>>>>> "J" == Joseph S Barrera, <Joseph> writes:
J> Better yet, tell me where I should be listening for new music
J> now that P2P is dead and I still can't pick up KFJC very well.
How about your local pub?
(sorry couldn't resist)
I still use Live365; slowly the disconnected stations are returning,
since the fee to stay on the air can be as low as $6/month, and if
your fave broadcaster won't pay, you're given the option to pay for
them.
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>> At 10:32 AM -0400 on 9/21/02, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
>>> Cool --- I wasn't aware that the US had lifted it's population out
>>> of poverty! When did this happen? I wonder where the media gets the
>>> idea that the wealth gap is widening and deepening...
>> Seriously. Look at he life expectancy and human carrying capacity of
>> this continent before the Europeans got here. Look at it now. Even
>> for descendants of the original inhabitants. Even for the descendents
>> of slaves, who were brought here by force.
>> More stuff, cheaper. That's progress.
>> Poverty, of course, is not relative. It's absolute. Disparity in
>> It's like saying that groups have rights, when, in truth, only
>> individuals do. Like group rights, "disparity" in wealth is
>> Besides, even if you can't help the distribution, industrial wealth
>> is almost always transitory, and so is relative poverty, even when
>> there are no confiscatory death-taxes. The 20th anniversary Forbes
>> 400 just came out, and only a few tens of people are still there
>> since 1982, a time which had significantly higher marginal taxes on
>> wealth, income, and inheritance than we do now. More to the point,
"and not a single Astor, Vanderbilt or Morgan rates a mention on the
But you have to studiously ignore the 4 Rockefellers, 3 Gettys, 3
There are more self-made people on the list than I previously alluded to
of them seem to have Ivy League educations, or are Ivy League dropouts,
exactly poor to start with. Some of them have lovely self-made stories
Grandfather James and partner landed first Coca-Cola bottling franchise
in 1899. Company passed down 3 generations to Summerfield 1950s. Became
largest independent Coke bottler. Merged with Coca-Cola Enterprises 1991.