Jesus Beer-Guzzling Christ, how many times does this question have to be asked and answered? Please, Slashdot, consider deleting the account of anyone who brings up this grizzled chestnut.
My first day in Boston, they assigned me a single in East Campus. There were some guys staggering around that looked as if they hadn't slept in days. There was a tiny sink right in the room, like it was the cheapest motel ever. And some tool had written Green's Theorem on the wall in big green symbols. I spent one night there and pledged a frat the next. The thought of living there still gives me shivers of dread.
Wal-Mart is the largest employer in the United States, with over one million workers. It is the largest food retailer and the third largest pharmacy in the nation. The company employs approximately 44,000 workers in California, and has plans to expand significantly in the state over the next four years. Wal-Mart workers receive lower wages than other retail workers and are less likely to have health benefits. Other major retailers have begun to scale back wages and benefits in the state, citing their concerns about competition from Wal-Mart.
We estimate that Wal-Mart workers in California earn on average 31 percent less than workers employed in large retail as a whole, receiving an average wage of $9.70 per hour compared to the $14.01 average hourly earnings for employees in large retail (firms with 1,000 or more employees). In addition, 23 percent fewer Wal-Mart workers are covered by employer-sponsored health insurance than large retail workers as a whole. The differences are even greater when Wal-Mart workers are compared to unionized grocery workers. In the San Francisco Bay Area, non-managerial Wal-Mart employees earn on average $9.40 an hour, compared to $15.31 for unionized grocery workers--39 percent less--and are half as likely to have health benefits.
At these low-wages, many Wal-Mart workers rely on public safety net programs-- such as food stamps, Medicare, and subsidized housing--to make ends meet. The presence of Wal-Mart stores in California thus creates a hidden cost to the state's taxpayers.
This study is the first to quantify the fiscal costs of Wal-Mart's substandard wages and benefits on public safety net programs in California. It also explores the potential impact on public programs of Wal-Mart's competitive effect on industry standards.
Main Findings:
* Reliance by Wal-Mart workers on public assistance programs in California comes at a cost to the taxpayers of an estimated $86 million annually; this is comprised of $32 million in health related expenses and $54 million in other assistance.
* The families of Wal-Mart employees in California utilize an estimated 40 percent more in taxpayer-funded health care than the average for families of all large retail employees.
* The families of Wal-Mart employees use an estimated 38 percent more in other (non-health care) public assistance programs (such as food stamps, Earned Income Tax Credit, subsidized school lunches, and subsidized housing) than the average for families of all large retail employees.
* If other large California retailers adopted Wal-Mart's wage and benefits standards, it would cost taxpayers an additional $410 million a year in public assistance to employees.
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Jesus Tapdancing Christ. The reason why Microsoft is an abusive monopoly recognized and declared so by the courts has been done to death. Don't you read Slashdot? The reason why Apple is not a monopoly... oh never mind. It's like explaining vermilion to the colorblind. You will not get it.
The RIAA should love to be associated intimately with Microsoft for the same reason that a plump girl should hang out with fat girls - to look good by comparison.
Despite the fact he was wounded in Iraq, he doesn't consider it an unjust war, and plans to vote for Bush. He told me he saw first-hand the difference we've made in that country, and there's no way anyone can convince him that the war was wrong.
So he'll be volunteering for that Sudan operation we'll be staging soon?
Bill's kid comes home crying. Seems his little schoolchum's dad Steve has a hip movie studio that makes way cool animated features. Why can't you do that, Dad? I want an animation studio! I want it right now! So Daddy Bill picks up the phone and commands that Megacorp also begin work on animation. Unfortunately, Megacorp's work ends up looking a lot like old Clutch Cargo episodes. Bill's kid cries himself to sleep.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - televangelist Jerry Falwell was found dead in his Alabama home this morning. Apparently he was found impaled on a Sybian fitted with a 14 inch black dong. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his theology, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Sometimes I also wonder why ETs haven't dropped by, that maybe life is such a long shot that we are the only ones in the universe. Then I look at the Hubble deep field pic and see the numerous tiny white ellipsoid specks that are galaxies way the hell and gone out there and think that one of those rocks has to be full of water-swilling idiots like us.
No trademark on katie.com? Didn't the book publisher trademark it as a matter of routine? Is there a lag time in application/posting? It's hard to believe penguin did not apply for a trademark.
Scientific societies are a scam. They do absolutely nothing for their members, who have to pay to get the official journal, pay to have their papers printed in the journal, and pay to attend the annual meeting. Oh, and pay the annual dues. The sooner these artificial entities lose their grip on information the better.
Overheard at the press conference...
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X43-A on to Mach 10
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· Score: 5, Funny
General Tufnel: The Mach numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and... Reporter: Oh, I see. And most planes go up to ten? General Tufnel: Exactly. Reporter: Does that mean it's faster? Is it any faster? General Tufnel: Well, it's one faster, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most pilots, you know, will be flying at ten. You're on ten, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your airspeed. Where can you go from there? Where? Reporter: I don't know. General Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Reporter: Put it up to eleven. General Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One faster. Reporter: Why don't you just make ten faster and make ten be the top number and make that a little faster? General Tufnel: [Pause] These go to eleven.
Yes, Stalin was a murdering bastard. The Red Army was a horror show, and Russian civilians were fucked no matter which way they turned. The point is, those people that survived were mentally and emotionally tough. The society that went through that hell came out with little fear of anyone or anything. They didn't look at Reagan and shit their pants like the right would have you believe.
Why do you think Reagan's funeral got such reverent coverage? I was against him at the time, but I was wrong, and he was right. He truly changed the world for the better. Personally, I believe that in 20 years, we'll look back and say the same for W.
Man, we don't do history very well, do we. Please RTFHB. Just 35 years before the Gipper was elected, Soviets suffered 19 million civilian deaths out of a population of 194 million and lost 9 million killed and missing in an army of 27 million. So yeah, they were pussies who rolled over when faced with a little adversity from a B-list actor.
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Jesus Beer-Guzzling Christ, how many times does this question have to be asked and answered? Please, Slashdot, consider deleting the account of anyone who brings up this grizzled chestnut.
My first day in Boston, they assigned me a single in East Campus. There were some guys staggering around that looked as if they hadn't slept in days. There was a tiny sink right in the room, like it was the cheapest motel ever. And some tool had written Green's Theorem on the wall in big green symbols. I spent one night there and pledged a frat the next. The thought of living there still gives me shivers of dread.
Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for Microsoft.
Hidden Cost Of Wal-Mart Jobs
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Use of Safety Net Programs by Wal-Mart Workers in California
Arindrajit Dube
UC Berkeley Institute for Industrial Relations
Ken Jacobs
UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
from http://www.dsausa.org/lowwage/walmart/2004/walmar
A Study for the UC Berkeley Labor Center
August 2, 2004
Wal-Mart is the largest employer in the United States, with over one million workers. It is the largest food retailer and the third largest pharmacy in the nation. The company employs approximately 44,000 workers in California, and has plans to expand significantly in the state over the next four years. Wal-Mart workers receive lower wages than other retail workers and are less likely to have health benefits. Other major retailers have begun to scale back wages and benefits in the state, citing their concerns about competition from Wal-Mart.
We estimate that Wal-Mart workers in California earn on average 31 percent less than workers employed in large retail as a whole, receiving an average wage of $9.70 per hour compared to the $14.01 average hourly earnings for employees in large retail (firms with 1,000 or more employees). In addition, 23 percent fewer Wal-Mart workers are covered by employer-sponsored health insurance than large retail workers as a whole. The differences are even greater when Wal-Mart workers are compared to unionized grocery workers. In the San Francisco Bay Area, non-managerial Wal-Mart employees earn on average $9.40 an hour, compared to $15.31 for unionized grocery workers--39 percent less--and are half as likely to have health benefits.
At these low-wages, many Wal-Mart workers rely on public safety net programs-- such as food stamps, Medicare, and subsidized housing--to make ends meet. The presence of Wal-Mart stores in California thus creates a hidden cost to the state's taxpayers.
This study is the first to quantify the fiscal costs of Wal-Mart's substandard wages and benefits on public safety net programs in California. It also explores the potential impact on public programs of Wal-Mart's competitive effect on industry standards.
Main Findings:
* Reliance by Wal-Mart workers on public assistance programs in California comes at a cost to the taxpayers of an estimated $86 million annually; this is comprised of $32 million in health related expenses and $54 million in other assistance.
* The families of Wal-Mart employees in California utilize an estimated 40 percent more in taxpayer-funded health care than the average for families of all large retail employees.
* The families of Wal-Mart employees use an estimated 38 percent more in other (non-health care) public assistance programs (such as food stamps, Earned Income Tax Credit, subsidized school lunches, and subsidized housing) than the average for families of all large retail employees.
* If other large California retailers adopted Wal-Mart's wage and benefits standards, it would cost taxpayers an additional $410 million a year in public assistance to employees.
For the complete study (840 KB pdf file):
http://www.dsausa.org/lowwage/walmart/2004/walmar
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Jesus Tapdancing Christ. The reason why Microsoft is an abusive monopoly recognized and declared so by the courts has been done to death. Don't you read Slashdot? The reason why Apple is not a monopoly... oh never mind. It's like explaining vermilion to the colorblind. You will not get it.
The RIAA should love to be associated intimately with Microsoft for the same reason that a plump girl should hang out with fat girls - to look good by comparison.
The caller id was (999) 999-9999. Always thought that was kinda cool.
So - just for variety - we now slashdot a land line.
Despite the fact he was wounded in Iraq, he doesn't consider it an unjust war, and plans to vote for Bush. He told me he saw first-hand the difference we've made in that country, and there's no way anyone can convince him that the war was wrong.
So he'll be volunteering for that Sudan operation we'll be staging soon?
Bill's kid comes home crying. Seems his little schoolchum's dad Steve has a hip movie studio that makes way cool animated features. Why can't you do that, Dad? I want an animation studio! I want it right now! So Daddy Bill picks up the phone and commands that Megacorp also begin work on animation. Unfortunately, Megacorp's work ends up looking a lot like old Clutch Cargo episodes. Bill's kid cries himself to sleep.
To reinforce to the kids about how copyright works in the real world, the weasel's name should be...
Mickey Mouse.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - televangelist Jerry Falwell was found dead in his Alabama home this morning. Apparently he was found impaled on a Sybian fitted with a 14 inch black dong. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his theology, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Yes, I have been and am now a member of such societies. My comments are made from experience.
Sometimes I also wonder why ETs haven't dropped by, that maybe life is such a long shot that we are the only ones in the universe. Then I look at the Hubble deep field pic and see the numerous tiny white ellipsoid specks that are galaxies way the hell and gone out there and think that one of those rocks has to be full of water-swilling idiots like us.
No trademark on katie.com? Didn't the book publisher trademark it as a matter of routine? Is there a lag time in application/posting? It's hard to believe penguin did not apply for a trademark.
Scientific societies are a scam. They do absolutely nothing for their members, who have to pay to get the official journal, pay to have their papers printed in the journal, and pay to attend the annual meeting. Oh, and pay the annual dues. The sooner these artificial entities lose their grip on information the better.
General Tufnel: The Mach numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Reporter: Oh, I see. And most planes go up to ten?
General Tufnel: Exactly.
Reporter: Does that mean it's faster? Is it any faster?
General Tufnel: Well, it's one faster, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most pilots, you know, will be flying at ten. You're on ten, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your airspeed. Where can you go from there? Where?
Reporter: I don't know.
General Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Reporter: Put it up to eleven.
General Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One faster.
Reporter: Why don't you just make ten faster and make ten be the top number and make that a little faster?
General Tufnel: [Pause] These go to eleven.
What is "Welcome to Loserville. Population one: you."
Yes, Stalin was a murdering bastard. The Red Army was a horror show, and Russian civilians were fucked no matter which way they turned. The point is, those people that survived were mentally and emotionally tough. The society that went through that hell came out with little fear of anyone or anything. They didn't look at Reagan and shit their pants like the right would have you believe.
They'll have to work some overtime to bring it up to half-assed.
Search for "Linus": Sorry, no results were found containing "Linus"
Google for "Linus": 2,370,00 hits.
Hey, if I were Gates, I'd just have IE block Google. What could happen? A lawsuit? (cue hysterical laughter)
Why do you think Reagan's funeral got such reverent coverage? I was against him at the time, but I was wrong, and he was right. He truly changed the world for the better. Personally, I believe that in 20 years, we'll look back and say the same for W.
Man, we don't do history very well, do we. Please RTFHB. Just 35 years before the Gipper was elected, Soviets suffered 19 million civilian deaths out of a population of 194 million and lost 9 million killed and missing in an army of 27 million. So yeah, they were pussies who rolled over when faced with a little adversity from a B-list actor.
Babylon 5? Trite concept. And the dialog? So fucking dull. I mean - cliche after cliche.
So yeah, he's ready to take over Star Trek and keep churning out drivel.
so like when war breaks out and the allies all go like man, where's the swedish navy, the other guys can go like man they're all around us, i bet
Ashcroft thinks he is a Patriot and a Christian, but he will be stopped outside the Pearly Gates.
Jesus will hold his arms while Sam Adams punches him.
That was Dean Martin in one of the Matt Helm movies.
He also had a gun that fired ten seconds or so after the trigger was pulled.
He used to go to James Bond's yard sales.
The only curse is bad ownership. Really, Yawkey was a racist incompetent who cost the Sox untold championships.