At 9:30 AM -0800 2/8/00, wayne clerke wrote:
>I thought this was worthy of cypherpunks' attention. Islam may be
>able to come up with something worthwhile yet ...
>
>I particularly liked the attitude:
>Q10. Have you allocated a budget for the Dubai Internet City?
>A10. We will invest as much as necessary. But the total outlay will run into
>a couple of hundred million dollars over the next couple of years.
>
>Hype aside, I think they are serious about this.
>You'd probably only need one person on site to run a business from here.
>
Sounds like just the place to run my Internet Porn site out of. With a
sideline of selling Salman Rushdie's books.
Oh, you mean Islam and Islamic nations have a very, very long list of
things they don't allow, things they execute people for selling?
Never mind.
--Tim May
print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
"Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
