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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Show me proof of a flat earth.
« on: January 17, 2014, 01:05:42 AM »
Let's start from scratch.
Please take the original picture AS11_44_6642 (LEM, moon and earth) and give us the step by step procedure used to reveal the fraud.
Photoshop should be a good tool for that.
Actually, you'll want to start with an uncompressed scan of the original negative.  The JPEG compression process can introduce artifacts that can be misinterpreted as retouching.

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Armored cars transport stuff.  What do bitcoin algorithms do?

Transport stuff. Just a lot more efficiently than a truck covered in plates of heavy armor.
How long does it take to generate a bitcoin?

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A $100 bill cost about 13 cents to print and smaller bills are less than 10 cents.  How much does it cost to generate a bitcoin?  How many bitcoins will ever be produced?  How many other forms of crypto-currency are being developed and will they be compatible?  What is the exchange rate between bitcoins and coinyes?  What about financial transactions that require anonymity?  How do you stuff a bitcoin in a stripper's g-string?

http://bitcoin.org/en/faq
So you don't know?  Got it.

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With Bitcoin a bank isn't really necessary, done right no one can steal your Bitcoins.
Apparently, it isn't being done right:
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/250-000-worth-bitcoins-stolen-net-heist-980871
http://threatpost.com/thieves-covering-tracks-following-100m-bitcoin-heist/103088
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/12/05/million-dollar-fine-for-sneaky-bitcoin-botnet-builders/
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/gaming-company-caught-building-bitcoin-mining-botnet-users-computers-gets-light

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Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if the bitcoin algorithms serve any useful function, other than wasting CPU cycles?

Does an armored bank truck do anything other than waste gas?
Armored cars transport stuff.  What do bitcoin algorithms do?

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Securing a financial system is not a "waste." In fact, if the world used Bitcoin, billions would be saved every year, as money printing and transport would be obsolete. It costs many times more to maintain the Dollar than it does to maintain Bitcoin.
A $100 bill cost about 13 cents to print and smaller bills are less than 10 cents.  How much does it cost to generate a bitcoin?  How many bitcoins will ever be produced?  How many other forms of crypto-currency are being developed and will they be compatible?  What is the exchange rate between bitcoins and coinyes?  What about financial transactions that require anonymity?  How do you stuff a bitcoin in a stripper's g-string?

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: More things to do.
« on: January 16, 2014, 01:37:27 AM »
People may be more likely to join and start debating if they see that discussions are already going on.  Having empty upper forums sends the message that nobody cares.

Nobody cares, thats why its not active. Debating ourselves is pointless.
Is it?  Are you suggesting that FET is as fully developed as it's going to get?  Or are you saying that nobody actually cares about FET?

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Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if the bitcoin algorithms serve any useful function, other than wasting CPU cycles?

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Drug dealers.
(Reuters) - U.S. authorities have seized an estimated $28 million in the digital currency bitcoins from the alleged owner of "Silk Road," the online marketplace for drugs and criminal activity that law enforcement shut down three weeks ago.

Federal prosecutors in New York said Friday that the 144,336 bitcoins, a digital currency widely used on the defunct site, were discovered on computer hardware belonging to Ross William Ulbricht, known online as "Dread Pirate Roberts," who was arrested October 1 in San Francisco and charged with various conspiracy counts. They said it represented the largest ever bitcoin seizure.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Columbus & a Round (or Flat) Earth.
« on: January 15, 2014, 03:30:58 AM »
Ah.  That'd be impossible to say.  I'm not certain what Columbus believed, regardless of what historians ascribe to him. 
From what I've heard, Columbus knew that the earth was round, but cut some 3000 miles off the then accepted circumference in order to sell his voyage west to India to the queen.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: The Zetetic Council
« on: January 15, 2014, 03:27:48 AM »
We need a page with all the Zetetically approved info gathered in one place, that won't drop down to oblivion. The info needs to stay in one place. People come here all the time looking for evidence. Why not put it all in one place and leave it there.
Do you mean something like the FE Wiki?

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Flat Earth Community / Re: The Zetetic Council
« on: January 15, 2014, 01:39:37 AM »
I think an evidence page should be posted on this website. Post a link to ENaG. There have been many videos posted over time concerning moon landing fakery, I think a guy named Boylan or something, has a video pointing out NASA bs.  Out of all the interesting videos, they never seemed to get saved, and just fade away. If there were an evidence page the info could be compiled together and saved over time.
 The Zetetic Council should oversee what gets put in the compendium. They can take a vote on such additions to the evidence page. That way a piece that is crazy won't get put in by one idiot. It would take more than one idiot to have it included.

A good idea maybe meriting its own subforum.
Why?  We already have Flat Earth Information Repository.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Columbus & a Round (or Flat) Earth.
« on: January 14, 2014, 09:24:34 PM »
I want to think that it was New Earth, or one of the other fringe FE'ers.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8.1 update
« on: January 14, 2014, 01:44:06 AM »
Plus air print for iPad does not support Ethernet connected printers.
???  Ummm...  I don't think that you understand how air print works.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Is it possible to prove a negative?
« on: January 13, 2014, 01:26:59 PM »
The original claim was that gravity varied over the surface of the earth.  It was supported by a gravity map.  This piece of evidence was disputed by you with your aforementioned claims that you knew that it was uncontrolled.  When asked to back your claims up, you shouted "negative claim!"

I would recommend looking at the thread again. Claiming that the experiment was uncontrolled was a positive claim which I provided evidence for.
Yes, and I showed you that your claim was invalid because the gravity probe itself is the control.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Is it possible to prove a negative?
« on: January 13, 2014, 04:25:38 AM »
So, is absence of evidence a perfectly fine rebuttal now?
Only when not used fallaciously.

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8.1 update
« on: January 13, 2014, 03:24:45 AM »
But here's what a surface Pro will do that an ipad won't:
Connect to a windows domain.  Access to files, webpages, printers, and any special software you need to monitor your servers. 
Are you suggesting that there are no SMB or VNC type clients for iOS?  Also, a lot of newer printers can AirPrint.

Also, what does any of this have to do with the terribleness of the Windows 8.1 upgrade process?

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Is it possible to prove a negative?
« on: January 12, 2014, 06:50:52 PM »
I see.

Person 1: Does the boogeyman exist?

Person 2: No...

Person 1: Ha! You just claimed that the boogeyman doesn't exist! Now you have to prove it!
Person 2: Here are some reported pictures of the boogey man.  This is why they are not genuine.  All pictures that have been reported of the boogeyman have been looked at and determined to be either faked or a case of mistaken identity.  Therefore, I conclude that there is not enough evidence to confirm the existence of a boogeyman.  Because these pictures are the most likely source of proof of the boogey man, I have concluded that the boogeyman does not exist.

That's an "absence of evidence is evidence of absence" argument.
No Tom, that's called "refuting evidence".  Person 2 collected evidence and then showed why that evidence is not valid.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing
« on: January 12, 2014, 05:16:57 AM »

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8.1 update
« on: January 10, 2014, 12:22:55 AM »
Normally I agree, however going from 8 to 8.1 is pretty similar to installing a service pack. 
Except UEFI doesn't prevent you from installing service packs. 

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Technology & Information / Re: Windows 8.1 update
« on: January 09, 2014, 04:38:47 AM »
Clean instals are usually cleaner and more stable than upgrades anyways.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Zetetic Council Election Thread.
« on: January 09, 2014, 02:11:43 AM »
That makes sense, I suppose.  It's just weird (and a bit frightening) to see Thork as a mod.

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