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1  Other / Politics & Society / Re: With no taxes, what about firestations and garbage service? on: September 29, 2011, 10:38:52 PM
I dunno it's almost like people would pay for the services they desire or something.
2  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: "GPUs light up but nothing comes out" on: September 24, 2011, 08:49:44 PM
I presume the "cpu 4-pin" is the square P4 cable, right? Otherwise yes, it may be the cpu or mem.

Yes, that's what he meant.
3  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: "GPUs light up but nothing comes out" on: September 24, 2011, 08:24:09 PM

I had the same issue when I first used the 5970...  you have to plug the monitor into the top vga port of the first card. I have the exact same mother board and cpu

I now have 2 rigs with 4 of these cards each

Apparently these only have DVI inputs??

Thanks for the suggestion, though, it has given him hope... he wants to be like you someday.
4  Other / Off-topic / Re: Creationists disbelieve in not just evolution, but now the periodic table. on: September 24, 2011, 04:40:46 PM
Therefore, Bitcoin is:

B  Boron ( 5 )
I  Iodine ( 53 )
TC  Technetium ( 43 )
O  Oxygen ( 8 )
IN  Indium ( 49 )

When you add the numbers of the atomic weights, you get 158.

Financial Accounting Standards Board summary of statement No. 158 requires an employer to recognize the overfunded or underfunded status of a defined benefit postretirement plan.


/thread tbh
5  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: "GPUs light up but nothing comes out" on: September 22, 2011, 10:00:20 PM
A timely update:

"i cleared cmos,
moved the memory around into each slot,
re-seated the processor (twice),
made sure the board 12-pin and the cpu 4-pin were in
cpu fan spins
and is plugged into the right spot
I know there are no screws loose in the case, or any grounding
the power supply is giving juice accurately to the fans, the board and the gpu, for sure
since they light up correctly
only one i can't verify for certain is the proc, but it is plugged in
it doesn't go through the POST sequence, goes directly to FF
which makes me think that there's something wrong with the proc, memory or board
but the board is correctly throwing the error message
so that makes me think proc or memory"

While this seems to eliminate obvious fixes, maybe it'll steer some helpful soul in the direction of the solution.

Thanks again y'all.
6  Bitcoin / Mining support / Re: "GPUs light up but nothing comes out" on: September 22, 2011, 08:20:36 PM
try both cards separately in EVERY slot - whilst doing this, try both DVI ports on each.

Maybe try a CMOS reset ?

Also try another DIMM - and try moving it to each slot

best I can do atm Cheesy


Thanks for taking the time to respond. A CMOS reset is one of the solutions I came up with, but I will relay the other two.

Any other white knights out there?

Smiley
7  Bitcoin / Mining support / "GPUs light up but nothing comes out" on: September 22, 2011, 12:40:19 PM
I'm trying to remotely help a friend set up his bitminer. Because I'm so far away and time is limited, I'm trying to send him as many possible solutions to his problem in one fell swoop. If you can contribute, it would be much appreciated. Here are the details:

His rig:
GPU: 5970 x 2
Motherboard: msi 890-fxa-gd70
CPU: AMD Sempron 130
Mem: 2 gb ddr3

He's trying to boot - and hopefully mine - from a usb drive with linuxcoin.

The problem:
Nothing is displayed on the monitor despite the cards running. "They light up but nothing comes out."

He says that "not even BIOS loading shit" comes up. Correspondingly, there is no indication that the BIOS has failed to load hardware. He has tried other PCI slots, booted with only one of the cards, taken off crossfire, and reseated the processor and RAM, etc. It is probable that he has configured everything properly, given his experience with building computers in the past.


If you have any advice, please share so I can relay Smiley thus far I haven't determined any incompatibility issues (hardware isn't my forte though) and my thoughts (bogus memory stick, use HD not USB (for... some reason lol)) aren't the most productive.

Thanks guys.
8  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Libertarian Capitalism vs Social Democracy - A metaphor on: September 18, 2011, 05:35:36 PM
human beings are rather similar. your neighbour isn't a gerbil

My neighbor might not be a gerbil but how does that make it so that our needs are similar? And yes, I know that "omg but u both eat food lol" but let's think realistically.

Denying that people have very different needs and desires can be dangerous.
9  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do people in USA fear socialism so much? on: September 17, 2011, 12:45:17 PM
How did a thread about socialism become a thread about the environment!?
I am very confused.


Well Socialism is an murderous system, all socialistic movements did murder the intelectual class first as they came to power. Its a principle that Lenin did discribe in his teachings.

i suggest you educate yourself a bit about history:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uwggPP17IE

Really? All the social-democrats in Europe have secret death-camps where they kill off the intellectual class as soon as they come to power? Good to know, I might have to watch out.

Or is it perhaps that certain authoritarian governments, regardless of ideology, have a tendency to kill off opponents?

Social democracies are weakened forms of socialism, aren't they?
10  Other / Politics & Society / Re: GOP Tea Party Debate: Audience Cheers, Says Society Should Let Uninsured Die on: September 17, 2011, 12:42:01 PM
If you agree with the need for the service, then you agree it must be paid for.  The service is not for 1 person or for 1 group of people - its for everyone in society.  So everyone in society has to pay for it.  The mechanism for collecting that payment is called tax.  Stop please calling it "plunder" and "stealing" and "theft" - tax is the best way to provide the service.  

I need food or I will eventually starve...
I need air or I will eventually suffocate...
I need water or I will eventually dehydrate...
I need clothes in cold weather or I will eventually die of hyperthermia...
therefore...wait for it...

I must tax to get those things I need.

Yes? Lovely logic. Non sequitur. Straw Man argument. Moving on.

You are capable of better logic so please stop being silly.  You need society to provide 24/7 care for the violently mentally ill.  You can do the rest yourself.  Since you are using the service society provides, you must pay for it through taxation.

If you have a better alternative, feel free to offer it.  So far all you say is "Yes I need the service." and "No I won't pay for it."
+1 I can't stand people who benefit so greatly from our current system, seeking to destroy it for everyone else. Disgusting selfishness is what I call it.

Can you explain in concrete terms how it is that Bastiat here is "benefiting so greatly from our current system"? Without assuming things about him or her as an individual.

I think people who make statements like yours are generalizing from their own case more than they realize.
11  Other / Politics & Society / Re: GOP Tea Party Debate: Audience Cheers, Says Society Should Let Uninsured Die on: September 15, 2011, 07:14:27 PM
Abolish all prisons and stop treating "mentally ill" people like anything less than superheroes.

"Necessary"? rofl
12  Other / Off-topic / Re: RIP Bill Cosby on: September 15, 2011, 05:32:26 PM
Good news for you fagtoid!
Those assjammers at SA are doing just that!



Your words.

They hurt.
13  Other / Off-topic / Re: RIP Bill Cosby on: September 13, 2011, 07:06:01 PM
What a beautiful hack it was. Very funny, and possibly not even malicious. Am I the only one contemplating a bitcoin donation to the perpetrator if nothing bad comes of this?

You are not alone. I lol'd, I rofl'd, I even lmao'd. A+

In fact, can we start bitcoin over and call it cosbycoin?
14  Other / Off-topic / Re: I am trying to understand... on: September 13, 2011, 07:03:07 PM
People hate on you because they can tell, from your posts, that you probably dress impeccably. They're simply jealous and you should pay them no mind. Can't by a wardrobe for every sucker, can you?
15  Other / Politics & Society / Re: GOP Tea Party Debate: Audience Cheers, Says Society Should Let Uninsured Die on: September 13, 2011, 06:48:25 PM

I am very saddened by your response. We are human beings not animals, its not survival of the fittest and if you were in that situation you would be thinking differently.

Man is the animal.

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If someone profits so greatly from our country, they start their own business and work there way up and become a millionaire or billionaire, they should not contribute something back to the country that helped make them who they are?

Yes, the "profiteer" benefits in a purely parasitic relationship and should recompense his tribe for not having contributed anything in a free exchange...

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but it's ok for billion dollar a year corporations to destroy the earth, pay less taxes than some mother of 4 who works at walmart and get richer and richer off the backs of hard working lower / middle class Americans.

I think this is a fine example of hyperbole.

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We are human beings, our country was founded by Christians. If we ever get to the point where we will refuse to show the love of Christ and refuse to take care of the disabled, and the old I will move.

YOU do not have to refuse to take care of the disabled and elderly. I know I won't. But obligating others to is not the way to go about doing so.

Also, fuck Christianity. We're talking about HELPING people, here.

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The notion that you would rather let someone die than pay taxes to have health care for those who cant afford it is absolutely disgusting and revolting.

GOD IT SURE WOULD BE COOL IF AMERICAN TAXES WENT TO HEALTH CARE INSTEAD OF WAR, WAR, AND WAR.

As if "pay[ing] taxes to have health care" was an option on the table.
16  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The Next One Hundred Years on: September 08, 2011, 11:32:28 PM
It's going to be entertaining to see us all kill each other!
17  Economy / Economics / Re: Ron Paul and Bitcoin on: September 08, 2011, 11:22:05 PM
My concern is that lots of the comforts we now enjoy are the result of fine divisions of labour and the ability to trade.

Maybe we define comforts differently, but the females of Iceland are hot.

Second only to the ladies of the Faroes Wink
18  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do people in USA fear socialism so much? on: September 08, 2011, 11:18:29 PM
Once again, as J. Orlin Grabbe said:

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Your first responsibility is to take care of yourself, so you won't be a burden to other people. If you don't do at least that, how can you be so arrogant as to think you can help others? You make progress by adapting to your own nature. In Rabelais' Gargantua the Abbey of Theleme had the motto: Fay ce que vouldras, or "Do as you will." Rabelais (unlike the Book of Judges) treats this in a very positive light. The implication is: Don't go seeking after some ideal far removed from your own needs. Don't get involved in some crusade to save the human race--because you falsely think that is the noble thing to do--when what you may really want to do, if you are honest with yourself, is to stay home, grow vegetables, and sell them in a roadside market. (Growing vegetables is, after all, real growth--more so than some New Age conceptions.) You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

In this approach you give other people the right to make their own choices, but you also hold them responsible for the consequences. Most social "problems", after all, are a function of the choices people make, and are therefore insolvable in principle, except by coercion. One is not under any obligation to make up for the effects of other people's decisions. If, for example, people (poor or rich, educated or not) have children they can't care for or feed, one has no responsibility to make up for their negligence or to take on one's own shoulders responsibility for the consequent suffering. You can, if you wish, if you want to become a martyr. If you are looking to become a martyr, the world will gladly oblige, and then calmly carry on as before, the "problems" unaltered.

One may, of course, choose to help the rest of the world to the extent that one is able, assuming one knows how. But it is a choice, not an obligation. Modern political correctness and prostituted religion have tried to turn all of what used to be considered virtues into social obligations. Not that anyone is expected to really practice what they preach; rather it is intended they feel guilty for not doing so, and once the guilt trip is underway, their behavior can be manipulated for political purposes.

you don't know what's good for anyone else, socialism is inherently coercive etc etc etc letshaveanargumentwherewedontagreetoeachothersdefinitionsofwordslikesocialisman dcapitalism
19  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Libertarian Capitalism vs Social Democracy - A metaphor on: September 08, 2011, 10:29:15 AM

Much of the argument here boils down to semantics. I want to understand if you object to the big government, or simply to the bad government...?


I think it's safer to say I object to bad government. I'm very aware that there are very helpful governments in the world - Denmark's government is a good example. The US government just isn't one of them.
20  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Book request to the dwellers Politics & Society on: September 07, 2011, 05:12:56 PM
Very thought provoking post, FirstAscent. Thank you.
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