It's paramount that our SCOTUS nominees are strictly constitutionalist, in my opinion. Our constitution is one of the most (feasible) freedom preserving and provoking systems that has ever been thought up. There are foundational aspects of our society that need not be malleable, else our freedoms will ebb and flow to become whimsical and feckless.

I don't know enough about their personal politics, but conserving our constitution is what they (SCOTUS) are nominated to do. Anything that deteriorates freedom is unacceptable.


Most Pro-Life advocates see an unborn fetus as a life; Abortion ends this life, therefore they argue that it is a violent crime against another life. From this lens, it would seem strange to approach it from simply educating as opposed to outlawing it. Murder isn't halted through education, there must be enforcement in order to preserve the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness of their potential victim(s).

This actually is where I have yet to receive a good solution from that side, enforcement; I do not see a reasonable way to enforce anti-abortion that would be effective, but I am ignorant and would love to hear one.


This is how the other side feels about deciding to take away a life.


The other side believes no matter where you are conceived you should have the right to seek a safe, legal birth.


I think you're being sensational. Many presidents have been Pro-life, or anti-abortion; Even recently.


Source: My Life, by Bill Clinton, p.229 , Jun 21, 2004

Source: Presidential debate, Boston MA Oct 3, 2000


Source: The Third Carter-Ford Presidential Debate , Oct 22, 1976

Seems every living president besides one was (during their term(s)) arguably Pro-Life, at least anti-abortion so I'm not sure what you mean.

I pop my head into this board now and then, looking for differences of opinion, intellectual stimulation, social commentary and a few other things; I have noticed an improvement on this board since you became moderator FH. I want to let you know that you're doing a great job, and this quote initiative is certainly needed in specifically this board. If I come across any quotes that fit your criteria, I'll certainly remember this post and adjust accordingly.

Congratulations on your win owlcatz, I'm a little sad that I've been working too much that it caused me to miss this raffle. I probably wouldn't have won, because I would've grabbed my lucky "e" slot, but it still breaks my heart that this went without me even having a ticket in the arena.

Last Active:   June 24, 2018

OP hasn't been around in about a month. If you had read through the thread you would see that there has been a lot of accusations and concern going around. They promised a vouch, never sent it; never made any successful sales and then disappeared without a word. This thread is dead, and is assumed to have been a scam attempt; please read through before continuing to post on it.

Would you be willing to allow a member to review/vouch your method? I'd be interested in taking a look, if that's something that you are open to. You're an extremely new user around here, which isn't a bad thing, but it certainly will make users hesitant to purchase a method for such a high premium as they will be unsure about the validity of your product. I would write a fair unbiased review about what I receive, in exchange for a "vouch" copy.

Are you able to produce a picture of the complete set of Pokemon cards? The first picture looks like a complete sticker set or something, but not the trading-card game. Maybe I was collecting the wrong thing all my life. Help me understand what we're talking about here, because 1st edition cards are individually worth a lot of money.

I was promised a few packs as a test to review for OP, they promised that they would have them sent out and delivered to me; they never arrived, I never received tracking information and I believe they completely lied about ever having the cigarettes. Blatantly a scam, and they only promised a vouch to try and lure others to purchase simultaneously and run off with their money.

I just noticed that I am placed in the OP as "18 bill gator", can you also explain what that means? Have I already purchased or agreed to purchase one of these coins? Did I win a raffle I don't remember? Intrigued and confused.

You say that this will be part of a 12-coin set, and I just want to be clear; this is the first coin in the set, right? Your previous coin(s) were not part of this set, or am I wrong?

Any chance you can notify me when the auction goes live through PM? Been extraordinarily busy lately and don't want to miss out.

Also, you said then said   so now I'm wondering which way it is going to go.

Apologies for the delay on my payment, been extremely busy with work lately and I haven't had any time to post on the forums. PM'd you my TXID, paid for my coin! Thanks for the auction.



P.S. Are my silver coin(s) still coming to me?  

I think they are trying to make a joke about you saying you'd be gone for a day, then taking an extra day.

It looks like I'm still the top bidder on Coin #2. Can you just verify that I am not the winner of coin #2, and that I do not need to pay for that coin? I'm a bit confused, because you said you weren't accepting bids on it, but now you just posted me as the winner.

There's still a roll left FH! Grab it, you haven't missed out at all! If you don't feel like investing in an entire roll, I bought a few extra singles for exactly someone like yourself. You can shoot me a PM if you're interested in buying one from me; I don't have extra doodles to go with it though

It would not be great if we worked towards centralizing merits, but your idea could still work. Pooling the inactive source merits and distributing them amongst the sources in proportion to the amount of sMerits they receive monthly when compared to other sources, might be a decent way to recycle those merits.



I can't imagine there are many merit sources meriting posts that they dont like. Looking through pugman's history very quickly, they certainly do not exclusively send merits in the manner you are suggesting. If they were giving merits to their buddies, for unwarranted posts, this would be considered abuse and it would be squashed.

I'll take 5, since someone else took my lucky slot.

Let me have

5 - billgator

Please and thank you krogo! I appreciate the raffles, even when I don't manage to get in them

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4591257

I have created a thread for my apparel, and for anyone that has this on their Watchlist and is interested in purchasing can ask questions, officially place an order or do anything else they wish within that thread. The store is open, we're now accepting orders. I will be locking this thread now, and I hope to see some of you guys in the sales thread! I'll shoot a PM to the couple of people that have already reached out to me personally for an order. Thanks for all of the discussion, support, questions and suggestions! Looking forward to more.

I've been designing some apparel for you guys to order. I held a discussion thread about it and it seemed like there was a lot of interest, so now here we are, with a little store. There are T-shirts, Sweatshirts, Hoodies, Long-sleeve shirts, plus all sorts of other apparel and goodies. Wait for all of the images to load for a preview of a handful of the designs.

Take a look through some of the first designs -

Bitcoin Makes Me Happy


https://i.gyazo.com/2b8dd22a5f39dd604bddb45ced6d163e


This is a design variant request by OmegaStarScream
Banksters Hoodie

https://gyazo.com/66110b277feca61c890d3007bc608e3b

For those after a more minimalist design

Chest Piece

https://gyazo.com/8c185a6a6acf014c47b9021d1149f270

BTCelieve

https://gyazo.com/7180577dec2bc6e6745455ea448ecd9f

C'mon, there's baby onesies? That's too cute. Get one for that baby you know, now!

https://gyazo.com/bf0ac456a562482313d6f11b7cf347d9



https://gyazo.com/7b3eef8171eee7273474dc6ad89649f0



Shirts are going for $20, Sweatshirts are $25, Hoodies are $35, Mugs are $15 and Onesies are $18; the materials that have been selected for these products are the highest quality available.

You have a couple of options for purchasing. I'm willing to work with you, so if you don't see an option that works for you just let me know and we'll work something out.

Store Here : https://teespring.com/stores/bill-gator-apparel
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You can see additional designs and products are our store above! Check it out, let us know if there's any design variants you would like created and we will work with you on that as well.

Now, for orders that you plan to pay using Cryptocurrency :  Let me know which design(s) you are interested in, which product you want the design on, the quantity, and your method of payment. I am expecting to accept BTC, ETH, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash; if you have another cryptocurrency that you feel I should accept then let me know and I will make accomodations.

US shipping rates for Apparel:
    $3.99 flat rate, plus $2.00 per each additional item

International shipping is available through re-shippers that offer their services around the forum, or it can be worked into your order for a small additional fee.

All other International shipping rates:
    Contact me, varies case-by-case.

For customers who order internationally, you may be required to pay fees for delivery, such as Custom charges, Duties, VAT's or other fees.
This is not something I have control over, based in USA.

I wholeheartedly agree with you; It very realistically may be the single biggest flaw currently manifesting within the merit system. Since we're on the topic of nullius within this thread, would you say this would be a better explanation of their meteoric rise in merit than technical expertise and careful writing? It seems, to me, those that are significantly (enough to rank up) and consistently merited are those that go beyond agreeing with those in power.

While it may be the biggest problem of the merit system, it might not be significant enough a problem to characterize the entire system as “proof of agreeing with those in power”. The trust system is victim to this problem, too, in my opinion. Additionally, with more merit sources being added regularly, merit being decentralized, it would seem this problem is already being solved, to some degree.

I like that you used one of your posts as an example, but you're not necessarily someone in power (unless I've misunderstood what definition we're operating with), so wouldn't that be a flimsy example? I've certainly seen examples of this, but I just am wondering if you do consider this an example of “proof of agreeing with those in power”.


Don't get too excited now!

When you are bumping your thread, it is common practice to delete your previous "bump" posts. This way your thread doesn't get cluttered with your own posts that don't add anything.

There are 4 bumps that you could/should delete from within this thread.

I'm sorry to hear that you've been scammed for hosting, that's unfortunate. It's incredible that you managed to recover the miner, during that situation; how did you manage that?

Would you consider lowering the price now that you've been waiting multiple weeks without a bite since we've last spoken?

I am confused about miners being able to modify timestamp data within the header. I thought the only modifiable piece of data within the header was the nonce. I understand changing the Merkle root, through different transactions being included in a trial block, but how are timestamps modifiable? I thought the timestamps where reliant upon the sender, and when they pushed their transaction, is this incorrect?

I understand where the target value comes from now, much more so than last night. Now I'm wondering what happened if/when SHA-256 becomes compromised to some degree. Thanks for the input, goddog and achow101.

I'd still argue that it is doing work, in order to create a solution to a problem/question, but I do understand why that would be confusing terminology. Plus, it's clear that I understand very little about our protocol, so my arguments hold little weight.