Topic: Dank Bank Deposits - dank's soul is claimed! - New music Nov 30th - page 90. (Read 128893 times)

You must have trouble with reading comprehension.  Here, try again:


On second thought, don't bother replying.  I've just realized I'm guilty of feeding the troll.

Million dollar ventures are completely separate from Dank Glass, I was just hoping to start a small business for the short term.

I honestly think the business part is the important bit.  While there's a substantial market, you're not going to make a lot of money without achieving market dominance or carving out a large niche.  There are already well established players in that market so you either need to offer products to which they have no access or be more competitive on price (even after factoring in what you're paying your lenders).  You also want to avoid offering products which might get you into shit for things not specifically drug related - some vibrant colours in glass are achieved by the use of radioactive materials, for instance.

The demand for high-end, custom pieces definitely exists.  The question is whether dank is able to access both the people who can produce them and the people looking to purchase them.  It's a bit more complex than "set up a website and they shall come".  

And yeah, he should probably act to minimise his risks and ensure that the accounting is legitimate so that if he does happen to get busted for paraphernalia offences he doesn't leave himself open to taxation and money laundering charges as well.

Yeah, making art glass pipes is unlikely to become a multi-million dollar enterprise...but art glass pipes can be high margin if you can tap into the right customer base.

Dank decided to make his illegal business a topic of discussion here, not I.  It is not off-topic to criticize a business.  These forums believe in free speech and if I think the business is a bad idea for moral and legal reasons that is entirely on topic to point out.

There are federal drug paraphernalia laws, that one state may have less stringent laws does not change that the business is illegal or that age should be verified.  


http://www.alternet.org/story/10515/feds_vs._bongs%3A_heads_up_for_head_shops


I am not assuming anything.  He is planning to sell illegal drug paraphernalia.  He has admitted he will not do anything to verify age.

Dank, are you planning to report any income from this illegal enterprise to the IRS?

Let's review:

• dank starts a thread offering to accept deposits into Dank Bank in the lending section
• Trust discussion ensues
• dank posts "Updated Dank Glass logo.  Dank Glass will sell a variety of quality pipes for BTC"
• Rarity ventures out of the Off Topic section with "drugs are bad/think of the children" posts
• Rarity successfully derails thread with a bunch of off-topic nonsense posts

Rarity, there are plenty of jurisdictions that have no problem with businesses selling glass pipes - as long as they are labelled properly and certain other i's are dotted and t's are crossed.  Ironically (given recent events) TX is one such jurisdiction.  Here's but one example.

Why do you assume that a business which hasn't even got off the ground yet will sell illegal drug paraphernalia to children?  Wishful thinking?

Would a statement from dank to the effect of "I will only sell my products in jurisdictions where it is legal to do so" send you back to the Off Topic section where you belong?  If not, you really are a dope (pun intended).

Well, Dank is.  He's a bit too high to be helped here.  This is about how this conversation is going:

Dank:

Rarity:

No-one's suggesting that dank isn't risking getting busted - especially if he's going to be selling directly rather than through SR.  His "investors" need to take that risk into account - they'll have no plausible deniability if he does get busted and need to consider whether they'd be open to charges themselves in their particular jurisdiction if that happens. 

We don't know whether dank is even planning on holding stock and shipping directly or using a drop-ship model where he never comes into contact with the merchandise but simply passes on orders.

While I personally think it's silly to risk a criminal record at 18 for little return (it's not likely to become a multi-million dollar enterprise), it's up to dank and his investors to decide whether they consider that risk worthwhile.

The drugs are causing you to be unable to read and comprehend my statements.  Generally porn sites that do not verify age are not hosted in the US because of our laws protecting children. I'm sure some that do verify age have had kids make it through their defenses, however they stand by their legal and moral obligations and make an effort.  You are making no such effort, you are simply gleefully prepared to endanger children for your own benefit.


Once again, the law does not allow you to steal things while yelling "NUH-UH I'M JUST BORROWING IT IF I CALL IT SOMETHING ELSE IT'S LEGAL!".  You have the mind of a child.  You are selling drug paraphernalia.  It's kind of a laugh you would pretend to care about the health of children while planning to illegally sell them harmful drug use products.  You have already been shown the dangers of marijuana addiction and the deaths it causes.


The drugs have shortened your attention span and damaged your comprehension.  The search lists head shops closed down for a wide variety of reasons, branching their criminal enterprise out to illegal drug sales is just one of the listed reasons.  Attempting to sell across state lines online is one such reason for prosecution.

What these criminals do is not "legal".  Selling drug paraphernalia is illegal.  When a mob boss uses code to order a lieutenant to have an underling commit a murder, that can be difficult to prosecute because it can be hard to prove he ordered the hit.  That they sometimes get away with it does not make it "legal".  What head shops do is attempt to circumvent the law in the same way by using code words like "Waterpipe" instead of "Bong".  They still often end up in legal trouble for either admitting the truth or failure to check id which is a requirement once you claim the bongs you sell are tobacco pipes.


Again, your clouded and addled mind has been unable to engage with the actual evidence and expert testimony under discussion.  It doesn't matter what you or I think, the studies have been reviewed by medical experts and scientists worldwide are far more qualified to understand what they mean than you or I.  You have utterly failed to do anything but shout "Nuh-uh!" at them even though you are clearly unable to think and even follow a basic conversation.  This is not a debate between reasonable viewpoints, it is a worldwide scientific consensus that maintains the worldwide legal restrictions on this dangerous drug.

I think people should be less worried about the morality of dank's plan than about whether he can generate a significant volume of business and whether he's crunched the numbers properly. 

That people will lose their money if he gets busted is blindingly obvious, so the more relevant question is whether he's going to be competing on the basis of offering unique or custom-made glassware or on the basis of price. How's he going to compete with established merchants like Shivadas and Fullmelt?

Oh, look, 420 posts.

I beg to differ on that point.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=90

Rarity's anti-drug agenda is pure Scientology.  He even quotes the Scientology-run Narconon as one of his citations.

No, it is not a system that verifies anything.  Most porn sites that serve to minors are hosted outside of the United States to avoid such laws.


Stop playing dumb. You have legal and moral responsibilities of your own.  There is no such thing as a fool-proof system in any field, however your alternative of "Well fuck it I'm not even gonna try, if children become addicted to drugs and die, oh well!" is not a viable alternative to the best systems available.   Here is one such service you can use to verify ID:  http://integrity.aristotle.com/

There are many others.  The federal tobacco regulation requires an ID check at delivery, you can work out a system like that if you want to.  This is a case of you wanting to sell to children and profit off their harmful drug abuse, not verifying ID being some impossible task.


They are frequently prosecuted and shut down.  Do you live under a rock?  They also generally check ID because even most illegal drug criminals are not as heartless and evil as you.  They also generally do not do online sales as it opens them up to federal prosecution when they sell across state lines.


I am not a medical doctor or scientist.  They know the studies better than I or you and they have determined there is significant harm.  The drug remains legally restricted everywhere in the world for this reason.  Like a global warming denier you are simply rejecting science you don't like because you wish it weren't true.  

That is a system of verification.  Just like porn sites that ask if you're 18, they can't help it if people lie about their age.  Propose your child-proof age verification system.  Because kids don't get, like, fake IDs or anything.  It's not my responsibility, it's theirs and their parents.

I'm quite sure hundreds, if not thousands, of smokeshops around the country sell glass pipes, legally.  Or are they all part of the secret drug cartel mafia, seeking out their next under aged victim?

That's what I thought, you let someone else think for you instead of doing it yourself.  You don't know any harmful effects from cannabis and you have never actually researched it.  I can list dozens of studies supporting cannabis's medicinal properties, including it's ability to kill cancer cells.

You have no system to verify you are not selling to children in place.  You are rejecting personal responsibility for your own actions, which is pathetic when you are selling a product so harmful to children.  And yes, this is still a federal crime even if you did have such a system.  It's illegal even to sell drug paraphernalia to adults.  Even if you lie and say the products are only for tobacco use, you then have stringent requirements for age verification to sell tobacco products that vary from state to state.  And oh wait, you have no such system!


The law doesn't actually work this way.  You can't sell an illegal gun and call it a sculpture.  You are going to go to prison if you continue with this.


I have already linked the dangers to you from expert sources who have reviewed all available studies.  It is pointless for me to continue when your addiction is simply causing you to ignore the evidence in favor of your urges for more drugs.

No, my customers will agree that they are 18 when they purchase.  That's their responsibility, not mine.  You can stop with the children fear mongering.

How is it illegal to sell a decorated piece of glass?  I'm not selling meth pipes, bud.

Also, I'm curious, have you ever heard of medicinal marijuana?  I'm quite sure patients can legally obtain the instruments needed to administer their medicine.

Not everybody has to live exactly like you.  Regarding your last statement, please list a single harmful effect of cannabis, with a study.

No age verification system, so yes you are planning on selling drug paraphernalia to children.  You realize that is a serious federal crime, right?

http://www.justice.gov/usao/id/news/2012/may/headshops05102012.html


This is not just about your disgusting opinion that it's not nice to see if you are selling drug tools to school children, what you are proposing to do is flagrantly illegal, assuming you are in the US.  Anyone who is engaging in banking activities with you should be seriously concerned that the assets they have invested with you may be forfeited in a criminal investigation of your illegal drug related activities.  They should also be worried that your otherwise entirely sound banking business may become compromised when your drug addiction causes you to dip into customer funds.  It's very unwise to trust an addict with any amount of your money.


I am not a Christian and neither was my family.  I have lived all over the world and performed many jobs and had many amazing relationships and spiritual experiences.  You need to peak out from your Mom's basement and your drug induced haze to learn most people in the world generally do not decide to enslave themselves to dangerous chemicals and live full and amazing lives.

Regardless, the research asked for was on the question of the harm involved with the drug, and any research shows you experts believe it to be significant.  

No one is arguing the fact that you are probably 'Book Smart'.....
........just that you most likely grew up, living a sheltered life, peeking out of your closet.... somewhere below the Bible Belt.