I think cows, chickens and pigs should be allowed to go to the moon, because otherwise, how are these colonies going to get great food? Wouldn't you want a 16 oz (500 gram) prime ribeye after a hard week in the lunar mines? And don't forget the rights of vegetables and fruits. They have rights too, and the products of fruits and vegetables are things like beer, wine, and whiskey.

Well, maybe not beer. I suppose carbonation wouldn't work too well with the lowered pressure levels in the vessels these people would live in.

I do not think that after going to the moon every subsequent trip will be free because once the US creates this opportunity to go to the moon, then everyone can go. Also on the moon the Blue Armstrongs went before and they built many colonies.

My honest opinion on this would probably be NO. If humans had landed long back with those technologies then we would have a colony by now on Moon. World wanted to see who won the space race and US grabbed that opportunity by creating this.

It wasn't a Sunday trip to the mountains, there were many unknown unknowns. In the end many of those design constraints were moot, but what would you expect from the first trip to the Moon? It was mostly guesswork and the other part is that it was funded by the government, do you know what that means? When the Space Shuttle was designed there were also many other ridiculous constraints because the military wanted to be able go to space and steal a satellite and go back home in less than a day. It was never used but it impacted the Space Shuttle design.

People doubting going to the Moon in '69 should stop with the fake conspiracies and should put things into context. It wasn't that there were aliens, it wasn't that it was all fake. It was that the funding came from the military and you add government red tape bureaucracy and politicians bs and you get something ridiculously expensive and with some doubtful design decisions. It wasn't perfect, it was human but it worked alright.

And then funding was cut so we've had to wait more than 50 years till someone gets to do it in an economically sensible way.

No, we aren't another bitconnect.

In 2010, Apple released iPad, a device that simplified the consumption of digital content. It offered users a convenient way to buy and read eBooks. It was a direct competitor to Amazon’s Kindle reader. However, Apple and Amazon partnered to allow users to access Amazon’s content on iPad. In the end, it was a win-win for both corporations.
When entities operate in the same space, it is often looked at as a zero-sum game. One loses for the other to win.

However, it shouldn’t be like that.

By working together, different microfinance institutions can have others take care of clients that they cannot. One agency can refer a client to another if it feels that it cannot meet their needs.

In return, the other agency can refer back potential clients it feels the first agency is best suited in different ways to serve. In the end, everyone becomes a winner.

No, I didn't say that. But you can't expect to rank up if you're not willing to learn and just keep posting generic useless posts.

You've spammed your way into becoming Jr. Member in Spam Megathreads on the Off-topic and Politics & Society boards. Example:

You're right on one thing: this is something I see a lot, just not how you imagined it. Whenever a user with zero Merit complains about it, I check their post history. I checked yours yesterday, and saw nothing worth meriting.
You're not the first one to pull the "you're at the top so you don't care"-card, and all it does is prove you didn't check my post history.
I care a lot about new users who make decent posts, and I have given 566 merit 532 times, to 291 profiles.
But I've gotten thousands of posts deleted and accounts banned too. I don't merit you because I care about the forum, not the other way around.

There's your problem, you're here only to make money. That's why you spammed your way into being a Jr. Member.

I think it has to do with their large numbers. Many get banned, but many more get created. And real users shouldn't be banned as collateral damage, which means Mods can't just ban 99% of the users.

You make it sound as if it is a bad thing that people who don't have knowledge on the subject they're "discussing" can't rank up.

So the one who gets merits is an irregular/divergent? That means the majority of this forum can't write meaningful posts, isn't it?

Come on Quade, don't be too pessimistic.

If you are a normal poster, meaning that you spend some time outside the Altcoin board and join debates, it shouldn't be difficult to get one merit. In fact, that should be quite easy and in no time.

The problem we have in the forum is a situation like this one, for instance: https://www.seoclerk.com/Traffic/611690/Create-Bitcointalk-Account


Low-life guys spamming the forum as a work.


Precisely. It is not only about bots, but about spamming.
As you can see in the example I posted, the guy is offering to create Jr accounts for $50, and it is allowed to ask if you want an account with more activity.
I bet that the posting activity of any of these accounts is nothing but shit.

By implementing the 1 merit requirement for juniors, we will get rid of those, and his "business" will become somehow difficult to achieve.
But I truly believe it will be needed more than a single merit, maybe 5, for the merit market is actually happening, and it can be easy to buy one or to transfer one merit from an account to another.

You don't have to be a bot or an obvious spammer. There are many users who just write 30 one liners over the required time and then they become a Junior Member with no effort whatsoever. People are farming accounts in their hundreds if not thousands this way. Requiring one merit is not outrageous, but it certainly makes farming Junior accounts much more harder and doesn't really effect those others who are here to contribute something as they will likely get the merit pretty fast. I've just looked over your few pages of posts and whilst I wouldn't call you a spammer you haven't really contributed anything substantial either, but I doubt you'd have much issue in getting one merit if you put some more effort in. Requiring one merit to move up a rank really shouldn't be an issue, and if people can't even achieve one merit I would say the problem lies with them.