That youtube video is giving the NSA way too much credit

The setting is now cleaned up and I've soldered a jump ring on it, here are some WIP photos, now I need to sand any marks off it, polish it and then finally set the gemstone and polish and clean it up again.

To put it simply without the crazy bullshit, it makes the people in power look good, because gold and silver is often used as a way of measuring inflation it would make sense to keep the prices low, that way people are supposed to think there's nothing wrong with paper money and it's doing fine, then of course Bitcoin comes along and fucks up that whole illusion I think this is just a normal price correction though, people will be selling off etc. in preparation for the next collapse and yes, I do think one is coming soon because this is what happened the last time and the media was in complete denial back then too.

I think the only one that's really stuck with me so far is District 9, some of the others were good and enjoyable but they all suffered from that over the top bullshit that most movies do.

I got my cabochon gemstones from here like the other smaller gemstones: http://www.kernowcraft.com/ they have a much better selection than Cooksons who seem to specialise more in the tools and metals side of Jewellery

I'm halfway through the round cabochon necklace I showed earlier, I'll be posting WIP pictures and the finished product soon, if anyone gets interested and wants different gemstones for their necklaces I can order them from the site above. Depending on the sizes etc. the price may need to change depending on how expensive the gemstone is but feel free to have a browse, I can only do oval and round gemstones at my current skill level.

Are news journalists getting more stupid or something? How can you have huge 'hype' and not have people being aware of something? In order to have hype people need to be aware of what they're hyped up about in the first place, or did no one give them a dictionary when writing this?

Then why the fuck did you quote it so I had to look at it again?

Necroing the fuck summer thread, I've currently gotten hayfever so bad that my eyelids are purple and I feel like I have the flu or a really bad cold despite taking Piriton, fuck summer! FUCK IT!

Get rid of paper money entirely and use only coins so it is much more expensive to counterfeit and switch to gold/silver, problem solved, oh and disband the federal reserve and make sure to eradicate their influence from the U.S government entirely.

It's called currency competition, I already explained that in my post.

I didn't actually know that, is fiat just an acronym then?

http://www.videotutorialsrock.com/ wayyyy ahead of you

Alt-coins are extremely important if you knew anything about economics then you'd understand that, you lost my interest the moment you claimed they weren't, I guarantee if Bitcoin hadn't been released open source it would have been a failure or it would have been worth as much as Second Life Linden Dollars are currently. We have needed currency competition ever since central banking came along and people tried to control currencies in order to control everyone else now we have a system that even it's creator wouldn't be able to undo easily because the code is already out on the internet now.

Just like you do with anything in the Bitcoin market, when it comes to scam artists, just use your common sense and look at things carefully.

I don't know about you but I wonder if unskippable animations fall into this category as well, I keep thinking back to all the total war games that had this problem where those bloody agents would spam those animations on you constantly before you could finish a turn.

If that's the case then fuck em and make new currencies, I did remember reading an article though where Amir Taaki was it? Got asked about what he thought of the Bitcoin foundation and he didn't seem to like them very much.

Ugh, vote for what you believe in, not the group that you think will win if you decide to vote at all, I actually voted for the Green Party because even from an early age I despised the main parties and thought at least by voting third party something interesting might happen but of course that's before I knew the whole system was rigged and learned about the way the world actually works. These days though I know my beliefs about government and the way people can live their lives without it aren't at all popular with the loyalist crowd so I just support stuff like Bitcoin which is far more practical an option.

Woh! I still need to get through the first lot I got recommended and each one is almost a thousand pages long! lol but in regards to getting games coded right away, things have gotten a lot easier now with stuff like SFML and did you know how simple game loops are? This is what I meant with the RPG statistics where they take the lazy option, they quite literally take their original code and then just add zeroes to the numbers they've put up.

I've even managed to make a very basic RTS style camera with arrow keys, the mouse stuff is what's most complicated I've found, oh and other programmers seem to hate my formatting so I need to look at that properly

Wait a minute, when did the core devs of Bitcoin ever become a part of the Bitcoin foundation? No really, I'm not being sarcastic, if this is the case I'm actually on your side but I'm pretty sure most people including the developers at Bitcoin think the Bitcoin foundation is just a bunch of twats going around being self-appointed leaders of the Bitcoin community.

If you think you can do better then Bitcoin is open source and there's nothing stopping you or anyone else from getting the code and messing with it to your hearts content.

I'm looking at all sorts Jaywaka, C++ Primer is to help me understand the code better and be less noobish SFML and OpenGL is where I want to be towards the end.

lmao! Not right away of course but they certainly helped me understand the damn stuff better, I'm currently look at C++ Primer and it's got some very nice explanations unlike some of the damn tutorials I've looked at.