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Just because you have black friends/family doesn't mean you can use a derogatory term like nigger openly and expect people not to be offended by it. You want to explain yourself and all these stories every time you use it? Or expand your vocabulary and use another word to describe what you're feeling.

It's only a word, a word/term I coined to express how I felt toward a couple individuals only, not an entire race of people. If I called you (not directly at anybody in particular) an Indian Giver, does that mean the I offended the all Indians, Native-Americans and Hindus, alike?

Nigger: Mostly spoken about black Americans in a derogatory sense.
Fuckin' Jews: Spoken by people who hate Jews.

NIGGER: Coin by me to refer to only one person, my nieces ex-boyfriend, who's black, and could easily be used by me to refer to my 100% white nephew.

Jewish Bulgarian Freemason Gimp: A term I used to describe Joshua Zipkin, of which is 75% factual, the Gimp part I made up.

Nigger-JEW: Again, a term I devised to describe Joshua Zipkin for the way he treated his entire customer based, stealing millions.

Quote from: jdbtracker on April 26, 2013, 03:16:45 PM

I agree, No offence Satoshi if you read this. but Has anyone read the wisdom of the crowd?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds

It would be clear that the repository of information of a single individual or even their ability to act in the world would be quite limited as a single individual.
An individual is limited as to how many things they can know, do or understand at a given moment.

and anyway, i don't think Satoshi would want to come back now, they definitely would become a martyr a central focus for the governments to torment.

Trust me, A few years back my dad had a flat rate taxi service, there was a lot of these little companies around, one guy even spent 150k just to do a feasability study as he was instructed to do and proved that it was feasible to implement... he got shot down of course. now if you read the little stickers on the taxi cabs... you'll notice that there is a notice that flat rate taxis are prohibited by by-law.

The government began to crack down on all 200 companies in the province of British Columbia citing that they were affecting the taxi cab industry and the job loss was intolerable... over 100,000 people lost their jobs in one fallow swoop of a pen. My dad was lucky enough that he fell under a Grandfather clause, he had made the first company with the model that other taxi companies followed. They continued their assault relentless, he even got papers through freedom of information with citations on how they were going to screw him over... well they succeeded, started attacking his business from every angle that they could after that, lawyers wouldn't even take the case for fear of going against the government, saying this had little chance of succeeding it would be in the courts for decades.

I've lived long enough to see this happen over and over again... and it's nothing but a paragraph in a news paper buried under advertisements, no help will come.
All the little old ladies, the poor,and down trodden complained about the injustice, for 3 dollars they could go anywhere in the city, and be helped in unpacking their groceries, bring friends to places they could barely afford to go, and not wait out in the cold Canadian winters for a bus... their cries went unheard in the newspapers.

Satoshi would be crucified or worse..., If they did that to my Dad... can you imagine what the world governments would do to them? They don't care about the good that people do, they just want their money.

(If you think I'm putting too much info, if they come after me it is quite meaningless, Bitcoin has no central authority, and clones are popping up everywhere, their efforts would be wasted on me, though I am sure they'll find a solution and start implementing their own Bitcoin type system... so quite meaningless. They'll find a way to destroy it as they did my father.)

Grandfather clause: You may have been lucky enough to be grandfathered into your cellphone plan, but this term has an ugly past. During the 1890s, half a dozen Southern states enacted laws to defy the 15th Amendment and prevent black people from exercising their newfound right to vote. In these states, you were allowed to vote only if your parents or grandparents were able to vote before the year 1867which was conveniently before blacks had access to the ballot. These days we all have equal rights to this phrase, but its probably best if we agree to go ahead and drop it.

Quote from: threecats on January 24, 2014, 09:53:44 PM

We are all trying to understand, to read the tea leaves of what is actually happening right before our eyes. Unfortunately, that which we are seeing is the display. What generates the display seems a bit obfuscated.

TA definitely has its application here. There is psychology also all of us, all the market. But the baddest motherfuckers currently lurking at the watering hole seem to be deeply cloaked in shadow, and we seem to be skittering this way and that, trying to not get caught underfoot.

So.

I propose a grand theory thread. Here is my shot in the dark.

Some thirty odd days ago, the large actors ( Those who will securitize / profit massively from BTC) understood two existential imperatives lay before them:

1) Manage an orderly exit of China, one that would not spook the mainstream prospective investor base.

2) Buy up the china coins in an orderly way as they were dumped into the market, preserving a base level price that would be A) credible to potential fund investors and B) consistantly and conveniently far beneath their near term target valuation of BTC, thus handsomely fleshing out their position.

Enter the bot army. We have been watching the algorithm that is the expression of the above, a cool steady pinging of a controlled transfer of wealth.

And like the limiting bars of sheet music, the channel is laid. A market that clearly wants to correct / crash does not. Rallies that might rise from the ashes do not.

All hail the overlords.

Alternate theories fire away!!

Spook: How can this word be so bad? If youve ever celebrated Halloween, youve used some version of it. What is now used regularly to mean ghost or to frighten is also a slur akin to n--ger. It may have its origins in the perception that dark skin blends into the night, making black people ghostlike. Scarily racist.

Quote from: freedombit on May 21, 2014, 08:23:16 AM

I just remembered an email forward that I received several years ago. If you've seen this already, please disregard, but I find it an interesting thought. Now, to be fair, I can't imagine the daunting task running the country must be, and I am sure most politicians at least start out with good intent.

EDIT: This is more of an editorial, and not written by me. I just find the 545 people running 300 million interesting and hopefully thought provoking for the Bitcoin community.

And the forward begins >>>>>

A very interesting column. COMPLETELY NEUTRAL
Be sure to Read the Poem at the end.

Charley Reese's final column for the Orlando Sentinel.

He has been a journalist for 49 years.

He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN.

Be sure to read the Tax List at the end.

This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day. It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!

545 vs. 300,000,000 People

- By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy","inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess.

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

End of Reese article.

What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you. This might be funny if it weren't so true. Be sure to read all the way to the end:

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the heck happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'

I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times!

Cotton-picking: Are you out of your cotton-picking mind? Weve all heard the phrase, but the term has an ugly, if debatable, past. Some say it was used to denote the inferior status of poor farmers and field hands in the Southern states, many of whom were slaves. Well just say youd have to be crazy to say this to anyone who might associate it with that history.

Quote from: tvbcof on October 13, 2013, 06:07:29 PM

Eeny Meeny Miney Mo
When you looking for a ho female bitcoin fan
Check beneath her skirt real quick,
'Cuz you might find she has a dick.

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe: Learning the history of this phrase might taint your childhood memories. Heard at playgrounds around the world, this counting-out expression comes from a classic childrens rhyme dating back to the 19th century. Some early versions include the lyric, Catch a n--ger by the toe. The n-word was replaced by tiger in later years. Not quite as cute now, is it?

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he's right in that i also detected this sentiment among the bigger actors on the panels to capitulate towards regulation. but what else are they going to say publicly?

certainly if you want to run a biz in the US you probably will have to follow all regs. but that won't stop the Buttonwood ppl.

Agree with this, however if the reference client or even the protocol someday incorporates, say, taint tracking & blacklisting support (to use a topic seriously discussed at the event) in order to facilitate US regulatory compliance, then it becomes much easier for repressive regimes worldwide to piggyback on top of that to keep the average joe under their thumb. I love making money as much as anyone here, but personally I'd prefer that the planet's last chance at financial privacy not be sold down the river just so some guys in Sand Hill Road can buy themselves a second jet.

The vibe I got from Vessenes and several others was that they would attempt to steer Bitcoin in whatever direction was necessary to maximize business use scenarios, even if that meant changes and prioritizations at the expense of decentralization and privacy for individuals. My clear take after this event is that that the code & network will at some point fork between those who see Bitcoin as a vehicle for political change, versus those who want Bitcoin to be sanitized into just a cheaper PayPal/SWIFT. Those two visions are simply not compatible in the long run.

Sold down the river: Today, if people say theyve been sold down the river, they probably mean theyve been betrayed. But when the phrase originated, that betrayal was a lot more serious. During slavery, being sold down the river was literal. Slave owners would sell their slaves and send them via the Mississippi or Ohio River to plantations in the Deep South, where plantation conditions were much worse.

Quote from: gweedo on May 18, 2012, 04:36:49 AM

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I'm a programmer and know how little extra effort it is to have 2 listings rather than one and as WW seams not to be passionate about the girls but rather about his idea in general, he should leave it to the community to use it to its capacity. NSFW links covering half the screen is just repelling 90% of potential hosts.

I think we are all into the idea, but WW realized that this would be mostly used in sexual way, cause that is way the community would go in a webcam situation. He embraced that part of the community and instead of trying to filter it out or trying to stop it. Second this is the way most of the community is using it, and some people in the community use it for other SFW which I have also seen and tipped. I think the NSFW isn't repelling 90%, lets be realistic here it is probably like 5%, the most people online in one room was for one of these girls so lets call a spade a spade. Sex sells and this is just one thing that is taking advantage of that ride to then spawn into other things. To be honest my beef isn't with you but when your requesting only features you would use or that would just take up space on the site, or even worst that destroys the core visions, then I am going to express my opinion about how bad they are, and how stupid these ideas are and how they wouldn't work, that is what this forum is for. Also if I saw a good idea I would praise it.

Call a spade a spade: For more than 500 years, this expression has meant to tell it like it is. But it wasnt until the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s that spade became a disparaging code word for black people. Its probably best to retire this phrase forever.

Quote from: conspirosphere.tk on December 04, 2012, 11:14:30 AM

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Quote from: conspirosphere.tk on December 03, 2012, 01:17:25 PM

Do you realize that you are aggravating his position? If he did not trust Nefario from the beginning, then he voluntarily put at risk his investors' funds from day 1.

He didn't do that, his investors did. If GLBSE had run off with their money, would you have argued that's somehow his fault?

If he did not trust Nefario from the beginning, but he resorted to use GLBSE anyway, then he exposed his investors to a third-party risk that he knew about without informing them about it. I think it's kind of illegal, and anyway highly unethical. Like blaming the victims after stealing their money, which is what he's going to do behind the para-legal crap shield he's asking for.

Quote from: JoelKatz on December 03, 2012, 08:43:17 AM

Giga actually has no other option -- he never extended any trust to Nefaro/GLBSE nor did he ever agree to extend any.

Quote from: conspirosphere.tk on December 03, 2012, 01:17:25 PM

False. No other issuers asked for all the crap he is asking up to now (even if many would find profitable to steal their investors' assets in this way).

Quote from: JoelKatz on December 03, 2012, 07:45:27 PM

That's kind of a circular argument. If this is his mess to clean up, then he extended trust. And if he extended trust, it's his mess to clean up.
In retrospect, we all should have thought of it, but I don't think anyone considered a sudden, complete GLBSE shutdown likely.

Don't try to shift the blame. Nefario has already sent him a list of investors' assets. The jig is up.

Quote from: JoelKatz on December 03, 2012, 08:43:17 AM

The most common risk is the risk of paying false claims.

There is nothing to claim. The investors' assets list Nefario sent him should be considered true until the opposite is proven. Otherwise it is too easy for him to steal such assets with such lame argument.

The jig is up: Although this expression is used today to describe a joke or scheme that has been revealed or foiled, youre the one whose fun might end quickly if you say it to the wrong person. This hasnt been proved beyond a doubt, but many believe the saying was used in its original form by some in the American South to refer to the lynching of a black person. Replace "j" with "n" and youll get it.

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This is your fantasy, which does not make it true.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=441275.msg5069190#msg5069190

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it was given as a gift

Yeah, they gave you a "gift". So tell me, how many bitcoins did this "gift" generate for you?

Interesting how you have to hack up the data that is put out there, let me fix that for you:

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it was given as a gift with no strings attached

This is why you fail so badly, you leave out the important part of the statement. Your dogged pursuit of this lost cause is stupid. Just because you have the peanut gallery (Bick) cheering you on only highlights the stupidity of people like yourself. Bick's statements are non-sequiturs that only make sense is his febrile brain. He crows over the fact he's ignored me, yet he has to post about me every chance he gets. It's amazing how invested he is in what I say. It's funny how *I* post no news about the company, that all comes from the clowns rooting for their demise. Every word Josh posts elsewhere is repeated here by one of the slavering trolls that seems to think it's important to show the world everything going on there. It's funny... YOU, Bick, Joe, Searing, YAPYAP, K9, etc are the ones KEEPING the name BFL at the top of the forum. What's even funnier is that even negative publicity is publicity. YOU are helping to sell products through your stupidity! Yet even telling you this means nothing as you'll keep posting. You claim I am being paid, yet you're doing it for free! If I were being paid (which I am not) that would make you even stupider.

Face it, I've already detailed exactly WHY I post here, your failure to accept that is stupid. The only reason you pursue this so badly is that you have no other outlet for your hatred since Josh doesn't post here any longer.

The peanut gallery: Just a dismissive term for hecklers or critics, right? Wrong. Youll probably never use this phrase in reference to a group of black people again once you know its history. It originally referred to the balconies of segregated theaters, where African Americans had to sit. (Why peanut? Apparently, peanuts were introduced to America during the slave trade and thus became associated with blacks.)

The eight examples above were gleaned from http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/05/potentially_racist_words_and_phrases.html

For all practical purposes, these terms are now part of vocabulary, rarely people taken offense by their usage. But, a black man can say Nigger in a forceful voice to another black man, and all is cool, but if some white dude asks, "How you doin', Nigger?" in the most friendly voice as possible 30 seconds later, the black gentlemen holding court can't wait to get their hands on this Honky to kill him.

Up until the last 20 years of his life, my dad was a racist, hating most non-white/European races. When I was younger, I heard him say the word 'nigger' on a regular basis, and never in the kind sense. At some point in my mid-teens I vowed to not be a racist, in spite of attending an all-white high school in rural Indiana where being Dutch were the ones picked on, i.e., "If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much!" I believe that's the worst I've ever over-heard pertaining to the folks who lived in DeMotte, IN. To be fair, I've said it a many times to my Dutch friends, whereupon we laughed together and carried on with whatever we were doing.

If I had a such hatred toward Blacks and Jews, the same sentiment should've carried over to the autistic adults I contribute to here in the Sandwich, IL, area, regarding them as nothing but useless retards being a plight on society and should be used for target practice.

They're only words!

~Bruno Kucinskas