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by splittist 11y ago
So the offense is, essentially, not arranging your affairs in a way so as to leave them open to easy scrutiny by the state. With decades of precedent allowing such laws how can strong cryptography possibly be permissible?
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by splittist 11y ago
Money laundering is old. Money laundering being its own stand-alone crime is recent. (And part of the modern trend of criminalizing the living of one's life in a way not maximally transparent to the government.)
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by splittist 11y ago
> I wonder what the deal was with bribes and kickbacks over the selection of the host country for the 2010 World Cup (i.e. South Africa)? Answering my own question, having now skimmed the indictment, it seems to be the usual suspect taki
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by splittist 11y ago
Money laundering is a recent invention as a crime. None of the actions involved are actually criminal in themselves, it's just that they (supposedly) make it harder for the authorities to detect something they might want to be obvious,
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by splittist 11y ago
These are "FIFA Officials" in the same way that the representatives countries send to the UN are "UN Officials", or US Congressfolk are "US Officials". They aren't people who actually do the work at FIFA.
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by splittist 12y ago
OK. I have contemplated the list of Pulitzer Prizes for Beat Reporting( http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Beat-Reporting ) as an example, and fail to see anything that doesn't advance the dominant paradigm. If that is w
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by splittist 12y ago
An independent check on government and power? Where and when has this happened? I know this is the story journolists (sic) tell themselves, but for all of its adoption of a neutral speaking-truth-to-power self-description, the modern practi
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by splittist 14y ago
For a non-Valley, non-VC, non-swing-for-the-fences (Sand Hill Road cookie cutter) startup, think about where your risks really lie (who is going to sue you; when; why; and for how much). If you have partners, then having someone walk you th
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by splittist 14y ago
And "Administartion". But, hey, the jam looks appetizing.
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by splittist 15y ago
If every issue of CQ has an interview of this calibre and quality it's going to be THE essential subscription for the field.