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From: Sid Shniad
Subject: THE CYBERDAMNED - Le Monde diplomatique
Date: Friday, February 18, 2000 6:32PM
Le Monde diplomatique February 2000
THE CYBERDAMNED
by Serge Halimi
It is by no means certain that the -new
Signs of the times. Or this is one outcome of a two tier society.
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From: Sid Shniad
Subject: RICH BRAZILIANS RISE ABOVE RUSH-HOUR JAMS - The New York Times
Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 2:28PM
The New York Times 15 February 2000
RICH BRAZILIANS RISE
food for thought
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From: Gary Chapman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: L.A. Times Column, 2/14/00 -- Programming
Date: Monday, February 14, 2000 10:31AM
Friends,
Below is my Los Angeles Times column for today, Monday, February 14,
2000. As always, please feel free to pass this on,
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From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; #ECOM - COMÉ
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The Bill of Gates fallacy, Odysseus and the Cyclops, "the
invisible hand"
Date: Sunday, February 13, 2000 10:27AM
snip, snip,
Cordell...
A corollary to this is that in the
illed jobs.
Andrew Straw
Fredericksburg, VA
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From: Cordell, Arthur: #ECOM - COMÉ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Victor
Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: The Bill of Gates fallacy
Bravo! Se
Bravo! Self service is no service at all. We just access part of the
bank's (or supermarket, or gas station, etc.) mainframe, and doing the work
ourselves, complicate our day and put people out of work. Amazing. And we
call it progress.
arthur cordell
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From: Victor Milne
To:
To this interesting discussion I would only add that access to the
technological infrastructure (based on income and social cultureal
conditions of the family and country/region) that ensures quality food ,
medicines, clean water, maternity care, vitamins, childhood stimulation,
etc., are all
Yes it appears that FW is now "up and running". Thanx to Sally Lerner and
techies at Univ of Waterloo.
Keith has posted an interesting and provocative view of the structure of
work. And did it in a remarkably brief way.
What I draw from his posting is that if Keith is correct then we need to
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From: Sid Shniad
Subject: Most Americans feel the business boom has left them out in the cold
- BUSINESS WEEK
Date: Monday, January 03, 2000 4:39PM
BUSINESS WEEK 27
December 1999
HEY, WHAT ABOUT US?
Most Americans
test Jan. 5 1:35 pm
Jan 6 9:00 pm
Agree. It was more like Chicago 1968.
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From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FW: Re Krystallnacht in Seattle(?)
Date: Monday, December 13, 1999 7:52PM
Replying to no particular posting on this thread:
Is "Krystallnacht" really an appropriate word to apply
to
It seems that the Czechs in 1968 tried to bring in Socialism with a human
face. How about Capitalism with a human face?
arthur cordell
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From: Ed Weick
To: Bruce Leier; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ed Goertzen
Subject: Re: torn: Reply to Ed Wieck
Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 7:50PM
Ed,
It is difficult in a broad list like this to write in an ironic style.
Without knowing someone well, without observing body language, etc. there is
bound to be a range of interpretations. It is difficult to deal with subtle
points that might push others hot buttons.
arthur cordell
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Tim. Enough. Moving on means moving on. Let it go or get off the list.
arthur cordell
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From: Tim Rourke
To: Ed Weick
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Moving on.
Date: Thursday, December 09, 1999 8:26PM
Now, I admit I might have missed part of the beginning of this
jew=capitalist
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Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 4:20 PM
This was forwarded to me and I confirmed with Telus that it is in fact
true. "I received a telephone call last evening from an individual A T
Service Technician who
Agree.
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From: Tim Rourke
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 11:39AM
It is time this whole putrid 'string' about whether jews are capitalists
dissapeared. It should never have gottern started. If it does not I am
going to contact the Jewish anti-defamation
Tuesday December 7
Corporate Layoffs Surge 123 Percent
NEW YORK (Reuters) - After hitting a 25-month low in October, U.S.
corporations
returned to the job-chopping block, announcing 50,907 layoffs in November,
a 123 percent
surge over the previous month, according to Challenger, Gray
Friends,
Below is my Los Angeles Times column for today, Monday, December 6,
1999. As always, please feel free to pass this on, but please retain
the copyright notice.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Monday, December 6, 1999
DIGITAL NATION
A Classic Clash of
Who was it that said, 'a capitalist will sell you the rope that you later
use to hang him' ?
I thought it was Engels, but can't find the source.
The quote, though, shows the problem. One of greed and lack of long term
attention to enlightened self interest.
I guess Lord Acton also said it,
Cordell responds to Middleton responding to Cordell.
As a central player in the Conserver Society concept developed by the
Science Council (20 years ago where I was a Science Advisor at the time) of
course I agree with your comments.
But going with infant mortality, caloric intake, access to
thanx Tom. I was trying to remember his name (without running to the
bookshelf).Yup, Lange thought he could do it.
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From: Timework Web
To: Bob McDaniel
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: torn
Date: Friday, December 03, 1999 10:23PM
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Bob McDaniel wrote:
It
For those who want more, much more about the WTO please see below.
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From: Steven Clift
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [DW] WTO Lists and Links
Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 11:54AM
*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do ***
An amazing collection of
I guess the question is ---In a globalized world there will be harmonization
(of wages, working conditions, environment, etc.), do we want to try to
achieve upward harmonization or do we allow a drift to lower standards.
There will be harmonization: At what level. I (as you can gather) would
I would like to add that if the developed nations give up aspects of
development (schooling, universal health care, potable water, etc) then
these trade offs should be made explicit. What are we giving up, why, who
gains and who loses, etc.
My fear is that the trade offs will be made behind
Features / Paying people to have the time of your life / Karina Mantavia
Paying people to have the time of your life
Karina Mantavia
In a central London office a small group of people are engaged in some
serious phone-bashing. In half an hour they have booked a helicopter flight,
picked up
I tried in a fumbling way to talk about the consumption of images,
experience, fashion or trying to imagine ourselves as part of another story.
Imagine my surprise when at my local library I ran across a book, The Dream
Society, which says pretty much the same thing. The book is quite
I don't think its perfect bodies so much as talking about those things which
don't or can't happen. So we see cooking shows on TV (people can't, won't
or have forgotten how to cook), we see 4 x 4 cars in wilderness (which
wilderness, where), you fill in the rest. I think it is about parody.
For a way to demonstrate population changes...
check this page
http://www.popexpo.net/eAujourdhui.html
arthur cordell
DOING MORE WITH LESS.LEADS TO MORE WORK, LESS WORKERS
If it seems like all those pink slips have left you and fellow workers left
behind with a lot of extra work to do, it's true. According to a new
national survey by the American Management Association, about 80% of the
firms that laid off
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From: Phil Agre
To: Red Rock Eater News Service
Subject: [RRE]Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing
Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 12:27AM
[Reformatted to 70 columns.]
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Viviane Forrester can't walk down a Paris street without being stopped. But
she is no ordinary celebrity - her latest book is set to be the biggest
economics bestseller since Das Kapital, writes Ian Cotton
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