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I bought into Star Citizen on Kickstarter in 2013, then went to jail for 10 years. Got out and it's still not done...

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Geez, first cable modems [1], now oscilloscope watches.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37386397

Wow that is some next level kickstarted disappointment

Is that the first thing you checked when you got out?

If it was me I would have still had that large stash of bitcoins I sold off too soon.

I'd also still have all that Tesla, AMD and Nvidia stock

In fact, a 10 year prison sentence would have me walking out with tens of millions of dollars.

I could just imagine, blowing the dust off my laptop and logging into my Schwab account... My Tesla holdings alone would be like 7 million, lol

>I could just imagine, blowing the dust off my laptop and logging into my Schwab account...

Does your fantasy include the website telling you your browser is unsupported followed by several hours of installing updates?

You mean the world isn't still using firefox 3.6 on ubuntu 12.04?

Well, some of it is

Wow, parts of the "how the character became a millionaire" montage that never leave the cutting room floor.

It could actually become a good premise. An ex criminal with a lot of money but those properties are completely unrelated to each other.

Explain to the probation officer why they're searching for luxury homes while sleeping on their brother's couch

Coming to the realization that it was the act of doing absolutely nothing that made them rich.

I bet it's happened before.

Time to commit another crime, next time you're out of jail it should be finally completed. Or at least, in a playable state.

Maybe check on it in another 10 years.

What did you do to go to jail?

I was thinking something horrible but then I recalled how the US jailed some guys for years due to transporting some lobsters in a plastic bag[1], so yea...

[1]: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2010/07/22/rough-justice

Well that certainly piqued my interest. Found this too, though: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/50631/did-abner...

Funny how disinformation can spread so easily. Reading that stackexchange link throws a different shade entirely.

The article, which is about the real subject of american incarceration rate, present those dudes as innocent bystanders commiting a minor offence which should not even be an offence. On the other hand, these guys have been illegaly exploiting wild life in a foreign country for almost a decade and got jailed.

Nothing to see here.

Actually, there IS one thing to see here: apparently a notable failure of journalism from The Economist.

Nice find. I read the Economist piece back then and found it quite wild. Good to know it wasn't as crazy as portrayed. Still, the Lacey Act seems like it could easily be abused, given that old, outdated laws tend to linger.

it’s very difficult to know the exact details of that story, but one thing for sure though is that it wasn’t “transport” as much as it is “import”.

They bought Star Citizen

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