Can I reserve Episode 56? Never mind, that's apparently taken. Is Episode 54 available? If so, I'll reserve that I guess.

Damn it, this is so confusing. Is there a recent list of available episodes? I'll reserve 54 for now if it's not taken. :/

That wouldn't be a bad idea, but IRC sucks. We need a separate site again, pronto.

Until then however I guess everybody's at the #coinchat-exile room on the Freenode IRC server, so...

Ok, I got back from my convention on Monday to find Coinchat down, and now I hear this shit? Who is behind this??

Where is TF now? Will everyone just hang out in the IRC room ziggy posted? Also, TF was selling the source code to Coinchat, did anyone buy it and would they be willing to share a copy?

Everybody from Coinchat PM me or something so we can set up shop elsewhere until this is resolved.

Isn't this what conspiracy theorists were saying was gonna happen ten years ago?

Either way I'm totally against anything that involves the government tracking stuff a person does. This is really, really draconian.

Have fun never accomplishing anything of value, then. :/

The problem is that people have to be willing to violate the law (and by that I mean just use BTC anyway, and possibly go to jail for doing so) in order to bring about change. It worked for the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S., it's what would work now. But no one in their right mind would do that because they rightly fear having their lives ruined with no one to support them because everyone else would mindlessly do what the government tells them to out of fear for their own lives.

I honestly never thought I'd live to see freaking FASCISM of all things rise up in my lifetime but here we are.

You're missing the point. You and other environmentalists want to convince other people to do what you want them to do. But you can't do that unless you understand why it is that they think the way they do and base your arguments around those reasons. Persuasion is all about what THEY think, not about what *you* know or what you'd like them to know. Just demanding that they educate themselves won't change a thing, they have criticisms, complaints and questions that *you* need to openly acknowledge and respond to. And you will have to if you ever expect to get anywhere in the environmentalist debate.

Let me put it this way: Since so many people feel that the actions you want them to take would disrupt or destroy their livelihoods or lower their standard of living, why not just buy them off? Pay loggers to not be loggers anymore -- since all they care about is having enough money to live off of for the rest of their lives, buying them off would remove their incentive for opposing you and they wouldn't be a problem anymore. For the conservative suburbanite who doesn't want his/her cushy lifestyle to be disrupted, provide means to preserve their way of life that don't affect the environment -- promote biodiesel or electric cars or something, create solutions that don't require them to live differently than they already do, and most importantly explain to these people how doing what you want them to do will benefit them financially.

If you do not listen to me you will not succeed, guaranteed.

I thought this was obvious.

Now, if we can figure out how to separate the important issues each group talks about from the groups themselves, we're golden.

So there's no way some open-source manufacturer couldn't design their own processor or pay off some other company to do so to bypass the government spying?

How the hell could we possibly stand a chance against the U.S. government then?  

I can kind of give you that much; I don't know that much about the feminist movement but I do know that it was hijacked by conservative women in the late 20th century who exploited it to promote religious Puritanical bullshit like the anti-porn stuff and the general rejection of the feminine. That bothers the hell out of me.

I call bullshit on these "Women are just using feminisim to manipulate men into giving them what they want!" claims. It comes off as dubious ad-hom bullshit mysoginistic bitter men use to smear women because of their myriad of issues with them -- these men face social pressure from their peers to successfully bed as many women as possible and when they are rejected, they feel rage, frustration, resentment and feelings of inferiority because they can't fulfill the strict and demanding roles imposed on them by society. They feel as though the world is out to get them because of this and they feel victimized; they turn this anger inward and then onto the very women they tried and failed to court.

And ultimately whether those so-called "oppressive feminists" are doing that is irrelevant because it's a pointless ad-hom attack that's taking away time, energy, and resources for what's really important -- the terrible things that happen to both men and women largely because of the gender roles, stereotypes, and beliefs imposed onto everyone by the culture.



I don't know anything about the UK educational system so I won't remark on that. I do agree with your last statement which is why I spoke up.

You'd think the clowns making fun of ktttn would try to do that if they were so morally correct, but instead of proving that they've moved beyond all that and that they're better than the "oppressive feminists" they choose to deride, they're doing what most mysoginists do -- gang up on poor deluded fuckwits like ktttn and circlejerk each other, reaffirming how correct they are and never allowing their own deluded mindsets to be challenged.

Just ignore people like ktttn, people like her are so far divorced from everyday reality they're beyond the horizon and fading fast. And so are the clowns in this room bullying her, ignore them too and stop being one yourself.


*will wait until everyone stops being a fucking retard and will then be happy to actually talk about gender issues*

To anyone with legal knowledge:

Couldn't the OP just move to another state if he really didn't want to pay the tickets and was willing to accept a warrant?

Honestly all of the snide woman-bashing in this thread makes me not want to listen to anti-feminists. At all. I wonder how many women dumped you all before you got all bitter. :/  Now let's watch you all whine and cry about feminist hypocrisy while you spend the better part of this thread making fun of and ganging up on any woman who cares about women's issues by calling them man-hating hairy-legged ivory-tower hormone-raging feminist psychos who are completely disconnected from reality.

I will give you all this much, though: threads like this are a good way to know who to stay the hell away from. :/

Investing in using resources from space would solve a lot of our problems here on Earth (and might be one of the few plausible ways to harvest energy without using oil), but try telling that to the Philistines down here. 

It's about time some kind of plausible alternative to Mt. Gox showed up. I thought people were going to be dumb enough to use them forever.

But no one CARES if a gun's primary purpose is to kill people. Don't you understand that? You can't just control other people and force them to abandon a lifestyle you disagree with because you think they are savages in need of your political enlightenment.

Do you think they have the right to make up their own minds, or don't you? It's a yes or no question. And what do you hope to accomplish by banning guns in areas against their will?

Please answer the questions, don't try to tap-dance around them.

So what do you hope to accomplish by banning guns in areas where the population doesn't want them to be banned? Don't you think they have the right to make up their own minds?

Hint: This is what the debate is actually about. Gun control advocates see guns as a psychological symbol of violence, and think that by getting rid of guns they will get rid of violence.

But none will ever show any actual evidence that getting rid of guns will lower overall violent deaths and crime rates, they'll obfuscate the issue by using the loaded term "gun deaths" that doesn't take into consideration whether those supposed prevented deaths just switched to violent deaths with other weapons, so...

Judging from the unnecessary and irrational hostility you've displayed it's obvious you feel that way. I wish you'd present your argument and tell us why instead of wasting computing power with insults.

But I know you're going to post something dumb like, "I WISH YOU WOULDN'T *insert insult here*". Ugh.