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3496 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2010, at 11:19 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > Scelsi is awesome, but that's really 'the aristocratic solution'. I was, I have to admit, overcome with envy when I read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scelsi > Born in the village of Pitelli near La Spezia, Scelsi spent most of his time in his mother's old castle where he received education from a private tutor who taught him Latin, chess and fencing. Later, his family moved to Rome and his musical talents were encouraged by private les ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 10 09:56:52 PDT 2010

3497 [lbo-talk] Corporate Taxes, was why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I don't think that's true. Taxes are a deduction from profit. They may > _try_ to pass the cost on, but a corporation is already charging as high > as it can and still sell enough,. That doesn't leave room for pasing on > the extra cost of a tax. > > Doug may be able to comment more technically on this. There are a lot of arguments about who pays the corporate tax. Corps probably pay at least some of it, otherwise they wouldn't lo ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 10 09:54:26 PDT 2010

3498 [lbo-talk] topic list -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2010, at 5:31 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > heh. srsly, tho. who came up with these tags? were they autogenerated by contributors - coz that's often the way they are generated? No, I wish. They were provided by the Pacifica authorities. I was amused the Wicca and Polyamory got slots, but I had to make a special request for Economics. Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 9 14:40:02 PDT 2010

3499 [lbo-talk] topic list -- rank: 1000

This is the list of available topics for tagging content uploaded to Pacifica's Audioport, which allows affiliate stations to pick up programs. "Economics" wasn't on the list until I asked for it. Doug ---- Africa Aging Agnosticism Agriculture Air Pollution Alternative Energy Alternative Medicine Anarchism Animal Rights Argentina Arms Trade Arts and Humanities Asia Atheism Audio Courses Austria Belarus Belgium Belief Systems Biodiversity Brazil ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 9 12:52:32 PDT 2010

3500 [lbo-talk] help a journalist -- rank: 1000

The excellent Erin Siegal is trying to raise some money to support a book project on the smelly international adoption market. Please give a few bucks here if you can: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/erinsiegal/finding-fernanda-anatomy-of-a-kidnapping-investiga

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Date:	Fri Jul 9 11:27:17 PDT 2010

3501 [lbo-talk] teachers running schools -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Chuck Munson wrote: > This is really good news and confirms what I've been advocating for > years in schools and libraries. Welcome back, by the way, Chuck.

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Date:	Fri Jul 9 09:00:51 PDT 2010

3502 [lbo-talk] New blog on social security and the economy -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Chuck Munson wrote: > My friend Erica Laursen, who is a financial writer, has a new blog > that focuses on social security and the economic crisis: > > The People's Pension > http://peoplespension.infoshop.org/blogs-mu/ I'm confused. Social Security is a state program. What's the anarchist position on that? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 9 08:54:20 PDT 2010

3503 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 8, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Any (conventional) public-finance economist would say -- "Music, > journalism, popular art, etc. are nonrivalrous and very expensive to > exclude, hence they fit very closely the definition of 'public goods.' > The market will fail in trying to provide them. They should be > publicly provided." Right. And any ideas that might be applicable to the USA we live in? Doug

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Date:	Fri Jul 9 08:52:24 PDT 2010

3504 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 9, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > And what has Europe produced in the last 50 years that's > worth a crap? Giacinto Scelsi?

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Date:	Fri Jul 9 08:47:31 PDT 2010

3505 [lbo-talk] there should be no such thing as free lemonade -- rank: 1000

<http://www.suntimes.com/business/savage/2464546,CST-NWS-savage05.savagearticle> There is no 'free' lemonade In giving drink away, girls ignore rules of economics -- and sum up what's wrong with U.S. July 5, 2010 BY TERRY SAVAGE Sun-Times Columnist This column is a true story -- every word of it. And I think it very appropriate to consider around the Fourth of July, Independence Day spirit. Last week, I was in a car with my brother and his fiancee, driving through their upscale neighborhoo ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 8 18:59:48 PDT 2010

3506 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 8, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Matt wrote: > I guess I am missing the point...entirely. Unless the context is only > U2/Prince/Ke$ha/Lady Gaga/Justin Bieber/Whatever gazillion dollar > tours, and not every band who paid for tours and living expenses by > selling tickets, t-shirts, and CDs in the back of the bar they were > playing in. I just interviewed the guy, Sean Keenan, for this evening's radio show. One difference between then and now: in the old days, record companies (whose ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 8 12:22:32 PDT 2010

3507 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 8, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Matt wrote: > This line is particularly ridiculous: > > "Genius, forced to figure out ways to tour without having to incur > excess baggage costs." > > A precious genius, slumming it by actually *performing*? How do you get that from this sentence? How can one tour without money?, is the point.

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Date:	Thu Jul 8 11:36:49 PDT 2010

3508 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

[great rant, on some not-unfamiliar topics] <http://blancomusic.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/why-prince-is-right/> ... > What Prince has figured out is that the proportion of effort/return on pushing the internet user to actually BUY music, is not worth the resources it takes to do so. When 80 90% of your PR effort disappears into non-revenue online areas (piracy, Spotify), the PR needs to be 8-9 times as ubiquitous as in the pre-internet era to make the same gains. He s done the sums, an ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 8 08:30:52 PDT 2010

3509 [lbo-talk] Internet "over," says 80s pop star -- rank: 1000

[via Popbitch] The internet is over, says Prince. "All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."

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Date:	Thu Jul 8 08:06:39 PDT 2010

3510 [lbo-talk] pro-growth agenda -- rank: 1000

The same morning that Eric Alterman's screed was unleashed, Ben White offers a different perspective in Politico. Via Mike Allen: > HITE HOUSE PUSHES PRO-BUSINESS MESSAGE - Ben White writes in POLITICO's Morning Money : The administration is pushing back against the view in some quarters of corporate America and most of Wall Street that it has an anti-business agenda. The latest examples were President Obama's remarks on free trade yesterday ('We've all got to all row in the same directio ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 8 06:56:37 PDT 2010