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http://fortune.com/longform/nyse-owner-bitcoin-exchange-startup/

This is true long term, just as the market is efficient long term. Scientific consensus will tend to head in the direction of the truth...eventually. But in the mean time you have things like politics getting in the way such as with the government telling us all that saturated fat and cholesterol will kill us and we should be eating tons of carbs, high omega-6 vegetable oils, and trans fats. It took a couple of generations, millions dead of diabetes and heart disease, and the invention of the internet to turn that one around.

So you answer the way any surgeon does. "Not on purpose" :)

The draft is clearly unconstitutional. The 13th Amendment is written in plain English and doesn't need an idiot in a robe to interpret it. '"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." The government doesn't follow its own highest laws, yet expects us to consider it to be legitimate.

No I would never do that now. I'm saying that I didn't see it that way back then. Maybe you were an anarchist your whole life, but I graduated from high school a 'good' patriotic American. It took me years to get rid of that brainwashing. I'm saying that after spending ages 5-18 in government indoctrination camps you can't really blame these kids for not knowing what you and I now know. I look at them as the victims of systematic long term brainwashing.

"He's the one who gives his body as the weapon for the war and without him all this killing can't go on." - Donovan - Universal soldier How’s that analysis work when there is a draft? Well the draft complicates matters severely ... Draft is one of the biggest crimes against freedom. Do you know the song "and the band played Waltzing Matilda" by Eric Bogle? One of the saddest songs ever written imo. I still say try to desert when drafted if at all possible but I realize that's very difficult to do while keeping yourself safe. Nation states truly are savages in such situations. I agree in principle with everything you say, but the reality is that 17-18 year olds signing up for the military are fresh out of 12 years and 14,000 hours of government indoctrination. I came very close to signing up myself for the promise of free college. I wasn't an anarchist/libertarian then, just an 18 year old kid from a relatively poor family fresh out of the indoctrination centers wondering how the hell I was going to pay for college. I ended up taking student loans and not signing up. Mostly because I didn't want to spend 1 weekend a month away from my girlfriend, as the weekends were going to be the only time we would be able to see each other. If you are blaming the 18 year olds for signing up or for complying with their draft letters, you are blaming the victims, not the perpetrators. You are looking at the symptoms, not the causes. It is no small achievement to rid your mind of that kind intense and long term brainwashing from your most formative years. Some do, but just go have a look at the politics section of this board, most don't. “Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society" --John Dewey "Our common schools reach, with more or less directness and intensity, all the children belonging to the State, children who are soon to be the State.” --Horace Mann "It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission, and welds them into unity." --Benito Mussolini

"He's the one who gives his body as the weapon for the war and without him all this killing can't go on." - Donovan - Universal soldier How’s that analysis work when there is a draft?

Yes - but it may not be healthy! That's quite a general statement that, while for some might be true, for others it may not be true at all. I have someone in my extended family that thinks everyone should talk about everything all of the time, and old wounds should be constantly re-opened. I think this type of thinking often causes way more trouble than it helps. Bringing back old things that people have gotten over and already learned how to live with. Sometimes people find ways of putting the past in the past, leaving it there and going on with their lives. Drudging all that up and reliving all of it every time someone is curious or thinks they are 'helping' isn't always a good thing. Everyone is different and some people may benefit from talking about it, but I wouldn't say that everyone would. Sometimes it's better to not force someone to talk about something they don't want to talk about. Often people who say that it is 'healthy' to talk about things are saying this for self-serving reasons and don't necessarily have the best interest of the other person at heart. You always need to ask yourself if you want to talk about it for the good of the other person, or simply because you want to hear it regardless of the consequences to the other person.

This is what I think as well. From what you've said, it doesn't sound like he wants to talk about it. If he hadn't, he probably would have said a straight "no" when you asked him years ago. I'm as anti-war as anyone you will meet, but I don't blame the troops. He was a young man, put in a situation that was completely out of his control. He did what he had to do in those circumstances to survive. I know this is easier said than done, but my advice would be to try to let it go.

I own a number of penny stocks in Fidelity account, but I ran into this for the first time this week trying to put an order in to buy HAUP, it gave me the same reason as above “Pink Sheets without information”.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2018/07/27/jake-wilson-mollie-tibbetts-iowa-missing-missing-vigil-la-porte-brooklyn-evansdale-girls-waterloo/839536002/

I love it when people go "things should have happened the way I imagine it, and it didn't, therefore it's not true". That's not how life works. I could tell you a bunch of stuff that happened to me or friends of mine that don't fit neatly into "what should've happened" or "what usually happens" and yet it's true stuff. The pattern I'm noticing is of a huge double standard with these kinds of stories. If some random dude online tells a story of almost being robbed and maybe killed or badly hurt by a bunch of guys and getting away or whatever, it's like, "oh man, glad you're ok, that sucks", but if a woman tells a story of almost being attacked/raped/etc, it's suddenly the Spanish inquisition and none of it is credible because all of a sudden everybody's an expert in how real stories should be told. I just shared a story I saw for what it is. I'm not asking you to make an investment decision based on it. I don't know if it's true, but I find the opposition to it to be pretty weak, yet along predictable lines. +1. People watch way too much TV. Most crimes are never reported, and most crimes that are reported are never investigated. There was no one missing or kill d here. The police took a report then went back to writing speeding tickets and looking for drugs.

I think I was almost car jacked once when I was younger, about 19 or 20. I stopped at a red light and suddenly my passenger side door opens and some guy starts getting in. Luckily I was the first car at the light, so I just gunned it through the intersection (Light was still red but traffic was light). He already had one leg in my car and went flying. I saw him rolling on the pavement in my rear view mirror. I never reported it to anyone, but I started locking my car doors when I drove.

I wouldn’t have guessed that it was that high. Looking around that site there were other causes of death that I thought would be lower too. https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/leadingcauses.html Almost 45,000 suicides? People talk about the number of gun suicides being 20k or so, I just assumed that was most of them. I don’t think I’ve seen the total number reported or talked about. That is high. Also 161,374 unintentional injury, I wonder if that includes car accidents? Either way I would have guessed lower.

A Russian man finds a bottle with a genie in it. Genie says "I will grant you anything you desire, but whatever I give you your neighbor will get double." The man thinks for a second then says to the genie "Take out one of my eyes."

Litecoin Foundation acquires 9.9% of Germany's WEG Bank https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/07/10/1535672/0/en/TokenPay-and-Litecoin-Announce-an-Extensive-Crypto-Strategic-Partnership.html

Maybe they are not idiots and want their name showing up on th gofundme website. To what end? So everyone will think that they are idiots? It is preferable to be a famous idiot compared to be a smart nobody. Just look at the talking heads in the tube or the folks running for or being in office. Being famous would be hell, IMHO. The folks running for office are driven by power and money. And the talking heads in the tube are motivated by access (to the powerful) and money, using fame to further their careers. There is nothing to gain by an unknown poor person giving a few hundred bucks to a famous rich person.

Maybe they are not idiots and want their name showing up on th gofundme website. To what end? So everyone will think that they are idiots?

If you want to help her out, because she's not a billionaire yet, there is a gofundme setup to fix that. https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/gofundme-page-seeks-100-million-to-make-kylie-jenner-a-billionaire/ Come to think of it... I'm not a billionaire yet either. Maybe I should setup a gofundme campaign to fix that.

It's because we haven't yet gotten through our religion and government stages of development yet. "In short, humans obey orders—and to well-disguised alien scouts, the effects are pathetically obvious. And that is a disease worth isolating an entire planet for, even one with good barbecue." The Fermi Paradox Resolved by L. Neil Smith http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2018/tle980-20180708-05.html

The worst possible situation of all to be in is famous and broke. https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/economy/johnny-depp-is-apparently-broke-and-here-is-why-15632670

There are 1500 billionaires in the world, more than 500 in the US. Can you name them all? It is absolutely possible to be super rich without even a fraction of the fame as Tom Brady. It is absolutely possible to have a few hundred million and be practically anonymous. I’ll pay for my food.

Can't see anything to envy in this video. I prefer having my time to myself, a nice place to ride my bike, and a good book to read. I bet I'm happier than Tom Brady when I do that ;) I agree 100%. While I'd love to be as rich as Tom Brady, I'd refuse it absolutely if his fame had to come along with it. I'd have no problem being insanely rich, but I have no desire to be rich AND famous. No thanks. That sounds more like a curse than a blessing.

That's a pet peeve of mine when people use "jealous" to mean "envious". You are jealous of something you have and want to protect, you are envious of something someone else has and you want. Envy is worse, because it is completely unproductive. It is prudent to protect what you have to a point, but jealousy can get way out of hand too. Especially if it is another human being you are jealously protecting, because you don't own other human beings. Whenever I feel a bit envious I find it useful to remind myself that I have it better than the vast majority of humans that have ever lived (billions and billions of them) and it makes being envious feel a little ridiculous.

This is a rebuttal to a 2013 publication. To better understand, I would have liked to hear more about the "biases and agenda" of the authors. Submitted as complementary information: http://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/1789253/enough-enough-stop-wasting-money-vitamin-mineral-supplements https://www.aafp.org/afp/2018/0215/p226.html https://cmajnews.com/2018/06/19/trump-administration-shutters-clinical-guidelines-database-cmaj-109-5624/ The video is not a full rebuttal really. She raises a number of issues with studies that are possibly reasonable, but mostly pushes towards "we don't know", rather than "we know they are good" (which would be a real rebuttal to "we know they are not good/useful"). If you claim that something is the case and someone else points out the flaws in your reasoning that is a rebuttal, even if it just takes us back to “we don’t know”.