Re: FW: Data media (was re: Charles Leadbetter)

1999-07-23 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
pete wrote: "Thomas Lunde" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just recently, I was reading a posting about all the early computer tapes, discs, hard drives, etc that we are losing for two reasons, one the storage devices are deteriotating and two we are losing the disk drives, operating systems,

Re: Charles Leadbetter

1999-07-22 Thread Thomas Lunde
-- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve Kurtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think we need also to add the enormous entropy of the obsolescence of knowledge. This is sometimes stated more "positively" as a shortening "half-life" of knowledge, so that by the time an

Re: Charles Leadbetter

1999-07-19 Thread Steve Kurtz
Tom Walker wrote: Context, Steve, context. Your response to Jim Stanford's piece seemed to miss the point that poor-bashing and welfare-bashing have been mainstays of the self-styled individualist, "free market" line since time immemorial. Maybe that's the opinion of some about the actions

Re: Jim Stanford (was Re: Charles Leadbetter)

1999-07-19 Thread Tom Walker
Steve, You were wondering why no one had replied to your earlier criticism of Jim Stanford's op-ed piece. So I replied. My point is simply that you have taken a light-weight rhetorical piece to task over some heavy-duty substantive issues and have ignored the fact that we are daily inundated

Re: Charles Leadbetter -- the End of Unemployment

1999-07-19 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Chris, that's not cynicism, that's business. One of the reasons they can downsize so easily is because of the excess they hire. All of these exercises with numbers, hours, and work weeks are just more of the same. The size of the company separates you so much from those who truly control the

Re: Charles Leadbetter

1999-07-18 Thread Thomas Lunde
Title: Re: Charles Leadbetter PS: I assumed on first reading that Ian had written this lengthy post, it was only after I had read it again and written my comments that I realized it was written by Charles Leadbetter, so rather than spend the time re-writng, please accept my apoligies Ian

Re: Charles Leadbetter

1999-07-18 Thread Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
Steve Kurtz wrote: Thomas once again has given us his insightful, sobering commentary on a unidimensional, rather ephemeral perception of the human predicament. It is not realistic to continue discussing the future of work without including the future of the caloric input required for brain

Re: Charles Leadbetter

1999-07-18 Thread Tom Walker
Steve Kurtz wrote: Are there no reactions to my post about the Workfare for Capital piece? Perhaps all listmembers grasped its ideological hyperbole immediately! Context, Steve, context. Your response to Jim Stanford's piece seemed to miss the point that poor-bashing and welfare-bashing have

Charles Leadbetter

1999-07-14 Thread Ian Ritchie
The NS Essay - Towards the knowledge society Markets are too cruel, communities too stifling, third ways too much of a fudge. Charles Leadbeater offers a fourth and better way PictureI will start with myself. I do not work for a company or a university. I am neither a business consultant nor