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39211 To Yoshie, and anyone interested -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll asked: >Is there a word limit too? 35,000 characters is the max for a single post, which is, what, about 6,000 words. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 24 07:41:20 PST 1999

39212 For Buffy Neophytes and Fans -- rank: 1000

frances bolton wrote: >I don't own a TV, never have. Now, when Seinfeld was on and people were >always talking about it, I almost bought a TV just to watch it. Then they >announced their last season, so I didn't. > >Is Buffy worth giving up 30 years of non-TV ownership? How can you understand American society without a TV? Assuming you have any interest in understanding American society, of course. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 24 07:41:20 PST 1999

39213 Sollers -- rank: 1000

Can anyone tell me anything about Philippe Sollers, whom Bourdieu skewers in a new collection of his little polemical pieces just out from the New Press? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 24 05:36:52 PST 1999

39214 Fwd: Warning signs of the coming financial armageddon, #569 -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >I wouldn't worry about this trend causing a financial armageddon, it will only >shift the current surplus value from the pockets of an undeserving few to the >pockets of the more deserving many. No, I don't think daytrading on the web will bring about armageddon. I just see it as another symptom of a collective mania with few historical precedents. Certainly the late 1920s, maybe the late 1960s - but what else? Regardless of the social/economic effects, people who ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 23 08:04:51 PST 1999

39215 Greenspan speaks... -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >And last time around, it was just the neato way the Market is supposed >to work. Will ever make up his mind? Greenspan's discourse is not unlike Freud's dreamwork: contradictions are presented in sequence rather than worked out simultaneously. So, Greenspan will contradict himself from month to month, or even paragraph to paragraph. All along, he's been worried about the contradictions between global deflation/crisis and domestic "overheating." I think what's h ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 23 07:50:18 PST 1999

39216 Greenspan speaks... -- rank: 1000

Greenspan is about to begin Congressional testimony. The CNBC summary of his prepared remarks suggests a hostile turn in the Great One's stance - more worry about overheating, labor shortages, rising wages, the threat of inflation, and a suggestion that stocks may be "overpriced." Very interesting. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 23 07:05:17 PST 1999

39217 Linux -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >In his NY >Observer column last week, Cramer went so far as to say that the >Microsoft antitrust case indicates that the best legal minds go into >government service, not the private sector. Well, the gov't hired a fancy lawyer, David Boies, to argue their case. He's not a civil servant. But the #2 lawyer at Salomon Bros. once told me that the SEC lawyers are very very sharp folks. Of course, they're looking to put in a few years in gov't work so they can go pract ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 23 06:42:19 PST 1999

39218 Marxism on the march! -- rank: 1000

Who said Marxism is dead? >Greenland PM Allies With Marxists > >Monday, February 22, 1999; 4:20 p.m. EST > >COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Greenland's home-rule >government shifted leftward Monday when the social-democrat >premier formed a new governing alliance with a Marxist party. > >The move came five days after elections on the world's largest >island, a Danish territory that has had substantial autonomy for >the last 20 years. > >Under the new coalition, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 23 05:43:50 PST 1999

39219 Fwd: Warning signs of the coming financial armageddon, #569 -- rank: 1000

A friend writes.... >Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:51:20 -0500 (EST) >To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >Subject: Warning signs of the coming financial armageddon, #569 >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071345663/002-0212067-8575212 > >(*Number 1* on the Amazon sales rank list) That was last night. Amazon recomputes its best seller list every hour, and it's still #1 this morning. It's..."How to Get Started in Electronic Day Tradin ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 23 05:33:21 PST 1999

39220 Butler, Foucault, and Caravaggio -- rank: 1000

Catherine Driscoll wrote: >I find Foucault's style very sexy indeed. Varies >between texts, but _The Order of Things_, for example, makes me laugh aloud, >which I always find exciting. Catherine, you've said before you find MF pretty hilarious. What is it you find so funny about him? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 16:23:48 PST 1999

39221 To Yoshie, and anyone interested -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >That said, 'shoujo [girl]' has been a sexualized figure When I was out in SF, Annalee Newitz showed some videos in a genre called Japanese tentacle porn, which involves sweet girls being probed in every orifice by beasts with long tentacles. What's the story of that stuff? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 13:47:09 PST 1999

39222 Zizek on Clinton's budget -- rank: 1000

[I wouldn't get carried away with the virtuality of finance, at the expense of occluding the real relations of power and subordination finance embodies, but as for the psychology of debt paydown, I like it. Clinton's budget takes the reconciliation of accounts for real; we'll see if the reality is as rich as the fantasy. This is from Zizek's Tarrying with the Negative, pp. 79-80.] As we know from Keynes onwards, the capitalist economy is "virtual" in a very precise sense: Keynes's favo ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 13:44:02 PST 1999

39223 America -- rank: 1000

In the booklet that comes with Beyond and Back: The X Anthology that I just got as a premium for giving money to WFMU, Moby is quoted as saying: "I loved X because they represented such a cool confluence of elements. They were so American and so punk rock and they somehow embodied this timeless poetic archetype of American desolation and exuberance. Kind of like 'I'm drunk and depressed and it's too hot outside and there are diapers in the front lawn but life is so fucking special I'll go o ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 11:44:07 PST 1999

39224 Musical Activists -- rank: 1000

[This bounced. Sam Pawlett's worm cure seems to have worked.] Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:29:34 -0800 From: Sam Pawlett <epawlett at uniserve.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win98; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Musical Activists References: <3.0.1.32.19990213030407.00752314 at pop.mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sam Pawlett (by way of pms ) wrote: > Wow, Sam. Is that really Cab Calloway? I ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 11:40:37 PST 1999

39225 [Fwd: VIRUS WARNING!!!!!!!!!!] -- rank: 1000

This is a hoax. Funny that someone at Wasserstein Perella is passing it around! >From the Symantec anti-virus website <http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jesus-hoax.html>: VirusName: Guts to Say Jesus Hoax Aliases: Jesus Infection Length: Hoax Area of Infection: Hoax Likelihood: Hoax Region Reported: EMail Characteristics: Hoax Target Platform: Hoax Target Date: Hoax Description: "Guts to Say Jesus" Hoax is not a virus and is a hoax. It is a sham, meant only to panic n ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 22 08:51:13 PST 1999