Right now Whole Foods pays their employees a reasonable amount (as I understand), provides benefits and employee discounts. Good things, even if their prices are rather high.
I think Amazon is going to ruin Whole Foods as a company. The MBAs will squeeze out the soul along with more cash. Amazon will do the same thing that they do to their own employees: work them into the ground. Nothing new there... I'll keep shopping at Trader Joe's, thanks.
This presupposes that people have had enough education/inspiration to find those things enjoyable or useful. The sad fact of the matter is that many people don't. We need more than income, we need to build a reason for people to exist in this country. That takes education, community AND resources.
Basically, you can't just throw money at a problem.
I doubt this heavily. While I get the sense that Musk has a huge personality, I also get the sense he's got amazing business and interpersonal sense. The guy was able to work directly with Trump; Musk has balls of steel. I would actually argue that he probably either knew ahead of time he'd have to let Grohmann go or that something unforeseen occurred. Could be as simple as loyalty: get rid of the head of the company to be sure there's a transition, as Musk mentioned, and that new orders are coming down to where they need to, develop new loyalties. Who knows, it's water under the bridge now.
Which is something most new businesses go through in order to mature: There are bumps in the road. Tesla isn't lauded for being the highest quality. Yet. They're lauded for disrupting the market in healthy ways.
Why rationalize one' s selfish viewpoints without understanding that the culture under which one's gains were made have laid waste to most of the next generation?
I could see this bolstering public terminals and potentially the written word again. ALSO I wager we should wage a PUBLIC CAMPAIGN that calls on businesses, and individuals with extra bandwidth to offer free wifi or access to people in their area.
The market is squeezing people from every side: My rent is out of control, internet would be insanely expensive (from a personal data as well as monetary point of view) if I hadn't lucked out and gotten Google Fiber, healthcare is... my lord I hope I just never get sick again because it's BAD here in Atlanta and I am paying out the NOSE for the "privilege." I'm glad I could get rid of my car because if not? I'd be saddled with practically living month to month, and I'm a fucking PROFESSIONAL who is getting paid a reasonable amount of money.
Consume less, I guess. I'm apt to do what others have mentioned: ditch the internet, see if that's doable anymore.
Good point. She might have helped drive him to this end; if he felt he had no one to talk to and confide in about feeling terrible, that might be why he killed himself. The wife might be trying to blame Uber to deflect her feeling of guilt. He might also not have had much or any life insurance, and now the family is totally rudderless.
The movie is great in one way, but pay attention to small details and the movie becomes a classic. The two sequels bear this out, about what's really going on in the Universe.
In recent years Persinger set out to investigate so-called âoemysticalâ experiences under controlled laboratory conditions. He got volunteers to wear a helmet fitted with a set of magnets through which he ran a weak electromagnetic signal. Persinger found that the magnetically induced seizures in the temporal lobes generate the same sort of hallucinations and mystical experiences reported by epileptic patients. Four in five people, he says, report a âoemystical experience, the feeling that there is a sentient being or entity standing behind or nearâ them. Some weep, some feel God has touched them, others become frightened and talk of demons and evil spirits. âoeThatâ(TM)s in the laboratory,â Persinger notes, referring to subjectsâ(TM) knowledge of a controlled environment. âoeHow much more intense might these experiences be if they happened late at night, or in a pew in a mosque or synagogue?â
I don't know if that's necessarily true. I know at first it's easy to demonize Big Bad Hollywood, but it's actually a magnet for a lot of great acting talent. That might not justify the huge sums of money that get thrown around, but having a place where people go for this kind of thing has upsides too. I lived in L.A. for 3.5 years recently. Granted, I'm MUCH less a fan of big AAA movies now, they kinda make me feel nauseous because I know the system and people behind that kind of manipulative money-grab crap, but it seems prudent to point out that there are some upsides too.
Also, hot, smart(well sometimes) yoga teacher/actresses all over the city!
Is it creepy to anyone else that they're referred to as customers? Since the government isn't funding any of this stuff, it looks like corporations will already be holding those going to Mars hostage and the future of interplanetary travel is capitalist in nature... thoughts?
Are you going to stop supporting this restaurant service in the middle of my meal so I starve? At this point I just don't see Google as a reliable company. For anything. Except for gathering and selling as much of my personal data as possible.
Hewitt did this for years. It's called treating employees well. It may or may not be a tax benefit, but tons of other companies have done this before. Wtf Slashdot?
Not much, sorry to sound difficult. Honestly, it's not the warming that's a problem. It's the huge swings in temperature and chaotic weather that are going to (and are) causing big problems.
Sorry, no, wrong focus. You lose, but get a copy of our home game! The change over the last 20 or so years has contributed to that. We don't know that would look like in the future.
What we *do* know is that if humans keep emitting CO2, the atmosphere will warm.
If that's spying, then the anonymous usage statistics that nearly every application for the last 20 years has been collecting and sending home on the internet is spying.
It was anonymized data. All it collected was stuff like time of day and settings; the vibrator didn't ask for your social security number, date of birth, bank account number, and names of friends!
No, this class action suit is a troubling and CLASSIC version of Americans getting all worked up about sex as well as getting money because litigation. They collect anonymous usage stats on software and hardware constantly. his just happens to refer to sex.
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Right now Whole Foods pays their employees a reasonable amount (as I understand), provides benefits and employee discounts. Good things, even if their prices are rather high.
I think Amazon is going to ruin Whole Foods as a company. The MBAs will squeeze out the soul along with more cash. Amazon will do the same thing that they do to their own employees: work them into the ground.
Nothing new there... I'll keep shopping at Trader Joe's, thanks.
This presupposes that people have had enough education/inspiration to find those things enjoyable or useful.
The sad fact of the matter is that many people don't. We need more than income, we need to build a reason for people to exist in this country. That takes education, community AND resources.
Basically, you can't just throw money at a problem.
I doubt this heavily.
While I get the sense that Musk has a huge personality, I also get the sense he's got amazing business and interpersonal sense. The guy was able to work directly with Trump; Musk has balls of steel.
I would actually argue that he probably either knew ahead of time he'd have to let Grohmann go or that something unforeseen occurred.
Could be as simple as loyalty: get rid of the head of the company to be sure there's a transition, as Musk mentioned, and that new orders are coming down to where they need to, develop new loyalties.
Who knows, it's water under the bridge now.
Which is something most new businesses go through in order to mature: There are bumps in the road.
Tesla isn't lauded for being the highest quality. Yet.
They're lauded for disrupting the market in healthy ways.
Uuh... talk to anyone who works with cars or body work: BMW and Mercedes are some of the worst cars you can buy.
Who's paying you?
Why rationalize one' s selfish viewpoints without understanding that the culture under which one's gains were made have laid waste to most of the next generation?
It'll be the Trump Slump
I could see this bolstering public terminals and potentially the written word again. ALSO I wager we should wage a PUBLIC CAMPAIGN that calls on businesses, and individuals with extra bandwidth to offer free wifi or access to people in their area.
The market is squeezing people from every side: My rent is out of control, internet would be insanely expensive (from a personal data as well as monetary point of view) if I hadn't lucked out and gotten Google Fiber, healthcare is... my lord I hope I just never get sick again because it's BAD here in Atlanta and I am paying out the NOSE for the "privilege." I'm glad I could get rid of my car because if not? I'd be saddled with practically living month to month, and I'm a fucking PROFESSIONAL who is getting paid a reasonable amount of money.
Consume less, I guess. I'm apt to do what others have mentioned: ditch the internet, see if that's doable anymore.
Good point. She might have helped drive him to this end; if he felt he had no one to talk to and confide in about feeling terrible, that might be why he killed himself.
The wife might be trying to blame Uber to deflect her feeling of guilt.
He might also not have had much or any life insurance, and now the family is totally rudderless.
Sean Connery in a red diaper! That's all you need to understand.
The gun is good, the penis is evil.
The movie is great in one way, but pay attention to small details and the movie becomes a classic.
The two sequels bear this out, about what's really going on in the Universe.
Mystical is in your head. Reinforce something and....
https://thehumanist.com/magazi...
In recent years Persinger set out to investigate so-called âoemysticalâ experiences under controlled laboratory conditions. He got volunteers to wear a helmet fitted with a set of magnets through which he ran a weak electromagnetic signal. Persinger found that the magnetically induced seizures in the temporal lobes generate the same sort of hallucinations and mystical experiences reported by epileptic patients. Four in five people, he says, report a âoemystical experience, the feeling that there is a sentient being or entity standing behind or nearâ them. Some weep, some feel God has touched them, others become frightened and talk of demons and evil spirits. âoeThatâ(TM)s in the laboratory,â Persinger notes, referring to subjectsâ(TM) knowledge of a controlled environment. âoeHow much more intense might these experiences be if they happened late at night, or in a pew in a mosque or synagogue?â
Yes! Please!
Let it fail! TV is a time-suck disaster anyway, and it's exactly what the industry needs in order to shake up some more and slough off viewers.
The more down-time from the boob tube the better.
Does this mean that if we get to 10% usage of self-driving cars we'll start to see a big difference in traffic congestion?
I don't know if that's necessarily true. I know at first it's easy to demonize Big Bad Hollywood, but it's actually a magnet for a lot of great acting talent. That might not justify the huge sums of money that get thrown around, but having a place where people go for this kind of thing has upsides too.
I lived in L.A. for 3.5 years recently. Granted, I'm MUCH less a fan of big AAA movies now, they kinda make me feel nauseous because I know the system and people behind that kind of manipulative money-grab crap, but it seems prudent to point out that there are some upsides too.
Also, hot, smart(well sometimes) yoga teacher/actresses all over the city!
No, Nixon wasted two generations of space-going by defunding NASA. Put the blame where it belongs.
Is it creepy to anyone else that they're referred to as customers?
Since the government isn't funding any of this stuff, it looks like corporations will already be holding those going to Mars hostage and the future of interplanetary travel is capitalist in nature... thoughts?
Are you going to stop supporting this restaurant service in the middle of my meal so I starve?
At this point I just don't see Google as a reliable company. For anything. Except for gathering and selling as much of my personal data as possible.
Hewitt did this for years. It's called treating employees well. It may or may not be a tax benefit, but tons of other companies have done this before. Wtf Slashdot?
Not much, sorry to sound difficult.
Honestly, it's not the warming that's a problem. It's the huge swings in temperature and chaotic weather that are going to (and are) causing big problems.
Sorry, no, wrong focus. You lose, but get a copy of our home game!
The change over the last 20 or so years has contributed to that. We don't know that would look like in the future.
What we *do* know is that if humans keep emitting CO2, the atmosphere will warm.
You had me up until the Leo part. Seriously, you cap it off with that?
So what? The president probably has his hookers flown in from Russia. That's wasteful too.
An appeal to emotion like that just... come on, really?
Spying? Putting it in that light isn't helpful.
If that's spying, then the anonymous usage statistics that nearly every application for the last 20 years has been collecting and sending home on the internet is spying.
It was anonymized data. All it collected was stuff like time of day and settings; the vibrator didn't ask for your social security number, date of birth, bank account number, and names of friends!
No, this class action suit is a troubling and CLASSIC version of Americans getting all worked up about sex as well as getting money because litigation.
They collect anonymous usage stats on software and hardware constantly. his just happens to refer to sex.
Grow up, America.
This jobs number is in line with lots of other months, nothing to see here.