Oddly, I just looked at my browser's (Yahoo) spam folder, and I noticed
   that all the messages from grarpam were there.  I did not do that, and
   certainly not intentionally.  At least as far back as Nov 13.
   Presumably all messages before that got auto-deleted from the spam
   folder.
   Anyway, thanks for the backup.
                  Jim Bell

   On Monday, December 17, 2018, 9:48:55 PM PST, grarpamp
   <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
   > creating a tool to murder people
   No.
   AP is really only invoked as legitimate defensive action
   to aggression, as would any other existing and well
   calibrated natural response to same.
   Most fail to recognize the important early mechanism of AP...
   that *well* before such defensive measures need or are ever
   applied, before any exact prediction is made, an AP system
   properly acts in its native form as a strong and escalating
   *discouragement* to those considering or acting out various
   levels of aggression, theft, force, murder, etc upon others.
   Simply put, any would be aggressor would be crazy
   to risk continuing down a course of action that might
   attract any number of rational funders and predictors
   into the market.
   For the vast majority of situations, the very few proof
   of functions warranted upon defense aside,
   AP could be a rather effective and in fact nonviolent
   tool for change for the better
   Two other often noted scenarios are...
   - Boss equivalents playing game of Mutual Assured Destruction
   among themselves... often a generally pointless expense to begin with.
   - Random statistical noise of cheap / easy predictions accepted by
   nutbags, crack addicts, oppurtunity, fame, etc. That's the game called
   life, no different than all of history, AP is agnostic and moot there.
   Try funding predictions for mental and physical healthcare, work,
   housing, defense, whatever, to lower those rates of occurance.