Is user BADecker a paid troll, or just a simple idiot?

[criptix]

Neither, he is a man of faith.

A man of faith is an idiot

The definition of faith is believing in something without evidence, or contrary to the evidence... this is stupid, don't be an idiot

Well imho you can surely have an argument about above.

I have faith in a positive advacement of mankind in the coming future and really hope I'm not a idiot in beliving that. 

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[BADecker]

I don't know if this poll is serious or just a joke between members but it makes me laugh...
Whatever the backgrounds of BADecker, I think that he's a patient reader of the majority of posts...
Without his amazing ideas may be many discussions hadn't be launched and many topics will be ended at an early stage...
Other than that, I think that the contradictions and provocative aspect of some posts are to "grate on the nerves" of members...
But, the question of his other ressources of money is good to ask (as he's always here)    

It's just a joke. We're just messing with the wee little Christian Nancy. This is the modern day version of throwing a Christian to the lions.


BADecker><atheists

However, if you remain in atheism, the joke will be on you at the resurrection. It won't be funny at all, then.

Finally a proper, decent post from you. I almost lost all hope for you. 

You just need to get rid of that spinning ball fairy tale madness and you will be perfect in your generation.

A shinning star or a sand on the beach, it is your choice. 

For hundreds of years people have used real scientific logic to show that the earth is round. There doesn't seem to be any flat earth logic that is complete enough to show that round earth logic is wrong.

[exemplaar]

Simply they are deceived, quantity of years matters not. 

http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-19.htm

[CoinCube]

Simply they are deceived, quantity of years matters not. 

http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-19.htm

Humanity or at least the intelligent parts of it have known that the earth is round since 240 B.C.
It is is not something you have to believe. You can simply redo the ancient experiment yourself and prove it once more.

http://www.windows2universe.org/citizen_science/myw/w2u_eratosthenes_calc_earth_size.html

[Spoetnik]

Thanks for helping me become famous and popular.   

I did not vote for either poll option.
I do not think either option is applicable.

Stick with it.. it's take time & effort to get all these guys hating you.
One day and 1 post at a time

Hmm so how much are you makin' ?
I wonder are you making more for your paid trolling than me ?
i hope not 

You would NOT believe who my boss is that pays me ! 

[Foxpup]

Hmm so how much are you makin' ?
I wonder are you making more for your paid trolling than me ?
i hope not 

You would NOT believe who my boss is that pays me ! 

However much they're paying you, it's too much.

[BADecker]

Hmm so how much are you makin' ?
I wonder are you making more for your paid trolling than me ?
i hope not 

You would NOT believe who my boss is that pays me ! 

However much they're paying you, it's too much.

He talks more words than a lobbyist. Some lobbyists get paid a lot.

[BADecker]

Simply they are deceived, quantity of years matters not. 

http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-19.htm

With reference to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1606430.msg16137290#msg16137290...

Where is the deception? In real science, flat earth doesn't have enough strength to even start to become a theory.

[awesome31312]

I consider BADecker to be one of the more likely of the participants here to be a legitimate individual who is just speaking his mind.  I don't always agree with him, and particularly not back in the earlier days (and I moved his direction more than the other way around) but I have never had a sense that his input is anything more than his personal preferences.

Gee, does that sound familiar?

Certainly there are many people who I have much bigger questions about.

A long long time ago we had a conversation about 'infiltrators' here on the board.  Back then we were more interested in the potential of shills from the mainstream financial sector trying to deter Bitcoin as a monetary solution.  At that time I didn't believe there was probably a significant influence along these lines.  I now believe that it is quite possible that this board has become one of the 'stops' on the schedule for people who work formally as shills.  This is mostly due to the general increase in interest and 'honeybadger' nature of Bitcoin itself.  The board itself probably does attract a somewhat exceptional cross-section of eyeball types relative to other properties.

BTW, a 'property' is industry lingo for a chunk of cyberspace that an entity (usually a large corporation...or soon to be owned by one) has control over.

Just know that I don't have an agenda here, I just report on the state of affairs as they are.

[exemplaar]

Simply they are deceived, quantity of years matters not. 

http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-19.htm

Humanity or at least the intelligent parts of it have known that the earth is round since 240 B.C.
It is is not something you have to believe. You can simply redo the ancient experiment yourself and prove it once more.

http://www.windows2universe.org/citizen_science/myw/w2u_eratosthenes_calc_earth_size.html

Now we know that sun is not 93m miles away but is close and small, so we can now prove flat earth with this.

You have to believe that you live on a spinning ball, but your belief does not have any foundations, so it is blind.
I can see, feel and sense that I live on a created unmovable enclosed living environment, flat earth.

For start you can properly educate yourself here at flat earth thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1009045.msg16147971#msg16147971

[CoinCube]

Now we know that sun is not 93m miles away but is close and small, so we can now prove flat earth with this.

You have to believe that you live on a spinning ball, but your belief does not have any foundations, so it is blind.
I can see, feel and sense that I live on a created unmovable enclosed living environment, flat earth.

For start you can properly educate yourself here at flat earth thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1009045.msg16147971#msg16147971

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I suppose you can believe whatever makes you happy but your theory (flat earth) requires altering the laws of physics to:
A) Add some strangely unmeasured refraction to light
B) Discard the force of gravity entirely

https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/flat/flateart.htm

It appears that the flat-earther's figures are based on sun elevation data at just two particular latitudes, perhaps even Eratosthenes' values. flat earthers may have picked these out of some book, and when the calculation was finished, they looked no further. For if they had done the calculation with a variety of latitudes, including large latitude differences, conflicting results would have been obtained.

For two towns having latitudes within about 30° of each other, reasonably consistent results are obtained. But when larger baselines are used, the triangulation would give a much smaller distance to the sun. For a 70° latitude difference the distance to the sun comes out less than half that for a 10° difference.

How about airplanes and earth satellites in orbit around a flat earth. And what about airliners going around the earth? What about earth satellites? They are merely traveling in loop orbits. What makes them do this? Flat-earthers do not say. Flat-earthers shun any form of gravitational force. They consider gravity to be a mystical or occult idea. Things fall, they say, simply because they are heavy—no other explanation is needed. What about the moon flights and the pictures from space showing a round planet. It's must all be a hoax, an elaborate movie production.

I would direct your attention to British scientist Henry Cavendish, who was the first to experimentally and reproducibly measure the force of gravity between two masses in the laboratory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment

But I am not sure there is a point. Cavendish must have been part of the vast world conspiracy right? His results deliberately falsified to fool us all two hundred plus years later.

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200806/physicshistory.cfm

He (Cavendish) considered the problem for years, until in 1797, at age 67, he began his own experiments. He started with a torsion balance apparatus given to him by his friend, the geologist Reverend John Michell, who had been interested in doing the experiment himself but wasn’t able to carry it out before he died. Realizing that Michell’s equipment was inadequate to measure the tiny gravitational force between two small metal spheres, Cavendish set about tinkering until he had a more precise setup.

He built a large dumbbell, with two-inch lead spheres stuck to the ends of a six-foot long wooden rod. The rod was suspended from a wire held at the center, and was free to rotate. A second dumbbell with two twelve-inch lead spheres weighing 350 pounds each was then brought near the first so that the large spheres would attract the smaller ones, exerting a slight torque on the suspended rod. Cavendish would then painstakingly watch for hours to observe the rod’s oscillations.

This would provide a measure of the gravitational force of the larger spheres on the smaller ones. And since the density of the spheres was known and the gravitational attraction between Earth and the spheres could be measured by weighing the spheres, the ratio the two forces could be used to determine Earth’s density.

Since the gravitational force between the spheres is so weak, the tiniest air current could ruin the delicate experiment. Cavendish placed the apparatus in a closed room to keep out extraneous air currents. He used a telescope to observe the experiments through a window, and set up a pulley system that made it possible to move the weights from outside. The room was kept dark to avoid temperature differences in different parts of the room affecting the experiment.  

Cavendish relentlessly tracked down potential sources of error. He rotated the spheres in case they had picked up some magnetization. He observed the attraction of the rods without the spheres on the ends. He tried different types of wire to support the apparatus.

After agonizing over every possible complicating factor, Cavendish finally reported his results in June 1798 in a 57-page paper in the Transactions of the Royal Society entitled “Experiments to Determine the Density of the Earth.” He reported that the density of Earth was 5.48 times the density of water. (The currently accepted value is 5.52).

Others later repeated the experiment, using similar apparatus, and for almost a century no one achieved any improvement over Cavendish’s original measurement.

But you do not need to believe Cavendish his experiment is just the one you can do on your own. More recently they measured the Newtonian constant of gravity, G, using a gravity gradiometer based on atom interferometry (link below)

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/315/5808/74.abstract

And here is a discussion and review article on the multiple experimental measurements of G.

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0034-4885/60/2/001/meta;jsessionid=0E38B9AAAC8E1E96A924A79A08A8FB05.c3.iopscience.cld.iop.org

[Dinki]

Neither, he is a man of faith.

A man of faith is an idiot

The definition of faith is believing in something without evidence, or contrary to the evidence... this is stupid, don't be an idiot

A man of faith is not an idiot. Believing in God is not contrary to evidence, because there is plenty evidence that God exists if you will only look and see.
BADecker is not an idiot or a paid troll.

[BADecker]

Neither, he is a man of faith.

A man of faith is an idiot

The definition of faith is believing in something without evidence, or contrary to the evidence... this is stupid, don't be an idiot

A man of faith is not an idiot. Believing in God is not contrary to evidence, because there is plenty evidence that God exists if you will only look and see.
BADecker is not an idiot or a paid troll.

Well, thank you, Dinki.   

[BADecker]

Simply they are deceived, quantity of years matters not. 

http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-19.htm

Humanity or at least the intelligent parts of it have known that the earth is round since 240 B.C.
It is is not something you have to believe. You can simply redo the ancient experiment yourself and prove it once more.

http://www.windows2universe.org/citizen_science/myw/w2u_eratosthenes_calc_earth_size.html

Now we know that sun is not 93m miles away but is close and small, so we can now prove flat earth with this.

Did you measure the distance with a ruler? A yardstick? A tape measure? Perhaps you paced it out. Did you try a laser measurer?

You have to believe that you live on a spinning ball,

Why does someone have to believe this. It seems like you don't.

but your belief does not have any foundations, so it is blind.
I can see, feel and sense that I live on a created unmovable enclosed living environment, flat earth.

Because of the size of the earth, without measuring devices, you wouldn't be able to determine its shape at all, or if it was spinning or not. A 1000 mph spin would not be noticeable with the size of an 8,000 mile diameter ball earth.

For start you can properly educate yourself here at flat earth thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1009045.msg16147971#msg16147971

Educate yourself? You mean indoctrinate yourself.

Have you incorporated your flat earth religion, yet?

[Spoetnik]

A "lobbyist" ? I love that choice of words 
Yes.. i am a Crypto-Lobbyist
I always considered myself to be more of a Crypto-Pundit.

But i did not come here to talk about me
I have no idea what to classify this guy.. crazy ? LOL

Notice how i oppose his christian views but i choose not to bite ?
It's called Forum etiquette..
The topic here is not religion so i will not light him up gettin' him going on it.
Another time & place hahahha

I don't consider "crazy" as that much of an insult either.
I like crazy over boring spoon fed lazy dumb lemmings.
At least they are interesting.

Plus you never know when a lunatic will have a random stroke of genius or simply a stroke 
Crazy guys keep the Popcorn vendors in business !

[BADecker]

A "lobbyist" ? I love that choice of words 
Yes.. i am a Crypto-Lobbyist
I always considered myself to be more of a Crypto-Pundit.

But i did not come here to talk about me
I have no idea what to classify this guy.. crazy ? LOL

Notice how i oppose his christian views but i choose not to bite ?
It's called Forum etiquette..
The topic here is not religion so i will not light him up gettin' him going on it.
Another time & place hahahha

I don't consider "crazy" as that much of an insult either.
I like crazy over boring spoon fed lazy dumb lemmings.
At least they are interesting.

Plus you never know when a lunatic will have a random stroke of genius or simply a stroke 
Crazy guys keep the Popcorn vendors in business !

Aw, son of a gun! Does that mean I should take the link to this poll out of my signature?

 

[asahi]

I can't vote in the poll but I would say he is just simply intelligent idiot.

[mOgliE]

Is user BADecker a paid troll, or just a simple idiot?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=149737

You know I don't think he could be paid.
I mean his comments are dumb as hell and really annoying but they can't be paid by anyone because they're not useful to anyone!

[catch.me.if.you.can]

Nobody knows. It is a mystery of the internet. Is it a bot? Is it an artificial intelligent who escaped from a secret laboratory? We dont know.

[BADecker]

Is user BADecker a paid troll, or just a simple idiot?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=149737

You know I don't think he could be paid.
I mean his comments are dumb as hell and really annoying but they can't be paid by anyone because they're not useful to anyone!

Now, now. When your tummy gets all tied up in knots because of the things I post, why don't you simply ignore me? No. You have to keep on coming back for more, don't you?