Quote from: rpietila on September 04, 2014, 09:42:38 AM

Quote from: AnonyMint on September 04, 2014, 09:34:18 AM

We don't have much time remaining:

http://armstrongeconomics.com/2014/09/03/ecuador-will-be-the-first-country-to-start-digital-currency/

Powers-that-be are also taking control over Buttcoin, with mining centralized in a couple of pools, and soon the money supply locked up off-chain:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=400235.msg8649126#msg8649126
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=400235.msg8663871#msg8663871

And your remedy to the situation is what? First of all, I am a little surprised of your continued compliance. We would not need any coins if all the people just decided that enough is enough. The problem is not economy, it is the perpetrators of injustice.

I am not complying. But the fruits of my efforts are not yet visible, and quite possibly might arrive too late. I did light a fire under my butt just now though.

We can't fight by just openly refusing to comply, because there are enough people who are going to stand with the sinking Titanic and grab us on the way down to make sure we sink with them.

Imo, the only way we can fight is with technology. The geographical frontiers are closing. As Armstrong says, "you can't jump on a boat, plane, train, or car with gold and go make a new life some where".

Quote from: Lohoris on September 04, 2014, 11:02:39 AM

Quote from: rpietila on September 03, 2014, 06:59:36 PM

The case caused me to lose any respect towards the organization pulling such a trick. If they regard me as scum, so be it both ways.

There is no limit whatsoever these sad clowns will do if we let them. They can make any laws and when they are not convenient, change them, amend them, or just act irrespective of them. The less people resist this fuckery, the easier it is for them to continue. The first point of realization would be to realize that any use of force or threat thereof, towards your freedom, is a crime. On their part, not yours.

I somewhat agree this is often the case, but generalising and saying "no force full stop" turns it into an utopian anarchy which exists only in fools' dreams.

If there isn't someone entitled to the use of force to mantain order, someone else will just decide to use force to his own advantage: this is anarchy.

So, unless you plan to become a Warlord in a world controlled solely by Warlords (in that case please let me know and I'll consider moving into your territory if that happens), you should aim to fix the government, not just to bash it.

Imagine a world where everyone is armed with individual technology which thwarts force. Then we don't need the government to protect us from warlords.

Welcome to the Knowledge Age.