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..buy an icecream with a credit card? I mean, Wendy's has only two products: soft service ice-cream and hot-dogs

What the hell? What planet are you from? Yes, Wendy's is a RESTAURANT. There are TABLES in there. You can sit at them. You can order from at least 10 offerings of hamburgers and cheeseburgers, 9 offerings of chicken sandwiches, 6 offerings of chicken nuggets, 8 offerings of "frostys", whatever they are, a cod fillet sandwich, numerous salads, numerous combos, and probably other stuff. I never saw any hot dogs there though.

Just click on Menus. Sheesh. Oh, wait. Let me guess. I bet you are in Australia, right mate? Well, the REAL Wendy's is wendys.com, not wendys.com.au. I'm sure you can get to the internet, as long as you haven't left Walkabout Creek to trek through Crocodile Dundee's outback.

Relax, it's all in good fun. We're both just regular guys, separated by living in completely separate plants.

carriers restrict what updates are made available to customers on their network.

So what blocks updates for Wi-Fi tablets? My carrier is Xfinity or Chick-Fi or Wendynet.

Cooked bacon is about 38-40% fat and 38% protein, and Wendy's Baconator still provides almost half of its calories from carbohydrates.

You provided a link to the nutrition facts, but this statement is false. The Baconator has 970 calories, and the website lists 570 of those as being from fat. 400 is close to half sure, but you're ignoring the sources of the calories.

The website says a Baconator has 63 grams of fat, 40 grams carbs and 60 grams protein. 1 gram of protein or carbs is worth 4 calories, and 1g of fat is 9 calories.

Using that a Baconator's gets it calories from the following sources:
567 calories from fat. (~58.5%)
240 calories from protein. (~24.7%)
160 calories from carbohydrates. (~16.5%)

So carbs aren't anywhere near almost half of the calories in a Baconator.

There's pretty much something there to sabotage everyone's digestive system and metabolic balance.

is completely meaningless.

There is a lot of FUD being spread around about various types of food, and a lot of misinformation about nutrition in general. Eating at a fast-food joint every day is probably going to be unhealthy depending on what you order, assuming you have a daily caloric expenditure that is close to the 2,000/d that the government bases its recommendations on. However, it is more important that your diet match your activity level, than that you avoid specific foods or food groups. As an illustrative example, Michael Phelps consumes 12,000 calories/d when training. He is obviously a statistical outlier, but that is partially my point. The maintenance energy requirement for every person is different, and very much dependent upon that persons activity level. Their is nothing inherently bad about any of the ingredients in a triple bacon cheeseburger, nor with the final product. It is when such calorie dense meals are consumed in excess of your calorie expenditure that they start to cause problems.

Wendy's kids meals have toys.

http://www.wendys.com/kids_meal/index.jsp

I call bullshit on this article.

I found it right here.

And I quote:

The following trademarks used herein are the property of Oldemark, LLC and licensed to Wendy's International, Inc.

3 Tour Challenge, Best Hamburgers And A Whole Lot More, Big Bacon Classic, Big Classic, Biggie, Biggie Size, Cheddar Lovers, Chicken Temptations, Choose Fresh Choose Wendy's, Classic Double, Classic Single, Classic Triple, Create A Combo, Dave's Biggie, Dave Thomas, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (and design), Deletree Conmigo, Eat Great, Even Late!, En Wendy's Comer Es Más Rico, Garden Sensations, Garden Spot

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If Wendy's got one, then every woman with a hot and juicy does!

The important part is not that it is Au, it is that the supply of Au cannot be manipulated by the government.

What planet are you from? Of course the government can manipulate the supply of gold, just like any other market participant.

It's called hoarding and dumping. I can either hoard your currency or I can dump. Hoarding it raises the price (and in the case of a useful commodity like gold cause all sorts of problems--no more monster cables!). Dumping diminishes the price.

Don't all you wacko gold standard people always complain about how the government made gold ownership illegal at one point? Isn't that... the government controlling the supply of Au?

Controlling the supply of Au is something that governments with gold currencies did for centuries. They owned the mines, the mints, everything.

Oh.. and right now $1 equals a lot of things:

Wendy's Super Value Menu

Yeah, I already got hit with a "big mac" virus, i was stuck on the toilet for days. Seemed like I had dysentery but when I switched to Wendy's, I got over it...

"Hamburger" is not a McDonalds trademark. Nor is "Cheeseburger". Just go to their web site and look at their nutrition list, for example, and you'll see lots of Registered Trademarks, and hamburger ain't one of 'em. They have Quarter Pounder, Big Mac, Big 'N Tasty, Filet-O-Fish, McChicken, McNuggets, Chicken Selects, McMuffin, McGriddles, Big Breakfast, McFlurry, Triple Thick, and McDonaldland. But not hamburger.

Go to the supermarket and you can buy "hamburger meat" and "hamburger buns". Plenty of restaurants sell "hamburgers". Fast food restaurants use the term "hamburgers". Hell, just freakin' go to Wendy's menu page and it says "Hot 'n Juicy Hamburgers" right there. They do have a trademark on "Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers", but that's reasonable, don't you think? Check your facts next time.

BTW, a Hardee's "Thick Burger" tastes pretty good; nutritionally, it won't be any worse than your meal, except possibly the lack of avocado and too much salt (depends on how much salt you put in yours). Yours will probably have more calories than, say, a Bacon Cheese Thick Burger (at 910 calories (62% from fat), 24g saturated fat and 1490mg sodium) (compare with the "Monster Thickburger" at 1410 calories (68% from fat), 45g saturated fat, and 2740 mg sodium).

You are allowed to use a competitor's trademark in advertising, as long as you're truthful and not using their name in a misleading way. It doesn't require any sort of agreement. There are various rules that you have to follow when making statements such as "four out of five dentists choose ..." under false advertising laws, but that doesn't mean you can't name names.

Talk about an active guy! He helps Colonel Sanders start a chicken business, then founds his own restaurant chain, then dies, THEN writes a book about Ruby on Rails?

I'm clearly not doing enough with my life...

Here is Dave Thomas' web site

That's your problem. Small and medium businesses drive the economy. Those who argue for extreme government regulation and economic control focus exclusively on large multi-nationals and build ridiculous emotional stereotypes of employers. Then, they argue for government practices that strangle small and medium sized businesses.

Oh, sorry I didn't use the proper corporate gobblydigook to describe my point, sure businesses are fueled by customers, but they are built on employees. You're not going to get good service from a business without well treated employees, it just doesn't happen.

Exactly. That's why companies that don't treat their employees well go out of business. You're getting it after all: you're just not thinking it all the way through.

So basically screw everyone who works entry level jobs and force them to live inevitably in poverty.

Straw man. I never said anything like that. The *vast* majority of people working minimum-wage jobs are doing so for supplemental income (e.g.: teenagers or spouse). They're not living in poverty.

Another data point: illegal immigrants are the quintessential "low-income" wage-earners. A local landscaper here employs illegal immigrants from Mexico for $12 per hour. No joke. Perhaps he's not the evil slave-driving capitalist hyena you suspect him to be? He's not even required to pay minimum-wage but he pays more than minimum-wage. How did a human being with compassion get in the position of an employer, one wonders?

I'm talking about big businesses. Not small businesses.

See above.

The big ones that employ half our population

In other words: how dare they enable half (slightly less than half, actually) of our population to earn a living?

and whose execs account for the vast majority of the money in this country.

So? CEOs are employees as well. They don't set their own pay rate: the board of directors decides how much they're worth. And that's their business.

Even so, the number of CEOs in America who are rich is miniscule. As I noted earlier, 99.7% of American employers are small businesses, each run by people like you and me.

They can easily afford to pay when minimum wage goes up. Would shaving that 20 cents times x minimum wage employees off the hourly wages of the top level execs really hurt them?

Combined with excessive regulation and unreasonable demands from employees who make much more than minimum wage? You betcha. Additionally, as described above, the minimum wage locks low-end jobs out of the labor market.

Yeah cuz I know all those minimum wage employees need so goddamn much training to know how to make a Taco or use a broom. That must cost employers dearly !!!

It's not about teaching them to do their current job more efficiently. Many minimum wage employers sponsor education for their employees to help them get higher-paying jobs later on.

Also, I didn't know that my local fast food joint (or any other minimum wage employer) was going to help pay my way through college! In your dreams...

Not at all. You may be surprised to know that many minimum-wage employers actually do exactly that. Burger King. Chick-Fil-A. Wendys. Just as examples.

Once again you completely miss the fact that I was talking about large corporations, not small businesses, therefore making this comment completely irrelevent.

Once again, you completely miss the point. Your stereotype is only relevant to 0.3% of American employers. And I imagine that it probably doesn't even reflect reality in most of those cases.

Perhaps if they received decent

You're Roswell article was written by the guy who founded a popular fastfood burger joint though.

And no where in there does it talk any thing about Hamburgers or about adoption.

Infact, the only thing I come to expect from Dave Thomas is that he's pushing up daises.....

And no where in there does it talk any thing about Hamburgers or about adoption.

Infact, the only thing I come to expect from Dave Thomas is that he's pushing up daises.....

Would you rather swallow your pride or a Wendy's Classic Triple Cheese Combo with Biggie Fries and medium beverage?

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Rob Nambla, Homos, CowboiKneel, Gayme, et al...: Get real fuckin' jobs!

Thank you.

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Netcraft now confirms: Dave Thomas is dying.

Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Dave Thomas community when recently IDC confirmed that Dave Thomas accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Dave Thomas has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Dave Thomas is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Dave Thomas's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Dave Thomas faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Dave Thomas because Dave Thomas is dying. Things are looking very bad for Dave Thomas. As many of us are already aware, Dave Thomas continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Burger King is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

McDonalds leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of McDonalds. How many users of Hardees are there? Let's see. The number of McDonalds versus Hardees posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Hardees users. Subway posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Hardees posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Subway. A recent article put Burger King at about 80 percent of the Dave Thomas market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Burger King users. This is consistent with the number of Burger King Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Burgers, Inc, abysmal sales and so on, Burger King went out of business and was taken over by Burger King, Inc who sell another troubled OS. Now Burger King, Inc is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that Dave Thomas has steadily declined in market share. Dave Thomas is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Dave Thomas is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Dave Thomas continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Dave Thomas is dead.

Fact: Dave Thomas is dead

This is TRUE! Well except he actually died from cancer. See for yourself at the Wendy's website.