reviewing books

1997-12-24 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug has condemned Gillott and Kumar's book without reading it or even seeing a copy. If what is good for the goose is good for the gander, then Doug should not object to others who have not read _Wall Street_ from condemning it sight unseen. Perhaps Doug will now admit that his "review" of

Re: reviewing books

1997-12-24 Thread Doug Henwood
Gerald Levy wrote: Doug has condemned Gillott and Kumar's book without reading it or even seeing a copy. If what is good for the goose is good for the gander, then Doug should not object to others who have not read _Wall Street_ from condemning it sight unseen. Perhaps Doug will now admit that

Re: Native American land rights

1997-12-24 Thread Thomas Kruse
Ajit: I goofed on the citation. It should be: Henderson, John and Patricia Netherly. _Configurations of Power: Holisitic Anthropology in Theory and Practice_. Ithaca: Cornell U Press, 1993. Lechtman is the author of the article "Technologies of Power: The Andean Case" which appears in the

Re: Native American land rights

1997-12-24 Thread Doug Henwood
James Heartfield wrote: Ralph Waldo Emerson joked that he never read a book before reviewing it, in case it prejudiced him. Why don't you read Science and the Retreat from Reason before you close your mind to it. Oh that Emerson! He also said he read Shakespeare's plays backwards, so that the

Re: UnDemocracy threat to Canada? (fwd)

1997-12-24 Thread Sid Shniad
December 21, 1997 The Toronto Star IMF warns money crisis will spread Forecast shows global economic slowdown in 1998 WASHINGTON (CP) - The financial firestorm raging through Asia will

RE: FWD: MAI again. Question for Max. (fwd)

1997-12-24 Thread Sid Shniad
Subject: RE: FWD: MAI again. Question for Max. well, that's all up to us, isn't it? it's true that the senate is traditionally more pro-"free trade" than the house. on the other hand, as a treaty they will need a supermajority. on the other hand, the senate is way more pro-"free trade"

Re: Analyzing technologies

1997-12-24 Thread Michael Perelman
The fear of Ceasar Chavez led to the invention of the tomato harvester. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gunmen Kill 45 Indians in Mountain Hamlet

1997-12-24 Thread Robert Naiman
file under: pogroms. it appears that a serious investigation would show complicity of the state govt - New York Times December 24, 1997 Gunmen Kill 45 Indians in Mountain Hamlet By JULIA PRESTON MEXICO CITY -- A band of gunmen charged into a southern mountain hamlet on Monday spraying

Re: Analyzing technologies

1997-12-24 Thread Michael Eisenscher
Michael, Interesting point. Is this an off-hand opinion or supported by some evidence? Reason I ask is that I am not aware of any efforts by UFW in the period of the development of mechanical harvesters to target tomato pickers for organization, and given that these machines, as I recall, were

WSJ story on Teamsters fight

1997-12-24 Thread Sid Shniad
I have a favour to ask: can someone with access to the Wall Street Journal site get the story headlined "Hoffa Operative Used 'Moles", False Identity To Probe Teamster Foe"? It ran on the front page on Tuesday, December 23. The story describes how Richard Leebove, onetime Larouchite and more

BLS Daily Report

1997-12-24 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1997: New orders for manufactured durable goods jumped 4.8 percent to $195 billion in November, with heightened demand for transportation equipment leading the advance, the Commerce Department reports. When transportation equipment is removed from the

Re: DOLLARS * SENSE BOOKS, EXHIBIT BOOTH

1997-12-24 Thread Dollars and Sense
Robiinn, I'm glad you think you can use the environmental reader. If you need it sooner than when Jesse gets back. I can mail it, and the other books. Let me know. By the way, if you get the January magazine, you will see that your situation did not get into my article on "How People Spend their

Re: From NAFTA to Chenalho

1997-12-24 Thread Harry M. Cleaver
yOn Wed, 24 Dec 1997, Tom Walker wrote: What do we know about the massacre in Chenalho and when did we know it? We know a great deal about it. There are dozens of messages posted since the story first broke. Visit the Chiapas95 archives and look in the file called "current". This kind of

ENVIRONMENT READER (DOLLARS SENSE)

1997-12-24 Thread Dollars and Sense
THE ENVIRONMENT IN CRISIS CHAPTER 1: THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT PAGE 1. Is the U.S. Making Progress? Unlike the GDP, a New Measure Says 'No'2 2. Air Pollution, Past and Present 8 CHAPTER 2: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES Global Warming: How

Update on Mexican Massacre

1997-12-24 Thread Michael Eisenscher
World Leaders Condemn Bloody Mexican Massacre 04:58 p.m Dec 24, 1997 Eastern By Caroline Brothers ACTEAL, Mexico (Reuters) - The massacre of 45 refugees in southern Mexico sparked world outrage Wednesday as a rebel leader blamed the government and the United Nations condemned the five-hour

Re: Analyzing technologies

1997-12-24 Thread michael
The books is Class Struggles in the Information Age (Macmillan). The galley's are now being prepared. Thanks for your interest. Michael, I know that there is often a hesitancy to engage in self promotion via email. But I think it would be very useful and desirable if you'd post the

Re: Analyzing technologies

1997-12-24 Thread michael
Scully was only one of a number of marketing types that came into the computer business. A good number came from the soft drink industry, beginning with the fellow who ran Osborne. None of these suits ever learnt to master the computer industry. They could understand sugar water better than

Dilbert revisited

1997-12-24 Thread James Devine
coming back to the gigantic and crucial theoretical debate that held pen-l by the throat recently (until comrade Sawicki pointed out the correct path to us all), I bought a copy of THE DILBERT FUTURE: THRIVING ON STUPIDITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY (50 per cent off at BookStar). Scott Adams writes:

From NAFTA to Chenalho

1997-12-24 Thread Tom Walker
What do we know about the massacre in Chenalho and when did we know it? Regards, Tom Walker ^^^ Know Ware Communications Vancouver, B.C., CANADA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 688-8296

Re: good jobs

1997-12-24 Thread anzalone/starbird
Once you quantify what you consider a "good" job then you can check with the Employment Development Dept. to see how many exist. They keep such statistics available in their computer base. Don't forget that many folks consider lack of supervision a better quality in a job than "conceptualization

Han Young: More Bad Signs (fwd)

1997-12-24 Thread Michael Eisenscher
-- Forwarded message -- Date: 24 Dec 1997 07:50:21 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Recipients of conference [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Han Young: More Bad Signs /* Written 7:43 AM Dec 24, 1997 by clr3 in igc:labr.announcem */ /* -- "Han Young: More Bad Signs" -- */

Microsoft trickery (fwd)

1997-12-24 Thread Sid Shniad
Subject: Microsoft trickery Computer underground DigestSun Dec 21, 1997 Volume 9 : Issue 92 ISSN 1004-042X [...] Cu Digest Homepage: http://www.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest [...] Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 21:05:37 -0800 (PST) From: "T.L. Kelly"

Re: Analyzing technologies

1997-12-24 Thread Sid Shniad
Michael, I know that there is often a hesitancy to engage in self promotion via email. But I think it would be very useful and desirable if you'd post the details on your new book when it's published so that the rest of us can get a copy. Cheers, Sid Shniad

(Eng) 43 MASSACRED IN CHENALHO (fwd)

1997-12-24 Thread Sid Shniad
From: "NUEVO AMANECER PRESS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "NAP-E6"[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 11:46:26 + Subject: (Eng) 43 MASSACRED IN CHENALHO NUEVO AMANECER PRESS - EUROPA Darrin Wood, Director. [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Tuesday December 23

Re: Analyzing technologies

1997-12-24 Thread Michael Eisenscher
At 05:31 PM 12/24/97 +1100, Ajit Sinha wrote: At 11:51 23/12/97 -0800, Mike E. wrote: While what you say here is true, my understanding is that the primary motivation for the development of new varieties of tomatoes at the UC-Davis Agricultural School was the need for a variety that would be

Re: DOLLARS * SENSE BOOKS, EXHIBIT BOOTH

1997-12-24 Thread Robin Hahnel
Hi Marc. I'll ask Jesse to mail me a copy of the environmental reader, the macro reader, and the progressive reader when he gets back to Boston. I'll give him a check and tell him to fill in the right amount. I'm pretty sure I can use the environmental reader in my environmental economics course

Re: Analyzing technologies

1997-12-24 Thread valis
Michael Perelman wrote, in conclusion: With the transformation of images and voice, as well as data, to digital form, alongside the more general commodification of cultural life, the distinction between data proper and, say, a movie, becomes blurred within the

Re: Native American land rights

1997-12-24 Thread Ajit Sinha
At 12:57 23/12/97 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: Absolutely, couldn't agree more - so I hope whoever's writing up the agenda hears this! As amusing as Sokal's hoax on Social Text was, its long-term effect has been negligible or even malignant, because it didn't do anything (and may have detracted

Re: Native American land rights

1997-12-24 Thread Ajit Sinha
At 08:40 23/12/97 -0400, Tom K. wrote: There is a healthy antidote to this in the literature spawned by Murra in anthropology. See the wonderful collectinon of essays called the _Technologies of Power_ (despite the title, it is not a Foucauldian inspired collection) edited, I believe, by

Re: Analyzing technologies

1997-12-24 Thread Ajit Sinha
At 11:51 23/12/97 -0800, Mike E. wrote: While what you say here is true, my understanding is that the primary motivation for the development of new varieties of tomatoes at the UC-Davis Agricultural School was the need for a variety that would be tough enough to hold up to harvesting by