Do you theists realize that you do more to disprove religion in your discourse than any atheist ever could? We proceed from logic. You deny it.

If there were a god AND this god wanted to be worshipped, AND it was all powerful, there would be precisely how many religions and how much ambiguity and sectarianism?

MIght be mods. They've been deleting shit for no apparent reason in several places.

Again?
Can't speak for the whole team, but they haven't contacted me. chain is fine, so it can't be that.

Yeah, we do. Didn't you know that? We set around in our splintered cabals and research ways of denying the various gods.

Oh, wait, we don't do that at all, do we?

first off, it irritates the hell out of me when people say that atheists believe in nothing. There is an immeasurable chasm between not believing in unprovable assertions and believing in nothing. I have no real desire to illustrate my own personal beliefs, as they are both personal and irrelevant to the discussion, but to say I believe in nothing because I fail to believe in the impossible is insulting.

Secondly, statistically speaking, atheists have the lowest crime rates of just about all such artificial groupings. Even when we're talking statutory crime, though I think we're a bit more likely to disobey "because I said so" edicts than theists. I can't prove that, so take it with a grain of salt. It's just my observation. We don't derive our moral compass from some moldy old tome that thinks it's ok to dash babies against the rocks if they happen to be a different tribe or religion, but rather from a desire to peaceably get on with our neighbors and a sense that some things are simply wrong REGARDLESS of where the belief comes from.

Let's attempt to be real here, shall we? Everything, let me repeat that, EVERYTHING that makes modern people hate on Islam was done in the name of the Christian god way before Mohammed got to running around. Chistianity has mellowed over the centuries. It remains, at it's core, one of the most divisive and evil philosophies ever put forth. READ the bible. Not it's "what the captain meant was" apologists say, the actual book. You can't get much more horrible than that book. There is a reason why the majority of horror films are based on christian legends.

Roman Provincial governors had a lot of autonomy as well, but all must bow to Rome. It's pretty much the same in the USA.

In your specific instance, the lines continue to blur on a daily basis. The FBI is now routinely called in on murder cases, which when I was a kid only happened if it had somehow crossed state lines or involved a political figure. Basically, the pretence is maintained. At some point, the USA is going to have to stop pretending to still be a Republic, and those will be very interesting days. I've long wondered who the first "caesar" will be.

That was prior to the seventeenth amendment. The defacto abolition of the senate rendered the pretense of separate states under a confederated banner a dead letter. The American Experiment, as it was often called, ended in 1865. the name didn't change, but the fundamentals changed from a contentious republic to an empire.

That's volume. It is still more than a little odd, to have the entire supply traded multiple times, but it isn't necessarily indicative of malfeasance.

I would suspect on the "good" side that either there was simply a LOT of activity across a few whales, a stats issue at the exchange, or people catching dumps.

the bad side is a hidden premine. Code monkeys?

I highly doubt it. A cold wallet and a dead wallet would both show the same amount of activity

PM me with details, so nothing private gets exposed. On my side, payouts appear to be working fine. A couple days ago, the block index got all screwed up, and that was about when you joined, so I'm HOPING that the problem has been resolved. There were around a thousand transactions that didn't get properly credited at first, but they're all correct now according to the logs. At any rate, we'll get you properly paid.

Evening GMC people

Periodically over the next couple of days, the GMC! pool will be in maintenance mode. I'm adding some functionality and tweaking the settings. During this, the miners and shares will be fine, but there will be times when the front end will either be incorrect or unreachable. I don't anticipate any problems with mining, but if you see stats being out of whack, don't panic

I am going to add IRC functionality, probably change the logos, possibly add a forum, and try to make the home page a bit more interesting. All of this is cosmetic and does not affect the actual mining in any way.

Just for the sake of safety, and this should be the case whether or not maintenance is happening, you should ALWAYS have a failover pool set up. As I'm new to this particular coin's community, I have little idea of the general expertise of the miners. If the above and below are obvious to you, just pretend I wasn't talking to you

If anyone has any troubles setting up their miners or reaching the pool for any reason, never hesitate to contact me in PM. Also ask your fellows. There are some very helpful people here. I'm personally quite familiar with cgminer and sgminer and can help with issues that may arise in it's use. Also Gridseed and Zeusminer ASIC machines. BFGminer has always given me issues, though it works well for others. I'm afraid I can't be much help there.

To those of you who have already joined the pool, Thank you! To those who haven't, come in, the water's fine

Oh, man! sorry to hear that. My dad had a heart attack 8 years ago. He beat it, but that's some scary shit Here's hoping all goes well going forward.

...and yeah, I think the mod you're referring to is not, well, mmMPREPared? Definitely Can't Understand Normal Thinking. No way it was DMCA, since it was an oblique reference. X-men fans would recognize it.

For reasons unknown, the pool got screwed up yesterday. I have put everything back as it's supposed to be, and the self checks are passed.

I am not sure what happened, but if any of you notice the pool misbehaving in any way, please shoot me a PM here. I will be adding a chat box to the pool in the future, but that's fairly far down my extensive to-do list. I'm almost always logged in to BCT, so I'll get PM's here in short order.

Sorry for the inconvenience. I do my best to run a good pool, but this is the first time I've run a public pool

Some mod really didn't like the superhero thing My comment got deleted and didn't even have a picture.


EDIT: I thought mods weren't supposed to do shit in self moderated threads? Since Press was in on the joke, they definitely are out of line.

Given the amount of money raised vs. the amount of money spent... I'm pretty sure he can afford some very well trained thugs to walk with him.

All technical issues (aside from some trivial ones) have been fixed. We're up on at least two exchanges, and we're working on some crazy shit behind the scenes.

That being said, I would like ideas from the community about how we might get GMC integrated into various gaming platforms, gambling sites, or anything else to get the marketing side rolling. We have a lot of ideas in the core team, but without the community, we are only a few people.

As we go forward, it appears I am going to be one of the key communications people. I won't ever shoot down an idea without serious consideration.

And as usual, it's YOUR coin. Do what thou wilt to promote it and implement it. If the Foundation likes your idea and is able to do so, we'll likely back your play, and we certainly won't stand in your way.

Going forward, that might be something to emphasize.

sounds rather familiar. Couldn't have been inspired by a guy named Homero, could it ?

Nah, just another gimp I'm on the opposite side of the scale from rich.