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81  Other / Off-topic / Re: How BTC changed my life on: September 05, 2011, 01:15:46 PM
It all started when I was 17. I remember that it was a hot summer; the crickets were chirping and dad hadn’t beaten me for a few days. He did that sometimes, when he was drunk and I’d been a worthless parasite. I tried hard in school but even so I was still leeching off him. Knowing that made me feel worthless, because it is the strong man who provides for the weak and I was weak. His fists were not violent, it was my impotent sloth that was violent, my lack of industry that forced my father to pay the bills. Such violence is not compassion.

I hope one day to be the man that my father is, the man that he dreamed that I could be. I’ll show him my strength and then he will love me.

It was almost time for the robot championships - we’d placed in the top 50th percentile last year - and I’d spent weeks sketching designs. Tall robots; squat robots; robots to catch and robots to throw; robots with a thousand dongs, each hanging from a hundred other dongs, each dong whirling like a throbbing dervish. The latter was to give the coup de grâce to my demoralised enemies, an android teabagging if you will.

Clem came round that morning. I clearly remember the excitement in her face as she opened his laptop - bought for her by her parents, the leech - and started a strange program. She was shaking a little, and since father blocked the air conditioning vents in my room, she was sweating slightly from the heat.

One day I will marry Clem, if she remains pure and finds a suitable job with good benefits. I could never marry a lesser creature, one of the unclean. “What Would Ayn Do?” was my motto and I strove to meet her expectations, at least so far as I understood them. We’d never touched, for she was not of that type, but I knew we had a quiet, unvoiced connection. She could be mine if I truly asked.

Confused by her awkward excitement, I stammered my bewilderment. “What is it?”

“It’s amazing! My brother showed me. You run this program and it makes Chuck E. Cheese coupons or something.” Still excited, her face was tinged with uncertainty. Was it: will he like it? Or perhaps: do I even know what I am talking about? That had never stopped us before, not when we started the Objectivist Lunch Table, nor when we threw those rocks at old Mr. Gillard when he put that Local 602 sticker on his car. His VFW buddies had chased us but we knew we were in the right. We knew.

I showed her my teeth as mother had taught me, trying to calm Clem from her agitation. The program beeped a successful note and something popped onscreen about blocks. My father had never given me any blocks as a child. I’d resorted to carving some from the cheddar that the government had given me after my emancipation. My father had been so proud to emancipate me: he’d called it my 10th birthday present, a coming of age and the beginning of my long road to manhood. I was no longer dependent upon him, for he’d passed me off to society at large.

“What happened?”
“We just mined a bitcoin!”
“A what?”
“It’s really cool! It’s like money except on a computer. You can’t buy anything with it, of course, because no one gives a shit and it’s completely pointless but my brother says that it will change the world.”

I spent the next week frantically searching online. On the third day I made a fantastic discovery: a program called Google that lets me look for things. It was like going to the library and bugging Mrs. Rudd to show me where the von Mises biographies were but without the blank look and the awkward shuffling away. It found things! I found things! Bitcoin was a revolution and I was going to be at the forefront, blasting aside the old order of tax violence and oppression and replacing it with a new world of poorly regulated currency, volatility, child pornography, poverty, fraud, and smug ignorance! Bitcoin was the answer!

My heart raced and I blacked out. An hour? Two hours? When I awoke, I was naked from the waist down and my thighs were sticky. Someone had drawn my secret dongbot design on the floorboards and my mouth tasted of garlic. I pulled myself unsteadily to my feet - I had to stop wasting time, for a new day was dawning.
Wait, if you were emancipated from your dad when you were 10, why were you still hanging out with him when you were 17?
Emancipated meaning he was no longer required to pay for my schooling or healthcare. I still lived with my parents.
82  Economy / Speculation / Re: Here we go again, bitcoin exchange rates have been doing just fine on: September 05, 2011, 03:21:36 AM
Log scale? Jesus christ. The denial is strong in this thread.
Log scale makes a lot of sense for bitcoin. It is a currency that will eventually inevitably grow at an exponential rate. It is also - unlike fiat currencies - based in mathematics. Also, it makes the graphs easier to read and understand for those of us who might be otherwise bothered by trifling matters like excessive short-term volatility, allowing us instead to focus on the extraordinary long-term prospects of bitcoin. The very name "logarithmic" itself fits well with the elegant nature of bitcoin.

I challenge you to find a scale system better suited to plot bitcoin prices. Linear? Hah - that's as retarded as using the Euler method! Hypergolic? Violates the Kutta condition.
83  Other / Off-topic / Re: Why do sadistic freaks always fly their airplanes around 50ft above the ground? on: September 04, 2011, 11:50:03 PM
@bitconformist

Everyone is skimming what I said.  Law is they must be at least 1000 feet.
The "law" is ridiculous. Who has the right to restrict my freedom? The free market - free individuals - should decide what is "unsafe."
84  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralising other public institutions on: September 04, 2011, 10:38:14 PM
I'm not giving my DNA to the feds. It took long enough to make them delete my SSN - why would I want them to be able to clone me?!

dna is worthless if you have nothing else with it. for example, if they found dna at a crime scene, and you were a registered voter, they would see the dna in the database, but still have no idea whos it was, so it does not matter, because you never gave them  name or anything.
So I walk into a facility with video cameras and donate a DNA sample and they have no way of knowing who I am?

why would there need to be video cameras? you could wear a mask.
The federal government? They love video cameras. Every single federal building is festooned with cameras.

You cannot enter a federal building wearing a mask. Security will not let you in.

i dont know where you live, but here in st louis, almost every government building i have ever been in lacked security guards. also, my idea was not for the current situation, but one where current ideas we think of now as sound, are being debated and floating around in limbo. for example, cameras.
Identity isn't the only problem. In a few decades they may be able to clone me from that sample. I won't even be able to own my own self!
85  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Who else sold out? on: September 04, 2011, 09:50:52 PM
I sold out my dollars to buy Bitcoins. I was sick of this...


Now plot that against income.

FWIW, inflation is a good thing if you're in debt to someone.
86  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralising other public institutions on: September 04, 2011, 09:47:47 PM
I'm not giving my DNA to the feds. It took long enough to make them delete my SSN - why would I want them to be able to clone me?!

dna is worthless if you have nothing else with it. for example, if they found dna at a crime scene, and you were a registered voter, they would see the dna in the database, but still have no idea whos it was, so it does not matter, because you never gave them  name or anything.
So I walk into a facility with video cameras and donate a DNA sample and they have no way of knowing who I am?

why would there need to be video cameras? you could wear a mask.
The federal government? They love video cameras. Every single federal building is festooned with cameras.

You cannot enter a federal building wearing a mask. Security will not let you in.
87  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Beyond Bitcoin: Decentralising other public institutions on: September 04, 2011, 09:42:49 PM
I'm not giving my DNA to the feds. It took long enough to make them delete my SSN - why would I want them to be able to clone me?!

dna is worthless if you have nothing else with it. for example, if they found dna at a crime scene, and you were a registered voter, they would see the dna in the database, but still have no idea whos it was, so it does not matter, because you never gave them  name or anything.
So I walk into a facility with video cameras and donate a DNA sample and they have no way of knowing who I am?
88  Other / Off-topic / Re: Know Thy Enemy of the Bitcoin - Message from Somethingawful to everyone here on: September 04, 2011, 09:33:43 PM
Oh yes, the ones who don’t see a conspiracy around every corner and the NWO. The sheeple.

They are guilty of destroying all our freedoms in America and worldwide, but they are innocent of trying to destroy bitcoins?
You just need to relax, dude. Chill out, smoke a little weed, and learn to adapt to where the world is going. Rebellion will never achieve anything; only through peaceful complacency can we survive in this world gone mad.

bitrebel, allow me to introduce myself: I am bitconformist. For, as every coin has two sides, so do we.

Very funny, that bitrebel and bitconformist are head to head with each other in verbal battle and opposing ideologies.

We need to REBEL!

No, we need to all CONFORM!

So you understand then? My brother, I beg you to see that this struggle is futile. You cannot win: you cannot slow them and they cannot be stopped. Submit, conform, and your obedience will be rewarded.

And so you admit you are one of them, too?

No, I am no freemason. I almost wish that I was.

No, I was once a bitrebel like you. Now, spirit crushed, I am a bitconformist. I've agreed to stop fighting them and in return I am granted a measure of peace.
89  Other / Off-topic / Re: A Factual History of Freemasons and Banking - Not Internet Sourced on: September 04, 2011, 09:31:07 PM
It's futile, you know. Once I was like you, my brother. I too was a bitrebel. I fought the good fight against them but it amounted to nothing. Sydney, Geelong, Adelaide, Coonabarabran...all those mighty cities were taken under their control. Oh, it's nothing obvious - you can visit any of them and not notice a hair out of place...but beneath the surface? Secret government meetings, roadway repavings that would keep me awake all night, interruptions in my favourite cartoon shows, and having to pee more often than I should need to; all things calculated to crush my spirit.

I escaped that. I ran like a coward until they caught me! But they were merciful. Now I roam the internet helping others to come to terms with the coming subjugation.

There's a reason why everything takes place underground and out of sight in Coober Pedy.
No, that's just cos they're all bloody uggo.
90  Other / Off-topic / Re: Bruce Wagner and the surrounding drama. on: September 04, 2011, 09:30:42 PM
While some posters now link the two together when arguing that Bruce is not an appropriate spokesman for Bitcoin(...)

WTF! Since when Bitcoin does have or need a "spokesman"?!
Jizz! This lately is getting filled up with self-nominations crap; like "spokesman", "bitcoin police", the others that I don't recall the name but also pretend to be some sort of "Bitcoin police"...  Roll Eyes
You're right, of course. Bitcoin doesn't need a spokesman. It simply is and its need and utility are both self-evident to the educated individual. It's unfortunate that there are so few educated among the population and that those of us who can grasp such obvious facts are decried and vilified.

Incidentally, given your mention of jizz, I was wondering if you'd be interested in a proposition: I'm starting a BTC-based sperm bank for wealthy single women. The Sex and the City crowd, if you will. There's an untapped market for high-grade semen for spinster breeding purposes and I'd like to milk the resources of the bitcointalk forums to A) spread strong, intelligent, libertarian genes among the population at large, and B) make a small but justifiable profit. Interested?
91  Other / Off-topic / Re: Why do sadistic freaks always fly their airplanes around 50ft above the ground? on: September 04, 2011, 09:26:19 PM
They have full rights to buzz your house provided they are not touching your actual property. You do not own the airspace over your house, you own the right to stand upon your own plot of land and shake your fist at those carefree supermen zooming overhead. They have a right to fly their aircraft wherever they wish in this grand Republic.
92  Other / Off-topic / Re: Bruce Wagner and the surrounding drama. on: September 04, 2011, 09:24:04 PM
The song "My Girl" was originally written as an anthem for pedophiles.  This sort of thing would not be tolerated today, the troll police would make sure anyone who sang it was called out as the pedophiles they are.
OMFG go take your meds. How do you get pedophilia out of this?


Quote
I've got sunshine
On a cloudy day.
When it's cold outside,
I've got the month of May.

Well, I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl. (My girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl. (My girl)

I've got so much honey
The bees envy me.
I've got a sweeter songThan the birds in the trees.

Well, I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl. (My girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl. (My girl)

Ooooh, Hoooo.

Hey, hey, hey.
Hey, hey, hey.

I don't need no money,
Fortune or fame.
I've got all the riches, baby,
One man can claim.

Well, I guess you'll say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl. (My girl, my girl)
Talkin' 'bout my girl. (My girl)

Talkin' bout my girl.
I've got sushine on cloudy day
With my girl.
I've even got the month of MayWith my girl.

Who the fuck let out the insane asylum?
The R. Kelly remix was very different. I'm leery of even linking to it here.
93  Other / Off-topic / Re: A Factual History of Freemasons and Banking - Not Internet Sourced on: September 04, 2011, 09:22:38 PM
It's futile, you know. Once I was like you, my brother. I too was a bitrebel. I fought the good fight against them but it amounted to nothing. Sydney, Geelong, Adelaide, Coonabarabran...all those mighty cities were taken under their control. Oh, it's nothing obvious - you can visit any of them and not notice a hair out of place...but beneath the surface? Secret government meetings, roadway repavings that would keep me awake all night, interruptions in my favourite cartoon shows, and having to pee more often than I should need to; all things calculated to crush my spirit.

I escaped that. I ran like a coward until they caught me! But they were merciful. Now I roam the internet helping others to come to terms with the coming subjugation.
94  Other / Off-topic / Re: Bruce Wagner and the surrounding drama. on: September 04, 2011, 09:13:19 PM

Two questions:

- If he is or not pedophile, what does that add (or subtract) for the bitcoin world?!
- Since when one totally unrelated thing in the past makes anybody a pedophile nowadays?! «Hey! My mortgage scheme went down so I'm going to vent my disgrace over young boys'» Is this supposed to be the "logic"?!

Not a pedophile. I just reached my 30's, and I still refer to other guys as boys sometimes, and hate it when people refer to me as "man." Makes me feel old, and i definitely don't look it. Likewise, Bruce explained he just reffers to cute guys as boys, too, even if they're way above legal age. I think it's just a gay thing.
He's also posted advice on picking up virgins - he used that specific word - at Thai brothels. How many 20yo virgin prostitutes can there be?
95  Other / Off-topic / Re: Bruce Wagner and the surrounding drama. on: September 04, 2011, 07:07:15 PM
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Leases are overridden by extradition treaties.

What crime is the fetus being extradited for?  If the current location of the fetus is criminal the people who put it there are the one's who should be charged.
For a better understanding of the ethical philosophy I'm describing, I should refer you to Kafka's Trial.
96  Other / Off-topic / Re: Bruce Wagner and the surrounding drama. on: September 04, 2011, 07:02:05 PM
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What self defense law are you talking about? The universal one where someone feels threatened and they act irrationally, or the one that is different in every country in the world? Or the one 'god' gave us? Awful lot of details and rules to those 'laws' that everyone has for not having a rule book.

I'll bet there's a Bible at the end of this rainbow.

I am talking about the laws of the United States, as I explained.  The self-defense idea is ludicrous and silly, could you murder your five year old because you lost your job and now can't afford to raise her?  BUT JUDGE!  IT WAS SELF DEFENSE!

You're a complete nutjob.

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However, it's the mother's womb and she gets to decide who stays in there.

Of course she gets to decide, if she is pregnant she already made her decision.  She signed a nine month lease.
Leases are overridden by extradition treaties.
97  Other / Off-topic / Re: Know Thy Enemy of the Bitcoin - Message from Somethingawful to everyone here on: September 04, 2011, 06:56:41 PM
Oh yes, the ones who don’t see a conspiracy around every corner and the NWO. The sheeple.

They are guilty of destroying all our freedoms in America and worldwide, but they are innocent of trying to destroy bitcoins?
You just need to relax, dude. Chill out, smoke a little weed, and learn to adapt to where the world is going. Rebellion will never achieve anything; only through peaceful complacency can we survive in this world gone mad.

bitrebel, allow me to introduce myself: I am bitconformist. For, as every coin has two sides, so do we.

Very funny, that bitrebel and bitconformist are head to head with each other in verbal battle and opposing ideologies.

We need to REBEL!

No, we need to all CONFORM!

So you understand then? My brother, I beg you to see that this struggle is futile. You cannot win: you cannot slow them and they cannot be stopped. Submit, conform, and your obedience will be rewarded.
98  Other / Off-topic / Re: How BTC changed my life on: September 04, 2011, 06:46:06 PM
It all started when I was 17. I remember that it was a hot summer; the crickets were chirping and dad hadn’t beaten me for a few days. He did that sometimes, when he was drunk and I’d been a worthless parasite. I tried hard in school but even so I was still leeching off him. Knowing that made me feel worthless, because it is the strong man who provides for the weak and I was weak. His fists were not violent, it was my impotent sloth that was violent, my lack of industry that forced my father to pay the bills. Such violence is not compassion.

I hope one day to be the man that my father is, the man that he dreamed that I could be. I’ll show him my strength and then he will love me.

It was almost time for the robot championships - we’d placed in the top 50th percentile last year - and I’d spent weeks sketching designs. Tall robots; squat robots; robots to catch and robots to throw; robots with a thousand dongs, each hanging from a hundred other dongs, each dong whirling like a throbbing dervish. The latter was to give the coup de grâce to my demoralised enemies, an android teabagging if you will.

Clem came round that morning. I clearly remember the excitement in her face as she opened his laptop - bought for her by her parents, the leech - and started a strange program. She was shaking a little, and since father blocked the air conditioning vents in my room, she was sweating slightly from the heat.

One day I will marry Clem, if she remains pure and finds a suitable job with good benefits. I could never marry a lesser creature, one of the unclean. “What Would Ayn Do?” was my motto and I strove to meet her expectations, at least so far as I understood them. We’d never touched, for she was not of that type, but I knew we had a quiet, unvoiced connection. She could be mine if I truly asked.

Confused by her awkward excitement, I stammered my bewilderment. “What is it?”

“It’s amazing! My brother showed me. You run this program and it makes Chuck E. Cheese coupons or something.” Still excited, her face was tinged with uncertainty. Was it: will he like it? Or perhaps: do I even know what I am talking about? That had never stopped us before, not when we started the Objectivist Lunch Table, nor when we threw those rocks at old Mr. Gillard when he put that Local 602 sticker on his car. His VFW buddies had chased us but we knew we were in the right. We knew.

I showed her my teeth as mother had taught me, trying to calm Clem from her agitation. The program beeped a successful note and something popped onscreen about blocks. My father had never given me any blocks as a child. I’d resorted to carving some from the cheddar that the government had given me after my emancipation. My father had been so proud to emancipate me: he’d called it my 10th birthday present, a coming of age and the beginning of my long road to manhood. I was no longer dependent upon him, for he’d passed me off to society at large.

“What happened?”
“We just mined a bitcoin!”
“A what?”
“It’s really cool! It’s like money except on a computer. You can’t buy anything with it, of course, because no one gives a shit and it’s completely pointless but my brother says that it will change the world.”

I spent the next week frantically searching online. On the third day I made a fantastic discovery: a program called Google that lets me look for things. It was like going to the library and bugging Mrs. Rudd to show me where the von Mises biographies were but without the blank look and the awkward shuffling away. It found things! I found things! Bitcoin was a revolution and I was going to be at the forefront, blasting aside the old order of tax violence and oppression and replacing it with a new world of poorly regulated currency, volatility, child pornography, poverty, fraud, and smug ignorance! Bitcoin was the answer!

My heart raced and I blacked out. An hour? Two hours? When I awoke, I was naked from the waist down and my thighs were sticky. Someone had drawn my secret dongbot design on the floorboards and my mouth tasted of garlic. I pulled myself unsteadily to my feet - I had to stop wasting time, for a new day was dawning.

*clap clap clap* BRAVO!

Bitconformist, will you have my baby, and then beat it for being such a sloth?

Seriously though.. This is great stuff. What would it cost (in Bitcoin, of course!) to give you a topic and have you write in this style, a 1-2 page article?


You, my good sir, are clearly no lover of bitcoin. What could possibly make you think that I would help you to destroy the play money that I hold so dear?
99  Other / Off-topic / Re: Bruce Wagner and the surrounding drama. on: September 04, 2011, 06:44:10 PM


The moral source of our rights is, in my opinion, the Constitution.  It says:  

Quote
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights

That's the Declaration of Independence , more legalese right?

What I find hilarious is that the document you claim is the source of rights expressly says the source of our rights is the Creator!

Your parents shouldn't have sent you to Bible camp , they should have sent you to remedial reading.

Your synapse are crossed.
It doesn't define who or what the Creator is though. It could be YHWH but it could also be a six-headed space-goat, Xenu and a gang of pointy-eared fairies, or a set of natural, stochastic processes.

It is deliciously ironic that you're telling someone else that they belong in remedial reading though!  Kiss
100  Other / Off-topic / Re: Know Thy Enemy of the Bitcoin - Message from Somethingawful to everyone here on: September 04, 2011, 06:38:28 PM
Oh yes, the ones who don’t see a conspiracy around every corner and the NWO. The sheeple.

They are guilty of destroying all our freedoms in America and worldwide, but they are innocent of trying to destroy bitcoins?
You just need to relax, dude. Chill out, smoke a little weed, and learn to adapt to where the world is going. Rebellion will never achieve anything; only through peaceful complacency can we survive in this world gone mad.

bitrebel, allow me to introduce myself: I am bitconformist. For, as every coin has two sides, so do we.
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