Re: Re: personal call for geek help

2000-08-18 Thread Joanna Sheldon
Use Eudora. I've been using it since version 1, have experimented with lots of other programs, and find Eudora to be the best mail program out there, besides being extremely easy to use. Since it's a qualcomm product you'll probably find the free download at http://www.qualcomm.com/. cheers,

Broader implications of Napster

2000-08-18 Thread Louis Proyect
Atlantic Monthly, September 2000 The Heavenly Jukebox Rampant music piracy may hurt musicians less than they fear. The real threat -- to listeners and, conceivably, democracy itself -- is the music industry's reaction to it by Charles C. Mann A LITTLE while ago I heard that the future of

BLS Daily Report

2000-08-18 Thread Richardson_D
BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2000 RELEASED TODAY: The number of fatal work injuries that occurred during 1999 was 6,023, nearly the same as the previous year's total despite an increase in employment, according to the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. Decreases in job-related

Energy 2050

2000-08-18 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
[From the latest Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Full essay at: http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/2000/ja00/ja00fetter.html There is also a larger essay by the author which can be reached from the link below the excerpt] July/August 2000 Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 28-38 By Steve Fetter Although the

The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 15 August 2000 -- 4:66 (#454)

2000-08-18 Thread Paul Kneisel
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Taiwan: 10,000 telecom workers protest (fwd)

2000-08-18 Thread Stephen E Philion
What is significant in this article, it strikes me, is that the union is taking the position that privatization of the state company is ok with them, but that the workers should receive fair treatment during the transition process. The union was formerly led by a more radical bloc, but that bloc

RE: Taiwan: 10,000 telecom workers protest (fwd)

2000-08-18 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
Title: SCMP.com - Asia's leading English news channel - FullText No wonder the US supports Taiwan entering the WTO separate from China. Ian

Re: RE: Taiwan: 10,000 telecom workers protest (fwd)

2000-08-18 Thread Stephen E Philion
Ian wrote: No wonder the US supports Taiwan entering the WTO separate from China. Ian Steve wrote: Sorry Ian, what's the connection your making here with the article? Steve Stephen Philion Lecturer/PhD Candidate Department of Sociology 2424 Maile Way Social Sciences Bldg. # 247 Honolulu,

Re: Taiwan: 10,000 telecom workers protest (fwd)

2000-08-18 Thread phillp2
Stephen, when you copy such articles as attachments, they become unreadable to many of us as the lines are too long for our readers. Can you not reformulate the articles for email? Paul Phillips, Economics, University of Manitoba

Wage Determination: was Crapulism: a side bet

2000-08-18 Thread phillp2
Max et al., Since I am just in the process of updating and expanding my text on political economy I am also in the process of refining and developing my chapters on the labour market and wage determination. This is what prompted my previous intervention because I really fear that the

RE: Re: RE: Taiwan: 10,000 telecom workers protest (fwd)

2000-08-18 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
US telecom corps are big pushers for privatization of state run telcom networks and are currently prepping to take Mexico to the WTO over the issue; with Taiwan in the WTO they'd have their wedge to gobble up that market too. Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]