At 05:46 PM 8/26/00 -0400, Tim May wrote:
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>Untraceable contract killings, crypto anarchy, is about to make
>possible a wave of justice the world has never seen. Forget Bell's
>hoaky, and cumbersome, "betting pool." Easier to simply hire
>assassins untraceably. (If bets can be placed untraceably, contracts
>can be arranged untraceably. Think about it.)
Sure, but most people don't have the money to do this. Bell's betting
pool lets everyone contribute to ('geodesic' :-) karma. Both are
viable schemes.
Otherwise folks will only be polite to the perceived-wealthy.
"An armed society is a polite society" -Heinlein
