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In bargaining and bartering and all such interactions, the truth is not as much of a consideration in the things that the person that you're bargaining with is telling you than your own truth and perceptions are.-wraith808 (October 28, 2013, 08:05 PM)
...without having to spend a lot and/or save up for the current cost of a single Bitcoin.-Stoic Joker (October 28, 2013, 11:27 AM)
IIUC Gresham's Law would indicate that Bitcoin will be saved and not spent at all - so long as fiat money exists (presuming Bitcoin continues increasing in value). [edit] but yes, your logic is good, so long as bitcoins increase). [/edit]-tomos (October 28, 2013, 03:11 PM)
A rather revealing and self-defining statement about one's personal standards and integrity.-IainB (October 28, 2013, 08:33 AM)
Not really. Just a sociological observation. Not all lies are created equal. We all tell lies as we negotiate our daily existences. You don't believe me? Try for a day not to tell a lie like in the movie Liar Liar. When your missus asks you the next time "Does my bum look big in this?", just go ahead and say yes and see what happens...-dr_andus (October 28, 2013, 11:14 AM)
Lying is part of everyday diplomacy of negotiating conflicting demands; we all do this in our daily realities, so it's unrealistic to expect that somehow politicians should never ever lie.-dr_andus (October 28, 2013, 07:58 AM)
You just Kant lie. Why don’t you accept other forms of payment?
The short answer is we’d love to but we can’t!
Our business is making and selling leather products. We like to sell our products across the world and the more customers the better. The problem is we operate in Iran and most payment systems either are not willing to serve us at all or impose a huge risk on our business. Before launching this website, our international sale has been limited to a few dedicated customers who knew about the quality of our products and were prepared to go through a lot of trouble to pay us! This of course, may sound incomprehensible for people who have all sorts of electronic payments at their disposal. However, before finding out about Bitcoin, receiving our money was the number one obstacle in expanding our business.
Now, with Bitcoin and the help of Bitcoin community we are hoping to become a role model for other small businesses in Iran to find global customers.
Maybe he's been chosen as the one to be thrown under a bus.-IainB (October 28, 2013, 07:11 AM)
All world currencies are inflationary. That is, they all lose value over time. $1 today has less purchasing power tomorrow. This is true for ALL world currencies that are issued/backed by governments/central banks. There are no exceptions.-Renegade (October 28, 2013, 05:43 AM)
Why spend bitcoins when you can get rid of fiat? (This is a general problem.) What I'm thinking is that constantly funnelling fiat into bitcoins then spending that is a good way to preserve value-Renegade (October 28, 2013, 12:01 AM)
???-barney (October 28, 2013, 02:16 AM)
I wonder if DC allows bitcoins for the donation? That would be great. I don't know if mouser has any plans to add bitcoins over here.-mahesh2k (October 27, 2013, 07:47 AM)
We do?Code: C++ [Select]
More high stakes bluffing Renny.
Because today's news says ... wait for it ...
German media: Obama aware of Merkel spying since 2010
http://news.yahoo.co...eport-092009842.html
"Berlin (AFP) - US President Barack Obama was personally informed of phone tapping against German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which may have begun as early as 2002, German media reported Sunday as a damaging espionage scandal widened.-TaoPhoenix (October 27, 2013, 11:03 AM)
(Yes... I know... it's a joke.)12-year-old Canadian boy admits to hacking police and government sites for Anonymous
A 12-year-old Canadian boy has pleaded guilty to hacking government and police websites during the 2012 student uprising in Quebec under affiliation with the Anonymous brand of hacktivists.
According to the Toronto Sun, the fifth grader, who lives in the Montreal suburb of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, appeared in youth court on Thursday, accompanied by his father.
The boy pleaded guilty to three charges related to hacking websites that included those of Montreal police, the Quebec Institute of Public Health, the Chilean government and some non-public sites.
The attacks took some of the sites offline for up to two days, at what police estimated as a cost of $60,000 in damages. A more detailed report will be handed over next month when the boy is sentenced, according to the Toronto Sun.
Did anyone catch Renny's 10,000th post?-TaoPhoenix (October 26, 2013, 10:12 PM)
This concept (sock puppets) has been a known problem at Wikipedia for years now. Wonder why is this news now?-J-Mac (October 26, 2013, 12:48 PM)
What do you think the law would look like if it were an API/SDK?
Yep. And programmers need to be the ones who solve the horrid national tax code, and actually make the Paperwork Reduction Act have its desired effect.-kyrathaba (October 26, 2013, 03:54 PM)
^I could say regulate the banks,
but I guess you could come back with bitcoin or silver/gold-tomos (October 26, 2013, 01:23 PM)
In more "Snowden-esque" news:
http://www.nytimes.c...tml?hp&_r=2&
"Federal Prosecutors, in a Policy Shift, Cite Warrantless Wiretaps as Evidence
By CHARLIE SAVAGE-TaoPhoenix (October 26, 2013, 09:00 PM)
Yeah, there's a bit of a fuss being kicked up by Merkel due to her mobile telephone bing 'tapped'. It will help, but it could have some more 'omph' to it imo.-tomos (October 26, 2013, 12:51 PM)
President Barack Obama told the German leader he would have stopped it happening had he known about it.
In an SCS document cited by the magazine, the agency said it had a "not legally registered spying branch" in the U.S. embassy in Berlin, the exposure of which would lead to "grave damage for the relations of the United States to another government".
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung also said Obama had told Merkel he had not known of the bugging.
Merkel's spokesman and the White House declined comment.
"We're not going to comment on the details of our diplomatic discussions," said Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council at the White House.
Any wonder why we're "stupid serfs"? ^I think we 're past the point where just "speaking out" is going to be sufficient to extract us from this quagmire.
-40hz (October 26, 2013, 10:57 AM)
5 ozt of silver is sweet, but 1 bitcoin is much sweeter!
If you don't have any bitcoins yet, here's your chance to get 1!-Renegade (October 26, 2013, 01:20 AM)
And in addition to your chance to win a free bitcoin, your name will also be automatically entered for a 'chance' to be selected for the IRS's ever popular "randomly selected" high audit probability list!!! So nice of you to out yourself as a troublemaker...
(see attachment in previous post)
(Sorry. Not trying to go OT or scare people off. But my current campaign is pointing out the dangerous implications and possibilities for official abuse now that we live in a surveillance state here in the good ol' USA. If the thought of what this technology can be used for finally starts to worry people...well...they need to be worried.)
-40hz (October 26, 2013, 07:25 AM)
Please name some regulation that isn't bad. But before you tell me what it is, ask yourself if there isn't already some law to deal with the situation already in place. It's harder than it sounds.-Renegade (October 23, 2013, 10:26 PM)
<crickets />-Renegade (October 25, 2013, 11:01 PM)
Not so much crickets as this is borders on a debate over what amounts to an almost religious belief on the part of some.
I don't have the energy (or gluteal stamina) to get into that sort of a discussion in text these days.
I'll save that for a F2F (over drinks or coffee) at the first Annual DoCo Gathering of Geeks.-40hz (October 26, 2013, 07:52 AM)
Energy! Gotcha. (Sorry - I can't help but razz about this - it's just too much fun! And yes - I honestly believe that there's no regulation whatsoever that I couldn't mock and make fun of in one way or another! ) 