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Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
the free market is paying lobbyists untold millions of dollars so that scenario does not happen

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blugu64
Jul 17, 2006

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

Boxturret posted:

you could but you'd get less and less money the more you sell


wow, Bitcoin went from 150 to 260 in a few seconds!!! up uP UP!!!!

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

divabot posted:

Got any details on that? What are you thinking of? The US Copyright Office exists, but you're right that Berne Convention is all you need for e.g. a DMCA.

lmao have you ever tried to locate the rightsolder of a random copyright? it's fuckin impossible because of this very issue. I don't know if the copyright mafias have actually lobbied against a centralized database of "contact this person regarding licensure of this particular copyright" but it wouldn't loving surprise me in the least.

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
Shot in the dark, but here are a few reasons that probably exist for the anti-registration

1) They have to register everything. Pretty damned hard to since they want to claim copyright to everything the creators create, including everything that normally gets left on the cutting room floor. A single song could exist as several dozen different entities since each version from the original scratchpad to the final album version would probably technically be its own entry, then on top of that there are all the various jam sessions that could be bootlegged or inspire someone else to reproduce the same sections
2) They have to register each different part of each instance. Using the song example, there would be a bunch of different copyrights to hold; each individual instrument track as its own performance, the edited production as a whole, the words of any lyrics, the different versions of the lyrics for different languages, and all kinds of other bits
3) They have to register who actually owns the copyright. Music companies probably want to keep artists as in the dark about their contracts as possible. Tons of stories out there about artists being surprised they don't actually own their own work when they try to do something the production company says no to. I really don't think they want artists to be able to look up their own song in the database and not see a trace of their own name
4) gently caress I've effortposted too much, but the obvious thread of thought is that it's to screw the little people, let owners keep sending unenforcable C&D letters to others, and save untold hours for their legal team, not to mention the potential filing fees

poik007
Aug 16, 2006
Thinks Mother 3 is the best game ever
fees? if the copyrights were stored in the block chain there would be no low fees!

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

setafd posted:

I've heard of poor people who can't get prescriptions

same

in like somalia and other dystopian hellscapes

Dixie Cretin Seaman
Jan 22, 2008

all hat and one catte
Hot Rope Guy

Soricidus posted:

same

in like somalia and other dystopian hellscapes

[url-stateless-in-somalia-and-loving-it!]

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

Soricidus posted:

same

in like somalia and other dystopian hellscapes
A harsh but fair assessment of the american medical system

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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specialist


Splicer posted:

A harsh but fair assessment of the american medical system

i'm salty about having to pay 100% out of pocket for one of my meds but my four daily 1.60$ pills would cost between 15$ and 25$ per depending on generic vs brand and whatnot

although tbf i'm like 80% sure my use case is admissible to private insurance coverage in the states so idunno if it would be actually more expensive if i lived over there

back when i was a pseudo bitcoiner i considered sourcing my meds over silk road but lol @ loving with mystery pills from india and dealing with customs issues all the while relying on the pharmacological acumen of xXxWeedSmoker420xXx's review of the seller

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

avatar
specialist


in other news, bitcoin is going to the moon

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
remember when the winklevoss twins were going to create a bitcoin thing but with real money lol

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

surebet posted:

in other news, bitcoin is going to the moon



that live/dead indicator looks useful, is there one of those for bitcoin?

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-

surebet posted:

i'm salty about having to pay 100% out of pocket for one of my meds but my four daily 1.60$ pills would cost between 15$ and 25$ per depending on generic vs brand and whatnot

although tbf i'm like 80% sure my use case is admissible to private insurance coverage in the states so idunno if it would be actually more expensive if i lived over there

back when i was a pseudo bitcoiner i considered sourcing my meds over silk road but lol @ loving with mystery pills from india and dealing with customs issues all the while relying on the pharmacological acumen of xXxWeedSmoker420xXx's review of the seller

i ordered grey market indian modafinil a couple of times when i was an idiot student trying to get through my exams + dissertation. nice and cheap, arrived within a week, worked great, a+++ would buy generics from dodgy online pharmacy again. i got a great dissertation mark as well

beepsandboops
Jan 28, 2014

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

big scary monsters posted:

i ordered grey market indian modafinil a couple of times when i was an idiot student trying to get through my exams + dissertation. nice and cheap, arrived within a week, worked great, a+++ would buy generics from dodgy online pharmacy again. i got a great dissertation mark as well

link pls

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-

indigi posted:

link pls

i dunno if i'm allowed to post that here and it was a few years back so i wouldn't like to guarantee that the website still exists and isn't a scam now

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
can you at least give me some clues

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
at least it's a step up from guesting on madonna's last album

unpacked robinhood
Feb 18, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

indigi posted:

can you at least give me some clues

find a pet store, bark longingly

jetz0r
May 10, 2003

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.



big scary monsters posted:

i dunno if i'm allowed to post that here and it was a few years back so i wouldn't like to guarantee that the website still exists and isn't a scam now

it's probably gone. can't just order a bag of bulk modafinil from some wordpress site with paypal anymore :(


indigi posted:

can you at least give me some clues

the nootropic reddit

Gobbeldygook
May 13, 2009
Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!

big scary monsters posted:

i ordered grey market indian modafinil a couple of times when i was an idiot student trying to get through my exams + dissertation. nice and cheap, arrived within a week, worked great, a+++ would buy generics from dodgy online pharmacy again. i got a great dissertation mark as well

friend of mine went googling for a modafinil supplier, found a Canadian site offering it, and didn't recognize a lot of the other stuff they were selling so out of curiosity he googled them and was surprised to discover they were actually a clearnet RC supplier offering psychedelics, stimulants, opiates, etc.

it's like some after school special where he went looking for some weed and instead found a crack dealer.

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-

Gobbeldygook posted:

friend of mine went googling for a modafinil supplier, found a Canadian site offering it, and didn't recognize a lot of the other stuff they were selling so out of curiosity he googled them and was surprised to discover they were actually a clearnet RC supplier offering psychedelics, stimulants, opiates, etc.

it's like some after school special where he went looking for some weed and instead found a crack dealer.

lol. yeah i was kinda surprised by the range of stuff those sites sold, the generic cialis or whatever you expect but then there's like antipsychotics and poo poo on there too

modafinil was cool and all but then i did a postgrad and realised that i could achieve almost the same effect with just caffeine and nicotine and that doesn't turn your piss bright yellow and sulphurous and doesn't involve giving out your credit card details to shady websites

if only we'd had bitcoin back then...

dimebag dinkman
Feb 20, 2003


oh great now the next beepboop is going to be a Punch Out! clone

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK
Sep 11, 2008

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

-Cheap Trick

Nap Ghost
has anyone said pigeoncoin yet

Dren
Jan 5, 2001

Pillbug

Has anyone said MikeTysonButtcoin yet?

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

rapecoin (tm)

My PIN is 4826
Aug 30, 2003


bitecoin

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

6

fool of sound
Oct 10, 2012

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

Soricidus posted:

that live/dead indicator looks useful, is there one of those for bitcoin?
Word Mark BITCOIN
Serial Number 86097068
Filing Date October 21, 2013
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD

Word Mark BITCOIN
Serial Number 86135516
Filing Date December 4, 2013
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD

Word Mark BITCOIN PIZZA
Goods and Services (ABANDONED) IC 043. US 100 101. G & S: Pizza restaurants
Serial Number 86309544
Filing Date June 13, 2014
Live/Dead Indicator DEAD

big scary monsters posted:

i ordered grey market indian modafinil a couple of times when i was an idiot student trying to get through my exams + dissertation. nice and cheap, arrived within a week, worked great, a+++ would buy generics from dodgy online pharmacy again. i got a great dissertation mark as well
i tried this once and it put my rear end to sleep, apparently my body metabolizes modafinil into sleepytime (and then i got a prescription for vyvanse which worked)

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
What is the value of an ideas man?

quote:

Paycoin life behind the scenes.

@yoshi @sciborg @tvle83 @Krumz @huey I would appreciate if you make sure this does not get deleted.

To the community
I am writing this because it has become clear I have no easier options. I am writing this today as a member of this community since last august. One who fell victim to those false ideas sent upon us from the creation of Paycoin and as all of you, upset and destroyed. I am writing this to you to tell you that what happened to us all is still happening behind the scenes, but this time not from the same man, but yet other Paycoin members who represent paycoins highest interests to become the valuable crypto currency it can be. But yet it seems, that they have learned a thing or two after all we have gone through with Garza and have placed me in the same situation I felt back in January, crushed and destroyed. Please, don’t post things saying keep your personal problems at home. That won’t help.

I am here to post facts of a situation that has accrued to me personally. I never intended to write this and make it public (reason why for this post mentioned below), but I felt, for me, the community should know before you reap from this future site and its features without knowing how it all started and how it has become of today.
Back in March, I was reached out to by another member to help him create an Ad network. This was the time we all finally felt the crush and blow of lies and dismay. I was more than happy to keep my mind of the decrease in Paycoins value while helping to create a platform for Paycoin to benefit. This was our goal. As many, we all tried to create ways to use Paycoin, to help Paycoin and to stand together as one community.
We devised a plan in March and wrote off a small contract. Then Cryptoads. io was born. After I asked him how he wants to split the percentage of this, on his request, he wanted to split this site or “future” company 50/50.

In hind sight, he is a minor and this contract meant nothing.

He came to me and asked to help him build the system, not to code, but to help him design every aspect and future aspects of the site. Anything, ranging from which currency to use for the main system to the layout of the site; for the best user interface experience. Again I am no coder, but I spent countless hours helping this young lad out with this Ad Network from its inception until a few weeks ago. My job for this site was to, once launched was marketing. Making sure we are heard in every corner of the world, by reaching out to news outlets and so on.

Again I am no coder.

The split of the site seemed fair, as we both knew where we stood as to what we both needed to do. Everything was fine for 3-4 months; about a month before we were ready to launch. Also we were days away before making this into a company. I’d also reached out to a writer to write an article on a large crypto news site. But the problems started when, money got involved.

We got interest from another long term Paycoin community member. The amount is not important, but what is, at this moment the communication between myself and my partner started to weaken as I was hearing second hand of new investment proposal from this member. Over the course of 3 weeks, he changed his mind on how he wants to invest, sure, business. But during this time, problems erupted, because the investor was under the impression that I was a coder, he did not do his due diligence prior to wanting to invest. Maybe those side conversations effected this. Maybe not. But what is this all about really?

This investor showed concerned through side hangouts with my partner and other members during normal conversions, it came up that I was not a coder and with this, he himself believed I didn’t deserve the percentage that I and my partner agreed upon. At first I was a bit upset for him to even say such a thing to me through a hangout. But he continuously stated that he wanted to make sure that Boxhock was happy as he was the sole coder of this system. He was worried that if he could no longer code in the future months, Because of school, that he would need a higher % of this all so he could hire someone out to help run the coding with him by giving out a % to the new coder if we did not have funds to pay. At the same time he continued to state countless times how important I was for this project. In a nut shell I learned then and there that Box was also not happy with his percentage. It became clear as korfax kept repeating to me “we need to make him happy-happy-happy, or he will just stop”. In hind sight Box was feeling remorse in not thinking through in March on how much % he wanted. We were both new to this all. So I understood the situation at hand, however I did not like how the situation came about, from the investor, and not through communications from my partner.
I was told to sleep on it and find a way to make box the majority % holder in the “Future” Company. I was not thrilled with this situation and how this was going to be honest. I took it as a slap in the face. But I slept on it and woke up with understanding and concern. I wanted this to work. I wanted this site that we were creating together to be the best as we made it to be. But at the same time I had to make the decision to make this work. So I offered what korfax wanted to hear, box getting 50%. I would go to 25%. Though I lost a lot, I figure my gesture would go a long way in making this work. But I was wrong.
Box, after hearing of my gesture to help him, was still not happy. He simply said “70% box, 25% korfax and 5% for me. Now write after he proposed this, I was shocked as this was a huge slap in the face with no explanations. I told him his proposal was a joke and we need to talk about this.

I wanted to communicate with him and resolve this matter as best as possible. I was shocked with his response to me: “agree right now to 70% to me or I will not speak to you”…..now think about that, how would you react?
Now bottom line here is it got to a point where it was clear that he didn’t want me around anymore and very clear that he felt he threw himself under the bus in the first place by offering me from the start what he did. So clearly he wasn’t going to continue unless I agreed.
Now here I am, thinking I did my honest best by meeting them half way and in return receiving responses like this. What am I supposed to do?
After a day he comes to me and says, Korfax is willing to buy the code for x amount of dollars and that we should split it 50/50 according to our “contract”.

Now what was going to happen next, Korfax would buy the code, make an LLC and give Jonas 70% of his new form company. Now according to Korfax that % was for his continued work on the site, to me, it was kicking me out of something I spent countless hours on. Again I am not a coder, but my ideas and effort were highly valuable. Now, I spoke to korfax and he said to me that box won’t budge on his 70% mind and that he wanted to do what was right by giving me 5% (charity) with a clause to by me out after one year.

So every corner I looked I was looked over by them and lost control of anything I had.
I eventually had a talk with Box, I was angry I won’t lie, but I was calm. I wanted to make this right for me as well. I asked him, what did I do? Are you mad at me? He calmly said no I am not mad at you and that I did nothing wrong.
So I then continued and said it doesn’t seem that way. If you want me out, give me 10% (5% from his 70% which would bring him to 65%) to end this problem in a civil manor. He sternly said no, he wants 70% and “we” will sell to korfax. As stated above, our fears about box not being able to code in a few months because of school was now turned on me saying that in a few months I will be starting a new job and I won’t have any time. Mind games? Now I’m not perfect, I was a bit lost and frankly he didn’t want to meet or help the situation. I told him I do not agree with selling anything and that I want my 10% (dramatic decrees from 50%). He again said no, no, no so I replied well without my approval of this sale the site is done. He hinted he would do it anyways and I implied there could be lengthy legal ramifications, but apparently, according to him now I was threating him, which I wasn’t. But just then, when I mention legal all of a sudden he says this is the reason I want 70%...to me he finally found something to justify his actions. In my heart I knew he would just run with this all even without my approval. Which led me here now, I read a post on Paycoin slack a few days ago stating he was about to launch “his” ad network. After reading this, I was crushed. I was blindsided by someone who I thought was a friend and to my knowledge (because korfax is not responding to me), korfax leading the way for his new LLC Adverti. io.

This post will not help me in anyway other than closure. Speaking to the community I called home for almost a year. I just wanted you to know that when we all expected things from the Garza days were behind us all and that we were all in the same boat and trying to succeed, that this indeed is still happening.

What lead to all this? Greed? Was it one person believing all of a sudden he is better them me and not equal human beings? Who knows? But At least you all know who will be behind one the best ad network platforms out there when it launches. This will be a great site and I’m sure you will all use it, but I just want you to know before using it what has happened behind the scenes. And it my eyes will be forever tainted and connected with two members of this community looking for their best interests.

They say it’s just business, but I say it’s inhumane.

gavi

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

[url-stateless-in-somalia-and-loving-it!]

ron paul is foreaver somalized. he is compleately stateless and loving it.

Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

trucutru posted:

What is the value of an ideas man?

lol nobody's reading all those words


nice

Underwear
May 13, 2006

trucutru posted:

In hind sight, he is a minor and this contract meant nothing

for some reason bitcoin keeps making grown rear end men do business with teenagers and the results are always good for bitcoin

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


trucutru posted:

What is the value of an ideas man?

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware / Software Crap > YOSPOS > Again I am not a coder, but my ideas and effort were highly valuable.

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

TVarmy posted:

ron paul is foreaver somalized. he is compleately stateless and loving it.

Magrov
Mar 27, 2010

I'm completely lost and have no idea what's going on. I'll be at my bunker.

If you need any diplomatic or mineral stuff just call me. If you plan to nuke India please give me a 5 minute warning to close the windows!


Also Iapetus sucks!

trucutru posted:

In hind sight, he is a minor and this contract meant nothing.

Greyhawk
May 30, 2001


Soricidus posted:

lol nobody's reading all those words


well you should

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Soricidus
Oct 21, 2010
freedom-hating statist shill

Greyhawk posted:

well you should

im waiting for someone to make the highlights wiki

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