[Walderschmidt]

Unsurprisingly, the FBI and the IRS (and probably the CIA and NSA) are still in operation, despite the widely announced shut-down of the US Government.

Quote:

Federal authorities have charged a man with running Silk Road, a popular online black market for drugs.

The authorities identified the man as Ross Ulbricht, who was arrested by F.B.I. agents Tuesday afternoon at a library in San Francisco. Court papers filed in the case in Manhattan accuse him of engaging in a “massive money-laundering” operation and of trying to arrange a murder-for-hire. Mr. Ulbricht is to appear in federal court on Wednesday in San Francisco.

Mr. Ulbricht solicited a Silk Road user “to execute a murder-for-hire of another Silk Road user, who was threatening to release the identities of thousands of users of the site,” according to a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday morning. Authorities also seized the Silk Road Web site.

I only wish that it would completely shut-down.

Wald

(h/t to Matt Forney)

[It_is_my_time]

Oh yea, the FBI, IRS, CIA and NSA are still in operation.

[Sherman]

To get that real government shutdown, you will have to wait until the Chinese internationalize the Renminbi.

https://class.coursera.org/renminbi-001/class

[Grit]

This shutdown is going to make people cross partisan lines in shared disgust for government in general.

[Akula]

If the politicians and senior agency workers throughout the government were denied their salaries during the 'shutdown' I guarantee you they would have it up and running in no time. Instead the park rangers and 'less essential' workers get screwed....

[Capitán Peligroso]

Quote:

This shutdown is going to make people cross partisan lines in shared disgust for government in general.

That's what it's designed to do.

[slothpiece]

The IRS is at about 9 percent operation. Not even tax practitioners can get anyone on the phone.