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16 [lbo-talk] Jails of Mordor -- rank: 855

At long last, Denethor's sally: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3153354.stm -- DRR

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Tue Sep 30 14:49:47 PDT 2003

17 [lbo-talk] ChuckO and the Rings of Mordor -- rank: 855

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:29:38 -0400, W. Kiernan <wkiernan at ij.net> wrote: > Just wondering, what do you think of this argument in favor of the atomic > bomb? At the start of this century the "civilized" world was enduring a > world war in which tens of millions of ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Tue Sep 16 22:23:47 PDT 2003

18 [lbo-talk] ChuckO and the Rings of Mordor -- rank: 855

> > For your argument to be valid, you would have to show me > > a technology (as apart from an application) that has no > > positive use. > > You bet, TV. > > Yours WD "cranky" K - WKiernan at ij.net Before I tee off on this, what specifically are you talking about? TV in general ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin
Date:	Tue Sep 16 20:33:12 PDT 2003

19 [lbo-talk] Jails of Mordor -- rank: 855

Quoting Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>: > it's true. And in the second place, American citizens do not profit by > aid to Israel, they lose. Financially they lose, but there's a dreadful symbolic compensation: a hateful, dire but palpable pleasure in murdering/stomping the oiligarchy's ideological mirage, namely ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Sun Aug 17 22:54:42 PDT 2003

20 Resisting Mordor -- rank: 855

>From: dredmond at efn.org > >The Euro press these days is eerily quiet. *Too* quiet. It's not the quiet >of >defeat -- it's the pause before an unimaginable storm. The thunderclouds >are >piling up on the horizon, bigger and bigger... The press in Europe and elsewhere doesn't seem ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu Mar 27 07:06:16 PST 2003

21 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 855

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 at 9:38pm Todd Archer wrote: > Ian confessed: > > >Can you translate this into Shrek-ese or Finding Nemo-ese? Not everyone on > >the list knows Tolkein code. > > :-) > > OMIGAWD!! Ian! Haven't you read Lord of the Rings??!! he's probably over 17 years old, why would ...

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Author:	budge
Date:	Wed Jun 9 10:42:26 PDT 2004

22 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

joanna bujes wrote: > I'm sure this varies with person and locale, but I wonder how many > engineers would prefer to go back home? I have never been to India and > do not know how it compares to the U.S. It must be more civilized. It > can hardly be less ...

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Author:	ravi
Date:	Fri Feb 18 08:21:01 PST 2005

23 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

joanna bujes wrote: > Interesting. Tuesday they laid off another 3% of software at the major > computer co. for which I work. (Sol) Today at the engineering staff > meeting I attended, the chief engineer remarked to one of the > engineers from India, that "hey, at least if you guys get laid off ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Fri Feb 18 05:45:06 PST 2005

24 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

Interesting. Tuesday they laid off another 3% of software at the major computer co. for which I work. (Sol) Today at the engineering staff meeting I attended, the chief engineer remarked to one of the engineers from India, that "hey, at least if you guys get laid off, you can go ...

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Author:	joanna bujes
Date:	Thu Feb 17 23:18:49 PST 2005

25 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 20:46:23 -0600, Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote: > I read it; all to the good for India. However, it is budget battle season in > the US Congress and the scare-the-crap-out-of-them strategy is in full force > in the fight for ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Thu Feb 17 21:36:08 PST 2005

26 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Sujeet Bhatt Eubulides wrote: >Chicken Little stories are necessary in the Science Pork wars. See Daniel >Greenberg's "Science, Money & Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical >Erosion" [U. of Chicago ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 18:46:23 PST 2005

27 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

Eubulides wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] >On Behalf Of Dennis Redmond > > >The American Electronics Association has a scathing report out on the >decline of the US Empire's tech sector (free, in PDF format): > >http://www.aeanet ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Thu Feb 17 20:05:56 PST 2005

28 [lbo-talk] Mordor Doesn't Compute -- rank: 855

-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Redmond The American Electronics Association has a scathing report out on the decline of the US Empire's tech sector (free, in PDF format): http://www.aeanet.org ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Thu Feb 17 16:15:36 PST 2005

29 [lbo-talk] Asiazilla Tells Mordor to Shove Off -- rank: 855

Japan signs a monster oil deal with Iran: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3499155.stm -- DRR

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Thu Feb 19 12:59:21 PST 2004

30 Resisting Mordor -- rank: 855

The caption in Le Monde's daily cartoon shows a US soldier saying, "Just terrible, this sandstorm!" But look at what the soldier is walking on. http://www.lemonde.fr/ The Euro press these days is eerily quiet. *Too* quiet. It's not the quiet of defeat -- it's the pause ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Wed Mar 26 20:18:28 PST 2003