Corporations exist to make profit, anything less than the limit of the law is unacceptable and a failure of the fiduciary duties of any corporate board of directors. So, if the legal environment permits the behavior, yes the politicians can take a share of the blame.
More specifically, corporate charters were very hard to come by for the first several decades of the US. Public benefit had to be proven and they were for limited times.
Rockefeller got this changed, and now the People have to complete with immortal superbeings (with Human Rights, no less, since Santa Clara) created by government.
I just round that brand knife, 8" stainless steel, for $8 a Bed Bath & Beyond. Without knowing the exact one, I can't compare much else, but like I said, at that point you don't seem to be saving anything worthwhile at all.
FYI, it was carbon steel, not stainless - such a nice is ordinarily $80-$90 at a kitchen store - the Walmart model had a somewhat different grip style.
Whatever, I know who I see at my local walmart; toothless hicks who can't spell their own name.
Why does it matter who else is in a store where you shop? Do you refuse to use roads that are also used by people with poor dental care and literacy? Restaurants? Internets?
Its not an exaggeration, and I don't see the "economic benefit." Either I'm saving literally less than $0.05, or I'm getting a piece of cheap crap with a brand name on it which will be dead and useless to me in about 6 months.
I got the knife about 3 years ago - it shows no sign of failing. I don't think anybody really argues that Walmart's pricing isn't the lowest on commodity goods. I've done the comparison shopping on Ziplock bags, Cottonelle, Kleenex, SpeedStick, etc., and the price savings are significant. Tropicana OJ can be had for half of the local grocery store.
I'd rather spend the few more cents, or in the case of crap with branding, spend to get the brand + the quality, and NOT have to deal with retards (again, literally working as cashiers).
What IQ floor is appropriate for a cashier? Perhaps your economic region is at full employment?
So please, feel free to continue to think you're on some moral high ground, I really don't care.
Hrm, being thrifty and considerate would just be 'normal' in most cases.
People make trades when they value one thing more highly than another. This town would be trading one-in-a-million risk for real economic benefit. Voluntary trades are always to both parties' perceived benefit.
Seeking better circumstances isn't greed, it's human nature - otherwise you'd have to call everybody not living in a 1-room cabin in the woods greedy as they insist on more than is necessary.
You mean like a Wii, which is I believe $0.02 cheaper?
No, commodities. Silverware, windshield wipers, etc.
That's what ends up happening for anything that might approach quality.
Again, their top-of-the line commodity items are of decent quality. I got a Sabatier Chef's knife there for $20, which is excellent.
And then at that point, why bother with walmart, which seems to attract white trash and hires retards for checkout?
Eh, if you check your elitism at the door you'll derive some economic benefit. Certainly there are stores who cater to folks who want to shop in 'proper' company, and they fill an economic nice too.
I've never met anyone who had a pager, I've never seen a pager in real life or heard of anyone using one outside the US.
Your experience must be limited to geographical areas with pervasive cell network coverage.
I live in an area of NH with moderate coverage, but prefer to head up to the mountains for R&R. But I'm on-call, so I carry a pager, it works nearly everywhere (cell phone start working again well above tree-line).
I use procmail to duplicate messages to pager + SMS - between the two coverage is nearly 100%.
Pager is $15mo for alpha paging (longer messages than SMS) and my pager (Motorola design made in China) runs about two months on a AA. It will give me a warning about the battery a few days before it gets really low, and then beep at me annoyingly for a couple days before the battery is dead.
Yes, I agree the new information is quite different than originally reported.
This should be easy to test, though - ask the guy something the speech therapist wouldn't know. If he's that aware and well-composed, this should be easy.
Which is one of the things M&P are doing to shoot themselves in the foot. Walmart though sacrafices so much quality for so little price difference that I won't shop there ever (well unless you're talking about something like diapers), and I certainly wouldn't risk my life on a tire from walmart.
Walmart usually has a range of quality choices for a given product category. If you buy the top of the line, you usually get acceptable quality with excellent purchasing power. There are clearly exceptions, but judgement is assumed.
I've been meaning to get started with Arduino but haven't yet - anybody know which Arduino part these Japanese boards would be equivalent to? They seem to have several models below its cost.
Welcome to the world of government low-bid contracts. The specification didn't call for backups, so you don't get backups, because that would've made the bid higher.
It would be interesting to know who developed the specification - an intern in State IT or a professional software 'architect'.
This is a particularly vexing problem for local government, without the resources to properly specify, but I'd hope that the Commonwealth of Virginia could do better.
The moon is covered in helium 3. There, we have to have a manned lunar colony in order to be safe from terrorists!
If it's not possible to shut down DHS, then perhaps second-best would be transferring a large chunk of their budget to NASA. Somebody see to that please.
This is a good example of why the whole idea of withdrawing life support is wrong - under other circumstances, this man may have been simply left to die from dehydration or starvation.
Without debating the matter of killing expensive patients with poor outcomes chances, society should at least have the balls to treat them as well as it would insist on for a pet if it's going to kill them anyway.
If courts are going to wade into this, surely they have as much a duty to prevent cruel and unusual 'healthcare' as punishment, and if the chances of proper diagnosis aren't 100%, then the same reasoning should come into play as that for assuming the accused innocent.
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Corporations exist to make profit, anything less than the limit of the law is unacceptable and a failure of the fiduciary duties of any corporate board of directors. So, if the legal environment permits the behavior, yes the politicians can take a share of the blame.
More specifically, corporate charters were very hard to come by for the first several decades of the US. Public benefit had to be proven and they were for limited times.
Rockefeller got this changed, and now the People have to complete with immortal superbeings (with Human Rights, no less, since Santa Clara) created by government.
Bush spent the rainy-day fund when it wasn't raining.
The Dollar has been declining since 1999. That's why Greenspan created the Housing Bubble.
Somehow U.S. citizens don't understand how their government works
They are 'educated' by that government.
by someone whose only contributions had been nominations and votes for deletion
which @brittanica.com user was that?
Please explain how past wrongs have something to do with individual compassion?
I just round that brand knife, 8" stainless steel, for $8 a Bed Bath & Beyond. Without knowing the exact one, I can't compare much else, but like I said, at that point you don't seem to be saving anything worthwhile at all.
FYI, it was carbon steel, not stainless - such a nice is ordinarily $80-$90 at a kitchen store - the Walmart model had a somewhat different grip style.
Whatever, I know who I see at my local walmart; toothless hicks who can't spell their own name.
Why does it matter who else is in a store where you shop? Do you refuse to use roads that are also used by people with poor dental care and literacy? Restaurants? Internets?
Its not an exaggeration, and I don't see the "economic benefit." Either I'm saving literally less than $0.05, or I'm getting a piece of cheap crap with a brand name on it which will be dead and useless to me in about 6 months.
I got the knife about 3 years ago - it shows no sign of failing. I don't think anybody really argues that Walmart's pricing isn't the lowest on commodity goods. I've done the comparison shopping on Ziplock bags, Cottonelle, Kleenex, SpeedStick, etc., and the price savings are significant. Tropicana OJ can be had for half of the local grocery store.
I'd rather spend the few more cents, or in the case of crap with branding, spend to get the brand + the quality, and NOT have to deal with retards (again, literally working as cashiers).
What IQ floor is appropriate for a cashier? Perhaps your economic region is at full employment?
So please, feel free to continue to think you're on some moral high ground, I really don't care.
Hrm, being thrifty and considerate would just be 'normal' in most cases.
And its "niche."
Thanks for playing typo-spotting?
Correction: greed can.
People make trades when they value one thing more highly than another. This town would be trading one-in-a-million risk for real economic benefit. Voluntary trades are always to both parties' perceived benefit.
Seeking better circumstances isn't greed, it's human nature - otherwise you'd have to call everybody not living in a 1-room cabin in the woods greedy as they insist on more than is necessary.
With that amount of errors he would have ripped you to shreds.
'Numbers' would be the better word choice. 'Amount' is more appropriate for indeterminate quantities.
Sorry, compassion for the individual is the topic being discussed, and two wrongs don't make a right.
Science cant overcome the Collective stupidity of land owners and the populace.
Markets can. Free electricity to all residences in the town where the plant is built for 20 years.
You mean like a Wii, which is I believe $0.02 cheaper?
No, commodities. Silverware, windshield wipers, etc.
That's what ends up happening for anything that might approach quality.
Again, their top-of-the line commodity items are of decent quality. I got a Sabatier Chef's knife there for $20, which is excellent.
And then at that point, why bother with walmart, which seems to attract white trash and hires retards for checkout?
Eh, if you check your elitism at the door you'll derive some economic benefit. Certainly there are stores who cater to folks who want to shop in 'proper' company, and they fill an economic nice too.
I've never met anyone who had a pager, I've never seen a pager in real life or heard of anyone using one outside the US.
Your experience must be limited to geographical areas with pervasive cell network coverage.
I live in an area of NH with moderate coverage, but prefer to head up to the mountains for R&R. But I'm on-call, so I carry a pager, it works nearly everywhere (cell phone start working again well above tree-line).
I use procmail to duplicate messages to pager + SMS - between the two coverage is nearly 100%.
Pager is $15mo for alpha paging (longer messages than SMS) and my pager (Motorola design made in China) runs about two months on a AA. It will give me a warning about the battery a few days before it gets really low, and then beep at me annoyingly for a couple days before the battery is dead.
One would never, _ever_ withdraw life support without this sort of brain scan, at the bare minimum.
except it hasn't existed up until now but they do so already?
Yes, I agree the new information is quite different than originally reported.
This should be easy to test, though - ask the guy something the speech therapist wouldn't know. If he's that aware and well-composed, this should be easy.
Walmart usually has a range of quality choices for a given product category. If you buy the top of the line, you usually get acceptable quality with excellent purchasing power. There are clearly exceptions, but judgement is assumed.
So, the moral of the story is that if you're going to emulate this guy, write 'Donuts' on the side of the box and you'll be good?
Jesus, guys, listen to Ike once in a while.
wow, that's a blast from the past. Were you on the Hanover Plain as well?
I've been meaning to get started with Arduino but haven't yet - anybody know which Arduino part these Japanese boards would be equivalent to? They seem to have several models below its cost.
s/Backup/Redundancy/ and half the comments go away - vague headlines must be Slashdot's new evil plan to get page views.
Welcome to the world of government low-bid contracts. The specification didn't call for backups, so you don't get backups, because that would've made the bid higher.
It would be interesting to know who developed the specification - an intern in State IT or a professional software 'architect'.
This is a particularly vexing problem for local government, without the resources to properly specify, but I'd hope that the Commonwealth of Virginia could do better.
Despite the so-called "rivalry" too many science "news" outlets have played up
News: a story that looks more and more wrong the closer you look at it.
I don't understand all this hoopla about why it took so long.
They're just the nattering nabobs of negativism who expect you can buy an LHC at BestBuy with a service contract. It's safe to ignore them.
The moon is covered in helium 3. There, we have to have a manned lunar colony in order to be safe from terrorists!
If it's not possible to shut down DHS, then perhaps second-best would be transferring a large chunk of their budget to NASA. Somebody see to that please.
This is a good example of why the whole idea of withdrawing life support is wrong - under other circumstances, this man may have been simply left to die from dehydration or starvation.
Without debating the matter of killing expensive patients with poor outcomes chances, society should at least have the balls to treat them as well as it would insist on for a pet if it's going to kill them anyway.
If courts are going to wade into this, surely they have as much a duty to prevent cruel and unusual 'healthcare' as punishment, and if the chances of proper diagnosis aren't 100%, then the same reasoning should come into play as that for assuming the accused innocent.