Not to nitpick, but I believe that the intended meaning was to avoid being wrathful -- in context:

8. Be sober, diligent, and chaste; avoid all wrath.
In public or in secret ne’er permit thou Any evil;
and above all else respect thyself.


Frank

I have properties for which I would accept Bitcoin (Panama City Beach, Florida and surrounding area.)   I have accepted alternate payment forms, mainly most of the digital gold currencies from the previous decade, for many years.  The problem is synching up a site that is designed for the broader vacation market, with the proportionately tiny Bitcoin userbase.  As with most other services out there, the potential business for Bitcoin volume for anything that doesn't specifically cater to Bitcoin users (eg. mining rigs, trust certification, that kind of thing) is so small that the cost and hassle of implementation represent a real barrier to implementation.


Frank 

I'm not around regularly enough to have caught this post when it was new.  Having just discovered it, I bump it.   


Frank

"An invulnerable armor is patience; the best weapon is wisdom." -- Buddha

posted by Inedible:

This.  Seconded.


Frank

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Thanks!


Frank

I am a recent quitter, less than four weeks in after nearly 25 years of smoking.   My wife and I both went cold turkey.   With two small kids at home on summer vacation.  And I work from home.  And my wife doesn't work.  And no one was murdered, or even injured.

Here's the real skinny of it:  Days two and three were misery, as the nicotine starts to work its way out of your system you become incredibly cranky and short-tempered.  But on the other hand, I put off quitting for years because of anxiety over how bad it was going to be, whether or not I'd succeed, etc. etc. etc. and the anxiety was far worse than the week or so it took getting used to. 

Being relatively recently quit, I am still finding triggers, and having what are commonly referred to as "cue-induced episodes."  Just last night, a terrific storm blew in around midnight.   I wanted nothing in the world more than to turn off the lights, go sit on the porch with a smoke and a cup of coffee and enjoy the rain.  Something I've done who knows how many times since I started smoking.  I went out with just coffee.  Not the same, almost insulting actually.  It aggravated me almost to the extent that I was glad it was midnight and the only place in town that carries my brand was closed, because I might well have gone and bought a pack.   However, the rain was nice, I went to bed and enjoyed the sound of it there instead.   

Almost dorky sounding, but there's a point to it, which is that the anxiety and wondering about how bad quitting is going to be seems to almost always be worse than actually quitting will be.   Give it a shot, and good luck to you.


Frank

posted by MikeChrist:

Amazing!  That's the same combination I use on my luggage!

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Sorry for the long delay in responding, and thank you for the help.

The terminal command above appears to have worked; I am waiting right now for an extremely long sync up period to end, and hopefully will be able to use the wallet without an issue afterwards.


Frank

Anyone have any idea how the hell to get Bitcoin working on Ubuntu? 

Some specifics:

1) No, nothing on this forum related to Ubuntu appears to apply to 12.10, which is what I'm running.  I had no issues until I updated to 12.10, now nothing works.

2) No, nothing on the Ubuntu forum helps.

3) No, nothing in the first four pages of a Google search helps.

How the farking zarquon did Ubuntu manage to ditch Bitcoin?  I sort of need a working client here. 

Any pointers would be appreciated. 


Frank

Holy shit, you know your statist intervention is a bad idea when Paul Krugman thinks it's a bad idea.   I try to stay out of politics, but couldn't resist looking up PK's blog to see (what I anticipated to be) his verbose and circular defence of this action, how it was perfectly reasonable when seen in the proper light and possibly something the US should be considering.   I stand corrected!


Frank

Dang it.  I was going to post a pic of the Brazilian Women's Soccer Team, but this pretty well beats me to the basic idea. 

Frank

UpTweet indeed looks like a better approach than Witcoin, with the distributed pay vs. per-post tipping.   Tipping is a time-honoured tradition even by internet standards, but it depends on too many variables, such as people who would otherwise be happy to tip a post but happen to not have the BTC handy, don't have time to do the spend or upload to a Witcoin wallet etc.   


Frank

Sold!

Can't believe I missed this thread.   I was searching to see to what extent Orlin Grabbe has been mention on this forum, and was going to post this link to his seminal essay "The End of Ordinary Money," which I thought would be interesting to some people here (although no doubt kind of quaint from a technological perspective, given its age.)   

Today would have been Grabbe's birthday.   He is missed. 


Frank

posted by AbelsFire:

Decentralisation is BTC's strong suit, to be sure.   It is not without its chinks, and if it is too problematic to try to contain then the "gateways" (exchangers and the like) will be the pressure point -- which circles back to my original statement, that these gateways will always be a weak point.    My point about broad implementation was merely that it didn't serve as any kind of an aegis for regular users of the LD and e-gold.


Frank

posted by jojo69:

 

Like everything else on the 'net, it's not as awesome as it used to be.   Fortunately it had a long way to fall from its zenith, so it's still pretty awesome.

posted by mufa23:

Issue with #3 is that it crosses over to #2 -- lots of very tech-savvy geek/gamer girls in r/gonewild doing for free what the girls in r/girlsgonebitcoin are doing for money.   It's not that they aren't smart enough to use Bitcoin; it's that lots of them just aren't charging to show off their bits & pieces, and that takes us to #2 on your list.   

Stripcoin needs to hit the weirdo niches, where quality free content is harder to find. 


Frank

posted by AbelsFire:

In theory, yes; however, it should be noted that at the time of their respective shut downs, this was true of both the Liberty Dollar and e-gold.   

One could buy virtually anything online with e-gold, pay bills online, send payments to and receive payments from non-users of e-gold, etc.  Being largely offline the LD worked a little differently, but there were entire communities where it had a strong and sometimes almost universal acceptance.   Both rolled up and vanished practically overnight, as if they never happened.   The Liberty Dollar was referred to on record as a "unique form of domestic terrorism," and not one person outside of the LD userbase batted an eyelash or wondered how on earth minting and using silver coins could be a form of terrorism.   e-gold was shut down and its founders and officers barely escaped prison time, on the basis that a vast amount of criminal activity was occurring within the system; four years later, if even a single criminal has been brought to justice as a result of the multi-year, multi-million dollar investigation, the state is suprisingly quiet about it.   

Like a light switch.   So, while it is theoretically true that the weak link could be eliminated, it is not at all certain that it will be -- despite having certainly been possible in other cases, the critical "tipping point" just never occurred. 


Frank 

SELL! SELL! SELL!