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Arindelle:
;D missed Glynor's link before pretty funny site check out the mining rigs => http://buttcoin.org/bitcoin-mining-rigs-fire-and-electical-hazards BUTTCOINS HA ;D
That’s a whole lotta words I’m not going to read, do you have an infograph for me to stare at and furrow my brow in a vain attempt to understand what you’re trying to say?
Sure!
JimH:
Uh oh.
Bitcoin exchange owner arrested.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/27/technology/security/bitcoin-arrest/
nitephlight:
--- Quote from: JimH on January 27, 2014, 11:43:41 am ---Uh oh.
Bitcoin exchange owner arrested.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/27/technology/security/bitcoin-arrest/
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that's nonsense, how people use bitcoins isn't bitinstants business (even if they wanted to, that's the point of crypto currency). wonder what charges will stick
robgil:
What ever happened to the geezer who threw four million quids worth of bitcoin in the bin when he binned an old harddrive, did he ever get it back?
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/27/hard-drive-bitcoin-landfill-site
kstuart:
--- Quote from: jmone on December 20, 2013, 03:21:50 pm ---IMO - Humans are societal creatures, so anarchy tends to be a fleeting aberration when it does occur. I can not find the link right now but I read an interesting article about the evolution of societies that postulated that as Humans in a group "survived" better than "loners", individuals with this genetic predisposition became the norm and loners continue to this day to be viewed as outsiders. I'm sure there are plenty of other postulations arguing the reverse.
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I don't know of any scientists postulating the reverse. Primates generally live in tribes.
At this point, the only characteristics still considered unique to human beings are complexity of society and "social learning". Since other primates (like chimps) have tools, voting, wars, vocabulary and even burial rituals, that leaves social learning as the main difference (complexity of society seems like a result, rather than a cause).
Most of what we considered "uniquely human" in 1960s textbooks, are now known to long predate human beings. There's a TED talk that identified a species of monkey that uses the same flawed economic decisions that caused the 2008 crash - so that instinct goes back at least about 50 million years to our common ancestor...
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