I wonder if this is related to the Paul Le Roux case recently featured in The Atavist. Can't find the first submission for this or I'd link it. Le Roux sent his pharmacists stacks of prepaid FedEx envelopes to ship the prescriptions created by internet pharmacists, and that was actually one of the ways the government caught up with him.
Prosecutors Drop Drug Trafficking Case Against FedEx
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're thinking of Qwest's Nacchio and his insider-trading conviction. WorldCom was a few years earlier and an unambiguous case of massive financial fraud on the heels of Enron. Bernie and his cronies deserved every bit of what they got, and more besides.
Yeah, Bernie and WorldCom completely ruined one of the greatest tech startups ever, MCI. I mean, they broke up the AT&T monopoly on phone service! With what started out as a microwave radio service for truck drivers! (Yes, the AT&T lawsuits to assert copyright over UNIX followed, but those were unintended consequences and not MCI's fault.) I once got a tour of the building that ran uu.net (owned by MCI) before it bec…
That was also the first commercial ISP (UUNet), correct me if wrong.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, Bernie and WorldCom completely ruined one of the greatest tech startups ever, MCI. I mean, they broke up the AT&T monopoly on phone service! With what started out as a microwave radio service for truck drivers! (Yes, the AT&T lawsuits to assert copyright over UNIX followed, but those were unintended consequences and not MCI's fault.) I once got a tour of the building that ran uu.net (owned by MCI) before it bec…
That was also the first commercial ISP (UUNet), correct me if wrong.
According to Wikipedia, The World was the first commercial ISP in 1989. I do remember using MCIMail at a law firm around 1990-91 though, so they weren't far behind.
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#14I wonder if this is related to the Paul Le Roux case recently featured in The Atavist. Can't find the first submission for this or I'd link it. Le Roux sent his pharmacists stacks of prepaid FedEx envelopes to ship the prescriptions created by internet pharmacists, and that was actually one of the ways the government caught up with him.
I thought the same thing. The types of drugs being sold were the same ones.
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#15Nothing surprises me with the government anymore. The DEA wanted to continue building a drug case, so they didn't give Fedex information that they would have used to immediately cutoff service to the suspects, which would have tipped them off that the Feds were onto them. That's certainly their right, but they can't then turn around and prosecute Fedex for not acting on information they never had. This was nothing mo…
So surprising for the gov to go after a billion dollar company. So surprising. But I think the politics in the US is breaking down a bit. In that petty self-interest is taking over and slowly creating a corrupt system. Happens to everyone given enough time I guess.
They are like UPS has given us 40 million, why has FedEx not paid the Lord this tax. FedEx is in for a smiting.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, Bernie and WorldCom completely ruined one of the greatest tech startups ever, MCI. I mean, they broke up the AT&T monopoly on phone service! With what started out as a microwave radio service for truck drivers! (Yes, the AT&T lawsuits to assert copyright over UNIX followed, but those were unintended consequences and not MCI's fault.) I once got a tour of the building that ran uu.net (owned by MCI) before it bec…
That was also the first commercial ISP (UUNet), correct me if wrong.
I'm old enough to remember UUNet as the center of the universe and by curious circumstances I ended up having them as my ISP years later (around 1999/2000) when I moved to a place that only had ISDN as the high speed connectivity option. UUNet had a POP that was local call dialable for me, due to the phone company lacking ISDN capability on the local switch: they backhauled my circuit to a city 120 miles away and UUNet has colocation there.
The lowest ping times I've had before or since!
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#17"I like the FedEx driver, because he's a drug dealer and he don't even know it... And he's always on time."
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#18Is this the legal version of "don't shoot the messenger" ?
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#19Is this the legal version of "don't shoot the messenger" ?
No, Fedex would have been liable if it had knowingly continued to ship illegal drugs after having been notified by the government. In this case, Fedex asked for needed details, and was rejected.
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#20The only real crime here is squashing competition, now that a clear message has been sent to all couriers, expect even further insane prices. Same drugs can be bought via online pharmacies for fractions of the price from docs/hospitals