Those money laundering rules apply to any currencies handled by US businesses, including casino chips. The government is not trying to shut down the casino industry. They just require you to record information from your customers.
That's fine. They decided that breaking regulations they volunteered to follow was ethically justified. And they were fully aware that the punishment for breaking those regulations was life in prison.
You didn't ask me, but I can still provide an answer. "What has the NSA done to people?"
No frigging clue, because everything done is "secret". You can assume that they have done nothing, and I can assume they have done everything.
If people who disagreed with the NSA were arrested, or lost their jobs, or were audited, or were deported, or disappeared in the middle of the night, we would know about it. Those things can't be kept secret.
The root post warns of the unstated repercussions of attending this "honeypot" conference. I want to know what those repercussions are.
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Those money laundering rules apply to any currencies handled by US businesses, including casino chips. The government is not trying to shut down the casino industry. They just require you to record information from your customers.
HSBC was not a party to the money laundering. They were fined for insufficient oversight, which allowed other people to launder money.
In this case, the guy is being charged with direct involvement in the money laundering.
I assume that the company you run made more than $6.5B last quarter.
Citation for an FBI van showing up to interrogate someone based on their internet searches?
That's fine. They decided that breaking regulations they volunteered to follow was ethically justified. And they were fully aware that the punishment for breaking those regulations was life in prison.
So you're assuming that everyone who didn't vote agrees with you? That's reasonable.
You think those things are the same? Really?
Why in the world the UK, with a supposedly "ELECTED" and "DEMOCRATIC" government, want to follow China in erecting their "Great Firewall" ??
Why the "supposedly"? Do you have evidence that the UK's election results were not legitimate?
The British government is enacting this censorship policy with the full support of millions and millions of people who don't post on Slashdot.
I certainly don't support the filtering, but the fact that it's opt-out makes it VERY different from China's firewall.
The US has a national censorship firewall? Since when?
That doesn't make sense.
Old headlines from prisonplanet.com?
The real crackpots will never be silenced, they do to much to discredit the NSA protesters.
Good news for you then.
You didn't ask me, but I can still provide an answer. "What has the NSA done to people?"
No frigging clue, because everything done is "secret". You can assume that they have done nothing, and I can assume they have done everything.
If people who disagreed with the NSA were arrested, or lost their jobs, or were audited, or were deported, or disappeared in the middle of the night, we would know about it. Those things can't be kept secret.
The root post warns of the unstated repercussions of attending this "honeypot" conference. I want to know what those repercussions are.
Yeah. So you didn't answer my question at all.
What terrible things have the NSA done to people who attended previous similar conferences?
Ahh...the downside of allowing anonymous posting.
For my amusement, please tell me you actually believe this and aren't trolling.
The parent post says "Congratulations, America". They are addressing America.
No. They go to jail all the time too.
I can be punished for short selling stocks based on insider information.
Equal protection clause.
That's how you took that? Really?
I'm against the death penalty. I also don't give a rat's ass what Europeans think about my country.
As soon as we care what you think, you will be notified.
Because that would be unconstitutional. You can't modify the punishments for a crime depending on the person's job.
More people ran for President than just Obama and Romney. Also, there were hundreds of Congressional races.
America is imperially oppressing every single country on Earth?