So shells, sticks, stones, prostitutes' bodies are also money?

I agree.

Funny thing when you ask different people what ''money'' factually is they will give you different answers:

If you ask me I will tell that factually money is pieces of paper.
Somebody else will tell you it's pieces of round metal.
Yet a banker will tell you it's digits stored in a server.
A hooker in Nepal will tell you money is her body - that's how she pays for food, etc.

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Can something be at the same time a piece of paper and a piece of metal and a body? I rather doubt it.

Can something be at the same time a human and a desk and a brick? I rather doubt it.

If someone disagrees, can they empirically prove it is possible for them to be at the same time a human and not a human?

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Maybe ''money'' as described / defined by the regulators, scholars is a bit flawed / imperfect / completely wrong? Just food for thought.



I agree, FoBoT is gutless.

Good, because with all the dark pools at different stock and futures (fiat) exchanges like CME I get the impression the data feed although showing proper price, has lots of volume missing (due to underreporting the volume generated by dark pools).

My gut feeling is that the volumes generated by dark pools at Bitstamp and MtGox are not shown in data feed availed to retail traders thus making it difficult to asses the real (retail + super-whale) volume.


Excellent

1. Does the construction of Bitshares, a P2P electronic brokerage system provide for dark pools / enable them / prohibit them / others?

Go there: https://www.tradingview.com/widget/ change GOOG into BTCUSD and then paste the code that is generated into your html website.

Excellent service

WOW, this is what I need. Is it ready for use or just in beta stage?

Why not?

Let me surprise you to an even greater extend: brokers like Interactive Brokers sell your data as ''enhanced data feed'' to high frequency traders who can potentially trace the data down to a particular individual and then can execute your orders (if you are consistently profitable) before you.

Read this interview http://www.caseyresearch.com/pdfs/crTcr20120726102306.pdf

PRIMECOIN. I like it 

Come on, I am not that evil. I do not want people to believe anything that cannot be either rationally or empirically proved.

My pictures are for entertainment purposes only 

Those silly people 

I am fine with rising to 120. I actually think that if it rises, then it will go to at least 123. Then it drops to at least 75 on about 2013-07-03.

EDIT: There will be no bounces from 123 to 75

My picture is for entertainment only in these boring times. There is no sense in it

No need to compare it to anything  

Okay, Rambo.

Let's speculate          

Yes, 99.21 for the last few minutes

''learned'' I think is a misnomer here.


How do you / psychiatrists define ''mentally sick''? The problem is any definition of a ''mental illness'' you will ''learn'' at a medical university does not meet even loose (not to mention ''rigorous'') scientific criteria of a valid and objective concept.


I would rather use the word ''mistreatment''


Yes, psychiatrists could help. They sometimes do help (by mistake). Do you know what a real-life rate of a standard psychiatrist being able to prescribe a proper drug that actually helps the patient? Almost ZERO percent.

Normally it looks like this: a patient tells the symptoms of the so called illness and a psychiatrist prescribes a drug. In a thee weeks time the patient shows up and tells he feels even worse. Then the psychiatrist subscribes another drug. In a thee weeks time the patient shows up and tells he feels even worse. .... After 5th - 8th attempt the so called psychiatrist manages to prescribe a drug that helps. At that time the patient is turned into a zombie. Yes, you guessed; the patient would have be better off if he had not seen the psychiatrist at all.

As you perhaps know a majority of school shootings in North America was committed by students addicted to ''medicines'' prescribed by the so called psychiatrists. Here are stories of one only group of antidepressants called SSRI http://ssristories.com/

Psychologists are okay (not all of them of course). Psychology will soon (10 - 20 years) merge with neurology. My girlfriend is involved in a research project aimed for merging some psychology concepts with neurological concepts into one single theory / science.

You should be afraid of psychiatrists and psychiatry- psychiatrists are the guys who put pills into you that turn you into a zombie.

yes, best quote ever