I stand by my position that long term having humans around is better for life on and from Earth.

Even if we aren't ready yet to deal with giant chunks of space debris coming our way, we'll eventually be.


What happened to "two heads think better than one"?

I got in 'cause it's a cheap way to send and receive money accross the world.

"Mining is actually a conspiracy by X for cracking the world's passwords"

Without humans, who will shoot out giant meteors that are coming to blow up the Earth? And who will build arks to keep the stream of life originated on Earth from ultimatly going completly extinct when the Sun goes red giant?

It seems that long term, from the point of view of Earth's life, humans are a necessary evil...

I wonder how traumatized kids would be if after they drunk some hot cocoa someone came up to them and "enlightened" them that being offered and then drinking hot cocoa was an evil thing to happen with them, and then sent them to mental professionals to help them deal with the horrible taint of having drunk hot cocoa.

I seriously doubt that if when i was a kid someone made me feel really good i would have been scarred for life; sure if i had been hurt or severely humiliated it would've been bad, but anything if done nastily can be bad, kids can get traumatized with anything from potty training to riding the merry-go-round to fishing to eating pork to going to the doctor etc. IMO if society dealt with sexual stuff more healthy there would be way less kids getting traumatized with sexual stuff.


Seems that in many cases what traumatizes kids is the cultural aspects and not the sex itself (again, i'm not saying that it is never bad)

Btw, if pointing to our winnings isn't unwelcome, could you add a thingy that will make a little banner to post in forum sigs that automaticly says how much i won and when, and if people click on it it links to the site and/or a log of the transfer? I guess it's kinda silly, but i feel like bragging about winning the free lotto, i hardly ever won anything before, much less somthing with such a big prize

I wouldn't expect it to be so black & white; say for example, two kids that happen to have been born in the same day one year apart, one  is 17 and the other 16, they're dating, going all the way, sexting each other etc; then the older one turns 18, how can you explain the exact same things suddenly turning from happy fun to rape for a period of one year, and then just as suddenly once again become just fine?


ps: if you believe in another age limit to be considered "ADULT", just skip a few years ahead or behind in my example

(Adding thread to my watchlist. No,the "Notify" thing doesn't work the same as posting a reply yourself)

You could offer services and products in exchange to BTC, or even simply invest in somthing with regular money and use your earnings to buy more BTC.

To be honest, as long as no one gets harmed, i'm all for kiddie porn among other things (i've heard of a few cases where kids played with sexual stuff, both among themselves and with people of age, and they were ok; but then they got severely traumatized when misguided religious people, politicians, TV presenters etc got involved and managed to convince them that somthing they enjoyed was actually supposed to be a hideous event and they were supposed to be scarred for life etc. Not saying it is never bad, just that it isn't necessarily bad in 100% of the cases)

i wonder how many more times it will happen before enough people catch up and disrupt the cycle...


ps:thanx for putting this in form of a song, made me laugh

I didn't meant a total utopy, just an hypothetic scenario where a selection of factors considered unwelcome aren't present; kinda like when people say things like "in an ideal world with no friction the wheel would keep rolling forever once started", lots of things would be less than ideal in an world without friction, but for that specific aspect having no friction is ideal.

Just cause he doesn't support one party it doesn't mean he supports the other; there are lots more players in that thing than just the Israeli govt and the terrorists reacting to it's actions.

Once i get enough BTC or a steady source of income (bigger than just the natural valuation(sp?) of Bitcoin), i'll start spending my BTC; right now i don't got enough of either, if i start spending my coins more than the sporadic donations here and there i'll run out of coins too quickly. On the other hand, if BTC was getting less and less valuable i would be in a hurry to unload mine and be hesitant to acquire more later on. With Bitcoin increasing value over time, it makes it a good investiment, if it was loosing value people wouldn't wanna buy it in the first place.




I read someone explaining here in the forum the other day that there is two types of things that are called inflation/deflation, i forgot the details, but basicly you only say Bitcoin is going one way and eventually will tip the other way if you mix the two things together; I think it was the total number of bitcoins avaiable versus the value of individual bitcoins when compared to other currencies (i could be remembering it a tad inaccuratly though)

This is somthing i imagine people here might be able to answer (and even if you can't get to an definitive answer, i expect lots of people here would enjoy discussing the topic)

Would big cassinos still be profitable if there weren't people addicted to gambling and if everyone understood well the odds for/against them on each game?

Do you got any proofs of your claim?

If there is hopes the network will later coalesce again, or there is chance people will be smuggling the blockchain  back and forth between fragments by sneakernet, people who know or suspect they are not in the biggest  chunk of the split network should refrain from mining at the risk of loosing the 50 bucks they earned by the time the chain gets merged, and people receiving money should try to track down when and where those coins were cyberminted and refuse to accept coins that didn't came from the biggest chunk of the divided network nor from before the split.

I'm not quite sure what  happens to transfer fees though.

Ah, and regarding that; the people that run the forum decided that the best way to deal with the excess of lame posts and just plain spam was to cage new accounts till they have enough posts to earn the right to play with the big boys; so to be released you should try to post as much as you can in here while still trying to not post useless or otherwise unwelcome posts (if you upset people too much while still in the newbie pit i imagine you run a big risk of getting banned before earning the right to post elsewhere)

There is no official symbol exactly. While the b'at (i'm using with as my av here) doesn't get added to the Unicode standard, i like the idea of using the Ƀ ( Capital B with stroke ) as the symbol. There has been quite a bit of discussion about which symbol to use officially, there is even a wiki page on the topic showing some of the proposals (with varied levels of completeness regarding pros and cons and things like that)

If i append (or prepend) it can i still get paid, even if not as much as if i had dedicated my sig solely to the ad?