"You know how the banks are always screwing us over?"

"No" -->  Talk about how the banks are always screwing us over

"Yes" --> "Well, using Bitcoin is like crucifying the bank."  And then I'd probably get into conversation about how our taxes are going toward wealthy politicians and how we're still in a war, and how we can now opt-out of helping such social blemishes by using another form of money instead, namely Bitcoin.  If they're with you on this point, there's not a lot of explaining you need to do

It's a newborn for starters, and because there's a fixed supply and a forever increasing pool of adopters, the value is set to rise until everyone knows what Bitcoin is and has decided they want it or don't want it.

The 'natural - unnatural' argument doesn't fly.  Homosexuality occurs in nature, and is therefor natural.  It may be uncommon, but it is no less natural than heterosexuality.  Eating animals is natural.  Animals eating the same animal as they are is natural.  Animals having sex with their brothers, sisters and cousins is natural.

Why, then, do people experience these very same traits?  This argument ends when you come to the following conclusion:

Are people natural?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No

If people are natural, then the things they do are explained.  If people aren't natural, then the things they do are explained.  But there is no "what this person does is natural, and what that person does is unnatural."  We all come from nature, and we all act according to what nature says.  Nobody becomes a pedophile because they thought it was kinda cool.  Nobody has sex with the same gender because their "nature" was tainted by a bad childhood experience.  If humans are so complex that such things would alter the very workings of their mind, why is it that animals have the very same tendencies?  That would imply animals have minds equally as complex as ours, or that these unwanted tendencies aren't intentional and a part of a person's genetic makeup.

For example:  Why does John like the taste of cheesecake while Jim hates it?  They both have the same tongues, right?  So Jim must be pretending to hate it, or John must be pretending to like it.  Because most people like cheesecake, Jim must be a liar.  This is the logic behind the natural/unnatural correlation.  There is no homosexual by choice, only the homosexual as created.  To hate the homosexual is to hate women, or to hate blacks, or to hate pedophiles, or to hate tall people.  It may be hard to accept, but the facts are laid out plain as Jane.  People will be people, and nature doesn't give two damns about morals.  There is no right or wrong, these are abstractions, and must always be remembered that they cannot apply universally, for there is no absolute right, no absolute wrong, and no absolute fact, merely observations and interpretations.  So not only can I not find a reason why homosexuality is wrong, but there can never be a point that homosexuality is wrong.  It's impossible.  Likewise, homosexuality cannot be right.  It is what it is and that's about all you can ever logically figure; all other argument is spurred by emotion, and emotion leads to opinion, and opinion, as we all learned long ago, cannot be used as fire-power to back a fact.

Emotion!

If it was the last exorcism, how could there be...

Ah, forget it.

This is absolutely brilliant, molecular.  Great work!  Five stars!  Ten out of ten!  You've taken my, and most everyone's, thoughts and condensed them into this sweet little package.  From a glance, everything looks to be in order.  But I do agree, that first bit, "You fucked up, our turn!" implies it's time for us to fuck up   Perhaps "You fucked up, now we're in control?"  Not sure...

[1:3] Then Satoshi said, "Let there be Bitcoin"; and there was Bitcoin.
[1:4] And Satoshi saw that the Bitcoin was good; and Satoshi separated the Bitcoin from the fiat.

I forgot about the QR code; I'll look into fixing one of those into it.  That way someone won't have to type the whole code in.  But someone could potentially change the QR code to lead to yet another website   There's no escaping it!  I could try a vanity address, to make it more obvious that it was going to me...hrmm.  There's also a website that hosts e-books, and I'm pretty sure they have a "pay what you want" type thing, but it's slightly different than what I'm looking for, as I would prefer people to pay only after they saw it was a decent novel.  The "pay what you want" still assumes the reader doesn't know what they're getting into, and it's a total gamble.  That is, I could include some examples of the work, perhaps the first few chapters, but I'm not so sure...


Good point, and I too am against such measures.  That's the curse of anti-DRM, I suppose--or the blessing.  I'll just have to trust that nobody would sink so low.  I'll go ahead and release it once it's ready, to you guys and to wherever else, and if it does get modified at some point in time, I'll figure it out from there. 

Better to buy in and sit on it than to mine

That's an interesting point  But even if over 51% of the "benevolent miners" banned together to attempt to cripple the network, it would still be extremely difficult and costly and time-consuming.

Never knew American was a race   But I'm a self-racist if that's the case.

Betcha anything Satoshi's reading our messages here

I'll check out NameCoin and see if it can't solve my problem, but, I suppose I'll just have to rely on the good will of the community to not alter the address.  Or seek another way to do it...  I mean, couldn't anyone stamp anything with a BTC address and claim they created it?  Heck, they could probably alter the email address, or just throw one in.  Doesn't seem like there's any way around it, now that I think about it.

That's what I'm thinking.  I wasn't around for any of the other crypto-currency launches, so I may as well get in early with at least one.  Never know

Spam: the other kind of ham.

Not if you're ignoring it

Meh, I'm in.  Even if it is a joke

Stop using my word