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5926 [lbo-talk] Open source [was: your Facebook is their fortune] -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2009, at 8:38 AM, fcassia wrote: > People who "hate" openoffice was often badly burned by the slowness of > OpenOffice pre-1.1 or OpenOffice from 2.0 until 2.2. In the meantime, > Novell, Sun, and others optimized the 2.x code to make startup much > faster, which shows in OpenOffice 2.2. > > BTW: OpenOffice 3.0.1 has been released last week or so. I tried 3.0. It mostly blows.

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5927 [lbo-talk] Open source [was: your Facebook is their fortune] -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2009, at 8:01 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > I heard this opinion that OpenOffice sucks from various computer > geeks, but nobody was able to explain to me why. It seems to me > like another version of the Amerikan national mythology that private > is better than public. Well I'm not subject to that mythology. The OO version of Excel can't do lots of stuff, like regressions, and is very slow. I'm using an old version of MS Office because the latest one - at least for the ...

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5928 [lbo-talk] your Facebook is their fortune -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:31 PM, WD wrote: > To the extent the data on Facebook is only mined by marketers, I'll > second the comments from Bill, Doug, et al. But what prevents > Facebook from selling its data to companies who might then make it > available to employers or insurance companies? Surely someone could > come up with a way to use Facebook data to identify people who might > be union sympathizers, heavy drinkers or whatever. If there's a > decent slippery slope arg ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 3 08:47:45 PST 2009

5929 [lbo-talk] your Facebook is their fortune -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2009, at 7:55 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > At work, for instance, you can find all kinds of people touting how > wunderbar open source is. i agree. But OpenOffice sucks! The Microsoft version is much better. Doug

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5930 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood podcast: <http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php> iTunes: <http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 > or <http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb> opening commentaries now at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusines ...

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5931 [lbo-talk] Boxxy, the new threat to Western hegemony -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2009, at 4:04 PM, B. wrote: > Don't believe me? > > The video that started it all: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yavx9yxTrsw Decline of fucking civilization, man. Speaking of which, in my interview with James Howard Kunstler the other day - posted to my radio archive on Friday, and which I'm about to announce with the usual announcement - he denouced the practice of tattooing as evidence of civilizational sickness. Sometimes it's a fine line between a critic and ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 2 13:24:10 PST 2009

5932 [lbo-talk] Dissent starts to spread across Russia as crisis bites -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2009, at 3:34 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Du-ude, have you read the article? People wanting to import Japanese > cars + some anarchists + online activists = threat to government. Financial Times - February 2, 2009 Protesters unite in anti-Kremlin demonstrations By Charles Clover and Catherine Belton in Moscow Protesters rallied in several Russian cities at the weekend against a worsening economy and deteriorating human rights situation, a sign that Russia's financial crisis might y ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 2 12:45:53 PST 2009

5933 [lbo-talk] PJ Media kaput -- rank: 1000

Apparently there's no money in right-wing ranting. Who knew? <http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/02/pajamas_media_r.php >

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Date:	Mon Feb 2 12:19:59 PST 2009

5934 [lbo-talk] Dissent starts to spread across Russia as crisis bites -- rank: 1000

Isn't there something between "Orientalism" and hook line and sinker? On Feb 2, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Bingo. > > --- On Mon, 2/2/09, dredmond at efn.org <dredmond at efn.org> wrote: >> > the Orientalist tropes: > > > > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk

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Date:	Mon Feb 2 12:14:34 PST 2009

5935 [lbo-talk] credit squeeze update -- rank: 1000

New data from the Fed's quarterly survey of bank loan officers shows that credit conditions, while tight, are beginning to loosen. This survey tends of have a long lead time over actual credit availability, but it's a relief to see things easing up. <http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/SnLoanSurvey/200902/ default.htm>

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5936 [lbo-talk] S&S call for papers -- rank: 1000

On Feb 1, 2009, at 7:26 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > But you don't need to be Marx to see that the financial sector can > only survive if it can coexist with social reproduction. If you > cannot eat, you cannot trade stock. Of course. Who could say otherwise? Certainly not me. > As to models, no, I think you are wrong. Marx calls the > 'departments' in volume two a schema, not a model. (i.e. it is a > rehearsal of the outer limits of the system, considering its > variables) ...

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5937 [lbo-talk] your Facebook is their fortune -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Shane Taylor wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> what is it about this privacy fetish? > > What is wrong with it? I just don't get it. I don't care what Facebook does with my info. If some marketer thinks it's interesting that I'm a member of the "I Want to be Michel Foucault's Love Slave" group, well, I'm curious about what product they'd be selling. It might be worth a look. Doug

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5938 [lbo-talk] Dissent starts to spread across Russia as crisis bites -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Is there anywhere where the economy is not in a dive? No, but it wasn't all that long ago that you were saying otherwise. Doug

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5939 [lbo-talk] it's back! political lesbianism -- rank: 1000

[And the Sunday NYT styles section had a feature on "womyn's lands" - the rural lesbian separatist communes from the 1970s...] Guardian - January 30, 2009 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/30/women-gayrights> My sexual revolution Thirty years ago, a group of radical women began arguing that all feminists should be lesbians. Many people disagreed, but the idea changed Julie Bindel's life Julie Bindel In the late 70s a group of lesbians in Leeds, known as revoluti ...

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5940 [lbo-talk] Dissent starts to spread across Russia as crisis bites -- rank: 1000

On Feb 2, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > Err, this is microscopic compared to the protests after monetization > of benefits in 2005. Yeah, but it's fucking cold. The Russian economy is in a dive, no? Doug

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