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I'll revisit the rest of your post later when I have time, but intent is not the only thing that counts. Doing reckless activities is enough to get you arrested regardless of what you meant to do. I mean the man firing into the crowd may have no intention of hurting anyone. Maybe he just wanted to piss everyone off. It doesn't matter, he is taken in for reckless endangerment and/or attempted murder. We prosecute dangerous activities because they are risky enough to hurt another. If you want to talk human rights, how about the rights of the people that are now more likely to be injured/killed as a result of the driver?
In your example the bomb will go off, but drunk driving does not have a 100% chance of harming someone. Would it still be OK to kill the man with the bomb if the bomb only had a 50% chance of going off? What about a 10% chance, should we still kill him? I don't know what the odds are that you will cause an accident when you are driving drunk, but I suspect they are below 10%.
I disagree with this. Imagine man who walks into a crowded room with a bomb which is controlled by a computer system tied to his heart rate. If his heart continues to beat for three minutes the bomb will explode. If his heart does not continue to beat for three minutes, the bomb will disarm itself. It is not a rights violation of the man if he is killed by people in the crowd. The potential to do harm can not be discounted. Drunk driving should not be illegal, in the ideal libertarian world the roads are owned by private industries. These private industries can contract the use of their roads. If people wish to use the roads, they must contract into accepting a legal limit for their BAC. If they go over this limit, they have violated the contract to use the road and thus can be penalized to the extent agreed upon in the contract. If they use the road without entering into the contract, they are trespassers and can rightfully be charged with trespassing and stealing. If a road owner sets no legal limit in their contract for road usage, then people can drive as drunkenly as they wish, and people wishing to avoid drunk drivers will take their business to other road providers or transportation providers. It is not good business to allow drunk driving on the roads, as people who do not want to die will refuse to use these roads. Transportation is one of the most difficult subjects to handle from a libertarian point of view so it is rather a difficult question. However it is insane to think that the potential damages from a person can not be taken into consideration, or do you really think that it is a violation of the bombers rights if he is killed before his bomb explodes?
Let me start by saying I have not read the link yet.
Ill take this one. Why should drunk driving be illegal?
If crime is defined as an act that brings harm to or damages another then the act of drunk driving does not meet the requirement. Many libertarians believe that if no harm or damage is done then it is not the purview of law. To preemptively ban an action because it may cause harm or cause damage is to restrict the freedom of the people in the hopes of providing safety. When this is done, we all loose freedom and none gain safety.
Well put James. I just finished reading this section and you summarized the author's position pretty well.
You are a dick-head.
Look at the OVDB related busts.
Would you please elaborate as to the other busts besides Enelysion's? His was the only one I was aware of, and, as I was aware of it, it was related to OVDB only in the capacity that he was vending there when he was arrested; the actual investigation/arrest was not directly related to OVDB. Please correct me if I am wrong on this.
With only a few lines of code (less than 10) pgp could be integrated into the system so that a vendor puts his pgp key into a field for it and the system auto encrypts all messages to that vendor with his pgp key before saving them into the database.
I know heaps of blokes named Shannon
I can't imagine not doing this. Fingerprints everywhere! I need to get a good pair of "stylish" but skintight gloves to work with. Latex gloves are good for preparing orders, but prove to be very suspicious during actual postal box drops.
. Who doesn't want to look at themselves in third person and control their body like a Sim in the Sims? Who doesn't want to go on magical alien spaceship adventures with Super Jesus on a top secret mission from God?
OTC is the answer. A decentralized network of exchangers big and small with different types of tertiary market services. Right now it may seem inconvenient, but with enough infrastructure it'll be even easier than the current system, albeit the spreads are likely to be higher, but the anonymity property drastically higher, making less important the concept of disguising traffic on the blockchain.
localbitcoin, bitcoin-otc, tradebitcoin are just a few clearnet examples. I expect to see hidden services offering the same functions when those clearnet sites are attacked.
This will be part of a greater evolution, where vendors find it much better turnaround time on restocking inventory because they can go to a huge set of entities for exchange, using a thousand different methods. Don't think 1 solution, think an entire kaleidoscope of them.
Unless of course, there aren't millions of poorly paid, intelligent well educated young people out there willing to work for decent money without tax and nearly zero risk of getting caught.
So you see it all comes together, sooner or later. We are at the *perfect* spot in the economic cycle.
I am not suggesting we be passive observers. No Sir! I'm saying this is mother fucking Gold Rush time. We are going to construct the bridges, canals and roads for this new Industrial Revolution on the Black Markets, using 21st century technologies. In the future our financial markets will have the equivalent of vast container ships moving product, currency and information, for today we are small but tomorrow we will rule the coming century. The Black Market is simply exploding in size, all over the world in every sector, SR is simply a drop in the ocean and we represent the first group of people to realize the practical application of cryptocurrencies for placing a financial foundation underneath it. According to economists, although developed GDP growth has slowed down in the last 50 years, the black markets have accelerated, becoming once more the true face of "actual existing" capitalism.
Today's vendors and market participants will be tomorrow's Rockefellers and Rothschilds. You just have to grab a shovel and slam it, this is our country and there's gold in 'em hills.
You don't need to believe it, but I do and I'm going to make it happen by the whatever means necessary.
It doesn't matter if Bitcoin itself fails. It doesn't matter if SR fails. Only the Network matters. The supply and demand. That is what drives all this technological progress, little else. If a roadblock is dropped in our way, we'll build bypasses and fairly squiggly roads. It's not a matter of "belief", it's a practical matter of making money and recognizing arbitrage points.
Actually, it might be better if Bitcoin does, in fact, fail. Bitcoin's Achilles heel is that it was never designed to be anonymous -- in fact, to counteract double-spending, all transactions MUST by design, be public. Chaumian digital cash is the exact opposite -- it is PRIVATE by design, using blinding, and uses mathematics to prevent double-spending by de-anonymizing anyone who double-spends a coin.
Guru
I feel like the LE crack down on SR and BTC has already begun in the UK. It's getting increasingly difficult to get coins from the previously reliable websites (e.g. Intersango, Mt.Gox). The UK banks which these companies use are freezing their accounts so they can't accept GBP deposits.
Very annoying and causing a lot of people problems. I think this is the most likely way the SR will come under attack.... via the 'establishment' aka 'financial institutions.' It's clear that big banks don't like BTC as it's free market private currency which THEY don't control. I expect these kinds of attack to become frequent as they attempt to stifle the currency we use. If we can't get coins, we can't use SR. Simple as.
Anyway, as this thread has an Aussie theme, can anyone on here recommend a reliable source for BTC in Australia, that accepts Aussie bank deposits? Please PM me if you don't want to post it. Would appreciate the help.
Cheers
PTF
Online illegal marketplaces have existed for over a decade and they have never shut down all the secure ways of anonymously transferring funds and I doubt they ever will.
I agree with your optimism, but as the establishment close down the easiest, cheapest and most reliable ways to purchase coins, it certainly makes a headache for the people in this community.
I have a question that I might as well just ask here because I don't know where else to ask it. In my early days on SR, I did not use PGP. Now I am using it every time I make an order. But I worry, does the fact that I didn't use it at one point mean that my address is now forever compromised? Like I'm going to use PGP from now on no matter what, but is there essentially no point because if LE hack in, they can get my address anyways? Or am I safe from transactions that happened a certain amount of time ago? I wish I had been smart enough to use it back then, but I'm hoping "better late than never" applies here.
