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6181 [lbo-talk] Dean: House won't pass Healthcare without a Public Option -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2009, at 1:54 PM, Michael Pollak quoted: > Let's be clear: A Healthcare bill without a public option is D.O.A. > in the House. Period. Um, we'll see about that.

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Date:	Mon Aug 17 11:00:08 PDT 2009

6182 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Andy wrote: > Doug, I get the impression that Ravi and Dwayne answered your question > in a way that didn't confirm so much what you already seemed to think. They're geeks. And I mean that in only the most complimentary way.

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Date:	Mon Aug 17 10:27:28 PDT 2009

6183 [lbo-talk] hey, it's the *liberals* disrupting those town halls -- rank: 1000

[Sent out to the Human Events list.] Dear RightMarch.com member, It's getting ugly out there. All across the country, left-wing extremists are disrupting congressional town-hall meetings with venomous attacks on anyone who voices their objections to Barack Obama's plans to socialize American health care. At a town hall meeting with Rep. Kathy Castor in Tampa, Florida, as she was introduced, the reaction was overwhelmingly against her, with boos and chants of "You work for us." In ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 17 09:49:31 PDT 2009

6184 [lbo-talk] coked-up currency -- rank: 1000

<http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cocaine-contaminates-majority-of-american-currency > Cocaine Contaminates Majority of U.S. Currency And it's not just the U.S.: Canada and Brazil have a preponderance of the drug powder on their bills, too By David Biello For cocaine users, a rolled up $20 bill may be the most convenient tool for snorting the powder form of the drug. Or so it would seem from a new analysis of 234 banknotes from 18 U.S. cities that found cocaine on 90 pe ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 17 09:24:06 PDT 2009

6185 [lbo-talk] AP: White House appears ready to drop 'public option' -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Max Sawicky wrote: > No matter what happens this fall, this will not > be over. You gotta wonder if Obama has so poisoned the idea of any public intervention with this abomination that nothing good will come of this. Nice win for the Reps and inscos.

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Date:	Mon Aug 17 08:53:21 PDT 2009

6186 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Matt wrote: > The advantage of a Linux-based operating system is that in addition to > doing everything with a computer that a person with a Mac or Windows > can do, I can do things that are only limited by my ability, time, or > coding skills. > > If all you want to do with a computer are the things Steve Jobs or > Bill Gates thinks are worthwhile, then stick with the Mac or Windows. > > So it is not so much about *easy* vs. *hard*, but w ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 17 08:48:55 PDT 2009

6187 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 16, 2009, at 12:31 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > For me, it's a simple political question: Do I participate in > socialist economic production or capitalist economic production? Every attempt by an individual to solve that which concerns all, must fail. - Friedrich Durrenmatt, The Physicists (my own translation from memory, sorry)

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Date:	Sat Aug 15 20:49:50 PDT 2009

6188 [lbo-talk] what happened to Web 3.0? -- rank: 1000

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_3.0> Web 3.0 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This page has been deleted.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Aug 15 18:04:13 PDT 2009

6189 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Doug "I'm a Mac" Henwood asks: > >> Man, is this Ubuntu thing worth all this trouble? > > Not if you're a Mac guy :-) No, seriously. What's the advantage to Ubuntu or any of this stuff? It seems like a helluva lot of work. If you like that sort of thing, fine, but otherwise? Just hatred of Redmond and/or Cupertino? Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 15 15:13:40 PDT 2009

6190 [lbo-talk] fresh punditry -- rank: 1000

Fresh punditry, on the Fed, Goldman, bankruptcy, productivity: http://bit.ly/9G7WR

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Date:	Sat Aug 15 12:28:11 PDT 2009

6191 [lbo-talk] Crisis Acronyms -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Bill O'Connor wrote: > I can't say if it's purposeful obfuscation, but considering the > "innovation" of exotic instruments, combined with the priesthood of > econometricians and their mathematical formulae that we're subjected > to, > I have my suspicions. It's marketing too. The profit margin on a new instrument is wider than older ones, because if you get to market first, the customers don't understand how many fees are buried in the pri ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 15 12:03:44 PDT 2009

6192 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Eubulides wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Man, is this Ubuntu thing worth all this trouble? > > ============ > > Easier install/set up than Windows 7 RC. Sorry to be a Tool of Cupertino, but the effort in setting up a Mac approaches zero.

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Date:	Sat Aug 15 11:18:02 PDT 2009

6193 [lbo-talk] A Letter From the Nebraska Republi..er..Democratic Party -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Left-Wing Wacko wrote: > Interesting how they are always trying to play this dog-whistle-blue > vs red state so-called culture war framing against people on the coast > (LA and New York) versus "us" red blooded, hard working traditional > values Americans in the fly over states. Its just total bullshit! Population of Nebraska: 1.8 million. Population of Brooklyn: 2.5 million. But I guess they're realer than us. Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 15 10:59:28 PDT 2009

6194 [lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff -- rank: 1000

Man, is this Ubuntu thing worth all this trouble?

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Date:	Sat Aug 15 10:30:35 PDT 2009

6195 [lbo-talk] Twitter: >40% pointless babble -- rank: 1000

On Aug 15, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Bob Morris wrote: > They're moaning into cyberspace about all the crazy new stuff in > cyberspace > they don't understand and are suspicious of. Who are these people you're talking about?

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Date:	Sat Aug 15 04:49:50 PDT 2009