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6136 [lbo-talk] Microsoft: 0, Google: 1 -- rank: 1000

On Aug 21, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Bill Bartlett wrote: > You're out of date, the latest version of Excel doesn't support > macros. Yeah, I know. That's why I don't use it.

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Date:	Fri Aug 21 17:28:02 PDT 2009

6137 [lbo-talk] The Progressive needs money -- rank: 1000

The Progressive magazine desperately needs money: <http://www.progressive.org/full_support>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 21 13:00:37 PDT 2009

6138 [lbo-talk] telecom astroturf -- rank: 1000

On Aug 21, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Sean Andrews wrote: > he Free Press folks--especially McChesney--are key > purveyors of this position, which is somewhat separate from net > neutrality as an issue. McChesney and I used to be pretty friendly. He seemed quite hurt by my Bourdieu review from long ago: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Why_TV_sucks.html>, in which I criticize the bigness position, thinking it was aimed at him. It wasn't really, but we've hardly spoken since, which is ...

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6139 [lbo-talk] Microsoft: 0, Google: 1 -- rank: 1000

On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > I've found Openoffice works always as well. If you don't want macros, or the stat package in Excel. Couldn't do a Hodrick-Prescott filter in OO, since that relies on Visual Basic.

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Date:	Fri Aug 21 10:16:52 PDT 2009

6140 [lbo-talk] Goldman -- rank: 1000

On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:57 PM, martin wrote: > Why DO people hate them (assuming you think that)? Because they're so goddamn rich, and got richer with a government bailout.

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Date:	Fri Aug 21 10:15:34 PDT 2009

6141 [lbo-talk] Goldman -- rank: 1000

Wow, Goldman execs think people hate them because they're Jews??? http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-08-20/goldman-execs-blame-anti-semitism/

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Date:	Fri Aug 21 09:00:25 PDT 2009

6142 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 21, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Percival Myers wrote: > But that's the rub. When something as facile as appearance is used to > trump all else, it's a sign of true believerism. No offense meant, but > just because you don't want to write code to extend the device doesn't > mean that no one else does. That's fine, but most people can't write code. Like almost all people. There's nothing "facile" about appearance. Pretty things make life more pleasant. There's so much ugliness ...

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6143 [lbo-talk] Microsoft: 0, Google: 1 -- rank: 1000

On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > So, really, what makes otherwise cost-conscious people and businesses, > especially outside the US, fork over good money to Redmond for their > overpriced and poorly debugged crap? Though I'm using a 2000 version of Office for the Mac - the latest version is full of improvements that suck - I think it's pretty terrific. Word and Excel are tremendously useful and work well. I didn't pay all that much for it either. From what I've seen of ...

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6144 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 20, 2009, at 5:16 PM, // ravi wrote: > Can someone explain to me (a n00b) what is wrong with deflation > (especially when mild)? Read the Fisher paper I cited. It's a masterpiece, and written in clear jargonless English. <http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/meltzer/fisdeb33.pdf>

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6145 [lbo-talk] loving deflation -- rank: 1000

The other day I said that only right-wing nuts love deflation, and we should leave it to them. Today's daily commentary from The Mises Institute confirms this. The lead of Mark Thornton's piece: > Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, like most mainstream economists, has an > irrational fear of deflation whether it is understood as falling > prices or a contracting money supply. I have coined the term > "apoplithorismosphobia" for this psychological malady. In contrast, > avera ...

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6146 [lbo-talk] Frankfurt on the Hudson -- rank: 1000

On Aug 20, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Eubulides wrote: > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2003/2003-December/029037.html > > Perhaps it's time for leftists to end the fetishization of negation? > > Critique is not enough, no? Do open-ended iterations of metacritique > get us anywhere at all? > > And why do children master the word no before they get their > bearings with the word yes? :-) "Behind every no lay a passion for yes that had never been broken." - Wallace Steve ...

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6147 [lbo-talk] Selling debt & informing debtors -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2009, at 10:06 PM, D. T. cochrane wrote: > When a lender sells debt to a third party that then securitizes it > and further sells it on, is the debtor informed of these changes in > the credit relationship? Not usually, as far as I know.

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Date:	Wed Aug 19 19:47:19 PDT 2009

6148 [lbo-talk] Flash: The Head of the Bank on England Confesses -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2009, at 9:12 PM, michael perelman wrote: > "As I look back, it now seems that, with all the thought and work > and good intentions, which we provided, we achieved absolutely > nothing ... nothing that I did, and very little that old Ben did, > internationally produced any good effect -- or indeed any effect at > all except that we collected money from a lot of poor devils and > gave it over to the four winds." > > Read more at: > > http://micha ...

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6149 [lbo-talk] Barney Frank at the top of his form -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > That's so satisfying. It perfectly answers a question that's been > hovering in my mind ever since I saw her. She seemed in all her > deportment to be someone from the left, not the right. In other words, she's rather attractive and looks like our friends, right? Doug

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6150 [lbo-talk] free! -- rank: 1000

On Aug 19, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > I think I've given much more money to Raleigh for a "free" OS than > to Redmond for a "monopoly" OS ... but your mileage may vary. I've run three Macs off the $129 "family" pack for OS 10.5.x for two years, I think. That's what, $20/yr? Doug

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