I'm the Lynzoy person here. This is one of my really stupid moments, I was not being careful. I'm not just a speculator, I'm also a miner and I have sold things for coins. I don't see what it matters anyway.

Hey foodstamp? Give me my money back. You can send 10 btc to my signature address.

I never said I was donating Bitcoins. Just money. I guess it might be implied because this is a Bitcoin forum, but this isn't the Bitcoin section of the Bitcoin forum...

I've been looking into charities lately. I'm reluctant to simply donate money to the poor. I'm afraid they will consume it, lose incentive to work, and remain poor forever. I'm interested in organizations that strive to free people from poverty.

I like the Grameen Bank. I read the book written by the founder a few years ago. I was impressed by it. This organization gives out business loans to groups of extremely poor people, and uses peer pressure to make them work to pay the loan back. Then the poor receive more loans and are able to support themselves just as anyone else would.

I also like the NewSchools Venture Fund. They fund education entrepreneurs who do things such as start charter schools in poor communities. I absolutely hate the American public school system, anything that gives children more options is good.

I donated 1 btc to Wikileaks, but that was more out of convenience than anything. I don't know a great deal about Wikileaks, but I think the less secret the world's secret torture camps are, the better.

I know I focused on poverty here, but feel free to talk about any charity you think is worth consideration. Cancer charities, abused kitten charities, whatever.

I value servitude and overbearing authority. But only if I am in charge. So yeah freedom in not the greatest value, reduces my control and everything.

Haha, awesome, I'm part of the social elite. Start imitating my lifestyle.

I have moved a lot of money around, but I don't think I am really one of the richest on the forum. All this shows is how much money has been moved to and from that particular address. I have a lot of money in Bitcoins though.
I don't think there is a huge risk here. I suppose somebody could attack my forum password, but there is no guarantee that is is the same as my other passwords. There's no guarantee that I store Bitcoins on my harddrive also.

There's no option for "all of the above." I'm a mac person, but most of my mining is done on linux. I recently got into PC gaming as kind of a by-product of having so many damn graphics cards.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Tolstoy

Meaning, there are many ways this could go wrong, I can't predict. I suppose my biggest worry is a lack of interest. No interest = no demand = no money. Strangely, I'm relying on the government continuing to screw up. If the government does things right, nobody is going to get into alternative currency.

This will happen.

Yeah, I used the same name on mybitcoin and gox, and mybitcoin never contacted me or changed my password. However, I had different passwords for both sites anyway, and after the hack I changed my passwords for everything.

No, it is definitely not a matter of accepting it. When I feel like I am not contributing I find a way to be genuinely helpful, and the feeling goes away. It also helps if I accomplish something for myself that has real value.

Doing things differently will most likely help you. However, if no action you take alters your thinking, you could have a more serious issue.

What exactly HAVE you done? Other than the drugs? Did you try to volunteer, or something like that? It's well known that drugs by themselves rarely fix serious mental problems. Look into cognitive behavior therapy.

Whatever you do, do not wait for it to go away. The deeper your habits of thinking entrench themselves in your brain, the harder they become to control. Of course, there is a chance that this is a "phase", but you should not risk that. Teenagers can suffer also, it annoys me when teenage problems are dismissed as normal.

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I can save you hours of work. I can make your writing clear and precise, your arguments more convincing. Perhaps you don't feel as if you have the time or energy to relentlessly nitpick every essay, article, blog posts, and job application to perfection. Well, I do. All skill levels are welcome. I've even worked quite a bit with severe dyslexics.

If you want me to proofread something small, you'll get a discount. Likewise, if your paper is enormous, or your deadline is approaching fast, there may be an additional fee. It should only take me two to five hours to edit the typical three to five page essay, and this is approximately the amount of work I will charge one Bitcoin for.

Here's how my service works. Your writing will be edited and shown to you as a pdf file. You can then send me a Bitcoin in exchange for the text/word document, provided you like my work of course. If you do not like it, I will change it according to your specifications, for no extra charge.

Is your avatar a picture of Norman Bates? Funny how without the eyes it looks so much less crazy.

Anyway, the way I remember it, nobody at school was forced to recite the pledge of allegiance. We were expected to be quiet and stand up, but nobody forced us to say the words. Most kids did it anyway.

I liked the pledge of allegiance. It was a nice ritual. I'm not a fan of what the ritual stands for, but it's a somewhat less depressing to begin a day that inevitably will be depressing and stupid because it's a school day.

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You don't understand. I'm not opposing tiger farming on moral grounds. I'm opposing tiger farming because it is a practical impossibility. A tiger is not a cow. Part of the reason tigers are so endangered is because they are very difficult to breed. All animals are not the same. It's amazing to me that people do not understand this.

Stossel seems to believe the rhino was saved because Africans used it to attract tourists. Nevermind the fact that the rhino is also critically endangered, and some species of rhino are even more endangered than the tiger is.

Does Stossel honestly believe that tigers are not used to attract tourists? It's one of the biggest things tigers are used for. I do not believe there is actually any law against tiger farming in the first place.

He even mentioned a few Chinese tiger breeders in his video. Of course, according to him, these exist because the owners are waiting for China to change their anti-tiger killing laws. Personally, I doubt that is the only reason they breed tigers. They probably breed them to sell to zoos, or as a tourist attraction. Why would someone breed tigers on pure speculation?

If everyone lived the way Stossel wanted them to live, you would get your wish. All endangered animals would go extinct.

I noticed you didn't comment on the fact that Stossel so blatantly manipulates information. That is what really annoys me about him, and that is the thing that really annoyed me about the tiger episode. Stossel sells himself as a man of unshakable and integrity, composed entirely out of pure logic and skepticism. Not swayed by popular trends but, only adhering to the facts. The truth is, he often either does not check the facts, or he purposefully manipulates the facts to suit his own anti-liberal agenda. I personally agree with many of the things Stossel says, but this kind of dishonesty disturbs me.

Yeah I know, ludicrous right?

Here is this thing I am complaining about, if anyone cares.

Notice how he shows an example of a product that does not "cantain" tiger, and then a few seconds later, the exact same product appears on the screen for a split second, and Stossel is claiming the product actually does cantain tiger. Really, it's sickening. I swear Stossel does this sort of thing all of the time.

The idea that it's even possible to farm tigers is disturbingly stupid. I mean... it's a tiger. It's not a bison. I'm all for free market enterprise and everything, but... you want to farm tigers? Give me a break indeed.

I have a friend who worships John Stossel... I keep having to point out to him the various manipulative things he does in his reporting. He garners attention by making everyone he talks to look like an idiot, through the magic of tricky editing. I recall one particularly stupid episode where he said the best way to save the tiger is to farm it for meat, and he implied that Chinese stores already sell things made of tiger meat. As evidence, he showed a picture of a tea package with a tiger on it. It's stupid.

One thing I like about Stossel though, is his willingness to take unpopular opinions. He defends the virtues of plastic and pesticide. He says teachers unions are a scam. He even defends polygamists.

I think the problem with him is he's lazy. He probably didn't do any research about Bitcoin himself, he probably hired someone else to look stuff up for him, and then he picks some sort of libertarian thing to tie it into (the war on drugs). He's also an extremist.

I generally hate reporters. They all seem to be liars.


This is not true at all. Did you read the links that were posted? Stossel lies and manipulates data, and as for coercion, he often interrupts people he is arguing with, or edits them out when they are about to say something intelligent. If that is not coercion, I don't know what is. I could come up with several specific examples and links to videos, but I am tired at the moment.

It's true that socialized health care slows things down. But to tie this to into the vague concept of responsibility, and then to reduce a complicated issue like obesity down to some sort of entitlement issue... that's disgusting.

If you think refusing to give fat people any disability accommodations will make them skinnier, you need a reality check. Look at which states in the US are the fattest. It's the uneducated, poor, Republican states.

Comparing the USA to Europe isn't quite as simple as people make it out to be. We live under different circumstances. A European social program would not work the same way in the United States, and vice versa. For one thing, the rich in Europe strike me as lazy. The rich in America are often philanthropists and hard workers. If we had a bunch of lazy European aristocracy types in my country, I would want to tax the hell out of them.

Why the hell was this moved to the politics forum? It's a simple question. Are you going to pay taxes or not? Sheesh.