Re: Re: Sokal (verb)

2002-07-25 Thread W. Kiernan
Doug Henwood wrote: Sokal has now joined with ex-Social Text'er Bruce Robbins in a campaign to get American Jews to sign a petition critical of Israeli policy. Times change No change, Sokal certainly was along side Social Text all along, he must have loved those guys in the first place

Re: question about SirCam virus

2001-08-07 Thread W. Kiernan
Michael Perelman wrote: Can anyone tell me why I get the messages from this virus from people that I do not know at all? I read somewhere that sircam not only gets target email addresses from the infected PC's Outlook address book but also from parsing web pages left in that PCs browser

Re: Re: Re: Re: KRUGMAN WATCH: foreign take-overs foreign aid

2000-07-24 Thread W. Kiernan
Doug Henwood wrote: Hmmm, well how do you feel about Sam Goldwyn's "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."? Not half so suggestive and obscure as Yogi's "observe by watching" but just straightforward and literal: "No one" in my elite crowd "goes there anymore. It's too crowded." with

Re: Capital is wrong

2000-03-11 Thread W. Kiernan
George Pennefather wrote: To say that the "wealth of those societies presents itself as an immense accumulation of commodities" is not true. Much of the wealth is in the form of industrial capital which is not capital in the form of the commodity. This mistaken premise renders the validity

Re: Re: Programmatic questions on socialism andfascism (was 'thoughts on Haider')

2000-02-06 Thread W. Kiernan
Chris Burford wrote: A government has come to power in Austria in which already 10% of the workers and their families are deprived of the vote, for racial reasons. Please forgive my ignorance, but how does that work? Does Austria impose racial limitations on immigration? (There's

[PEN-L:9701] Re: Re: Re: Re: Bill McKibben

1999-07-29 Thread W. Kiernan
frances bolton wrote: Lou writes: Rod Hay wrote: Other than calling each other idiots, I can't figure out what this debate is about. It is about the relevance of Marxism to precapitalist societies. Wasn't it about the relevance, not of Marxism, but of technology, specifically

[PEN-L:9677] More cyberspace clutter (was: Re: Re: Re: Virus warning)

1999-07-27 Thread W. Kiernan
Louis Proyect wrote: At 05:00 PM 7/27/99 -0700, you wrote: When I recevied this two days ago, I went to McAfee.com, a premier virus protection software manufacturer, to check on it. At that time there was NO listing, advisory, or warning about this so-called virus. Before you

[PEN-L:9434] Re: RE: Re: Shades of Summers

1999-07-21 Thread W. Kiernan
Max Sawicky wrote: ...In the U.S., if we universalized a system where health care was "free," we would see greater increases in the share of GDP devoted to health care. If that were so our non-free health care would be less expensive, per capita, than the free health care vended out by

[PEN-L:5858] Re: Re: Re: Race, Gender, and Guns (was Re: Re: Re: Highschool)

1999-04-23 Thread W. Kiernan
S Pawlett wrote: W. Kiernan wrote: As far as I can see, those two typified or exemplified nothing outside the classic textbook symptom list of paranoia. I see. Time for a little schizo bashing. Why not? They can't defend themselves, in fact they usually can't even understand what

[PEN-L:5811] Re: Race, Gender, and Guns (was Re: Re: Re: High school)

1999-04-22 Thread W. Kiernan
Hello PEN-L! Naturally everyone is sorry about the innocent victims, and horrified, disgusted, repelled by what those two poor miserable psycho bastards Harris and Klebold did. But they're not alive any more for us to hate; fear and rage ate their minds, they went mad and now they're dead. So