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Installing Linux On A Wal-Mart OS-less machine
Azar writes "An article at Newsforge details the experience of installing Linux on Wal-Mart's OS-less PC. It states: 'A few months ago, super-sized discount store Wal-Mart made the headlines in the Linux world by becoming the first major U.S. retailer to offer PCs without Windows preloaded...While this was widely hailed in the Open Source community as a victory over the "Microsoft tax," which usually afflicts buyers of Linux PCs, one major question remained unanswered: How well do these machines support Linux?' Here is your answer." Newsforge is owned by OSDN, which also owns Slashdot, is all part of the sinister Andover keiretsu.
He forgot to demonstrate what happens when his average Wal-Mart user decides to install that flashy game they just bought only to find that it only works in Windows.
Do you hear it? It's the sound of ten thousand rednecks in the southern US returning their PC's to wal-mart because they accidently bought a piece of crap they thought would be useful for getting pr0n off the internet. Instead, they got a system that wouldn't even boot. Friggin Wal-mart didn't even have enough clue to test their operating systems with the various "alternative" operating systems. Not that it would matter in the case of the rednecks, but they even lost their potential "niche" market of poor geeks.
Sorry, I know people who work there. It is not rocket science, its simple retail. To expect any retailer to pay more than the local wage for such work is nothing short of ignorance. At least they CAN get medical benefits. It seems Congress only attempts to make it more unaffordable as each week goes by. It *IS* Congress that will make health benefits for the lower income people even less affordable, that is their goal. They want to make sure employers like WALMART cannot afford to provide it. Why? Simple, Congress (read DNC) wants the government to control health care. The easy way to do it is to make it unaffordable for corporations to do it.
Sorry, that article is the typical mud slinging crap that always shows up. Walmart is successful, and those that I do know who work there are just happy as can be. Apparently they know they are not going to get paid 60k a year... and don't feel they deserve to.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
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God, I love clueless labor types. Go communism! HAHAHA
yeah, it's flame bait. But come on! All of the truly great communist countries ran themselves into the ground! They're dead! If your going to praise the American Labor Movement, why not praise all of the other popular "ism" movements of it's time: Fascism (Nazis), Socialism, Zionism... all of these pre-WWI naive separatist (racist) "you stick to your kind and leave our kind alone" methodolgies. NONE of them have any place in a world trying to bring people together IN SPITE of their differences.
And living out here in Pittsburgh, I can tell you that labor (unions) have done more harm to themselves than any corporate entity! The steel industry is completly GONE because of how greedy the unions were. This pro-labor mentality needs to be completely overhauled. For instance, I went to Atlanta Nabisco to install a few control systems, and their labor was college educated! They were very soft spoken when it came to the stereotypical labor issues, because they knew where their bread was buttered. But back here where LABOR is god, and too many people's lively-hoods and egos depend on the old school unions... we're lucky if our union work can read. We sit by and watch company after company move away... not to cheap labor... but EDUCATED labor!
Open your eyes. The American Labour Movement, like any "liberal" cause, was fantastic IN IT'S TIME, but now causes damage when it has outlived it's usefulness. People derive their self-worth from these causes, and thus are blind to the world moving on without them. So they eventually NEED their cause so much, that they are unwilling to admit when they've accomplished their goals... and they themselves are no longer needed.
rant rant rant
anyway, May Day is a JOKE of a holiday. we don't celebrate in the US, because we know better. Why not celebrate Titanic Day? Or better yet, Wounded Knee day?
Big Labor can FOAD, for all I care.
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
> I would suggest you all consider NOT shopping at Walmart -- for anything at all -- read this please
I got about through about five paragraphs of "Oh, it's horrible! They *make money!* Dear God, *they employ people!*" and gave up in disgust. Maybe later on they made some real points, but that was about all I could take.
Chris Mattern