I didn't specify, but I agree, except that the Buddhists are not theistic.

I'm implying, no, straight saying that what religions publicly teach and what they really believe are always at odds. Currently, Muslims appear to be the most violent religious group out there. I think anyone disputing that is not paying attention, regardless of what the more peaceable majority think. And yes, they are the majority, or the world WOULD be overrun. Or at the very least there would be global war. But the past history of the other two major religions I cited isn't any better, except that Muslims have rapid firing rifles and even bigger "toys" that were simply unavailable to the Jews and Christians before the world made them chill the fuck out.

Here in North America, it was less than 3 centuries ago that they were trying "witches" on the flimsiest of evidence and hanging them. Christian hypocrisy runs deep, and has for two millenia. The Romans once condemned Christians (and Rome was a tolerant society by nearly all accounts) as "stealers of children and poisoners of wells" of those who worshipped other gods. Why exactly Constantine converted and took the Christian Cross over that of the gods he previously worshipped is unknown, but from there until near the end of the Renaissance, Christianity spread very rapidly... by the sword.

I do not find it in any way surprising that Islam's adherents act the same way. Religion "forgives" terrible actions if one does them in the name of "god". It can convince otherwise good men that it's perfectly ok to murder, rape, and pillage so long as those heathen bastards refuse to convert. This still goes on in Africa as well, where the Christians and Muslims and Animists in and around the Congo have been killing, maiming, raping, and sometimes (usually in the case of Animists) eating members of the other group.

I grew up Christian, and it was very hard to overcome it. So, yes, there's a special black place in my heart for Christianity. But that doesn't mean I don't see what goes on with the other religions. Most, if not all, theistic religions rely on violent, horrific imagery to promote the "good" of their god. Whether they make that imagery real or not seems to very much depend on the age of the religion. This is stated as my own opinion, I have no hard data to back this. But anecdotally, and historically, the theory holds water.

Which religion is that? Christianity certainly don't, and Islam seems to mirror it. Judaism has always been pretty open about being exclusionary in WHO they love.

Now, they do all talk out both sides of their mouth... "Love everyone as your neighbor, but stone gays and rebellious teenagers" etc, etc, ad nauseam

I think you have the wrong cause, though the effect is right. The central government is not legally allowed to have a domestic army nor use the army for domestic social engineering. I am referring both to the constitution and the Posse Comitatus act. to get around that, and still have exactly the same thing, they need a highly uniform force that is not legally defined as military. They have been working towards this for a few generations.

Of course such an organization would appeal to and directly recruit ACTUAL soldiers as much as they could.

Oh, and the gangs didn't disappear, they changed the colors they wear. No technical difference between a cop and a crip. Except honesty. A crip will usually not pretend to have your best interests at heart while beating the shit out of you.

I'd like to hope so, but a group of thugs with, literally, a license to kill on a whim are not likely to give up their power easily. I think it will get far worse before it gets better. The Spirit of '76 is pretty well dead in most Americans. Hopefully this, among other recent trends, will revive it and we will once again BE a beacon of liberty, instead of the police state we have devolved into.

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Both of the ones I remember were quoted above.

Having lived in what used to be America for 46 years, I don't think this is happening more often, I just think that with everybody and their pet fish owning a cell phone, we're now being treated to how common it really is.

Cops swear to serve and protect... but whom? You only pay their salary after it has been extracted from you upon threat of being put in a cage. You are not who they serve and protect.

Had the cop pulled over a local politician (and realized it), the whole encounter would have been different.

Got out of maxcoin a long time ago... That being said, if the wallet has coin control features, you can combine inputs until you have a few large ones. The error comes from a LOT of small inputs comprising the transaction. it's not the number of coins that's too large, it's the kb size of the TX.

coin control isn't the only way to do it. But it is the easiest. Just pick any two inputs, send the balance to yourself, wait for it to confirm, pick the one you just did and another one, wash rinse, repeat until you have several decent size inputs, or one really big one.

I know I'm too late this time, but maybe it'll help next time, or for somebody else. This is a frequent problem for people who use p2pool and/or faucets.

Some of the questions have multiple correct or ambiguous answers. I scored wrong when I was not, but both answers could have been correct.

We can always hope

Aside from just plain liking SP-T, I have no dog in this fight. I do, however, have a fair number of friends who have purchased their equipment. Some of whom had problems. SP-T ALWAYS resolved it. I follow the main thread, and it appears that you have demanded RMA and refused ALL OTHER forms of assistance.

Sorry, bub. this is the real world. It don't work like that. RMA is almost always the last step in a warranty claim, and if you refuse the first steps, as clearly documented by your own words, then good fucking luck in any court. Not even the American 9th district court would give you "satisfaction" in this one, and they love to hand down ridiculous verdicts.

Hell, even edgar, who had massive issues, eventually (grudgingly) conceded that they helped him. Not really in the manner he wanted, but they did do it. Many others have had their problems resolved very quickly. To my eyes, SP-T remains one of the best companies in the mining hardware business.

also here https://gitter.im/earthcoinproject/earthcoin

All staking coins that are descended from Peercoin and Novacoin split the blocks. Hyperstake allows that to happen at certain thresholds and not at lower ones. To my knowledge, this is unique in staking coins. But splitting is normal.

Cryptsy is aware of the problem. No worries, it might take them a few days to get straight though. I spoke with Mullick about it recently, and he always fixes things.

There is a minor problem with gmc.cryptocloudhosting.org for the bootstrap. I made a mistake in my script, so it's not updating properly. The bootstrap is good, just not updated every four hours like it's supposed to be. I will have it fixed in a day or two, just be aware that the current one is from yesterday, rather than up to date. I'll post when it's fixed, and until it's fixed, I'll do it manually at least once a day. (though hopefully it won't come to that).

I agree with your premise, and I can posit why. Every advance in science and technology puts one less pigeonhole for "god", by whatever name. I've been watching the same thing with fundamentalist christianity. Every time science comes up with some new discovery, that aspect of "god" gets pushed out of the argument, but everything not understood or poorly understood is "god's doing". The problem with this approach, of course, is that science don't care for the idea of "can't be known" and keeps pushing "god" further out of the picture by it's very existence.

I would guess that islamic leaders play the same games.

Ok, I concede I stepped in that one. I still don't see it as a big deal, but I guess I see the relevance.

We're gettin' places!

It's gone pretty well with the team in the last few days. Lots of energy, lots of ideas, and as you have seen... quite a lot of work

I'd take that offer, except I think we'd be betting the same way. If it were the southern part of the USA or even central Africa, I'd have a different bet. But Egypt?