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Re: Anti-capitalists my ass!
by
BlackSheep
on 08/04/2013, 18:00:25 UTC
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Is not bad to work with the tools you are given - this is even more true with Bitcoin which is a powerful tool that empowers people, freeing them from the banker's slavery. Some anti-state libertarians would still vote in local elections to a candidate that could really improve what they believe fundamentals aspects of their immediate surroundings - corect?


The anarchist's and communist's opposition to money has never been about "freeing them from the banker's slavery". It has always been about its "means of creating false values".

"4. The End of the Money Trick
Two features of capitalism are essential to its existence—the wages system and a thorough and all-reaching system of money relationships. Unfortunately men are now so used to living by money that they find it difficult to imagine life without it. Yet it should be obvious that no libertarian and equalitarian society could make use of money. Syndicalism, as well as ending the wages system, also aims at the destruction of money relationships.

Money, more than any other human product, has been the means of creating false values. We each know of persons who began by wanting money as the means to other ends, but who spent so much energy accumulating money they forgot their original aim and continued to live for money. For means become ends. Is it not obvious that the wealthy trade unions, which have collected hundreds of millions of pounds by the promise to pay strike and other benefits, are now capitalist investment trusts afraid of strikes which threaten their investments?"

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:b3QPiFzdlAcJ:libcom.org/library/principles-of-syndicalism-tom-brown+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

TL;DR Not only do you not know shit about finance, economics & reality, you don't even know shit about your own ideology.
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Anti-capitalists my ass!
by
BlackSheep
on 08/04/2013, 00:07:34 UTC
I find it funny that this technology has attracted anti-capitalists.

They have always wanted to abolish money.

"...houses, fields, and factories will no longer be private property, and that they will belong to the commune or the nation and money, wages, and trade would be abolished."

— Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

4. The End of the Money Trick
Two features of capitalism are essential to its existence—the wages system and a thorough and all-reaching system of money relationships. Unfortunately men are now so used to living by money that they find it difficult to imagine life without it. Yet it should be obvious that no libertarian and equalitarian society could make use of money. Syndicalism, as well as ending the wages system, also aims at the destruction of money relationships.

WAGES. The abolition of all wages and the establishment of the principle of equal income for all. What that income would be cannot be expressed in money terms, the only terms known to capitalist society, but it should certainly be more than double the present average wage.

EDUCATION. Education will be free to all able to benefit from it and wishing to enjoy it, free from kindergarten to university. Classes would be smaller, equipment improved and new schools built. The recent trend of education from coercion and terrorism to freedom and co-operation of teacher and scholar would be accelerated.

MEDICINE. Medical treatment would be free—medicine, attendance, clinics and hospitals. But the new society would increase the health of all, not by a new flood of physic, but, in main, by a better diet, right working and living conditions and the end of industrial fatigue.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:b3QPiFzdlAcJ:libcom.org/library/principles-of-syndicalism-tom-brown+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Karl Marx hypothesized that, as the productive forces and technology continued to advance, socialism would eventually give way to a communist stage of social development. Communism would be a classless, stateless, moneyless society based on common ownership and the principle of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

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

It is embarrassing that someone in the 21st century can hold these views.
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Update Bitcoin-qt = lost coins
by
BlackSheep
on 07/04/2013, 23:25:27 UTC
I have recently come back to bitcoin due to recent events.

I was mining in slush's pool a few years back and racked up 13 BTC.

http://blockchain.info/address/e53d7762e8cf2989c24e79d5bcf6faa50cb4f06d

However, upon coming back I found that the client I was using would not sync. So I updated it and I no longer had the address or bitcoins.

I was using a client that looked like this and the address I entered was in that red box. (on my client not the picture).

http://bitcoinintro.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/OfficialBitcoinClientMainScreen.png

Any ideas on what might of happened?

Does a software update overwrite your wallet.dat?

Does a software uninstall delete your wallet.dat?
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Re: Wouldn't it be more fair if the bitcoins were shared equally?
by
BlackSheep
on 07/04/2013, 00:31:04 UTC
I find it funny that this technology has attracted anti-capitalists.

They have always wanted to abolish money.

"...houses, fields, and factories will no longer be private property, and that they will belong to the commune or the nation and money, wages, and trade would be abolished."

— Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

4. The End of the Money Trick
Two features of capitalism are essential to its existence—the wages system and a thorough and all-reaching system of money relationships. Unfortunately men are now so used to living by money that they find it difficult to imagine life without it. Yet it should be obvious that no libertarian and equalitarian society could make use of money. Syndicalism, as well as ending the wages system, also aims at the destruction of money relationships.

WAGES. The abolition of all wages and the establishment of the principle of equal income for all. What that income would be cannot be expressed in money terms, the only terms known to capitalist society, but it should certainly be more than double the present average wage.

EDUCATION. Education will be free to all able to benefit from it and wishing to enjoy it, free from kindergarten to university. Classes would be smaller, equipment improved and new schools built. The recent trend of education from coercion and terrorism to freedom and co-operation of teacher and scholar would be accelerated.

MEDICINE. Medical treatment would be free—medicine, attendance, clinics and hospitals. But the new society would increase the health of all, not by a new flood of physic, but, in main, by a better diet, right working and living conditions and the end of industrial fatigue.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:b3QPiFzdlAcJ:libcom.org/library/principles-of-syndicalism-tom-brown+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Karl Marx hypothesized that, as the productive forces and technology continued to advance, socialism would eventually give way to a communist stage of social development. Communism would be a classless, stateless, moneyless society based on common ownership and the principle of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

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

It is embarrassing that someone in the 21st century can hold these views.
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Re: Mt.Gox verification queue length
by
BlackSheep
on 06/04/2013, 23:35:06 UTC
I am currently #9920 in line.

I signed up for it ~3 days ago. I have been told it will take up to 20 days.

Please note that you need BOTH a government ID (Diver's license, passport, etc) and a proof of residency (utility bill, phone bill, etc).
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Re: Martin Armstrong on Bitcoin
by
BlackSheep
on 06/04/2013, 23:29:13 UTC
Until seasteads become a viable option this will be the case.
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Re: MtGox account question
by
BlackSheep
on 06/04/2013, 23:26:38 UTC
You can use your account name, aswell.
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Board Micro Earnings
Re: FREE BITCOIN Sites *and* Free Newbie Lotto
by
BlackSheep
on 06/04/2013, 20:59:35 UTC
I would like to be added aswell

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Re: Newbie restrictions
by
BlackSheep
on 06/04/2013, 20:45:26 UTC
Suggestion:

It would be nice to let the new users know this with some kind of pop-up after registration.