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361  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Schumer: It’s time to go after the 3-D printable guns on: May 24, 2013, 04:57:59 AM
Schumer....is that Italian?

Feinstein is I think....

It's Jewish.  They're Jews.  That's why all they ever do is oppose freedom, sell America out to foreigners and give tax money to banks and insurance companies.

Jews are behind gun control.
362  Other / Politics & Society / Re: 2 FBI Agents Involved in Dzhokar Tsarnaev's Arrest fall Out of Helicopter & die on: May 24, 2013, 02:02:54 AM
And his friend was interviewed by the FBI, "agreed to sign a murder confession", and then shot.

Here's an orthopedic surgeon's opinion on the man who supposedly was standing over the bomb and had both of his legs blown off:

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I wanted to just call to your attention the Boston bombing on April 15. What really happened? And I’ll tell you, I don’t know what happened. But I know that they’re lying to us.

And basically, I know that they’re lying to us because of a picture that I saw on that very first day. It was a devastating picture. It was a fellow that had both legs blown off. A young man sitting in a wheelchair, being wheeled, certainly by a gentleman — a cowboy figure — who had a cowboy hat on and he was actually holding a tourniquet on the left leg, which was a below knee amputation, and there below, certainly, the stump of the below knee amputation, was the tibia — a bloody tibia — sitting and certainly, but the interesting thing is why the tourniquet wasn’t applied.

The tourniquet was just sort of underneath the leg, holding it up, it wasn’t stopping any flow of blood because there wasn’t hardly flow of blood on that side. It looked like there was some blood on the right leg which was taken off above the knee. But why would they take somebody who had just had both legs blown off and put him into a wheelchair? He would’ve been in profound shock. And why weren’t the tourniquets on both legs, certainly clamping off the blood supply? And when I saw that, I knew something was wrong.

And then of course as you know, I was a trauma surgeon for many years, I was an orthopedic surgeon. And basically, I looked at that below knee amputation on the left side, and it was a well-healed below knee amputation stump, and certainly, the kind that I would’ve done. I did many, many times, so people could wear prostheses. And there was no tear in the skin, no blood, no nothing at all — just a bloody tibia sticking out of the end — and it looked like it had been attached to this stump. Why would they do something like that?

http://fauxcapitalist.com/2013/05/10/dr-stan-monteith-a-35-year-orthopedic-surgeon-on-jeff-baumans-leg-amputations-i-believe-that-this-young-man-was-an-actor/

And here's a high-ranking FEMA official, a former assistant-director of Boston EMS, who created a presentation advocating the use of events like the Boston Marathon as "planned disasters" for the purpose of training:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxLD01oWHM
http://www.integratedtrainingsummit.org/presentations/2008/main_training_summit/course_18_-_tale_of_two_cities_and_the_running_of_a_planned_mass_casualty_event_-_serino_richard.pdf
363  Other / Politics & Society / Re: A Stability Police Force For The United States on: May 24, 2013, 01:56:30 AM
Here is the TED talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3xlb6_0OEs
364  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Project Meshnet: Hardware for cjdns to enable new, censorship free Internet on: May 23, 2013, 11:43:56 PM
It seems there is at least one pool that supports mining over cjdns:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88305.0

Here's what I'm thinking needs to be created.  We need a meshnet like this one, which has Bitcoin built into it.  Bitcoin traffic is transmitted for free.  Everything else can be paid for with Bitcoins.  You connect to a node, and pay that node a fixed price to transmit your packets until the next block is found.  If the node starts receiving too many packets, it delays or drops them.  If you need more bandwidth, you connect to more nodes.  If you think the node is delaying too many packets, try a different node next block period.

So it's an auction for bandwidth every 10 minutes, on average.  The software on your computer keeps track of the nodes that offer the best service, and pays the best one(s) given your usage.  Free market competition leads to the correct price.

The network can run over the existing internet as well as purpose-built physical or wireless links.  There is a financial incentive to bypass the existing internet and build our own.

This is a legitimate use of Bitcoin.  It helps build a next-generation, censorship-resistant internet, while making Bitcoin ubiquitous at the same time.
365  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Devil worshipers cult Illuminati (Bilderberg Group) trying to ban Bitcoin on: May 23, 2013, 07:10:31 PM
Devcoin

Brilliant!
366  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [Must read] Could an Inside Sneak Attack on Bitcoin Destroy It? on: May 23, 2013, 06:54:21 PM
Yep.  People think they can hold the ring of power and not be corrupted by it.  The Federal Reserve was built, by design, to subsume all it touches.
367  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: US Begins Regulating BitCoin on: May 22, 2013, 01:53:36 PM
These guidelines have nothing to do with Bitcoin.  Bitcoin is not mentioned once.  Bitcoin is neither "convertible" nor "virtual", nor does it "substitute for" "real" currencies.  This publication is a hoax, designed to make you think that Bitcoin is subject to regulation.  It is not.
368  Economy / Economics / Re: Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP on: May 22, 2013, 01:46:39 PM
This is an obvious conclusion.  Nothing is perfectly efficient.  Free markets that account for negative externalities tend towards efficiency, while centrally-planned economies tend towards chaos and collapse.
369  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Winklevoss twins' Bitcoin 2013 Talk on: May 19, 2013, 01:40:44 PM
Again we see investors looking to make an exit in Bitcoin pushing the remittance market and regulation as the ultimate goal and absolute pinnacle of success for a cryptocurrency, as though $400 billion were significant enough to support Bitcoin in the long run.  To put that in perspective, the economies of all but a handful of tiny island nations are worth more than that.  If Bitcoin can't even reach the size of, say, Iceland, it's doomed.  We have to think bigger.
370  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: New video: Why the blocksize limit keeps Bitcoin free and decentralized on: May 19, 2013, 01:16:13 PM
I think you're mistaking the kind of anonymity being talked about here.  Say some random authority wants to force miners to only mine transactions that the authority approves of and not mine any that match some kind of blacklist, and to not extend any chains that contain violations of these rules.  If successful this would substantially undermine the purpose and goals of Bitcoin.

I see.  So you think such a blacklist is technically feasible?  How often would it need to be updated, in order to be effective?  How could it be enforced, unless the authority in question controls 51% of the network?

And, in the other case, all it takes to evade such regulation is access to a single miner somewhere in a region that is friendly to Bitcoin.  We can pretty much assume that will always exist, in one form or another, for the few who need it.

Yes, it's technically feasible.

Just saying this doesn't make it true.  Can you actually answer any of my questions?

This regulation FUD is a complete canard, being pushed by investors with obvious agendas.  Quite frankly, I'm shocked that some of you are naive enough to fall for it.  Entangling Bitcoin with the existing financial system, and all the baggage that entails, would be the beginning of the end.

Perhaps Bitcoin can be shutdown within a country.  If so, it's their loss.  Perhaps Bitcoin could be completely destroyed by a motivated attacker that doesn't care about the costs.  This is widely recognized.  But regulated and micromanaged at such a level?  Give me a break.  They can't even keep banks from laundering billions in drug money.
371  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Govt Regulation thought experiment on: May 19, 2013, 08:35:56 AM
the only reason mtgox got hit now 4 years after bitcoin was released to the world is because of these 2 reasons this 1 reason

1) The emergence of a US-based, licensed and regulated exchange.

FTFY.  Really, you're generally on the right path.  But before denouncing others as "anti-government" "conspiracy theorists", it might be a good idea to have at least a basic understanding of the concepts of standing, jurisdiction, and crimes against the state.  Just because most of those participating in the faceless system of government don't actually understand how it works, doesn't mean that it isn't a system, and that it doesn't act with a single, overriding purpose.  The FED is called the "shadow government" for a reason.

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i think that it was a personal attack on mtgox, not bitcoin. due to the DDOS and the warrant. a little strange how the other exchanges have not had much attacks.

See above.
372  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: New video: Why the blocksize limit keeps Bitcoin free and decentralized on: May 18, 2013, 05:04:19 AM
All this makes me think that the chances of the Tor defence being both necessary and sufficient are pretty minimal.

...

In fact, if you were a representative of a hostile government or somebody trying to protect the legacy banking system, I think the most effective move you could make right now would be to make a video trying to persuade the Bitcoin community to cripple their own currency by throttling it at 7 transactions per second...

Ding, ding, ding.  Hobbling Bitcoin transactions and mining over Tor is such a ridiculous solution that only those working for the "good guys" could suggest it with a straight face.
373  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: New video: Why the blocksize limit keeps Bitcoin free and decentralized on: May 18, 2013, 03:27:31 AM
I think you're mistaking the kind of anonymity being talked about here.  Say some random authority wants to force miners to only mine transactions that the authority approves of and not mine any that match some kind of blacklist, and to not extend any chains that contain violations of these rules.  If successful this would substantially undermine the purpose and goals of Bitcoin.

I see.  So you think such a blacklist is technically feasible?  How often would it need to be updated, in order to be effective?  How could it be enforced, unless the authority in question controls 51% of the network?

And, in the other case, all it takes to evade such regulation is access to a single miner somewhere in a region that is friendly to Bitcoin.  We can pretty much assume that will always exist, in one form or another, for the few who need it.
374  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Here is the Seizure Warrant on: May 17, 2013, 08:00:46 PM
Bullshit.

It is impossible to transmit every single order by Mutum Sigillum to Mtgox in Japan on behalf of their clients, because wire costs would kill the buisness. The two companies were merly reducing funds imbalance from time to time - it cannot be called transmitting money on behalf of their clients.

But this isn't really a defense.  That's what all money transmitters do.  It's the reason that money transmitters are regulated.
375  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: New video: Why the blocksize limit keeps Bitcoin free and decentralized on: May 17, 2013, 06:47:12 PM
If you're concerned about anonymity, then above all you want as many people using Bitcoin for as many transactions as possible.  The weak link in maintaining anonymity will always be the person you are sending Bitcoins to.  If you're the only person who sent him Bitcoins this week, or this month, or if you're the only person who uses Bitcoin in your neighborhood, then you're not remotely anonymous.
376  Economy / Speculation / Re: Mt. Gox is an unlicensed money exchanger dealing in "crypto-currency." on: May 17, 2013, 03:27:42 PM
tl;dr:

The FinCEN guidance is mostly bullshit.  Follow it at your peril.  DeathAndTaxes is spewing irrelevant nonsense, as usual.  MS, the only entity to be affected, is technically a 3rd party money transmitter.  That's why the dollars in their account were seized.  They never touched Bitcoins.  This has nothing whatsoever to do with Bitcoins.
377  Other / Politics & Society / Re: What if you had infinite food? on: May 16, 2013, 11:18:14 AM
With the right aquaponics setup you can basically have infinite quantities of some foods.
378  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Make sure you pay your taxes to the government that spies on you! on: May 16, 2013, 10:19:30 AM
I give up.  Are they in Gitmo?
379  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Big compliment from FORBES to BITCOIN on: May 06, 2013, 10:41:40 PM
Quote from: Steve Forbes
We don’t really know how this coin is created.

What a fucking idiot.
380  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do we want to work with money regulators, or keep Bitcoin unregulated? on: May 06, 2013, 07:14:35 AM
the first dollar bills and coins inscribed  'IN GOD WE TRUST' as a motto for the united states

The first US coins were inscribed 'MIND YOUR BUSINESS'.  That was the belief upon which the United States was founded.  It wasn't until we got fraudulent fiat ponzi money that it was replaced with the phrase 'IN GOD WE TRUST'.
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