Ah, but we can only vote for our rulers, not the rules themselves. Unlike Switzerland. And day by day the rules become worse, the rulers become fatter, and we more and more resemble the Weimar republic. And the shift to democracy hasn't worked so well, has it? I'm an anarchist, not a democrat. Democracy is at best a process, and at worst, the most oprressive governmental system ever devised. Taken to it's logical extreme, which they will eventually if let to be, if the majority decides a minority must die, then they will be legally killed.

As for the comment about only for whites, it was largely true, though even before the war between the states the ugly institution of slavery was fading. Lincoln had no intention of ending it, and in fact died before it was legally ended. His "justifications" for the war were on their face ridiculous and moreso the deeper you got. In fact, many of his ravings violate the causality and time. The states pre-existed the Union, therefore most assuredly COULD exist without it. So instead of fixing the problems and moving the dream forward, our "enlightened" rulers abandoned the dream. Following the 13th amendment, which made private slavery illegal, they then enslaved the entire populace with the 16th amendment. This was a great PR move, as it riled everyone up so they didn't really notice the 17th amendment, which effectively ended the sovereignty of the states, thus finishing what Lincoln started with guns.

The real reasons for the war were many, with Slavery being pretty much the "WMD" rallying cry. (though at least in Lincoln's war, the problem used as a rallying cry actually existed...). The primary reasons the south wanted to secede (which they had every right to do, and, yes, your vaunted Democracy was employed) were choking tariffs on southern goods going north and an increasingly dictatorial tone from Washington. That they were just as corrupt as the northern states does not change these facts. From the Northern side, Lincoln was determined to prove that it was a singular Empire, not a confederation of independent states, and since the North was far more industrialised than the admittedly backward south, His side won. Not because they were right, not even because of superior tactics, simply because of better guns and more resources.

It exacerbated the problem of slavery, and ended the ideation of sovereign states. You can see the shift in popular literature of the time immediately post war. People started to refer to "the" United States, rather than "These" United States.

Now, 150 years later, you cannot breathe without some bastard with a badge poking his nose into your business, the money has been stolen and replaced with paper, and our people are regularly sent to fight and die on foreign soil for no defensible reason. I wasn't drunk when I posted the first part, I was merely disgusted. It was incomplete, not incorrect.

May I remind you of H. L. Menken's quote regarding radicals...

Send me a PM, I'll try to help. I caught this very late.

These United States of America. Born July 4, 1776 in response to the overt oppression of the King of England, who egregiously denied them religious and secular freedoms, due process, and imposed an outrageous tax on profits at 5%.

Died April 9, 1865 at Appomatox Courthouse with the Surrender of Robert E. Lee, and with it the proof by gun that the States were not sovereign, and were to be ruled over.

The American Empire was thus established, sarcastically and blasphemously still using the name "The United States of America". We've gone downhill a long ways since then.

Back then, the American dream was liberty. I hope this dream lies in torment, that it may rise again one day.

Yes. Fortunately, we've moved past that. Watch here, it's more productive https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1010745.0

Given the context, I don't think I can improve on that. Within actual space exploration, the reasons are manifold. The Moon has little to offer us, whereas Mars has all the elements necessary to make a new home for humanity. Including, it seems, water. 

Doggies aim for the moon. Humans can calculate orbits. It takes about the same fuel per Kg to get to Mars. Why aim low?

Ok, generate the number of addresses you want, or use the same one over and over again. Not splitblock, and you don't need coincontrol.

sendmany address:amt, address:amt, etc...


EDIT: Almost all satoshi derived coins have this feature.

That is one of those "it depends" sort of questions. If your goal is acquiring coins, yes, it's doable and with our ongoing promotion will probably be profitable down the line. If you're looking to turn them instantly for BTC, you have to do cost calculations of the mining rig vs. number of coins you'll likely generate. I always take 10% off of the advertised hashrate for safety. Usually the variance isn't that high, but there are a lot of things that can affect it at any given moment.

Our forum is brand new Still getting the kinks out, but I'm on it every day. So are at least a couple other of the core team.

As for mining, for Scrypt you CAN do it with a CPU, but you won't get much, Scrypt is pretty much an ASIC algorithm at this time. I've never used minerd, but since cgminer and BFGminer were both derived from it, I can probably help. Please do visit our forum, and invite your friends.

I currently mine exclusively GMC (as you might expect from part of the dev team) and my pool is gmc.cryptocloudhosting.org. That's the landing page, where you can also find a bootstrap file and a block explorer

No offense taken I'm not religious anymore, not for a long time.

I need to read up a bit more before commenting on the rest, lest I sound a fool. Bear in mind talking to me, I always attempt to be fair. Not unbiased, as I am not. But fair. If something could be construed as an attack or a question, read it as a question. I'm just seeking knowledge and discourse. I have nothing personal against Islam. I judge people by their actions more than what they claim to believe.

Of course he's a ninja Look how well his coins perform...

My answer would be that the so-called government of the United States is composed almost entirely of traitors, by their own laws... but I do see your point

As to the rest, of course I tend to agree. Though I think it might go even deeper than outside oppression. As a former Christian, I can attest personally to how HARD it is to let go of an idea that you have embraced uncritically and had reinforced for your whole life. It was one of the more terrible times in my life. I believe I am a better human for having undergone that admittedly awful time, but that doesn't take away from how truly hard it can be to face the fact that you have believed an untruth. It causes you to question absolutely everything you hold to be true. Which is a good thing in itself, but a hard one for an adult. I am trying to teach my children to do that at a young age, so they never have to face such a conundrum. Whether I'll be successful? Who knows.

Well, Hero member is not exactly truthful is it? I've been here quite a while, but I'm much more familiar with the QT clients. I like electrum, but I don't understand it's mechanics all that well. And no, I did not lower the fee manually. That was what it calculated, apparently. In the past, I had never had this problem with electrum, and the "high priority" was simply what the block explorer reported. I would have actually thought it medium priority. At any rate, it fixed itself. With a fee included, I never had that long a wait before, and maybe it was the stress testing. Then again, yesterday was one of those days where if it could go wrong, it did, and if it couldn't, it still did, so maybe that was the cause

Ok, so we now have a yes on Khomeini, a yes and a no on Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens), and a yes on Arafat.

Interesting, as those are the three who I thought had done right or tried to do right by their religion and their people.

@Greg, two things. One, On the part of the list I made, I, personaly, had put forth no judgement or commentary as to whether or not they were "good" people. I simply asked if you considered them true muslims. As to why Cat Stevens is important, he is, in the west, a very well known man who has been an advocate for world peace for his entire life. Long before his conversion to Islam and taking on the name Yusef Islam. Mr. Zakir states that he is muslim, you state that singing is forbidden, thus he is not.

I agree with you that Khomeini had little choice but to declare war. I think his taking the embassy people hostage was the only thing he did truly wrong in that whole episode, as they had not done anything to him. But in  a war, mistakes are made very often. I would say the same of Yasser Arafat. Both men made the attempt to free their people from oppression. While I think their strategy in both cases was idiotic, I have little moral problem with it. Had the people of Iran sat down and simply refused to obey the edicts from above, the whole world would have seen in a matter of days just exactly what sort of ass the Shah was. Had the people of Palestine sat down and refused to obey the edicts of the Knesset, again, the result would have been that. Instead, both sides chose to fight a dirty war against their enemies, and actually harmed their cause. Easy to see this in retrospect, not so easy at the tip of the lance. Strategically, Terrorism rarely works in the long term as it fosters paranoia on both sides. The two men mentioned above are a lot of why the West fears and hates Islam. Exactly the opposite of what they were trying to achieve. Do you see now, why I asked?

From the secular side, the miserable sons of bitches we cringingly call our government here in the United States have put their ugly noses where they don't belong for more than a century, making this situation far worse than it needs to be. Muslims in the west, by and large, are no better or worse than their Christian, Jewish, or even atheist neighbors. Because they and we are not in a daily struggle for our lives. This makes a HUGE difference in behaviours and motivations, and it's hard to step back from that. Times of relative peace and free trade bring out the best in most groups, but do not empower governments. Government and Religion have been each other's handmaidens for pretty much all of recorded history, so that the one supports the other is not in any manner surprising. It is and always will be in the best interests of central governments and organized religions to have an active, angry enemy. When such does not exist, both major groups will work hard to make one.

Individuals and individual belief, then, are never well served by centralized organizations that purport to have power over them. I state that unequivocally. Even when such central authorities do some good, it is less than the harm they do. Be they secular or religious. All such things tend to divide one man against another, magnifying differences that the men acting on their own likely would reconcile.

I would turn the question around, now, as I believe it has been adequately covered why so many hate islam. Since I don't, I can be fairly objective. I dislike Islam less than I dislike Christianity, and on about the same level as all other religions that I can think of. So... Why do Muslims hate Christians? Why do Muslims hate Jews? (both are overbroad, but too often true).

My thoughts have actually long gone down this path. I believe that some people are just going to be violent assholes. call it a defect, whatever. But certain polities, whether religious or otherwise, give them sanction, or at least appear to, and that exacerbates the problem.

Another problem endemic to relgion is the inconsistency of the holy writ. When a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim say that they believe in a religion of peace, the odds are very high that they are not lying. When A Christian or a Jew or a Muslim say that their scriptures call for the death of unbelievers, they STILL aren't lying. It's when they say one and deny the other that they are lying. Because according to their scriptures, both are true. Orwell shined a bright light on doublethink, he didn't invent the concept.

The Q'uran, in my limited reading of it, seems more internally consistent than either the Christian Bible or the Talmud, but not by a lot. I again maintain that the vast majority of religious people are good people, in spite of their religion. It's hard to trust people who are able to hold contradictory views as if they weren't, but I don't trust easily anyway. But the observable truth is that MOST religious people are not evil, even when at times their religion calls upon them to be. In a way I envy them. the fairy tales are comforting. But for me, the contradictions and doublethink proved impossible.

Hello, I have a perplexing problem.

I sent a transaction, which has shown as pending since around 10AM this morning. It shows as unconfirmed in the block explorer. It has fees, and shows as high priority. I can see no reason why it's not confirming. I tried restarting electrum, this had no effect.

Is there any way to either stop the transaction or push it somehow? Or???

txid: dbac7ada9882c677760e27c548e761441d489c92e59cdaf4b640fa083e0fcb6e

I saw similar questions while searching, but they all either invovled no fees, or else the client itself and the tx had actually confirmed. This one, it's sitting there, pending, apparently without end.

EDIT: As soon as I posted this, it confirmed. Apparently I just needed to ask.

I think for this thread, Peace Train would be more appropriate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_X9eqYa6CQ

To be honest, I always compile my own wallets, and rarely have had a problem. this one usually compiles in around ten minutes. I personally don't know how to use the QT creator thing, but I might give it a shot later in the day. Meantime, I'll try to find someone who can help you. I want things to be perfect, we have a long way to go.

Singing is prohibited? Can you back that with scripture?

I threw Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) in that list because I thought he'd be the LEAST controversial in this discussion, as he has been a man of peace for his entire life, long before his conversion to Islam. Yet of all the people I listed as potentially true muslims, he's the one you deny.

And frankly, it is anti human to prohibit singing. In my own case, ceasing to sing would be denying the very essence of who I am. I am and have been since my earliest days a singer. Anything that denied me that is, to me, anathema of the lowest sort.

So, since you obviously have read what I said, and the only man you deny is Muslim is the one man in my list who has spent his ENTIRE adult life as an advocate of peace, I have to assume that you DO consider the others to be Muslim. Which is prima facie evidence that your other claims are false.

noise23 was workin' on that. I'll check.