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33811 "Heterosexual Marriage"! -- rank: 1000

Christopher Susi wrote: >Something that is intelligent could not be hacked. >Humans can be hacked through Sodium Pentathol, brainwashing, and torture. >Therefore humans are not intelligent. Speak for yourself. Do you have anything to offer besides the typical geek-libertarian cliches? They're so 90s. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 23 06:56:23 PDT 2000

33812 Survivor! -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: >The US is predominately made up of thoughtless robots, programmed for mass >consumption and rote work. Good thing you escaped this fate! What do you attribute this lucky outcome to? Genes? Wit? Bad socialization? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 23 06:52:25 PDT 2000

33813 Cybersilliness -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Christopher Susi wrote: >> >> >Another kid >> >that is exceptionally smart goes on to harvard and becomes a doctor or >> >lawyer. These are specific traits that were bestowed on them by sheer luck >> >of the gene pool that provided them with a better chance of success. >> >> Wow, is there really a Harvard gene? > >Doug, in the presence of such deeply rooted ignorance both ir ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 22 19:46:00 PDT 2000

33814 Cybersilliness -- rank: 1000

Christopher Susi wrote: >Another kid >that is exceptionally smart goes on to harvard and becomes a doctor or >lawyer. These are specific traits that were bestowed on them by sheer luck >of the gene pool that provided them with a better chance of success. Wow, is there really a Harvard gene?This human genome mapping thing is much further advanced than I'd realized. Are there separate variants for each professional school? Is there a Yale gene too? Smith and Holyoke? Back in the 70s, ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 22 15:24:46 PDT 2000

33815 SAVE "DEMOCRACY NOW" - 10/25 RALLY -- rank: 1000

Coast to Coast Actions to Save "Democracy Now" & Take Back Pacifica Wednesday, October 25 Berkeley, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, DC "Democracy Now!" in Danger On October 16, the Pacifica Radio network threatened to fire "Democracy Now!" host Amy Goodman if she refused to comply with a new set of "rules" which will make it impossible for her to continue to produce the hard-hitting, breaking news stories "Democracy Now" is famous ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 22 14:48:20 PDT 2000

33816 Fwd: Offlist -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:05:18 -0400 From: "Charles Brown" <CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> >>> chris at susi.net 10/22/00 04:40AM >>> I hate to say it, I believe that is a reflection of not just human nature, but nature in general. You will find many instances of colonies of individual animals that support each other in varying ways and thereby all members are benefited. However, are there instance where colonies of life will actively support remote dyin ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 22 12:10:59 PDT 2000

33817 Cybersilliness -- rank: 1000

Christopher Susi wrote: >I'm not even advocating genetic superiority, just stated that we all start >off with differing chances of surival based on a number of factors, >location, resources, and even genes. If one person or group is successfull >are they some how obligated to everyone and anyone that isn't to make sure >they can survive? No. Every one for him or herself. Only the fittest survive. The war of each against all. The inferior must die out for the good of the rest. Wha ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 22 11:55:00 PDT 2000

33818 "Heterosexual Marriage"! -- rank: 1000

Christopher Susi wrote: >You might argue the "liberal school system" comment was a back-handed >remark, but growing up in public school in the early 70's, every memory I >have is one of "Love your neighbor, Keep the world clean, it's bad to be >selfish, share share share, love love love" and not one memory of a teacher >saying "Sometimes you have to be selfish to survive". Damn liberal teachers. Kids just don't get the proper message about selfishness ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 22 10:50:49 PDT 2000

33819 worker stress on productivity (J. O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

Les Schaffer wrote: >Jim O'Connor said: > >> The news story reporting the new ILO study of worker stress, >> anxiety, etc. > >is this study anywhere available on the web? There's a press release at <http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/pr/2000/37.htm>. Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 22 09:54:54 PDT 2000

33820 Police Crackdown in NYC -- rank: 1000

Reclaim the Streets NYC - http://reclaimthestreetsnyc.tao.ca ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory" <toplab at toplab.org> To: "bill koehnlein" <toplab at toplab.org> Subject: Police Crackdown in NYC Date sent: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:24:47 -0400 Please forward or repost ----- Original Message ----- From: Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen at mindspring.com> To: <mitchelcohen at mindspr ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 21 14:44:00 PDT 2000

33821 Fwd: Latest Presidential Election Numbers from www.gallup.com -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >On Democracy Now, Michael Moore says that probable voters does not include >many young people -- because they did not vote before. As a result, Nader >is seriously undercounted. > >Is that true? Could well be, but I couldn't get the AAPOR people to answer this question. "Likely voter" algorithms are based on stated intentions, demographics, and past voting behavior, so if Nader draws in a lot of first-time voters - because of age or ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 21 10:54:13 PDT 2000

33822 Fwd: Latest Presidential Election Numbers from www.gallup.com -- rank: 1000

************************************************ The Gallup Poll: Presidential Election NewsAlert ************************************************ The latest presidential poll results are now on www.gallup.com Results for Oct 18-20, 2000 ** Bush: 51% Gore: 40% Buchanan: 1% Nader: 4% Don't Know: 4% ** among Likely Voters For a complete analysis of current presidential poll standings, go to: http://www.gallup.alerts.com/alerts/ClickThrough?Address=dhenwood@panix.com&SiteName=gallup&Cr ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 21 10:42:38 PDT 2000

33823 Pollin responds -- rank: 1000

[Someone forwarded Max Sawicky's comments on Louis Uchitelle's NYT budget piece, which concluded with a swipe at Bob Pollin. Bob responds...] >The quote that Uchitelle took from me couldn't be more >straightforward: it says that if you don't increase spending in >dollar terms, and if capital gains and incomes rise, and if the tax >rates on these stay constant, then it follows mathematically that >you get more revenues than expenditures--and thus a surplus. > >Of course, I wa ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 21 09:30:32 PDT 2000

33824 guns, whites, & slaves (was Re: differentia specifica) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >CB: American gun culture is probably more related to the fact that >the national territory was taken by forceful and violent conquest of >the Indigenous Peoples. America had the biggest settler population >of the British settler colonies that I can think of. > >***** [Copyright © 1995 Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois >Institute of Technology. Originally published as 70 Chi.-Kent L. >Rev. 1307-1335 (1995). For educational use only. The print ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 20 15:38:37 PDT 2000

33825 Obviously (what's the Left problem with GM food?) -- rank: 1000

brettk at unicacorp.com wrote: > >Though I >>think the drift of Carrol's post was that things are more or less >>getting worse, and have been since the first woman knelt to grind >>corn. > >Now who's making false claims? That's not what I got out of Carrol's post. >Rather, his point was that most changes are bad as a way of arguing against >the notion of progress being inherent. So it's "most changes are bad" rather than "things are more or le ...

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