At 2:02 AM -0500 10/8/03, Lou Paulsen wrote:
Everyone knew it was going to be Schwarzenegger or Davis or maybe
Bustamante. It's the old story: a vote for the 'third party' is a
'wasted vote' unless you know ahead of time who is going to win, in
which case you have the luxury of casting a 'protest
* Reinforcements unlikely
Even if nations alter stance on Iraq, forces committed elsewhere
By Ann Imse, Rocky Mountain News
October 8, 2003
The NATO conference in Colorado Springs this week is unlikely to
produce the news that tens of thousands of Coloradans would like to
see: A promise that
A third party on the left in an electoral system like the United
States' can never rise to power without a prior collapse of the
political party controlled by the ruling class that had captured
working-class votes (the Democratic Party, in the case of the United
States).
We'll see about
NY Observer, Oct. 8, 2003
Seinfelds Dumb Porsche-Haus
by Ron Rosenbaum
Jerrys Garage. Jerrys Porsche-haus. I didnt believe it until I saw it
with my own eyes. Id read about it here in The Observer a year or so
ago and immediately went into a state of denial. No. Jerry Seinfeld
cant be just
--- Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A third party on the left in an electoral system
like the United
States' can never rise to power without a prior
collapse of the
political party controlled by the ruling class
that had captured
working-class votes (the Democratic Party, in
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:33:52PM -0700, Doyle Saylor wrote:
Doyle,
Couple of things, while for you the term moron is simply a label that
indicates you think Shirky is not interesting, for me as a disability rights
advocate I find the term anti-disabled. If you read Stephen Jay Gould's
I saw this film at Lincoln Center New Directors festival this year. It
opened today at the Film Forum in NYC. I strongly urge New Yorkers to
see it and to look for it in your own city.
---
Bus 174
On June 12, 2000 a drugged-out, pistol-brandishing 22 year-old
Afro-Brazilian named Sandro de
It's too early to tell if the recall will turn out badly. For example,
Proposition 54 -- the racial ignorance proposition -- failed because it
Bustamante got millions of dollars for his campaign, which the courts
ruled to be illegal. He turned the money over to the anti-proposition 54
campaign,
Best just to be a revolutionary and try to develop
soldarity where you can, at work, in the streets and
everywhere you go. Sure, vote for whomever you like,
but nobody is going anywhere until the working class
organizes to take power for itself.
Thanks for your advice, but I am not
Driving to work to day, I heard a US National Public Radio reporter suggest that der
Gropenführer's resistable rise will have a big effect on the California Republican
Party. I think she's right. The Cal-GOPs are a bunch of right-wing sectarians (with a
lot of money, so that they're not as
Kendall Clark wrote:
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:16:51PM -0400, ravi wrote:
But there is an idea floating around geekdom that the Web works
(in the sense that it scales 5B+ documents, something which no
one really expected) because of various purely technological
ideas...
i could use some
At 2:02 AM -0500 10/8/03, Lou Paulsen wrote:
Everyone knew it was going to be Schwarzenegger or Davis or maybe
Bustamante. It's the old story: a vote for the 'third party' is a
'wasted vote' unless you know ahead of time who is going to win, in
which case you have the luxury of casting a
When Arnold finishes his term, California will have had Republican
governors for 19 of 24 years. The state likes Republican governors.
Gene
Michael Perelman wrote:
It's too early to tell if the recall will turn out badly. For example,
Proposition 54 -- the racial ignorance proposition --
ravi wrote:
snip
I mean that the dominant ideology among the geek set (well, large
chunks of it anyway, it's probably not more monolithic than any other
subculture) is strong right libertarian, especially on the issue of
where technology comes from. It's *not* a David Noble-friendly part
of the
Devine, James wrote:
the real action has to involve the development of a mass movement of the left,
something that will never come from the DP. Only when there's a working-class
movement outside of the electoral arena will the political balance shift back in the
human direction.
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 11:54:43AM -0400, ravi wrote:
could you point me to some sources? i find it very surprising that
technical people believe that changes to HTTP can be the sole cause of
performance gains (especially given that caching, which indeed does, at
great cost, distribute load,
No, I mean hackers. Obviously it's not a monolithic set of attitudes
beliefs. There are obviously pockets of leftie hackers and geeks. But I
still stand by my claim that the dominant ideology is right libertarian. I'm
thinking of the Slashdot crowd, Eric Raymond and his hangers-on, and the
the real action has to involve the development of a mass movement of the
left, something that will never come from the DP. Only when there's a
working-class movement outside of the electoral arena will the political
balance shift back in the human direction.
Jim
We had this whole dispute
Liberal Massacusetts has had a Republican governor since Dukakis
embarrassed himself in 1988. People vote for Republicans in part to
rein in the corrupt Democratic machine that controls the state legislature.
One thing worse than a two-party political system is a one-party system.
Ellen Frank
below was posted to another list... michael hoover
The statement The trouble with Socialism is too many meetings, is
frequently attributed to Oscar Wilde. A Google search has turned up
several attributions of the statement, but no formal citations. It
does not appear in my editions of the Oxford
Counterpunch, October 9, 2003
A Black Day for Democracy
Schwarzenegger and the Failure of the Dems
By DAVID LINDORFF
The election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor of America's largest
state represents a kind of milestone in the decline of American
democracy. This is not Reagan II, the Movie,
At 8:04 AM -0700 10/8/03, Michael Perelman wrote:
It's too early to tell if the recall will turn out badly. For
example, Proposition 54 -- the racial ignorance proposition --
failed because it Bustamante got millions of dollars for his
campaign, which the courts ruled to be illegal. He turned the
Sorry, all I know about that one, is the bit by Bob Dylan,
Oh Mama, can this really be the end
To be stuck here with my mobile phone
With the Memphis blues again
J.
One thing worse than a two-party political system is a one-party system.
Ellen Frank
Disagree, haha. What is worse is when you have a one party system, or a two
party system, but the government simply disregards any party in what it
does, such that, for example, just a few people decide the
I don't have any source, but the quote I recall (and one that sounds much
more like Wilde) was the problem with Socialism is that it takes up too
many spare evenings. I'd love to hear the exact quote, of course.
Frederick Emrich, Editor
commons-blog (http://info-commons.org/blog/)
RSS Feed:
it sounds like a response to Albert Hahnel's participatory economy.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
I don't have any source, but the quote I recall (and one that
sounds much
more like Wilde) was the problem with Socialism is that it
joanna bujes wrote:
(I thought HTTP was big because it could get you through fire walls,
but ravi, please correct me if I'm wrong.
no, you are quite right -- HTTP is/was used as a fallback transport for
various applications (such as audio/video streaming), even though it was
not well-suited
It is difficult to quantify, but from spending much time there, my estimate
would be that the typical Swiss spends perhaps 50 to 75 percent more time
per week than a comparable Western European adult on civic, church, and
other volunteer activities, and say 25 to 35 percent more than a typical
By far the most economically sensible thing to do would be to raise property
taxes (...) voters consider Proposition 13 [still] to be sacrosanct,
whatever state law says about balancing budgets. (...) Mr Schwarzenegger['s]
margin for manoeuvre is extremely limited. California very much depends on
has yogi berra had anything to say on matter...
Uh, he's still alive? I quote him all the time :) (mostly to myself.)
Joanna
Michael Hoover wrote:
has yogi berra had anything to say on matter...
I saw Yogi in an ad on TV recently.
go Cubs!
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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I saw Yogi in an ad on TV recently.
go Cubs!
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...and they give you cash, which is almost as good as money!
* This is like deja vu all over again.
* You can observe a lot just by watching.
* He must have made that before he died. -- Referring to a Steve
McQueen movie.
* I want to thank you for making this day necessary. -- On Yogi
Berra Appreciation Day in St. Louis in 1947.
Pietro Basso, _Modern Times, Ancient Hours: Working Lives in the
Twenty-first Century_:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/b-titles/basso_modern_times.shtml
Pietro Basso: http://helios.unive.it/~philo/basso.html
Jonathan Sterne's review of _Modern Times, Ancient Hours_:
Greetings Pen-'Ellers,
Well KGC's response was just fine. No need to pursue anything in my view,
however, I found some nuggets or tidbits of Telecom stuff here and there in
my notes so I'll pass it along assuming that it might find some interest for
KGC.
Tidbits about Telecoms from here and
New world disorder
It's 30 years since oil prices soared and monetarism triumphed - and there
could be more upheaval to come
Larry Elliott, economics editor
Thursday October 9, 2003
The Guardian
Some say the 1960s ended with Woodstock in August 1969. Others date the
decade's demise to the
[the link to the paper is at the bottom]
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns4247
Free markets can hit economic growth
19:00 08 October 03
Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition.
If developing countries join the global economy too soon, they risk
becoming trapped in a cycle
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