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Re:Bitcoin hits US$ 4, after being mentioned on CNN yesterday by tba on Saturday April 30, 2011 @07:17PM (#2501844)
"think of the bounties on someone like Kim Jong-Il"

Did you ever think of the bounties on anyone inconvenient to governments or big businesses? The founders of The Pirate Bay, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, BP whistleblowers, environmental activists and climate scientists – would society be better off with them all dead?

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Re:Bitcoin hits US$ 4, after being mentioned on CNN yesterday by gwern on Saturday April 30, 2011 @08:34PM (#2501971)
One Kim Jong-Il is worth all of Pirate Bay combined, and heck, throw in Assange & Manning as well (they've informed the public, helped out the historians a lot, and caused some irritation, but I see few concrete changes to stack up against hundreds of thousands of dead).

So, yes, I did think of the inconvenient people.

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