Re: [Marxism] Large Hadron Collider: Swindle of the Century?

2009-10-19 Thread Anthony Hartin
Its not such a big point but the timeline presented in an earlier post here about magnet problems at the LHC was not right. The problem in the fermlab triplet which occurred mid 2007 was resolved in a few months. The current problem with the quench in Sep08 that lead to several magnets been mov

Re: [Marxism] Emailing from iPhone (was Re: Barely a Peep)

2009-10-19 Thread SHELDON RANZ
Cover 1 will do! ---> SHELDON RANZ -Original Message- From: "Eli Stephens" [elishasteph...@hotmail.com] Date: 10/19/2009 01:51 PM To: "Sheldon" Subject: Re: [Marxism] Emailing from iPhone (was Re: Barely a Peep) Note: Original message sent as attachment

Re: [Marxism] Clean, clean, clean

2009-10-19 Thread Greg McDonald
Yeah, I see that now, just that the last three lines seemed rather abrupt for an ending. The poem could very easily have gone on a bit. Quite good, actually. I wanted more. Don't we all, haha. Greg McDonald YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when r

Re: [Marxism] Large Hadron Collider: Swindle of the Century?

2009-10-19 Thread Jeff
Hey, thanks for the physics lesson Les! (But I hope we're not tested on it tomorrow ;-) >johnaimani wrote: >> Indeed the forming of interference patterns even when >> electrons are fired one at a time through one of two open slits, an action >> that ought to produce no such interfence(diffr

Re: [Marxism] self determination for oppressors

2009-10-19 Thread Marv Gandall
Artesian writes: >I no more deny that apartheid was broken than I would deny that segregation > by race has been dismantled in the South. > > My last word on the subject but as you know I say that often, usually > after I have already given assurances of my last word on the subject. ==

[Marxism] Critique of the Green Revolution

2009-10-19 Thread Louis Proyect
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[Marxism] Large Hadron Collider: Swindle of the Century?

2009-10-19 Thread Les Schaffer
johnaimani wrote: > Hate to appear like a weirdo on this point but there is the phenomenon of > quantum back action. Indeed the forming of interference patterns even when > electrons are fired one at a time through one of two open slits, an action > that ought to produce no such interfence(diff

Re: [Marxism] self determination for oppressors

2009-10-19 Thread Marv Gandall
Artesian writes: [...] > No, I don't consider the end of apartheid a joke-- never said any such > thing-- but the sort of Mandela-de Klerk deal does not bring democracy, or > secularism, or socialism. Thanks for clarifying. > Does anyone think the Afrikaners made this deal out of the goodness o

Re: [Marxism] "Extract" & "Slumdog": Hollywood's Counter-Revolutionary Road

2009-10-19 Thread Louis Proyect
jayroth6 wrote: > Sunday, October 18, 2009 > Slumdogs, Extracts, and Fascism At The Movies > by Caleb T. Maupin > > The right-wing preaches that Hollywood, California is Leftist/Marxist > occupied territory. It is true that there have been a great deal of films > with a leftist bent in recent t

[Marxism] Barely a Peep

2009-10-19 Thread kmccook
We had regular protests in TampaBay (home of CENTCOM) during the Bush admin., but many of the regular democratic protesters seem to have exchanged anti-war sentiments for the hope of change. On 19 Oct 2009 at 5:29, Greg McDonald wrote: > Barely a Peep > Escalation Unopposed > > By RON JACO