Cryptowit

By William W. Lawrence Sr

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Milton Friedman

House OKs Bill Hiking Penalty For Sex Trafficking

House OKs Bill Hiking Penalty For Sex Trafficking — The House recently approved a measure to offer Pennsylvania’s criminal justice system better tools to hold human sex traffickers accountable to the law, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).

House Bill 663 would increase the penalties for those who traffic minors from a third-degree felony to a first-degree felony and would make it clear that the penalties apply to trafficking a minor whether or not the perpetrator knew the victim was under the age of 18. In addition, the bill also would charge a parent who sells or trades his or her child knowing the child will be forced into commercial sex as a result with a second-degree felony. The bill would define commercial sex to include any sexual activity in which anything of value is given to or received by another person where the activity is induced by force, fraud or expressed or implied coercion, regardless of the age of the victim. Trafficking charges would apply even if there was no proof of coercion.

If enacted, the bill would give victims the right to sue for damages and attorney’s fees against someone who coerced him or her into or to remain in prostitution or to collect or receive any part of the victim’s earnings from prostitution.

The measure now heads to the Senate.

Kudos. One suspects the right to take the matter to civil court — where unanimous juries and guilt beyond reasonable doubt are not necessary —  might be even more of a deterrent than the increased criminal penalty.  Sex traffickers, after all, are primarily motivated by money.

Maybe our lawmakers might consider letting civil courts be the main venue in fighting the drug trade, as drug dealers are also motivated primarily by money. It would require, though, making drug use legal as victims would not want to face criminal charges when filing their lawsuits.

It would not be a bad idea, either, to give others harmed by drug dealing — family of users, their neighbors, co-workers, employers, employees — standing to sue.

House OKs Bill Hiking Penalty For Sex Trafficking

Shish Kabob — Tonight’s Meal

Chef Bill turned 84 yesterday so he didn’t chef but rather was taken to Tavola’s at the Springfield Country Club where he ordered the seafood combination platter and a margarita. The coffee and dessert – a delicious blueberry pie made by Mrs. Chef Bill — was served at home.

Tonight, however, he was back on the job where he cooked up a delicious skewerless shish kabob featuring lamb, beef (an old London broil), along with mushrooms, green and red peppers and cherry tomatoes. Some chicken drumsticks and basa fish were thrown in just to make the meal a feast.

Dessert was an Italian rum cake provided by some nice neighbors.

The wine was a syrah from Columbia Winery.

Everything was perfect.

Long Nyquist Liquor Incest In Pa.

Long Nyquist Liquor Incest— Long Nyquist and Associates, the Harrisburg lobbying firm representing the state liquor store clerks, earned more than $1 million last year for campaign work on behalf of Republicans, according to TribLive.com.

The article says that its those Republicans “who are pushing privatization of liquor sales.”

Hold on there, Sunshine. Not all Republicans are pushing for this. If that were the case, the state stores would have ended two years ago as the GOP controls all of Harrisburg.

Hat tip Bob Guzzardi.

 

Long Nyquist Liquor Incest

14 Percent Gamers Are Americans

14 Percent Gamers Are Americans — Fourteen percent of Americans use a computer or console to play a video game at last five hours per week — and that doesn’t include those who use mobile devices.

14 Percent Gamers Are Americans

Get Ready For Bitcoin

Get Ready For Bitcoin — Expect to see stories about the bitcoin  in the old general media.

Online businesses are starting to use this digital currency  because it dodges credit card fees and goes a long way in eliminating payment fraud.

Unlike a fiat currency such as the dollar or euro, bitcoins are mined like gold except that instead of a crusty old guy with a mule wielding a pick they are found by math geniuses using computers.

Each bitcoin transaction  involves data called  “blocks” each of which contain just a little bit of meaningless random information. The miners take all the data in the transaction, shuffle the random part and find a “hash” which are mathematical processes that are easy to reproduce but impossible to reverse and hard to predict. This means that it is more expensive to counterfeit them than to try to find them the right way, as counterfeiters would have to account for more data.

They are backed “exclusively by code” as per  the Bitcoin Foundation.

By design there is never more than 21 million bit coins. New, more difficult to hack, hashes replace the older ones. At some point the system will stop creating new coins and the miners will be out of business.

Note, there is no government regulation or oversight.

Get Ready For Bitcoin

Doubt though you may it appears to work. Over 70 exchanges for bitcoins can now be found online. It is on these that you can get your bitcoins for buying. Merchants, of course, can simply acquire them by accepting them for goods or services.

To use bitcoins, a merchant can site up an account with an exchange such as BitPay which will convert the money to dollars and direct deposit it into the businesses bank account. It charges a processing fee starting at .99 percent which is much less than a credit card.

Here is some more information about bitcoins.

Prediction number 2: Expect to see governments based on fiat currency start attacking bitcoins.

Hat tip Entrepreneur magazine

 

Get Ready For Bitcoin

Cryptowit

By William W. Lawrence Sr

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Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Happy Birthday, Bill Sr. It’s a shame Hoover was your first president.
Amity Shlaes

Exiled From Academia

Exiled From Academia — Mary Grabar, Ph.D., founder of Dissident Prof, (www.dissidentprof.com) interview six of her colleagues who had been “exiled” professionally and socially from academia for ideas deemed heretical by the radicals who are now running things.

She compiled them in Exiled: Stories from Conservative and Moderate Professors Who Have Been Ridiculed, Ostracized, Marginalized, Demonized, and Frozen Out.

At least someone has the guts to speak out. And why do we taxpayers give these university honchos such rich lifestyles?

Exiled From Academia