Mining is power intensive. It is capital intensive. It is not labor intensive. The only employees you need are one technician to maintain the equipment, one accountant-trader to turn the coins into conventional money to pay the bills with, and enough security guards to stop anyone absconding with your very expensive hardware.
Confusing terminology, but the point should be clear: Even if you didn't do anything illegal to earn the money, you might still want to keep it hidden from the government so you can avoid tax. You might even want to launder it into appearing to come from another, less-taxed source.
I despise Trump as much as anyone, but the blame for this cannot be pinned on him. It's a law that is promoted as a tool to protect children from abuse - it's a guaranteed pass, truly bipartisan, regardless of how badly-written it may be. Some things are just politically unopposable, which is why they make excellent excuses to achieve a less popular agenda. Like making sure prostitutes cannot organise and ply their trade in safety. Events would have played out no differently were Hillary in the oval office.
Not everything bad in American politics is Trump's fault. A lot of it is. But not everything.
There is some bleedover. The former Morality in Media rebranded a few years ago into the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, and switched the political alignment of their rhetoric - dropped the religion and all the talk of family and morality, and started talking about protecting women from objectification. None of their actual positions changed - they still campaign to force racy TV programs out of production and demand the government do more to imprison distributors of pornography. The leadership just decided that they could better achieve their goals if they sought allies on the left rather than the right, and rebuilt their facade accordingly.
Be careful with eBay graphics cards right now - some scammers have figured out you can hack the firmware on a card to spoof the model identifier. Buy a 1050, replace stickers, fiddle firmware, sell as a 1080 - as far as software reports, it is a 1080. Still performs like a 1050 though, and hope the buyer doesn't realise. Can be done on AMD cards too.
I am quite sure I read it was a waitress at the time it was current news, but perhaps the news coverage made some mistakes in the rush to be first to report. Or it may be an error in my memory. In either case, the argument holds. Wired offers this rather dramatic account of the arrest: "At 3:14 pm, DPR was typing away, writing to Cirrus. Just then, a middle-aged woman and man came toward Ross, ambling along in the kind of semihomeless shuffle you might often see in a San Francisco library. “Fuck you!” the woman yelled when they were directly behind Ross’ chair. As if they were a deranged couple about to fight, the man grabbed the woman by the collar and raised his fist. Ross turned around for just a second, during which a hand reached across the table and grasped Ross’ Samsung. The petite, unassuming young Asian woman sitting across from Ross this whole time was, to everyone’s surprise, also an FBI agent. Ross lunged for his machine, a hair too late, as she turned like a quarterback for a quick handoff to Kiernan, who appeared out of nowhere—as instructed—to get the laptop. It took less than 10 seconds."
The point of all this is that if the police believe their suspect may destroy the evidence if given even a few seconds warning, and they believe the suspect is important enough to be worth the expense, they have both the legal power and the history to take measures to prevent destruction of evidence - including ambush arrests by non-uniformed agents.
Police have had a solution to that one for years. It's why the 'no knock' warrant exists - they just need to convince a judge there is reason to believe the suspect will destroy evidence if given the opportunity.
If the police believe you have evidence at your home or on your person, they will get a warrant to search you. But if they believe the evidence is easily destroyed - a phone you can lock, or documents you can burn - then they will break into your home while you are at work. Or smash the door down and force everyone to the floor at gunpoint. Or you'll be walking down the street one moment, and the next two plainclothes officers have snuck up behind you and are pinning you against the wall while they get the cuffs on.
Recall the Dread Pirate Roberts arrest? Police knew his laptop would lock if he closed the lid, so they had to arrest him while he had it open. They used an officer posing as a waitress to get close enough without arousing suspicion, who pinned him to the floor while another ran in to grab the laptop.
This isn't something new. The legal system had had solutions for many years to address the problem of suspects who may destroy evidence if they know they are about to be arrested.
They will never be able to ban pornography from the internet, but they can certainly do a lot of harm in the attempt. How many services will be forced to close, how many people thrown in jail, as part of this futile effort?
Because the people the bill would most directly affect are prostitutes, and no politician wants to be seen as acknowledging prostitutes have any rights at all. As far as politics goes, there are only two valid images of prostitutes: Sinful harlots who need to be locked up for the good of society, and innocent victims who need to be saved from their pimp... and then locked up if they don't reform.
Option 2 also implies "drag this mess on for a month while we wait for the analysis results to come back, during which we will need a constant police presence on site to keep out the photographers, gawkers, and the residents who are trying to save their belongings from us."
He was also a trained chemist, so his hobbies may have included chemistry too. It might be he was just carrying out some dangerous reaction for the fun of it, and screwed it up rather badly.
Whenever something of this nature happens, there's a rush in the media to be the first to dig up some exclusive detail. This usually means chasing after all of the friends and family in the hope of a juicy quote. Church leaders are a good place to look, as some of them - the ones who actually care about their community, rather than just building up the numbers and the tithes to line their own pockets - try to maintain some level of personal relationship with all the church regulars.
Hard to say. This was a trained chemist, so he might have been dabbling in hobby chemistry. It's possible the investigators just found his stock of big jars of chemicals now shattered and decided it would be safer to destroy the entire building than call in a team of experts able to identify and dispose it all - and burning down the building is a lot cheaper than safely demolishing it when you'd need everyone on the site dressed in full hazmat gear. If you can't identify the chemicals, you have to assume they are the worst possibility and then some.
And now we may never know, because the chances of the authorities ever telling the public what these mysterious super-toxins may be is pretty slim.
When the story mentions 'DIY explosives' and 'blows self up' though, smart money is on hydrogen peroxide and acetone. Good old TAP - high explosive you can make in your kitchen from readily available chemicals. Also tends to explode if you just stir it a little too fast.
By the time I was in chemistry class, we got tiny thermite demonstrations and one flammable liquid fire. That was fun. But I work in a school now, and I can say that the fire would never be allowed any more. The thermite maybe, but only if it were done following a five-page risk assessment form signed by a department head and carried out with all the students kept on the far side of the room behind a safety barrier.
It took me two weeks to get approval for students to use a soldering iron in an after-school club.
You assume there is actually a need to burn the building to the ground and destroy the possessions of everyone who lives there. There is another theory: Massive government overreaction in the name of safety. The CYA school of law: Better to render a few dozen people destitute and homeless than call in a team of real experts for a risk assessment.
Yes, actually. With older lead-acids, the internal resistance increases, leading to reduce efficiency and peak current capacity. Paralleling them up lets you get a bit more life from them.
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Health insurance companies are not just middlemen. They are in the business of risk pooling. That's the reason insurance exists.
Employees?
Mining is power intensive. It is capital intensive. It is not labor intensive. The only employees you need are one technician to maintain the equipment, one accountant-trader to turn the coins into conventional money to pay the bills with, and enough security guards to stop anyone absconding with your very expensive hardware.
From outside of the US, I imagine.
Confusing terminology, but the point should be clear: Even if you didn't do anything illegal to earn the money, you might still want to keep it hidden from the government so you can avoid tax. You might even want to launder it into appearing to come from another, less-taxed source.
I despise Trump as much as anyone, but the blame for this cannot be pinned on him. It's a law that is promoted as a tool to protect children from abuse - it's a guaranteed pass, truly bipartisan, regardless of how badly-written it may be. Some things are just politically unopposable, which is why they make excellent excuses to achieve a less popular agenda. Like making sure prostitutes cannot organise and ply their trade in safety. Events would have played out no differently were Hillary in the oval office.
Not everything bad in American politics is Trump's fault. A lot of it is. But not everything.
There is some bleedover. The former Morality in Media rebranded a few years ago into the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, and switched the political alignment of their rhetoric - dropped the religion and all the talk of family and morality, and started talking about protecting women from objectification. None of their actual positions changed - they still campaign to force racy TV programs out of production and demand the government do more to imprison distributors of pornography. The leadership just decided that they could better achieve their goals if they sought allies on the left rather than the right, and rebuilt their facade accordingly.
Money laundering even of legal income is still an issue when used as part of a larger tax evasion scheme.
Be careful with eBay graphics cards right now - some scammers have figured out you can hack the firmware on a card to spoof the model identifier. Buy a 1050, replace stickers, fiddle firmware, sell as a 1080 - as far as software reports, it is a 1080. Still performs like a 1050 though, and hope the buyer doesn't realise. Can be done on AMD cards too.
Even if you don't feel anything, you're expected to fake it. Like a politician.
I looked it up. France telecom.
I am quite sure I read it was a waitress at the time it was current news, but perhaps the news coverage made some mistakes in the rush to be first to report. Or it may be an error in my memory. In either case, the argument holds. Wired offers this rather dramatic account of the arrest: "At 3:14 pm, DPR was typing away, writing to Cirrus. Just then, a middle-aged woman and man came toward Ross, ambling along in the kind of semihomeless shuffle you might often see in a San Francisco library. “Fuck you!” the woman yelled when they were directly behind Ross’ chair. As if they were a deranged couple about to fight, the man grabbed the woman by the collar and raised his fist. Ross turned around for just a second, during which a hand reached across the table and grasped Ross’ Samsung. The petite, unassuming young Asian woman sitting across from Ross this whole time was, to everyone’s surprise, also an FBI agent. Ross lunged for his machine, a hair too late, as she turned like a quarterback for a quick handoff to Kiernan, who appeared out of nowhere—as instructed—to get the laptop. It took less than 10 seconds."
The point of all this is that if the police believe their suspect may destroy the evidence if given even a few seconds warning, and they believe the suspect is important enough to be worth the expense, they have both the legal power and the history to take measures to prevent destruction of evidence - including ambush arrests by non-uniformed agents.
Court orders, warrants, and the informal "we can't compel you, but it would be such a shame if you were to be arrested for something" warrant.
Police have had a solution to that one for years. It's why the 'no knock' warrant exists - they just need to convince a judge there is reason to believe the suspect will destroy evidence if given the opportunity.
If the police believe you have evidence at your home or on your person, they will get a warrant to search you. But if they believe the evidence is easily destroyed - a phone you can lock, or documents you can burn - then they will break into your home while you are at work. Or smash the door down and force everyone to the floor at gunpoint. Or you'll be walking down the street one moment, and the next two plainclothes officers have snuck up behind you and are pinning you against the wall while they get the cuffs on.
Recall the Dread Pirate Roberts arrest? Police knew his laptop would lock if he closed the lid, so they had to arrest him while he had it open. They used an officer posing as a waitress to get close enough without arousing suspicion, who pinned him to the floor while another ran in to grab the laptop.
This isn't something new. The legal system had had solutions for many years to address the problem of suspects who may destroy evidence if they know they are about to be arrested.
They will never be able to ban pornography from the internet, but they can certainly do a lot of harm in the attempt. How many services will be forced to close, how many people thrown in jail, as part of this futile effort?
Because the people the bill would most directly affect are prostitutes, and no politician wants to be seen as acknowledging prostitutes have any rights at all. As far as politics goes, there are only two valid images of prostitutes: Sinful harlots who need to be locked up for the good of society, and innocent victims who need to be saved from their pimp... and then locked up if they don't reform.
They do have Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park. That's suspiciously close to Disney.
Option 2 also implies "drag this mess on for a month while we wait for the analysis results to come back, during which we will need a constant police presence on site to keep out the photographers, gawkers, and the residents who are trying to save their belongings from us."
He was also a trained chemist, so his hobbies may have included chemistry too. It might be he was just carrying out some dangerous reaction for the fun of it, and screwed it up rather badly.
Whenever something of this nature happens, there's a rush in the media to be the first to dig up some exclusive detail. This usually means chasing after all of the friends and family in the hope of a juicy quote. Church leaders are a good place to look, as some of them - the ones who actually care about their community, rather than just building up the numbers and the tithes to line their own pockets - try to maintain some level of personal relationship with all the church regulars.
Hard to say. This was a trained chemist, so he might have been dabbling in hobby chemistry. It's possible the investigators just found his stock of big jars of chemicals now shattered and decided it would be safer to destroy the entire building than call in a team of experts able to identify and dispose it all - and burning down the building is a lot cheaper than safely demolishing it when you'd need everyone on the site dressed in full hazmat gear. If you can't identify the chemicals, you have to assume they are the worst possibility and then some.
And now we may never know, because the chances of the authorities ever telling the public what these mysterious super-toxins may be is pretty slim.
When the story mentions 'DIY explosives' and 'blows self up' though, smart money is on hydrogen peroxide and acetone. Good old TAP - high explosive you can make in your kitchen from readily available chemicals. Also tends to explode if you just stir it a little too fast.
By the time I was in chemistry class, we got tiny thermite demonstrations and one flammable liquid fire. That was fun. But I work in a school now, and I can say that the fire would never be allowed any more. The thermite maybe, but only if it were done following a five-page risk assessment form signed by a department head and carried out with all the students kept on the far side of the room behind a safety barrier.
It took me two weeks to get approval for students to use a soldering iron in an after-school club.
You assume there is actually a need to burn the building to the ground and destroy the possessions of everyone who lives there. There is another theory: Massive government overreaction in the name of safety. The CYA school of law: Better to render a few dozen people destitute and homeless than call in a team of real experts for a risk assessment.
That just makes it plain, ordinary censorship.
Yes, actually. With older lead-acids, the internal resistance increases, leading to reduce efficiency and peak current capacity. Paralleling them up lets you get a bit more life from them.