PorcFest 2012 -- Biggest Bitcoin event ever

[Daily Anarchist]

You buy into all that government fear mongering? Global warming fear mongering for the left, terrorism fear mongering for the right. Government growth for all!

I sense a DERAILMENT!

Derailment is actually quite apropos for topic. If you were a Porcfest attendee you'd understand. 

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[bearbones]

Derailment is actually quite apropos for topic. If you were a Porcfest attendee you'd understand. 

True is this. Govt. fear mongering was the order of the day at porcfest. One day we were sitting at the Bernanke Bitcoin exchange, drinking beer, talkin' about oppressive states, and a black helicopter flew over the camp ground. Everyone stopped, looked up, and laughed.

Now, I don't know who owned said helicopter. The obvious connotation was entirely too funny to ignore.

[Daily Anarchist]

Derailment is actually quite apropos for topic. If you were a Porcfest attendee you'd understand. 

True is this. Govt. fear mongering was the order of the day at porcfest. One day we were sitting at the Bernanke Bitcoin exchange, drinking beer, talkin' about oppressive states, and a black helicopter flew over the camp ground. Everyone stopped, looked up, and laughed.

Now, I don't know who owned said helicopter. The obvious connotation was entirely too funny to ignore.

I think I was playing poker when that happened. I didn't see the chopper, but heard it loud and clear and knew a lot of people would get a "kick" out of it.

[FTL_Ian]

And I almost forgot, ... there's probably a few Bitcoiners that are gonig to be at Burning Man:

http://legacy-cdn.smosh.com/smosh-pit/082010/burningman01.jpg

 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74963.0

Maybe so, but they won't be openly using it, since the Burning Man people forbid the use of money at their event.  Also they forbid advertising.

Burning Man is very different from Porcfest in those two ways.

[kiba]

Burning Man is very different from Porcfest in those two ways.

Probably a bad idea to setup an exchange at Burning Man due to possible bad publicity. It's lot easier to set it up at various physical libertarian gathering.

[evoorhees]

Burning Man is very different from Porcfest in those two ways.

Probably a bad idea to setup an exchange at Burning Man due to possible bad publicity. It's lot easier to set it up at various physical libertarian gathering.

There will never be a bitcoin exchange at Burning Man. The event is explicitly anti-money in all forms. I've been to Burning Man and it was fucking awesome, and certainly many of the people there would love the Bitcoin idea, but it's not a venue at which Bitcoin can be openly promoted in any way.

[Yankee (BitInstant)]

I had a thread about this:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74963.0

Basically, I'm down to go and give free things away sponsored by Bitcoin people/companies

We should get tickets for next summer as soon as they go on sale via lottery system

At the future of money & tech summit, Jered and I met Mr. Michael Michaels the founder of Burning Man.

I asked him for some free tickets, but he put on his top hat and walked away 

[MoonShadow]

Burning Man is very different from Porcfest in those two ways.

Probably a bad idea to setup an exchange at Burning Man due to possible bad publicity. It's lot easier to set it up at various physical libertarian gathering.

There will never be a bitcoin exchange at Burning Man. The event is explicitly anti-money in all forms. I've been to Burning Man and it was fucking awesome, and certainly many of the people there would love the Bitcoin idea, but it's not a venue at which Bitcoin can be openly promoted in any way.

could be some giveaways, though.  Right?

[Raoul Duke]

I had a thread about this:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74963.0

Basically, I'm down to go and give free things away sponsored by Bitcoin people/companies

We should get tickets for next summer as soon as they go on sale via lottery system

At the future of money & tech summit, Jered and I met Mr. Michael Michaels the founder of Burning Man.

I asked him for some free tickets, but he put on his top hat and walked away 

So, let me get this straight: An event who is anti-money on all forms charges you money for entrance?

[myrkul]

So, let me get this straight: An event who is anti-money on all forms charges you money for entrance?

This pretty much sealed the deal. I'm going to stick to watching the videos of the giant flaming octopus and its cousins. Look for me at PorcFest, but not at Burning Man.

[adamstgBit]

I had a thread about this:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74963.0

Basically, I'm down to go and give free things away sponsored by Bitcoin people/companies

We should get tickets for next summer as soon as they go on sale via lottery system

At the future of money & tech summit, Jered and I met Mr. Michael Michaels the founder of Burning Man.

I asked him for some free tickets, but he put on his top hat and walked away 

So, let me get this straight: An event who is anti-money on all forms charges you money for entrance?

Burning Man!
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[Raoul Duke]

So, let me get this straight: An event who is anti-money on all forms charges you money for entrance?

This pretty much sealed the deal. I'm going to stick to watching the videos of the giant flaming octopus and its cousins. Look for me at PorcFest, but not at Burning Man.

It's one of those typical cases of do as I say, don't do as I do

[bitcoinBull]

You buy into all that government fear mongering? Global warming fear mongering for the left, terrorism fear mongering for the right. Government growth for all!

I buy into good science, it doesn't matter who funded it. The US government (other than funding some science) is doing nothing to prevent global warming, in fact they are doing much to accelerate it. Such as invading foreign countries (which increases the likelihood of terrorism, incidentally) to keep the oil flowing. The oil companies fund the climate change skeptics, but that's corporate propaganda, not science.

Corporate tyrrany is just as harmful as government tyrrany. Actually, its hard to know which is the bigger problem, given the revolving door for power-brokers between government and corporations (public and private). I think the real power structure behind the government is the private sector (eg the Federal Reserve, a private corporation whose board-members are all CEOs of private banks and companies).

Am I still a libertarian anarchist? 

[bearbones]

You buy into all that government fear mongering? Global warming fear mongering for the left, terrorism fear mongering for the right. Government growth for all!

I buy into good science, it doesn't matter who funded it. The US government (other than funding some science) is doing nothing to prevent global warming, in fact they are doing much to accelerate it. Such as invading foreign countries (which increases the likelihood of terrorism, incidentally) to keep the oil flowing. The oil companies fund the climate change skeptics, but that's corporate propaganda, not science.

Corporate tyrrany is just as harmful as government tyrrany. Actually, its hard to know which is the bigger problem, given the revolving door for power-brokers between government and corporations (public and private). I think the real power structure behind the government is the private sector (eg the Federal Reserve, a private corporation whose board-members are all CEOs of private banks and companies).

Am I still a libertarian anarchist? 

Yes. You still sound like a libertarian and/or anarchist. The current form of government, which mixes corporate interests with public, is closer to mercantilism or fascism. Wanting corporations to play by the same rules as individuals is in fact necessary for capitalism to function properly.

[MoonShadow]

You buy into all that government fear mongering? Global warming fear mongering for the left, terrorism fear mongering for the right. Government growth for all!

I buy into good science, it doesn't matter who funded it.

If you're not a sceptic, you don't believe in good science.  Time will show the truth, but it largely has.  The computer simulation models used to support GW politics have been consistantly wrong in the short term, who in their right mind would believe that they could be inaccurate in the first few years and get more accurate in 100 years?  Predictive simulations don't work like that, proven by the 'butterfly effect' theorm.

The irony is that the best long term weather predictive models that we have today are pencil/paper models developed in the early 1800's.  The track record of The Old Farmers' Almanac makes these modern supercomputer aided models look like they were developed either by amatures or frauds.

[Daily Anarchist]

You buy into all that government fear mongering? Global warming fear mongering for the left, terrorism fear mongering for the right. Government growth for all!

Corporate tyrrany is just as harmful as government tyrrany.

Governments are corporations.

[OgNasty]

Bitcoin meetup at Burning Man?  I might be in for that... 

[kiba]

Isn't curious that a community form around promoting some kind of money, which by then should be booooooooooooring no brainer? It's like forming a community around promoting a kind of concrete.

[smoothie]

Isn't curious that a community form around promoting some kind of money, which by then should be booooooooooooring no brainer? It's like forming a community around promoting a kind of concrete.

And you are here posting about it....nuff said 

[ben-abuya]

Isn't curious that a community form around promoting some kind of money, which by then should be booooooooooooring no brainer? It's like forming a community around promoting a kind of concrete.

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