Re: Daylight savings politics

2001-02-21 Thread Thomas TerBush
My understanding was the city-dwellers tended to be for daylight savings time since it gave them an extra hour of sunlight in the afternoon, and farmers tended to be against because it subtracted an hour from the morning, although this may be in disagreement with what is happening in Mexico if

RE: Economics Ph.D. ...WSJ article

2001-02-21 Thread Burns, Erik
two points: 1. i expect this market would correct faster than the one for computer scientists, as some of those going into economics at the graduate level would be enticed by these high salaries (and perhaps the pleasure of being actively recruited). if your reason for taking an econ degree is

RE: Daylight savings politics

2001-02-21 Thread Eric Crampton
As a farm-boy from southern Manitoba, I can assure you that I didn't mind daylight savings time at all. Who the hell wants to wake up at sunrise when sunrise is 4:30 in the morning? 5:30 is far more reasonable. And, sunset at 21:30 isn't unreasonable either. Eric -Original Message-

Re: Daylight savings politics

2001-02-21 Thread BMDoherty
In a message dated 2/21/01 1:02:58 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My understanding was the city-dwellers tended to be for daylight savings time since it gave them an extra hour of sunlight in the afternoon, and farmers tended to be against because it subtracted an hour

Re: Daylight savings politics

2001-02-21 Thread Eric Crampton
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never understood this rationale--especially for farmers. The sun is up as long as it is up, regardless of what we do with our clocks. What is it that prevents farmers from getting up when the sun rises, and working til it sets, no matter

Re: Daylight savings politics

2001-02-21 Thread John Harvey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/21/01 07:53AM I have never understood this rationale--especially for farmers. The sun is up as long as it is up, regardless of what we do with our clocks. What is it that prevents farmers from getting up when the sun rises, and working til it sets, no matter what clock

Re: Daylight savings politics

2001-02-21 Thread John Cunningham
It is up there, along with a couple of glossy handouts, john At 09:34 AM 2/21/01 -0700, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/21/01 07:53AM I have never understood this rationale--especially for farmers. The sun is up as long as it is up, regardless of what we do with our clocks. What is it

Crimes against capitalism ?

2001-02-21 Thread Yann Le Du
Hello, Here's about special laws to increase punishment if crimes are done for "anti-capitalism" reasons. Yann Yann Le Du E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Theoretical Physics Web :

Re: Crimes against capitalism ?

2001-02-21 Thread Ananda Gupta
At the risk of belaboring the obvious, the article describes the efforts of a critic of hate-crimes laws. He objects to laws that hand out extra punishment if the motive was hatred of the victim's ethnicity or religion, so to lampoon those laws he is introducing one that punishes hatred of