GrandPapillon

25 minutes ago, phetphet said:

Anyone else had this?

 

Is it breaking any laws to just lie to questions I feel are not necessary?

it's just an increase of global oversight for KYC and AML, and the requirements will increase every year until it becomes unbearable. That's the point, they don't want to forbid things, so instead they make things impossible ????

Bitcoins is doomed,

On 12/8/2021 at 4:21 AM, KhunHeineken said:

Does anyone own a DS918+, or a similar spec Synology? 

what would be the justification of buying such a top end NAS? do you really need that much storage or power?

You can buy an entry Synology for 100 USD, that would take care of 99% of your needs

very few people need a DS900 series Synology, seems over kill

On 3/1/2022 at 12:50 AM, petermik said:

Any chance he might reciprocate and give the diamonds back????

we can assume that it was discreetly returned since the former holder is dying somewhere in some private hospital

the looting has already started,

On 2/22/2022 at 4:35 AM, fdsa said:

you are wrong (or partially right) - government have "agents" and/or can break encryption of public VPN services only, which handed the encryption keys to those governments. If you properly setup your own VPN server then no one would be able to break it. (except NSA ofcourse ???? )

sure, you can setup your own secure VPN, if you are a hacker or some security obsessed sysadmin, still the VPN can be under attack, and the majority of people won't bother with that complex process for a private VPN, they can barely setup a USB device ????

On 2/22/2022 at 5:07 AM, ardsong said:

there is not one report of breaking a good encryption algorithme

you might be wrong here, I am pretty sure it has been done but not publicized or reported, and rightly so, you don't want to change things ????

On 2/22/2022 at 5:07 AM, ardsong said:

to use good reliable VPN services, again not any american VPN services, but I would suggest Suisse or German are thought to be the most thrustworthy

you might be naive again here to think there is no cooperation with US authorities for Swiss or German tech companies, their compliance department would require them so

5 minutes ago, dogfish180 said:

Don't these luddites know how a VPN works? A child could navigate past their Gateway! They really are out of touch with reality.

Any government gateway can break the encryption of a VPN, so not really helpful. Ask the Chinese. All government agencies have "agents" on VPNs. It's only useful to have a different IP address to "fake" your location.

That's what VPN are built for, an extension of an IP network you can join without being part of the local network, by "faking" or "tunneling" the network protocol.

6 hours ago, JonnyF said:

The Great Firewall of Thailand.

 

Wonder where they got that idea?

it has been already functioning for years, not sure what else they want to add

9 hours ago, GinBoy2 said:

Thank You Bin Laden for exposing the holes in the financial system for moving money for nefarious purposes!

911 had nothing to do with this per se, the US Treasury had these plans long ago to control overseas Americans financials, and they just needed the right excuse

911 was awesome for government agencies, it gave them the right justifications for a full monitoring of every activities in the world

people were just too stupid to see it coming, and fell for it. Can't blame them, it was an elaborate plan that was just waiting for the right timing for execution.

I think any utility bill should do it,

7 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

It's not a hamburger.

of course it is, everything is food :)

7 hours ago, ukrules said:

I note that once the tulip chart crashed it never did inflate again,

they didn't have social media back then, watch what happens when the lemmings start falling off the cliff ????

2 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Not due to luck. Quality Ceo, good ideas succeed in end.

unfortunately not true, marketing is what win the game, not the good idea or the product

6 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

They are the crooks keeping people poor. Money printing crooks.

yet you don't have a problem when cryptos "print" money out of nowhere ????

5 hours ago, RandiRona said:

Sounds more like Dumb nomads than Digital!!

honey moon period,

let's talk to them again in 2 years time after going through the loops of their VISA renewal ????

8 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Amazon lost money 5 years in a row. All the nay sayers said nope it wont work.

 

They were wrong.

 

They said Google and Yahoo were worthless.

 

Negative types are wrong 95% of the time.

 

Once in a while they fluke a negative call and they say look I was right!!!

 

Tech is part of the future. Blockchain is massive and all the add ons.

 

Once again the nay sayers are wrong.

 

 

 

again, you weren't born then, so you wouldn't know

Dozens of successful startups were shutdown early because of lack of cash or investors

Google, Amazon and Yahoo were no different, the difference is a bit of luck and investors commitment

without which, these firms would have died long ago

remember these were the times of ENRON and WORLDCOM, 2 very successful companies that got caught in accounting scandals and shutdown eventually, investors appetite at the time was very shaky. Amazon survived out of luck with that loan.

Wait for a big scandal and regulator interventions for cryptos, and it will be the end of it like ENRON and WORLDCOM

7 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Please guys, put your heart and soul into it. And let us know where we can send donations, to support this worthy cause. This dinosaur is responsible for bringing a once powerful and relevant nation to it's knees. He is incapable and highly destructive, beyond imagination, and he must be stopped, at all costs. The army must never be allowed to rule this nation again. And without the moral authority they once gone now, it is possible they never will impose their will on the people again. Let us hope the future looks brighter than the present. 

 

 

not sure replacing him will improve anything, a bit too late

unless they bring back a real natural leader, like Thaksin ????

51 minutes ago, khaepmu said:

So SDFCH seems to be a valid bank. I had never heard of them

they seem to be reserved only for US federal employees working overseas, not open to everyone

Try eTrade, they are international friendly

22 hours ago, FACTOR said:

Anybody have similar experience and/or know a US bank that will do business with expat Americans?

Thanks to the US Patriot Act, every bank account holders outside the US is a possible terrorist, was bound to happen, even for US nationals ????

13 hours ago, ukrules said:

It burst multiple times already and every time it reinflates, just like the stock markets after a big crash.

 

no shortage of fools, that's why, and as long as regulators will not intervene to stop seriously the pump and dump game, we will see these cycles

it was the same with penny stocks in the 80s and 90s, it took 20 years for regulators to step in

let's hope the global regulators wake up a bit before that,

7 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

Like when Amazon collapsed?

 

How old are you? 12yo?

you probably weren't born in 1999, but Amazon did almost collapse in those years, and only because they had a small bridge loan taken before the 2000 crisis, they were able to survive and really take off after 2005.

Bezos was also in serious trouble, they wanted to replace him.

before that, they were losing massive amount of money, billions of investors money, losing like 5$ for every item they sold ????

1 hour ago, ravip said:

How would a manufacturer test their new product in a real world scenario?

they would use better programmers, be more careful with their Quality Assurance Program, and have a limited beta tester base,

but that would be expensive, so instead they cut costs and use everyone as rat labs ????

Thank you for your kind service, sir :)

5 hours ago, tomster said:

They need the fear of Covid to keep the protests from starting again before the national elections. 

 

If they noramlised now the streets would be full of protesters again. 

amen to that,

4 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

Yes Im young, smart and in touch with the world.

don't jump off a bridge when cryptos collapses ????

2 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

About 50% of you maybe

that explains it ????