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101  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Cricket match prediction discussions on: October 30, 2016, 10:08:23 AM
What a fantastic comeback by Bangladesh when England was looking perfect on 100 runs without any lose in just 23 overs, again Mehedi Hasan doing mind blowing job picked 4 wickets so quickly put England into big trouble there, Bangladesh is going to win this match and now it just 5 wickets there to win this match.

At this stage Bangladesh is on top as they have already grabbed 5 wickets in quick session and it will not be easy for English team to chase the target of 273 and I think this test match gonna interesting to watch and if England manages to win from here then it can be treated as an outstanding performance under pressure.
102  Economy / Speculation / Re: Whos pumping bitcoin now? on: October 30, 2016, 08:48:17 AM
New users are pumping price. :-)
https://blockchain.info/charts/my-wallet-n-users

That one is a drastic increase and can be called as insane when it comes to number of users...
If they are buying the coins, even $1 worth of Bitcoins per person, then possibly we are going to see some hazardous movements in the value of BTC in near time...

If this is a bubble then we must take advantage of this bubbles. This will be an early phase of bitcoin bubble, more price increase is to be expected in the next weeks.  And yes bitcoin price will certainly fall deep when the bubble burst just like what happened to bitcoin price last 2013 - 2014 when the 2013 bubble burst.
Yup if people will start dumping their coins then we may see price going down again but at a moment price is rising and we can expect much higher price in next couple of months as more people are getting into bitcoins and buying at a moment and that is the reason price is going higher.
103  Economy / Economics / Re: Do you Still believe in Fiat? on: October 30, 2016, 08:12:32 AM
Honestly i trust more in fiat at this point.  I do believe in bitcoin but I believe that fiat money is the one that i need at this point.  This is the reason why I am converting my bitcoin to fiat money if i gathered enough. I can't buy my daily food with bitcoin but with fiat money i have no problem in transaction regarding this kind of stuff.
Its an fact that fiat money is more important for us at this stage as bitcoin is not too popular at a moment and there are not many places where we can use it directly to buy anything so the only option left for us is to exchange our bitcoins to fiat for buying stuffs and I think even in future bitcoin will always be dependent on fiat too.
104  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: I have 5K€ to invest ! on: October 25, 2016, 07:33:37 AM
5K is allot of money and that is not enough to go full into the bitcoin but i nknow for sure that you can make allot of money with the bitcfoin when youj
invest 5k in bitcoins.

I think investing that amount in bitcoins and making profits from it will take long time as we see there is no major pump in the price but if he invests in altcoins then it can give him huge profits in quick time as altcoin market involves major pumps and dumps and if he manages to take right move at the right time then results will be in his favor.
105  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin price! really dude? on: October 25, 2016, 07:30:53 AM
The price of the bitcoin is not what it was and that is not good for the future of the bitcoin if you know what wil happen to the bitcoin off course i dont know what will happen in the furuer but the price says enough.


But I think we saw major growth in the price of bitcoin in this year in compare to the last year and price is also rising at a moment which is a good sign for bitcoin and its users and if it continues to move in the same way then we will be seeing some really high price at the end of the year.
106  Economy / Economics / Re: Why You Should Never Sell Your Bitcoins Ever on: October 25, 2016, 07:28:26 AM
Bitcoin users are still buying and selling this time you can't blame them if they are selling because its their strategy specially to make some big profits and bitcoin price will never reach $10,000 if people still selling their coins. And people is much prefer to hold their coins and use it to buy some digital goods or anything that can be bought by bitcoin.
It is actually the demand that will make the price of bitcoin to go as high as you are talking, you cannot control people to buy because bitcoin has becoming a global currency and the more it will become popular, the more it will be successful. But in the end, we still need to sell our bitcoins at the right time.

Yup we cannot afford to simply hold them and keep them idle in our wallet, if price goes higher and if its giving you good profits then its better to sell them off and secure the profits as price may even fall in future and that would be the time to accumulate more bitcoins by buying at lower price.
107  Other / Off-topic / Re: Bitcoin is a good investment now, because... on: October 25, 2016, 07:23:08 AM
Bitcoin is a great investment for now. It is at a very cheap price. Moreover, Bitcoin is fairly stable and it is on a rising trend.

Overall, I think Bitcoin is a superb investment, both as long-term and short-term investment.



I don't think that bitcoin can be treated as an stable as price instability is a major concern why new investors do not prefer to invest their money into it as they have a fear of loosing their money and instead of holding for long term I would prefer to make short term profits by taking benefits from short term fluctuations.
108  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: Alpha Technology Viper Scrypt Miner Batch 1 on: May 16, 2015, 10:48:49 PM
No guys, you got it all wrong, to HIM, "Alpha is legit and not scammers".   He believes this so strongly he is....selling his preorder.
109  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [WTS]Some old rare'ish CPUs: Pent Pro, 6x86L, amd-K5 on: February 09, 2015, 11:59:55 PM
I would offer 20$ for the Pentium

hmm, i can pull 0.5g of gold out of that thing, that's about $25 in gold there..

and there is half a dozen of them on ebay for $100'ish now

0.1btc and postage is on you though

http://www.ebay.es/itm/Intel-Pentium-Pro-SL22Z-512K-/131422714851?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item1e99677be3

28EUR

25$ with postage to Europe
just to let you know, im basing the pricing off this:
http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/CPUs-Processors-/164/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=pentium+pro

Right, that's the problem.  Those are people's asking prices, that isn't what it is worth (what people are actually paying for them).  I can list one on ebay for a million dollars, that doesn't mean it is worth a million dollars.  If you look at sold listings, these things are actually going for 20ish, and that is WITH ebay buyer protection which you obviously can't offer. 

The ones selling for more then that are collector grade, mint condition, sealed in the box brand new, etc.  You don't even guarantee yours works, which limits it's value to the gold inside, minus the cost to recover it; you need to be selling them for less then ebay, not more.  It obviously doesn't make much sense for anyone to give you 100 for 25 worth of gold that they then have to spend money to extract.
110  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: [WTS] KnC Miner TITAN expansion? on: December 31, 2014, 12:50:05 AM

TITAN are still for sold (have some non serious, unfinished offer by PM before...)

I  still offer 7BTC + shipping

I give up.

He has had it listed here for over a month, ignored all reasonable offers, and refused to name a price.  Obviously the unit isn't really for sale, just hoping someone will foolishly reimburse him the many thousands of dollars he lost on the unit.
111  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Don’t support laws you are not willing to kill to enforce on: December 11, 2014, 05:25:42 PM
1) The policeman didn't choke him to dead. The fact he is telling them "I don't breathe" is telling he was breathing at the time and was conscious.
No one is disputing that at the beginning of the assault, he was alive.  If he had been dead to begin with we wouldn't be having this discussion.
1-1) This imply any choke hold was not applied for more than a few seconds (not enough to do anything)
Obviously, it *DID* do something!  He was alive and well until the choke hold was applied.  At which point he then died.  Regardless of your political affiliation or viewpoint, the fact that we are unable to agree on the most basic facts about what happened tell me this isn't going to be a productive conversation.
1-2) This imply any hold didn't prevent blood to reach the brain (he would pass out in few seconds and not be able to speak)
Or have a heart attack and die.  I mean, I find it strange that you discount that as a possibility, given the fact that that this is precisely what happened. 
2) If he had collaborated with the police he would be get a ticket and would let go out. Or maybe arrested because he was on probation for previous sentences.
2-1) When he become uncooperative and then tried to go away, the cops (there were five and a black female sergeant) had no other option than to force him to submit.
Well, no, that's the whole point.  It would have been a very simple matter for the police to simply ticket him (which is all this situation called for to begin with) and moved on.  At no point was there any need for them to "subdue" him.
2-2) Unless you advocate for policemen to have the power to arbitrarily enforce laws (different from "enforce arbitrary laws") the police could not avoid to give him a ticket or arrest him.
Again, no.  Ive commited minor traffic violations in the state of new york and at no point did the police ever feel the need to "detain" me.  They simply write the ticket and move on.  And if you don't stick around, which can happen sometimes with a parking ticket, I again never was "detained", they just write the ticket anyway. 
3) In the end the man died because he was very sick and his health failed him in a time of stress. Even his inability to comply with the orders and be reasonable could be referred to a chronic hypoxia, but health is not an excuse to break the laws.
Right, which is precisely why applying choke holds in the Empire State is illegal!  Because it sometimes leads to the victims' death, especially if the victim is in poor health to begin with (which the police are not in a position to evaluate).
What news papers and news shows and political hacks do not want is for people to understand that the first cause of this man dead is a stupid laws police was forced to enforce.
Again, no.  I have been pulled over in the state of new york on more then one occasion where I did not receive anything but a warning.  Just a week ago I littered in front of a police officer (I did not see him until after) and he didn't even say anything despite having seen it.   Fact is, the police have every ability to do whatever the heck they want.  They certainly aren't "forced" to uphold a "stupid" law.  It is a very common thing for the police in new york to not enforce certain laws.  Of course, a large part of that depends on the color of your skin. 
NY City/State have the highest taxes on cigarettes, so people smuggling cigarettes from nearby states and selling them on the streets outcompete the legal sellers of cigarettes.
The legal sellers then call the police to prevent this illegal competition from hurting their business.
Ah, now we get to the root of the matter.  Not entirely accurate of course.  See, it is illegal to purchase cigarettes individually in new york, you have to buy packs of 20.  Not because of taxes (they were sold this way back when the packs cost literally 1/10 what they do now) but because the tobacco companies don't want you to only buy one.  Ironically, "loosies" usually have been taxed at some point though they obviously don't have a tax stamp on them (wait a moment, weren't tax stamps one of those evil terrible things the British government did that caused Americans to revolt in the first place???). 
Then the police have no other choice than enforce all laws, even the stupid ones.
Of course they do, don't be silly.  The police in New York on a regular basis ignore countless offenses that they do not deem worthy of enforcement.  Littering, jay walking, numerous moving violations, public intoxication, the list goes on and on.  Saying that the police MUST enforce a law if it is on the books is silly, and anyone who has spent an hour there knows it to be false.
112  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What impact will Bitcoin have on income inequality? on: December 10, 2014, 06:59:43 PM
No appreciable impact at all.  Why would you expect it to have any impact on income inequality?

Income inequality is exacerbated by the wealthy manipulating the state for their benefit. Fiat is either controlled by the government or by the wealthy bankers themselves(with some regulation) as seen in the US. Decoupling those levels of controls allow individuals to fail or succeed to a greater degree on their own merits.

Income inequality will always exist . Bitcoin may nudge it back where it wasn't so extreme however.

The wealthy elite use their power and influence to control the means of production.  The specific currency in use has nothing to do with it.  Nor does the ability to control the currency (in point of fact, the rise of capitalist systems occurred during a period of time when most governments backed their currency with gold or silver).  On the contrary, inflation is actually a [very very small] check on income inequality.  But it makes little difference; historically the rate of return on capital investment has vastly outpaced inflation (i.e., bankers aren't making their money printing dollar bills).

Just using your own example of the United States, if manipulation of the currency is a significant cause of income inequality, one would expect that income distribution would have been much more even prior to the USA changing over to fiat.  And yet we see that reality is the exact opposite. 
113  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What impact will Bitcoin have on income inequality? on: December 09, 2014, 01:20:59 AM
Will things get better?  Worse?  No impact at all?

No appreciable impact at all.  Why would you expect it to have any impact on income inequality?
114  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Don’t support laws you are not willing to kill to enforce on: December 09, 2014, 01:15:47 AM



[...]
On the opening day of law school, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between skepticism and puzzlement, until I remind them that the police go armed to enforce the will of the state, and if you resist, they might kill you.

I wish this caution were only theoretical. It isn’t. Whatever your view on the refusal of a New York City grand jury to indict the police officer whose chokehold apparently led to the death of Eric Garner, it’s useful to remember the crime that Garner is alleged to have committed: He was selling individual cigarettes, or loosies, in violation of New York law…..

The problem is actually broader. It’s not just cigarette tax laws that can lead to the death of those the police seek to arrest. It’s every law. Libertarians argue that we have far too many laws, and the Garner case offers evidence that they’re right. I often tell my students that there will never be a perfect technology of law enforcement, and therefore it is unavoidable that there will be situations where police err on the side of too much violence rather than too little. Better training won’t lead to perfection. But fewer laws would mean fewer opportunities for official violence to get out of hand.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/12/05/dont-support-laws-you-are-not-willing-to-kill-to-enforce/





Common sense tells us that you have created a nice little false dilemma here.  Obviously there is a sane, rational, third choice, which is that there is no reason so choke a man to death on the street for selling cigarettes. 
Who said anything about common sense?  Buddy, we are talking about the USA police mentality here.

Where you WILL FIND CASES, MANY OF THEM....

where the initiating causative event that escalated into a police shooting was a guy walking down the middle of a busy street, obstructing traffic, a broken tail light lense, any number of small simple things.

Note this is complicated by the fact that officers are often tasked to pull people over or question them on small wrongdoings, actual or alleged, as on occassion this will result in discovery of bigger "crimes."

Right I understand what you are saying, but if you have police officers killing people for selling cigarettes on the street, the problem is with the police officers, not with the law. 
115  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Don’t support laws you are not willing to kill to enforce on: December 08, 2014, 07:45:00 PM



[...]
On the opening day of law school, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between skepticism and puzzlement, until I remind them that the police go armed to enforce the will of the state, and if you resist, they might kill you.

I wish this caution were only theoretical. It isn’t. Whatever your view on the refusal of a New York City grand jury to indict the police officer whose chokehold apparently led to the death of Eric Garner, it’s useful to remember the crime that Garner is alleged to have committed: He was selling individual cigarettes, or loosies, in violation of New York law…..

The problem is actually broader. It’s not just cigarette tax laws that can lead to the death of those the police seek to arrest. It’s every law. Libertarians argue that we have far too many laws, and the Garner case offers evidence that they’re right. I often tell my students that there will never be a perfect technology of law enforcement, and therefore it is unavoidable that there will be situations where police err on the side of too much violence rather than too little. Better training won’t lead to perfection. But fewer laws would mean fewer opportunities for official violence to get out of hand.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/12/05/dont-support-laws-you-are-not-willing-to-kill-to-enforce/





Common sense tells us that you have created a nice little false dilemma here.  Obviously there is a sane, rational, third choice, which is that there is no reason so choke a man to death on the street for selling cigarettes. 
116  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: Groupbuy for gridseed asics, looking for interest. (Preferably Canada) on: December 05, 2014, 11:02:33 PM
i'm in Quebec and interested, let me know if you're still planning on group buy and what prices you can find Smiley

I think you're just a teensy bit late to the party...
117  Other / Politics & Society / Re: It's funny to see these thugs in Ferguson bitching about how they have nothing on: December 02, 2014, 04:08:39 PM
...when they have thousands of dollars of ink tatted all over their bodies and up their arms.

This is what people mean by the "entitled" culture. People think a paycheck is meant to blow on fun stuff while the government picks up the tab for your basic necessities like food, housing, healthcare or child care.

It always amuses me when poor white trash bitches about a black guy getting a 200 dollar welfare check to help make ends meet.  Meanwhile, the tax payers of St. Louis have cut a 528 MILLION dollar welfare check to the owner of the Rams, a man worth 6 BILLION dollars, and not even bat an eye.  Talk about needing tax payers to pay for your toys!
118  Other / Politics & Society / Re: It's funny to see these thugs in Ferguson bitching about how they have nothing on: December 02, 2014, 04:00:23 PM
...when they have thousands of dollars of ink tatted all over their bodies and up their arms.

This is what people mean by the "entitled" culture. People think a paycheck is meant to blow on fun stuff while the government picks up the tab for your basic necessities like food, housing, healthcare or child care.

Really?  I thought they were "bitching" about being brutalized and murdered by armed white racist thugs. 
119  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Alpha Technology Litecoin (Scrypt) ASIC Miner Order Batch 1 Now! on: December 02, 2014, 12:43:21 AM
You are throwing away your money hiring attorneys.  Look, I know you aren't too keen on taking advice or you wouldn't be in this mess in the first place, but the time to talk to attorneys was 6-8 months ago.  Any money you throw at an attorney is just going to be additional money you lose on this.  There is 0% chance there is any money available to satisfy judgements left in a touchable, corporate account. 

I don't see the law in quite the same way you do, apparently. Stick to offering bad advice in other threads, rather than gloating about how much foresight you had in this thread. If all we manage to do is get them shut down completely and destroy their ability to ever do business in this industry again, I'm happy to pursue that.

Accepting the reality that your money is gone is not bad advice.  Bad advice is suggesting to people that they spend large sums of money to sue a company that clearly has no money to pay judgements.  I suppose though anyone stupid enough to pay thousands of dollars to a stranger with no product to sell would be stupid enough to do just about anything.  A fool and his money....
120  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Alpha Technology Litecoin (Scrypt) ASIC Miner Order Batch 1 Now! on: December 01, 2014, 10:22:52 PM
There are some of us who were substantially damaged by Alpha-T's refusal to fully refund our money, talking about pursuing a winding up petition with a UK law firm and possibly seeking the involvement of anyone who is willing to pay a portion of the legal fees to be part of it. It's just in the discussion stage right now, but that action would either force Alpha-T to pay its debts or have their company "wound up" and all assets liquidated (including the chips, etc...) to repay its debts. Now, whether or not there are substantial assets remaining to be liquidated, is the question. These guys ARE accountants, after all...but I know several of us are keen to pursue this avenue. As I understand it, Alpha-T currently has at least three judgments that have been entered against them, none of which have been satisfied...so it's pretty clear they intend to simply damage their credit (which they don't need anyway) by not paying these judgments off, but continue doing business. This is something we cannot allow.

You are throwing away your money hiring attorneys.  Look, I know you aren't too keen on taking advice or you wouldn't be in this mess in the first place, but the time to talk to attorneys was 6-8 months ago.  Any money you throw at an attorney is just going to be additional money you lose on this.  There is 0% chance there is any money available to satisfy judgements left in a touchable, corporate account. 
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