<div dir="ltr">Assassinations should stop.<div><br></div><div>Robert Baer, former CIA, just released a book called The Perfect Kill: 21 Laws for Assassins, in which he proposes essentially Rules of Engagement for assassinations. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Perfect-Kill-Laws-Assassins/dp/0399168575">http://www.amazon.com/The-Perfect-Kill-Laws-Assassins/dp/0399168575</a><div><br></div><div>I am Buddhist. Assassination is never appropriate. According to Buddhism, assassination creates negative karma. When someone is assassinated, it creates a chain reaction which causes further killing.</div><div><br></div><div>One problem with ending assassination is that recent polls show most Americans support assassination. So, we must rally together against assassination.</div><div><br></div><div>Baer believes that assassination is a viable political option. I do not. I say, rather than assassination, let's get everyone together at the negotiating table and conduct business with civility. </div><div><br></div><div>According to Fast Company, Business is War.</div><div><br></div><div>The whole point of Business as War is that we can compete without killing each other.</div><div><br></div><div>But in order for this to work, all the deals must be fair. Everyone needs to win.</div><div><br></div><div>So, the key challenge is structuring business deals where everyone wins. In Computer Science terms, this is the realm of Mechanism Design.</div><div><ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/@yanazendo/drones-are-stupid-5d4ec28df517">https://medium.com/@yanazendo/drones-are-stupid-5d4ec28df517</a><br></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/@yanazendo/enlightened-capitalism-c366cb928a68">https://medium.com/@yanazendo/enlightened-capitalism-c366cb928a68</a><br></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_%28novel%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_%28novel%29</a><br></li><li><a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/55076/business-war">http://www.fastcompany.com/55076/business-war</a><br></li></ul></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Andre Gironda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andreg@gmail.com" target="_blank">andreg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><p dir="ltr">On Dec 23, 2014 8:01 AM, "Dave Aitel" <<a href="mailto:dave@immunityinc.com" target="_blank">dave@immunityinc.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Is the US behind the assassinations of the Iranian nuclear scientists? Is that going too far? Are cyber-scientists next?</p>
</span><p dir="ltr"><a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/iran-scientists-assassination-mystery" target="_blank">http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/iran-scientists-assassination-mystery</a></p>
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