1. You're talking about completely different time scales here. The climate might vary on very large time scales and indeed have been warmer at some points in the distant past; but the recent warming we are seeing is taking place far faster, in the order of decades.
2. And because of that, the overwhelming majority of scientists from all over the world completely ignore a potentially revolutionary discovery? That's not how it works. Besides, far more powerful and influential industries have a vested interest in making people believe climate change is not real, and they've only been able to buy a handful of scientists.
3. It is about additional emissions: if you have a balancing scale with 50kg on each side and proceed to add 1kg to one side, the plates will shift. Same thing here.

I don't think that will solve anything; people will just register manually, then proceed to use the bots (probably like they do now). And forcing captchas every time a user posts is out of the question.

No, you're not finishing it; I'm the one who's going to finish it.

1. Yes, and it was quite a different world; as in, a large part of the population would be displaced if we reached anywhere near the same levels today.
2. And how often is their work cited by other scientists? (that is, how accepted are their ideas?) Last I checked, they weren't.
3. The additional emissions we are producing are tipping the scales against us. Other sources of greenhouse gases we can't easily control, but human sources we can.

So, are you Pinocchio? Or perhaps Data from TNG?



Hmm, but if he destroys the universe, even if you were somehow spared that event, there would be no space/vacuum/whatever for you to breathe in. In fact, there wouldn't even be a guarantee that the laws of physics that hold you together would still exist.

You can check the first post in this thread, which shows the number of open spots; at the moment it is at 0 though. I suppose you could try talking to EvilPanda about reserving a spot, but the campaign takes members with a rank of Full Member or above, so you won't be able to join for quite some time.

Actively posting or reading threads while logged in, yes, I guess you've been here almost as long as him. But you can also visit the forum and read up on what is going on while logged out, and only login for posting, PMs, and such. Alternatively, he could have simply created another account and used that for most forum related stuff.

Not really; this isn't the time since you registered an account here, but the time you've spent active in the forum. Still, last I checked, the highest logged in time was at about 800 days for a forum member.

EDIT: just checked: satoshi is at 9 days. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=statPanel)

Stuff like this just clutters up the thread with information you could get otherwise: say, by there not being any complains about payment as capoeira suggested, via the trust system, eventually by there not being any people left in the campaign.

This isn't a self-moderated thread, so people could post only when there are problems and the post would not only not get deleted, but there would also be no chance of it being buried in I don't know how many posts stating the exact same thing every week. Besides, it also makes it harder to find any other relevant information, either updates from FXO, or from one of the people in the campaign. Still, if knowing exactly who got paid and how much is important to you guys, why not ask the OP to make that public/same as first week?

Well, the link to the post I provided is discussing exactly that: depending on the amount of bets the site gets and what percentage of the winnings it keeps, this might actually be profitable. As soon as people realize it is a scam, he can shut down the site, keep whatever btc users have there, and move on to repeat the whole thing with a new site.

Also, I haven't checked this myself, but others were pointing out that the only way to contact UpDown was through this forum; the site itself offered no contact details except a thread here, which is odd.

Do remember to change the sig though.

By the way, the next time we request payment, what should we fill in "Link to Enrollment post"? Last time, I used the latest enrollment post I had made, but should we just leave it blank the next time around or use the same post anyway?

How about creating wealth, instead of being the first to steal it?

It would be more work, but you could go back in time and help advance their technology much faster, improve everyone's level of education, help with methods for disease prevention, food production, and so on.

¿Why not start with a question mark and end with a question mark instead?

What makes you believe that simply being able to communicate with animals will automatically translate into them doing whatever you want? Are you going to offer to carry the horse on your back the following sunset?

I hope it's not the case, but it would make sense to do that if he was just looking to gain some trust initially and then have free publicity for a month. Other than that, I don't know how profitable his site is but he could already have made more than what he spent on it, as others have pointed out elsewhere (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=656074.msg7437199#msg7437199).

Does it look to you that he's from Sirius?

Well, as I (and others) suggested previously, expel spammers from the campaign after people present proof of their spamming (and leave neg feedback to the worst offenders), raise the member rank required for entry to the campaign, and limit the number of participants.

In the context of this campaign, that should mostly solve any problem with accounts bought for the purpose of spamming, since Full Member and higher accounts tend to be expensive and no one would risk them becoming useless from the negative rep. This and a single thread in which people can post the evidence against spammers is all that is really needed.

If the problem is the spam users are generating, one way of dealing with it is the following (partly based on what others and I have previously said):

• Create a user managed thread, in which any user can post evidence of spamming by participants of the campaign. Spammers are subsequently kicked out of the campaign permanently, and perhaps given negative trust (at least the worst offenders).
• To make it more difficult for users to create/buy accounts for using here, consider raising the minimum entry level to the campaign to Full Member for example. That's 4 months (I think) worth of time, and so these accounts are likely too expensive for most people to consider buying and then risk spamming with (given the above).
• Limit the number of maximum participants in the campaign to avoid people just creating several alts and joining the campaign, which would allow them to better risk spamming.

I can't say I like the idea of us policing each other, but if spam is the main issue, this should solve most of it. Now, perhaps people will still post for the extra btc they gain, but at least it will be higher quality posts, since no one is going to risk their account when half the forum has their eyes on you.

Couldn't you also use Startpage for that?

Hey, if one of the things that gets "developed" in our lifetime is immortality, a lot of us might be able to see it.



I think what most people mean when they say those things is practical/easily accessible to everyone flying cars/space travel. And I don't know about you, but I would rather not have to wait several decades (at best) to reach the nearest star system. That's not space traveling, that's space crawling.