It is trivial to catch you. The amount of electricity you use is readily available by the power company and when one address consumes 10% of the entire town's allotment you'll stand out like a sore thumb.
Law enforcement has been using electricity use to find pot growing operations for decades.
"Someone looks in the trashcan, picks up the folder, reads the results, and decides to trade on the stock based on the financial results. This person is NOT guilty of insider trading."
Tell that to Martha Stewart. She went to prison for selling her position in ImClone based on a tip from a broker who noticed ImClone's CEO was dumping his stock. That's all it took for her to be guilty of insider trading.
Trading based on information not known to the public at large is all it takes to be in violation of insider-trading laws regardless of how you came into that information.
Manipulating the markets even without insider knowledge is also technically illegal but virtually impossible to prove or prosecute. People are allowed to have opinions and publish them even if they are wrong. People are also allowed to speculate financially based on their opinions.
First, the SEC only has civil jurisdiction, meaning they can ONLY fine people and companies. The SEC brings civil suits, most of which are settled for pennies while the targets never have to admit any wrongdoing. Only the most egregious fraud gets the attention of the FBI who can pursue criminal charges.
Oh, and everything being claimed in the article is completely legal if the author of the hit pieces disclosed their position. And yes, saying "we may or may not have a financial interest in publishing this" is a valid disclosure according to the law.
These rules exist because of the caveat emptor principle: buyer beware. There used to be a time when people didn't automatically believe whatever they read, and average spectators weren't gambling in financial markets like it's a nickel slot.
Not true. Pump-and-dump stock scams are a dime a dozen. There are probably 500 going on right now. The problem is the SEC does not have the manpower. They have maybe 300 lawyers on staff to monitor something like 25,000 publicly-traded stocks.
Your own link is from 2011. Are you aware that he was president for another 5 years and renditions skyrocketed during that time? Tell us again about his promises to close Gitmo.
Good luck with that. It was entirely within Trump's lawful right as President to fire the Director of the FBI. Not to mention all of the howls from the left demanding Obama fire him when he was in office.
They allow it for the same reason we have 100 new TLD's. Profits. Now there are many new variant domains that a company must register in order to avoid squatters.
LOLOL!!!!! A lot more Californians are moving to those places than people displaced by Katrina . Blame them for taking their California Values with them to screw those new places up.
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It is trivial to catch you. The amount of electricity you use is readily available by the power company and when one address consumes 10% of the entire town's allotment you'll stand out like a sore thumb.
Law enforcement has been using electricity use to find pot growing operations for decades.
They don't ever mention the environmental nightmare that batteries represent either.
Almost all bottled water comes from the same source as public tap water.
"Someone looks in the trashcan, picks up the folder, reads the results, and decides to trade on the stock based on the financial results. This person is NOT guilty of insider trading."
Tell that to Martha Stewart. She went to prison for selling her position in ImClone based on a tip from a broker who noticed ImClone's CEO was dumping his stock. That's all it took for her to be guilty of insider trading.
Trading based on information not known to the public at large is all it takes to be in violation of insider-trading laws regardless of how you came into that information.
Manipulating the markets even without insider knowledge is also technically illegal but virtually impossible to prove or prosecute. People are allowed to have opinions and publish them even if they are wrong. People are also allowed to speculate financially based on their opinions.
First, the SEC only has civil jurisdiction, meaning they can ONLY fine people and companies. The SEC brings civil suits, most of which are settled for pennies while the targets never have to admit any wrongdoing. Only the most egregious fraud gets the attention of the FBI who can pursue criminal charges.
Oh, and everything being claimed in the article is completely legal if the author of the hit pieces disclosed their position. And yes, saying "we may or may not have a financial interest in publishing this" is a valid disclosure according to the law.
These rules exist because of the caveat emptor principle: buyer beware. There used to be a time when people didn't automatically believe whatever they read, and average spectators weren't gambling in financial markets like it's a nickel slot.
Not true. Pump-and-dump stock scams are a dime a dozen. There are probably 500 going on right now. The problem is the SEC does not have the manpower. They have maybe 300 lawyers on staff to monitor something like 25,000 publicly-traded stocks.
The SEC can only levy civil penalties (fines), not criminal (jail). The DOJ will have to get involved and charge her criminally before she sees jail.
And because of that you're going to see a dramatic decrease in the number of women hired in tech.
Your own link is from 2011. Are you aware that he was president for another 5 years and renditions skyrocketed during that time? Tell us again about his promises to close Gitmo.
Nonsense. Rendition dramatically increased under Obama.
Has it occurred to you yet that it makes more sense that you're the Russian spy troll sent here to make progressives look even more dumb?
No, he really didn't.
Yes, he was extremely vocal about it and then proceeded to DO nothing besides lipservice. Remember when he closed Gitmo after campaigning on that?
Obama is the reason we have Trump. If you consider that an accomplishment then oh well.
Why do you hate women?
Why do you hate strong women?
Obama was OK with it so who are we to judge?
Harsh interrogation technique supported by the President? You mean Obama, right?
Good luck with that. It was entirely within Trump's lawful right as President to fire the Director of the FBI. Not to mention all of the howls from the left demanding Obama fire him when he was in office.
They allow it for the same reason we have 100 new TLD's. Profits. Now there are many new variant domains that a company must register in order to avoid squatters.
What happens when they testify that your gibberish note is a terrorist plot written in code? Your smug grin and silence will help you a bunch then.
By your own logic San Francisco should have never been built on a massive fault. Good thing earthquakes never happen, huh?
LOLOL!!!!! A lot more Californians are moving to those places than people displaced by Katrina . Blame them for taking their California Values with them to screw those new places up.
The next big earthquake will hit SF long before it's consumed by the ocean from global warming.