These people chose to work at Wal Mart and knew going into it what the pay was. Its simple economics. Wal Mart pays poorly because they have an abundant pool of workers who are quite willing to work at their pay scale.
Don't like the wages? Take a few night courses and move up. Or just work somewhere else. You're quite right. It is simple economics: having a shitty job that doesn't meet one's need is better than having no job.
However, moving up isn't guaranteed by simply "tak[ing] a few night courses" (which, by the way, someone on a Wal-Mart salary probably could not afford).
The labour pool in the U.S. grows much faster than the pool of available jobs does. In 1960, the shortage was about 8 million. For example, between 1979 and 1989, the amount of available jobs grew by 7 million, while the demand grew by 14 million.[1]
The median wage is the same today that it was in the '70s. The people above the median are getting paid more, at the expense of those below. Meanwhile, inflation has driven up the cost of living.
[Source, Schwarz, John. "Illusions of Opportunity." New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. p.85]
Okay, so your gf made $8.50/hr last year, and you made $7.50/hr six years ago. Those are the two relevant data points I see.
How many hours were you working?
Are you living on your own? Were you making enough to pay your expenses?
What about benefits? What if one of you got sick, would you have been able to pay for treatment (or would it have been covered somehow)?
Whether someone else pays less isn't relevant; just because Walmart is Big and Evil(TM), it doesn't necessarily follow that smaller businesses are all angels.
Also, minimum wage is usually much lower than the living wage. "Illusions of Opportunity: The American Dream in Question", by John E. Schwarz (1997, W. W. Norton & Company), explores this topic very well.
Even if it is no longer true, there is still a popular association of Windows with crashing.
However, I doubt that people will associate Linux with stability. I'd expect a similarly uninformed person to think Linux as being "not widespread, probably because it's not ready for market."
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Can someone post a link to a copy of it that doesn't put cookies on my computer?
"We want to point out censorship by the MSM, but dang if we're not going to needlessly track you!"
I mean nowdays Internet access is *essential*. It is like having a phone or a car. Last I checked, suspension of a driver's license is a penalty invoked commonly enough that it doesn't show up in the news each time it happens.
So as long as a white-collar criminal stashes his money away where the government can't get at it, there should be no punishment? There's more than one way to punish a person. If they're a rich person, fining them enough money should be sufficient.
There's no point punishing the taxpayers by locking up nonviolent offenders.
Even so, when the state drunk drivers attend AA, they don't force them to go to a gay and lesbian AA clubhouse. Actually, in many jurisdictions, the only option for addiction treatment/rehab is faith-based ones. Nearly all 12-step programs have thinly veiled religious undertones, like "I will accept a higher power into my life", etc.
If you're an atheist or if your religious beliefs are incompatible with the program's, and a court forces you to go into such a program, then you have a much more solid analogy to what the Linux user is.
Although in all honesty, I don't think the court is forcing the guy to use his computer. It's a step up from banning him from using one at all.
If you move out to the boonies, you can get an Internet on a CD from AOL. Then you don't have to get a guy to install it for you.
Comes with all sorts of games, too!
Although one problem I've had with AOL is no matter how many times I call their tech support, they won't get it to work without the modem cable plugged in--even when the CD-ROM is in the drive! But they send me another CD with an Internet on it, and it works ok for a while.
You could always listen to country and send them gallons of cheap whiskey and beer, but the shipping will eat you alive. Send them over in a pickup truck driven by their ex-ex-girlfriend?
A precedent like could get expensive very quickly, even by recording industry standards. Good.
If they tell people to consider the consequences of downloading/allowing open networks/etc., then why should they not be expected to consider the consequences of unnecessary and excessive lawsuits?
The Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax are at it again, and frankly, I'm shocked.
From Douglas Adams' Life, the Universe and Everything:
Another achievement of the Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax is that they were the first race who ever managed to shock a computer.
It was a gigantic spaceborne computer called Hactar, which to this day is remembered as one of the most powerful ever built. It was the first to be built like a natural brain, in that every cellular particle of it carried the pattern of the whole within it, which enabled it to think more flexibly and imaginatively, and also, it seemed, to be shocked.
The Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax were engaged in one of their regular wars with the Strenuous Garfighters of Stug, and were not enjoying it as much as usual because it involved an awful lot of trekking through the Radiation Swamps of Cwulzenda, and across the Fire Mountains of Frazfraga, neither of which terrains they felt at home in.
So when the Strangulous Stilettans of Jajazikstak joined in the fray and forced them to fight another front in the Gamma Caves of Carfrax and the Ice Storms of Varlengooten, they decided that enough was enough, and they ordered Hactar to design for them an Ultimate Weapon.
"What do you mean," asked Hactar, "by Ultimate?"
To which the Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax said, "Read a bloody dictionary," and plunged back into the fray.
So Hactar designed an Ultimate Weapon.
It was a very, very small bomb which was simply a junction box in hyperspace that would, when activated, connect the heart of every major sun with the heart of every other major sun simultaneously and thus turn the entire Universe in to one gigantic hyperspatial supernova.
When the Silastic Armorfiends tried to use it to blow up a Strangulous Stilettan munitions dump in one of the Gamma Caves, they were extremely irritated that it didn't work, and said so.
Hactar had been shocked by the whole idea.
He tried to explain that he had been thinking about this Ultimate Weapon business, and had worked out that there was no conceivable consequence of not setting the bomb off that was worse than the known consequence of setting it off, and he had therefore taken the liberty of introducing a small flaw into the design of the bomb, and he hoped that everyone involved would, on sober reflection, feel that...
The Silastic Armorfiends disagreed and pulverized the computer. - RG>
Any conclusions to share on the assignment? It sounds interesting. Yeah, despite (or because of?) all the edits through the decades, these media students still didn't learn a damn thing about slavery!
I'm sure that CIA agents have much better things to do than to frequent [[$WEBSITE]] to push an agenda or to quell rumours. Now let's get back to talking about how incredibly accurate and impartial [[$MEDIA]] is.
While the "MotherLoad" player sucks, I watch the Flash feed version on each of the shows' main pages every day that they're available, usually in a corner on my desktop at work. I have flashblock on, so I only turn on the flash video that contains the video, and the clips just play in order they appeared on the show.
Occasionally, there's an annoying ad, but I just mute it for the 15 or 30 seconds that it plays, then turn the volume back on.
For me, it's a lot easier than having to search through a bunch of YouTube clips to find the right ones from the right day, hoping that I don't get one that duplicates one I've already seen, or get one with the volume really low, then the next one uploaded by someone else with the volume way up high.
Given the price, I'm satisfied with ComedyCentral's offerings (though I'd appreciate a more complete set of clips, since I have no TV!)
"...that Contractor is legally authorized to work in the United States."
Pity. I was disappointed in the inaccuracy of Google's listings for my city when I tried to compare the walkability of my house to my friends'.
I had considered submitting more accurate information to Google, but didn't want to spend the effort, because they're a for-profit company, so what's the benefit to me?
This could well have enticed me to provide thorough, accurate listings for stores in my downtown, but since I'm not eligible for the QPQ, I'll go back to my other priorities.
For instance, I know that on July 27 at 3:21 p.m. I had some data use that, under the To/From heading, AT&T has helpfully listed as Data Transfer. The Type of file? Data. Really? On my bill, every single line says "Porn"
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Don't like the wages? Take a few night courses and move up. Or just work somewhere else. You're quite right. It is simple economics: having a shitty job that doesn't meet one's need is better than having no job.
However, moving up isn't guaranteed by simply "tak[ing] a few night courses" (which, by the way, someone on a Wal-Mart salary probably could not afford).
The labour pool in the U.S. grows much faster than the pool of available jobs does. In 1960, the shortage was about 8 million. For example, between 1979 and 1989, the amount of available jobs grew by 7 million, while the demand grew by 14 million.[1]
The median wage is the same today that it was in the '70s. The people above the median are getting paid more, at the expense of those below. Meanwhile, inflation has driven up the cost of living.
[Source, Schwarz, John. "Illusions of Opportunity." New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. p.85]
- RG>
Okay, so your gf made $8.50/hr last year, and you made $7.50/hr six years ago. Those are the two relevant data points I see.
How many hours were you working?
Are you living on your own? Were you making enough to pay your expenses?
What about benefits? What if one of you got sick, would you have been able to pay for treatment (or would it have been covered somehow)?
Whether someone else pays less isn't relevant; just because Walmart is Big and Evil(TM), it doesn't necessarily follow that smaller businesses are all angels.
Also, minimum wage is usually much lower than the living wage. "Illusions of Opportunity: The American Dream in Question", by John E. Schwarz (1997, W. W. Norton & Company), explores this topic very well.
- RG>
GP said "keep the appearance of order".
Even if it is no longer true, there is still a popular association of Windows with crashing.
However, I doubt that people will associate Linux with stability. I'd expect a similarly uninformed person to think Linux as being "not widespread, probably because it's not ready for market."
- RG>
http://www.salon.com/news/cookie756.html Can someone post a link to a copy of it that doesn't put cookies on my computer?
"We want to point out censorship by the MSM, but dang if we're not going to needlessly track you!"
- RG>
Why should Internet access be any more sacred?
- RG>
There's no point punishing the taxpayers by locking up nonviolent offenders.
- RG>
If you're an atheist or if your religious beliefs are incompatible with the program's, and a court forces you to go into such a program, then you have a much more solid analogy to what the Linux user is.
Although in all honesty, I don't think the court is forcing the guy to use his computer. It's a step up from banning him from using one at all.
- RG>
And do we send politicians first? Only of they know how to sanitize telephones.
- RG>
Flush your farts, too!
- RG>
...page after page of really...shitty...puns. Not all of them are puns. Some of them are metaphors.But even if they are shitty, there's no use trying to hold them in!
- RG>
And yet we still glamourize him by giving him the full attention of Slashdot.
Why must people like the guys who killed JFK, Lennon, and Gahndi, all become part of their respective canons?
- RG>
If you move out to the boonies, you can get an Internet on a CD from AOL. Then you don't have to get a guy to install it for you.
Comes with all sorts of games, too!
Although one problem I've had with AOL is no matter how many times I call their tech support, they won't get it to work without the modem cable plugged in--even when the CD-ROM is in the drive! But they send me another CD with an Internet on it, and it works ok for a while.
- RG>
I wouldn't really draw much attention to this if I were you.
I mean, if she were wrongfully removed from her post, who would oversee her appeal?
- RG>
According to the
- RG>
- RG>
If they tell people to consider the consequences of downloading/allowing open networks/etc., then why should they not be expected to consider the consequences of unnecessary and excessive lawsuits?
- RG>
From Douglas Adams' Life, the Universe and Everything: Another achievement of the Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax is that they were the first race who ever managed to shock a computer.
It was a gigantic spaceborne computer called Hactar, which to this day is remembered as one of the most powerful ever built. It was the first to be built like a natural brain, in that every cellular particle of it carried the pattern of the whole within it, which enabled it to think more flexibly and imaginatively, and also, it seemed, to be shocked.
The Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax were engaged in one of their regular wars with the Strenuous Garfighters of Stug, and were not enjoying it as much as usual because it involved an awful lot of trekking through the Radiation Swamps of Cwulzenda, and across the Fire Mountains of Frazfraga, neither of which terrains they felt at home in.
So when the Strangulous Stilettans of Jajazikstak joined in the fray and forced them to fight another front in the Gamma Caves of Carfrax and the Ice Storms of Varlengooten, they decided that enough was enough, and they ordered Hactar to design for them an Ultimate Weapon.
"What do you mean," asked Hactar, "by Ultimate?"
To which the Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax said, "Read a bloody dictionary," and plunged back into the fray.
So Hactar designed an Ultimate Weapon.
It was a very, very small bomb which was simply a junction box in hyperspace that would, when activated, connect the heart of every major sun with the heart of every other major sun simultaneously and thus turn the entire Universe in to one gigantic hyperspatial supernova.
When the Silastic Armorfiends tried to use it to blow up a Strangulous Stilettan munitions dump in one of the Gamma Caves, they were extremely irritated that it didn't work, and said so.
Hactar had been shocked by the whole idea.
He tried to explain that he had been thinking about this Ultimate Weapon business, and had worked out that there was no conceivable consequence of not setting the bomb off that was worse than the known consequence of setting it off, and he had therefore taken the liberty of introducing a small flaw into the design of the bomb, and he hoped that everyone involved would, on sober reflection, feel that
The Silastic Armorfiends disagreed and pulverized the computer. - RG>
- RG>
- RG>
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While the "MotherLoad" player sucks, I watch the Flash feed version on each of the shows' main pages every day that they're available, usually in a corner on my desktop at work. I have flashblock on, so I only turn on the flash video that contains the video, and the clips just play in order they appeared on the show.
Occasionally, there's an annoying ad, but I just mute it for the 15 or 30 seconds that it plays, then turn the volume back on.
For me, it's a lot easier than having to search through a bunch of YouTube clips to find the right ones from the right day, hoping that I don't get one that duplicates one I've already seen, or get one with the volume really low, then the next one uploaded by someone else with the volume way up high.
Given the price, I'm satisfied with ComedyCentral's offerings (though I'd appreciate a more complete set of clips, since I have no TV!)
- RG>
To me, music is like a mathematical formula; it's an assembly of tones, pitches, lyrics, etc.
I don't care if the handwriting's a bit sloppy, so long as it's valid, and it doesn't require me to assume that pi equals three.
- RG>
More importantly, section 3 (b):
"...that Contractor is legally authorized to work in the United States."
Pity. I was disappointed in the inaccuracy of Google's listings for my city when I tried to compare the walkability of my house to my friends'.
I had considered submitting more accurate information to Google, but didn't want to spend the effort, because they're a for-profit company, so what's the benefit to me?
This could well have enticed me to provide thorough, accurate listings for stores in my downtown, but since I'm not eligible for the QPQ, I'll go back to my other priorities.
- RG>
tl;dr
Sorry man, but the game is on TV and I don't want to miss it!
- RG>
- RG>