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That's an interesting point: what would stop a homework shirker from offering an incentive ?
However, if I could donate rep-points, would that remove that "back-door" ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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If you mean the site only supporting the donation of rep points, then yes, because people wanting their homework done have few points to donate!
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BillWoodruff wrote: I would not want to know that OriginalGriff received 100k pounds last year
Too late. That's why he is giving up the thought of the day ritual. He's made too much money and is retiring.
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Member 15329613 wrote: He's made too much money
 How is this possible?! Isn't OG afraid that EMOG(*) might not come along and pip him at the post? 
(*) EMOG == Even More Original Griff
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: pip him at the post
fascinating idiom, thanks ! i'll have to research its origin; at the 'post' jars my senses: wouldn't a horse suddenly overtake and win at the finish line ?
ooh: lots of possible etymologies: [^]. Now, why did Dickens name the protagonist of "Great Expectations" "Pip" ... because, as a boy, he could not articulate his fullname:Quote: "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
Because use of a palindrome is a metaphor for the tabula rasa of Pip-as-boy-orphan, ignorant of his noble birth ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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I wish! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm signing up for the beta trial, sending you my bank account number later today.
My guess is that with 15 million users we'd need at least 1 million test transactions for a representative test 
Completely unrelated, I'm retiring early
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@sanderrossel i am certain that with the assistance of a local sorcerer/ghost-buster and psychic (Mor Phii, Mor Doo) we can trigger an avalanche of donations to you ! i'm talking you driving a Porsche, or a Rolls, wearing a Rolex, sex change, face transplant, new name, Swiss bank accounts, new passport, new ID, yacht, groupies.
To start, we need to get the sorcerer ... uhhh ... lubricated, equipped, supplied, and motivated to join our team; i'd say we need US$ 10k to start plus a 20% equity share of founders' stock. You send me US$ 5k, i put up the other half.
When the revenue starts rolling in we deduct expenses, and split the net proceeds 40/40% you and me, and 20% to the shaman.
The shaman has offered to throw in a ritual to produce a binding spell which will be activated if you, or, i, ever cheat each other, or him: in that case we will be horribly disfigured, and, bats will follow us wherever we go.
cheers, Bill
By the way, i'll need a sample of your blood for our magic guy; he tells me the three of us need to be blood-brothers to fully potentiate his spells, minimum 25 ml.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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BillWoodruff wrote: i am certain that with the assistance of a local sorcerer/ghost-buster and psychic (Mor Phii, Mor Doo) we can trigger an avalanche of donations to you ! i'm talking you driving a Porsche, or a Rolls, wearing a Rolex, sex change, face transplant, new name, Swiss bank accounts, new passport, new ID, yacht, groupies.
This will certainly help me in the long run!
Bla bla bla revenue bla bla shaman... All in all, I'm in! 
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BillWoodruff wrote: How would you feel if anonymous-someone sent you US$ 0.50 ?
Depending on the total amount of money obtained within the scope of a year, and your local tax laws, this could be a nightmare that cancelled out any value obtained from such donations. Especially if they originate from foreign countries.
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Perhaps you should receive a donation for your fine idea However I read somewhere I no longer recall where that users of free software donate to the provider at a rate of 1% or 2% more or less So the fine programmer in Thailand would have to be visited more or less one hundred times daily to obtain that day's meal if those estimates are correct I recall obtaining them from a provider of free software so he must know them precisely - Cheerio
"Buy me a cup of coffee and no one gets hurt"
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uhhhh ... focus ? did you read the part in my message where i describe specific examples of what US$ 1 gets me in Thailand ?
if you read that, can I have some of what you are high on (as long as it doesn't involve smoke, or licking reptiles) ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Next it will be CP cryptocurrency. And asking 10 cents for 2 cents worth. (Rounding)
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I love the spirit of this. The reality, however, has been covered by others.
There's another aspect to this: implementing such a micro-payment system is non-trivial, and managing anything to do with payments amplifies legal and security issues orders of magnitude. To be crass, it would cost us a bucket load in dev time, maintenance, and legal fees and advice, and none of the money we process would go to supporting this work. We could certainly take a percentage, but my experience with donation models is they simply aren't patronised.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks, Chris, I hear and see the practical wisdom in what you say.
My use of "counter-factual" in my response to Griff might have been better phrased differently, or, with its sense, in rhetoric and law, as hypotheses meant to elicit clarification, tested, posed against, a thesis for "refutational" power, not a "concrete plan" based on certainty and facts, not as a contradictory rebuttal.
You could accuse me of bootlegging certain ideas for improving CP forums  i'd have to hire a lawyer; Thai proverb: "Kin k̄hī̂h̄mā dī kẁā pị thnāy mākkẁā" ... a lot better to eat dog poo than visit a lawyer.
cheers, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Absolutely not. Sorry.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Fallujah - Scar Queen[^]
This must be the influence of @Member-6430 (TX6430), but this week's SOTW is some melodic death metal (again).
Heard this song when Spotify decided to shuffle some random songs because my playlist ended.
Not much to say about it, despite their name they're from San Francisco, California, and they were founded in 2007.
So just enjoy
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Quote: melodic death metal
Is that an entry in the oxymoron contest?!
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And Greg Utas takes the lead in the grumpy old fart contest!
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Sigh ... the name looks indeed like a contradiction , humans can be quite inventive/chaotic with giving names to things. I think that, when a concept is repeated many times, it is associated with some quality, so it even loses its contradictory meaning ... "What's in a name ..." comes to mind. Anyway, good point ... . Probably, some people found DM too harsh and so an attempt came I guess to soften the image by adding "melodic" in front of it ... Cheers
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Wow ... this is a top band, thanks for the link
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