Spehro Pefhany wrote:

:Maybe that's what Rummy et. al were counting on. If they can make it
:very profitable for someone to "manipulate the market" then there's
:less blood on their hands.

It's frightening that there are actually people stupid enough to think
this sort of thing out there. "Rummy et. al" had nothing to do with
this. It is a sort of technique used to 'predict' many other sorts of
behaviours. DARPA wanted to see if it would work with regard to
terrorism.

It really is that simple. JFK really was killed. Elvis is dead.

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"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
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