Re: Re: KRUGMAN WATCH: PK vs. RN

2000-07-25 Thread Patrick Bond
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Krugman informs me that this sounds conspiratorial, as if he takes orders from the editorial board of the NY TIMES. Well who ARE his little helpers, then? The ones in Jo'burg are certainly leading him astray... *** 24 July 2000 Letters to

Correction to Re: Re: kargarlitsky on Russian sociology etc.

2000-07-25 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
En relación a [PEN-L:22176] Re: kargarlitsky on Russian sociolo, el 24 Jul 00, a las 21:12, Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky dijo: Where I wrote, ... We should not forget that, historically, emulation with the West emptied Soviet ideology of that basic component of Lenin's (and Stalin's to a

BLS Daily Report

2000-07-25 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, JULY 24, 2000 The Midwest again recorded the lowest jobless rate of any of the nation's four regions, 3.4 percent in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. In June, the jobless rate stood at 3.8 percent in the Northeast, 3.9 percent in the South, and 4.6 percent

testosterone poisoning

2000-07-25 Thread Timework Web
High-tech libertarians There is a tone of adolescent paranoia reminiscent in equal parts of "The X-Files" and "Falling Down" to many technolibertarian exchanges; a sense, in Ms. Borsook's words, of "testosterone-poisoned guys with chips on their shoulders and too much time on their hands."

the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney ticket

2000-07-25 Thread Jim Devine
``The message to W. is clear,'' says humorist Harry Shearer.`` `You can drive the car, but Uncle Dick will be in the passenger's seat.' '' Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

capitalist competition

2000-07-25 Thread Jim Devine
In the complete version of the book review that Louis posted, the author (Paulina Borsook) is quoted as saying that: "It's a dirty little secret in high tech that superior marketing and inferior technology will beat out superior technology and inferior marketing every time and that other

RE: the George W. Bush/Dick Cheney ticket

2000-07-25 Thread Max Sawicky
I heard a good one from Kevin Phillips . . . it's the first all-oil ticket. (Also, all-Texas) cheney is a big player in nat'l petroleum influence peddling. mbs ``The message to W. is clear,'' says humorist Harry Shearer.`` `You can drive the car, but Uncle Dick will be in the passenger's

Re: capitalist competition

2000-07-25 Thread Michael Perelman
I don't think that Microsoft competes on the basis of marketing. I don't think anyone was Microsoft product because they believe that Windows is the best possible product. Rather has to do with market dominance. In the software field, numerous times of companies tried to sell cheap software

Fwd: Columbia

2000-07-25 Thread Jim Devine
Democratic Party partisans may hope that George W. Bush gets elected US President, since he'll get the blame for the quagmire in Colombia, the way that Johnson got the blame for Vietnam Published on Tuesday, July 25, 2000 in the San Francisco Chronicle What Have We Bought With Colombian

RE: Fwd: Columbia

2000-07-25 Thread Max Sawicky
99.9% of such partisans don't have a clue what is going on in Colombia. mbs Democratic Party partisans may hope that George W. Bush gets elected US President, since he'll get the blame for the quagmire in Colombia, the way that Johnson got the blame for Vietnam Published on Tuesday,

ICANN question

2000-07-25 Thread Michael Perelman
If anybody here following what's going on with ICANN. I have a question. Suppose I have a web site that the something that ICANN doesn't like. Can they make it possible for someone to reach my IP address? How much of the threat are they to the absolute commercialization of the Internet? --

ColOmbia (was Re: Re: Fwd: Columbia)

2000-07-25 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
En relación a [PEN-L:22191] Re: Fwd: Columbia, el 25 Jul 00, a las 15:22, Carrol Cox dijo: This will be the first revolutionary war of the last century in which the insurgent forces have no external support. So "experts" in Washington may believe that the precedent they are following is

High-tech libertarians

2000-07-25 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, July 25, 2000 BOOKS OF THE TIMES Silicon Valley Views the Economy as a Rain Forest By MICHIKO KAKUTANI As high tech spreads outward from Silicon Valley to American society at large and people spend more and more time in cyberspace, the journalist Paulina Borsook steps back to look

Marxist guerrillas are fighting back history

2000-07-25 Thread Louis Proyect
New York Times, July 25, 2000 Colombia's Rebels Keep the Marxist Faith By CLIFFORD KRAUSS SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUÁN, Colombia, July 22 -- The dream of a Marxist-Leninist revolution remains improbably alive amid the rolling cattle pastures and steamy coca fields of southern Colombia. Guerrillas

Re: Re: capitalist competition

2000-07-25 Thread Jim Devine
At 12:41 PM 7/25/00 -0700, you wrote: I don't think that Microsoft competes on the basis of marketing. I don't think anyone was Microsoft product because they believe that Windows is the best possible product. Rather has to do with market dominance. what I was thinking of was the "Start Me

Re: Fwd: Columbia

2000-07-25 Thread Carrol Cox
Jim Devine wrote: Democratic Party partisans may hope that George W. Bush gets elected US President, since he'll get the blame for the quagmire in Colombia, the way that Johnson got the blame for Vietnam This will be the first revolutionary war of the last century in which the