I wouldn't presume to disagree

Guilty. Said I was just having fun

LOL. I keep getting the Chuck Norris comment. I think I probably fit Crocodile Dundee a little better, but I'm just Kevin Biomech, and yes, that really is me a few years back

...and his partner would have shot you dead, told a sob story about how he feared for his life, smeared your name, got a paid vacation, and went and pissed on your grave. Without consequence.

I can provide evidence that Russians ARE insane.

Vodka.

Most of them have mistaken that nasty smellin' motor fuel for a drink.

(most of the people I work with are Russian. I'm just havin' fun here. People are people, all races and ethnicities are equally worthless in my eyes. Only individuals count. )

Pretty sure it was Josef Stalin, or maybe even Lenin. But yes, it's quite appropriate. And of course, one that was Hitler that has been used by EVERY politician before and since..


Under that guise they have taken away the ability to be an adult in modern America Or should I say, the United State of America? The reality of independent states went south (pun intended) in 1861 and was abolished in the usual manner, at gunpoint, in 1865. they made it formal with the seventeenth amendment. But the vestiges of the Republic remained to a great degree until the opportunity presented by the attacks on the World Trade Center allowed the bastards to take several giant leaps forward in the curtailment of liberties. And the damn sheep ate it up. See my sig for how I feel about the vast majority of my countrymen

I thought Carson's answer was quite amusing, but I'm not generally a troll, and I'm not butthurt, so I suppose I should address this

I do know a fair amount about Dark. My objections are on both sides here. I think that Dark was just plain stupid to drop the name after going to so much time and effort to become one of the few cryptos traded for fiat, goods, and services on multiple platforms. Trying to look all squeaky clean, in my arrogant opinion, will cost them a lot of ground that they fought hard to gain. I have FAR more issue with what they did than what FUD's devs did.

I think that grabbing the name, opportunistically, is a bold move. Even pretty amusing. I just think that it will cause problems for you in the short to medium term, as people will still associate the DARK name with, well, (balder)DASH. In time, if you play it right, it might be a good move. Or it might piss off more people than it amuses or attracts. I guess that's up to y'all.

Me, I'm gonna watch. I like a good show

That may be, but it doesn't make what's happening here right.

When I was a boy, and even a young man, this was pretty close to a free nation. You could do what you pleased if you weren't doing it to someone else with a minimal amount of official hassle. Now? Cops are gunning people down over expired inspection stickers on their damn car. And when a cop kills someone for the thrill of it, they give the miserable son of a bitch a paid vacation and a medal.

We've become a creeping police state. The PTB have been wise enough to move slowly, ratcheting one more freedom with every sweep of their arm,. but not so fast as to spark a revolution. We, the frogs, are being boiled...

I fully understand your frustration there, Press.

To Saros: Not sure where you have been, but the HyperStake community has been very responsive since the day the coin launched. Presstab and I met when he was on the TEK development team, and he was always quick to answer then, too. Generally tried to lead me to the solution by logic to make me learn, which some days was irritating, but in the long term I am grateful for this. From him, and a few others, I have learned enough that I COULD create a clone coin. I have no real inclination to do so, but considering where I started, that's something.

Yes, a LOT of alts have been hyped up for a little while and abandoned. This one is NOT one of those. We're a very active community.

You may be right. the arms race did seriously accelerate a few of the difficulty periods. But as it leveled off, I've also seen a fair number of hour long blocks, so, dunno. I'll leave that to better or at least more rested minds for tonight. Even if it were a couple of weeks, though, it's hardly huge. It accelerates the halving, which reduces the inflation.

Personally, I think that many alts handle difficulty and block times far better with short retargeting times. I think bitcoin would be improved by the addition of something like Kimoto's gravity well. But I still don't see it's current paradigm as particularly problematic.

Lovely.

I live 50 miles away.

However, I disagree with the title of the thread. Cops, and their masters (which ain't you!) don't view the "mundanes", as Will Grigg puts it, as second class citizens. They view us as milch cows and targets.

On my part, I view anyone who willingly surrenders their personal identity to the herd (or government) to be significantly less than human, and I have NO problem telling a cop that. 

Uh..
every 2016 blocks bitcoin adjusts the difficulty to maintain the growth at the planned speed. Every four years the block reward drops in half. it's a rough representation of gold mining, which was once easy and now requires massive amounts of effort and power. We're at most a couple of days off the projection, and I doubt even that.

I've run into this before with other coins. Try right clicking and "run as administrator" rather than just clicking the link. No guarantees, but it worked for me. Windows can be amazingly bitchy. I dumped it almost a year ago and have had far fewer problems

It was practically every insult every hurled at a libertarian or anarchist in an over the top way.. I got a kick out of it:P

or just put a huge reservebalance line in your tekcoin.conf file.

One of our guys (medic, I believe), is planning to contact you either today or tomorrow. (he told me, I just can't remember which)

I'm now on the team. If no one else contacts you by tomorrow, let me know and I'll see that the right eyes see it

You need to fix the OP to let everyone discovering this know its origins.

I personally think this is a very bad idea. Then again, I think Dark (the real one) changing to Dash is a very bad idea.

We'll let the market decide, as we must.

Huge markets, much news, wow!

Ok, ok. I couldn't resist Whatever it's eventual fate, doge is fun

To hell with waiting, I'm helping to make it happen

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