Monthly Archives: September 2013

‘Sovereign citizen’ pays fines with 70,000 pennies

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“Fourteen months and about 70,000 pennies later, James Sanders has finally paid off a pair of citations he received last summer in Clinton County. But the most difficult part of paying the fine wasn’t coping with the impact it might have on his budget. It was figuring out how to carry it from the car to the courthouse. ‘As far as I’m concerned, they are stealing this money from me,’ Sanders said. ‘If they want it, this is how they are going to get it.’  Using two large buckets and a utility dolly usually used for moving furniture, Sanders and a neighbor loaded up the coins and carted them into the courthouse.”

http://www.wtsp.com/news/watercooler/article/335451/58/Sovereign-citizen-pays-fines-with-70000-pennies

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Gypsy Uses Gold for Bail? Judge Says It Seems ‘Fishy’

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“There were Liberty gold coins and Krugerrands, and a gold chain so thick that had it been used as a restraining device, it might have done a fair job of keeping Tom Eli behind bars.  After centuries of being chased from country to country, the Roma, sometimes called Gypsies, have developed an aversion to traditional institutions, including banks, and have their own internal economy. He said he feared that his client was being treated differently from similarly situated people because of his background.  Mr. Kenniff said that many who live in the United States still follow ancient traditions, including passing down gold coins and necklaces as heirlooms, and owning those pieces communally.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/nyregion/pile-of-gold-to-use-for-bail-seems-fishy-a-judge-says.html?partner=socialflow&smid=tw-nytmetro&_r=0

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Farmers Market: Bitcoin Haven or Bitcoin Bust?

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Farmers Market: Bitcoin Haven or Bitcoin Bust?

“A couple of weeks ago, we visited the Salt Lake Farmers Market. We were amazed at the receptiveness of the vendors there to bitcoin. It was the smoothest experience we have had in the month and a half we have been living on bitcoin in persuading people to accept bitcoin. These were very open minded folks!  Five different vendors accepted bitcoin from us for their products.”

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Tulsa: Meals on truck wheels

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“The food truck phenomenon hits Tulsa and reshapes the dining landscape.”

http://vimeo.com/73796590

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Could You Be Arrested For Offering A Lyft?

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“The Internet has yet again found a way for you to make money with minimal start-up costs…and the government is right there to ready to ruin it on behalf of some entrenched interests.  We’ve already covered how to start up your own B-N-B (‘Bed, No Breakfast’) via Airbnb. We’ve also covered how the hotel lobbies in various popular cities have appealed to local and state governments to shut down Airbnb so that the individual entrepreneurs it enables don’t pose a threat to the hotel industry’s income. All in the name of ‘safety’, of course.  Now the same thing is happening in the cab industry. Lyft is allowing people to use their existing cars to become cab drivers after a vetting process.”

http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2013/9/17/could-you-be-arrested-for-offering-a-lyft.html

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Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Uber And Lyft Drivers Being Arrested

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“The two services, Lyft and (this part of) Uber are simply electronic methods of hitching a ride. That electronic thumb replacing the one waving by the side of the road. That’s it, really, that’s all they are: and yet airport authorities are arresting people for doing this?  We could of course take them seriously, at their word, that this is all about safety, but why bother to do that when we can look at the larger picture? Which is that every taxi company and commission in the country has been desperately searching for a reason not to allow these services to operate. Even when they do allow it, it’s only after 18 months or so of procrastination.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/08/03/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-uber-and-lyft-drivers-being-arrested/

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New Heights in Disgraceful Asset Forfeiture (Seizure)

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“The U.S. is seizing 650 Fifth Avenue, the 36-story Piaget Building, from Iranian interests. I’d guess the value is several hundred million dollars. All asset seizure procedures are an utter disgrace, totally unlawful and unjust. This one is triply disgraceful, based as it is on undeclared economic warfare against Iran, phonily done in the name of anti-terrorism, and based on as about as unlawful a ‘law’ as Congress has ever manufactured.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/new-heights-in-disgraceful-asset-forfeiture-seizure/

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Here’s What Happened When Google Went Public

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“I arrived at Google in late 2003, prior to our S-1 being filed in April 2004. There was already lots of internal and external speculation about our trajectory but until the document went public, no one understood just how powerful a business model the company had created. During my interview process Google HR was very secretive about the value of my equity. In fact they told me only the number of shares I had been granted. Without knowing the number of shares outstanding or the enterprise value of the company, a grant total was totally useless but they essentially said ‘trust us.’ What changed once we went public and how might these same shifts impact Twitter?”

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-happened-when-google-went-public-2013-9

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Google argues for right to continue scanning Gmail

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“Attorneys suing Google say the firm violates privacy and takes personal property by electronically scanning the contents of people’s Gmail accounts and then targeting ads to them.  ‘This company reads, on a daily basis, every email that’s submitted, and when I say read, I mean looking at every word to determine meaning,’ said Texas attorney Sean Rommel, who is co-counsel suing Google.  But in a federal court hearing Thursday in San Jose, Google argued that the case should be dismissed, and that ‘all users of email must necessarily expect that their emails will be subject to automated processing.'”

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GMAIL_PRIVACY?SITE=AP

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Court: WiFi Sniffing Can Be Wiretapping Because WiFi Isn’t Audio

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“A couple years ago, we were disappointed to see a judge take the technologically wrong stance that data transmitted over WiFi is not a ‘radio communication,’ thereby making sniffing of unencrypted WiFi signals potentially a form of wiretapping. Indeed, based on that, the court eventually ruled that Google’s infamous WiFi sniffing could be a violation of wiretap laws. This is wrong on so many levels… and tragically, an appeals court has now upheld the lower court’s ruling.  There are serious problems with this. Under no reasonable view is WiFi not a radio communication first of all. That’s exactly what it is.”

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130910/11594924472/appeals-court-upholds-dangerous-ruling-that-wifi-sniffing-is-wiretapping.shtml

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