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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Meme: "Bitcoin user not affected" on: February 15, 2013, 02:08:01 AM
We should now post these all over financial forums around the world.

Yes, the best way to spread Bitcoin to people in finance is with photos of dweebs and losers, that will convince them to make the switch!
2  Other / Politics & Society / Re: for those following the penn state - sandusky sex scandal on: November 20, 2011, 02:12:18 AM
Still doesn't add up. Very few people manage to keep something like seeing child rape secret for as long as he did.  Either he is lying about what he told people or everyone he spoke to is telling the exact same lie.

Hasn't this been the M.O. of the Catholic church for the past couple of decades?
3  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: That forum and google on: November 20, 2011, 01:47:28 AM
You do know Google uses information they have about you to make your searches more efficient right?  Everyone is gonna get different results, particularly those who visit this forum since Google will rank sites you have visited higher. 
They still do that?

That is how their business works. This should give you the option to opt out.
4  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Ron Paul now in 2nd place in Iowa Poll on: November 20, 2011, 01:11:05 AM
The leaders of these polls and straw votes change damn near every week/state. Everyone but Huntsman as been running high at one point or another off and on.
5  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The free market speaks! FDA-AVOIDED Dustberries! on: November 20, 2011, 01:04:16 AM
It seems the free-market is alright regulating itself by making these berries an issue.
Not quite-- I still don't know who's making them.

That is why you buy them anyways. If you get sick, you will know not to buy from the seller again. Or if you die from food poisoning, your family will know not to buy from the seller.
6  Other / Off-topic / Re: Inside Job (movie) on: November 19, 2011, 06:14:59 PM
Bad side: a good part of the movie is more sensationalism, taking a lot of time to underline that people in the financial sector spend their money in drug, whores and expensive yachts. (how they spend their money is, IMHO, completely irrelevant, the interesting question is how they earn that money)

Watch that part again: clients were having the prostitutes charge the finance companies they worked at, rather than pay for it out of their personal pocket.
7  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How to prove that the sender for a payment was truly me? on: November 04, 2011, 11:39:48 PM
Oops. Still, a unique address for the recipient for each transaction could work as has been suggested.
8  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How to prove that the sender for a payment was truly me? on: November 04, 2011, 11:31:44 PM
Could just have the shopping cart ask which address you will use on check out. Merchant sees the address on the receipt, sees the same address with the transaction, and knows it came from you. That and unique addresses as suggested seems like it would work pretty well.
9  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: who wants 0.005 btc? on: November 04, 2011, 06:12:03 AM
also, is it theoretically(!) possible that all remaining bitcoins could be mined by end of this year or is there some algorithm or something to prevent that from happening (mining is basically luck-based, correct?)?
also, is there a guarantee that all bitcoins will be available by 2040 (or whatever year they predicted) or is possible that there might still be a few "unmined" btc 200 years from now?

The network adjusts the hash difficulty so that it pays out in a consistent manner. The only way there could be any unmined coins if everyone walked away, I believe. Though some bitcions aren't available now, if a wallet.dat is deleted, or if someone screws a tx packet.
10  Other / Politics & Society / Re: "Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs..." on: November 03, 2011, 11:20:07 PM
So I have to support my claims while others do not?

Yes, they should back up their claims as well. But I also don't care about any of the other (yours or theirs) claims, I am interested in that one claim and that one claim only.

They have a higher life expectancy because they have a lower infant mortality rate.  They have a lower infant mortality rate because they record infant deaths differently.  In the US, if a fetus is delivered naturally, and was not known to already be dead before labor began, it's counted as an infant death instead of a late term miscarriage.  Thus skewing the life expectancy stats compared to nations that don't include infants that die during or shortly following birth. I'm not sure how Canada does it, but it's still apples to oranges.

So, again, how does Canada count its infant mortality different than the US? You yourself said you weren't sure how they did it, so how can it be apples and oranges when you don't know there are even oranges involved?
11  Other / Politics & Society / Re: "Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs..." on: November 02, 2011, 10:43:34 PM
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Come on New Zealand had 4 million people. The Netherlands has 16 million. California and the US are pushing those respective numbers in illegal immigrants alone.

So what, the bigger the scale, the more efficient you could make it. Its harder to get costs down on small scale, a country like the Netherlands has no leverage over pharmaceutical companies compared to the US.  If you can do it on a scale as small as that, surely you could do it on a state level in the US?

Not only that, the US is far wealthier than New Zealand and the Netherlands combined:

United States GDP - $ 14,660,000,000,000

New Zealand GDP - $ 117,800,000,000

Netherlands GDP - $ 676,900,000,000

And to boot: Monaco, highest listed life expectancy, had a substantially lower GDP compared to the US: $ 976,300,000 (2006 est.)

Have you bothered to follow this thread?  I addressed this already.  The methods of record keeping is different.  For example, if an infant is born dead, but there was no evidence that the fetus was dead before labor began, that baby is counted as a infant in the US, but not in many other nations until it survives for several minutes outside the womb.  Many other stats are skewed in similar ways, because the standard methods of record keeping is different between countries.  In the US, if a pregant mother is murdered, it's recorded as a double homicide.

They have a higher life expectancy because they have a lower infant mortality rate.  They have a lower infant mortality rate because they record infant deaths differently.  In the US, if a fetus is delivered naturally, and was not known to already be dead before labor began, it's counted as an infant death instead of a late term miscarriage.  Thus skewing the life expectancy stats compared to nations that don't include infants that die during or shortly following birth. I'm not sure how Canada does it, but it's still apples to oranges.

No, you didn't address it. You need to show how they are different in Canada from the US, rather than assuming it is. Do the needful and back up this so far unsubstantiated claim.
12  Other / Off-topic / Re: Internet seeks retribution against child-beating judge - schadenfreude rocks on: November 02, 2011, 04:39:03 AM
Two ironic twists in this tale are that his daughter got the beating for using the internet to download pirated music and that in his past court rulings he has refused to consider claims of child abuse in the absence of video evidence.

How is it an ironic twist that she had downloaded music?
13  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: New here on: November 02, 2011, 04:00:59 AM
Don't sleep in the same room with them running, unless you have a window open and the ac running. Other than that, happy mining!
14  Other / Off-topic / Re: Poetry in motion - Bitcoin Haiku inside on: November 02, 2011, 03:57:25 AM
Took me a minute to figure out who all the haikus were aimed at. I like 'em.
15  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why are so many people Anti-Bitcoin? on: November 02, 2011, 02:47:59 AM
Another strawman.  Nobody claimed bitcoin will succeed.  Nobody is hoping on rainbow wishes.

Actually people have claimed that Bitcoin will succeed. A good handful of people have made the claim of bitcoins succeeding.

And the continued use and interest in it would only exist if people felt that it would. Otherwise it would have been completely abandoned by now.
16  Other / Off-topic / Re: ACTA on: November 01, 2011, 10:24:11 PM
So the businesses that sell music, books, and movies should be punished, as well as the people that make that content?
17  Other / Meta / Re: RFC: new forum software specifications on: November 01, 2011, 08:17:21 PM
I think it has been suggested before to show the threads someone started in their profile, similar to posts.
18  Other / Off-topic / Re: Successful Test of Cold Fusion Device - Customer (DARPA?) pays 2 million$. on: November 01, 2011, 07:40:52 PM
As in: "The idea of cold fusion is bolonga" or "Oh, bologna! There is no way you could do a push up in space."
19  Other / Meta / Re: Delete Account on: November 01, 2011, 07:22:50 PM
I think you have to request it from a mod or admin. Why delete your account though?
20  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Mac OS X Trojan steals processing power to produce Bitcoins on: November 01, 2011, 06:17:54 PM
Seems like this kind of thing was inevitable.  Because it depends on a user with a Mac with ATI graphics and the user not noticing high GPU usage, it seems like this probably won't be that profitable.  Part the sucks the most is the uninformed started to associate the bitcoins with a virus.  We need good associations/press, not things like this.

Wouldn't be hard to limit how much GPU power the miner uses to specifically prevent anyone from notice. A lot of malware these days are doing about the same thing by cleaning and patching competing bots off of peoples computers so that the infected computer won't get too slow, which is often the only hint a lot of people have they are infected.
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