As a WalMart employee for 2 years, I can tell you that 1% of your minimum wage paycheck does not add up to much of a 401k. Otherwise they work you just as crappy as any other grocer or department store. The stock sharing and benefits after 2 years is just a selling point for new employees. The place is typically filled with people carrying the "this is as good as it gets" additude and swaths of new people (someone would quit every week, at least).
Because the cost of living is different in different places.
And they always pay minimum wage, except for those oh-so-fortunate non-union butchers, managers, and a 50cent raise every year. Gosh I'm bitter, I guess it's my inefficiency talking.
There's the flip side of the coin, too - the price of everything going down by 20% means that everybody's purchasing power just went up by 20%.
Good lord, you'd think us hicks are swimming in filet mignon now that the WalMart moved in. As a resident of a poor swamp town, I can tell you it does nothing to help the downtrodden eat. Their bargin bin crap is priced the same as everyone else's bargin bin crap. Now, if you're poor, you get Great Value! brand.
Also, SB bashes intolerance every chance he gets, including intolerance against gays. Try reading his article on an Oregon city's ordinace to remove school posters about learning and sports because they thought they might promote homosexual behavior (the kids were just sitting a little too close).
They only gays i've seen him call stupid fags are GLAAD, who recently demanded an apology from Kevin Smith (that great fag hating icon) because Jay and Silent Bob make gay jokes in his new movie.
He mocks any organization (PETA, NRA, Christian Coalition, Fat Chicks Alliance) who want to unrealisitically change the world into something more comfortable for their ideals.
What the internet is sorely not lacking is self righteous PC freaks. I'd say it's in excess.
stop by thresh's firing squad. granted, they're mostly game reviews but hardware reviews are very thorough and informed. I seem to recall them reviewing this about a month ago.
They did a little linux intro for gamers a couple weeks ago. good shit. nice and anti-microsloth.
I imagine someone has pointed this out already, but the new voodoo3 3000s have an svhs out that people are working on drivers for. At the moment, there is the 3dfx.glide.linux and 3dfx.linux.apps.games newsgroups for relevant articles, as well as
http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/
with the lm sensors project, including a driver for the bt869 chip that {will, may} run the v3's svhs out.
like in SCANNERS where he uses his psychic powers to hack into this big mainframe and sets off the small explosive charges they have in place to keep rival companies from hacking in and gaining sensitive information and it kills the really bad guy and melts the phone he used. like that.
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Good. You ever been forced to work in a closed shop (mandatory union membership)? It sucks
Have you ever been paid $7.00 an hour for a butcher job? It's stressful, dangerous, disgusting work. Unions keep the wage at $14.00.
Wal-Mart helped pioneer employee stock ownership plans
As a WalMart employee for 2 years, I can tell you that 1% of your minimum wage paycheck does not add up to much of a 401k. Otherwise they work you just as crappy as any other grocer or department store. The stock sharing and benefits after 2 years is just a selling point for new employees. The place is typically filled with people carrying the "this is as good as it gets" additude and swaths of new people (someone would quit every week, at least).
Because the cost of living is different in different places.
And they always pay minimum wage, except for those oh-so-fortunate non-union butchers, managers, and a 50cent raise every year. Gosh I'm bitter, I guess it's my inefficiency talking.
There's the flip side of the coin, too - the price of everything going down by 20% means that everybody's purchasing power just went up by 20%.
Good lord, you'd think us hicks are swimming in filet mignon now that the WalMart moved in. As a resident of a poor swamp town, I can tell you it does nothing to help the downtrodden eat. Their bargin bin crap is priced the same as everyone else's bargin bin crap. Now, if you're poor, you get Great Value! brand.
...more like LINDOWS
Lindows Is Not Dumb Old Windows Shite
Also, SB bashes intolerance every chance he gets, including intolerance against gays. Try reading his article on an Oregon city's ordinace to remove school posters about learning and sports because they thought they might promote homosexual behavior (the kids were just sitting a little too close).
They only gays i've seen him call stupid fags are GLAAD, who recently demanded an apology from Kevin Smith (that great fag hating icon) because Jay and Silent Bob make gay jokes in his new movie.
He mocks any organization (PETA, NRA, Christian Coalition, Fat Chicks Alliance) who want to unrealisitically change the world into something more comfortable for their ideals.
What the internet is sorely not lacking is self righteous PC freaks. I'd say it's in excess.
pnutz
Next thing you know PARADIGM is going to sue the KDE folks for infringing on their free Illustrator program.
stop by thresh's firing squad.
granted, they're mostly game reviews but hardware reviews are very thorough and informed. I seem to recall them reviewing this about a month ago.
They did a little linux intro for gamers a couple weeks ago. good shit. nice and anti-microsloth.
www.firingsquad.com
I imagine someone has pointed this out already, but the new voodoo3 3000s have an svhs out that people are working on drivers for. At the moment, there is the 3dfx.glide.linux and 3dfx.linux.apps.games newsgroups for relevant
articles, as well as
http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/
with the lm sensors project, including a driver for the bt869 chip that {will, may} run the v3's svhs out.
good luck
jeff
like in SCANNERS where he uses his psychic powers to hack into this big mainframe and sets off the small explosive charges they have in place to keep rival companies from hacking in and gaining sensitive information and it kills the really bad guy and melts the phone he used.
like that.