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LINUX AINT UNIX
I fired my teacher who used to work for Dow Chemical because she said that LINUX was a FLAVOR of UNIX. I couldn't taste it. A good chemical company can make anything taste like anything. FSRN reports on a planned increase in competition for computer makers....
Posted: Tue, Aug 19, 2003 8:46pm PDT
Caught in Consumerism
"Consumers ultimately copy the advertising, competition and achievement society produced by politics and the media and see no possibilities for exodus from this money- and success pressure.. In Karl Polanyi's words, the market society is totalitarian."...
Posted: Tue, Aug 19, 2003 6:00am PDT
SPAM BORROWED MY TIME MACHINE
I picked up a can of SPAM and rushed it through the automated grocery clerk at Krogers before any one else could see that the new label has a STRANGE symbol with a big number 3 in it....
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2003 4:04pm PDT
KUCINICH, GOODMAN, PALAST DISPUTE GRID EXPERTS
"Democracy Now" included a feature debate today proving that journalists and politicians are inept at managing a power grid and defending the rights of the public on this issue....
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2003 1:20pm PDT
Cancun Cyclists Need Place to Stay
There is a crew of 17 cyclists who are making the trip from Vancouver to Cancun on their bikes. they are in the Bay Area right now and need a place to stay for the next two nights (8/17 and 8/18). if you can help with a warehouse space or a place for them to camp out, call their collective cell phone at 613-293-0849...
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2003 11:19am PDT
Green Amazon Economics 101
You can’t always get what you want......
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2003 10:28am PDT
Climate Change Endangers Growth of World Economy
"The solar architect Rolf Disch in Freiburg sold the first solar-energy-plus houses that produce more energy with the help of the sun than is consumed in these energy-houses. Every homeowner becomes an energy-seller. Economy and ecology harmonize.."...
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2003 6:30am PDT
RALPH NADER WRECKED MY NEW CAR
Ralph Nader and others WRECKED MY NEW CAR by hounding regulators until car manufacturers put explosive charges in most vehicles which detonate upon impact thus deploying the air bag and adding to the cost of upgrading the CNG taxi that I want to distribute. Windows users prevented me from posting a picture of the car....
Posted: Sat, Aug 16, 2003 10:52pm PDT
MCAFEE LIBELS SPAM
McAfee, terrorist computer fraud company, explained to me via electronic mail that SPAM, a registered trademark for a high quality canned meat product, is unwanted electronic mail. This company tried to sell me anti-virus software in the past....
Posted: Sat, Aug 16, 2003 7:57pm PDT
Street Medicine: Volunteers for Pepper Spraying?
Street medicine and action medics are in great demand as police violence increases against activists. This article reviews street medicine wisdom and organizations....
Posted: Sat, Aug 16, 2003 2:05pm PDT
Aug 19 - From California to Cancun: Challenging the Economics of Empire
A free event against the WTO . . . and war by other means! Join us Tuesday, August 19th at 7 pm at New College....
Posted: Sat, Aug 16, 2003 1:32pm PDT
Bush Ordered Blackout for Evil Energy Bills
Bush & Company gave us the 9/11 Hoax and now we have the 4/11 Hoax, the Big Blackout which occurred at 4:11 p.m. "suddenly" shutting down a hugh power grid, mysteriously overriding the stop gaps. Read this excellent repost with timeline from New York Indymedia showing how Bush & Co benefit from coal-burning & nuclear plants instead of renewable energy systems....
Posted: Sat, Aug 16, 2003 12:27am PDT
BUSH PLAN BLOCKED BY MILLIONS OF PROTESTORS
Millions turned out for a SURPRISE protest in New York yesterday about the PRIVATE MANAGEMENT OF TRANSMISSION GRIDS which should be managed by the citizens of the whole country because the grids are interstate devices. I am still investigating the matter....
Posted: Fri, Aug 15, 2003 7:07pm PDT
BUSH ADMITS KNOWING BLACKOUT CAUSE
Bush was quoted on CNBC as blaming the "grid" for the blackout by saying that it "indicates a need for modernization". Others say the cause is still unknown and will take several days to figure out if possible....
Posted: Fri, Aug 15, 2003 2:12pm PDT
POWER OUTAGE TRACED TO DIM BULB IN WHITE HOUSE
The Tale of The Brits Who Swiped 800 Jobs From New York, Carted Off $90 Million, Then Tonight, Turned Off Our Lights...
Posted: Fri, Aug 15, 2003 12:16pm PDT
GLEN EPSTEIN GRABS FOR CASH ON CNBC
This man apparantly works for Intermagnetics and seems to know what caused the power outage in the Northeast. He also claimed to have a patented solution. Others are claiming it was caused by over demand although no evidence was given....
Posted: Fri, Aug 15, 2003 11:08am PDT
terrorist solar flares cause eastcoast blackouts
huge x class solar flares cause east coast electrical disturbances...
Posted: Thu, Aug 14, 2003 3:30pm PDT
Deconstructing Dinner Caravan
We're coming through San Fran on Friday , August 15th, and we're eager to hook up with the Critical Mass that day starting at Justin Herman Plaza....
Posted: Wed, Aug 13, 2003 11:30pm PDT
KPFT PATCHED A GEEK
"Technology Bytes", an ever changing radio show about electronic technology on Pacifica's KPFT radio in Houston changed their engineering disposition this week on the same day that "Democracy Now" exposed another computer fraud by interviewing a professor from Rice University....
Posted: Wed, Aug 13, 2003 10:59pm PDT
Libertarians who loathe Israel
Irrational hatred for "an isolated Sparta, bristling with weaponry and little else" prompts libertarians to forget their welfare economics. For example, Raimondo menacingly warns that without US aid, Israel would cease to exist... Come again?...
Posted: Wed, Aug 13, 2003 6:58pm PDT