you haven't won anything in that contest and you won't. if you're proud of your defense - it has failed (miserably)
only thing you've managed to achieve defending your position is to alienate yourself from the community for the price of few btc
He clearly has a mental disorder that makes that concept impossible to grasp. Actually, I'm a counselor in an adult psychiatric unit  I might actually get intern of the year. Add it to my 4.0, my beautiful girlfriend (who just had a photo shoot), and my great group of friends, and I'd say I'm doing quite well, thanks  Alienating myself from the bitcoin community is a tad ironic, don'tcha think? I think we both know very well what "type" of person is most often found in the community... So which is it? You are either a poor college student, or a counselor of the year at an adult psychiatric unit. |
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Has anyone looked into the square trade warranty? Is it possible to get the extended warranty for the BFL Single? $85 for three years is not bad if honored by square trade.
Do they warranty random shit a dude builds in his garage? |
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My goodness. I was so busy mocking the_joint that I missed all this action!
Randy, seriously, how many threads do you want about this situation? None. |
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I could give a rat's ass who agrees with me. The fact of the matter is that your whole sob-session is completely classless. I view it akin to a child throwing a fit in a Walmart toy section, except the child is an adult and the toy section is a bunch of people who don't give a fuck and are laughing at you.
Well, your class is certainly showing now, isn't it? Don't feel bad for me. I'm a very happy individual.You must be confused. No sympathy was directed towards you...only contempt for your behavior. Plenty of men are happy to get black out drunk and beat their wives. Does that make it ok? Actually several people came out and agreed with me and my position. Not sure where the drunk wife beating thing comes into play. Try again. |
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My goodness. I was so busy mocking the_joint that I missed all this action!
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I could give a rat's ass who agrees with me. The fact of the matter is that your whole sob-session is completely classless. I view it akin to a child throwing a fit in a Walmart toy section, except the child is an adult and the toy section is a bunch of people who don't give a fuck and are laughing at you.
Well, your class is certainly showing now, isn't it? Don't feel bad for me. I'm a very happy individual. You must be confused. No sympathy was directed towards you...only contempt for your behavior. Plenty of men are happy to get black out drunk and beat their wives. Does that make it ok? |
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I could give a rat's ass who agrees with me. The fact of the matter is that your whole sob-session is completely classless. I view it akin to a child throwing a fit in a Walmart toy section, except the child is an adult and the toy section is a bunch of people who don't give a fuck and are laughing at you.
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Just because the world thinks I am wrong doesn't mean I am! You're all just jealous! I do what I want!
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Just re-use this thread, like this:
This one time, this guy told me he would give me 10 BTC, and then he didn't, waaa, waaa. Life is so unfair. Please give me the 10 BTC that guy totally promised he would send me. He OWES me. I will argue until the cows come home that he owes me because he said he would give it to me (waaaa, waaaa).
Bruce, seriously, you're the absolute last person that should be giving me a lesson in ethics. I need to go wash my hands now. You seem to be confused about who is mocking you...bwagner is not Bruce, fella. You seem to be confused and think I'm actually offended by anybody on this forum that "mocks" me regarding this situation. I could be threatened with being banned for life from Bitcointalk, and it won't change my position. I'm very comfortable and happy with my stance. Just because 50 some-odd people disagree doesn't mean any one of them is correct. You know what you sound like...a typical american ultra-entitled college kid. |
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Just re-use this thread, like this:
This one time, this guy told me he would give me 10 BTC, and then he didn't, waaa, waaa. Life is so unfair. Please give me the 10 BTC that guy totally promised he would send me. He OWES me. I will argue until the cows come home that he owes me because he said he would give it to me (waaaa, waaaa).
Bruce, seriously, you're the absolute last person that should be giving me a lesson in ethics. I need to go wash my hands now. You seem to be confused about who is mocking you...bwagner is not Bruce, fella. |
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another amateur hour at dwolla.
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Bahahaha!!lol!111
Dwolla has already had to put the brakes on their 'instant' feature. Sounds like they ran out of money to give away for free...
What? Really? Source? Dwolla...I just went to read about it, and there is a little button that says 'Let Me Know' so you get a ding when it's available again. |
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The person in the original picture must be pretty flexible to be using a laptop sitting on the ground....
Come on, I weigh like, 600lbs and I can reach the floor while sitting on the can. How else could I pick up my copy of Teen People out of the magazine rack? |
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the_joint,
Welcome to Bitcoinica! I will send you the f**king 5 BTC to your account for you to start trading. You made a pretty great guess!
(This is off-topic forum, so I posted this off-topic stuff.)
zhoutong, at first I wasn't sure about you, but now you've got the full 'Folds Seal of Approval'. Fucking A, you've been on fire the past few days! |
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Why are people so intent on defending such a clusterfuck of a company?
Because the criticism has been so hyperbolic. What's wrong with objectivity? The valid criticism based on real world events, as opposed to the defense based purely on...I'm not sure what...maybe faith in humanity? Hope for a better tomorrow? The resilience of the human spirit? |
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Bahahaha!!lol!111
Dwolla has already had to put the brakes on their 'instant' feature. Sounds like they ran out of money to give away for free...
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Why are people so intent on defending such a clusterfuck of a company?
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they're basically using all this forum attention to sell their mediocre FPGAs, which by the time they ship it (if ever), would probably have the same performance as existing ones. even if everyone canceled their preorders because the specs don't match, they essentially got 2+ months of interest free loan. First of all, I don't see any competing FPGAs with the same performance envelope. Second, if by some chance someone does have a competing FPGA around the same envelope by that time, then nothing was really lost as far as "bait-and-switch" goes, since currently, there is nothing released that is even close to the neutered version that was demonstrated... and if they manage to get something that performs better than what was demonstrated, that's just icing on the cake. >implying they won't lower the specs again >implying it's not bait and switch if there isn't anything better >implying they haven't overestimated before I don't understand all the bashing on BFL. Sure they missed the mark on their initial numbers. Its a first design. Even at ~850 MH/sec and $599 with the current specs you still are getting one of the best MH/$ thats currently availble at nearly 1.42 MH/$. Thats substantially more than any other FPGA out there. Not to mention, this will be a fully finished piece with a stackable enclosure, fan and power supply.
it's clear that they didn't even have a first design. it's obvious since the specs were WAY off. They just made a website, gathered a ton of money from preorders, THEN they started designing. And just because there still the best (assuming they don't lower specs again), doesn't mean it's right to overestimate by a factor of 3. I clearly remember BFL stating that they were discovered before they even had the website up and running, and before any initial work had been done. It sounded like someone leaked to the presses before they were ready to go public (after having testing a design). So, like any company, they went with it. They had tons of emails asking them to take pre-orders and what not, so they said they would. I personally heard about BFL on a Linux Users group I am a member of, and not here. There was alot of chatter about them elsewhere as well. You are making quite a few assumptions here. How exactly could they 'be discovered' without a website or public office or advertising? Only one person has seen a unit in action, and that was under BFL's conditions, not his own. They obviously didn't even have a working prototype or development board, because they would have seen the power issues a mile away. 10 years experience my ass... |
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What are 'Common Law Rule' nations? Somalia?
This may be a shitty statement, it's not meant to be, but why are you still on this  ? I'm looking for bitcoin service Ideas .. not a discussion on poli-tics? just want people want, what can I make for you? how can I be of services? This may be a shitty statement, but coming onto the forums, ranting about how the government is criminal and asking people to do your work for you is not very productive. I am not trying to rag on you, it is just that you need to spend some time as a member of the community and interact with 'those people', not just demand that they hand you an idea to profit from. If you think bitcoin should be used as a day to day currency (which a lot of people will disagree with...why reinvent the wheel?) then go spend your time trying to get local merchants to accept bitcoin. If you want to fill a niche, find one. Whatever service you create, I probably won't use, as you 'do not concern yourself with legal[ity]'. |
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