IP: If you work at a California company, look out (AB60) (fwd)

1999-07-14 Thread Michael Gurstein
From: Declan McCullagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FC: If you work at a California company, look out (AB60) The governor of California is about to sign a particularly pernicious bill into law. It says companies must pay their employees overtime if they work more than an eight-hour work day.

BR: New Democracy Forum

1999-07-14 Thread S. Lerner
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 01:52:00 -0700 From: Stephen Straker [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "S. Lerner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BR: New Democracy Forum Status: U Dear Sally, Has this item been noticed in FW? It ought to be of interest, especially Juliet Schor's piece on consumption

Re: Jeremy Rifkin - 1-6-99

1999-07-14 Thread Colin Stark
At 05:39 PM 7/14/99 +1200, Ian Ritchie wrote: To: "'futurework'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Jeremy Rifkin - 1-6-99 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 17:39:26 +1200 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work, Social Capital, and the Rebirth of the Civil Society: A

Re: Jeremy Rifkin - 1-6-99

1999-07-14 Thread Ed Weick
Thank you Ian Ritchie for posting Jeremy Rifkin's remarks on "Work, Social Capital, and the Rebirth of the Civil Society." I know that I'm being enormously unfair to Rifkin because I've only been able to read the first few pages of anything he's written without feeling that I'm being fleeced by

Charles Leadbetter

1999-07-14 Thread Ian Ritchie
The NS Essay - Towards the knowledge society Markets are too cruel, communities too stifling, third ways too much of a fudge. Charles Leadbeater offers a fourth and better way PictureI will start with myself. I do not work for a company or a university. I am neither a business consultant nor

Re: short article on pop. devel.

1999-07-14 Thread Christoph Reuss
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Thomas Lunde wrote: I know it has been postulated before, but I think it is time, perhaps evolutionary to make a conscious decision to outlaw war. If that requires a world police force, so be it. Both already exists for some time: The U.N. has outlawed war and the U$

temporary termination

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Re: Jeremy Rifkin - 1-6-99

1999-07-14 Thread Victor Milne
I thought I might as well wait for Ed to reply on this topic. As Ed and others know, I believe Rifkin's central thesis is correct, that technology is reducing the number of available jobs in the long run. I'm much more dubious about his proffered remedy of the "third sector" or "volunteerism" as

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1999-07-14 Thread Yoshitaka Okada
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Ian Richie

1999-07-14 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Report from the NYTimes 7/14/99 Report Says Profit-Making Health Plans Damage Care July 14, 1999 Related Articles Issue in Depth: Health Care Forum Join a Discussion on Health Care Reform By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Ian Richie 2.

1999-07-14 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Objective history, that grand imagined jewel of the Western literary world was given a lesson in Oklahoma last month when the Thunderbeings sent 78 tornados to remind we informationed folks that new is "great." That only the mountains last forever and that the development of individual and