Re: fight hte evil of price discrimination

2003-08-01 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 10:23 PM 7/31/2003 -0400, you wrote: Except, when a right winger makes an innocuous statement and the left wing media huffs and puffs until they blow the issue up into whatever slight they feel gets them the best press. So liberals aren't perfect. Never said they are. Although I bet some

Re: fight hte evil of price discrimination

2003-08-01 Thread TomFODW
Let's see Tom condemn Katha Pollit once in a while. I'm not sure who she is, sorry. When Noam Chomsky says things equally bad - or worse - our liberal friends like Tom tell us that even criticizing them is censorship. I haven't said anything about him here, and I don't have to please

Re: fight hte evil of price discrimination

2003-08-01 Thread The Fool
From: Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except, when a right winger makes an innocuous statement and the left wing media huffs and puffs until they blow the issue up into whatever slight they feel gets them the best press. Kevin T. - VRWC

Re: fight hte evil of price discrimination

2003-08-01 Thread Julia Thompson
Russell Chapman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for the Polish reputation for stupidity - I have no clue whence it originates. It's certainly not international - we never have Pole/Polack/Polish jokes, but all the same jokes refer to Irish folk. Maybe somewhere in the world a bunch

Re: fight hte evil of price discrimination

2003-08-01 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's see Tom condemn Katha Pollit once in a while. I'm not sure who she is, sorry. When Noam Chomsky says things equally bad - or worse - our liberal friends like Tom tell us that even criticizing them is censorship. I haven't said anything about him

Re: fight hte evil of price discrimination

2003-07-31 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2003/tc20030731_6139_tc073.htm PRIVACY MATTERS By Jane Black Sharper Tools for Discriminatory Pricing Expert Andrew Odlyzko explains how tech advances are making it much easier to charge one price

Re: fight hte evil of price discrimination

2003-07-31 Thread TomFODW
but would start with educating people (beginning in elementary school) with the hazards associated with certain lifestyle choices - and gradually making people responsible for their own folly -- we could ~ halve the chronic disease burden with lifestyle changes But that would go against

Re: fight hte evil of price discrimination

2003-07-31 Thread Julia Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And before any of the conservatives on this list start to sputter and huff and puff that I'm mischaracterizing them - yes. I am. Not every conservative acts like I pretend they do above. Big deal. Enough do that I don't think I'm being any more unfair than, oh, say,

Re: fight hte evil of price discrimination

2003-07-31 Thread TomFODW
Seriously, the ones that get the most attention seem to be more extreme one way or another.  That's probably true for any group that gets stereotyped.  Except maybe Poles.  I've never met a Pole anywhere close to being as stupid as all the jokes imply.  (Where'd they get that reputation,

Re: fight hte evil of price discrimination

2003-07-31 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 09:38 PM 7/31/2003 -0400, you wrote: Seriously, the ones that get the most attention seem to be more extreme one way or another. That's probably true for any group that gets stereotyped. Except maybe Poles. I've never met a Pole anywhere close to being as stupid as all the jokes imply.

Re: fight hte evil of price discrimination

2003-07-31 Thread TomFODW
Except, when a right winger makes an innocuous statement and the left wing media huffs and puffs until they blow the  issue up into whatever slight they feel gets them the best press. So liberals aren't perfect. Never said they are. Although I bet some of the statements you characterize as

Re: fight hte evil of price discrimination

2003-07-31 Thread Russell Chapman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for the Polish reputation for stupidity - I have no clue whence it originates. It's certainly not international - we never have Pole/Polack/Polish jokes, but all the same jokes refer to Irish folk. Maybe somewhere in the world a bunch of friends are sitting around

Re: fight hte evil of price discrimination

2003-07-31 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except, when a right winger makes an innocuous statement and the left wing media huffs and puffs until they blow the issue up into whatever slight they feel gets them the best press. Kevin T. - VRWC _Also_ when a right-winger - like Coulter or