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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Ripple Giveaway! on: June 20, 2013, 11:14:10 PM
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2  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: List of Bitcoin Companies with Adequate Backup--Please Submit on: May 30, 2012, 05:16:58 AM
This is a waste of time.  You're asking owners for a statement saying their stuff is adequately backed up and that's how they get on the list?  No verification or auditing, just that they think their procedures are adequate.  Similar to how people thought it was adequate to go with cheap hosting on vps providers to hold thousands of btc only to have it stolen right out from under them?

What could be wrong with that?

On that note, add Bitcoinica and Mybitcoin to the list.  They both made claims about their adequacy and competence.
3  Economy / Services / Re: Three drawings required, paying 5 BTC each. on: April 30, 2012, 11:28:59 PM
Let's be nice, mmkay?

Who are you and what have you done to MPOE-PR?
4  Economy / Securities / Re: Do you want your (new) company blogging about? on: April 29, 2012, 02:12:42 AM
Well I own a English bible from before any of the UK colony's nationhood and it say's colour and all words like capitalisation are spelt in the French tone not Yankee.

Does it use the grocer's apostrophe, too?
5  Economy / Securities / Re: Do you want your (new) company blogging about? on: April 29, 2012, 12:48:40 AM

OK then yes the Angles helped bring about the name England and English from Angleland and Anglish but the English language deviates from old and middle German like Frisian.  Frisian is the closest foreign language to English.  Everywhere in the world where English is spoken was spread by agents of the king or Queen of England.  So England's English is the oldest and most correct form of the Germanic language of English.  No I'm not thirteen but thirty-two tho I am dyslexic but have studied Fourier Transforms and Matrix Calculus as a student.  So you may laugh at my language skills but at least I can count.

No, no, no.  Modern English comes from Middle English, which comes from Old English, which comes from Proto-Germanic, not German.  What you count as a foreign language or as a separate dialect is a political question, not a linguistic one.  See Scots for an example of a debated one that's either a dialect of English or another language.

As for “England's English” being the “oldest,” you could make that argument but not of Modern English English.  The speakers of the oldest variety of English have been dead for more than a millennium and speakers in England are not any closer to ancestral varieties than native speakers elsewhere.  I'm not sure how you conflate oldest with most correct, but English English isn't older.  It's not like a seed was planted in North America and in Oceania that grew up into some new species of English language with some minor mutations that are still understandable.  Any variety of English can be traced back to PIE.

British varieties of English aren't even, generally speaking, conservative.  (An often exaggerated claim is that for that, you need to go to the Ozarks or Appalachia but that's mostly lexical, not grammatical and certainly not orthographic.)

Spread by agents of the king or Queen of England?  (Also, nice capitalization scheme there.)  Nope.  Sorry, but not everyone that departed that isle was an agent of the king.  Most were not.  (Subjects, you could argue until the late 18th Century, but not even that if you count Scots as just a dialect of English (the United Kingdom didn't exist until 1707 and if you count from the union of the crowns (James VI and I), that's 1603, but agents of the man himself rather than agents of the institution would be a much harder claim to support.)
6  Economy / Securities / Re: Do you want your (new) company blogging about? on: April 29, 2012, 12:15:29 AM
but I think the apologise is spelt correct.
Both are correct, I would assume Matthew would be more exposed to "apologize". Apologise is predominant in Great Britain.

Fucking Brits, always have to do things their way.

As English is the language of England I presume the English way of spelling English is correct.  Those rebel colonists are worse then me at writing.  Tho Isaac Asimov and Philip K Dick were my favourite writers.    

Actually, no, you have your derivations wrong: English arose as the language of the Angles, people from Angeln, who later settled in England and gave that godforsaken land its name. The people living in England are no more entitled to claim purity to the language than the speakers of it that live in other parts of the world, who are as much the descendants and heirs of the earliest speakers of it.

As for the spelling of the suffix -ize/-ise, you don't spell it the English way; you spell it the French way (which I think says something more about you, too, but we'll leave that for another day): it comes from the Greek -ιζειν, which became -izāre in Latin and -ize in English.  In the 19th Century, -ise became popular in the UK due to French influence.

Quote from: OED
In mod.F. the suffix has become -iser, alike in words from Greek, as baptiser, évangéliser, organiser, and those formed after them from L., as civiliser, cicatriser, humaniser. Hence, some have used the spelling -ise in Eng., as in French, for all these words, and some prefer -ise in words formed in French or Eng. from L. elements, retaining -ize for those of Gr. composition. But the suffix itself, whatever the element to which it is added, is in its origin the Gr. -ιζειν, L. -izāre; and, as the pronunciation is also with z, there is no reason why in English the special French spelling should be followed, in opposition to that which is at once etymological and phonetic. In this Dictionary the termination is uniformly written -ize. (In the Gr. -ιζ-, the i was short, so originally in L., but the double consonant z (= dz, ts) made the syllable long; when the z became a simple consonant, (-idz) became īz, whence Eng. (-aɪz).)

While -ise may be the more popular English-people way of spelling that suffix, -ize is not a worse English-language way of spelling it.

Also, *though for fuck's sake (what are you, 13?) and *{spelt|spelled} correctly.
7  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Get Ready for "MicroCash" : The most advanced Crypto-based Currency yet! on: April 24, 2012, 01:10:42 PM
MicroCash is SolidCoin repackaged.

SolidCoin is a less secure form of Bitcoin.

Move along.
Well put.

I encourage all of the "wise" BTC investors to expand your portfolio with the most advanced crypto-currencies of all time at launch.

Nice scare quotes.
Many of the key BTC developers already have including many members of this community.
[citation needed]


MicroCash doesn't seem to have much for flaws.

lolwut
8  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: pirateat40's end game on: April 24, 2012, 05:54:20 AM
Put up or shut up.
9  Economy / Lending / Re: [MPEx] CDO roll call for bond issuers on: April 16, 2012, 07:10:44 PM
Mkay, so I'm gathering we don't yet have the financial/intellectual wherewithal for CDOs in the community?

Well, probably not yet for most of the people hanging out on the forums, anyway. Cheesy  I don't think it's far from being viable, yet, though.
10  Economy / Marketplace / Re: *** bitsforcoins.com *** Affordable Dedicated Servers in Miami, Florida on: March 23, 2012, 11:28:11 PM

FTFY

No, I don't believe you did.  Our policy is, quite simply, that any content which is legal in the US is permissible on our network.  You cited the part about irc daemons; those aren't content.  An ircd is a service, tied to a protocol, and has nothing to do with content.

Thank you for your interest none the less.


Oh, I see; you're redefining terms but not providing a glossary (or from looking at your site, even a ToS).
11  Economy / Marketplace / Re: *** bitsforcoins.com *** Affordable Dedicated Servers in Miami, Florida on: March 23, 2012, 03:36:23 PM

Some other relevant details:

Our Customer Agreement does not prohibit any kind of content which is legal in the US
…  ircd's are not [permitted].


wat


Some other relevant details:

Our Customer Agreement does not prohibit any kind of content which is legal in the US except where it does

FTFY
12  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: bitcoinica's fraud actions on: March 17, 2012, 06:27:45 PM
fulfilling unreasonable requests isn't a sustainable measure of customer service.

That's all that really needed to be said. Wink
13  Economy / Marketplace / Re: [WTS] Shakaru debt on: March 15, 2012, 11:11:38 PM
I do believe that the debts will eventually be paid back and that Shakaru is trying to right his wrongs

Why?
14  Economy / Services / Re: GPUMAX | The Bitcoin Mining Marketplace on: February 29, 2012, 10:33:09 PM
Honestly, regardless of whether you are replying to me or not, I am just tired as hell with your FAN-BOI posts in this thread.

I can point to a number of instances where you 'Set people straight' when they comment on GPUMAX by telling them to 'LEAVE' etc.

I don't know if you are part of the GPUMAX 'team', but you clearly try to get brownie pts at every turn with some of your posts and frankly it makes you look ridiculous, not to mention you have a habit of stating the obvious.

I like the service, I like dealing with Pirate....anything else you are unclear about ?

Do me a favor and put me on IGNORE. Please don't reply to another one of my posts anywhere on this forum.

Do yourself a favor and instead of demanding someone ignore you because you don't want to deal with him any more, (and I know this is hard but) just fucking ignore him yourself.  As for the “fanboidom,” pirate's been pretty clear that demand for this service has so far outpaced supply.  While “fanboi” doesn't sound very nice, GPUMAX, quite frankly, doesn't need anyone that isn't.  (And I'm not.  I have nothing to do with GPUMAX, have never used it, and so far have no plans to use it.  I am interested in what this kind of operation can do, though, so I am following it.)

As more and more kinks are worked out of it, as it comes out of testing, as its capacity expands, yes, then (and not much earlier) there will be a reason to appeal to “non-fanbois.”  At this point, it's not really an insult.

As for gigavps's comments, did you really say what you said and not see that coming?  Someone had to, if for no other reason than you just opened yourself up to it. :þ
15  Economy / Speculation / Re: The Real Story | What is considered manipulation? on: February 16, 2012, 04:08:05 PM
I assumed that someone with this amount of money would subscribe to the S3052 newsletter. 
16  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Who do you support for president? on: February 15, 2012, 12:00:31 AM
None of the above.
17  Economy / Marketplace / Re: Free Bitcoins! Change your avatar to Freddie Prinze Jr! on: February 14, 2012, 11:50:30 PM
OK, fuck it.


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18  Economy / Speculation / Re: The Real Story | What is considered manipulation? on: February 14, 2012, 11:47:57 PM
So tell me, is it REALLY manipulation?

When you do it telling me (and only me) in advance, yes.
19  Economy / Marketplace / Re: cinfu.com - Powerful USA based dedicated servers with free KVM from 17.70BTC! on: February 14, 2012, 09:06:00 AM
When do you think you'll manage to get English-speaking support and sales staff?
20  Economy / Lending / Re: 30 day 100 btc loan to Shakaru on: January 22, 2012, 08:38:58 PM

Try English next time.

While I approve of this sentiment, if you take the time to criticize something, you should have the courtesy to explain how to fix it.  Fucking half-ass grammar Nazis.

Just a poke here... GigaVPS got frozen by paypal, So he cant do any of the Usually awesome paypal transactions that he does.
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By the way, PayPal froze GigaVPS account so he can't do any of the usually awesome PayPal transactions he normally does.
(Editor's note: “usually awesome PayPal transactions” → lolwut.)
Y'know, If Shakaru Like.. (he's totally not) Defaults (seriously he's not gonna) Then were going to prollllly unban Astana but lets all hope it's nothing more than silly issues,
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Should Shakaru default (which he won't), then we're going to [probably] unban Astana but let's all hope it's nothing more than silly issues.
OH also, If Shakaru lives on the west coast, He may have a Power Outage... Where i live (Victoria BC) Were having the Strongest winds we've had in about 10 years.. Lost a fence, A house side panel, Just waiting for the power to go, LAWL
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Also, if Shakaru lives on the West Coast, he may have a power outage.  Where I live (Victoria,), we're having the strongest winds we've had in about ten years.  Lost a fence and a house side panel.  Just waiting for the power to go.

I don't think apotheosis is going to change your weather any (nor do I expect many to get that).
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