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33616 geeks -- rank: 1000
[non-sub'd address] From: Kendall Clark <kendall at monkeyfist.com> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:05:12 -0500 (CDT) >>>>> "kelley" == kelley <kwalker2 at gte.net> writes: >> their computers; or giving away your code to the world at large >> to read, study, and learn from, and then assembling that code >> into operating systems that are challenging but give users a >> tremendous amount of power. kelley> we were talking, in general, abo ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Sep 14 11:33:30 PDT 2000
33617 geek -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >Did you deliberately misunderstand? No. Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Sep 14 11:31:04 PDT 2000
33618 geek -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >This is an endlessly repeated illusion, going back to various movements >in the 17th c. and earlier. One cannot escape capitalism inside capitalism, >and the attempt to do so is always futile and usually (e.g. worker >ownership) aggressively reactionary. The concept is so old and so >banal that it is really not worthwhile even arguing against it. Anyone >who can believe it is probably immune to education. So whaddya do? Nothing, while waiting for total worl ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Sep 14 10:37:44 PDT 2000
33619 Nader, pro and con -- rank: 1000
Carl Remick quoted Richard Goldstein: >Then there's the Nader gender gap. Men are twice as likely as women >to back him – a margin that pretty much matches Bush's." Back when I wrote for the Voice they had pretty good factcheckers; evidently in these leaner times they don't. The latest Gallup numbers <http://www.gallup.com/Election2000/demographic.asp> have 4% of women for Nader, and 3% of men. These numbers bounce around, but I suspect we've got small samples, statistical noise ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Sep 14 10:01:32 PDT 2000
33620 The backward state of Texas -- rank: 1000
Le Monde diplomatique ----------------------------------------------------- September 2000 GEORGE W. BUSH DOWN HOME The backward state of Texas _________________________________________________________________ Texas breaks all the records. It rates first for capital punishment, second for size and population, last for public spending, and it is nearly always behind in health care, racial equality and protection of the environment. Two former presidents, Lyndon Johnson and George H. Bush, come fr ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Sep 14 09:01:48 PDT 2000
33621 appalling commentary of the day -- rank: 1000
David Glenn quoted Smartertimes: >She is >"broke," the Times tells us, "scrambling to buy >food," and there is "nothing wrong with her >budgeting skills." But wait a minute. The Times >glosses lightly over Ms. Williams' "car payments" >and "car insurance." For all the talk of "bare bones" >budgets and skipping movies and restaurant meals, >the first poor-family sob story the Times can muster >well-developed pu ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Sep 14 08:29:00 PDT 2000
33622 W's speech -- rank: 1000
JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 9/13/00 12:50:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >dhenwood at panix.com writes: > ><< Yes, but how do you explain Clinton, who's nothing if not articulate? > > Doug >> > >Depends on what the meaning of "is" is. That's because he's one of your people, Justin - a lawyer. But when he's speaking as a politician, he has no rival. As James Farmelant said, Reagan was great with a script - but Clinton doesn't need a sc ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Sep 14 08:21:28 PDT 2000
33623 Women Gladiators - new evidence discovered -- rank: 1000
Grave May Be Female Gladiator's .c The Associated Press By ROBERT BARR LONDON (AP) - A young woman who was cremated and buried with costly goods centuries ago in Roman London may be the first discovery of a female gladiator, archaeologists said Tuesday. The woman in her 20s, identified by a fragment of a pelvis, was buried with one dish decorated with the image a fallen gladiator, and other vessels with symbols associated with gladiators, said Hedley Swain, head of the Early Department at the Mu ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 13 11:40:49 PDT 2000
33624 eXile on Russian vote fraud -- rank: 1000
[from JRL] Big Fat Liars by Matt Taibbi the eXile www.exile.ru Give them credit: the Moscow Times last week hit it out of the park. In a stunning display of old-school investigative journalism, the paper released a massive expose proving more or less incontrovertibly that the election of Vladimir Putin to the presidency last spring was an elaborate, out-and-out fraud. Using a team of reporters who traveled around the country, the Times in its September 9 piece entitled "And the winner is..? ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 13 17:51:05 PDT 2000
33625 Buba on hedonics -- rank: 1000
[From the Bundesbank's August monthly report. Warning: high geek content. Love that "tension-free economic growth."] Problems of international comparisons of growth caused by dissimilar methods of deflation - with IT equipment in Germany and the United States as a case in point An important feature of the "new economy" in the United States has been the major surge in macroeco- nomic productivity since the mid-nineties, which has also contributed to correspondingly stronger, t ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 13 14:52:00 PDT 2000
33626 Fwd: Re: Nader Petition: Academics, Intellectuals, Artists and Writers -- rank: 1000
Anita Mage wrote: >Sokal, Ross and Aronowitz too... post science-war pop-front? The people, united, can never be defeated! Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 13 13:45:55 PDT 2000
33627 Asia crisis good for U.S.: NY Fed -- rank: 1000
New from the FRBNY: "Asia Crisis Postmortem: Where Did the Money Go and Did the United States Benefit?" by Eric van Wincoop and Kei-Mu Yi <http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/econ_pol/900winc.html>http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/econ_pol/900winc.html "The Impact of the Asia Crisis on U.S. Industry: An Almost-Free Lunch?" by James Harrigan <http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/econ_pol/800harri.html>http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/econ_pol/800harri.html
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 13 12:58:25 PDT 2000
33628 Prague police promise tolerance, sorta -- rank: 1000
Independent (London) - September 13, 2000 Prague's police aim to tolerate protests By Justin Huggler in Prague Czech police, desperate to avoid the violence of Seattle, will operate a "maximum tolerance" policy at this month's meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Prague. Violence is expected as 20,000 anti-globalisation protesters descend on Prague in the next two weeks. Officers believe up to 3,000 of them will be hardliners intent on trouble. "The police ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 13 11:37:13 PDT 2000
33629 Fwd: News Alert from NYTimes.com -- rank: 1000
Daniel Davies wrote: >"Will Work For Food", commented a recently acquired >Chase employee. Foie gras, perhaps? Or is that too old fashioned? What's the culinary fashion in London these days? Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 13 11:12:58 PDT 2000
33630 geek -- rank: 1000
Kendall Clark wrote: >Microsoft's Talking Paperclip Is that the character on the help screen in the Windows version of Office? In the Mac version, it's a talking, waving Mac Classic - which waves goodbye when you close the window, annoyingly delaying its disappearance. Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Sep 13 11:01:27 PDT 2000
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