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The insensitivity and opportunistic nature of witness at the 9/11 site !
by stuckinarut2 in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i saw an online post with pictures of all the witnessing carts all around the 9/11 site during the anniversary of the tragedy.... im appalled at how opportunistic they are, and how they prey on people in a mourning and vulnerable state!.

apparantly they boast of: "there are 65 carts, with 200 witnesses manning the area... and so far 15 new studies started!".

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besty

are they actually having carts on the memorial site? hopefully they will get booted....
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Anyone else notice the new Terms of Use on jw.org?
by leaving_quietly in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
i first noticed it today... slides up at the bottom.

i wonder why they felt the need to do this?

this is just silly for a religious website..
besty

But of course the issue is that it's tupical for businesses ... and that's what they are. If they really had a lifesaving message wouldn't they be telling the world to copy and paste it anywhere they could?

Did Jesus get everyone to sign an NDA before the sermon on the mount?

He probably at least took all their cell phones ...

haha ye :-) idiots...!
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Bitcoins - anyone here mining?
by Jim_TX in
1. social
2. current
howdy!.

it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.

i am, and am having fun doing it.
besty

happy to answer any specific questions as factually as possible based on what I know as of today.

What's not clear <to you> with BitCoin is exactly what problems it's trying to solve and how specifically it will solve them

If you need certainty then wait for the shrink-wrapped software bundle in Walmart :-)

What problem did the Internet solve in 1990?
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Bitcoins - anyone here mining?
by Jim_TX in
1. social
2. current
howdy!.

it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.

i am, and am having fun doing it.
besty

@simon - a man persuaded against his will is of the same opinion still - Dale Carnegie I believe.

I agree with you - there probably are a lot of shysters attracted to BTC for all the wrong reasons. We treat that as background noise in much the same way as the Internet was all porn and gambling and Nigerian scams in the early days - or remember how spam was going to kill email? Bad actors and problems will always exist - the trick is to separate the noise from the signal.

BTC is more pseudonymous than anonymous. KYC and AML and other compliance is essential.

BTC will achieve the value people ascribe to it, same as fiat does today. Lets check back in 5 years as neither your or I or anyone else really knows how this is going to play out. My sense is that digital currency is here to stay.
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Bitcoins - anyone here mining?
by Jim_TX in
1. social
2. current
howdy!.

it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.

i am, and am having fun doing it.
besty

@jwfacts - Can the transactional side be separated from the currency, or is the currency required for the payments to take affect?

yes - innovation on the blockchain (the underlying ledger) is where this will happen - for example https://www.ethereum.org/ is worth scanning through to get an idea..
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Bitcoins - anyone here mining?
by Jim_TX in
1. social
2. current
howdy!.

it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.

i am, and am having fun doing it.
besty

@simon - The $20 does change in value - just slowly enough so you don't care, and thats in the West. In the developing world its not always that slow.
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Bitcoins - anyone here mining?
by Jim_TX in
1. social
2. current
howdy!.

it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.

i am, and am having fun doing it.
besty

@Simon - I agree with you that people need to spend BTC ,not just speculate and hoard. But then you can't also criticize retailers efforts to help them do that, as you did earlier :-) In terms of 'wasted energy' I think people will look back and say - gosh how did we live before the car the Pc the Internet the mobile phone the bitcoin protocol?

@jwfacts - the Bitcoin protocol electronically and reliably solves an old problem for the first time. "How can two strangers trust each other without a middleman acting as broker?" Paper money solves this problem nicely - we dont need to know each other to exchange a £20 note and we both understand and agree on the value of it. (you could argue the issuing bank acts as a middleman guarantor) Once you can establish trust between unknown people without a middleman all sorts of innovation becomes possible https://bitcoin.org/en/innovation
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Brett King (Jehovah's Witness) Releases Video of why he removed his ill son, Ashya, from a UK hospital
by jwleaks in
1. jw
2. friends
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14etqn9zpwk .

jw leaks.
besty

best wishes to the wee lad and his folks - I'm convinced they are doing all they can to ensure he makes it 100%

SIDEBAR - the situation certainly will feed the anti-establishment paranoia of the rank and file - win-win for the Watchtower - victim child who lives and they are not to blame <this time> = result!
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Bitcoins - anyone here mining?
by Jim_TX in
1. social
2. current
howdy!.

it's been a while since i've poked my head in here.... i was just curious if anyone on the forum is involved with bitcoin mining?.

i am, and am having fun doing it.
besty

I should say in the table above BTC returns neatly adds up to 100% after 12 months which off course is not the case - it gets to 100% when you turn off the miner.

Until then you would have a longer and longer row of 9's.

If you build your own spreadsheet or use the calculator at https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/calculator you can make a more informed decision based on your hardware, electricity costs etc.
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KM Online Now
by konceptual99 in
1. watchtower
2. bible
even more of what you don't want to read is online.

the km are now online under wol.

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/lv/r1/lp-e/0/20397
besty

Information Control - it might look like slackening control but the reality is its a new rule to remind you who holds the leash and which end you are at :-)