That government breaking up the monopoly thing is what I mean when I say they don't exist in a vaccum. Something will stop them. Plus I've lived in two different midwest states (wal-mart bastion) in the last few years. One medium sized city and one large city. Both had independent retailers for groceries, electronics, and just about everything else. One of them in particular was a total crook, but most of the competitors were a good place to shop. I think your a little excitable.
If I ran a supermarket I would have a bin where you could put your "customer loyalty card" in and take a different one at random. Just to be a dick to the other stores.
it is increasingly being used to answer discount retailing's rabbinical questions, like how many cashiers are needed during certain hours at a particular store.
I know there are never enough cashiers at the Wal-Marts by me. I end up going elsewhere just because the check out is such a horrible experience.
I know your're reading this Sam.
People like you seem to assume Wal-Mart exists in a vacuum. A society cannot cannabalize itself. We could be conquored and cannabalized by a different society, but the problems you worry about have been around for ages, people work them out. If somebody cannot afford to sell their item in Wal-Mart, they will stop selling it in Wal-Mart.
Yes, but companies don't exist in a vaccum. Consumers, government, & competitors are all variables that bring about change.
For all the disdain I often see on/. for blue collor work, the constant bitching about outsourcing looks alot like the steel and auto industry fights that have been going on for decades.
Off shoring is like the problem I had where my one year old liked to bang her head on the wall. It's self correcting. Once you do it enough you realize that it hurts too much and you stop.
Seriously, people talk like the US will become a wastland of McDonalds & Wal-Mart jobs, but that is laughable. The US is one of the largest markets in the world. At some point companies will realize that people have to make a good wage to buy the products they are selling. Or else they will have to make products that last 50 years so you only have to buy one in your lifetime. The biggest thing hindering this type of turnaround is the ease of borrowing. Everybody has way to much debt.
If you think people "aren't beating down the doors" to work at car manufacturers your worldview must be very white-coller centric. I know tons of people who would kill to work for GM or Ford.
SuSE 9.2 is supposed to handle wireless better. I haven't tested it. A nice feature of SuSE for roaming networks is hardware profiles. I have one for home and one for roaming, but you can set up as many as you need.
I tested Mandrake, Red Hat (Fedora), Debian, Lindows, and several other smaller distributions. None of them handled wireless like SuSE did at version 9.0. I couldn't even get my wireless to work on most of the distributions, but SuSE picked it up by default.
It's ridiculous to compare buying used CD's to downloading music. Used CD's are totally legit, downloading music is still a grey area. Who gives a rip if buying a used CD screws up the popularity charts. Who gives a rip if it "doesn't help the artist".
The artist already made their money off that CD. Your buying it helps the store (& it's employees), the person who sold the CD, and it probably helps the RIAA. The numbskull who sold it will probably use the cash to buy the latest and greatest CD. Some people have to have the latest and greatest. I'll settle for something I know I like.
I installed the personal edition of SuSE for my brother to try out and for my nephew. It defaulted to a passwordless logon. There was a password specified, but it would autogically login to the default profile. If you need help doing this, email me and I will look up the setting.
This is really an example of the patchwork legal system in the US. It all depends on where you live.
In the county I grew up in, mostly rural. You can fight a ticket and have a decent chance of having it thrown out (cop doesn't show), or reduced to save the judge some time. If you lose, you pay the ticket and go your merry way. In the county next door, large city (Indianapolis). If you decide to fight a ticket and you lose you pay court costs. The cop who wrote you the ticket also gets paid overtime to show up and tell his side of the story. You will probably end up payin more then double the original ticket if you lose and they chances of winning are slim to none. Judges tend to believe cops.
There is a fiber line that runs right across my parent's driveway. It was put in about a year ago but I'm not sure who owns it. SBC is their phone company and they say they can't get DSL because there is a secondary loop over their segment with effectively doubles the distance to the CO. They have never been able to get cable where they are.
Does anybody know how to determine who owns this fiber?
This was an advertising campaign designed to show the power of billboard advertising. I heard it was so succesful they are launching an actual product in Piggly-Wiggly stores, (southern US chain).
This looks like another attempt by the DNC to say, "Hey, dont' vote for Nader, your vote doesn't count. If you vote for Kerry I'll give you this candy bar."
Libertarians seem to be resisting this and gathering steam. I don't want to be absorbed by one of the "real" parties.
That's ridiculous, these in no way compete with cars. In areas they are feasable people who can't walk are likely to rely on public transportation of some sort. In areas where older people don't have public transportation these are not very feasable.
Have you ever seen how people in urban sprawl areas or very rural areas treat people riding bicycles on the street? I'd hate to see some old guy zipping down the hilly dirt roads where my in-laws live on a Segway. Especially in the winter.
Your logic is flawed. They are definitly leaning on something (handlebars), not standing. Also, standing for prolonged periods is difficult and causes problems for people who are not disabled (any cashier can tell you this). I can't imagine this is truly a better solution for disabled people, maybe a cooler or more psychologically acceptable, but there are real studies that prove the damage long term standing in one spot can do to the human muscoskeletal system.
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That government breaking up the monopoly thing is what I mean when I say they don't exist in a vaccum. Something will stop them. Plus I've lived in two different midwest states (wal-mart bastion) in the last few years. One medium sized city and one large city. Both had independent retailers for groceries, electronics, and just about everything else. One of them in particular was a total crook, but most of the competitors were a good place to shop. I think your a little excitable.
If I ran a supermarket I would have a bin where you could put your "customer loyalty card" in and take a different one at random. Just to be a dick to the other stores.
it is increasingly being used to answer discount retailing's rabbinical questions, like how many cashiers are needed during certain hours at a particular store.
I know there are never enough cashiers at the Wal-Marts by me. I end up going elsewhere just because the check out is such a horrible experience. I know your're reading this Sam.
People like you seem to assume Wal-Mart exists in a vacuum. A society cannot cannabalize itself. We could be conquored and cannabalized by a different society, but the problems you worry about have been around for ages, people work them out. If somebody cannot afford to sell their item in Wal-Mart, they will stop selling it in Wal-Mart.
Yes, but companies don't exist in a vaccum. Consumers, government, & competitors are all variables that bring about change.
/. for blue collor work, the constant bitching about outsourcing looks alot like the steel and auto industry fights that have been going on for decades.
For all the disdain I often see on
Off shoring is like the problem I had where my one year old liked to bang her head on the wall. It's self correcting. Once you do it enough you realize that it hurts too much and you stop.
Seriously, people talk like the US will become a wastland of McDonalds & Wal-Mart jobs, but that is laughable. The US is one of the largest markets in the world. At some point companies will realize that people have to make a good wage to buy the products they are selling. Or else they will have to make products that last 50 years so you only have to buy one in your lifetime.
The biggest thing hindering this type of turnaround is the ease of borrowing. Everybody has way to much debt.
If you think people "aren't beating down the doors" to work at car manufacturers your worldview must be very white-coller centric. I know tons of people who would kill to work for GM or Ford.
SuSE 9.2 is supposed to handle wireless better. I haven't tested it. A nice feature of SuSE for roaming networks is hardware profiles. I have one for home and one for roaming, but you can set up as many as you need.
I tested Mandrake, Red Hat (Fedora), Debian, Lindows, and several other smaller distributions. None of them handled wireless like SuSE did at version 9.0. I couldn't even get my wireless to work on most of the distributions, but SuSE picked it up by default.
Just keep your interest in anime to yourself and you'll do fine.
I just soiled myself. Thanks, I'm at work...
Sounds like you have trouble focusing on one thing and you might be a resume spammer. Round file...
It's ridiculous to compare buying used CD's to downloading music. Used CD's are totally legit, downloading music is still a grey area. Who gives a rip if buying a used CD screws up the popularity charts. Who gives a rip if it "doesn't help the artist".
The artist already made their money off that CD. Your buying it helps the store (& it's employees), the person who sold the CD, and it probably helps the RIAA. The numbskull who sold it will probably use the cash to buy the latest and greatest CD. Some people have to have the latest and greatest. I'll settle for something I know I like.
I installed the personal edition of SuSE for my brother to try out and for my nephew. It defaulted to a passwordless logon. There was a password specified, but it would autogically login to the default profile. If you need help doing this, email me and I will look up the setting.
You left the part out about where they can come into your home, search your belongings, and remove belongings without telling you.
I was wondering where all my socks were going...
This is really an example of the patchwork legal system in the US. It all depends on where you live.
In the county I grew up in, mostly rural. You can fight a ticket and have a decent chance of having it thrown out (cop doesn't show), or reduced to save the judge some time. If you lose, you pay the ticket and go your merry way.
In the county next door, large city (Indianapolis). If you decide to fight a ticket and you lose you pay court costs. The cop who wrote you the ticket also gets paid overtime to show up and tell his side of the story. You will probably end up payin more then double the original ticket if you lose and they chances of winning are slim to none. Judges tend to believe cops.
Ironic that you complain about SPAM and SPAM slashdot with your sig at the same time?!
There is a fiber line that runs right across my parent's driveway. It was put in about a year ago but I'm not sure who owns it. SBC is their phone company and they say they can't get DSL because there is a secondary loop over their segment with effectively doubles the distance to the CO. They have never been able to get cable where they are.
Does anybody know how to determine who owns this fiber?
Yup, I could row a boat with a rope.
This was an advertising campaign designed to show the power of billboard advertising. I heard it was so succesful they are launching an actual product in Piggly-Wiggly stores, (southern US chain).
Or the guy that owns the bar will just cover the IR input with tape.
This looks like another attempt by the DNC to say, "Hey, dont' vote for Nader, your vote doesn't count. If you vote for Kerry I'll give you this candy bar."
Libertarians seem to be resisting this and gathering steam. I don't want to be absorbed by one of the "real" parties.
I want change!
I wonder if the segway would pancake you if the wheels stopped on ice, would they try to spin to hold you up and not work?
That's ridiculous, these in no way compete with cars. In areas they are feasable people who can't walk are likely to rely on public transportation of some sort. In areas where older people don't have public transportation these are not very feasable.
Have you ever seen how people in urban sprawl areas or very rural areas treat people riding bicycles on the street? I'd hate to see some old guy zipping down the hilly dirt roads where my in-laws live on a Segway. Especially in the winter.
Your logic is flawed. They are definitly leaning on something (handlebars), not standing. Also, standing for prolonged periods is difficult and causes problems for people who are not disabled (any cashier can tell you this). I can't imagine this is truly a better solution for disabled people, maybe a cooler or more psychologically acceptable, but there are real studies that prove the damage long term standing in one spot can do to the human muscoskeletal system.
hear, hear!!