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Re: [BOUNTY] 0.15 BTC per transcript of LetsTalkBitcoin
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randomcloud
on 09/11/2013, 00:01:39 UTC
Can I reserve Episode 56? Never mind, that's apparently taken. Is Episode 54 available? If so, I'll reserve that I guess.

Damn it, this is so confusing. Is there a recent list of available episodes? I'll reserve 54 for now if it's not taken. :/
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Re: Coinchat is down :'(
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randomcloud
on 08/11/2013, 01:10:59 UTC
Why don't we make an IRC chatbot that lets chatters get paid?

That wouldn't be a bad idea, but IRC sucks. We need a separate site again, pronto.

Until then however I guess everybody's at the #coinchat-exile room on the Freenode IRC server, so...
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Re: Coinchat is down :'(
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randomcloud
on 08/11/2013, 00:32:34 UTC
Ok, I got back from my convention on Monday to find Coinchat down, and now I hear this shit? Who is behind this??

Where is TF now? Will everyone just hang out in the IRC room ziggy posted? Also, TF was selling the source code to Coinchat, did anyone buy it and would they be willing to share a copy?

Everybody from Coinchat PM me or something so we can set up shop elsewhere until this is resolved.
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Re: A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue (In the USA)
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randomcloud
on 28/10/2013, 21:30:38 UTC
Isn't this what conspiracy theorists were saying was gonna happen ten years ago?

Either way I'm totally against anything that involves the government tracking stuff a person does. This is really, really draconian.
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Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists
by
randomcloud
on 13/10/2013, 12:40:03 UTC

Read my last post. And read the post which it discusses. And read the big post from me. You're the one not getting it.

Have fun never accomplishing anything of value, then. :/
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Re: Governments have no authority, only leverage
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randomcloud
on 12/10/2013, 02:16:07 UTC
Have you lot seen the trading volume of BTC? Nevermind the altcoins? Trust me, if they're going to make cyrpto currencies illegal they're going to have a hell of a fight on their hands, I'm pretty sure we're going to see a very similar set of events to what filesharing is going through.

The problem is that people have to be willing to violate the law (and by that I mean just use BTC anyway, and possibly go to jail for doing so) in order to bring about change. It worked for the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S., it's what would work now. But no one in their right mind would do that because they rightly fear having their lives ruined with no one to support them because everyone else would mindlessly do what the government tells them to out of fear for their own lives.

I honestly never thought I'd live to see freaking FASCISM of all things rise up in my lifetime but here we are. Sad
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Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists
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randomcloud
on 12/10/2013, 01:39:07 UTC
Actually, it is complicated. Let's pretend you know why they dislike environmentalists. Now, ask yourself this: do you dislike environmentalists? Regardless of your answer, answer why you like or dislike them. And when you arrive at the answer to why, you'll then have to confront your own lack of knowledge with regard to the subject of environmentalism itself to realize if your answer to "why" has any validity to it.

You're missing the point. You and other environmentalists want to convince other people to do what you want them to do. But you can't do that unless you understand why it is that they think the way they do and base your arguments around those reasons. Persuasion is all about what THEY think, not about what *you* know or what you'd like them to know. Just demanding that they educate themselves won't change a thing, they have criticisms, complaints and questions that *you* need to openly acknowledge and respond to. And you will have to if you ever expect to get anywhere in the environmentalist debate.

Let me put it this way: Since so many people feel that the actions you want them to take would disrupt or destroy their livelihoods or lower their standard of living, why not just buy them off? Pay loggers to not be loggers anymore -- since all they care about is having enough money to live off of for the rest of their lives, buying them off would remove their incentive for opposing you and they wouldn't be a problem anymore. For the conservative suburbanite who doesn't want his/her cushy lifestyle to be disrupted, provide means to preserve their way of life that don't affect the environment -- promote biodiesel or electric cars or something, create solutions that don't require them to live differently than they already do, and most importantly explain to these people how doing what you want them to do will benefit them financially.

If you do not listen to me you will not succeed, guaranteed.
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Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists
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randomcloud
on 02/10/2013, 00:59:17 UTC
I thought this was obvious.

Now, if we can figure out how to separate the important issues each group talks about from the groups themselves, we're golden.
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Re: intel vPro processor backdoor to make securing bitcoin impossable?
by
randomcloud
on 28/09/2013, 08:43:56 UTC

Maybe if they spent years and went through it transistor by transistor, then yeah, someone could verify that the processor doesn't have an intentional backdoor. But the thing is, they're pushing SGX on consumers by saying that it's for their security. In a few years, you might not be able to get a reasonably new processor without it.

So there's no way some open-source manufacturer couldn't design their own processor or pay off some other company to do so to bypass the government spying?

How the hell could we possibly stand a chance against the U.S. government then?  Embarrassed
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Re: Should I pay my Traffic Tickets?
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randomcloud
on 27/09/2013, 12:56:47 UTC
To anyone with legal knowledge:

Couldn't the OP just move to another state if he really didn't want to pay the tickets and was willing to accept a warrant?
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Re: Dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Why We Need MORE Space Program Funding, not less
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randomcloud
on 22/09/2013, 15:15:12 UTC
Investing in using resources from space would solve a lot of our problems here on Earth (and might be one of the few plausible ways to harvest energy without using oil), but try telling that to the Philistines down here.  Undecided
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Re: Decentralized Bitcoin Exchanges Become a Reality As Coinsigner Launches Revoluti
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randomcloud
on 22/09/2013, 15:11:34 UTC
It's about time some kind of plausible alternative to Mt. Gox showed up. I thought people were going to be dumb enough to use them forever.
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Re: Assault weapon bans
by
randomcloud
on 27/07/2013, 16:58:50 UTC
You again. Pointless logic, which is par for the course for you. How many times does one have to say it? Cars have a purpose other than to take aim at someone and threaten and kill. It boggles me no end that these meme repeaters think they're being clever.

But no one CARES if a gun's primary purpose is to kill people. Don't you understand that? You can't just control other people and force them to abandon a lifestyle you disagree with because you think they are savages in need of your political enlightenment.
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Re: Assault weapon bans
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randomcloud
on 23/07/2013, 04:59:55 UTC

Another NRA meme with no merit. Tell me, can you cite one example where gun control advocates called for a banning of guns from a society where no people existed? If you can, then that might lend some credence to your repetition of that pointless slogan. Instead, you'll discover that gun control advocates seek a reduction in the possession of guns by people, which is a condition, not an object. Possession is a condition in which people possess guns, which implies a relationship between two things - a person, and a gun, which in combination, can be deadly.

Please, stop with the meaningless sayings.

So what do you hope to accomplish by banning guns in areas where the population doesn't want them to be banned? Don't you think they have the right to make up their own minds?

Funny how if you look at the cultures that like guns, you'll find the most gun deaths. Funny how that works. Therefore, what you're saying is: cultures which don't want guns banned want to live in a culture where there are a lot of gun deaths.

Please answer the questions, don't try to tap-dance around them.

If a culture wants guns, then that culture has failed itself. Have you noticed that the same people who want guns also want their government to not tax them, and not provide social nets, thus creating desperate situations, and crime?


Do you think they have the right to make up their own minds, or don't you? It's a yes or no question. And what do you hope to accomplish by banning guns in areas against their will?
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Re: Assault weapon bans
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randomcloud
on 23/07/2013, 04:35:57 UTC

Another NRA meme with no merit. Tell me, can you cite one example where gun control advocates called for a banning of guns from a society where no people existed? If you can, then that might lend some credence to your repetition of that pointless slogan. Instead, you'll discover that gun control advocates seek a reduction in the possession of guns by people, which is a condition, not an object. Possession is a condition in which people possess guns, which implies a relationship between two things - a person, and a gun, which in combination, can be deadly.

Please, stop with the meaningless sayings.

So what do you hope to accomplish by banning guns in areas where the population doesn't want them to be banned? Don't you think they have the right to make up their own minds?

Funny how if you look at the cultures that like guns, you'll find the most gun deaths. Funny how that works. Therefore, what you're saying is: cultures which don't want guns banned want to live in a culture where there are a lot of gun deaths.


Please answer the questions, don't try to tap-dance around them.
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Re: Assault weapon bans
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randomcloud
on 23/07/2013, 03:19:37 UTC

Another NRA meme with no merit. Tell me, can you cite one example where gun control advocates called for a banning of guns from a society where no people existed? If you can, then that might lend some credence to your repetition of that pointless slogan. Instead, you'll discover that gun control advocates seek a reduction in the possession of guns by people, which is a condition, not an object. Possession is a condition in which people possess guns, which implies a relationship between two things - a person, and a gun, which in combination, can be deadly.

Please, stop with the meaningless sayings.

So what do you hope to accomplish by banning guns in areas where the population doesn't want them to be banned? Don't you think they have the right to make up their own minds?
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Re: Assault weapon bans
by
randomcloud
on 21/07/2013, 15:08:26 UTC

Banning is never an answer, violence is something that is rotten in culture and that needs to be eradicated by the society as a whole, but for sure the gun-loving fucktards that defend that more guns = less deaths are not helping at all.

Hint: This is what the debate is actually about. Gun control advocates see guns as a psychological symbol of violence, and think that by getting rid of guns they will get rid of violence.

But none will ever show any actual evidence that getting rid of guns will lower overall violent deaths and crime rates, they'll obfuscate the issue by using the loaded term "gun deaths" that doesn't take into consideration whether those supposed prevented deaths just switched to violent deaths with other weapons, so...
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Re: Instead of Prisons?
by
randomcloud
on 20/07/2013, 16:20:39 UTC
The truth is that there is a genetic component to the behavior of lots of violent criminals -- sociopathy, et. al -- that CAN'T be fixed, so unless this is looked at on a case-by-case basis and the system picks out the exceptions to the rules, all this talk about rehabilitation is just a waste of time, one that I feel is advocated by people who are only doing this to make themselves feel better and not for the good of society.

I bolded the operative statement that clearly demonstrates from your own words that you are operating from a place of emotional bias rather than logic and facts, as I said from the beginning of your little tirade.

Judging from the unnecessary and irrational hostility you've displayed it's obvious you feel that way. I wish you'd present your argument and tell us why instead of wasting computing power with insults.

But I know you're going to post something dumb like, "I WISH YOU WOULDN'T *insert insult here*". Ugh.
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Re: Instead of Prisons?
by
randomcloud
on 19/07/2013, 18:37:23 UTC
   Any other comments on the idea I described?

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   I've been working on an idea for a while, this seems like a chance to put it up for comment.

It's basically hybridizing the refuge camp and the prison. The idea is that if you group criminals together, they are going to become more criminal. If I hang out with southerners, eventually I am going to develop a drawl- peer group influences behavior. So criminals need contact with people who they can learn good habits from. The US accepts refugees all the time from places where there are wars or oppression going on, and the idea is to get these people working in small facilities on patches of land, say, a house with 8 bedrooms each with 2 to 4 bunk beds, a big communal kitchen and living area, a workshop and a farm. Maybe a few goats and cows, chickens, vegetables, corn and potatoes and some fruit trees, beehive and duck pond. Maybe a workshop for furniture, window frames, clothing. Take 10 low risk inmates selected for the program because of good behavior in prison, and 10 recent immigrants from Africa and Asia, and 4 -6 staff. The immigrants can get green cards based on good work results, and the inmates can get their sentence reduced.

    This way there is a majority of non-criminals in the work group, so the momentum of peer pressure in the groip will be towards non-criminal behavior. Since the immigrants and the criminals can both work for less than minimum wage to secure their early release or green card, the projects can be self sustaining. Currently eajch prisoner costs over 20k a year- a project like this could cost half that, since they would produce their own food, and the food and crafts could even be sold at a profit. In the mean time people would build relationships, learn work ethic, and learn non-criminal thinking. Bad behavior or violence would mean getting sent back to prison or having the visa revoked. Prisoners could be tracked with a tracking chip, so if they run off they would be easily found again. There would also be cultural exchange and people could learn about other parts of the world and maybe broaden their horizons.

    This would just be a way to reduce the number of people in prison and kind of decentralize the system.


I've heard of stuff .... kind of like this before that is done in other countries, and my response is kind of "meh". I remember watching a news clip on how in Norway, their prisons are set up like little dorms and prisoners do in fact garden within the prison bounds. It works for Norway because they happen to have a small, wealthy population that doesn't have the deeply ingrained problems that Western society has, so I don't know how that'd work here.

Then again we already have minimum security prisons for low-risk prisoners in the U.S. anyway, so I don't see how this could really rehabilitate the people whom, if we accept the premise of the topic, need to be rehabilitated more -- the violent, dangerous criminals. And they're the ones who'd put the immigrants in the program you propose in the greatest danger.

The truth is that there is a genetic component to the behavior of lots of violent criminals -- sociopathy, et. al -- that CAN'T be fixed, so unless this is looked at on a case-by-case basis and the system picks out the exceptions to the rules, all this talk about rehabilitation is just a waste of time, one that I feel is advocated by people who are only doing this to make themselves feel better and not for the good of society.
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Re: Instead of Prisons?
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randomcloud
on 18/07/2013, 00:53:26 UTC
Its clear you live in your own little reality bubble and are determined to not let any conflicting ideas in. Don't let facts stop you from distorting reality into what you want it to be. For the record I was having a discussion when you joined in with the hostility first. What does that say about you? Nice "quote" BTW. Extrapolate some more maybe you can blame 9-11 on me too if you try reeeealy hard.

Are you ever gonna answer my question?