So when did "He doesn't get to make the choice because it's not his store" stop being common sense?
Oh, is this the People's Gamespot, where our mighty Comrades have liberated the oppressed Gamespot from it's parasitic capitalist oppressors? Did they establish a dictatorship of the proletariat so everyone in the People's Gamespot could benefit?
Nope, no private ownership! You don't need to do what your bosses tell you to do! The Gamespot belongs to THE PEOPLE, not the capitalist swine!
Negative media coverage, if the posts here are any indication. If it was the gamespot in my town, I know I wouldn't shop there after hearing about this policy.
I graduated high school on the honour roll and after finishing college with a solid GPA, I design industrial control systems for a living. Great job. I love it.
Grades are useless. I was utterly wasting my time doing well, I would've done just as well with shit grades and a social life.
[...]the moron who couldn't get a job as anything better than the manager of a games store is not the person I want judging a child's academic or intellectual ability.
Ladies and gentlemen. This is the sort of thing that the word 'pwned' was virtually created for.
Once you get that piece of paper and your first job, it matters surprisingly little where you got it.
"Oh? You've got a unique skill, proven experience in that skill, and we have no reason to believe you're a slacker or an asshole? Please! Let us pay you to work for us!"
24 sales at 50 bucks a pop. 1200 dollars in lost sales.
A manager should know full well that he's playing with fire if he decides to turn away 1200 dollars in sales. His bosses live for sales, because their bosses live for sales.
So, we've either got a manager who is blissfully ignorant of what his bosses want to see at the end of the day (in which case he should be fired for lacking a clue), or we've got a manager who is wilfully going against what his bosses want to see at the end of the day (in which case he should be fired for insubordination).
Maybe this is the People's Pharmacy, because this guy established a dictatorship of the proletariat and took control of the pharmacy from the capitalist pigs who owned it?
I work in a paper mill. I'd much prefer we make delicious candy.
Even though re-tooling the mill to create delicious candy would make everyone very happy, it's not my paper mill, and thus I'd get fired, and probably charged.
The right thing would be to promote good grades, if they want to promote scholastic excellence. Ekeing out punishments to kids who don't meet your standards isn't what a games store's job is.
Frankly, considering that mental handicaps are a recognised disability, I could see this behaviour opening the store up to liability, since they're basically discriminating on the basis of intellect. Work hard but just not bright enough to get the material? No games for you.
Spending out children's money? We have some of the lowest taxes ion the world.
Yes, spending your children's money is what happens when you don't feel like paying taxes for your neato government pork. about half a trillion a year, in fact, is money you aren't paying, but your kids are going to have to.
The difference between Canada and the US in this respect, what I was driving at, is even though our healthcare system isn't perfect, even though a lot of our government programs aren't perfect, even though our military could be stronger, at least we're paying for our own shit. You guys are taking out debts you don't ever intend to repay, and ignoring the fundamental truth that every dollar you borrow is another ten dollars of taxpayer money you send to china for debt maintenance(They're doing America a great favour by buying up all the debt you guys keep digging yourselves into),and it's another dollar your kids are going to have to earn and pay down to maintain this massive government welfare program, your army.
Yes, I believe there is a strong moral arguement that you ought not to take out debts for your children to pay back. Frankly, if you want to pay taxes for it, go right ahead. Have the largest military in the world. It's your right as a taxpayer to request it. The moment, however, that you start dumping 500 billion dollars of a 2.5 billion dollar federal budget into "well...our kids can pay for that", that's when I say "I'm Canadian, and even if our military sucks, I'd rather have it suck with money from MY pocket, than have the greatest military in the world, built on the backs of my children!"
To be perfectly fair, you don't need a state of the art gaming rig. Take a regular Windows PC, some absolutely ancient P4, maybe a 1.8Ghz or 2Ghz with a gig or so of memory, toss a $100 budget video card in there, and you've got yourself a perfectly reasonable gaming machine. You won't be playing at 1600x1200, but if you're being cheap and trying to nickel and dime yourself down to the barest gaming experience possible, odds are you won't be playing your console system on an HDTV either.
In the interests of full disclosure, I've got an X-Box, a PS2, a Wii, a DS, AND a great gaming PC. I know, more money than sense, but you know what? By buying a $200 video card instead of dishing out 800 bucks for SLI 8800s, I'm more than breaking even.
Two words: Peace dividend. Americans don't want it, for some reason, but their federal budget is headed off into a very unhappy place. Within our lifetimes, we're going to see something very bad happen to the US because of their present spending practices, then we'll see if having the most powerful military in the world(Welfare for conservatives) was worth it.
Congratulations, you're a useless asshole. I'm pretty sure you're an astroturfer, making a post like that.
Here's a link to an academic paper which looks at a number of Homoeopathy studies. The credentials of the researchers who put together the paper seem to be solid; it's not a bunch of dedicated Homoeopathy researchers working from a Homoeopathy hospital like some of the parent's papers are.
Honestly, I was surprised to find the conclusions were that there is something to it, even taking into account biases brought about by low quality studies. There's still an effect shown in many high quality studies. Interestingly, the successes only take place in treating certain symptoms.
If I were a medical researcher, I'd be looking into the areas where Homoeopathy is a successful treatment for illnesses, because it's entirely possible that we're looking at a few areas where quacks have stumbled upon a legitimate chemical treatment for a disease, for reasons unrelated to the rationalisations given for Homoeopathy's effectiveness.
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So when did "He doesn't get to make the choice because it's not his store" stop being common sense?
Oh, is this the People's Gamespot, where our mighty Comrades have liberated the oppressed Gamespot from it's parasitic capitalist oppressors? Did they establish a dictatorship of the proletariat so everyone in the People's Gamespot could benefit?
Nope, no private ownership! You don't need to do what your bosses tell you to do! The Gamespot belongs to THE PEOPLE, not the capitalist swine!
It's a store where they sell video games.
I think we've got a chance of being the larger demographic, here.
Negative media coverage, if the posts here are any indication. If it was the gamespot in my town, I know I wouldn't shop there after hearing about this policy.
That wasn't a generalisation...That was a non sequitur.
I use banks...I LIKE PUPPIES! You and your puppy hating ways. You should be ashamed of yourself.
But the ARTIST is the one who pays for the production costs of the album.
I graduated high school on the honour roll and after finishing college with a solid GPA, I design industrial control systems for a living. Great job. I love it.
Grades are useless. I was utterly wasting my time doing well, I would've done just as well with shit grades and a social life.
[...]the moron who couldn't get a job as anything better than the manager of a games store is not the person I want judging a child's academic or intellectual ability.
Ladies and gentlemen. This is the sort of thing that the word 'pwned' was virtually created for.
To be fair. John Sr. is a hobo Junior gave twenty bucks so she can buy Halo 3. Junior's name is Tiffany.
Once you get that piece of paper and your first job, it matters surprisingly little where you got it.
"Oh? You've got a unique skill, proven experience in that skill, and we have no reason to believe you're a slacker or an asshole? Please! Let us pay you to work for us!"
24 sales at 50 bucks a pop. 1200 dollars in lost sales.
A manager should know full well that he's playing with fire if he decides to turn away 1200 dollars in sales. His bosses live for sales, because their bosses live for sales.
So, we've either got a manager who is blissfully ignorant of what his bosses want to see at the end of the day (in which case he should be fired for lacking a clue), or we've got a manager who is wilfully going against what his bosses want to see at the end of the day (in which case he should be fired for insubordination).
Maybe this is the People's Pharmacy, because this guy established a dictatorship of the proletariat and took control of the pharmacy from the capitalist pigs who owned it?
It's not his store to be making that decision in.
I work in a paper mill. I'd much prefer we make delicious candy.
Even though re-tooling the mill to create delicious candy would make everyone very happy, it's not my paper mill, and thus I'd get fired, and probably charged.
The right thing would be to promote good grades, if they want to promote scholastic excellence. Ekeing out punishments to kids who don't meet your standards isn't what a games store's job is.
Frankly, considering that mental handicaps are a recognised disability, I could see this behaviour opening the store up to liability, since they're basically discriminating on the basis of intellect. Work hard but just not bright enough to get the material? No games for you.
I would steal ALL of those things if the cost/benefit ratio was good enough.
Handbag has 100 billion dollars in it? Oh, I killed the old lady too, and hired johnny Cochrane.
It's a third the price of a Nintendo Wii, and probably more powerful.
Spending out children's money? We have some of the lowest taxes ion the world.
Yes, spending your children's money is what happens when you don't feel like paying taxes for your neato government pork. about half a trillion a year, in fact, is money you aren't paying, but your kids are going to have to.
The difference between Canada and the US in this respect, what I was driving at, is even though our healthcare system isn't perfect, even though a lot of our government programs aren't perfect, even though our military could be stronger, at least we're paying for our own shit. You guys are taking out debts you don't ever intend to repay, and ignoring the fundamental truth that every dollar you borrow is another ten dollars of taxpayer money you send to china for debt maintenance(They're doing America a great favour by buying up all the debt you guys keep digging yourselves into),and it's another dollar your kids are going to have to earn and pay down to maintain this massive government welfare program, your army.
Yes, I believe there is a strong moral arguement that you ought not to take out debts for your children to pay back. Frankly, if you want to pay taxes for it, go right ahead. Have the largest military in the world. It's your right as a taxpayer to request it. The moment, however, that you start dumping 500 billion dollars of a 2.5 billion dollar federal budget into "well...our kids can pay for that", that's when I say "I'm Canadian, and even if our military sucks, I'd rather have it suck with money from MY pocket, than have the greatest military in the world, built on the backs of my children!"
Interesting. So the fact that you're spending your children's money on this crap doesn't bother you in the least?
I guess there's also a sanity dividend for countries with sane budgets.
Eventually, we didn't have P2 233s with 32 megs of ram anymore. That's what happened there.
XP is pretty nice once you have many times the processing power and memory than most people had when it came out.
To be perfectly fair, you don't need a state of the art gaming rig. Take a regular Windows PC, some absolutely ancient P4, maybe a 1.8Ghz or 2Ghz with a gig or so of memory, toss a $100 budget video card in there, and you've got yourself a perfectly reasonable gaming machine. You won't be playing at 1600x1200, but if you're being cheap and trying to nickel and dime yourself down to the barest gaming experience possible, odds are you won't be playing your console system on an HDTV either.
In the interests of full disclosure, I've got an X-Box, a PS2, a Wii, a DS, AND a great gaming PC. I know, more money than sense, but you know what? By buying a $200 video card instead of dishing out 800 bucks for SLI 8800s, I'm more than breaking even.
Could you take this lovers spat somewhere else?
I really could do without watching some AC flirting with the guy he likes.
Two words: Peace dividend. Americans don't want it, for some reason, but their federal budget is headed off into a very unhappy place. Within our lifetimes, we're going to see something very bad happen to the US because of their present spending practices, then we'll see if having the most powerful military in the world(Welfare for conservatives) was worth it.
Yeah, humanity is too retarded to deal with more than one important issue at once!
Plus, climate scientists are fully capable of working on medical and horticultural sciences! It's not a waste of time and a red herring!
Hey, why are we generating power right now? We should deal with this AIDS thing before we spend any effort generating electricity!
Oh my god! That guy is walking and chewing gum at the same time! That bastard could've spend that effort curing AIDS!!!
Yeah! Fight the power! Fuck the Queen and her English language!
Erm...I linked to the article, but the link didn't show up. No clue what happened.
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/138/5/393
I don't know what happened there...
Congratulations, you're a useless asshole. I'm pretty sure you're an astroturfer, making a post like that.
Here's a link to an academic paper which looks at a number of Homoeopathy studies. The credentials of the researchers who put together the paper seem to be solid; it's not a bunch of dedicated Homoeopathy researchers working from a Homoeopathy hospital like some of the parent's papers are.
Honestly, I was surprised to find the conclusions were that there is something to it, even taking into account biases brought about by low quality studies. There's still an effect shown in many high quality studies. Interestingly, the successes only take place in treating certain symptoms.
If I were a medical researcher, I'd be looking into the areas where Homoeopathy is a successful treatment for illnesses, because it's entirely possible that we're looking at a few areas where quacks have stumbled upon a legitimate chemical treatment for a disease, for reasons unrelated to the rationalisations given for Homoeopathy's effectiveness.