This is very sad, not only because Charlie is in Jail, but because it discourages people from wanting to create businesses with Bitcoin.
It should discourage people from creating illegal businesses, not businesses with Bitcoin. All businesses are illegal unless you pay bribes of various types and by other names. Even something as simple as selling a single human hair. Supposedly Silk Road was only for select victimless "crimes" and banned personal weapons (despite their mere possession being a human right infringed worldwide), terrorism, murder for hire, human trafficking, child porn, ID theft, or any legitimate (victimful) crime from being facilitated on it. Perhaps the US Navy devs who made TOR should be executed for all those things, because that's what happened/s elsewhere on TOR. |
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What is the weather like there? I love Texas, but have never been in West Texas very much. Amazing that you can get Fiber from TWC on the property.
Anyone interested in a group buy for an objectivist or anarcho capitalist colony to seceed from the US?
Yes, but I need to become a pilot and afford my own plane and everything that goes with it too, first. |
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It's was published on the 14 Feb? Yes, where's the blog post or any evidence that they are paying out in BTC now? |
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The worst possible evil will count the votes and "win". Here's your barf bag.  |
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> why is it ok for a group of people calling themselves the government to force everyone to buy their services?
If you are in a country that allows you to vote, then you are the government. In most countries, you are free to leave. You can go to a country that doesn't collect taxes. Somalia, for example.
No, those who count the votes are the government. No, you are not free to legally leave most countries without being taxed out the ass. No, Somalia collects taxes. |
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IMO if a private citizen has shot the kid instead of a police officer the private citizen would not have been charged
Bovine feces. They would have been (and are) charged if they weren't murdered by a lynch mob first. Thanks for rejecting the reality of double standards and substituting your own. Look at what happened to the guy who killed thug Travis Martin. He was only charged after the racest race baiters got involved and Martin's mother hired a PR firm to spread lies about the situation. The overall public very much agreed with him being not guilty IIRC, George Zimmerman had an assassination bounty put on him by the lynch mob. I may have lost some friends for daring to suggest that only an omniscient being could know what happened that night other than GZ (since the rest of the neighborhood apparently rather hid than watch), and he deserved a fair trial by jury rather than a lynch mob execution. |
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The defenseless are massacred with impunity.
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When early adopters can't spend their BTC without taking a loss, that is the fall of bitcoin.
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Euthanasia is legal for animals, but not for consenting humans in most jurisdictions...
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Yes, "customers" would be guilty of conspiracy, credit card fraud and/or receiving stolen property.
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Can't comment, I refuse to use Google+
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IMO if a private citizen has shot the kid instead of a police officer the private citizen would not have been charged
Bovine feces. They would have been (and are) charged if they weren't murdered by a lynch mob first. Thanks for rejecting the reality of double standards and substituting your own. Yeah. Rule of law until they get the wrong address, knock your door down, and shoot your buddy dead who you were playing cards with, because they though the royal flush he was holding was a threat to their safety.  Gambit. |
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According to longstanding precedent, the police have no duty to protect anyone, and all lawsuits against them alleging same are tossed. Police however swear an oath to not do exactly what they do, and are effectively immune from any real consequences for breaking it. I wanted to be a cop before I learned about the dark side of the blue line.
Against them personally, yes lawsuits will be tossed. However The police department and the city/multiplicity they work for is a different story as the victim can claim that their procedures caused them to be put in harms way Against _any_ entity, tossed. There is no officer named District of Columbia. Cities have settled lawsuits in the past when shotty police work has resulted in death by criminals This discussion's context was about the longstanding precedent that police have no duty to protect any innocent from harm. While at the same time they can kill the slightest, victimless, non-violent "criminal" only moving his/her cardiopulmonary muscles, and suffer no real consequences. Having your employer use taxpayers' money to compensate your victim is not a real consequence, and neither is losing your job. Only losing your freedom and all assets is. When a police officer kills someone it is almost always going to be in self defense. The case of Michael Brown is a template as to the kind of reasons that police will kill someone - if they don't then the criminal is going to kill the officer. This is exactly the reason why we have the 2nd amendment You cannot legitimately claim self defense if you start an encounter by violating civil rights under color of authority and implicit threat of death or great bodily harm. It's like charging your innocent victim with assault for bleeding on you as you tried to beat them to death - something only LEOs have ever been able to do without any real consequences. Cops need to be held to a higher standard people need to respect their authority.
Indeed. Unfortunately "a higher standard", when the hurdle for civil rights violations with impunity is currently set 1 nanometer off the ground, leaves light-years before we get to a reasonable standard, in innocent victims' eyes. |
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According to longstanding precedent, the police have no duty to protect anyone, and all lawsuits against them alleging same are tossed. Police however swear an oath to not do exactly what they do, and are effectively immune from any real consequences for breaking it. I wanted to be a cop before I learned about the dark side of the blue line.
Against them personally, yes lawsuits will be tossed. However The police department and the city/multiplicity they work for is a different story as the victim can claim that their procedures caused them to be put in harms way Against _any_ entity, tossed. There is no officer named District of Columbia. Cities have settled lawsuits in the past when shotty police work has resulted in death by criminals This discussion's context was about the longstanding precedent that police have no duty to protect any innocent from harm. While at the same time they can kill the slightest, victimless, non-violent "criminal" only moving his/her cardiopulmonary muscles, and suffer no real consequences. Having your employer use taxpayers' money to compensate your victim is not a real consequence, and neither is losing your job. Only losing your freedom and all assets is. |
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