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Title: What limitations does Charlie Shrem have?
Post by: TaunSew on April 27, 2014, 06:02:50 AM
If he's under house arrest and presumably have a few hidden Bitcoin wallets?

- Food Delivery
- Computer Parts Delivery
- Escorts / Prostitutes making outcalls to his mom's house
- Paying people to pick him up beer
- Mom makes him dinner every night

Explain how house arrest is a punishment..   ;D


Title: Re: What limitations does Charlie Shrem have?
Post by: Phinnaeus Gage on April 27, 2014, 06:05:43 AM
If he's under house arrest and presumably have a few hidden Bitcoin wallets?

- Food Delivery
- Computer Parts Delivery
- Escorts / Prostitutes making outcalls to his mom's house
- Paying people to pick him up beer
- Mom makes him dinner every night

Explain how house arrest is a punishment..   ;D

What if he develops an itch under the ankle bracelet?


Title: Re: What limitations does Charlie Shrem have?
Post by: Pente on April 27, 2014, 06:41:37 AM
If he's under house arrest and presumably have a few hidden Bitcoin wallets?

- Food Delivery
- Computer Parts Delivery
- Escorts / Prostitutes making outcalls to his mom's house
- Paying people to pick him up beer
- Mom makes him dinner every night

Explain how house arrest is a punishment..   ;D

It isn't suppose to be, he hasn't been convicted yet.


Title: Re: What limitations does Charlie Shrem have?
Post by: gagalady on April 27, 2014, 07:01:21 AM
It's only a freedom punishment but yes bitcoin can do all that in your list for you, It makes things really easy in situation like this one. Still I would be sick If i should be at house all the time.


Title: Re: What limitations does Charlie Shrem have?
Post by: tins on April 27, 2014, 07:16:38 AM
If he's under house arrest and presumably have a few hidden Bitcoin wallets?

- Food Delivery
- Computer Parts Delivery
- Escorts / Prostitutes making outcalls to his mom's house
- Paying people to pick him up beer
- Mom makes him dinner every night

Explain how house arrest is a punishment..   ;D


Pretty sure all those are possible even without access to bitcoin.
His mama could just hook him up with a few shekels.


Title: Re: What limitations does Charlie Shrem have?
Post by: keithers on April 27, 2014, 07:18:34 AM
If he's under house arrest and presumably have a few hidden Bitcoin wallets?

- Food Delivery
- Computer Parts Delivery
- Escorts / Prostitutes making outcalls to his mom's house
- Paying people to pick him up beer
- Mom makes him dinner every night

Explain how house arrest is a punishment..   ;D

Not being able to leave your residence is a huge punishment not nearly as bad as jail, but it would cause me to lose my sanity.


Title: Re: What limitations does Charlie Shrem have?
Post by: keithers on April 27, 2014, 07:19:57 AM
Is he allowed to use the internet?


Title: Re: What limitations does Charlie Shrem have?
Post by: grifferz on April 27, 2014, 01:38:19 PM
I suspect OP reveals a bit too much of their own priorities in that list. :)


Title: Re: What limitations does Charlie Shrem have?
Post by: Beliathon on April 27, 2014, 02:26:48 PM
Not being able to leave your residence is a huge punishment not nearly as bad as jail, but it would cause me to lose my sanity.
Depends on the length of time, but generally I agree. Our primate brains are wired for novelty, experience, challenge, exercise, sunlight, and human social interaction - meaning affection/touch, and sex.

A lack of any one of these elements will have negative effects on our mental health. A nearly ubiquitous lack of affection, connection, and social interaction is driving the 30 year rise in mental illness in the USA.

This is why I refer to the placement of non-violent criminals into cages / dungeons / prisons as cruel and usual punishment.

Related: 7 reasons the 21st century is making you miserable (http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7-reasons-21st-century-making-you-miserable.html)
Related: Ending the War on Drugs with compassion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlD6OdbuDK4)
Related: The Long Reach of Reason (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk7gKixqVNU)
Related: On truth: The Tyranny of Illusion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-coVbPfh6k&t=17m22s)


Title: Re: What limitations does Charlie Shrem have?
Post by: TaunSew on April 27, 2014, 03:37:39 PM
Is he allowed to use the internet?

Yeah he's allowed to use it anytime - he browses here and it's how he contacts his parole officer.


Title: Re: What limitations does Charlie Shrem have?
Post by: BitCoinDream on April 27, 2014, 05:03:31 PM
Charlie Shrem was supposed to visit the premier of Rise & Rise of Bitcoin. So he is getting out of his home too. Seems things are coming back to normalcy...


Title: Re: What limitations does Charlie Shrem have?
Post by: DeathAndTaxes on April 27, 2014, 05:12:47 PM
Explain how house arrest is a punishment..   ;D

It isn't suppose to be, he hasn't been convicted yet.

This.  Kinda strange that the OP believes people not convicted of any crime should be pre-emptively punished.  If Shrem is convicted THEN he will be punished and it won't be house arrest.


Title: Re: What limitations does Charlie Shrem have?
Post by: gweedo on April 27, 2014, 05:17:32 PM
Explain how house arrest is a punishment..   ;D

The judge thinks that Charlie is a flight risk, and he should. It would be so easy for Charlie to take his bitcoins and move to anywhere in the world, or a country that doesn't extradited to the USA. This is to make sure he can't do that. So no this is not a punishment more o f they want to keep him where they know he will be.