I think the actual expertise is phony.  They have built up a big control 
fraud around very little.  In the past we have been dominated by such as 
water-engineers with basic skills hidden by their 'access' to the 
water-gods.  The financiers are similar.

On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 10:17:59 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote:
>
> Are these alternative  currency really  a challenge  to the banksters?  If 
> you want to really challenge banksters expertise  use it to your advantage 
> by using the onion effect a system  within  a system..  The onion has been 
> used for generations  under various names.. 
> If you are forced to swim across a flooded  you do not survive by 
> swimming  against the current. 
>
>
> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: archytas <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: What could the internet be?
>
> There have been many other alternative currencies, including drugs and 
> spices.  The interesting thing is not Bitcoin itself (or the 80+ other 
> versions), but the challenge to claims of bank expertise and various 
> 'rents' in the economic system, oincluding those imposed by 'professionals'
>
> On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 9:54:12 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>
>> well  can not imagine why it is  interesting. 
>> If it is security  you want stay off the net and even then they still 
>> have you..  To much info readily  available. But you know that.. 
>> Onions  have great security ..  So what makes it interesting? 
>>
>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: archytas <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:23 PM
>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: What could the internet be?
>>
>> In that sense Allan, iy was just another bubble.  This is not why it is 
>> interesting.
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 9:15:42 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>>
>>> We'll, if that is how you want to pay your bills..  Have fun,  l recall 
>>> when Andrew became excited about bitcoin the said value was in the 1000 € = 
>>> 1 bitcoin..  Just looked up the value it is 211 € ..  Let me help you pay 
>>> your bills you give me 1000 euro and in a few days I will give you 211 € 
>>> back..   Good deal right?  When I first looked into bitcoin (when it first 
>>> came out)  you could buy 2 for less than a Euro.. 
>>> My question really is how many euro did Andrew lose..  They would not 
>>> let me create a small wallet so I cold sell my jewelry.. 
>>> Now I was not allowed  to create a wallet,  found out later it was due 
>>> to questionable activities.   But if you like looking at short term..   
>>> Have fun. And I am called a zombie..  lol
>>>
>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: gabbydott <[email protected]>
>>> To: minds-eye <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 9:51 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: What could the internet be?
>>>
>>> Let's make this a third person case and say people need money. They need 
>>> money pay their bills. Please don't be so hard on them, dear Allan.
>>>
>>> 2015-02-17 21:15 GMT+01:00 <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> If you worship money....  
>>>> My memory is saying it is not worth anything for data storage and 
>>>> reterival and that is what computers are about.. In 1977 I walked away 
>>>> from 
>>>> programming.. 
>>>> Can be fun if and that is a big if.. 
>>>> Do you like long hours and extreme focus and the edge of sanity.   The 
>>>> research projects were interesting.. 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: archytas <[email protected]>
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Sent: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 8:31 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: What could the internet be?
>>>>
>>>> It isn't that bleak Allan.  Andrew has the basic description right.  
>>>> People generally refuse to see the bigger picture these developments are 
>>>> exposing.
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 6:34:02 PM UTC, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dream on Andrew, sorry and I already your are going to say I am full of 
>>>> shit,,  by it is okay..  all own source is good for is ease in hacking.. I 
>>>> will watch people do the delusional twisters.
>>>> A few people will always maintain machine language you are lucky 
>>>> because they are not interested in delusional dead.. beware through he 
>>>> people who will employ them are rue control freaks. The safety net is 
>>>> within numbers and time, the segmentation ability is where the secret 
>>>> lies..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: andrew vecsey <[email protected]>
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Sent: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 5:57 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: What could the internet be?
>>>>
>>>> You can get a better explanation of the blockchain from the internet 
>>>> than I can give you. But as I like to simplify complicated things, I will 
>>>> give it a try. The blockchain is a public ledger that is kept by 
>>>> volunteers. The volunteers document transactions made by users.The ledger 
>>>> is verifyied by consensus of the volunteers. The the only way that ledger 
>>>> can be falsified is that 51% of the volunteers that maintain the ledger 
>>>> all 
>>>> have to agree to a falsified version of the ledger. The users broadcast a 
>>>> transaction they want to include in that ledger, and the volunteers 
>>>> transcribe that transactions in that ledger.  There is no centralized 
>>>> point 
>>>> of control, as the ledger is distributed by the volunteers.  The 
>>>> transactions can be Bitcoins, a cryptocurrency that apparently can not be 
>>>> falsified due to the encryption it uses, or any other transactions, like 
>>>> ownership of assets, or contracts. The blockchain is refereed to as a 
>>>> "trust-less system" in that you do not have to trust a centralized 
>>>> authority to maintain that ledger, as there are none. The protocol that is 
>>>> used for the blockchain is an open source program that prevents anyone 
>>>> compromising that protocol without everyone else knowing about any changes 
>>>> that might compromise it. The entire system is of course very complicated. 
>>>> The main aspects that allow such a system to be implemented is the 
>>>> mathematics of cryptology, the internet, the distributed network of 
>>>> computers, and geeks that maintain that network not because they want to 
>>>> hack or control it, but because they want to keep it honest. I hope that 
>>>> helps. 
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 3:56:22 PM UTC+1, Gabby wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  I am interested in empowerment tools. What is the blockchain 
>>>> technology, Andrew? First what it is and then what is does, okay? Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2015 schrieb andrew vecsey :
>>>>
>>>>  I have been thinking about your post Niel. 
>>>> The internet connects people via their computers. That is very 
>>>> empowering. especially to the owners of centralized computers that offer 
>>>> porn, entertainment,  commerce and information. It is however the 
>>>> decentralized form of the internet that is truly empowering, enabling 
>>>> people globally to freely communicate and share information without the 
>>>> control of centralized powers.  The blockchain technology is the most 
>>>> empowering. It frees people to make money transactions without banks, 
>>>> legal 
>>>> transactions without lawyers, and allows people to vote and voice their 
>>>> opinions without politicians.     
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, February 13, 2015 at 3:41:22 PM UTC+1, archytas wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Most of my use of the internet concerns researching pretty dire 
>>>> academic papers and books through still largely restricted access.  It's 
>>>> much cheaper than buying the stuff directly, particularly as 99% of what 
>>>> shows up is dross.  I've played with the rest to find out what is there.  
>>>> Search is a big plus compared with rooting through stuff in a university 
>>>> library.  Now, much google search just turns up dross I don't want.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In an academic project we are interested in what is on the net 
>>>> generally - in terms of how much of general consciousness this represents. 
>>>>  
>>>> Rational discussion is a tiny part of what is on the net.  Techies spend a 
>>>> lot of time looking for cut and paste code and ways we might automate this 
>>>> sweep.  There is a background idea that we are looking for new ways to do 
>>>> 'expert knowledge' on the metaphor of people not being able to build cars 
>>>> but able to drive them with a bit of training.  My own bad is 'big data' 
>>>> as 
>>>> a new language that would bring a different speed to human discourse and 
>>>> potentially control of the means of production.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lately, I'm interested in the lack of a business model for anything 
>>>> except trash.  I can join a site where a couple of young women will send 
>>>> me 
>>>> off-the-peg clothes on approval to ensure my sartorial elegance, though 
>>>> don't.  There are plenty of interesting Moochs, but I don't have time.  I 
>>>> bank n line and have the joy of never seeing a bank clerk. Shopping can be 
>>>> done in the same manner as shops don't interest me at all.  My insurance 
>>>> renewals are always 30% higher than I can get the same cover for via one 
>>>> of 
>>>> the broker sites on the day.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I do electronic teaching.  So I'm no longer racked by whatever diseases 
>>>> undergraduate classes try to kill me with.  And I never see a boss or have 
>>>> to attend a useless staff meeting, or have my classes flooded as the 
>>>> students discover I'm an easier touch and tell jokes.  The work is more or 
>>>> less pre-prepared and my timetable is not changed at ridiculous short 
>>>> notice and I don't have to take time to teach kids from other classes, at 
>>>> my door because they can't get anywhere with the guy supposed to help.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I can watch television and films through illegal sites, but would 
>>>> really prefer to pay for channels where I could select from much wider 
>>>> material without packaging.  The current business model encourages loads 
>>>> of 
>>>> channels with the same (usually old) dross, or stuff like Netflix with 
>>>> only 
>>>> 1% I'd want to see and don't want to pay to support.  Sports channels 
>>>> require me to pay for soccer I don't want.  Tony has done more for me in a 
>>>> few minutes (neglecting his production time) than Sky Arts bores ever 
>>>> could.  We lack a business model of actual choice.  With one, insanestream 
>>>> news and other entertainment, the crap science pornography of the BBC, 
>>>> Discovery and so on, would be things of my past.  In chronic business 
>>>> terms, I wonder how they do market segmentation at all.  I am sick of Blue 
>>>> Peter (kids programme here) presentation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> One can imagine plenty of people like the best through this group 
>>>> wanting something very different and something large enough not to be a 
>>>> part of when time presses and so on.  Uber, properly supervised against 
>>>> racist drivers, could bring very radical change - I meet few who can 
>>>> explain why - though we have not yet worked out that technology could 
>>>> massively reduce what we currently call work and planet burning.  In the 
>>>> meantime we can't even set up a discussion group without Gabby (and 
>>>> everyone really) worrying on the curtain shades.  Give us a twirl then 
>>>> girl, like one of those doxies Bruce Forsythe used to encourage.  I can 
>>>> see 
>>>> something of a business model, starting with Chris' 'attractors'.  The 
>>>> eventual key is content for a sophisticated audience - remembering very 
>>>> few 
>>>> people do education without any kind of accreditation pay-off and the 
>>>> means 
>>>> to pay for organisation does not move easily from free.  Current 
>>>> strategies 
>>>> are advertising and the begging bowl.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  
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