Burghard Ilge: I thank you sincerely for your gracious reply below to my first and second post to list ATTAC. But it is I who owe you an apology for not, in your words, "sending a separate mail containing information about the content of the URL to the attac list. (which would also have prevented my inappropriate reaction)." A separate email follows, to list ATTAC only, containing my post of 99-04-12 16:08:17 EDT, Subj: "Changes to the Global Model, since the 1994 update." Please forgive my error of omission which caused this tempest in a teapot. Sincerely, Wesley S. Burt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ begin forwarded message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In a message dated 99-04-20 09:52:44 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Burghard Ilge >>
dear all, my direct posting to WesBurt was based on wrong assumptions and I have to appologise for my inappropriate reaction. I read in the subject line: (Fwd) family policy and than : << Hi, I am hoping to research the area of lone-parents for a PhD. I would like to look at how the choices made by single parents regarding employment and training schemes are affected by the information available. >> After that I made the mistake not to continue reading carefully. Otherwise I would have realised that this was not a mail request from a PhD student to the attac list asking for information about *single parents employment and training schemes*, but a reply to the PhD student which was forwarded to the attac list. Wile my posting was based on wrong assumptions because of my mistake not to read the full mail carefully this does not excuse my harsh (nearly hysteric) language I used. I just was very angry, and one should not react to a posting when one is very angry. I therefore seriously apologise for both flaws ! >From the posting of WesBurt one could only conclude that the URL contains *information that is withheld from parenting families in the English speaking nations* giving nearly no information about the real content of the URL. I think It would have been much more useful if he would have taken the effort to send a separate mail containing information about the content of the URL to the attac list. (which would also have prevented my inappropriate reaction). [for those interested see an excerpt from the URL below] I seriously regret my posting and want to apologise to Wes Burt, Penny L Cairns (the PhD student) and the readers of this list for inconvenience and for my inappropriate reaction. sincerely Burghard Ilge --- The following graphs were gratefully posted with the permission of Wes Burt ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ). If you have any questions about them, please e-mail him at the address above. WELCOME, you have found the only technically valid global model on the internet, a global model which fairly illustrates both the macro and micro aspects of the present condition of our global industrial society. This model is simple, but profound, because it addresses certain aspects of our present condition which are conspicuously missing from the content of other web sites which discuss global issues.... ---snip-- ....The subject global model, consisting of a macro-model, Figures1 through 6 (Fig. 4 and 5 omitted), and a micro-model, Figures 7 through 9, has been evolving in my mind for about 46 years. It has its ancient roots in the corporations established in Rome in the days of King Numa, according to Emile Durkheim in his 1902 preface to the second edition of his THE DIVISION OF LABOR IN SOCIETY, and its modern roots in the practice of corporate management, not as promulgated by Peter Drucker or Paul A. Samuelson, but as practiced in the General Electric Company and in the Electric Power Industry in the 1950s. So you ask: what can the study of these greedy and powerful multi-national corporations and power-outage prone utility corporations teach us about the ongoing transformation of our world, which our poets, prophets, and philosophers call "globalization?" ..... -----
