Do you like drug dealers that kill young Americans
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2951475]Tiny, you have to understand that in order to sell gold, silver, and crypto, the come on is the same, the dollar is going to shit and you need to diversify. The issue with any of those investments and you touched on it is they just sit there. Other assets like stocks, bonds, or farm land provide income or dividends. So yeah, it makes sense to hold some of it as a hedge against the dollar, and it is a great way to get around that $10,000 limit placed on your when you travel, but I do not think it should be looked at as an investment. It is more of a safe holding and given how you can change BTC into currency, I do not get why using BTC is as currency is that big of a deal.
What got the Feds first interested in Bitcoin was the web site silk road being run by Ross Ulbricht as he was the king of using crypto to make a fortune on the dark web. Eventually, the Feds got him and sickeningly entrapped him on an attempted murder charge. Thing is two of the federal agents tried stuffing their pockets with bitcoin as they thought it was not traceable and were caught. The Feds were on Ulbricht as they thought this use of the internet and BTC was their way into the currency of crime. One agent who spoke to Ross anonymously through chat said every federal agency was after him, and that was accurate. Trump has made pardoning Ulbricht a political talking point.
So the notion that you can use BTC for criminal or nefarious purposes is just not true. [URL]https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/30/politics/federal-agents-charged-with-stealing-bitcoin/index.html[/URL]
Besides entrapment, the government in its haste to take Ulbricht down. What has happened sadly in our country is the days of finding people not guilty based on government malfeasance is gone.
And this is one of the reasons I am backing Trump so much, government agents who tear down the law to get to our citizens for their own gain. The civil cases against Trump where there were no victims or an absolute kook of a victim and the criminal case where you make up a law no one has ever been prosecuted with and have your star witnesses being a porn star and felon show how badly justice system has fallen down.[/QUOTE]So how many young Americans do you think Ulbricht, that scumbag Libertarians love so much killed selling drugs?
Don't worry Scumbag Joe may just redeem himself before all is said and done
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2951494]Unless I missed it, of the approximately 25 most recent General Election, Harris vs Trump Head-to-Head / Multi-Candidate polls and a handful of Battleground States of Michigan, North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada polls on the 538 Site since the end of September, Repub Donald Trump is not ahead of Harris in a single one. Just 2-3 ties here and there:
[URL]https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/[/URL]
And she and Walz are kicking the crap out of Trump and Vance in the many "Approval" polls, too.
Not that polls are decisive. Just for people here who enjoy the polls. Or used to.[/QUOTE]He handed her the nomination as a fuck you to Barry Hussein and Nutty Nancy.
He deliberately handed it to the Democrat least likely to win, and now he's trying to help make sure she doesn't.
[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/10/06/video-incredible-president-joe-biden-accused-of-trying-to-destroy-vice-president-kamala-harriss-campaign/[/URL]
Thanks Scumbag Joe.
Third World.
Veep Harris/Dem's COMMON SENSE approach to PORN...
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2951522]Here's the text,
(a) IN GENERAL.Whoever, using a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, owns, manages, or operates an interactive computer service (as such term is defined in defined in section 230(f) the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230(f))), or conspires or attempts to do so, with the intent to promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both.
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And there you have it. If through reviews ISG "promotes or facilitates the prostitution of 5 or more persons," then anyone who owns, manages or operates the web site can be incarcerated for up to 25 years.
I believe the name change from internationalsexguide.com to internationalsexguide.info occurred because somebody stole its original domain name. However, the change to internationalsexguide.nl most likely occurred either because of FOSTA/SESTA or because Jackson et al saw something like it coming. Similarly The Erotic Review moved offshore and for a while wasn't available in the USA. You don't see people like David Elms, Michael Lacey and James Larkin being the face of sites that review or advertise prostitution anymore. I imagine they're trying to stay out of the public eye as much as possible, because of these laws.[/QUOTE] According to section (f) this includes just about every website that may contain "sexual" content. Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230(f))):
[i][b]Section (f) Definitions:[/b]
As used in this section:
(1) Internet
The term "Internet" means the international computer network of both Federal and non-Federal interoperable packet switched data networks.
(2) Interactive computer service
The term "interactive computer service" means any information service, system, or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server, including specifically a service or system that provides access to the Internet and such systems operated or services offered by libraries or educational institutions.
(3) Information content provider
The term "information content provider" means any person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided through the Internet or any other interactive computer service.
(4) Access software provider
The term "access software provider" means a provider of software (including client or server software), or enabling tools that do any one or more of the following:
(A) filter, screen, allow, or disallow content;
(B) pick, choose, analyze, or digest content; or
(C) transmit, receive, display, forward, cache, search, subset, organize, reorganize, or translate content.[/i]
So under this ancient and old umbrella law, the Communications Act of 1934 and the addendum of 47 U.S.C. 230(f), would include Facebook, X (aka.Twitter) and other just about any other social media websites/apps or dating site, talking, promoting or discussing "sexual activities/content" deemed "inappropriate" and against the law, as it stands.
[QUOTE=Tiny 12;2951522]This is another example of how Kamala Harris and many other politicians have no regard for free speech.[/QUOTE]
Let be real here, for a moment shall we! [i][b]A prosecutor doing their job[/b][/i] and finding real criminal intent at a sex trafficking porn website, is lightyears away from a fascist President and VP, declaring WAR on PORN and what they think is [i]"sexual criminal behavior or content"[/i], defined by puppetting right-wing conservative billionaires and special interest fanatics and zealots like the Heritage Foundation (and a 900 page doc in PROJECT 2025), looking to instate a nationwide ban and criminalize "pornography" under their purview, is vastly two very different things.
Common sense prosecutor Harris, under section (f) did not go after ALL websites contenting "sexual content" and nor will President Harris. But the candidacy of Trump/Vance, will surely prosecute and find websites like Facebook, X, Tinder or ISG criminally liable, if they could under Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 230(f)). Just like they'll do, to get a nationwide abortion ban, under the Comstock Act of 1873.
[b]No such [u]COMMON SENSE[/u] will be afforded under a Trump[/b], MAGA and conservative Repub administration. They are ON RECORD, for going after, placing bans and criminalizing abortion, Mifepristone, IVF, LGBTQ rights, equal rights, women's rights, minority rights ...etc.
Make no mistake about it, if elected, [i][b]they (corrupt Trump, the conservative SCOTUS and Project 2025) are coming after your rights, freedoms and free speech.[/b][/i]
I respectfully request that you stop trolling me here
Elvis, Why do you come into the [B]American Politics[/B] thread to troll me? There are three countries that have rants threads where I regularly post. Can you please contain your [B]ad hominem[/B] attacks on me to those three locations?
[QUOTE]So you do not even own it now? Unreal.[/QUOTE]It is just unfortunate that I lost all the crypto I own. I lost it in an unfortunate crypto scam. [B]LOL[/B]1.
[QUOTE]No, you just beat your chest about the stocks you claim to own that are winners. [/QUOTE]Yep, just like the beauty queens you claim to be fucking. At least your boy [B]Trump[/B] actually fucks porn starts. And I don't see him here on ISG beating his chest about it like you do.
[QUOTE]Then you turn around and say you are not rich.[/QUOTE]I am rich in ways you do not understand. I am time rich. I value my time much more than money. As an example: How many billions would Steve Jobs have given of his ample fortune for more time on this earth?
[QUOTE]You know just enough to be dangerous.[/QUOTE]To whom? Myself? Damn straight. You know I owned AAPL back in the day. I traded it. It was in a range. Between 4. 00 - 10.00. Did that for months. Last time I sold and waited for it to go back to 4. 00 it did not. Steve Jobs announced he was returning to Apple and that was all she wrote. So, no I am not like you. I do not know it all.
[B]ROTFMAO![/B]
My sincerest condolences you don't have big white one like me
[QUOTE=SubCmdr;2951243]Every man has a dick. Not every man has a [B]Big Black Dick[/B] like me.
Bitcoin is a unique crypto digital commodity that is scarce.
[B]False! [/B]Statement is imprecise. Author needs to quote a source for proof.
[B]False![/B] The OP needs to quote a source for proof. Because he has dumb ass friends that invested in a [I]pig in a poke[/I] crypto on line does not mean it is easy. Perform due diligence. People goto jail everyday for violating of the law involving regulated products. They get fined and banned from the industry.
The problem is not lack of regulation. The problem is the current mother fucker who is the SEC Chair. He has used the SEC to play fuck fuck gotcha games with the crypto industry in general. He is a mother fucking industry insider that has used the SEC to slow down grown so his investment banking friends could catch up.
They don't want you to own your Bitcoin. [B]Fuck dat shit![/B].
Only a individual who does not understand Bitcoin would do this. [B]Not your keys. Not your bitcoin[/B].
This is the stupidest thing I have read about BTC in my life. BTC is not physical.
No one has ever been robed of cash or lost it?
Bitcoin is a digital assest. Only the dumbest of the dumb mother fuckers who have done absolutely no research get phone hacked. I don't carry more cash on my person than I need for transactions. Why would you have anymore Bitcoin on your phone than you need for transactions? Bitcoin is a digital bearer instrument..[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/mr-big-jonah-falcons-giant-penis-problem-52712/[/URL]
Just call me Jonah.
Repubs and Dems, tell Trump and knuckleheads, to JUST STOP LYING...
[QUOTE=EihTooms;2951563][b]The much greater threat to all of us [/b]
A much greater threat to ISG and all domestic and international mongering is the side that has actually shut down and in many ways irrevocably negatively impacted and changed for the worst Sex For Pleasure at home and abroad, P4 P or not, by their Trump's Pandemic Part 1, Repub MAGA 6 SCOTUS rulings and stated intention to turn the beacon of freedom in the world into an authoritarian ChristoFascist Theocracy.
Those are not the people or side I vote for. Only admitted Repubs and pretend Bothsider / Neithersiders vote for and help that side gain positions of power.[/QUOTE]
Your threat assessment is 100% correct. So after almost a decade of Trump, [i][b]people would be a fool not to realize, he belongs nowhere near the WH.[/b][/i]
You only need to look at what utter garbage, lies and disinformation being spread by Trump and his Igor toadstool over on X (Twitter), 'mad as a hatter' claims about climate change, the twin 'back-to-back' hurricanes (MTG-Dems are controlling the weather with Jewish satellites??), FEMA, the non-response, non-help and non-aid supposedly not being deployed, to realize, a sudden jolt of deja vu and feel like you're all the way back in 2020 listening to pandemic lies and ignoring the scientists and experts.
When Trump and his administration cronies where telling you similar lies, disinformation and spewing gobbledygook about things they had no business saying, they were knowingly harming, hurting and poisoning people by telling them lies to take, Clorox bleach and Ivermectin (horse-deworming drug) to cure COVID.
The 2024 hurricane Helene crisis, brings a new set of lies, but same old indignant Trump, indifferent to the struggles, suffering and hardship of rebuilding lives, that hurricane survivors are now face. That same level of fake sincerity Trump is peddling, sure does resemble the level of ineptitude, lack of leadership, compassion and insensitivity, he showed during COVID, Puerto Rico's hurricane Maria (2017) when he thew paper towels into a crowd, or North Carolina (NC) and hurricane Mathew (2017) when he only give NC, 1% of the total disaster aid they were asking for, because they were a blue state and had not voted for him. And let's not forget his dispassionate hate, while pretending like he cares for our fallen, wounded and injured veterans and military men and women, who have served.
As many QAnon/MAGA Repubs and bothsiders alike are [i][b]"sane washing",[/b][/i] Trump's insanity and are saying really irresponsibly things like, [i][b]"His words can't really hurt you",[/b][/i] I want to remind those individuals, that the people in those states devastated by the hurricane, are hurting because of lies and disinformation, that Trump and all of humpy dumpty's useful idiots and internet trolls, are peddling. They are suffering unnecessarily, because of their lies about FEMA and the Biden Admin providing no federal aid, help or resources, to aid their plight.
Both congressional personnel, heads of states, heads of departments and LE brass for those disaster states, are begging Trump and the other knuckleheads [b]to JUST STOP!!! [/b]
STOP...with the all the lies, disinformation and misinformation, about no aid being delivered or help on the ground. As it is all bunk, not true and only severs to hamper clean-up, relief and rebuilding efforts. It creates unwanted panicking and a flood of unnecessary emergency calls and level of anxiety, they're ill-equipped to deal with, atop of everything else w/r to their rescue and rebuilding efforts.
When the real-life stories from Trump's former aides and advisers, are publicly telling us, Trump would withhold disaster relief aid to states that didn't vote for him, or because the governor was a Dem, shows those of us willing to listen, as to what a narcissistic, petty, lowbrow, vulgar and sadistic little imp, he truly is.
In the case of the California deadly wild fires of 2018, his aides had to show him, that the devastation that took place in Orange County (CA), were people that had voted for him, before Trump would send disaster relief aid. [URL]https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/helene-trump-politics-natural-disaster-00182419[/URL]
Yes his words can hurt you. Yes words have consequences [b]and especially when those words are lies. [/b]
[b]And Trump is a pathological liar...[/b]SO DO THE MATH!
Your Politico link proves once again that
[B]every Trump accusation is a confession.[/B]
Lolol.
[QUOTE=Spidy;2951644]Your threat assessment is 100% correct. So after almost a decade of Trump, [i][b]people would be a fool not to realize, he belongs nowhere near the WH.[/b][/i]
You only need to look at what utter garbage, lies and disinformation being spread by Trump and his Igor toadstool over on X (Twitter), 'mad as a hatter' claims about climate change, the twin 'back-to-back' hurricanes (MTG-Dems are controlling the weather with Jewish satellites??), FEMA, the non-response, non-help and non-aid supposedly not being deployed, to realize, a sudden jolt of deja vu and feel like you're all the way back in 2020 listening to pandemic lies and ignoring the scientists and experts.
When Trump and his administration cronies where telling you similar lies, disinformation and spewing gobbledygook about things they had no business saying, they were knowingly harming, hurting and poisoning people by telling them lies to take, Clorox bleach and Ivermectin (horse-deworming drug) to cure COVID.
The 2024 hurricane Helene crisis, brings a new set of lies, but same old indignant Trump, indifferent to the struggles, suffering and hardship of rebuilding lives, that hurricane survivors are now face. That same level of fake sincerity Trump is peddling, sure does resemble the level of ineptitude, lack of leadership, compassion and insensitivity, he showed during COVID, Puerto Rico's hurricane Maria (2017) when he thew paper towels into a crowd, or North Carolina (NC) and hurricane Mathew (2017) when he only give NC, 1% of the total disaster aid they were asking for, because they were a blue state and had not voted for him. And let's not forget his dispassionate hate, while pretending like he cares for our fallen, wounded and injured veterans and military men and women, who have served.
As many QAnon/MAGA Repubs and bothsiders alike are [i][b]"sane washing",[/b][/i] Trump's insanity and are saying really irresponsibly things like, [i][b]"His words can't really hurt you",[/b][/i] I want to remind those individuals, that the people in those states devastated by the hurricane, are hurting because of lies and disinformation, that Trump and all of humpy dumpty's useful idiots and internet trolls, are peddling. They are suffering unnecessarily, because of their lies about FEMA and the Biden Admin providing no federal aid, help or resources, to aid their plight.
Both congressional personnel, heads of states, heads of departments and LE brass for those disaster states, are begging Trump and the other knuckleheads [b]to JUST STOP!!! [/b][/QUOTE]I notice the list of idiotic sucker social issue reasons Wingers cite for why they must vote for Trump at all costs is sometimes missing their previous idiotic all-time Classics; Dems drink the blood of babies, Dems want everyone to be transgender, Biden brought in millions of illegal immigrants to eat your house pets, etc.
I miss them. But they must not have been working for them in the polls.
Money Laundering Through the Physical Transportation of Cash
[QUOTE]If you mean the government, I think that was fair to say when crypto was used as currency for crimes. The USA government now gets how crypto works and with the exception of a few tax haven nations like the Bahamas (where SBF was based), they can trace crypto. It is not that hard.[/QUOTE][B]The OP makes absolutely no point here[/B]
[I]Cash is also still widely used in the criminal economy. *The physical transportation of cash across an international border is one of the oldest forms of money laundering and still widely used today. Criminals often choose to remove their illicit assets from their bank account in order to break the audit trail by transporting it to another country to spend it or reintroduce it into the banking system.[/I]
[URL]https://www.fatf-gafi.org/en/publications/Methodsandtrends/Ml-through-physical-transportation-of-cash.html[/URL]
So is the OP an advocate of money laundering? New restrictions on cash, or a Central Bank Digital Currency now?
I do not find the OP credible when speaking about Bitcoin or Crypto. Others have testified to my knowledge of the subject. It is not a right or left issue. All technology will be used to commit crime. The problem is not the technology it is the people that use it.
If you don't like crypto just say so, stop putting out misinformation
[QUOTE]Americans lost $5.6 billion to cryptocurrency fraud scams last year. https://fortune.com/2024/09/11/crypt...raud-2023-fbi/.
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/202...-introduction/ There was $39.6 billion in crypto received by illicit addresses.[/QUOTE]There are regulations for banks in the United States of America. Yet every year banks fail? Is the problem with the banks or the people running the banks? When I bank fails, I pay for the failure. I do not like that!
When dumb ass mother fuckers lose money in crypto the proper people pay: [B]The dumb ass mother fuckers[/B].
Side note, there should be no FDIC insurance. Without insurance that force not only the people but the banks to run a top notch organization. Because a bank operating is a wreckless manner would go out of business very soon because they would face a bank run with no safety net.
[QUOTE]Do you have the name of my friends?[/QUOTE]Do you know any of the girls I date?