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.

Comments

Re:I'm embarassed.....

[Mindjiver]

We are waiting for the 2004 elections. Hopefully you will vote the clown out of office.

Re:Why this is sick...

[NetCurl]

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...