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Money Talk
 | You can spend bitcoins at your local mall - gizmoflak on 5/16/13 at 10:46 am http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/16/technology/innovation/bitcoin-sales/?source=cnn_bin
[quote]brings the number of locations where customers can effectively pay with bitcoins from around 8,000 nationwide to over [b]50,000[/b][/quote]
Also:
[quote]Bitcoins have been a giant hit for at least one...
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Political Talk
 | Rights & Liberties that Americans have lost under Bush & Obama - gizmoflak on 5/14/13 at 4:52 pm I was having a political discussion with a friend, and he posed the question:
"What rights and liberties have been lost or eroded during the Bush and Obama years?"
The first thing that came to mind was that I can no longer enter an airport terminal without having to take off my shoes.
I ...
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Money Talk
 | Bitcoin buzz stays high --- even after bubble - gizmoflak on 5/12/13 at 8:55 pm [link=(http://gigaom.com/2013/05/12/bitcoin-buzz-stays-high-even-after-bubble/)]LINK[/link]
[quote]Bitcoin lost more than half its value last month but there’s more interest in the cyber-currency than ever. While Bitcoin stories used to be restricted to tech and science sites, they’re now a fixture...
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Money Talk
 | The beginnings of the NYB(itcoin)E - gizmoflak on 5/7/13 at 7:45 am [link=(http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/a-push-for-a-bitcoin-buttonwood/)]Guess how many women showed up[/link]...
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O-T Lounge
 | Trashed on a Sunday night - gizmoflak on 5/5/13 at 8:57 pm Am I the only one? 2 bottles of chimay did the trick...
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Money Talk
 | Kaminsky: Bitcoin is here to stay - gizmoflak on 5/3/13 at 7:09 pm [link=(http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/05/lets-cut-through-the-bitcoin-hype)]Bitcoin’s got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.[/link]
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Money Talk
 | Here's why Bitcoin is the future of money - gizmoflak on 5/1/13 at 8:22 am [quote]It's easy to dismiss Bitcoin or crypto-currencies as the flailings of a disaffected, semi-anarchist hacker community trying to undermine the system. But you know what? Hackers created the Internet, and the decidedly anti-establishment Steve Jobs gave us the modern technology era we know and l...
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More Sports Board
 | The Miami Hurricanes had TWO players drafted - gizmoflak on 4/27/13 at 8:10 pm One in the 5th and one in he 6th :bow:
the 2002 draft was a looooong time ago
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Money Talk
 | Bitcoin is Germans - gizmoflak on 4/26/13 at 8:37 am [link=(http://m.guardiannews.com/technology/2013/apr/26/bitcoins-gain-currency-in-berlin)]No, really, the Germans love them some bitcoin[/link]...
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Money Talk
 | Bitcoins? “Hahahaha. ROTFL.” - gizmoflak on 4/24/13 at 10:36 pm [quote]
Eighty-seven percent of the nation’s top economists think that the digital currency, Bitcoin, has “limited usefulness.” Given the growing popularity of the enigmatic currency, the University of Chicago conducted its famous Initiative on Global Markets (IGM) poll of 38 of the world’s top eco...
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O-T Lounge
 | "Google glasses" worn by a stranger in your home - gizmoflak on 4/23/13 at 11:15 pm Let's say the cable guy, a plumber, a maid, whomever you hire to do work in your home, shows up wearing google glasses.
How do you react?...
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Money Talk
 | Mt. Gox 'throttles' trading to tame bitcoin price swings - gizmoflak on 4/21/13 at 11:33 pm http://www.pcworld.com/article/2036060/largest-bitcoin-exchange-mt-gox-throttles-trading-to-tame-price-swings.html
Kinda funny how the world's first decentralized currency is at the mercy of a single, centralized exchange...
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O-T Lounge
 | Should people who say "omg that's so random!" be made fun of - gizmoflak on 4/13/13 at 4:17 pm I say yes, mercilessly....
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Money Talk
 | optimizing crypto-currency money supply - gizmoflak on 4/10/13 at 8:05 pm In theory (according to most), it is desirable for money supply to increase and decrease with the growth and contraction of the economy. We know that with a certain oft-discussed crypto-currency, this is impossible -- its money supply is fixed.
How would one go about designing a new crypto-curre...
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Money Talk
 | Bitcoin improvement thread - gizmoflak on 4/3/13 at 11:39 pm a.k.a. How will bitcoin 2.0 be different?
I figure I'd pile on the mound of bitcoin threads with my own.
The idea of a P2P global anonymous cryptographic currency intrigues the hell out of me, but the more I examine and study bitcoins the more clearly I see that it is doomed to fail. It has...
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More Sports Board
 | Only one team has cracked 90 points the entire tourney - gizmoflak on 3/31/13 at 6:07 pm Screw this, im not watching CBB until the shot clock is changed to 30s or less
But even then, I have a feeling the games will just be in the mid-60's instead of the low-60's
:violin:...
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Tiger Rant
 | Help with ex-LSU baseball player - gizmoflak on 3/28/13 at 8:22 pm Anyone remember baseball player Louis Melancon?
He supposedly played in the 80's .... very tall guy .... probably in his early 40's today
I looked at all the old rosters on lsusports and couldn't find him ...
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Food and Drink Board
 | Best hot sauce for eggs? - gizmoflak on 3/27/13 at 11:19 am cholula is alright, but I know we can do better than that.....
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O-T Lounge
 | Dropping cable --> Free broadcast TV - gizmoflak on 3/22/13 at 5:42 pm I'm thinking about pulling the plug on cable and throwing an antenna on top of my house.
Anybody have success with receiving the free over-the-air DTV? How difficult is installing an antenna?...
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O-T Lounge
 | can "good riddance" ever be used in a non-inflammatory way? - gizmoflak on 3/18/13 at 1:25 pm I can't think of any examples...
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O-T Lounge
 | Why is below par a good thing, but subpar is a bad thing? - gizmoflak on 3/2/13 at 9:02 pm Does "sub" not equate to "below," i.e., "under"? I thought going under par is the ultimate goal. Or are there contexts in which it is desirable to be over par, i.e., "superpar"? Any of you non-subpar posters have insight on this contradiction in terms?...
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More Sports Board
 | The Lebron James "Earned, Not Given" t-shirts I see all over Miami now - gizmoflak on 2/18/13 at 2:53 pm :bwahaha:
What part of assembling a mini-dreamteam is "earning" a championship?
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O-T Lounge
 | EBay question: return policy on an ad - gizmoflak on 2/17/13 at 5:13 pm So I bought something on eBay, and the ad says this:
[quote]
[b]Return Policy[/b]
After receiving the item, contact seller within
14 days
Refund will be given as
Money Back
Return shipping
Buyer pays return shipping[/quote]
I guess you know where I'm headed with this. Seller is ...
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More Sports Board
 | Teammates in college: one made it in the pros; the other didn't - gizmoflak on 2/15/13 at 12:16 am Gun to my head 10 years ago, I would have told you that Juan Dixon would have had a much better pro career than Steve Blake.
And if I remember correctly, Dee Brown and D Williams weren't all that different in terms of skill in college. Whelp, that's changed...
What others come to mind in footb...
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O-T Lounge
 | WOWYDI - gizmoflak on 1/31/13 at 5:52 pm 1. Listen to Tom Rinaldi
2. Read Rick Reilly
3. Bang Holly Rowe...
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O-T Lounge
 | How do I unlock an iPhone so I can use it on any carrier? - gizmoflak on 1/27/13 at 10:41 pm Im a n00b to all this jail breaking/unlocking/hacking stuff
Please point me in the right direction. I tried to contact AT&T to unlock it but they want a copy of the purchase receipt, which I don't have
It is an iPhone 4 iOS 6.0.1
TIA...
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O-T Lounge
 | I know someone who has been Te'o'd - gizmoflak on 1/17/13 at 12:27 am This was back in 2006 or so, and at the time it was the strangest thing I'd ever heard as afr as online dating goes.
The short version is that this guy met a "girl" on some social chat site, I think it was called 'bangme' or something like that ... they chat and so forth on this site for several ...
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More Sports Board
 | CFB playoffs: top 3 conference champs + at 1 at-large - gizmoflak on 1/7/13 at 10:42 pm Make. It. Happen....
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O-T Lounge
 | Little Old Lady from S. Carolina can't trademark her "COCK SUCKER" lollipops - gizmoflak on 12/20/12 at 9:39 am http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/12-1212.pdf
[quote]The mark at issue here has two parts: a literal element,
consisting of the words COCK SUCKER, and a
design element, consisting of a drawing of a crowing
rooster. Since 1979, Fox has used this mark to sell
roo...
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O-T Lounge
 | knock knock - gizmoflak on 12/18/12 at 4:55 pm (No Message)...
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