But it is!

Anyone on the planet can dial your number and connect a call to you.

What may not be "publicly available" is the association of your name with your number, but the number itself can be dialed by anyone.

For a FEE.

You had to pay a fee to have an unlisted number.

Better a tracker than a cam. Nobody needs to see that shit.

You left out....

How wonderful it is to have multiple languages, yet somehow not so wonderful not to have multiple measurement systems.

Honestly. I don't understand why the rest of the world goes all apeshit about how things in the U.S. are measured. I mean, who fucking cares? Hell, I LIVE HERE and don't fucking care.

All that, PLUS, when trouble happens, don't be there.

Sure. But the question is how to prevent it, and do those prevention techniques differ based on why you might be kidnapped?

I don't see how there is any difference.

It's all common sense anyway, and mostly boils down to "keep quiet about your wealth". If nobody knows your wealthy, nobody has a reason to kidnap you to get your wealth.

I can tell you this much, nobody who looks at me walking around would EVER guess I've got close to $2M in (fairly) liquid assets. I dress plainly (most of my clothes come from Duluth Trading Post). I don't display wealth (watches, jewelry, etc). I drive a beater of a car (almost 20 years old). I don't typically whip out a wad of cash anywhere I go. Besides that, those fund are not accessible from my phone. When possible, I also carry a gun and a small utility knife (for general tasks, not defense). I have a "security mindset".

Those are all things you should be doing whether you don't want to get mugged for bitcoin or any other reason.

At this point it's not a question of if we are screwing whales, it's how and how much. Between noise from shipping and sonar, fishing, whaling, general pollution, micro plastics, and climate change, we aren't doing them any favours.

What is the difference between how to not get kidnapped for your bitcoin, and how to not get kidnapped for your cash or other wealth or how to not get kidnapped for any other reason? What is the difference in techniques?

Or should the article really just be, "How to not get kidnapped" ?

They would rather not sell you a car. More profitable to sell you a loan to buy a car, or even better just lease it to you for a monthly fee, then take it back and sell it to someone else, maybe in a different market.

List prices are mostly to deter people buying those cars, but at least in the UK if you look around you can usually get them with a very hefty discount. Mine was about 30% off.

Uh.......I think your science is suspect.

Maybe Europe should ban selling companies to Americans, eh?

What about US ports makes them so fire risky?

Not who or what I would choose to track, but whatever floats your boat I guess.

Way to be an asshole.

My god!

I hope that my son (currently 9 yrs old) can manage to avoid that lifestyle, as I will not be here to guide him to prevent it

Good luck to you and yours, my friend.