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  • No joke - When I lived in Headingly, we had this shelf at the top of the stairs down to the basement kitchen. Nobody had any idea of what to put on it, so it became the Kinder shelf - every time someone went shopping, they'd buy a kinder surprise, and we 3/4 filled a shelf about four feet long and a foot deep with kinder toys. We even had some of the Australian animal ones that a friend back home sent over.
  • We used to have a similar thing called a wonderball here. Basically a more symmetrical kinder surprise, but eventually they stopped putting toys in them and put stickers or more candy in them because of more choking hazard shit. Those kids are probably the same dumbasses that got those Pokeball toys at Burger King recalled from kids putting them over their mouths and suffocating. Are kids just dumber here or what? The cynic in me wants to say let it happen and get them out of the gene pool, but that wouldn't be very nice.
  • My theory is that kids here are more sheltered and don't physically play as much, so they have more trouble grasping basic things like how to not injure yourself.
  • My theory is just that people sure other people because they got hurt doing shit here and not elsewhere, so that kind of thing gets more attention.
  • edited October 2013
    Silk road owner just got caught.
    Also, bitcoin price immediately dropped from $125 to $90 in less than an hour. It's slowly coming back up though.
    Post edited by iruul on
  • Tap a button for bitcoins. Time for me to use the servos and the spare android phone I have to make a money machine.
  • If people started using cow patties as currency would the feds eventually regulate it and.ask for their cut?
  • If people started using cow patties as currency would the feds eventually regulate it and.ask for their cut?
    I think it had more to do with SR than the currency itself.

  • Tap a button for bitcoins. Time for me to use the servos and the spare android phone I have to make a money machine.
    Yeah, except that it takes you AGES to even get to the payout, which is about a dollar twenty. If you want, I can just give you two dollars right now, and give you more money in a fraction of the time.

  • How does one seize a bitcoin?
  • edited October 2013
    Subpoena their private key?
    Post edited by Omnutia on
  • edited October 2013
    Tap a button for bitcoins. Time for me to use the servos and the spare android phone I have to make a money machine.
    Yeah, except that it takes you AGES to even get to the payout, which is about a dollar twenty. If you want, I can just give you two dollars right now, and give you more money in a fraction of the time.
    I know it would take ages, but if I can have that thing ticking away 24/7 while I'm just doing what I normally do, who cares?

    Edit: Apparently you can only tap once a day. Not worth it.
    Post edited by Victor Frost on
  • edited October 2013
    Tap a button for bitcoins. Time for me to use the servos and the spare android phone I have to make a money machine.
    Yeah, except that it takes you AGES to even get to the payout, which is about a dollar twenty. If you want, I can just give you two dollars right now, and give you more money in a fraction of the time.
    I know it would take ages, but if I can have that thing ticking away 24/7 while I'm just doing what I normally do, who cares?

    Edit: Apparently you can only tap once a day. Not worth it.
    Yeah, reports vary from once a day to every few hours. Reports of how long it takes to get to the cash out vary from 6-8 months to (obviously only mathed out, not tried) to 33 years.

    Post edited by Churba on
  • http://bitcoinplus.com/ will generate bitcoins in your browser. You don't get much of anything but it doesn't take any real effort either.
  • I have been ignoring Bitcoins completely, so excuse me if this is a silly question, but what can you even buy with Bitcoins?
  • I have been ignoring Bitcoins completely, so excuse me if this is a silly question, but what can you even buy with Bitcoins?
    Drugs.

    Wait, Shit...

  • Drugs and Libertarians..
  • Coffee from one place in Berlin.
  • Yeah that's what I figured. No legitimate business would accept Bitcoins.
  • Yeah that's what I figured. No legitimate business would accept Bitcoins.
    But for a handful of coffee shops and bars scattered around the world, yeah. And said coffee shops and bars only provide it as an option, they mostly do business in regular money.
  • Yeah. Probably because unless you happen to be earning Bitcoins regularly through "means," I wouldn't imagine you'd use them to buy coffee on a regular basis. Seems like mostly a gimmick to get a tech blog post written about your shop.
  • You can buy things online with bitcoins besides drugs. I've seen more "pay with bitcoin" buttons pop up in various sites. I still probably wouldn't invest any real money into them. If I had a powerful PC I'd mess around with mining them fo realz but otherwise they're still kind of a gimmick. Really if you want to buy stuff online anonymously prepaid gift cards are probably the way to go.
  • I have been ignoring Bitcoins completely, so excuse me if this is a silly question, but what can you even buy with Bitcoins?
    There are plenty of places that accept bitcoins.
    https://www.bitcoinstore.com/ and http://bitroad.co.uk/index.php are the Amazons of bitcoins
    http://www.gyft.com/ lets you buy gift cards with bitcoins
    Humble bundle lets you pay with bitcoins as well.

    For more check out https://www.spendbitcoins.com/places/



  • Btw, this is a great writeup of how DPR got caught, fascinating read.
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/how-the-feds-took-down-the-dread-pirate-roberts/
  • Btw, this is a great writeup of how DPR got caught, fascinating read.
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/how-the-feds-took-down-the-dread-pirate-roberts/
    Entire article can be summed up in a sentence: Because he's a fucking moron.

  • I like the bit about, "I'm not the real pirate Roberts..."
  • So, Bitcoins just hit 500 USD per coin. Pretty huge leap, considering it was about 200 a few months ago.

    (This is according to Mtgox, some of the other measures of value vary, of course.)
  • I've messed around with bitcoin plus since its easy but I've made like 2 cents from it so its not exactly practical. Anyone have any recommendations for a real mining application? There seem to be a lot out there.
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