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bowmore posted:Just wanted to share something with you guys something I've been loving lately. It's an 8 track album by a guy called Wil Wagner from Melbourne, it's just him and his guitar (except some percussion and I think a harmonica on a few tracks) and the results are great.  and  Come to think of it, I knew nobody that actually had and used 8-track tapes back in the day (it was either records or cassettes), and even though I had a couple of stereos with 8-track players built-in as a kid, I always used one of these bad boys to listen to cassettes (and later, CD players with a tape adapter. An adapter in an adapter!  ). I remember once buying an 8-track tape of Billy Joel's The Stranger at a thrift store for 25¢ just to see how an 8-track sounded for the gently caress of it. It sounded like a farting rear end with bits of Billy's singing in the background, and the programs clicked in between songs with a fade out and fade in before and after each click. No wonder no one used them.
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You Are A Elf posted:Come to think of it, I knew nobody that actually had and used 8-track tapes back in the day (it was either records or cassettes), and even though I had a couple of stereos with 8-track players built-in as a kid, I always used one of these bad boys to listen to cassettes (and later, CD players with a tape adapter. An adapter in an adapter! One of my most prized childhood posessions was an 8-track of the Star Wars soundtrack. I would listen to it in my parents' Volkswagen bus. Then one day the 8-track, the 8-track player, and all the wheels were stolen from the car.
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prefect posted:One of my most prized childhood posessions was an 8-track of the Star Wars soundtrack. I would listen to it in my parents' Volkswagen bus. Then one day the 8-track, the 8-track player, and all the wheels were stolen from the car. They probably got tired of hearing all the Star Wars music everywhere you went.
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:I don't give a care. Doody head
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I don't know if it's just myself liking him as person but seeing a Neil deGrasse Tyson avatar makes me instantly smile. His smile makes ice planets in another solar system melt!
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cheerfullydrab posted:Would you eat a veal omelette topped with caviar? The omelette and caviar are technically periods and not babies, so maybe.
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Ok then what about a suckling pig stuffed with veal holding a balut egg in its mouth?
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cheerfullydrab posted:Ok then what about a suckling pig stuffed with veal holding a balut egg in its mouth? Please stop describing my search history
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cheerfullydrab posted:Ok then what about a suckling pig stuffed with veal holding a balut egg in its mouth? I can say, with confidence, no.
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I got an odd email the other day. I had forgotten that I'd bought some buttcoins a couple years back, and the institution holding them for me was sending me a notice that my account was going to be closed due to inactivity. I had bought thirty five at ~23 and felt stupid almost immediately afterward, figuring I had learned an $800 lesson and promptly ceasing to follow any market/news in regards to that poo poo. When I sold those thirty five buttcoins at ~128 the other day I had a moment of enlightened reflection upon the fact that virtually without fail my "gut" reaction seems to be very positive about decisions which turn out to be detrimental and very negative about decisions which turn out to be beneficial. gently caress.
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Welcome to tax fraud and money laundering. My brother is a cop and your in big trouble.
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death .cab for qt posted:Please stop describing my search history Zero results on redtube 
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TheHistoryChannel posted:Welcome to tax fraud and money laundering. My brother is a cop and your in big trouble. Yeah but seriously I think IE should claim that as capital gains or whatever. They probably know that. 
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Are Bitcoins just a lame and worthless as I imagine they are? Like, what do you do with them? Are they like Chuck E. Cheese tokens?
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NienNunb posted:Are Bitcoins just a lame and worthless as I imagine they are? Like, what do you do with them? Are they like Chuck E. Cheese tokens? As I understand it, instead of running background applications to fold proteins and cure diseases or to search for aliens, these people use background applications to create magical tokens that have no point whatsoever.
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prefect posted:As I understand it, instead of running background applications to fold proteins and cure diseases or to search for aliens, these people use background applications to create magical tokens that have no point whatsoever. Apparently you can buy drugs with them, but you're better off buying the bitcoins with dollars and then immediately buying the drugs. In the time it takes to do this the bitcoin's value will have both doubled and halved the original amount you bought them for.
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I wish I had bought a bunch when they were dirt cheap considering that other dude said they were over $100 right now. It's like a game of speculation without anything resembling a physical product. Too bad I didn't do it.
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NienNunb posted:Are Bitcoins just a lame and worthless as I imagine they are? Like, what do you do with them? Are they like Chuck E. Cheese tokens? Like any well sought after commodity, their purpose is to shove up your rear end. It is considered a potent symbol of status among the IT crowd to go about your day with a powerful wallet.dat file tucked up next to your prostate.
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It's basically an index of overall confidence in libertopia. So buy them if you think libertarians are going to get stupider and sell them if you think libertarians are going to get depressed.
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Francostein posted:Like any well sought after commodity, their purpose is to shove up your rear end. Shove enough drugs up there, and bitcoins will probably start to make some sense.
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There's a currency for every emotion. Dollars buy happiness, Euros buy shame, Canadian Dollars buy friendship, Pesos buy amusement, Yen buy envy, Rupees buy wonder, and Bitcoins buy smugness. You can also exchange smugness for Bitcoins. This, in turn, makes you feel even more smug. This smug feedback loop is why they're inflationary.
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Tulip posted:It's basically an index of overall confidence in libertopia. So buy them if you think libertarians are going to get stupider and sell them if you think libertarians are going to get depressed. It's more of a reflection of the marketing/selling ability of those in it. I bet a lot of people with the coins don't believe in their ability, but they know that the more people that buy into it the more money they'll make. It's like little money banking, it'd be fun to make money off it if it wasn't so volatile.
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NienNunb posted:Are Bitcoins just a lame and worthless as I imagine they are? To the same extent as any form of fiat money is, yes. quote:Like, what do you do with them? Same thing you do with any currency - you can purchase things or you can speculate. quote:Are they like Chuck E. Cheese tokens? Basically yes, but just imagine that a bunch of people who didn't care for governments' and banks' fiscal policies decided to use the Chuck E. Cheese tokens as currency. Those people are mostly paranoid geeks due to the technical nature of the money and the fact that anonymity is a pretty core aspect of it. The main difference between buttcoins and physical currency is that there's a more controlled money supply due to the way new "coins" are generated. The buttcoins themselves are more difficult to counterfeit than other monies, but the market itself is more volatile due to the relatively low volume of buttcoins in "existence" and the fact that as a new form of money there are the occasional hiccups. Like anything it has its plusses and minuses. Your average, cynical goon will confront the idea of virtual currency with skepticism and ridicule due to other people on a comedy website doing the same. I know I did... until I felt the pressing need to purchase a taser and some Piracetam, which resulted in me actually doing some research. I was merely lucky with my experience, though. Unlike other currencies buttcoins are NOT backed by a government so if Chuck E. Cheeses closes shop all your tokens are basically worthless. It's essentially a guarantee that over time any economic system will be increasingly exploited/abused, however due to the "virtual" aspect of buttcoins there's something of an "ultimate accountability" void in the case of catastrophic events.
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Noni posted:There's a currency for every emotion. Dollars buy happiness, Euros buy shame, Canadian Dollars buy friendship, Pesos buy amusement, Yen buy envy, Rupees buy wonder, and Bitcoins buy smugness. You can also exchange smugness for Bitcoins. This, in turn, makes you feel even more smug. This smug feedback loop is why they're inflationary. The problem with other currencies is that they don't give the same feeling of satisfaction when being crammed into the human anus like bitcoins do.
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Francostein posted:The problem with other currencies is that they don't give the same feeling of satisfaction when being crammed into the human anus like bitcoins do. The Susan B. Anthony dollar begs to differ.
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If you seriously think bitcoins are anonymous or whatever dumb shilling point you've fallen for because you "did the research", you already have your head firmly stuck up your butt so shoving more stuff up there is just showing off imo.
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Illegibly Eligible posted:Your average, cynical goon will confront the idea of virtual currency with skepticism and ridicule due to other people on a comedy website doing the same. I know I did... until I felt the pressing need to purchase a taser and some Piracetam, which resulted in me actually doing some research. I did the research, and in an effort to share my suffering with as many people as possible, I then wrote what is currently the OP for the bitcoin thread in GBS. I highly recommend that nobody read it because bitcoins are stupid and you will feel stupider after you understand how they work.
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Heresiarch posted:I did the research, and in an effort to share my suffering with as many people as possible, I then wrote what is currently the OP for the bitcoin thread in GBS. That's an excellent post you wrote, and I enjoyed reading it. 
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I understand how Bitcoins work and I'm pretty sure I'm the stupidest and most worthless poster, so I can vouch for GBS OP's.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:I'm pretty sure I'm the stupidest and most worthless poster That is not a good gimmick to have IMO.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:I'm the stupidest and most worthless poster Surely the most hotly-contested mantle on the whole of SA. No claim should be accepted without minute scrutiny.
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Let's start the tryouts with an essay question. 1. Reddit is net benefit to humanity. Discuss.
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Penguingo posted:Let's start the tryouts with an essay question. That's really easy. It gets so many goons really riled up all the time which is funny. Net benefit, IMO.
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tbp posted:That's really easy. Pretty much anything gets goons really riled up. Toilet paper orientation gets goons really riled up. Toilet paper orientation never tacitly accepted publicly viewable child porn on its site. I assume.
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Didn't they put a lid on that can of worms? Not the toilet paper thing, the other one? I don't use the site because it's much to cluttered but I read something about them banning all the awful kiddie stuff, which is at least a step in the right direction.
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13stitches posted:Didn't they put a lid on that can of worms? Not the toilet paper thing, the other one? I don't use the site because it's much to cluttered but I read something about them banning all the awful kiddie stuff, which is at least a step in the right direction. All of that poo poo is still there and the admins still don't give a rat's rear end.
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