Skype Around the World

   

Now you can say you have friends all across the world.

Great video, one of the best I've seen on youtube in a long time (youtube member since 2006). Very positive, very creative. I truly think YouTube/Google should put this front page but they likely won't because Skype is their competition for Google+ and such. We can hope the youtube community ups it to the front page, that would not surprise me on this one. Thumbs up and fav'd for sure. Cheers!

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Debunking 9/11 conspiracy

Steel begins losing strength above ~400° C; most structural steel loses half their strength ~600° C. That's bad news if you are trying to support a heavy load. However, NIST says the root cause of failure in WTC 7 is from expansion of the (horizontal) floor beams, which pushed the girder holding P79 aside & also led to the floors collapsing. NIST can have it both ways.

You won't trust anything but NIST, a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration?
Main question: If this is a controlled demolition, why is ANYTHING left standing after the initial collapse?

Oh, and no. I'm thinking in terms of EVERY CONTROLLED DEMOLITION IN MODERN HISTORY.

Reminder: No amount of thermite has ever been used to take down a building. Ever. Why? Because you need stupid amounts of it to do any damage.

Reminder: No proof of anything (be it non-existant "energy weapons", or whatever else you'd like to trot out) but the airliner crashes and the resulting fires has ever been found.

9/11 truthers are some of the most hypocritical people I've ever come across. They want people to "open their minds", yet they are so closed minded to any evidence that disproves their claims, or they incorporate it into a new theory. They call people who don't believe them sheep, yet they blindly believe anything another CT tells them, and fact-check nothing. And, most disgustingly, they say they fight for the victims, yet in reality, they are distorting and retelling their lives and death. Yes, there were no death rays involved that day but rather jets were used to attack buildings by terrorists causing the deaths of many people. And, furthermore, there is no documented proof that went through any standard scientific research protocol that found thermite/nanothermite in the debris. The studies that were properly done found none. But, hey, I don't expect anything from these people anymore.

The towers, which were designed using 1960s technology, were not designed to withstand multiple commercial jet impacts, though subsequent analysis implies they probably could survive them. However, the crash assumption is that the aircraft would be moving slowly & on low fuel, because who in their right mind would intentionally ram a jet at full speed into a building? Regardless, the towers did, indeed, survive the impacts, actually coming to rest while upright. NIST are not a criminal investigation body, the FBI are though. The use of explosives in public is illegal so you expect NIST the be the ones to test for explosives over the FBI? does that sounds sensible in any way to you mousey? doesn't make sense to me but then again I'm rational, you will believe whatever Dylan Avery tells you to, though if you want to keep up he has changed his story now too so you may want to check up on that.

All these explosions are random. An actual CD does not use random explosions. It would be pointless to detonate explosions randomly. Lots of non-explosives explode in fires, but they do so randomly. The fact that the explosions were random tells us the explosions are the natural effects of fires, not CD. Lots of things explode due to fires. Random explosions simply mean the fires are making ordinary office materials explode. That's common in any structure fire, but when we have 110 1-acre sized floors, we should expect a lot more and bigger explosions.
"After the initial blast, Housing Authority worker Barry Jennings, 46, reported to a command center on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center. He was with Michael Hess, the city's corporation counsel, when they felt and heard another explosion [the collapse of the north tower]. First calling for help, they scrambled downstairs to the lobby, or what was left of it. "I looked around, the lobby was gone. It looked like hell," Jennings said."
Det and initiating cord links all the explosives together, see all the wires whenever anyone talks about controlled demolitions? We are talking things that were used in 2001 and even if a wireless detonator was used the explosives are still wired together and there would still be a ton of evidence that would be clear for anyone to see.
Not to mention all the drywall that would have to have been ripped out, hauled off and new hauled in, hung, taped, painted. And no one noticed? Not possible! There isn't the slightest indication of demolition. Poor truthers, they have no case.

Color of smoke can be deceptive. Humans die if O2 below 12%, but fires burn down to 3%. The fact that witnesses were walking around near fire means the fires were not oxygen starved.

The effect of burning jet fuel was to set large areas of WTC 1/2 on fire. Ordinary office fires burn up to 1000° C, & WTC 1/2 had 1-acre floors of office furnishings. Temperatures of 800° C weaken steel by half and melt aluminum.

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What is a Bitcoin?

"All money is based on trust. (Aside from the people who prefer to base the value of their assets on gold.)"

What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is the first decentralized digital currency. Bitcoins are digital coins you can send through the Internet. Compared to other alternatives, Bitcoins have a number of advantages. Bitcoins are transferred directly from person to person via the net without going through a bank or clearinghouse. This means that the fees are much lower, you can use them in every country, your account cannot be frozen and there are no prerequisites or arbitrary limits. Let's look at how it works! Bitcoins are generated all over the Internet by anybody running a free application called a Bitcoin miner. Mining requires a certain amount of work for each block of coins. This amount is automatically adjusted by the network such that Bitcoins are always created at a predictable and limited rate. Your Bitcoins are stored in your digital wallet which might look familiar if you use online banking. When you transfer Bitcoins, an electronic signature is added. After a few minutes the transaction is verified by a miner and permanently and anonymously stored in the network. The Bitcoin software is completely open source and anybody can review the code. Bitcoin is changing finance the same way the web changed publishing. When everyone has access to a global market, great ideas flourish. Let's look at some examples of how Bitcoins are already used today: You can purchase video games, gifts, books, servers and alpaca socks. Several currency exchanges exist where you can trade your Bitcoins for dollars, euros and more. Bitcoins are a great way for small businesses and freelancers to get noticed. It doesn't cost anything to start accepting them, there are no chargebacks or fees and you'll get additional business

Bitcoin is just a simple software, so it can't affect your computer more than other software. However, mining makes your computer do a lot of calculations, therefore it consumes electricity and generate heat. Just like the Folding@Home projects actually. Governments will get frustrated when they find out that its impossible to put taxes on Bitcoins. Gaming PC implies that you spent money based on performance meaning you'd need a good GPU. Though while NVidia cards are superior in technology and rendering, AMD cards are better for mining because of the architecture and technology behind it. They can hash out more calculations at faster rates. This is why there is a disparaging difference between the two chipsets. I'll try to elaborate. The program itself is free and there are many of them to choose from. CGMiner is probably the most lightweight of them all, if you want a starting point. GPU (aka graphics card processing units) are the most effective to mine bitcoins looking at it from standard PC hardware. In this fashion, electric supply vs. profit is turnout is low. There are however specific hardware options specifically made to mine which use minimal power and gain significantly better performance.

Bitcoins are just a balance stored in a public ledger, and this public ledger is shared between all Bitcoin users. What matters is that nobody can create as much bitcoins as they want and that transactions are secure. Bitcoin does that. Bitcoins are really just numbers just like the money in your bank account. To create bitcoins, just need to do Bitcoin mining, which is indeed very resource consuming and not necessarily profitable. Basically something encrypted that has value because it can't be decrypted. It can thus be transferred to others. Money is just something abstract that we have decided has value. The same can be done by encrypted data as long as it can't be forged. Just like you transfer from bank to bank today without becoming physical money. Bitcoin, however does not use banks and is thus decentralized. You can send money from person to person like it was physical money, but is in fact digital money.

Many people are just starting to hear about Bitcoins even though they have been aroung. They are a very new "currency" and will allow you to profit without ANY fees of transfer, any freezing of funds, doesn't require banks and is currently feared by established financial institutions to the way of trying to ban it. There are a group of clever developers are working on a tool that will allow people to make bitcoins every single day! The idea is not stupid at all. Actually, even bitcoin.org makes it clear that Bitcoin is still experimental and its price is too volatile to be used to keep your savings for example. It is however a safer payment network then anything we are using today. The idea behind Bitcoin is that it can be trusted because it is the only payment system that doesn't need to be trusted. Bitcoin suceeded to create a payment network that implements pure transparency.

Many say that it fails to explain the legal source, authority, the security and the value mechanism for Bitcoin. In fiat currency we know the source and the authority and what and when we can claim at source if the intermediary or issuer hits a wall or is digested by acidity of its economic mismanagement.

Anonimity as a Threat to public stability

Do you really think that Bitcoin is less anonymous than cash if criminal uses special steps to hide it (using anonymity network, changing IP address or computers and etc)? I don`t think that bitcoin system is more safe from criminal activities and illegal criminal trafficking, because criminals will never let an opportunity to make some special steps in order to be incognito. The opposite is in fact true. Cash is nearly impossible to trace (at least in small amounts) and bitcoins are hard, but not impossible to trace (unless special steps are taken by user to hide, like using TOR anonymity network.)

Cash is MORE anonymous than bitcoins.

Are Cash (e.g. several dollars) a system of using cash? Is a system in which you get money (legal salary) is called cash? And is there ability in this system to make a crimes (like trafficking in human beings, drug trafficking and etc.) and usually to be undetected? I don`t speak about things which comes without any saying: if you use cash for bad things, it`s criminal without any doubt, but other people who doesn`t commit crimes doesn`t support your criminal activity. Yes, and bitcoin itself is form of money. But their systems are different (a little at least). And as I know users of cash is hard to trace, but users of bitcoin is impossible to trace. Hackers and good informatics should know very well why - how system of using bitcoins makes it`s users incognito. But I didn`t hear anything about impossibility to trace people who are using cash (physical tracing includes too), only about difficulties.

Yes and for this I don`t talk about physical payment method, because it goes without saying, that if you use cash for bad things, it`s criminal. But other people who uses this way of payment doesn`t support criminal activities if they doesn`t commit crime, because system in which you get money protects from that (and any webpages from black market can`t use e-bank system without big risk to be detected as I know). What many may not understand is that crime can be done with cash, so why don't protest cash? It does not have 'protections from crime' and black market uses it, so why don't you complain about cash? Bitcoin is if anything less anonymous than cash and can be used for legitimate purposes as well as crime.
But if there is many protections from crime, then how can it be, that owners and users of webpages, where you can easily get anything you want from the black market (I mean drugs, human, illegal guns, ordered the murder or sth. else from that kind) uses bitcoin in order to do their works freely and because there is no ability to detect them? If bitcoin is more save from criminal activities than regular cash or at least is the same, then it is ok. But if not, then it`s not ok. :)

You can't detect a criminal with the current system when you aren't using a controlling agency such as a bank (criminals like cash). The physical payment method that is used now isn't protected in any way. The only way that protection against usage in criminal activity was added was when people started using the digital version of the current system. Which is also flawed due to the centralized control a bank has over these systems (bank gets hacked and all your money disappears in thin air).

If you are using cash, you are responsible for that how do you use it and for what. So you are personally responsible for your own works in this situation. But if you use anything what is made like a system which lets to do crimes and hide this activity perfectly, then you support those, who engage in pornography, human trafficking, drug trafficking, killing for money, prostitution and etc. So in this way you become responsible too for crimes which are being committed by other people.

Using cash and creating a system which hides all financial and criminal activities too are two different things. If there would be any ability to create such system which woks in 100 or 99 percent of perfectness (this means that criminals become incognito and not caught to police or any other person who would like to know who did or bought sth.) from dollars or from the way how each person gets it (as it is with BTC), then using cash would be supporting criminal activities.

Mining computers use a cryptographic algorithm to solve a problem that can only be solved by doing a lot of computer work. This is used to protect integrity of the bitcoin network and prevent double spends and controls rate of new bitcoin creation. It is a bit complicated, but I am sure you can understand how it works if you read into it a little more. One source is the original white paper on Bitcoin written by Satoshi Nakamoto himself. The paper describes how it works.

Don't even bother with super computers. There are avalons coming out now worth 30k$ which will mine all the coins. Even if u have a super computer u got no chance. If bit coin is hoarded by a few, it will never get the influence it wants to have. It will be similar to fiat money, Only now, It is even more volatile because it is vulnerable to hacking and no one knows who is behind it. If it's anonymous then who is running the website? Somethings fishy abt bit coin and i wud stay far away. If you're not using bitcoin to make transactions then yes, you're only benefiting the miner or the person who invested before you. However, if you are making bitcoin transactions, then the miners are benefiting you because you're not paying them anything to verify your transactions. Essentially, you're using the miner's hardware for free in order to verify your transactions... pretty neat, right?

If you're not using bitcoin to make transactions then yes, you're only benefiting the miner or the person who invested before you. However, if you are making bitcoin transactions, then the miners are benefiting you because you're not paying them anything to verify your transactions. Essentially, you're using the miner's hardware for free in order to verify your transactions... pretty neat, right?

Bitcoin is a monetary system managed by NOBODY. Fixed.
You mean everyone? Name a modern country's currency, ANY modern country's currency, that isn't based on gold, and is centralised via a national reserve or institution.

 Bitcoin has no masters. 
So each transaction block needs a SHA-256 hash of the block header which needs to be lower than or equal to the 'target'. The target is a 256 bit integer shared by all nodes in the network and determines difficulty, and the target is lowered as the network gets faster to make block generation more difficult. The network aims for 1 block every 10 minutes. So when a block of transactions in the bitcoin network is validated, the first miner to successfully prove their work to the network rewards itself with 25 bitcoins (originally 50, it algorithmically adjusts for speed improvements). This is how new bitcoins are generated.
There's about 1 block every 10 minutes, but the chances of hitting the jackpot and getting 25 bitcoins are slim, so most miners these days work in pools and the money is distributed if any of them validate.
The mining app is free to download, meanning anyone cand have it, but it runs buy your computer, the process of minning is the "work" of the computer in the process, this generate the bitcoins.

By now, for generate a sustancial amount of bitcoins you would need a really big investment in a powerfull computer, Is no longer worthy to use a personal computer to do this, cause it will never produce an important amount of Bitcoins. Mining does produce bitcoins but the point of mining is to establish a transaction history for the bitcoin network, the block chain. Without the block chain, theres nothing to prevent a user from sending the same bitcoin to two different places.

The reward for mining is simply to introduce predictable inflation and to reward people for helping the network (it wouldn't work without miners). By now, for generate a sustancial amount of bitcoins you would need a really big investment in a powerfull computer, Is no longer worthy to use a personal computer to do this, cause it will never produce an importan amount of bitcoins

It's math.

You have a cryptographic private key on your computer, when a coin is transfered to you, its signed with your public key (your wallet address is the short version of this) so only your private key can decrypt this and the bitcoin network validates the whole transaction (miners).

This history of every transaction is stored on every computer in the network and is called the block chain, so you dont need to be connected 24x7 to get money. If you lose your wallet (key) you lose your $.
The techies love it. And people with businesses that exchange internationally (especially computer tech businesses) are seeing the value. Once their are more escrow systems in place for people to trade with trust, bitcoin will become the norm. Was this a bubble? Yes, a small one. Was it a crash? No. It is currenlty growing at a rate of 4.8% per day. Now that is the kind of steady growth we need. Chill out grandma! . :P

What do you expect, a couple of months ago BTC were worth $20. Just a bunch of speculators hoping that the person after them would be the greater fool.
On the way up, everyone with half a brain cell knew it was a bubble and was just trying to make that profit before it dropped. Some people seemed to think pointing out this self evident truth made them clever.
When you have people buying shitloads who've never even heard of the currency and don't understand it, you know it's a bubble.

There are Application Specific something something ASICs that run on hardly any power and boast hash rates of 5 GPUs for much cheaper than 5 GPUs...oh wait the manufacturers are charging an arm and a leg for them and not delivering. What else can you do with an FPGA? I might buy one, and use it for whatever@home or something if buttcoin dies.

I think you might be a little confused as to what it means to control bitcoin: owning (a lot of) bitcoins is not the same as controlling bitcoin. The kind of control Rothschild was talking about was the ability to issue money, not simply having money. The only thing that people with a lot of hashing power can do is try to engineer a 51% attack on Bitcoin: it will either result in a successful double-spend or a crash of Bitcoin. And if they have Bitcoin holdings they will lose A LOT of value!

I disagree in part with your assessment,since free market can be influenced by cartels.I would have to spent my entire life mining for nothing , if cartels mined with their own supercomputers.That means you would have to either buy or earn bitcoins from those monopolies,early starters had a mining advantage and bitcoin supply is finite,or somehow inflate them.Lets not forget that the Goverment holds the exclusive right to issue money and can pass a law to control or outlaw Bitcoin Exchanges.

Free markets have only one rule: "Supply and Demand".If there is demand and you control supply,you control the price.It was Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild who said it best: "Give me control of a nation's money supply and I care not who makes it's laws".If bitcoins are finite and those with the most computer power,or those who started mining early, have the most,then there is no free market.They will control those Bitcoins already mined as well as new supply.At least thats the way i see it.

I have a question.If the number of bitcoins that can be made,through the use of a miner,depends on processing power,then what is to stop a Goverment,or a private entity, with many supercomputers,from acquiring all the new Bitcoins for itself thus monopolizing the new currency.After all there is only a finite amount of Bitcoins that can ever be mined.The solution of course would be to make the few remaining Bitcoins infinitely divisible,thus inflating them,but then you have a fiat currency.

Well the rules of the free market tells us that no non-coercive entity can gain a monopoly without government intervention through tax breaks, subsidies, etc... A government could not gain an absolute monopoly on the mining of bitcoins unless it owned all the processing chips in the world, which would seem virtually impossible. What is more likely to happen is there being several large bitcoin mining agencies on market, each with there own array of supercomputers. Don't worry, it takes 3 days of reading and 3 weeks of understanding to get how bitcoin works. Then it takes 3 months to understand you can trust it.

So just keep reading and reading. Pay special attention to posts with discussion in comments, where bitcoin users are trying to explain others why it is not a scam. first u create a wallet, it will be stored in your smartphone or computer, after completing the wallet setup, you secutre it with a strong password, than you are ready to receive or to send bitcoins, you see it just like banking, but peer to peer. Google for sellers or get them from a friend..... and ur transactions can take place. . .and start collecting the free mBTC (micro coins ) day after day. The benefit of solving the mathematical problem is to provide proof of work that the miner actually verified the transactions which they were asked to verify. Without the progressively challenging mathematical problem, the network can be attacked by anybody with a lot of CPU power (e.g. a botnet). If anybody wants to make an attack on BItcoin today (aka the 51% attack), they'd have to have more than 30 times the processing power of the top 500 supercomputers in the world!
Brilliantly defined!


Yes!
An anonymous group started this.
People in the beginning could mine very easy and earn lots of bitcoins.
The people from now on are told that they can earn coins, but in reality it is getting so hard that just the guys with render farms and the groups gaming bitcoin with loads of these gpu-renderfarms can make moeny. And botnets have been created to take advantage of it. It is used by loads of criminals for moeny laundring and it also wastes lots of energy for the mining.

I learned from others that a small part of the mining done is used to helping with the transactions in the swarm (in some way). And you don't have to be a frantic miner to use them(that also will get slower and slower and stop in 2040). The biggest problem is all the criminal activity that is helped from the mining. Lots of money laundring, sites selling drugs for bitcoins and other not so great activities. And an unknown group of people who started all this.. Contiunued...

And the money made by this money is just air money. You must have create some type of real value other than pure trust. I mean real gold when mined have several uses in itself, for example. And how much of the BC are used in daily transactions to help the real economy instead of making a very small minority very rich? There is one guy that owns 25% of all bitcoins, for example. According to wikipedia there have been a couple of cases with botnets that mine bitcoins.

But the verification part must be a miniscule part of the problem solving. The rest of the time it just is sitting wating energy. Looking at the curve of the rise in value for BC right now, it just have to crash, sooner or later. Yes, money will fluctuate, but have you seen the dollar rise this fast, having a crash in the last two years (after another big "hause"). To mee this looks like energy wasting on somthing that benefits the few early adopters. One person owns 25% of the bitcoins f.e.

BTC will rise in value in the long term. After all coins are minted, they can only be lost forever, driving the remaining ones up in price. "Early adopters have a large number of bitcoins now because they took a risk and invested resources in an unproven technology. By so doing, they have helped Bitcoin become what it is now and what it will be in the future (hopefully, a ubiquitous decentralized digital currency). It is only fair they will reap the benefits of their successful investment."


Bitcoin seems to be a good investment but I prefer more physical sylver since I know that it's a highly industrialised metal. Sylverware, jewelry and in many other applicacitions silver is used, also is real money. There is much more gold than silver and silver is at an incredible bargain right now. At a rate of 56 to 1 compared to gold right now, this is an incredible opportunnity. Sadly, lots of people forgot that physical silver and gold is real tangible money, you c'ant print them. Not enough. In a real bad situation, you might get what you need by bartering or bribing some guy who has something you want or get you to safety with some gold or silver whereas he might go WTF is bitcoin..,if you can even access them.

It's bad enough we have monopoly money but now it's imaginary almost as kind of a beta phase for a one world currency. Some say bitcoin could be a bubble. It's not that I'm against bitcoin but I wouldn't trust everything with it. Diversifying's the way to go.

Please also tell the part that it gets logarithmically harder over time to earn up to that 50 BitCoins.
The way it is now it makes people think they can earn 4500 U.S dollars in no time.
In reallity, just the render farm people may reach this. Loads of GPU power.
Loads of wasted energy. No solving of problems that would benefit people (like the math problems that the @home projects do)
And for what?

Virtual money and a currency that fluctuates and may crash at any time.
Stupidity defined!


But this seem like a scam sheme. It seems to get easy at first, but then it gets logarithmically harder over time.
The only people that may benefit are the ones with loads of GPU power or even render farms.
And I get mad that they don't use it for protein folding or something that could benefit man.
Now it just put more strain on global warming (a lot of energy consumed) without doing anything good, just solving a useless math problem generating virtual money. Which may crash any minute.
Apparently those who bought BitCoins last year when their value was only about $5, then they saved hundreds, maybe even thousands of BitCoins then jsut recently sold them. Let me give a example. Ok last year let's say I Mined 100 BitCoins. And I completely forgot about them. Now I recently sold my 100 BitCoins for $100.00 each. I made $100,000 just for leaving my computer on for a week, or a month. You can do the same. For FREE. 1 minute of your time. Can result in millions.
Lower fees is enticing but common saying today is if you can't hold it, you don't own it. This is trading one digital based currency for another. If the net goes down due to an emergency, kill switch, cyber based attack, or any grid-down collapse scenario...the bitcoins disappear (or at least becomes inaccessible for a time). A stash of gold or silver, universally recognized as monetary metals for thousands of years, won't.

If a professional hacker can hack SHA 256, then say goodbye to the DoD, banks, nuclear plants and just about any major system these days, so losing your Bitcoin will be your LAST concern!
The ONLY thing hackers can do is attempt to steal the private keys which each person uses in order to sign Bitcoin transactions. The responsibility of guarding your private data is ENTIRELY up to you and there is absolutely no system that can protect you from your own inability to protect yourself.


Maybe, maybe not. They'd need a really beefy set of computers to solo mine. Most people mine in pools, where you get paid a certain amount of BTC based on how much hashing power you add into it.
But yes, if they had great PCs, and they joined pools, they'd probably make quite a sum. But at the same time, ASICs are computers specially designed for just this one task, and most corporations, let alone most people, don't have those--at least, not yet.
So basically even if the "network" prevented or restricted the creation of new "un-mined" cryptographic blocks if you gave IBM or Cray the problem and a few months they could likely put all future mining out of business, and end up repeating the old Cayman Island Tory-Trotskyite Boardroom-Bankster-Socialist "International Bankster Brotherhood of IMF-Manipulated Gold-Slavers, Local 666" experience for us all, all over again?

Labor Exchange Currency is the value of a nation's labors...

Nothing, apart from the fact that there are a limited total possible number of them, and they become harder and harder to find as more are discovered (there are a limited possible number of them total), and it requires lots of computer time to do it. But anyone can mine bitcoins by downloading and running a bitcoin mining program on their computer. Currently about 10 million of the 21 million bitcoins possible have been mined.

The miners validate transactions: remember that people want to add their transactions to the public ledger (transaction list), so they send their transactions in and somebody has to verify that they're valid. That's where the miners come in: they verify that the sender has sufficient balance, approve the transaction and allow it to be added to the ledger. They must also solve a complicated math problem, but that's just to ensure that the fastest miners are more likely to get rewarded.

When I started writing the script for the video at the beginning of 2011, Silk Road didn't exist yet, so the Bitcoin drug trade - as far as I knew at least - consisted of two or three people trying to trade on the forums and getting banned for it. Though I admit, even if Silk Road has existed, I probably still wouldn't have mentioned it. The press did their best to blow that aspect out of proportion even without my help.

And who decided the predictable and limited amount? Talk about a silly way of running your chips! Besides, Bitcoin is based on wasted computer-time while timedollars are based on neighbor Hours of labor owed. Which token would you rather have? But Bitcoin’s great global transfer software could also be used to transfer Hours of useful time instead of Hours of wasted computer time. Just around the corner, I’d think. wire transfer is impossible, because nobody want to reveal his real personal information. bitcoin should be anonymous. anything connected with personal information will discourage of using bitcoins. for example: i can buy bitcoins from an undercover agent. when i buy huge amounts of bitcoins, then someone from tax investigation can be interested, for what do i need to anonymize my money? or fbi can be interested if i need to pay my drugs on silkroad? wire transfer is reverse side of anonymity.

Bitcoin is money, it is a currency. There would be something fishy about it if you *didn't* have to exchange it for another currency (like $ or €). Just like you can't just simply get £ without exchanging your own currency for them, selling something for £ or working for somebody who pays you in £. You can look into Bitcoin mining to help generate bitcoins but that's quite complex and very difficult to make a profit of. And you'll also have to buy the computers and hardware for that somehow. Sure, if money is already not in the bank , then no one can steal the money. :D But this magic trick can be implemented in home as well. Just put some money into safe, then take them out and spent. Then assume, that they are still in the safe. Just do not check if they are really there - this is something that robber should realize, not you. It does indeed make sense....

Most exchanges accept wire transfers...that's probably how the majority of people fund their MtGox accounts and BitStamp accounts. You should check the exchanges for all the ways you can fund your accounts. How do you think people fund their exchange accounts? Furthermore, you can check with all the bitcoin brokers about how to buy bitcoin, e.g. BitInstant accepts cash deposits from Jewel, Duane Reade, Stater Bros, Albertsons, WalMart, etc.

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America is Special

"America will not tolerate attack against our citizens and against our embassies. We'll defend also our Constitutional rights of speech, and assembly, and religion... We have confidence in our cause in America. We respect our Constitution... We stand for the principles our Constitution protects. We encourage other nations to understand and respect the principles of our Constitution, because we recognize that these principles are the ultimate source of freedom for individuals around the world."

He isn't our president, BUT HE can go our now and in the next several years to speak how wonderful our country is and how we can get it back to the way It should be! MITT Is our guy to lead the way! We all know the votes were rigged, and the dems will do it again when Hillary runs. People stand up and fight back, lets not be sheeps.

 The reason he was not elected was because Obama talks a good game and so many believed him and unfortunately, they still do. It is like the blind leading the blind or the pied piper. People want someone telling them they know what to do and how to do it to take care of all of us. In his case...he does not have a clue. And it is very obvious, he does not care. I believe he feels he is King and can do no wrong and whatever he says is the way it will be. We have a wishy-washy congress that does not stand up to him. Oh sure, they talk the talk but they seemingly are incapable of walking the walk. What a tragedy for what was the greatest country ever known to mankind. I am a firm believer it will not change unless and until we return to the Constitution. Anyone heard of it?

Our country would already be well on the road to recovery, financial solvency and competent management of our government.

 A lot of voters made a "BIG" mistake when voting for Obama! And a lot of those voters made the same mistake... 6 or 7 times on the same day, at the same polling place! No wonder he got elected! The liberal media would never let that out so we're stuck with Obummer another 4 yrs and possibly a very liberal democratic president for a good long time. It's so SAD!

I still don't understand why Mr. Romney wasn't elected President. He was the only one out there with intelligence and cared about America! He got my vote... and would again!

The election was a fraud. So much of it went on--some of those people are in jail but ya didn't see any up raw to throw out the election. such a same that we got 4 more years of crap. How did anyone choose OBAMA over Mitt - I will never get it!  It's called what Mitt said, " The Santa Claus complex" ! Too many people want EVERYTHING for Nothing!! And obama will give them all our money!

The election was fixed.... Romney didn't have a chance.....it's such a shame what has and is happening in our country. It really has no relevance as to what we hold that America will or will not tolerate; The people in control are the ones who won the election. I'm not so sure those in control agree to this. I think this quote from Mitt sums up what the last election was about. Unfortunately, not all heeded the differences, or didn't care, or just flat out agreed with the other side. Too many GOP voters stayed home. Too bad we have such a mis-informed electorate. Huge mistake not electing Romney. Now ALL of us are paying the price.

Mitt Romney IS Presidential - honest, God Loving, and willing to always defend and protect America. In office or not, he's working and fighting for America. It is shameful that some voters REFUSED to stand with this man and went with the most corrupt, dishonest, anti-American we have ever had in our Oval Office, namely Barack HUSSEIN Obama! If you did not go and vote - you in essence voted for Obama! Now we have to wait and see if we are even going to be able to vote come 2014 to change the failed leadership of the Senate and to get rid of the good OLD boys and girls that have forgotten they work for WE THE PEOPLE -- they have been working for DECADES for just their greedy, power hungry selves! It looks like Obama and his corrupt czars, are looking to get MARTIAL LAW declared thus preventing any elections that can CHANGE Congress, so WE the citizens of American, can once again HOPE! IF we can still vote come 2014 -- it is time to CLEAN OUT CONGRESS and elect REAL REPRESENTATIVES - vote for your country - NOT FAILING PARTY LINES! VOTE THEM OUT ON BOTH SIDES IF THEY HAVE REFUSED TO STAND WITH OUR CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS!

Romney is my choice.
God Bless you Mr. Romney for all the good work he does for us. Do the right thing Romney... Help us to take back the Senate and get a good candidate for pres! Amen

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Urban Homesteaders Produce 6,000 Pounds of Food on 1/10 Acre. They grow 350 different vegetables, herbs, fruits and berries complete with chickens, ducks, rabbits, goats & honey bees.

This blows away all the propaganda pushed in public, schools, and universities. If we would all be able to live like this and in peace, we would all be healthier and maybe, just maybe there would be some harmony in this crazy world. Big pharma wants to keep people sick so they can keep making their astronomical profits with their synthetic drugs. That's a shame.

The ideas and methods shown by this family are good. They doesn't preach and doesn't make any extravagant claims of ownership of the term "urban homesteading", so at least there's that. The services we get, can be reproduced by the community without a state and the costs can be shared without having a distant state to force extraction. Less than 1 percent of people will try this and actually succeed. The danger does not come from the people who actually work for their food bud... Gotta address the economics. Make it not so time-costly. Or take money from people, invest in a farm, and simply serve them.

Most people aren't willing to devote all that time or effort. They also may not have the knowledge. This family does. They need to leverage that or make some super simple kits and get distribution for those. 20k is not bad, considering all that they save, but they miss out on a lot of other stuff, and it takes 4-5 people to make that? Huge opportunity cost. Think business. I realize that it's maybe hard to grow your own food in America, because you should have a property and not everyone can afford to buy property especially if you work for a minimum wage. But if you have a land anywhere outside the US even in the poor country wich cost less than a used car you will be able to have a freedom and enjoy your life to the fullest. And that's amazing! A lot of work involved, but well worth it!

As a bonus, you could watch the socal connnected storyline.

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Running vs Lifting

 The image forgot to mention that strength training will also end all world problems, eradicate poverty and cure all diseases!

This is nonsense. Why set one group of exercisers against another? Especially with half-truths & outright lies? I've seen this circling in crossfit pinterest and FB boards. It's typical of the type of extreme mindset some crossfit gyms want people to buy into -- This is good. Everything else will hurt you. Come over to our side. -- I can not believe anybody would buy into something so melodramatic. It would be a fantastic example for a marketing or advertising class, though, to show just how certain claims are intended to influence decisions.

We have to remember that we aren't all elite athletes. Elite runners like in the picture train different than the rest of us normal people That pictures is an extreme and doesn't make up the majority of us. I really dislike when different activities are put up against each other. Everyone doesn't have to have the same interests and not everyone has the same body type either! How about we just be happy that people are getting some type of exercise. Why does it have to be this vs. that? why can't I just do a bit of both? A bit of both in balance is probably the way forward.

I saw something similar today, but it was the marathon runner compared with a sprinter. I think they really picked the worst possible person for a marathoner representation. At the end of the day it's up to you if you want to run

Where is this from? It is simply not true and is extremely misleading! ITS SIMPLY NOT TRUE!!! "CURES" are so misleading. Lifting does not cure any of those. If it did, I can think of a handful of celebrities and ex-athletes that would be body builders right now. Whoever made that is highly incorrect. And running doesn't accelerate aging! They just came out with a study that says the exact opposite. My friend lost 81 pounds - 44 to go and he combines both activities. Whoever designed this poster should be ashamed that they are spreading lies and fear. Runner should also do strength training. The runner pictured is the World Record Holder, Paula Radcliff and she is in amazing health and fitness. While running, we look GLASHTLY. (you should see my pictures, they make me look anorexic and weird muscle looking - and I am far from it). My 52 years old uncle have the health and fitness of a woman half his age. Truth me, Paula (pictured) does strength training, as should every good runner. I was thinking that running def doesn't accelerate aging, if anything it does the complete opposite. Lifting does not cute diabetes

I do BOTH, so what does that mean for me? If you cont. to consistently do only one form of any exercise, your body will respond by exerting the least amount of effort it can, but if you are always switching it up, you keep your body in a state of confusion and this is when it respond the best, exerts the most effort. Plus I've known people with different diseases and conditions that were helped significantly by running.

Anything in extreme can be bad, even weightlifting. Balance is best. The heart muscle being affected by running usually only occurs in younger athletes. But I'm fairly sure it's with any sport you train hard in. Not sure that strength training cures anything with certainty.. But both are good.

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This is how Tyranny Begins...

 They were peace keepers.. subsequently, they have been slowly corrupted into law keepers... Now who will enforce justice..? Our justice system has become the legal system... and Laws that are unjust, are still laws... Therefore, upheld by the legal system. But, they would have been rejected by the justice system

I personally give respect to police on a case by case basis. They will get respect from me if they give it or act like they deserve it. (not demand it). They are not All bad. Just carry camera's in case of a bad one.  

Only if we can quit bickering about trivial matters & unify 'we the people' about at least one or two things.

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment forbids the government to deprive individuals of life, liberty, or property without "due process of law."2 In 1989 the U.S. Supreme Court stated, "Nothing in the language of the Due Process Clause itself requires the State to protect the life, liberty, and property of its citizens against invasion by private actors."3 Generally, the Due Process Clause does not provide an affirmative right to government aid, "even where such aid may be necessary to secure life, liberty, or property interests of which the government itself may not deprive the individual."

Dumber is the person who didn't know this, so you guys. Plus some cops are usually little kids inside who always dreamed to become a cop to protect the people. Poor fellas didn't know the would be working to protect idiots who are willing to do anything to give them a hard time.

Does its going to get out of control?

Which law did they break? Who's law? If the people who work for us make the laws that are supposed to protect us and keep us safe then will this ever become true? There is irony in government! We put them there they're laws for us yet if broken they step on us?

It's up to citizens to protect themselves from tyranny. This is very disturbing since our tax goes toward the police who are a civilian security force. There is actually a lot of reason behind this.

That's upsetting. What this means then is either we hope that there are cops that do their job not for the power but for the sense of duty to others, or we stay active and up to date with local, state, and federal legislation that is being passed and ensure that we have the laws we want. Read interesting article about it in NY Times: Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone - New York Times
And by the way, enforcing the law and protecting the citizens, is two completely different things. What that means is, if ur in a dangerous situation the officers will respond only after the fact. They are not there to save you, just to pick up the pieces and imprison the guilty party. Same thing in Canada, the state is not responsible for ur safety, AND ur not allowed concealed carry, or any carry in that matter. A bit of an oxymoron.

AMENDMENT XIVSECTION 1.All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Warren v. District of Columbia[1] (444 A.2d. 1, D.C. Ct. of Ap. 1981) is an oft-quoted[2] District of Columbia Court of Appeals (equivalent to a state supreme court) case that held police do not have a duty to provide police services to individuals, even if a dispatcher promises help to be on the way, except when police develop a special duty to particular individuals.

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Earl Fox. Article topics

Just wanted to sumarize the ways I organize my sources of inspiration for writing an articles:

• Describing the pictures from Free Your Mind and Think on fb
• Notes of my friends in fb.
• Translating an articles on topics I liked.
• Translating demotivators / other funny pics
• Using Quotes from Amazon books previews / Using affiliate program from Amazon
• Posting about scientific facts you liked, example: http://www.earlfox.com/2013/06/denaturation-cataract.html

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Fight for your world, not your country

"Does this mean an impending attack from space?" Lawrence. R Mattera

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
― George Bernard Shaw

I pledge allegiance, to the human race and the combined altruism of objectivist society. And to the Agorism for which we strive, a single race, a single purpose a single destiny into space forever. 

Did nobody think of this as "fight for your planet (the health of it) to protect & preserve it for future generations"? Rather than thinking politically? Politician & corporations are the bane of the planet (& our country) at this point... thinking only about how to squeeze more money out of the average person than about the effects of their actions on our people, our country & our planet...
But turn off the internet for 3 weeks, shut down the powerplants for just a couple of days, and let's see what happens then. It seems that a lot of us people has good intention. But we have a tendency to be hung up in modern society. So no mather how much we wanna change for the better, so little ore up to none will be done as long as we can sit in our comfort zone and criticise and tell each other what's best for us/planet earth.
If everyone lived on this planet the way it was intended no one would have to fight for anything , its the human race that created war poverty. Global Consciousness is a must. If there is no world, there is no country, no traditions, no culture. If you care about your beliefs and way of life, and you expect others to respect you & your way of life, you need to respect other people and treat them how you want to be treated. That's the only fair negotiation we have never been able to uphold. It's not all about only you & only your needs, how many times does this need to be explained? Everyone's needs matter! Including the Earth.
There needs to be a political solution, and from that we start from countries. The question is how to get to global, and that requires hard thinking, operation within existing political structures, and a vision that transcends several generations.

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True Hero

Meet Masao Yoshida, the former Fukushima supervisor of damage control works at the tsunami-devastated nuclear power plant, whose decision not to follow a corporate order prevented Chernobyl-like explosions of overheated Fukushima reactors. It was Yoshida’s own decision to disobey corporate orders to stop using seawater to cool the reactors. Instead he continued to do so and saved the active zones from overheating and exploding. Had he obeyed the order, the whole of north eastern Japan would possibly have been uninhabitable for decades, if not centuries. Masao Yoshida, 58, died at a Tokyo hospital of esophageal cancer on July 9, 2013.

The whole world owes this man gratitude! The world's largest floating wind farm is now being installed off the coast of Fukushima. It should be named in honor of Mr. Yoshida when it comes on line in October 2013. He deserves gratitude from everyone, not just those in Japan. Thank you for putting the lives of others ahead of yourself and risking your job (which, believe me, most people don't do even when they know things are unethical!) to prevent something more disastrous from happening to us all. Think of what the damage would've been like if he hadn't continued with the cooldown?

That's really noble of him. I'm sorry to hear he has passed. And people like to act like peeps in Japan all blindly follow orders... Nope, he did something more courageous than most Americans could ever do: disobey a company policy or law. The truest heroes are often those uncelebrated. If only 'higher authorities' would listen/give ear to 'lower authorities', there would be fewer fatal 'accidents'.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what your told. Obedience is doing what your told, no matter what is right. This restores faith in humanity a true legend! His family should be proud of his determination, courage and expertise. I recall reading of his actions and I hope his family know that many people around the world have a lot of respect for Masao Yoshida and his brave decison. 56 is really young to die, especially in Japan. It's probably related to the environment he had to work in. If I remember this story correctly..their were quite a few guys that went in knowing and willingly that they were signing their death warrant to safe the region from it's ill effects. He went against orders, which is a very difficult thing to do in the Japanese culture, and did the thing that he knew was right. Of course, now the radiation is spreading throughout the pacific, but he did delay a horrific event. That is a perfect example of why policy and horrendously outdated procedure could endanger millions if not for those with the will and knowledge to help stop it. Sad, and i'm sure he did what he thought was best and whatever the consequences, at that point he had no choice. The potential horror unleashed on the sea life of the entire pacific ocean and the people who live off her bountiful harvest, has yet to be seen!

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They would rather destroy the food than to offer it to the hungry.

All of the food that's thrown away. They are not starving due to the lack of money but rather due to the invention of money... You do not NEED Money. It is nothing but a product of which we accept as Payment/Trade,etc. For another Product. It is Greed, not the 'invention' of money. Money is simply the most trad-able commodity, a tomatoe farmer isnt going to drive around town bartering his tomatoes for things like tv's and shoes and stuff, sure in small quantities he might be able to barter his tomatoes for his next meal, but he cannot keep them to amass enough wealth to build a house for his family, they would go rotten, and so he instead sells his produce for money which other than by inflation never rots away.

GREED is one of the key reasons why people especially in Africa starve. Distribution is a major problem. Civil wars are one of the major causes of starvation on this planet. Yes, greed makes the world go 'round. We could have free electricity, but that will never happen. Food for everyone? Fuggadaboutit. How could we keep money in control of the world? Problem is supply and demand. If there is food produced for only what the population is then prices will go up and less can afford to eat. So want people to afford food? Produce more. If one is unable to see to perceive all the impacts of their actions how can that be considered greed? This is exactly it. If you cannot fully understand the impact of your actions, put no effort to see things in a wider perspective but you are still driven to achieve your goals regardless of consequences, this is greed. The problem is people stopped caring and developed greed.

This suggest that a world population of 12-billion people is reasonable, a view of pro-natalist. The production of this amout of food is rapidly depleting this planet's resources which also involves a massive use of fossil fuels which is dumping massive quantities of carbon into the atmosphere which is rapidly destroying the planet's life support systems. When will humans evolve to see the connections? There are other sources of free energy out there to replace oil and fossil fuels there is this things called greed that keeps this world from evolving for the better.

We're also using it to feed cattle we slaughter. Then we have to deal with feces and urine pollution not to mention cruelty to animals!

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How times have changed...

Fashion police in Washington DC, June 30, 1922. Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrell, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee. Image Credit: National Photo Co.

Elementary schools also had that rule. Moms made clothes manually at that time... I'm bettin' Bill Norton just LOVED his job. Uptight folks are still trying to legislate how other people dress, conduct themselves. The targets just shift periodically. Sometimes I think those men just wanted an excuse to touch all those women's legs.

The best thing of this thread that although we are mostly from different countries and cultures, we have close ideas (most of us), agree on something, that women are free and equal to men, and no one have the right to impose something on them, thank you all friends. This has nothing to do with respect or "standards", and everything to do with control and objectification. Thanks to ideas like these, women are still treated as second-class citizens and rape culture abounds because rapists are not blamed, victims are. I guess the particulars in this image have changed, but unfortunately the underlying way of thinking has not.

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We are a result of 4 billion years of evolutionary success. We should act like it!

Nope. Not happening.

And we are about to exceed the capacity of our planet to support us all because our minds are focused on having more stuff (unlimited desires runs rampant in the human race). Maybe the fact that we have govt representatives like the guy from Georgia that is on the House committee for Space Science and Technology who says the Earth has only existed for 6-9000 years has something to do with the fact that we "don't act like it"?

Well, as long as we humans actually believe we need a thing called currency to expand and innovative ourselves, that one race is better and/or remain egotistical, we'll never really fully evolve. Instead we act like a species not thinking about the consequences of our actions. In this case, "intelligence" is a curse. Yeah... intelligence... . We should think about that word before using it.

Progress doesn't always lead to 'success' depending on your definition of success. And there is no such thing as 'unlimited growth'. In this way we have progressed to a kind of insanity. When are the corporations and companies going to realize that there is no such thing as unlimited growth and start converting their definition of success to a more sustainable way of treating the earth and all the creatures living on it? When are higher quarterly profits and the bottom line going to stop being 'the be all and end all' of what we laughingly call success and create a better definition that reflects well-being and a more balanced way of life?

4 billion years and still alive. Great! Means, there is always a way out of a problem!

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People are fed by the Food Industry which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food

"Nutrition is the future of medicine" Francis Crick

Not to mention how addictive junk food is ...and the pills are addictive too. The doctors who promote the pills don't have a conscience and the manufacturers of food products want to sustain the poisonous food, because if the poor are working for them & dying, they don't have to answer to the public. They are in control as long as you keep paying them.

Cook and eat fresh foods, seasonal vegetables and fruit, better still grow your own. And give up the fast food and soft drinks. If we all did that we'd be a lot healthier and slimmer, a lot better off financially and a lot happier. It's a funny situation, for sure, but we shouldn't be relying on others, especially corporations, to look after our personal health and safety. Unless, of course, you really want Merck and Kraft dictating what you put in and do with your body.

Canola/Vegetable oil is incredibly bad for you - no doctor will tell you this - Olive Oil and Coconut Oil are your best choices! Also that no human should be ingesting gluten, yet you see Health Canada recommends eating grains every day. Healthy is what you enjoy not what they say in the news or wherever our teeth are made to eat meat and vegetables too, most importantly you need to enjoy your life what you do and what you eat, otherwise it's no point to live. It's not life it's struggling.

It's a funny situation, for sure, but we shouldn't be relying on others, especially corporations, to look after our personal health and safety. Unless, of course, you really want Merck and Kraft dictating what you put in and do with your body. Oh, contrare!! I believe they know exactly how they support each other and probably hold this relationship as a 'divine design'; it totally works for 'the system'...population control abound. For me a sad example of a slow genocide and just once removed from 'chemical warfare'.

All these Industry are made by humans like you and me, not aliens, or demons. So maybe the problem is just me.

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Message in front of a Alzheimer's patient's room.

When I was 18, I joined an English class at my college that sends you to the Veteran's hospital to deal with Dementia patients. The first thing they taught us was "always go with the flow". And I immediately understood what that meant, when my patient told me "duck down soldier!! Do you want to be killed by the Germans??!" I automatically ducked. Ofcourse at 18 a part of me wanted to laugh; here I am a female, minority.. how the hell does he see me as a Canadian soldier of WW2? But I "went with the flow" and acquired the best first hand knowledge, along with the best lesson on compassion. 10 years later I'm using the same techniques on my grandmother who forgot she lost her home in Palestine and insists on going back in time to before 1948. I taught my family "stop telling her she can't go back. She doesn't understand Middle Eastern politics at this point. Just tell her she is home". It's tough, but it's tougher on them. https://www.facebook.com/ola.alabed

I wish I had known better when my mother was alive, all those times I could have spent with her instead of thinking that it did not really matter since she did not know any better...That she needed to adjust to her situation without me roaming around to all of you dealing with a loved one with Alzheimer, be patient, be there. Wishing you peace of mind. https://www.facebook.com/silviac.alfaro.7

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How do I usually search the tenants for my apartment

I place a lots of ads for the most desirable things on local classifieds web-sites, both in local language (with the note that it was translated in English by Google Translate service). Here you can see the example of my ad:

iPhone 4S original.
Need to sell the phone, because I urgently need money.
The price is correct sorry for providing both English and Hindu translation, but I have a difficulty of writing/speaking Hindu. (this text was translated by Google Translator)
This is an American version, I brought it from the United States, sim-free, few scratches, 16GB, white.
I live in the North Avenue street area, Avengers Town

And that works! For 1st 10 minutes of classified existance I've received around 10 calls, and that's not the limit. I'll receive as much as possible Quantity of calls, then I'll call them personally from the other phone in order to invite thm on the interview for offering a living.

Right after receiving calls I save them into my phonebook where I call classify them according to their importance:

• DNC - do not call them back - it means that they probably doesn't know English at all, sometimes I put letter "T" which means that they probably called me twice and on the second time they tried to use a Google Translator to communicate with me.
• LL - Low Level - it means that they have low level of English and perhaps its not the best idea to keep communicating with them
• GOOD - this means that the person who called from this number from the beginning of the conversation managed to speak with me properly, that's why I can call them back in order to ask them whether they would want to be my tenants.

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How to find a neighbor for a joint tenancy?

 Probably the biggest advantage of the Cooperative rental is that you can afford to rent a spacious apartment in a good neighborhood for less money. However, it could also mean an extra headache in case oF not serious approach. We are not talking about placing ads - that's the easiest part. Much more important if you find someone close to you with necessary character and habits. Here are a few tips that will help you solve this problem. 

1. Don't share an apartment with friends. Do not take shelter with friends at first glance to rent an apartment with a man whom you know very well, is the most obvious solution. However, no wonder they say: you never truly know a person until before living together under the same roof. There is a great truth. Maybe others can have a wonderful time, but this does not mean that you'll be able to get along with the same idea about rent. Because the joint tenancy immediately subject to certain conditions of living together, it will be hard to remind about them to your friend, if they suddenly become violated. In the end, it's just can ruin your friendship. In addition, in spite of your trust, certainly there everyday habits of which you would prefer that your friend or your mutual friends did not know. Conclusion: its better to share a realty with a stranger.
2. By defining clear criteria before starting your search you will have to ask yourself some important questions. This will help you understand who you should seek out and establish clear criteria for the search. Here's an example of some of these questions: Are you "lark" or "owl"? What kind of music do you like? Do you love to organize a party or spending time in a relaxed environment? What is the environment in the future neighbor? You don't mind visitors? Do you have a serious relationship? And does your neighbor have it? Do you have the same ideas about cleanliness? What are your hobbies? For example, if you play a musical instrument, a future neighbor should know about it! :) Do you or your neighbor are planning to have pets in the apartment? Do you smoke? If not, is it okay to live with someone who smokes? Does the prospective neighbor will have enough money to regularly pay his part for renting an apartment? It is better if you spend half an hour and make a list of pre-additional issues which have a special meaning for you. If you own an apartment which you would like to share with someone, its like a job interview, but with different requirements.
3. Ask questions over the phone. Lets say few people responded to your ad. Before meeting with potential neighbors, spend with them a phone interview. So that you don't waste the time, just found out, whether they fit you or not. Ask them important questions for you, and be prepared to answer their questions. At this point, your task - to draw up a short list of potential neighbors for subsequent personal meeting. If you have rented an apartment and is now looking for the candidate to share a room, then you can start talking again to tell them about the apartment and the features that you have in the ad. Choose only those who meet your criteria.
3. Take care of personal safety. Now the access to your house will be granted to a stranger - its always better think about what you can do about storing valuable things in shared apartment: sometimes it worth to think about purchasing cheaper stuff for your shared apartment - stuff which you probably won't regret losing - especially if you live in the big cities or in countries where no one will be able to help you in case you've lost something.
4. You have to also respect preferences of your candidates for living with you, but stay realistic. For example, criteria such as age, sex may be less important to you than the ratio of the purity, visits of strangers, parties. Basically what you would expect from a future neighbor - is cleanliness, responsible attitude to safety (which means that the copy of the keys to the apartment won't be shared among all of his friends), the timely payment of rent and utilities.
5. Prefer knowing their real identities instead of using "written agreements". Finally, you found the "ideal" neighbor. A good idea in advance would be a paper where the personal data is shared between each other & signed by all tenants. It should be fixed basic agreement regarding the sharing of apartment living. In the future, it can help you in resolving the conflicts that arise. Terms of the agreement may change over time by mutual agreement. If you signed a contract with the landlord, the agreement with the neighbors in the apartment gives you the opportunity to ensure the observance of the rules in it. Otherwise, you'll be able to ask the offender to "buzz off". Assign finding a neighbor the same way you search your job: define clear criteria for a telephone interview, meet in person. Be prepared to compromise. Its awesome if you will become friends with your future tenants, but you have to remember that while you live together it is a business relationship so read the advise #1. Don't share an apartment with friends... So do not forget to make a written agreement with a future neighbor and try to comply with it.

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The ads that use my web-site for placing ads

• busuu.com - English courses
• PrivateBank
• osell.com
• biztree.com

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Life keep teaching me lessons, I do have a desire to learn them

• I am very often starting to fix something myself - since I'm deeply in soul a technician, I tend to repair stuff which is especially expensive to repair. While I usually pretty sure that I can do everything myself, probably its just a delusion - since the person who knows it better than me or who have more experience is something which you better have at hand. So here my lesson learn about repairing complex systems myself: before wasting my time to try to fix something its better to take courses about that. Other people love teaching - the only problem is that too often I don't recognize thing that I actually do to avoid studying.
• Before trying to acquire new knowledge next time I will use all my marketing and HR knowledge to find a person who's the best @ the subject I study. Thank God I am able to offer him a deal: I can gather the group of other people who's willing to learn the subject which is going to be teached, then I'll get the money from them all and will take participation in study for free myself + probably with benefit. Here's examples oF things I want to learn: house construction (including learning about financial planing & concrete manufacturing), UdnOS: here's another idea about the way such training could be organized: before the training I will chat with all of the participants who's willing to learn the subject. We will discuss everything. TheN all of our chatting will be provided to the person who's going to teach us about the subject. That's pretty awesome process, and I will worked udner ideas which could improve it. Main idea is that education as the Bill Gates said is the greatest investment person could ever do.
• Lack of investment. When I am willing to learn to repair something or to perform some kind of jobs there's usually two mistakes made by newbies in any activity: (1) lack of knowledge for investment and investing too much for the tools; (2) lack of investment which leads to absense of essential tools to do jobs you willing to perform.

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Worthy Notes

I really love reading stories which can teach me something useful. And I need someone to write them for me. Yes this is my web-site and I'm the only one who probably must write here but why exactly to choose me to "write" everything on my own web-site. I love reading the same way I love writing. That's why I'm going to delegate this task in a very interesting way: I'm going to attientively study what the other people write, and the most favorite writers will be perhaps what I'm looking for. Here's the things which I'm looking for:

• Main thing about posts which I want to see on my web-site: is that they must be really easy to read even for those who for some reason don't knows English good enough, or maybe doesn't understands the topic
• Another thing: I write only about topics which can improve a person. So officially I would call this topic as "Personal Development". I am always looking for new ways to save time using new time management techniques, and I'm always looking for the technologies & tactics in a business which could improve the whole process. I love psychology for its deep understanding the emotions & motivation for most of the people. I love just lively books which teaches how to overcome ages psychologically; how to become "independent" from parents, wife/husband, how to gain people's trust, how to get a girlfriend, interesting facts about laws and the way I can use it to my benefit; how to keep my budget strong; how to drive safe; how to not die young; how to get rich; lifehacks; how to manage risks; how to lose pounds or what I should eat to be healthy and how to probably live alone & long years in case if I'll need to.
• Creative ideas about everything: mostly closer to grounded money-related topics or discussing the household problems & technology.
• Another reason I could choose the article to publish here - it should look good and it should be interesting from the first lines until the end. I'm trying to post here only perfect articles by the way (at least I'm going to introduce this rule in a future few months).

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Question for all my married/engaged peeps...

My friend Shae got married today, and I started thinking about my other married friends... so what were some of your song choices when you got married? Like what was the first song you danced to as a couple at your wedding reception, and the song you danced to with your father/mother?

And for those who are soon-to-be married, what are some songs that you're considering for said events?
Just because I'm curious... humor me. :)

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Company Party

Number two in the weird dream series.

This one takes place in an office building where some company was having a party. What company? I'm not sure. Did I work there? No idea. I do know, however, that the building was packed with people from my ward (church). So maybe it was a church party in an office building...or something.

Anyway, I was at this party, wandering around, looking for someone. On my way, I found a room full of people I knew, all sitting in chairs, in couples. One couple to a chair. The look on my face must not have been happily surprised, because someone started laughing andsaid, "She's not gonna stay here long," to which everyone else in the room laughed. I said hi to a few people. I definitely remember Nicole and Chris being there, although I can't actually remember what other couples were in the room. As I turned to leave, though, I noticed that the chair in the corner was occupied by three males, not a couple, who were all laughing as they saw me notice them. I laughed at the bromance--I beieve it was Mike, Danny, and someone else(?)--then walked back out of the room, continuing my search. 

At some point, I ended up in a room talking to Heddie who seemed to be consoling me for some reason, then started talking about her wedding.

I went back out, searching again, and ended up on the roof, where people were dancing. I saw Levin walk by complaining about the back pain caused by being a CEO (apparently he worked there?). I kept looking, and was dancing on the rooftop when it was time to leave. Then Nicole came over and told me to stop on the way home at a park by the road. There were going to be generators powering some big lights, and there were a bunch of guys waiting there, with whom we were supposed to have some kind of group date planned? Didn't even make sense in the dream, but maybe it would have if it had played out. I woke up when I was still dancing. 

Weirdness. Don't know if I ever found whatever I was looking for...

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