How safe it travel in and around Tel Aviv these days? I planned a trip there in 2012 and had to cancel because a bomb exploded on a public bus in downtown Tel Aviv, causing several injuries and long-range rockets launched from Gaza reached as far north as Tel Aviv and southern Jerusalem. Israel has been on my bucket list for a long time and this would give me an excuse to go. Well this and Baha’i Gardens in Haifa, the mountain fortress of Masada etc.

Who would pay 500 bucks to hear a bunch of lying schmucks patting each other on the back?

You've actually got Tamar Zandberg the leftist, socialist, feminist Knesset member attending as well as Dr. Edward Aufnbenher of Bank of Israel. These are the very people that drove Israel to it's knees and you've invited them, they don't belong in the conference, all the invited members are psuedointellectuals at best trying to cannibalize the movement.

If you indeed cared at all about original innovation and wanted to see a lot of young, brilliant minds at the conference you'd do well to prevent these people from even attending, let alone giving speeches.

Keep being the slave of the Mossad/FBI (which are the slaves of the bankers) and see how far Bitcoin will get.

From the same Bolivian legislators who have also wisely made it illegal to have sex with a woman and her daughter at the same time.

Ah, Bolivia, the home of the llama, the dumbest of all pack animals. The country still hoping to build a tunnel to the Pacific Ocean. The country where driving a car is tantamount to suicide. Unfortunately, that has not resulted in the extermination of the Bolivians, because there are very few (functional) cars there, the reason being that whenever a car has a mechanical problem it becomes permanently inoperable due to the absence of anyone intelligent enough to be able to fix a car.

To their credit, they were eventually able to kill Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, although it did take over 1,000 of them to do it.

Ah, Bolivia, the only country in which McDonalds is unable to operate, because the concept of a restaurant is too complex for their bird-like brains. Where airplanes are illegal, because, you know, it's impossible to fly. That's logical right: it's impossible to fly therefore airplanes should be illegal. Very logical. Based on that logical insight they were invited to submit a team to the world math olympiad, but that proved impossible because they were unable to find any Bolivians who knew what math was. So, instead they had a tortilla eating olympiad in La Paz.

La Paz, interestingly enough has a few buildings which are over 1 story in height, presumably built by foreigners. The Bolivian architects specialize in constructing soccer fields, because nothing is more important than soccer, and they are safe. Safe in the sense that noone has been killed by a collapsing soccer field, the soccer fields, being, well, flat. Some goalies have been injured, however, by falling goal crossbars, so that is their current focus: improving crossbar joining technology to avoid goalie head injuries. This is very important because the soccer field is the most important part of every Bolivian city. It's the law there must at least one soccer field every 5 blocks.

The Bolivians like soccer because it is simple to understand: kick ball. At one point some Americans tried to teach them baseball, but that didn't work, since it involves using the hands and legs at the same time and other complexities like requiring the use of tools. The Americans tried tying a glove on a llama to demonstrate that animals, and by extension people, could indeed use tools, but the indios remained convinced tool use in sports was impossible so they made baseball and any other sport utilizing tools illegal, because they are impossible.

Bolivia used to be a much larger country. In fact, at one time all almost all of South America was "Bolivia", but the Bolivians kept starting wars and losing them. Every time they lost, they would lose more territory. Other times they just gave away territory. For example, around 1900 it was discovered that a Bolivian region called Acre had a lot of rubber trees in it, so Brazil told the president of Bolivia, who, like all Bolivians was an idiot, that they would like to buy Acre. The president said, "How much?" The Brazilians knowing how stupid the Bolivians are, said, "How about 1 horse?" The Bolivian president said, "Hah, what do you think I am? An idiot? I have lots of horses." Then the Brazilians said, "O, but this horse is perfectly white." The Bolivian president not having any white horses readily agreed to that deal.

Here's another story about the same guy, Presidente Mariano Melgarejo. Melgarejo means "stupid" in Indian language. In 1870, Germany invaded France. Melgarejo was infuriated because he had heard how beautiful and elegant Paris was. So, he ordered his top general to send the army to France and defend Paris. The general complained that the army would have to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. Melgarejo angrily replied "Don't be stupid! We will go around the ocean and take a short cut through the brush!"

Anyway, its a good thing they have banned bitcoins because you know crypto currency is impossible. It involves math.

You keep making vague, stupid, grandoise statements without backing them up. I agree that the modern western world consists of what I call "plantation-states" - where the citizens are functionally slaves forced to support the agenda of the elites through direct and indirect taxation. (Much like 19th century plantation slave owners would allow their skilled-trade slaves to keep a portion of their free-lance earnings while pocketing the rest.) However this is not due to capitalism but rather precisely the opposite, because it occurs through the use of centralized political power working against open competition and free-market capitalism. You correctly perceive the injustice, but have the remedy and the malady mixed up.

to be fair, the chinese and vietnamese are both really good gamblers overall.

Considering so many feel that China is going to save the world economy it is not surprising that so many feel it is detrimental to Bitcoin's success.

There are many reasons for this but some of the biggest are 1) Huge population 2) Restrictive government so lots of people are looking for places to stash money and 3) The Chinese people are known to love a good speculation 

Man, why are capitalists always so weak at argument? I've destroyed this pitiful argument so many times I frankly can't even be bothered anymore. Hint: You don't understand history very well. It's a series of revolutions.

There was a time before capitalism, there will be a time after capitalism. "This too shall pass". Nothing escapes the march of time - not even your overwhelming ignorance.

Sure, as long as "good head on their shoulders" is code for "white and from an upper-middle caste family". Such ignorance...







Even with more and more people getting college degrees, still the wages stagnate:



You'd certainly do better financially than most students! The sad part is most of these kids will never have any money with which to buy Bitcoins.

Fact: Capitalism is mass-theft and mass-exploitation.

Why?
Because, 1/4 of world is China.

All big countries are important, India, Brazil, Russia, USA, Japan. IF BitCoin ignore them all, will not grow as fast as it will without that.

Watch your mouth!
We like to use Google, Youtube or Twitter etc but we could not.
It is Chinese Gov's decision instead of our choose!

You mean you're not suffering today because the self from a decade ago didn't choose to go into massive debt chasing a broken American Dream?

Property is theft. If you don't agree with stealing, you don't agree with capitalism. Come out from under your bubble of privilege and see capitalism for what it really is: a horror show.

Thanks, I think so too. Sorry if you think my unwillingness to donate more to the profits of some rich asshole banksters makes me a bad person. Strike debt.

To be clear, I had every intention to pay it back when I started. My views changed as I got older and became disillusioned of the lies and indoctrination of my youth. I see the whole charade for what it is - just another scam in the kleptocracy known as the USA.

Like you and most Americans, I was a clueless slave for the first 20 or so years of my life. That's what mass education is for, after all. No more. I am awake with righteous fury. Sage Carlin tells it like it is. If you're not pissed off, you're not paying attention.

When I was 18, I scored above 1300 / 1600 on my SATs, and was therefore led to believe that community college was beneath me - and attending anything less than a private school would be doing a disservice to my budding intellect.

I do regret not starting at a community college, but please understand that as a "brilliant young man", I was under tremendous pressure from my parents and my school counselors to attend the best school to which I was admitted.

The best school to which I was admitted entrance cost 37,000 USD $ per year. Hardly affordable for me or my family, but that didn't matter.

Getting back on topic, here's a vid on Bitcoin in Argentina.

Was it really a choice, though? From childhood it's drilled into our heads that the ONLY way to a decent life is through higher education, which has become completely unaffordable for the vast majority of Americans.

Suffer a life of wage-slavery and abuse, or go to college. Hmm yeah no pressure there, totally a legit decision the average 18 year old is mature enough to make!

That must be why the USA has a trillion dollar student loan debt bubble, you massively ignorant fuckwit. I beg you, read a book or shut the hell up and get out of the way. Your ignorance disgusts and enrages me.

Huh?  You had a choice to go to uni and further your education.  You want to blame *evil bankers* because you cant do high school math and make a real decision at 18?

Huh?  You had a choice to go to uni and further your education.  You want to blame *evil bankers* because you cant do high school math and make a real decision at 18?

debt is fine as long as its your own currency, just print it

Share Argentina can't scam their creditors by printing USD like USA can