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32326 dumb motherfucker, an explanation -- rank: 1000
[via nettime - doesn't seem to work with Yahoo! anymore] <http://www.hugedisk.com/story.asp?ar_id=57> You ain't huge. You ain't nothin'! © 2000 HugeDisk Enterprises. All rights reserved. HugeDisk Helps Confirm G.W. Bush's Reputation The on-line reputation of a celebrity -- from a television star to a high-stakes politician -- can have a dramatic effect on that person's career. Hate and worship sites, a slanted news media, or on-line chat-style commentary can all have either a positive or n ...
Document Size: 7681
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 25 12:33:39 PST 2001
32327 MSFT down again -- rank: 1000
Ha. Microsoft's web presence is absent again. For those morbidly interested, Declan McCullagh wrote a little script to check on whether they're breathing yet: <http://www.mccullagh.org/bin/msmon.html>. Doug
Document Size: 4624
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 25 11:52:51 PST 2001
32328 fun with Google -- rank: 1000
Search google for "dumb motherfucker": <http://www.google.com/search?q=dumb+motherfucker>. #2 is almost as funny as #1! Doug
Document Size: 4560
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 25 10:54:58 PST 2001
32329 Will on culture -- rank: 1000
[Today's column by George Will, Washington Post version. Further evidence the culture wars have resumed after a truce? "Culture is an incubator of character" indeed.] 'Art' Unburdened by Excellence Bill Ivey, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, recently looked upon the cultural scene and found it wonderful. In a December speech calling for "an American Cultural Bill of Rights, " he said: "Signs of increased access to quality art and design are all around us. ...
Document Size: 9875
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 25 09:22:21 PST 2001
32330 Progressive Empire (NATO: A Global KKK?) -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> >> What about the NATO of Powell and Rice? > >O Shit -- and even if i had the use of both hands >this banality would not be worth a fuller response. I don't know whether to feel annoyed or relieved. Look, the point is that simple racialized analyses of imperialism don't work anymore. Two of the top administrators of the Empire are now black. Neither is a marginal figure, and one was the military leader of the Gulf War. More ...
Document Size: 5560
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 25 07:57:21 PST 2001
32331 a healthy and lucid disgust -- rank: 1000
Rob Schaap wrote: >the capital alone >is cosmopolitan This from someone born in the Netherlands who lives in Australia, a nation populated by recent immigrants and their descendants? Doug
Document Size: 4629
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 25 07:08:33 PST 2001
32332 Null on AIDS -- rank: 1000
Peter van Heusden wrote: >'Alternative' medicine in my experience largely fails to break from >many of bad things about medicine under capitalism - the authoritarian >position of the practitioner, Who is often deified, invested with mystical healing capacities. > the focus on symptoms (even if the >symptoms are broadened into the 'lifestyle' catagory) I once saw a list of symptoms of "yeast infection," which was an obsession of the alternacrowd a few years ago. It inclu ...
Document Size: 5621
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 25 07:06:52 PST 2001
32333 Progressive Empire (NATO: A Global KKK?) -- rank: 1000
Brad Mayer wrote: >The utter racism of this "rationale" could not be made more clearly. >The NATO of Clinton, Blair, Sonntag, Hitchens and Burford is a White >Supremacist organization, pure and simple. What about the NATO of Powell and Rice? Doug
Document Size: 4850
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 25 06:58:05 PST 2001
32334 Free Mike! -- rank: 1000
Michael Pollak wrote: >Of course that is true to some extent, no? Markets that let insider >trading get out of hand ...the perception of insider trading... >scare away investors, no? Doesn't purging the >occasional transgressor pour encourager les autres serve an important >function in shoring up investor confidence? That's symbolic only in the >sense money is symbolic. Money is symbolic, but it represents real relations of social power. Anything that encourages people to th ...
Document Size: 5308
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jan 25 06:53:57 PST 2001
32335 Free Mike! -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >Of course the victims of the official crimes were shareholders - those are >the only victims recognized under our securities laws. If you want to >emphasize that point, fine, but Milken is no different from anyone else who >has gone to jail under those laws, so why do you feel any great need to >defend him? Because he serves to sustain a liberal mythology about financial markets specifically and capitalism in general - that the problem is bad apples that if ...
Document Size: 5967
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 24 20:56:14 PST 2001
32336 Free Mike! -- rank: 1000
Michael Pollak wrote: >So what do you think of the argument that Ben Stein (of Win Ben Stein's >Money) made in Barron's in the late 80s? He argued that what made Milken >such a huge criminal was he created the junk bond market out of nothing, >and that it was all smoke and mirrors. As I remember it, Stein said that >Milken argued that up until him, investors had under-priced junk bonds >because they figured on a 4% average default rate, whereas, if you had a >large enough ...
Document Size: 6926
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 24 20:44:41 PST 2001
32337 Progressive Empire? -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>I really don't have any idea how this is relevant to Hardt and >>Negri's Empire. They're not Blairites, you know. >> >>Doug > >That's the reality of the Progress of the Empire that Hardt & Negri >have to address. You know, I think they know this. They're not stupid, either. Doug
Document Size: 4754
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 24 16:00:44 PST 2001
32338 Progressive Empire? -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >***** 'INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE' AND THE END OF INTERNATIONAL LAW [1] > >By Dr David Chandler, Research Fellow, Policy Research Institute, >Leeds Metropolitan University > >The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999 has been >saluted as a triumph for 'international justice' over the >traditional claims of state sovereignty. I really don't have any idea how this is relevant to Hardt and Negri's Empire. They're not Blairites, you know. Do ...
Document Size: 4927
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 24 15:09:18 PST 2001
32339 Free Mike! -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > >>I'm still waiting for someone to explain to me who exactly the >>victims were of Milken's crimes. Not in the moral or figurative sense >>but in the legal sense. > >Doug, securities laws are really picky about disclosure of ownership and a >whole host of other areas. Milken not only played games around insider >trading but helped friends hide ...
Document Size: 8399
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 24 15:08:25 PST 2001
32340 a healthy and lucid disgust -- rank: 1000
Patrick Bond wrote: >So won't you agree it's both/and? That's the character of uneven >development, right? So capitalism isn't necessarily a `progressive' >mode of production everywhere. We have really BAD capitalism in this >part of the world, Doug, but one day we'll get you around to see for >yourself. I've never contested that, so I don't know why you keep reminding me of it. And every time you say it, I reply that I see plenty of bad capitalism here in New York City. >Well, ...
Document Size: 8219
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jan 24 13:25:37 PST 2001
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