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gnarlyhotep posted:Especially since we've already got hours of video interviews, painfully detailing these chucklefucks. For those who missed the latest trainwreck: I know this has been said many times in this thread already, but Jesus loving Christ, this is the most ridiculously amateurish production I've ever seen. I've seen higher production quality from my loving high school's TV broadcasting class. They literally figure out how to use the equipment during the show. They ostensibly don't even have any questions prepared; they're basically just asking the random questions people ask in the chat room. What do these people do for a living? 
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Millstone posted:Constant volume problems, cameras in demo mode, audio distorted, fat hosts, laggy Skype calls, lovely chairs, cameras left on for hours after the broadcast, Diet Coke -- this is The Bitcoin Show. Face-tracker rectangles was the best part of the whole presentation, in my opinion. Targeting the show's guest and presenter, who is actively banning people from a chatroom while interviewing the man who brought financial trade market Magic: the Gathering Online Exchange to its knees.
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Reiley posted:Face-tracker rectangles was the best part of the whole presentation, in my opinion. Targeting the show's guest and presenter, who is actively banning people from a chatroom while interviewing the man who brought financial trade market Magic: the Gathering Online Exchange to its knees. OH no no no, my friend. This isn't the Kevin's Not The Hacker Interview. This is a new interview, with the CEO of mtgox and his right-hand buttcoiner. It's great stuff. e: My favorite part was when they said they're going to require proof of account ownership, such as "a bank statement" (their words). Atlas is going to blow a gasket. Oh, and these two guys are going to do all user support, 24/7, by themselves. They actually say that.
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This has to be the dumbest loving way of losing loads of money. When you buy cinder block speakers you at least get the cardboard box. Jesus Christ. What's happening to the people who boasted loading all of their assets into this idiot trap? What dark, sweaty, desperate stress pit are these creatures living in now?
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Jun 21, 2011 08:20
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The owner started talking and I closed the tab. I'd had enough by that point.
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Jun 21, 2011 08:20
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The gently caress is the point of this 24/7 live webcam OnlyOneTV has going?
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Power Walrus posted:This has to be the dumbest loving way of losing loads of money. When you buy cinder block speakers you at least get the cardboard box. Jesus Christ. And cinder blocks! You can use those to make shelves and stuff. Rudager posted:The gently caress is the point of this 24/7 live webcam OnlyOneTV has going? Transparency. They have nothing to hide.
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Jun 21, 2011 08:23
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Power Walrus posted:What dark, sweaty, desperate stress pit are these creatures living in now? Just tune into The Bitcoin Show and see for yourself.
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Jun 21, 2011 08:26
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Angela Christine posted:Transparency. They have nothing to hide. Not even large, gross bellies
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Jun 21, 2011 08:26
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http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20427.0quote:
4000BTC. The forum thinks thats $100K USD. If its any consolation to the guy, at one point yesterday the exchange rate means it was a loss of $4USD Bitcoins are a currency backed by the tears of objectivists.
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duck monster posted:http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20427.0 Here's a slightly more disheartening post from little further on: quote:
Don't worry folks! The good 'ol FBI, whose intention is to continue bit coin at any cost I might add, will simply do a chargeback on the bitcoin accounts! Then all your money will be refunded and...oh wait.
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Jun 21, 2011 08:42
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The Bitcoin Show's EVERY day at 14:00 EDT time, right? I'd love to join you guys when it's live.
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Jun 21, 2011 08:47
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duck monster posted:Ayn rand definately DID want to have a state. Well obviously. If there was no state she wouldn't have been able to get her welfare monies.
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Jun 21, 2011 08:51
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I didn't see it mentioned in the thread but NPR's economics podcast Planet Money is going to do an episode about BitCoins. I would guess that they're trying to wait for the story to play out before running it but that should be a good one.
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Jun 21, 2011 08:51
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Sounds like a This American Life episode to me. Or that really hipster one, you know, that one.
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Jun 21, 2011 08:53
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Just want to point this out: when asked why he thought someone would want to hack mtgox, the CEO's answer was, and I quote: "FOR THE LULZ?"
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Jun 21, 2011 08:55
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Archduke posted:The Bitcoin Show's EVERY day at 14:00 EDT time, right? I'd love to join you guys when it's live. It's been on at 2pm and 10pm and basically whenever they feel like it
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Jun 21, 2011 08:55
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Millstone posted:It's been on at 2pm and 10pm and basically whenever they feel like it Yeah, Bruce and Ed rented a whole studio on 5th Ave in NYC to produce this. Not kidding.
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Jun 21, 2011 08:58
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El Goatherd posted:Well obviously. If there was no state she wouldn't have been able to get her welfare monies. In all seriousness though, Rand did recognize that any rational human would want at least a heavily limited government, because otherwise there is nothing preventing brutes from forcibly taking your stuff and/or killing you. If the person who made a living off of FYGM the philosophy, recognized the necessity of government, people need to be really really careful before presenting no government as a desirable idea.
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Amarkov posted:In all seriousness though, Rand did recognize that any rational human would want at least a heavily limited government, because otherwise there is nothing preventing brutes from forcibly taking your stuff and/or killing you. If the person who made a living off of FYGM the philosophy, recognized the necessity of government, people need to be really really careful before presenting no government as a desirable idea. She also approved of those governments invading and killing people from what she dubbed "savage" cultures like muslims or american indians.
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Jun 21, 2011 09:17
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duck monster posted:She also approved of those governments invading and killing people from what she dubbed "savage" cultures like muslims or american indians. Honestly, I just treat anything that has direct connections to something America did as just an expression of Cold War patriotism. It's pretty clear she said a lot of things not because she thought they followed from A=A but because  , and it seems not entirely fair to point at them as anything except personal failings.
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Jun 21, 2011 09:21
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duck monster posted:She also approved of those governments invading and killing people from what she dubbed "savage" cultures like muslims or american indians. Just as a side-note: I'm always mystified how the genocide, destruction of knowledge/culture, and atrocity western europeans commit always seems to get a free pass in judgements of 'savagery.' Fitting though because I basically view Ayn Rand as a savage. Edit: I was being rhetorical. But to anyone with half a brain it's patently obvious that accusations of savagery are just a sick joke - that's why I keep getting mystified by how many people fall for the bullshit. VVVVV
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Times posted:Just as a side-note: I'm always mystified how the genocide, destruction of knowledge/culture, and atrocity western europeans commit always seems to get a free pass in judgements of 'savagery.' Because the victor writes the history. e: which is why I'm overjoyed that we can now have video of idiots doing stupid poo poo and admitting to it on the internet, where nothing ever goes away
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duck monster posted:She also approved of those governments invading and killing people from what she dubbed "savage" cultures like muslims or american indians. When Rand was a child, she had all her family's property and wealth taken by the The Bolsheviks, under Lenin. So that's got to make you hate Communism. Also there's a video clip where she tries to rationalise her dubbing of certain cultures as savages. edit \/\/\/\/ well the intro screen would be much better if the bitcoin exploded into the souls of helpless nerds when it hit the logo.
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OnlyOneTV is amazingly lovely. Live feed of a camera in a darkened room, lower quality than a local tv station, no real content, they're supposedly a media website but they host all their videos offsite on YouTube and they can't even organize their duties, leaving the host moderating the chat while he's in the middle of an interview. The only non-bitcoin video on the site is whatever this is. Their only marketable skill seems to be creating animations for their site logo and tv show intro (though I wouldn't be surprised if they hired a freelancer to do it) and they thought they'd build a media empire with just that and their love of bitcoins.
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Unguided posted:Their only marketable skill seems to be creating animations for their site logo and tv show intro (though I wouldn't be surprised if they hired a freelancer to do it) and they thought they'd build a media empire with just that and their love of bitcoins. One of their sponsors is an internet video advertising company 
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Unguided posted:Their only marketable skill seems to be creating animations for their site logo and tv show intro (though I wouldn't be surprised if they hired a freelancer to do it) and they thought they'd build a media empire with just that and their love of bitcoins. Just so everybody is caught up: Bruce and Ed: They are the ones who rented a huge studio in NYC to produce videos about buttcoins, but with an eye toward doing more hard-hitting journalism. They are morons, but very amusing to watch. They're the ones who run the video channel which is up 24/7 no matter what, and host the very popular buttcoin interviews. Mark and Adam: These are the geniuses behind MtGox. Mark (aka the French guy) is the "CEO", Adam is the, uh...not sure what he is. He talks sometimes but mostly looks confused. Both of them are currently located in Tokyo. e: OH AND THEY'RE WORKING ON GETTING MTGOX BACK UP AGAIN DON'T WORRY
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I don't understand how bitcoin manages to stay afloat on the other exchanges right now. The UK exchange (Britcoin) is selling 1 BTC for the rough equivalent of $15 right now, for example.
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Jun 21, 2011 10:28
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Tradehill (The largest exchange with MtG: OX closed) posted ~120 BTC traded in the past 24 hours. There's no real volume to speak of.
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Jun 21, 2011 10:37
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Mt Gox has 95% of the Bitcoin market and is currently locked down. There simply aren't any bitcoins out there to trade right now.
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Rockybar posted:When Rand was a child, she had all her family's property and wealth taken by the The Bolsheviks, under Lenin. So that's got to make you hate Communism. Also there's a video clip where she tries to rationalise her dubbing of certain cultures as savages. Oh well, I didn' know that. I guess hating communists is a free pass to wanting to exterminate inferior races. Much like hitler really.
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quote:For all those willing to sue Mt.Gox because we will be making trades void, please remember that criminality usually falls under "force majeure" by its externality (not like we would have ever wanted that), unpredictability and irresistibility (we resisted most hack attempts, this one was "strong" enough to go through). quote:Now don't be so selfish and stop trying to claim benefits you generated from nothing by abusing an extraordinary situation. I appreciate all the attention and all the mail about lawsuits, threats and more, but I'd prefer being working on "Stuff that Matters®". http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20535.msg256505#msg256505 MT has an interesting definition of "unpredictable" given that they knew about various MtGox vulnerabilities including the fact that their database had been hacked and leaked. I'm not sure how reasonable their claim of externality is either given that they're claiming it was someone associated with their audit process who compromised the account. I suspect that he'll get a lot of support in the BTC forum but it's good to see people having to confront the issue of what rules should apply in an unregulated environment. It would be kind of funny if the exchange itself turns out to be an illegal entity upon further investigation.
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frumpykvetchbot posted:I don't understand what is going on, but it is epic, and I want it to never stop. Millstone posted:This is the future of technology. This is from a dozen pages back (this thread moved FAST) and now I have to try to explain to my friends why I'm laughing hysterically over a picture of a couple guys in a bland room with a camera's demo mode display overlaying the image.
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duck monster posted:Oh well, I didn' know that. I guess hating communists is a free pass to wanting to exterminate inferior races. Much like hitler really. Here's the video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uHSv1asFvU&feature=related
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Gorilla Salad posted:This is from a dozen pages back (this thread moved FAST) and now I have to try to explain to my friends why I'm laughing hysterically over a picture of a couple guys in a bland room with a camera's demo mode display overlaying the image. It isn't just a bland room, it is apparently a studio. Dudes rented a studio. Never learned to operate cameras though. Pro.
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Atlas reaches out to the bitcoin community for help:  Even when not discussing bitcoins this forum is just...odd.
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TheBandOffice posted:Atlas reaches out to the bitcoin community for help: Atlas needs a parent to love him, very badly. Poor kid. e: \/\/\/ YOU GOT YOUR EXISTENTIALISM IN MY MAUDLIN!
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