exit visas (permits to leave the country) which will be issued only after a potential expat signs an agreement to repay all costs the state have spent on his education and healthcare or makes some achievement that significantly benefit the county (e.g. an important invention and donates patent to the state). This measure will significantly improve education and healthcare system's funding and make it more affordable and better quality.

I'm a hungarian living and working in the UK, therefore one of the above mentioned leeches Smiley.

You know after graduating on the university I was working for 17 years at home, I've paid my taxes, my pension and healthcare contributions (yes, for that "free healthcare" you have to pay 10% healthcare contribution). As kept learning a lot more, finally I've got a well above average salary what made me eligible for the honour of being a member of the "42% income tax" club. I've also started a small business as a second job and sold refurbished computers.

In the meantime when some burglars broke into my house the police officer told me that there are no chance to find my stolen stuff but he kindly gave me the addresses of some known resetters, so I was able to buy back some of my most needed stuff for half price. It was a real bargain. Isn't it? Then the government turned up with the idea of "expected tax" on small businesses, so they sent me a tax demand notice, made according to some statistics derived from some industry data, what ended my little enterprise fairly quickly. They also allowed the banks not to disclose some parts of an agreement, like that your loan actually not HUF, but CHF based, they are also allowed the banks to unilaterally modify a loan agreement (e.g. after paying off the loan for my wife's car the bank said I have to pay the same monthly payments for another 11 months because of the changes in the CHF/HUF rates). After all of these goodies the state decided to nationalize my pension savings for patching holes in the budget, they are promised to do the accounting but that didn't happened since 2011 and all the money gone since (so they goxed me), but they told me that I have to pay another 3.5 years worth pension contribution to be eligible for the minimum state pension (something like $200-$250 per month). You know, I don't think that I owe anything to the Hungarian state for my education, paid from my parents taxes :/.

BTW one more word good health conditions. Since I've moved to the UK my cholesterol level went back to normal level and my blood pressure as well, and my panic attacks are gone, as here life is a lot less stressful.

651  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Western nutjobs destroyed Lybia - another of their wrecks. Here are the results on: January 21, 2016, 01:10:23 PM
No he's greatest sin was probably to plan and conduct the genocide of some of the tribes he was supposed to lead.

I'm just answering the guy saying that "he was a great man" cause no he was not a great man! He was an horrible dictator. But not more horrible than most of middle East and African dictator I agree.

And Saddam had no nuke at all. Only the USA pretended he had nuke. The most dangerous thing he had were ak 47.

AFAIK the west was OK with that allegedly planned genocide. Turning to a gold-bug and promoting that idea between other oil producers was what blown the fuse Smiley.

Well, it appears being "the strong man of whatevershithole" or "the horrible whatevershitholian dictator" entirely depends on given bloke's allegiance to certain powers.
652  Other / Politics & Society / Re: ISIS fighters get a 50% pay cut on: January 21, 2016, 01:10:01 PM
how many dollars is paid a fighter isis? is there any source about this?


According to this http://www.iraqinews.com/features/isis-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-grants-1200-house-furnishings-members-wish-marry/

"The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had published earlier that the monthly salaries given to the fighters of ISIS distributed as follows:

The Syrian fighter earns a monthly salary of $400. The Syrian married fighter gets an amount of $ 50 for each child, $100 for each wife, in addition to the basic monthly salary of $400, as well as providing a house if the fighter does not have a place to live, fuel for his car from gas stations which are managed by the organization of ISIS in addition to receiving fuel for heating."

But as I heard a part of their income comes from looting.

The bad news: ISIS don't paying pension and life insurance Smiley.
653  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Do you think Ether can overcome Bitcoin on: January 21, 2016, 12:36:53 PM
No legendary has said here that bitcoin is dying. Please read the posts carefully so you actually understand them before answering.

Oh please!, visit the speculation thread

or check the kwuckduck account, he literally posts a doomsday thread about bitcoin.

Kwuckduck is a sold account, in addition a well known BTC shorter. Of course he posts a new doomsday thread every day Smiley.
654  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Do you think Ether can overcome Bitcoin on: January 21, 2016, 12:34:53 PM
I'm a noob, but recently I have been hearing that bitcoin is dieyng and that another altcoin will be its substitute.
Many people pointed XMR - monero as a possible successor while others think that it will be ethereum.
What's your take on this?


According to the mass media Bitcoin is constantly dying since the beginning. When it isn't, then it's a soon to be burst "Internet phenomenon" Smiley.

Monero is a good coin but at this moment it's more like a "niche coin" for a specific group of users than something for Average Joe. ETH is pretty much the same but for different applications and for a different target group. Bitcoin is something more generic however it's a bit rudimentary, slow and outdated if you compare it to these newer coins. Sooner or later an other coin will overtake it but that's not going to happen very soon. Don't forget that BTC is still a cutting edge technology in the outside world, and probably we are the only people who see it as a vintage stuff Smiley.
655  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Western nutjobs destroyed Lybia - another of their wrecks. Here are the results on: January 21, 2016, 10:30:43 AM
Dude... He was an horrible dictator that stole its people until he became one of the richest man in the world. He used torture on anyone he didn't like, murdered entire families for not being of the "right tribe" and killed anyone trying to say it was not right.

Yes he managed to keep Libya under control. Yes he brought some better health care to SOME of his citizens (cause if you were not from the right tribe you could just die in the street). Yes it was probably stupid to go bomb the country like that.

But no he was not a great man you dumbass asshole...

Sure mate. ...he also took candy from children and enjoyed kicking puppies. Saddam had piles of nukes, Assad gassed his own people, muslim immigrants in Europe are all very useful intellectuals and they have nothing to do with terrorism. Are you really believe everything what you've heard on the telly? Of course he wasn't a saint, actually quite far from that, but he was also far from the picture what the western media invented about him. His greatest sin was an initiative about gold currency and moving oil trade from USD to gold as well. That changed him from a more or less accepted bloke with funny clothes to the second most evil villain after Hitler Smiley.
656  Other / Politics & Society / Re: ISIS fighters get a 50% pay cut on: January 21, 2016, 10:01:46 AM
Well, then those underpaid "fighters" probably going to turn up here in Europe in a few months as syrian refuges in search for a better and safer life Smiley.
657  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Ethereum to go up or down? on: January 20, 2016, 11:11:41 PM
Everyone talking about this coin  as LTC2 ?

Calling it LTC2 is a bit early. It has the potential, as ETH could have many real life use cases, lots of corporations interested in it (but it's not clear yet if they are interested in ETH itself or in the technology). But we've seen many revolutionary coins - with similar or sometimes even better functionality than ETH - what sank into oblivion or still struggling to take off.
658  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Ethereum to go up or down? on: January 20, 2016, 05:06:02 PM
I never understood why Ethereum price just exploded. Can somebody elaborate on this one?

Some good news about ETH. R3 decided to use ethereum to connect 11 banks in its first distributed ledger experiment.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/r3-connects-11-banks-distributed-ledger-using-ethereum-microsoft-azure-1539044
659  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Distribution models for crypto on: January 20, 2016, 05:02:09 PM
The CLAM like distribution is probably one of the best way, but still GCoin had the best distribution method. They used a mobile (Android and IOS) slots application rigged to win quite often so you got your coins according to the "effort" you've put in playing. That was the most entertaining distribution I've ever participated Smiley.
660  Economy / Economics / Re: How too get rich on: January 20, 2016, 04:41:07 PM
Buy or develop your own time machine and go back to 2008 and mine BTC on the computer at your mothers house in the basement

Send me 1 BTC and I'm going to send a PM back about how to get rich Cheesy.
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