[109282] in Cypherpunks
(offtopic?) Hollywood Stock Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Tue Mar 16 23:19:11 1999
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:52:23 -0500
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: Cypherpunks Mailing List <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Reply-To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
I'm most amused to see that Hollywood Stock Exchange Portfolios are
being sold on ebay.
http://search-completed.ebay.com/cgi-bin/texis/ebaycomplete/results.html?query=Hollywood+Stock+Exchange&cobrandpartner=x&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&SortOrder=&maxRecordsPerPage=50&srchdesc=&category0=&category1=&category2=&category3=&textonly=n
"...I will turn over my password and user name to the winner via
e-mail when I receive the money. The winner will get to play my
account on-line..."
Theres a deep thought here about the salability of something like
this, but it eludes me.
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume