assassination

Imagine for example a prediction market for Obama dying this year - if the price is big enough it would become an assassination market.

There have been Cuban attempts to invade America and numerous assassination attempts on the US president by Cuban agents.

Dossiers are being built to help carry out the targeted and synchronized assassination of tens of thousands of key U.

A member of the military would have a major problem with assassination of her own leader; a robot may not care.

With zero observation of what people want and how they experience it, he conducts a dry and pedantic assassination of the UI.

Beyond the Stuxnet episode and the subsequent Mossad/CIA assassination the history here is dense.

The purloined emails (disclaimer, I only read the commonly reported quotes) were replete with character assassination.

We don't need character assassination attempts in this thread or any other.

I don't think the example you link to has anything to do with character assassination.

This is character assassination on a grand scale: Taking one aspect of one person's work and using that to cast FUD on all of science.

Every single highway crash involving a loss of control is now potentially a high-end assassination, including those that have taken place in the last few years.

Sure, the government wants to punish him for the leak in order to deter future leaks, but that's jail time, a completely different ballpark than assassination.

The problem is when "prediction market" becomes "assassination market".

This is an "assassination market", but for information.

A member of the military might not have any problem at all with the "accidental" assassination of their leader, whether that leader is the president or the company sergeant.

"[...] if we lived in a world where it wouldn't be cherry-picked by axe-grinders and used for character assassination." Unfortunately, that is exactly the current problem as well, without the data being available.