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Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining

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On  00:00, wjwlsn conveyed the following to comp.misc...

> Food. It's the original currency because it's the only one with basic
> intrinsic value. All others have value only because two or more people
> agree that they do, and at the very root of that agreement is the need
> for food.
> 
> This is one of the reasons that I really like food.  :)

Anything that has so far been mentioned in this thread as having value 
is only valuable from the very narrow-minded human perspective.

Everything on this planet is valuable in one form or another, *except* 
for what is considered barter, as the concept of barter (and thus of 
currency) is a human creation.  Animals don't use barter.  

Some lifeforms do maintain symbiotic relationships with others, while 
other lifeforms are parasitic.  Barter (and by consequence currency) was 
initially intended to be an organized form of symbiosis, but has in the 
meantime - and quite rapidly after its inception - grown out to be more 
parasitic in nature, because the principle of unity is constantly being 
violated.

Unfortunately, the human species is still a long way from realizing that 
this system is bound to fail at some point because all resources on this 
planet are by definition finite.  

Communism was an attempt to break this parasitic nature, but ended up as 
yet another parasitic system where "all animals are equal, but some are 
more equal than others" (as George Orwell wrote in "Animal Farm").  
Capitalism is a system which actively promotes parasitism (and thus a 
violation of unity) and which thus doesn't feel that it needs to 
overcome the inequality, but because of its very basis in parasitism and 
its unavoidable tendency to lead to corporatism - which it has already 
long led to by now - it is itself also bound to fail.

Mankind has yet a lot to learn, but bad habits and established belief 
systems are hard to break.  Even though I see more people waking up to 
the fact that "the system" as it currently exists is simply wrong, there 
is still a huge difference between instinctively feeling that 
something's wrong, being able to identify the problem, and creating a 
new system in its stead.  Those are three significant steps in the 
evolution of social intelligence, and each of them is confronted with 
reactionary forces from The Powers That Be - who are only in positions 
of power because that's exactly where they want to be, and as such, they 
are only serving themselves, rather than society.  

I don't see any changes to the workings of society happening within my 
lifetime, but eventually mankind _will_ have to learn and evolve, and 
the system _will_ have to be changed.  There is no other possible 
outcome, unless one considers the total annihilation of intelligent life 
on this planet as a possibility.

-- 
= Aragorn =

         http://www.linuxcounter.net - registrant #223157

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Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 01:23 +0000
  Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-22 12:09 +0000
    Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-22 17:44 +0000
      Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Marek Novotny <mach2@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-22 12:34 -0600
        Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-22 21:55 +0200
          Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Marek Novotny <mach2@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-22 14:26 -0600
            Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-23 00:16 +0200
              Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Marek Novotny <mach2@hushmail.com> - 2014-02-22 16:49 -0600
              Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-23 09:33 +0000
                Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-23 12:54 +0200
          Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-23 09:33 +0000
            Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2014-02-23 16:46 -0600
              Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-23 23:21 +0000
                Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-24 02:00 +0200
        Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-22 22:14 +0000
        Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-23 09:31 +0000
    Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 17:02 +0000
      Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-22 16:38 +0000
      Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-02-23 12:23 +0100
      Re: Using supercomputers for crypto-coin mining Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 10:38 -0500

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