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2506 [lbo-talk] MoDo on Dylan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2011, at 11:22 AM, // ravi wrote: > Doug seems to imply that what impresses stoned undergraduates is unimportant. Heavens no! I was one of those once, and I thought I was pretty damned important!!

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2507 [lbo-talk] MoDo on Dylan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > One of the great sorrows of my life is my failure to spend a sufficient portion > of my undergraduate years stoned. It's never too late to catch up.

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2508 [lbo-talk] MoDo on Dylan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote: >> Did Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands make no sense because "your warehouse eyes, your arabian drums" is obscure? > > Or dim. Or just things that impress stoned undergraduates. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 11 07:48:11 PDT 2011

2509 [lbo-talk] Fed driving commodities bubble? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2011, at 2:45 AM, Myles Sussman wrote: > But round one of the bubble would have occurred in 2007-2008. So I'm not > sure what to make of the claim about the fed causing the bubble It's right-wing hard-money stuff.

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Date:	Mon Apr 11 04:37:03 PDT 2011

2510 [lbo-talk] MoDo on Dylan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 10, 2011, at 9:43 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I was watching a show where he was doing his greatest hits & for dancing stuff and party stuff he was absolutely amazing. I mean it's pop; it doesn't pretend to be anything else. But as an entertainer he was phenomenal. Dude could dance, too.

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Date:	Sun Apr 10 18:48:28 PDT 2011

2511 [lbo-talk] MoDo on Dylan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 10, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Most of the lyrics don't have a lot of staying power No kidding. They make no damn sense, actually. Doug

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2512 [lbo-talk] Desktop Publishing for people who don't know what they are doing -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:53 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > PS: only the Database GUI module in OO.o is written in Java. The rest > of the apps are compiled C/C++. And it isnīt slow at all. You must > have an ancient computer. Works like a charm in my 1.6 Ghz Atom > powered netbook with 1GB RAM. I have a mid-2010 vintage iMac, 3.2 GHz Intel Core i3 with 4 GB RAM.

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Date:	Sat Apr 9 14:26:45 PDT 2011

2513 [lbo-talk] what'd they cut in that $38B? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > It seems like that would have to be the case; there wasn't really anything to lose for the Republicans to shut the government down They lost last time, or so the CW says.

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2514 [lbo-talk] what'd they cut in that $38B? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Yeah, I have a general idea... but news stories are only noting the total, > no specifics? Bet the Dems conceded more than the Reps, so you can guess the rough outline from that.

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2515 [lbo-talk] Shut down the government? Seriously? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Fuck him. The top 1% of the U.S. pop has something like $1.4 trillion in income. The next 4% has $1.3 trillion. The next 5% has almost a trillion. That's all out of almost $8 trillion. The U.S. isn't broke - the rich just have all the money. > > ======= > > This is ideal agitational conciseness. > > You do mean annual inome -- not net worth or something. Yes, annual income, from Piketty & Saez. Doug

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2516 [lbo-talk] Desktop Publishing for people who don't know what they are doing -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2011, at 9:46 PM, brandelune at gmail.com wrote: > I don't know when you last tried NeoOffice but it is not exactly as you describe it anymore... I last tried it a few weeks ago. I'm using a new and fast iMac, and among its many problems, it takes forever to load, so I'm even reluctant to start up the thing. Lately I'd been using it only to open files formatted in the latest Word/Excel format, but now that I've got Office 2011 or whatever, I don't even need to do that. For all its p ...

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2517 [lbo-talk] Desktop Publishing for people who don't know what they are doing -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2011, at 9:32 PM, // ravi wrote: > Office from 2000 is pretty old school Yes, but the latest does very weird things with Excel graphs (you can't adjust their size to fit the window, and copying them to Illustrator is a pain), has only an inferior external StatPak, and does some other odd shit that I can't recall. I tried it for a day and found it a step backward. But not as many steps backwards as the free stuff. Doug

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2518 [lbo-talk] Desktop Publishing for people who don't know what they are doing -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:37 PM, // ravi wrote: > Crap? Come on. They are probably a bit more difficult to use, etc, than the bloatware from Microsoft that people are addicted to like crack. But when some suit that I am not allowed to strangle sends me a "Word document", OpenOffice does a fairly decent job of letting me view it, edit it and send it back without spending so much time on it that I start feeling like a pedophile. :-) I'm still using an old version of Office, from 2000, beca ...

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2519 [lbo-talk] Desktop Publishing for people who don't know what they are doing -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:04 PM, Billy O'Connor wrote: > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes: > >>> http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software >> >> I hope it's better than OpenOffice, NeoOffice, and all that other >> crap. > > Here that one at the Genius Bar, didja? No. Tried them for myself. They're slow, buggy, weak, and look like crap. Doug

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2520 [lbo-talk] Desktop Publishing for people who don't know what they are doing -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2011, at 7:39 PM, brandelune at gmail.com wrote: > If you're interested in free software then Scribus may be what your looking for: > > http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software I hope it's better than OpenOffice, NeoOffice, and all that other crap. Doug

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