Name a country where this isn't common (ugh, double negatives!)
I really hope there is one, or we're truly screwed  If not, let's invent one. We'll call it Acirema  |
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Dancupid,
That's rediculous. You sound like a former computer geek who would argue that if someone didn't understand DOS there is no reason anyone should be using a computer. The goal is to get everyone to embrace bitcoin. If you expect everyone to spend a couple days to understand the block chain and how bitcoin works you're an idiot. You don't need to understand the physics of an internal combustion engine to drive a car, nor should you have to. The same is true of bitcoin. That is unless you want bitcoin to remain a fringe economy so that you can sit in your lonely corner telling everyone how superior it is if they would only spend a week to learn why. Idiot.
People like you why Murica's gov shits all over its people. "How can I be expected to understand the basics of what I'm doing? That's too much thinking! Leave that to someone else to figure out! How dare you expect ME to THINK for MYSELF! Idiot." |
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If any first-world government decides to flex their legal muscles to shut down exchanges, that will kill off the adoption rate and at the very least cause bitcoin usage to stagnate.
That's an issue that affects more than just Bitcoin But I agree. It's more so, people allowing their governments full control over every aspect of their lives that the first-worlders can just say "Bitcoin supports terrorism" and anyone without half their brain functioning (not uncommon in Murica) would destroy any BTC they had and preach the message to their peers. |
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Hrmm that's interesting. Reward the guy with the best info.
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Not gonna lie, I'd rather have someone with enough insight to know Bitcoin could amount to something be on the top ladder in wealth, not someone who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, shipped to an ivy league school, and guaranteed a spot in power for future generations.
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Welcome to our dysfunctional family, krooks |
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Now suppose that the coins you decided to use had to be manufactured in an expensive process to prevent counterfeiting. When this became known 95 of the 100 people involved decided to not bother. As time passed more and more of them joined in and worked hard to create more and more coins.
Now some guy in the 20 who never bothered working for it decides it would be more fair if he gets a cut out of the work everyone else did "just because".
Right. He wouldn't want it if it had no value, as he assumed prior. Asking someone to give you wealth because you didn't know it would be worth something in the future is not fair at all. The argument that nobody will adopt the coin because people are wealthy (and presumably not spreading any wealth, which obviously means no one is adopting the coin) is just his misguided observation. |
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I believe the upside outweighs the head-start some users got. Considering it's extremely difficult to spread the wealth of a decentralized currency, it's a lost cause to begin with.
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Is this real life?
Or is this fantasy?
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I have a phobia of teeth gaps!
There is supposedly a link between gapped front teeth and increased sex drive. Awwwww yeah! Edit: Also, I updated Sally's red hair to something more cool  |
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Each time I hear news about the education in this country, I die a little, knowing I just came out of it not long ago  But it's a total travesty. It's like it's so mangled up, it can't be called education anymore, but plain old indoctrination, and any child who disagrees is drugged up and then indoctrinated. So FUBAR that it can't be touched, because no sane person would agree that this is the kind of education we'd like our kids to have. And to top it all off, you can't opt-out. I once tried, but the only kind of home-schooling my parents could find and afford was of the Christian sort. They tried to tell me I couldn't read Harry Potter because "witchcraft is a product of Satan" |
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Thankfully, with more and more people switching from public/cable TV and getting more into Hulu and Netflix, the mainstream media's lost a bit of its grip; at least on me. I still have to take any news I get from a 'reliable' source with a grain of salt.
But I swear to Zeus, I'll never stomach a minute of Fox News again. Talk about mind control, they can't get a few sentences out without reminding you how you need to feel about everything.
SHOCKING NEWS, A DISTURBING/HORRIFYING/TRAUMATIZING blah blah blah.
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Hoo boy! Can't wait to see who's next.
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I've seen this before I absolutely love this entire album |
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You wouldn't happen to be related to smoothie, would you?
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Did you draw that?
That's right, drawn and painted by yours truly It's awesome but at first glace it looks like she doesn't have the back of her head! Then I realized that the inside of her mouth has the same color and texture as her hair, which is why I was confused. Ah! You're right! Should've gone with a different color  But I like it when colors match with other colors  Artist's dilemma, I suppose. Maybe I'll try a blue hair color instead, to match with the BG... |
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Did you draw that?
That's right, drawn and painted by yours truly |
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Invest in PatriotCoin--the only coin legal in America!
Do you like freedom? Don't let the terrorists win! Use PatriotCoin!
According to a recent study, nine out of ten Americans use PatriotCoin. Why aren't you?
PatriotCoin: think of your children.
Egh. What if the first-worlders try to outlaw accepting Bitcoin then? It can't stop people from using it, but it can certainly stunt its growth by pressuring businesses to avoid it like plague, lest they suffer the wrath of Go--I mean, be tried in a court of law.
Also, with the advent of the so-called World Bank, I wonder what they'll try to do to squash the world currency. Fight fire with fire? EarthCoin?
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Tobacco is a lot of work to grow, cure, shred, and make into cigarettes at the volume the average smoker needs them. OTOH, pot grows with minimal intervention and can be plucked right off the plant, dried for a couple days, and smoked. And one plant will keep the average smoker supplied for a LONG time.
So - corporations found to be messing with additives, jacking up prices, etc. will quickly find themselves replaced by home growers and farmer's market weed.
Then, all the campaigning to abolish weed and make stoners appear to be the bottom of the bottom of society, despite several tests to show weed in moderation is not only benign, but can be curative, while cigarettes and alcohol--about as unhealthy as you can get before downing several quarter pounders a day--are completely a-okay, was nothing more than propaganda... Still working out the why |
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Perhaps some responsibility would fall on the consumer, then, to ensure the product they're buying is of the highest quality But in a place like Muricuh, people don't seem to bother with quality as much as how cheap they can get it. I don't see why any of these bans exist in the first place. If people want it, they're gonna get it, law or no law. Law just acknowledges there's an issue with society, and does nothing to resolve it, outside of a wallet spanking. |
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