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mircea_popescu: no better than the guy you're supposedly prosecuting. in fact, worse. he traded, he didn't steal.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves unless you have proof of the foregoing, it's not that they "deserve" it.
mircea_popescu: there. good poibnt. the entire in rem proceeding is a laughable piece of nonsense, in law.
mircea_popescu: In the 80's, with the crack outbreak, the feds began aggressively seeking forfeiture of proceeds, substitute proceeds and instrumentalities of crime. At the time, no one (except those of us actively engaged in the drug and forfeiture defense ) gave a damn, and the law that developed was quite harsh.
mircea_popescu: This seems an opportune time to add, for the benefit of readers who weren't around in the 1980's, that the law pertaining to in rem forfeitures developed in the context of narcotics seizures. Prior to that, the legal maxim, the law abhors a forfeiture, was the rule, and judges were generally antagonistic to forfeiture proceedings.
mircea_popescu: as well as a bunch of "child porn" files on all hard drives
mircea_popescu: actually if the us residend youth wasn't braindamaged, there'd be a bunch of "DRUGS" labeled containers everwhere
mircea_popescu: tho the lavabit prosecutor was TRYING, as the judge pointed out
mircea_popescu: "i hereby sue all the people who might have pissed me off"
mircea_popescu: lol the entire "gimme money" uncle sam tactics don't work so well in btc ?
mircea_popescu: it's the same thing in romania, traditional food is delicious and good for oyu. it's the same thing in all countries where "traditional" means 2k years rather than w/e, 60
mircea_popescu: nubbins` hey you canadian folks didn't also teach logic did you
mircea_popescu: A North Korean military spokesman said that the U.S. would be “wholly accountable for the unexpected horrible disaster” that faced its “imperialist aggression forces.”
mircea_popescu: a ok. shrimp and shit ? or what's the best meal there ?
mircea_popescu: maybe they should make topless day. on april 15th you take your gf to the magical park and she gives you her top.
mircea_popescu: im sorry but here you'd flunk art school if that was your product
mircea_popescu: well... a park with niormal statues where the girls had to check out their blouse at the entrance
mircea_popescu: nubbins` cool. i imagine dating is very relaxing there
mircea_popescu: how about the govt can't be zen until it passes you and the future wife can;'t be zen untill she marries you and gets pregnant ?
mircea_popescu: it's not luck except in the sense of "they got lucky", now they have cum on upper lip.
mircea_popescu: strictly the only consideration is how dedicated the whole of society is to sucking businessman cock.
mircea_popescu: if you use the state for any other purpose, including "to make people happy", to "fight racism" or whatever, to clean up grafitti,
mircea_popescu: if you use the state to borrow money which you give to the business people to do stuff, you'll be rich. it worked fgor koreea, it worked for venice 1k years before that.
mircea_popescu: this irrespective of any considerations whatsoever at all.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` im suggesting that the part in which the govt was going to be strong was going to starve, and the part where the govt was going to suck entrepreneur cock was going to boom.
mircea_popescu: they were rich in inexistent pt holdings of mpoe stock
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves there you go, crashing people's dreams.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, in my experience citizens of totalitarian regimes make excellent servants but poor company.
mircea_popescu: ya but you're surrouinded by idiots and wasting your time.
mircea_popescu: the japanese pumped fukushima waste water into the ocean
mircea_popescu: make it clear that as long as the provincial govt continues with the practice, everyone's weekeend is shot.
mircea_popescu: you just lock them in the office. "you leave here once you've covered the prs"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` any editor worth his salt would in response make fridays workdays 8am to 8pm and give ppl tuesday of
mircea_popescu: check that shit out. the judge actually sat around thje courthouse after closing time to write orders
mircea_popescu: and then does jack shit in private cases... heh. tyvm, but no.
mircea_popescu: ya well herp. tyvm but a court system that waits after hours to suck govt cock, like the recent lavabit case
mircea_popescu: i gotta buy my own magistrate judges, this is a scandal.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, in August USG sues pirate, the same day the judge rules and the sentence is passed.
mircea_popescu: so here's the beauty of american courts. in May Coinlab sues MtGox. In SEPTEMBER!!! MtGox replies.