At 12:36 PM 4/15/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
There are many markets out there which do not rely on the official
court system to enforce contracts for.
The diamond-trading jews of New York use reputation (ostracism from
the community, centrally enforced by a council that rules their voluntary
At 02:11 PM 4/15/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
Tim;
One thing to consider is the role of "credit histories", or
virtually any other identity-linked information, in a milieu
where the people have access to the necessary techniques and
programs to do those deals.
You sell Alice a credit
Bear wrote: (Bear, read the entire before you reply...)
I said:
That is an over-simplification, but yes. Intelligence is not
headlines. To a
large extent, "what's happening" is not analyzed correctly, because the
intelligence community lacks sufficient expert analysis to cope with the
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:11:56PM -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
You sell Alice a credit history on Bob; Bob takes a new
identity; Alice is back to square one. Why would Alice
buy credit histories?
Not everyone will choose to be lost in the Net.
So the solution is simple: I sell Alice a new
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Declan McCullagh wrote:
At 02:06 PM 4/15/01 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
When you talk about a one-time transaction, it pretty much has to
involve something whose value can be ascertained ON THE SPOT.
otherwise, there is either a continuing relationship that can't
be
