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Pentagon Lets You Bid on Terrorism?
Elysdir writes "DARPA is creating an idea futures market, the Policy Analysis Market, to try to predict events in the Middle East. See Bloomberg article for more info." Read this article. I mean it. This is amazing.
Update: 07/29 14:45 GMT by J : The
NYT story
claims "The White House also altered the Web site so that the potential events ... that were visible earlier in the day ... could no longer be seen," but those example images are still being served:
Jordanian overthrow,
bidding on assassinations,
cool graphics... Update: 07/29 16:44 GMT by M : Looks like the publicity was too much.
We are waiting for the 2004 elections. Hopefully you will vote the clown out of office.
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
"... The plan is a bloody brilliant way to get free analists working for the CIA, NSA, DIA ..."
Yhep - they need all the help they can get.
Don't make your problems my problems!
The reason why this is sick is because next time you read that some coward terrorist decided to blow himself up on a Tel Aviv bus, killing him/herself and 15 schoolchildren
So you're saying when we kicked those "terrorists" out of their houses and told them new people were living there, they have no right to fight back? If I kicked you out of your house, told you to go somewhere else, and I was gonna kick back on your couch and watch your plasma screen, you wouldn't be at all angry? And then when you went to the police, they said "tough shit," patted you on the back and told you to go work for me to make a few lousy bucks and live in squalor, then you were happy? So, you would NEVER think about hurting me, watching you plasma screen and swimming in your pool? You would actually just let me be and go live in a shitty, crumbling apartment?
Who are the terrorists? Has it ever occured to our government (US) that spending money on fixing the reasons why anit-american/western sentiments are fueling terrorism, and not to throw technology and legislation at this. This is a sick idea, and I hope the American public has a fire-sale in 2004, cleaning the senate and house out, kicking the Pres. out, and send a big "We're sorry" sign to the rest of the world...
It's only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything...
*Terrorists* wouldn't do this. No masses of legitimate money to throw into markets, hard to ensure that a country gets overthrown.
Evil rich old white men, on the other hand....God, nothing like encouraging economy power players to become involved in politics to the point of overthrowing countries.
We're in a Republican era.
May we never see th
Aside from the obvious morbidity of the whole thing, it is a VERY interesting tool for gauging global policy and diplomacy issues.
I have a political science degree from NYU. I have a law degree as well. I read lots of newspapers, journals, web sites, blogs that cut across lots of different disciplines -- computer science, law, economics, current events, foreign issues. There are lots of people like me out there who are armchair diplomats and CIA wannabes who went for the money instead of government service. What better way to get input from this diverse group of people than to engage them in a real time, decentralized, internet think tank. To weed out those that are not serious, the money component was added. Makes sense to me.
Sounds REALLY interesting, but hacks like some of our Democratic Presidential hopefuls will want to make hay on the morbidity end of it instead of the usefulness of putting the nation's collective thinking into the war against terror.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain with all your metadata.
I don't even need to put my case forward this time.
Stupid arrogant arse-licks.