We have a small active alpaca farm in Malibu, California. https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/2337951Looking to let: freestanding room+bath+1+kitchen 600"sq interior. Anything from BnB with service, to long term lease. You have your awesome self, and you are looking for some time on a hilly ranch, rustic with special charms, succulent garden, and alpacas. Close to beach (Malibu, Zuma), surf, hiking, motorbikes, horses, nature (Backbone trail), and alpacas. Filtered and tested deep-water well 7gal/min pump 20gal/min flow. DSL (To be upgraded to fiberoptic link when AT&T finish their work). Delightful treehouse, acreage with views. Private. ...oh, and alpacas. |
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FinCEN is a regulator, so they are going to try to regulate whatever they can. They sent Mike a letter to say, "we think we'd like to regulate you." He has the option to say, "No thanks" and let them pursue legal action against him. Next comes FBI action. The main problem with all US based bitcoin businesses is that they don't want to share their profits and finance legal center to improve the situation.Spent how? |
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The gold pieces are in final design approval phase ahead of the die cutting and are expected to be available in early 2014.
Likely these will be in a variety of sizes, as well as silver in a variety of sizes.
We may do a special collectible edition available only to pre-orders of those. If so it wouldn't be formalized until we are ready to mint as I can't stand any "pre-order" period that takes longer than a month.
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For example, could we place a signing circuit embedded in the coin that can be accessed electromagnetically?
Some other process rather than minting would be indicated for that. A few hundred tons of instantaneous pressure plasticizes and anneals the metal pressing it into hardened shape but does bad things to electronics. Some post minting process might work. We struggled with this for quite a while before settling on the QR code for valuation rather than embedding crypto and serializing the pieces. Any ideas? Place it in clear resin in a chamber post-minting? Means we need to validate the coin more frequently. Or could we fuse two halves by serrating the edge as a separate process? Or could we press the edges of two fused halves as a second process, so total heat is minimized and isolated to the edge with the electronics toward the center of the coin perhaps with tungsten diselenide thermal insulation? Tungsten has high electromagnetic permittivity ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten#Electronics). Conceptually I love the notion of a high tech electronics, materials, and cryptographic coin. Even would have firmware. We change what coinage is, move to the next level of technological advancement. Perhaps the firmware would allow setting the private key remotely (by the user) once and only once. Perhaps we could have some cryptographic method of insuring the loaded private key has been set to unspendable on the block chain. I haven't thought this through. P.S. Love the coin designs. Great work. That could be interesting, sort of a coin-in-amber type thing. The tungsten idea also seems fun. It would however be a serious engineering operation to automate either of these processes for production. One of the ways we keep costs low and production high is by using standard equipment and processes that are already existing. To get to even relatively small quantities of 50000 per year with these techniques would be a fair bit of engineering, whereas with standard minting, 50000 per week is fairly routine. The road from idea to market is fraught with issues. |
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How about a coin with an integrated NFC chip? So you can check the balance with a phone, or NFC device, and send money from it as well.
We'd considered and dismissed that as well. If one of the goals of using a coin is to have it be transferable with simplicity, is this goal is sacrificed with such a scenario? (Presumably it would have to be protected from folks sitting next to you on a bus so some second device would be needed to control it, which would require changing that control device to execute a transfer) |
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For example, could we place a signing circuit embedded in the coin that can be accessed electromagnetically?
Some other process rather than minting would be indicated for that. A few hundred tons of instantaneous pressure plasticizes and anneals the metal pressing it into hardened shape but does bad things to electronics. Some post minting process might work. We struggled with this for quite a while before settling on the QR code for valuation rather than embedding crypto and serializing the pieces. Any ideas? |
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Let me try another one: we can say that it was Bush and Cheney that campaigned for the invasion of Iraq. However the media set up polls in their websites to check if Americans were pro or against invasion. The results in 2003 were clear: the people was pro-invasion. How are these not co-responsible for the chaos in Iraq afterwards?
The media is paid by government to support government agendas. Who knows what those polls might have said if they were instead done scientifically. Another example that supports my point. Do you imagine that your neighbors are somehow more immune to being manipulated by your media and government authorities? Did any of them go to state schools, or work for government? If these authorities were telling them to be afraid on every news outlet and showing smoking skyscrapers continuously that they are somehow different and less susceptible to such influence over years of repetition? Later polls, after the media barrage subsided show folks thought it was a mistake. |
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Another idiot who conflates orthogonal issues.
... "Conflates orthogonal" = an highly smartiferous verbification. It is also one of those unusual de-anonymizing idioms, there aren't many of us that would string those together. |
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I really believe that Risto is seriously trolling in here. It's virtually IMPOSSIBLE to predict ANYTHING for sure into such a system like BTC. A serious prediction of ANY chaotic system (not one like we're observing here, which may as well be the mother of all chaotic systems) would have been in the timeframe of minutes or hours at max, not days; nor weeks.
ANY data provided and calculated may as well be proved as right, also as wrong. If he managed to make it based onto his calculations it's good for him and may as well define a brand new IQ entity by himself. I seriously salute him! But I don't think he did it only because of them. Luck is a special and important factor in this.
Just saying (if you want theoretical proof I can also support what I've just typed).
R is actually right from the historical data, there were 4 dumps with the volume, they followed similar patterns, there was a 5th this past weekend. We both called the bottom based on volume in evidence, but he did a lot better on it due to the stakes. His gamble is that it isn't over yet. That may be true or not and is yet to be seen. I'm going to take a few unusual hours off working and watch Hobbits do stuff, so behave yourselves! You are in charge while I'm gone, ok? |
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Added some additional error handling to coldhardca.sh so it should not get hung up when the coindesk API gets clogged up. |
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It was organized by MediaBistro. They aren't really Bitcoin folks yet, just getting their feet wet and this was their first Rodeo...  If you were there, that would be funnier.... |
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It might make sense for the physical wallet makers to get together on this issue. We will all face it sooner or later.
Lots of ways to do it, shared legal costs, a joint-venture marketing LLC that holds the MSB registrations for each brand, etc.
No need to duplicate costs and fees paid unless absolutely necessary.
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Do I have to pay taxes? There's no realized gains. Therefore no capital gains. Or am I wrong about that?  You are wrong about it. It is called a WASH SALE and doesn't avoid the tax liability in most jurisdictions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_saleSo.... Intentionally doing this and claiming it does avoid the tax is tax evasion and criminal. |
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it's plausible to assume that someone who commits to training their mind with a duration and intensity similar to a bodybuilder may be capable of performing feats of the mind that the average person would think is impossible (e.g. directly extending the effects of mental processes upon physical phenomena beyond your own body).
So you are saying if I train my cat for hours a day, I can teach him to play chess? You might settle for training cat to walk across the board without knocking over any pieces? |
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Their feelings have no bearing upon whether they are right or at best ignorantly mistaken.
Agreed. This holds true for you as well. Since when did the opposing side's feelings and reaction a grounds to validate or invalidate any claims?
It doesn't. I've not addressed your validity yet, only your intention. Here's my question: Are you telling me that just because another reacts with 'hate' and 'discontent' that they are somehow in the right because they 'feel' so?
Nope, not telling you that. But if you are looking for Straw men, they are over there. >----> Just what kind of carelessly weak minded position are you coming from that state something like this as if it is legitimate?
Are you even listening to yourself right now?
Me? Coming from the weak minded position of curiosity...I'm not arguing with you about anything you are asserting. Just curious that your writing seems to have the purpose of propagating profane nationalistic rants seemingly with the purpose to engender hatred toward the USA whilst apparently carrying its water, so I thought I'd offer you the opportunity of establishing some greater purpose, but you failed at that. It makes sense. "Honeypot" is the term used for an attractive trap. In this case, you embody the indignant belligerent American racist to provoke others into senseless arguments over historical regional injustices of international politics of nations. No region is innocent of injustice, and many folks will have enough regional or national pride to get excited over such provocations. Carry on. I'll have some popcorn and leave you to your fun. . You are the first American to try and call me that seriously. I would at least give you that - somehow many people seem to think if you are not white, you shouldn't be called racist either. My response to anti-American sentiment is completely justified by the fact that every single point I raised has evidence coming out of all the actions taken by these so-called 'victim' nations and ethnicities. No one, least of all me, have stated that America is perfectly moral in all its actions. However, rest of the world attempting to criticize US from some delusional position of moral superioirity is akin to an employee who doesn't even show up for work half the week trying to bitch and moan about how another worker should be fired because he filled out an order wrong on one of his contracts. The true discrepancy between faults of other nations/ethnicities and US is incredibly large, no matter which idiotic fools coked up with sense of nationalist racially charged ethnic 'pride' tries to bitch otherwise. No nation has been as forthcoming in admitting its major and minor faults as United States, or attempted reparations and reconciliations along with appropriate sentiment and gestures. Rest of the world is in no place to criticize US for its supposed 'mistakes' while they have neither the experience nor the ability to act as a strong, power-wielding nation. What is going on around now is nothing more than selective posturing done by those whose ignorant ulterior motive is too pathetically obvious: They want to try to be the big cheese. All that, while not even able to deal properly with their neighbors and having bitchfest over a piece of rock or dealing with severe level of ignorance and racial biases in their own countries. As for blaming our 'leaders', I would ask you to please put down that psuedo-revolutionary crackpipe and actually travel and live as a citizen (if you even can, that is. Most of the time you will still be a fuckin forienger and never really be included in the inner workings of their society the same way as their own people). The social, cultural, and political environment in many countries will do their best to shake you out of your little fantasies about how US is the ultimate evil empire or some other delusional and immature fantasies about sticking it to the man. Just like how snowden or assange was too cowardly to go after real targets practicing imperialism and racial discrimination on a cultural, social, and historical level, or just as that idiotic bitch jane fonda only recently sheepishly retracted her ignorant endorsement of NVA (my lai was more or less SOP for them), you need to get some proper perspective before playing at being an 'enlightened' and 'progressive' people with awareness about REAL conditions of this world. Otherwise, have fun being led around the nose by those who will happily manipulate your immature and infantile bitching to their advantage. Here's a hint: the big bad boss ain't US no matter how comfortable that may make you feel as opposed to someone who you REALLY can't stand up against and try to ignore. Anti Americanism is for the weak and the ignorant. Those who love to squeal 'racist' should check themselves before they drown in their own shit and I will be glad to hold them in place while someone else does the fun work, my darker skin not withstanding even a little bit. Fair's fair, bitches! Yes, I've not answered any of your "points". Yes they are racist but moreover nationalist ranting. Since they have pretty much nothing to do with Bitcoin, I'm pretty much ignoring them. So in that sense, yes I'm ignorant. No argument there. munch...munch... popcorn needs salt.... |
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... pretending the people of a region are to be held accountable for the actions of those governments who have power over them as if those people were personally involved in creating the worst parts of the history of the region in which they reside?
This is not particular of the U.S., but people of a region ARE to be held accountable for their governments actions, at least when dealing with 3rd countries. Sure, except that is true exactly nowhere on the planet. The only time it is true is immediately after a popular revolution before the power vacuum fills with the next wave of corruption. One thing that you will learn as you travel the planet is that individuals typically have very little to do with what their political overlords are doing "in their name". For what it's worth, I LOL'd at the "elect Ron Paul" stuff. Even if he had support of 60% of US he would lose every national election without support of the banks or the military. Politics doesn't work the way you think it does. If you paid much attention to the last election, even the Republicans shunned RP. When he would win or even come in second on a Republican primary race, he would not be even listed in the Republican news. The Liberals laughed at it too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B0QPcoTZg8It was something the alternative media from both sides could bond over... http://www.infowars.com/jon-stewart-on-the-media-ignoring-ron-aul/Ron Paul is one of the better proofs of the point I was making as to why you can not really hold any individual folks in a region responsible for what their government is doing. You would be more likely to find a Ron Paul supporter than an Obama supporter in very large areas. One is a political nobody, and the other is the leader of the free world. You have the American ochlocratic democracy to thank for that, and mobs are far too easy to manipulate. The best you can hope for is a sane and rational local politician. |
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Their feelings have no bearing upon whether they are right or at best ignorantly mistaken.
Agreed. This holds true for you as well. Since when did the opposing side's feelings and reaction a grounds to validate or invalidate any claims?
It doesn't. I've not addressed your validity yet, only your intention. Here's my question: Are you telling me that just because another reacts with 'hate' and 'discontent' that they are somehow in the right because they 'feel' so?
Nope, not telling you that. But if you are looking for Straw men, they are over there. >----> Just what kind of carelessly weak minded position are you coming from that state something like this as if it is legitimate?
Are you even listening to yourself right now?
Me? Coming from the weak minded position of curiosity...I'm not arguing with you about anything you are asserting. Just curious that your writing seems to have the purpose of propagating profane nationalistic rants seemingly with the purpose to engender hatred toward the USA whilst apparently carrying its water, so I thought I'd offer you the opportunity of establishing some greater purpose, but you failed at that. It makes sense. "Honeypot" is the term used for an attractive trap. In this case, you embody the indignant belligerent American racist to provoke others into senseless arguments over historical regional injustices of international politics of nations. No region is innocent of injustice, and many folks will have enough regional or national pride to get excited over such provocations. Carry on. I'll have some popcorn and leave you to your fun. |
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Honeypot. Is your goal to be "defending" the USA by actively generating hate toward it with vitriolic ranting, racism, generalizations and pretending the people of a region are to be held accountable for the actions of those governments who have power over them as if those people were personally involved in creating the worst parts of the history of the region in which they reside?
Since when did people's 'hate' become a legitimate concern and valid argument against another? I believe you need to rethink what goes through your head before piping up carelessly. 'Racism' LOL now that just too cute. No one's pretending. Please fix that attitude of yours. No one, myself above all, could give any less of a fuck what you feel and laugh at your 'hate' while displaying blatant and outright disrespect against another based solely on whatever you feel comfortable with at the time. Hypocrisy? You don't even know what you are mouthing off about. How about some 'hate' for your own governments and oppressors who flaunt the basic common decency of your fellow people? Or are they too scary for you to stand up against because they couldn't care less about some limp dick fucks bitching about human rights while you think your little 'feelings' are supposed to be legitimate arguments against US? With an attitude like that, I have no problem with our soldiers raping and killing foreigners. Please, just give us more excuse. I don't think you have a slightest idea what you are bitching about. I'm American. My question is simple. Is your goal with this profane ranting to encourage hate toward America, or do you have some more noble purpose? |
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Honeypot. Is your goal to be "defending" the USA by actively generating hate toward it with vitriolic ranting, racism, generalizations and pretending the people of a region are to be held accountable for the actions of those governments who have power over them as if those people were personally involved in creating the worst parts of the history of the region in which they reside?
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