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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: January 29, 2014, 08:03:35 AM »

Point out precisely why and how it's wrong and I'll correct my statement. Continue to post one-word replies with no evidence and I'll simply ignore you entirely.

There is not an unlimited supply of US dollars. If there was, it wouldn't be a viable currency, by definition.

There's not an unlimited supply of anything, the supply of US dollars does however have the potential to be almost unlimited, far more so than bitcoin.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: January 29, 2014, 07:57:01 AM »

(Essex)MUD?

I don't know what you're trying to communicate with this.

Being the first it was, at it's time, the greatest MMO, and being the first ought to have a claim to at least the top 5.

Eh, if you're going to use the early adopter argument I'd go with Ultima Online.

It's up there, probably one of the most long lived.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: January 28, 2014, 07:00:09 PM »

So Pong is in the top 5 video games of all time?

Potentially, although I'd argue breakout is far superior in terms of enjoyability.

Pong never held my attention span for long, it also didn't directly inspire a genre as such, It might have a look in in the top ten greatest tennis games.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.

« on: January 28, 2014, 06:07:04 PM »

Yes. I agree. But a cow, when left to its own devices, feeds on grass (even peed-upon, I'll grant). A pig, when left to its own devices, feeds on God knows what.

Acorns, roots, tubers, and yes the occasional carrion (otherwise known as meat... potentially meat from a dead cow that's eaten peed upon grass, ewww).

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.

« on: January 28, 2014, 04:57:40 PM »

I assume that's true. All animals, by virtue of being witless beasts, do things that people would not do.

Exactly. Making pigs generally no more unclean in their diet than other animals.

Cows are a good example in many ways, the whole BSE issue in England was allegedly exacerbated by the delightful process of feeding them (in part) their deceased brethren.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.

« on: January 28, 2014, 04:30:59 PM »

Hm, I was told differently. But even a small part is still a part.

Cows eat grass they've pissed on.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.

« on: January 28, 2014, 04:23:00 PM »

Do you have any idea what pigs will eat? They are scavenging animals. Hardly a clean beast.

Well being as they're omnivorous they'll eat anything but in the diet of wild pigs carrion and other refuse would form an extremely small part.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: The earth is round

« on: January 28, 2014, 02:17:18 PM »

Universal Acceleration

I'm not sure that's a law so much as a hypothesis, and it doesn't necessarily negate space travel anyway, after all it's not a theory consistent with an external static frame of reference.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Ask a Jew anything.

« on: January 28, 2014, 09:32:11 AM »

Why do Jews have a big nose?

Because air is free.

@Yaakov: Just out of curiosity do you keep kosher?  Why do the kosher laws exist (or is it even a case of rationality vs "God says this so this"?  I'm just curious; my mother has a theory about kosher law that it was originally about cleanliness in many cases (like, pigs and shellfish, being such utterly filthy animals), although she maintains that the meat and milk combo is purely a matter of ethics.  What do you think?

For the record I'd die before permanently giving up bacon, lobster, and cheeseburgers, but as I'm sure I've made clear I'm not a religious Jew.

Interesting idea although Pigs are actually pretty clean animals. I seem to remember hearing somewhere a suggestion that it was mostly stuff that would go bad quickly in a hot climate and so the laws were to prevent people from getting sick from gone off food?

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Satellites

« on: January 28, 2014, 09:28:59 AM »

Let me teach you a thing or two.  First of all, satellite dishes are directional.  This is important because it means that they point at the transmitter, which means it is in the sky.

worth noting that on a flat earth they would point a lot lower for any given distance than on a round earth.

Being as a flat earth wouldn't curve away from their line of sight.

You're probably well aware that the height of the object they point to is also dependent on the distance to the object so assuming the transmitter is on a flat earth and closer than our round earth information tells us then Tintagel's suggestions may have merit.

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Technology & Information / Re: Ask Rushy about Bitcoins.

« on: January 28, 2014, 09:22:01 AM »

As in never to be recovered. If I have 10 bitcoins on a hard drive and I light the hard drive on fire, those bitcoins are gone. Forever. This can be avoided by keeping backups and not forgetting your encryption password.

As far as destruction of currency is concerned, paper money wins. It can be regulated if the amount lost is significant enough to be noticed. As you have said, the amount of bitcoin in circulation is much more rigid. Backups, encryption passwords? Is this a joke? It's my money and I need it now!

Perhaps if you considered bitcoin or similar to be an online banking tool?

When compared to that a lot of the negatives in terms of losses and ease of access disappear.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: January 28, 2014, 07:57:19 AM »

(Essex)MUD?

I don't know what you're trying to communicate with this.

Being the first it was, at it's time, the greatest MMO, and being the first ought to have a claim to at least the top 5.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: January 27, 2014, 10:39:57 PM »

World of Warcraft stuck to lore too and we all see just how well that worked out. Better start the ESO countdown to pandas.

Best MMO of all time?

"Most successful" is an argument one could make, in terms of subscriptions.  "Best" is subjective.  I didn't enjoy it.

That's a better word choice. However, if you were to make a say, top five list of greatest MMO's of all time, I'd be skeptical of putting any game at number one besides WoW.

(Essex)MUD?

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Technology & Information / Re: Coinye, a Bitcoin spin-off, is being sued by Kanye West

« on: January 27, 2014, 10:38:07 PM »

Yes, but mining is necessary if the currency is going to proliferate so at some point the value proposition of mining must be considered.

Personally I'd consider it when the value of a bitcoin approaches, or rather exceeds the cost of mining it.

Up till that point it makes more sense to acquire them of others wherever you can. That or collect beanie babies with the money.

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Technology & Information / Re: Coinye, a Bitcoin spin-off, is being sued by Kanye West

« on: January 27, 2014, 09:42:33 PM »

Or at least the FV of 1 bitcoin is worth more than the cost to mine 1 bitcoin.

No. As long as it's more expensive to mine a bitcoin than it is to buy one, rational people will choose to buy the bitcoin, rather than produce it themselves.

No. If you spend $400 to mine a bitcoin that you know will be worth $450 in one year, and your $400, invested will only garner $449.99, then you obviously should mine the bitcoin. It's called Future Value and is an extremely important concept when evaluating commodities and currencies.

But if you buy the bitcoin for $100 you can get 4 and in a year they'll be worth $1,800 and you didn't have to buy a mining rig.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: January 27, 2014, 09:39:27 PM »

Of what?

LoTR.

90% of modern high fantasy IS though if you want to throw words like "rip off" around.

T

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Gramey hopes

« on: January 27, 2014, 09:04:57 AM »

Shut up no they flippin wont mackelmore is the GRETEST RAPER OF ALL TIME!!!!!!

well, him or Jimmy Savile anyway.

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Technology & Information / Re: Coinye, a Bitcoin spin-off, is being sued by Kanye West

« on: January 26, 2014, 04:42:36 PM »

From what you just said, it looks like people are willing to pay about 4x more than what bitcoins are currently worth. That doesn't make sense.

Do you think gold or diamond is worth what it takes to pull them out of the ground?

I'd say worth more as a general rule.

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Technology & Information / Re: Coinye, a Bitcoin spin-off, is being sued by Kanye West

« on: January 25, 2014, 04:09:56 PM »

The argument itself that bitcoin is worth what it costs to mine it is silly. Bitcoin is worth what people will pay for it.

That makes bitcoins a commodity, not a currency.

Kinda makes all national currencies commodities too since there's an exchange rate.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The Elder Scrolls Online

« on: January 25, 2014, 11:39:57 AM »

John Cleese has also done quite a few videogame voice overs. If he didn't like it then why would he do it? He can't be hurting for money.

Surprisingly, he is. I watch him in interviews and stuff (was just earlier today) and, like fappenhosen said, his ex-wife took literally all his money. He had to go on tour again just to get some money to live off of. I hadn't thought about it before, but I guess I wouldn't be surprised if he was just doing this to earn more. Or maybe he did want to do it but ended up bored still, I dunno. Maybe they picked terrible points to film, but he just seems like he doesn't really want to be there and isn't enjoying himself.

I had no idea. Well that sucks. You'd think with royalties and all that he'd still have enough.

From what I remember she also got Half his future earnings and the figure for future earnings was ridiculously high.