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10651 [lbo-talk] Evangelicals split on global warming -- rank: 1000

On May 15, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6648265.stm > > It looks like Falwell and parts of the left have something in common. Parts of the left = Alexander Cockburn, James H, and one or two nuts on Lou's Marxmail. Who else? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 15 08:42:54 PDT 2007

10652 [lbo-talk] Workers Are on the Job More Hours over the Courseof theYear -- rank: 1000

On May 15, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > How are those hours divided up among different sectors of the class. > 3 9 gives an average of 6, an unreal figure. Hey, I gave you the link to the microdata - you can calculate it yourself! Doug

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Date:	Tue May 15 07:59:34 PDT 2007

10653 [lbo-talk] A Conversation with Norman Finkelstein -- rank: 1000

On May 15, 2007, at 1:35 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > When Professor Dershowitz got wind of the manuscript, > he embarked on a huge > campaign to suppress publication of the book. A campaign that included writing a letter denouncing NF to every member of the New Press's board. The letter opened by saying that Dersh was a big first amendment guy, so he didn't want to supress the book - he just wanted to inform the board what scumbag this Finkelstein fellow was. Scared by this, th ...

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10654 [lbo-talk] Dershowitz regrets having taken Finkelstein's bait -- rank: 1000

On May 15, 2007, at 12:10 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Yeah, right, all those Marxists in the DePaul polisci > dept. (Can you think of any aside from NF? Well, > actually, I have no idea if he's a Marxist.) He used to identify as one; dunno if he still does. Doug

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10655 [lbo-talk] Dershowitz regrets having taken Finkelstein's bait -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 7:53 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > Doug, do you find his sleaze > fascinating or something? He's vile, but his level of chutzpah is dazzling. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 14 20:31:45 PDT 2007

10656 [lbo-talk] MSFT goes after Linux -- rank: 1000

Man, that's not fair at all. There's a big difference between corporate libertarians and anti-capitalist anarchists. What's the point of a hostile crack like that? On May 14, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > You might not, but your Libertarian co-thinkers do. SR > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: Chuck <chuck at mutualaid.org> > > >> >> Microsoft versus the anarchists. I'm putting my money on the >> anarchists. > ...

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10657 [lbo-talk] MSFT goes after Linux -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Dennis Redmond wrote: > Not surprising. Monopolies have shelf lives, and MSFT is a decade > past its > prime. All its attempts at expanding its PC monopoly have crashed and > burned. Cellphones: nope. Servers: nope. Its videogame biz has > managed to > lose $4 billion, while barely denting behemoths Sony and Nintendo. > > It's Mister Softie's "surge" moment. There won't be a collapse, > just slow > grinding death at the hands o ...

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10658 [lbo-talk] Dershowitz regrets having taken Finkelstein's bait -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Like David Duke, who is now teaching in the Ukraine, > > He is? Details? > > (It's not "the" Ukraine, dammit!) Yes it is! And it's Leningrad, too!! Doug

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10659 [lbo-talk] Dershowitz regrets having taken Finkelstein's bait -- rank: 1000

[I'm not posting the full text of this to avoid the wrath of TNR's IP cops.] <http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20070521&s=diarist052107> Cambridge Diarist Taking the Bait by Alan Dershowitz Post date 05.14.07 | Issue date 05.21.07 Afew years ago, I barely knew the name Norman Finkelstein. I was vaguely aware of his screed, The Holocaust Industry, which argued that Jews "fabricated" their victimhood. I had heard of his comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany. ("[I] can't ...

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10660 [lbo-talk] 1 in 8 U.S. households now wireless only -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless200705.pdf> Preliminary results from the July-December 2006 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) indicate that the number of households with only wireless telephones continues to increase. During the last 6 months of 2006, more than 3 out of every 20 American homes (15.8%) did not have a landline telephone. Of those homes without a landline telephone, most had at least one working wireless telephone. Preliminary results from ...

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Date:	Mon May 14 12:56:47 PDT 2007

10661 [lbo-talk] MSFT goes after Linux -- rank: 1000

<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/ 2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm?section=money_latest> Microsoft takes on the free world Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports. By Roger Parloff, Fortune senior editor May 14 2007: 9:35 AM EDT (Fortune Magazine) -- Free software is great, and corpor ...

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10662 [lbo-talk] time use: a Lingua Franca article from beyond the grave -- rank: 1000

<http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9711/9711.fn.html> LEISURE WORLD In 1990, when Juliet Schor began researching how much time Americans spend working, it was hard to imagine a sleepier topic. Labor economists believed the question long settled: Economic growth and labor-saving technology were gradually ushering Americans into an arcadia of ever-increasing leisure. But Schor's work dealt a blow to that consensus. When The Overworked American (Basic) appeared in 1992, with its ex ...

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10663 [lbo-talk] Workers Are on the Job More Hours over the Course of the Year -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Juliet Schor's The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of > Leisure (Basic Books) was published in 1992, so when the book came > out, it was definitely in keeping with the trend, whether you look at > the BLS or the OECD. The trends since then, it seems to me, are > results of recession and weak recovery Weak recovery? The late 1990s? That was the strongest labor market in 30 years. The employment/pop ratio still has ...

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10664 [lbo-talk] Iggy on the origin of Stooges -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - May 14, 2007 He's Really An Igg-head IGGY Pop has intellectual pretensions about the birth of the Stooges. The look for the band "was conceived in the University of Michigan undergraduate library," Pop told Guitar World magazine. "I got the idea to sing shirtless from a book that I read on Egyptology. I kept looking at the pharaohs and thought, these guys look bitchin', they never wear shirts."

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10665 [lbo-talk] Working hours (Was: Why is America so violent) -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Just for the record, could you give the URL again for the original > article > that got this discussion rolling several thread-transformations > ago? I > think it's about time I actually read it :o) Which article? The time use survey or something else? That's <ftp:// ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/atus.txt>. The ATUS main page has lots of links, including to other national and international time use surveys: <http://w ...

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