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  • From: "Lance A. Brown" <lance AT bearcircle.net>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [internetworkers] Re: truly weird, does not appear to be a hoax...
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:12:35 -0000

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:59, Diana Duncan wrote:
> Just because I'm not in the mood to sign up for anything today, may I
> assume you are talking about the Pentagon's plan to offer a
> "free-market" bidding site on terrorist attacks? That was on the front
> page of the N&O today, and I agree, is incredibly bizarre. I grabbed
> this link from news.google.com
>
> http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2241421
>
> My favorite quote from the N&O article (the one that scared me the
> most), which, unfortunately, I can't find a link to online...
>
> "Wyden explained it this way: 'For instance, you may think early on
> that Prime Minister X is going to be assassinated, so you buy the
> futures contracts for 5 cents each. As more people begin to think the
> person's going to be assassinated, the cost of the contract could go up
> to 50 cents. The payoff if he's assassinated is a dollar per future.
> So if it comes to pass, and those who bought at 5 cents make 95 cents.
> Those who bought at 50 cents make 50 cents.'"

This quote is in the NY Times news article Maria posted.

--[Lance]


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