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Forum: USA Politics 3rd March 2015, 04:25 PM
Replies: 3,410
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Posted By remirol
Well, Republicans should be familiar with this......

Well, Republicans should be familiar with this... (http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/01/11264/secret-email-system-revealed-john-doe-probe-walker-staff) after all, Scott Walker was a pro at it.

When...
Forum: USA Politics 27th February 2015, 07:08 PM
Replies: 3,410
Views: 205,744
Posted By remirol
They couldn't even get through the first sentence...

They couldn't even get through the first sentence on the page without lying, and they claim to be about "integrity"? Please. This website has only slightly more credibility than InfoWars or...
Forum: USA Politics 22nd February 2015, 10:22 AM
Replies: 3,410
Views: 205,744
Posted By remirol
What are you going to do when this investigation,...

What are you going to do when this investigation, like all the others, comes back with nothing?
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 18th February 2015, 07:17 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Everything you said here is accurate by a literal...

Everything you said here is accurate by a literal reading, and yet you have again missed the point. At least you're reading what's actually said, though.

Really? What argument was that, exactly?...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 18th February 2015, 06:42 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
:confused: How does having government regulation...

:confused: How does having government regulation and insurance rebut the claim that you need it?[/quote]

I suggest you read what you just responded to again, and then reread your response....
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 18th February 2015, 03:44 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Well, psion appears to be arguing that needing it...

Well, psion appears to be arguing that needing it isn't, but I think it's a nonstarter because...



You have some apples and oranges here, but the point you're missing is that it isn't anything...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 17th February 2015, 01:00 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
:rolleyes: Dishonest quote-mining on your part...

:rolleyes: Dishonest quote-mining on your part does not a fallacy make. I am quite confident that readers had no trouble identifying to what I was referring, considering that was immediately...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 17th February 2015, 11:30 AM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Can you please quote where someone has claimed...

Can you please quote where someone has claimed that "banks are benign institutions that work fine without regulation"? Be sure you include a link to the post; we wouldn't want to catch you moving...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 17th February 2015, 05:42 AM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Sufficiently accurate. Utterly incorrect. In...

Sufficiently accurate.

Utterly incorrect. In order:

1) Banks (the institutions themselves) are dishonest/fraudulent at a rate far lower than Bitcoin exchanges have proven to be. There is a...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 11th February 2015, 08:02 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Could you please quote precisely where I said...

Could you please quote precisely where I said that you did?

Which fly directly in the face of the posts you've made where you declare that Bitcoin is an excellent long-term investment. I believe...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 11th February 2015, 03:50 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of...

I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of your backpedaling-like-crazy and your wallet not opening to back up your mouth. If you could write your response on the back of a few $100 bills next...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 10th February 2015, 08:21 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Uh huh, that's what I thought. All chirp and no...

Uh huh, that's what I thought. All chirp and no bird.

It's absolutely remarkable that the person who is the most insistent about Bitcoin's viability as a long-term investment has "no particular...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 10th February 2015, 04:44 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Good enough. How much do you plan to buy in for? ...

Good enough. How much do you plan to buy in for?

Weeeellll, let's just see about that. I'm doing some reading on all of it now, and I did find something here, from Fortune...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 9th February 2015, 05:04 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Hello, pot? This is kettle. Yes. I thought you...

Hello, pot? This is kettle. Yes. I thought you should know -- you're black.

The above is big talk (read: hot air) considering it's from someone who doesn't own any Bitcoins, despite his perpetual...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 14th January 2015, 08:59 AM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Oh for cryin' out loud. Let's have a prediction...

Oh for cryin' out loud. Let's have a prediction review from Dec 2013:



Missed by about a month; right general idea, but the date's too far away to count as a hit.



Missed.
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 13th January 2015, 10:23 AM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Noticeably lower for January; hugely lower for...

Noticeably lower for January; hugely lower for Nov-Dec '13.

http://i.imgur.com/7FEImTC.png

It peaked during the bubble, basically. The second jump was on much lower volume, interestingly; only...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 13th January 2015, 07:14 AM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
While Bitcoiners were patting themselves on the...

While Bitcoiners were patting themselves on the back for the bubble and trying to figure out how a deflationary system could be shoehorned into pretending it was a currency, Apple was busy looking at...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 5th January 2015, 04:28 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
(points, laughs) :D

(points, laughs) :D
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 4th January 2015, 07:02 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Yep. The point of the remark (and the prediction)...

Yep. The point of the remark (and the prediction) is that there were an awful lot of people in this thread who didn't think it was a bubble.
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 4th January 2015, 06:40 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Use it to heat their homes.

Use it to heat their homes.
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 4th January 2015, 02:29 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Both remain valid possibilities, as the truth of...

Both remain valid possibilities, as the truth of p is unrelated to the truth of q. Which is what the post said in the first place -- you just would rather play silly buggers than admit anything at...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 4th January 2015, 11:09 AM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
I'm just requoting my prediction from long ago,...

I'm just requoting my prediction from long ago, which is that the people who were buying in at $1k were fools. Turns out I was right. Big surprise there.

Only someone determined to deliberately...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 4th January 2015, 09:35 AM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Other than "gee, i wonder if all the people who...

Other than "gee, i wonder if all the people who bought in at $1,000 are feeling good now", maybe. Oh, and whether the people who were touting it are yet ready to admit that maybe Bitcoin is pretty...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 2nd January 2015, 08:02 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
So tell me, what about the article changes if you...

So tell me, what about the article changes if you replace the word "currency" with the word "commodity" everywhere that it's used to reference Bitcoin?



Only for an extremely narrow definition...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 2nd January 2015, 09:42 AM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
It's just English. Try it sometime.

It's just English. Try it sometime.
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 2nd January 2015, 08:45 AM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Not "quoting" -- "is linking to an article which...

Not "quoting" -- "is linking to an article which says".

I don't see the problem here. I don't consider it a currency; I consider it a commodity. The article-writer chose to call it a currency. I...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 31st December 2014, 08:35 AM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Who did that?

Who did that?
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 30th December 2014, 06:20 AM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
Russian rubber duck never sinks.

Russian rubber duck never sinks.
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 29th December 2014, 12:33 PM
Replies: 3,843
Views: 432,230
Posted By remirol
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-23/a...

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-12-23/and-2014s-worst-currency-wasbitcoin

There's a surprise.
Forum: JREF 9th August 2014, 06:34 AM
Replies: 2,023
Views: 219,376
Posted By remirol
Granted, but will you find anyone who thinks it...

Granted, but will you find anyone who thinks it wasn't negative? Now that the JREF is finally giving up this ship, I suspect things will improve in a few regards:


Rule 1 can go back to being...
Forum: JREF 7th August 2014, 08:28 AM
Replies: 2,023
Views: 219,376
Posted By remirol
It was probably more like a minute and a huff.

It was probably more like a minute and a huff.
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 26th April 2014, 04:53 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
Unless you'd like to buy VPN subscriptions,...

Unless you'd like to buy VPN subscriptions, drugs, file-sharing services, or botnet/DDoS time. Surely those are mass-appeal markets* right?


* well actually 'drugs' is, which is why the 'war on...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 7th April 2014, 04:57 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
Man who sells Bitcoin services to Bitbugs is...

Man who sells Bitcoin services to Bitbugs is openly bullish about Bitcoin's future.

COLOR ME SURPRISED.
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 3rd April 2014, 06:46 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
:rolleyes: You know, most people would have...

:rolleyes: You know, most people would have learned something just from the process of writing that post.
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 3rd April 2014, 05:22 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
Sho 'nuff. Definitely a creator from the IF side...

Sho 'nuff. Definitely a creator from the IF side of the fence then.
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 3rd April 2014, 04:23 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
Yeah, I bet the author was/is a big text...

Yeah, I bet the author was/is a big text adventure fan -- that's clearly some webvariant of Inform, since it has all the Infocom-style defaults ("kill" produces the stock response, etc) embedded into...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 2nd April 2014, 02:22 PM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
Advanced Bitcoin Simulator...

Advanced Bitcoin Simulator (http://www.beepboopbitcoin.com/)

Try it out first!
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 2nd April 2014, 10:50 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
Interestingly, I wonder what'll happen when it...

Interestingly, I wonder what'll happen when it approaches the approximate price needed to mine a single Bitcoin? It's difficult to say precisely how much that is right now on account of the many...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 27th March 2014, 07:52 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
If true that's much bigger than the IRS'...

If true that's much bigger than the IRS' announcement. Requires at least a couple more sources though, obviously.
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 27th March 2014, 07:18 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
It's nosediving over the last 2 hours, BUT the...

It's nosediving over the last 2 hours, BUT the bid stack is huge on the buy-side; probably over 40000 at least just on Bitstamp. The only problem is that the majority of the 'weight' is at 475 and...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 20th March 2014, 09:11 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
The bid stacks at Bitstamp are a fraction of...

The bid stacks at Bitstamp are a fraction of their size during the "bad news rush"; under 6,000 coins offered for sale and less than 3500 looking to buy, and most of the weight is around $20 away...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 7th March 2014, 07:31 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
Without the exchanges, it's not possible to do...

Without the exchanges, it's not possible to do very much with Bitcoin at all -- because in most cases you have to convert it to and from RealBucks™, and the exchanges have been the...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 7th March 2014, 05:58 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
And even after knowing all this, people still...

And even after knowing all this, people still exchange ostensibly-real money for Bitcoins. Someone who bought in at $10 and cashed out their original investment plus a healthy profit at $200 doesn't...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 4th March 2014, 08:47 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
And the house of cards continues to tumble.

And the house of cards continues to tumble.
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 3rd March 2014, 11:59 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
These must be the same folks that draw to inside...

These must be the same folks that draw to inside straights because they hit one earlier that day and they're "on a roll".
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 3rd March 2014, 10:03 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
You're not the only one to weigh in on...

You're not the only one to weigh in on (approximately) that (http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/03/03).
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 3rd March 2014, 08:52 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
And on a steep upward rise on both Bitstamp and...

And on a steep upward rise on both Bitstamp and BTC-e as I write this. Another set of fish wandering into the nets, or a few people trying to pre-emptively stave off a crash from the Gox admissions?...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 27th February 2014, 02:11 PM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
I'm sure if we go back to last November, right...

I'm sure if we go back to last November, right about the time the bubble started, we won't find any of the pro-bitcoin posters speaking with a similar tone... while the price was on its way up.
...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 27th February 2014, 05:44 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
This is simultaneously both true and a bunch of...

This is simultaneously both true and a bunch of horse hockey. Banks _do_ associate high transaction volume and bitcoin with risk (go figure). But "reached the limit of capacity?" WTF? How do normal...
Forum: Economics, Business and Finance 26th February 2014, 09:12 AM
Replies: 5,244
Views: 360,017
Posted By remirol
Are you operating in the same world as the rest...

Are you operating in the same world as the rest of us? I think Bitcoin is a great way for suckers to lose money, but statements like "jail all users" are simply ignorant of the applicable laws, not...
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