At 06:33 PM 07/25/2003 -0700, Steve Schear wrote:
At 16:33 2003-07-25 -0700, you wrote:
On 24 Jul 2003 at 9:16, Eric Cordian wrote:
Now that the new standard for pre-emptive war is to murder
the legitimate leader of another sovereign nation and his
entire family, an artist's rendering of Shrub
Re: Pentagon pulls their AP plans..
It was simply too obviously free feedback (marketing data) for their
domestic PSYOPs people. Now they'll have to go back to interpreting
CNN (etc) polls to find out which way the sheeple are stampeding.
Harmon Seaver[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Before this, AFAIK, we only had to worry about getting a GPS
transmitting
device planted on our vehicles, which would be bulky enough to spot fairly
easily by anyone checking out the cars underside, etc. Here's one that
doesn't
transmit, just
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=514e=6u=/ap/20030729/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terror_market_10
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon (news - web sites) is setting up
a stock-market style system in which investors would bet
on terror attacks, assassinations and other events in the
Middle East
On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 04:20 PM, John Young wrote:
Tim May wrote:
Yes, a bunch of ideas futures markets have existed for nearly a
decade. An acquaintance of mine, Robin Hanson, was actively promoting
such things in the late 80s and may have been involved in some of the
Extropians-type
On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 03:24 PM, Steve Schear wrote:
At 16:20 2003-07-29 -0700, John Young wrote:
Tim May wrote:
Yes, a bunch of ideas futures markets have existed for nearly a
decade. An acquaintance of mine, Robin Hanson, was actively promoting
such things in the late 80s and may have
Also, NYT Article was http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/29/politics/29TERR.html?th
But it sounds like they've chickened out, because various people freaked
about the implications. (And they only got as far as it being
an incentive to commit terrorism, without getting to
a funding method for
