― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 18:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 18:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 18:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
No, it didn't, because this sort of business model is an anomaly. This is a statistical fact. If it weren't an anomaly their press material wouldn't keep saying it's "unlike a traditional business" and "revolutionary" and "visionary" and harping on "just the fact that we exist."
It's also, as I mentioned, a business, which is the main reason why I don't see its relevance here in the least -- unless you're the rare anarcho-syndicalist who, like a pre-election George W. Bush, believes in the "government is like a business" trope!
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 19:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
yes!! Seconded!!
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
you repeat that this is an ordinary business but it's not! Go at it starting from the citizen then: the citizen inscribes viself into a network of communications and a large part of vis time is spent working. that's all I'm saying. I could have also talked about the importance to hold this anarchist model to the family structure: where everybody is equal and the tasks and decisions are shared equally.
Radical decentralization can maintain the equivalent of sociaist "nationalized ressources". Inspiration left me for now
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 20:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 20:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 20:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
the 'fun' bit was a gauche way to relate to the readers coming from a culture of leisure.
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 21:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anarchy is stupid.
― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 21:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 21:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 17:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 17:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
you seem much more utopian/rose-glasses wearing about how ppl will behave in a situation than i am. guess, approach to world
― H (Heruy), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 22:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 17 April 2003 09:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
FWIW.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 April 2003 12:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 17 April 2003 13:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
Well, yeah, but looking over the history of the twentieth century, this has been all the harder to do when dictators are involved, to put it mildly.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 April 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 13:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
* - this is not automatically a good thing.
― Stuart (Stuart), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
Getting way off-topic, but... don't do that. Your tip is your vote. Don't throw it away. I mean, don't be a dick, but if you feel you've gotten truly substandard service, don't tip well. By doing that, you're sending your message either to the waiter ("maybe you should consider temping") or to the restaurant owner ("you know that guy who's always complaining about how he doesn't make any money? guess why.").
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
The museum's comprehensive collection was unprecedented. Saddam's secularism and his long-term interest in Iraq's archaeological legacy—in part self-serving; he inscribed his name next to Nebuchadnezzar's in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon—had enriched the National Museum's collection. (According to a Financial Times piece from 2000, Saddam reportedly made extensive suggestions in the margins of all reports filed by Iraq's archaeological director, Donny George. He also made antiquities smuggling punishable by death.)
The military's inaction doesn't seem to have been a question of choosing between protecting civilians and guarding gold jewelry. The Chicago Tribune reported that the U.S. military successfully assigned men to chip away a disrespectful mural of former President George Bush on the floor of the Al Rashid Hotel, even though it failed to protect the museum and library from being plundered.
Only two of the thousands of pieces of art that were stolen after the first Gulf War were recovered, McGuire Gibson, who teaches Mesopotamian archaeology at the University of Chicago, has said. Even if a sculpture of a bronze Akkadian king isn't important to the Bush administration, you'd think its own self-interest would be: In the eyes of the world, the war's success will be measured as much by what happens now and over the coming months as by the shock and awe campaign. And the United States now has a black mark that it could have avoided.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 18 April 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link