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33646 are you happy? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >John Strausbaugh Believe it or not, author of a forthcoming Verso book. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 12 12:39:12 PDT 2000

33647 Pud's auction -- rank: 1000

[Latest bid: $3,000,300. Put yours in now before it's too late!] TheStandard.com - September 12, 2000 The Press That Dares Not Speak the Site's Name The media must be ecstatic about the sale of FuckedCompany.com on eBay. Perhaps the new owners will be some Ned Flanders type who'll rename the site, they must be thinking. Anything's better than this apparent agony over whether to use asterisks, m-dashes or shift-number keys. As copy editors around the country ruminate, writers offered up mildly ir ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 12 10:45:27 PDT 2000

33648 geek -- rank: 1000

[non-sub'd address] From: Kendall Clark <kendall at monkeyfist.com> >>>>> "Carrol" == Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes: Carrol> "Geek" originally meant a carnival performer who bit the Carrol> head off of chickens or snakes. How did it come to mean Carrol> professionals in technology? Hmm, I'm not sure of a precise answer for this, but I can offer a quote from the Jargon File (a kind of Internet, Unix community glossary that's decent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 12 09:00:23 PDT 2000

33649 national journal Professor Finkelstein, please explain to us how the Holocaust /Chomsky, Shahak -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Are these unrepresentative quotes from Finkelstein's book? No. It's a short book; as Verso editor Colin Robinson said, you could read it over a drink. Why not check it out? Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 12 08:51:24 PDT 2000

33650 Einstein on FBI physics -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >I think that Samuelson was the first economist to rediscover >Bachelier, well after >Einstein. I thought that before that point, he had been forgotten. Bachelier was important in the development of modern finance theory. Peter Bernstein tells the story in his book Capital Ideas, but it's at home, and I'm at the office. Doug

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Date:	Tue Sep 12 09:30:31 PDT 2000

33651 oil price mysteries -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - September 12, 2000 Opec's output rise fails to solve oil market conundrum By Robert Corzine in Vienna Oil ministers of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) ended their annual meeting on Monday with few signs that an agreement to increase output by 800,000 barrels per day would meet the needs of consumers and the concerns of analysts. There was uncertainty, also, over exactly what the Opec agreement might mean in real terms, given that several members alreay ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 12 08:55:07 PDT 2000

33652 Query on Word History, was Re: The Moral Life of Geeks -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >"Geek" originally meant a carnival performer who bit >the head off of chickens or snakes. How did it come >to mean professionals in technology? Because so many of them dress strangely and have poor social skills? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Sep 12 08:44:08 PDT 2000

33653 Napster's troubles -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - September 11, 2000 Feds Dis Napster The announcement on Friday that the federal government was joining the defenders of copyright rather than the "information wants to be free" crowd in the Napster case was treated as just barely news by the media. All the major outlets and Net trades reported it, but in such similar ways that they all could have run AP copy and given their Net music reporters Friday afternoon off. The Department of Justice, the Copyright Office and t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 11 10:21:35 PDT 2000

33654 are you happy? -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I don't want to read too much into this, Doug, but what if anything >do these tidings suggest for your (and Virginia Postrel's) notion >that it's sheer good feelings in the workplace that are most likely >to usher in The Revolution? I can't speak for her, but it's not "good feelings" - it's the confidence that comes with tight labor markets, and the feeling that things could be made a lot better. Nothing like the specter of unemployment to make people ke ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 11 13:36:20 PDT 2000

33655 Russia vote fraud -- rank: 1000

[from JRL] Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 From: Pete van Dyk <vandyk at imedia.ru> Subject: Re: JRL 4500-MT/March Vote Falsification Dear David, I would like point out to your readers that the best place to see The Moscow Times' Election Fraud Special Report is at the following URL: http://www.TheMoscowTimes.com/election_fraud.html Here you can read the complete text of each of the 12 reports from Russian regions about irregularities in the vote count, and additional articles that did not make it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 11 17:00:54 PDT 2000

33656 NYC tenants rights -- rank: 1000

[non-sub'd address] Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:17:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Pollak <mdpollak at yahoo.com> Reply-To: mpollak at panix.com Subject: Tenants Rights Site in NY To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Does anyone know of a good tenants' rights' website in New York City? Or the name of an organization that gives good advice? 20 years ago I think I turned to the Metropolitan Council on Housing for advice, but perhaps they'v ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 11 16:23:16 PDT 2000

33657 fuckedcompany.com on eBay -- rank: 1000

Inside.com - September 11, 2000 FUCKEDCOMPANY SEARCHES FOR SELF-WORTH ON EBAY Tired of your exhausted Internet company appearing in FuckedCompany.com? Wish you could celebrate everyone else's failure but yours? You're in luck -- that joyous expression of schadenfreude is up for sale on Ebay. The bidding, which as of 2:20 p.m. Monday had nearly reached the unbelievable level of $10 million, will continue through Sept. 20. Site creator Philip Kaplan, who goes by the lovable moniker "Pud" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 11 15:53:21 PDT 2000

33658 are you happy? -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com - September 11, 2000 Are You Happy? The Standard's first-ever review of compensation, culture and job satisfaction in the Internet workplace. By Maryann Jones Thompson Once upon a time, a gig in the Internet Economy was about as good as it got. Employers fought over you, perks were lavished upon you - and, naturally, there was the ever-present potential for big, big money. For the past two years, this workforce utopia has held the attention of everyone from Wall Street to Main St ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 11 13:07:31 PDT 2000

33659 death.com -- rank: 1000

TheStandard.com has started a dot.com layoff tracker: <http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,15895,00.html>.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Sep 11 12:58:29 PDT 2000

33660 E-books: programmed to expire -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - September 11, 2000 New E-Book Technology Helps Protect Copyrights By THOMAS E. WEBER IMAGINE A BOOK that you can't sell, give away or even lend to a friend. Imagine that this book refuses to wait patiently on your shelf but instead demands money from time to time and threatens to self-destruct if you don't cough up the dough. That book is here, and it's filled with pictures of teeth. It's a new kind of electronic textbook for dental students being introduced right now at Ne ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 11 07:13:03 PDT 2000