+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Information about the electronic publisher for this electronic version of Imprimis, On Line +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This electronic version was made possible through a personal arrangement with the Managing Editor of Imprimis and the President of Applied Foresight, Inc. (Roleigh Martin) who packages and distributes this electronic version of Imprimis as a charitable free-of-charge service. Address: Applied Foresight, Inc., P.O. Box 20607, Bloomington, Minnesota USA 55420. Compuserve ID: 71510,1042. Internet: 71510.1042@compuserve.com. Applied Foresight, Inc. also publishes ShareDebate International (ISSN 1054-0695), a diskette-magazine. Formerly a shareware semi-annual magazine, it is now copyrighted freeware ever since the double-disk issue #7-8. The below is a plain text version of an advertisement for the magazine that ran in the December 1994 issue of Reason Magazine: The online magazine where Milton Friedman, SF authors, economists & others debate liberty-based ideas that have an immediate & long term perspective (Computer modem not required -- diskette versions exist to be printed or read on your computer.) ShareDebate International is an international quarterly forum, started in 1990, concerned about the present & the future, carrying non-fiction & fiction, original & reprints. It is edited by Roleigh Martin & distributed by SDN which feeds Fidonet's 22,000 BBS systems worldwide. It can be downloaded free of charge. (Orders include a list of local BBS's that should carry it.) Writers: Doug Bandow, Ben Bova, Warren Brookes, Stuart Butler, George Gilder, Milton Friedman, David Kelley, Leonard Peikoff, Jerry Pournelle, Sheldon Richman, Murray Rothbard, Steven Schlossstein, Joseph Sobran, Joseph Stumph, Masanobu Taniguchi, William Tucker, Sam Wells, Republican Liberty Caucus, Japan Economic Institute, League for Programming Freedom, 3 Prometheus winning SF authors & many others. Debates: [*] A National-Interest Project-Level Stock (NIPS) Market--a tax free alternative to NASA, NSF & NIH (Milton Friedman participates!). For projects designated by the NIPS-subsidizers (e.g., an association of banks or investment firms) in the long- term market interest, businesses could offer stock offerings at the project level. During the years when no revenues exist, the NIPS-subsidizers could issue a 5-year guaranteed annual dividend to NIPS purchasers who would be required to hold the stock for at least 5 years. Businesses engaged in massive projects (e.g, space manufacturing, starfish-shaped 3-D cities) can use the long-term secured investments as leverage to borrow more money to maximize seed capital & minimize risks. Additionally, the NIPS-subsidizers could receive a common stock interest in the subsidized companies & transaction fees from market activity. Overall, the NIPS-subsidizers & investors should profit. [*] Contrasting 2 representative institutions: the Olympics & Legislatures--or--Why Occupational Representation v. Geographical Representation may improve Legislatures. [*] Is the Japanese Patent Law more just & conducive to economic growth? [*] The hidden cost & economic impact of the Business Profit Tax--Doing a multi-level Bill of Material Product Costing Tax Rollup--or how a 35% tax can become a 75% rolled-up tax. [*] Why Asian countries have advanced so fast. [*] Preserving economic privacy while using game theory & newer forms of money, such as "smart cards," to fight money- motivated crimes--the debate favors crypto anarchy with families being the enforcing power monitoring delinquent spending behavior while the electronic conversion of cash destroys the market for burglary. [*] The myopic vision of carte blanche drug legalizers: Do they forget the violence that devastated China after the British forced heroin legalization in China? Will free will (freedom) exist when the Mafia can legally hire the best scientists with supercomputers to design 100% addictive/alluring drugs? Better approaches are debated. [*] Scientific evidence of higher dimensions & an afterlife. ---------------------------------------------------------------- |"ShareDebate International is a terrific magazine, well edited| |and executed. I am very interested in the nexus between | |Economics, Freedom and technology. Add Philosophy and it is a | |powerful brew. It is the paradigm of the publication of the | |information age." -- George Cordahi, Ontario | ---------------------------------------------------------------- [*] Aren't health costs so high because of massive government intervention? Listen to economists & over 25 doctors present the free market side. [*] Is government & environmental groups the biggest threat to a growing mankind? Two reasons: a treaty with Russia prohibits private property ownership in outer space-- guaranteeing nil future interest in space by the private sector- -the only sector that pushes history positively forward. Government not businesses control city designs--yet years ago two Operations Researchers foresaw greatly enlarged Mall of Americas--privately owned/operated 3-D city systems optimized for low overhead, competitive businesses, & a high standard of living, supporting more people while enhancing the environment. [*] Majority-voting guarantees mediocre decisions yet there are computer-based voting systems where group choices are smarter than the smartest person in the group. How? Details given. [*] Supreme Court attacks group free speech rights. Justice Scalia reads his dissent outloud from the bench, proclaiming the majority ruling an "Orwellian announcement." He starts: "Attention all citizens." [*] Entrepreneurial Democracy: "That government is best which is legislatively structured the best, voluntarily funded the most, & taxes the least". ("voluntary funding" as in stock, bond & loan markets.) [*] The killing-nature of affirmative action--it's literally killing more Blacks than the KKK ever did, creating inter-racial strife & within Blacks, it's benefiting the top 20% while impoverishing most. [*] Blasting freedom-lovers: statists continue to win elections because they stick together while conservatives & libertarians run away from common ground. [*] Political Correctness among Conservatives & Libertarians. [*] The myth that Social Security is being ripped off by the elderly--the truth is shown in privatized plans elsewhere. [*] Coverage on the 10th Amendment & the Ultimatum Resolution Referendum movements. [*] Privatizing Welfare by funding it with a multiple-value tax deduction. [*] The unfair myth of unfair Japan-US trade. [*] The false myth that unilateral free-trade is harmful. [*] The myth that citizens should be pleased with deficit- reduction: in the private sector when a company is extremely in debt, creditors do not tolerate continued but less overspending in continuing years. Overspending is stopped & the debt gets pared gradually--citizens should tolerate nothing less with the Government. How to reduce the debt & lower taxes. [*] And much more, including great SF fiction, of interest to Conservatives and Libertarians. From the college that defies Federal control... 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