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821  Other / Off-topic / Re: Why do people play Minecraft? on: September 08, 2011, 11:10:31 PM
"Cuz it's fun. You build stuff. You kill stuff."
 - my kid
822  Other / Off-topic / Re: I crashed my car today, forum. on: September 08, 2011, 11:06:13 PM
The Bitmobile.

823  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Liberals HATE Bitcoin [NY Times Link] on: September 08, 2011, 07:06:22 PM
Congrats... You're all famous! Maybe even infamous (verrrrrry famous, according to Three Amigos).
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/bitcoin-cyber-geeks-outraged-paul-krugman-194936879.html
824  Other / Off-topic / Re: Two interesting emails I received today... on: September 02, 2011, 03:45:51 AM
SA makes more off of IWC in a week than all the members here could put in.  Also, I don't think we're all that interested in recruiting off the 3rd most retarded forum on the internet.

OK, shucks. I guess I will continue to use the SA bandwidth for free, and just be satisfied I made it up to the 3rd most retarded site. If you have a list somewhere I'd like to work my way up to the 4th most retarded, and then on UP, UP UP, with the hope one day I'll be recruited to the Big Leagues.
825  Other / Off-topic / Re: Two interesting emails I received today... on: September 02, 2011, 03:36:39 AM
But go ahead and throw away free money if you like.  I would have expect that the SA'ers who run the show, at least, would be smarter than that though.

I'd join SA if they took Bitcoin. That's at least 3 people I've seen offer to join. $30 SA could make right now if they took Bitcoin. Though I am curious if they'd rook us for more lulz instead of seeing an opportunity to gain more users (and money). I can see a segment of the userbase preferring to point and laugh like Nelson (from the Simpsons). "HA HA!" That would be unfortunate because I found their site pretty fun and helpful during the time of my disagreement with Bitmole.
826  Other / Off-topic / Re: Real Evidence the Freemasons Troll the Bitcoin Forum from SomethingAweful on: September 02, 2011, 03:19:08 AM
and, you admit you're a Mason too, right, Bitch?

I could possibly be related to Jackie Mason. Does that count?
827  Other / Off-topic / Re: Real Evidence the Freemasons Troll the Bitcoin Forum from SomethingAweful on: September 02, 2011, 02:49:53 AM
Apparently one of the prerequisites of joining is that you believe in a 'supreme being' of some sort.

It tickles me that a goofy anachronistic club misunderstood to be pulling the strings of world politics and finance,
should require of their members that they misunderstand the universe to be itself puppeteered.

Yes, groups of people who know each other may collude in business and politics; but to any serious extent - only when their interests align anyway.

The whole "Hoax" is that apparently you have to profess a belief in a supreme being, so members join thinking its semi-religious goodness. They perform charities, yadda, until they get to a certain level where it is revealed to them that the "supreme being" they need to believe in is not God but Satan. Supposedly then its revealed that the whole membership underneath your level exists only to gain a following of goody-goodies to do the bidding of the upper-level baddy-baddies. The "charities" they've been performing only serve to gain more money for the organization to eventually enslave mankind. The End.

I think I read this is one reason Hubbard went the route he did when he made up Scientology, where you do all that crazy Thetan stuff in levels and only if you get high enough in the org then the whole lunatic alien stuff is revealed. Because by then you're so fucking indoctrinated into the leveling aspect that you don't care what insanity is needed to attain the highest level. And for outsiders it keeps the whole "mystery" in place until you've "proven you're worth", which people seem to dig.
828  Other / Off-topic / Re: Real Evidence the Freemasons Troll the Bitcoin Forum from SomethingAweful on: September 02, 2011, 02:33:56 AM
The Great Work, Great Plan, Plan of the Ages, etc. It's a fucking Hoax to create a one-world government, and nothing more. A BIG FUCKING HOAX on Humanity, and the lower degree Freemasons are such stupid PAWNS they are helping the blind masses of Lemmings right along. People such as yourself, in all likelihood.

This "one-world government," they'd use a "one world currency" wouldn't they? Like Bitcoin?

You've been hoodwinked, bitrebel! You're inadvertently helping the Free Masons' dreams come to fruition by using their "one world currency." The Bitcoin project is a goverment-run black op to replace various currencies with their own. "Satoshi" is the code name for this op. Bitcoin purchases are not anonymous - "they" know who you are: http://gizmodo.com/5824503/anonymous-bitcoin-purchases-arent-actually-anonymous

The folks from SA are not here to demolish Bitcoin, they're here to get rid of anything that will keep Bitcoin from growing. "They" WANT it to succeed since they control the initial 1.5 million coins and they are tracking all your purchases. They shut down Napster -- why haven't they shut down Bitcoin?

Remember: Albus Dumbledore's phoenix. I say again: Albus Dumbledore's phoenix
829  Other / Off-topic / Re: Real Evidence the Freemasons Troll the Bitcoin Forum from SomethingAweful on: September 02, 2011, 02:18:17 AM
What is freemasonry?

It's when you have a professional brick layer fix up some of the stone walls on your property and then don't pay them.
830  Other / Off-topic / Re: Real Evidence the Freemasons Troll the Bitcoin Forum from SomethingAweful on: September 02, 2011, 02:08:42 AM
I see the Dumb has gotten turned up even louder here lately.
Did someone post a bitcoin advert on on Alex Jones site or something?

I figured when I looked into this community I'd find a li'l bit o' crazy. I was comfortable with that. Bitcoin is a fringe idea for the time being. But it does suddenly feel like I wandered into the wrong part of town on the day the lunatics overran the guards and escaped the asylum. This place quickly went full retard.
831  Other / Off-topic / Re: The story of Bold Funding. on: August 31, 2011, 02:45:36 PM
http://www.archive.org/details/501HowToBe1OnGoogleSeo-TheBruceWagnerShow
@14:50

Words of wisdom from Bruce Wagner:
"It's kinda like everything in life. If you try and scam your way to the top, you're gonna fall on your face."
832  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Augustus, we have a problem! on: August 19, 2011, 04:14:27 PM
NOt sure what phrase you're looking for... Are you looking for "truth in numbers" or some other phrase? Something like "in numerus veritas" but you should really ask someone who knows for sure because it can get really sticky with the endings. There is the popular "truth in wine" example that might mean it should be "numero": http://latinquotes.net/truth/

edit: i see, you're not looking for "truth". I'd shy away from "vires" for marketing reasons. At first glance it could scare people.
833  Economy / Economics / Re: What does a Free Market mean to you? on: August 18, 2011, 07:30:41 PM
I guess it depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.

I laughed for 45 seconds!   Cheesy
834  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How do we get the women on board? on: August 18, 2011, 06:39:58 PM
To get women on board we only need to remind them that during divorce they take half.
835  Other / Off-topic / Copyright Trolls: 200,000 BitTorrent Users Sued Since 2010 on: August 16, 2011, 11:25:33 PM
http://www.pcworld.com/article/237593/copyright_trolls_200000_bittorrent_users_sued_since_2010.html?tk=out
836  Other / Off-topic / Penn Jillette: I don't know on: August 16, 2011, 11:22:00 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/16/jillette.atheist.libertarian/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
837  Economy / Economics / Re: It’s not illegal to use real strawberries, it’s just impossible if you don’t wan on: August 15, 2011, 08:56:40 AM
If there is one assured thing in life, is that there are no absolutes.

Absolutely all of us will die.

Prove it.

Give me enough time and I will prove it to you.
I suppose that isn't true either, since when everyone alive now has died we won't have the consciousness required for me to turn to you and say "see?"

And there's always the case for robotics, which are slowly replacing various human organs and limbs until we get to the point where our entire internal systems are mechanized plus a CPU for a brain. Then we'll never die, we'll only ever be in "need of repair."

How would you like to be a part of that generation when it arrives? The generation that gets to make the leap from human bodies to full machine; from human frailty to eternal life (as long as Japan keeps making the replacement parts)? Then how will we reconcile our treatment of robots up until then, that we previously never felt robots were our equal? That we only ever assigned them to some trivial manual labour task like picking strawberries for ice cream?
838  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: GreenGold - a modest proposal for miners with guaranteed returns! on: August 12, 2011, 11:18:11 PM
Not only that, but I don't see how you 'earn' anything by not spending money on electricity.  That's like saying I 'earned" $5 today cause I haven't bought my pack of cigs yet.
Edit:  Smoking and mining are equally addicting.
Edit 2:  Value of Bitcoins generated will always be > 'greengold' earnings unless you're a moron.

This probably isn't the only thing you and Ben Franklin don't agree on...
"A penny saved is a penny earned"

Perhaps this is why you don't see how not spending is the same as earning:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15561450
839  Economy / Economics / Re: It’s not illegal to use real strawberries, it’s just impossible if you don’t wan on: August 12, 2011, 03:27:02 PM
If there is one assured thing in life, is that there are no absolutes.

Absolutely all of us will die.
840  Other / Meta / Re: What Happened to Matthew N. Wright? on: August 07, 2011, 11:44:37 PM
I think he came across as someone who was involved with bitcoins for like a day and then announced "I'm going to do something great for the community, donate bitcoins to me". That may or may not be true, I have no idea. (Though I suspect it is because he said a lot of things that just didn't seem likely to be true to me.) But I think that's the way he came across to a lot of people.

This is very unfortunate, too, because it's creating a downward spiral. People who are legitimate are afraid to bring their ideas forward because they will be believed to be just another scammer. I've wanted to float the idea of a bitcoin bounty project (to arrange contributions for bounties on the most wanted bitcoin client improvements) and haven't done so for just that reason. (Well, and also because I'm not confident I'll be able to put enough time into the project. And also because I'd like to claim those bounties and that would create a serious conflict of interest. But you get the idea.)

I've read a few posts to the tune of "if Bruce Wagner is involved then you know its an honest project". I haven't been here all that long but for what its worth I would think whatever you (Joel) are spearheading would be something I'd have more faith in than most others whose posts I've read.
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