At 1:56 AM 9/22/96, jim bell wrote:

But as usual, you ignore the obvious solution to the problem. Let's suppose the amount of the fine is set at $1000 per day. Actuarially, this works out .... Naturally, you won't even consider the possibility of going outside the system to solve a problem. The rest of us notice that there are probably thousands of terminally-ill people who would gladly act as a human kamikaze ...

I get the feeling that the "standard form letter" for all such invocations of AP is turning out to be: "Suppose you owe somebody money. It is much cheaper just to use AP to have him killed." Indeed, this "simple" solution is ever so much cheaper than paying a fine, repaying a loan, fulfilling an obligation, whatever. (P.S. The hiring of terminally-ill kamikazes is an old one.) --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."