November 11, 2002 -
China: the world's factory floor - By Mary Hennock, BBC News
Online business reporter, Maryjo Cohen is shutting two factories.
Maryjo Cohen, National Presto: Cheap, high quality goods from China have
eaten away profit margins at National Presto industries, a
Wisconsin-based firm which makes pressure cookers and electric frying
pans. "That's going on all over the US, our entire industry has moved to
China," says Ms Cohen, National Presto's president. She is reluctant to
say how many jobs will go at National Presto's plants in New Mexico and
Mississippi but it will be a "substantial number for a company our size"
- at least half the workforce...
November
28, 2002 -
Record the Lens That Records You -
By Patrick Di Justo, WiredNews,
Ronald Deibert, a University of Toronto
associate professor of political science,
wants people to grab their cameras and hit
the shopping malls Dec. 24 and participate
in World Sousveillance Day. Surveillance
means "to view from above." Sousveillance
means "to view from below..."
November 30, 2002 -
Baring the
Kilt Truth - The naked truth about what Scotsmen wear under their
kilts has been revealed -- absolutely nothing. Braving the chilly
Scottish weather, seven out of 10 men follow tradition and go naked
beneath the country's national dress, according to a survey taken by
whisky maker The Famous Grouse. Highland tradition dictates men should
wear nothing beneath their pleated skirts, in accordance with the
saying: "Nothing is worn beneath the kilt -- it's all in perfect working
order." For those not brave enough to "go commando," the poll found
boxer shorts with a tartan design were the second most popular choice.
Scotsmen have worn kilts for hundreds of years, but kilt makers have
moved with the times, recently unveiling a design with a pocket for a
mobile phone.
November 01, 2000 -
Wheels
of progress fall off the Protestant work ethic
- Sharon Beder, SMH.com.au, There must be greater
goals for a society to aim for than simply producing
more and more consumer goods, writes Sharon Beder. It
is no accident that the downsizing of the 1980s and
'90s has been accompanied by a resurgence in the
propaganda aimed at reinforcing the work ethic. The
wave of retrenchments and sackings in English-speaking
countries has been accompanied by growing inequalities
in pay between executives and ordinary workers and an
increasing substitution of full-time permanent jobs
with insecure, temporary and part-time jobs...
November 01, 2002 -
Judge Goes Easy on Microsoft - By Caron Carlson, eWeek.com,
November 1, 2002, In a decision claimed as a victory by Microsoft
Corp., U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a remedy
ruling in the landmark anti-trust case, relying heavily on a federal
settlement proposal signed last year. Although Kollar-Kotelly rejected
as overly broad much of the tougher penalties proposed by nine states
that dissented to settlement, she did incorporate some elements of the
alternative proposal into her ruling...
November 06, 2002 -
Stage Set for Homeland Act - By Ryan Singel, WiredNews,
As Congress prepares to reconvene in a lame-duck session after Tuesday's
election, one of the largest pieces of legislation on the Senate's
agenda is the controversial and deadlocked Homeland Security Act, which
the House passed Sept. 9. A little-known amendment in the Senate version
of the bill makes it much easier for ISPs to disclose e-mail
communications without being served with a warrant, which had been
prohibited before the Patriot Act of 2001...
November 07, 2002 -
Monorail on City's One-Track Mind - By Manny Frishberg,
WiredNews, SEATTLE -- People here love the idea of the monorail. A
single-track electric train running above cars and pedestrians' heads
has been a part of Seattle's self-image since the early 1960s, when a
one-mile stretch of last century's transit-system-of-the-future was
erected for the World's Fair. Still, the promise of a citywide monorail
system had been a dream deferred, until Tuesday's election...
November 08, 2002 -
Weapons of Mass Destruction , U.S. is Dropping World's Biggest
Non-Nuclear bomb in Afghanistan - Published Thursday,
November 8, 2001 on WorkingforChange.com, By Laura Flanders, They
have the destructive power of an atomic bomb, but they can barely make a
dent in U.S. news coverage. I'm talking about the 15,000-pound bombs the
United States is using against Afghanistan this week. The so-called
Daisy Cutters, named BLU-82, are the world's biggest non-nuclear device.
In many places, the development received a 10-second mention on the
evening news, five or six items down in the program lineup. Newscasters
broadcast video footage of an enormous black dust cloud rising above an
Afghan mountain range, accompanied by the assurances of Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that the "stepped up" assaults would hasten
the collapse of the Taliban regime...
