Luke's 7k Post: A baller's bitcoin biz plan



A bunch of smaller armed conflicts going on around the world is just a tad different than say, Russia and China going at it, wouldn't you say?

That type of large-scale conflict will probably never happen again in our lifetimes, due to globalization.


Yeah, I agree, globalization = no more wars or death.

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WHAT THE FUCK DOES ALL THIS SHIT HAVE TO DO WITH MY BITCOIN BIZ PLAN?!??

I swear to jeebus I'm going to start a new bitcoin thread if you guys don't put a lid on this...
 
WHAT THE FUCK DOES ALL THIS SHIT HAVE TO DO WITH MY BITCOIN BIZ PLAN?!??

I swear to jeebus I'm going to start a new bitcoin thread if you guys don't put a lid on this...

Sorry dude, it was just too much of an awesome business plan.

I mean, I've always dreamed of experiencing first hand compulsory living in a 8x10 cell with a guy named bubba.
 
I just hope everyone wears their fedora to Badger Ball in Vegas so we can continue this discussion.
 
You have to concede that you do use information that you did not acquire first hand. Information which based on your own category would be described as hearsay, or non-first hand empirical.
Absolutely, but I (almost) never settle for it if there is an alternative.

You discarded history as a place for seeking knowledge and quoted empiricism. You seemed to propose empiricism is an 'intellectually pure' method of acquiring knowledge while history was a debased form of understanding reality.
It's not debased. It's implicitly not accurate. I know that going in. You might be surprised to know that there are many times I reject ANY additional information, as part of what I have called an "information diet" or "getting dumber".

I was challenging that view. Maybe not all of it, since history is very much written by the winners, but to totally discard it is a throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
If you understand the Turkey problem, you understand the issue with history. That's all I can say.

I never said you have a lot of hubris, that is a straw-man argument.
I wasn't making an argument. Perhaps we have a misunderstanding.

I said 'this hubris' referring to the way you communicate on this forum.
Correction, how YOU perceive me to communicate on this forum. If you asked Jake if I post with hubris, he would probably disagree with you.
 
I know you try. I do too. But to quote ccarter; lettuce be cereal, you can't help it. I can't either.

I think you're quoting Grindstone.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DQAbOYQ88M]Come on, lettuce be cereal with this foolishness... - YouTube[/ame]



Lettuce brie cereal for egg mayo-mint gin thyme, I took over that like I take over everything.



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqO9QL7i-YI]Just PM Grindstone... enough of this - YouTube[/ame]


Carry on...

P.S. sorry Mont, it's also the CCarter girl now...​
 
Yeah, I agree, globalization = no more wars or death.

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Even that was a good 40 years ago, but you are right there, and that type of shit probably still currently goes on daily in Africa. Not probably, it does.

I've been to the killing fields, plus the landmine museums out there. Did you know Canada is one of the biggest supporters / proponents of cleaning up old landmines in Cambodia? I didn't either until I was there, but I was happy to find out about it. Go to the landmine museum in Siem Reap, and there's a big Canadian flag right beside the Cambodian flag, and a huge sign explaining Canada's role.

I've even walked through a couple camps at Auschwitz. Used to live in Budapest, so we went up to Krakow one time, and toured it. Know the famous shot of the rail tracks going through the archway? I've seen that live. Now Auschwitz is a weird place to visit, and definitely makes you pause for reflection.

I've even seen the tunnels the Viet Cong went through, and seen Ho Chi Ming himself all nicely embalmed.

I've also been through the "House of Terror" on Andrassy blvd in Budapest, where both Hitler and Stalin setup HQ in Hungary, and torture chambers in the basement.

But that's my point. Due to globalization, things like that are less likely to happen, because it'd be like shooting yourself in the foot. Germany isn't invading Poland, the US isn't going to drop nukes on Japan, the cold war isn't going to start over, etc. It'd be detrimental for the aggressors in those situations to do that again.