Re: FC: TradeSports.com lets you bet on Saddam's survivability

2003-03-13 Thread Steve Schear
At 01:59 AM 3/13/2003 -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 01:43 AM 03/12/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh forward to his Politech list:

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:28:57 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Buy a contract on Saddam's life
At TradeSports you can buy futures contracts for all sorts of sports, 
plus Saddam's survivability

http://www.tradesports.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/xml/ContractSearch.jsp

steve
So do we classify this article as "Information Futures" or as 
"Assassination Politics"?  :-)


Information futures, to be sure since you are free to wager on either side.

steve



Re: FC: TradeSports.com lets you bet on Saddam's survivability

2003-03-13 Thread Bill Stewart
At 01:43 AM 03/12/2003 -0500, Declan McCullagh forward to his Politech list:

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:28:57 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Steve Schear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Buy a contract on Saddam's life
At TradeSports you can buy futures contracts for all sorts of sports, plus 
Saddam's survivability

http://www.tradesports.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/xml/ContractSearch.jsp

steve
So do we classify this article as "Information Futures" or as 
"Assassination Politics"?  :-)