I don't recall being propagandized on this point. I lived and served through the collective political retardation of Vietnam in the U.S., at that time undoing a mistake was something that no one could face because of the reality of the grotesque errors in judgment it acknowledged.

One of course would have clerks working furiously to insure our continued presence in Iraq right up until the point they failed. Otherwise the likes of such folks as the Project For A New American Century pinheads would throw a public fit, which they did anyway, but had no one to blame except those bad Iraqis who actually wanted to be able to enforce their own law as they see fit. How dare them 

As for Plan B, it is a way to leave the door open for a return to imposing our imperial destiny on Iraq by leaving the U.S. with "assets" to protect there, and it throws a bone to the interventionists in the U.S. Consequently, we will need to be vigilant going forward, there are too many crazies who would have the U.S. back in the Iraq quagmire. We should find a general named Custer to put in charge, don't you think?

So, no one had to tell me anything about this, it was evidently from the start that it was a crafty political solution to undoing a hideous mistake. As I said before, a win-win for the Iraqis and for the U.S. that effectively neutralized the ill-tempered assholes who dragged us into the war on false premises.

Nobody was kicked out of anything. It was a win-win for both the Iraqi government and the U.S. The Iraqis get their show of autonomy and the U.S. gets itself out of the single biggest and most expensive foreign policy fiasco since Vietnam. We should send them a thank you note with a nice gift, maybe one of these:

http://wonkette.com/458166/foreigners-delight-in-sarah-palin-pooping-on-nativity-set

At this point in history, the Semitic religions are a curse on humanity. They continue by the ritual abuse of children whose natural susceptibility to supernaturalism is exploited, filling the world with far too many permanently damaged adult children and their invisible friends.

To pick and choose from any of this sick vein of sunstroked Bronze Age nonsense is to miss the bigger picture wherein you are being played for a sucker as means of social control.

You need to say things like that with a little more wide-eyed naiveté, otherwise someone might think you are serious.

Materialism is the oldest human religion, and the fall back position. It is so fundamental that it is incorporated in nearly all the major world beliefs even when explicit disclaimers about wealth are made.

It's good that people recognize that the Islamic world plays finance with the rest of us, there's always a way to make it happen. For example, in the 15th century Florence Italy had a Jewish ghetto that was protected so that the Jews could lend money, as gentiles were proscribed from doing so. A few kickbacks to Pope Martin V and the Jewish bankers had carte blanche, at least during the daytime, as they were confined to the ghetto at night by law 

And of course, let's not forget the hole in the sheet, these freaks love to control people in every way, superstition is a good way to accomplish that goal. Obviously if God had not intended for them to be shorn, he would not have made them sheep, so it's all good, now isn't it?

Funny stuff, full of chuckles and ideas. I found a link for passers by who just want to cut to the source material and use their own judgment.

Bitcoin: Of Freemasons, Free Markets and Bill Cosby Related Investment Schemes
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3413928

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/attack-of-bitcoins.php

Yeah, unconventional methods open up a lot of possibilities. I really want to riff on this theme with you, but I should be good instead 

It can be harder to take when someone you have known a while burns you out of nowhere. Just go through a few business partners, wives, etc and you will learn to get over it or otherwise end up naked on the roof with a deer rifle 

FWIW, the -mabm and -msse4a flags are covered by the -amdfam10 flag, as per the document you linked. I have used the following flags with gcc 4.5.3 and many apps, for example, cgminer. Whether these flags help, hurt, or do nothing is per case, sometimes these flags have no effect at all vs a minimal set. For example -mfpmath=both can often make floating point code faster on AMD, but it can also break the ATI video drivers if used for compiling the kernel.

Big code, sometimes faster, sometimes not, sometimes broken. Works with cgminer:
-O3 -march=amdfam10 -fomit-frame-pointer -minline-stringops-dynamically -mno-align-stringops -fgcse-sm -fgcse-las -fgcse-after-reload -fweb -frename-registers -fsched2-use-superblocks -mfpmath=both -ffast-math -funroll-loops

Works with most things, often better:
-O2 -march=amdfam10 -fomit-frame-pointer -minline-stringops-dynamically -mno-align-stringops -fgcse-sm -fgcse-las -fgcse-after-reload -fweb -frename-registers -fsched2-use-superblocks

The default flags I use, I'm running Gentoo linux so the system image I use is completely compiled from scratch. These work for compiling the linux kernel, glibc, and gcc 4.5.3 itself.
-O2 -march=amdfam10 -fomit-frame-pointer -minline-all-stringops -mno-align-stringops

We probably ought to take a couple of these subjects elsewhere.

+1

Just to be clear, he ripped you off for $80, or more?

Eighty bucks is eighty bucks, but I can only say that I wish many of my life lessons came that cheaply 

Without proof of fraud, an amount like that could probably only be disputed practically in something like "small claims court"; I don't know what either OH or FL specifically provide.

With proof of fraud, it turns into a criminal matter, and you would need to file charges, get a prosecutor's office interested, etc. It's kind of a small amount for that.

A little over a decade ago I got into a situation where I was being *legally* shaken down by someone who ultimately failed. Seeing to their failure in this effort cost me about $15K in legal fees. The person in question is a fairly stupid crook with a lawyer who will apparently pursue *anything* if someone is paying. The person has a history of stealing from others by such means.

Initially, I seriously entertained having the fellow turned into a quadraplegic by bikers, a scenario such as he would have a fender bender on a country road with a couple of goons who would then follow through with a targeted, professional beating. This would have required that I call in some markers for favors from folks I really prefer not to see that much but nonetheless have for friends. It would have been much cheaper than using a lawyer, by the way.

Instead, I chilled.

As things worked out, time took care of matters for me. I'm glad I did things the way I did, having gone for the cheaper, messier solution would seem very not worthwhile looking back from here.

It's such a cliché, but really, Live and Learn.

Ooga-Booga! Come join the invisible friend club, let the childish awe of supernaturalism be a lifetime limitation. You may pick up your necklace of bananas at the door 

Catalyst 11.6 works for me on Weendoze XP 32 bit. I get better hash rates and lower temperatures with no 100% pinned CPU core, nor one core's worth of load spread out 50% per core over 2 cores. I saw the latter behavior with some post-11.6 driver version, I don't recall which one.

The widespread cloning of parts of the financial services industry to the bitcoin world, particularly the speculative ones, has made it easier and easier to apply the reasoning that "If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, and shakes that thang like a duck - it's a duck" such that it's probably a done deal at this point in time. That is to say, the horse is out of the barn, I hope you didn't marry the cow for her free milk.

Thanks for the link, I nominated WikiLeaks.

1. Strictly, criminality is definitional. Strictly.
2. If you believe that you would make a lovely patsy for a frame-up, your righteous indignation would only fan the flames.

So, really, all one needs to do is make it appear you are a criminal by some accepted definition, and you're screwed. It's amazing how expensive being innocent can be, I've seen people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal fees, court fees, fee fees, etc on charges that were later dropped. The gumint kept de money, though, as did the lawyers.

Good work, thank you. However, nothing lasts forever, you should take care of that which is important. Best of fortunes to you.

Interesting message at what appears to be the login page of Silk Road re: The Hidden Wiki

Before you login, make sure you came here from a trusted link and are at the official Silk Road .onion url and not some password phishing clone. If you suspect you have ever logged in through a phishing site (especially the hidden wiki), you should change your password asap.

The Hidden Wiki has been much abused by hijackers.

+1, except don't ever store your bitcoins with anyone unless your situation absolutely requires it. The rise of bitcoin "banks" and similar such is not a good thing.

Also, I wouldn't worry about the bandwidth requirement for the blockchain unless you are on an analog phone line or a 3G wireless connection, nor the data volume with respect to Tor. I did find that going through Tor resulted in fewer bitcoin peer connections and seem to greatly increase the latency of transaction confirmations.

Anyway, bitcoin isn't anonymous. To the contrary, it appears to me that it could be a good platform to train people in the principles of detecting activities that may be money laundering or other no-nos. Nice to have that blockchain out there, one wouldn't even need to generate a student example database.

Thanks for the reassurance, you have confirmed what I thought to be the case. At this rate I'll never recover costs for the used video cards I picked up on Ebay. Oh well, it's still interesting to fool around with bitcoin.

I recall having issues with some Tor gui software and settings several years ago, but I can't recall what they were. I do recall the upshot is that I only use the Tor service and edit the torrc manually. There is a gui application named vidalia I have used to observe the Tor network, but that and the SeaMonkey browser are my only GUI apps for Tor.

If you are behind a firewall or using NAT with a router you may need to forward port 8333 and the two Tor ports in the excerpt below from my torrc, I run both on a machine that has it's own firewall and has a public IP address so no forwarding is required.


#ORPort 49001
## If you want to listen on a port other than the one advertised
## in ORPort, uncomment the line below. You'll need to do ipchains
## or other port forwarding yourself to make this work.
#ORBindAddress 0.0.0.0:9090
#ORBindAddress 0.0.0.0:9001

## Uncomment this to mirror the directory for others (please do)
#DirPort 9030 # what port to advertise for directory connections