[PEN-L:6855] Re: puzzle

1996-10-22 Thread Tom Walker
are optimal. I would politely explain to the person who handed me the exam that I am not enrolled in any economics course and therefore am not constrained to use neo-classical categories even if I do choose to explain the dilemma. Otherwise known as the gordian knot solution. Regards, Tom Walker

[PEN-L:6876] Re: rising rate of profit?

1996-10-24 Thread Tom Walker
s tendency (including lengthening the working day and introducing new technology) and how that ultimately reinforces the tendency. There's a world of difference between a tendency and a trend. Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:6916] Canada: Me and Barbara Amiel

1996-10-25 Thread Tom Walker
f job seekers. Me and Barbara Amiel Freedom's just another word for nothing left to loose nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free Feeling good was easy, Lord, when Barbara sang the blues Feeling good was good enough for me Good enough for me and Barbara Amiel... Regards, Tom Walker, [EM

[PEN-L:6917] Canada: the discipline of the marketplace

1996-10-25 Thread Tom Walker
d and would have the contributor's name on them. People might even stop regarding these taxes as taxes, since they would clearly increase people's net worth. If you agree to all this, maybe you'll get me to endorse your plan. Cheers, Bill Watson Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:6923] Re: I'm afraid to say this...

1996-10-25 Thread Tom Walker
ching and arrival, new sorting systems now in use will still be indispensible." From Life Magazine, November 11, 1957: "Tomorrow's Life Today: Man's everyday world" Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:6963] re: Krugman

1996-10-28 Thread Tom Walker
equally ignorant or without credentials, however, who advance positions of which he approves don't get the same treatment. Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:6967] Re: AI unionbuster?

1996-10-28 Thread Tom Walker
of the state. This is not to say that there are no 'proper limits' to a politics of free time, either. On the contrary, proper limits are what may make free time a *politics* rather than an beguiling, empty slogan. Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http

[PEN-L:6982] Payroll Tax Ceilings, Employment, and Work Hours (fwd)

1996-10-28 Thread Tom Walker
I am forwarding Jon Kesselman's response to my column on payroll taxes and work hours that I sent to Pen-l a few days ago. Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:44:31 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Walker) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Kesselman) Subject: Payroll Tax Ceilings, Employment, and Work Hours

[PEN-L:7000] Politics of free time (reply to Max Sawicky)

1996-10-29 Thread Tom Walker
the organization of the labour process (flexible manufacture, contingent workforces, etc.) strive toward a unique combination of absolute and relative surplus value. So the length of the working day is not simply an important issue, it is the central issue for a progressive politics. Regards, Tom W

[PEN-L:7062] Re: anti-intellectualism against and in the left

1996-10-31 Thread Tom Walker
many cases, are the enshrinement of some pretty silly imaginings and mental errors. It can also be intoxicating. The tower of post-modern babble probably owes as much to this intoxication as it does to tenure envy and post-tenure anxiety. "All that is solid melts into air..." Regards,

[PEN-L:7081] re: A Pomo (re)quest

1996-10-31 Thread Tom Walker
anything I could get a handle on. "Seemless prose." And I've read and understood a good chunk of Derrida's other writing. So, Steve, tell us: what's the story? What's it about? Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:7087] re: A Pomo (re)quest

1996-10-31 Thread Tom Walker
I don't know, Jerry. I think 'intellectuals' has too many many syllables. Maybe we should try flowers. Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:7099] re: A Pomo (re)quest

1996-11-01 Thread Tom Walker
Doug Henwood summarized Capital for a 30 second soundbite: Took me 24 seconds in my radio mode. Bravo! Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:7102] Re: post-modern wars

1996-11-01 Thread Tom Walker
crack, by itself, doesn't carry any water at all. I have a surprise. I think postmodernism makes a worthwhile contribution to analysis of political and economic issues and it makes this contribution best when it doesn't bother to flamboyantly announce and tediously insist upon its supposed postmode

[PEN-L:7105] Re: nattering nabob

1996-11-01 Thread Tom Walker
, I would do just that. Failing that, what is wrong with the simple request that an author (or the publisher) provide some clue as to what a book is 'about'? Otherwise, I'm buying a pig in a poke. Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware

[PEN-L:7111] To citizens La Chatre, Henwood, and Walker --

1996-11-01 Thread Tom Walker
Well, I guess that settles it. Marx was infallible. ;-) Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:7110] re: A Pomo (re)quest

1996-11-01 Thread Tom Walker
a complex body of ideas into a short soundbite", others with less understanding (and perhaps less sympathetic motives) will. Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:7139] Re: 15 minutes of Derrida's Specters

1996-11-02 Thread Tom Walker
_both_ the material conditions of cultural production and the internal tendencies of the "work of art" itself. And this brings us back to Walter Benjamin, who in my estimation continues to have something to say to contemporary political conditions in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- his philoso

[PEN-L:7140] Re: PoMoTown

1996-11-02 Thread Tom Walker
t;don't know Derrida from dogfood" is a play on "don't know dollars from doughnuts" in which case the derivation probably has more to do with assonance (similarity of sounds) than it does to derogatory intent. That's how I deconstruct it, anyway. Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED

[PEN-L:7142] Re: Pomo: Swimming or drowning

1996-11-02 Thread Tom Walker
well be tragic. In this sense, there is no doubt a greater affinity between Marx's analysis and Doug's parody of the new language than there is with the "old language". Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:7157] Identity and class struggle

1996-11-02 Thread Tom Walker
looking for a more nuanced understanding of class struggle, a respectful analysis of identity politics is indispensible. And for activists who are looking to engage a constituency other than themselves, the tortuous path to universality begins on the hard-pan ground of identity. It's all very dialec

[PEN-L:7172] Re: Hmmm

1996-11-03 Thread Tom Walker
funeral, God rest his soul! As bill says, "So fuckin what!" But then, I'm no angel, either. I have a suggestion for a new list: UMA-DL (dirty laundry). Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:7177] Life is hard. And then you die.

1996-11-03 Thread Tom Walker
s into the sky. Its electronic brain has full instructions. But it needs reminding, too! Borg-Warner makes an ingenious device to do this... to tell instantly if and when any corrections are needed to keep it precisely on course. (1957) Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:7301] fetishturgy (fwd)

1996-11-06 Thread Tom Walker
be interesting to look at some other pidgin terms, to consider what they name, and speculate what will have the case if they had been taken up in the same way. Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:7309] New WWW Site: Jubilee 2000 campaign

1996-11-07 Thread Tom Walker
the debt trap and give a billion people a chance for a better future. Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:7311] Max's Mom's Jubilee

1996-11-07 Thread Tom Walker
principal. But there comes a point when the chain letter reaches the bottom of the feeding chain (to mix metaphors, while retaining a link), right? And then we have nothing to lose but our... umm, what's the word I'm looking for... bonds? Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork

[PEN-L:7332] Re: Affirmative Action in public employment and education is dead

1996-11-08 Thread Tom Walker
forwarded by maggie coleman. So I'm wondering whether maggie's p.s. was an aside or a non sequitur. Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:7391] Re: science

1996-11-13 Thread Tom Walker
an amateur expert. That's probably what drives scientists into obscure specialties and drives sociologists and economists to strive for opacity. Regards, Tom Walker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (604) 669-3286 The TimeWork Web: http://mindlink.net/knowware/worksite.htm

[PEN-L:7440] transgressive running dogs of performativity

1996-11-17 Thread Tom Walker
grope about for a common language. Y'know, the sequel to Kiss of the Spider Woman kind of thing. Whatever. Comedy: They fail. Tragedy: They succeed. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA

[PEN-L:7442] Re: transgressive running dogs of performativity II

1996-11-18 Thread Tom Walker
On second thought, here's a better idea: a whole *family* of m-l sectarians -- Jed, Jethro, Ellie-may and granma Hoxha -- is accidently granted tenure-track positions at an ivy league comparative lit department. After all, this is America, folks. Land of opportunity. Regards, Tom Walker

[PEN-L:7715] Re: The rogue, p.m.

1996-12-03 Thread Tom Walker
Blair Sandler asked, Do you mean "poor" as in "impoverished?" Or "poor" as in "low quality?" Ah, the uses of ambiguity. ;-) Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Va

[PEN-L:7734] Re: yet more Social Security

1996-12-04 Thread Tom Walker
Rev. Devine wrote: BTW, such confusions ("overreactions") can be avoided by reading someone's e-message all the way through before (over)reacting to it paragraph by paragraph. I tried that once, but my lips got numb. Regards,

[PEN-L:7623] Re: Fordism or post-fordism? No thanks! -Reply

1996-11-27 Thread Tom Walker
abstractions at bay! Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |does life unfold as fate." (604

[PEN-L:7596] Re: The Long Term II

1996-11-26 Thread Tom Walker
this case, "nothing new here" is not a disparaging expression. Levin and Rumberger were right and you're right. So was Ecclesiates, so what. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANAD

[PEN-L:7632] Re: How to win strikes in the 90s -Reply

1996-11-28 Thread Tom Walker
. Which, at the risk of repeating myself, brings me back to the struggle for the generalized reduction of working time. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocr

[PEN-L:7707] The rogue, p.m.

1996-12-03 Thread Tom Walker
many poor scholars pretending to be poor scholars that perhaps we've no more use for the genuine vagabonds. Perhaps this is what is really meant by post-modernism? Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.

[PEN-L:7653] Re: The Long Term (Henwood)

1996-11-29 Thread Tom Walker
;-)?) Please explain because this strategic little piece of cracker barrel wisdom provides the _frame_ within which the bls statistics tell the story you want them to (speaking of social constructionism). Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW

[PEN-L:7595] Re: The Long Term

1996-11-26 Thread Tom Walker
everything that Rifkin says, and I don't endorse Rifkin's apocalypticism. And, besides, what's so new about your April 1996 critique of Rifkin? For an earlier -- albeit post-modern -- view see http://mindlink.net/knowware/strega.htm Regards, Tom Walker

[PEN-L:7578] Re: The Decline of Economics

1996-11-26 Thread Tom Walker
uality, and honest economists admit that they don't have an adequate explanation for either." Any honest economists care to comment? Walter Daum Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA |

[PEN-L:7905] deja vu: a trip in the (over)time machine

1996-12-19 Thread Tom Walker
chiff's spark of common sense had fallen on the dry tinder of citizenship rather than on the damp soil of econometocracy? Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in medioc

[PEN-L:7768] Absolute surplus value

1996-12-07 Thread Tom Walker
even look at the calculation that clearly shows that "one and one half" is less than "one". But I think this approach solves the dilemma of why the momentum for the reduction of the working time has been stalled since the end of

[PEN-L:7593] The Long Term

1996-11-26 Thread Tom Walker
ed layoffs to as many as 600 full-time positions. "I want to be clear: these aren't easy problems to solve. "If there's one thing I've learned, it's that there are no quick fixes. there are no simple answers. There's no magic wand to wave.

[PEN-L:7666] Re: The Long Term (Henwood)

1996-11-29 Thread Tom Walker
few simple aggregate reports that accurately and enduringly reflect the diversity of a boisterously changing labour market. Doug concluded his comment by saying, "For all too many people, overwork is the story of the labor market." I agree whole heartly. I think I'll give this thread a r

[PEN-L:7628] Re: The Long Term

1996-11-27 Thread Tom Walker
or decades. What, pray tell, is so 'new' [or even interesting] about this 'nothing new here' argument? Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [

[PEN-L:7661] Re: The Long Term (Henwood)

1996-11-29 Thread Tom Walker
uraged workers" who are not engaged in an active job search are not counted as participating in the labour force. Do part-timers have to be engaged in an active search for full-time employment to count as "economic part-timers?" Regards, Tom Walker ^^

[PEN-L:7629] Re: How to win strikes in the 90s

1996-11-27 Thread Tom Walker
ectionary occupation - the general strike - the reduction of work time A labour movement that systematically abstains from any one of the possible forms for the withdrawal of labour ceases to be effective as a labour movement. There is nothing new here. Regards, Tom Walker ^

[PEN-L:7612] Re: The Long Term

1996-11-27 Thread Tom Walker
isn't postmodern is to say that there may well be a metanarrative in which both of our claims are plausible -- that is to say a metanarrative in which my conclusion both is and isn't "postmodern". Regards, Tom Walker ^^

[PEN-L:7530] $1 billion found in rubbish heap!

1996-11-21 Thread Tom Walker
l Change" at the Southern California Conference on Technology, Employment and Community, go directly to: http://mindlink.net/knowware/dustbin.htm The session will take place at the conference in Los Angeles on Saturday, November 23, 1996 at 10:

[PEN-L:7634] Re: The Long Term

1996-11-28 Thread Tom Walker
e correct analysis -- was elsewhere. This has been extremely effective, yes, in attracting a smattering of intellectual masochists. Is it really more important to be aloof than to be effective? Or is it possible to combine political integrity with rhetorical appeal? Regards, Tom Walker ^^

[PEN-L:7705] Re: Rifkin

1996-12-03 Thread Tom Walker
: political efficacy = factual accuracy + analytical rigour, NOT. Ah, maybe I've watched _Music Man_ too many times and am starting to believe that line about "You got trouble, right here in River City..." Regards, Tom Walker ^^^

[PEN-L:7879] Who is Robert Clark?

1996-12-15 Thread Tom Walker
will be appreciated. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |does life unfold as fate." (604

[PEN-L:7804] Re: Krugman

1996-12-10 Thread Tom Walker
at risk my appointment to the CEA;-): "I think the economic logic of paying even lower wages to low wage earners is impeccable and we should face up to that... Poor people are vastly over compensated." (do I really have to put

[PEN-L:7767] The ninth hour

1996-12-07 Thread Tom Walker
stalled since the end of world war two and, for many people, *reversed* in recent decades. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre

[PEN-L:8188] The Undertime Tax (2/2)

1997-01-11 Thread Tom Walker
potential of a serious policy to enable the voluntary reduction of work time (or, the job killing record of current policy). Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "On

[PEN-L:8187] The Undertime Tax (1/2)

1997-01-11 Thread Tom Walker
of interest are welcome. In my next message, I will discuss estimates of the job creation potential of voluntarily reducing work time. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA |

[PEN-L:8267] Multiple Choice Quiz

1997-01-17 Thread Tom Walker
) pay and benefits per hour of overtime to his regular hourly net pay and benefits? a.) $37.50 b.) 150% c.) 75% d.) 100% Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in med

[PEN-L:8414] Re: more insecurity

1997-01-30 Thread Tom Walker
ehind the growth in weekly earnings inequality in Canada." Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |does life unfold as f

[PEN-L:8472] Re: Is this a consensus?

1997-02-05 Thread Tom Walker
he new tune is going to be. All I know is the old one's come to it's last refrain. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

[PEN-L:8455] Re: Is this a consensus?

1997-02-04 Thread Tom Walker
in the 'natural rate of unemployment'. Print this prediction and paste it on your monitor, if it doesn't come true, send me the paper and I'll eat it. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANAD

[PEN-L:9471] Weird

1997-04-13 Thread Tom Walker
l Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |does life unfold as fate.&

[PEN-L:9482] Re: Weird and weirder

1997-04-14 Thread Tom Walker
e with theories about the Bre-X imbroglio .. conspiratorial or not .. . plse email or call me ASAP .. 416 205-2220 ... leave a message with voice mail if i don't answer .. thanks ... steve k. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware

[PEN-L:9413] Where's the beef?

1997-04-09 Thread Tom Walker
ork hours/work load, and poor leadership. Unethical actions employees admitted to included "cutting corners on quality control" (cited by 16 percent of respondents, covering up incidents, abusing or lying about sick days, lying to or deceiving customers, etc. ...(Da

[PEN-L:9399] Re: The discussion about social democracy

1997-04-08 Thread Tom Walker
Elaine Bernard wrote, But we need to ROAR in the streets too! "Let's boogie!" (a private joke for BCers) Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in medi

[PEN-L:9384] Re: help on readings on socio-economics?

1997-04-07 Thread Tom Walker
rse_ (1990, University of California Press) Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |does life unfold as fate.&

[PEN-L:8963] Re: Canada and Cuba

1997-03-17 Thread Tom Walker
Bill, Congratulations on completing your comprehensives! Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |does life unfold as

[PEN-L:8943] Re: Marilyn Waring

1997-03-16 Thread Tom Walker
t may come as a breath of fresh air (if you'll pardon my crudity). Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |does life unfold as f

[PEN-L:8933] Re: Marilyn Waring

1997-03-15 Thread Tom Walker
This alone should serve as sufficient warning against the tenuousness of using ancestoral *ad hominem* as a criteria for dismissing or embracing ideas. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA |

[PEN-L:8903] New SSA in place?

1997-03-14 Thread Tom Walker
*thrilled* by the good news...? Personally, I plan to put my life savings into mutual funds so I can take advantage of the coming good times. As far as I can tell, there's only one fly in the WSJ golden age ointment: like Heartfield's Hitler, the new, super capitalism "schluckt Gold und redet Blech&q

[PEN-L:8845] Overworked and Underemployed

1997-03-06 Thread Tom Walker
s for school; more likely, it means keeping up car payments or just covering the costs of food and housing." Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EM

[PEN-L:8561] Re: Nairu,etc.

1997-02-11 Thread Tom Walker
between right and left should not be about WHETHER to change institutions but about HOW to change institutions. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre ar

[PEN-L:8609] Re:World Banquet

1997-02-14 Thread Tom Walker
ot; -- old news can get recycled for ever. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |does life unfold as fate.&

[PEN-L:8637] Re: market socialism, planned socialism

1997-02-16 Thread Tom Walker
as anthropology. Perhaps "renounce" is too strong a word for a refusal to even acknowledge that other ways of knowing may bear on the issues that economics seeks to treat. What would it matter if we weren't [descended from Robinson

[PEN-L:8672] Re: market socialism, planned socialism

1997-02-17 Thread Tom Walker
ed socialism" dichotomy is a little demon I'll call by the code name of the teleology of reason. Isn't Hegel standing on his head _still_ Hegel? Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA |

[PEN-L:8700] Re: market socialism, socialist fun

1997-02-18 Thread Tom Walker
functional machine. The task for socialists is to show that autonomy is more fun than wage slavery. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:8996] Re: EPI Issue Brief, PDF Format (31K)

1997-03-18 Thread Tom Walker
a large file documenting, say, 'the history of polemical struggles on the marxism list.' I suggest we should have a standing rule of "no attachments" for posts to pen-l. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications |

[PEN-L:9027] Re: Socialist Scholars Conference

1997-03-20 Thread Tom Walker
es both ways. How many of us could deny that we or our colleagues routinely dismiss our own best ideas as 'unworkable'? The greatest fear? That we'll be dismissed as cranks. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Va

[PEN-L:9136] Re: four minor points

1997-03-25 Thread Tom Walker
dent drives them out of the showroom. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |does life unfold

[PEN-L:9230] Gravity's Gold Mine

1997-03-29 Thread Tom Walker
possibly be lost on the mutual fund mob? Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

[PEN-L:9229] Bre-X-files

1997-03-28 Thread Tom Walker
ntify these beings, also frequently referred to as "greys"). Some left their bodies behind in "cold storage," or the Next Level's wardrobe, for the duration of this task. Others were in "spirit," having not yet earned Next Level bodies since having left the human kingdom

[PEN-L:9141] Re: customers or suckers?

1997-03-25 Thread Tom Walker
to be funny here. Because there ARE beans simmering on the stove! Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |does life unfold as

[PEN-L:9125] Re: four minor points

1997-03-25 Thread Tom Walker
is very important to our survival. Let me reiterate that while [name of institution deleted] credit programs do receive public monies, Continuing Studies non-credit operations do not. This department is not mandated by the province and we exist only to the extent that we are able to fully recover ou

[PEN-L:9006] Re: speaking of Hayek

1997-03-18 Thread Tom Walker
* Hayek to unmask the transparently self-serving inconsistencies of 'neo-liberalism'. Oh well. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROT

[PEN-L:8729] Re: market socialism, planned socialism, ut

1997-02-19 Thread Tom Walker
will also have been wiped out! Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |does life unfold as fate." (604

[PEN-L:8670] Re: the oddities and logic of capitalism

1997-02-17 Thread Tom Walker
pastime, the task of political economy is to penetrate beyond the veil of both the "odd" and the "normal." I agree entirely with Jerry's first paragraph and can only laugh at his second. What ever could have "

[PEN-L:8633] Re: market socialism, planned socialism

1997-02-15 Thread Tom Walker
Maybe the truncation of utopia was apt.) Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |does l

[PEN-L:8611] Hours of Work Policy Brief

1997-02-14 Thread Tom Walker
IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, PLEASE FORWARD! Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

[PEN-L:8588] Re: child of NAIRU!

1997-02-12 Thread Tom Walker
"literary" evaluation that simply counts the number of words in a book. As H.L. Menckin said, "Which words? In what order?" Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA |

[PEN-L:8569] Re: wrongful dismissals

1997-02-11 Thread Tom Walker
to hire the welfare recipients so they could turn around and fire them at the first opportunity, thus using them as an example to keep their existing work force on their toes -- sort of an employee morale boosting program. Call it "Operation Phoenix". Regards,

[PEN-L:8566] Re: Nairu, etc.

1997-02-11 Thread Tom Walker
life is lived OR NOT LIVED. In other words, the "class struggle" can only ever be about control over the disposal of the workers' TIME. I beg to differ with Tom Walker but not with the basic point he makes -- that there is a need to modify, change, update etc. our institutions

[PEN-L:8567] What is UNEMPLOYMENT?

1997-02-11 Thread Tom Walker
quot;, measuring I.Q. is about as straight-forward as weighing a pound of butter. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only i

[PEN-L:10457] Re: more planning and democracy

1997-05-31 Thread Tom Walker
uch an outcome of the characteristics of language (including information) as they are an input to the system. This is an idea so trite that even that famous pomo-tista, Sir Winston Churchill, used it: "We make our buildings, then our buildings make us." We

[PEN-L:10451] Re: bio-determinism

1997-05-30 Thread Tom Walker
or not our sciences could ever discover such a starting point for a unified science is completely a matter for speculation. See Heisenberg, "uncertainty" and Archimedes, "point". Regards, Tom Walker ^^ kn

[PEN-L:10423] Re: more planning and democracy

1997-05-29 Thread Tom Walker
t;How do I know what to guess?" You just have to guess and so on. I'll grant that if what I said made any sense, no organization could function "all by itself" that is *without people to mediate the ambiguity*. So, yes, "artifi

[PEN-L:10415] Re: more planning and democracy

1997-05-29 Thread Tom Walker
It's one thing to recognize the radical separation of word and world and another to try to "overcome" it. The latter leads to magic, alchemy, allegory, literalism, solipsism, scientism and fundamentalism -- exactly what the Faust tale is all about. To paraphrase Goethe's

[PEN-L:10406] Re: (Fwd) ROBERTS' RULES: Brigham City Hoax (fwd)

1997-05-29 Thread Tom Walker
, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [and in spreadsheets] [EMAIL PROTECTED] |does life unfold as fate." (604

[PEN-L:10395] Re: The Farmer in the Dell

1997-05-29 Thread Tom Walker
the "farmer's wife." Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [and in spreadsheets] [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

[PEN-L:10390] Re: Umbrage

1997-05-28 Thread Tom Walker
eive validation from) and it can be safer in these perilous times to maintain a certain veneer of institutional imperviousness. The litmus test of this outsider anxiety is the question "who are you with?" On a political scale the equivalent question

[PEN-L:10216] Re: influence? -Reply

1997-05-19 Thread Tom Walker
ument accepts the proposition and is only haggling about the price. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA | "Only in mediocre art [and in spreadsheets] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:10198] Re: The EU: against wishful thinking

1997-05-18 Thread Tom Walker
_ theology. Perhaps it would be more useful to counter bad theology with better theology than to try to answer it with more refined empirical analysis. Regards, Tom Walker ^^ knoW Ware Communications | Vancouver, B.C., CANADA |

[PEN-L:10191] Re: The EU: against wishful thinking

1997-05-18 Thread Tom Walker
Bill Burgess wrote, . . . I don't see the *significant* difference implied by a position that replaces a traditional committment to internationalism with a position where nationalist measures are now seen as central to protecting working class interests (which I understand to be your opinion).

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