Guess I'll wait for your email then, I've already done it for another of my assets.
Thank you for keeping us updated.

I have also been away from BTC community for a while. So it's only know I've come back to find out for sure that Nefario actually is somewhat helping to fix the situation he put so many of us in.

I am aware I owned a few of your shares Usagi, yes Nyan was one of them. I could well own others, I have a bad memory and don't recall the history of who is behind them anymore.
As I said I am also aware I owned a few others (I don't know what the "etc" is), can list your assets, which I can claim with you?

A forum member here (I forget) made a google chrome plugin that used the GLBSE api to keep track of all my shares on my account, I used it and found it very useful. I took screenshots of what the numbers were for all my stocks I had, since apparently the API was either active or the plugin cached result even after Nefario took down the site. So I have what as far as I am aware was the final tally when GLBSE went down.

So is that acceptable evidence to prove what I owe? outside of email and btc address of course.
It has a list of the total, as well as recent transactions, dividends paid etc everything.

In my experience with Wiki's most captcha based additional verification before account creation doesn't slow it down much.
They guess those rather two well.
What slows it down the most is simple but random question of your own choice.
Having something non standard, means the bot just won't be able to guess it, but a human will know the answer.

The donation method is also great, just take a bit more to implement. It would once done before more likely to beat the bots and spammers.

Depends if you see it as advancement (improvement to our intelligence) to use technology to aid our brain functions via cybernetics, or do you see as us becoming lazier. That is potentially where our future lays within my life time for there to be any major differences to our intellectual capacities.

As a Programmer and Engineer I programmed many things to do things for me, so I had to understand the complexities fully to build it to do that function. To me, I done all the hard work, just as much as if it was done just mentally or "by hand", but with the advantage of not doing the repetitive stuff, or making it easier to do again.
The view point would not be shared if they didn't have the same involvement and was just given this technology.

It is the same retort I used to teachers in school when I became the only individual who used a PDA in my Adv. Math classes.
I programmed a lot of tools, programs from basic math formulas, I wasn't allowed to use any that did it all for me.

However as much as we might improve on a individual level, our social intelligence and our general ability to get along with each other has a long way to go. There is still a lot of misuse of our collective intelligence used against our own race. Until that improves we can't say we are really are improving overall.

The initial statement, I do agree with, recognising intelligence in others is certainly a sign of intelligence to ones self, thus is it is a pretty good precursor in most instances, but it is a complex assessment, not so easily simplified.

The concept of Intelligence as well as how it has been measured has changed a lot over the years, if you were to look into how it has changed over the past few hundred years. The Gap between the lowest and highest has also changed, at least in first world countries due to better education, for everyone, not just the "privileged".

I disagree that on average we are getting dumber, the bar is just set higher for every generation after our own.
Most of my family comes from a engineer type background, technical, logical and highly mathematical orientated in the careers they choose;
In my early teens I discover while talking to my parents and grandparents generation, the point in their lives they learnt the mathematics I was done at the time, they learnt 1-2 years after I did each generation back. All were smart and learnt exactly the same core mathematics as I did, just expectations of when they were capable of learning it changed even as little as 1 and 2 generations back.

That from that what you will.

From my understanding the only rationale behind why intelligence is counted as going down, is due to a slowing down on achievements that can be contributed to our intelligence as a race. Just like with Bitcoin, I do believe they didn't take into account for an increase in difficulty. 2000-6000 years ago, being smart and doing something with that intelligence was probably a lot easier than if you were to have the same individual try understand nuclear engineering or any of the modern day high level sciences. Much of what was considered marvolous and ground breaking you probably learnt in school before you were 15, yet it would of been some ones life time achievement 2000-6000 years ago. I imagine the same could be true in another few thousand years, with what is done today and took someone an entire life time to figure out.

Not that it makes me feel any better, but thanks.

I've still not been paid anything. No emails, nothing.
Not sure how many others have had nothing but silence.

Trickle down economics is flawed for two reasons.
- Human greed
- Trying to fix a complex problem with a simple solution in the wrong place.

Covering point 1, just because you give tax breaks, or in some way make it less expensive for big Corps to do something that the Government controls, does not end up translating into them deciding to reward those below them. If anything they reward the already high paid executives first, then stash abit more money away (invest or otherwise not seen by any low or middle pay worker).
By then their is very little extra cash left to go around and they are happier to just report a nice big profit to shareholders rather than spend it on any low or middle pay worker, since their salaries are usually industry standard and do not change much. Also since shareholders like to see big profits they aren't going to risk changing their business model too much by rewarding their customers in some way, unless the whole market also appears to be doing so. Most big business' are like sheep in that way, they won't change unless one company is brave enough to try it first and it is seen as a success and they risk losing business if they don't do it too. There is no incentive for them to follow through with trickle down economics, it's counter productive to their business profit margins.

Covering point 2, Trick down economics is usually applied to help growth, however to aid growth most business really require the low and middle class to have a decent amount of money to spend. The more excess income, the more spending power the masses have.
So why make it so the already rich have even more money? It doesn't help, give tax breaks, to the poorest so they do have more money available to go out and spend. Trickle up economics makes more logic sense, but take a guess who does the more potent lobbying for which method? Of course it's the big companies who have government convinced they can solve all the problems with the economy if they just had a few tax breaks here or there. The masses love to spend money, for the most part they have to, just how much they can afford to is their limitation, so if the masses have more money you've already given them all the incentive they need to go out and spend it.

I like the Llano's for their APU and cross-fire potential all in a laptop package that was not expensive at all.
They overclock well and I expect the same from Trinity for the laptop, haven't tried it yet.

I play all the latest games I want to on mine (Llano), I admit I overclock mine, but considering it's A6 3410mx and runs most games I want on high/highest detail, with decent AA settings, I'm not complaining. Trinity apparently shows some improvements, not a lot but nice boost in already powerful graphics.

Back on topic though, it's sad that AMD has resorted to such large layoffs, but it is true they have had a mixed bag of success.
High End Desktop CPU - Not good, intel crushes them here.
APU - Excellent, AMD has done amazing here at a great price.
Server CPU - Small Improvements, but Intel has historically had this, and hasn't made much dent.

If they end up refocusing their attention to APU's and Servers, grabbing those two key markets, instead of going for all 3, they might go back to their roots of what they were remembered for. Atleast what I remember them for, Solid performer, cheaper than Intel, that overclock very well.

I like many others, still haven't got their bitcoins returned, not even an email, yet he's already managed to send out double payments to some, others have had unusual amounts sent back and a few confirmed an accurate number was returned.
*shakes head*
Not looking good.

I've recently got my HTPC and FPGA Mining Rig stable enough I don't feel the need to constantly tweak it and went ahead and did exactly what I had always planned for it. Oil Submerged it in a thin framed glass fish tank, it looks beautiful. Still tweaking, but once it's finished I'll remember to take pictures to show it off.

Keep believing the party line all you want, it's what they want you to believe, that is why so many loop holes exist in the first place.
You really think any of the fortune 500 companies actually pay total taxes of 40, 30 or even 20%? No, they don't.
In the past 10 years, a good portion of those, have paid from total tax in single digits, to tax rebates, worth millions or even billions.
Doesn't sound like they are paying their fair share to me. Especially if they are suppose to be some of the most profitable companies in the world.

Fact is, the super rich, boast massive million or even billions of Net profits when it comes to pleasing their shareholders.
However, when it comes to taxing season, will find any way possible to make out they companies profits are low or obscured so can't be taxed or are owed a refund etc.

So no, when a company can make out business is booming, I don't see anything wrong with taxing them properly and getting rid of all these loop holes.

EM brings up a fairly good point. If you tax the 1% (Richest) more, the 99% get to enjoy a tax break.
Of course it doesn't matter that much while loop holes exist, however yes taxing the rich more does work, without penalising the poor.
Economic growth is largely driven by the spending power of the 99%, so if you tax them less, they will have more money to spend.

Why does it help when governments have more money?
- Public sector jobs creation
- More Police, Paramedics, Fireman etc, makes it alot easier to keep crime numbers lower, making for a more peaceful society.
- Public funding, Benefit system, pensions etc.

Yeah I live in a country with a high tax rate and a government which does a lot in the public sector.
I don't like taxes, but I'd not trust the private sector to do a better job.

There is a good reason why the United Kingdom, wants out of Europe, it's stupid crap like this we've put up with ever since we join have had the pleasure of being the first countries basically funded these idiots who come up with this crap and go around telling everyone in europe what to do, even when it clearly makes no sense.

Yes, I can see energy efficient computers a noble goal. It's something I do consider when designing a server, or usually opting for a laptop rather than a tower PC for my next work computer.
Do I think it should be some kind of law or regulation that can mean if you don't abide to it, you can't sell in europe, not really.
However I could atleast understand it, if it was at least measured by the thing you are trying to lower, the energy it uses.

Memory Bandwidth doesn't directly correlate to energy use, it shouldn't even be part of the equation. I would of respected them an ounce more (it's very low as it is), if they had atleast set the standards based in wattage increments of the TDP, from say 15-150W, maybe a nice little bonus for those who's sleep mode can operate under 2.5W for example. At least that would of made abit more sense, clearly they haven't consulted any experts.
It's still very stupid and on average the previous generation of GPU's have became more energy efficient, just like CPU's have. Their Power hasn't increased that much over the years, they have mostly increased in energy efficiency, so they can't make out they needed to force them to do this. They are making this progression on their own, so why come up with this in the first place?

I've not got an email.
Don't think I've got a payment either, it was only a small amount (few Btc), I rarely kept much BTC on GLBSE there doing nothing.
Not sure what address to expect it from either though.
I was on the process of selling shares, but still have about 80-100Btc worth of shares waiting to claim back and eventually sell.

Yes, that is all it takes, yet it still happens a lot where the worst still happens.

I wouldn't trust to host it in a server, unless I owned that physical server.
Very few know how to keep your bitcoin secure on a server, so It's best to keep it separate and off-site from the main server.

Really should of taken more advice on how to introduce AML/KYC. Hence why it was probably only up for a few hours.
The fact you implemented it at all is controversial of course.

Considering how little info is actually taken from us when starting an account, might of been a good idea to confirm all those details, not just username. I bet there is tons of people who have easy guess usernames because they have used that nickname everywhere.

Also if you going to state you need it for AML/KYC, then you damn well better cite some legal jargon at me, to atleast let me believe it's not going to be misused. Mtgox so far is my only experience via bitcoin of having to provide this, they have a lot there cover them and their users.

Guess I must of been a sleep when that brief window was open where they actually decided to open up again to process our accounts.

Glad I documented what Shares I had. I was in the process of selling all mine of, but apparently was being too cautious about how quickly I did it. Had about 100 Btc in shares and ~1 Btc or so in my account. Stings a little to not have access to that still.

No it's not entirely free, I did touch on how I pay taxes, but for the amount of cover I get and pay, it's far better than what I could get in the same situation and money, if I lived in any country which doesn't have a public health care system and instead has only private.
Sure when you have what appears to be free cover because it's taken as tax, people do use it more often. Personally I think the opposite is worse, people being afraid to get something checked out early because they are worried about how much it might cost them.
I've also never had a single argument over my cover or what I need to do. That however happens a lot with private insurers.

I believe what the USA are trying to do about getting a public health system in place is good step forward, but their mistake was compromising too much and involving the existing infrastructure of insurance companies. This seems to have lead to a forced insurance, with the same greedy corporations still somewhat in charge. It doesn't solve the problem of making sure no one is without insurance, without huge compromises. It's a failure when they can't see the difference forcing private insurance on people and tax based health cover by default system that doesn't really involve the insurance business at all.

Also many of the poorer workers pay very little in NI contributions (for the NHS), especially if you compare it % to other countries which rely on private only health care systems. They also often get exceptions and have access to the most benefits in the UK. I have been there and done that, as I am self-employeed and disabled individual I did need to use the benefit system at times and those which I still qualify for I still use.
I don't have a huge salary, average at best, but I know based on my dad's research insuring me in the USA would account for about 75% of my salary. Private insurance costs a fortune when they account for risk, NI doesn't, it means tested based on your income. Just like other taxes it works out as fairer. Comparing private to public it is nearer to 1/10th of the cost in public health care, it's one of the reasons why I never moved.
Again the benefit system, just like the NHS is all government funded with taxes, in some way and while some abuse it and it certainly agree it's not perfect it is very useful for those trying to get back on their feet and stops many who would otherwise go into a downwards spiral of debt if all done privately.