[This just seems like a monument to cognitive dissonance to me. This guy
invented a way of appraising nuclear risk. A mere four years later, it
was proved spectacularly wrong. The result: cook and rerun the numbers
until in retrospect they come out perfect. Then give him an award for his
Thank you Michael for your amazingly astute comment. I will try to take this
logical illustration to heart, self-critically. Post-fectum rationalisations
of past behaviour (justification or apology) are an important problem in the
theory of ideology and learning theory. The answer is not to
On Wednesday, July 30, 2003 at 18:33:09 (-0700) Michael Perelman writes:
I don't know how we switched from open source to outsourcing, but I find
the concern about outsourcing quite interesting. For decades,
manufacturing workers suffered the brunt of outsourcing.I saw little
interest in the
I initially made the connection between the two. Long-term investment
by companies like IBM in supporting open-source allows them to more
easily outsource down the road, when the knowledge has spread. There
is no question that open-source software is a vehicle for spreading
knowledge rapidly at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/30/03 09:57PM
But job loss was presented
as a fact of nature, about which we could do nothing - except go to
college and learn computers. But now the people who did the right
thing are taking hits too.
Has anyone heard what Robert Reich and other libs who pushed education
(This is being sent to AI offices worldwide.)
Dear Amnesty International,
I strongly urge you to step back from your newly announced campaign to
release the 75 US agents in Cuba. Associated Press reported on July 30
that your researcher Paige Wilhite has stated that They are prisoners
of
Melvin P. writes:
Any
impartial investigation of the plantation belt of the South after the
Civil Wall will reveal who owned what. Wall Street imperialism owned the
vast majority of the land, possessed the capital and political
will...
Melvin P.
Could you give some more details on the ownership
Interesting idea, but I should mention that outsourcing is not only
hitting programmers, but accountants and financial people as well.
I would disagree about the characterization of a tad more interest. I
am reading a new story almost every day on the subject. I don't recall
such interest when
Doug Henwood wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
I don't know how we switched from open source to outsourcing, but I find
the concern about outsourcing quite interesting. For decades,
manufacturing workers suffered the brunt of outsourcing.I saw little
interest in the media regarding the plight
ravi wrote:
what is interesting (at least to me, because i am in the space) is
that the high-paying privileged jobs in IT (the ones that ivy league
educated liberal white men filled) are being outsourced to india or
elsewhere, and some of the whining from these liberals sounds quite
inconsistent.
Hey, all these Randroids will blame the fucking wogs
for taking their jobs, and vote GOP anyway . . . If
you are mad and out of work and have no prospects,
might as well have a fundamentalist moron sociopath
draft doger go smash a defenseless third world
country against the wall to show them
July 31, 2003/New York TIMES
A Good Idea With Bad Press
By HAL R. VARIAN
THE Pentagon-sponsored futures market in terrorism indicators was
announced and squashed in all of two days. Too bad. It was a good idea,
killed by terrible public relations.
Consider the problem that intelligence agencies
COMMENTARY/L.A. TIMES
Terrorism: There's No Futures in It
Administration has taken market fundamentalism to an absurd low.
By Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz, an economics professor at Columbia University, was
chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Clinton. He
was
Not just to show them who's boss. You have to BELIEVE.
J.
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Hey, all these Randroids will blame
In a message dated 7/31/03 7:24:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Melvin P. writes:
Any impartial investigation of the plantation belt of the South after the Civil Wall will reveal who owned what. Wall Street imperialism owned the vast majority of the land, possessed the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/31/03 12:19PM
what is interesting (at least to me, because i am in the space) is
that the high-paying privileged jobs in IT (the ones that ivy league
educated liberal white men filled) are being outsourced to india or
elsewhere, and some of the whining from these liberals
No historian disputes that Yankee finance capital - imperialism or Wall
Street, took possession of the plantation system in the aftermath of the
Civil War.
Melvin P.
I think that the question was about ownership. My reading indicates that
the same class of people still owned the plantations, but
One scenario I forgot to mention, is where speculators encourage or fund
terrorist attacks, in order to make money out of these attacks through a
form of insider trading.
J.
To Jim Devine:
Excellent thoughtful approach, thanks very much for those posts, that really
gets to the crux of the controversy. At the risk of stating the obvious and
oversimplification, the purely cynical assumptions of US traders behind a
terrorism futures market are threefold:
(1) that
I wrote:
However, this is a reactive, after-the-fact morality, based on
extrapolations which have already occurred
That should be:
However, this is a reactive, after-the-fact morality, based on
extrapolations from events which have already occurred...
It could of course be the case, that a
I scanned in the final chapter of his Delightful Murder: a Social History
of the Crime Story and put it online at: http://www.marxmail.org/mandel.htm
Here are the opening paragraphs:
In The Road to Gandolfo (1976), Robert Ludlum breaks the golden rule: crime
does pay. And what a crime: nothing
Mike Lebowitz, a pen-l alumnus, sends me this:
US Nobel Laureate Slams Bush Government As Worst in American History
Berlin, July 30 (RHC) - American Nobel Prize laureate for Economics George
Akerlof lashed out at the government of US President George Bush, calling it
the worst ever in 200 years
In a message dated 7/31/03 12:22:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think that the question was about ownership. My reading indicates that
the same class of people still owned the plantations, but adapted to the
new realities such as they were.
The banks owned the
The plantation owners were perpetually in debt, but the banks did not
directly own the plantations.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 07:51:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The banks owned the plantations.
Melvin P.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
Hidden force behind salary boom
Nils Pratley
Friday August 1, 2003
The Guardian
Pay consultants who advise on the remuneration of executives are
increasingly accused of being the hidden force behind spiralling
boardroom rewards.
The charge being laid at their door is: Do you expect us to
Found this excerpt from a1918 article in the collection Lenin on the
United States. You'll note that he essentially agrees with the analysis
found in Jonathan Wiener's Social Origins of the New South, who described
post-Civil War Alabama as Junkers Capitalism. (I should add that this is
the
237: Benjamin Franklin and the other commissioners who investigated
Antoin Mesmer included this statement in the preface to their report to
the King of France: “Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all
things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their
discoveries.
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