function of God is precisely to stand as other to all the
common parts of speech and thus to remind us of the incompleteness, the
inadequacy of any conceivable utterance. God is the unique grammatical term
for the ultimate unutterableness of being.
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. That too is inherent in the
limitation of language. Tower of Babel and all that.
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Jim Devine wrote,
As far as I can tell, there's no logical argument either for or against the
existence of god.
I agree absolutely there's no logical argument for or against. My own
position is based entirely and radically on grammar.
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and policy makers in both friendly and
unfriendly countries, military officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html?todaysheadlines
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Clairtone, BCCI, Bre-X, Barrick, Enron, GenesisIntermedia . . .
On second thought, don't connect the dots. You don't want to know. And don't
ask me. I never heard of any of them.
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their regrets.
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What Poindexter is up to.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0917/news-genoa-09-17-01.asp
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here's the latest on the John Firewall Poindexter caper:
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0218/web-darpa-02-18-02.asp
Feb 18, 2002, DARPA spokeswoman confirms appointment.
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private information vendors and public libraries soon followed. At
the same time, a wide range of other activities by the federal government
further
threatened to restrict access to information.
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The Information Awareness Office (IAO) develops and demonstrates information
technologies and systems to counter asymmetric threats by achieving total
information awareness useful for preemption, national security warning and
national security decision-making.
http://www.darpa.mil/iao/
Tom
, but the grave the
bonded drapers' hall and ware house.
- Johann Christoph Männling, Theatre of Death, or funeral orations, 1692.
Used by Walter Benjamin as a motto to his section on allegory and
trauerspiel in Origin of German Tragic Drama (Ursprung des deutschen
Trauerspiels) .
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Stavridou, a
Darpa contractor and director of the Systems Laboratory at SRI International
in Menlo Park, Calif.
John is very well respected technically, she said. He understands these
issues, and that makes him extremely valuable.
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THE JUDGES FROM Russia, China, Poland and Ukraine represent an axis of
cheaters, Mr. Bush said to a standing ovation in a special joint session
Shouldn't that be the *axles* of evil?
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of
the IMF, leading to the conclusion that we need to do away with
capitalism. At this point the audience broke out into spontaneous
applause.
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thousand and one adults pulls in some stirring narrative possibilities
regarding sex, death and suspense.
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Doug Henwood wrote,
Just this morning, CNBC had a Chicago stock futures trader on who
said that Enron was big news a few weeks ago, but now we've moved
beyond that.
That's because Enron is an allegory traders think in symbols.
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the total. As Max pointed out, the recent
surge in 4th quarter GDP was in real terms, after adjusting for price
deflation. That number included car sales bloated by 0% interest rates.
Lies, damned lies and audited financial statements.
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little different from recession. But there's not much point in
ignoring the evidence.
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Oncu wrote,
By the way, I am saying these as a scientist, not as some leftist
who wants revenge!...
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of peanuts.
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NYTimes Quote of the day:
The reason I got involved is that Andersen is in big trouble
and they were looking for someone to sprinkle some holy
water on them.
-PAUL A. VOLCKER JR.
The articulate, mocking genius of capitalism strikes again.
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* at the end of the recession tunnel.
*Hint: Chainsaw Al, rebates, Arthur
Andersen
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,but the price level went down more (3/10's%). We'rein
a deflationary recovery. Will wonders never cease.
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Yahoo market overview:
"Fears of accounting irregularities ruled the day today."
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decreased regulationand the defeat of labor. Enron and the dot.com
bubble makes me think morein terms of fraud. Any thoughts on
this?
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. . . And the New Thinking About
Money Is That Your IrrationalityIs PredictableBy Steven
PearlsteinWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, January 27, 2002; Page
H01
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Would you agree that those limits are at least a
contributing factor to the bursting of bubbles and the unravelling of
Enrons?
Jim Devine wrote,
it seems to me that it's quite possible that the
measured rate of profithas been high due to accounting tricks and the
like. But there
demise has discredited a vicious market ideology and givena boost to
the anti-corporate causeMadeleine BuntingMonday
January 28, 2002The GuardianIt's hard to overstate
the enormity of the impact of Enron'simplosion.
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t;forget about Enron, forget about John
Walker Lindh, let's hear more about this 'eyes-glazing-over-factor'
thingy."
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program
for use by unions in collective bargaining.
It would also help immensely if people would pay a bit more attention
themodest heap o'work that has already been done on the issue, like
Anders Hayden's Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet andAndre Gorz's
Critique of Economic Reason.
Tom
The genius of capitalism personified,
Kenny-boy,joins the sandwich parade:
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/genius.htm
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quot;Nehme jede Arbeit an!", which translates as any work accepted.
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Gene Coyle wrote,
We should take umbrage at anything over
3.0.
I take umbrage where ever I can findit.
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to our advantage. I would say
the time toraise the Time issue is when the economy is in what is
ordinarilythought of as good shape.
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with
a plane-load of fresh-faced nurses. I suspect it might all be part of the bigger
plan to 'integrate' Canada into the U.S. health maintenance industry. See also
the press release below.
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Michael Perelman wrote,
The nurses do not exist in those numbers. He is
grandstanding -- unless
Here's the Nehme jede ARBEIT an
montage:
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/genius.htm
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Colin Powell
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nelson Mandela
Eduard Shevardnadze
Alan Greenspan
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Whoops! I hope no one confuses my signature line as
being part of the list included in my previous message. I am not now, nor have I
ever been a recipient of the Enron prize.
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agencies, investment bankers, lawyers and accounting
standard-setters -- who operate and regulate our financial markets. The
confidence of individual investors depends on honest, independent gatekeepers.
Sadly, the collapse of Enron shows this system urgently needs
reform.
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Gene Coyle wrote,
In my dreams I imagine that an alert CBS journalist immediately asked
Lieberman "Just how DO you want capitalism to be?" And in my
nightmares I can hear his answer.
Wouldn't that just be where the Enronsgive
70% of their campaign contributions to the Demos? Or am I
uot;? Presumably Ms.
Collums was thinking of fresh air and "windows of opportunity". The image that
comes to my mind, though, is of people jumping out the windows of a burning
high-rise.
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. To wina $20 million broadband services contract
from Rice University inHouston, for example, Enron donated $5 million to the
school, and KenLay's personal foundation kicked in another $3 million.
Unreported wasthe fact that Rice dropped the contract soon after.
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changed his politics, going from being an associate of Trotsky to being
an editor of William F. Buckley's Joe McCarthyite NATIONAL
REVIEW.
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ne is held in the grip of the 'argument from
design.'"
Perhaps, we could say O'Neill was trying
tocover his ass by pointing the finger atan invisible hand. Or is
that perhaps taking the notion of being 'in the grip of a picture' too
graphically?
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ke
things work; it is what Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction," i.e.
the ability to drive out firms that cannot compete.
The genius of capitalism is that it allows people to oppress themselves
Although the genius of capitalism is indeed production, the genius of
socialism is indeed distribution.
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ng; asset-hiding; insider stock-dumping all these were
supposedly beyond the ken of an audit committee and legal counsel blindly
reliant on the ethics and standards of "professional" accountants."
. . .
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harnesses it to
generate change in society.
I would cheerfully argue that the genius of
capitalism is that everything is tried and sometimes businesses get lucky
and in effect roll 20 straight passes.
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damage control. But it also seems to me that
the stakes are too high for damage control to be blithely accepted by all the
players. According to the background piece inan NYT story on Enron, Lay
originally was thinkingof the name "Enteron" until someone told him it
meant intestines.
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ischarge because of his
rareadaptability of tact and skill. He is a bright and patriotic American in
theprime of young manhood, frank, courageous, generous. a man who convinces
youis thinking well of what he says and is never careless as to the
impressionhe would convey. The judgment of such a man is entitled to
respect."
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Carrol Cox asked:
How do the controllers of a mutual insurance company
make their money.
I would imagine they worked extemely long hours and
saved every penny they earned. Isn't that how everybody does it?
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Deliberate or unconscious humour?
http://www.ezwrite.com/Store/itemdetail.asp?IDNO=116
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ingle, coherent
theory the neoclassical synthesis, as it was called that would dominate
economic discourse for some three decades."
Didn't they leave out a purportedly or
two?
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rank,
not of absolute level of costs. All the percentile rankings tell is that
production costs are lower in Hungary than in Japan. There's no way to tell from
a percentile ranking what the ratio of production costs are. They could as
easily be 99:100 as 1:100.
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downturn
the industry has suffered since the terrorist attacks.
Mr. Ritchie said Air Canada and the unions will meet with Ms. Stewart's
deputy minister today to lay the groundwork to pitch the proposal.
Tom Walker
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Is there any way to confirm that Woody Allen said that? It's great. I also
maintain that Oedipus Rex tells us a lot more about politics than the New
York Times.
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No note was included.
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.
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The IMF chief economist, Kenneth Rogoff, initially said a recession in the
America was a 'done deal.'
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my
feelings.
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. The obvious model would be
the relationship between the Czar's secret police and terrorist
organizations in Russia in the late 19th century and early 20th.
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about traffic safety
enforcement. What's wrong with that person going to the ICU after a major,
avoidable freeway crash and saying this didn't have to happen. Do you have
to call that gloating?
Tom Walker
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.
What really happens when you shift risks is that the vulnerabilities appear
elsewhere.
Tom Walker
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of principles is code for dogma. It is the same old dogma that
drove us off the cliff. It's time for something different. Sorry if Doug
thinks that saying so is gloating.
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, (they) speculated, cashed out and pocketed
the difference, a U.S. investigator said. It was not an accident.
Tom Walker
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The patriotic rally following Bush's speech doesn't appear to be
materializing. European markets slid 7%. NASDAQ gapped down nearly 6% at the
opening. SP down 4%. Investors seem to be shouting (with their money),
Hell no, we won't go!
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EMH? LPT?
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and unproductive.
Shopping is productive labor. Watching TV is unproductive.
Tom Walker
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Rob Schaap wrote,
The politics of floating signifiers, for mine.
dem bones is fossils.
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of the victims were consulted at Rome three hundred
years after Cicero had remarked, that the two augurs could no longer examine
them without laughter. -- J.B. Say
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the city was burning, Nero had
gone on his private stage and, comparing modern calamities with ancient, had
sung of the destruction of Troy.
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(the soft landing?)
and put more money (a lot) into high speed rail for medium distance travel.
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, this
construction worker said, that on at least two occasions during the day, I
turned around and happened to see men in business suits with color patches
in their lapels-the color was the same on both men, and they were shouting
orders to the workers.
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.
Tom Walker
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Small Planet Fact (from the back of a falafel mix box):
The grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock could feed more than ONE
BILLION human beings. [italic emphasis in original]
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to
promote an end which was no part of his intention.
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Michael Perelman wrote:
Can you imagine an unemployed worker asking for a bailout?
Asking, sure. Getting is another matter. Isn't that why it's called
capitalism and not unemployed workerism?
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``continued to ease'' in most parts of the
country and wage pressures softened.
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Yoshie:
Give peas a chance!
Don't you mean chick peas a chance?
Tom Walker
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Max wrote,
Airline bailout is a done deal.
Other industries -- tourism, for
instance, are starting to line up.
This time around there won't be any left for the hedgies. Maybe that
explains why they're intent on maintaining investment discipline.
Tom Walker
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Ian Murray asked,
Any guesses as to what will happen when the Fed pulls all the
liquidity back out of the markets?
Ever try to pour steam into a bottle?
Tom Walker
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It is. . .only a modest move but at this
point any kind of uptick is
encouraging.
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Ken Hanly asked:
Will some websites be shut down?
Enjoy it while you can, Ken. I'm surprised the free-for-all has been allowed
to go on as long as it has. Maybe counter-intelligence still has some unused
disk space to write to.
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.
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of depletion advancing at a fast rate,
and it is also an indicator that the Saudi's may have been forcing the pace
of production in order to keep world oil prices low, because the plain fact
is that the balance between global supply and demand has been very tight.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
=
I want him I want justice. And there's an old poster out
West, as I recall that said: 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.'
-PRESIDENT BUSH.
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that it was patriotic to be bullish.
-
Wall Street Reopens; Stocks Slide, but Do Not Crash
Stock prices plummeted seconds after the opening bell but
never succumbed to the frenzied selling that government and
business leaders had worked hard to avoid.
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it.
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international banks and on news
that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban was threatening a holy war against the United
States.
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discount rate to one-tenth of one percent. Exchange controls, anyone?
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large number of people in Birkenstocks milling
around their brokers' offices Tues.
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soft landing for the economy
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for reality. In that case we are in big trouble --
militarily, economically and socially.
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last week.
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are weighted mainly toward conditions that may
generate economic weakness.
In taking the discount rate action, the Federal Reserve Board
approved requests submitted by the Boards of Directors of the Federal
Reserve Banks of Richmond, Chicago, Minneapolis, Dallas, and San
Francisco.
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under that
country's Prevention of Terrorism Act, but later released so they
could be monitored, the paper reported.
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and hubris of the ruling class. Read about it in Oedipus Rex. But
the first dupes of THAT conspiracy are the rulers themselves. If Dubya
murdered his dad and is sleeping with his mom, he'd be the last to know.
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soon be grass in a Western glasnost, if you'll pardon the alliteration.
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doesn't need to be chanted. That
logic is: no justice, no war.
Quid pro quo.
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Jim Devine wrote,
I wonder if the Bushwackers will try to pull off their sweeping,
sustained, and effective war against terrorism with a large reserve army
of labor and the current degree of inequality of sacrifice.
Hard for me to imagine anyone that stupid.
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604
going on. Kiosks don't allow for that.
The only human
interaction a passenger without baggage has is with the gate agent, and the
gate agent is usually too
rushed to pay attention to who you are.
An increased security role for CSSA's is also increased job security. It's
also common sense.
Tom
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