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39886 Red Hat IPO -- rank: 1000

Martin Schiller wrote: >Doug Henwood said on 8/12/99 3:54 PM > > >So what do you Linux fans out there make of Red Hat going public? How > >can you make money distributing free, open source software? Is it one > >of the final acts of the dot.com mania that anyone would buy the > >stock? > >It has a number of products and a user base. If they put together the >installers that make the setup of the OS as simple as a mac install (or >even windows) first, the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 20:09:42 PDT 1999

39887 HEY! WANKER ECONOMISTS -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >That's Dr. Wanker to you, madamoiselle. > >You can put away your whip and handcuffs, >but leave the boots on, if you don't mind. > > >The answer is that models ignore output and >production activities that are unmeasured >because they are underground. At least in >the U.S. There are some attempts to measure >the illegal sector, but I've never seen an >empirical exercise regarding the economy as >a whole or some unrelated issue where th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 16:52:33 PDT 1999

39888 Sterilization in Vermont -- rank: 1000

At 4:43 PM -0400 8/12/99, curtiss_leung at ibi.com wrote: > CounterPunch wrote: > > > She comes from the liberal social engineering tradition > > that sponsored the great sterilizing boom earlier in the century, > > whose rampages in Vermont are only now coming to light. > > Where can one find info on this? Thanks. > -- [A Burlington paper reprinted this, and the Wash Post ran a short item, but those are the only appearances of the words ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 16:33:31 PDT 1999

39889 allocating refuge -- rank: 1000

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 15:34 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> URL: <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/19 99/8/12/14.text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release August 12, 1999 August 12, 1999 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: FY 2000 Refugee Admissions Consult ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 16:35:04 PDT 1999

39890 Red Hat IPO -- rank: 1000

So what do you Linux fans out there make of Red Hat going public? How can you make money distributing free, open source software? Is it one of the final acts of the dot.com mania that anyone would buy the stock? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 15:54:05 PDT 1999

39891 Labor Party on abortion -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Doug, please do note that I expressed no criticism of The Labor Party, only >a labor party that did not commit itself free access to abortion. Noted. I'm not pleased with the LP's general timidity about "cultural" issues. Mazzocchi defends this by saying that his members wear LP buttons on one lapel and Buchanan buttons on the other. And he points out that the opening of hunting season is often a holiday in contracts covering the union he used to be a VP o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 12:53:36 PDT 1999

39892 Labor Party on abortion -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Doug, please do note that I expressed no criticism of The Labor Party, only >a labor party that did not commit itself free access to abortion. Noted. I'm not pleased with the LP's general timidity about "cultural" issues. Mazzocchi defends this by saying that his members wear LP buttons on one lapel and Buchanan buttons on the other. And he points out that the opening of hunting season is often a holiday in contracts covering the union he used to be a VP o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 12:54:53 PDT 1999

39893 radio lineup -- rank: 1000

Apropos the Labor Party thread, I'm going to have Adolph Reed, one of the authors of the party's platform, on my radio show this afternoon. Following him, Andrew Ross, talking about his new book about his year living in the Disney-planned "community," Celebration, Florida. WBAI, 99.5 FM, NYC, 5-6 PM - and available to the world, if all is working, at <http://www.wbaifree.org>. It wasn't when I just tried, but who knows what the next 3 hours will bring. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 11:15:05 PDT 1999

39894 file for unemployemnt on the net! -- rank: 1000

[Only about 40% of the unemployed are covered by unemployemnt insurance today, compared with over 60% in the early 1970s - but hey, it's the little things taht count!] Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:34 -0400 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> URL: http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/199 9/8/12/9.text.1 THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President ___________________________________________________________________________ For Immed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 10:51:32 PDT 1999

39895 Hoskins on CM -- rank: 1000

elena wrote: >It comes up later in the text, that the Board is elected - each state >separately? it doesn't consist of experts in different fields but of >politicians/sponsors/parents? what can parents do (if anything) when they >don't agree with the programmes adopted by the school (eg. if they want >secular education)? there's nothing in the article to show that the debate >over evolutionism got on a wider basis, to involve parents or ask teachers' >opinions (on a large sc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 10:20:13 PDT 1999

39896 Hearsay on Abortion -- rank: 1000

CounterPunch wrote: >Doug reports-- > > >This is all academic, since the LP is in favor of legal, publicly > >funded abortion. I'm told that belief to the contrary has been > >encouraged by writing that has appeared under the byline of Alexander > >Cockburn. > >Now, now, Doug. This is what Alex actually wrote (the full text, a profile >of HRC, is up on the CP website--jsc)-- I don't see any reference to the Labor Party, much less its position on abortion, i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 09:44:23 PDT 1999

39897 economics of organic farming -- rank: 1000

CounterPunch wrote: >Doug writes-- > >Not much on labor (except the benefits of nonexposure to > >toxic chemicals), > >Hey, that's a pretty big issue to the fieldworkers I talk to! Perhaps, you >have to see the way methyl bromide is applied in the vineyards and >strawberry and tomato fields of California and Oregon to really understand >this.--jsc Don't get me wrong, I think that's very important. But I wanted to hear about how many workers, kind of work, pay, chain ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 09:22:43 PDT 1999

39898 Labor Party on abortion -- rank: 1000

By the way, here's the Labor Party's platform position on abortion <http://www.labornet.org/lpa/documents/program.html>. They support: "Unimpeded access to a full range of family planning and reproductive services for men and women, including the right to continue or terminate a pregnancy. We oppose any forms of coerced sterilization." The "full range" of services would be free to all residents (not citizens) of the U.S. as part of a comprehensive public health insuranc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 08:51:18 PDT 1999

39899 abortion -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Re: the FLOC, don't you think its leader is probably >reflective of its membership? Dunno. We're all speculating here. >He's probably their >spiritual leader, not just their labor leader. Personally I'd like to keep those role separate. > And >even granting your point, would it have been, or be, >better to adopt the pro forma position and take a >chance on them all walking? This is all academic, since the LP is in favor of legal, publicly funded abort ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 08:53:20 PDT 1999

39900 abortion -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >But if we're supposed to be talking about >politics, we ought to be devoting a bit more >attention to positive efforts -- not just trashing >those in power, or criticizing most everything >on the left which is actually trying to mobilize >people around what to be for, not just what to >oppose. Hey Max, I'm actually a member of the Labor Party and even part of a little internal economic thinktank we've got going in the NY chapter. So even though I think th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 12 07:46:25 PDT 1999