Quote from: spud21 on June 07, 2015, 12:04:33 AM

Quote from: moriartybitcoin on June 06, 2015, 11:32:03 PM

Quote from: Beliathon on June 06, 2015, 10:39:49 PM

Quote from: spud21 on June 06, 2015, 09:44:47 PM

Living every day for the rest of your life in those conditions could be a fate worse than death.

Without any doubt, it is. Death is frightening only because it's the unknown, but there is nothing worth fearing in the unknown. There never has been. Men used to fear sailing off the edge of the flat Earth, what came of that?

But lifetime of slow, lonely suffering? That is truly worth fearing my friends. That is worth suicide. If you only remember one thing I've ever said on these forums, let it be this: Don't fear the reaper.

hence the deterrent effect of the verdict, and why Ross is other peoples' time (people they will never catch, like the owners of Atlantis, etc)

I would not be surprised to see some of the other markets go out of business soon with 'exit scams,' shutting down and taking all the coins. It's much less risky than actually running a market, many of them will get out while the gettin' is good

Both evolution and black bank recently went out of business with exit scams. I doubt it's a coincidence that they closed around the time of the Ross trial. However, there always seems to be someone waiting to step into their shoes no matter how big the deterrent.

Those drug kingpins in the photos were made examples of, but there was always someone waiting to take over.

In capitalism profit finds a way to be made, just as water always finds a way downhill toward sea level. The makers and enforcers of laws can no more deny this reality than they can deny gravity.