RE: Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-12 Thread Phillip H. Zakas
Just to add an interesting experience to this thread, I've flown to Bermuda and to the Cayman Islands (not an attractive place, but great diving). On the flight to Bermuda the in-flight magazine had several articles discussing Bermuda's aggressive moves against being a tax haven. Saw the same

Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-10 Thread Jim Burnes
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 05:29, Ken Brown wrote: ... The sun still doesn't set on the British Empire (not while we have Pitcairn!), London is still the heart of darkness, it is is still the place where the money is (most of the money in the world, by orders of magnitude, is in

Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-10 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:54 AM 1/10/01 -0600, Jim Burnes wrote: On Wednesday 10 January 2001 05:29, Ken Brown wrote: ... The sun still doesn't set on the British Empire (not while we have Pitcairn!), London is still the heart of darkness, it is is still the place where the money is (most of the money in the

Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-10 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:22:52PM -0500, John Young wrote: The full story of crypto is yet to be written, in particular its deceptions, perhaps a piece by Vin McLelland, one by Declan, one by Tim May, if not by distributed cyperhpunks not quite so malleable as solo individuals given

Re: As Dot-Coms Go Bust in the U.S., Bermuda Hosts a Little Boomlet

2001-01-10 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 01:11:01PM -0800, Tim May wrote: I hope you don't do this. There have been several of these kinds of collections--a guy at MIT has done at least a couple of them (I forget his name, though three of my short pieces are in one of his books: the books cost $40-60 or