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11611 [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou -- rank: 1000

On Jan 24, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Yann Morvan wrote: > I know it's a bit prosaic but the free as in free beer thing can > make a difference: > -Photoshop CS2 at the French Adobe Store: 1075.20 euros > -The GIMP (G as in GNU): 0 euros > The GIMP's interface would have to seriously suck (and it doesn't) > to make up for the time spent at work earning a Photoshop licence. And reading through the Wikipedia article on GIMP, I see that it has some serious limitations that would make it i ...

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11612 [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou -- rank: 1000

On Jan 24, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Yann Morvan wrote: > I know it's a bit prosaic but the free as in free beer thing can > make a difference: > -Photoshop CS2 at the French Adobe Store: 1075.20 euros > -The GIMP (G as in GNU): 0 euros > The GIMP's interface would have to seriously suck (and it doesn't) > to make up for the time spent at work earning a Photoshop licence. You know, I'm not a cheerleader for capitalism. Adobe's stuff is particularly overpriced and restrictively license ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 24 06:28:54 PST 2007

11613 [lbo-talk] Saudis Waging an Oil War on Iran? -- rank: 1000

Maybe, who knows? But I've been following this stuff for over 20 years, and I'm impressed by how someone always has a political explanation for movements in oil prices (and how you can always find a trader or two to tell the story you want to hear). Like evolution, sometimes stuff just happens. In this case, prices of $70 or more are not in the Saudis' long-term interest; they encourage alternatives and declining demand. Prices of $50-55 are not cheap by the standards of recent decades, e ...

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11614 [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Andy F wrote: > Oh, and a year or two ago there was a contentious thread about picket > lines. Most people probably find those terribly inconvenient, too. > What would you (pl.) say to that? If you cross a picket line you will burn eternally in hell. Doug

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11615 [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> Oh, so communism requires consumers to do more work. > > No, communism requires more than just children and out of work > sociopaths to produce the gleeming beauty :-) yeah, that's another point - I'm not convinced that the free software thing is really that serious an alternative economic model - it involves lots of free riding on the resources of parents and employers, no? - how, can the free exchange of code deal with a wor ...

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11616 [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Andy F wrote: > On 1/23/07, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote: > >> Of course we are not talking about IT support here, but about the >> Free >> Software movement, and in particular, Stallman. And it is amusing as >> hell to hear "the left" disparage "getting deeply into things". I >> guess >> we should just post blog entries and run straw polls, eh? > > Yeah, no shit. Somebody went and tri ...

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11617 [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Andy F wrote: > Yeah, no shit. Somebody went and tried to Do Something, wound up > making large chunks of the means of production all commie-like, and > gets cut down for being too idealistic. I can't help but take note. Oh, so communism requires consumers to do more work. Where do I sign up? Doug

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11618 [lbo-talk] Mercury Poisoning today -- rank: 1000

[from Page Six] "IT'S easy for anyone with little or no talent to release records now, but you can't beat a big advance and a real record company" - rocker Graham Parker to the Stamford Advocate

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Date:	Tue Jan 23 11:41:17 PST 2007

11619 [lbo-talk] how black does Obama want to be? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Gary Mongiovi wrote: > The best part of this story is the prospect that Rev. Al might get > into the 2008 Presidential race. He'll be a terrific counterbalance > to the "centrism" that most of the other candidates are likely to > embrace, and he'll get some meaningful issues out on the table. He > thinks better on his feet than most of the Dems who have thrown > their hats in so far, and on most of the issues that matter to the > left h ...

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11620 [lbo-talk] US Soldiers/same-sex partners and drug addicts -- rank: 1000

On Jan 22, 2007, at 11:18 AM, EverYoung Global Intellectual Enterprises wrote: > Is there any similarity between the gays, lesbians and the American > soldier in particular and all soldiers in general? > > > That was their culture, psyche, etc., etc. > > One more grave problem facing humanity is drug-addiction. Is their > any similarity between drug addicts' and same-sex partners psyche? > These questions are really creeping me out. What are you getting at? What do y ...

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11621 [lbo-talk] GQ interviews the thoughtful Hagel -- rank: 1000

<http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_5326&pageNum=2> [...] Do you wish you d voted differently in October of 2002, when Congress had a chance to authorize or not authorize the invasion? Have you read that resolution? I have. It s not quite the way it s been framed by a lot of people, as a resolution to go to war. That s not quite what the resolution said. It said, to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq. In the event that all other options faile ...

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11622 [lbo-talk] more on the Murdoch-Hillary connex -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0107/ A_Murdoch_in_Clintonworld.html> A Murdoch in Clintonworld [Ben Smith] I thought I'd begin this thing on comfortable terrain, with a small advance on a reportorial obsession of mine: Rupert Murdoch's relationship with Bill and Hillary Clinton. Here's how close they've grown: Murdoch's daughter-in-law, Kathryn (center, above), is currently employed by none other than the Clinton Foundation (!), working with old-time Clintonite Ira Magaziner ( ...

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11623 [lbo-talk] public financing, RIP -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238&page=2> "The public financing system for presidential campaigns, a post- Watergate initiative hailed for decades as the best way to rid politics of the corrupting influence of money, may have quietly died over the weekend," writes David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times keying off of Sen. Clinton's decision to not participate in the public financing system for either the nomination fight or the general election. LIN ...

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11624 [lbo-talk] how black does Obama want to be? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0107/2402.html> Clinton Woos Black Vote, Targets Obama By: Ben Smith January 22, 2007 11:38 PM EST When Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton went away for their last holiday before the storm of the 2008 presidential election, they chose the island of Anguilla, a tiny British possession a bit off the Caribbean social circuit. Aides to the Democratic senator from New York refused even to discuss the reports of what country they were in, and nothing more o ...

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11625 Lerabing Code (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou) -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Of course, the point being made is not that you should learn Unix, > but rather that you should think about how software is made, under > what economic and social pressures, and choose accordingly as a > consumer. Stalman doesn't want you to write code (unless you can, > in which case you "should"), he wants you to *use* code that was > made in this way. > > It's absolutely no different than thinking about Nike ...

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