The patriotards will be the undoing of Bitcoin ever gaining legitimacy.
The quisling statistards will be the undoing of centralized governments ever gaining legitimacy. |
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I have taken several classes through Scripps Institute of Oceanography (respected research institute). Their consensus is that a global warming is occuring and that humans are the cause of it. The evidence points to the fact that this is true. And, there is no denying (even if you're a skeptic) cold, hard facts (no pun intended).
Scripps? That appeal to authority might be persuasive to me, had I not spent several years attending even more prestigious institutions and doing my own research.  Their consensus is based on flawed data and flawed models, as revealed by the Climategate dossier. That flawed consensus, and the flawed data and flawed models which produced it, are hopelessly compromised by the incentives ($$$) to confirm ACG/AGW and the penalties for disputing it ("Hey Denier, you're fired"). There is plenty of room to disupte that consensus. Your desire to Declare Victory does not reflect, much less create, reality. You will find that the best coverage of Climategate was reported by The Register. As an IT-focused news site, they had an advantage over the MSM in understanding all the wonky bits (hackers? arrays? fudge factors? code comments?). Reading the Climategate archive is a bit like discovering that Professional Wrestling is rigged. You mean, it is? Really? The archive - a carefully curated 160MB collection of source code, emails and other documents from the internal network of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia - provides grim confirmation for critics of climate science. But it also raises far more troubling questions. Perhaps the real scandal is the dependence of media and politicians on their academics' work - an ask-no-questions approach that saw them surrender much of their power, and ultimately authority. This doesn't absolve the CRU crew of the charges, but might put it into a better context. After a week of scrutiny of the emails, attention is now turning to the programming source code. Three quarters of the material released is the work of the academics, much of which they had jealously guarded. This includes a version of the world's most cited and respected temperature record - HADCRUT - and a number of surveys which featured prominently in the reports of the UN's climate change panel, the IPCC. The actors here shaped the UN reports, and ultimately - because no politician dare contradict the 'science' - shaped global policy.
The allegations over the past week are fourfold: that climate scientists controlled the publishing process to discredit opposing views and further their own theory; they manipulated data to make recent temperature trends look anomalous; they withheld and destroyed data they should have released as good scientific practice, and they were generally beastly about people who criticised their work.http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/30/crugate_analysis/Climate change is a natural phenomenon, controlled primarily by the sun and other aspects of geophysics that dwarf anything man has ever done. |
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Only in America can anyone just walk in to a store and buy a pressure cooker with cash, no questions asked.  When will those paranoid, rabidly individualistic feral racists learn to give up their freedom for security, like the happy little domesticated peons in the entire rest of the world already have? It's for the children! How many more dead 8 year olds do we have to bury before these pressure cooker fetishists join the rest of docile, civilized humanity? They say we'll have to pry their pressure cookers out of their cold, dead kitchens. Fine! That's why we smart people have made sure the police and military are vastly better armed than the civilians they will always protect (and never, ever betray or oppress). It takes a village! The Second Amendment was written long before pressure cookers existed. The Constitution is a living document, and must be interpreted to suit the fashionable whims of whatever champagne socialists the President and Congress appoint the the Supreme Court. A man needs a pressure cooker like a fish needs a bicycle! Now please excuse me, as I must attend a cocktail party celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher. All the cool poofs and Trots will be there! /DailyKos |
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I have no trouble with Abrahamic religions nuking each other. Me neither. Fuck the Axis of Abraham, I hate that thing! How may I best contribute to mutual annihilation between Jerusalem, Rome, and Mecca? Maybe Crowdfunder? Death to all extremists!!! Oh, and Poe's Law(antibanker) implies he's an FBI or ADL agent, trolling for nutjobs to justify his budget/Zionism. |
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How about he cared more about this project than personal riches and glory, and is helping under a new name. Just a thought.
Could be! Phenomenally brilliant people like Satoshi are often mentally unstable. Out on the fringes of edge cases, one borders chaos and madness.  For example, Van Gogh was so transcendently ingenious he went crazy. Well, absinthe was involved too. But the theory is, he was self-medicating.  |
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Woot! Thanks for the good news Carnth.  This is a highly undervalued security IMO, given its exposure to bASIC and Glari Mining. It wouldn't hurt if BFL ships (I mean really actually ship, not that BS alpha test) sometime before the heat death of the universe either.  We just need some good old-fashioned BTCtalk drama to hype it up. Can you start a flame war with TradeFortress or MPOE-PR, or maybe leave the country and disappear for a while? |
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I just withdrew my coin from Bitfloor. IDK what you guys' problem is.  Glad I am all-in and only have about one US funbux in cash.  Sorry to see Bitfloor go. Perhaps it will reopen in a jurisdiction less hostile to free markets and voluntary exchange. New Hampshire is too cold and full of latte liberals. Let's make Panama the new Free State Project!  |
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AM-PT. It's cheaper on Bitfunder!
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ASICMINER shares have rallied lately. Time to sell some?
We have roughly 3750 shares left, 500 was sold at 0.8 on the rally up. I have also placed more shares for sale and I will sell more if we get good bids Seems like we will be apply to pay back the full amount  //DeaDTerra 3750 * BTC1.6 = Time to Name My Yacht   |
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The Block Erupter Blade Courtesy recap of potential winners:
| LainZ | BTC61 | | bajanboost | BTC61 | | bitsalame | BTC60 | | yochdog | BTC60 | | yochdog | BTC60 | | yochdog | BTC60 | | yochdog | BTC60 | | yochdog | BTC60 | | yochdog | BTC60 | | yochdog | BTC60 |
Time left: Timer removed. End time: 2013-04-19+16:00:00 |
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How long has the earth existed?
How long has there been life on Earth?
How long have there been Humans on Earth?
How long have we been tracking the temperature?
An admirable start; allow me to continue this most pointed line of questioning. What is the total sum of the global carbon cycle and what percentage of that is due to human activity? What amount of methane, CO2, SOX, and NOX are released by an average volcano? What amount of methane, CO2, SOX, and NOX are released by a large volcanic eruption? What amount of CO2 is trapped by forests, oceans, and other carbon sinks? How much is climate change slowed by negative feedback mechanisms such as cloud albedo, the iris effect, and global dimming? How would anything else cause more climate change than the sun? How can anyone take the Official Science of Government Sponsored Academia seriously, given the utterly humiliating/discrediting disclosures found in the CRU whistleblower's bombshell data leak (Climategate)? |
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Screwing with the IRS is akin to taking a gun to your head. They have zero problem tossing you in jail for not reporting profits made from bitcoin. And American bitcoiners have zero problem moving their ass/assets to a nice country like Panama! Burn in Hell IRS. Justice is coming. Soon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market |
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Baroness Thatcher did not start the war over the Falklands. She did, however, finish it. The Falklands War began on Friday 2 April 1982, when Argentine forces invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. In doing so the Galtieri government hoped to mobilise Argentines' long-standing patriotic feelings towards the islands and thus divert public attention from the country's chronic economic problems and the regime's ongoing human rights violations. The British government dispatched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force, and retake the islands by amphibious assault. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falklands_War Decisive Weapons -The Harrier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFJ7wRbHRIo^^^Fantastic documentary detailing exactly how Maggie T. showed the lazy spear-chucking socialist Argentine cavemen what a real country is capable of.  Pro Tip: Don't mess with anyone the Soviet Military nicknames "Iron Lady" |
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Ask: 1.64 on BTCT   WTF, the ask is only half that on BitFunder??? |
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+1 for https. -1 for vardiff. |
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Shares being accepted but stats are borked.
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An ideal ('night watchman') minimal state needn't fund itself through coercion. This has been discussed endlessly (as you know  ) and my favorite proposed solution is to use fines collected from criminals (foreign and domestic) to fund national defense, courts, and police. It's also arguable that a flat tax, imposed on all citizens equally, is a fair method of preventing the fraud/abuse of free riders. I know ya'll AnCaps will never accept that, but want to put it out there to clarify where we differ. Ok, we have a deal. I'll read de Molinari and you read Nozick. Then we'll compare notes and further demonstrate the narcissism of minor differences. I've been responding to Rothbard's admirably intellectual position paper on Nozick for years. Here we go again! First, Nozick never intended AS&U to justify the existing (IE coercive) states. His was an academic exercise, intended to demonstrate the theoretical ability (and desirability) of a minimal state to emerge and exist without initiating force. IDK why Murry spends so much time fighting that strawman; Nozick never claimed to be an historian. Second, although Murry's other critiques of Nozick's internal logic are all very pointed and well argued, none of them actually persuade me that, given that there is (empirically) a natural monopoly on police power, anything other than a minimal state will maximize liberty and asymptotically approach utopia. However, these are all minor quibbles. Both Rothbard and Nozick (as well as Ayn Rand) occupy places of high honor in my personal pantheon of heroes. Can you imagine the conversations old Murray, Bob, and Ayn are having in Jewish Valhalla? We are not worthy to argue in their stead. |
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A coercive, centralized, non-minimal government or an arbitrary, subjective mob is the worst possible "arbiter for honest disagreements among men."
^^Fixed it for you.^^ Yeah, not really. Since "coercive government" is redundant, and "arbitrary, subjective mob" is pretty much the textbook definition of democracy, you've not really changed my statement much. And if you want a non-coercive, decentralized, minimal government, then what you're looking for is AnCap. "Coercive government" is not necessarily redundant. Coercion only occurs when a government initiates force. Retaliatory use of force, in response to a criminal initiation of violence, is not coercion. There is no government at all in AnCap. What you are describing ("non-coercive, decentralized, minimal government") is the ideal libertarian state. Read Professor Nozick's classic treatise on the subject, and all will become clear. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy,_State,_and_Utopiahttp://socioline.ru/files/5/315/nozick_robert_-_anarchy_state_and_utopia.pdfhttp://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-State-Utopia-Robert-Nozick/dp/0465097200 |
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Got my bars a couple of days ago, thanks! Great seller AAAAAAAAAAAAA11AA+++==+ will do business with again etc etc etc. |
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The amazing thing about small products is that you can charge a lot more hashrate wise. People want a cute USB ASIC miner, and even if it's four times the price per MH as other ASIC offerings or what there will still be a lot of people who buy it.
My God. You must be one of those marketing geniuses about which we hear so much. By far the cutest thing I have ever seen. When can I buy a dozen?
Q.E.D. AM should play this to the hilt. PenguinMiner, PandaMiner, etc.   |
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