I doubt there are more than 10 people who would support what Bush did in hindsight, but even after finding out what the ISI did and their harboring for Osama, Obama continued to dish out even more money.  He couldn't even give Karzai a good backhand.  What good is a puppet if the puppet wont listen?

Face it Obama's foreign policy is worse than his domestic policy, and he's at 40% approval on the domestic front.  Not looking good for the messiah.

Yes, this is true.  Iraq left itself susceptible to outside manipulation and the US capitalized on that.  Clearly the US did not do it for Iraq in some altruistic manner. The US was fighting a idealistic war with USSR (or so we are told).  Iraq choose to side with the US.

Now look to the regions that were previous Soviet block like Ukraine - they're doing just great today

Damned if you do, damned if you don't

Nice post Slingshot.  The problem is 1/2 way through listening to that post (since most of the idiots keeping banks in power are illiterate) most people would just go back to playing CoD or watching Game Of Thrones.  I kind of wish we had a civil war for ignorance is bliss vs reality.

You can harp on what the US has done over the past 20 years (since the first Iraq invasion) but Saddam was no friend of the people (at least not most Iraqi).  Establishing peace and some prosperity for the sake of saying you have it while mass murdering millions of others that you deem unfit just not make a country.  By the logic stated in the OP Stalin was quite a successful leader.

You don't know how politics works in the US.  You have to promise more to them, not promise less.

Over-promising, that's what got Obama elected.  That man had lovely posters and music and made it seem like unicorns and pots of gold at the end of the rainbow were real.

Republicans are losing because they're not over-promising (for the most part). They may be bat looney, but they're not doing what it takes to win.

You should also apply to the Class action Lawsuit.  Every piece of evidence provided helps ensure that BFL will be punished for their illegal and unethical behavior.

Signature campaigns are for minimal play amounts of BTC.  With the exception of Hero and senior members, most people make more working than they do posting.  This may not be true in 3rd world countries where BTC is worth significantly more.

That is incorrect. Artforz is considered to first person to be secretly mining massive amounts of BTC on his GPUs and at that time BTC was over $0.01.  The spike in mining in March 2011 is from the GPU explosion that Satoshi tried to hold back as long as possible.

Please check out the alternative client section of the forum. Wallets like Armory and Mycellium offer the same or increased level of security and they have step by step guides for new users.  You don't want to make a wallet retrieval so difficult than should an emergency strike you would not be able to recover your funds easily.

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and about 50K worth of external drives, extra displays, motherboards, video cards (mining farm), PSUs, UPS, Bridge & routers, etc

Just be careful with your wandering eyes around Hollywood.  Some of those girls.....well, let's just say you may be shocked it the dress were to blow up Marlyn Monroe style 

Ssshhh.  You'll give away the reason for the next rise!

Seriously though, those silver rounds tend to jam up more often than I like.

I won't disclose what I have or how many, but let's just say if somebody tries to break in at night I'll be the one sipping coffee in the morning.

I never supported gun users until I heard the guns and religion quote (and I'm not religious) - that's when I knew it was time.

1% only have strength when the military follows their orders, and military is not typically composed of 1%ers.  When the shit hits the fan (or rather IF), then it would be robot vs military.  Hmm, T2.

Banned for using SAT words.  Who says insipid other than in the movies

Fun fact - most facts and not facts, instead they are some random afterthought from a 15 year old boy.

What a difference a year makes....oh wait maybe not.  Same crap, different year.

It's disgusting how companies like this continue to operate.  I guess America is so filled with bureaucratic crap nowadays nothing gets done.

We made fun of Avalon getting chased by the triad in China last year but if BFL was in China the place would have had an RPG go through those doors a long time ago.

Some people will be tempted to overclock for just the first difficulty cycle hoping it doesn't die during that time since thats when they'll get the most bang for the buck.  Problem happens if it dies then you pretty much took the whole thing as a loss.

As long as it's designated as an owner draw and balances out your CPA and IRS don't care.

Congress has stopped pretty much all nuclear initiative since the mid 1970s.

Even though there may be plenty of oil and gas for a century, the supplies that area easily accessible are dwindling.  Deeper and deeper drilling techniques will be need as well as trench drilling.  That's going to drive the cost up.