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                              Information about
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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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        |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   
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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
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        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 
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            Indicate the highest capacity diskette you can take and 
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        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
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        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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