Word: barter
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...first to be uploaded by someone else—such selfish asymmetry can be crippling. BitTorrent, which Seuken identified as the most commonly employed peer-to-peer protocol, attacks the problem of inducing downloaders to give by employing a “tit-for-tat” system of barter, in which downloaders are required to share pieces of a file with each other. But the system has its limitations, according to Seuken. Seuken said he believes this bartering aspect of BitTorrent promotes fairness in the short-term, but when the minute users are done with their immediate download, they...
...same time, there's been a change in attitude toward love and marriage. Previous generations of women made their barter as much around the need for male protection and financial help as affection. And if at some point the sizzle went south, well...But women today have a very different wish list from their mother's. "My single friends have their own life and money to bring to the table," says Sarah Jessica Parker, the star of Sex and the City. "It's the same as the characters on the show: my friends are looking for a relationship as fulfilling...
...argument that U.S. authorities use to press European governments to crack down on drug networks. They point to the fact that the explosives used in the Madrid train bombings of 2004, which killed 191 people, were bought with hashish. "We are seeing increasing incidents of the use of drug barter for munitions in terror attacks," U.S. Drug Enforcement Administrator Karen Tandy told international law-enforcement officials at a meeting in Madrid...
...Buenos Aires had an enormous economic crisis towards the end of 2001. The way the city survived was that everybody became creative,” Cultural Agents Initiative Director and Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Doris Sommer said. “The economy was replaced by barter. People cooked together, played music together.” Barilaro began his project, Eloisa Cartonera, in Buenos Aires in 2003 by combining his artistic talent, the works of leading South American authors, and cardboard collected by garbage pickers. From these raw materials, he produced a series of uniquely decorated novels...
...light-hearted way, after the 1621 Mayflower Compact. "We are a group of individuals committed to a 12-month flight from the consumer grid," they wrote in a chat-room manifesto that lists their aims as going "beyond recycling," reducing clutter in their homes and simplifying their lives: "Borrow, barter or buy used...