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15091 [lbo-talk] Happy Birthday Mozart -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: > As the saying >goes, had Mozart lived another ten years, he would have invented Beethoven. I was joking in part, but really, I'm with Adorno, it's all about development, which is why Beethoven's so great. When I hear Mozart I hear pleasant tunes, but not much to chew on. I don't think he'd have been Bach, if he'd lived 70 years earlier; more likely Vivaldi. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 17:32:13 PST 2006

15092 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 14:47:56 PST 2006

15093 [lbo-talk] Happy Birthday Mozart -- rank: 1000

Scissors MacGillicutty wrote: > > Yeah, it's one step removed from Mantovani. Perfect for lending a >> high-toned atmosphere to a boutique or an organic bakery. >> > >That's only if you aren't listening to it. No, that's especially if you're listening to it! Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 14:26:39 PST 2006

15094 [lbo-talk] Comments on Cybermarx? -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >FOSS is pretty much replacing the commercial software industry at this point. According to the national income accounts, final software sales (which means that intermediate sales - e.g., the software embedded in chips that are components of a larger product - in the national income accounts, the iPod is what's counted, not the chips, screen, etc.) were $198 billion last year, up 11% from 2004, and 18% from 2002. That doesn't comport with "pretty much replacing." Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 14:12:01 PST 2006

15095 [lbo-talk] Political Economy of Non-Profits -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >This is probably not exactly "exploitation" in the Marxist sense of >the term -- not much surplus value is produced by all the frenetic >activities of unpaid volunteers -- but unpaid volunteers do look >like they are exploited to pay for the salaries of non-profit staff >at least. But for the most part, those salaries aren't large. What are large are the paychecks and perks at a place like the Ford Foundation. Six-figure salaries at the top, and ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 13:10:21 PST 2006

15096 [lbo-talk] Comments on Cybermarx? -- rank: 1000

Andy F wrote: >On 1/27/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> >Also, plenty gets written under scientific and research grants and >> >such. I paid the rent for a couple years under such an arrangement. >> >I'm pretty sure that's how the original internet software got written. >> >> In other words, it's not a model for running a real economy, but for >> free-riding off a money economy financed by others? > >Um, sur ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 13:00:32 PST 2006

15097 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Re: [Marxism] Bush's approval rating at all-time low] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox quoted: >I don't have before me the script of that 1986 episode of YES, PRIME >MINISTER, in which Sir Humphrey Appleby (the civil servant) explains the >function of polls to his colleagues. In about two minutes, Sir Humphrey >responds to a party poll showing 64% of the British public favorable to >military conscription with directions on how to put together another >poll that would show 64% of them critical of the draft. The point of >political polls is not to l ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 12:53:25 PST 2006

15098 [lbo-talk] Comments on Cybermarx? -- rank: 1000

Andy F wrote: >On 1/27/06, joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: >> There is also profit to be made in the servicing of software. > >Also, plenty gets written under scientific and research grants and >such. I paid the rent for a couple years under such an arrangement. >I'm pretty sure that's how the original internet software got written. In other words, it's not a model for running a real economy, but for free-riding off a money economy financed by others? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 10:34:35 PST 2006

15099 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Israel's Funding of Hamas Comes Home to Roost/ Interview Op' -- rank: 1000

[normally this PR shop flacks for right-wing loons - here's an interesting exception] Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:43:12 UT From: "Special Guests" <gerald at riverview.net> To: dhenwood at panix.com ISRAEL'S FUNDING OF HAMAS COMES HOME TO ROOST Hamas has won the Palestinian elections. Now what? Afshin Rattansi, former producer of Al Jazeera's "Top Secret" television program, is available for Talk Show interviews to explain the history of blowback when it comes to Hamas. In ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 09:34:41 PST 2006

15100 [lbo-talk] why do they hate her -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >Can anyone tell me why there's a faction of feminists that utterly >hate Susie Bright? > >In reponse to something I wrote that was featured on a few feminist >blogs, there is this contingent of feminists who think she's the >evil incarnate. > >Others are outraged that she writes for Playboy -- or used to. > >Others seem to think it's odd that she has socialist roots. When I >read her now, it's really clear that her thinking is shap ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 09:27:55 PST 2006

15101 [lbo-talk] First Twins' Trad Vals -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - January 27, 2006 DOUBLE TROUBLE FUN-loving First Twins Barbara and Jenna Bush were spotted dancing on tables at a boozy "Broken Resolutions"-themed soiree at D.C. hot spot Play the other night. The Grey Goose vodka-sponsored blowout featured "cigarette girls passing out smokes, chocolates and even condoms," reports the Hill newspaper. "There were fishnet-clad dancers, sporting handcuffs and police hats, gyrating on a pole." The toxic twins ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 09:21:05 PST 2006

15102 [lbo-talk] Fox paid $14,000 to get DeLay on air -- rank: 1000

Austin American-Statsman - January 27, 2006 DeLay appearance cost Fox $14,000 Chartered jet ferried just-indicted politician to Washington studio last fall. By Chuck Lindell AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Four days after U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay's stunning indictment last September in Travis County, the political talk show "Fox News Sunday" trumpeted an exclusive interview with the combative Texas Republican. Unsaid, but revealed in documents DeLay later filed in the U.S. House, was that DeLay's ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 09:16:45 PST 2006

15103 [lbo-talk] 57% back hit on Iran -- rank: 1000

Los Angeles Times - January 27, 2006 57% Back a Hit on Iran if Defiance Persists The war has not diminished Americans' support for military action against Iraq's neighbor if nuclear pursuits aren't dropped. By Greg Miller, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON - Despite persistent disillusionment with the war in Iraq, a majority of Americans supports taking military action against Iran if that country continues to produce material that can be used to develop nuclear weapons, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomber ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 09:11:26 PST 2006

15104 [lbo-talk] strategies -- rank: 1000

[I suspect these memos were actually written by The Note, another in their endless series of inside jokes, but they're still pretty illuminating.] <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> REPUBLICAN MEMO: To: the Honorable Karl C. Rove From: [name redacted] Date: 1/25/2006 Re: Strong and Right Seems pretty simple - no metaphors required: Faith, family, and freedom. Keep you safer. Lower taxes and less government. Reform, reform, reform. Some Democrats have a pre-9/11 mindse ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 09:03:20 PST 2006

15105 [lbo-talk] Hamas (II) -- rank: 1000

Jim Devine wrote: >The big question now is whether >Hamas will become more moderate now that it is part of a legitimate >government. Wouldn't be surprised if it did. At which point, there will be the usual denunciations of Hamas for "selling out." Doug

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Date:	Fri Jan 27 08:39:10 PST 2006