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FYI, your link returns "Oops, we encountered an error. Access denied. You have accessed a location on this server that is not available. You may need to Sign in to your account to access this page."
Aargh. It's some bug with the new Skitch. Is everyone getting the same error?
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FYI, your link returns "Oops, we encountered an error. Access denied. You have accessed a location on this server that is not available. You may need to Sign in to your account to access this page."
Aargh. It's some bug with the new Skitch. Is everyone getting the same error?
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He's a career criminal. He hacked for profit. He traded in stolen phone cards and turned in his compatriots for reduced sentence. He ran a "premium" phone number scam. He ran a pump and dump scheme to defraud investors. He evaded prosecution by jumping jurisdiction. He tried (and failed) to run a fake hedge fund. He sold pirated software. He committed insider trading. He's not a self-made man. He's a career criminal…
Did you find it shocking when the Prime Minister of a nation apologized directly for the ridiculous abuse of power and error in execution? http://www.nzherald.co.nz/national/news/video.cfm?c_id=15030...
I'm not quite sure of the point you're trying to make?
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He's a career criminal. He hacked for profit. He traded in stolen phone cards and turned in his compatriots for reduced sentence. He ran a "premium" phone number scam. He ran a pump and dump scheme to defraud investors. He evaded prosecution by jumping jurisdiction. He tried (and failed) to run a fake hedge fund. He sold pirated software. He committed insider trading. He's not a self-made man. He's a career criminal…
That was years ago when he was a teenager. Many people went thru an "illegal period", his was just... more successful than most. As for sociopathic, so what? Didn't you know that most CEOs are sociopaths? I find that argument... not compelling. Like it or not, sociopathy appears to be an integral/essential part of human organizations.
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FYI, your link returns "Oops, we encountered an error. Access denied. You have accessed a location on this server that is not available. You may need to Sign in to your account to access this page."
Aargh. It's some bug with the new Skitch. Is everyone getting the same error?
I can vouch for Kim's positive traits. He also has negative traits, as do we all - but I don't know much about them. However he was a customer of AdBrite (a large ad network I founded around 2000) and I spoke with him via Skype many times around 2002. AdBrite is kinda like AdSense in that you can run our ads on your site and make money. And he was running AdBrite on one of his sites. I don't remember which site of Ki…
The logos are practically the same. Cool story though.
What sane organization would sign up to be a "hosting partner" in this situation? Let's see, most of his last venture's major unpaid creditors are hosting providers, previous hosters spent months after the indictments unable to use their servers and without an ability to bill. Not to mention that he apparently wants quotes with no capex component and requires full built and managed systems including space, power, coo…
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Yeah that's one way of looking at it and I once did so myself. I've seen various projects of Kim Schmitz (aka Dotcom, aka Kimble) since the late 90s and all of them ended up failing because they weren't sustainable in one way or another. But he always came back with something fresh... This time he is trying the same things twice. So my personal opinion: lame.
Do you think that mega ran into trouble the first time because it was lacking substance in some way?
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As for sociopathic, so what? Didn't you know that most CEOs are sociopaths? I don't think that's true. If I'm not mistaken, the percentage of sociopaths among CEOs is somewhat higher than among the rest of the population, but that doesn't mean that the majority of CEOs are sociopaths.
It still means you're implicating a large group for something they are good at doing, which is manipulating an environment to suit their needs. If you're going to attack his history or his mental state, than at least be willing to acknowledge the man isn't all bad. From what I've read, it seems like some think once a criminal always a criminal, AND that mega upload was a scam.
They don't now.
(Oh, and sociopaths aren't very great at manipulating their environment. The high-functioning ones, maybe, but most sociopaths are poor, stupid, and often in jail.)