back to article Silk Road seller 'blew through all that money using drugs and going to strip clubs'

This week, we trash-talked the state of BIOS security, poked around a buggy new version of Windows, and then smeared a bunch of Microsoft on some perfectly good Android phones. Here are a few of the best quotes picked up along the way. While bigwigs like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk are fretting over a future of genocidal …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    He blew through all that money using drugs and going to strip clubs.

    Well, at least he didn't waste the money.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: He blew through all that money using drugs and going to strip clubs.

      I used to have an ex-drug runner for a friend. I once asked him about the wild parties that are always shown in the movies. To which he pointed out that these guys know if the Feds catch up to them, they'll lose all the money and property that they have. So rather than try to save for retirement and risk losing everything, the spend the money about as fast as they can.

  2. Red Sceptic

    The rest he just frittered away ...

    1. Hellcat

      ... the rest they just squandered.

      If we're going to mis-quote Gerorge Best we could at least almost have the quote correct!

  3. JayBizzle

    Living the pisshead dream

  4. TeeCee Gold badge
    Terminator

    Distraction?

    No, no, no. Killer robots are not a distraction, distraction robots are a distraction.

    Killer robots are the ones that sneak up and kill you while you're distracted.

    One of the greatest strengths of machine kind. Specialisation unto perfection.

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