Banned for banning someone for something that is not against the rules.

Kind of annoying how some people are writing Colombia with a "u". That refers to a completely different place. Anyway, I'm going with Brazil. All they have to do at this point is not let the other team play any moves.

A similar way would be to simply link a bitcoin address to your account and signing a different message each time you want to login.

From a biochemical perspective, you could argue that we are, indeed, programmed and have no free will. Every decision you make is already pre-determined by chemical reactions in your body waiting to happen. These chemcals were produced from your body's development, which stems from your parents' DNA, and so on. So if you want to go full-scientific, this is probably the way.

Mny places just shade the message slightly with a certain color (usually green or yellow). That could work here.

Banned for stating mere opinions as if they were facts.

Why are you guys not even answering each other's questions?

Ummm, isn't it obvious? PC Master Race!

Banned for participating in a pay-per-post sig campaign.

Kind of sad to see this one go, but it is what it is. Hopefully there will be more competition amongst the others.

The finals are going to be either Netherlands-Germany or Costa Rica-Germany. I called it.

For what he needs, a VPS is way too overkill. In this case I would go for shared hosting, because your home computer is probably not going to be up all the time, plus it brings up some security issues. Also, don't use Windows for this, use Linux.

Most of my day, really. The internet's where it's at.

Thought I'd mention that Newegg just started taking Bitcoin payments with Bitpay. I considered it relevant to this thread.

Let me just vouch for TWD. I played the first season, can't wait to play the second one.

Totally rooting for my country, Costa Rica. Sorry, England, but you've gotta go, although I would like to say that Uruguay's second goal was pretty freaking unfair.

Forget about mining at all. That's not going to work whatsoever. As for Bitcoin itself, don't risk any money if you're not willing to lose it. If you can't afford it to go down, just get out and don't come back until you can. At this point, putting money into Bitcoin really is kind of like stocks trading, it can go either way. If your financial situation is pretty tight, just go the safe way for now and once you're in a better standing, feel free to come back.

But that's just my take on it.

Ok, great answers. Now let's see the other side of it. What would governments do without tax money to keep control over the people? Would it be supported by voluntary contributions or such?

What ways could they have up their sleeve? That is what I'm mostly concerned about.

At this point, so many people have been banned from posting at off-topic that I would rather just stay away from there and advise you to do so as well if you are in a signature campaign. Posts can be easily considered spam. I encourage you to look elsewhere for anything non-Bitcoin related. If you really want to post in these forums, then it would be better to just create a separate account without any sig campaign and use it to post in the off-topic section. (Of course, this probably won't happen since I am quite sure that most off-topic posters do it for the sake of post count, can't really blame the staff)