But as serious weapon 3D printing is not practical. Firearm must be reliable to fire tens of thousands of rounds. It must not break when dropped or grabbed by enemy in close quarter combat.
Sharing blueprints of real guns is the way to go. Maybe initially optimized designs like Sten SMG or Makarov PM. Then someone with right tools and materials can make copies.
I'm not so sure about that. Yes, "real" guns are certainly much better long term. But perhaps the question should be more something like this: Could John Wilkes Booth have used this effectively? |
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I've got an odd error: Warning: Displayed transactions may not be correct! You may need to upgrade, or other nodes may need to upgrade. This seems like an odd error message for 0.8.1. Is anyone else seeing this? It's displayed in an order bar at the top of my bitcoin wallet (bitcoin-qt). |
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Not sure how it will affect BTC, but it will certainly kill a lot of small businesses that can't afford the overhead of doing 50 sets of paperwork several times a year.
That in itself would be a good reason to move to BTC over traceable fiat.
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i recommend g edward griffin's book "the creature from jekyll island"
He's one of the best voices on the topic, so +1 for that. |
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“The bank that is storing my money is highly regulated by federal regulators and backed by a government with a huge army behind it,” James Angel, a business professor at Georgetown University, told Ars last month. In plain English... force is needed because it's so shoddy that nobody would use it if they had a choice. "I don't want to regulate everything under the sun," Chilton added in the CNBC interview. "If you guys want to be a shill for the financial industry and support a chattel currency that people use to purchase drugs and money with—have a party, man. My job is a regulator; I'm going to look after it." Shill? Seriously? Wow. Hypocrisy on crystal meth. The real take-away from this is FREEDOM SCARES THESE CONTROL FREAKS! |
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Bitcoin is bad because you can speculate on it. Much better to invest in something safe & non-speculative... like derivatives...  |
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Wow. Just. Wow.
They are so mind numbingly ignorant...
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Terrorist Financing & Money Laundering Risks
It is not disputed that cybercriminals use electronic payment systems and virtual currencies as a way to launder money and fund terrorism.
Bitcoin, however, poses a unique risk because it is the only decentralized P2P virtual currency that opens up a new channel for money laundering and terrorist financing with no easy way to detect suspicious activity, identify users and traders, obtain transaction records and trace money flows from and to criminals and terrorists.
Without being able to obtain transaction records and follow financial transactions, it is virtually impossible for law enforcement worldwide to prevent terrorist financing from occurring on the bitcoin network, or to monitor it to prevent terrorists from purchasing the tools, equipment and supplies they need to carry out attacks.
Bitcoin is an underground currency and it will inevitably be used by factions of extremists and money launderers to move money globally without detection.
And that’s the fear.
Much as we may not like some of the invasive components of modern anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing legislation, and the attendant monitoring and reporting to government agencies, it is extremely effective in stopping terrorists and protecting society.
The very thing that makes bitcoin attractive to some users – anonymity – makes it extremely dangerous for the rest of us because it can facilitate terrorist attacks that threaten our way of life and seek to destroy the fundamental values to which we ascribe that form the basis of our constitutional democracy. ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?Ahem... The "terrorists" and "criminals" already have very well established ways to launder money... It's called HSBC!The advantage for "terrorists" and "criminals" is that BTC has lower transaction fees!  I'm sure that I'm not the only one that's sick of this kind of bullshit. |
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Well what did you expect? If you deal in any other currency than Canadian (dollars?) you must pay taxes, so why not so with Bitcoin?
Why not bitcoin? Because taxation is theft. The only reason they want to tax it is because they cant help but extort money from their cattle. Any time they see someone trying to break free from their scheme, they put systems in place to prevent others from doing it. Its high tech slavery, where you let the slave pick and choose their job and place to live, making them more productive to the slave owner. Once something like zerocoin comes out and the ledger is nothing but a big washing machine, how are they going to tax it? as long as you don't deal in their garbage fiat, how could they tax you? Yes. That. +1 The other thing is that only CAD can be used to pay taxes in Canada. BTC isn't "legal tender" for taxes. |
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If you're working in Excel, my guess is that real time is out of the question, but instant snapshots isn't.
The question then is more about converting JSON to something like tab-delimited so that you can open it in Excel, then likely just run some macros/VBA.
I don't have an answer for you, but that might help someone else give you a better answer.
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I sind up and I (only) got a "Thank you" via email. And now? Same here. This is a standard type of thing for a start-up. They get you to visit the site, sign up, then after however-long-it-darn-well-takes-to-have-a-beta-version, they email you and ask you to hop on board. I signed up as well. Same deal. But, I knew from the initial screen that was what it was. Just be patient. They'll update you when they have something to deliver. |
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I don't know what a "statist" is (someone who abhors change?), but I get the gist of your argument: since the state is built on a violence monopoly, a larger state should necessitate more violence.
Look up "statism". An excellent resource to help understand it is the "Nolan Chart". But no, it's not resistance to change.  However, that argument is purely a play on words. Every data points available to us through most history shows the inverse relation, a stronger state generally gives a less violent society.
Don't tell me that. Tell the near 80 million Chinese that were murdered by their "stronger state". Or you could tell it to the 60 or 70 million Russians murdered by the strength of the Soviet state. Or you could praise the strength of the Khmer Rouge for their incredible strength as they wiped out millions of Cambodians. Then there's the United States of America. The strongest state in the world, and responsible for countless millions dying. 3 million people in Vietnam. Millions more in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's kind of hard to put the numbers on how many people are murdered inside the US by that strong state. It's pretty much every week that some cop murders someone in cold blood, but they never seem to face justice. Human experimentation in the US? Squalene? Syphilis experiments on civilians? etc. etc. There are countless more examples. Please tell me more about how strong states make the world "less violent".  There is a world outside the US borders. You are confusing your dislike for your own country with a general argument against states. Most countries tick along happily and have none of your drama. You would be quite incorrect there. I'm not from the US. However, the American police state disease is infecting my country. We have the same kinds of draconian legislation as the US, and some worse. We even have Cyprus-like banking theft legislation that pre-dates the Cyprus theft. My dislike isn't for the US. My dislike is for police states, tyrants, slavers, and thieves. |
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I don't know what a "statist" is (someone who abhors change?), but I get the gist of your argument: since the state is built on a violence monopoly, a larger state should necessitate more violence.
Look up "statism". An excellent resource to help understand it is the "Nolan Chart". But no, it's not resistance to change. However, that argument is purely a play on words. Every data points available to us through most history shows the inverse relation, a stronger state generally gives a less violent society.
Don't tell me that. Tell the near 80 million Chinese that were murdered by their "stronger state". Or you could tell it to the 60 or 70 million Russians murdered by the strength of the Soviet state. Or you could praise the strength of the Khmer Rouge for their incredible strength as they wiped out millions of Cambodians. Then there's the United States of America. The strongest state in the world, and responsible for countless millions dying. 3 million people in Vietnam. Millions more in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's kind of hard to put the numbers on how many people are murdered inside the US by that strong state. It's pretty much every week that some cop murders someone in cold blood, but they never seem to face justice. Human experimentation in the US? Squalene? Syphilis experiments on civilians? etc. etc. There are countless more examples. Please tell me more about how strong states make the world "less violent". |
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i have not said that it was the best way, im just making a statement about human nature.
And I'd like to say that we can easily rise above that. It's not that hard. The only thing needed is for people to refuse to hurt other people. Not really a difficult thing. Basically, you just need to do nothing and the problem is solved. |
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Of course. That's why we have police, social services, welfare services and mental health services. Take any of those away and you will live in a far more violent world.
Did you look at any of those links I posted above for you? |
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But what you can't do is refuse to pay any taxes.
Again, always the threat of violence. |
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I think that you seem to be missing the point...
We can rise above settling disputes with violence.
As I say, that a nice ideal. Sadly, its not true - without the threat of punishment, people descend into barbarism. So, in other words, you're saying that it's better to preempt violence with violence rather than to meet violence with violence? |
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I have to get more involved in bitcoin but I dont know what to do.
- i want to mine; since you basically cant buy ASICs, i'm probably going to build a small GPU rig (i know its not very profitable--i dont care, i have to do this)
- i studied math and computer science in college, but i havent coded since i started playing poker. i have saved up some money and i kinda wanna get back into programming
- i've brainstormed with friends about various bitcoin businesses to start but either the business already exists or theres a good reason it doesnt exist yet or its a project far beyond the scope of my capabilities
For mining, expect to lose money, but just do it for fun and to learn. You will learn, and then it's just a cost of education. Think of it as buying a textbook. I can identify with exactly what you're going through. While I'm not a poker player, I make my living in software, but have been thinking about how I can get deeper into bitcoin on a meaningful level. You may not have coded anything in a long time, but the desire to get back in is powerful. I write software, and have been thinking myself about the exact same thing - writing BTC software - the lure is there. If you're just getting back into programing, then I'd suggest that you look at the software that is available, where it is available, and look at what languages can best help you achieve what you want. When I got back into programming, I just jumped in and didn't really consider the languages too much, when I probably should have. Anyways... There is a MASSIVE space open for BTC programming. I do a lot of work for the top mobile phone company in the world, and I have access to truckloads of information that the public doesn't get to see for a long time. (I of course cannot give specifics due to NDAs.) Right now, I'd say that there are incredible opportunities open in the mobile space for bitcoin software. Have a look there. Your best ideas will be things that you probably can't execute, but just try going a bit smaller if you can't manage to get a team together, or if you can't get investment for bigger ideas. BTC will be insanely big in mobile. At the moment, I'm thinking about a few different components that I'd like to develop... but just not sure what I want to do. I'm already busy enough, so whether or not I can actually get a decent BTC app or component off the ground is a big question for me. But do think mobile -- that is where it's at. On the other side of the bitcoin, think about simple apps vs service-based apps. I really hate SaaS as I think it's just pure fucking whoredom gone berserk, but given the market... sigh... yeah... if everyone else is ass-raping customers, you might want to consider it as well. Mostly because the non-ass-rapers get pushed out of the market because consumers are so idiotic when it comes to software licensing. There are lots of platform advantages as well. So, consider the platform and sign up for multiple platform developer communities to check out what they offer. Anyways, I think that post was partly for me to think about what I'd like to do now, and not just for you. But I hope it's useful for you, and thank you for posing those questions! |
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Soon Paypal or Western Union will buy MtGox, mark my words.
Let's hope that they stick to some principles and don't sell. (Yeah, I like to be optimistic... I hope I'm not overly so.) |
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