Yeah, blame capitalism. This wouldn't even have been discovered without it. I am sure this is the first time, ever, something was named after a person. Ever.
Oh, walmart is the reason the middle class is being erroded? Right.
The reason the middle class is being destroyed is over taxation by the government. Taxing the rich reduces their level of income little, not taxing the poor does nothing to their income. Yet, the middle class has their effective income destroyed because they are too poor to not be bothered by 35% of their income being eaten up, but too rich to not get taxed at all. People like myself can't get a head because I am stuck there in the middle. It isn't walmart that is destroying my income, it is the government and its programs, from the military to social security.
if providing the lower income americans with cheap food to eat is evil, well fuck.
Once again, do you have anything to back up these wild claims? Walmart offers a wide range of insurance options to their workers, why should I care if someone doesn't take that $11/month health care option? I love how you people love social programs for the masses until it goes against something you hate, like walmart. The better idea would be to scrap all social medicine and then this whole "walmart hates their workers" issue would go away.
They save $2500 a year by shopping at Wal-Mart, and by shopping at Wal-Mart they lose $10000 a year in their own salary levels, local community services, and lost quality of goods. But they think they're richer.
Do you have proof of this, or is this non-sense that you repeat?
Overall, i would say there is a net benefit to a community. Inefficent firms close down and now the money that is saved by shopping at Walmart can be used to purchase more goods in the town. So now ma and pa can open up a speciality shop that the town couldn't support before or had a need for. Now that walmart provides goods at a more efficent price everyones standard of living rises because of a more diverse pool of products to buy.
i love how walmart is "so evil", yet they have 10's of thousands of people who apply to work there whenever a store opens up. Must not be that bad!
Yeah, they are destroying America by allowing the poorer people in society to buy more goods to improve their lifestyle. How dare they! So what if a family can save $2500+ dollars a year shopping at wal-mart! cheaper groceries is just a horrible thing!
Look at it this way. SSN's aren't what they were meant to be. They are your "everything" number now. In some respects, is the value of the SSN being diminished because they are so easy to use and get a hold of now? It could possibly be a big plus because now we get into a situation where they just aren't worth using so everyone stops using them for important transactions. Lets hope...
I agree. Mac doesn't want to deal with supporting shit hardware. More than likely they are setting themselves up to be a "high end" windows hardware developer as well as still pump out OSX for the machines.
Bullshit. You make time to workout. An hour a day 4 times a week is nothing. You will feel 1000x better, your diet will improve, the benefits are endless. I feel awesome once i starting hitting the weights 4 months ago. I sleep great, i feel great.
The format, whatever. The price was the fucking kicker. Who the hell is going to shell out $30+ for a god damned movie you watch on a 3" screen? If they would have priced them more like $10 a piece at least, you would have seen better sales. $30? no way.
If you think about it for more than a second, you'd realize what they were talking about. When you heard that there would be a shortage, what happened? Everyone and their mother went out and filled up, topping off, thus causing a shortage and increasing prices. It wasn't the only reason, but it did help lead to a big shortage.
It has been know for years this is common practice. Assume anything sent electronically can be read by someone else and will NEVER be taken off the web. email isn't privledged by lawyers and clients, so why would you assume that posting on myspace would be?
Only post things online with anonymity you are worried that could come back to haunt you.
I fail to see how the "corporate masters" had anything to do with this one. To me it seems like the ones with the guns, the gov't, forced the hands of the company. But I guess it is easier to hate a company than hate the state everyone seems to live. can't live without the gov't!
This is the dumbest post i have ever read on slashdot. Yes, in the past land has been destroyed by poor crop practices. In the west these have been all but eliminated. Farmers have become highly advanced in their protection of land to ensure they can continue to grow crops. it is patently stupid to think a farmer wouldn't ensure the nutrients on his land don't replentish themselves. Everything from crop rotation to no till plowing ensure that farm lands stay fertile and available for future generations.
does anyone just think it is "coincidence" myspace has been all over the news seemingly since News Corp has purchased them? I never say anything related to myspace before the deal. Now, there are nightly segments on myspace it seems...
also you must consider if the pages google happens to be spidering are in china, more than likely the higher number of them WILL have normal pictures of the place, compared to those of the tanks. where, outside the united states the place is remembered by the protest, in china it just may be a place to see. so page rank probably has more to do wiht it than google altering the image rank.
more like, they are both competing for us to use their products. no matter what, we don't lose in the end. as long as the tools are free, i don't see a problem
wait stop the presses, you mean you wouldn't want to know ahead of time the person you may live with is a bigot!
i never understand the limited forsight of elected politicians. the only thing we need protection from is government discrimination, because you can't do anything about that.
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Yeah, blame capitalism. This wouldn't even have been discovered without it. I am sure this is the first time, ever, something was named after a person. Ever.
I think that may have been K-Mart. Walmart still sells firearms as well, as their typical customer base is rural.
The only thing i buy there is ammo. I hate the lines and customer service.
Woah boss, get that logic and bit of economics out of here!
Oh, walmart is the reason the middle class is being erroded? Right.
The reason the middle class is being destroyed is over taxation by the government. Taxing the rich reduces their level of income little, not taxing the poor does nothing to their income. Yet, the middle class has their effective income destroyed because they are too poor to not be bothered by 35% of their income being eaten up, but too rich to not get taxed at all. People like myself can't get a head because I am stuck there in the middle. It isn't walmart that is destroying my income, it is the government and its programs, from the military to social security.
if providing the lower income americans with cheap food to eat is evil, well fuck.
Once again, do you have anything to back up these wild claims? Walmart offers a wide range of insurance options to their workers, why should I care if someone doesn't take that $11/month health care option? I love how you people love social programs for the masses until it goes against something you hate, like walmart. The better idea would be to scrap all social medicine and then this whole "walmart hates their workers" issue would go away.
They save $2500 a year by shopping at Wal-Mart, and by shopping at Wal-Mart they lose $10000 a year in their own salary levels, local community services, and lost quality of goods. But they think they're richer. Do you have proof of this, or is this non-sense that you repeat?
Overall, i would say there is a net benefit to a community. Inefficent firms close down and now the money that is saved by shopping at Walmart can be used to purchase more goods in the town. So now ma and pa can open up a speciality shop that the town couldn't support before or had a need for. Now that walmart provides goods at a more efficent price everyones standard of living rises because of a more diverse pool of products to buy.
i love how walmart is "so evil", yet they have 10's of thousands of people who apply to work there whenever a store opens up. Must not be that bad!
Yeah, they are destroying America by allowing the poorer people in society to buy more goods to improve their lifestyle. How dare they! So what if a family can save $2500+ dollars a year shopping at wal-mart! cheaper groceries is just a horrible thing!
Look at it this way. SSN's aren't what they were meant to be. They are your "everything" number now. In some respects, is the value of the SSN being diminished because they are so easy to use and get a hold of now? It could possibly be a big plus because now we get into a situation where they just aren't worth using so everyone stops using them for important transactions. Lets hope...
I agree. Mac doesn't want to deal with supporting shit hardware. More than likely they are setting themselves up to be a "high end" windows hardware developer as well as still pump out OSX for the machines.
Bullshit. You make time to workout. An hour a day 4 times a week is nothing. You will feel 1000x better, your diet will improve, the benefits are endless. I feel awesome once i starting hitting the weights 4 months ago. I sleep great, i feel great.
The format, whatever. The price was the fucking kicker. Who the hell is going to shell out $30+ for a god damned movie you watch on a 3" screen? If they would have priced them more like $10 a piece at least, you would have seen better sales. $30? no way.
they can charge more when they roll out the tiered internet, right? :ugh:
I thought they were dropping the Pentium name?
If you think about it for more than a second, you'd realize what they were talking about. When you heard that there would be a shortage, what happened? Everyone and their mother went out and filled up, topping off, thus causing a shortage and increasing prices. It wasn't the only reason, but it did help lead to a big shortage.
It has been know for years this is common practice. Assume anything sent electronically can be read by someone else and will NEVER be taken off the web. email isn't privledged by lawyers and clients, so why would you assume that posting on myspace would be?
Only post things online with anonymity you are worried that could come back to haunt you.
But wtf is the question?
I fail to see how the "corporate masters" had anything to do with this one. To me it seems like the ones with the guns, the gov't, forced the hands of the company. But I guess it is easier to hate a company than hate the state everyone seems to live. can't live without the gov't!
Looks like state nullifciation isn't dead yet! Good job NH.
The most ironic thing is, the politicians saying the voting machines were untrustworthy.
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This is the dumbest post i have ever read on slashdot. Yes, in the past land has been destroyed by poor crop practices. In the west these have been all but eliminated. Farmers have become highly advanced in their protection of land to ensure they can continue to grow crops. it is patently stupid to think a farmer wouldn't ensure the nutrients on his land don't replentish themselves. Everything from crop rotation to no till plowing ensure that farm lands stay fertile and available for future generations.
does anyone just think it is "coincidence" myspace has been all over the news seemingly since News Corp has purchased them? I never say anything related to myspace before the deal. Now, there are nightly segments on myspace it seems...
also you must consider if the pages google happens to be spidering are in china, more than likely the higher number of them WILL have normal pictures of the place, compared to those of the tanks. where, outside the united states the place is remembered by the protest, in china it just may be a place to see. so page rank probably has more to do wiht it than google altering the image rank.
more like, they are both competing for us to use their products. no matter what, we don't lose in the end. as long as the tools are free, i don't see a problem
wait stop the presses, you mean you wouldn't want to know ahead of time the person you may live with is a bigot!
i never understand the limited forsight of elected politicians. the only thing we need protection from is government discrimination, because you can't do anything about that.