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14539. arkymalarky - 4/7/2005 8:03:21 PM Be careful arky, it's a small step from "community" to "communist".
Ha! Mac, you sound like a member of our State Board of Education. 14540. Magoseph - 4/8/2005 11:53:41 AM The bell is tolling, she said—of course it is. I can see it--what’s more--I can hear it, BE QUIET, will you? 14541. alistairconnor - 4/8/2005 12:24:50 PM Ask not for whom the bell tolls. For it tolls for Old Karol.
Cue Neil Sedaka :
Oh Karol
I am but a fool 14542. Magoseph - 4/8/2005 12:38:09 PM I'm trying not to picture Flexy with "something more convincing" in his hand.
Well, Ali, I cannot get clever word-allusions--but at least, I can provoke them and not always unwittingly either 14543. jayackroyd - 4/8/2005 3:11:48 PM Thanks, wabbit, for the skype info and support. I've just gotten off a call with a relative in Portugal, who thinks it may make a real difference to their business communications to Mozambique.
For the uninitiated, skype is a free voice over ip service. 14544. wabbit - 4/8/2005 5:07:34 PM np, Jay. I've been talking with Spunky and the family in Mumbai the last couple days and it's been working perfectly for us. 14545. jayackroyd - 4/8/2005 6:06:09 PM There have been a couple articles in the last week, one leader in the economist and a piece by Tom Friedman in the NYTimes magazine where they've suddenly (!) realized that having big hunks of fiber running under the oceans and people being able to get detailed information about products changes everything.
I'm surprised that this is news. I find it funny to remember the bubble times when people were talking about bots, while missing the central idea that the digital infrastructure plus the idea of the internet sends the marginal price of a lot of things close to zero. In some ways, it's astonishing that I can place a call to Europe for free, but the writing was on the wall. Making money off it, otoh is tricky.
14546. thoughtful - 4/8/2005 6:48:00 PM not new but clearly needs repeating considering how little attention any policy makers are paying to the drastic structural shifts taking place in the economy...at our peril. 14547. jayackroyd - 4/8/2005 6:57:58 PM I just can't feel bad about poor, talented people getting new opportunities. We are so freakin' rich that it feels like a dog in the manger thing to be threatened by other people doing better.
But I do agree that the policy makers are way behind the curve. This education thing really needs to be dealt with, even though it's hard, for one example. 14548. thoughtful - 4/8/2005 7:35:16 PM and not just education, but also infrastructure. there are concrete things (pun intended) the govt should be doing to keep us with a fighting chance to keep our productivity high and growing.
14549. jayackroyd - 4/8/2005 7:40:07 PM It's good for everyone if the US continues to keep productivity growing. But there is a tendency to react in an isolationist fashion. Free trade makes us strong imo. Getting strong is sometimes painful, but it's the price you pay. Autarky didn't work out well for the Russians, although in the short run it looked successful. And there's something I find really wrong about agricultural subsidies and tariffs when there are people desperate for a higher level of income being shut out. 14550. thoughtful - 4/8/2005 7:58:48 PM i never suggested we undo free trade 14551. jayackroyd - 4/8/2005 9:02:05 PM Didn't say you did. Folks worried about outsourcing, though, often do tread that line. 14552. thoughtful - 4/8/2005 9:04:17 PM well the outsourcing thing has really died down since the economy started adding jobs. it was really a cyclical thing. the job loss was never large enough to matter in reality, though certainly it made political hay. Just another reason why the dems were losing it to bush. Instead of sounding protectionist, they should have boosted the education and job training and social safety net aspects of surviving changes due to expanded trade
14553. Magoseph - 4/9/2005 11:25:46 AM ...well the outsourcing thing has really died down since the economy started adding jobs.
That really explains why Lou Dobs shifted his crusade almost entirely to the illegal immigration policies lately. 14554. Magoseph - 4/9/2005 1:18:11 PM Flexy is watching Charles and Camilla getting married and I hear him chuckling and once really laughing out loud. "Come and see the hats, he says. 14555. wonkers2 - 4/9/2005 3:49:59 PM Lou Dobbs is well intentioned, not a deep thinker. 14556. Marc-Albert - 4/9/2005 9:52:15 PM 
Appetizing yes, but I think that the other francophones here will agree with me that it should read: Liver Pâté en Masse
14557. judithathome - 4/9/2005 10:59:44 PM MA, your picture didn't show up for me. Try again? 14558. Magoseph - 4/11/2005 9:57:34 PM I can't imagine how some people have the gall who drop heavy bags full of pressed-down dead leaves in our woods. This morning, Flexy and I had to drag them to the street for the garbage truck. I mean, what did they do, these peopl, keep the bags in their garage all winter? Where could these people live that they don't have garbage pick-up? How frustating sometimes to deal with the world at large, I swear.
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