Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested

Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by joering2 on Thursday July 21, 2016 @09:52AM (#12136799)

but whats your point??

he did make those roads... he paid taxes in gas, insurance, purchase of a car tax, license plate tax... all that do indeed sponsor roads he drives on!

as of military defending his patch of land, hard to argue. Africa is much bigger than USA -- how much they spent as a continent on defense? Bet 1000th of what US does. Other than that, he might choose to protect his own land with the second Amendment and keep military out of it, no?

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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by CaptSpify on Thursday July 21, 2016 @10:49AM (#12137213)

Sure he sponsored the roads, but the government implemented those roads. Planning, buying, organizing, maintaining, etc are all part of the work that the government does.

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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by joering2 on Thursday July 21, 2016 @02:00PM (#12138727)

I still don't get it. Who do you think paid for planning, buying, organizing and the cost of maintaining of all that??

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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by analognoise on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:55PM (#12140617)

All those things (planning, buying, organizing) are...work.

I was saying the government does lots of work. It doesn't always function great, but it does a lot right too.

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Re:Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distributio... by EpicEng on Thursday July 21, 2016 @02:07PM (#12138759)

No he didn't. If we abolished taxes tomorrow everything would fall apart.

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