Left foot, size 12. Taking offers. edit: BEHOLD, as I bare my sole... |
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Washington's attack on the politics of Venezuela is certainly throwing up some interesting history. It almost seems that the US would be better off if it rejected their slavery under Washington, and adopted a variation of the Venezuelan political model.  So what? Pablo Escobar built homes and schools for the poor in Medellin. Does that make the drug lord a superior model, only because it happens to fit with your socialist dreams? You must be very ignorant of not knowing the amount of money Chávez spent worldwide seeking political support, basically all the money that could have fixed the problems of Venezuela, such as its rundown electric grid, or, i don't know, food and medicine... But what would a socialist understand. The main point is you have never lived under socialism, so you will never know. If you had, you would no longer be a socialist. Are any of the "Socialists" stopping to consider for a moment here that this person is potentially risking their life and freedom to speak out about Socialism? How bad do you think it has to be for some one to do that? Nah, it will be different... NEXT TIME! Oh thank god this is the point that you've found, I completely forget about this! It's an amazing point, gosh I wish I thought of it.
I've come to learn that the only people that support socialism (or full socialism) are the ones that are living with all of the amazing amentities of a capitalistic society, they're the ones that have never seen the evils that are present in socialist countries and the peril that comes to those under this government. Too much free shit can only work if you have some amazing businesses holding this up, if the businesses run off or the money stops flowing in -- then you're shit out of luck and you're going to have to cut some of your programs, OR you're going to keep the programs running until it's all over.
People seem to forget getting into Socialism is easy, but escaping it requires bloodshed. Never mind that... FREE SHIT EVERYBODY LETS PARTY! WOOOOOOOOOO!!! YANG GANG! |
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I would agree, but I think an even better suggestion would be to have some warnings shown in red at the top of certain sub boards of the most commonly broken rules. Ie: In the Press section: Do not post non-bitcoin press articles here. Gambling: Do not post ref linksAnd so on. They could be rotated like ads if there's several commonly broken rules. It's good idea to keep sub-forum/section/child-board keep tidy, but just like any sticky thread (including official rules), it will be ignored.
Whilst many people do ignore them, many also don't. Silly or naive people may not bother reading them, but that's their issue if they don't and they then fall foul of the rules. I know I always familiarise myself with the rules or customs of a forum before I start posting as some are more harsh than others about enforcing rules and bans and warnings/bans can get dished out like candy on some of them. Why not both? The "unofficial rules" thread for the subforum could help to generate those warnings. Maybe after one ranks up they can have a feature to turn it off or something. I prefer the sticky suggestion simply for the fact it requires no modification of the forum software/structure itself and would be most easily implemented. |
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Any moderators on the local boards have any opinions on this?
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i am not rambling,
you have created that vulnerability for hedonoistic reasons because you believed it wouldnt pop one day and that the federal reserve would dominate rest of the world indefinately as money printing bank.
its actually much easier to print money and scam others, than work yourself and hope the financial system over you doesn't scam you systematically.
I have? That's news to me. Also if you don't know the federal reserve fiat system was designed to fail eventually you are even more stupid than you look with your rambling. http://www.alt-market.com/articles/3686-the-global-economic-reset-begins-with-an-engineered-crash |
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I don't think anybody considers Maduro to be the perfect president, but he is the democratically elected leader, and the elections were supervised by an international committee. The aggressive military actions by Washington are not helping Venezuela or the Venezuelan people. China has been investing heavily, and we know they like to create debt, and then convert this into potential military bases. Obviously Washington doesn't want this, but they aren't using the correct tactics to prevent it. Then there is the issue of publicly stating that they want Venezuelan oil to preserve the oi interests of the Koch brothers, this will help to turn world opinion against America. Very few people seem to realise that Washington and America are effectively different countries now.
Washington should remove sanctions, and try to heal the rift between the US and Venezuela by offering commercial investment and aid. Neither country can afford a war, especially as it will create more suffering in both the US and South America. Once this has been started, then the possibility of installing a new democratically elected government will be created. Washington should have learnt its lesson in Syria - Assad is a much stronger and capable leader, and he has managed to resist the same failed tactics of Washington.
Holy shit, you finally admitted China has self interest in this situation, and the real reason why the USA has interest. This is about protecting the US from China, not taking over Venezuela. The US did offer investment, then Chavez nationalized all of it an without the corporations there to manage it, it degraded into what it is today, especially after Maduro. The USA will not tolerate Chinese military presence in South America, and I am not sure it should. It is just too bad you seem to think the USA is more of a threat than Communist China which has literal concentration camps and is run by a dictator for life. One question for you. How free of influence from China do you think the EU and UK will remain if they take down the USA? |
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I am very active in the marketplace area and I don't think this is necessary and would just keep people form participating period. The mods do a good job in the marketplace section. We are aware con artists use multiple accounts, they can hack and buy them too, so this fee would stop nothing.
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Literally the thread I just linked (though page 4 by mistake) but ok. |
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Guides in a guide subforum are just as useful as a guide in meta.
(You didn't read the entire thread....) I believe the guides in meta are less useful than what we decided on because a person has to know one additional thing (location to find guides) Stick with what we are currently doing - writing [GUIDE] to keep in the affected forum. Do not move all guides to one place. I did read the entire thread. By your own logic then a subforum in meta is still one additional thing they have to find. I am not talking about moving all the guides to one place, that looks like what you are doing here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4928968.60I don't see anything referring to placing guides within the subforum as a sticky or otherwise, it is pretty clear you intend to create a subforum within meta for guides. I know I you are letting your ego do the talking again rather than reading this thread, but this is sad even for you. There is no reason both of these ideas can't coexist. No need to get territorial. |
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I agree that each subforum should have a sticky with local rules, policy, guidelines, etc. What I'm not sure about is how to address the issue that such stickies usually get ignored. In Meta we have the stickied rules thread, but we ban dozens of plagiarizers every day. In Lending we have a sticky about collateral, and yet we see newbies asking for no collateral loans daily. In Digital Goods we have a sticky about not buying from auto-buy links or locked threads, and yet we regularly see scam accusations threads about people being scammed from these exact things. And so on and so forth. There was the idea of a "Welcome Message" for all newbies a while ago, which would be helpful to draw their attention to the general rules sticky in Meta, but you can't do that for every thread in every subforum.
There is also the issue that some stickies are ignored by all users and moderators alike, such as the sticky in Services about signature campaigns, which suggests that both users and campaigns will be banned for spamming and low quality posts, which just doesn't happen. We can't expect newbies to know which stickies are essentially rules and which are completely ignorable.
In this instance I would suggest some kind of incentive system. Perhaps we can start meriting new users who do it right for example... Either way I didn't claim to be able to solve this problem, the point is for some of these subforums there are lots of seemingly small unofficial rules that stack up to cause issues if ignored. At least a sticky would be useful for the users who cared to look. I never claimed this was going to shake the whole dynamic of the forum or anything. it might also serve as a useful place for those that do frequent the subforum to hash out their own personal protocols as they use it the most. |
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I predict expansion of yellow vest protests into the UK shortly.
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There is now a coordinated push to remove any content that questions vaccine safety. This includes Amazon systematically removing related books and documentaries, and places like Facebook and Youtube banning and restricting related content. Everyone knows the best scientific debate happens in the dark right? I don't care if you think vaccines are totally safe, this is a clear demonstration of intent to end all discussion about the subject which is completely ANTI-SCIENCE.
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Are you sure the queen isn't being passed around for international payments? |
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This forum IS infested with scammers. The problem isn't new, and shotgunning negatives at them isn't going to stop it, nor has it been. At best it will momentarily delay them. The question then is at what cost?
It's better than doing nothing to stop them, and aside from helping the forum, tagging them allows me to know who I should or shouldn't trust--and that's true for everyone who leaves feedback. And who said do nothing? I am advocating a standard of evidence of theft, violation of contractual agreement, or violation of applicable laws before rating. My entire point is shotgunning negatives IS NOT helping the forum, no matter how much you and others insist it does. I am sure it is just a total coincidence that everyone advocating the shotgun method depends on their reputation as a forum cop to have any reputation at all. |
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Not the same thing, but leave it to you to try to make a conflict out of anything and make it about you. Guides in a guide subforum are just as useful as a guide in meta. The point is it is in a prominent place that people will see even if they only ever go to that subforum, additionally to help orient people to the informal standards those that most frequent it are accustomed to. |
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Well the US is a big country and since all resources are distributed based on extreme inequality, we end up with the best and worst of everything. Jetcash statement would not apply to well-off areas but its definitely a reasonable point if you consider underserved areas within the US for your comparison. https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/8/15/17692414/puerto-rico-power-electricity-restored-hurricane-mariaJust for perspective, Puerto Rico was without power for 11 months and it was largely due to the poor shape of the grid infrastructure before Maria. I think its safe to say it was in worse shape. How’d they get that way? As an invaluable article in IEEE Spectrum points out, tax incentives in the 1970s induced mainland US companies to build factories in the southern part of the island, so Prepa built generating facilities there. In 1996 the tax break expired and the factories left. So today, 70 percent of Puerto Rico’s population lives in the north, around San Juan, and 70 percent of the power generation is in the south. A fragile grid connects the two via tough, mountainous terrain. Scattered rural populations have always had a tenuous connection to that grid. Meanwhile Prepa, hamstrung by billions of dollars of debt, austerity measures, and possible corruption slacked off on maintenance. Hurricane Maria sliced Puerto Rico’s broken-down grid in half.
This has been what Knowles calls a “slow disaster.” Like the lead-tainted water in Flint, Michigan or a flood in Houston, the crisis in Puerto Rico came not as a consequence of one big storm but after years of well-understood neglect. “The standard logic has been, ‘we know, and that’s just the way our government works.’ So we wait for a disaster,” Knowles says. “But disaster relief funds are not up to the challenge of meeting deferred maintenance issues.” https://www.wired.com/story/why-cant-we-fix-puerto-ricos-power-grid/Also, keep in mind that Flint, New Orleans, and Houston have all suffered severe disasters because of poor, foreseeable infrastructure failures that we are sure were not due to any intentional sabotage. Nope. Even that comparison is absolutely retarded. I would also like to point out those areas you pointed out are all Democrat strongholds for a long time. While I wouldn't quite call it intentional sabotage, it definitely falls under the rubric of corrupt leftist mismanagement, especially Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico only has itself to blame for its issues. Still none of these places come even close to the degradation of the infrastructure in Venezuela currently. |
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I think the dream would be to have a already generated template when posting in certain sections. For example, this could be executed in the auctions section by generating fields for title, starting bid, bid increments, BIN, notes, and end date/time. Additional fields like whether escrow is to be used, and any other additional information in a notes section. This would then greatly increase the structure of each section, although honestly I could only see this being beneficial in a few sections. The thing is with stickies, like some others have mentioned they get ignored. Although, stickies are a little more tolerable on this forum due to not having any excessive colours or indicators that its a sticky the general view of stickies is that they're annoying or they are a one time read thing when in reality they should be read frequently, and used as a reference. People block them out mentally after a while much like they would block out advertisements.
Yeah the marketplace section was the primary area I think that this would be useful. The template is not a bad idea, perhaps even a standard contract phrasing people can use with all the standard protections for the seller such as bid extensions, etc. These are the kinds of things users would usually be more than happy to generate, post, and whoever is managing the OP could curate. Again, of course many will ignore these, there is also an inherent incentive to use these in the marketplace section as those selling things usually understand they want to cater to their potential customer base. I am interested to hear however if any of the local forum moderators would find this useful. |
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Let me guess not even clicking it.
This is something Russia Today related. Am I right ha?
He is talking about a clip from RT. |
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