Why is spec work unethical?

The designer in essence works free of charge and with an often falsely advertised, overinflated promise for future employment; or is given other insufficient forms of compensation. Usually these glorified prizes or “carrots” appear tantalizing for creative communicators just starting out, ending with encouraging examples like “good for your portfolio” or “gain recognition.” The reality is that they often yield little extra work, profit or referrals. Moreover they often must sign a contract unwittingly waiving their valuable creative rights and ownership of their work to the ones promoting this system. A verbal agreement is ineffective in protecting the rights of the designer in a court of law. As a result the client/employer will often employ other designers using similar unprincipled tactics to change and/or resell the creative work as their own. This also promotes the practice of designers ridiculously undercharging themselves in the hopes of “outbidding” any potential rivals, devaluing both their skills and those of the graphics industry in the process. Promoting this method encourages some clients/employers to continue preying on uninformed creatives for menially valued labor.

Hello I am looking to loan .5 btc so i can ante up at seals with clubs I am very good at poker and would repay quite quickly.
Also I Used to play for a living when pokerstars, fulltilt and bodog many other were legal in usa. I'd be on 8h a day around 5years straight.
just found out about the place so I kindof wanted to go stir stuff up a bit

Oh dear :/
a few more hours left

This is pretty suspect seeing how Tom was claiming 90% + refunds. Is this bASIC thing going to end up a massive scam in the end?

Line of credit size: 35 BTC

Line of credit address: 1G6Affj3gZWG1vsUN2Gw1Cc6XukJzmk9w

Repayment address: 1MUZy8vUwkFneL9Y2ojY6mhAx8g4C97oFs

Interest rate: 16% APR / 0.6563% bimonthly

Loan periods close on the 4th and 18th of each month, interest payments due on the subsequent closing day. Carried interest will accrue interest and requires prior approval.

Principal repayment: The creditor can choose to stop or reduce the line of credit, with a payment plan of the principal that is scaled proportionally to the line of credit taken. The full amount would mean a 90 day repayment period.

For example, 17.5 BTC outstanding would mean a 45 day repayment period, while 3.5 BTC outstanding would result in a 9 day repayment period.

While the interest payments are two or more months behind, a full repayment can be called and the debtor agrees to pay the full amount (principal + outstanding interest) within 30 days.

The line of credit will be offered by BTCINVEST.

Change of Terms
The terms of this contract may be changed at any time only if both parties (creditor and debtor) agree to all changes on http://bitcointalk.org/

https://www.btcfpga.com/forum/index.php?topic=1048.0

i really did not see that coming. maybe the early refund was indeed a good decision

since bASIC is out of business, wouldn't it be time to discuss a new strategy? any suggestions?

@creativex: how is BASIC_MINING's refund doing? was it processed already?

The code for CIYAM itself is on git: http://github.com/ciyam/ciyam although the key file needing to be compared with is not actually there (a template file called ciyam_interface.js.xrep is). There are other .js files there also so for the purpose of the task as long as it can work with a "list" of files there would be no need to worry about the template (I can take care of that later).

So as an example the file base64.js can be found at: https://github.com/ciyam/ciyam/blob/master/src/base64.js

BTW - I will have a "join" page up soon (still getting all the GPG stuff properly automated) but for now if you are wanting to join up please read use this approach: http://ciyam.org/open/?cmd=view&data=20130114000616467000&ident=M100V120&chksum=460dba62

Hmm, it looks like we were overly optimistic regarding how many people would use the site. In light of this we are considering closing the site down. If anyone is interested in purchasing the script and taking over please PM me.

I've been on reddit for a while(3 years) and yeah, it can be gamed pretty easily since you can have 8-10 accounts made in a few minutes and individually downvote with each content a particular person or group does not like.


Just like with Digg.

The caption under the photo of the Casascius physical bitcoins is weird:

"Sadly, you can't spend actual bitcoins like these (non-digital ones) at a digital casino."

Isn't the whole point that those physical coins have private keys printed on them so you can spend them online?

The other problem is you will get into legal trouble if you constantly claim person x y or z is a scammer. It will happen eventually.