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I do not have any particular commentary on these (as I have not seen most of them), but to say that it is expected when that is how anarchy is defined in the minds of people. However, if you are interested in an interesting portrayal of an Anarchist is the superhero Anarky in the Batman series. He was created as an anarcho-syndacalist type and then evolved into a libertarian-anarchist type as the author's view changed along similar lines. He has some occasions where he is trying to stop the evils of the state and he works against Batman and thus in the eyes of the reader he either is an anti-villan (a person using good ideas and means to achieve an evil end) or a hero. Anarky has pages where he puts out long bits of philosophical reasoning to his dog (and thus the reader) and is designed to make the reader at least sympathetic to him even if he is a bad guy in their mind. Other times, there is a evil guy and Anarky and Batman team up in order to take them down and then Anarky disappears before he can be caught by Batman. There have been other authors that have messed with the character some and made him willing to kill enemies when originally he wasn't meant to. He also made an appearance in the newest Batman game Arkham: Origins (which I have yet to play). Thus, in the Batman universe there is some counter-play to the anarchist ideas besides the obviously evil and chaotically violent actions of the Joker. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarky He seems to be getting more use as a character recently, and we will see how he develops.

Something like my life stages: 1. Christian Republican with a slight libertarian bend, talked politics and economics as dinner table conversation. 2. Joined political discussion group 3. Many debates, became president of political discussion group, did a debate camp, more concerned with winning but starting to find some issues and moving more libertarian 4. Brother got me into Ron Paul after the 2008 campaign- in like 2009 5. A year or so of watching every Ron Paul video twice or something 6. Then the sampling plate of Andrew Napalitano, Tom Woods, Lew Rockwell, Adam Kokesh, etc, etc - whatever I could find that linked me along 7. Somewhere started watching some FDR videos in the mix of the others. 8. Friend at work who I was going through the sampler plate of libertarian videos also listened to them 9. Small hiatus to peculate and many discussions/ debates about the ideas 10 Listened to the UPB audio book a few times at work and paused/ debated many times 11. Finally crossed over to anarchism after over a year into FDR stuff 12. Religion was easy then to realize it was crap. 13. Joined the boards, started getting into the psychology stuff with the arguments of dealing with things I could control 14. Broke up with girlfriend of several years 15. Depression as my old life had pretty much been overturned at this point 16. Started looking into options to improve things and not let what happened to me happen again 17. Started becoming more active on the boards 18. Therapy 19. Somewhere around now? I would have trouble expressing exactly what stage I am in. Some sort of manic stage where I feel driven to push forward in several areas of my life and feeling like I am not where I want to be. I think that is a good enough quick summary of events.

I feel like this is something you would negotiate with your family. How would it go if you brought this up to them?

Currently, bitcoin is out of reach of all of the largest super computers put together as far as CPU power. It would require a massive mobilization of resources that would cost more than bitcoin is worth in order to stop it. As bitcoin increases in value, more honest nodes come into creation and more people would notice if someone was amassing such power and could find a way to safeguard against it before it is completed. It is somewhat the nature of the system that it will always cost much more to stop it than it is worth, which is the entire point of cryptography.

For a while, I was studying Paul Ekman's work on facial expressions just before they released a TV show based on his work called Lie to Me. The first 3 episodes I think Paul Ekman was actually on the set and helped make sure the show was scientifically accurate in describing how to spot a liar. After that, it started becoming increasingly dramatic and unrealistic as an entertaining show still based on his work. However, anyone with interest in spotting disingenuous emotional expression should watch the show, and do a search for Paul Ekman on YouTube. Edit: I should have clicked Wuzzum's video first, lol. However, I think I still added to the conversation some.

He tends to skip posts as it suits him.

I am getting irritated with the lack of applying consistent principles even when holes are pointed out. You shouldn't be coming up with "solutions" to defend your answer when I would consider these solutions to be terrible. I would openly boycott any DRO that attempted to enforce intellectual property by demanding payment. Reputation is whatever. You can do that and let people decide for themselves what they want to do, but assuming it is property and justifying theft of actual property in the name of intellectual property is rather despicable. It is not sketchy to get a similar product for cheaper. It is sketchy to use violence against persons or real property to enforce a violent monopoly on providing a given product or service through the statist idea of IP.

Mining bitcoins is a game of chance. If you happen to finish a block, then you get the reward for that block. The odds of you getting a block are [your hashing power]/ [all hashing power dedicated to mining bitcoin] and the difficulty constantly adjusts to try to make this occur every 10 minues. Thus, it is a dice roll. You can statistically estimate how often you SHOULD get coins, but as we know it is possible to roll the dice many, many times before your number comes up. This is why people join pools. There are pools out there who own say 10% of the total hashing power. Thus, your odds of rolling someone in the pool is greatly increased. Then the pool splits the block to all of the participants based on the percentage of hashing power the member contributes to the pool. This will lead to a much more manageable and planned stream of income. Right now, a 25 bitcoin block is worth about $15,000. You can take the odds that sometime over the next few years you get one, but you might not. If you have a massive mining operation that has as much resources as a pool, then you are more likely to take these odds as you are more likely to get blocks (and pools take a cut for maintenance). If you are a guy with a couple mining ASICs, there are no guarantees so joining a pool makes more sense. Now, my advice against mining is that you will make coin. What you will do is spend some $5,000 on mining equipment, and make $6,000 in Bitcoin, and spend $5,000 in electricity costs before the next generation of ASICs come out and your equipment is more or less obsolete. Obviously, I made up those numbers and you can make a profit as many do. Just whenever mining comes up I want to discourage noobs from entering the world of mining until they know what they are doing. Mining is not something you play around with until you know what you are doing as there are many more chances to lose money than to gain money. Similarly, if you just heard about the stock market today for the first time, you shouldn't go drop $5,000 on the first stock the internet told you to buy. You go do research and learn and then run the numbers and finally decide what steps you want to take.

Miners are doing 2 tasks. The current task is they are doing the original unlocking of the coins by solving complex mathematical problems. This is actually a great way for coin introduction rather than a coin creator giving the coins to himself and his friends or otherwise coming up with who gets the coins. The point of this reward structure is to establish, over 100 years, the mining hardware to do the second task of mining. Miner's second task is to validate and audit transactions to make sure that the system is valid. This Proof-of-Work system is a way of creating a distributed auditing and verification system that eliminates the problems of a centralized currency hub that can be shut down.Thus, in a sense the current reward system is paying miners for working for the bitocin system, which is very fair. Over time, blocks will increasingly be released and the reward of releasing coins originally will get smaller and smaller. This is expected and not a big deal if they are released faster than expected. During this time, bitcoin will also be increasing in value ass more adopters are aware of bitcoin. Eventually, mining will still get rewards, but they will not be the main goal of miners. The main goal is to process transactions in which they will get as a reward the voluntarily input transaction fee of the sender as their reward. Miners will prioritize higher transaction fees, so it will be a great system where you can transfer money for free and it will take a long time, or you can put a large fee and get a much more instant transaction. Currently, transaction fee has almost no impact on the speed of your transaction as miners are trying to mine everything as much as they can in order to get the block rewards. Thus, that mining power will not be obsolete, but essential (and still rewarded from transaction fees) for the long-term maintenance of the system. I think you should NOT buy mining equipment unless you really know what you are doing. It is a highly competitive and specialized field with new technology coming out every couple months or so. Do your research before you engage in mining as you could easily spend more in electricity than you mine. Miners also can join pools where if the pool makes a coin, they all split the profits which leads to a much more consistent income stream rather than playing the odds that you can make several thousand dollars or not on somewhat of a large dice roll every 10 minutes. I think I have now answered your questions. If i have left anything out, feel free to ask and I will add more details.

That sounds like a good idea. I think the purpose would be only to make it so that entering a discussion where there are several complex or unknown terms being thrown around to at least have an idea of what is being talked about. Thus, broad and generally consensus definitions would be good. I do like the idea of linking to a forum where a definition or topic has been debated. It would throw people into the mix and get an understanding of the complexities behind the word.

Nice sticker! What are the dimensions? It might be too large for me as I have a pick-up and the small rear windows make it so that larger stickers and driving ability don't mix very well

I don't have the time stamp, but I remember it being mentioned too. Here is an article: http://www.academic.marist.edu/mwwatch/fall05/science1.htm

Maybe the most important thing to define is the purpose of this list. Are we defining terms as some collective of FDR members? Are we shocking people into thinking of terms in a different way than they usually think of them? Are we only defining terms/acronyms that are unique to the community and can't really be looked up somewhere else? Like I could make a post about "libertarianism" or "feminism" and what they mean and it probably would be rather hotly debated as to what the term means and who is included. I have my opinions on them, but I feel like putting forward a definitive definition of these terms is somewhat hubristic or arrogant, unless it is defined in such a broad sense as to make it (relatively) non-controversial. I think if we define the purpose of the glossary, it should make what we define and how we define it more clear.

Maybe I am a bit too sensitive, but I see a lot of potential quibbling with certain words. This one may be a minor example. Feminism I think some people on this board a vehemently against and others are for, but then they still have similar conclusions, they just disagree on the word's definition. How would you define libertarian? Does it include the libertarian party types? Does it include the Libertarian-leaners like Rand Paul and Dennis Kucinich? Is it exclusively for consistent non-violent application leading to only include ancaps? How would you define statist? Does it include minarchists who think there should be a small state? I am sure there are others, but these were some of the ones that I ran into trouble coming up with a proper definition.

It was less than a minute! There is no way that counts!

63 Left, 37 Right for me That is something close to what I expected. Edit: Not the most accurate test. I ran through it again just because I knew what was coming and could go faster with the questions and I got 53 Left, 47 Right as an "equally-brained" person. Thus, I am probably slightly more Left, but the extent is hard to tell.

There are more.

If you can get one of those shows to invite on Stefan as a guest, I am sure he would (at least consider) accepting.

Possibly, but I have some questions. Why were you put in a school where there are bullies? Why were you not protected from bullying by your parents? Why is that kid a bully? What about his parents? Why was your kid able to be bullied or in a situation where he interacted with bullies? I am sure there are other questions that could illustrate some of the obfuscation to the responsible party as it is not just an "A bullies B" interaction.

I think it would be very helpful if some newer people shared some experiences as to what terms or topics were difficult to grasp, what kinds of things they didn't understand or still don't fully understand, or anything else along those lines. Most likely, someone else will have similar questions and defining those terms will be helpful to others.

Sent you my email address.

I know that somewhere in the next (few hundred?) he starts getting innto a lot of determinism stuff and there are a nice number of debates in there.

I have more experience with google docs and would prefer that, but I am open to whatever.

I am growing tired of this...