I just noticed, Phinn, we registered on this site on the same date, me about 7 hours before you! Haha, funny factoid.
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Odd! I went there and starting typing in pop tart mea..., but a pop-up materialized as soon as I typed the letter P. Of course it was an ad, but the ad consisted of the HS I went to in Indiana back in 1978, of which wanted me to join my fellow classmates at some new social media site. I wish I wasn't so quick to click it off, instead taking a screenshot. How the fuck do they know so much about me that they're able to do such? |
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I just booked a flight to Romania.  |
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 No measuring tape? No problem! I saw it measured once via a Pop Tart. |
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I was travelling through Romania last summer and saw a middle aged man measuring the surface area of a living room with [what looked to me as being] chocolate and marshmallow Pop Tarts. I'm unsure if this is standard practice in the less developed Eastern European countries because Pop tarts over here cost a fortune, surely there are cheaper ways of doing this?
He wasn't measuring the floor. This is indeed common practice all over Europe by people having heated floors and broken toasters. Wait - they have pop-tarts in Romania? I asked my Romanian freind and he said that's not possible because there is no house heat in Romania. Your Romanian friend must be really dumb. I think you missed it. He wasn't his friend. He was peeking in windows and made the discovery. |
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Show 'em a pic of an awesome coffee table. Girls dig guys they can't have, like those who own awesome coffee tables. Make sure there's a closet door cropped in the pic so that they'll truly understand where you're coming from.
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Pop-TartsŪ are Kelloggs' most popular brand, selling more than two billion Pop-TartsŪ each year. For tax reasons, Pop-TartsŪ are considered to be cookies and should always be pronounced as a plural, never "Pop-Tart" or "Funtangle" in the singular form. They are distributed mainly in the United States, but are also available in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Hell. Since their creation, Pop-TartsŪ have served as the epitome by which all not-nice things are measured [sans Romanian living rooms]. I'll leave it to the reading to figure out where the above quotes were gleaned, sans the sans Romainian living rooms comment. |
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Would anyone be interested if I import pop tarts into Europe.
I kinda doubt it. Apart from the novelty factor, they're a very American thing. And Jesus Christ I get fat just LOOKING at the Ingredients. Here's a list of all the simple sugars found in the blueberry variant: - Corn Syrup - Sugar - Dextrose - High Fructose Corn Syrup - Corn Syrup Solids - Milled Corn - Caramel Color - Fructose - Molasses - Blueberry Juice Concentrate Goddamn, and people wonder why there's an obesity epidemic. Are you sure you're not confusing sugar with fat. What I've witnessed is that if too much sugar is consumed by kids, they get hyperactive, thus burning off most, if not all, those complex carbohydrates. |
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I was travelling through Romania last summer and saw a middle aged man measuring the surface area of a living room with [what looked to me as being] chocolate and marshmallow Pop Tarts. I'm unsure if this is standard practice in the less developed Eastern European countries because Pop tarts over here cost a fortune, surely there are cheaper ways of doing this?
So, how long have you been trekking the globe as an intentional voyeurist? It's a shame you didn't stick around long enough to peek into the Romanian's bedroom to see what else is measured with a chocolate vanilla Pop Tart, sharing your discoveries with us. By any chance was the one doing the measuring donning a groom tux? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/3/bride-napping-a-wedding-custom-in-romania/ |
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Thanks everyone for your help so far. This has proven to be a much bigger undertaking than I had anticipated. I am currently struggling to find the right balance of technical versus financial discussion. I'm not trying to make this a technical paper as those already exist in more detail and with better accuracy than i could hope to achieve. However, the more economic and financial issues I discuss the more technical items I need to bring up to tie them together.
Hoping to have a working draft ready late next week, would anyone have any interest and reading it and giving me your 2 satoshis?
Surely, if Stephen Hawkins could explain the universe in layman's terms, you can follow his example and do the same with your white paper. I'm sure you'll have it easier, assuming you're not paralyzed from the neck down. |
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A storm is coming: Later this year, when new ASIC chips from BFL, bitfury, btcgarden, AMC, Avalon II, ASIC miner II all enter the network, difficulty will jump even quicker. Since most of the smart investment money went into ASIC devices, there are less bitcoin buying support, the bitcoin price will keep going down, and eventually most of the ASICS will be mining at a loss
1) It's unlikely that all those ventures are successful. 2) The ones that get their equipment out the door first will make the most gains, either from mining or selling hardware or both. 3) Those that continue to mine even when the returns are less profitable or not profitable may still profit in the end since some miners will turn off their equipment and I think that most miners involved in BTC have a (reasonable) expectation that BTC/fiat will continue to rise. Next step is investing in power plant, if there is a guaranteed cheap electricity then the projection will be more positive for a mining operation investment |
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That's why I take hours to do foreplay. Well, I used to. Now, it's wham, bam, thank you MyFreeCams.
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 Now get a better hiding spot that you can be sure it's there when you need it. I remember my old grandmother loved to hide valuables in an old oven she seldom used... *John remembers the day when he tried to bake some cookies and thought the tooth fairy gave him a $500 cash advance* I thought for sure you came here wanting to offer up your services as escrow. I have a forum life outside escrowing you know. I know! Wait till you see my comment on the other thread. |
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WTF! Two mods commenting on a troll thread. This shit wouldn't be happening if they weren't getting paid. |
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Now get a better hiding spot that you can be sure it's there when you need it. I remember my old grandmother loved to hide valuables in an old oven she seldom used... *John remembers the day when he tried to bake some cookies and thought the tooth fairy gave him a $500 cash advance* I thought for sure you came here wanting to offer up your services as escrow. |
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I did talk with Flattr when BIPS was in San Francisco. I will try and see what I can do to bring this to fruition.
Have them talk to Tony or Steve at BitPay and it'll be solve within an hour. |
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