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Whilst making one of the highest-quality new threads of 2020 in Off-topic, I perchance stumbled upon a thread of paid academic cheating. I have tagged all involved users, with reference to my post thereby. I will now remake the tags with reference to this topic in Reputation, where discussion properly belongs. —Not that I care to discuss it. If you try to argue and I ignore you, it means that your argument is not worth answering. If you advertise, promote, support, or condone paid academic cheating services, then you are an untrustworthy person engaged in dishonest behaviour. I will tag you to hell, and that’s the least that you deserve: Academic cheating is cause for expulsion from university, retroactive revocation of degrees, and denial or termination of employment. Edited to add: In case anyone may wonder, I am acting only according to my conscience. I happened across a thread where people were trading links and tips on how to cheat at university—so, I tagged them all! On a personal note, I have sometimes worked as a ghostwriter—but only ethically; I would never corrupt the integrity of the academic system by letting somebody else obtain a degree based on my work. Indeed, if anybody were ever to request that from me, I would rat him out to his professor. Hiring somebody to write a school essay for you is intolerable and reprehensible.
Local rules: Any user accused hereby will be accorded a fair and reasonable right of reply. Some users are categorically banned from my self-moderated threads. You know who you are. Don’t try it here. Others will be moderated at my sound discretion.
DT, please tag everybody offering or condoning these paid academic cheating services. Thank you. PSA: Any student who buys essays from an “essay-writer” for school can be, and should be expelled for cheating, blacklisted from every university, and rejected by potential future employers.Hiring somebody else to do your schoolwork is academic misconduct categorized together with plagiarism.UK universities in ‘plagiarism epidemic’ as almost 50,000 students caught cheating over last 3 years
Students from outside the EU said to be the biggest offenders as the University of Kent takes top spot
Aftab Ali, Student Editor
Monday 04 January 2016 13:49
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One professor from the University of Buckingham told The Times “type-1 plagiarism,” copying and pasting, is decreasing because it’s “so easy to detect.”
However, he added: “My impression is that type-2 cheating, using a bespoke essay-writing service, is increasing.”
Services like these can reportedly charge hundreds of pounds for essays, dissertations, and exam answers which are said to be written by professional lecturers up to doctorate level. [...]
Advertises academic cheating services. This scams schools, employers, and society at large.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=1315235Hi,
I am an essay writer and I write college essays for students studying in the US. I write for both native and ESL students. I have been working with Lifesaver Essays for the last 5 years and my clients specifically request for me with their repeat orders. I have recently started accepting payments in bitcoins too, in addition to Paypal. If any of you is looking for help writing their college essays, just ask for me at Lifesaver Essays. My writer ID is QuirkyProf58.
Although this one pretends to “complete all tasks on my own”, it promotes a paid cheating website:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2687213Hi,
I am an essay writer and I write college essays for students studying in the US. I write for both native and ESL students. I have been working with Lifesaver Essays for the last 5 years and my clients specifically request for me with their repeat orders. I have recently started accepting payments in bitcoins too, in addition to Paypal. If any of you is looking for help writing their college essays, just ask for me at Lifesaver Essays. My writer ID is QuirkyProf58.
Although my writing skills are not very good and writing has never been my strong point, I try to complete all my tasks on my own, simply because I see no reason to pay money for it. But since I have some problems with grammar, I use this service https://www.dnpcapstoneproject.com/ It also helps to make my text more unique and better quality. Good for those who like to do writing assignments on their own, but are not sure about the correctness and accuracy.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2814660I can suggest just the same for different essays and other written works. It is not a problem to write them, I certainly know and understand it. It is just necessary to refer to professionals concerning just the same writing of many written works and even dissertations. I just managed to find those who get academic expert to write my custom thesis , I recommend to look and see, I think that there will be no special problems. Good luck, I really hope that some of the ordinary students will be useful, as it was once useful for me too. Good luck and success, I hope I was able to help with this!
Supports or condones academic cheating, which scams schools, employers, and society at large. Untrustworthy.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2770716I need a paper editor for hire, because I'm not good at grammar. Where can I see your samples? I can not understand though putting aside such resources where there is an alternate regular grammar tips and never setting aside the effort to learn enough to work on mistakes in essayhave draft. I don't figure numerous English speakers would state this current, it's the minority without a doubt. I think most English speakers who travel and are encountering their societies would have a receptive outlook and a world view not to have this feeling.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2635513Thank you so much I was looking for an article like this but haven't found it yet I wrote some articles myself but could not write professionally If you can do it with me, I will be very good. There are many mistakes in my writing and I want to learn better from you if you do not write well Most sites do not support them.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2587867It is good that you write essays and help students, but I hope that you make the fees and the amount that you want for the article low, because in this way you will be able to attract a lot of students to you and if you need any help I will definitely send it to you.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2579564Hi,
I am an essay writer and I write college essays for students studying in the US. I write for both native and ESL students. I have been working with Lifesaver Essays for the last 5 years and my clients specifically request for me with their repeat orders. I have recently started accepting payments in bitcoins too, in addition to Paypal. If any of you is looking for help writing their college essays, just ask for me at Lifesaver Essays. My writer ID is QuirkyProf58.
Try freelancing on platform like up work,fiverr... There are lot of clients and jobs on those platform. Create a LinkedIn profile too.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=950952I think OP has been Out of this business since this thread is from 2017.
Try to search via Google or try to ask Here in forum i believe that there is also others that offering the same service just forgot where i saw the service.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2868152In general, I find it better to hire professionals to write essays or articles if the fees are high. For example, https://mr.bet/at/blog/online-spielothek/lord-of-the-ocean it seems to me that it was written by a professional who understands the topic. But there are articles that are just superficial and don`t help at all.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2708341This is a very good step in case many students have to go through a lot of difficulties in writing essays due to low skills. College students will be helped a lot to learn about Bitcoin in advance which will increase the demand for Bitcoin. Knowing the steps to write an article can give you an unexpected advantage over other competitors then you will rise a lot as a post writer and increase the popularity of your site. It is also an effective way to manage finances properly.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2866551It seems to me that taking orders for freelancing will be the most profitable option for you. Of course, working in a company has its advantages, for example, official registration, but as a freelancer you can earn more.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2180950Yes it would be best to apply the skills on freelancing from essay writing in today's world more people are not accustomed to writing articles if everyone is more inclined towards online work then learning freelancing work will help you to earn money along with knowledge skills which will help to brighten the future. Many students will learn to work online from an early age and will not have a problem doing market analysis later.
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reserved for my own sandbox experimentation <deleteme> Why, oh why does the left-hand image size get overridden/squeezed!? I have tried every bbcode trick that I know... F this taking all my time so I won’t even be able to finish the post. | | | Happy Bitcoinday!
In celebration and in memoriam, words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words words. |
know how to manage randomness with your thoughts As a certified cult leader who is known to associate with a witch, I can attest that you know no more about magic than you do about technology. Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology. </deleteme> |
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This forum’s BBcode is largely undocumented, and inconsistent with documentation found by searching the Web. Worse: The CSS between the preview page is slightly inconsistent with the CSS applied to posts. This sometimes causes posts that look fine in preview to break horribly when they go live. I just wasted most of the time that I had intended for writing a post, futilely attempting to debug a table layout issue in a preview page—with results that may not even work! I have therefore decided to raise the quality of Off-topic forum discussion......by making a thread for sandbox experimentation! Local rules:You may make at most ONE post in this thread (unless a discussion of BBcode begins here). I will nuke on sight anything that even remotely smells like sigspam or post-count bumping. If you are wearing a paid signature, I will probably delete your post unless you have a high reputation and a solid post history. Some users are categorically banned from my self-moderated threads. You know who you are. Don’t try it here. At any time, I may delete ALL posts in this thread and/or lock the topic. It is like testnet. Stuff may disappear. Don’t rely on it. (If you are a high-quality poster, I will probably leave your post alone so that you can experiment in the future by edits without bumping the topic.) |
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Edit: Discussion redirected to Reputation.
DT, please tag everybody offering or condoning these paid academic cheating services. Thank you. PSA: Any student who buys essays from an “essay-writer” for school can be, and should be expelled for cheating, blacklisted from every university, and rejected by potential future employers.Hiring somebody else to do your schoolwork is academic misconduct categorized together with plagiarism.UK universities in ‘plagiarism epidemic’ as almost 50,000 students caught cheating over last 3 years
Students from outside the EU said to be the biggest offenders as the University of Kent takes top spot
Aftab Ali, Student Editor
Monday 04 January 2016 13:49
[...]
One professor from the University of Buckingham told The Times “type-1 plagiarism,” copying and pasting, is decreasing because it’s “so easy to detect.”
However, he added: “My impression is that type-2 cheating, using a bespoke essay-writing service, is increasing.”
Services like these can reportedly charge hundreds of pounds for essays, dissertations, and exam answers which are said to be written by professional lecturers up to doctorate level. University students could be fined or handed criminal records for plagiarised essays, new proposals suggest
Harry Yorke, Online Education Editor
21 February 2017 • 11:38am
University students who buy essays online face fines and a criminal record under plans to punish plagiarism being considered by the government.
For the first time, students caught cheating could be criminalised amid fears that a burgeoning “essay mills” industry is threatening the quality of a British university degree.
Last month The Telegraph revealed that upwards of 20,000 students enrolled at British universities are paying up to £6,750 for bespoke essays in order to obtain degrees.
Now the Department of Education has announced it is consulting with universities over how to crackdown on cheating students
The DfE is currently consulting on a number of proposals with higher education bodies, ranging from fines, academic blacklists, and even criminal records for students found submitting professionally-written essays. ...etc...
Full quotes for trust feedback reference:
Advertises academic cheating services.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=1315235Hi,
I am an essay writer and I write college essays for students studying in the US. I write for both native and ESL students. I have been working with Lifesaver Essays for the last 5 years and my clients specifically request for me with their repeat orders. I have recently started accepting payments in bitcoins too, in addition to Paypal. If any of you is looking for help writing their college essays, just ask for me at Lifesaver Essays. My writer ID is QuirkyProf58.
Although this one pretends to “complete all tasks on my own”, it promotes a paid cheating website:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2687213Hi,
I am an essay writer and I write college essays for students studying in the US. I write for both native and ESL students. I have been working with Lifesaver Essays for the last 5 years and my clients specifically request for me with their repeat orders. I have recently started accepting payments in bitcoins too, in addition to Paypal. If any of you is looking for help writing their college essays, just ask for me at Lifesaver Essays. My writer ID is QuirkyProf58.
Although my writing skills are not very good and writing has never been my strong point, I try to complete all my tasks on my own, simply because I see no reason to pay money for it. But since I have some problems with grammar, I use this service https://www.dnpcapstoneproject.com/ It also helps to make my text more unique and better quality. Good for those who like to do writing assignments on their own, but are not sure about the correctness and accuracy.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2814660I can suggest just the same for different essays and other written works. It is not a problem to write them, I certainly know and understand it. It is just necessary to refer to professionals concerning just the same writing of many written works and even dissertations. I just managed to find those who get academic expert to write my custom thesis , I recommend to look and see, I think that there will be no special problems. Good luck, I really hope that some of the ordinary students will be useful, as it was once useful for me too. Good luck and success, I hope I was able to help with this!
Supports or condones academic cheating. Untrustworthy.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2770716I need a paper editor for hire, because I'm not good at grammar. Where can I see your samples? I can not understand though putting aside such resources where there is an alternate regular grammar tips and never setting aside the effort to learn enough to work on mistakes in essayhave draft. I don't figure numerous English speakers would state this current, it's the minority without a doubt. I think most English speakers who travel and are encountering their societies would have a receptive outlook and a world view not to have this feeling.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2635513Thank you so much I was looking for an article like this but haven't found it yet I wrote some articles myself but could not write professionally If you can do it with me, I will be very good. There are many mistakes in my writing and I want to learn better from you if you do not write well Most sites do not support them.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2587867It is good that you write essays and help students, but I hope that you make the fees and the amount that you want for the article low, because in this way you will be able to attract a lot of students to you and if you need any help I will definitely send it to you.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2579564Hi,
I am an essay writer and I write college essays for students studying in the US. I write for both native and ESL students. I have been working with Lifesaver Essays for the last 5 years and my clients specifically request for me with their repeat orders. I have recently started accepting payments in bitcoins too, in addition to Paypal. If any of you is looking for help writing their college essays, just ask for me at Lifesaver Essays. My writer ID is QuirkyProf58.
Try freelancing on platform like up work,fiverr... There are lot of clients and jobs on those platform. Create a LinkedIn profile too.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=950952I think OP has been Out of this business since this thread is from 2017.
Try to search via Google or try to ask Here in forum i believe that there is also others that offering the same service just forgot where i saw the service.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2868152In general, I find it better to hire professionals to write essays or articles if the fees are high. For example, https://mr.bet/at/blog/online-spielothek/lord-of-the-ocean it seems to me that it was written by a professional who understands the topic. But there are articles that are just superficial and don`t help at all.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2708341This is a very good step in case many students have to go through a lot of difficulties in writing essays due to low skills. College students will be helped a lot to learn about Bitcoin in advance which will increase the demand for Bitcoin. Knowing the steps to write an article can give you an unexpected advantage over other competitors then you will rise a lot as a post writer and increase the popularity of your site. It is also an effective way to manage finances properly.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2866551It seems to me that taking orders for freelancing will be the most profitable option for you. Of course, working in a company has its advantages, for example, official registration, but as a freelancer you can earn more.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=2180950Yes it would be best to apply the skills on freelancing from essay writing in today's world more people are not accustomed to writing articles if everyone is more inclined towards online work then learning freelancing work will help you to earn money along with knowledge skills which will help to brighten the future. Many students will learn to work online from an early age and will not have a problem doing market analysis later.
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Happy Bitcoinday! My PGP-signed commitment to the charity bet is below, as promised. I am a bit disappointed that I had no suggestions for an American gun rights organization that accepts anonymous Bitcoin donations. This is P&S! I expected to receive a barrage of opinions. I am not disappointed by theymos’ suggestion of the NCLA. I played around a bit with the Giving Block thingie, and it looks like it should work just fine... Hey, American Bitcoiners, do you care about the problem of the IRS being a financial mass-surveillance agency? Make a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible donation (or if you prefer, an anonymous donation) of Bitcoin to the NCLA through Tor, and let me know how it goes! No matter what your opinion of taxes, the NCLA’s case against the IRS is a fight for privacy.NCLA represents Mr. Harper before the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. Mr. Harper’s “crime”? Holding a bitcoin wallet. The lawsuit argues that the IRS has acquired the unbridled power to demand and seize Americans’ private financial information from third parties without any judicial process in defiance of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and statutory protections. Mr. Harper bought his first bitcoin in 2013, and ever since then, he diligently paid all applicable taxes and reported his trades related to bitcoin holdings. Throughout these years, all his transactions were facilitated through three digital virtual currency exchanges: Coinbase, Abra, and Uphold. Given that all of them had contractually promised Mr. Harper to protect his private information, he was genuinely surprised when on August 9, 2019, he received a letter from IRS informing him that the agency had obtained his financial records related to ownership of bitcoin without any particularized suspicion of wrongdoing. Mr. Harper is one of 10,000 virtual currency owners who received such a letter, according to the IRS website. [...] The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects “the right of the people to be secure in their … papers … against unreasonable searches and seizures.” [...] This case presents the opportunity to correct the course of constitutional privacy law. more . And in addition to being racketeers, the IRS are typical sleazy scammers.[1]The NCLA is also fighting the BATF over bump stocks; so, it seems that they don’t pick and choose à la carte amongst your rights. Good enough, eddie? I can be persuasive, can I not?Thanks for the suggestion, theymos. Your election just got interesting! ;-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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I, the person identified by the PGP key signing this message, do
hereby commit for my part to the following charity bet with theymos
(bitcointalk.org adminstrator, u=35):
My 0.01 BTC wager on even odds that Donald J. Trump will win the 2020
U.S. Presidential Election. If Trump loses the election, then subject to
the below terms, I will pay 0.01 BTC to the New Civil Liberties Alliance
via their donation page at:
https://nclalegal.org/donate-crypto/
Reference number:
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Forum thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5284654.0
# Terms:
0. This bet shall NOT be construed as my political or moral endorsement of
Trump in any way. For the record, I despise the man (for reasons quite
different than those of the TDS crowd). But I predict that he will win,
and I will wager accordingly.
1. If the election results are officially contested in any way, then
the bet will be resolved by waiting to see who actually takes office
for the next U.S. presidential term.
Otherwise, the loser of the bet shall pay it promptly after the election
results are announced, and the losing candidate concedes or otherwise
indicates acceptance thereof. For reference: The election is scheduled
for 2020-11-03.
2. If Trump himself is removed from the running before the end of
2020-11-03 due to death, incapacity, or any other reason, then this wager
is null and void. Note: For my part, this wager is about whether or
not Trump wins. If Biden is removed from the running, then the wager
will remain in effect.
3. If I lose the bet, then if I have technical difficulties using the
NCLA’s Giving Block widget at the aforementioned web address through
Tor with Tor Browser, then I will donate 0.01 BTC to another charity
or other good cause (to neither my nor theymos’ direct benefit),
and provide a good-faith explanation on the forum thread referenced above.
I do not anticipate such difficulties. I set this contingency based
only on my experience as a longtime Tor user. Having dealt with many
surprising Tor blocks and web app failures, especially for financial
transactions, it is my general policy always to set such contingency
plans just in case. I will NOT make any transaction without Tor for
the purposes of this bet.
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1. Separated from the NCLA stuff—because this is the Internet, and people on the Internet get confused, and I don’t want for people to be confused.SCAM! It is as if Kafka had a lovechild with a typical scammer: On 3 November, just remember that neither Trump nor Biden will change that—or this:Dear Americans: Please SHUT UP about your reality-TV “election” show—and don’t vote, unless/until you get a candidate on the ballot in all 50 states who will call on Congress to send up bills abolishing the Federal Reserve and its conjoined twin, the Marxist progressive income tax.
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never knew or contacted you but what a good bye message , im sure you were a good and helpfull member here and im sad that i didnt know you before , i wish to you all the best in your after forum life , good luck and take care ..
Undoubtedly, Lauda was one of the highly prominent spam destructive creature on this forum and maybe, on Mother Earth too. Indeed. And in addition to her uncompromising stand for Bitcoin, that was what caught my attention. I remarked somewhere a few times, her persona was a dead ringer for a major character in the 90s spam wars, with which I had a very minor brush. (Not linking, in case I said too much. It is improbable, but it would be an awful coincidence.) That was a hell of a rough-and-tumble. A few spamfighters who tried to stay anonymous got doxed (hereby using that word anachronistically; the word “dox” had not yet been coined). One of the spamfighters who posted to n.a.n.a.e. under his real name received elaborate death threats; he responded with some casually piquant public musings on his homestead acreage in rural Colorado, his access to a backhoe, and his idle curiosity about whether or not his chainsaw would do in reality what chainsaws sometimes do in the movies. Oh, what a world... She used her powers for the better of both, the forum and the members who were once spammers and helped them change their mentality and become a good member of the community. It is true, she was what I tend to call softhearted. No doubt, she helped some people who were just clueless, but not really malicious, to find a better path. That’s a win-win. Quite apart from spam, it was Lauda’s propensity to forgive when reasonable that led, from her side, to the forum’s most epic peace with a legendary who has good technical skills and, from his side, a sense of decency. Anyway, great job done till date by you Lauda, we will always love you and remember you in all our moments here, GrumpyKitty. 
Oh and I thought nullius was retired. Btw retired from what? The forum? Or the dramas that are annoying you? Both. But I thought that I made it clear, I am not exactly gone. :-) I am “retired”, not “as if dead”. ...and I may otherwise pop up here and there. Of course, I will still attend my duties to Laudatory Lore as needed. I am just winding down my forum involvement. ...I still exist... |
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Sorry, folks, another hit-and-run. For better or for worse, despite the allure of forum community encomia, I don’t anticipate that I will be keeping up with the legendary Wall To End Walls About Walls anytime soon.Stay above the 13 mark ! Wow, I have not been paying attention ! Go, Bitcoin...
I just had to stop by and comment on this. It echoes something that I wrote for WO a few weeks ago, but didn’t post; it is symbolic, on so very many levels... Meanwhile...
I didn’t read any accompanying article, which requires Javascript just to read (after I searched to avoid Twitter’s Javascript requirement); but the first thing that comes to mind is to me an obvious question. The sort of “obvious” question that nobody stops to think about. How the fuck would the Thought Police catch illegal “conversations over the dinner table”!?I see two major options, which are not mutually exclusive. Option A: Turn your kids into little spies and snitches.Brainwashing children to rat out their parents for political “crimes” is 100% pure, unadulterated Communism.In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell fictionalized a scenario in which people were terrified of their own children. In reality, such things have actually happened in overtly Communist countries. And nowadays, in some various so-called “free”, very much democratic countries, children are being groomed (yes, groomed) to tell indoctrination camp “school” staff about everything from their parents’ political heresies to legal household gun ownership, under the rubric of “child safety” and “mental health”. Option B: Telescreens.I myself used to argue that people who have “nothing to hide” should accept taking software-controlled network cameras and microphones in their bedrooms. Then, I realized that they do just that— and they carry the same remote-eyes-and-ears-and-location-tracker at all times. Of course, that is “voluntary”—for you—for now. Today: China. Tomorrow: Your country.The app, which the Times examined, also allows police officers to flag people they believe have stopped using a smartphone, The authorities dragged Uighurs off to detention camps for having two phones or an antiquated phone, arbitrarily dumping a phone, or not having a phone at all, according to testimonials and government documents. If you don’t demand privacy now, then you will lose it altogether— forever.
Now I was going to write a long essay on the perils and frankly idiocy of carrying a surveillance device with closed source hard and software forged in the heart of the Evil Empires (commie and very commie), replete with references back to my own extensive oeuvre, some classical nudes and abstruse words, jumping down someone's throat who once said something in passing, but you'd probably scroll on by like the unmitigated savages you all are.
He looks like a nice chap. Wonder where he comes from. Originally. Ardfork or Ardgay no doubt one of those. oh I know must be Backside, Aberdeenshire. What do you mean, laddie? He is purely and simply Scottish!All Scots are equal, and he is twice as equal as any other Scot. Your question has no place in the glorious current year, when we are finally conquering the prejudices that bedevilled them old-fashioned old folks in the Dark Ages, a half-century ago. Yousaf is the son of immigrants who arrived in the UK during the 1960s: his mother came from Kenya and his father from Pakistan.
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I probably should have mentioned this earlier. For the sacred scrolls: In the manner of confirmed science!!, Lauda confessed that she used witchcraft to create Covid:Duh, how obvious could ẗ̯̹̜̭̯͉̒̓͆͘̚ḩ̸̺͚͈̩̞̓̄͋͗̓͝͝i̸̧̛̻͖͔̼͒̀̔͒͂̚ͅṡ̼͓̳͇̤̍͊̽͑͌͛͜ be!? Ļ̡̛̭̫̳͔̖͍̰̗̐̋͟ͅâ̖̱͗̊͘̚͠͠ú͇̪͉̹̯̖̲̝͊͐͑ͅd̡͍̠̤̻̺͇̺͟ă̌́̄͌̂̔̋͡͠ created the rumour that Bill Gates created the virus, and then denied it, as p̹͍̪͒̽͟͠a̰͎͈̱͎̔̐͠r̵̤̥̤͉͙͋̈̏t̴̖̰̪̭͗̊̚͟ of her own cover-up! At last, my witchery and my greatest magical creation have been exposed!  QUOTED! The ultimate ě̬͈̩̘v̮̘̦͕̓i͎͙̲̲̋d̨̞̹̞̽e̵͖̟̦͓͑ṅ͖͓͎͜c͔̼̯̓͟e̹̬̤̠̐: A confession from t̩͐̽̈̓ͅh̰͈͗̈̋̽è͓͖͊̈́͝ witch!* The Nullian Grand Inquisitor kisses his $5 wrench. See? Torture works, just like Hollywood and t͙̦͎̹͓͍̼͇̏̂̓h̡̧̭̜͔̦̲̩̑ė̱͇̤̮͙̮͜ CIA told you! Kitty loved science!
—And technology indistinguishable from magic! * nullius loves the “generative model” that “produces cat-shaped objects more often”. 😼 Protip: If nullius drops a Youtube link, it is probably not stupid.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKbRCUyop8
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nullius u=976210 and Meretrix u=1935564 are alts Thanks, Sherlock Holmes, for proving affirmatively that I did not plagiarize the “IFO... better than an ICO” thing I blatantly copied and pasted into post #3 on this thread. (The original is also quoted by me in Post #116.) I abandoned that alt out of concern that some people may misinterpret my openly acknowledged literary sockpuppet show, and try to twist it into some sort of wrongdoing one way or another. People such as yourself. Next time I want to write fiction in a first-person voice, I will do it in a more customary way. (And if ever again I make an alt, you will never find it.)OK
Back on topic:
A nonexistent cat seeks Lauda: It’s amazing that these things have such personality. Kitty AI waves magic wand, Nully gets more nullcats! Many of them have quite visible flaws when viewed full-sized. This one zero is almost perfect; it is my current un-nominee for the title of “Lauda unreborn”:* nullius sleeps. |
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Contradictory Campaigning can only concern the results of the nominee's activities at the forum, and not the personality or personal quality of the nominee himself. I suggest that this rule does not make sense in the “antihero” category. That one is all about personality! It must be awarded to someone who, in the heroic sense, is too big to dismiss as a total nobody—but who is too unpopular for other awards on account of an abrasive personality, controversial opinions, and a general attitude of not giving a damn for what others think. I voted for myself instead of Lauda, because (0) Lauda is too popular to be an “antihero”, and (1) an antihero will, of course, vote for himself before he fucks off with an ironical note on how he doesn’t care about anything that involves voting. ;-)
I voted for myself instead of Lauda, because (0) Lauda is too popular to be an “antihero”, Edit: I finally resolved this conundrum by voting for Lauda in two more categories. It is a Schrödinger’s cat experiment! Lauda is caught in the quantum superposition of Absolute Hero of Good and Antihero until the votes are counted.
| Bitcoin Geek | A nomination for those who are passionate about Bitcoin to the extreme, (a person does not need to be a technical expert to become a btc geeks). The person you just need to ask and he will tell you one of the many interesting facts about Bitcoin. The award is given to the participant who you felt was the most helpful in the Bitcoin-related areas, who helped the most with the tricky tasks, or who simply chose a ASIC for your grandmother.
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I suggest that technical expertise must be an absolute prerequisite here. A community award of “Bitcoin Geek” may be taken by the ordinary reasonable person as an endorsement of competency. From my experience with shooting down utter nonsense peddled by idiots who incompetence is exceeded only by their brash conceits, I can see how a “Bitcoin Geek” award may be dangerously misleading if given to someone who lacks real skills. It is a title that should probably be awarded based primarily on this past year’s activity in Development & Technology, and perhaps also Beginners & Help (for the experts who help newbies). It should probably go to someone who has active Github repositories, and/or whose posts oft contain code snippets, mathematical equations, citations to academic papers, and/or other rigorous discussion. (Obviously, this statement is not self-interested: I have not been adequately active in the tech forums this past year. I do have sufficient expertise to pass judgment on who is or isn’t an expert.) |
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As a proper antihero, I am mostly just here to vote for myself. (And to put in a word on “Bitcoin Geek”. And Lauda. And...) Thus the following is off the cuff, and perhaps subject to additions/amendments: 01. Best Moderator ................. (I don’t know
who is giving me a 100% report accuracy rate! ;-)
2. SpamBuster .....................
3. ScamBuster ..................... marlboroza
4. Golden Feather ................. JayJuanGee
5. Event of the Year .............. Lauda’s Departure
6. Fail of the Year ............... SwayStar123’s demand
to delete the Wall Observer as an “extremely toxic community”[1];
LoyceV starting a topic titled, “Do you want more or less freedom?”,
then enforcing a “Not Safe For Wife” standard[3]
7. Discovery of the Year ..........
8. Bitcoin Geek ................... achow101 or gmaxwell (seriously! generally!)
Another good candidate for a 2020 award: Jean_Luc[2]
Really, ask some Development & Technology people for better nominations.
Among others, o_e_l_e_o and bob123 also have serious tech cred in D&T.
9. Bitcointalk Ninja ..............
10. Craft Master ................... GazetaBitcoin
(for in-depth posts on cypherpunks history & current events)
11. Antihero ....................... nullius, Lauda
12. Absolute Hero of Good .......... Last of the V8s, Lauda
13. Miss Bitcointalk ...............Lauda
1. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5273484.0Original topic title: Should Bitcoin Wall Observer thread be deleted?Original OP: https://loyce.club/archive/posts/5512/55126205.htmlSee also: Tempest in a Teacup2. Pollard's kangaroo ECDLP solver3. Epic #FAIL, Meta topic.
This thread is FOR VOTING ONLY. Do not discuss these elections here to make it easier to count the votes. Edit: Some votes added/amended. Discussion elsewhere, at request of OP. 2020-10-31: Further amendment, to be explained. 2020-11-29: Added epic #FAIL. |
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I forgot to mention before: Since this topic was raised, I asked around with some people in the know with these things. Apparently, Namesilo and Namecheap both allow outgoing transfers without exposing your WHOIS information. Some registrars, notoriously GoDaddy, require that you expose your WHOIS information to transfer your domain away from them. That is horribly crooked! I have not verified this information myself. DYOR. Also, bitmover, I don’t want to bash Namesilo to you. I think they were a much better choice than Namecheap; and now, you know other options that are specifically oriented toward “we don’t want to know your information!” levels of privacy—real privacy.
Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. — Edward SnowdenThat’s a good one. I myself used to argue that people who have “nothing to hide” should accept taking software-controlled network cameras and microphones in their bedrooms. Then, I realized that they do just that— and they carry the same remote-eyes-and-ears-and-location-tracker at all times. Of course, that is “voluntary”—for you—for now. Today: China. Tomorrow: Your country.The app, which the Times examined, also allows police officers to flag people they believe have stopped using a smartphone, The authorities dragged Uighurs off to detention camps for having two phones or an antiquated phone, arbitrarily dumping a phone, or not having a phone at all, according to testimonials and government documents. If you don’t demand privacy now, then you will lose it altogether— forever.
Now I was going to write a long essay on the perils and frankly idiocy of carrying a surveillance device with closed source hard and software forged in the heart of the Evil Empires (commie and very commie), replete with references back to my own extensive oeuvre, some classical nudes and abstruse words, jumping down someone's throat who once said something in passing, but you'd probably scroll on by like the unmitigated savages you all are. Though I may be retired, I must keep up my rep! </topic-drift>
Some people should learn to read the thread, or at least skim the beginning and the end before posting. |
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The following unrestrained rant came up on a thread about privacy. In pertinent part, with some minimal context, I think that it belongs here: With some small text made normal, and one missing word added for clarity:What about non-“official” criminals: From behind Tor, I have sometimes angered people who claimed to have actual mafia connections. That was probably just stupid empty bragging by them, but—why should I take that risk? Over the years, on the Internet, I have also sometimes been treated to death threats—and to lurid and graphic fantasies about what somebody out there wanted to do to my real or imaginary wife/girlfriend/children (none of your business if I have these things or don’t), my mother (sorry, she’s dead), my dog (no, he will bite you in half!), etc., etc. Why should I take the risk that any of them could be serious?
All of the above was written on or about 2 October, and stuck in my local drafts directory with many other things that get posted late or never. It seems eerie, reading it now.
[...] I drove back to the entrance and told the patrol officer that his captain wanted to speak with me, so he waved me through. Upon entering the mobile command unit, the first thing I was asked was “Sir, do you have any enemies?” To which I replied: [...] Here is a choice selection from Lopp’s list of these; do you want to bet your or your family’s lives that these types of thugs could never obtain your information from a domain registrar!? Lauda is on my mind. That is what reminded me of this unfinished post. Why the fuck do some criminal-minded punks around here get off on gloating over the unwarranted assumption that she got the cops after her? I don’t know what happened to her; and I have been very reluctant to talk about this. I do not want to feed the rumour mill with speculation that is, on my part, negligibly better-informed than anyone else’s—for all practical purposes, uninformed guessing. But this has obviously been on my mind, the unanswerable questions. To my knowledge, she never did anything illegal—and it was not in her character, either; although that is no guarantee against “legal” trouble, depending under what régime you live, which I do not know in her case. What I do know is that (0) it is publicly known that she was trusted to handle business transactions involving significant BTC many times over the years, and (1) Lauda had a fucking ton of enemies!The vibe I got, which may be coloured by my own subjective adversarial mindset, was that “somebody apparently got the drop on him/her”, as mocacinno put it— and that that “somebody” was not the law. My thoughts have also run through many other plausible explanations—from family things causing a desire for peaceful private retirement from the Internet ( we think alike there, V8s!), to “terminal” illness (I know she would probably never tell anyone, if that—not even nobody—it’s just the way she was), to the nagging feeling that she was preparing to commit suicide (which would be not my place to interfere with—if it was that, I just wish that she had told me so we could say a proper goodbye). It has kept coming back to, Does she have enemies? LOL.I DO NOT KNOW what happened. All I know is that she very explicitly wanted her privacy. There is nothing that I can do about it now, save to respect her privacy—and to tell dumb nasty forum trolls with zero real achievements to shut their filthy lying mouths, for their speculation is assuredly as uninformed misinformed as it is patently malicious.
All of the below, except for the link that I just added, was written on or about 2 October, and stuck in my local drafts directory with many other things that get posted late or never. It seems eerie, reading it now.
What about...? I could continue, but I think that I have made my point.
“nullius” is now retired. This has been contemplated before; and now, it should surprise nobody. I will note it here because it does not need its own thread, and does not need discussion at all. I am “retired”, not “as if dead”. It remains possible to contact me. I am still involved in a few threads, such as my charity bet with theymos; and I may otherwise pop up here and there. Of course, I will still attend my duties to Laudatory Lore as needed. I am just winding down my forum involvement. My e-mail address has been “changed”. It is public, so you can see that it is “changed” to an address that has been on my PGP key for years, at a domain that I am well-known to control. The old address is deprecated, but it still works; if it ceases to function for any reason, then I will revoke the PGP userid for it, without further comment. A similar proviso applies if I change my e-mail address again in the future, as I plan to do if I ever provision nullian.com with proper services. Always heed my PGP userids. My certification primary key lives on an airgap machine, and is the peremptory single root of trust for my identity.I am 0xC2E91CD74A4C57A105F6C21B5A00591B2F307E0C; 0xC2E91CD74A4C57A105F6C21B5A00591B2F307E0C is me; and if you want to authenticate my identity, I explicitly request that you verify digital signatures rooted in 0xC2E91CD74A4C57A105F6C21B5A00591B2F307E0C. If existence exists, I still exist—in the Nullian void, as always and ever.
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Plutocracy Indeed; moreover (boldface is in the original, highlighting added): I am baffled at how people who understand basic economic principles can fail to grasp the most fundamental, unavoidable flaw of mass democracy. Universal suffrage is vote inflation. Making everybody “free” by giving everybody a vote is like making everybody “rich” by printing lots of money.Yes, that is an original observation on my part. Analogy credit: nullius.Whereas the institutions of democracy—the government branches, the political parties, the mass media—all together have the rôle of the big banks in the debt-backed fractional reserve monetary system. Democracy is a scam. [...] This is why I say: Don’t vote. By voting, you grant your moral and practical political endorsements to a corrupt system: An ochlocracy manipulated by a plutocracy. The result is kakocracy: Rule of the worst.
A new favourite.
If my wife did not have lung damage from covid-19 contracted Jan 2020 and if I did not have life long asthma [...] My condolences. I voted  but living in New Jersey [...] My condolences!
Yup. Both parties are literally the same. [...]
We're all fucked. Uniparty [...] I think that fairly sums up what I strove to express in a big cartoon, and an even bigger reply post.
A trusted source reviewed the OP cartoon weeks before I posted it. Evaluation was terse: “Sheep won’t get it.” Keep voting! Because! —Coke v. Pepsi just got more exciting: How do you feel about Trump?- ☐ I LOVE TRUMP!!! 🤩
- ☐ I HATE TRUMP!!! 😡
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reserved (replacing original reserved post, which got deleted)
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https://decrypt.co/46475/hackers-attack-trump-website-ask-for-moneroTrump campaign website was down, seized by hackers, that were asked for Monero to be send to "yes, publish sensitive data obtained" and "no, do not publish sensitive data obtained" addresses, and address with more Monero would win, and data would be publish now it is everything back to normal again If anyone (or any agency) wants to smear the cause of privacy, it seems like a pretty good way. It is also an excellent means to incite both candidates to make grandstanding speeches (and potential future actions) against cryptocurrency in general—most of all, Bitcoin. The article does not say: Did the attackers provide view keys, so that the public can know which address “won”? If not, then they can always just claim (or disappear, leaving people to assume) that the “do not publish” address got paid more. This applies doubly when... The hackers proclaimed that they had gained access to compromised devices which revealed "strictly classified information...proving that the trump-gov is involved in the origin of the corona virus [sic]." ...the information that they purport to possess is an extraordinary claim, requiring extraordinary evidence. All that they have proved is that they can deface a website. S’kiddies could do that. I am not saying that they have nothing. Of course, I could not know that. But just from within the four corners of the Decrypt article, it looks to me like a stunt by a troll with bad taste in lulz. (That, or an “agency” thing.)Though cryptocurrency scams like this are fairly common, today's hack is unnerving given that the 2020 US presidential election is just one week away and national intelligence agencies are on high alert for potential disinformation campaigns from foreign actors. LOL. |
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btw. what is the main advantage in that even the registrar does not know who owns the domain? Of course, we talking about legal, non-fraud service on them. My perspective: I don’t do anything illegal, so the only potential reason for any official investigation of me is harassment for too much free speech. (Yes, that is a real possibility!) But... What about data breaches: Do you trust the security of the registrar’s internal database, such ICANN systems as may have network access to that database, and every system in between? Do you trust all employees with privileged network access at all relevant organizations? Do you know how much hacked dox stuff is sloshing around on teh darkwebz, being traded between fraudsters and identity thieves? (Not to mention the types who purport to offer hitman services.)What about “marketing”, i.e., surveillance capitalism: Have you read every word of the registrar’s legal terms and privacy policy? Are you assured that the information you provide for WHOIS is, and forever will be, only and exclusively used for ICANN mandated purposes? Even if ( if) the registrar promises that, do you trust that promise? Will you trust it tomorrow, if the registrar goes bankrupt or is acquired? What about non-“official” criminals: From behind Tor, I have sometimes angered people who claimed to have actual mafia connections. That was probably just stupid empty bragging by them, but—why should I take that risk? Over the years, on the Internet, I have also sometimes been treated to death threats—and to lurid and graphic fantasies about what somebody out there wanted to do to my real or imaginary wife/girlfriend/children (none of your business if I have these things or don’t), my mother (sorry, she’s dead), my dog (no, he will bite you in half!), etc., etc. Why should I take the risk that any of them could be serious?
All of the above was written on or about 2 October, and stuck in my local drafts directory with many other things that get posted late or never. It seems eerie, reading it now.
More criminals: What about “SWATting”? Do you really want to bet that the scum who do this cannot obtain your information from your registrar: I drove back to the entrance and told the patrol officer that his captain wanted to speak with me, so he waved me through. Upon entering the mobile command unit, the first thing I was asked was “Sir, do you have any enemies?” To which I replied: [...] Dear anonymous coward who just sent dozens of cops w/ rifles to my house w/a false hostage situation report: I am not so easily intimidated. — Jameson Lopp (@lopp) October 16, 2017[...] Within 48 hours the Durham Police Department told me that they had traced the call to a throwaway server in Texas but hit a dead end and were turning the case over to the FBI. I never heard from the FBI. I lost any confidence in the ability of law enforcement to protect me a long time ago, so this was disappointing but not surprising. Here is a choice selection from Lopp’s list of these; do you want to bet your or your family’s lives that these types of thugs could never obtain your information from a domain registrar!? | Date | Victim | Location | Description | | December 29, 2014 | Hal Finney | Santa Barbara , California | Bitcoin developer SWATted after months of harrassment & extortion | | ... | | | | | February, 2015 | Dean Katz | New York, New York | Bitcoin trader robbed of $12,000 at gunpoint | | May 27, 2015 | Dwayne Richards | New York, New York | Firefighter kidnapped, robbed of $1,100, & stabbed by crypto thieves | | ... | | | | | July 11, 2016 | Tadas Kasputis | Kaunas, Lithuania | Cryptocurrency executive kidnapped at car wash | | ... | | | | | February 26, 2017 | Rocelo Lopes' wife | Florianopolis, Brazil | Wife of crypto exchange owner kidnapped and ransomed | | March 14, 2017 | 3 Indian Bitcoin traders | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 3 Emiratis pose as cops, kidnap victims and rob them of 25 BTC | | June 17, 2017 | Miyuki Noda | Gifu, Japan | Woman strangled, attacker takes 100,000 yen worth of BTC | | September 4, 2017 | Alexey Sherstne | Kiev, Ukraine | Man tortured for $50k in Bitcoins | | ... | | | | | October 16, 2017 | Jameson Lopp | Durham, North Carolina | Bitcoin developer SWATted & extorted | | ... | | | | | November 15, 2017 | Unidentified | Istanbul, Turkey | Gang stole $2.83M in BTC from businessman | | ... | | | | | December 26, 2017 | Pavel Lerner | Kiev, Ukraine | Bitcoin exchange owner kidnapped & ransomed | | ... | | | | | January 14, 2018 | Pavel Nyashin | Leningrad Oblast, Russia | Blogger Who Boasted About Crypto Wealth Beaten and Robbed For $425k | | ... | | | | | January 27, 2018 | Danny Aston & Amy Jay | Moulsford, Oxfordshire, England | Armed home invasion of Bitcoin trading firm owner | | January 29, 2018 | Unidentified | Cumming, Georgia | Five men arrested for planning armed home invasion of bitcoin owner | | ... | | | | | February 9, 2018 | Sailesh Bhatt | Amreli, India | Police Officers Beat, Extorted 200 BTC from Businessman | | ... | very | long | list ... |
I don’t know what happened to her; and I have been very reluctant to talk about this. I do not want to feed the rumour mill with speculation that is, on my part, negligibly better-informed than anyone else’s—for all practical purposes, uninformed guessing. But this has obviously been on my mind, the unanswerable questions.
To my knowledge, she never did anything illegal—and it was not in her character, either; although that is no guarantee against “legal” trouble, depending under what régime you live, which I do not know in her case. What I do know is that (0) it is publicly known that she was trusted to handle business transactions involving significant BTC many times over the years, and (1) Lauda had a fucking ton of enemies!
The vibe I got, which may be coloured by my own subjective adversarial mindset, was that “somebody apparently got the drop on him/her”, as mocacinno put it—and that that “somebody” was not the law. My thoughts have also run through many plausible explanations—from family things causing a desire for peaceful private retirement from the Internet (we think alike there, V8s!), to “terminal” illness (I know she would probably never tell anyone, if that—not even nobody—it’s just the way she was), to the nagging feeling that she was preparing to commit suicide (which would be not my place to interfere with—if it was that, I just wish that she had told me so we could say a proper goodbye). It has kept coming back to, Does she have enemies? LOL.
I DO NOT KNOW what happened. All I know is that she very explicitly wanted her privacy. There is nothing that I can do about it now, save to respect her privacy—and to tell dumb nasty forum trolls with zero real achievements to shut their filthy lying mouths, for their speculation is assuredly as uninformed misinformed as it is patently malicious.
All of the below, except for the link that I just added, was written on or about 2 October, and stuck in my local drafts directory with many other things that get posted late or never. It seems eerie, reading it now.
What about...? I could continue, but I think that I have made my point.They don’t want to know who you are. This is the most important about Njalla. They do not want to know who are buying their domains. If they dont know who you are, then they cant tell anyone . If they don’t know who you are, they can’t have your information hacked, leaked, or otherwise stolen—used for surveillance-capitalism marketing and profiling purposes—or otherwise abused.Practical privacy requires the principle of least privilege. Disclose information only on a need-to-know basis. The only information that is truly safe is the information that you never give out in the first place. If you are using Tor, it means that you probably want some reasonably strong privacy. But using Tor to establish a pseudonym, and then giving your real dox info to a registrar under so-called “WhoisGuard” or whatever, is like stabbing a condom repeatedly with a fork, and then using it to have sex with an individual who is known to be HIV-positive. It’s just a bad idea from start to finish. With all due apologies for the graphic analogy: I really want to drive the point home here!
Sadly I already bought the domain using namesilo. I didn't know about that opition. THanks for sharing. I have had passable experience with them, though these things sometimes change over time. Their customer service is good, and their prices are some of the best in the market. I have heard that if you use a payment card (even a legitimately purchased prepaid debit card) plus Tor, they will lock you out of your account, and you may lose money/domains. I can’t confirm that, and it never happened to me; I have only used Bitcoin with them. —You’re welcome. :-) I didn't know Njalla, too bad that this site did not exist 10 years ago  Another problem is that Satoshi could not pay with Bitcoin before he invented it, published the Bitcoin software, and publicized it with a website. ;-) There are also Anonymousspeech (or a name similar) and Katzglobal working similar but I just know by name. Never used and don't know their reputation. Thanks. I know of Anonymous Speech, but cannot report on them. I will look into Katzglobal someday; it is always good to have more options handy. |
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I always thought Lauda was a friendly, even when he got caught trying to blackmail someone as retaliation for supporting NastyFans which cost him his job here or when he pulled an escrow scam with MJ and Blazed (obvious scam, but they will tell you they just mismanaged it by lying about holding funds on an exchange and releasing escrow without client consent). I think Lauda was probably a good person deep down somewhere, but became obsessed with the idea that he could profit by justifying scams with technicalities while tormenting others online and getting away with it. Considering his hasty exit, it appears that could only last so long. To defame someone who is not here to defend herself on her goodbye thread is what you yourself would call a “bitch move”, doggy. It is inappropriate in this thread for cats. I shall not take your flamebait. I will not dignify what you said by rebutting it point by point hereby, at the wrong time and place. But as you well know, I must reply. For Lauda. All that I will do is to state unequivocally that taken as a whole, your characterization of Lauda and of past events involving her is flatly false—that in the negative parts thereof, you are speaking lies—and that in their dealings with you, others should mind well the ancient maxim: Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.‘False in one, false in all.’A nonexistent grumpy kitty:
I request that persons posting to this topic avoid flame-warring. Thank you. [...]
This is her thread. I know that she would not want fighting here. I request that this thread be kept the way that she would want it. It is about her. |
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