Growing concern with high tech model (fwd)

1997-12-15 Thread Michael Gurstein
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FW Re: FW Voluntary versus Involuntary

1997-12-15 Thread Thomas Lunde
Dear Colin, My brain is slightly scrambled from reading to many E Mails this morning, but I am trying to answer those that I find relevant. You and I have obviously found the concept of voting once every four or five years an inadequate method for expressing our citizenship and participation

Another Christmas Gift (fwd)

1997-12-15 Thread Michael Gurstein
It was two years ago almost to the day that I first came across Altavista. The killer app for the killer app...the device that turned the Internet into the global mind... Well those wonderful folks from Altavista teamed up with the folks from Systran who ever since VietNam by way of the Gideon

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1997-12-15 Thread Thomas Lunde
Dear Charles Brass, - you wrote: phrase which means some organisation owns a significant portion of your life I like it - good insight. Not only do you leave your democratic rights at the door, like a soldier, you agree to let incompetent individuals create ridiculous circumstances for

FW Everything's on the table, or still in the closet

1997-12-15 Thread Thomas Lunde
Dear Barry, - you wrote: These academic guys are really very smart, but they are held back by the invisible venal-ideology. They may wake-up soon. Maybe we should scare them. We are all being goosed by the invisible hand? Right on, I would add that the hardest mind to change is the mind that

Re: Fwd: Re: It looked like a hand grenade ...

1997-12-15 Thread Durant
As a lot of 'futureworkers' are sympathetic to Marxist ideas, it would behove them to read Volume III of Das Kapital. They'll find such tidbits as his assertion that 'surplus value' disappears into the Rent of land. Also the point that the accumulations of wealth that financed capitalism

Re: Capitalism fits OUR KIND OF ANIMAL

1997-12-15 Thread Durant
I cannot see where the genetic evolution can be paralleled with the development of human social behaviour. I'm sure you read a lot of books I had no time for, but it is still social darwinism, that sounds to me totally irrational. I think of "Social Darwinism" (SD) as a

Start-Up Discussion List?

1997-12-15 Thread charles mueller
Does anyone on this list know what's involved in setting up a small, new discussion list--and how much it would cost, done as economically as possible? Charles Mueller, Editor ANTITRUST LAW ECONOMICS REVIEW http://webpages.metrolink.net/~cmueller

NEW: Employment Law Forum - Employment Law Discussion Group (fwd)

1997-12-15 Thread Michael Gurstein
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 16:36:59 -0600 From: Kevin O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NEW: Employment Law Forum - Employment Law Discussion Group Employment Law Forum via [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are many people who are the victims of

Re: MacLeod Mondragon book

1997-12-15 Thread Greg MacLeod
-- [ From: Greg MacLeod * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] -- Dear friends, Attached is another summary with the addresses of distributors.. a number of people wrote looking for distributor names... please pass it on greg MacLeod Mondragon Book by Greg

Fwd: FW Response to Durants posting

1997-12-15 Thread Harry Pollard
Tom Lunde quoted me but ascribed it to Ed (see below): His Microsoft example doesn't alter the fact that we buy Gates' products because we are better off. Surely we won't pay money to be worse off. That's silly. So that isn't an issue. However, perhaps we feel we should be better off at less