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33481 small not beautiful -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, jan carowan wrote: > >> OK, I am outta here. Please unsub me > >Ahh. Haven't quite mastered that new revolutionary technology >of unsubbing one's self, eh? S/he did (though I'm guessing it was a he). This was just a dramatic gesture. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 16:13:43 PDT 2000

33482 Fwd: -- rank: 1000

[this was supposed to be embargoed until noon Friday, but some naughty organ broke the embargo, so now it's fair game] Public Information Office CB00-160 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-1037 (TDD) e-mail: pio at census.gov Robert Mills 301-457-3213 Chances of Having Health Insurance Increase, Reversing 12-Year Trend, Census Bureau Says The number of people without health insurance declined by 1.7 million between 1998 and 1999, from 44.3 million to 42.6 million, the Commerce Department's ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 12:40:53 PDT 2000

33483 small not beautiful -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >Well, Doug, I wouldn't waste my time casting pearls before swine. Pigs can be cute, taste good when cooked, and, as far as I know, don't imagine themselves to be clever. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 12:31:36 PDT 2000

33484 Spreading rumors -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Sounds like the Anderson Valley Advertiser -- best newspaper in the county. Too bad Bruce Anderson likes reprinting other people's stuff without asking, much less paying. Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 12:10:41 PDT 2000

33485 small not beautiful -- rank: 1000

jan carowan wrote: >Who exactly do you think the average user of computing power is? Do >you think there were no computers in the CPI before 97 or no >personal computers? They started reporting a PC and software sub index in Dec 97. > What percentage of total computing power is represented by PCs? Dunno. How's that relevant? The BEA measures include computers of all kinds sold to users of all kinds. > How does one calcalute the declining prices of computing power as >new fun ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 11:22:30 PDT 2000

33486 small not beautiful -- rank: 1000

Forstater, Mathew wrote: >as long as we remember that Schumacher and people like Kropotkin >before him were >not talking about small biznesses being better than large corporations. they >were talking about another kind of decentralization, even >anarcho-communism. but >I guess the 'small is beautiful' part is not meant as a comment on Schumacher, >but just reflects the journalistic preference for catchy phrases? Guilty on the j'ism preference. Still, I have my doubts that to ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 11:24:58 PDT 2000

33487 small not beautiful -- rank: 1000

jan carowan wrote: >Mr Henwood, you provide no grounds for this conclusion. During the >past 25 years, the cost of computers has dropped approximately one >millionfold. The output of computers isn't megaflops, it's the useful manipulation of data. I doubt the average user feels 20% more productive than last year. > Yet the BLS shows merely an annual drop varying between 14.9% in >1992 and 6.7% in 1994. Where? They only started reporting PCs in the CPI in 1997, and that price inde ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 10:43:14 PDT 2000

33488 Spreading rumors -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >how vulgar of you, doug. Guilty. I'd love to do a radical tabloid, that was part muckraking, part analysis, part polemic, and part salacious gossip about the rich & famous. Class war should be fun! Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 10:10:33 PDT 2000

33489 torture in Prague -- rank: 1000

From: Jennifer Webster <Jennifer at afgj.org> To: "'stop-wb-imf at 50years.org'" <stop-wb-imf at 50years.org> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:46:18 -0400 Reports are pouring in on the horrific conditions in the Prague jails. It is important to let the authorities in Prague know that we are aware of their actions and we are watching. This press release from INPEG (below) in Prague, on beatings and human rights violations of people arrested in the protests is based on eyewitness a ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 10:07:50 PDT 2000

33490 small not beautiful -- rank: 1000

jan carowan wrote: >Neither I nor today's WSJ is concerned with punch card technology. I >have not read any analysis by these people, Shaiken has been on tv. Yeah, don't bother with reading books, especially about old stuff. Just stick with TV, or better yet, the web. Doug

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33491 PRAGUE DECLARATION - 28 Sep 2000 -- rank: 1000

From: Soren <Soren at afgj.org> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 06:17:07 -0400 PRAGUE DECLARATION 28 September 2000 We, the members of non-governmental and community-based organizations from different parts of the world, gathered in Prague and signing this statement, note the unprecedented early suspension of the 2000 annual general meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Given the number of scheduled sessions, including meetings with non-governmental organizations, tha ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 09:47:14 PDT 2000

33492 small not beautiful -- rank: 1000

jan carowan wrote: >By the way, I note that Mr Wray, Mr Henwood and you seem not >interested in the question of whether the productivity measures or >consumer price index is biased against the high technology >revolution. Biased against? The productivity numbers are, if anything, overstating the tech revolution (a topic dear to my heart, as the author of a book called A New Economy?). The price adjustments have high-tech output rising at a 50% annual rate, which strikes me as implaus ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 09:41:53 PDT 2000

33493 Spreading rumors -- rank: 1000

I like gossip. I like rumors, as long as they are identified as such. As long as there's no risk of litigation, spread away! Doug

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 09:25:37 PDT 2000

33494 stunned -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Hmmm. My fifteen-minute appointment with Summers yesterday morning >(27th) has been on his calendar for three weeks. More important, he >had a Kennedy School speech on the new economy on the evening of the >27th. So he had been planning to come back late on the 26th for a >while... Have they ever ended the meetings early? I've gone to three myself, and it never happened. I've never heard of such official proceedings coming to a premature close. Could you ask Su ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 28 08:59:55 PDT 2000

33495 Arabs punishing Gore? -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >WorldOil.com - September 2000 > >S >Arabic producers rumored to be punishing Gore >===== > >Who owns-runs that site??? Got no idea. Irresponsible of me to forward it not knowing that, but hey, that's what the net is all about! Doug

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