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I do believe world peace can eventually happen. How, you might ask? Well through decentralization. Crypto is more than just talk about lambos and moons, it's about giving power back to the people. It's about breaking down socioeconomic barriers and giving people the opportunity to change their lives for the better. Can you imagine, people working together with a common purpose? Call me an optimist but i think all of this is very attainable now, thanks to the invention of crypto.
I'd be interested to hear how you imagine that happening. Why do you think wars happen in the first place? There are a lot of people interested in making a lot of money from war. This would include people who make weapons and people who exploit resources during and after war. Considering that mass amounts of money are going into crypto, it wouldn't actually make sense to me that many people in the banking business are not happy with that. I think it could be completely plausible that crypto could at least indirectly be the cause of some wars. |
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Video games should not be a sport. First sport require physical activity, moving your hand all day and starring at a screen is not a sport.
The Oxford Dictionary says that sport is "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment." Video games certainly do involve physical exertion. It's usually not as much as in soccer, for example, but it is there. How can you draw the like? Is golf a sports? Is darts a sport? Archery? The most involve standing in one place and launching something away from you. You could say that they don't involved that much physical exertion. They certainly do involve it though and they are sports. I like to qualify videos games as cybersports, when they are play on a high competitive level. |
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I can poison into a children's shelter 1 pair of shoes.
Good bye interest Haha, this is a hilarious thread! "Send me Bitcoin, I'll send you shoes..." Haha! I'm so curious, whether this guy is actually serious or not. If you want to sell shoes for Bitcoin, maybe you can set up your own website. Figure out some way for people to trust you enough to send you cryptocurrency. Escrow would be a good option. Be careful though, as soon as you get the site up and running, Zappos itself may start accepting BTC. Haha. |
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When will people spend BTC as easily as fiat , not seeing it as an investment opportunity but a better currency for them to use ? Most of my friends that I have currently told about Bitcoin are most intrigued by its rapid rate of growth and not its outstanding features as a currency. They don't really care that it is free from government control , but are more focused on the fact that it has risen xy% I don't really spend much of my Bitcoin , because I am always in fear. I am not talking about cashing out , but for digital goods. How do you spend 10 mBTC on a 5$ digital good when you believe that the same 10mBTC is worth atleast 15$ , probably more. How much of your Bitcoin have you hoarded , and how much have you really spent ?
I am under the impression that people tend to hoard more with BTC than with fiat , considering it an investment more than a currency I don't know how to make a poll here , so :- http://strawpoll.me/1793917This is not referring to your blockchain.info statistic , which includes money you have moved around. I am looking at money you have truly spent vs total amount of BTC you have received. Overall , I'm trying to look at how much my guess is true by the poll and your estimates of when majority of people will start looking at BTC as a currency. EDIT : I'm not sure this is the right section , tell me if this should go in General Discussion or so. I think it has to become more accepted first. We need more and more businesses to start accepting Bitcoin. Another issue is the price fluctuations. I don't know what will help minimize them, but now it's hard to price a product in Bitcoins if the equivalent in dollars can vary so much from day to day. I don't personally have an Bitcoins yet. I'm just researching it now. I think it's a long process, but BTC will gain more momentum, as time goes on, and it will start spreading faster. |
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But I don't pay sales tax in my state. For example. I don't use marijuana. I don't pay for other people using marijuana. Now, if I somebody down the street is selling his car, and I buy it, and he makes a handsome profit off me, I have purchased a car. What he does with the money is his business. If he uses some of the money to buy marijuana, did I buy the marijuana? Same with sales tax. Just because a store gives me an itemized list of what they have done with the money I use to pay for my purchases, doesn't mean that I pay sales tax. If they pay sales tax, they are the ones who pay it. Not me. Property tax? I rent. I pay the landlord. If he uses some of his money to pay property tax, he is the one paying the tax, not me. But even if I owned the property, it would be MY property. Someone in government who tries to steal my property from me will get sued, just like he would if he were attempting to rob me, directly. When I fill out an application form for a job, and I get hired, the employer needs me to fill out an IRS Form W-4. I fill out my name, and address and social same as always, for identification purposes. I fill out every other line on the W-4 with n-a (non-assumpsit)... except line 7 where it asks for my exempt status. There I write "EXEMPT." I sign the form "non-assumpsit" and my signature. My employer doesn't withhold. The IRS doesn't require tax payments. Of course, I give my employer a letter of explanation in such a way that he understands that you have to have an agreement with the IRS to pay income taxes, and that I don't have this agreement, because of the way I filled out the W-4. Start by going here - https://www.youtube.com/user/765736/videos - and finding every audio/video that has "IRS" in the title, to see what is going on. Further, if court is involved, take a look at this audio/video: 003 - Karl Lentz - Establish your common law court
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=karl+lenz+your+own+court+003Then, look at the other audio/videos around that one. It will take a little time to get it into your head what is going on. But you need to start somewhere. Listen to at least the first 5 minutes of the audio/video, "Learn how to reclaim your sovereignty and fight government tyranny through jury nullification" at https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-08-03-learn-how-reclaim-sovereignty-fight-government-tyranny-jury-nullification.html, to understand some of the bottom line for the above A/V.  I do understand what you're talking about. I figured that there were probably some exceptions. I imagined you're probably paying taxes somewhere that you don't realize or can't avoid. It seems like you've got most of your based covered though. Thank you for the detailed response. I've read quite a bit about income tax before. It all seems so ridiculous that typically you have to pay the government to make money, then you have to pay the government virtually every time you spend money. It's nice to see an example of a person who is being quite successful and avoiding paying taxes in the US. |
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I would gladly not vote if I didn't have to pay taxes. But if they forced me to pay taxes, I would vote, and vote them out of office. Then, without having to pay taxes any longer, I wouldn't vote any more... at least until the cycle started again. So, you always vote to try to get people out of office, so they will stop forcing you to pay taxes? Have you had an success with this yet? You must do a lot of voting, since I'm pretty sure there is not one country with absolutely zero taxes. How do you imagine this society with no taxes? Do you have some economy and political system in mind? Well, to answer your first and second questions, I essentially don't vote, because nobody is forcing me to pay taxes. A country without taxes? All people are taxed, some of them just by getting out of bed in the morning. But not all people are taxed monetarily. Monetary taxation does one major thing. It enriches those who receive the tax money, in an unfair and unrighteous way. Rather than paying taxes, buy what you want. If you want to use the roads, buy the rights to use them. If you want military protection, buy the military protection. If you want a Mars program, donate to it. Do you want schooling for your kids?, pay for it; why should anybody be forced to pay for schooling for the children of somebody else? There is no reason to be forced to pay something you don't want or don't get. Taxation is theft. Further, in America, if the IRS attacks you for not paying taxes, it doesn't, really. Rather, it is some IRS agent doing some paperwork. Ask the IRS agent to show you the agreement you have with IRS laws. If you agreed to pay, then pay, as your agreement states. If he won't or can't show you the agreement, sue him for the injury of the hassle he is putting you through. If the IRS takes you to court, they don't, really. The indictment always reads THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA vs you. In the States, you have the right to face your accuser. Since THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is your accuser according to the indictment paperwork, require THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to take the oath, get on the stand, and testify to the harm or damage you have done to it, with evidence of the harm or damage, and proof that it was you that did the harm or damage. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is paperwork. Paperwork can't get on the stand and testify to anything. Case dismissed for lack of your accuser testifying in court. Suppose at the beginning of your trial the judge asks the prosecuting attorney what the trial is all about. The prosecuting attorney starts telling the judge what the accusations are. If you don't object to the prosecuting attorney testifying without having first-hand knowledge, and without being placed under oath and on the stand, and without clarifying if he is a witness or an attorney (he can't be both), and if he is a witness, why he wasn't called by the prosecutor on the indictment (THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA), you just let "them" run all over you. But you made your first mistake by hiring an attorney. An attorney is an officer of the court. When you hired him, you agreed to whatever the court wants to do with you. It looks like a case of conflict of interest, but it is not, because by voluntarily hiring the attorney, you voluntarily turned the matter over to the total discretion of the court system. The point is, since none of us are required to pay taxes in America, but since most of us pay them voluntarily, voting or not voting is not a tax question. I see, so you are American. This is a very interesting topic. I have watched a few documentaries about taxes in the US an the IRS. You literally don't pay any taxes? Don't you have sales tax in your state? What about land tax? I'm sure there's some that you can't avoid. If that's the case, then you are being taxes. Or do you just think of income tax? Have you ever been taken to court or been hassled by the IRS? The whole court situation is quite interesting. I like the idea of people just paying for what they want, but I still have some concerns though. |
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I would gladly not vote if I didn't have to pay taxes. But if they forced me to pay taxes, I would vote, and vote them out of office. Then, without having to pay taxes any longer, I wouldn't vote any more... at least until the cycle started again. So, you always vote to try to get people out of office, so they will stop forcing you to pay taxes? Have you had an success with this yet? You must do a lot of voting, since I'm pretty sure there is not one country with absolutely zero taxes. How do you imagine this society with no taxes? Do you have some economy and political system in mind? |
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I've vowed that I will never participate in voting or election till eternity. Politicians were wicked.
I hope you live in a country where it isn't mandatory. There are many countries where you have no choice. They will even punish you for not voting. This includes countries like Brazil and Australia. It's usually just a fine, but it's a big hassle. Some people justify compulsory voting by saying that voting is one of a citizen's duties. If you was the rights of a citizen you must fulfill the duties. There are many arguments against it too though. You can check out the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting |
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I know will refer to the constitution and human rights on this matter but If a citizen does not contribute to society, how can that citizen have an opinion on it? Ultimately if you do not pay tax, you have no need to affect the political process, and your impact will be negative to others because you will be uninformed on how to vote to improve things.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
It would be very hard to control. I don't see any real good reason to implement a policy like that. If you're a business owner, for example, you may only pay tax at the end of the year. If the election is in the middle of the year, you can't very well say that the business owner is not a taxpayer. There are already mechanisms in place to catch and punish people that are avoiding taxes. If you break those laws you'll be fine and/or put in jail. In that case, the question would become, should inmates be allowed to vote? I think that they should be able to vote too because decisions the president will make will affect them in their lives in prison too. |
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Hello friends. What experiences do you have in terms of positive thinking? Does it really work? If you have an experience when the positive thinking worked for you, I would love to hear it, so please share it.
Positive thinking works just as negative thinking works. What do you think positive thinking should give you? I guess what you consider it working or not depends on it. In my opinion, positive thinking is just a description of your outlook on life. It's a more optimistic attitude. If you spend all your time thinking negatively and focusing on the bad things in life, you won't have as much success. It's a vicious circle. If you look for the good things in life and imagine a positive successful future for yourself, then you'll much sooner see that success. |
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If you take an assessment, a lot of citizens are not yet informative what is cryptocurrency is....like bitcoin and other altcoins. One proof is that others can be deceived by swindlers because of lack of knowledge regarding crypto currencies. . They invest with the wrong people because of considering in unfounded information and hearsays. Educating people regarding crypto will not make them to mislead. Educators can teach about crypto inside school especially in economic subject/s because it has a big role nowadays. As Tom Emmer stated, “ People tend to fear what they don’t know. If people sailing the oceans at the time of Columbus had believed the world is flat, we wouldn’t have had the great discoveries of the New World.” ( https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/venture-capital-working-group-seeks-select-cryptocurrency-safe-harbor/) I agree that the education is lacking now. I know something about cryptocurrencies. I've had it explained to me a few times, but I still don't feel like I really understand it. I think it will take some time for everybody to be convinced that cryptocurrencies are here to stay. Then people will need to develop some curricula to start teaching. It'd be nice if there were more documentaries and informational shows about it too. I seems like the media often talks about crypto like everybody knows what it's about. Maybe that's because they themselves don't know. |
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It is hard to say. It is part of the system. There are many similar examples. If you drive a car, you can kill yourself with it in case of an accident. If you play soccer, you can break your legs. If you fight, you lose an eye. Many similar examples are possible. Our society cannot exist without some bad practices. Scamming is a part of those bad things. The technologies we create are not perfect. For that reason, scammers and card thieves will always exist.
Wait, how can you compare scammers to losing an eye in a fight? Saying that technologies aren't perfect is like saying that women dress provocatively, so there will always be rapists. That is a very unpopular opinion. In your examples, you are talking about when a person himself makes a mistake. In the case of a scammer, it's the scammer inflicting something bad to somebody else. I think the biggest issue is how hard it can be to catch scammers using modern technology. Borders also create a huge barrier. Maybe an American law enforcement agency can identify that scammer are in Burkina Faso, but it'll be hard to the to bring them to justice in another country. |
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What do you think about ability of getting children from in vitro?
Let's imagine that it's possible. Will you ever use this technology or not and why do you think so?
And what do you think how will society react to development of such kind of technology?
As mentioned above, in vitro means "in the glass". It seems like most people here don't actually understand the technology that is already available. IVF means in vitro fertilization. This literally means the embryologists in a lab take sperm and fertilizes an egg in a dish. The technology already exists. Embryos can live outside a woman for about 5 days. The embryo starts to developed in the dish and is implanted into a woman's uterus. I think you already missed society's reaction to this. Or did you actually mean that a baby would grow up completely in a dish? I don't think that's going to happen. |
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The only situation I can image in which there would be no scammers, would be if everybody on earth had whatever they want. If there was no poverty and everybody had an abundance, then there would be no reason to steal. This doesn't seem likely to happen anytime soon, so there will probably continue to be scammers. All we can do it try to protect ourselves from scams and fight to catch scammers in society. It seems like a lot of scamming happens by phone in the US. As far as I understand, it is incredibly difficult to trace phone calls and they are usually made from other countries. Something needs to be done to make it easier to trace these calls and charge the scammers for what they are doing. I think email services like Gmail are doing a great job at minimizing the amount of scam and phishing emails that get into your inbox.
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It is horrible when religion is used to get rich, but it is far to common. People are willing to do a lot of things, when they think God told them to do it. That the trick that so many religious leaders use to get gain. In the Bible, it talks about giving 10 percent of what you make to God. I don't think that that means it should all go into one man's pockets. Sometimes I see religious leaders wearing expensive watches, riding in private jets or driving expensive cars. For me, that's an automatic huge red flag that there's probably something fishy going on.
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Wow, what an emotional post. Unfortunately, if you knock out politicians with one punch it won't get you very far. It would probably only get you to jail. The politicians will then wake up and continue doing what they always do. Even if a politician didn't wake up, things would still continue just about as usual. Just about all politicians have a big team behind them with similar goals and ideals. It's not hard for them to replace a "knocked out" politician with another one who with to the same things. I agree though that more often than not elections are a joke. It's like choosing between a burger and fries or a whole pizza. Neither will be that good for you, but there's no other choice.
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Robots and AI are so limited by what they are programmed to do. Both Siri and Google Assistant work horrible in my opinion. I feel like so many people who write articles about AI takeovers have never spent more that 10 minutes talking to a computer. Sure, technology is improving everything. AI is becoming more and more of a reality, but it seems so far from human intelligence. I don't think we've even scratched the surface yet. I constantly run into situations when Google Assistant can't do why I want it to do. It has a very limited set of commands that it understands and it recognizes speech, that's it.
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I don't have any statistics on hand to back it up, but I feel like education is becoming more widespread. Literacy is increasing in the world. Now anybody in any country (except North Korea?) could get a smartphone and learn almost anything an their one. I think the more educated people are, the less we will have wars. Another very important factor to consider is globalization. We are also more connected than ever to each other. It's much easier to kill somebody that you don't know than to kill your friend. International marriages are definitely becoming much much more common. The more we make friends around the world, the less wars there will be.
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