Re: [Re: e-$ and AP]

[Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>]

[Look at what counterproductive folks the IRS are - getting us
talking about AP again :-)]

At 12:41 PM 4/20/99 -0400, Jean-Francois Avon wrote:
>No "businessman" will put ten grands in the hand of an unknown contractor.

The flip side is that AP expects the assassin to trust
Jim-Bob's Internet Lottery and Death Pool to pay him if he does the job;
there's enough risk involved (unless it becomes an ongoing business)
that professional assassins are unlikely to take the risks,
leaving the early-adopter business to bungling amateurs who may be
ideologically motivated and easier to trace.

>In AP, a disgruntled individual can put as little as 1 buck on a head. 
>The  comissionner will be able to put an entirely disposable sum on a
target, 
>and let it go forever.  This market _never_ existed previously.  

It was a much more limited market - you put your vote and tax dollars
on the raving-loony-politician-of-the-year, indicating which enemy you
want killed, and both money and votes are disposed of handily,
possibly involving the death of some Bad Guys.
They also ran a lottery for who got to play assassin,
though my number was over 300 and I didn't even get the
third-prize government-health-care physical out of the deal :-)
Remember that the Nixon-Kennedy debates were about who was more
fanatically anti-communist on the issue of Red China...
AP just lets you be a bit more selective about targets and prices.
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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