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For now.... turning off people's ability to download Mad Men, porn, farmville and starcraft2 is NOT a winning strategy for staying in power. I give Gaddafi two

• neworbit 16y ago
  Maybe. He's likely to be more ruthless than Mubarak was, since he's not all that reliant on external support these days (whereas the US propped up the Mubarak gov't for quite a while). I give him longer than that.
• eru 16y ago
  What odds are you offering?
  • pitdesi 16y ago
    looks to be about 50/50 that he's gone by the end of the year: http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/trading/t_index.jsp?selConID=746813 http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/trading/t_index.jsp?selCo...
    • thret 16y ago
      http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=745538 http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetail... I'm not sure betting on WMD attacks is smart. It would be terrible if people were investing with inside information.
      • reeses 16y ago
        You could be able to squeeze a novel out of this idea. Or, at the very least, an episode of a crime-related TV show. "They're funding their program through WMDPool.com! Trace the IP address!"