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1801  Bitcoin / Armory / Re: All my bitcoins locked in armory forever, how do I pull them out? on: October 20, 2013, 06:34:03 PM
I used to gamble with Bitcoin back in the day (because there are no laws that prevent minors from gambling with Bitcoin Cheesy)

I put all my Bitcoins in an armory wallet, that I encrypted, and now it's locked in there :@:@

Please don't misunderstand, I have my paper backup and passphrase, I'm not locked out in that sense. You see, when I open armory, either it shows Armory is offline, or if I start it with "skip online check" it does "scanning transaction history" and gets so damn laggy. How do I pull my coins out of armory, I just realized there is no good reason for me to be using armory, the Bitcoin client loads faster and has encryption too.



tl;dr - All coins in armory, got passphrase and paper backup, but can't open the wallet.

Anyone that helps me will get 10 cents worth of BTC. Thanks.

Are you saying that when Armory is online and trying to sync, it syncs indefinitely?  I was having this problem on one of my laptops with 4 gb ram.  It took Armory over 18 hours to sync (ridiculous) and then would immediately crash upon trying to send any transaction.

If you have a better computer with more ram, you could just download another copy of Armory onto that computer and import your wallet.

The previous blockchain.info suggestion should also work.

Another option is to find another trusted armory user, create a watching-only copy of your wallet, and send that watching-only copy to another user.  Then, that user can generate an offline transaction, send the transaction back to you to be signed with your offline private keys, and then you send the signed transaction back to the trusted user so that he can broadcast the transaction from his online Armory.

Edit:  I could assist you with this.

Edit 2:  I use Armory soley because of its offline-transaction capabilities.  My private keys never touch the internet, ever.
1802  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: I generated an address that already exists on: October 20, 2013, 05:08:18 PM
You just drew that out of your ass right now, didnt you?   Cheesy

yup!  Totally out of my ass, because I know that it's not possible to comprehend odds so astronomical as 2^160 so anything I can write down will be more likely.

Will

2^161

Wow!  Did it on my first try!
1803  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 20, 2013, 04:42:53 PM
And look what this thread has turned into.

Gotta love the bible quotes. It feels like in US everyone takes his bible, underlines stuff he likes, and crosses what he does not like. Looks like a coloring book in the end. Even if someone believes that god exists (which is false Cheesy ), believing in the old ass book, written by "who knows?" and "for whatever purpose" which in fact is just a fiction. We could as well turn to Greek mythology text or Egyptian glyphs. And when someone starts to chew on bible text, trying to attack or defend some points, it feels like special Olympics.

Wrong-o, and I suspect the reason why you believe it's wrong is because you see what idiots often do with a religious text.

It's been suggested by people such as Sam Harris that the problem with religious moderates is that they provide an umbrella of cover for often destructive, religious fundamentalists.

I'd like to add that the problem with religious fundamentalists is that they provide no umbrella to those who actually understand and can provide a logical basis for theism.  The problem is that reality is stranger than fiction, and so any truthful statements made about the metaphysical nature of reality are often perceived as related to religious fundamentalism (i.e. these types of assertions are seen as 'new age,' 'trendy,' or some other catch word with a negative connotation) and get cast by the wayside.
1804  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 18, 2013, 10:07:34 PM


"Be excellent to one another". If we all tried to live by JUST that, the world would be a better place. Adding all the "shalt and shalt nots" makes things worse. An it harm no one, do what thou wilt.

"Be excellent to each other.  Party on dudes."

Is that better then quoting scripture? Wink

That said, I think "Be excellent to one another" is pretty much the point of the New Testament when Jesus said the greatest commandment is to "Love your neighbor as yourself."  Can we agree with that at least?




Well...

No. Not because I'm trying to pick a fight, but because it implies that everyone loves themselves. Me, I'm my own worst critic, so applying that outside myself could cause some serious problems. I think the B&T quote is better, because it implies nothing about your motivations, just your actions.

The New Testament is seriously at odds with the old anyway. The descriptions of Yahweh in the OT are of a vengeful, frightened, bully with a lot of power and little self restraint. The NT version is still vengeful and frightened, but also full of self doubt. Not a good candidate for peace.

I personally like the Golden Rule because it is an ethical system that is both objective (it distributes to everyone; everyone can follow it) and subjective at the same time.  I also think it's plausible that the Golden Rule may actually be a Universal ethical law, and that individual actors, acting as proxies,  may relay the sum of their ethical output back to a global level of consciousness in a cyclical, continuous feedback loop that guides the evolution of the Universe.  It's a half-baked idea I've had for a while but never fully explored.
1805  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 18, 2013, 07:46:19 PM
I am only seeking funding to make this concert happen, in reality.  By really going places and talking to people about it.  I need money to travel the US to find people that can contribute.

I'll tell you how it'd be spent: I would buy a bike, ride around the US, with my guitar.  Talk to some people that are in a position to help, and botta boom botta bing, big ass concert.

This is all I care about, all I put my energy towards.

Let me disclaim, to be fair: if this doesn't manifest into reality by 2013, 2012 is nothing, concert doesn't happen, I will get a job and pay my dues.

If this does manifest into reality, however, nobody would be forced to work for something they don't want to do their self.

Dank, honestly, I think it's good your mind is focused on love.

But about your "signs," you've made some prophetic claims in the past that have already fallen by the wayside.

I think you see some interesting 'signs', but you really don't know what to do with them.  And don't bash rationalism at the same that you're using reason to convince us of something.

You're logically inconsistent.
1806  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 18, 2013, 04:46:44 AM


That's pretty amazing that you came to that conclusion through the empirical observation of isolated phenomena without a theory linking those phenomena to the rest of reality as a whole.  So...nice refined guesstimate?

Do you adhere to a positivist view of the world?  

What rest of reality are you referring to?

I don't know what a "positivist view" means.

The problem with forming an absolute conclusion through empirical means is because isolated phenomena are not only defined by what they are, but also by what they are not (e.g. A given banana is what it is because it's not a not-banana).  When you perceive an isolated element, you separate it from the rest of reality and study it as if nothing else could possibly explain it (unless you form a model incorporating a series of isolated phenomena that explain each other, but even then, the problem appears all over again as you could combine that model with others in another explanatory system ad infinitum).

The problem is that this typically occurs due to a positivist worldview, a requirement for the scientific method.  A positivist worldview assumes that there are concrete objects out there in the universe that can be observed and explained solely in terms of themselves.  The scientific method, however, conveniently rules out certain truths simply because they are not empirical.  For example, the scientific method does not permit studying the very mathematical principles and concepts that the scientific model quite literally depends on, specifically in the process of theory-making (i.e. "Let's construct a scientific theory that is stated in a mathematical way, but let's not permit any conclusions about reality based upon abstract math principles.").
1807  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 18, 2013, 03:22:57 AM
 
It sure seems to be an active research area for philosophers, but what can scientists actually do with their good intentions if they want to study the ego/consciousness and discover what it is?
Behavioural science can't research something that is "non-behavioural" so that seems to be out.
Similarly, Empirical science relies on a separation between the first-person, e.g.: a scientist, versus an outside world that they're measuring. Since consciousness is defined as a first-person experience, third-person evidence also seems like a non-starter. Sure, there's plenty of speculation that special arrangements of particles (brains) house, manage, and even create a consciousness, but that's not the same as 'is' consciousness.

Quote from: Wikipedia
Empiricism in the philosophy of science emphasizes evidence, especially as discovered in experiments. It is a fundamental part of the scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.

There seems to be no deeper knowledge than that pesky ego, yet it seems to be specifically excluded. The empiricists are happy to use consciousness/self/ego or whatever one wants to call it to measure everything else, but studying it would break their own rules.

This is why I brought up 'consciousness' in an atheism discussion. Consciousness seems equivalent to a minimalist definition of god without religious frills. Or you could call it Ietsism or something like that. The lengths people will go to to avoid the stigma of religious gods... Wink

Consciousness might seem magical to us, but that is really just an illusion.  It is a physical reality of neurons interacting.  The full details we don't know but it's just a physical process.   There's no reason to think it won't be eventually unravelled, since the physical information all resides in the brain.  It just needs to be gathered and analysed.

That's pretty amazing that you came to that conclusion through the empirical observation of isolated phenomena without a theory linking those phenomena to the rest of reality as a whole.  So...nice refined guesstimate?

Do you adhere to a positivist view of the world? 
1808  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 16, 2013, 11:46:02 PM
Where does the operating system and software come from, if not from the CPU? Is computer software just an illusion being experienced by a computer?

Computer operating systems, CPUs,and software are expressions of consciousness.  In fact, all technology is an expression of consciousness.
Computers are networks of paths that electrons can take, not some higher consciousness. Learn what you're talking about before you make theories about it. Besides, we KNOW EXACTLY how computers work, we made them. There's no mystery about it like there is with the brain.

No shit we make them, hence they are an expression of consciousness.
Only in the sense that consciousness allowed us to design them.

Yep, something like that.
1809  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 16, 2013, 11:04:15 PM
Where does the operating system and software come from, if not from the CPU? Is computer software just an illusion being experienced by a computer?

Computer operating systems, CPUs,and software are expressions of consciousness.  In fact, all technology is an expression of consciousness.

I assume you believe that the software and operating system are also separate from the CPU and memory they are running on?

Well, when you go to the store, can you buy software and operating systems independent of CPUs and memory?  Sure, they're different.



Oh, so is that how you see our "cosciousness," just software running on a computer, and the computer being (eventually, far in the future) swappable?

Basically, yes.  I think the body is one of potentially many suitable vessels for consciousness.  I really have no idea how this would work in practice, but I've had experiences of my consciousness transcending my body, albeit briefly. 

Does it matter that our cosciousness is not like software on an interchangeable CPU, but is a function of a series of physical networks in the brain, and the only way to make a copy of someone's consciousness is to make an exact physical duplicate of mesh of neurons in the brain? I.e. our minda are mor a product of physical interractions of electrons and chemicals along unique physical paths, like gears and cogs in clockwork, rather than information stored in digital form that is free to exist on any system that allows information to be written. So, sorry, I guess a better analogy/question would have been, does a wind-up clock's time keeping exist outside of it's mechanism?
But, I guess eventually, thanks to the turing principle, if computers get fast enough, such a physical/mechanical system can be simulated in a digital form...

I need to think about this one a little more.  Thanks!
1810  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 16, 2013, 11:02:57 PM
Where does the operating system and software come from, if not from the CPU? Is computer software just an illusion being experienced by a computer?

Computer operating systems, CPUs,and software are expressions of consciousness.  In fact, all technology is an expression of consciousness.
Computers are networks of paths that electrons can take, not some higher consciousness. Learn what you're talking about before you make theories about it. Besides, we KNOW EXACTLY how computers work, we made them. There's no mystery about it like there is with the brain.

No shit we make them, hence they are an expression of consciousness.
1811  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: No confirmation in over 90 minutes? on: October 16, 2013, 06:00:04 PM
your going to find this happening.

with so many high speed miners jumping on each day creating blocks in under 2 minutes, at some point the network needs to even this out to a 10 minute average per block. causing an extremely difficult block to crack just to get things back to normal.

the other part is that mining pools are getting greedy some of them wont accept a transaction without a fee, leaving some transactions in a queue.. so dont expect the 10 minute rule to apply in 98% of cases for your particular transactions.. its the rule of averages, over multiple blocks

I don't think what you're saying about difficulty is correct. The difficulty does not change with each block but changes every 2 weeks or so. Can someone confirm or deny this?

i never said it retargets with every block...

But you did imply that if miners are just very lucky in solving blocks then the network will force a block that is extra-hard to solve, and this is incorrect.  There is no 'need' to even anything out.  We could solve 2016 1-minute blocks in a row and the  network wouldn't give a shit.  Only statisticians would be having a field day with it Cheesy
1812  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 16, 2013, 05:55:13 PM
Where does the operating system and software come from, if not from the CPU? Is computer software just an illusion being experienced by a computer?

Computer operating systems, CPUs,and software are expressions of consciousness.  In fact, all technology is an expression of consciousness.

I assume you believe that the software and operating system are also separate from the CPU and memory they are running on?

Well, when you go to the store, can you buy software and operating systems independent of CPUs and memory?  Sure, they're different.



Oh, so is that how you see our "cosciousness," just software running on a computer, and the computer being (eventually, far in the future) swappable?

Basically, yes.  I think the body is one of potentially many suitable vessels for consciousness.  I really have no idea how this would work in practice, but I've had experiences of my consciousness transcending my body, albeit briefly. 

Although, I wouldn't call consciousness just some ordinary brand of software.  I don't necessarily believe, for example, that there is something analogous to a software creator that created consciousness outside of consciousness itself.
1813  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: No confirmation in over 90 minutes? on: October 16, 2013, 05:10:10 PM
your going to find this happening.

with so many high speed miners jumping on each day creating blocks in under 2 minutes, at some point the network needs to even this out to a 10 minute average per block. causing an extremely difficult block to crack just to get things back to normal.

the other part is that mining pools are getting greedy some of them wont accept a transaction without a fee, leaving some transactions in a queue.. so dont expect the 10 minute rule to apply in 98% of cases for your particular transactions.. its the rule of averages, over multiple blocks

I don't think what you're saying about difficulty is correct. The difficulty does not change with each block but changes every 2 weeks or so. Can someone confirm or deny this?

Difficulty adjusts every 2016 blocks according to the average hash rate over the previous 2016 blocks.  If the hash rate increases above this average, then the 10-minute average time to solve a block will decrease.  For example, if hash rate rises 100% above the previous average, then on average you will see 5-minute blocks until the next readjustment.

This is why we're seeing difficulty readjustments every 11-12 days instead of the predictable 14 at a constant hash rate...network hash rate keeps increasing.

There is also no mechanism that will make a block extra-easy or extra-hard to solve.
1814  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 16, 2013, 04:44:24 PM
Where does the operating system and software come from, if not from the CPU? Is computer software just an illusion being experienced by a computer?

Computer operating systems, CPUs,and software are expressions of consciousness.  In fact, all technology is an expression of consciousness.

I assume you believe that the software and operating system are also separate from the CPU and memory they are running on?

Well, when you go to the store, can you buy software and operating systems independent of CPUs and memory?  Sure, they're different.
1815  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 16, 2013, 03:09:15 PM
Where does the operating system and software come from, if not from the CPU? Is computer software just an illusion being experienced by a computer?

Computer operating systems, CPUs,and software are expressions of consciousness.  In fact, all technology is an expression of consciousness.
Lol!

I'd love to know why you find that funny.
1816  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 16, 2013, 02:50:52 PM
Where does the operating system and software come from, if not from the CPU? Is computer software just an illusion being experienced by a computer?

Computer operating systems, CPUs,and software are expressions of consciousness.  In fact, all technology is an expression of consciousness.
1817  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 16, 2013, 03:36:29 AM
Not sure about floating...

...but on about a half-dozen occasions, I've successfully cured myself from various colds/flus/bronchial infections in approximately an hour through meditation.  It hasn't always worked, and success seems contingent upon my motivation and concentration during each attempt.

Are you sure it wasn't just a temporary allergy? Something had to have happened to all those virus cells in your body. They can't just disappear because you thought about it in some special way.

I'm positive, I've been tested for allergies several times including some massive test where they stuck me over 100 times on my back with various common allergic substances with zero allergic reactions.  The most radical change was the reduction of a 101-something fever to under 99, though I forget exactly.  However, the effect was permanent and the fever didn't return.  I've had about a half-dozen experiences similar to this over the span of about 3 or 4 years, including almost every instance of sickness I've experienced within that time-frame.

I also think it's worth mentioning that when I meditate on a regular basis, I require about 1-2 fewer hours of sleep per night to feel as energized throughout the day as I would if I weren't meditating consistently.  When meditating regularly, I can do fine on 5-6 hours per night, otherwise I need at least 7-8 to feel rested.

By the way, it takes two to tango.  Virus cells don't just cause sickness, but rather  sickness is also dependent upon the person's immune system.  If two people are exposed to the same cold virus but only one person gets sick, you can't say that the virus caused the sickness.  In meditation, you (naturally) alter your breathing such that you are actually taking in more oxygen and producing more ATP.  A lot of people breath from their chest, so-to-speak, and aren't even aware of it, and this is usually a sign of subliminal tension.  When you chest-breathe, the air sacs at the bottom of your lungs aren't receiving oxygen like the air sacs at the top.  During meditation, stomach-breathing (just what you observe when you see someone sleeping) happens, and oxygen penetrates deeper into the lungs.

1818  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 16, 2013, 03:16:04 AM
Not sure about floating...

...but on about a half-dozen occasions, I've successfully cured myself from various colds/flus/bronchial infections in approximately an hour through meditation.  It hasn't always worked, and success seems contingent upon my motivation and concentration during each attempt.
1819  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 15, 2013, 04:19:40 PM
This thread should be retitled;

"The problem of not having an imaginary friend"


Or "Peer Pressure:  'Tis better to be wrong than alone"
1820  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The problem with atheism. on: October 15, 2013, 03:57:12 PM
Wait wait wait. You go as far as to disbelieve the THEORY OF EVOLUTION? There are so many ways to prove it. The coccyx is one small example that, even if it is wrong, doesn't matter. The REAL important proof comes from GENETICS. We can see useless genes in the human genome. These are left over from evolution. Genetics is what makes us what we are, and through it, we can prove evolution. In addition, how do you explain dinosaurs? The huge crater that is in the Gulf of Mexico from the meteor that wipes them out? No mention of that in genesis, man actually NAMES every creature, and yet, man did not even exist when dinosaurs did. If you are going to say "god put the remnants in the earth on purpose," what POSSIBLE motivation could he have?

Also, there are two completely separate stories of creation inside Genesis, each from a different biblical source. Which one do you believe? Why? What makes it correct and the other false? Why are there two of them?

It just doesn't make sense!

My problem with modern evolutionary theory is that the exact evidence supporting it can be used to support other theories that are equally plausible, if not more so, than current theory.
And what theories are those?

For example, evolution in consciousness leads to evolved physical states rather than vice versa.
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