Well, depending on where you live, a good option might be trading through Localbitcoins (https://localbitcoins.com) - however, I expect the btc prices there to be quite higher than you'd find elsewhere (at least if you're buying using Paypal).

Considering Paypal transactions can be reversed (up to 180 days after?), and Bitcoin transactions can't, you're not likely to find anyone willing to do this trade. At any rate, if you do find someone around here actually willing to do it, make sure to use escrow.

Of course it's not insignificant where the "aid" money is going, but I can't help seeing this as more of a subsidy for US weapons manufacturers, than anything else - as the article puts it, the majority of that money, 70%, is to be spent buying US military hardware. And it should go without saying that, this is a great incentive for other countries in the region to also spend more of their money on (likely American) military hardware, generating even more profit.

Hmm, my favorite, top 5 games, are possibly the following (also, the games I've spent the most time playing):

1. Space Empires V
2. Civilization III / IV
3. Master of Orion II
4. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
5. Final Fantasy VI

Hunt down the owner of a Newbie account for 0.01 btc? That's obviously not happening.

Also, be careful when lending without securing collateral first; some users have in the past given (and perhaps, still do give) negative trust for that as well - the reasoning for it being something along the lines of: you're not only likely to get scammed yourself, but you're also inviting other scammers to show up, and start asking for the same, no collateral, conditions.

No offense funkymonk, but even if you wouldn't scam for 0.01, others have in the past; so it's best if you can provide collateral, as josephno1 suggested. Also, 0.01 btc might not be a lot, but nothing prevents someone dedicated enough to create several threads, with different accounts, in order to collect a lot more, a few bits at a time.

Are you sure they didn't say that about the Ice Giants instead, Uranus and Neptune? As it happens, I just finished seeing the latest Crash Course Astronomy video that came out today, where they mention that phenomenon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hIwD17Crko ("Uranus & Neptune: Crash Course Astronomy #19", 12m18s). Studies apparently show that the pressure inside these planets can break up methane molecules, and force the carbon atoms into diamond crystals - maybe enough to form an ocean of liquid diamond at the bottom of the mantle.

EDIT: then again, it seems something similar might also be happening in the Gas Giants, Jupiter and Saturn: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-24477667.

Well, probably because of the lower price for a (I assume) high ranking account, with the expectation of being able to remove the negative trust.

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All of those things can be faked, or otherwise bypassed - I don't really think there is any way to prove the account changed hands.

How would anyone know it really changed hands?

Well, the OP was last updated May 6, and your post is from May 18; so, no surprise there.

You can see the last time Mitchełł updated the thread directly in the title: "Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns [Last update: 06-May-2015]"

Signing a message shows that it is in fact your account, and not just hacked or otherwise stolen. But you really should reconsider selling this account; the positive trust is likely to be used in scams - there aren't many reasons for someone to bother paying more otherwise. Alternatively, consider placing a neutral trust warning in the account, advising users the account was transferred to someone else; this will, of course, lower your profits somewhat but, as blumangroup mentioned, you aren't going to get anywhere near the amount you're asking anyway.

Se estás à procura de discussão técnica, tens sempre a parte de "Development & Technical Discussion": https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=6.0 - não é a área mais activa do forum, mas tem sempre posts e threads novas todos os dias, e de certeza que é facil encontrar ajuda lá, se precisares.

Pessoalmente quase não uso o Facebook; uso mais o Reddit, e ainda mais este forum.

Quanto a ser dificil encontrar coisas por aqui, pode ser que isso mude quando lançarem a nova versão do forum (de facto, já a deviam ter lançado no fim de Fevereiro, mas pronto).

Sadly, some people won't ever care about any of this until it directly affects their life, or the lives of those close to them (and even then...). Incidentally, how are your "hacking" skills, and how willing are you to lose friends, in order to show them the sort of things that can be done?

I wouldn't really hold Australia, or New Zealand (or any Western nation at this point), as much of an example in terms of protection of privacy - they seem to be moving in the same direction: http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/mar/26/mandatory-data-retention-becomes-law-as-coalition-and-labor-combine, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-21/new-zealand-passes-spy-bill/4903500. In fact, much of this is just their attempts at legalizing what has been happening behind the scenes for quite some time now.

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Try telling them about the Optic Nerve program: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo.

Well, if you don't know what those were, then, from your perspective, those were in fact UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) - that, by itself, carries no further information, other than stating you don't know what it was that you saw. The problem comes only when people jump from "I saw a UFO" to "so it was aliens", with no further evidence.

I take it you didn't follow any of the suggestions given to you on your thread "Flat Earth"? Like, for example, sending out a balloon with a camera attached?

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The 1976 Tehran UFO incident seems interesting, though some of its details are often misreported, or omitted (Mehrabad's radar being under repair and not actually operational at the time; the frequent malfunctions of the Iranian aircraft). The Skeptoid looked into this case a few years ago, http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4315, and pointed out a number of alternative explanations to the most interesting parts of this event - though I find those alternatives a bit unsatisfactory: the object they were all seeing was Jupiter; the two projectiles the pilots saw were meteorites (though the timing here might actually fit); the aircraft malfunctioning at that time; the radar lock was acquired either through copilot error, or malfunction; and the transponder they found a day later having been left by a malfunctioning American C-141 (they were supposedly having problems with turbulence causing them to be ejected).

That's quite a lot of certainty about an hypothetical alien race we know almost nothing about.

By the way, how is socialism an impediment to interstellar travel?

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I think the Flat Earth "theory" actually requires the Earth to be moving "up", instead of gravity being real (as gravity would cause other parts of the whole idea to fail).

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This is a copy/paste of a post by cubanos, but as it wasn't removed (so far, at least):

Ancient Aliens has been mentioned on this thread several times before, and you really should be careful holding it as evidence for anything other than how far some people are willing to go to push their ideas on others - even if it includes deceiving them.

Isn't it amazing how much time and effort some people spend, every day, creating the exact same threads, with new accounts? And all of it merely for the selfless goal of trying to warn us of the impending doom... that hasn't come for - what, over 5 years?

I'll also be keeping my coins, thank you very much - you get an A for effort, though.

For the time being at least, I'm afraid you're right. But, I believe that is changing: younger and even college aged students, who are far less influenced by the traditional media and have greater access to information, aren't as caught up in that whole narrative, I think. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, there have been quite a few groups, and perhaps even a couple of university campus, joining the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment movement, for example. That's one of the reasons I think Israel's attempts at derailing the peace process are so self-destructive: there is no way that, the longer this mess continues, the support Israel receives won't continue to wane, until it reaches the point that they are completely isolated in the international community - same as it did for South Africa, or Indonesia, before them.



It's on my to-read list. Somewhat unrelated but, there was a three part interview The Real News did with David Swanson some time ago, that I think you might like (well, at least I did ):

"Lies and War - David Swanson on Reality Asserts Itself"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzwaSbWD8C0 - "On RAI with Paul Jay, David Swanson, author of "War is a Lie", talks about becoming a full time activist for peace"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM5qIvVLGg0 - "On RAI, Paul Jay and David Swanson discuss the culture and economics of war"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIcOdilpXUU - "On RAI with Paul Jay, David Swanson says that nonviolent campaigns have been more successful than campaigns of violence"

I particularly liked the idea they explore in the second video: that war is, in a sense, a "cultural invention", or that at the very least, the culture of a society has a great deal of influence in either promoting or rejecting the practice of war - as opposed to, war simply being just a part of human nature, and fundamentally unavoidable; or mainly economic/resource driven; or perhaps due to the way societies are structured and who has power in them.

The whole thing is a bit long though: about an hour.

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Actually, as I've pointed out to tins (though he completely ignored it), Israel's own Supreme Court considers the occupied territories to be just that: occupied - as in, not a part of Israel, but under temporary occupation, pending some sort of negotiated agreement (an agreement that, as I've mentioned on several posts so far, Israel blocks). This is a position that the Supreme Court of Israel has consistently held since 1967. And in fact, when caught in related cases in the Supreme Court, even the Israeli government argues on the basis that it is an occupying power - as an example, when the government acted out the unilateral disengagement from Gaza, and was challenged by settlers in the Supreme Court, it used, and won the case with the argument that the settlements are only meant to be temporary (on the basis that it is supposed to be a temporary occupation, and that it is an occupying power).



Oh, good; I was worried you might have missed them, when I saw "[you] thought we resolved everything" - but that being the case, then I look forward to reading your reply to those posts.

Hmm, why is that? Some anime can actually be quite deep and interesting - far more than many popular Western series and films, I think. Take Ghost in the Shell as an example, or a lot of the works from Studio Ghibli.