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for me... a life saver at times... you ever i mean EVER need anything please call me i will help you out... i have a good job now and i would love to help you the way you have helped me in the past!!!
I'm very happy that you and lisa are doing good!!!
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j-cee

I am trying to destroy/replace the banking system with the Ripple p2p banking system. If you shoot an email to themusicgod1@zworg.com I'll send you an invite ;)

What is currency parking? Google isn't giving me any hints.

There are certainly issues with ripple at the current moment
a) the server side apparently still needs some work; python/django has since released new versions so they probably need to upgrade to that to be up to date. If the server was easier to use, there would be more ripple servers than one. I don't know python/django nor do I have the time to really improve things here.
b) there's not enough people using the one server that is running publically. You probably won't be able to pay your rent with it, due to this reason. Unless you're lucky enough to know someone who uses it(approximately 0.0% chance at this point). But as microsoft has pointed out; we're all 6 or 7 degrees separated from one another; the average person only needs to coordinate 5-6 people together then to get access to at least some ripple functionality. On the other hand, because there's so relatively few of us, it means that that we could probably use more eyes on the code in order for it to be world-class security wise. But that will come with time.

And there are benefits. if the banking system collapses, assuming there's enough internet connectivity, ripple will live on. If ripple gets big enough, assuming there's enough peace, ripple will still be useful even in the event of global internet collapse. And because it's free software, there's a smaller and smaller chance of it dying off as more people use it, and the more networks of currencies that use it as a go-between(such as ithaca hours, etc). It seems there's more and more in the news lately about bank troubles; and so much political strife, and every time I read something like that the more I want to use ripple, just to take power away from the people who are causing the problems(as opposed to giving them more power, as bailouts serve to do).

As far as legal issues, as far as I'm concerned even if ripple is legal(which afaik it is in canada, ymmv elsewhere) it's illegal; because at some point, the banks will change the law to entrench their relative monopoly(goldman sachs in the US)/oligopoly(other countries) position.


Actually, looking back on the past year, I think to myself "why am I not doing more, why am I not organizing more political rallies(like the fair copyright for saskatchewan ones maybe?) or doing whatever else...but then I remember that up until this month I haven't had more than a few days off work where I wasn't super busy with school stuff since *2006*...in that time I was supposed to have gone for a checkup after my vasectomy(2007), for example, but I just haven't had time. I've had a little break now that classes are over but even that's soon coming to an end. The reason my life is so uninteresting to talk about is because I'm doing so much with it, even if it's seemingly trivial stuff like work...

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