Witchcraft, Capitalism Thrive on Magi (AP)

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Witchcraft, Capitalism Hit Mexican Town
(AP)

Witchcraft, Capitalism Hit Mexican Town
(AP) 03/08/2004 11:25 PM
AP - CATEMACO, Mexico — The witchcraft business is thriving like never before in this town in southeastern Mexico, as Internet marketing and media-savvy shamans hitch centuries-old tradition to modern commercialism.

Witchcraft repackaged

Witchcraft repackaged 09/15/2004 03:23 PM
Here's a review of Harry Potter... Witchcraft Repackaged: Making Evil Look Innocent in the Wave Magazine. Some choice quotes:

Oh, the inescapable logic...

(Thanks to Syksy for the link.)

Shows that mention witchcraft no longer
eligible for closed-captioning

Shows that mention witchcraft no longer
eligible for closed-captioning 02/16/2004 11:56 PM
The five-secret-person Department of Education panel that allocates funding for closed-captioning will no longer provide assitive tracks for the deaf to shows that mention witchcraft, including Scooby Doo, Bewitched, and Justice League.

[T]he result of this mysterious panel's deliberations was that the US Department of Education was to declare over 200 TV programs (almost no cartoons, except for things like Prince of Egypt. No more sports. Precious little drama...) were now inappropriate for closed-caption funding...

28 million Americans are now being protected from Sabrina...

Witches of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your vertical blanking interval! Link (Thanks, Sam!)

Capitalism

Capitalism 03/20/2003 02:11 PM
Whoever makes the game Conflict: Desert Storm should do a new marketing blitz.

How can you thrive among nondevelopers?

How can you thrive among nondevelopers? 07/11/2002 12:57 AM
CNET Jul 11 2002 0:04AM ET

Destroy Capitalism

Destroy Capitalism 08/29/2004 11:21 PM
While $3 is a steep service charge, the automated teller machine at Jamie Zawinski's DNA Lounge might be the only cash terminal on the planet that hates America.

"Capitalism and Freedom"

"Capitalism and Freedom" 06/05/2004 04:19 AM

Crony Capitalism '03

Crony Capitalism '03 10/30/2003 02:47 PM
Donate to Bush, Get a War "More than 70 American companies and individuals have won up to $8 billion in contracts for work in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan over the last two years, according to a new study by the Center for Public Integrity. Those companies donated more money to the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush—a little over $500,000—than to any other politician over the last dozen years, the Center found. " No blood for oil campaign donations, indeed.

Do You Thrive or Crack Under Pressure?

Do You Thrive or Crack Under Pressure? 09/10/2004 04:44 PM

Lessons in Capitalism #2: Management

Lessons in Capitalism #2: Management 03/26/2005 07:55 PM
In second grade, one of our class projects was to build a model schoolhouse. The kids made a really wonderful…

Lessons in Capitalism #3: Sycophancy

Lessons in Capitalism #3: Sycophancy 03/26/2005 10:03 PM
A young BEN BEZARK is bouncing a ball in front of our elementary school. While he plays, a young AARON…

The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 04/19/2005 09:47 AM
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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Capitalism on Trial in Russia

Capitalism on Trial in Russia 06/19/2004 03:17 PM
The trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former chief executive of Yukos Oil, could shape for years the nature of the country's experiments in capitalism.

Capitalism, Meet Globalism

Capitalism, Meet Globalism 01/07/2004 01:57 PM
Capitalism has met the enemy, and it is capitalism. Just ask the pharmaceutical industry.

State of Social Capitalism

State of Social Capitalism 01/07/2004 01:57 PM

Intel Dumped, Biotechs Thrive

Intel Dumped, Biotechs Thrive 07/15/2004 01:53 AM
Smart Money Jul 15 2004 6:07AM GMT

Game sales thrive thanks to big kids

Game sales thrive thanks to big kids 12/28/2004 07:35 PM
CNET News.com Dec 28 2004 11:20PM GMT

how the Guarani language continues to
thrive

how the Guarani language continues to
thrive 08/16/2004 02:04 PM
sounds like paraguay's made a compelling case for defending bilingual culture

Linux community sites thrive on the Web

Linux community sites thrive on the Web 05/10/2004 04:30 AM
You see it in headlines. It's quoted in the wires like some monotheistic Mel Gibson filled with religious fervor. But where is The Linux Community? Alive and well in forum-based community Web sites.

China engraves capitalism onto its
constitution

China engraves capitalism onto its
constitution 12/23/2003 12:21 AM
China engraves capitalism onto its constitution. This is good development indeed. Although business investment and production has been flourishing in China, doing business there remained very risky because of the fact that private property rights have never been officially legalized. That has changed. The question now is: does economic freedom beget political freedom?

Spitzer : Man Of The Year - Savior of
Capitalism ?

Spitzer : Man Of The Year - Savior of
Capitalism ? 01/21/2003 10:06 PM
One of the few remaining start-ups in the Valley (don't ask, and don't Google - there's nothing public) that I know recently had to lay off a substantial ...

Red Hat Exec: Linux Desktops Must Stand
Out to Thrive

Red Hat Exec: Linux Desktops Must Stand
Out to Thrive 07/28/2004 05:01 PM
To persuade Windows users to make the switch, Linux desktops need to "provide something different and more useful," says the company's technical lead for desktop engineering.

Game Sales Thrive Thanks to the Big Kids
(in Their 20's)

Game Sales Thrive Thanks to the Big Kids
(in Their 20's) 12/26/2004 10:36 PM
Despite an expected cyclical downturn in sales, the video game industry is poised to enjoy a record-breaking holiday season.

Rampant capitalism upsets delicate
Reg reader

Rampant capitalism upsets delicate
Reg reader 07/27/2004 11:06 AM
Letters: Sort of. And something about dog chips...

Court tells RIAA and Congress to let P2P
software thrive

Court tells RIAA and Congress to let P2P
software thrive 08/19/2004 05:18 PM
Keep on trading for the sake of innovation

Rings That Kidnap Iraqis Thrive on Big
Threats and Bigger Profits

Rings That Kidnap Iraqis Thrive on Big
Threats and Bigger Profits 03/27/2005 10:56 PM
As many as 5,000 Iraqis have been kidnapped in the last year and a half, with ransom being a far greater motive than intimidation.

Text-based games thrive despite
higher-tech consoles

Text-based games thrive despite
higher-tech consoles 03/31/2005 05:12 PM
Also: Brain chip reads man's thoughts. [News.com Extra]

Livewire: Fantasy Sports Leagues Thrive
Online (Reuters)

Livewire: Fantasy Sports Leagues Thrive
Online (Reuters) 09/04/2004 08:28 AM
Reuters - Take 15 million armchair athletes, add a steady stream of statistics and mix in a healthy dollop of trash talk. Post it all on the Internet and you've got a $3 billion industry built around imaginary sports teams.

Thrive Technologies Signs National
Marketing Agreement with $3 Billion PRO
Group

Thrive Technologies Signs National
Marketing Agreement with $3 Billion PRO
Group 04/06/2005 03:00 AM
$3 billion consortium of Do-It-Yourself products will co-market Thrive’s inventory software to its large membership of distributors and retailers. Thrive's unique software helps companies in the competitive distribution space increase profits and sales by at least 15%. [PRWEB Apr 6, 2005]

A Theory of Global Capitalism -
Production, Class and State in a
Transnational World

A Theory of Global Capitalism -
Production, Class and State in a
Transnational World 07/16/2004 09:54 PM
Globalization is a topic surrounded by controversy and contention, as evidenced by the numerous studies of it and the many political movements both for and against it. Whilst there is little agreement on the nature of globalization, it is generally accepted that the world is going through a period of increasing change and growing interconnection. Do these changes have historical precedent or do they represent a qualitatively new process? Are these changes benefical to society or detrimental? Which groups benefit from these changes and which groups are threatened? Are these changes inevitable or are other alternatives possible? These are some of the questions addressed by William I. Robinson's A Theory of Global Capitalism.

OSS Middleware Market to Reach $870
million in 2008: Java Application
Servers and OSS/J to Thrive

OSS Middleware Market to Reach $870
million in 2008: Java Application
Servers and OSS/J to Thrive 03/24/2005 04:43 AM
According to Dittberner Associates, Inc., the worldwide OSS/BSS middleware market will grow to 870 million dollars in 2008, from an estimated 728 million dollars in 2004. [PRWEB Mar 24, 2005]

The Capitalism of Soccer - Why Europe's
favorite sport is more American than
baseball. By Daniel Gross

The Capitalism of Soccer - Why Europe's
favorite sport is more American than
baseball. By Daniel Gross 07/02/2004 09:14 PM

More violent societies have more
left-handers, hinting that lefties
thrive in environments where fighting is
important

More violent societies have more
left-handers, hinting that lefties
thrive in environments where fighting is
important 12/28/2004 01:18 PM
A sinister advantage .. Economist

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Music labels thrive while some online
music services may disappear

Music labels thrive while some online
music services may disappear 09/22/2004 09:13 PM
The music download business has been very good to the labels. For the stores, it's another story altogether.

THINKING
LIKE NATURE II: AMORY LOVINS RE-INVENTS
CAPITALISM

THINKING
LIKE NATURE II: AMORY LOVINS RE-INVENTS
CAPITALISM 05/30/2004 11:48 AM

The same day I posted my article about William McDonough, reader Brian Dear pointed out the work that Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute has been doing in much the same vein. Lovins, with colleagues Paul Hawken and L. Hunter Lovins, wrote a (fully downloadable) book entitled Natural Capitalism that, like McDonough's Cradle to Cradle, suggests pragmatic, creative ways for man to stave off environmental disaster by simply thinking and working better, more organically, with nature as the model. If McDonough's bottom-line message was Learn from, and imitate, nature -- nature knows how to design and build things right, everything recycled, zero waste, Lovins' could be Shift the economy to recognize the inherent value of people and natural resources, and you can transform the world. While McDonough, the architect, is focused on physical design, Lovins, the economist, is focused on systems design. They are perfect complements, with similar, optimistic, "let's get on with it" worldviews and concrete prescriptions for change, a refreshing change from the relentless pessimism in so many analyses of the world's environmental problems. You can get an excellent idea of Lovins' prescription by reading the chapter summaries of his book online (I'm going to buy the whole book for my reference and "lending" library). Or, read the HBR summary, A Road Map for Natural Capitalism. Using case studies and small successes achieved already, the authors explain how each industry and each facet of the economy can be transformed by looking at it differently, more holistically, including the natural capital that we currently don't value and waste, and step-by-step changing its operating principles, structure, strategy, practices, rewards and governance, and drawing on biologically inspired design principles. Everything in Lovins' prescription is achievable, sensible, and consistent with looking at the economy and markets as a means of maximizing human well-being instead of wealth. But it is in the final chapters, where he takes on the environmental pessimists (like me) and the unrepentent markets-need-growth traditionalists, that I start to lose conviction that this prescription will do the job. After effectively destroying the myth that our economic markets are free and efficient, he describes ways (e.g. tax shifting, changing our measurements of success, encouraging risk and innovation, improving regulation and information) that we can reinvent markets, much as he proposed in earlier chapters how to reinvent industries. His ebullient description of the economic and cultural transformation of Curitiba, Brasil, by a succession of architect-mayors who have redesigned one of the world's poorest and fast-growing cities into a city that works for people, is truly inspiring (anyone know if it's really that successful?) But ultimately, the economy is designed the way it is to funnel power and wealth to those that have it and plan to keep it. It is not designed for efficiency, equity, fairness, and optimal distribution of resources -- in fact, as the extent of poverty, famine, and destitution in a world where a small minority have unimaginable wealth demonstrates -- political and social structures are designed to keep the status quo, to hoard resources, and to create and sustain inequitable distribution of wealth and power. Lovins suggests that the four groups in our political and economic systems: the blues (free-marketers), reds (socialists), greens (environmentalists), and whites (pragmatists), need to set aside their differences and opposing worldviews and respect the fact that each is partly right, and collaboratively assemble an "operating manual for Planet Earth". If there was a more equitable distribution of the resources, power and knowledge needed to assemble such a manual, and if the population and average footprint of humans on this planet weren't both catastrophically soaring, and if the horrendous consequences of these two realities (consequences like war, famine, global waming, epidemic disease, violence and crime, despair, hopelessness etc.) werren't preoccupying all our time and attention, such a manual might be possible. But ultimately, Lovins' prescription is like asking the crew and passengers of an airplane that has been struck by lightning to collaborate and share knowledge and energies to assess how to bring the plane to a safe landing, while it is plummeting to Earth. It's a nice idea, but I think it's a little late for that.

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