"then the full time people still have to get welfare from the government so they can affoard food and a place to live."
No they don't. It is their choice to demand welfare. Wal-Mart certainly pays the full-timers enough to live on, as long as they don't want filet mignon every night and a house with a huge yard. The poverty is not a result of the adequate pay. It is the result of the wage-earner wasting money and living extravagently. You can save a lot of money if you get a used car to avoid car payments, go in with a roommate to avoid expenses, and stop buying the latest DVDS and ipods. If there is any good point to be made here, it is that there should be welfare reform so people who make such an adecquate full-time living are barred from receiving welfare payments.
"Not true. Wal-Mart forces you to buy at Wal-Mart."
This has never occured, anywhere.
"When they've destroyed all local business through their intentionally destructive pricing policies"
Did it ever occur to you that the ones who overcharge for things are the ones who destroy themselves through their own policies? It is certainly not Wal-Mart's fault when another business kills itself due to decisions to overcharge and also to provide poor service.
"and there are no stores left around but that big monolith+parking-lot blight on the landscape, then.. damnit.. you go to Wal-Mart for your pickles whether you like it or not."
This appears to be some sort of imaginary scenario. In every place I have checked, there are numerous competitors to Wal-Mart nearby.
The people are not the government. Certainly not in the United States. Certainly everywhere else. The "people" are a separate entity that sometimes influences government (through votes, lawsuits, petitions, etc.).
Unless you are actually in government, government is always "them", not "us".
I use Hotmail, but only for purposes in which I might receive spam. It is a "junk" account.
Gmail is definitely better in just about all ways, except for its whacked default way it sorts the mail (I suppose there is a setting somewhere that makes it sort emails better, but I haven't found it yet).
I'm surprised they had room to print this among LaRouche's claims about aliens and Queen Elizabeth dealing drugs. If true, it turns out to be a meaningless bankruptcy: Vlasic is still selling pickles all over.
I must be missing some great part of the experience, then. I always thought that the measure of a good videogame console was the variety of games and the quality of play (including the controller), not the chips inside elegance of the placement of the circuitry. Silly me; I have learned my lesson. I wonder if I can get my PS3 with a screwdriver set instead of game controllers: the true enjoyment of a game console is in opening it up.
But if it is at Wal-Mart, it has to be inferior low-quality crap salt!. It's those cut-rate sodium atoms with weak bond fields that go into it: purchased from Chinese slave labour sodium factories just to shave off a few cents. Shameless!
"Walmart does not pay nor treats their employees well."
They do both. Just because they pay people with very low skills that other places won't employ a low wage does not mean that the workers aren't getting what they deserve. Likewise, experienced good workers are much better compensated at the company. There is a small percentage that does not like the place but is too lazy to quit. Due to the company's huge size, the mindless Wal-Mart bashers have hammered on the issue of this relatively-small group of workers in the hopes that most people will forget that while it is a lot of workers, it is a small percentage. The company has succeeded because it treats its workers, by and large, quite well.
"It has killed the mom and pop thing in smaller towns."
I've scoured the Web and other resources for any instances of Wal-Mart killing one single business. It turns out that they don't kill businesses. Some competitors, however, choose to kill themselves by making lousy decisions such as overcharging for products and services, and also by providing poor service (such as extremely limited hours).
It's not Wal-Mart's fault if I want to buy a light bulb at 7:30 AM, and I can either go to Wal-Mart and buy it in minutes, or go downtown and wait 2.5 hours for the downtown True Value hardware to open its lazy doors....and the True Value ends up selling fewer lightbulbs. The downtown True Value is making its own decision to throw away business. Wal-Mart isn't telling it to lock customers out.
"It has killed entire companies (vlasic pickles comes to mind)."
Vlasic made its own decisions, not Wal-Mart. They also have a pretty nice web site http://www.vlasic.com/ Since they are out of business, it must be run by some pickle-loving nostalgic freak, right?
"Go back to AR, shill. Wal-Mart is FORCED to sell brand-name goods at MSRP in some cases because of very strong brand names. "
Forced? How? Will someone shoot them if they don't?
"For other goods where they've got the suppliers by the balls"
They don't have any suppliers by the balls. Target, Costco, Sears, and a bunch of other companies are right there in the yellow pages if the suppliers want to go elsewhere.
You forgot proud isolationist, if we just minded our own business we would in turn be left alone by other countries. It isn't a left or right thing either both Sweden on the left and Switzerland on the right are examples of the positive benefits of isolationism in foreign policy.
Isolationist since when? It has turned out that Switzerland was a "secret" ally of Nazi Germany during WW2. Also, when you look beyond these two examples, isolationism turns out to be no help against unprovoked attacks. Eastern Europe had little countries that minded their own businees and wanted to be left alone in the late 1930s (including Poland). This did not stop these countries from being crushed. If anything, Poland making an alliance with a large but neutral power might have possibly kept the Nazis from attacking it. Today, Taiwan is a peaceful little country with little or no meddling in foreign places. Despite this, there is another nation that wants to annihilate it just because it thinks it can.
The Al-Queda attacks on Spain are worth mentioning here as well. The groups involved in the attack claimed one main reason for attacking Spain. It was not Spain's involvement in Iraq. It was the fact that Spain had repulsed Muslim invaders from its own territory hundreds of years ago. Spain wanting to be left alone caused the attacks, and Spain meddling in others' business (Iraq) had little to do with it.
"Walmart sells cheap crap - if your company does not sell cheap crap, you can't sell at walmart"
Wal-Mart sells a huge variety of well-known well-regarded quality brands.... including Apple and Sony. If Apple and Sony are crap, than EVERY SINGLE PRODUCT EVERYWHERE is crap.
"Seriously, is there some sort of competition between bloggers to see who can come up with the latest "5 seconds of fame" painful, buzzwordy neologism?"
Iran is an example of how democracy and fascism are often compatible.
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Looks like the Mac hackers hack the Mac OS so it will run on Windows PCs, while the common result of Windows hackers is to make the OS NOT run on Windows PCs.
..will search for gravitational waves in data collected by..
This already sounds like one of those interminable ST:TNG plots in which "Data 'n' Geordi" spend the entire episode looking for tachyon/subspace/chroniton/photon/etc emissions/transmissions/communications/particles/b eamings/etc coming from the ambassador's quarters or that ship that was supposed to be in this sector that noone can see.
Reading through Concern's other postings, he explains that "propaganda" is not protected speech. It is "fair game" for censors. If you are squelching propaganda, you are not censoring, and not inhibiting free speech.
Please see this. It is a sock-puppet account of Concern where he attempts to denigrate as a "political troll" anyone who looks at him funny. He added me to his "political troll" list when I pointed out that he (Concern) was violating his own troll rules.
Come May 13 (and it cannot come soon enough), "Star Trek" will be history. Making Trek references everywhere will quickly become as quaint and passe as making "Buck Rogers" references.
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No they don't. It is their choice to demand welfare. Wal-Mart certainly pays the full-timers enough to live on, as long as they don't want filet mignon every night and a house with a huge yard. The poverty is not a result of the adequate pay. It is the result of the wage-earner wasting money and living extravagently. You can save a lot of money if you get a used car to avoid car payments, go in with a roommate to avoid expenses, and stop buying the latest DVDS and ipods. If there is any good point to be made here, it is that there should be welfare reform so people who make such an adecquate full-time living are barred from receiving welfare payments.
Jar Jar Binks wassa born here, meesa know!
True, but if you don't consider privacy as a kind of freedom.
Wal-Mart didn't close this company. Huffy has always made its own decisions.
This has never occured, anywhere.
"When they've destroyed all local business through their intentionally destructive pricing policies"
Did it ever occur to you that the ones who overcharge for things are the ones who destroy themselves through their own policies? It is certainly not Wal-Mart's fault when another business kills itself due to decisions to overcharge and also to provide poor service.
"and there are no stores left around but that big monolith+parking-lot blight on the landscape, then .. damnit .. you go to Wal-Mart for your pickles whether you like it or not."
This appears to be some sort of imaginary scenario. In every place I have checked, there are numerous competitors to Wal-Mart nearby.
Unless you are actually in government, government is always "them", not "us".
Gmail is definitely better in just about all ways, except for its whacked default way it sorts the mail (I suppose there is a setting somewhere that makes it sort emails better, but I haven't found it yet).
I'm surprised they had room to print this among LaRouche's claims about aliens and Queen Elizabeth dealing drugs. If true, it turns out to be a meaningless bankruptcy: Vlasic is still selling pickles all over.
The spam filters just don't work.
I must be missing some great part of the experience, then. I always thought that the measure of a good videogame console was the variety of games and the quality of play (including the controller), not the chips inside elegance of the placement of the circuitry. Silly me; I have learned my lesson. I wonder if I can get my PS3 with a screwdriver set instead of game controllers: the true enjoyment of a game console is in opening it up.
But if it is at Wal-Mart, it has to be inferior low-quality crap salt!. It's those cut-rate sodium atoms with weak bond fields that go into it: purchased from Chinese slave labour sodium factories just to shave off a few cents. Shameless!
They do both. Just because they pay people with very low skills that other places won't employ a low wage does not mean that the workers aren't getting what they deserve. Likewise, experienced good workers are much better compensated at the company. There is a small percentage that does not like the place but is too lazy to quit. Due to the company's huge size, the mindless Wal-Mart bashers have hammered on the issue of this relatively-small group of workers in the hopes that most people will forget that while it is a lot of workers, it is a small percentage. The company has succeeded because it treats its workers, by and large, quite well.
"It has killed the mom and pop thing in smaller towns."
I've scoured the Web and other resources for any instances of Wal-Mart killing one single business. It turns out that they don't kill businesses. Some competitors, however, choose to kill themselves by making lousy decisions such as overcharging for products and services, and also by providing poor service (such as extremely limited hours).
It's not Wal-Mart's fault if I want to buy a light bulb at 7:30 AM, and I can either go to Wal-Mart and buy it in minutes, or go downtown and wait 2.5 hours for the downtown True Value hardware to open its lazy doors....and the True Value ends up selling fewer lightbulbs. The downtown True Value is making its own decision to throw away business. Wal-Mart isn't telling it to lock customers out.
"It has killed entire companies (vlasic pickles comes to mind)."
Vlasic made its own decisions, not Wal-Mart. They also have a pretty nice web site http://www.vlasic.com/ Since they are out of business, it must be run by some pickle-loving nostalgic freak, right?
Forced? How? Will someone shoot them if they don't?
"For other goods where they've got the suppliers by the balls"
They don't have any suppliers by the balls. Target, Costco, Sears, and a bunch of other companies are right there in the yellow pages if the suppliers want to go elsewhere.
Isolationist since when? It has turned out that Switzerland was a "secret" ally of Nazi Germany during WW2. Also, when you look beyond these two examples, isolationism turns out to be no help against unprovoked attacks. Eastern Europe had little countries that minded their own businees and wanted to be left alone in the late 1930s (including Poland). This did not stop these countries from being crushed. If anything, Poland making an alliance with a large but neutral power might have possibly kept the Nazis from attacking it. Today, Taiwan is a peaceful little country with little or no meddling in foreign places. Despite this, there is another nation that wants to annihilate it just because it thinks it can.
The Al-Queda attacks on Spain are worth mentioning here as well. The groups involved in the attack claimed one main reason for attacking Spain. It was not Spain's involvement in Iraq. It was the fact that Spain had repulsed Muslim invaders from its own territory hundreds of years ago. Spain wanting to be left alone caused the attacks, and Spain meddling in others' business (Iraq) had little to do with it.
Wal-Mart sells a huge variety of well-known well-regarded quality brands.... including Apple and Sony. If Apple and Sony are crap, than EVERY SINGLE PRODUCT EVERYWHERE is crap.
The grandparent is antisemitic, and could not help refer to one of the named used in the antisemites' "Jews control the banks" theories.
mod you up, and mod me down. You are right.
Are you referring to neoblogisms?
Iran is an example of how democracy and fascism are often compatible.
Looks like the Mac hackers hack the Mac OS so it will run on Windows PCs, while the common result of Windows hackers is to make the OS NOT run on Windows PCs.
This already sounds like one of those interminable ST:TNG plots in which "Data 'n' Geordi" spend the entire episode looking for tachyon/subspace/chroniton/photon/etc emissions/transmissions/communications/particles/b eamings/etc coming from the ambassador's quarters or that ship that was supposed to be in this sector that noone can see.
Gentoo, Wine: Advantage?
Reading through Concern's other postings, he explains that "propaganda" is not protected speech. It is "fair game" for censors. If you are squelching propaganda, you are not censoring, and not inhibiting free speech.
Please see this. It is a sock-puppet account of Concern where he attempts to denigrate as a "political troll" anyone who looks at him funny. He added me to his "political troll" list when I pointed out that he (Concern) was violating his own troll rules.
Come May 13 (and it cannot come soon enough), "Star Trek" will be history. Making Trek references everywhere will quickly become as quaint and passe as making "Buck Rogers" references.