Variola wrote... "As well as a feedback channel to the domestic psyops boys." Are we sure this idea (and TIA) wasn't actually floated by those same Psyops boys? Something seems a little strange about the notion that they'd telegraph their intentions on this idea. Seems to me if they wanted to do it they'd just do it, and possibly not even announce their involvement in it, creating a string of shell companies to fund their international terrorist operations...Oops. Sorry, that's Al Qaeda I'm talking about. -TD PS: Does Variola feel insulted if we do not address him with his rank?
From: "Major Variola (ret)" <mv@cdc.gov> To: "cypherpunks@lne.com" <cypherpunks@lne.com> Subject: Re: Pentagon discovers Assasination Politics, deadpools Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:51:00 -0700
Assuming it can be legally structured as a "Futures Market", rather than as "Illegal Gambling", it could make money. (There are obviously some bets it's unlikely to handle, such as the bet that Idea Futures markets would be successfully
At 10:56 PM 7/29/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: prosecuted
as illegal gambling :-)
*Real* futures markets are effectively integrating all the AP type risks (plus others, like weather) relevant to their markets.
The Pentagon plan was trying to get the same kind of private but well-done research that real futures traders do, with emphesis on issues of interest to it.
As well as a feedback channel to the domestic psyops boys.
CNN, etc. also perform a sort of gambling (probabilistic investment, "futures"), in how they distribute their resources in anticipation of regional "news".
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