Good post, and I think she missed the big point:
Without CONSUMER, every enterprise is just unprofitable, no one gets rich without CONSUMER
I don't think consumers are doing anything wrong that deserves admonishment. How can you shame consumers that are just plain poor? |
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So now it's down to under 5 USD. It's the end of the month and the gubbermint check hasn't come yet. I think we've hit bottom. Live or die, bitcoin. Let's see if you have another rally in you.
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some notes on the sun from the video
the surface of the sun is several orders of magnitude cooler than the outer atmosphere around the sun, not prooven by traditional means, but rather electric means. sure, i can buy that, it seems reasonable.
the particles the sun emits get faster as they move away from the sun, they are charged, and therefore are affected by the suns electrical field or something, reasonable. however i could see some other process explaining this.
they claim that the process of nuclear fusion has never been done in a lab before. i think i know the reason for that. i think its because the process needs to be big enough to be self sustaining, and you cant do that because you would destroy the earth or something. that or because we cant compress enough material together to create that reaction.
but dont get me wrong, i like the video, it makes you think about why you are probably wrong, and i agree with that with the evidence they give.
I haven't watched the video yet, but did read http://www.electric-cosmos.org/sun.htmPhysicists tend to use terminology that is familiar to them. The analogies to discrete electronic components is fine for a basic description, but "electrical theory" is still not really understood on the "quantum" state level. There are very cool things going on. It is an intriguing hypothesis. There is very likely much that can be learned about our universe in our own solar system. There are obvious fractal physics going on, especially how the currents seem to twist as they go downhill into the sunspot somewhat similar to how rivers twist as they go downhill, sans the hard surface. Sustained fusion itself may not need high gravity (except for a natural trigger), but instead states of plasma behaving like discrete electrical components. There could be fluid dynamics at work to cause vortices, but I suspect there are yet unknown states of plasma at work. |
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Ridiculous. Earth is orbiting at a distance that allows water to condense into a liquid state. Mars has some water, but it's too cold exist on the surface. There is water on comets. There is water on the moon. There is no evidence for this brown dwarf hypothesis. I'm not discounting it entirely, but it's extremely unlikely that Earth ever orbited Saturn. The hurtling life-bearing Earth conjecture is hilarious.
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You can make lots of money in a down market. The trick is to short things then go on TV and say everythings about to crash.
I bet you that is exactly what he did. As they say on Eve Online, Trust No One. It ends with, "Outside Your Optimal." |
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I hope there will be archived online video.
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Are you joking? The only thing that carries higher risk than Bitcoins is buying Italian government bonds.
Risk is what makes people rich. Well, that and lobbyists. |
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I guess it's just hard to get my head around the idea that my house might be worth something like 4.676190481334286e-4 btc.
Not, like it really matters anyway. The distribution of btc isn't likely to grow that large that fast.
If the value of your home is assessed with *that* many decimals, then why don't you buy AMD, Intel, NVidia, etc. and mine all the bitcoins yourself.  |
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I presume the "cpu 4-pin" is the square P4 cable, right? Otherwise yes, it may be the cpu or mem.
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Add pictures of beautiful women in various stages of undress.
+1 Also, have a story about flying elves. That would make it pretty interesting. Don't forget that bitcoins are made from unicorn horns by leprechauns. The bitcoin network is a system of tubes run by squirrels in cages drinking beer and watching synchronized swimming. |
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1. If governments are going to monitor their economies and use bitcoin, then anonymity should have the option to be disabled. I'm not saying that all transactions will be public record, just documented. I can see vanity addresses become a vital part of bitcoin adoption as they would reflect the transaction origin. It would also discourage tax evasion.
2. Transaction size limitations would help prevent money laundering. Small and frequent transactions would mean that to transfer large sums would make tracing IP addresses easier.
3. Forget 1 and 2, we're throwing out all the rules. This is a rebellion against the oligopolists. All your base are belong to us.
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Bitcoin is not a valid answer to governments stealing via taxes. Here's why:
1. Government money can be printed and issued as a guaranteed minimum income (GMI).
Of course, anyone can print some sort of money. 2. The only advantage Bitcoin offers to general users is anonymity, which most people don't care about.
meh, anonymity is not the primary attribute of bitcoin. I don't care much about it. 3. Since governments already provide a limited GMI, obviously most people would still rather support government currencies than use Bitcoin.
The way forward is to invent a currency that provides a GMI to every user. The main problem to be solved is how to avoid individuals claiming more than once while preserving anonymity.
My attempt:
A network like antsp2p could store a profile of each user. The profile would be a log of behaviour which benefits the system, like time spent running the network software. A chain of encrypted ip addresses would preserve identity across physical interfaces.
Bitcoin addresses can be registered for easy tax assessment and issuance of GMI.
The user could start with a paltry guaranteed income and be awarded more as their profile logs activities which are beneficial to the system such as mining and using bitcoins and running the software. But to prevent duplicates the profile would need to take a long time to develop, a period of years. It would also make losing the profile password or identity theft a total disaster.
Alternatively, could we give the income to machines instead of humans? Running the software for 13 hours a day would prove a single nic does not have more than one profile. Problem is that an individual can have more than one ip or always share their ip. The cost of ip addresses would increase as individuals start buying them up. Not really what we want.
I'm not sure how this reward in income is any better than the distribution of bitcoin blocks and transaction fees. If your talking about a welfare system based on bitcoins, just think about all the money that won't be going to banksters sitting by the pool collecting dividend checks and having lunch with lobbyists. It's the people that actually do the work that get paid. Any ideas? The anonymity is important because it let's users avoid tax.
I wasted all this time responding to an obvious troll. Kudos! |
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My crystal ball sees Gavin doing a lot of work developing bitcoin into something great. What is his reward? This thread. He needs *something* Microsoft or Apple can buy to say that bitcoin was their idea all along. He can sell them the Truecoin client, and take a VP title while the bitcoin network continues to evolve as an open source project. Ain't capitalism swell?
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I have never been a fan of pawn shops, but compared to the modern banksters even the neighborhood fence seems like a philanthropist. Pawn shops are the American Express of poor people, that's where they borrow money. It seems like the marriage of the shiny new technology debutante and the black sheep rebel might work well together. Come to think of it, I know a guy who knows a guy...
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So, what you're saying is that somebody could do things to the original client that would make it a lesser client, but at the same time create or enhance a forked client?
No, the original client would not become worse. It would simply slowly become less popular. Right, the project is still open-source so if Gavin shows us a better client and it becomes popular, then maybe he will get some competition... er, HELP developing the core |
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I actually did send bitcoins (with no fee) to another wallet on a smartphone, but while the trasaction cleared the bitcoins from my pc wallet, it did not appear on my smartphone even after several minutes. I then recovered a backup and sent the same bitcoins to another address (MtGox) this time with a fee and they did move to MtGox. I suppose I double-spent them, but it worked. Your client only sent the transaction to one other client, to better hide the origin point of the transaction. That client refused to relay the transaction because you didn't include a fee. So that transaction never got anywhere. Had you left the client running, it would likely have eventually sent the transaction to a node willing to relay it. Once a transaction gets out broadly, the network will not accept a conflicting transaction. You'd need a conspiring miner to get the conflicting transaction into a block. OK, so had I left the client running, it would have completed the transaction eventually and then would show up on my smartphone? Still, it concerned me that the bitcoin amount was debited from my client, but not immediately credited on my smartphone client. |
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+1 High 900's should be attainable without too much difficulty. Try memory at 350. I use Trixx with 940/1300 and get around 260 with win7 and guiminer. I haven't tried phoenix yet since I enabled OC. |
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I actually did send bitcoins (with no fee) to another wallet on a smartphone, but while the trasaction cleared the bitcoins from my pc wallet, it did not appear on my smartphone even after several minutes. I then recovered a backup and sent the same bitcoins to another address (MtGox) this time with a fee and they did move to MtGox. I suppose I double-spent them, but it worked.
This very likely means the network never heard about the first transaction. If it did, the network would have coughed up the old transaction and cancelled the new. The network definitely would not have accepted the double spend. If the network did not hear of the first transaction, then that is a problem. The transaction did clear my wallet. I suspect there may be issues with non-fee vs fee transactions with the state of the network, but the smartphone client may have been a factor. This was a one time occurrence. |
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In theory it could be done with software emulation(although anything with a gma 950 probably has a mid tier cpu at best) and newer revisions of the GMA chips should support open gl 2+, i woudln't buy anything with an igp myself still just as a word of advice...
Yeah, I used to buy nicer (bleeding edge) electronics, but I got tired of two week turnaround on warranty repairs. Now I just throw them out and buy new. I back up often and thank low manufacturing standards for my cheap toys. I thank Microsoft for the lack of standardization with everything. I would buy Apple, but find it morally reprehensible =p Stop buying consumer and buy buisness grade, i've had 3 thinkpads(1995 model bought used 2007 model and 2010 model) guess which ones are still in service There is no consumer/business grade distinction. Gaming pcs are among the most expensive. There is consumer/military grade, but I'm not the pentagon. Besides, what does that have to do with obsolescence? It's windows that keeps changing everything so nothing works between upgrades, such as peripherals. If a programmer can't write drivers for all the hundreds of non-standardized windows graphics, then wtf? It's not that intel is some fly-by-night outfit, is it? Like I said, I'm done with spending thousands of dollars a year on computer toys because I'm putting two children through college. I mostly use a laptop for writing now and couldn't care less if they fix the globe website so it works again. If they don't want it to work on intel chips, then that is their choice. It was probably just an oversight. It happens. |
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