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Hi and welcome.
You may want to read up on mining a bit more before committing to it. Mining is certainly not a "get rich quick" thing. It may be cheaper to buy coins for many computers.
Cheers
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The idea of a "missing link" is outmoded in biology. I think if you look at the latest work you will see a very complete record from tree dwelling apes to lots of upright hominids to Humans.
Humans didn't just appear. It's kinda about where you draw the line of human/pre-human. Even the skeletons of "modern Humans" from tens of thousands of years ago are noticeably different from skeletons today. Especially in the past 10k years, skeletons have become more delicate. There are other changes likely related to cooking. Our guts are WAY to small to eat uncooked food and our appendix has stopped working all together.
We were just another one of the tool using apes until our genes won the arms race. Now we are the last of the group, and still evolving and changing.
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Ok well maybe you can explain the "cambrian explosion". .I find it very peculiar you do not find that there is a evolutionary gap.
I was thinking of the Human line. The Cambrain explosion is another thing. You are right about a gap there. I don't know WTF happened to kick that off, lol. My vote for the best theory about it is sex. Before sexual reproduction evolution moved very slowly. There were occasional changes due to mutation. but things weren't changing much. Once sexual reproduction evolved genes were mixed, and as a result there was far more DNA diversity and speciation taking place. This could have accounted for the "explosion" of new living things. Of course these are just expressions of the same living thing. There has been only one living thing ever discovered. You, me and the trees are all the same DNA creature. |
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I think it was Dec. 2011 that a fortuitous web search for open source projects led me here. It was my lucky day.
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I don't know why there is surge, except for a lot of developments in the bitcoin economy. I do think that thew real rocket takes off when we beat the all time high price of about $32. At that point people may realize that there is no limit to the value of a bitcoin.
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At the same time, evolution does not occur in the way you describe. Cavemen were humans, and slowly evolved into what we are now. There is no simple caveman/human line you can draw. As RodeoX described (excellent insight btw, totally forgot about that), at some point in time, someone tried to describe the sun, and the wind, and the moon, and the stars, and thus, all were assigned gods--how else would they describe it?
It could be argued god/God is born from ignorance--which isn't an insult. People back then really just didn't know, and it wasn't their fault. It's only an insult nowadays because now we do know what the sun, and the wind, and the moon, and the stars are. We know what causes floods and what causes lightning. We know there's no tangible heaven or hell. It was easy, in the time of early man, to believe such things, because it made more sense than "I dunno." If nothing else, religion was a stepping stone, a product of man's imagination, the earliest of sciences. But a couple thousand years later and it's like beating your head on the desk, screaming, "We already figured this stuff out!"
Well that's just part of the evolutionary theory which can easily be blown full of holes, there' have been a nr of "missing links" claims for example turned out to be hoaxes. The evolutionary link between human beings and apelike creatures still has to be found one moment were dragging knuckles next thing were shaving. There's two different species, they draw in the missing bits to make it LOOk like we progressed from apes but truth is there is no evidence for two or three drawings which they show and which supposed to prove we stemmed from the apes. There's a huge evolutionary gap. The thing that confuses people is that there have been so many dead end species in the human tree. In the past we have lived with at least as many as five other humanoids at the same time. It was likely only in the past 13,000 years that we were the only humans on Earth. No there's a huge evolutionary gap and they can't explain it. Really? I'm an evolutionary biologist and I'm unaware of any gaps. Of course we don't know all the species in the direct human line, but we do know that radiation of species started about 7 million years ago. Many species evolved and died out. Some, like homo erectus, spread out of Africa. Then about ~120k years ago a new species evolved and a tiny group, perhaps only 100, left Africa and populated the Earth while killing off any remaining human relatives. Everyone outside of Africa is descended from that tiny group. |
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Welcome fellow peer! |
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Not to crash in on your thread, but I am interested in the same thing this fall. Especially anyone in South Eastern India. Looking for rupees, horse rentals, and wildlife trackers.
This new service seems waesome for prepaid phonecards: http://www.bitcoinwireless.com/Currently looking for information about 3G/4G USB mobile and how good it works at different locations, prices and possibly if there is a way to fund them with BTC. I am definitely going to be a customer when they hard-launch! But I hadn't thought about it for travel? Perhaps I could buy a $10 phone when I'm there and load it up. Hmmm... |
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At the same time, evolution does not occur in the way you describe. Cavemen were humans, and slowly evolved into what we are now. There is no simple caveman/human line you can draw. As RodeoX described (excellent insight btw, totally forgot about that), at some point in time, someone tried to describe the sun, and the wind, and the moon, and the stars, and thus, all were assigned gods--how else would they describe it?
It could be argued god/God is born from ignorance--which isn't an insult. People back then really just didn't know, and it wasn't their fault. It's only an insult nowadays because now we do know what the sun, and the wind, and the moon, and the stars are. We know what causes floods and what causes lightning. We know there's no tangible heaven or hell. It was easy, in the time of early man, to believe such things, because it made more sense than "I dunno." If nothing else, religion was a stepping stone, a product of man's imagination, the earliest of sciences. But a couple thousand years later and it's like beating your head on the desk, screaming, "We already figured this stuff out!"
Well that's just part of the evolutionary theory which can easily be blown full of holes, there' have been a nr of "missing links" claims for example turned out to be hoaxes. The evolutionary link between human beings and apelike creatures still has to be found one moment were dragging knuckles next thing were shaving. There's two different species, they draw in the missing bits to make it LOOk like we progressed from apes but truth is there is no evidence for two or three drawings which they show and which supposed to prove we stemmed from the apes. There's a huge evolutionary gap. That is not as true today as it has been. We have a fairly good evolutionary tree for humans now. The thing that confuses people is that there have been so many dead end species in the human tree. In the past we have lived with at least as many as five other humanoids at the same time. It was likely only in the past 13,000 years that we were the only humans on Earth. |
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There used to be a lot of bears here. Since the rise in prices they seem to have gone extinct.  |
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So he many not be a complete idiot, just a slimy douchebag trying who realized he was totally wrong and is now trying to keep his audience.
+1 Absolutely sounds like this. Seems like this Guy has already made another Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MDCYPwk0gMAnd now he even has a bitcoin address. LOL. His video starts with a child-made hold harmless agreement, which you must agree to before continuing to watch the video.  He then gives his "technical analysis". (Which is neither) |
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You can't have a God without a human. God came into existence when some caveman asked the clan chief "Just what the hell is the Sun?". Ever since then the story has been getting more elaborate.
I don't think cavemen worshiped any gods. Only humans did. I mean human beings because the difference between human beings and cavemen is pretty pretty spectacular, there's a huge chasm in the progression of development from apelike creatures all the way up to what is now" Human beings". I totally agree. By caveman I meant an early Homo sapien, not a Neanderthal or one of the other humanoid relatives. |
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You can't have a God without a human. God came into existence when some caveman asked the clan chief "Just what the hell is the Sun?". Ever since then the story has been getting more elaborate.
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I'll check it out.
I'm somewhere to the left of Obama on gun control. That is to say I WANT NO CONTROL AT ALL. That's the true liberal position. This stuff about Liberals wanting gun control is a product of ignorance on the left. Many liberals today live in populated areas with no access to guns. Not surprisingly they only hear about guns when they are used to kill people. This has led to a confused blending of guns and violence people sometimes do with guns.
As a liberal I believe the government has very limited powers to restrict my rights. They can only do so when there is a provable risk to the people if action is not taken. And when the action taken is proven to address the problem. These standards are not met by some silly ban on mean looking guns. It's just politicians making rules for us that they have no intention of following themselves. Any real liberal would resist a government that wants robots to roam the sky killing at will, while telling me I cant have an AR15.
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It is really fucked up he would shoot the daughter of his appointed attorney. No matter how stupid or corrupt the LAPD is, this guy is killing people because they would not let him join their club.
That's what I'm thinking. If a crazy person kills Hitler, it does not make him sane. This is a disturbed and dangerous guy. His "war" on the LAPD are the rantings of a delusional mind. He's not Batman, he's not your hero. If you got in his way, he would put you in a grave. |
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Just as a P.S.
I don't ever plan on selling my bitcoin for dollars. I might buy something with them, but it will not be the less desirable $USD.
Well, ok. I would sell for $ at Mt.Gox + %25. Then I would quickly replace my coins.
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We should bum rush Amazon with emails about why they use Amazon Coins, but not bitcoin. I do buy stuff from Amazon, but if they took BTC, they would make it my primary shopping site.
No we shouldn't. The customer base of bitcoin users is still WAAAAAAAY too tiny for them to give a fuck. Plus they'll be in the business of selling AmazonCoins themselves directly. For them to use Bitcoin, they would have to consider how to sell it themselves, and somehow I don't think Amazon has interest in being in the exchange business. My message to Amazon is... You can use BTC or not. I will be using bitcoin regardless of your decision. |
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High price? maybe $1000/bitcoin. but 20ish., that's not high.
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