At 1:15 AM -0400 6/9/96, jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
Brand [the whales] and herd them like open range cattle: The west did not need a government to do that, though they did need to hang a few folk who favored a different method of open ranging.
At 09:02 AM 6/9/96 -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote:
Ah. Transponders. Could blind-sign 'em. Maritime specific-identity accounting. Trade 'em on the open market. Actual anonymous er, stock, ownership? Whale-meat futures on the hoof, er, fin?
Thanks for this clarification: I fear my post had a lot of people thinking of whalers sitting around a sagebrush campfire heating extremely large irons red hot. Really large irons. Really, really, really large irons. And a really big sagebrush campfire. --------------------------------------------------------------------- | We have the right to defend ourselves | http://www.jim.com/jamesd/ and our property, because of the kind | of animals that we are. True law | James A. Donald derives from this right, not from the | arbitrary power of the state. | jamesd@echeque.com