It also doesn't take into consideration the differences between the various autos on the road.
Case in point, I failed the driving test twice because in car I was taking the test in (my mother's Lumina) it was physically impossible to do a three-point turn in the manner it was taught on the narrow road they tested you on. Mom was livid after the 2nd one so I drove the car back to the road & bet her $25 she couldn't do it either. Not only did she fail, she did a worse job of it than I did. I passed the 3rd time, same car. Had to do a reverse three-point turn, we had figured out that the car had a much tighter turning radius when you started the turn in reverse instead of drive. This wasn't an issue in any of the vehicles I had driven up to this point.
~20 years & around 400,000 miles later, I've never been in any kind of auto accident & haven't even had a ticket in over a decade.
But at the same time I'm sure Wal-Mart has to have more than 50 full-time employees nation wide. So they have to offer insurance. The part I'm not sure about is if they only have to offer insurance to the full-time employees or not. If they don't have to offer part-time employees insurance they will just push them off to the state ACA exchanges which is fine since that is what they are for & said employees will still have medical coverage, even on their poverty wages.
I still will only be shopping there as a last resort however.
1) Drive the economics of automation and productivity increases which will create more unemployment of unskilled workers, not less. Although this might be good for the economy broadly but its not good for the group minimum wage increase advocates claim to seek to help.
2) It will raise costs which will be reflected in consumer prices, effectively raising the cost of living. Lowering the quality of life the slightly more successful enjoy. In otherwords its an attack on the middle class.
Nice try, except there is no evidence for either of those things happening when reviewing past minimum wage increases. Try using facts & real math instead of right-wing talking points.
"The studies find minimum-wage increases even provide an economic boost, albeit a small one, as strapped workers immediately spend their raises. A 2011 paper by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago found that a $1 minimum-wage increase lifts household income by about $250 and increases spending by about $700 a quarter in the following year. The spending increase is driven by a small number of households that primarily buy vehicles. "
"There is no evidence to support the claim that a higher minimum wage will lead to less employment. Businesses can easily absorb a higher minimum wage—with a small price increase or a small reduction in already very high profits, for example. The argument that a higher minimum wage will be a job killer simply doesn’t pass the sniff test of basic economic arithmetic, and is contradicted by reams of serious economic research."
That is some really specious logic there. The odds are those people aren't getting $10 an hour.
"Walmart jobs are poverty-level jobs. Walmart’s average sale Associate makes $8.81 per hour, according to IBISWorld, an independent market research group. This translates to annual pay of $15,576, based upon Walmart’s full-time status of 34 hours per week. This is significantly below the 2010 Federal Poverty Level of $22,050 for a family of four."
Also, any company can get a tax break for hiring disabled folks. The Publix down the street from me has at least two people working there with Downs & I'd bet dollars to donuts they are getting paid a living wage.
So? Are they getting enough hours to make a living wage? Wanna make a bet of what percentage of those cashiers are on some form of assistance?
"Walmart workers make, on average, $8.81 per hour, which, according to MIT’s “Living Wage Calculator,” does not qualify as a living wage for a single person in much of the country, and is not a living wage for a single parent with one child anywhere, including Bentonville, Arkansas, the home of Walmart."
"Walmart jobs are poverty-level jobs. Walmart’s average sale Associate makes $8.81 per hour, according to IBISWorld, an independent market research group. This translates to annual pay of $15,576, based upon Walmart’s full-time status of 34 hours per week. This is significantly below the 2010 Federal Poverty Level of $22,050 for a family of four."
You mean 100 associates per store working 8 hours per week while the taxpayer makes up the difference? I may have slightly exaggerated the numbers, but they are doing this shit as we speak.
And because Wal-Mart's a horrible corporate "citizen", *we* get to make up the wage difference for their employees in the form of food stamps & other government assistance.
Recall chic-fil-a who actually saw record revenues from backlash during that incident.
For two months. Then the zombies were led by the nose to the next crisis & forgot about old Dan. Now Mr. Cathy is saying he wishes he kept his bigotry to himself.
Not all farm land is suitable for growing vegetables, but it may be suitable for grazing. The big problem we have is that the herds are larger than what the growth on a certain land area can sustain and therefore carbohydrate supplements have to be purchased.
That linked article also states that most of these laws (& of them are over 100 years old) are in the process of being repealed because they are stupid & have scientifically been proven to do not a damn thing in regards to how much water returns to the water table. Sounds like a non-issue & the system is working as designed.
I agree they should have obtained a warrant to enter the apartment. They had plenty of probable cause for one but even you admitted that they didn't really need one when you wrote "or if they suspect a crime is in commission." Knowledge of the stolen phone being in the apartment is knowledge of an ongoing crime: possession of stolen property. That particular crime just goes on and on until the stolen property is no longer stolen.
Sorry, you apparently don't understand how the chain of evidence, the 4th amendment or warrants work. How did they know that phone was in the apt? Fruit of a poison tree. This guy is going to walk because TPD hires morons.
They slurp up all the cell phone connections in a rather large area. It's like tapping every phone in a neighborhood to find one suspected grow operation.
Every single connection that a Stingray made would have to have a warrant attached to it. See Commonwealth v. Augustine.
And they have apparently been doing this for a while. I have a feeling TPD is going to be responsible for allowing a lot of criminals in the Tallahassee area to have their charges / convictions thrown out.
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You mean like Ft. Worth?
Our congress critters gave themselves legislative plates it's the don't even think about it to a cop.
Yup. Makes me wonder if their family members also get those plates.
If you agree this is a dirty underhanded tactic, please sign the petition to get him reinstated.
https://www.change.org/petitio...
It's legit. let's not shoot the messenger.
http://triblive.com/news/alleg...
Every single adult involved in this case, from the teacher to the judge, needs to be fired. The cop needs to be arrested for destruction of evidence.
http://www.overcompensating.co...
It also doesn't take into consideration the differences between the various autos on the road.
Case in point, I failed the driving test twice because in car I was taking the test in (my mother's Lumina) it was physically impossible to do a three-point turn in the manner it was taught on the narrow road they tested you on. Mom was livid after the 2nd one so I drove the car back to the road & bet her $25 she couldn't do it either. Not only did she fail, she did a worse job of it than I did. I passed the 3rd time, same car. Had to do a reverse three-point turn, we had figured out that the car had a much tighter turning radius when you started the turn in reverse instead of drive. This wasn't an issue in any of the vehicles I had driven up to this point.
~20 years & around 400,000 miles later, I've never been in any kind of auto accident & haven't even had a ticket in over a decade.
Unfortunately, I think you have this backwards.
http://newmediajournal.us/indx...
But at the same time I'm sure Wal-Mart has to have more than 50 full-time employees nation wide. So they have to offer insurance. The part I'm not sure about is if they only have to offer insurance to the full-time employees or not. If they don't have to offer part-time employees insurance they will just push them off to the state ACA exchanges which is fine since that is what they are for & said employees will still have medical coverage, even on their poverty wages.
I still will only be shopping there as a last resort however.
Increasing the minimum wage will do a few things:
1) Drive the economics of automation and productivity increases which will create more unemployment of unskilled workers, not less. Although this might be good for the economy broadly but its not good for the group minimum wage increase advocates claim to seek to help.
2) It will raise costs which will be reflected in consumer prices, effectively raising the cost of living. Lowering the quality of life the slightly more successful enjoy. In otherwords its an attack on the middle class.
Nice try, except there is no evidence for either of those things happening when reviewing past minimum wage increases. Try using facts & real math instead of right-wing talking points.
http://www.cepr.net/documents/...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
"The studies find minimum-wage increases even provide an economic boost, albeit a small one, as strapped workers immediately spend their raises. A 2011 paper by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago found that a $1 minimum-wage increase lifts household income by about $250 and increases spending by about $700 a quarter in the following year. The spending increase is driven by a small number of households that primarily buy vehicles. "
http://www.americanprogress.or...
"There is no evidence to support the claim that a higher minimum wage will lead to less employment. Businesses can easily absorb a higher minimum wage—with a small price increase or a small reduction in already very high profits, for example. The argument that a higher minimum wage will be a job killer simply doesn’t pass the sniff test of basic economic arithmetic, and is contradicted by reams of serious economic research."
Is the ISS flying? Nope. It's not lighter than air either. Apples & Oranges.
That is some really specious logic there. The odds are those people aren't getting $10 an hour.
"Walmart jobs are poverty-level jobs.
Walmart’s average sale Associate makes $8.81 per hour, according to IBISWorld, an independent market research group. This translates to annual pay of $15,576, based upon Walmart’s full-time status of 34 hours per week. This is significantly below the 2010 Federal Poverty Level of $22,050 for a family of four."
http://makingchangeatwalmart.o...
Also, any company can get a tax break for hiring disabled folks. The Publix down the street from me has at least two people working there with Downs & I'd bet dollars to donuts they are getting paid a living wage.
So? Are they getting enough hours to make a living wage? Wanna make a bet of what percentage of those cashiers are on some form of assistance?
"Walmart workers make, on average, $8.81 per hour, which, according to MIT’s “Living Wage Calculator,” does not qualify as a living wage for a single person in much of the country, and is not a living wage for a single parent with one child anywhere, including Bentonville, Arkansas, the home of Walmart."
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2...
"Walmart jobs are poverty-level jobs.
Walmart’s average sale Associate makes $8.81 per hour, according to IBISWorld, an independent market research group. This translates to annual pay of $15,576, based upon Walmart’s full-time status of 34 hours per week. This is significantly below the 2010 Federal Poverty Level of $22,050 for a family of four."
http://makingchangeatwalmart.o...
Your San Antonio example, if true, is a huge exception to the rule. Imagine what the national average for Wal-Mart would be without it.
More Jobs?
You mean 100 associates per store working 8 hours per week while the taxpayer makes up the difference? I may have slightly exaggerated the numbers, but they are doing this shit as we speak.
Fuck more jobs, these associates need more money.
And because Wal-Mart's a horrible corporate "citizen", *we* get to make up the wage difference for their employees in the form of food stamps & other government assistance.
Recall chic-fil-a who actually saw record revenues from backlash during that incident.
For two months. Then the zombies were led by the nose to the next crisis & forgot about old Dan. Now Mr. Cathy is saying he wishes he kept his bigotry to himself.
http://www.al.com/living/index...
As usual, dollars eventually take precedent over bigotry.
Please elaborate, or is name-calling all you have in your wheelhouse?
I just want some of whatever he's smoking.
That term always makes me think of the Chantry's god in Dragon Age.
"Thank the Maker!"
We need people to build things far more than we need people to break them. Building things is cool. Breaking them isn't.
Gandalf isn't always right. Sometimes, you *do* have to break things in order to know how to build them better.
Not all farm land is suitable for growing vegetables, but it may be suitable for grazing. The big problem we have is that the herds are larger than what the growth on a certain land area can sustain and therefore carbohydrate supplements have to be purchased.
This handy infographic puts that in perspective.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/la...
That linked article also states that most of these laws (& of them are over 100 years old) are in the process of being repealed because they are stupid & have scientifically been proven to do not a damn thing in regards to how much water returns to the water table. Sounds like a non-issue & the system is working as designed.
Hawken & Path of Exile are pretty damn good too.
Anyone want to take bets on how soon someone figures out how to disable every cell phone in their office?
I agree they should have obtained a warrant to enter the apartment. They had plenty of probable cause for one but even you admitted that they didn't really need one when you wrote "or if they suspect a crime is in commission." Knowledge of the stolen phone being in the apartment is knowledge of an ongoing crime: possession of stolen property. That particular crime just goes on and on until the stolen property is no longer stolen.
Sorry, you apparently don't understand how the chain of evidence, the 4th amendment or warrants work. How did they know that phone was in the apt? Fruit of a poison tree. This guy is going to walk because TPD hires morons.
But what about the other people they "tracked" when they fired up the stingray? They need a warrant for each one, else it's an illegal search.
They just let a rapist ( $DEITY knows how many others in the future) get off scott-free.
Stingrays *do not track single phones*.
They slurp up all the cell phone connections in a rather large area. It's like tapping every phone in a neighborhood to find one suspected grow operation.
Every single connection that a Stingray made would have to have a warrant attached to it. See Commonwealth v. Augustine.
And they have apparently been doing this for a while. I have a feeling TPD is going to be responsible for allowing a lot of criminals in the Tallahassee area to have their charges / convictions thrown out.