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* Ed L Cashin <ecashin@terry.uga.edu>
| My mistake.  I thought that your point in arguing for the materiality
| of information was to strengthen the position that it was a "thing"
| that can be owned (and have value).

  Starting a debate with the possible consequences of the arguments gets
  you nowhere.  It is instead a _very_ useful technique to derail any and
  all real discussion.

///
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