On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Nathan Newman wrote:
The revolutionary part of Teledesic's approach is that
traditional stationary satellites are so high up that delays
in transmission make them less useful for high-bandwidth
transmission like the Internet,
This is not correct. It is not that they
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
Look, Doug. Let's cut the shit. You and I have nothing to talk about. You
are writing "critiques" of the Marxist left for the same rightwing
libertarian cult that publishes Ron Arnold, leader of the wise-use
movement. This is the same Ron Arnold that
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Peter Dorman wrote:
One obvious thought: the ISP (all Yugo ISPs?) is without power.
Peter
It'd be just as hard to bounce the mail w/o power as it would be to
deliver it, doncha think?
That "550 user unknown" is coming the sendmail on the machine that is
trying to
On Thu, 3 Jan 1980, Sam Pawlett wrote:
What is Larouche up to these days?
The Queen mother still the Queen pin of the world cocaine trade?
Last I heard he was still in the federal pen for tax evasion, bank and
credit card fraud. In 1992, during the prez. election, he ran these
goofy ads on
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, valis wrote:
I thought it was wonderful when a Gulf War vet blew up that G-building
(though he could have proven the same point on a Sunday, when his victims
were in church praying for extended American hegemony and other heavenly
signs). McVeigh taught the big boys
What bullshit. I first saw this a year or two ago and the joke was to
type in "I'd like Bill Gates to die". If you type in "I'd like Joe
Noonan to die", you get the same result. Isn't there enough racism to
combat without manufacturing it?
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Louis Proyect wrote:
(This
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
American Airlines is a major sponsor to and supporter of groups like:
GLADD, the Human Rights Campaign, the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund,
the AIDS Action Foundation, DIFFA, AmFAR, and scores of
community-based groups representing gays and lesbians.
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Michael Perelman wrote:
We discussed this on pen-l some time ago. There is a literature on the
subject beginning with Littlefield, Henry. reprinted in 1983. "The Wizard
of Oz: Parable on Populism." in Michael Patrick Hearn, ed. The Wizard of
Oz (New York: Schocken
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Sam Pawlett wrote:
Hitchens has a book on tyeh Elgin marbles doesn't he?
SP
Yes he has. It is mentioned in the LF article which, coincidently, I
just finished reading at lunch. It was re-issued by Verso in 1997.
Louis Proyect wrote:
This discussion about
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Sam Pawlett wrote:
Blade Runner! Galactic! The flame that burns twice as bright lasts half as long.
The original or the directors cut? I think the directors cut makes the fact that
Harrison Ford was an android more transparent.I don't think the dystopia of
Bladerunner
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is not age, Doug. It is power, the ultimate aphrodisiac as our
fearless leader can attest.
A few months ago, I was talking with a group of folks about Clinton and his
scandal, when one of the women there, who's not
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, valis wrote:
Quoth Barkley Rosser:
Hey! As someone who spends parts of his summers in
Mad City, Wisconsin where the venerable (or should that be
"venereal") _Onion_ is published, and has been reading
since well before its recent internet fame, I gotta say
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
that sounds like Robert Barsky's style ???
Who's Robert Barsky? The only one I know is an English Prof that
wrote a bio of Chomsky.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Michael Perelman wrote:
Now that the Democrats have managed to slide by without too much
damage from Clintons follies, I should remind you about a wonderful
new book from Michael Meerpol, Surrender: How the Clinton
Administration completed the Reagan Revolution.
I am
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Max Sawicky wrote:
Funny thing is, class seemed to play more in some
of the Southern Dem victories, and in some so-called
'right-wing' democratic campaigns. The model is
the outgoing Georgia governor Zell Miller, who
was 'tough on crime' but used lottery proceeds
to
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Max Sawicky wrote:
I would put a much more benign construction on these
two cases, namely that somewhere inside the Southern
white working class, Bible-thumper or otherwise, is a
constituency susceptible to left economic populism, and
the emergence of such a tendency
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
valis wrote:
No, I hadn't, but thanx, though I still don't understand how the UAW and
the grad unions can even relate as being in the same fight.
The UAW wants to organize "knowledge workers." That's why they absorbed the
National Writers Union,
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, valis wrote:
If you're NSA, suddenly buy a house for cash and show up at the office
in a Bentley, the Feds will examine lots more than just your tax returns.
You give them entirely too much credit. They never that noticed
Aldrich Ames was living in a $500,000 house on
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Picciotto, Sol wrote:
According to the Financial Times, the Nobel prize fund has been
badly hit by the plunging markets, so there may not be enough cash
in the pot to hand out. Maybe they should have a moratorium on the
Economics prize this year, as its previous winners
On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, James Michael Craven wrote:
How to Confront Holocaust Deniers
3) Do not discuss only the Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust
Unless you're trying to open a Holocaust museum in New York, in which
case you'd better not mention anybody but Jews and certainly not
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Max Sawicky wrote:
Make that 512 by 4 pm, when the markets closed.
Ah, 512, 2^9. As a reformed assembly language programmer, I always
have a warm spot in my heart for powers of 2.
MBS
--
Joseph Noonan
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If the government doesn't like
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, James Devine wrote:
I also hope that no-one defends nose-picking (an activity that is blocked
by nose-rings, I believe).
What are those of us without cell phones supposed to do on the freeway
then?
in nasal solidarity,
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, James Devine wrote:
My impression, based on a
woefully inadequate knowledge of anthropology and sociology, is that
teenage rebellion is a relatively new phenomenon, or rather that teenage
rebellion used to be channelled in other ways.
My also woefully deficient
On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, James Michael Craven wrote:
Who and what are "Sell-out Indians" is a subject for Indians not
non-Indians.
Hmm. Then may I suggest that you refrain from using the term on list
populated with mostly non-Indians? It doesn't seem terribly useful to
throw around words
On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
Stephen Jay Gould is presently engaged in an intellectual battle
against what he calls "Darwinian fundamentalism". This is not the
socio-biology of the mid-70s led by E.O.Wilson. It is a much
stronger, influential movement, which uses the
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, James Devine wrote:
As pen-l people know, the US Helms-Burton act (the subject of a possible
treaty between the US and other rich contries) punishes those businesses
that invest in properties "illegally expropriated" from US citizens. If
this act actually is put into
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Barnet Wagman wrote:
Is it possible - without a lot of work - to remove the [PEN-L:xxx] prefix from the
subject line?
The prefix (actually just the message number) screws up Netscape's threading,
which
makes reading a series of related comments much less convenient.
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Mark Jones wrote:
Which edition of the Larousse are you looking at?
Mark
Paul Zarembka wrote:
Mark Jones, If you are calling Jerry Levy "Un Ouanquere" (a word which
does not happen to rise to the level of being in my Larousse French
dictionary),
Never mind
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
CNBC just ran a rather fevered but short report about May Day worker
"riots" in Europe and elsewhere. What's going on?
Doug
According to the BBC report I heard at 8:00 this morning there were
riots in Liepzig when 6000 "leftists" went to
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, valis wrote:
Michael Eisenscher recalled, in part:
its own sewage treatment plant to convert waste into organic fertilizer with
the trade name Milorganite (I think that was it), which it sold to Wisconsin
farmers. I may have some details wrong since it's been quite
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote:
Milwaukee's socialist Mayor was Frank Zeidler in the
1950s (amazing given that Joe McCarthy was a Senator from
the same state at the same time). Last I heard, Mr.
Zeidler was still alive and kicking, although quite aged.
He was
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, James Devine wrote:
Does the US currently have stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons,
as far as anyone knows?
Chemical, definitely. Including a bunch that they are slowly trying
to destroy and are a major hazard just sitting there. Biological, I
think, are
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, James Devine wrote:
does anyone know Tom Michl's e-mail address? It can't be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (what I had in my records), since as far as I know,
bitnet was phased out.
thanks ahead of time.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know if this is good, bad, or indifferent? Has she
commented on the push to change the CPI?
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Can somebody give me a quick (online) reference to some stuff about
the privatization of Social Security in Chile? I know I've got some
stuff at home, but I want to reply to a query I got elsewhere now.
Thanks.
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Joseph Noonan
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On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Ellen R Shaffer wrote:
By the way, on the issue of putting the strike to a vote: has UPS asked
its shareholders what they think? Do institutional investors still exist
out there?
On this point I am curious. Who are UPS's shareholders? I've read
more than once
On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, William S. Lear wrote:
On Wed, August 6, 1997 at 22:45:28 (-0700) Michael Eisenscher writes:
Houston Police Announce "Zero Tolerance" for Management-Driven UPS Trucks
Houston police officers, members of the Houston Police Patrolmen's Union,
announced today that they
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you read all of Young's comments, he never addresses the core of the
issue--the wages paid do not purchase any reasonable standard of living.
maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I heard a brief interview with him on NPR's _Morning Edition_ last
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