An Aside: On Rational Thinking

1999-06-29 Thread Bob McDaniel
Eva Durant wrote: > Uncompromising means, not changing opinions even when > presented rational reasons to do so. In the absence of such > what can I do? What if my opinion is actually a good > approximation to reality, Let's take a harder look at rational thought: "Rational thinking ... cann

Global Futures Bulletin #86

1999-06-29 Thread Institute for Global Futures Research (IGFR)
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FW: Prisoners 'Hired,' So Ex-welfare Clients Fired]

1999-06-29 Thread John Graversgaard
Future Work is also slave-like work in the USA. John Graversgaard  Homepage [Moderator: a concrete example of neo-slavery in the US...] http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/ Atlanta Journal-Constitution 06-19-1999, Page A1 Prisoners 'hired,' so ex-welfare clients fired; Free convict labor means

Second reminder - Subscription/membership due !

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Re: Easing Transition to Cybereconomy

1999-06-29 Thread Bob McDaniel
Eva Durant wrote: > > > > > Who was talking about any final > > > solution? I find such a strawman a tad offensive. > > > > And, believe me, I was sensitive to the implication of the term; > > however, your uncompromising views do give the impression that you can > > see only one solution, and

FW OASIS-Australia-Newsletter

1999-06-29 Thread S. Lerner
>From: "Allan McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>NEWSLETTER 8/99 29 June 1999 > >The website of the Basic Income European Network (BIEN) has some interesting >summaries of recent publications, including one of the book "Poverty in >Europe", by B.A.Atkinson, Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. This is a rev

Simple solutions and global models

1999-06-29 Thread WesBurt
To: Yves Bajard on list ATTAC, John Courtneidge on list LETS, and other defenders of the Commonwealth. Dear Yves, I owe you an apology for a recent statement of mine which was offensive because it was poorly phrased and incomplete. In reply to your 99-06-19 post to list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

FW Sennett on Insecurity, Feature from the Jobs Letter No. 102 (29 June 1999 )

1999-06-29 Thread S. Lerner
>From The Jobs Letter, with permission. >F E A T U R E >-- >from >T H E J O B S L E T T E R 1 0 2 >a subscriber-based letter >published in New Zealand 29 June 1999 > - > >INSECURITY AND THE CORROSION OF CHARACTER >RICHARD SENNETT on the pe

TimeWork Web: four years online

1999-06-29 Thread Tom Walker
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/worksite.htm June 29, 1995 - June 29, 1999 Here's what they say about the TimeWork Web: "Il s'agit d'un site particulièrement riche et bien fait autour du thème du temps de travail en général, et de s