Activity increases only every two weeks.

Sounds like a win-win situation to me

Thanks for this, it'll come in handy.

This offer will always be open: build a logo that says "Mike's Art Shop"

If it's good, I'll use it, and give a link back to your thread.  If not, I'll explain why it's no good and you can try again.  You should be following all the tutorials you can find so you can improve; once you create something to my standards, consider yourself good enough for paid service.  Send me a PM whenever you're ready.

Good luck

FSM always seemed more of a mockery of organized religion; God is never given a physical description so it's entirely possible he appears like a flying spaghetti monster.  If you follow the belief that there is a God and no religion has gotten it right, it's entirely possible to continue to believe there is a God who created the universe and decided to stop intervening.

If you ask me, it's far easier to just acknowledge the possibility of atheism, but I couldn't say the FSM is the perfect argument against there being a God; at such a point, if you abandon organized religion, it's all on you to decide whether or not God is useful in your life; those who do not see use are atheists, those who do--and I've noticed this among many followers of faith--simply abandon religion and decide to go their own path, i.e. deism.  Can God appear as a FSM?  I don't see why not.  Is it likely?  No.  Has God been disproven?  In his common incarnations, yes, but not entirely; the idea has no effect on someone who believes in what can't be true, as long as there is a feeling of existence.

Why do people keep comparing Bitcoin to tulips?  Tulips would make for a terrible money.

That's sad to think about; I wonder how many of them were aware of what the US military is accomplishing and still decided to stand up.  I can forgive the person who doesn't know, but someone who is aware and still decided to stand says a lot.

I don't see how this could work without entrusting your coins with someone else.  If you're doing that, you should expect the worst; anyway, shorting is not something you can simply "ban", just avoid by disallowing people from borrowing your coin.

The other reason why I won't be joining.

Sounds like he's trying to avoid his feelings of guilt.

I no longer pay much attention to popular media, but when I did, I certainly had to grind my teeth every time they made an attempt to make me think something was this way or that way.  I hate it when news outlets do this; the job of the media is not to cultivate ideologies, it's to report happenings, and yet we can't seem to get any major news outlet to stop doing this, which I presume is due to most of us not realizing it's occurring.  For example, nobody needs to know whether the news is "shocking", "disturbing" or "controversial"; if it was, I would know it, I don't need to be told what to feel on it.

It sounds to me he was talking about a 2nd Bitcoin network, not an altcoin.  If I created a clone of Litecoin and named it Litecoin, you'd have two of the same coin but with different networks.  Still, if nobody uses the 2nd network, it doesn't mean anything.

There are an infinite amount of alternatives, check out the altcoin board.  What separates Bitcoin is that it has a larger userbase, and thus attracts more people than the other clones.  If someone made a real Bitcoin competitor, then you'd have competition; either way, it's more likely for someone to move into cryptocurrency than it is for someone to move away from it and into fiat.

You would need to download the separate client to access the second network.  This is how we have so many altcoins.

It's not really an argument against God, but against organized religion.

And what is wrong with this?

“Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day, our garlic bread, …and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. Ramen.”

The Flying Spaghetti Monster Holy Prayer – Unknown

Bitcoin's always becoming more popular, but mainstream is a specific point of popularity which we haven't reached.

I'm okay with this.

You're crazy