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34711 Outlawing Fascistic Racist Speech -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >The line here is FASCISTIC RACIST speech. It is a narrow exception >to general freedom of speech. So gimme some examples. Would you ban the publication of the Bell Curve? It's a hideous book, but I'd never want to ban it. Would you? Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 08:14:24 PST 2000

34712 Marx and Woman (was Re: Gender & Free Speech) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: I agree, and there is no more of a slippery slope between >outlawing fascistic racist speech and outlawing socialist speech >than there is between supporting abortion and supporting >infanticide. Both lines are very easy to draw. The "hardness" of >distinguishing fascistic racist speech from other speech is a social >construction. Well we disagree bigtime on this, but I'll hold fire. Apropos of fire, a couple of people rebuked me for being t ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 08:12:46 PST 2000

34713 Fwd: goldman sachs runs scared -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Are you supporting the this new brave fight by the new >internationalist AFL CIO against the PetroChina IPO? Nope. I have lots of problems with it. One, the anti-China focus makes me very nervous; partakes too much of racism, even if it pretends not to, and too much of residual anti-Communism. (I hear the AFL-CIO's been circulating a speech by the rightwing maniac Tom DeLay that denounces Clinton for being too soft on the Red Chinese.) And two, I'm very skeptical a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 23 08:03:15 PST 2000

34714 the age of access (rifkin) -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Rifkin's thesis sounds quite a bit like that of Naomi Klein, but extended to >technology. Except that she's smart, well-informed, and a witty stylish writer with a serious political critique. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 07:55:39 PST 2000

34715 the age of access (rifkin) -- rank: 1000

Another thing re Rifkin: in the book, he makes a big deal about how networks of suppliers are replacing old-fashioned arm's-length market relationships. Sometime after the reviewers' galleys were produced but before the actual book was manufactured, the auto industry announced its electronic parts exchanges and several other industries have followed suit. You don't get much more arm's length market related than that - completely disembodied, transaction-oriented virtual commodities markets. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 07:53:51 PST 2000

34716 Marx and Woman (was Re: Gender & Free Speech) -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Neither. It's the logic of the arguments. What makes abortion hard is that if >we want to say it is OK to kill fetuses, it is difficult to avoid commiting >ourselves to principles that would appear to make it OK to kill newborn >infants. As our recent discussion of Singer illustrated, that is a position >that few of us will swallow. I know of no plausible answer to this problem. >So people like Marta and I who support abortion rights and oppose infanti ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 06:55:19 PST 2000

34717 the age of access (rifkin) -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >since you disliked rifkin's stuff so much last time round, doug...... > >March 13, 2000 > >The Age of Access > We're entering an era in which lifelong customer relationships are the >ultimate commodities market. > By Jeremy Rifkin Boy this is a piece of crap. I've got a review of it forthcoming in Wired, of all places. Here's my first draft of it; I revised it some on the editor's urging, but it looks like I didn't keep a copy of that version. Doug ---- T ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 06:30:36 PST 2000

34718 Fwd: goldman sachs runs scared -- rank: 1000

[more China stuff] From: "Tim Shorrock" <tim.shorrock at ipgdirect.com> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:17:16 -0500 Organization: Asian Assets Direct Goldman Sachs Moves PetroChina IPO Seminar as Unions Press Attack on Chinese Investments March 22, 2000 By Tim Shorrock Asian Assets Direct Managing Editor WASHINGTON - Goldman Sachs called off an investment roadshow at a New York hotel Wednesday just before the AFL-CIO held a press conference denouncing a $3 billion Chinese initial publi ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 06:16:20 PST 2000

34719 Alan's dilemma -- rank: 1000

Fortune - April 3, 2000 Alan's Little Secret: The Federal Reserve's Hidden Agenda Anna Bernasek At any given moment, somebody somewhere isn't going to like Alan Greenspan. That goes with the job. But these days, history's first and only household-name Federal Reserve chairman is generating a lot more criticism than usual. Economists accuse him of making up theories to suit his own purpose, Wall Street is mad that old-economy stocks are suffering at the expense of tech stocks, and there's a gener ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 22 21:34:50 PST 2000

34720 IPO lockups -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Look at it this way: a VC buys at $1, sells at at $15 IPO; institution >buys 1/3 of their long-term position in the IPO for $15, other two >thirds on the way to $24. Stock goes to $28 in two years. Both >groups are heroes to their clients. From what location are you pulling these figures? The studies I've read show that IPOs in general underperform the market - and the later in the market cycle, the worse the underperformance. You know to the contrary? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 22 20:23:13 PST 2000

34721 [Fwd: THE TEARS OF THE MIGHTY] -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >Speech is an act and should be treated like all other acts. If certain >speech acts cause harm to a certain person or group of persons those >persons need protection in the same way that potential victims of >physical violence need protection. I would make a distinction between >speech that is offensive and speech that is harmful. Speech that offends >does not necessarily harm. So if a capitalist feels harmed if you or I were to shout "Expropriate the e ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 22 17:09:10 PST 2000

34722 cruel & unusual punishment -- rank: 1000

School Uses Backstreet Boys to 'Torture' Students TORONTO (Reuters) - Backstreet Boys' music and other pop songs are being used by University of Toronto campus police to ''torture'' students into ending a sit-in in the president's office. For six days, a group of students has occupied the offices of vacationing university president Robert Prichard and other administrative staff, demanding a campus-wide ban of the sale of clothing made in Third World sweatshops. Of the 20 students who started the ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 22 15:19:25 PST 2000

34723 [Fwd: THE TEARS OF THE MIGHTY] -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: If all they did was talk, there would be no problem. The problem >is the talk causes action. So, yes quite, it is freedom from racism. So if you want to ban or prosecute something, ban or prosecute the action. Leave the speech alone. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 22 15:17:56 PST 2000

34724 IPO lockups -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > The abnormal return is much more pronounced when the firm is >> venture financed, and we find that venture funds sell more >> aggressively than other pre-IPO shareholders. > >The tone of this statement is inflamatory; isn't this as it should >be? Isn't it exciting when professors of finance use heated language? > Venture funds cash out after the IPO because that's what they >do: take companies from formation to the public. Once they d ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 22 14:12:49 PST 2000

34725 advances in branding -- rank: 1000

[A friend writes...] "Hotel marketing will move from demographics-what we look like on the outside-to psychographics-what we look like onm the inside. Historically, guest profiles have been based upon age, race, socio-economic status, and gender. The truth is we live in an age when those old boxes don't mean anything-we're not as predictable as we used to be. Psychographics-our feelings, values, and interests, is the new way to connect with a guest. Brands are mirrors-a reflection of how cu ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 22 14:41:01 PST 2000