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  1. Re:It's simply stupidity on Miami Money-Laundering Case May Define Whether Bitcoin Is Really Money (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In the UK if you tell the bank cashier that you're planning to break the law with the funds you're withdrawing, they're breaking the law if they don't report it.

    Usually the bank has a named MLRO (money laundering reporting officer) that the report will go to, that will then inform the relevant authorities.

    It's the law. Whether you think it's a good one or not, people get imprisoned for breaking it.

  2. Re:Trading goods for illegal services is OK? on Miami Money-Laundering Case May Define Whether Bitcoin Is Really Money (ibtimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's an interesting and tricky one. Ignoring whether anti money laundering laws are a good thing*, surely converting money into a non-currency form prior to exchanging it for an illegal good or service is substantively no different to exchanging the cash itself.

    It seems odd that the determination of whether Bitcoin is money is even relevant.

    *No, not in their current form. Why the fuck is it 'money laundering' to use cash to buy an illegal good or service? Surely that's "buying an illegal good or service". Stop adding laws that make one crime multiple crimes, it doesn't serve justice.

  3. pointless cutting a deal on Eric Holder Says Snowden Performed 'Public Service' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think deals have any legal relevance, should a judge choose to disregard them.

    I suspect Snowdon would expect a judge to disregard any deal, even were he able to negotiate one. At least, one better than "confess everything, destroy all copies, denounce your supporters and we'll give you Life not demand a death penalty".

  4. Re:talk is cheap on Eric Holder Says Snowden Performed 'Public Service' (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He doesn't want immunity for Snowden. He's explicitly said that there must be consequences.

    It's possible to acknowledge that an act led to good outcomes while still breaking the law in a way that can not be supported. Holder is taking that perspective.

  5. Thing is, Wine is doing the same thing as Android, and this court case confirms that copyright law in the US doesn't preclude this.

  6. Re:They don't know what they're talking about on Op-ed: Oracle Attorney Says Google's Court Victory Might Kill the GPL (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Were she not extrapolating from a position that's already lost in court you might have a point.

    As it is, she's clearly talking utter bullshit and just doesn't understand the difference between API and implementation - which is why Oracle lost. Whether that's wilful misinterpretation or genuine stupidity I don't even give a shit.

  7. Your solution also provides certainty around any potentiial survivors on the aircraft.

  8. Re:Set a ceiling on TSA Replaces Security Chief As Tension Grows At Airports · · Score: 1

    You mean $85 to smuggle whatever the fuck he wants onto an aircraft? Sounds like a decent deal to me.

  9. Re:Random Thoughs on Netflix and Amazon Could Face Content Quotas In Europe (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    New Top Gear on Netflix is probably going to be awesome.

    Oh, there's a third one? I was going to give the new BBC show a chance, and I'm looking forward to seeking Clarkson's new vehicle (accidental pun, but fuck it) on Amazon Prime. Will wait and see what Netflix launch, their UK offering just isn't worth the subscription fee.

  10. Re:Why mention Google? on Google-Backed Solar Plant Catches on Fire (pv-tech.org) · · Score: 1

    You ignorant fuck, loan guarantees have a very real cost attached to them.

    Add up the loan guarantees across the government estate and there's a massive liability sat there. That costs money.

  11. Re:If they need some money... on Google-Backed Solar Plant Catches on Fire (pv-tech.org) · · Score: 1

    Erm. A loan guarantee does have a cost. There's a chance of default (or no guarantee would be required) and at its simplest the cost of the guarantee is the chance of default times the size of the loan.

    Things do get impressively more complicated than that, particularly when you're a government and able to heavily influence the factors that may cause a default, but the cost is not zero.

  12. Re: If they need some money... on Google-Backed Solar Plant Catches on Fire (pv-tech.org) · · Score: 2

    You say this like it's a bad thing.

  13. Re:I hate bad journalism like this... on The World's Largest Cruise Ship and Its Supersized Pollution Problem (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's rather less deceptive when looking at car emission laws, and how fucking pointless they are when one Maersk triple-E pulling up on the coast is out-polluting every fucking car in the country.

    It may be shifting more tonnage but that counts for shit when I can't drive into town to collect the goods because the council are banning diesel cars.

  14. Re:Strong enough for a man, made for a woman on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Women excessively boost the scores of shows that men watch but don't find as good as others.

    Why are women encouraging this continued supply of subpar TV shows? Do they hate men?

  15. Re:especially female programmers on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    Really? Expecting women to just fucking step up and show that they're capable of matching men, that they should just do what they want and not let people stop them, that they can achieve equality by demonstrating their equality justifies feminism?

    If that's feminism then fuck feminism, fuck you and fuck anybody else that promotes this total bullshit. But especially fuck you. Fuck you.

  16. Re:What a load of BS on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    In Colorada pot is legal.

    So a MS or Amazon employee could fly to Colorado for the weekend, happily puff on the world's fattest spliff, get named in the Guiness Book of Records, fly back home and fail a drugs test without breaking the law - or being impaired in their work.

    So just as a record, you're a lying piece of shit and the world would be improved if you'd admit this and promise to give some money to the next crack whore you meet without asking her for anything in return.

  17. Re: What a load of BS on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    All good software engineers are lazy.

    Why do you think they automate the fuck out of the entire process?

  18. Re: What a load of BS on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    Only if you had totally shit processes, a complete lack of QA and an utter failure in generic software engineering.

    Given that most programmers are measurably shit at their job, you need proper controls whether someone's flying high as a kite or not. So put those proper controls in place and if someone is consistently failing to pass them address that specific individual issue.

    Drugs? Completely fucking irrelevant.

  19. Re:SJW much? on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    ThatsNotPudding: Complete cunt.

    There was nothing misogynist in the quoted text. Why are you so fucking scared of equality, egality and valuing people on what they can do, not who they are?

  20. Re:Neckbeard much? on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    Fuck off, you misandrist piece of shit. Programmers rate programmers, not testicles. If you're good enough, you're part of the team. If you're not, fuck off.

  21. Re:I guess there's one sensible solution to this on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    You total idiot. You're applying sound management practices and not sticking hard and fast to strict dogma.

    I'd hate to work for you, I might need to actually do my job well instead of ticking the right boxes.

  22. Re: After I received a DMCA notice from them... on Copyright Trolls Rightscorp Are Teetering On The Verge Of Bankruptcy (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    vegetarian, gluten-free dick

    Cucumber? Or is it a banana? Does it depend whether you're posting instagram pictures in China?

  23. Re:Because music labels share so much with artists on YouTube Is Guilty Of Criminal Racketeering, Grammy Winner Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Advertising revenue and actual sales from the people that found, enjoyed and chose to buy the music through Youtube, increased audience leading to higher music, merchandise and concert sales, and you're claiming they'll lose money on every song?

    Brilliant analysis, fuckwit.

    I guess you were talking to yourself before hitting 'submit'.

  24. Re:Trump is the future on Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The raw statistics do not back up your fearmongering. Women do not suffer anywhere near the rate of rape suffered by men in US prisons, and the supposed rape culture is a myth espoused by liars with an agenda.

    Sounds like you're one of them.

  25. Re:Trump is the future on Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    make ending rape culture a goal - and that includes ensuring every rapist gets the punishment he deserves and actually BAN victim blaming as an attempted defense in court.

    The only rape culture in the US is in the prison system. It's good that you support ending this atrocity, but I'm confused that you've mentioned it when describing 'the war on women'.

    Asking a rape victim (or claimed rape victim) challenging questions is not victim blaming, it's justice. But I guess you don't want justice.