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Head of Silk Road 2.0 Says It Will Be Back In Minutes If Shut Down
Daniel_Stuckey writes "It only took a month for the Silk Road 2.0 to go live after the now infamous Silk Road marketplace shuttered. One month. Should the budding deep-web bazaar experience the same fate as its predecessor, and be knocked out by authorities still whack-a-moling their way through the online front of the war on drugs, the Silk Road 3.0 would be up and running in 15 minutes, tops. That's according to the Dread Pirate Roberts, the pseudonymous head of SR 2.0. In what are arguably his most breathy public remarks to date the 'new' DPR, who either cribbed his handle from the DPR of SR 1.0 fame or who is indeed the original DPR, opened up to Mike Power on his long-term vision for the site."
They keep using that word. I don't think it means what they think it means.
I for one, welcome the new Dread Pirate Roberts.
We'll you know the last Dread Pirate Roberts wasn't the original Dread Pirate Roberts anyway. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Patagonia.
no, what we NEED is for the us government to realize how dumb they are being with the 'war on drugs' billions of US tax dollars are wasted yearly on it, and they have nothing to show for it. each year prison overcrowding increases because they fill up the prisons with ppl who smoked weed. meanwhile they are letting rapists and murderers go free because they cant fit all the weed smokers in prison.
Yeah. Well you are going to hell, druggie.
Having a working web site doesn't accomplish anything if nobody uses it, for fear of going to jail.
Silk Road 1.0 didn't just get shut down. The Feds had complete access to it for months. If you use Silk Road 2.0 and end up in jail, it's your own fault.
I think that keeping the name Dread Pirate Roberts is very appropriate to the movie it came from.
Dread Pirate Roberts:
Roberts had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. He took me to his cabin and he told me his secret. 'I am not the Dread Pirate Roberts' he said. 'My name is Ryan; I inherited the ship from the previous Dread Pirate Roberts, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Dread Pirate Roberts either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.'
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The only people who earn money on prison inmates are prison operators who charge the government for each inmate they take.
I agree that leaving children hungry is a disgrace, but I'm not sure comparing these two things actually accomplishes anything. Putting people in jail over a plant is a disgrace without need for qualifications and comparisons.
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You need to brush up on your history... Prohibition needed an amendment to repeal because it was an amendment that put it in place. The 18th amendment started prohibition and the 21st repealed it.
(I wish Amazon hadn't called it AWS. It's not recognizable enough without spelling out Amazon, and you end up effectively writing Amazon Amazon Web Services or people don't know what you're talking about.)
I always call it EC2, and more or less, everyone in the computing business knows what that is.
Linux O Muerte!
You might be surprised to know that there is a such thing as a left libertarian.
That and that in the U.S. the right seems to be more hard line on drugs than the left(ish).
Whoa, that escalated quickly.
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress
it says even more that putting people in jail for a plant is a priority at all. Comparing it to a legitimate concern is less useful, as it implies it even deserves to be on the prioritization lists in the first place.
In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
No, what we need is full legalization. The two most addictive and dangerous drugs known to man are currently available at almost every gas station in the country. It's a policy that works, and every other drug should be treated the same way.
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It costs taxpayers and society in general, but hundreds of thousands of government bureaucrats and cartel members make their living off it, and politicians can harvest donations and votes from them.
Then clearly the answer is to make your own Pot stamps. The government would then be unable to prove that the ones you made are counterfeit as they could not provide "approved" Pot stamps to compare them against.
Please try to keep up. There a growing movement among the judiciary and state elected officials to reduce the prison pop. especially for non-violent drug offenders. Even that hero of the right, Richard Viguerie is behind the effort. Some are on board for the usual liberal causes, some are on board because it is expensive keeping people locked up.
But without the drug war what excuse would you use to lock up all those undesirables?
There's this agency called the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They handled cases where drugs cross state lines. I understand why you might not have heard of them, since they were only created 105 years ago.
I'm a left libertarian. Here are some of my views.
For social. Society should, at a minimum, provide the poor and homeless with the level of care that prisoner's receive. Maybe prisoner's should receive less care, so be it. But at least respect the unfortunate, they suffer. Obviously our drug enforcement culture needs to end.
For politics. Possibly only use public funds for political campaigns. How would it work? I have no idea. But prevent, 100%, campaign donations from companies and dissolve all PACs. They are poison to the system. Possibly use a different Federal level voting system, we need more parties in contention badly. Make lobbying illegal, if a business wants to talk directly to a government official, that's fine, but no external parties being funded. Enact a balanced budget amendment (goodbye Military Industrial Complex, but so be it).
For business. Reform the patent system (how? I'm not sure, there are others that know more than I, but I can spot a failed/failing system). Gut the Fed. Reduce "barriers to entry", gut Sarbanes-Oxley and other "established business benefit programs".
For legal. Reform the entire thing, businesses control the system to their whims. RIAA, MPAA, you are who I'm referring to, at least to start with.
For security. Gut it all. Restore the 4th Amendment to the Constitution. NSA and TSA need to be shuttered, as good first steps.
"I have a dream" (TM, Martin Luther King Jr.), but I have little to no optimism regarding true progress under the current system. We have one national party split into two sects, divided primarily by social values. Reality is a voracious destroyer of dreams. I get by.
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and this doesn't scream Sting or front to anyone?. not to mention its just a bad idea in the first place
Dream of the Blue Turtles, or are we going back to Message in a Bottle?
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Most of the increase in value has been attributed to the adoption of Bitcoin in China as well as fears in Europe over quantitative easing of the Euro.
This caused Bitcoin to spike nearly 4x in value before coming down slightly by $50 yesterday. This is typical of a market "correction" when a security has become overvalued.
I think the chances of a correlation to any individual entity or market at this point are minimal. At most any type of darkweb site is dealing with a few millions of dollars in Bitcion, which is pocket change in the realm of $4.1 billion market cap.