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mircea_popescu: domainforsale809 2:52 am you can purchase "mpex.cn" with a very fair price.
mircea_popescu: "temperature somewhat measured has varied somewhat in the past 50 or so years, therefore global warming"
mircea_popescu: prove global warming too, since you got the tools ready.
mircea_popescu: you have to be at least as nice as my sick hound pr chick
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 well in a good month i make that every 3rd day
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 and you know what ? my jurisdiction allows me to sue him locally. i hope he speaks romanian and is versed in the law.
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 if you think i'm not sueing him you're naive.
mircea_popescu: and quite frankly nearing 50 and trying to change careers in this economy...
mircea_popescu: and he has to disclose that on all future applications (which means he can't be hired)
mircea_popescu: but in his case, fraud means he has to be fired (by law)
mircea_popescu: i guess people still fail to understand how deep the internet can come to bite you.
mircea_popescu: considering how much he actually has at stake i am uniquely impressed with how stupid he's been.
mircea_popescu: but the protections of "default" irl don't quite exist in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: dub depends if the business was in the business of picking debtors.
mircea_popescu: it's pretty funny because he's not going to be able to ever find work in his profession again.
mircea_popescu: patrick harnett was hoping to get away with a soft default because he's a special snowflake,
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 the patrick hanrett scammer thread in btctalk
mircea_popescu: anyway, for those interested on common mistake caselaw, bell vs lever brothers is the cannonical, lawschool textbook example.
mircea_popescu: in general the way this shit goes is "let's not admit that we've been scammed"
mircea_popescu: scammer tag is only minimally relevant. the big deal here is that unlike in the pirate case, where everyone involved tried their darndest to hide the ugly truth in the hope they can offload on suckers
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i didn't buy shares in a fund he administered (that's a diff scam he pulled). i just loaned him money.
mircea_popescu: dub that may well be true. but he can't pass it along to me. he will have to go prosecute them himself.
mircea_popescu: there's that Roswell State Bank v. Lawrence Walker Cotton Co. case on the subject.
mircea_popescu: i just did what i normally do : execute what the ceo says i should. it;'s not my job to police the corporate officers of widgets, inc.
mircea_popescu: the company can't now sue me for 500k. it will have to go sue in cuba.
mircea_popescu: you draw a 500k cheque on the company, come to my bank, cash it.
mircea_popescu: one day you decide to fuck it all, leave for cuba with your secret lover.
mircea_popescu: i won't be held liable, if i acted in good faith. it's between the ceo and the company.
mircea_popescu: basically here's how that thing works : if i'm a bank and i cash a cheque drawn fraudulently by a CEO on his company
mircea_popescu: if i sell you 100 acres of land out of a plot of which i already sold someone an acre...
mircea_popescu: if i sell you 100 acres of land which is registered improperly and it turns out it's really 99, and i had no idea, and you had no idea then it could be argued.
mircea_popescu: that's a misrepresentation of fact, not a common mistake.
mircea_popescu: i mean, if me and patrick had a contract about this online currency which we both believed existed cause we read on something awful
mircea_popescu: read to me like "five year olds can not enter into contracts therefore anything anyone says is invalid" sort of bs.
mircea_popescu: lol the stuff people came up with in that thread i swear.
mircea_popescu: but i vaguely recall you being trolled a little re arbitrage there too >D
mircea_popescu: there does not exist a mental hospital that could in any conceivable way offer a more fertile field of study.
mircea_popescu: i seriously do not understand what psych majors/grad students are thinking.
mircea_popescu: subsequently he whined @ my datacenter about "cp" which went nowhere
mircea_popescu: dub he doesn't irc anymore because when he tried to come here and "vouch" for nefario i told him where to stick it
mircea_popescu: they're buying 4 singles except why not go for a rig ?