Re: M-TH: "wouldabeen nice to talk about, eh?"

1999-12-17 Thread Rob Schaap
A Philadelphia Medical School discovered the chain of damaged genes complicit in breast cancer a little while ago, and set to developing a breast cancer screening system. Some mob called Myriad from Salt Lake City then sent 'em a letter saying you can't do that coz we hold a twenty-year patent on

Re: M-TH: "wouldabeen nice to talk about, eh?"

1999-12-10 Thread Rob Schaap
Hi again, Sent this to an Oz Labor Party chat list - wonder if anyone here can help add some substance and detail - or just take issue ... G'day all, By way of intro: Oz has always been very hesitant about nuclear plant so far - and, as far as I know, Lucas Heights is the only such plant we ha

Re: M-TH: "wouldabeen nice to talk about, eh?"

1999-12-02 Thread Dave Bedggood
I steer a course between Hugh and Russell but closer to Hugh. I think the protestors are attacking capitalism's symptoms, which is where spontaneous upsurges begin anyway. But to translate this into a real upsurge, we would have to see the labour movement get off the polite streets and start bu

Re: M-TH: "wouldabeen nice to talk about, eh?"

1999-12-02 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Hugh, >What Rob is describing in Seattle is what Bob M and me have been describing >in Sweden, and what me and Bob and Dave have been going on about for years >now. You go on about it during the recess breaks between retreads of the ol' 'I'm a good bolshie, you're a bad pb menshie, and all

Re: M-TH: "wouldabeen nice to talk about, eh?"

1999-12-02 Thread r.i.p
Wouldn't it be nice if Hugh were right? >It's called an upsurge In your dreams. No cauldron about to explode- this is just a tempest in a teapot- the last fart of hippydom whinging about selected contradictions of capital and hoping that street theatre and letters to Clinton are going to chan

M-TH: "wouldabeen nice to talk about, eh?"

1999-12-02 Thread Hugh Rodwell
Rob whinges: >Whilst I obviously tend to Simon's general point of view (although I'm >closer to Hugh on the finance/'productive capital' question) - and I do >find it strange to be considered 'pb' when we own nothing, 'parasites' when >we ask nothing, 'offering blueprints' when that is precisely