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Why are so many people Anti-Bitcoin? Bitcoin Discussion
Bitcoin induces severe cognitive dissonance. For example, this is what might be…
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n/a | chickenado | November 16, 2011, 09:56:31 AM |
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Why Run the Bitcoin Client? Bitcoin Discussion
If running the client provides a valuable service to the network, shouldn't that…
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n/a | chickenado | November 16, 2011, 09:06:51 AM |
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Piracy Off-topic
Piracy by chickenado
In my view, all laws must pass the "Robinson criterion" and the "drop dead crite…
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n/a | chickenado | November 16, 2011, 05:08:19 AM |
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If you don't like it, then leave. Politics & Society
QuoteYou do realize that your "caveman voters" are the same people that will be…
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n/a | chickenado | November 14, 2011, 06:35:56 PM |
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If you don't like it, then leave. Politics & Society
Just because someone owns something doesn't mean they deserve to keep it. The p…
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n/a | chickenado | November 14, 2011, 07:06:23 PM |
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If you don't like it, then leave. Politics & Society
There are many methods of elucidating the value of public goods to people. It's…
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n/a | chickenado | November 14, 2011, 04:26:33 PM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
QuoteWe have elections where people get to vote on policies and you will notice…
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n/a | chickenado | November 13, 2011, 02:29:53 PM |
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If you don't like it, then leave. Politics & Society
QuoteQuoteI didn't change the subject. Taxation is theft.Too lazy to make an int…
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n/a | chickenado | November 13, 2011, 02:13:00 PM |
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If you don't like it, then leave. Politics & Society
Its almost as if there were essential things that every society needs and that w…
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n/a | chickenado | November 13, 2011, 02:08:43 PM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
QuoteWe have elections where people get to vote on policies and you will notice…
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n/a | chickenado | November 13, 2011, 01:26:41 PM |
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If you don't like it, then leave. Politics & Society
Tragic. Its almost as if there were essential things that every society needs a…
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n/a | chickenado | November 13, 2011, 12:41:19 PM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
chickenado - your philosophy is all well and good if you think poverty is tolera…
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n/a | chickenado | November 13, 2011, 10:42:52 AM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
A good example would be slavery. I know you don't like the analogy, but it works…
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n/a | chickenado | November 13, 2011, 11:46:24 AM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
You know, your whole thing about IP rights and PP rights creating a legal mess w…
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n/a | chickenado | November 13, 2011, 08:42:34 AM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
Um - actually you are insisting that you are entitled to take the product of oth…
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n/a | chickenado | November 13, 2011, 07:37:45 AM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
Sorry - still wrong in logic. I can sue someone who takes my car and I can sue…
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n/a | chickenado | November 13, 2011, 06:44:59 AM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
Do I need to spell it out?Physical property = Right to exclude others from contr…
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n/a | chickenado | November 11, 2011, 12:48:48 PM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
Quote from: Hawker link=topic=38854.msg614727#msg614727Logic fail. Stealing app…
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n/a | chickenado | November 11, 2011, 11:34:18 AM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
Stealing intellectual property is aggression. If that is true, the statement "st…
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n/a | chickenado | November 11, 2011, 08:40:34 AM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
QuoteHow you kid yourself that stealing IP doesn't harm other people baffles me.…
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n/a | chickenado | November 11, 2011, 06:13:30 AM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
Chicken - you need to read up on is/ought. You have it backwards.You claim that…
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n/a | chickenado | November 10, 2011, 07:10:48 PM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
The first thing people do in an emergency is form a group and look after the gro…
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n/a | chickenado | November 10, 2011, 04:38:40 PM |
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The Myth of Compromise Politics & Society
A friend once told me, "Nature is murky and complex, therefore ethics has to be…
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n/a | chickenado | November 10, 2011, 12:40:52 PM |
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Dwolla to invest heavily in BTC - true or false? Bitcoin Discussion
How does it help him make money, is the questionDwolla is more of a transaction…
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n/a | chickenado | November 10, 2011, 12:20:46 PM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
Its NAP done properly. People do get together in societies and societies do act…
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n/a | chickenado | November 10, 2011, 09:33:40 AM |
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like it or not, the SR is only killer application of bitcoin since it was born, Bitcoin Discussion
I see this as THE killer app for bitcoin:http://www.mondonet.org/It doesn't have…
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n/a | chickenado | November 10, 2011, 04:35:43 AM |
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Destruction Politics & Society
Most of the people who call themselves the 99% are still in the top 1% globally.…
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n/a | chickenado | November 09, 2011, 12:58:28 PM |
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like it or not, the SR is only killer application of bitcoin since it was born, Bitcoin Discussion
I like SR, though I have never used it. What is there not to like about Pareto e…
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n/a | chickenado | November 09, 2011, 07:08:53 AM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
The problem with your idea is that we have empirical evidence. Countries with I…
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n/a | chickenado | November 09, 2011, 03:32:06 AM |
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Awesome. I was SOOOO RIGHT! Economics
95%+ 100% of bitcoins money is held by speculators. By definition.
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n/a | chickenado | November 08, 2011, 09:56:08 AM |
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Why is bitcoin falling so slowly and gradually? Economics
Nobody wants to be the ones to actually do the work though, they just want to ge…
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n/a | chickenado | November 08, 2011, 09:18:02 AM |
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Positive aspects of deflation... Economics
economic growth in rich countries is mainly driven by productivity gains, not by…
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n/a | chickenado | November 08, 2011, 08:03:36 AM |
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Limited coins and hoarding Economics
I'm regularly amused by members who do no comprehend Praxeology or Economics tel…
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n/a | chickenado | November 08, 2011, 07:54:43 AM |
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Successful Test of Cold Fusion Device - Customer (DARPA?) pays 2 million$. Off-topic
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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n/a | chickenado | November 08, 2011, 06:57:08 AM |
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Monopolies: The mistake I keep seeing here (or just ignorance) Politics & Society
What if the substitute is inferior to the product offered by the monopolist?I'm…
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n/a | chickenado | November 08, 2011, 05:24:09 AM |
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Intellectual Property - In All Fairness! Politics & Society
The purpose of property rights is not fairness, it's justice.The purpose of prop…
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n/a | chickenado | November 08, 2011, 04:35:46 AM |
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TradeHill - Why we no longer accept Dwolla and an open letter to Ben Milne Bitcoin Discussion
This thread illustrates the problem with the Bitcoin community.You are all a bun…
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n/a | chickenado | July 28, 2011, 03:33:16 AM |
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R.I.P Amy Winehouse Off-topic
wtf? :-/A dead drug addict gets a thread but an extremist christian terrorist wh…
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n/a | chickenado | July 23, 2011, 03:55:37 PM |
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R.I.P Amy Winehouse Off-topic
Life isn't about the amount of time you spend on earth. It's about what you do w…
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n/a | chickenado | July 23, 2011, 03:53:08 PM |
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Would killing the minimum wage help? Politics & Society
Mininum wage only "protects" people who already have a stable job.But it hurts t…
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n/a | chickenado | July 12, 2011, 07:19:49 AM |
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Worlds First Bitcoin Tattoo Bitcoin Discussion
Wow, really? I mean I like bitcoins and all, but that is one hell of a place to…
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n/a | chickenado | July 12, 2011, 01:30:35 AM |
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What programming language to learn? Bitcoin Discussion
For a beginner I would recommend Ruby because it's human-centered, while most ot…
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n/a | chickenado | July 11, 2011, 04:02:27 AM |
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Bitcoin traders, why don't you just trade forex? Trading Discussion
It's quite simple really:I understand bitcoin, and I don't understand regular fo…
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n/a | chickenado | July 11, 2011, 03:45:58 AM |
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Bringing BTC to the mainstream Economics
Bitcoin is not ready for this yet. Before this can happen, user friendly tools f…
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n/a | chickenado | July 05, 2011, 06:25:49 PM |
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US claims .com and .net are under its jurisdiction Off-topic
This precedence is setting up a legal nightmare when the semantic web arrives an…
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n/a | chickenado | July 05, 2011, 04:56:01 PM |
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Join Civilization Politics & Society
There are two ways we can interact with other people, civilized or uncivilized.…
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n/a | chickenado | July 05, 2011, 04:45:18 PM |
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Seriously, though, how would a libertarian society address global warming? Politics & Society
because everybody knows that actual, working climate scientists are all liars, a…
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n/a | chickenado | July 05, 2011, 04:39:29 PM |
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As Predicted Bitcoin Discussion
Thoughts?Predictions that don't cost you anything are pretty much worthless. It'…
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n/a | chickenado | July 05, 2011, 03:34:50 PM |
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Copying is Creativity, Everything is a Remix. Politics & Society
See how many pharmaceutical companies invest millions of dollars into R&D so tha…
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n/a | chickenado | July 05, 2011, 08:58:53 AM |
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why do people buy computers, with possible trojans pre-installed? Politics & Society
I personally can't be bothered with spending my whole weekend trying to get a we…
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n/a | chickenado | July 05, 2011, 09:11:46 AM |
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Do libertarians support the idea of information as property? Politics & Society
You've denied Ferrari their right to control the product of their labour (design…
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n/a | chickenado | July 05, 2011, 02:43:27 AM |
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Do libertarians support the idea of information as property? Politics & Society
However, without copyright we wouldn't have free softwareWe wouldn't have free s…
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n/a | chickenado | July 05, 2011, 02:39:34 AM |
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Please, stop having children. (Discussion about overpopulation) Off-topic
Want to solve really tough problems? We need more Einsteins. How do you get more…
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n/a | chickenado | July 04, 2011, 02:52:20 PM |
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Please, stop having children. (Discussion about overpopulation) Off-topic
No, stop having children because it's idiotic.Kids means sacrificing and comprom…
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n/a | chickenado | July 04, 2011, 02:30:11 PM |
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Why I have fallen out of love with democracy. Politics & Society
I agree as long as there is no secondary consequences for the democaratic commun…
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n/a | chickenado | June 23, 2011, 07:03:54 AM |
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Why I have fallen out of love with democracy. Politics & Society
In my opinion, the biggest flaw with democracy as it is commnly defined today, i…
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n/a | chickenado | June 23, 2011, 06:50:02 AM |
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Why I have fallen out of love with democracy. Politics & Society
Just wondering. Are there any alternatives to democracy that are more fair / bet…
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n/a | chickenado | June 23, 2011, 06:40:24 AM |
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Why I have fallen out of love with democracy. Politics & Society
Utter bullshit.Libertarianism is a set of formulas that work great in the minds…
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n/a | chickenado | June 09, 2011, 04:05:43 AM |
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Morality of Bitcoin Politics & Society
What is the morality of carrots?What is the morality of automobiles?What is the…
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n/a | chickenado | June 05, 2011, 05:39:00 PM |
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Why I have fallen out of love with democracy. Politics & Society
I have come to realise that democracy has a fundamental flaw:Democracy is cheap.…
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n/a | chickenado | June 05, 2011, 09:59:36 AM |
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The Gun is Civilization Politics & Society
Most people don't carry a personal gun for the same reason they don't carry a pe…
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n/a | chickenado | June 05, 2011, 05:23:01 PM |
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Fuzzycoin: defending against the kiddie-porn-in-blockchain attack Development & Technical Discussion
Here is how Bitcoin could be modified to solve this attack (mentioned several ti…
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n/a | chickenado | May 31, 2011, 10:28:57 AM |
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Liberals, why do you like Bitcoin? Politics & Society
Real reason liberals like bitcoins: They get money without doing any work by min…
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n/a | chickenado | May 31, 2011, 08:45:51 AM |
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Bitcoin distribution Bitcoin Discussion
anyone with any practical or academic experience with economics knows that perfe…
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n/a | chickenado | May 31, 2011, 03:36:19 AM |
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Is speculation good or bad for Bitcoin? Bitcoin Discussion
What's the point of even asking? Speculation is a natural consequence of the flu…
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n/a | chickenado | May 28, 2011, 02:32:18 AM |
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Is speculation good or bad for Bitcoin? Bitcoin Discussion
*For the purpose of this poll, speculation is defined as buying/selling BTC with…
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n/a | chickenado | May 28, 2011, 02:14:36 AM |
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Use for bitcoin: Hiding assets from government Bitcoin Discussion
Hiding money is easy. Even before Bitcoin it was easy.Spending that money withou…
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n/a | chickenado | May 26, 2011, 04:25:06 AM |
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What's wrong with Bitcoin? Bitcoin Discussion
Just out of curiousity, has anyone else paused to consider why this person poste…
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n/a | chickenado | May 23, 2011, 02:24:36 AM |
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Approaching fair value Economics
Yes, because we know that someone buying the full price of a house with Bitcoins…
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n/a | chickenado | May 20, 2011, 10:09:59 AM |
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Approaching fair value Economics
As long as it's difficult to get hold of enough BTC to buy a house, it's underva…
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n/a | chickenado | May 20, 2011, 09:34:29 AM |
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EVERY transaction in blcok chain? Flaw? Bitcoin Discussion
Here's a thought for you:The amount of data stored in the block chain grows line…
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n/a | chickenado | May 20, 2011, 09:07:48 AM |
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Bitcoin "limitations" (and high CPU usage for Mac client!) Bitcoin Discussion
Given this: Why would any normal end-user move to Bitcoin? I know Bitcoin has ma…
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n/a | chickenado | May 20, 2011, 09:02:46 AM |
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Milestones Bitcoin Discussion
Bitcoin makes it to the front page of The Economist.There are more people with a…
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n/a | chickenado | May 20, 2011, 08:39:06 AM |
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Tycho cheating every miners & soon destroy total bitcoin network completely. Bitcoin Discussion
Is there really a market for minted coins? First time I hear about this.There wa…
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n/a | chickenado | May 20, 2011, 07:45:18 AM |
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a question for left-liberals Politics & Society
3) are concerned with "purity" often to do with sexuality and race.Liberals are…
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n/a | chickenado | May 20, 2011, 07:15:50 AM |
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Conversation I had with my girlfriend the other night Bitcoin Discussion
Not to be sexist or anything, but of all the people I have told about bitcoin on…
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n/a | chickenado | May 05, 2011, 10:56:02 AM |
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Conversation I had with my girlfriend the other night Bitcoin Discussion
So on Sunday I finally told a relative who works in finance. To my surprise, his…
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n/a | chickenado | May 03, 2011, 08:15:51 AM |
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Intellectual Property: Intellectually Bankrupt Off-topic
Right, so radio waves are physical?Radio waves are electromagnetic radiation.Ele…
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n/a | chickenado | May 03, 2011, 03:34:35 AM |
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Intellectual Property: Intellectually Bankrupt Off-topic
That guy from the free state project presented an argument that went something l…
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n/a | chickenado | May 02, 2011, 06:24:58 PM |
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Political compass! (who believes what?) Off-topic
I'm an anarcho-fascistWhere does that put me on this graph??
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n/a | chickenado | May 03, 2011, 03:11:02 AM |
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Keeping the economy honest Bitcoin Discussion
This isn't hard to do with Bitcoin.The block chain is already public.You could f…
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n/a | chickenado | May 02, 2011, 11:59:15 AM |
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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Bitcoin Discussion
Satoshi is everywhere and nowhere.Satoshi could be all of us, or none of us.Sato…
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n/a | chickenado | May 02, 2011, 06:46:18 AM |
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Conversation I had with my girlfriend the other night Bitcoin Discussion
My GF says its "cuckoo crazy" and whenever I tell her its reaching a new record…
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n/a | chickenado | April 30, 2011, 11:51:47 AM |
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Disadvantages of Bitcoin why price might drop. Bitcoin Discussion
1. You can't buy a pizza with gold either.2. Wallet encrypted and stored in thre…
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n/a | chickenado | April 30, 2011, 03:30:13 AM |
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Anarcho-capitalism, Monopolies, Private dictatorships Economics
Monopolies are only a bad thing in a propretarian economy, because there they of…
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n/a | chickenado | April 29, 2011, 10:18:34 AM |
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Should drugs be listed at bitcoin.it? Bitcoin Discussion
Aren't we missing a few things?1. Some things are inherently immoral, like eatin…
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n/a | chickenado | April 29, 2011, 04:23:49 AM |
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Conversation I had with my girlfriend the other night Bitcoin Discussion
GF: You never get off that damn computer. What are you doing anyhow?me: Uhm, jus…
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n/a | chickenado | April 28, 2011, 12:42:22 PM |
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Obama releases his birth certificate. Off-topic
What difference does it make? People who want to believe it's a fake will contin…
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n/a | chickenado | April 28, 2011, 12:26:37 PM |
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Capital gains as a Collectible or Currency. Bitcoin Discussion
Don't know about the US, but where I live capital gains tax only becomes payable…
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n/a | chickenado | April 28, 2011, 05:29:30 AM |
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Awesome free state project open to bitcoin donations Bitcoin Discussion
After skimming over this long thread, I'd like to make one more point which I ha…
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n/a | chickenado | April 04, 2011, 04:47:21 PM |
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Awesome free state project open to bitcoin donations Bitcoin Discussion
Quoteand any normal, human being Appeal to majority... oh and you've just scored…
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n/a | chickenado | April 04, 2011, 03:31:47 PM |
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Awesome free state project open to bitcoin donations Bitcoin Discussion
Onarchy, your distinction between social and economic freedom is subjective. You…
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n/a | chickenado | April 04, 2011, 02:29:59 PM |
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Poll: Your work status? Bitcoin Discussion
I am a corporate whore, but I plan to change that once I have gained enough expe…
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n/a | chickenado | March 17, 2011, 05:04:07 AM |
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Why Do You Use Bitcoin? Bitcoin Discussion
analyze salient legal issues.Frankly, I think that the "salient legal issues" ar…
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n/a | chickenado | March 16, 2011, 09:26:23 AM |
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Change in difficulty after block award drops from 50 to 25 BTC? Mining speculation
What's the timeline for this poll? 1 month afterwards? 1 week afterwards?The rew…
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n/a | chickenado | February 25, 2011, 02:19:40 AM |
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Change in difficulty after block award drops from 50 to 25 BTC? Mining speculation
Curious to know what the community expects to happen. I predict that it will dro…
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n/a | chickenado | February 24, 2011, 06:29:35 PM |
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Downloading blockchain causes CPU to overheat Bitcoin Technical Support
QuotePerhaps the airflow passes over the harddisk before it reaches the CPU, and…
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n/a | chickenado | December 15, 2010, 05:53:22 AM |
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Downloading blockchain causes CPU to overheat Bitcoin Technical Support
I'm running Bitcoin on a Dell laptop with an Intel i7 CPU. OS is Ubuntu 64 bit.…
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n/a | chickenado | December 15, 2010, 05:10:45 AM |
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Am I a hypocrite for taking unemployment benefits? Off-topic
If you were truly dedicated to being free you would not be seeking "employment"…
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n/a | chickenado | December 07, 2010, 04:12:15 AM |
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Am I a hypocrite for taking unemployment benefits? Off-topic
How would you say things are setup in your country?Similar to Canada, unemployme…
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n/a | chickenado | December 07, 2010, 03:59:39 AM |
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