Quote from: LMGTFY on February 26, 2016, 12:13:47 PM

You said, and I quote, "Besides, the Internet was designed to persist during war." It wasn't, that's a common misconception. Persistence during war wasn't a design consideration. A separate study into voice-communications by the RAND corporation looked at using packet-switching for persistent during an exchange of nuclear weapons - that's where the misconception comes from. Whether or not the Internet might survive such an exchange is academic, unless you'd like to revise your "Besides, the Internet was designed to persist during war. " to "Besides, the Internet might persist during war".

Love the Satoshi stuff, keep it coming.

Bullshit. You have no way of knowing the real reasons why the Internet came to be. You're just quoting stuff that fits your agenda, trying hard to argue with me on the matter that I do not care about.

Quote from: uki on February 26, 2016, 12:07:45 PM

Myself, I have also a bit of experience in the market of physical silver (have bought some shiny stuff for me as well, remember $4 price and $50 as well), and I am very sceptical about seeing even three digit silver in the next 2-3 years. I repeat, I have heard similar opinions from many PM-bugs (PM stands for precious metals) and whereas some of the fears are truth, the 'end of the world as we know it' (aka the end of the great Keynesian experiment) theory is made under the assumptions that the 'powers that be' will play boldly and blindly their game to the final crash without re-adapting to the changing conditions. I think this assumption is invalid, and it was already demonstrated that if you own the cards, the table, the referees you can change the game as it pleases you at any given moment.

You are right, in Starcraft matches the player that has clearly lost the game says gg and resigns. The other player won't get to destroy the loser's town. Only AI will fight it until the last drop of blood. From here we can induce that when it becomes clear that bitcoin is the shit worldwide there are suddenly no opponents left to humiliate on their loss. However, I also think that our current condition is not as bad as you have put it. There is no single entity that controls everything and who makes the rules. The fact that we are presented such image is in itself a reason to believe that it is not true because boasting about one's power is a sign of weakness.