Something tells me I need to be intoxicated, or high, to find this amusing.

The Pentagon (news - web sites) is setting up a stock-market style system in which investors would bet on terror attacks, assassinations and other events in the Middle East. Defense officials hope to gain intelligence and useful predictions while investors who guessed right would win profits.

This is something the Ferengi from Star Trek:The Next Generation would do. And it's really perverse. It's just like...ewwwwwwww.