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1321  Other / Politics & Society / Re: HHS Bars Congressman from Seeing Illegal Immigrant Children on: July 03, 2014, 12:00:07 PM
The nefarious aspect which any border agent will attest to is that for every kid they have to babysit there's less agents guarding the border.  The drug traffickers know this are using the kids as a decoy while sometimes making some money on the side.  It's a win-win for a cartel.
1322  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The OTHER SC Ruling...Union Slap Down on: July 03, 2014, 11:56:50 AM
If they don't want to join the union, there should be two pay scales:  The one the union negotiates for its union members and the one the rest of the workforce negotiates for themselves.  They should not benefit from being freeloaders.  If an individual can go in and negotiate a comparable wage, have at it.  If you find you don't have the leverage behind you to negotiate a similar wage and benefits package, too bad for you.  You (should) get what you pay for.

I swear the right will not be happy until there is no middle class left.

Don't know what state you're working in.  Here's in CA almost 1/2 of the unionized workers make over 100K/year which is well above the median income.  This includes clerical positions, cops, firefighters, longshoremen, sewage maintenance, county clerks, teachers and nurses.

That may be why the state is losing industry after industry. 

Aerospace - gone to TX and WA
Hollywood - gone to Canada and every other world city except LA
Automotive design - Tesla is the only thing left.  Honda, Toyota, Ford, Nissan, and GM have pretty much left.
Technology - the only thing propping up this state beside agriculture.  When this leaves party is over

For some reason seeing the children who had to eat semen covered cookies from Miramonte school doesn't make me feel like unions have people's interests at heart.
1323  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Chase Bank Asks Employees If They Are “Allies of The LGBT Community”… on: July 03, 2014, 11:47:25 AM
Well it's a good thing all those banks CEOs went to jail thanks to Obama for their involvement in the financial crisis!  Now we'll have more ethical people running banks.



























 wait for it...... Roll Eyes
1324  Other / Politics & Society / Re: No president escapes the American sense of humor on: July 03, 2014, 11:22:50 AM
Very nice.  Sadly some people won't get it even after reading it 3 or 4 times.
1325  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 5 Things the Media Isn't Telling You About Ukraine on: July 03, 2014, 11:10:46 AM

Fact #2: Billions Spent Stirring Up Trouble

The US has spent $5 billion since the 1990s on “democratization” programs in Ukraine. (What would the US reaction be if Russia spent $5 billion promoting communism in Mexico?)

In addition to overt US government programs from the US State Department, USAID, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the International Republican Institute, nominally nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) like Freedom House, George Soros’ Open Society Institute, and the National Endowment for Democracy have all been heavily involved in “promoting democracy” in Ukraine for many years.


I figure the US reaction might be the same wild reaction if the US found Russian spies living in the United States working for the SVR.

Oh come on, the same hands reaching into US pockets are reaching into soviet pockets.  Both hands belong to the same person.  Whether you want to believe it's illuminati or whatever they're called, the wealthy oligarchs are not far removed from either country.
1326  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Newbie DO'S and DONT'S? on: July 03, 2014, 11:03:36 AM
Treat BTC like money, but just assume that there are no government or institutional agencies to protect or guard you.  Once you send bitcoin, it's gone unless the person is willing to send it back.  So if you wouldn't send a stranger on the web $5 of money, don't send them bitcoin.

If you use online wallets, you're assuming the person holding the coins won't steal them (cough tradefortress cough).
1327  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How is mining with a laptop different from running Crysis on max settings? on: July 03, 2014, 10:55:56 AM
The main reason mining on a laptop is useless is because you will waste more money on electricity than you will gain from mining.

Maybe some altcoins can be mined efficiently if your laptops processor is more energy-efficient than you desktop (which might be the case because laptops in general are designed for efficient use of battery)

I think the main reason is it's a perfect way to destroy a nice laptop.

You could have free power, and I think most would still agree mining on a "gaming laptop" is going to be detrimental long term.

Well, if you have free power, free air-conditioning, and idle laptops, it may not be detrimental (though you won't get much for all that effort). Smiley

If you have the above stated resources, you could lease your computing power to companies.  Several cloud based computing companies pay you a little for your computing power (by little I mean a couple pennies - which is far more than you can earn mining).
1328  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Good methods to obfuscate a paper wallet? on: July 03, 2014, 10:53:49 AM
You can use the above methods but ultimately you will want to use the method that is easiest for you to recover while being the hardest for a thief to use.  My house was burglarized last year so I redid my security for everything including my BTC.  I have my distributed around the world (worth it for me).  Wallets, such as Armory or Mycellium have what is called a M of N wallet - you need a certain number of pieces out of the total (as Danny noted).

Simple is making a 2 of 3 wallet.  Keep 1 piece at your house, 1 at best friends house, 1 at work or parents house.  Unless somebody has you at gunpoint the likelihood of 2 papers getting compromised is rare.

I live in earthquake country so I assume my house and everything within 50 miles of me will burn to the ground  - hence I went worldwide  Cheesy
1329  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What is the minimum transaction time? on: July 03, 2014, 10:44:11 AM
The average is supposed to be 10 minuted.  If the network is growing rapidly or has positive luck then blocks will be found quicker (as is the case for the last 1.5 years).  Difficulty adjust every 2016 blocks to make it so blocks are found closer to 10 min apart.

That is the average time between each block.
But you won't expect to create transaction everytime right after a block is found, right? Cheesy

Considering the number of transactions going through the network there would be about 2.37s on average between when a new block is found and the next transaction is relayed.  This varies quite a bit though based on Bitcoin price and external events. 
1330  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: How is mining with a laptop different from running Crysis on max settings? on: July 03, 2014, 10:40:53 AM
Short of running Futuremark I don't think any games or apps really max out any GPU.  You need both the core and memory to be running at top speed to max the TDP.

Run Afterburner and you'll see the graph jump around while playing a game.  Mine scrypt and it will max the thermal output for most cards.

Most likely some parts will fail in as little as a couple weeks.  I have seen cases warp in 1 weeks time just from clogged fans.
1331  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: What is the minimum transaction time? on: July 03, 2014, 10:33:44 AM
The average is supposed to be 10 minuted.  If the network is growing rapidly or has positive luck then blocks will be found quicker (as is the case for the last 1.5 years).  Difficulty adjust every 2016 blocks to make it so blocks are found closer to 10 min apart.
1332  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Offline Wallets Stored on Flash Drives: Receiving Bitcoins on: July 03, 2014, 10:30:09 AM
As noted above, as long as you're not sending payments from that wallet you don't need to create further backups.  It might be a good idea to export the keys though since digital media can fail relatively easy compared to paper which we have been archiving for thousands of years.
1333  Other / Off-topic / Re: How vaccines cause autism. on: July 03, 2014, 10:06:49 AM
Sure a vaccine can save lives and eradicate disease  and are very useful for this, however

What else can they do?


The programs in Africa and elsewhere are masked as philanthropy and providing health services for poor Africans. In reality they involve involuntary population sterilization via vaccination and other medicines that make women of child-bearing age infertile. …

http://foodfreedomgroup.com/2012/10/10/is-the-cdcs-mandated-vaccine-schedule-a-health-disguised-compulsory-sterilization-program-by-william-davies/


The picture becomes clearer when we learn that our Rockefeller-friend John D. the Third back in the 1950's also began advocating that all vaccines should have added Mercury. That served a tripple purpose: Mercury works as a preservative. It can help the chemical industry get rid of a highly toxic waste product (just like Fluoride in toothpaste did). And, most important, the Mercury is absorbed in our body, is not automatically excreted and has various toxic effects.

http://rense.com/general79/vaxcc.htm


Microsoft founder Bill Gates told a recent TED conference, an organization which is sponsored by one of the largest toxic waste polluters on the planet, that vaccines need to be used to reduce world population figures in order to solve global warming and lower CO2 emissions.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/bill-gates-use-vaccines-to-lower-population.html


"Using WHO-recommended technologies like Gas Chromatography (GC) and Radio-Immuno assay, Dr. Kaita, upon analysis, found evidence of serious contamination. "Some of the things we discovered in the vaccines are harmful, toxic; some have direct effects on the human reproductive system,"

http://www.axiomatica.org/revealing-the-matrix/eugenicsdepopulation/1037-vaccines-as-depopulation-tools


 Recombinant birth control vaccine
United States Patent 5733553

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5733553.html


edit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB0FOjzvjiA

I'm pretty sure the women in Africa receiving the vaccine can deal with the reproductive consequences.  Look at the per capita fertility rate for women.  Then look at the infant mortality rate.  Then look at the causation for the mortality rate.

I agree people should be allowed to have as many kids as they want as long as they are not neglectful of their parental duties.  Once you starting popping them out because you can't keep your legs closed (or unfortunate cases like rape) then you have a resource issue in both amount of materials and time you can spend for your child.  Selfish parent lends to impoverished child.
1334  Other / Off-topic / Re: Post You Total Transactions Bitcoin on: July 03, 2014, 09:56:30 AM
Transactions : 10001

Total Received : 0.00010001

Final Balance :  0.00010001



I think we found the source of all the dust on the network!  Grin

Guess nobody found that funny other than me.
1335  Other / Off-topic / Re: Ban the person above you (jokingly). on: July 03, 2014, 09:53:41 AM
Banned for writing with red letters.

Banned for having a post with 5 words.
1336  Other / Off-topic / Re: Zhou Tonged - Holding on: July 03, 2014, 09:51:00 AM
The competing argument was made last year in April (before the nice run to 250).

Bitcoin is a Bubble  Cheesy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7TuFy0fcuw
1337  Other / Off-topic / Re: Have you ever watched the series House MD :D :D on: July 03, 2014, 09:46:02 AM
I watched the first 2 seasons when I was a resident and thought to myself "who the hell remembers that?"  I know a couple docs who are pretty much walking medical encyclopedias and one is crazy in the head like House, but I don't remember him having House's reputation.

Plus I thought Morrison was pretty darn hot!
1338  Other / Off-topic / Re: Video Game Related DEATHS on: July 03, 2014, 09:40:42 AM
A couple of those US deaths would most likely have occurred if the parent wasn't even playing game.

Who the hell leaves two 10 month-olds alone in a bathtub - a retard
Who the hell chats on WoW and neglects a 3 year girl - a narcissistic retard

Those poor kids would have died from neglect one way or another.  The rest are just sad.
1339  Other / Off-topic / Re: How do you feel about fluoride? on: July 03, 2014, 09:36:06 AM
I don't lose any sleep over drinking fluoride, I'm more worried about water contaminated with heavy metals / anti-depressants etc

Are you sure?

http://www.wildlysuccessfulhc.com/ws_clinical_know/toothpaste-hypothyroid-and-insomnia-whats-the-connection/

Fluoride is not akin to what lead was in Rome.  Risk vs Benefit. Even oxygen is dangerous to humans - you going to shut down aerobic metabolism now and stop breathing?

Poor oral health from cavities will lead to septic emboli running through your bloodstream - you'll have strokes starting from age 30.
1340  Other / Off-topic / Re: How to Win the War on Women on: July 03, 2014, 09:27:18 AM
Haha, yeah people are posting way too many of these videos.  I'm not sure why.

But I act the same way with my kids.  I pretend to bark/howl like a dog when singing.  Makes my kids laugh every time.
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