OP, please communicate with us if the person did in fact give you the wrong address.  If they did then it is THEIR fault and you have most likely been scammed.  It may not get your money back but you can contact one of the mods to check the PMs and if necessary they can take measures to make sure others are less likely to be scammed by the same person.

And yet you're happy to freely use the services and products created in those 2 energy wasting countries 

If you're a consumer you're consuming regardless of where it's coming from.  Unless you're living in a rainforest canopy you're probably not carbon negative.

People do not pay $10k for the test.  Insurance companies are billed $10k for the test.  The policy holder gets stuck holding the bag if the insurance doesn't pay.

personally I would love to see insurance companies destroyed.  I love capitalism.  I hate crony capitalism where people can bribe officials to make sure their business suceeds while others fail.

If you walked into Quest or Labcorp and offered $25 cash they would draw the lipid panel.  Or you can just buy the mail in kits.

If America went full socialized the cheating companies will sleep with the politicians legally and have monopolistic ownership over healthcare industries - only a tad bit worse than what we have now.

FinalHash, come post your company's info in my thread.  While I personally do not feel that cloud mining is useful to me and it may potentially harm the network through centralization, I do see a place for it in getting people new to crypto involved with the mining process if nothing other than a learning tool.

My thread was meant to warn new users of the risks of potential ponzis and scams by people pretending to run cloud mining companies (right as lunamine ran off with 2000BTC).  If you have a legitimate company post the details here along with link to your website and proof of incorporation or at least of having mining equipment.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=739510.0

Justin you are the only CEO or cloud mining representative that will come into these subforums and actually respond to other people's posts.  I commend you for that.

Not once have I see GAWMiner, PBMining, Genesis-Mining or many of the others leave the safety of their announcement threads to post in the forums.  Kudos.

It's probably overkill for just 1 S3.  Should you decide to get 2 S3s I would bump up the 650 to a Corsair 850 Gold or an EVGA 1000 Gold.  Otherwise even a 500W Bronze Corsair is fine.

Oh you're down here too huh?  Don't you love the fact that this is the hottest year in recorded history in SoCal.  I mean we had 97F last winter, WTF!  Other people's mining room's ambient temps are less than our weather temps 

These kind of people should not be involved with mining.  If you don't have the time or the energy to get involved with physical mining then you don't need to contribute to the demise of a currency by helping to centralize it.  If you promote cloud mining are you promoting centralization, particularly if you are supporting large mining entities like cex.io.  That would be like people wanting to get involved in helping put out a fire by standing with a garden hose while blocking the path of a firefighter with a 3" line.

There are many ways to get involved with crypto and make money.  Mining is but one aspect.  People are looking for easy money and they think they can throw some cash at a website and have more cash come back.

Even without factoring in the PSU an S3 will not ROI for the majority of people.  If difficulty didn't increase then it might, but people were getting used to 4% increases and the last 2 have been over 15%.  You can't compete with large companies who make the miners themselves.

Well at some point somebody will shut off their miners.  First to go will be most European and Australian miners since they have high energy rates.  If that doesn't bring the difficulty down then the people who thought they had cheap power with $0.08/KWH will get kicked out.

The same thing happened with GPUs - that's when FPGA started becoming popular.  ASICs killed FPGA development.

Sooner or later we'll reach equilibrium.  At that point people with "free" or insanely cheap power can mine against large companies.

Just be aware that high temp electronics do emit dangerous chemicals (VOCs)
www.arb.ca.gov/research/seminars/mckone/mckone.pdf

If the exhaust airflow isn't directly drying the food it should be OK. 

Risk and Reward.

Risk is pretty much money spent on the outlay for the investment when buying cloud hashing.  For physical mining it would also include people's time.

Reward should be the same for both assuming both have the same hashrate and we make the assumption that the pools should have negligible effect on the end total of income.

So the only difference in Risk/Reward is the higher or lower Risk.

Physical mining always carries a lower risk since even with miners placed in a colocation center the total outlay would be less than that of any cloud hashing.

Physical hardware has risk of hardware failure and cloud hashing has risk of getting scammed.

Buyer decides which is greater Risk.

There are few exceptions, but the cities that could be described as armpits in America have more or less gone full Democrat for the last 30 years.  In those 30 years most of those cities have gone down down down, like Los Angeles (one mayor Riordan was R, rest D).  Bradley was decent, but the last 3 Ds have been an absolute nightmare.  Chicago and Detroit are prefect examples - they haven't fixed any underlaying problems.

They may be regulated but regulation does not equal enforcement.  The securities industry in incredibly regulated and yet this kind of happy horseshit happens:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/WallStreet/story?id=6471863

Look up DWP in Los Angeles - they are embezzling millions of dollars.  It has gone missing and the county and city officials won't investigate it because they all have campaign contributions.

Their margins are thin my but.  They have some of the highest paid administration in the country and pensions not seen in any industries.

SCE/PGE is more or less in bed with CPUC in California.

5 years ago I would have agreed with you.

I am boarded and am re-certifying my boards this year.  It's basically extortion by the medical establishment and doesn't really focus on ensuring physicians meet any standards of care since lot of the stuff in the boards is stuff that is not pertinent to real world application.

I would recommend having a malpractice attorney do a little digging for $50 or $100 and they can find out quickly what suits any physicians has been involved in.  State Medical Boards are pretty much useless.  Hire a private attorney if you want to know a physician's history.

The only reason I am retaking my boards is because I need to be boarded to keep my license in CA.  Otherwise the boards are just a scam.  A physician who keeps up with modern CMEs and attends meetings at the local hospital will be more up to date that one who just passes test after test without any meaningful understanding of population and demographic changes.

Bitcoin is a currency and an economy.  If you want to invest in it you need to advertise BTC to merchants.  Newegg and Dell took it, advertise it to your local shops.  The more it gets accepted, the more stable it will become and the more likely the value will rise due to its utility.

Banned for eating mutton last Tuesday.  Mutton should only be eaten on the 3rd Wednesday of every month.  Come on everybody knows this!

Go Los Angeles Rams!  Go Los Angeles Raiders! 

Yes.   For an orchestral track that has a little harmony in it does sound very sad.  Every since that movie I can always recognize Horner's work since he uses a lot of the same styles in other movies.  Never An Absolution is right up there (for being down there).

Eh I met Alba last year when she wasn't wearing making.  She was more Dark than Angel - the years have not been kind to her.  Plus she's a raving lunatic when she opens her mouth - she was talking for 5 minutes about her dog's penis in front of kids.