Nobody said anything about stopping sex. We're talking about porn.
The difference escapes me. It's sex when you do it, it's porn when you sell the tapes? Anyway, I think the thing that really grates on my nerves is this idea that the "American Way" is somehow inferior to, what, the European way?
Completely agree! Notice how I never mentioned any alternative? The thing with the "American Way" is that it is advertised as better than any other, and force fed onto those who are not Americans or are not in agreement with it. You are free to disagree with me, and you know why? Because neither of us is bound to a 3rd party set of rules for what we are supposed to do or think. Yes, Europe has it's way too, and that is try and mimic the Americans in most everything  I'm sure lots of people on here don't like the Tea Party, but the Tea Party movement is an outworking of the uniqueness of America. Yes, the USA has some big problems and is headed in a fascist direction. But where else in the world do you get thousands of people protesting for government to stop giving them freebies? Where else do people demand their government spend less?
Porn, guns, Tea Party, freedom, self-reliance, state paternalism. These things are all tied together.
Anyway, get back to work.
Yes, daddy. * nelisky looks down in shame, while slowly walking towards the corn field. |
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If gun ownership led to bank robbery Switzerland would be in a state of siege.
(Sorry about my participation in this thread hi-jacking, breandan. Just advertising the benefits of gun ownership for ya!)
Yep, and if Pornography would lead to rotten souls there would be a lot of people trying to justify owning guns... oh, wait, I just shot myself in the foot :p I don't like guns, shooting is not my thing. I never said it was wrong to own guns. The way they are usually used, well, I can object to that, but you are free to own a nuclear warhead for all I care. The problem I usually have on this subject is not related to guns, but to double standards... There aren't many things as healthy and enjoyable as sex, yet we talk about pornography and suddenly there are lost souls everywhere; We must stop this devilish thing called sex! It is killing society. Oh, and if you can enforce that using guns? win-win! :O But, hey, I'm just a guy here, and the truth is I only mock because I jealous... I'm sure my kids are much safer with guns in the house than with Playboy TV, there are certainly statistics about it. I'm being really pedantic here, am I not? Sorry about that, work is boring today... |
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Not trying to be moralist or anything, but I talk about porn for teenagers and I get "we don't want the parents hovering on us because of this" type of comment, but now you sell firearms and ammos for bitcoins...  Oh the irony of the American Way (tm) That's one view. My view is porn is more dangerous than firearms. Firearms can destroy the body, porn can destroy the soul. Firearms can keep government in check. Porn can keep the populace subdued and compliant. Yep, the irony of the American Way (tm) at it's best, as I said. Now give me just a sec while I go rob a bank with my naked aroused body, the tellers' souls won't even know what hit them. And then I'll join the porn army to go and fight the infidels that, you know, like sex. |
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I don't care about others, it is just funny to see panic at first hand.
Careful guys, he's with the Government. :p |
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That was just a public key for anyone who wanted to encrypt something for me. And on the porn subject, I didn't complain about that, nor would I. I'm offering a gun and some ammo for sale for bitcoin because I have them and have been thinking about selling them for a while. It's completely legal as long as it's in state, I'd need to make the exchange in person, it's kind of a long shot but I figured someone might contact me and live in my area. I agree that the porn/violence thing is weird in the US but well.. it's the US.. what can I say, life perplexes me here but that's why we have things like pgp and bitcoin.
Yep, don't take my comment as anything personal or judgmental. I don't like guns, I like porn, thus I do have a bias, but I didn't mean to imply everyone should think like me, oh no! That would make sarcasm so very difficult Being "legal" is exactly what I'm crying wolf about. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's correct, and the opposite also holds true, but I like to think we are more or less free, and freedom implies we don't need to be correct, we are not required to anything. Society will then, as a whole, mandate the price we pay for the way we act and we decide if it's worth it or not. But I digress, good luck with your sale, we should be using bitcoins for *everything*. |
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Not trying to be moralist or anything, but I talk about porn for teenagers and I get "we don't want the parents hovering on us because of this" type of comment, but now you sell firearms and ammos for bitcoins... Oh the irony of the American Way (tm) |
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The trust system would be the base for everything, as it always is for bitcoins. A good trust system would be one that allows you to filter the trust ratings to only those that were given by people you already trust, I think. But, yeah, trust systems can't be blindly trusted Just like in auction sites, feedback is not just a number, it has to include comments AND history of feedback for those giving out feedback, so we can at least try to filter out those that try to subvert the system to their benefit. |
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PS - For item (3) of this Pledge, please note that I am referring to CASH for BITCOIN... Nothing else. PayPal regulations do not apply. Let's please keep this thread on topic. Thanks. You have my sympathy, but isn't keeping the threads on-topic against forum regulations or something? I speak out of experience only |
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I might be able to get the $100 denominations as physical cards. I could mail them out as lettermail.
Any interest in this service?
You're kidding ? Of course it would be nice. Although I'm not sure I could use them in Europe. But that would worth a try. Don't they have visa in europe? We have VISA but from my experience no gift cards, thus merchants my frown upon accepting a card that does not hold the owner's name. But I never tried a card with no name, only have my wife use the card in my name, so that might be completely different. |
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I'm the "uninformed type of person" that tries hard to stay that way by trying hard to make my own mind using my own ideas. I may very well be any of the options, but I don't really know any of them all that well, and many I heard about in this forum for the first time!
"ignorance is bliss"
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16 year old here. I introduced the concept to many friends and a whole class. No dice.
Give them a virtual world to hook them up to. Then they discover that play money is real money. Give them a gateway that allows subscribing to porn sites using bitcoins, then they discover the true value of bitcoins... it's more than money, it's a great way to keep prying eyes away from your business, or at the very least heavily increase the barrier. I don't want puritanical parents breathing up our collective neck. See, that's where I think the beauty of bitcoins lay... we don't have to play cop for anyone, it's the individual choice thing, I believe they call "freedom" or some other abstract meaningless word disclaimer: I am a parent, I have an undisclosed number of teenage children, I understand your worries. I go around that by actually being there for my kids and talking openly to them... a crazy idea, I know! |
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16 year old here. I introduced the concept to many friends and a whole class. No dice.
Give them a virtual world to hook them up to. Then they discover that play money is real money. Give them a gateway that allows subscribing to porn sites using bitcoins, then they discover the true value of bitcoins... it's more than money, it's a great way to keep prying eyes away from your business, or at the very least heavily increase the barrier. |
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What it doesn't permit is for you to take the hard work of others and give it to 3rd parties without permission. What I consider to be immoral is being a leech on society living off of the work of others and not producing anything yourself. There is also so much stuff in the public domain that if you insist upon sharing something, look at the public domain first. I'm not half as educated in these matters as you guys are. I'm not a libertarian, statist, agorist or any 'arianist' of any kind. I don't even know what they encompass for the most part anyway. What I am is an outsider at any rate... I live by my own personal set of rules and I try my best to not step in anyone else's toes, while still obeying the laws of where I'm physically located, but I fail to search for others that share the same view or follow the view of others. I just like to reinvent the wheel as much as possible The statement above by rhorning sent shivers up my spine... So leeching off of someone else's work is a bad thing? That is the basis of the whole progress movement, right? If the first comer was entitled to be the sole beneficiary of an invention or creation, where would we be? Think computers... If a lot of bad ass copying and misusing IP didn't happen, we probably be bitcoin less... internet less... linux less... just keep going down that path if you feel so inclined! |
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Who's in charge of the OSX build? Given it usually lags behind I assume it is done by someone not using OSX as the primary OS. I can help with this if that's the case, just point me to how things are done right now.
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Or should we just state that bitcoin is the virus instead? That should be sufficiently confusing to still scare the average person. I think we should stay away from that. Either your irony skills are much better than mine, or my irony skills suck to the point of them going unnoticed... |
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We all want / expect bitcoin to be viral, so let me fix this for you: There is no bad virus inside bitcoin.
Or should we just state that bitcoin is the virus instead? |
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re: multiple dbs and such, what I would really like to see is not necessarily client suport for multiple dbs, but rather a clean wallet interface and a default implementation, much like what is happening with mining today.
With this we could have custom builds for other DBs if need be and, more interestingly for me, make the import/export trivial and allow for some really neat tricks for web services without needing to keep mucking about the default client sources.
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Designing and implementing user-friendly wallet backup for the GUI bitcoin seems like it would be a great little project for somebody who knows C++ and knows, or is willing to learn, wxWidgets programming. The non-GUI code already has the 'backupwallet' RPC method, and 'getinfo' will tell you the age of the oldest key in your keypool.
For extra credit, the code could keep track of the last successful backup and warn you that it is time to backup again when the keypool age gets close to the last backup time.
How does the oldest key help in deciding when to backup? Looking for a timestamp newer than the last backup would mean that we're already running with non-backed up keys, or am I reading this wrong? We could say 'backup if oldest is less than a week old' or something like that, but I assume that is never a replacement for regular wallet backups. |
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It is certainly less complicated than getting my hands dirty on FPGAs, but I can't find any performance numbers. I'm inclined to believe this is more of a 'secure box' than a performance contender.
You would be hard pressed to try and scale this to a point where it was interesting, imho.
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