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A Jail Visit with the Alleged Dread Pirate Roberts

18 points by rubikscube 13y ago

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ceejayoz 13y ago
Short summary: nothing.
- wheelerwj 13y ago
  even your comment was more revealing than the article itself.
TheBiv 13y ago
Why link to this Forbes article when it adds zero value to the original article? (which isn't long either) The author of the Forbes piece literally writes an exact replica of the original article and doesn't teach us anything new. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it gets me every time. http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/jail-visit-the-alleged-dread-pirate-roberts http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/jail-visit-t...
- rubikscube 13y ago
  I initially thought the same thing. However, after reading both articles, I saw that there is some information provided in the Forbes article not present in the San Francisco Magazine article. Did you spot it? Be careful about jumping to conclusions that other people are stupid, especially when you didn't even take the time to verify that you understood what you're talking about.
  - TheBiv 13y ago
    Firstly, a little aggressive for my taste, but you're welcome to your own thoughts. Secondly, no I did not catch it, it had to have been a minor footnote; care to educate me?
    - rubikscube 13y ago
      I'm welcome to my own thoughts as well as to point out where you were wrong. It's funny that you talk about things being aggressive for your taste, when the tone of condescension could not be more clear in your original post. But then, I notice many nerds can dish it out but can't take it, especially those nerds so eager when online to act superior in some way. What you did not catch in the short Forbes article is by no means a footnote. It is the scrubbing of previous references to Ross Ulbricht by the University of Texas at Dallas. This "memory hole" treatment is further written about here http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/10/ut-dallas_has_purged_alleged_s.php http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/10/ut-dallas...

18 points by rubikscube 13y ago

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ceejayoz 13y ago

Short summary: nothing.

wheelerwj 13y ago
even your comment was more revealing than the article itself.

TheBiv 13y ago

Why link to this Forbes article when it adds zero value to the original article? (which isn't long either) The author of the Forbes piece literally writes an exact replica of the original article and doesn't teach us anything new. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it gets me every time. http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/jail-visit-the-alleged-dread-pirate-roberts http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/jail-visit-t...

rubikscube 13y ago
I initially thought the same thing. However, after reading both articles, I saw that there is some information provided in the Forbes article not present in the San Francisco Magazine article. Did you spot it? Be careful about jumping to conclusions that other people are stupid, especially when you didn't even take the time to verify that you understood what you're talking about.
- TheBiv 13y ago
  Firstly, a little aggressive for my taste, but you're welcome to your own thoughts. Secondly, no I did not catch it, it had to have been a minor footnote; care to educate me?
  - rubikscube 13y ago
    I'm welcome to my own thoughts as well as to point out where you were wrong. It's funny that you talk about things being aggressive for your taste, when the tone of condescension could not be more clear in your original post. But then, I notice many nerds can dish it out but can't take it, especially those nerds so eager when online to act superior in some way. What you did not catch in the short Forbes article is by no means a footnote. It is the scrubbing of previous references to Ross Ulbricht by the University of Texas at Dallas. This "memory hole" treatment is further written about here http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/10/ut-dallas_has_purged_alleged_s.php http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/10/ut-dallas...