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38821 Profits and the Information Economy -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >There is an opportunity for leftists in all of this as well, since the >very dependence on state protection of their intellectual assets means >that socialization of their assets require not active state intervention >(traditional nationalization of heavy industry) but merely state >withdrawal of IP rights. This vulnerability can be used to both build up >new coalitions interested in publicly shared information goods, but also >in a more strategic way ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 23 14:40:31 PDT 1999

38822 Capital punishment in Florida -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >surely. you know, i was vegging out in front the tube and saw some report >about the rise in the numbers of "suicide by cop." sorry, i was vegging so >i have no idea what the hell i was watching, something that came on after >the news.... anyway, the report claimed that more and more people are >commiting suicide by engaging in staged confrontations with the cops in >order to get shot. apparently, these folks can't bear to swallow some >pills or ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 23 14:26:17 PDT 1999

38823 Democracy Now no longer censored -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Does it matter? I've been checking in with the local >Pacifica station periodically and have yet to hear word >one about the flap, other than one reference by Goodman to >"the crisis in Pacifica." That's because your local Pacifica station pulled the plug on DN when they did a segment on the Pacifica crisis. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 23 09:07:45 PDT 1999

38824 De Long on network economy -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, jf noonan wrote: > > > What is Mach3 and why did it cost $billion to develop? (Please don't > > tell me it's a new razor -- my sanity just couldn't take that > > today.) > >Sorry. It's a new razor. It was the subject of a longish profile in >the New Yorker some months ago. And it's a very good razor, the culmination of the art and science of hair management. But I can't figure out how they spent $1b developing it. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 23 09:08:57 PDT 1999

38825 Democracy Now no longer censored -- rank: 1000

It was reported here the other day that Pacifica was requiring Amy Goodman to clear the next day's Democracy Now lineup with management. That regime lasted one day, and is, as they say, now inoperative. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 23 07:47:09 PDT 1999

38826 De Long on network economy -- rank: 1000

Martin Schiller wrote: >In a message of 7/22/99 4:39 PM from Brad De Long, ><mailto:delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> > > >Yeah. But where are the profits going to come from? Profits from R&D > >arise only if the R&D allows you to set up some very strong barriers > >to entry behind which you can shelter. And I can't figure out what > >those are going to be... > >Why does the profit or the value have to accrue to the original investor >or develop ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 23 07:28:44 PDT 1999

38827 working class -- rank: 1000

[sent to me instead of the list] Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:44:37 -0600 (MDT) From: Anderson Bob <band at unm.edu> http://www.chronicle.com/colloquy/99/workingclass/background.htm CHRONICLE of HIGHER EDUCATION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seeking Solidarity in the Culture of the Working Class In an academic era dominated by talk of race and gender, some scholars assert the importance of economic disparities By JEFF SHARLET Race, class, gender ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 23 07:05:04 PDT 1999

38828 Indonesia: More Massacres -- rank: 1000

[this bounced because it had an attachment] Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 19:32:50 -0700 From: Sam Pawlett <rsp at uniserve.com> ASIET News Updates - July 21, 1999 ================================== * Top generals laugh off report of deal with Megawati * Indonesia is preparing for massive post-ballot slaughter * Indonesia expects Timor poll loss, plans evacuations * Martial law may be called in Aceh, Irian: Minister ------------------------------------------------------------- Top generals laugh ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 23 07:02:48 PDT 1999

38829 De Long on network economy -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Information is demonstrably unlike other commodities - in terms of >implications for degrees of exploitation, market power, internal cleavages >in the working class, uneven development, cultural imperialism, >difficulties to do with externalities/artificial scarcity, distortions of >investment to do with difficulties in stock valuations, and generally >further blurring the liberal distinction between the public and the >private, and blurring some leftish ( ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 22 16:16:21 PDT 1999

38830 Larry Pratt, cont. -- rank: 1000

For some background on Alex Cockburn's new friend Larry Pratt, see <http://www.rickross.com/reference/exgroup3.html>. Ugly stuff. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 22 15:49:11 PDT 1999

38831 Larry Pratt -- rank: 1000

James Ridgeway just told me that Larry Pratt of the Gun Owners of America, whom Alex Cockburn quoted on the virtues of arming teachers, discovered the beauties of "militias" after visiting Honduras and the Philippines. Of course, the informal bodies of armed men in those countries were death squads. Life is getting very strange. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 22 11:56:29 PDT 1999

38832 Repub defense budget cutters -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Here's an unappealing choice for you. Suppose the >market tanks and unemployment goes up to nine percent. >Would you reject a defense bill that reduced UE by >several million people, in favor of fiscal austerity? >You can say there are better alternatives, and of >course there are, but they are not always available. Talk about crackpot realism. So you're saying we should build weapons because they're the only politically possible form of public spending? Fo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 22 11:29:18 PDT 1999

38833 The Irish Miracle -- rank: 1000

Bill Cochrane wrote: >down here in sheepland (by the way thanx for the tariffs) we cast our eyes >covetously upon the emerald isles economic progress; the offical line is >contained in the Treasury document The Irish Economy: Lessons for >New Zealand? (http://www.treasury.govt.nz/workingpapers/98-1.pdf) which is a >useful if somewhat snide overview of the Irish experience. >If anyone has any academic references on the Irish economy I'd greatly >appreciate them, thanx By the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 22 10:39:09 PDT 1999

38834 Pseudo-populism, the idiotic masses, and gadfly Nationcolumnists -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >as i recall, isn't this process of forming a coherent subject always premised >on a split and consequently its continuation as a (seemingly) coherent >subject requires the constant re-assertion of such splits (or what then >become divisions between 'us' and 'them', to put it too crudely...? to put >it another way, isn't this process not only always contradictory but can only >sustain itself through contradictions? ie., in the above it seems to me that >you la ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 22 10:07:12 PDT 1999

38835 Greenspan on bubbles -- rank: 1000

Greenspan just told the House Banking Committee, and these are pretty close to his exact words, that we can only know if the U.S. stock market is a bubble after the fact. To say it is now would be to presume to know more than the millions of very sophisticated investors who trade it every day. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 22 10:06:26 PDT 1999