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No different from central bankers or dictators really in the real world so I don't dwell much on it, they all act exactly the same.
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A bitcoin world or more generally a public money supply currency world clearly means MORE taxes than before. After all, if you cut off the source of income which is printing money as debt, governments will be forced to take more taxes to maintain roads, etc. The reason taxes would go up is because they would be forced to honestly show just how much people are actually going to have to spend on the things the government is providing, printing money is not a source of income, it's delaying the payment of the debt that has been taken on with more debt, worse still, it dumps the problem on the next generation, your children, which is something I can never support. |
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This is far beyond a simple disagreement. You advocate - and would support financially - the use of lethal force against me. That, I'm afraid, makes us enemies. Hawker, you have proven to me without doubt that the people of the ideology you follow and you yourself are overreacting paranoid schizophrenics who think everyone is out to get them. You can be the enemy of someone without killing them, it happens all the time in life. I do have to agree with Myrkul on some points but not all, while governments have finally learned that they can't get away with killing people who don't want to pay tax so easily anymore it seems that imprisoning them is perfectly acceptable and there was even a thread recently about the way the Finnish police using methods which basically amount to torture in most countries so it just goes to show you that not all governments are above using violence to get there way still. Bitcoin has finally given us a way to peacefully protest the way our money is being spent by our governments, if you don't like that happening, then tough, it's not like you can do anything about it, from now on taxation isn't going to exist, you're going to have to ask for my money rather than just take it and use it for your own ends, you can stay with your rapidly devaluing paper currency. |
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who is behind this and why is it being done?
It's another self-appointed leader and entrepreneur of Bitcoin that speaks for all of us, don't worry! We're in good hands  |
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People have to buy things, there's no way that someone can possible sit on thousands of Bitcoins for the end of time and spend absolutely nothing like people here keep claiming, you need to buy furniture, you need to buy food, you need to buy clothes, you need to buy tools for whatever trade you do, this nonsense about deflationary currencies causing hoarding is just stupid because otherwise how the hell would empires that traded purely in gold and silver have survived?
I wish neo-keynesians would stop re-writing history, ignoring mathematics and making up hypothetical scenarios to suit their arguments, it really is like arguing with a religious person and it seems that like with religion the only way for other economic schools to prove them wrong is to create a working example that they can't fuck up and prove them to be the raving lunatics they are.
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That's your opinion. The Japanese have a different view - that the persistence of deflation is harmful to their economy. I think its worth at least 1 country in the world to try inflating their way out of that. The experiment is 6 months old - it will be a couple of years before we can say if it was a good idea. You're wrong, neo-keynesians have the point of view that deflation is harmful to the economy, like with most self-appointed leaders around the globe speaking for countries I'm sure the Japanese people themselves will have very different opinions to that school of economic thought to what their leaders say, countries and people tend not to have one singular opinion about an idea even if they tend to believe in the same thing. |
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What Satoshi does with their money is their business, now bugger off.
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The problem with people predicting this buyout scenario is not only is it not realistic, they clearly don't understand how currencies work, if the federal reserve for instance decided to buy up lots of Bitcoins the price would most likely rise so high that it wouldn't be cost effective to buy anymore to keep competition away. They would also have to print more money in order to buy Bitcoin which would of course drastically affect the value of the dollar even more so it would be like with most hyperinflated currencies where you'd need 10 million dollars to buy 1 Bitcoin.
Adding to that, if they tried to keep Bitcoin out of the markets as much as possible then all people will do is switch to the alternative that is far easier to use and less restrictive and doesn't cost a fortune to transfer across the world, because of the deflationary nature of Bitcoin it seems very unlikely to me that any buyout attempt will succeed. The problem with many of these disaster scenarios is that the people predicting them keep making the mistake of treating Bitcoin as an inflationary currency that there is an infinite supply of which it is not.
The central banks of the world have been rigging the currency markets and artificially fixing prices and now thanks to deflation we're finally seeing just how much damage they've caused.
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Finally! Got it sorted! Image came out a bit weird but I think that's more to do with the resolution I used, thanks for the help again, here's the now updated and working code.
#ifdef __cplusplus
#include <cstdlib>
#else
#include <stdlib.h>
#endif
#include <SDL/SDL.h>
int main( int argc, char* args[] )
{
SDL_Init; ( SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING );
SDL_Surface* screen = NULL;
SDL_Surface* test = NULL;
screen = SDL_SetVideoMode( 500, 500, 32, SDL_SWSURFACE );
test = SDL_LoadBMP( "test.bmp" );
SDL_BlitSurface( test, NULL, screen, NULL );
SDL_Flip( screen );
SDL_Delay( 2000 );
SDL_FreeSurface( test );
SDL_Quit();
return 0;
}
For future reference I think the biggest problem was SDL_Init( SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING ); because on the tutorial he put that after the SDL_surface commands rather than before. |
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Alright, thanks for the help, I'll steamroll through this like I've been doing with OpenGL  just need to put the time in. |
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One day I will dress up as a Soviet and hail the next GOP candidate in America.
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wow thanks a lot Foxpup, that's really interesting, he didn't seem to mention any of this in the troubleshooting for it and so on >_< and this is supposed to be a beginners tutorial lol! I copied it exactly just to see whether I was forgetting or something, but it looks like there are bits wrong with his code, I'll double check again and it looks like there are. Do you know of any up to date tutorials that won't bugger up on the latest version of SDL? I particularly like this library because it means I have to go and make some art assets right away which is nice, anime characters time woot!  |
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It's actually almost frightening that the people who are supposed to be in charge of world finances know even less basic mathematics than I do and I scored an F in my last exams, but then again, the only saving grace we have is that they're so incompetent there's no way they'll be able to touch stuff like Bitcoin.
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#ifdef __cplusplus
#include <cstdlib>
#else
#include <stdlib.h>
#endif
#include <SDL/SDL.h>
int main ( int argc, char*, args[] )
{
SDL_Surface* test = NULL;
SDL Init ( SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING );
screen = SDL_SetVideoMode ( 640, 480, 32, SDL_SWSURFACE );
test = SDL_LoadBMP ("Test.bmp");
SDL_BlitSurface (test, NULL, screen, NULL)
SDL_Flip ( screen );
SDL_Delay ( 2000 );
SDL_FreeSurface( test );
SDL_Quit();
return 0;
}
From various posts and word on the internet I've found that SDL is apparently the library to use, I can see it combines it's code really well and you don't have to worry about downloading extensions for keyboard input like with GLFW so that's already a plus but, I've come across a problem. I'm following the tutorials here: http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson01/windows/codeblocks/index.php but the code won't compile! It's strange because the commands were registered by Codeblocks ( IDE I'm using ) and when I started up the SDL sample the code works absolutely fine. Anyone got any advice? I'm going to get on this properly because I think SDL is a pretty nice library but I suspect I'll have to do some digging around like when I was just compiling basic OpenGL, I'm wondering if the code for this tutorial is out of date because the version of the library it said to download was much earlier, it's happened before with previous coding.
error: 'args' has not been declared
In function 'int SDL_main(int, char*, int*)'
error: 'SDL' was not declared in this scope
error: expected ';' before 'Init'
error: 'screen' was not declared in this scope
||=== Build finished: 4 errors, 0 warnings (0 minutes, 0 seconds) ===|
I think I'm just going to have to do what I did before and work with the sample and learn the code that way so Codeblocks doesn't break. |
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I think a physical bitcoin would be the best plan, I think these are what people are going to end up trading with the most in the real world really, no one's going to wait around for confirmations by trading on each others laptops etc. |
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That sounds pretty damn bad and even a violation of EU human rights which is probably why your lawyer wouldn't go to the EU courts with the kind of stuff you were talking about. Obviously normally I'd never want violence, but in that sort of situation you really do have no choice but to fight back. If any police officer forced people to wear a straight jacket for no reason over here or tried making up stuff/withdrawing medication to keep you in jail they'd have the media all over it and the police involved might even get jail time.
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LOL After all that raging I found that the problem was that I had downloaded 64 bit GLFW binaries instead of 32 bit, I feel like a noob even after all that coding Now I can begin work on my keyboard and mouse interaction |
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It's not Socialism, it's Corporatism and Imperialism >_>
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