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Many CUs have cut outgoing international wire service this year, so it wouldn't be too surprising to see banks starting to discontinue service, too. Not particularly sure on reasoning. "Due to new Regulations and the inherent risk with International Wires, we will no longer be able to provide this service to our members."
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Wouldn't it be more resource-efficient to just ban the practice of sig advertisers which pay based on posts/month? It's even enforceable.
Probably, but I think that would be a little harder to enforce. Also it gives me something to do while work is slow  Just go right to the source. Offer it and have domain censored across forum - or at least demand a bribe for your work.  |
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Wouldn't it be more resource-efficient to just ban the practice of sig advertisers which pay based on posts/month? It's even enforceable.
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USG wouldn't have defaulted anyway. It's something else.
What is something else? The reason for the rise, or the reason for the drop? Wherever a USG default which wouldn't have happened is being used as reasoning. But.. its.. responsible, in part, for the rise... and, this current drop.. no? lol ... No, because the USG doesn't suddenly default just because the debt ceiling isn't raised. Unless day-traders are totally unfamiliar with the USG, it wouldn't have caused movement one way or the other. |
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USG wouldn't have defaulted anyway. It's something else.
What is something else? The reason for the rise, or the reason for the drop? Wherever a USG default which wouldn't have happened is being used as reasoning. |
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USG wouldn't have defaulted anyway. It's something else.
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What drugs have you done? i dont want to hear meth,herion,crack if anyone did those keep it to your self. Just post below  Yes sugar and energy drinks count An i did do drugs recreantionaly but not any more Sorry but why would sugar be counted as drug? what about salt then? Sugar is cellular fuel and is addictive because it stimulates the area linked with pleasure in the brain. Salt regulates the flow of water in cells but is not addictive because it doesn't stimulate any particular area of the brain. Sorry for bad english  EDIT: It looks like I'm wrong and salt also stimulate the brain so it could be addictive: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2013703/Why-salt-addictive-It-stimulates-brain-cells-just-like-cigarettes-hard-drugs.htmlI know a good few salt addicts. One breaks Goldfish crackers in half just to fill them with salt before eating. It's disgusting. (caffeine fiend here, occasionally a weekend alcohol binge) |
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I predict if the FBI coins are sold at any point it will be done at another key technical area, to again try and break price down.
Then they lose
this is how it works. First they troll you Then they laugh at you then they send in the FEDs then you become insolvent. Yeah, but then you get $500/mo in food stamps and can buy a lobster every day for dinner, so you win.  |
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Indeed. He paid me back the principal in full. I haven't received any interest yet but he says this will be discussed when he pays back everyone's principal first. Kluge: have you received the full interest payments as agreed on in the first post (9% a month)?
No. We had a different arrangement from before. Heh - made me look at Skype logs. I forgot how things used to work. [3/21/2012 11:48:17 PM] Ben Malec: Interested in 20BTC more? [3/21/2012 11:48:35 PM] Nick: Sure. [3/21/2012 11:48:43 PM] Ben Malec: Same address? [3/21/2012 11:48:54 PM] Nick: yep [3/21/2012 11:49:11 PM] Ben Malec: Sent! Cheers! [3/21/2012 11:49:33 PM] Nick: I see them, thanks [3/25/2012 1:56:08 AM] Ben Malec: Mind spotting me 5.5BTC for a few days? I'll pay 5.75BTC. [3/25/2012 10:47:14 AM] Nick: yeah, I think I can swing that. I'm getting ready to do dividends today so let me get those out and then I'll let you know. [3/25/2012 12:49:37 PM] Ben Malec: Thanks, Nick. I don't think I'll need it, though...... GLBSE withdrawal should happen "soon." [3/25/2012 12:51:36 PM] Nick: oh, ok [3/26/2012 8:16:51 AM] Ben Malec: Care for 12.5BTC? [3/26/2012 9:21:18 AM] Ben Malec: Great! Sent. (afk) [3/26/2012 11:33:50 AM] Nick: lol [3/27/2012 11:42:29 AM] Ben Malec: Care for 15.5? [3/27/2012 11:46:50 AM] Ben Malec: Excellent news! Sent. |
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Wow, you're looking for a 100k house?
In my area, houses don't go under a million dollars, except for bungalows.
In my area <100k is doable and possibly maybe for BTC if Bitpay was used. If you want details let me know via PM but I am no where near NYC or Chicago. One area that would work imo is Pittsburgh as housing there is still reasonable, I am within 150 miles of there also. Something like Philadelphia might work, but I'm really looking for a dedicated non-flight transit line into NYC. Not for a daily commute, but once a month or so. Housing in Erie was pretty darn cheap, and I guess I'm spoiled by the near-free property practically anywhere in MI. 3BR, 2 bath 90's modular with a horse barn & gated pasture on 15 acres only $60K just a year ago, though it's in a fairly rural area. If thinking about Chicago more seriously, Michiana/South Bend would probably work out well with the high-speed rail line back and forth from Chicago (... though it's still Amtrak). South Bend, actually, may even work with NYC. Flights are so cheap, the property tax savings would mostly pay for flights, and I'd get the transit line to Chicago, too. Last I checked, property was pretty cheap there, but I haven't looked in over a year. Maybe I'm overemphasizing location, forgetting just how cheap it is to fly once a month (I looked it up a couple weeks ago, I believe - DTW to San Francisco and back was only something like $260). I suppose anywhere with a fairly trafficked airport would be perfectly fine, which'd open the search to just about any small city with some Italians in the US. ETA: Yeah, prices there are still pretty low. A place like this would make a damn fine home: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1646-Wilber-St-South-Bend-IN-46628/77022833_zpid/ - from the low-res pictures, and assuming no water or foundation damage, it looks like $10-20k (depending on roof condition) and some sweat would turn it into a very comfortable place. Or something like this: http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1509-Wilber-St-South-Bend-IN-46628/77022854_zpid/ siding probably ought to go sooner than later, but the problems appear to be more easy-ish cosmetic stuff. Cabinets, veneer/wallpaper (had that in house in Erie - I can't remember what was behind it, though), kitchen needs some work... shed looks like it could be in poor condition - but it's a shed, so... ETA2: Thread's irrelevant now, then. Lockin'. |
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Looking for a house well outside city limits, but with a cheap and fast method of transport to the inner-city (<1h, <$20 per trip - public transport - short drive to depot is fine). So long as those conditions are met, I don't care how far out it is from the inner-city - but it absolutely can't be in the "city" city. I'm not looking to have my car stolen every other week until I'm shot to death. NYC area strongly preferred over Chicago (more foreign & financial offices in NYC). Other areas may be considered if there are many Bitcoin users (like Keene, NH), so long as it's within the contiguous US. Certain culturally-affiliated areas (even if we need to learn another language and new cultural rituals) are okay so long as they don't mind a Pollock. However, having a wop deli within 15 miles is absolutely essential. I'm tired of living out in farmville, but I'd rather not be in an area having me paranoid all the time by traffic and crime (I'm not used to shutting my garage door, locking entry doors, and not keeping keys in my parked cars). Unless shared by socially-maladapted Bitcoin nuts, I'm uninterested in shared living and/or parking space. An attached house MAY be okay, but it'd have to be a great deal. As far as living space, it needs to have "non-hazardous electrical," solid walls (no trailers or paper-thin modulars), and no foundation issues. Minor electrical and plumbing issues are no problem -- leaky windows, sinks, toilets, water lines or roof, etc. are fine, so long as there is no structural damage - I've never worked with significant water damage, and from what I hear, it's a total bitch. Asbestos and the like are fine, so long as you know I won't be replacing it legally, and I'm not hiring a "master plumber" as required by dumbass city law just to replace a toilet, as if it's humanly possible to fuck that up. I need at least two bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms (2+ strongly preferred), and a room which can be used as an office. It needs a fairly large kitchen (bigger the sink, the better). A garage of any size is preferred. Living in an impoverished area (unzoned, non-planned areas preferred) is no issue so long as the neighbors are relatively quiet (or Italian... can't really get around that). I don't like neighbors checking in on me when my house isn't on fire -- we're polite, but generally don't care for neighbors. Examples of areas I'd like to live in if they were in the right location: Youngstown, OH - Erie, PA - South Bend, IN Rent should be <$850/mo, or if bought out-right, <$100k (& <$4k annually in property taxes <- non-negotiable) - coin or cash ("cash offer" - no mortgage). Lease-to-own would be cool, too (I have BTC debts I'd like to make a bigger dent in rather than paying for a house entirely up-front). If renting, move-in date would be in 3-6 months. If buying, move-in date would be 6-12 months, dependent on us selling current property. Insofar as that, someone to personally and flexibly work with is preferable. Along these lines, I'd also prefer a landlord who doesn't mandate the gutters be "BrandX Rustic Copper A250G6 12.5' BLz3" and have a layout of the house's walls just to ensure each wall remains a particular color. Have three to move in - self, wife, daughter (2.5y), no pets. We're clean and of sober habit, fwiw. Gave a lot of preferences, but unless noted otherwise, not a requirement. I won't be aggressively looking for a place until we list the house we're in (~3-6 months), so I'll have interest in offers at least until then. |
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Receiving $300M in federal funding. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/us/300-million-in-detroit-aid-but-no-bailout.html?_r=0Bankruptcy court case ongoing. Half of streetlights still nonfunctional. They're expanding efforts to cut spending and bring in additional revenue, like leasing parks and other gov't property out, and turning certain functions and land over to the state for maintenance. Still going bankrupt, but will probably have a solid foundation for a reboot due to heavy subsidization and aid provided by governments up in the hierarchy. |
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Windows 8 was very disappointing. More limited than 7 and very confusing interface.
Yeesh. I was out at tech-illiterate family members' house yesterday. They got a new laptop, so everything had to be set up for them. I actually had to Google how to shut the fucking thing down.  Hahaha! This made my day. Maybe that's why Microsoft™ released Windows 8.1 right away! That's not the worst part. For about five minutes, I couldn't figure out how to get to the desktop. I thought they actually forced users to only use what was presented to them in that goofy mobile phone tile display. I tried using Internet Explorer from that tile display, and it pops up some stripped-down always-fullscreen version, and I couldn't figure out how to configure it just to set the damned home page because there's no settings icon or box to click. Then I tried going back to the tile display and right-clicking the IE icon - still no way to configure it. I was about ready to give up within the first five minutes. When Win8 installs (and again as the lumbering behemoth slowly boots), they have about three different phrases for "getting ready" in the progress report. No percentages, no ETA, just different phases of "readiness." I was laughing a lot yesterday - probably would've been hysterical if I weren't sober. I don't know what the Hell they were thinking when so many users still can't even figure out why the displayed time's wrong when "I thought it's set automatically by the time-keeper." Who would ever think it's a good idea to HIDE information and options in a GUI? Fucking Dwarf Fortress is easier to get a grasp on... Idunno, though. It was like explaining Bitcoin to someone who's never even used a credit card or online bank, and never took an economics class. "Scott - it's saying our Internet's bad. We only got two bars!" "That's just the router. It doesn't actually indicate the strength of your Internet connection, just your wifi connection to the router." "Scott - you hear me? I said the computer says our Internet ain't no good! You need'ta call them!" They were testing me, man... ETA: Still in the mood to bitch, so here's one last snippet of conversation yesterday. "So what kinda computer I got?" "Uh, a laptop." "Pssh I know that. I mean is it name-brand or not?" "Well, it's HP, so yeah. Hewlett Packard..." |
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Windows 8 was very disappointing. More limited than 7 and very confusing interface.
Yeesh. I was out at tech-illiterate family members' house yesterday. They got a new laptop, so everything had to be set up for them. I actually had to Google how to shut the fucking thing down. |
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Beyond their inability to push USD, there are also worries they may be insolvent, compounded by government seizures of US financial accounts and a $75M lawsuit with CoinLab. (Oh - Ian gave a too-quick edit!)
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The UK banking system is far more advanced and flexible than the US one. In the UK, you can send a payment from any bank account to any other bank account in the middle of the night on a weekend, and it will get there in less than an hour. And it is free. And all the accounts have two factor. So I guess you could say that bitcoin is EVEN FARTHER BEHIND the UK than it is behind US-based Simple.
 Why on Earth are there so many UK Bitcoin users with a seemingly-great banking system like that? What could they possibly do to make people leave - keep government database of everyone's transactions without need of a warrant? Disallow cash withdrawals? Huge monthly fees and no interest? |
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All my PCs are rockin' LindowsOS. It combines the great design decisions from Windows, and the huge exclusive software collection of Linux.
Weren't those guys sued by MS because the name was/is very similar to Windows. Pssh. Windows' first foray into PCs was to have these big sub-$200 PoS PCs stacked up in humble cubes, displayed in sexy brown cardboard boxes with nothing on those boxes but hard-to-see writing (both in English and Chinese) and otherwise unadvertised. They had the wonderful LindowsOS on them. |
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All my PCs are rockin' LindowsOS. It combines the great design decisions from Windows, and the huge exclusive software collection of Linux.
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Groceries are hard. They have a super-short shelf life. Amazon doesn't even touch stuff with a <1mo shelf-life. They'll sell you two-year-old beef jerky, though.
A delivery service is more feasible in a very small area if you can advertise it well-enough, but very limited unless you franchise it out, which gives you that MLM reputation you probably don't want. Best bet would probably be a subscription model with weekly deliveries, collecting the bulk of profits from people under-utilizing their subscription while providing excellent service to those who do (their word-of-mouth will bring in tons more profit in the form of more underutilizing subscribers).
Of course - then you get the elderly and otherwise-disabled dependent on the system, a giant snowstorm blows over and OSHA tells you delivery-folk can't go out, so you wind up with a class-action shutting down the business.
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