# Got my laptop back from the police... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 11, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-my-laptop-back-from-the-police/631144 "2012-08-11T01:56:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-my-laptop-back-from-the-police/631144/21 "2012-08-16T15:50:45Z")
WTF is “Silk Road”? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-my-laptop-back-from-the-police/631144/22 "2012-08-16T15:55:42Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > WTF is “Silk Road”? > **[Black Market Drug Site 'Silk Road' Booming: $22 Million In Annual Sales](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/08/06/black-market-drug-site-silk-road-booming-22-million-in-annual-mostly-illegal-sales/)** > > In the year since Senator Joe Manchin called for the "audacious" drug-selling website Silk Road to be "shut down immediately," the world's most high-profile underground pharmacy hasn't just survived. With $22 million in annual sales and around double... ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-my-laptop-back-from-the-police/631144/23 "2012-10-06T20:58:23Z")
well, drugs. IMO they ALL otter be legal and if people need help with them, it’s a medical issues. really: making drugs illegal is just stupid. I am currently cranked up on WINE: something that is completely legal everywhere, and yet if I was stupid enough to drive under the influence I could certainly kill people, by accident. it’s just DUMB to make some drugs legal, and some a crime. DUMB. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-my-laptop-back-from-the-police/631144/24 "2012-10-06T21:09:39Z")
Be safe. Wipe the drive. Or better still, wipe the drive, then sell it. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-my-laptop-back-from-the-police/631144/25 "2012-10-06T23:53:09Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > Be safe. > Wipe the drive. > Or better still, wipe the drive, then sell it. Meh, I’ve carried on using the laptop since I posted this thread and am in fact posting from it now! I have nothing illegal to hide anyway. Embarassing stuff sure, but nothing illegal now that I am no longer buying illicit substances, as much as I want to, and since I posted this the performance has been pretty normal so I’m almost certain there’s nothing surreptitious installed on it. Come Monday, time to get my passport and phone back! P.S. Jackie you’re absolutely right. Eventually your common sense view will prevail, of that I am sure… ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-my-laptop-back-from-the-police/631144/26 "2012-10-07T17:59:39Z")
> [@Simple\_Linctus](#): > > Yes, although they are £300/hour and charge 6 minutes to read an email and 6 minutes to reply. In other words asking a tiny question costs me £60. Just a side note - I have worked in many law firms and for many attorneys. It is common practice to ALWAYS bill in minimum time amounts of 6 minutes, no matter if it only takes 2 seconds. Your best approach in the future to save money is save all of your questions for one longer email that might actually take the full six minutes to read and six minutes to respond. Otherwise, the six minute rule is pretty much set in stone. Oh, and don’t ever let a law firm make photocopies for you! They charge a fortune for that. Make your own copies. Also do your own faxing. Just sayin’… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-my-laptop-back-from-the-police/631144.md?page=1)