http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/03/teen-jailed-facebook-comment-justin-carter-suicide-watch_n_3542770.html

Is this for realzies? Long time ago I had my yahoo account deleted for posting a black humor question in yahoo answers (deleted along with my emails and etc), but this is too much. Freedom of speech much?

In the meantime lets sing "Who dropped the soap? Who dropped the soap?"  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP_d6-qHYTM

EDIT(11/11/2013):

Simply selling for 0.02 BTC now

As stuff in the US is usually a lot cheaper than rest of the world, I use mail forwarders time to time. But there are certain limitations (not very eager to repackage, slow, extra shipping fees, and problems with buying stuff with non US data in the first place).

I'm thinking about asking somebody on this forum to (let's imagine) buy me certain cpu, maybe tear down the package and keep stock cooler, or a CD, effectively making package 10x smaller. Also import duties in EU are insanely unfair, while sender can mitigate that by lowering price tag on a package.  There are all kind of killer deals for US residents. Combo buys, mail in rebates and all that jazz. I get lower price, buyer gets to keep extra stuff and rebates. Win-win?

How safe are escrow services? Even if it's a great escrow, will he believe me if I get screwed over? Hmm... esc-row e-screw...

I would love to hear some opinions, guys(and gals).

Also what about prices in the countries where that tech originates from? China, Malaysia, Korea , etc. Do they get it even cheaper than USA?

Hey guys! I heard from all the linux trolls sitting in windows irc channel how this thing is so much superior, and free, and customizable, but yet user friendly and not hard at all for newcomers.
While I have used linux livecd's in the past and they helped me a great deal, my attempt at installing linux as a desktop system resulted in immediate set of fails.

1st attempt. I was at work, where we have one old ass computer which has xp on it and is quite sluggish. I found the most lighweight/usble distro named TinyCore. It's really small, and it works. Kinda anal on privacy and stuff, but that's a good thing, right?So, a success. Now we can try more serious, yet light on resources distro. Google results in lubuntu.

2nd attempt. I install lubuntu from cd, cause from inside windows it does not provide me with any partition managing options, and I cannot select any other partition other than disk C (windows system). I create ext4 partition, make swap, install, choose language and timezone, it says "everything is ok, now you just have to restart and we are all set". But while we got there - I've noticed some strange gpu related artifacts on my screen, I did not pay attention much. After restart (power off,then power on next day) - it does not show me anything but black screen with "-" blinking in a corner. I try out different hotkey combinations and alt+ctrl+f1 does it for me, I have login prompt. After I log in - i have terminal available and that's all. GUI refuses to start with errors. As I find out later there's no good driver for my old pc integrated gpu in the kernel, or anywhere on the net. "Pfffft" - I voice myself in frustration. "So much for omnipotent linux". But as it's a specific hardware/software issue largely on my part I decide to give it a spin at home. I have the distro cd burned in, don't I?

3rd attempt. I connect my optical (btw it's 1st time in 2 years that I had to use it at home). Insert lubuntu, install, it goes much faster than on work, I'm happy with that. We get to pick a username, password, it asks for restart. After restart we have to log in using password, and hoorray, I'm on a desktop. First thing to pop up was this "software updater" (or manager) saying I need to update for some 100mb. There's a settings button in this updater. I press that first. Nothing pops out, and rest became greyed out. I wait. I wait. I wait. Settings pop out finally. I change nothing and close them. Everything still grey. I wait. I wait. I wait. There we go. Install. "Please authenticate using your password" it says. I enter my pass, it blinks, says i'm wrong and asks again. I enter it again, it disappears with no progress. Later I would repeat that multiple times, would check if I typed it correctly in some office app, and try to copy that from there with no avail. So - in the end we have it: not the best driver support, and thing does not work as intended from the very fucking start. Way to attract newbies. I find at google that you need to try typing "sudo install update apk bla bla, suck my balls" from a terminal, but THAT DEFEATS THE WHOLE GODDAMN POINT.

I try to enter lubuntu/ubunu/linux IRC at freenode, but I need either Java or some IRC app for that, and I'm guessing this thing will prompt me for pass again, so don't bother. I go back to win8, visit IRC, ask around and these are the answers I get:

##linux (guyN1) lubuntu is not good, try xubuntu or ubuntu or kubuntu
           (guyN2) lubuntu is shit
#lubuntu (guysN1 N2 N3) write a bug report, ask a volunteer around or type "sudo install update apk bla bla, suck my balls"

After a while I told #lubuntu guys that ##linux guys said that "lubuntu is hit", which they pobably took to heart

So, that's my experience with using linux as desktop environment.

I'm selling some stuff on ebay, which goes in ~5 hours.

If someone helps me by bidding price from 10$ to ~15$ will receive 0.005BTC
If noone buys that in the end, and you are the winner you will still get your BTC
I want to sell the item for at least 16 $, if anyone has better strategy would be glad to hear it out fast

I'm often fucked up by some buyer with high reserved price and that annoys me like hell

http://r.ebay.com/LESAlF

I also have another item http://r.ebay.com/6zLkxc ends in 3 hours. Anyone bidding from 15.50 to 16 or 16.50 will get 0.0025 BTC. You dont have to overbid that one, just raise last bidder a little.

please post here, and not in PM

I just had this stupid idea

Imagine a new type of BTC exchange. It's a big company backed by some serious money, maybe some government.
It has reserves of, say, 1000000BTC.
It sells its BTC for fixed price, which in turn is made up of currency prices all over the world, 10% USD 10%EUR 10%CHY 10%RUB.. (7-10 different currencies)
So that if value of USD drops, it would affect price on the exchange by very little amount.

It will sell until their reserves run down to 0.95% (950000BTC) and stop buying if it gets to 105%(1050000BTC).
It will sell their BTC for 101% of the fixed price and will buy for 99%.
Only way to sort queued buyers and sellers would be the amount of transaction fee they have decided to spend. Could be even auctioned by 5 minute intervals
Wanna sell faster than others? Set yourself a higher fee.

If the price on other exchanges goes up or down too much - it's not their problem, they just offer their service parallel to the market.
Provided with big enough stock of BTC they start to affect price, and lure in more people.
If prices on a market and that exchange suddenly differ too much, imagine the flood of transaction fees.
Thing will balance itself eventually.

Is bitcoin all about scammers, pyramids, forex and all that crap?

I got in on the prospect of mining, thinking bitcoin is a tax-free super currency which can be used to simplify trading around the globe.
I must say - it does not look good enough to be presented for local businesses. If you visit marketplace branch for example, feeling of complete distrust is overwhelming. I'd rather see topics full of drug/child porn/guns offers, than these ponzi scheme, exchange, scammer lists, gambling and so on...

Hello!
I offer a service for BTC, and this seems like the best place to advertise.
I can make virtually any size photos, but post office is an obvious limitation.
I don't care what's in your pictures, even if it's somewhat borderline, but don't expect a registered letter if that's the case. I'm located in Latvia (EU).

Please visit my el cheapo website for more info, it's a single page.
http://bitprint.webs.com/

Also, even if not interested right now - would you use such a service? I really make good prints, but it's not so popular among people these days, as 10 years ago (Digital age and all).  

While waiting for newbie debuff to wear off, I've decided to post it here
I offer a service for BTC, and  would like to know the best place to advertise myself
I think marketplace services branch suits me the best, but I fear it will drown under all the "coding for hire" messages.

I there a catalog for bitcoin services and goods, like a dedicated wiki or webpage?


my el cheapo website:
http://bitprint.webs.com/

Also - would you use such a service? I really make good prints, but it's not so popular among people these days, as 10 years ago (Digital photos and all).