Mr. Nice
by Howard Marks · first published 1996
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THE BOOK: During the mid 1980's Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five companies throughout the world. Whether bars, recording studios or offshore banks, all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity: dope dealingMarks began to deal small amounts of hashish while doing a postgraduate philosopy course at Oxford and soon he was moving much larger quantities into Europe and into America the equipment of touring British rock bands. The academic life began to lose its allure. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up
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on “Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked” ↗Mr Nice by Howard Marks Yes, he was a criminal, with great entrepreneur spirit.
on “Ask HN: What books helped you in your entrepreneurship journey?” ↗Sounds very similar to what is written in another drug smugglers book. http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Nice-Autobiography-Howard-Marks/dp/... Maybe it's the same ghostwriter.
on “McAfee’s Third World Travel Guide” ↗…there Sunday morning doing a discussion. This was actually a proper discussion. I'd always go along as he was there either before or after my favourite drug smuggler ever Howard Marks who wrote the book Mr Nice. Now, Tony would always engage - pretty much each time I went he'd sit with a group of people with views orthogonal to his own and discuss them. We'd not often agree but we'd shake hands and hopefully…
I was reminded of the following excerpt in Howard Marks' book "Mr. Nice", who wanted to study Philosophy of Science in Oxford University many decades ago: "There was a problem with respect to how my diploma course would be financed. In those days there were two main grant-giving…
on “Oxford announces new degree in Computer Science and Philosophy” ↗Or Howard Marks in the book Mr Nice tells a bit about his thinking the US had no power over him and then, oops.
on “Facebook says it sold political ads to Russian company during 2016 election” ↗These tactics are as old as international drug smuggling itself. Howard Marks(Mr Nice)[0] says in his book that he stationed one of his associates in Amsterdam to operate as a communications node, he finds out later that the Dutch police had tapped the phone lines within weeks. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Marks
on “Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked” ↗…copyright infringement. Often with US law enforcement where there's a will there's a way even if it doesn't strictly stick to normal legal practices. See also Assange, and if you read Howard Marks book Mr Nice there's another example of where they got him in an unconventional way. Plus of course a variety of drone assassinations.
on “Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand” ↗