Re: demo fervor

To avoid over-posting, I conclude by directing all to this post of yours. There it is. dms - Original Message - From: "Jurriaan Bendien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 1:42 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] demo fervor > > What are you talking about?

Re: declaration of war?

Just for the hell of it, tell us how you feel about Friedman and the Chicago Boys. I mean character assassination ain't nothing compared to real assassination, and that's what political economy truly is-- the movement from the former to the latter. dms - Original Message - From: "Jurria

Re: declaration of war?

Maybe not so stupid. It's called "laying pipe" -- preparing the American public for the deep cuts in social programs which are going to follow the election to deal with the deficit. I expect Bush and the Republicans to devote more than a little time talking about diverting social security payroll t

Alila (Dir. Amos Gitai)

* MOVIE REVIEW | 'ALILA' No Peace in a City Teeming With Life By STEPHEN HOLDEN Published: February 27, 2004 The Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai is an acerbic social critic who likes to point fingers and pick at warts, and "Alila," his acidly comic study of life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment co

All told, it was a fabulous year to be very rich

Billionaires list grows by a Google By Michael P. Regan | The Associated Press Posted February 27, 2004 NEW YORK -- Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and the founders of the Google search engine have landed on Forbes magazine's annual list of billionaires after a year when rallying stocks and a st

Steinbrenner Buys Fenway

Steinbrenner Buys Fenway Homeless Red Sox cry foul WEB EXCLUSIVE Newsweek Updated: 4:53 p.m. ET Feb. 24, 2004Feb. 24 - George Steinbrenner's buying spree continued unabated today as the New York Yankees owner purchased Fenway Park, the legendary home of the arch-rival Boston Red Sox. In buying Fen

"Goodbye, Lenin" opens in NYC

I reviewed this film about the phenomenon of "ostalgie" a couple of weeks ago. It is now opening up at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Broadway between 62nd and 63rd. Not to be missed. -- The Marxism list: www.marxmail.org

Deeds of a rogue nation

Reagan Approved Plan to Sabotage Soviets Book Recounts Cold War Program That Made Technology Go Haywire By David E. Hoffman Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, February 27, 2004; Page A01 In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union th

He does have a point

Without directly using Mr. Kerry's name, Mr. Bush said the Democrats were "an interesting group, with a lot of strong differences of opinion." "They're for tax cuts and against them," the president said. "For Nafta and against Nafta. For the Patriot Act, against the Patriot Act. In favor of liberat

Re: He does have a point

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/27/04 9:40 AM >>> Without directly using Mr. Kerry's name, Mr. Bush said the Democrats were "an interesting group, with a lot of strong differences of opinion." "They're for tax cuts and against them," the president said. "For Nafta and against Nafta. For the Patriot Act, a

Critique of the Brookings Institution - this time by a Russian

On 16 november 2003 I posted a critical comment on a book by Brookings Institution authors about Siberia on Marxmail and PEN-L. Here is another one by a Russian author that is much better (thanks to Chris for drawing my attention to it): Every year or so, another silly theory comes into vogue amon

Re: He does have a point

contrary to demo officialdom and their lackeys as well as well-intended folks who correctly despise bush, kerry is not - and never has been - the electable one, simply repeating mantra over and over and over does/will not make it so, probably not surprising that those asserting that 'kerry is elect

Re: Critique of the Brookings Institution - this time by a Russian

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:16:19 +0100, Jurriaan Bendien wrote: > > This year's trendily daft > notion is that "the > curse of natural resources" is to blame for Russia's > fate. That's right: > Russia's problem is that it's got far too much oil, My old economics prof Steven Nickell, in relation to

A Brazilian Marxist's take on Sex and the City

> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:52:56 -0500 > From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Marxism] Sex and the City > I would also have to confess that I became a big fan of this show over > the past few months. I too, Louis, I too...But in my case that had perhaps more to do with the fact that

Re: demo fervor

I wrote: > strictly speaking, no propositions at all can be "proved" with statistics. All one can say is that your hypothesis survived a statistical test.< Jurriaan writes: >True, but it occurs to me that this might be too strongly worded, insofar as SOME propositions could be proved with statist

Re: demo fervor

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:30:35 -0800, "Devine, James" wrote: > if the data is poorly measured, then even a case >where > there are no empirical counterexamples may be wrong. > Jim D. But Juriaan's point is surely that propositions can certainly be *falsified* by empirical evidence and if P is falsif

Re: demo fervor

Bush thinks that homoskedasticity is unnatural and is going to ban any talk of it in government funded statistical studies. Only observations that are heteroskedastic will be allowed. Cheers, Ken Hanly - Original Message - From: "Jurriaan Bendien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: demo fervor

if so, we agree. It's also extremely hard to disprove (or "falsify") a proposition empirically. Most propositions have "ceteris paribus" clauses which can be invoked to defend the prop. For example, in macro, empirical evidence has seemingly destroyed the "monetarist" proposition that rapid i

Re: demo fervor

> if the data is poorly measured, then even a case where there are no empirical counterexamples may be wrong. > Jim D. Of course, that's possible, yes. J.

CIA sabotage of USSR economy?

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/27/1077676960916.html In 1982, US president Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the Soviet Union's economy through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a ga

Re: demo fervor

> Bush thinks that homoskedasticity is unnatural and is going to ban any talk > of it in government funded statistical studies. Only observations that are > heteroskedastic will be allowed. Thanks. I'm not actually gay, but I had a lot of sexual harassment in the past, you end up doing things you

Re: demo fervor

Please, keep the number down! On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 06:58:01PM +0100, Jurriaan Bendien wrote: > > Bush thinks that homoskedasticity is unnatural and is going to ban any > talk > > of it in government funded statistical studies. Only observations that are > > heteroskedastic will be allowed. > >

Re: demo fervor

>if so, we agree. I cannot think of anytime I disagreed with you. The more I think about this, the more I think I disagree only with the people I disagree with, but, one always has to keep that critical inquiry going and not tule out the possibility you might disagree. >It's also extremely hard t

Re: demo fervor

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/27/04 1:19 PM >>> Benjamin Disraeli referred to "lies, damn lies and statistics". Jurriaan from 'the phrase finder': Often attributed to Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister. The source for this view is the autobiography of Mark Twain, where he makes that attribution

Preventing Working-Class Electoral Participation

"The United Nations has said that at least 70 percent of eligible voters should be registered for the elections to be considered successful" in Afghanistan (Steven R. Weisman/NYT, "U.S. Hints of a Delay on Afghan Elections, Monday, February 16, 2004, ). By t

Re: Preventing Working-Class Electoral Participation

Any sweeping change in technology is not without its challenges. The Election Technology Council understands that while DRE systems offer the American public substantial advantages, it is natural that questions about the security of these newer systems will be asked. The ETC is ready, willing and

Draft (was dems, etc)

There's nothing to suggest the right wants to publicly get behind the draft, or at least a massive untrained draft as in Vietnam. Hollings's and Rangel's bills are probably going to die in committee, and Rumsfeld and Bush love to talk about how effective the all-volunteer force is. At the same time

History's ironies

(William F. Browder is Earl Browder's grandson. His Hermitage Capital Management is described in the article as "the largest foreign investment fund in Russia." Earl Browder was the leader of the CPUSA during WWII. Shortly after the Cold War began, Stalin dumped him because he was seen as too conci

Re: He does have a point

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/27/04 10:32 AM >>> My old friend Peter Camejo was quite insistent that Bush will steamroller over Kerry since all the big money and the media likes what he is doing. Check out the debate between him and Norman Solomon if you haven't done so already. It is highly entertainin

Re: A Brazilian Marxist's take on Sex and the City

Car.os wrote: As carrie Bradshaw must renounce tabagism for romantic love's sake, and Xena renounce Gabrielle for the Greater Good's, so Gibson's Christ must willingly embrace the most senseless torture in order to redeem Mankind (remember, by the way, that there were some very popular early heres

Re: He does have a point

>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/27/04 10:32 AM >>> My old friend Peter Camejo was quite insistent that Bush will steamroller over Kerry since all the big money and the media likes what he is doing. Check out the debate between him and Norman Solomon if you haven't done so already. It is highly entertaini

Reply to a Bad Subjects editor

Charles Bertsch wrote: Havven't they given you tenure yet, Louis? Oh, that's right. I forgot. Nice to hear from an old, um, whatever. Bertsch, I had no fucking idea who you are, but don't ever write me provocative shit out of the blue about "tenure" ever again. I am a computer programmer at Colu

Re: science in the corporate interest; yet another iteration

* Eubulides <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > posted: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16954 In Science in the Private Interest..." Dear Eubilides - thanks, an interesting article. No solutions (perhaps naturally). Some factual errors

Zoellick in India

http://www.flonnet.com/fl2105/stories/20040312001805000.htm WTO Frictions to the fore SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN The recent visit of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick to India with the stated aim of resuming global trade negotiations only serves to highlight the continuing discord between the tw

Re: Reply to a Bad Subjects editor

And exactly why is this on the Pen L list? Sounds like a personal problem. You want help with this problem? Contact me offlist. dms - Original Message - From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 6:44 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Reply to a B

Stats & OED: [Was Re: demo fervor]

Sabri Oncu : "Heteroskedastic means non-constant variance. If you look at the way the data varies with time, the fluctuations are larger initially and the fluctuations attenuate as the time progresses, although they appear to get larger again towards the end. Moreover, you just have 13 observatio

Re: Stats & OED: [Was Re: demo fervor]

Haven't we beaten this poor pony to death yet? Somebody produced an array of number showing that the Republican Party has consistently had support from a significant portion of the working class-- at least since 1952. Big deal. That's a surprise? We need statistics for that? I note in passing t

Stats & OED: [Was Re: demo fervor]

> Q: > Is this the same as regression to the mean? > Thx > H Hi Hari, Good to hear from you! How is our mutual friend doing? It is not the same as regression to the mean. Regression to the mean is a different concept associated with that those below the mean will do better and move up, whereas

Re: Reply to a Bad Subjects editor

I agree. I am not sure that this belongs here. On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:16:26PM -0500, dmschanoes wrote: > And exactly why is this on the Pen L list? Sounds like a personal problem. > You want help with this problem? Contact me offlist. > > dms > - Original Message - > From: "Louis Pr

Re: Greenspan on Social Security

Is this, perhaps, the old "guns vs butter" revisited? Is it possible that 2/25 will become a date to remember along with 9/11. What if the Iraq war was not about "oil" but about protecting the US dollar as the reserve currency by which oil is bought and trade valued? How much room is there in t

GAO report on outsourcing the State

February 27, 2004 COMPETITIVE SOURCING Greater Emphasis Needed on Increasing Efficiency and Improving Performance GAO-04-367 http://www.gao.gov/ [click through to the report]

Re: Stats & OED: [Was Re: demo fervor]

dms: > Personally, I think there is much more to be > gained from the concrete analysis of the concrete > conditions of exchange, production, overproduction, > and profit, here and now, then and there, or any > combination thereof. Hey dms! Tell me how you are planning to conduct that concrete a

Re: declaration of war?

Here's an interesting take: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17969 The Class Warrior.. Struggle continues, Mike B) --- Jurriaan Bendien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you are correct. I already experienced this > in the 1980s in New > Zealand, it's just that the USA is much wealth

Re: Stats & OED: [Was Re: demo fervor]

- Original Message - From: "Sabri Oncu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 11:34 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Stats & OED: [Was Re: demo fervor] Hey dms! > > Tell me how you are planning to conduct that concrete > analysis? > Sabri _

Re: Stats & OED: [Was Re: demo fervor]

>> Hey dms! >> >> Tell me how you are planning to conduct that >> concrete analysis? >> >> Sabri >___ > Ask and you shall receive... And I just took a look at what you sent. It is full of "statistical obscurantism" and inferences from them, possibly some of which are

Re: Stats & OED: [Was Re: demo fervor]

Please go right ahead and do a better analysis of the two industries in question using your spacecraft.. Challenger or Columbia? - Original Message - From: "Sabri Oncu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 12:15 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Stats & OED:

article on MR website

I have an article posted on the Monthly Review website (www.monthlyreview.org) titled "Can the Working Class Change the World?"  It is a write up of a talk I gave to the Marxist School in Sacramento.  Comments welcome.   Michael Yates

Re: Stats & OED: [Was Re: demo fervor]

> Please go right ahead and do a better analysis > of the two industries in question using your > spacecraft.. Challenger or Columbia? Neighter Challenger or Columbia. In my language it is called: Ananin Ami! If you don't know what it means, go and check a Turkish dictionary! Best, Sabri

Re: "Goodbye, Lenin" opens in NYC

Yes emphatically not to be missed, and not to be under-estimated despite its wit and good humour. Allow me absolutely to agree:- "This is not just about nostalgia for chintzy objects that might be regarded as a German version of "camp". It is also about a growing disenchantment with the new capit