[extropy-chat] Famous author self destructs in public! Film at eleven.

[Dirk Bruere]

Chris Hibbert wrote:

> On 6/6/05, Brett Paatsch wrote:
>
>> Sure, one possibility is to make it legal elsewhere first, and
>> then, point at the revenue the US is losing to freer, smarter,
>> more capitalist countries.
>
>
> Well, Brett, since you brought up my name (confusing me with Charlie 
> Stross, whose work I like (I'm also President of the Libertarian 
> Futurists Society, which gives annual awards for best Libertarian 
> Science Fiction.  Stross' Iron Sunrise was nominated this year.))  
> I'll point out that I'm working on open source Prediction Market 
> software at CommerceNet.  I gave a talk at the Workshop that Hal 
> Finney mentioned.
>
> To get back to your point, there are already legal Prediction Markets 
> running offshore.  And to bring the circle around yet again, a couple 
> of the biggest are running in Ireland.  Look up betfair.com (mostly 
> sports betting), and tradesports.com.  TradeSports ran markets on the 
> last presidential election that correctly predicted the state-by-state 
> outcomes of the presidential race.  They currently have claims on the 
> Michael Jackson trial, the host city for the 2012 Olympics, which 
> supreme Court Justice will step down next, and quite a few more.  Not 
> quite the claims I'd like to see (look at Ken Kittlitz' FX for better 
> examples) but it's real money, and it's legal.
>
It's the latest incarnation of Ouija.

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Dirk

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