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31636 Surrendered Wives -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Sounds for the most part (the finances bit is a bit dodgy) like a 'good >spouse', even a 'good friend', checklist. The quest for control is pretty >well inimical to all human relations, no? So, going on this list, I don't >think 'surrendered wife' is anything but a marketing ploy to feed on some >controversy. To the degree that these 'self-improvement' things have any >efficacy at all, this lot seems pretty harmless - mebbe even a useful >check-list aga ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 6 10:17:28 PDT 2001

31637 Surrendered Wives -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Wives Surrender To Husbands To Save Marriages >Yearning for a better marriage, a group of women have developed a unique >approach to building a building a better connection with their husbands. The actual book is even worse than this summary. It's worth a look. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 6 10:13:54 PDT 2001

31638 gloomsters' treat -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >In this and other ways, business shows a remarkable ability to >malign individual consumers and investors for engaging in >irrational, short-sighted behavior that business, itself, is ever >more quickest to resort to. In times of extreme market volatility, >e.g., I believe that it is the market professionals who are >increasingly the first to be afflicted by the madness of crowds. Yup. But there are a lot of good reasons for this: 1) there are fewer of them ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 5 14:23:29 PDT 2001

31639 Question for Doug -- rank: 1000

Stannard67 at aol.com wrote: >I'm engaged in a bit of a scuffle over productivity and wages. During this >argument, I cited the statistics and conclusions made on >http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Stats_earns.html. Apologies for not having updated that page in a year. Too many things to do, not enough time. >Below is a response from my opponent who, as I interpret it, is accusing the >LBO of lying. Any light you could shed on his analysis would be appreciated. > -mjs > > ...

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Date:	Sat May 5 14:11:58 PDT 2001

31640 gloomsters' treat -- rank: 1000

Greenspan Hopes U.S. Spends Its Way Out (Reuters) If Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is counting on the consumer to bail out the ailing American economy, his chances of success would appear slim to none. For the full story, go to: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010505/bs/stocks_week_dc_1.html

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 5 13:03:40 PDT 2001

31641 Doug to FT: Eye popping -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >[I love the idea that the "average" household is at the 95th percentile. >Are averages like that, instead of medians, used often in supposedly >respectable publications when they discuss income and wealth? I thought >it was considered a pretty base trick.] Most "respectable" publications don't do it - it's usually journalists and Wall Street hacks who are guilty of this offense. By the way, I learned this detail in a Federal Reserve Bank of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 5 13:00:55 PDT 2001

31642 Baby Kim in Disneyland -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 5, 2001 Japan deports North Korean leader's son to China By Gillian Tett in Tokyo and James Kynge in Beijing A man thought to be the eldest son and heir-apparent of Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader, arrived in China on Friday after having been deported from Tokyo for trying to enter Japan on a fake passport to visit Disneyland. The man, believed to be Kim Jong-nam, the 29-year-old son of Mr Kim, was ushered into a VIP reception room at Beijing airport. China, the closes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 5 12:30:57 PDT 2001

31643 MSOFT versus Open Source movement -- rank: 1000

W. Kiernan wrote: >Yeah but Christ the latest MS stuff (I speak of the Win95/98/ME series, >not NT/2000, which is actually pretty decent to use) absolutely, >recklessly sucks, sucks sucks sucks, sucks worse and worse with each new >iteration, and MS themselves openly admits that their next generation, >XP, by their deliberate intent is gonna suck worse than any previous >operating system ever sucked ever! I don't know from Windows, but their Mac stuff is just fine. I haven't ye ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 5 12:12:44 PDT 2001

31644 FW: Zizek help -- rank: 1000

Gary Ashwill wrote: >A friend asked me to forward the following query to this list to see if >anyone had thoughts about Zizek as "post-marxist." Could someone explain what a post-Marxist is? Doug

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Date:	Sat May 5 12:07:38 PDT 2001

31645 Jaggi petition -- rank: 1000

From: "Judy Rebick" <judy.rebick at sympatico.ca> Subject: Free Jaggi Singh Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 08:05:01 -0400 Hi As you may know I testified in the Jaggi Singh`s bail hearing. I am very concerned that his continuing emprisonment is a serious threat to our civil and political rights. Please consider signing this petition to free Jaggi Singh. Mr. Singh has been held without bail in a Quebec prison since his arrest at the Summit of the Americas protests in April. Many believe tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 5 12:05:53 PDT 2001

31646 MSOFT versus Open Source movement -- rank: 1000

j.f. noonan wrote: >On Fri, 4 May 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> So how do the developers support themselves? Do they have >> day jobs? > >Yes. Sometimes those day jobs are working on free software, >either for internal consumption or for clients. Say the company >I work for need a Frobnitz added to the gcc compiler in order to >do some task or other. I get paid by my company to add the >Frobnitz for our internal business reasons and then contribute & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 15:08:05 PDT 2001

31647 MSOFT versus Open Source movement -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >What's even cooler is that the Anarchist FAQ comes with some BSD >distributions. > >My website runs on a server powered by BSD. It's very robust and is >almost never >down. So how do the developers support themselves? Do they have day jobs? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 14:25:54 PDT 2001

31648 angels & devils, or different perspectives on thievery? -- rank: 1000

Napster Reportedly Wants Microsoft's Anti-Piracy Technology By George A. Chidi Jr. - IDG The music-swapping site is said to be in talks with Redmond about using Windows Audio software to restrict unauthorized copying. http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,24226,00.html?nl=dnt

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 12:39:49 PDT 2001

31649 MSOFT versus Open Source movement -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >Doug Henwood: >> I remember a quote from Durenmatt's play The Physicists, which I read >> in high school German class long ago, which runs something like: >> "Every attempt by an individual to solve that which concerns all must >> fail." > >Hence, every attempt to solve that which concerns all must >fail, since it would have to start with one individual or >another -- unless you postulate some kind of group mind, >which ...

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Date:	Fri May 4 12:03:55 PDT 2001

31650 last line -- rank: 1000

ooops, cut off the last line of Hitch: > COLMES: What's your view on Bob Kerrey? > > HITCHENS: Of Bob Kerrey? Well, he's my president, in fact, > since I teach at the New School, and I think he wouldn't -- > he wouldn't have made that bad a president. I know him > slightly. I like him very much. I -- I think he probably > would have done well to decide whether he was going to all > three things, and there's a little confusion. > > But look, none of the peopl ...

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Date:	Fri May 4 11:43:33 PDT 2001