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Information about
the electronic publisher
for this electronic version of
Imprimis, On Line
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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.
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|"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 |
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[*] 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...
Imprimis Online is the electronic edition of Hillsdale College's
Imprimis, the most pro-free market college, whose monthly paper
version has a 600,000 circulation. It is free, features many
famous authors & can be downloaded from nearly any BBS that
carries SDN files. ShareDebate International orders issues
include free of charge Imprimis Online, & a list of local BBS's
that should carry it.
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Yes, Please send me ____copies of all back issues of ShareDebate
International & a free bonus of all back issues of Imprimis
Online, a free monthly by Hillsdale College. ($30 US/Canada;
$40 Foreign).
Yes, Please send me ____copies of the next 4 quarterly issues of
ShareDebate International & a free bonus of the 12 next monthly
issues of Imprimis Online (mailed quarterly with ShareDebate).
($25 US/Canada; $30 Foreign). Note: 3.5" HD diskettes sent
unless specified otherwise (no other formats are available for
Macintosh (MAC) users). My phone area code is: _________ (for
local BBSs #s). Enclosed is a check for $__________U.S. Please
charge my: (___)VISA(___) M.C. I use (___) MSDOS; (__) MAC.
Card#:__________________________________________Exp.____________
Name:___________________________________________________________
Address:________________________________________________________
City:________________________________State:______ZIP:___________
Mail to Applied Foresight Inc., 5511 Malibu Drive, Edina, MN
55436. (Please allow 2-6 weeks for delivery)
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As a convenience to those without modems or to those
with modems who don't want to download nearly 2MB of existing
magazines, back issues are available on diskette. The
content is freeware but diskettes, postage, packaging, and
handling isn't. To get it free one has to obtain it from the
multitude of no-charge BBSs that carry it. Any of the 22,000
Fidonet have access to SDN files although they all might carry
them, and even then they may only carry the current year's
worth of files. Others places to try are any BBS
that carries the latest PC-SIG CD ROM (disk #s 2121, 2260,
2390, 2749, 2750, 2753); BIX (IBM.UTILS filearea); or GEnie
(IBMPC RT Applications library). Search for the filename
pattern, DBATE*.* or SI_###.*. As of this date, all of these
carry the first 8 issues. PC-SIG has or will shortly release
issues 7-8. The POLITICS forum on Compuserve carries most if
not all of the issues as of issue 9. (Note: issue 12's
addendum--DBATE013--isn't carried on Compuserve as it only
contained Clinton's legislation for his Health Act which is
otherwise available in POLITICS.)
If you do not want to hassle chasing down back issues,
use the above "coupon" in the reprinted advertisement to
order either back issues or a subscription.
Indicate the highest capacity diskette you can take and
whether you have a hard disk or not. International orders,
Pay in US $ against a US bank. Visa/MC accepted (include
expiration date & name as it appears on the card). 2 to 6
weeks delivery time. EMAIL orders accepted. Write or Email
to the Applied Foresight, Inc. address given above in the
first paragraph of this file.
(Mac users have to have the 1.44 MB diskette because Mac
users are actually serviced on an IBM computer that uses the
Mac-n-DOS software which can only format and read/write with
1.44 diskettes.) Mac users need to have in their possession
already an UNZIP utility capable of handling version 1.1 and
2.04g versions of PKZIP files -- such utilities are widely
available on MAC BBSs -- if you don't have an UNZIP utility,
then please don't order the MAC version of ShareDebate
International.
Note: ShareDebate International did not publish any Issues
in 1992, so there are only the 1990, 1991 & 1993 issues
available.
Hillsdale College & Imprimis are not affiliated in any
manner with ShareDebate International.
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LICENSE TO DISTRIBUTE AND USE THIS
FREEWARE VERSION OF IMPRIMIS
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Redistribution of Imprimis, On Line is encouraged. Please
do share it with your friends, upload it to bulletin board
systems, etc. However, as this magazine is made available
for you free of charge, that does not mean that it is free of
usage restrictions. What follows is the current license to
distribute and use it.
Although Imprimis, On Line is copyright-protected, it is
freeware and you may distribute issues of the magazine freely
on a non-exclusive basis without additional written
permission as long as you abide by all of the following
restrictions:
The program shall be supplied in its original, unmodified
form, which includes this documentation. A few minor
deviations are allowed:
You are permitted to add a standard "header" file or (in
the case of a BBS archive distribution) a standard "header"
archive comment which limits itself to (a) a short ad for
your company and/or (b) a standard get-started file used with
all of your distributions.
You are permitted to use high density diskettes and to
include more than one issue of Imprimis, On Line per
diskette.
If you use diskettes to distribute your offerings, you
are permitted to bundle Imprimis, On Line issues on the same
diskette(s) that contain material made by others only if you
include a "read.me" file that explains that the other files
on the diskette are unrelated to and unknown to Imprimis and
Hillsdale College.
No fee may be charged for the magazine content, although
you may charge whatever fee you want for the blank diskette,
formatting, copying, packaging, BBS-general-access charges,
distribution and mailing involved. It must be obvious to the
customer that they are not being charged for the magazine,
but rather for the above handling/shipping costs.
Unless you have personalized written permission from
Applied Foresight, Inc. (AFI hereafter), Imprimis or
Hillsdale College (Imprimis hereafter), you may not assert
that (a) you have made special arrangements with AFI or
Imprimis to distribute this file or (b) that AFI or Imprimis
endorses your organization or any other product that you're
involved with.
You're not required to, but we request that if you
distribute Imprimis, On Line, to please provide AFI with your
full address and if you can afford it, material showing how
you "carry" Imprimis, On Line (diskette copy, brochure,
catalog, or print-screens in the case of a BBS). There is no
need for (a) those BBSs to whom Roleigh Martin or AFI upload to,
and (b) to those BBSs who carry SDN shareware.
This distribution license only applies to the AFI-
produced freeware version of Imprimis. Contact Hillsdale
College for information about distributing copies of the free
paper version of Imprimis.
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