globalizing the open source movement

2002-12-06 Thread Ian Murray
http://www.flonnet.com The two faces of Mr. Gates C. P. CHANDRASEKHAR Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' visit to India was part of a strategy to check the growing trend of developing countries preferring open source software over proprietary software. WAS Microsoft chief Bill Gates' dual-purpose

Re: Re: re: Query: ":

2002-12-06 Thread Sabri Oncu
What is belwo is what I see from the web site. Sabri +++ The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. - -

Canada & IMF

2002-12-06 Thread Hari Kumar
>From the ML_ist Daily: "IMF Praise for Canada The International Monetary Fund (IMF)is a financial spokesperson and organiser for the international financial oligarchy. IMF credit is routinely used to protect the investments of U.S., Canadian and other monopolies in those countries that have been

Re: Re: re: Query: ":

2002-12-06 Thread joanna bujes
At 04:03 PM 12/06/2002 -0500, you wrote: Hey Ravi- You do know what humour is! Gee...Wasn't sure from your prior note! H I think he's just the sweetest thing alive!!! But I've said that before. Joanna

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2002-12-06 Thread Hari Kumar
Hey Ravi- You do know what humour is! Gee...Wasn't sure from your prior note! H

Yahoo! News - Bush Ousts O'Neill, Lindsey Over Economy

2002-12-06 Thread ravi
i am sure you are all aware of this. i am posting the news since nobody has and i am interested in hearing your opinions. --ravi <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=514&ncid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20021206/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_shakeup_7> Bush Ousts O'

Encouraginge defections or kidnappings?

2002-12-06 Thread ken hanly
The relevance of the UN seems to be in spying and aiding and abetting US war plans for Iraq. The Iraqi scientists could safely carry on their careers in the US. No inspection worries re biological and chemical warfare research. The US has explicitly rejected international agreements requiring inspe

Re: Re: Re: PK on communications "deregulation"

2002-12-06 Thread Nomiprins
In a message dated 12/6/2002 12:02:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nomi could have mentioned that Colin P. was on the board of AOL, wasn't he?? Absolutely. Colin Powell was on the board of AOL. He resigned on January 11, 2000, the same day the FCC issued its approval of th

Fedral R&D; messin' with the oceans

2002-12-06 Thread Ian Murray
[from biologists I've talked to, our knowledge of marine ecosystems is nowhere near as extensive as terrestrial ones and both are extremely in need of more funds, so the following, given our past tinkering, means those seemingly sci-fi scenarios for dealing with greenhouse dynamics are going to get

Re: Re: PK on communications "deregulation"

2002-12-06 Thread Michael Perelman
Nomi could have mentioned that Colin P. was on the board of AOL, wasn't he?? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

US: O'Neill, Lindsey Quit

2002-12-06 Thread Sabri Oncu
Top Financial News 12/06 11:48 O'Neill, Lindsey Quit as Bush Shakes Up Economy Team (Update7) By Simon Kennedy and Brendan Murray Washington, Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey quit, clearing the way for President George W. Bu

Re: PK on communications "deregulation"

2002-12-06 Thread Nomiprins
In a message dated 12/6/02 11:19:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bad metaphors make bad policy. Everyone talks about the "information highway." But in economic terms the telecommunications network resembles not a highway but the railroad industry of the robber-baron era - t

PK on communications "deregulation"

2002-12-06 Thread Devine, James
Title: PK on communications "deregulation" December 6, 2002/New York TIMES Digital Robber Barons? By PAUL KRUGMAN Bad metaphors make bad policy. Everyone talks about the "information highway." But in economic terms the telecommunications network resembles not a highway but the railroad indus

Re: Query: ":

2002-12-06 Thread ravi
Carrol Cox wrote: > soula avramidis wrote: > >>one Iraqi poet, actually the best Arab poet in my >>Arab friend's opinion, says > > And then the post continues: > > ": ns"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> > > How did this get into the post? What does it mean, What relation does it >

Query: ":

2002-12-06 Thread Carrol Cox
soula avramidis wrote: > one Iraqi poet, actually the best Arab poet in my > Arab friend's opinion, says And then the post continues: ": How did this get into the post? What does it mean, What relation does it have to what the Iraqi poet said? What did the Iraqi poet say? Confused. :-) Car

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rent economies

2002-12-06 Thread soula avramidis
why is it that the production function is inestimeable in a rent economy? in other words why does the capital outpout ratio exhibit no relationship to economic growth and will the correlation work if one takes rent out GDP? this of course is so even if one smoothes and averages the data. i would

Re: "Regime Change" in Venezuela

2002-12-06 Thread soula avramidis
the best thing chavez did was to arm the poor. is he copying stalin in his war against the gulaks and do the trots who support chavez now see the historical parallel.Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

Re: ECB rate cut: trying to save Germany?

2002-12-06 Thread soula avramidis
a military campaign in the middle east or africa will do wonders for the german economy. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

Re: RE: Re: Chomsky

2002-12-06 Thread soula avramidis
Go to an economic development textbook from the late seventies like Todaro's which has a table on income distribution and another development index. look at Iraq in the fifties and compare with the rest of world, as I recall, iraq was probably the worst. that was the period of british/hashemite ru

Re: RE: Re: Chomsky

2002-12-06 Thread soula avramidis
Go to an economic development textbook from the late seventies like Todaro's which has a table on income distribution and another development index. look at Iraq in the fifties and compare with the rest of world, as I recall, iraq was probably the worst. that was the period of british/hashemite r

Re: Re: Forward Just say no

2002-12-06 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, Melvin writes, Extremely interesting Post. How can I follow this thread? Melvin P Doyle The thread of that discussion was composed of a debate between myself and others about first the dominance of the U.S. for the foreseeable future and how that likely would develop as a p