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11626 [lbo-talk] MSFT goes after Linux -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Dennis Redmond wrote: > Not surprising. Monopolies have shelf lives, and MSFT is a decade > past its > prime. All its attempts at expanding its PC monopoly have crashed and > burned. Cellphones: nope. Servers: nope. Its videogame biz has > managed to > lose $4 billion, while barely denting behemoths Sony and Nintendo. > > It's Mister Softie's "surge" moment. There won't be a collapse, > just slow > grinding death at the hands o ...

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11627 [lbo-talk] Dershowitz regrets having taken Finkelstein's bait -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Like David Duke, who is now teaching in the Ukraine, > > He is? Details? > > (It's not "the" Ukraine, dammit!) Yes it is! And it's Leningrad, too!! Doug

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11628 [lbo-talk] Dershowitz regrets having taken Finkelstein's bait -- rank: 1000

[I'm not posting the full text of this to avoid the wrath of TNR's IP cops.] <http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20070521&s=diarist052107> Cambridge Diarist Taking the Bait by Alan Dershowitz Post date 05.14.07 | Issue date 05.21.07 Afew years ago, I barely knew the name Norman Finkelstein. I was vaguely aware of his screed, The Holocaust Industry, which argued that Jews "fabricated" their victimhood. I had heard of his comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany. ("[I] can't ...

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11629 [lbo-talk] 1 in 8 U.S. households now wireless only -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless200705.pdf> Preliminary results from the July-December 2006 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) indicate that the number of households with only wireless telephones continues to increase. During the last 6 months of 2006, more than 3 out of every 20 American homes (15.8%) did not have a landline telephone. Of those homes without a landline telephone, most had at least one working wireless telephone. Preliminary results from ...

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Date:	Mon May 14 12:56:47 PDT 2007

11630 [lbo-talk] MSFT goes after Linux -- rank: 1000

<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/ 2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm?section=money_latest> Microsoft takes on the free world Microsoft claims that free software like Linux, which runs a big chunk of corporate America, violates 235 of its patents. It wants royalties from distributors and users. Users like you, maybe. Fortune's Roger Parloff reports. By Roger Parloff, Fortune senior editor May 14 2007: 9:35 AM EDT (Fortune Magazine) -- Free software is great, and corpor ...

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Date:	Mon May 14 12:45:55 PDT 2007

11631 [lbo-talk] time use: a Lingua Franca article from beyond the grave -- rank: 1000

<http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9711/9711.fn.html> LEISURE WORLD In 1990, when Juliet Schor began researching how much time Americans spend working, it was hard to imagine a sleepier topic. Labor economists believed the question long settled: Economic growth and labor-saving technology were gradually ushering Americans into an arcadia of ever-increasing leisure. But Schor's work dealt a blow to that consensus. When The Overworked American (Basic) appeared in 1992, with its ex ...

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Date:	Mon May 14 12:28:47 PDT 2007

11632 [lbo-talk] Workers Are on the Job More Hours over the Course of the Year -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Juliet Schor's The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of > Leisure (Basic Books) was published in 1992, so when the book came > out, it was definitely in keeping with the trend, whether you look at > the BLS or the OECD. The trends since then, it seems to me, are > results of recession and weak recovery Weak recovery? The late 1990s? That was the strongest labor market in 30 years. The employment/pop ratio still has ...

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11633 [lbo-talk] Iggy on the origin of Stooges -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - May 14, 2007 He's Really An Igg-head IGGY Pop has intellectual pretensions about the birth of the Stooges. The look for the band "was conceived in the University of Michigan undergraduate library," Pop told Guitar World magazine. "I got the idea to sing shirtless from a book that I read on Egyptology. I kept looking at the pharaohs and thought, these guys look bitchin', they never wear shirts."

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11634 [lbo-talk] Working hours (Was: Why is America so violent) -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Just for the record, could you give the URL again for the original > article > that got this discussion rolling several thread-transformations > ago? I > think it's about time I actually read it :o) Which article? The time use survey or something else? That's <ftp:// ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/atus.txt>. The ATUS main page has lots of links, including to other national and international time use surveys: <http://w ...

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11635 [lbo-talk] Junkyard dog hits Motown -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > Chrysler Group to Be Sold for $7.4 Billion Man that's cheap. Wal-Mart is capitalized at $197 billion, 26 times as much. Microsoft, $295 billion, almost 40 times as much. Apple, $94 billion, 12 times as much. eBay, $47 billion, more than 6 times as much. How the mighty have fallen. The UAW is going to get hammered. Doug

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11636 [lbo-talk] Workers Are on the Job More Hours over the Course of the Year (was Working hours) -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Here's a table that presents useful international comparison of annual > hours worked: "Table F. Average Annual Hours Actually Worked per > Person in Employment," > <http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/53/15/36900060.pdf>. Calculated on this > basis, the annual hours worked per person peaked in the mid-1990s in > the USA, but US workers probably continue to feel the family time > crunch -- especially paucity o ...

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11637 [lbo-talk] Working hours (Was: Why is America so violent) -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Would it be fair to conclude from the discussion that the official > statistics, which register a historical decline in hours of work, > are still > misleading in that they don't capture the huge volume of unrecorded > and > unpaid hours of work that many workers, predominantly those at the > higher > education and income levels, perform at home or elsewhere outside > their > workplace and their regularly schedul ...

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Date:	Mon May 14 08:36:19 PDT 2007

11638 [lbo-talk] Why is America so violent -- rank: 1000

On May 14, 2007, at 1:17 AM, Jim Straub wrote: > Just wanted to mention that making comparisons > between a member of left business observer's list serve who does > not own a > television Point of fact: we have a TV and digital cable, and watch it. Couldn't live without it. Doug

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11639 [lbo-talk] Working hours (Was: Why is America so violent) -- rank: 1000

On May 13, 2007, at 10:45 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > Do the BLS stats reflect household or payroll data? > > If the latter, wouldn't the agency then have two data sets for the > same > individual - showing in one case an average five day work week of > 30 hours > drawn on his/her Walmart time card and an average work week of 20 > hours from > his/her bar job? The hours data comes (or, if I were the Fed, come) from the payroll survey. Their focus is the job, not the w ...

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11640 [lbo-talk] Why is America so violent -- rank: 1000

On May 13, 2007, at 10:10 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The numbers offered on this are artifacts which tell us nothing either > way about how actual people live. The number 8.63 hours of sleep gives > us no information whatever of how many employed people between the > ages > of 19 and 55 sleep less or more than 8 hours. This topic can't be > studied in terms of averages or other indexes. The numbers don't tell you what you want to hear, so better to head for Deep Truth instead. DI ...

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