About punk rock - it was a joke, yes, but in general I was not sarcastic - I think if those crazy attention whores played in Sheikh Zayed Mosque, dissing local leaders, they would be mutilated and beheaded, if not by the government, then by local people. Or imagine them in the Washington Nation Cathedral, DC, singing "Obama is a commie and sucks big jew dong" or something like that. Or even Better is some Texas protestant Church. I'd say those gals got off pretty easily. Earning money in process, I must add.

Russia has plenty of independent news sources, lots of criticism of current ruling party and leaders. That first wikipedia link you gave - it mentions multiple improvements over years, public trust growing in general, some protection laws offered to journalists and so on. For years Russia has been viewed upon as a big scary bear, while in fact it is the same as all the other governments in the world more or less. I believe CIA can take any less prominent journalist in for a talk, to zap his balls with electrodes, and later acquire a backhand court order.

In the freedom of the press USA has pretty interesting figures. UK is slightly better. Cameras and taps everywhere, taking away journalists belongings as a "security measure".

General rule - you may speak and write about anything you want in a civilized country. As long as you stay away from big corruptions, hidden money, anything what makes your local government officials involved interested enough in snuffing out your life. Be that in Russia, Britain, France or USA or whatever.

Soviet era is long gone. There are plenty of "dissidents" alive and well in Russia. You can speak out, bark out, play punk rock in one of the biggest capital churches.

Of course they are. But reselling them to other captcha buyers is more likely in this case.

I cannot believe this begging spree. And no-one's even begging, just shouting "me too!" "me too!".

For christ's sake are there alive mods on this board?!

Make paid (like in mining) full nodes, but, to make it really spread around make a rule of no more than x nodes per geographical area (city/county/country) or ISP  or per certain ip adress group. That way it will be as decentralised as possible, with lots of people simply co-hosting from their web servers, not some big company datacenter full of servers having a big chunk of the global node count. Also reward for hosting a node should be very smallish. Just to cover average costs by a 5-10%

that's why you should read OP rules before committing to something!

ugh, you people.

lock this goddamn thread already

I've asked mod to do so, maybe if more people do the same he will react?

I don't want to start a new thread about it.

In my school years, Esperanto was treated like a game of sorts, amongst nerds.

12 GB are not measly by any means. And with the current rate of it's growth...

Bitcoin is meant to be "portable", and blockchain feels like a ballchain around your leg.

зальет нахрен, или боковым ветром чего нибудь закинет

It sucks so bad, I did not even ask for ripple here, just posted some bullshit long time ago and it keeps updating.

Funniest thing is that these morons ask for xrp, while OP explicitly says "Anyone whose Bitcoin Forum account was created before February 19, 2013, 18:45 UTC, is eligible to receive XRP. "

Useless spamming, and thread starter is long time gone.

We should lock this thread!

It annoys me that those 3 are mentioned (and zuckenberg should not even be mentioned at all). They are founders of their own companies, they had X of the shares, they could set whatever salaries they want, even work for free as a gimmick. We need better examples.

Language and the fact that oil is traded for dollar, and dollar is the "world's currency", not bitcoin

But I must say,that I hope someday we all will speak one language. There are better and worse languages, technically speaking, I would choose between english as it's dominant already, or japanese, as it's very "practical and economical". If the whole world except USA would suddenly use some other language (russian, mandarin, you name it) it would certainly be fun to see how it has to keep up with the rest.

800$, but our prices are AT LEAST 30% higher than US prices, keep that in mind


If i3 Ivy Bridge U will be good enough for photoshop and multitasking, then that's enough

At least your username is suitable.

If I had to pick between you and OP I'd definitely pick you.

Жалею что не связался с биткоином раньше, даже не изза скачка цены в апреле, а изза того что можно было неплохо обогреваться. Вот сейчас дождичек высыпал, прохладней стало, прихожу домой - тепло, хорошо.

I think I'll ignore the OP and pretty much everyone posting "PMd you" and "Please PM me" and etc.

It's sure is easier and faster, no?

US has too much troops and war machines too simply sit idle. Where would you put all those guys? And even if US would reduce army size by 50%, those troops will turn mercenaries/contractors and wage their own wars with the help of government lobbying. You do not simply say "ok guys, go home and be unemployed, cause only thing you can - is to run around with full equipment and shoot people, we do not need you anymore, ktnxbye".

bump, still deciding

It would not. There are certain skills that can and cannot be self taught at home.