Challenging an Empire
Regional Home-Loan Banks Eye Fannie, Freddie's Market
By David S. Hilzenrath
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 8, 2003; Page E01
As Congress considers whether to impose a new regulator on mortgage lending
giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the activities of ano
Comrades and friends,
The fallacy is in the lumpy pudding which capitalist
social relations serve up to us. The size or quality
of the pie is not in our power to change. TINA says,
"Here's your dessert, now eat it you mangy proles."
If the work week were reduced in some way by State
sanction (
Greetings Pen-L,
KGC writes,
Oops, but, but, Clay Shirky is a bit of a moron.
Doyle,
Couple of things, while for you the term moron is simply a label that
indicates you think Shirky is not interesting, for me as a disability rights
advocate I find the term anti-disabled. If you read Stephen Jay G
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:25:57PM -0400, ravi wrote:
> i posted this already, but i will repeat my question: could you explain
> further what you mean by the "web scales to 5b+ documents"? and who are
> the computer scientists who are surprised by this?
I've already explained it, so I won't do s
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:25:21PM -0400, Kendall Clark wrote:
>
> Kendall
> --
> Nobody said it was easy
> No one ever said it would be this hard
> Oh take me back to the start
> --Coldplay, The Scientist
...
Oops, my apologies for not trimming my .signature.
Kendall
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:20:11PM -0400, ravi wrote:
> Kendall Clark wrote:
> >
> > Yes, there are these tensions which pull in opposite directions; one of the
> > things I do as a weekly tech columnist is try to get it through the default
> > libertarian geek mind haze that capitalism, in fact, s
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:16:51PM -0400, ravi wrote:
> > But there is an idea floating around geekdom that the Web works (in the
> > sense that it scales 5B+ documents, something which no one really
> > expected) because of various purely technological ideas...
> >
>
> i could use some clarificat
Kendall Clark wrote:
> Huh? You really lost me here. My question was way simpler than that. The
> fact that the Web scales to 5B+ documents is a surprise to computer
> scientists. One of the prevailing explanations is that HTTP got smarter
> (basically, it became more cachable by intermediaries and
Kendall Clark wrote:
>
> Yes, there are these tensions which pull in opposite directions; one of the
> things I do as a weekly tech columnist is try to get it through the default
> libertarian geek mind haze that capitalism, in fact, sucks. :>
>
what does "default libertarian geek mind" mean? that
Doyle Saylor wrote:
> Greetings Pen-'Ellers,
> KGC writes,
> But there is an idea floating around geekdom that the Web works (in the
> sense that it scales 5B+ documents, something which no one really
> expected) because of various purely technological ideas...
>
i could use some clarification of
Devine, James wrote:
I don't know who used the term "stalinist" here.
Slavoj Zizek, as quoted by me.
Doug
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:58:09PM -0700, Doyle Saylor wrote:
> Me,
> Clay Shirky writes about the economics of what makes the web work. Has some
> theories about various ideas floating around about the IT industry that are
> a starting place to think about what works and doesn't work about Web
>
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:25:03PM -0700, joanna bujes wrote:
> Computing, in general, cries out of standards and openness; capitalism
> depends upon private property, of which "intellectual" property is a
> part. So the development of computing is always pulled into these
> completely contradicto
Greetings Pen-'Ellers,
KGC writes,
But there is an idea floating around geekdom that the Web works (in the
sense that it scales 5B+ documents, something which no one really
expected) because of various purely technological ideas (most of which get
attributed, inaccurately, to Tim Berners-Lee). I wa
Web Services seems to be just another mechanism for decoupling that
allows independent change of implementation, and (supposedly) some
sort of dynamic lookup of implementation.
You might look at Creating the Computer: Government, Industry,
and High Technology by Kenneth Flamm, and also his Target
I find the "lump of labor fallacy" discussion to be a bit off the point.
The discussion should be restated as simply saying that cutting the legal work-week
can distribute more jobs among the entire working class, given the aggregate demand
for products. PK seems to be assuming that Say's false
The same employers who hailed the downfall of the Socialist Unity Party
government in East Germany, where piece wages were a regular practice, also
opposed the shorter working week in Western Europe and the USA.
In the post-Fordist world within the developed capitalist countries, the
majority of j
In theory, it could be construed as such. In reality, it only raised
demand temporarily. Plus, no one trading believed long term corporate
debt would do well if long term government debt wasn't, though it was
certainly marketed aggressively and increased in volume.
The fact remained that there was
Michael H. wrote >tone doesn't always travel well in this medium, my comment was
directed
at use of 'stalinist' in relation to concept of 'quantity into quality',<
I don't know who used the term "stalinist" here.
Jim
Michael Hoover wrote:
tone doesn't always travel well in this medium, my comment was directed
at use of 'stalinist' in relation to concept of 'quantity into quality',
while some marxism (various elements to various degrees) became
ossified, i don't understand purpose/function of reference to
'stal
Dear Professor Krugman,
The so-called 'lump of labor fallacy' you refer to in your column of October
7, 2003 is a crock (see my "The 'lump-of-labor'case against work-sharing:
populist fallacy or marginalist throwback?" in _Working Time: International
trends, theory and policy perspectives_, eds. L
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/06/03 01:58PM >>>
old Stalinist dialectical term, a clear jump of quantity into
>quality.
<<>>
Michael H writes:
'quantity into quality' has bit more history than above comment
suggests, as in hegel, marx, engels (real culprit, according to
critics,
with those 'thr
Go Tom!
Tom Walker wrote:
Workin' on it.
Tom Walker
604 255 4812
Ian wrote:
[cue to the Sandwichman]
[New York Times]
October 7, 2003
Lumps of Labor
By PAUL KRUGMAN
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/03/03 11:00 AM >>>
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Bush is finished
given
that the election is divided along states (ignoring the few states that
permit individual electoral votes)
--ravi
<>
not sure what portion of above in parentheses means...
electors are no
Workin' on it.
Tom Walker
604 255 4812
Ian wrote:
[cue to the Sandwichman]
[New York Times]
October 7, 2003
Lumps of Labor
By PAUL KRUGMAN
JKS, you forgot to mention those nukular weppins.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
> -Original Message-
> From: andie nachgeborenen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 10:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
On Tuesday, October 7, 2003 at 13:35:03 (-0400) Kendall Grant Clark writes:
>Folks,
>
>I'm working on a technical book about a new way in which corporations are
>using the Web to achieve the holy grail, "enterprise application
>integration", using a new family of technologies called "Web
>Services"
Folks,
I'm working on a technical book about a new way in which corporations are
using the Web to achieve the holy grail, "enterprise application
integration", using a new family of technologies called "Web
Services". The book is targeted at working programmers, so it will mostly
be that sort of t
I had heard that it was also a subsidy, since it would raise the demand
for long term corporate bonds by removing competing government bonds. Is
that true?
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 01:13:40PM -0400, nomi prins wrote:
> The political rationale was that due to the post-Clinton surplus, there
> was
What's yer problem, Hanly, guy's a towlhead, right?
All towlheads are terrorists and should be tortured to
avenge Syria's attack on the World Trade Center, and
also for hiding Saddam Hussein's WMD so we can't find
them. If you have done anything, you should't mind
being disappeared and tortured for
The political rationale was that due to the post-Clinton surplus, there
was less need to issue as much Treasury debt (corporate debt, however,
increased dramatically), so treasury auction sizes were reduced. Both
the 3 year note (several years earlier) and the 30 year bond auctions
ceased.
In actu
What was the rationale (and the real reason) for ceasing the 30 yr. bond
auctions?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wopent053482066oct05,0,709630,print.story?coll=ny-worldnews-headlines
Iraqi Business Ties Raise Questions
By Craig Gordon and Knut Royce
WASHINGTON BUREAU; Staff correspondent Andrew Metz contributed to this
article from Jerusalem.
October 5, 2
Ed Sullivan was a sports commentator before WW II who said repellent things
about Jewish pro basketball players. He was echoing elite Anglo-Saxon
opinion about immigrant Jews in America being racially inferior. Some of
these folks were socialist. I do not know how much that influenced
Sullivan.
[I don't believe the occupying forces in Iraq have stooped this low...well
not yet anyway.]
Australian unionist arrested by UN in Dili
October 7, 2003 - 2:14PM
United Nations police have arrested an Australian union official in East
Timor in what international unions describe as unprecedented an
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