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For Personal Reasons, or Is He the Fall
Guy? (washingtonpost.com)
For Personal Reasons, or Is He the Fall
Guy? (washingtonpost.com)
06/04/2004 02:21 PMwashingtonpost.com - When three hijacked planes crashed into the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing thousands, no one took the fall
in the Bush administration.
Clinton's Focus on Personal May Have a
Cost (washingtonpost.com)
Clinton's Focus on Personal May Have a
Cost (washingtonpost.com)
06/20/2004 10:12 PMwashingtonpost.com - For a dozen years, Bill Clinton and his aides
have been urging people to get over the obsession with his personal
side and pay more attention to his policies. Clinton complained
regularly that his achievements got too little notice and the partisan
wars being waged against him too much. His aides lectured reporters
about playing amateur psychologists, forever analyzing what made him
tick.
Bill Clinton's Very Personal Reflections
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Bill Clinton's Very Personal Reflections
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Race Shifts From Personal to National
(washingtonpost.com)
Race Shifts From Personal to National
(washingtonpost.com)
01/28/2004 12:05 AMwashingtonpost.com - John Kerry prevailed, Howard Dean survived -- and
the Democratic presidential contest between the two New Englanders now
moves to a set of southern and border states where many Democrats
think John Edwards may pose the biggest challenge to Kerry's strong
claim on the nomination.
PeopleSoft Turns Down Latest Bid By
Oracle (washingtonpost.com)
PeopleSoft Turns Down Latest Bid By
Oracle (washingtonpost.com)
02/10/2004 02:52 AMwashingtonpost.com - PeopleSoft Inc. yesterday rejected Oracle Corp.'s
$9.4 billion hostile takeover bid, saying the $26-a-share
offer is too low and expressing serious doubts about whether the
proposed combination would receive antitrust approval from regulators
in Washington.
U.S. Turns Up Pressure on Shiite
Cleric's Militia (washingtonpost.com)
U.S. Turns Up Pressure on Shiite
Cleric's Militia (washingtonpost.com)
05/12/2004 09:40 PMwashingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, May 12 -- U.S. forces, using tanks,
armored personnel carriers and attack helicopters, pushed into the
centers of two holy cities Wednesday in pursuit of bands of masked
guerrillas loyal to a rebellious cleric at the heart of the Shiite
insurgency.
Edwards Turns On the Charm to Build
Kerry Base (washingtonpost.com)
Edwards Turns On the Charm to Build
Kerry Base (washingtonpost.com)
06/27/2004 09:00 PMOn the rhetoric of adverts...
On the rhetoric of adverts...
02/10/2004 02:46 AMBrief one this: So I'm watching Contact on television and there's
an advert for Pantene shampoo.
And the voice comes on - the deep pounding "buy me" voice of the
professional voice-over artist - and he says ,"Pantene makes your hair
not just once - but twice as shiny!" Can you imagine that? Can
you imagine how awesome that must be? I mean something that makes your
hair once as shiny is clearly pretty good (given how important
the advert made it sound), but this is way way beyond once! This is
like twice! That's like once as shiny two times over!
Can someone explain to me how an advert can present "once as shiny"
as somehow something pretty awesome that only Pantene can beat? I
mean, wouldn't hair naturally be once as shiny? If it wasn't -
that would be a problem, wouldn' t it? I mean if your shampoo made
your hair 90% as shiny, then wouldn't it gradually and eventually
decrease in shininess every time you washed it? Wouldn't it eventually
come to absorb all light? Maybe that does happen in very poor places
where they can't afford proper almost-once-as-shiny-making shampoo.
God how confusing that must be for people at night. It would hurt your
eyes eventually, wouldn't it? And wouldn't it make people's heads
really really hot after a while? Frankly the thought's so scary that
I'm now scrabbling around for a shampoo that guarantees me precisely
100% normal shininess and not a single millionth of a percentage
either way. If it's not precisely once as shiny, I don't think I want
to go near it...
Objective Rhetoric
Objective Rhetoric
07/28/2004 02:46 PMAt this point, thirty years after New Journalism and Post-Modernism,
you'd think we wouldn't still need to have this argument, but, here
goes: Objectivity isn't objective. Or, as my friend AKMA puts it, "The
only people you can trust to be objective are the ones who know that
objectivity can’t be reached." If you need proof of this, look no
further than the lead article in today's Boston Globe. I have no
quarrel at all with the article. In fact, I read it with interest this
morning over breakfast. Glen Johnson does a fine job reporting on the
second night...
"Dangerous rhetoric"
"Dangerous rhetoric"
05/24/2004 04:03 PMBehind the Sun, Microsoft, rhetoric
Behind the Sun, Microsoft, rhetoric
04/12/2004 02:06 PMThe elephant in the room when Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced
their fairly stunning detente was commoditization — the pressure
from widely available, low-cost alternatives.
Go behind the rhetoric and Microsoft's promise to pay Sun nearly $2
billion. You'll find long-term trends that have to be gnawing at the
companies' chief executives, Scott McNealy of Sun and Steve Ballmer of
Microsoft, who shared the stage in a news conference and acted like
friends.
Outsourcing: Reforms not rhetoric
Outsourcing: Reforms not rhetoric
05/04/2004 07:58 AMZDNet May 4 2004 12:26PM GMT
Outsourcing: U.S. needs reforms, not
rhetoric
Outsourcing: U.S. needs reforms, not
rhetoric
07/19/2004 06:16 AMCNET Jul 19 2004 10:08AM GMT
Oil Rhetoric Is Running on Empty
Oil Rhetoric Is Running on Empty
03/31/2005 12:39 PMPC rhetoric substituted for facts
PC rhetoric substituted for facts
05/12/2004 04:11 AMScoop May 12 2004 8:44AM GMT
Libertarian Rhetoric is
Counterproductive
Libertarian Rhetoric is
Counterproductive
06/22/2004 08:23 PMThere's a problem with typical libertarian rhetoric, and it's
illustrated in this article in New Hampshire's Union Leader. When we
speak like crazed Rand-worshippers, how do we expect people to react?
Of course they're going to call us 'cultists.' From the article: "if
you care at all about New Hampshire, you should do everything in your
power to cause the Free Staters and Towners to abort their mission.
They're nothing but a selfish group of anarchist carpetbaggers whose
sole purpose is to destroy a place and people they don't give two
hoots about." (I'm not a member of the FSP by the way, just taking an
interest.)
Classic Rhetoric and Persuasion
Classic Rhetoric and Persuasion
05/13/2004 09:18 AM
Peitho's Web:
Classic Rhetoric and Persuasion.
Analysts See Shift in Bin Laden's
Rhetoric (AP)
Analysts See Shift in Bin Laden's
Rhetoric (AP)
12/28/2004 09:35 PMAP - U.S. intelligence analysts believe Osama bin Laden has shifted
from outright calls for violence to political arguments in recent
taped messages in hopes of driving a wedge between the United States
and its allies, officials said Tuesday.
BetsyDevine : Rhetoric versus reality
BetsyDevine : Rhetoric versus reality
01/05/2004 07:25 AMBetsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar? : Making trouble today
for a better tomorrow .. BetsyDevine .. Devine ..
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Sun-Microsoft Alliance: Analysts Look
Beyond Rhetoric
Sun-Microsoft Alliance: Analysts Look
Beyond Rhetoric
04/13/2004 09:02 PMLinux Insider Apr 14 2004 1:43AM GMT
Reforms, not rhetoric, needed to keep
jobs in U.S.
Reforms, not rhetoric, needed to keep
jobs in U.S.
05/04/2004 06:37 AMGovernment officials, business leaders and academics agree that the
future of America's technology complex depends on education,
professional training and research investment
Palestinian Struggle: Reality vs.
Rhetoric
Palestinian Struggle: Reality vs.
Rhetoric
04/10/2005 11:42 PMArabic Media Internet Network Apr 11 2005 2:48AM GMT
DeLay Apologizes for Schiavo Case
Rhetoric (AP)
DeLay Apologizes for Schiavo Case
Rhetoric (AP)
04/13/2005 10:30 PMAP - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay apologized Wednesday for using
overheated rhetoric on the day Terri Schiavo died, but refused to say
whether he supports impeachment of the judges who ruled in her case.
Rhetoric From Right Alarms Israeli
Leaders (Los Angeles Times)
Rhetoric From Right Alarms Israeli
Leaders (Los Angeles Times)
07/07/2004 07:47 AMLos Angeles Times - JERUSALEM — The Israeli parliament met
Tuesday night to discuss reports that far-right Jewish activists were
inciting violence to oppose the removal of Jewish settlements from the
Gaza Strip.
Kerry's Anti-American Rhetoric Used in
Torture of POWs
Kerry's Anti-American Rhetoric Used in
Torture of POWs
08/28/2004 01:20 PMDavid Freddoso: Kerry's Anti-American Rhetoric Used In Torture Of POWs
(W/ Quotes) .. come forward to bash John Kerry .. Human
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The rhetoric of the Challenger disaster:
A case study for technical and
professional communication
The rhetoric of the Challenger disaster:
A case study for technical and
professional communication
11/12/2003 01:13 PMResearch And Markets: Will Personal
Robots Become The Norm? Take A Look At
The Market For Personal Robots In Japan
Research And Markets: Will Personal
Robots Become The Norm? Take A Look At
The Market For Personal Robots In Japan
12/17/2004 06:40 PMResearch and Markets has announced the addition of Next-Generation
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Default Values
Default Values
10/02/2002 03:01 PMRepresenting Specified Values in OWL
Representing Specified Values in OWL
08/04/2004 06:57 PM2004-08-03: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD)
Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of
Representing Specified Values in OWL: "value partitions" and "value
sets." Comments are welcome. The draft presents methods for
representing modified values and collections of values in the OWL Web
Ontology Language. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)
GetSpecialFolder Values
GetSpecialFolder Values
08/30/2004 10:27 AME.J. Dionne: Who's Got the Wrong Values
Now? 7/14
E.J. Dionne: Who's Got the Wrong Values
Now? 7/14
07/14/2004 06:45 AMtoday
suggests
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Family Values in Action
Family Values in Action
04/13/2004 10:06 AM
Jamiel Terry, son of Randall Terry, famous anti-gay and
anti-abortion spokesmen,
comes out and speaks out in OUT
Magazine . His father
preemptively responds before OUT hits the stands, claiming his
son has sold out the family for $5,000.
Google values its own privacy. How does
it value yours?
Google values its own privacy. How does
it value yours?
04/13/2004 06:24 PMThe Register Apr 13 2004 11:20PM GMT
Universal Values, Relatively Speaking
Universal Values, Relatively Speaking
02/01/2005 09:04 PM
A week ago I provided a values
self-test, and asked for your help creating a complete list of human
values, ranked in order of importance. I also promised to provide my
own list and rankings. The chart above is the composite of the
responses. It suggests that there are nine facets to our happiness:
Health, Home, Connection, Discovery, Work, Peace, Play, Awareness and
Self-Esteem. Each of these has aspects that vary depending on our
culture, and their relative importance varies from person to person.
I've shown Family as an aspect of Connection, but for some it may be
inseparable from Home. I've shown 'Work' in quotation marks because I
mean it in the broader sense of 'making a living', rather than the
narrow sense of employment. Again, for some people, self-styled
'home-makers', this may be inseparable from Home. And I've grouped
Personal Values and Beliefs under Discovery because they're part of
self-discovery, making meaning of our lives. You may quibble with my
terminology and groupings, but I'm reasonably confident that this
schema represents a set of Universal Human Values. In fact, I'd say it
represents the values of all sentient life -- from my readings and
personal study of birds, I think ravens, at least, share these nine
values and strive, consciously or unconsciously, to maximize their
achievement. These are the things that drive us all, that motivate all
activity, and because they're all essential to survival of the
species,
they're probably all coded into our DNA.
Alas, just because we may have a shared set of core values doesn't
make
it any easy to achieve agreement on how to maximize and achieve them.
The answer to "How Do We Best Achieve These Things" is a function
of:
- The information we can bring to bear
- The frames
through which we filter and assess that information
- Our culture: Accepted and preferred behaviours
Let's consider the sixth value, Peace, for example. Some of us believe
it is appropriate or even necessary to take aggressive action to
'secure' peace, while others believe in passive resistance to
peace-threatening actions. Some of us, because of the frames through
which we process information about acts of violence, believe that
force
(forces of 'evil') must be met with force (forces of 'good'), while
others with different frames believe we are all good, and that the
solution to violence is to address the inhuman circumstances that give
rise to such unnatural and desperate acts. Some of us believe the role
of the collective is to secure peace, to protect the community from
hostile outsiders, and everything else is the responsibility of the
individual. Others believe we are all responsible for each other in
every sense and aspect of our lives, and that our collective agents
(like governments) should exercise that responsibility extensively and
diligently.
So, if we cannot agree on How to achieve these values, is there even
any point to agreeing on What they are?
I think there is, for two reasons. First, and most obviously, it helps
us to better understand and find common cause with those with
different
frames, since, at bottom, we're all looking for the same thing.
Secondly, it can help us look rationally at our beliefs and
behaviours,
to assess whether they really make sense in light of what they are
intended to appreciate and achieve.
Here's an interesting example of the latter: One thing most liberals
and most conservatives seem to agree on is the value, at least in
theory, of globalization. Liberals don't like the way globalization
can
cause massive social and environmental damage, or how it's been abused
to force third world countries to adopt Western political and economic
policies and give up control of their economies, land and resources,
but most believe that it is quite possible to mitigate these negatives
and still reap the benefit
of free movement of goods and services at market prices as a mechanism
of humanitarianism and eventually economic, social and political
improvement. Conservatives see globalization as the ultimate
manifestation of a 'free' (unimpeded by government) economy, and as a
means to export 'good' Western values, but even they are more than a
little worried about a global government that they don't control
(hence
their loathing of the UN).
What is implicit in the both the liberal and conservative worldviews
of
globalization's benefits is that cultural homogenization is a good
thing. To the conservative, one world adhering to American values
would
be free of terrorism -- if we're all brought up with the same values
and beliefs (and believing in the One True God) the only crime that
would be left would be crimes of sloth and similar individual
moral weakness, universally abhorred and 'nipped in the bud' by a
uniform global 'spare the rod and spoil the child' criminal justice
system. All believing the same, growing up the same, with the same
'opportunity' -- what better way to achieve World Peace? To the
liberal, one world adhering to an agreed-upon consensus of laws,
standards and values would be the 'UN done right', where with only one
government, there would be no 'other government' to wage war on, and
with a global meeting-place for sharing ideas and resolving
disagreements, there would be limited support for civil war as
well.
These neo-liberal and neo-conservative views, though, both implicitly
see cultural heterogeneity as a threat to world peace. What is
interesting about this 'if we're all the same we'll get along'
rationale is that it is imperialistic and utterly ignorant of the
anthropological reasons why such cultural heterogeneity arose in the
first place. Indeed, most anthropologists argue that man is already
astonishingly culturally homogeneous already, and that cultural
imperialism and cultural homogeneity have grown in near-perfect
lock-step with the scale of human violence and war.
In hunter-gatherer cultures, both human and animal, there is little
cultural homogeneity between communities, and inter-mixing between
communities is rare. Anthropologists are astonished at how tribes
living just a few miles apart had rituals, beliefs, religions and even
diets that were completely alien to each other, almost unimaginably
different. Our civilization culture's expansion, imperialism, and
language impositions have compromised these differences enormously,
but
they are still somewhat observable. Even after several hundred years
civilization culture is so utterly alien to North American First
Nations people that they have proved almost impossible to integrate
and
assimilate.
Why would nature, and evolution have encouraged this innate
heterogeneity, this xenophobia which almost inevitably leads to
inter-cultural conflict? The obvious reason is resistance to disease.
As AIDS has shown so horrifically, and the Plague before it, movement
of people between cultures brings the risk of epidemics, and the more
culturally homogeneous the species, the greater the risk that such
epidemics will wipe out the entire race. This homogeneity-caused
fragility is not unique to humans -- we've seen it in the Avian Flu,
and the spread of Mad Cow, and the devastation that this fragility
caused during the Irish Potato Famine should be enough to make us
think
twice about the desirability of us, and our staple foods, being
increasingly genetically indistinguishable around the world, and the
desirability of our being able to travel around the world and infect
so
many others with new exotic diseases so easily.
That's the evolutionary explanation for nature's abhorrence for
homogeneity, and possibly the reason we are inherently so xenophobic
and intolerant of other cultures. But beyond the genetic fragility of cultural
homogeneity, cultural homogeneity also brings with it memetic
fragility -- a lack of variety of ideas. You can already see evidence
of this poverty of imagination in corporations and cults where
intellectual and behavioural conformity is strongly encouraged: no
innovation, group-think leading to inflexibility and denial of the
existence of problems, vulnerability to seduction by false comforts,
and brainwashing.
So assuming that cultural homogeneity is an inevitable consequence of
globalization, at least the globalization models we've come up with so
far, is the resultant genetic and memetic fragility that we would get
along with 'world peace' worth all the wars and imperialistic
devastation necessary to achieve it? Is the benefit of increasing
Peace, one of the nine universal human values, outweighed by the
commensurate reduction in Health and Home and Discovery, three of the
other values?
I prefer to take my learnings from nature, which may or may not be as
'smart' as we are but which demonstrated, especially prior to the
advent of civilization, a remarkable resilience and ability to
optimize
these nine universal values, not just for pre-civilized man but for
all
other life on the planet as well.
Nature would suggest, I think, that the answer is not One World,
homogeneous, a single world political and economic and cultural
system,
but instead a rediscovery of community, of diversity, of the richness
and strength of cultural difference, of heterogeneity.
Nature would suggest that community, not nuclear family or 'household'
or nation-state, is the place and level of aggregation where we will
find the true meaning of Home, of Belonging, of Love and Relationship
and Connection and Self-Sufficiency, and that the land and environment
and all the creatures on it that constitute our Home are sacred and
inviolable and belong to no one.
Nature would suggest that Discovery and Learning and Personal Values
and Beliefs are most effectively found by personal exploration, by
trial and error, through all of our senses in the real world, not by
reading textbooks in classrooms.
Nature would suggest that 'Work', making a living, is done most
successfully and meaningfully by cooperatively and collaboratively, as
equals, beholden to no one but one's chosen partners, helping
ourselves
and others meet real, unmet needs.
Nature would suggest that Peace comes from respecting the differences
and sovereignty of other communities, in celebrating their diversity
as
robust and astonishing communities in the human experiment, and in
trading ideas and goods reciprocally when it is necessary and to the
benefit of all.
Nature would suggest that Playfulness and Awareness and Self-Esteem
are
part of the very essence and meaning of life and that our modern
civilized world which trivializes and veils and manipulates our
achievement of these things turns a world of joy into a prison and
cripples us as human beings.
But I'm not sure I could convince a conservative, or a radical
Islamist, or even a Third World child captivated by the possibility of
modern American life, of this.
We may share the same universal values, but we see them, and the road
to their achievement, through utterly different eyes.
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A Big-Box Retailer that Values Employees
A Big-Box Retailer that Values Employees
02/15/2004 01:16 PMJames Flanigan (LA Times):
Costco Sees Value in Higher Pay.
"We pay better than the supermarkets, and we pay much better than
Wal-Mart," (CEO) Sinegal says. "That's not altruism," he continues.
"It's good business."Adopted family values
Adopted family values
12/27/2004 03:18 PM
The Evan Parker Scott
case bears more than a passing resemblance to the
Baby Richard case of
several years ago. Once more, a toddler who barely knows what's going
on is being confiscated by the parent who gave him up in the first
place. Is the domestic adoption system broken?
Returned values in Java
Returned values in Java
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Passing values from Excel to the web via
AppleScript
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AppleScript
06/23/2004 09:31 AMIt took me some time to figure out how to pass a variable from an
Excel table to a form on the web using a do Javascript in Safari, but
I finally did figure it out sometime ago and would like to share it
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