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2004 8:12 PM
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Subject: Re: the cost of spam
> The survey is rather leading -- what about phrasing it as you pay $.01 and
> everyone else pays you $.01 when they send you email?
> [...]
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> A $.10 reimbursement for reading this message is available upon
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established email address, the rates charged could easily surpass
the total cost of "spam processing."
A $.10 reimbursement for reading this message is available upon
request. (Requester pays S&H)
-- John Morrow
At 11:22 AM 3/10/2004 -0500, you wrote:
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list organized crime as a beneficiary of keeping several drugs as
prescription only.
John Morrow
At 02:22 PM 3/7/2004 -0800, you wrote:
I'm trying to come up with a comprehensive list of all
the parties interested in keeping most drugs with a
prescription-only status. Obviously doctors becau
decreases over their
20's and 30's and female libido peaks around 35-38? (Think "Battle of the
Sexes" over several periods...) Wild conjectures welcomed.
-- John Morrow
Quoting Bryan Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I just read the well-reviewed *Women Don't Ask*
I don't know if this is true, but I have been told the #1 shoplifted item is
Preparation H and like ointments -- this seems to fit in well with the theory
that people want to remain anonymous in purchasing V!agra...
ement of modern experiments -- incentives completely lacking by
nature in a survey. However, this may be completely different in
particular subfields.
-- John Morrow
I recall a Japanese econ grad student telling me that in fact real interest
rates were negative for some span and people were STILL saving in the late
nineties in Japan. He also blamed several bubbles at the time (notably,
real estate in Japan) on this. Interesting if true... (Anyone know the
de
If anything, I think you could argue that the Holocaust contributed to a
higher than average Jewish IQ rather than the other way around. I'm sure
Jews able to avoid fatal persecution in WWII and in the USSR have several
qualities highly correlated with intelligence. An environment which values
ed
A Tax Loan is given by the gov't to a specific person, and is repaid by that
person's taxes.
1) Tax Loans can replace gov't grants with loans.
2) Taxes repay the loan.
3) A small loan repayment surcharge (loan tax) also repays the loan.
4) In a Tax Loan program an explicit, honest social contrac
I believe that even quite recently (in the last year or two) China was found
to be inflating its growth estimates significantly, and I have some
economically minded Indian friends who claim Indian estimates are also
intentionally inflated. I believe at the collapse of the Soviet Union it was
found
I would think that the general lack of information about the probability
and severity (including duration) of enforcement would impair the ability
of people to choose an efficient level of lawbreaking, to put it in that
light. Also, more information about who to harm when committing a crime is
nec
Not meaning to reopen the can of worms, but seems this response was lost
I'm sorry, I couldn't find any particular articles about the negative
effects of the DMCA on the first link (I'm sure there are some -- please
post a link.) The second link is not content based -- I would like to see
some pr
I fail to see how the delineation and protection of property rights in the
DMCA is in any way "anti-Libertarian" -- most laws seem to be a mixed bag,
DMCA included, but the DMCA seemed to me to be a general move in the right
direction -- could you (or someone) explain why the DMCA does more harm
t
I recall some companies working on consumer devices to automatically buy
electricity based on price information sent to the device, namely for use in
California -- they were expecting to implement some a couple of years ago, so
you might be able to find price data from the devices on that -- sorry
Selection comes to mind. On uninhabited planets, sentient beings don't ponder
this question.
Quoting "Robert A. Book" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Bryan Caplan wrote:
> >
> > > That seems to water down the Principle to complete irrelevance, doesn't
> > > it?
> >
> > Well, the no
I believe the #1 usage of content based bandwidth online is religious
material, followed by ironically titled "adult" material (or at least was
not too long ago), so perhaps the Thought Writer is already in existence,
translating the amount of thinking time spent by human subjects day to day
into a
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