RE: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-26 Thread Hentrich, Steffen
I think you can`t unlink both factors (genes/womb and country) because genetic defects and growth of embryo are partly affected by social and environmental circumstances of the country, carciogenic pollution and food, malnutrition or physical stress of the mother (hard work, etc.). Thatswhy I

Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?

2002-01-26 Thread fabio guillermo rojas
When faxes were invented, people got pissed off when their valuable fax line was used by unsolicited advertisements. Thus, in many places fax spam is now a legal offense punishable by a large fine for each unwanted faxed message. Ie, the conflict was resolvd simply by having the practice

Re: Life Expectancy and Immigration

2002-01-26 Thread Bryan D Caplan
Bahizi_P wrote: Country of destination would be the answer. Not to be critical, but do you have any data, or is this just your best guess? Life expectancy has a lot to do with access to a myriad of services primary available in developed countries (where life expectancy is greater) such

Re: Spam: Legal, economic or technical problem?

2002-01-26 Thread Alex Tabarrok
There are some good potential economic mechanisms using micro-payments. If it costs even a nickel to send an email that would greatly reduce spam. Money is not even necessary - suppose that when an email was sent a response was sent back saying in order to accept this email you must factor this

Re: Photographers

2002-01-26 Thread Yazad Jal
Fred's solution looks to be the best. I remember noticing that the copyrights for a lot of celebrity photographs are no longer with the original photographer. Maybe this system does work -yazad Ask them how much is the least they would accept in payment for the negative, before you have