Staking address.

Just my opinion but I feel that’s an incredibly naive and over simplistic view, criminals aren’t just going to be scared of guns or dead they’ll just tool up for the job and shoot first. Don’t get me wrong I’m certainly not against firearm ownership as that would be hypocritical just the more guns the safer you are is a provable fallacy.

Edit, just for a successful recent European resistance against govenment “slavery”: The absolute fuckery caused by the yellow vest movement without a shot fired beginning 2018 France. If that population was armed imagine the bloodshed, it only takes one ND or unstable person to result in armed conflict.

I understand and get where the American culture and identity of firearms comes from but you’re not living on the frontier now, and the times of having a armed civilian militia for the benefit of invasion defence has long passed since at the very latest August 6 1945.

There is no denying firearm ownership on the scale of the USA is detrimental to society and public saftey, the issue is, the opportunity to have reasonable discourse on the subject has long passed. Defence of property or family is not a valid argument to have a firearm if firearms are not commonly held (which they are in the USA) Because you defend your property with firearms anyone willing to rob or steal will have to be armed themselves which creates lethal conflict in a shoot first of get shot scenario, and in states with the death penalty if you’re the one getting shot first your family’s future could be pretty bleak.

There is absolutely no reasonable argument for almost unrestricted firearm ownership when that freedom means more school children have been killed in mass shootings in the USA than any mass killing including terror attacks in the whole of Europe in the last decade. How can one begin to defend that?

In a country such as the UK where police are not routinely armed I don’t think relaxing restrictions on firearms is a wise idea. Culturally the UK is vastly different to the USA and with an unarmed police force the vast majority of crimes are committed without firearms and those that are happen between gangs without affecting the general public.

If the general population were armed, the police would also have to be armed leading to an arms race with criminals stemming from the fear of armed confrontation where currently there is no real fear of being killed. As a population in the UK there is no real want or need for relaxation of gun laws. Anyone can own a shotgun and the police firearms officer has to have a reason not to issue one, usually a criminal record or history of mental health issues, obvious red flags. Yet the vast majority wouldn’t ever concider applying for a shotgun certificate. Single shot bolt action magazine fed rifles of any calibre or .22 rim fire semi auto are available to anyone who can show good reason for owning one i.e member of a rifle club and have signatures from club chairs supporting your application or pest control with restrictions on what you plan on using for example you won’t get a .308 for rat control. A strange difference between USA laws and UK laws is suppressors, where in the UK they are freely available and encouraged as to keep noise disruption down.

Handguns were banned in the UK after the Dunblane massacre  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre which in all honesty was a good decision as despite the illegal holding of guns and import of weapons by gangs from Eastern Europe defenceless children have not been killed by a nutcase by firearm since, something the USA collectively should hang its head in shame about. I understand as a country the USA is too far gone in terms of gun ownership as the cat is out of the bag in terms of being able to control it. However if criminals did not fear getting shot then they wouldn’t carry guns and the UK and Europe are living proof of that regarding public saftey.

Gun control in the USA as most posters in here seem to be residents then, probably your only way forward are your current rights with maybe stricter checks on mental health although from what I understand most sales are not retail. You’re in a very fucked situation, a situation I couldn’t even begin to think of how to resolve and I’d assume neither does anyone else. All I can say with absolute certainty is an armed population does not make you safer despite how it may fee subjectively.

Edit, just a little extra view on the death penalty:  I think for certain crimes the death penalty should be concidered although I’m of the opinion there are fates worse than death. However, the scary thing about the death penalty and crime is, if you commit a crime where you stand a chance of being put to death what do you have to lose by potentially ending lives that could convict you in the chance you can get away?

Edit 2:Regarding an unarmed population and being able to resist control of the government, in the UK the armed forces swear allegiance to the Queen not any political party largely removing the need for armed insurrection, even so, I have a fair few soldiers as close friends and given orders to turn their weapons on their own country men it just wouldn’t happen and the ones that did would rapidly be turned on. Regardless weapons wouldn’t stop your financial assets being removed from you by a malevolent government and the united populations weapons would rapidly be turned on each other when it comes to survival.

I’ll take my chances with the one who doesn’t threaten eternal suffering for disobeying him. Thanks for the concern though OP.

I know I gave you shit in your other thread but this seems a good topic

Motivation is something that’s easily lost and hard to recover, if things start to go wrong or seem like a gol is becoming unattainable then I’d wager almost everyone would begin to get doubts and start second guessing their choices. Sure some people are unaffected by things like this but they are very much in a minority and usually have certain personality traits which led to dealing with adverse situations and stress.

If you believe in what you want to achieve and can take the rough with the smooth or have the ability to think of creative ways to make the most of the current situation then eventually you’ll achieve them. You do need to have an analytical approach to everything though, you shouldn’t chase goals at a detriment to anything else in your life as what I’m going to say next is more often than not true.... As you near achieving your goals it can become apparent that even though it’s achievable the reality is not what you initially thought the result of achieving your goal would be. For example, setting up a successful business and earning fantastic money which everyone would love to achieve only to realise you’re working nonstop to attain that and perhaps not had the time for other things you may have sacrificed to get to that point and wondering was it worth it.

I think this is a great idea! You’re very right about dialects I’m from the south of the UK and spoken English from say a Glaswegian can be hard to understand at best by most Brits! However written word and grammar is largely similar throughout the English speaking world, with the ability to hear a verbal version of written text a non native speaker could learn a lot as one of the most difficult things with foreign languages is scentence structure and gendered words. I don’t expect anyone to get to grips with their, there and they’re as the majority of the UK uses them wrong anyway .

Good idea buddy

I can understand why people were buying crypto like crazy during the end of 2017, everyone wanted a slice of the get rich quick action. What I’ve noticed is, since that and the expensive TX fees the vast majority of high profile or easily accessible to the public places such as steam, pretty much every online computer retailer in the UK, nearly every single E-sig store on the high street in the UK, micro brewery pubs, independent coffee shops etc... today no longer accept Bitcoin or any crypto. In my eyes that’s a massive step back.

You’re right, digital fiat commerce is much more convinent and I wasn’t suggesting cryptos would be threatening than market but it’s the public perception, normalisation of seeing a Bitcoin sign or “crypto accepted here” that the public walk past and become more aware of.

I can remember growing up just before the internet became mainstream, people would have thought you were mad if you suggested putting your credit card details into some website to buy something, we have shops and mail order for that Etc... Now high street is dieing 20 years later, normalisation is a powerful thing, and crypto fluffed it with what happened in 2017.

All back up and running now!

Another question, if I were to set up a node using a Pi3 could I copy this data again to the SSD I’m planning on using for that?

And with that entrepreneurial attitude you’ll never become rich will you sausage  

Give the poorest ones food and drugs so they can run the drugs for you to the less poor crackheads. Eventually you’ll be the king of the crackheads, lesson number one in becoming rich think big. Lesson number two stop posting shit threads on an Internet forum.

Did you start this thread for serious answers or just to have another thread full of numbered lists and bulletpoints?

I doubt any life will be found on Mars, maybe proof of previous living organisms eventually depending on how hard we look.

However, Europa I’d be willing to bet a decent amount of money that life will be found if we send probe missions, it’s by far the most hospitable planet other than Earth for organisms we know of and sediments have already been detected on the surface containing compounds which could be from biological sources.

Become a crack or heroin dealer in a poor area.

What a shit question.

I'm sure this has been mentioned before but in case it hasn't, body weight is directly linked to calories in V calories out.

Basically, your body will burn X amount of calories if you do nothing other than stay alive (i.e in a coma), your body will burn Y amount of calories doing what ever your body does above X (i.e doing what ever you do in a day) and the things you consume are Z (food and drink) are less than X & Y combined.

You WILL lose weight if X+Y>Z

There's no "oh but I put on weight easily" no "my genetics"  if you consume less calories than your body burns in a day you'll lose weight. Exercise creates an energy defect hence increased weight loss.

You could eat only butter and lose weight providing you consumed less calories than you burned, I don't recommend it though as a deficiency will kill you eventually

Ah that’s good news. Thanks guys

Just a quick question, can I copy the bitcoin core files from one drive to another and not have to re sync? I know I could just try but I’m out at the moment and thought I’d ask you guys to save the trial and error later.

Downloaded and synced at the weekend using one of my old NAS drives and this morning it started throwing up S.M.A.R.T bad sector errors... guess that’s why it was removed in the first place 

I’m not exactly sure either, I’d just assumed it’s ‘internet points’ but going by how wet everyone gets over them I guess there is more to it. I know merit IS required to rank up but going by 99% of posts on here I’m not sure how valuable the king shitposter crown is...

I’ve had a couple of merits recently for nothing other than posting normal stuff, and one for helping a guy fix his Ledger nano stuck in boot loader mode which I guess I’d merit someone who helps someone out.

Just make normal posts like you would in any other forum and not some wanky <cough>“how to use capslock in the internet” <cough> type posts and I guess what will be will be, I guess

I think you’ve miss understood what I were getting at with this thread, I was thinking of ways to improve the optics of crypto in general. 99.999% of the general population couldn’t give 2 shiny fucks about anonymity as social media is a testeament to.

I’m aware of the limitations of Bitcoin, I’m also aware of the sentiment of the majority of people in real life I have noticed with regards to Bitcoin or crypto in general. Bitcoin is headliner for them and I’m fairly certain wouldn’t be able to name another coin.

I’m thinking long term, and maybe I should have used crypto currency in the title instead of Bitcoin I thought it might have been a good thread to generate conversation on crypto as a whole.

Edit: That  un-ironic big in Japan 

Public perception needs to change, my thinking is seeing smaller places or any places starting to offer crypto as a payment option would help normalise it, rather than being the thing they spent ages jumping through hoops to buy only to be left with falling in value like a stone with nowhere to spend it.

Obviously there are another technical issues with Bitcoin for example like high TX fees during busy periods but I suppose that’s where either technical improvents come or something else down the line.

There must be others on this site who feel the same way I’m sure.

DNMs might only be 1% of current volume but that is probably a significant percentage of bitcoin being used to buy and sell goods or services rather than being traded online as a stock.

Being proactive seems like the best idea, it’s just hard knowing where to start. I do small bits of work for friends for BTC etc but it feels like I’m pissing into the wind sometimes...

Bitcoin needs to be traded for goods and services for it to be a viable currency, in the past (and currently to a lesser extent) DNMs and illicit trades were the driver for Bitcoin and cryptos worth, but that is never going to support growth into general use.

 I believe that 2017/18 was the worst thing to happen to Bitcoin and crypto currency in general, it burst into the lives of the majority of the population only for them to get fucked by POS scammers, bullshit Facebook scams and ICOs, the bubble was always going to pop but the level of dishonestly is something the average person isn’t going to forget for a long time. On top of that the instability (and Tx fees during the tulip rush) in prices of the crypto market has seen a lot of the DNM sellers and other illicit uses shut shop meaning the use as a currency is declining. All you have in it’s place are speculators and traders propping up the price, not going to end well for anyone.

As a community this large there must be people with the skills and creativity to come up with a sustainable public facing way of using Bitcoin/crypto as a form of currency, be it a Ebay-esque site to trade legal goods, or even setting up local networks for people to trade between themselves. I understand this stuff costs money, but so does bitcoin failing as a currency. As a community could something like this be crowd sourced between us all? I’d happily commit time and effort into an attempt at creating something that can show crypto isn’t just for buying weed online and laundering money.

Just my thoughts anyway