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That is an awesome story. Thank you.
From:MIT study says Uber wages are horrible
arendt Sat, 03/03/2018 - 06:17pm 0
OK. Weekend cuts both ways :-)
From:American Politics is like Syria minus Assad
arendt Sat, 03/03/2018 - 01:16pm 1 Sat, 03/03/2018 - 02:17pm
I am happy to accept your correction
From:American Politics is like Syria minus Assad
arendt Sat, 03/03/2018 - 01:14pm 1 Sat, 03/03/2018 - 11:03pm
Handicapped people use them to get to Drs appointments.
From:MIT study says Uber wages are horrible
arendt Sat, 03/03/2018 - 11:26am 1 Sat, 03/03/2018 - 12:53pm
Wow. Zero comments in 16 hours, on the weekend
From:American Politics is like Syria minus Assad
arendt Sat, 03/03/2018 - 08:15am 1 Sat, 03/03/2018 - 12:43pm
Here's a good story on it from Naked Capitalism
From:MIT study says Uber wages are horrible
arendt Fri, 03/02/2018 - 06:23pm 1 Sat, 03/03/2018 - 04:35pm
This boilerplate does not even mention teachers.
From:The War On Teachers has hit a tipping point
arendt Fri, 03/02/2018 - 04:43pm 1 Fri, 03/02/2018 - 06:56pm
Some of the less stupid Richie Riches...
From:The Legacy Left sees the elephant but misses the rest of the living room
arendt Thu, 03/01/2018 - 08:55am 0
I really want "Legacy Left" to catch on
From:The Legacy Left sees the elephant but misses the rest of the living room
arendt Tue, 02/27/2018 - 05:15pm 0
Its now a "fact" that America is "worried" about...
From:The Legacy Left sees the elephant but misses the rest of the living room
arendt Tue, 02/27/2018 - 05:12pm 1 Tue, 02/27/2018 - 10:00pm
I was motivated by sheer aggravation
From:The Legacy Left sees the elephant but misses the rest of the living room
arendt Tue, 02/27/2018 - 05:04pm 0
Thanks for the list.
From:The Legacy Left sees the elephant but misses the rest of the living room
arendt Tue, 02/27/2018 - 01:52pm 0
Right, the schizoid premise of incompetent but dangerous
From:The Legacy Left sees the elephant but misses the rest of the living room
arendt Tue, 02/27/2018 - 08:46am 0
Choices vs decisions
From:The Legacy Left sees the elephant but misses the rest of the living room
arendt Tue, 02/27/2018 - 08:39am 1 Tue, 02/27/2018 - 01:53pm
Its really hard to debunk in-your-face projection
From:The Legacy Left sees the elephant but misses the rest of the living room
arendt Tue, 02/27/2018 - 08:33am 1 Tue, 02/27/2018 - 09:09pm
@#5.1.1
From:Scapegoats against class consciousness
arendt Mon, 02/26/2018 - 10:41pm 0
Its so hard to respond to inciteful speech.
From:Scapegoats against class consciousness
arendt Mon, 02/26/2018 - 03:38pm 1 Mon, 02/26/2018 - 04:47pm
Some institutional factors
From:Scapegoats against class consciousness
arendt Mon, 02/26/2018 - 03:29pm 0
Thanks 4 further confirmation of the importance of institutions
From:A brief history of Disaster Capitalism
arendt Mon, 02/26/2018 - 11:34am 0
I can accept that
From:Scapegoats against class consciousness
arendt Mon, 02/26/2018 - 09:14am 1 Mon, 02/26/2018 - 10:05am
You're the only one who picked up on the "generational" crapola
From:Scapegoats against class consciousness
arendt Mon, 02/26/2018 - 08:34am 1 Mon, 02/26/2018 - 08:50am
On the side of my on the side comment
From:Scapegoats against class consciousness
arendt Mon, 02/26/2018 - 08:23am 1 Mon, 02/26/2018 - 09:42am
RE: "The scapegoat du jour is Russia", an interesting factoid...
From:Scapegoats against class consciousness
arendt Sun, 02/25/2018 - 03:54pm 1 Mon, 02/26/2018 - 07:24am
Indeed, look at the pearl clutching when Bernie said he was...
From:Scapegoats against class consciousness
arendt Sun, 02/25/2018 - 03:38pm 0
This really is a philosophical discussion. I'm OK with that.
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Wed, 02/21/2018 - 09:59am 0
Which is not to say the patent *system* we have today is OK
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Tue, 02/20/2018 - 10:21pm 0
Its not as clear cut as you make it out to be
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Tue, 02/20/2018 - 08:45pm 2 Tue, 02/20/2018 - 10:53pm
Wait a minute. I do not endorse UR.
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Tue, 02/20/2018 - 09:53am 0
Wow. Complicated.
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Tue, 02/20/2018 - 09:09am 0
I willl admit that I do not understand UR's example...
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Tue, 02/20/2018 - 09:07am 2 Tue, 02/20/2018 - 05:47pm
" information that could be kept secret."
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 08:27pm 1 Mon, 02/19/2018 - 10:16pm
I think its a twofer. n/t
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 08:16pm 0
Yes, if we had to perform population surveys before...
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 08:15pm 0
A BP? Really, please elaborate.
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 08:09pm 1 Mon, 02/19/2018 - 10:15pm
Patronage. That's the word I was looking for.
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 08:04pm 0
The history of patents should be kept in mind.
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 07:47pm 1 Mon, 02/19/2018 - 07:59pm
You can join me in Chinese IP hell - IP=identity politics. :-)
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 07:40pm 2 Mon, 02/19/2018 - 08:06pm
The patent system has been broken for decades
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 07:34pm 1 Mon, 02/19/2018 - 08:03pm
Not clear. Are you saying to push "maker" into Youtube...
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 07:23pm 0
Thank you. n/t
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 07:18pm 0
Oh, on wholesale theft of plans, I agree w U completely...
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 02:48pm 1 Mon, 02/19/2018 - 02:55pm
Yes, to us it is theft. But not to the Chinese.
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 02:32pm 1 Mon, 02/19/2018 - 02:41pm
Smart earbuds as cheap hearing aids (slaps forehead)!
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 02:14pm 1 Mon, 02/19/2018 - 11:30pm
RE: very different kinds of organizations.
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 02:08pm 1 Mon, 02/19/2018 - 03:44pm
"I watched the Wired documentary twice recently. "
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 01:56pm 1 Mon, 02/19/2018 - 03:48pm
Good material. Thank you. Others should read.
From:Information Technology: American Haute Couture versus Chinese Pret a Porter
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 01:50pm 1 Mon, 02/19/2018 - 02:08pm
Mistake, sorry. "b" is bernhard, not billmon
From:HILARITY ALERT: Moon of Alabama Explains What the Indicted Russian Trolls Were Really Doing
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 10:09am 1 Mon, 02/19/2018 - 04:16pm
Actually, I think b is an American ex-pat
From:HILARITY ALERT: Moon of Alabama Explains What the Indicted Russian Trolls Were Really Doing
arendt Mon, 02/19/2018 - 09:56am 1 Mon, 02/19/2018 - 10:09am
Sorry to hear of your stroke
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Thu, 02/15/2018 - 10:46am 0
For not trying to disprove, you sure did so.
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Wed, 02/14/2018 - 10:00am 1 Wed, 02/14/2018 - 01:33pm
See my statements about bicameral rigidity in first response
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Tue, 02/13/2018 - 08:50pm 1 Wed, 02/14/2018 - 03:15am
We just have two different interpretations of...
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Tue, 02/13/2018 - 08:47pm 0
A further counterexample: Dum dum bullets
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Tue, 02/13/2018 - 04:01pm 1 Tue, 02/13/2018 - 06:59pm
That's a pretty simplistic picture you paint
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Tue, 02/13/2018 - 03:46pm 1 Tue, 02/13/2018 - 06:21pm
Technology magnifies the power of predators.
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Tue, 02/13/2018 - 02:58pm 2 Wed, 02/14/2018 - 12:31pm
Re: Yahweh - but via some material you might not accept.
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Tue, 02/13/2018 - 11:25am 2 Tue, 02/13/2018 - 11:17pm
To be fair to Steiner...
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Tue, 02/13/2018 - 08:24am 1 Tue, 02/13/2018 - 10:47pm
Wow, that is a great link
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 11:34pm 1 Mon, 02/12/2018 - 11:41pm
The book is readable if you have basic awareness of history
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 11:29pm 0
LOL, been there, had that done to me.
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 11:22pm 1 Tue, 02/13/2018 - 01:06am
Oh, yeah.
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 11:15pm 0
No. I first read OOT in 1973, and she died in 1975.
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 09:09pm 0
Hobsbawm implicitly gets what Mishra is saying
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 09:03pm 0
Berman's investigation of German occultism covers this
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 08:55pm 1 Mon, 02/12/2018 - 11:04pm
Completely agree
From:The Radical American Left
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 07:49pm 1 Mon, 02/12/2018 - 08:06pm
I hear you; and you are closer to the front than I am
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 07:14pm 1 Tue, 02/13/2018 - 10:42am
I think its possible to make a Marxist analysis without being..
From:The Radical American Left
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 07:06pm 1 Mon, 02/12/2018 - 07:46pm
Thanks for the clarification
From:The Radical American Left
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 07:02pm 2 Tue, 02/13/2018 - 11:01am
Here's a review of AoA by Pepe Escobar of Asia Times
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 05:05pm 0
After I write about the futility of revolt in the classic sense
From:The murderous trail of violent emotion in the modern era (Reflections on "The Age of Anger")
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 04:48pm 2 Mon, 02/12/2018 - 08:09pm
Try Googling "antifa funded by Soros" and see what you get.
From:The Radical American Left
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 04:40pm 1 Mon, 02/12/2018 - 05:46pm
Yes. It is math.
From:The Myth Of Horatio Alger That Justifies Our Own Oppression
arendt Mon, 02/12/2018 - 09:44am 0
I was responding to Aspie Corner on the need to keep the DS
From:What's missing? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWXYZ
arendt Sun, 02/11/2018 - 06:02pm 0
Here's another reference about the DS and Wall St.
From:What's missing? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWXYZ
arendt Sun, 02/11/2018 - 11:56am 0
I certainly agree about Raygun and DimSon
From:What's missing? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWXYZ
arendt Sun, 02/11/2018 - 11:46am 1 Sun, 02/11/2018 - 12:50pm
I see no difference between the DS and the capitalist elite
From:What's missing? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWXYZ
arendt Sun, 02/11/2018 - 11:28am 1 Sun, 02/11/2018 - 03:12pm
I will probably venture into this swamp at some point...
From:What's missing? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPRSTUVWXYZ
arendt Sun, 02/11/2018 - 11:17am 1 Sun, 02/11/2018 - 11:32am
They were rugged, but balky
From:Looming military disaster: GPS hacking and Boomerangs
arendt Wed, 02/07/2018 - 10:28pm 0
The Su-17, another dog that refuses to die
From:Looming military disaster: GPS hacking and Boomerangs
arendt Wed, 02/07/2018 - 10:26pm 0
Interesting. And interesting that its before my time!
From:Looming military disaster: GPS hacking and Boomerangs
arendt Wed, 02/07/2018 - 10:23pm 1 Thu, 02/08/2018 - 11:04am
Yes, but let me give my version of it
From:Looming military disaster: GPS hacking and Boomerangs
arendt Wed, 02/07/2018 - 09:44am 1 Wed, 02/07/2018 - 02:26pm
Here's all that was generated on Reddit re: new typewriters.
From:The Revolution: Typewritten?
arendt Tue, 02/06/2018 - 04:39pm 0
I like the concept; I question if it is implementable
From:The Revolution: Typewritten?
arendt Tue, 02/06/2018 - 04:31pm 3 Wed, 02/07/2018 - 01:21am
Sorry. Bernie has knuckled under.
From:"The Republican Party Is a Threat to the Constitutional Order, "
arendt Mon, 02/05/2018 - 03:56pm 0
Another interesting discussion: "The Petro is not a true crypto"
From:A really intelligent discussion of Venezuela's Petro e-currency
arendt Mon, 02/05/2018 - 01:54pm 0
If you could stop evangelizing for a moment...
From:The other side of the (bit) coin
arendt Mon, 02/05/2018 - 09:43am 0
That's what you focus on?
From:The other side of the (bit) coin
arendt Sun, 02/04/2018 - 06:26pm 1 Sun, 02/04/2018 - 06:59pm
BTC is just another bubble blown by the 1%
From:The other side of the (bit) coin
arendt Sun, 02/04/2018 - 04:50pm 1 Sun, 02/04/2018 - 06:24pm
Thanks for tackling that slippery calculation :-) n/t
From:It had to happen: Ponzicoin
arendt Fri, 01/26/2018 - 07:24pm 0
More comedy: Armed Robbers Storm Ontario-Based Bitcoin Firm
From:It had to happen: Ponzicoin
arendt Fri, 01/26/2018 - 01:48pm 1 Sat, 01/27/2018 - 03:35pm
More hilarity: the biggest theft in the history of the world
From:It had to happen: Ponzicoin
arendt Fri, 01/26/2018 - 01:42pm 0
The valuations tell the story
From:It had to happen: Ponzicoin
arendt Fri, 01/26/2018 - 11:53am 1 Sun, 01/28/2018 - 08:25pm
I asked for specific non-financial innovations...
From:MMT and Debt Jubilees versus Bitcoins and the "Cashless Economy"
arendt Tue, 01/23/2018 - 03:09pm 0
As Galbraith said:
From:MMT and Debt Jubilees versus Bitcoins and the "Cashless Economy"
arendt Tue, 01/23/2018 - 01:34pm 0
You are in a hermetically sealed bubble on this topic
From:MMT and Debt Jubilees versus Bitcoins and the "Cashless Economy"
arendt Tue, 01/23/2018 - 01:33pm 0
The gold standard guarantees deflation
From:MMT and Debt Jubilees versus Bitcoins and the "Cashless Economy"
arendt Tue, 01/23/2018 - 12:07pm 1 Tue, 01/23/2018 - 12:29pm
I agree with a lot of what you say
From:MMT and Debt Jubilees versus Bitcoins and the "Cashless Economy"
arendt Tue, 01/23/2018 - 11:41am 1 Tue, 01/23/2018 - 02:20pm
Yes. Only a currency with some state backing willl survive
From:MMT and Debt Jubilees versus Bitcoins and the "Cashless Economy"
arendt Tue, 01/23/2018 - 08:49am 0
It really depends on conditions
From:MMT and Debt Jubilees versus Bitcoins and the "Cashless Economy"
arendt Tue, 01/23/2018 - 08:47am 0
Thanks for the reference. n/t
From:MMT and Debt Jubilees versus Bitcoins and the "Cashless Economy"
arendt Tue, 01/23/2018 - 08:36am 1 Tue, 01/23/2018 - 09:14am

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