Topic: Bitcoin will never reach $20 again - page 17. (Read 40339 times)

How soon? within the year?

Between $0 and $1...probably on the lower end. 

where do you think it will stabilize?

Along with several others, I have been warning people to get out for about a month now.

Glad you care about us. /endsarcasm

It is funny how all the bitcoin fans are trying to change the topic of this thread.  They'd rather lose money than heed my advice.  The plunge continues. 

$8.80

I lol'd 

Now, we've got canes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPQrXUpvkuc&feature=related

Ah, the plebes. As I puff on my pipe reading this fine online literature, I can recall the days of mingling with these common folk. Those were the days.

Perhaps we should find a high point with lots of foot traffic underneath and spit on the plebes below for being so goddamn stupid.

I, for one, am thoroughly versed in the discipline of DNA testing, as are all my immediate peers. I mean, who isn't? I'm surprised so many of you neanderthals would lack such a necessary understanding of our double helix essence. How do you continue to exist?

"They" don't think any of this is cool ...

Whoa now fella...you think the average person does understand DNA testing? Maybe they have a concept of the end result from what they saw on television, but they have no fucking clue what is actually happening. This is perhaps the stupidest analogy I have ever seen drawn.

It is completely unnecessary to interact with computers on a personal level on a day to day basis. Ask anyone's grandparents. The social attitude that allows them to 'simply not try' is that they will be dead before it matters. My grandpa didn't wear a seatbelt his whole fucking life, amassed dozens of tickets for it, and died without ever having regularly used one, despite everyone who knew him trying their hardest to convince him that it was the simplest thing you could do to protect yourself. That was just a seatbelt. You think he was going to be picking up 'googling' just because of your 17-year-old self-righteous indignation?

I would say that the current price is in part caused by this attack.

Never is a long time.

$9.55

Where's TraderTimm?

DNA testing also came about in the 80s, blossomed to full capability in the 90s and is used extensively today. Should we expect the average person to not understand that either? The world changes, sometimes fast sometimes slow, it's important for people of all ages to keep up with at least the most dramatic and important of those changes, or at least put in the effort. The correct answer for the computer illiterate is not "I don't know and I'm OK with that" - the correct answer is "I don't know, so maybe I should learn."

To make sure I'm 100% clear: I don't expect everyone to be a computer whiz, I'm questioning the societal attitude that allows them to simply not try.

I work at a place that educates people on how to use their computers.  However computers are still very new, relatively speaking.   They did not gain widespread use until the 80's and the internet wasn't until the 90's, there are plenty of people who lived most of their lives without interacting with computers.

We do need to educate people in computer use, but it is unreasonably to expect everyone to be computer literate at this time.

This is a big societal issue that I honestly cannot believe we tolerate. Today computer literacy is every bit as important as... well... literacy!

People who can't read are ashamed of it, they hide the fact, they try to learn or fix the problem, make it better. There are programs with volunteers and donations to help people who can't read learn and parents recognize the importance of their children being able to read lest they be forced to choose between ditch-digging and the circus. Why do we tolerate computer illiteracy?

More than tolerate, some seem to think there is legitimately nothing wrong with it! I've heard countless folks from the generations before me say things like "oh I don't know anything about this computer stuff, I'll just leave that to you young folks"... NO! You need these skills to survive today! How do you function in any modern office environment without email, word processing, spreadsheets, databases etc. It should not be acceptable for your mother, father, friends, aunts, uncles, employees or employers to be computer illiterate, any more than you'd consider it acceptable for them to be unable to read, dress themselves, tie their own shoes, bathe and groom themselves... These are basic skills now, they're part of the toolkit for everyday life and I refuse to accept it as normal or reasonable for anyone to lack them.

Uncle Joe needs to go take a class at the community college, or better yet someone could start a massive non-profit and try to get computer literacy the sort of attention that reading literacy currently appreciates.

I understand that bitcoin is NOT simple mainstream stuff and I expect to have to explain it to the "Uncle Joes" of the world, but I shouldn't have to first explain how to use their browser, mouse, etc.

Full disclosure: I've spent far too many hours of my life working tech support, so this might just be bitter techie syndrome...

Yeah, you are definitely not computer illiterate uncle joe.