Quote from: btcusury on April 04, 2016, 02:33:46 PM

Did he have deceiving/thieving/criminal intent from the get-go? I'm not sure but he's at least sloppy like Mark Karpeles.

If he didn't have anyone monitoring the debasement rate for 7 hours during the early launch phase, then he is has to be retarded. But we can clearly see he is articulate and not retarded. If some developer he was depending on flaked out on him, he should tell us who it was so we can ask that developer.

Quote from: btcusury on April 04, 2016, 02:33:46 PM

This is why I suggested dividing the list into "clearly malevolent intent" and "maybe no malevolent intent":

Even though I don't agree that applies to Evan and I don't think we can prove that applies to Mark Karpeles, so I really don't see the point. Even in the very small chance it wasn't intentional of Mark, it became intentional when he was continuing to perpetrate the crime/scam/ripping off. By making two such categories, you are saying that continuing the scam when it is obvious to you is somewhat excusable because you maybe didn't intend to get into the mess. The only perhaps excusable action is to immediately disclose the mess you've unintentionally made as soon as you realize you made it.

Quote from: btcusury on April 04, 2016, 02:33:46 PM

Quote from: TPTB_need_war on April 03, 2016, 11:39:07 PM

Quote from: lemmyK on April 03, 2016, 11:44:15 PM

goverments are scams ... https://www.gwern.net/Black-market%20arrests

Be very careful. I fell into that trap over the past years and almost justified some shady ideas because "the entire system is scam". That is sliding into a criminal mindset and forsaking any ethical backbone. With that attitude, we all steal from each other and end up in a clusterfuck Dark Age. Step back from the ledge before it is too late and recover the ethics you learned as a child perhaps from your grandparents who came from the honorable generation before the boomers (assuming you are my age or older).

Well thought, but I think you are operating under the assumption of moral relativism -- the idea that we can't know right and wrong via logic/rationality... but we can. It's called Natural Law, based on the non-aggression principle, or simply the understanding of "do no harm".

What did I write that was different from advocating non-aggression Huh

Quote from: btcusury on April 04, 2016, 02:33:46 PM

Quote from: TPTB_need_war on April 04, 2016, 12:25:00 AM

I think you are going to be suprised how much the world changes towards coordinated government action across the G20 and beyond. There is a massive contagion underway that will really kick into high gear in 2018.

I think you will find that totalitarianism will increase for many years before it finally implodes around 2033. I think this will mean the governments will join together and double-down on boots on throats. I would not want to have your attitude.

Why 2033? Does the timeframe "2025-2033" suggest anything to you?

2025 - 2033 will be the final collapse of the West as it finally abandons socialism and by 2033 the financial center of the world will have completed its shift to Asia. This is Armstrong's model.

Quote from: btcusury on April 04, 2016, 02:33:46 PM

Quote from: TPTB_need_war on April 04, 2016, 12:25:00 AM

The USA is fucked up and it will need to break up into separate regions where those who have shared values can congregate. There are big changes coming to world accelerating as of 2018.

You mean as of 2016! Major changes in the fall this year, I'd say. By 2018 things will be so different it's hardly imaginable. I'd also say that Europe is more fucked (being destroyed faster) than the USA.

See these:

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/why-europe-is-failing-the-difference-between-eu-usa/
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/future-forecasts/political-change-in-2020-or-2016/

Quote from: btcusury on April 04, 2016, 02:33:46 PM

Quote from: TPTB_need_war on April 04, 2016, 12:59:02 AM

Please forgive me for my slow responses today, as I can barely see. I gorged on pizza last night (delicious like coming upon an oasis in the desert after eating oatmeal & broccoli for weeks) and made me nearly blind this morning. I really need to stick with my strict diet. i am squinting and everything is so incredibly blurry.

(Also tuna often has high methylmercury)

Large tuna from the area of the Pacific I am in doesn't have statistically significant mercury. And I am eating smaller tuna (e.g. 3 kilos) which thus has no mercury.