Today's political labels are far too simplistic. Almost no one I've ever met tows the party line on every issue.
this exactly. the two party system is flawed as is, and no one should feel compelled to associate themselves with one party because of a few political belifs / ideas that align with that particular party's ideas. i have my own opinions on varying issues, and those beliefs coincide with the beliefs / views of both parties. that aside, the candidates of both parties are shit to me. |
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amount: 0.075
reason: buying shiny things.
repayment: whenever this sig pays out sometime early next month-ish, maybe sooner, but dont get your hopes up.
repayment amount: im thinking around 0.085
collateral: none, dont ask for any either. and yes, ive taken out a no collateral loan before.
address will be provided to lender once confirmed to prevent someone sending before confirming.
I would be interested in doing this deal, if for some reason the deal doesn't work out with vit1988. Can you sign a message with an old address posted earlier? Plus there is no trust given for the uncollateralized loan you took earlier. Could you direct us to that transaction? it's in laosai's loan thread somewhere, i dont want to go look for it. there is no trust rating because i never ask for trust ratings. yay. -----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
yay
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1KaNooJJ366uda2F4DvwdLEus82jCiBLRq
IL6TJF9T5zkrrWcT8/sVeJJ4I7HFYztpo1mlOb+IfkjyIpgl9gZxYChmYURI+G7iqTsRSwOD68OLiy4ezx8M20s=
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laziness aside, vit1988 will be fulfilling the loan. edit: loan received, repayment address: repay to: 1AyrwtrceE19Vwd1KqJYSce6F8opTw4f5K
until: 2016-01-15
locking thread until loan is repaid |
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to be quite honest the bonuses arent that appealing (to me personally, i can't speak for others). would the betcoin.ag admins consider running a slightly higher fixed - rate campaign or something along those lines in lieu of forfeiting the bonus? options are always nice.
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amount: 0.075
reason: buying shiny things.
repayment: whenever this sig pays out sometime early next month-ish, maybe sooner, but dont get your hopes up.
repayment amount: im thinking around 0.085
collateral: none, dont ask for any either. and yes, ive taken out a no collateral loan before.
address will be provided to lender once confirmed to prevent someone sending before confirming.
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Thank you for the payment. I was just wondering, why is there a red square in front of my name in the spreadsheet ?
Looks like you got removed from the campaign, atleast, that what the sheet says at the top. That is right 5 members have been removed from the campaign. Erkallys you are one of them. Why  ? Can I atleast get an explanation ? I did not post rubbish nor single word messages, so I can't understand why... taking a glance at your post history shows a lot of 1 liners / posts that are either off topic or add nothing to the discussion at hand. Ok, everyone, thank you to have replied me. It seems that the problems that suffer Bitcoin are the same worldwide.
Thank you everyone to have replied here. Thanks to your testimonies, one of the biggest problem to Bitcoin mass adoption is that it is quite bad understood. I think that it will act like computers or cellphones or even cars before. People will need time to adapt to this technology revolution.
Thank you everyone to have replied me. Most of the time people are not aware of it or think that is a bad thing. This come from two reasons : medias are not pro-Bitcoin and Bitcoin si still too "geeky". Please guys, think about adding your country.
Thank you everyone for your answers. Please add the country you come from. Sadly it seems that your in the same situation as me  ... just a few to show an example; 'thanks for replying, insert comment that adds nothing to the discussion here.' just because you dont type things like '+1' 'smiley' 'yes' 'no' etc, doesnt make it not spam. the majority of your posts are short and more importantly, insubstantial. |
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should be .TV, not .TX |
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more than likely it has to do with the living costs; living costs in california and new york especially are just outrageous. not to mention that overcrowding might be an issue as well.
What about states such as Oregon and Washington? They are not overcrowded, and unlike "expensive states" such as California and New York, the living expenses are very much within the limits. Why no significant amount of refugees are being sent to these states? And you should also remember that rural areas of California are not that unaffordable. true, but then again, this is the US government we're talking about here, they might as well have just thrown state names into a hat and drew lots to decide where the refugees went. |
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This is the ultimate irony. Why these "refugees" are not resettled in states such as New York, California and New Jersey, where the population is pro-immigration? Why most of them are being sent to "red" states such as Texas, where the population is not that excited about the immigrant arrivals? Seems to me that the Democrats are silently trying to alter the demography of the red states.
more than likely it has to do with the living costs; living costs in california and new york especially are just outrageous. not to mention that overcrowding might be an issue as well. |
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Instead of indiscriminately killing thousands or millions of civilians that have nothing to do with it, how about cleaning up your place first? Stop giving them the support that allows them to spread their radical message throughout the region.
Hmm... I agree to a limited degree with your argument. Rather than taking out all the Saudi civilians (there are more than 30 million of them, growing at 3% per year), we can just take out the Saudi Monarch and the other members of the Al Saud royal family. A secular regime should be established, and Islam should be banned. I doubt that would have the desired effect, if anything, i would expect an international outrage over this. and you cant really kill off an idea by just banning or outlawing it, the story of judaism during the majority of the first millennium is proof of that. establishing a secular regime would likely require military intervention and protection over a time period of at least a decade; you need to let the idea die off by itself, people will cling to their beliefs like it or not. |
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Fox News Wants Your Kids to Charge at Active Shooters
According to Fox & Friends, Little Johnny needs to stand his goddamn ground.
In a segment earlier today, Elizabeth Hasselbeck brought on two martial arts instructors who have apparently been busy teaching children the art of running at active shooters.
heroism doesnt work in the real world, what kids should be taught when confronted is to run the fuck away; without at least military level hand to hand combat training youre more than likely to die against anything as dangerous as a knife. I can't decide if this is completely irresponsible or just plain stupid. Although we should teach people to be ready to fight for their lives, if it is necessary, I don't think this is the way to teach our young ones. If we want them to stay alive that is.
fight or flight is a basic instinct, and fox is trying to teach these kids that flight shouldnt be considered; theyre telling kids to run to their deaths. then again, anyone with a quarter of a brain should know that fox is a joke of a station. |
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But those can just be outsourced to cheap labour too, right? Personally, I would prefer filling them out with a couple of clicks than typing out those stupid deformed word ones that can take me a couple of goes sometimes. true, i just felt that these might be a bit more time - consuming with the image load times and whatnot, and that aside, everything nowadays can be and is outsourced to cheap labor. and in that sense, captchas wouldnt be at all be a solution as long as the spammer was willing to pay for said labor. implementing this sort (or any sort) of captcha wouldnt necessarily be a solution, but it would slow down the creation of new accounts and make it more costly for the spammer though. the cost itself might be enough to deter a fair bit of spam, seeing as how the accounts arent really getting anything done except taking up a small portion of data in the forum's db. |
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* implement captcha for people with less than 100 post.
Personally I think adding another (better) captcha to sign-ups and when you make your first post you have to fill one in would help but not with every post and theymos seems to think they're pretty much useless anyway and I trust his judgement on that as he's a smarter guy than me and knows what he's doing when it comes to tech stuff but I don't think it would hurt adding a captcha personally. Well most of the captcha could be bypassed easily (recaptcha v1+2, solvemedia..), but afaik funcaptcha seems to be the best (+/- are you human). Implementing one of the first category is useless and if the owner of the bot insist in spamming then he could find a way, for the 2 others there is a chance to slower him tho. Btw, i used to report the spam like this (spam bot in the bitcoin discussion section) but when I find too much i report 1 then I write something like: another 5 spam bot posts in the bitcoin discussion section, dunno if it is helpful/easier for mods to nuke it than reporting it one by one? I think any hurdles added to slow or stop them (or cost them more time, effort and money) are better than nothing and the crappy captcha we have at the moment and should be considered but basic ones that can be easily solved/botted themselves will be useless. Are there not any ones that are hard to bypass or possibly time-restricted to being filled in within 10-30 seconds or something to prevent cheap labour filling them out manually? As for reporting, reporting them each is preffered but if you just want to report one and state there's others that will do. Usually someone else will report them quite qucikly anyway. the most difficult captcha i can think of having come across are those picture identification captchas, the ones where it says something along the lines of: 'identify all the sandwiches,' and you would choose 3 or 4 out of the 9 pictures presented. picture:  * implement captcha for people with less than 100 post.
Personally I think adding another (better) captcha to sign-ups and when you make your first post you have to fill one in would help but not with every post and theymos seems to think they're pretty much useless anyway and I trust his judgement on that as he's a smarter guy than me and knows what he's doing when it comes to tech stuff but I don't think it would hurt adding a captcha personally. * Auto flag(delete) a post if 5 different people(IP) report it as spam. (though also ban the reporting account for a week, if the report was false and not in good faith) Not a good idea. This could be abused in the same way with bots. They get nuked after one post once they're reported anyway so this will suffice. Captcha can be solved by spam bots, but it cost money, because they hire someone in the 3rd world to solve it manually, about $0.10 per captcha. I think you can try to do a statistic report, you should see no one with 100 or more post count, is spamming. So it should be very effective in vastly reducing spam. I never tried the report feature before, I just tried it, and reported 3 spam in Chinese forum. Looks like it does work well, they were removed pretty fast. even less actually, there were a few threads in the services section before the big price hike when btc was about ~225 usd / coin offering around 15 dollars (0.07, give or take, dont care) for 10000 captchas. i do believe those were just simple 1 or 2 word text captchas though. |
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Knife attacks happen all the time. This one was just the one that made the news..
it made international news because of the possibility the event was associated with ISIS and terrorism in general. knife attacks in general will make the news, this one was just particularly bad and involved the 'terrorist' shouting something about turkey or syria, i forgot which. |
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i bought a key and it worked, not much else to really say.
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i think its more of a psychological thing; as most of the people on here are children mentally, they probably think of signing up under your referral as 'working under you' or something to that effect, and can't handle that thought of being inferior by being referred as to being the referrer or something. some people are pretty stupid here ya know. id take you up on the offer personally, but i dont touch dice for obvious reasons.
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And you need to grow up and out of the whole "world revolves around me" thing.
its unfortunately becoming an increasinglyy common thing with today's more (extreme) liberal youth. Fwdxdlhz or whatever his name is deserved the negative trust. You can see that other trusted people left him negative trust ratings aswell. He is just a troll, just look at his posts, he should be banned not neg trusted. He obviously has an alt and started trolling for some reason.
he was banned for a few days, but he deserved a longer ban imo, i was expecting at least two weeks, not two days. good thing people still find it necessary to feed the trolls. /s |
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Islam is there to stay, and cannot be destroyed even if all muslims are destroyed in the way, islam doesn't serve bad people needs so it's natural that bad people will hate it, and pretend to be good while they are deep in filth that's not allowed on their own religion as well, ops I forgot they re-write it to allow the bad stuff they like, and no muslims wont and can't change so live with it.
Islam's major bad points: 1. Sends Muslims to Hell because works righteousness doesn't work; 2. Is violent, even though it has Muslims buffaloed into thinking it is not violent; 3. Makes people angry with Muslims so that they kill Muslims at times; 4. Keeps Muslims in the dark ages in the ways that they live. Islam is not good for anybody, but especially not for Muslims. Muslims would be far happier if they became Bible believing Christians. (So would atheists.)  religion in general tends to cause problems; the religious either seem to think its their mission to cram their ideals down everyone else's throats or go crusading against everything that conflicts with those ideals. and before you ask, i already tried the whole christianity thing a while back, wasnt for me. religious thinking seemed to create this echo chamber of agreement and nothing went against the hivemind. Did you try a relationship with God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) when you tried Christianity? Trying to do something doesn't cut it. Doing it is what cuts it. God is there for you if you have the relationship with Him. People who think that their religion of non-religion isn't a religion, are only deluding themselves. Come to a relationship with God. Get into the Bible and get the Bible into you. It may not be easy to stick with God, but He will help you if you are serious. been there, done that, i was a christian for somewhere around a decade or so, give or take a year, dont care enough to remember. retreats, weekly mass, holiday masses, all that. in the end i drifted towards the conclusion that i couldnt keep believing in something i couldnt see any resemblance of or any sign of influence / action from; ie maturing mentally drove me out of the mindset of clinging to an ideal and having a relationship with an idea. the philosophies of christianity, and most religions in general, from my pov, are actually really nice and philanthropic (charity, kindness, yada yada its all there), but the hivemind thinking of it all really cut the final straw for me. there was never any thinking or self-thought, it was all 'hey theres this millenia old book and it can say no wrong.' to each their own though, i have nothing against religion or the idea of it (ie, im not going to go around tipping a fedora and trying to dismantle people's beliefs, nor will i debate them), and as it stands the topic of religion is a gray area to me. |
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Islam is there to stay, and cannot be destroyed even if all muslims are destroyed in the way, islam doesn't serve bad people needs so it's natural that bad people will hate it, and pretend to be good while they are deep in filth that's not allowed on their own religion as well, ops I forgot they re-write it to allow the bad stuff they like, and no muslims wont and can't change so live with it.
Islam's major bad points: 1. Sends Muslims to Hell because works righteousness doesn't work; 2. Is violent, even though it has Muslims buffaloed into thinking it is not violent; 3. Makes people angry with Muslims so that they kill Muslims at times; 4. Keeps Muslims in the dark ages in the ways that they live. Islam is not good for anybody, but especially not for Muslims. Muslims would be far happier if they became Bible believing Christians. (So would atheists.) religion in general tends to cause problems; the religious either seem to think its their mission to cram their ideals down everyone else's throats or go crusading against everything that conflicts with those ideals. and before you ask, i already tried the whole christianity thing a while back, wasnt for me. religious thinking seemed to create this echo chamber of agreement and nothing went against the hivemind. |
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the only safe online wallet would be coinbase, because they have insurance against losses of money especially vs hacker
and because they are heavily regulated and in touch with IRS itself
coinbase isnt a wallet; if you yourself do not control the private keys, its not a wallet. its just a place you can store your bitcoin relatively safely. |
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You want prove? First of all, it would be hard to actually prove it now for verious reasons, but, to actually prove it would have to be all visually recorded.
no one's stopping you, go for it. we just don't really care. |
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