Wait, is this THE Atlas? You got unbanned?

I would think LED lights would have a different spectrum which might not match up with the optimal for plants. Maybe you could engineer an LED light to the absorption wavelength of chlorophyl? You would essentially have the most efficient grow light!

You could probably say the best rifle is the one which is useful in the most situations.

Much better title, thanks for changing it.


Could one person offer bonds and hint hint nudge nudge wink wink, invest the procedes into a "high return business" thus bypassing the restrictions, or by asking this question am I ruling that possibility out for everybody?

I am now a shareholder!    Looks like this discussion has been bad for the share price, somebody filled my lowball order.

A few names for the GOOD USERS thread, if one gets started, in no particular order:

Patrick Harnett  

Goat, he does what he says, but you have to make sure you read the fine print because it might say he is taking all your money.

Nefario, despite the nefarios handle, he runs the GLBSE and is one of the most trusted and respected members of the forum.

Theymos (do we get extra points for sucking up to the admins?)

Senbonzakura

Gavin Andresan (sp?)

Are these the encrypted returns from 07-10 the hacker says he will release the password to?

I agree the title is crap, and should be more descriptive.

Bitcoins provides the perfect solution to the problem these people are facing. I would also say that now everybody knows they will have large amounts of cash on hand, so they will continue to be targets for theft, as well as anybody going in/out who must be carrying cash as well. Switching to bitcoins would reduce that risk.

OK, this makes sense. I suppose you leave the sniper rifle at home and switch it out for the assault rifle when you are going on a mission where you need it.

What is the point of a gift card if you cant give it to somebody else? That doesn't make any sense. Maybe you should check that again. If you can get a gift code, you could sell it for bitcoins, lots of people do that here. (I fill up my kindle by trading bitcoins for amazon gift credits)

The thing about Atlas is he no longer uses that name. He keeps coming back as a new user and starting over when people discover who he is. Check out the "Hunting Atlas" thread, I think it is in off-topic, where people identify each of his new usernames. So having the name Atlas on the list does not help any new users, since they will never run into the user "Atlas".

I always see it as "Pirate eat 40" too. Not sure why that drives you nuts? I do wonder of what he is eating 40?

True Story:

A couple weeks ago I was talking with a co-worker who was retiring. Over the course of his career he has studied the catalytic properties of many transition metals, especially chromium, magnesium, iron, molybdenum, ruthenium, tungsten, rhenium and osmium. If you check the periodic table, these eight elements surround technetium. So he says to me "I've been studying all these elements as catalysts, and I think technetium must be the best catalyst for everything. In fact, that is why there is no naturally occurring technetium. The aliens took it all."

The thing is, it seems to me many of these "mining companies" were just set up as a way for the "CEO/operator" to get a bunch of mining hardware by using other peoples money and thus have no risk, thus the assets were not set up with the investor's best interest in mind. Investing in these is high risk/low return. In the end, a fixed hash rate will go down in value until the difficulty stops growing, which will not be any time soon.

That is not to say they are all bad. Some are set up as companies that will grow to stay competitive.


I second this sentiment. These are possibly the two oldest companies on the GLBSE. They will not give a great return (when compared with other bitcoin investments) but I would say they are low risk (relatively). Plus, they are not involved in mining so it is a way to diversify your holdings.

BitcoinTorrentz in particular was a great innovation, a way to utilize the properties of Bitcoin to solve a particular problem.


Buying physical gold/platinum would expose you to exchange rate. If I understand correctly, buying any of the GLBSE assets GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM, or RAREEARTH does not expose you to such, these are essentially bonds secured by a holding of the named metal. If you believe the operator that he does in fact have such an amount of metal in his vault, then this would be less risky than an unsecured bond. See this thread for an explaination https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79993.msg1160562#msg1160562

Compared to the ~100,000 needed to complete either, these are both essentially 0. But we still have a few weeks left, so those numbers could go up.

How much of this is from the coded messages sent using the bitcoin amount as binary code?

So, when you go out on patrol you are carrying 4 guns, a bolt-action .308 sniper rifle for long range, a .308 assault rifle for medium range, a .45 submachine gun for short range, and a .45 pistol for backup? Are you going to grab a shotgun too for when you enter rooms? 

Maybe you should use the term "face value" instead of "IPO price"? Or is there a better term?

I don't think I have ever seen a 7.62 M1? As far as I know they have always been 30.06, the M-14 was the first rifle to go to standardized NATO 7.62, right?

Just to be clear, I will add 30.06 to the poll.

No vote for the M1 Garand? I am confused, why comment but not vote?

It was not a crash, but a sudden spike which was quickly corrected.