Re: sending large articles to pen-l

2004-01-26 Thread paul phillips
Michael, But on the other hand, if you or others just send a url, many of us just delete the message and never follow it up. I for one never follow up a url -- it is too time consuming and sometimes proves fruitless. If this list were to become just a list of urls, I would probably log off. It

Re: Henwood in London Wed 28

2004-01-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Sorry, I have no idea what the venue is like yet. I'm sitting in a flat in Shoreditch, not far from Great Eastern St, so I'll do a little reconnaissance mission soon. Doug Chris Burford wrote: Looking forward to this opportunity, but I will be squeezed for time to arrive promptly at 7 Can you or

The Antiwar candidate

2004-01-26 Thread Stephen Philion
Dean said his opposition to the Iraq (news - web sites) war was a significant difference between himself and Kerry, who voted for the resolution authorizing the U.S. invasion. He also criticized the Massachusetts senator for voting against the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites). A lot of folks in

Re: sending large articles to pen-l

2004-01-26 Thread Devine, James
I thought that it was okay to translate html files into txt files and to post the latter to pen-l... Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message- From: paul phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January

Re: All Internet voting is insecure: report

2004-01-26 Thread ravi
Grant Lee wrote: Online voting is fundamentally insecure due to the architecture of the Internet, according to leading cyber-security experts. without even having to read the entire article, i feel i am justified in responding that the above assertion is wrong, except in a very trivial sense

Re: sending large articles to pen-l

2004-01-26 Thread Michael Perelman
yes, that is fine! On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:03:58AM -0800, Devine, James wrote: I thought that it was okay to translate html files into txt files and to post the latter to pen-l... Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

Re: sending large articles to pen-l

2004-01-26 Thread ravi
Michael Perelman wrote: Please try not to send large articles to the list -- like I did yesterday. It is better just to send the url. and as previously offered, if you want to post a document of some sort to the list, you are welcome to email it to me, and i will put it up on a web server and

Re: All Internet voting is insecure: report

2004-01-26 Thread joanna bujes
So, do you think they're rejecting it out of fear it may encourage democracy and third-party candidates? Joanna ravi wrote: Grant Lee wrote: Online voting is fundamentally insecure due to the architecture of the Internet, according to leading cyber-security experts. without even having to

Re: sending large articles to pen-l

2004-01-26 Thread Devine, James
even better would be to have the list-server fixed so that all files are converted into text format automatically. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine i wish michael would go one step further and ban HTML formatted email! ;-)

Re: sending large articles to pen-l

2004-01-26 Thread ravi
paul phillips wrote: But on the other hand, if you or others just send a url, many of us just delete the message and never follow it up. I for one never follow up a url -- it is too time consuming and sometimes proves fruitless. If this list were to become just a list of urls, I would

Re: sending large articles to pen-l

2004-01-26 Thread Michael Perelman
I wish that I had the technical skills to do either. Certainly, the school will not help me. On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:27:18AM -0800, Devine, James wrote: even better would be to have the list-server fixed so that all files are converted into text format automatically.

Re: All Internet voting is insecure: report

2004-01-26 Thread ravi
joanna bujes wrote: So, do you think they're rejecting it out of fear it may encourage democracy and third-party candidates? ravi wrote: without even having to read the entire article, i feel i am justified in responding that the above assertion is wrong, except in a very trivial sense (such

Re: All Internet voting is insecure: report

2004-01-26 Thread joanna bujes
ravi wrote: i do think online voting WILL encourage democracy AND third-party candidates. i think it might also have negative effects: wasn't there a recent finding that more right-wing conservative types are wired than poor or left-leaning folks? online voting would thus make it even easier to

Das Kapital in Pictures

2004-01-26 Thread E. Ahmet Tonak
I just added 13 paintings of a Turkish painter (Yuksel Arslan)--from his exhibition album Le Capital, based on Vol.I of Capital-- to the following site: http://www.simons-rock.edu/~eatonak/image_gallery/ Ahmet Tonak

Iraqi jihad songs

2004-01-26 Thread k hanly
grandfather, who began inspiring guerrilla warriors with his religiously sanctioned praises against the British. Within a couple of years, Mr. Hassani said, the British fled Iraq. http://www.washtimes.com/world/20040126-120106-7828r.htm

Truman Bush

2004-01-26 Thread Dan Scanlan
On this date in 1951, President Harry S. Truman - faced with a perceived dire threat from International Communism, and the increasingly powerful SOVIET UNION - took decisive action. He was under incredible internal political pressure. Congress was filled with reactionaries, and worse. People like

Re: Perelman on Brenner

2004-01-26 Thread Doug Henwood
U.S. profit rates are way up from their recession lows. I don't see anything about that in Brenner's NLR piece. Does that mean the crisis is postponed? Doug michael wrote: High wages need not play a role in the crisis as I see it. Modern industry is characterized by very low marginal costs.

Howard Dean, Nader, Chomsky and Stalin

2004-01-26 Thread Louis Proyect
Eric Alterman: Im sure Dean has many idealistic supporters. And for all I know, he might make a terrific president. But my honest opinion is that hed be a much weaker candidate against Bush than Kerry, Clark or Edwards, and since thats the only issue that moves me, I think it would be a big

Re: Perelman on Brenner

2004-01-26 Thread Devine, James
Doug writes:U.S. profit rates are way up from their recession lows. I don't see anything about that in Brenner's NLR piece. Does that mean the crisis is postponed? I haven't read Brenner's article, but I would guess that like Fred Moseley he'd emphasize the fact that US profit rates aren't as

Re: important article

2004-01-26 Thread paul phillips
According to today's Globe and Mail, Kerry is not only leading the Democratic pack, but also has surged ahead of Dubya in the opinion polls. While the latter gives us non-Americans some glimmer of hope or ridding the international political scene of that hideous creature, I don't know enough

Re: important article

2004-01-26 Thread Bill Lear
On Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 01:55:13 (-0600) paul phillips writes: According to today's Globe and Mail, Kerry is not only leading the Democratic pack, but also has surged ahead of Dubya in the opinion polls. While the latter gives us non-Americans some glimmer of hope or ridding the

Re: important article

2004-01-26 Thread Devine, James
On Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 01:55:13 (-0600) paul phillips writes: According to today's Globe and Mail, Kerry is not only leading the Democratic pack, but also has surged ahead of Dubya in the opinion polls. While the latter gives us non-Americans some glimmer of hope or ridding the

Kalecki on Wall Street

2004-01-26 Thread Michael Perelman
Browning, E. S. 2004. Investors Take Cycles for a Spin. Wall Street Journal (26 January): p. C 1. The Presidential Cycle: Going back to Benjamin Harrison's election during 1888, stocks have tended to do best in the third year of a presidential term -- the year before the election year. The

why is spam worse

2004-01-26 Thread Michael Perelman
I have never received so much spam. Does the new law just encourage them? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: important article

2004-01-26 Thread Michael Perelman
Kerry's bro. is a honcho in telecommunications. I don't know how the industry sees him or what he has done for the industry. On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:58:30PM -0600, Bill Lear wrote: As for domestic politics, his stand on social issues such as abortion are far to the center from Bush rabid

Re: why is spam worse

2004-01-26 Thread ravi
Michael Perelman wrote: I have never received so much spam. Does the new law just encourage them? are you extrapolating from today's email volume? if so, it could be that you are being hit by a virus, not spam: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] if the

Regional cooling...

2004-01-26 Thread Mike Ballard
As the Walrus and the Carpenter discuss the relative merits of cabbages and kings, we oysters sit in spetacular bemusement. Regards, Mike B) From the London Independent: Global warming will plunge Britain into new ice age 'within decades' By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor 25 January 2004

Japan: the public debt

2004-01-26 Thread Eubulides
The Japan Times: Jan. 27, 2004 EDITORIAL Defuse the debt bomb Japan's public debt continues to swell ominously, yet there is no reassuring long-term scenario for deficit reduction. The government's latest medium-term outlook for economic and fiscal reform amounts to a tacit admission that the

Nigerian general strike on hold

2004-01-26 Thread Grant Lee
Mail Guardian Online:[Interesting to note in this context that Nigeria is one of the few places in the developing world which has experienced widespread labour shortages recently.] Nigerian fuel tax battle goes to court Ola Awoniyi | Abuja, Nigeria 26 January 2004 15:16 Nigeria's government

Re: Japan: the public debt

2004-01-26 Thread Michael Perelman
Japan could exchange its debt for its holdings of US securities. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

hard time keeping this one hidden

2004-01-26 Thread Stephen Philion
http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v?TARGET=showImagearticle_id=4014704a457 c1image_num=1

Re: Perelman on Brenner

2004-01-26 Thread Sabri Oncu
Jim: This means that profit booms are most likely to be based on increased indebtedness. This is how I see it, too. The profit rate increases are not so much as a result of wage squeezes anymore. That is a thing of the past. As Michael keeps saying, and I agree, we are now in the age of high

Re: Perelman on Brenner

2004-01-26 Thread Sabri Oncu
Sabri: Jim: This means that profit booms are most likely to be based on increased indebtedness. This is how I see it, too. The profit rate increases are not so much as a result of wage squeezes anymore. And if Jim and Michael and I are right, yes is then the answer to Doug's question

Re: Perelman on Brenner

2004-01-26 Thread paul phillips
Sabri, The problem is that it is somewhat more complicated than that. For one thing, in goods production almost all labour intensive production has gone offshore so that in what is left of manufacturing is capital intensive and production wages are a small part of cost. In that case,