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T-Shirt DAC reporting in. Beep beep beep beep beepDo we get dividends on the sale of T-shirts?You've just initialized the T-shirt DAC. I like this site: http://www.zazzle.co.uk/ - they make custom anything. Quite good for looking up ideas on this theme.
you're right, i am being negative. i'm not a negative person, i swear. i just don't want us to become known as spammers on other forums. it isn't a good reputation to have. having fun and thinking is a good thing, if we recognize this as that and not as a marketing effort.this sort of ties in with the "These t-shirts are bad" thread. This stuff is just really, really bad. i think we need to completely stop with the meme thing.Ok so most of yours were really bad, but some were worth a smile
here are examples, i literally just typed these dumb things off the top of my head just to show how trite this is. this should not be a thing.The idea is not to create a meme just to spam everyone so please dont do that just to make a point. It would be cool of you to modify your post to remove the memes you yourself dont like.
If you think the memes are bad, then think of a better one or think of an alternative. Dont just be a negative presence. For example Toast has a thread for coming up with some new T-shirt ideas.
Opposing views are important by empty complaining and negativity is not constructive.
This idea is to find some that are really good. If we get somefor one of them I can float it to the top.
Other than that its just a space where we can have a bit of fun and try to think creatively.
You not against fun and creativity are you?
I was at the conference, and I got one of the "The revolution will not be centralized" shirts. Some of the others I would never wear, but I saw other people who really liked them. A lot of this is personal tastes and preferences, and targeting a wide range isn't a bad thing.yeah, the shirt about decentralization is the one that is decent
This thread will become one of the threads from which I will draw content for explanations in a video. For all involved in this conversation, Please add your PTS (or other preferred "alt"coin) to your signature so individuals can donate if they especially appreciate your contribution.too cool. this exercise definitely helped me to understand what a DAC is and isn't
Having had contracts and arbitration decisions overturned in court I have learned to have no respect at all for contracts. Instead assume the people you are doing business with are independent nations with their own courts and assume that if they back out of a deal there is nothing you can do about it *except* share the information with others.Does this mean that a company would be completely reliant on its reputation? In normal contract negotiations, two honest parties can have disagreements about what it is they originally agreed to. It isn't as simple as people or companies being 'good' or 'bad.'
It's all a matter of tools. In the society of today the vast majority of people don't have the tools to survive and are in a state of desperation. Living day to day, paycheck to paycheck, or worse they are risking their lives and freedom to get beyond "street level".Pretty insightful and rich content above.
We should be asking why are people so desperate? We should also be asking why government encourages people to have dependency on it's services but sets monetary and legal policies which may in fact contribute to the desperation people are under?
Finally we have to ask what can we do about this? Crime exists where ever human beings are desperate and the laws interfere with the free market. In a free market where selling drugs is not illegal then the drug dealing industry wouldn't necessarily be violent anymore. But let's be honest about it and also admit that if there were better opportunities the vast majority of people who sell drugs for a living would be convinced to do something else.
So until we provide better opportunities for people by building tools which cannot easily be confiscated, banned, outlawed, or have the access restricted, then nothing can be expected to change. The other invention we can provide is deflationary currencies/DACs.
Anyone can benefit from using their own currency so that they can avoid certain poverty traps. People who don't have good credit cannot go to a bank to get a business loan, but they can go into debt for college. Who decided that college is more important than starting a business?
The other important distinction is the distinction between currencies which inflate which means every year the holders will become more desperate and competitive to maintain their position, and currencies which are deflationary which don't require desperation but instead patience. When you have the currency itself programming people into thinking like a criminal because if they don't get all they can and spend it all as fast as they can't it wont be worth anything, then how are you supposed to get people to think long term or set long term goals, save or plan ahead?
Those who are promoting the inflationary model are promoting the thug mentality without realizing it in my opinion and we should look very carefully at the effects of deflationary currencies on different demographics to see if it results in a behavioral change.
From what I've seen in the Bitcoin community I've noticed it's remarkably well behaved with not very much violence. I also know most people in the Bitcoin community are not rich at all. So there might be an opportunity for a case study on the effects of deflationary currencies on different populations, could it be that deflationary currencies deter crime because people think if they just have patience and save they can get everything they'll need without having to hurt or compete with other people?
