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31651 MSOFT versus Open Source movement -- rank: 1000

Archer.Todd at ic.gc.ca wrote: >Kendall wrote: > >You should read what I said more carefully. I was specifically talking >> not about all workers or about society, but about progressive people >> who are already predisposed to self-regulating their consumptive >> practices based on their own moral reasoning. > >Kendall, I think, given what Carrol has written before, that Carrol's >problem with your "moralizing" is that progressive actions on an in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 11:40:49 PDT 2001

31652 Hitchens on Kerrey -- rank: 1000

Christopher Hitchens on Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, April 30: > 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. &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 11:43:03 PDT 2001

31653 MSOFT versus Open Source movement -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Kendall Clark wrote: >> >> > >> You should read what I said more carefully. I was specifically talking >> not about all workers or about society, but about progressive people >> who are already predisposed to self-regulating their consumptive >> practices based on their own moral reasoning. >> > >This is oxymoronic. A progressive person has much better things to do >with his/her time than spend it "regulating t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 10:51:57 PDT 2001

31654 famous economist defends exploitation -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >I agree that the thread title does have a certain flavour of >"Famous Bear Shits in Woods", but the actual job of genuine >economists is the high-level planning and discussion of the >optimisation of the process of production, a useful thing which >would be needed in any society not based on household >production. What does this project have to do with most of the stuff that appears in the AER or the Journal of Finance? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 10:33:08 PDT 2001

31655 MSOFT versus Open Source movement -- rank: 1000

Kendall Clark wrote: >I started trying to use Linux in 1994 for moral reasons, and I became >a vegetarian last year for moral reasons; the latter was much more >difficult than the former. So are the chips your Linux system runs on made by happy, well-paid workers toiling in non-toxic environments? Are the workers who pick the vegetables happy and well-paid too? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 10:11:53 PDT 2001

31656 Ford comes clean, sort of -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - May 3, 2001 Ford tots up its 'gas' bill By Nikki Tait in Chicago and Tim Burt in London Published: May 3 2001 19:10GMT | Last Updated: May 4 2001 02:41GMT Ford on Thursday became the first leading carmaker to work out how much its factories and vehicles contribute to the world's greenhouse gas emissions problem. The car and truckmaker put the figure at about 400m tons of carbon dioxide equivalent - of which about 3 per cent stemmed from the company's manufacturing activities an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 09:23:56 PDT 2001

31657 Ontario welfare recipients face drug, literacy tests -- rank: 1000

Toronto Star - May 3, 2001 Welfare recipients face drug, literacy tests New rules would send addicts to rehab, illiterate to school From Canadian Press The addicted will not be helped by the government unless they agree to go to rehab. The illiterate must go to school. And the number of people on welfare forced to work for their benefits will double. ''Sitting at home and doing nothing is no longer an option,'' Social Services Minister John Baird stressed Thursday. ''Our program will be mandator ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 09:05:34 PDT 2001

31658 famous economist defends exploitation -- rank: 1000

[What was it Mankiw got for his textbook, like $1 million, right? I had one of the students occupying the Harvard administration building on the radio last night; she said that it would cost Harvard $10 million - 0.5% of its endowment - to bring its workers up to the Cambridge living wage minimum of $10.25/hr.] To the Editor: According to Bob Herbert (column, April 30), student protesters have the upper hand in the debate over the "living wage" for Harvard's lowest- paid workers. But a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 4 07:06:40 PDT 2001

31659 Question on happiness -- rank: 1000

Jacob Segal wrote: >Forwarded article from Robert Samuelson in this week's Newsweek. He refers >to a study on the "happiness" of people in the US versus Europe. My >question is what do people think about the validity of self-reporting on >happiness, given the being unhappy is something of a mark of shame for many >people in this culture. Pollsters say answers to "global" questions are extremely unreliable. And answers to one as loaded as this one - it's un-Am ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 3 15:34:11 PDT 2001

31660 Oregon to poor women: check dumpsters -- rank: 1000

<http://www.ocpp.org/2001/nr010430.htm> For immediate release April 30, 2001 Contact: Charles Sheketoff, OCPP (503) 873-1201 Welfare Agency Tells Poor Women: Dumpster Dive to Save Money Oregon's welfare agency, the Adult and Family Services Division of the Department of Human Services, is telling poor women on welfare to "Check the dump and residential/business dumpsters" to save money, according to a circular the agency is handing out in at least one welfare office. The Oregon C ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 3 12:34:24 PDT 2001

31661 $3 a gallon gas? -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >But Doug, your "guru" admits they are regressive, according to your >very own words. Then why would working class-oriented leftists >propose a regressive tax on workers, and why mask it over with a >rebate contraption that would be unnecessary if this regressive >measure was not proposed in the first place. Well, the lack of public transport is a kind of savage tax on workers. Sure lots of low-wage workers have cars, but lots don't too. Who do you thi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 3 09:33:14 PDT 2001

31662 Klein kvetches -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - May 3, 2001 May Day's lessons for the rootless Let's face it, the street theatre in London was a bit of a McProtest Naomi Klein The idea of turning London into a life-sized Monopoly board on May Day sounded like a great idea to me. The most familiar criticism lobbed at modern protesters is that they lack focus and clear goals such as "Save the trees", or "Drop the debt". And yet these protests are a response to the limitations of single-issue politics. Tir ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 3 08:34:45 PDT 2001

31663 $3 a gallon gas? -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >I wholeheartedly condemn this heavy-handed and capitalistic >approach to debt default. If we are to show solidarity with >the developing world and encourage the formation a debtor's >cartel, we must lead by example. All of which implies that >Max, Kelley and Rob can equally whistle for it. Stand firm, >Mark my brother! Nice try, but Mark lives in London, which is about as metropolitan as you can get. Speaking of London, how was May Day, Daniel? The FT h ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 3 07:57:49 PDT 2001

31664 Pope calls for an end to Iraq's suffering -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >And, quoting bat'ushka Stalin, how many armies does the pope have? :) In this world or the next? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 2 16:32:53 PDT 2001

31665 $3 a gallon gas? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Do you have cites of anything he wrote? My search of EconLit database was >not very successful - only one 1999 paper on bicycling promotion. A lot of it is self-published. He's at <kea at igc.org>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 2 14:56:35 PDT 2001