I have an application for this where I'm using 365 to 395 nm older style to attract bugs efficiently.

Come on, give us a few details. Are you collecting the bugs for research or are you using the lights as bait for your backyard zapper? Or are you collecting bugs to feed to your pet iguanas?

That's too tantalizing a statement for you not to tell us a little more.

you're changing the goalposts

we were talking about leaders of nations, and now you are talking about the unrelated honorific applied to sports stars

so if you're changing the subject, i'll take that as your intellectually dishonest way of conceding my point here

i'm glad i've been able to show you something about your world. it's ugly. it's unfortunate. but it's reality we have to deal with

okay, you don't like that stalin was a leader, he didn't deserve it

i agree with you

but how are you going to change that?

welcome to an ugly aspect of your reality

All he did was facilitate transactions among consenting adults.

Illegal transactions. And he got a cut from every deal made.

So arrest and prosecute the federal agent for attempted murder. He's the one who should be in jail. Not Ulbricht.

You don't think facilitating the transaction for a hitman for a percentage of the price should be a crime?

Remember, Ulbricht got a cut of the money for every single drug transaction on Silk Road. It's as if he bought a downtown building and rented it out to drug dealers (and hit men) and got a cut for every single transaction.

I know there's a belief that the Internet is a magical place where laws should not apply, because it's digital!, but that's just not how it works.

From the WSJ:

After a three-week trial in New York City, Mr. Ulbricht was found guilty in February of seven criminal charges, including conspiracies to sell drugs, launder money and hack computers.

So a gun, knife or rope manufacturer should be label anytime someone misuses their products?

You forgot "9/11 was an inside job"

Except for that you are speaking of what really amount to common carriers which transport bits without much worry about what they are.

Now if Comcast was in the business of advertising they have the best internet pipe for looking for slaves, chemical weapons or terrorists for hire... you might have a point.

There is a big difference between something legitimate being used for illegitimate purposes and something being built explicitly for illegitimate purposes... this is why guns tend to be legal while building a bomb is not.

Weirdly there's no evidence of that claim, and the government decided not to try and prosecute for that.

Two different things. The government also decided not to charge Al Capone for murder.

The article itself mentions that five of the attempts to hire a hitman were actually scams targeted at Ulbricht

And he fell for all of them.

"Attempting to hire a hitman" is not exactly like falling for someone selling a fake Rolex in Times Square.

All he did was facilitate transactions among consenting adults.

That's what I keep saying about bookies and pimps!

Unfortunately, one of the guys with whom Ulbricht was facilitating a transaction to kill someone was a federal agent.

I won't even get into the issue of the Anarchist claims that ANY government is necessarily illegitimate, coercively imposing its will on people who did not pre-approve this and are not attempting, themselves, to coerce others.

I think you just got into it.

Don't want to join the "rewards program?!?" -- great! You'll be spending more than I do every time you visit the store b/c I have a rewards card and you don't. You are subsidizing my purchases. Thank you!

Your "rewards program" allows your privacy to be violated. Your store thanks you.

Remember, you're personal information, spending habits, movement information, location, etc are worth something. And you're giving it away for pennies on the dollar. Have you ever read the EULA on your "rewards program"?

PT Barnum had a word for people who thought they were getting something for nothing.

I'm enjoying my Friday lunch Burger and fries at a restaurant that offers me a free meal every 10. Deal?

You really believe you're getting a "free" meal?

I guess it's true there's one born every minute.

And to maximize my savings? Order water to drink.

The Chinese have a term for people like you: schnorrer.