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EDIT: The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington
You can't even research a quote accurately.
"“The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish, and wicked practice, of profane cursing and swearing (a Vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion; he hopes the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and that both they, and the men will reflect, that we can have little hopes of the blessing of Heaven on our Arms, if we insult it by our impiety, and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense, and character, detests and despises it."
George Washington is saying that if you curse you might not get into heaven. I cringe to think what he would say about premarital intercourse.
Post by Delicious Meatball Sub on Aug 9, 2013 14:18:41 GMT -5
I hope discussing all these horrible multinational conglomerated that treat enployees like shi't made everyone feel sufficiently helpless. The thing about all this is that consumer choices are unlikely to have a significant impact on corporate choices writ large. What we really need is to agree on standards of employee welfare and have BIG GOVERNMENT enforce them through JOB KILLING REGULATIONS. But instead, we have half the country that uses stuff like big government and job killing regulation unironically, so here we are.
Running in the rain is one of life's greatest joys, second only to the post run shower beer (yes Dave Maynar I'm talking about shower beer again)
Since we're doing quotes this one reminded me of one from Ghost Dog (underrated movie):
"There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, The Hagakure: A code to the way of samurai
EDIT: The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington
You can't even research a quote accurately.
"“The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish, and wicked practice, of profane cursing and swearing (a Vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion; he hopes the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and that both they, and the men will reflect, that we can have little hopes of the blessing of Heaven on our Arms, if we insult it by our impiety, and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense, and character, detests and despises it."
George Washington is saying that if you curse you might not get into heaven. I cringe to think what he would say about premarital intercourse.
Yes, I shortened the quote without changing it's meaning. Go back to the kids table and let the adults talk.
Inforoo: where people go to talk about shoving stuff up iamarob's ass.
With so many people talking about it they must have seen me at Bonnaroo and all that weight loss and working out paid off is the only reasonable explanation I can think of.
"“The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish, and wicked practice, of profane cursing and swearing (a Vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion; he hopes the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and that both they, and the men will reflect, that we can have little hopes of the blessing of Heaven on our Arms, if we insult it by our impiety, and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense, and character, detests and despises it."
George Washington is saying that if you curse you might not get into heaven. I cringe to think what he would say about premarital intercourse.
Yes, I shortened the quote without changing it's meaning. Go back to the kids table and let the adults talk.
You are killing your own argument by subversively attacking.
Also let's all actually admit that both of those historical figures were as influential as full of shit and hypocritical.
The director of dining services just accidentally sent out an excel sheet with every one of their employees' (a couple hundred students and about 100 full timers) personal information and pay rate to the Student Union supervisor listserv instead of to payroll.
I imagine this reaction after realizing how bad they just fucked up
With so many people talking about it they must have seen me at Bonnaroo and all that weight loss and working out paid off is the only reasonable explanation I can think of.
This makes absolutely no sense.
You continue to be, without fail, the absolute worst.
Can we get a comprehensive list of your "absolute" worst? And by definition, can't there be just one absolute worst? Or is is kind a a running title, like, just when you have deemed somebody the absolute worst. Somebody else comes along and shatters your decision. Thus making them...the absolute worst?
I actually really like Winco as a company. Unfortunately, I think it has pretty much maximized its potential. The biggest piece of their low-price puzzle is the transportation and distribution of their products. They buy direct from farms and this means they a) buy local, and b) avoid middle men. Buying local cuts down tremendously on transportation costs, but avoiding middle men is not feasible if you're going to branch out into areas that don't have an agriculturally-based economy (most of the states that Winco's are in have a high % of their economy based on agriculture). I also like the idea that they make customers bag their groceries, but I find the idea that your average Walmart shopper will jump ship for marginally lower prices (at best) and a cash-only/bag-your-own-groceries policy a hard one to swallow. Two reasons for this thinking: First, About 1/5 to 1/4 of Walmarts sales are paid for in credit, but that also doesn't count the Walmart credit cards that frequent shoppers use (since they count this as cash on balance sheets for tax purposes). The point is, without a credit/Walmart-type card system, you're never going to topple the giant. Second, have you been to a Walmart lately? The local one by my parent's house is a pretty run-of-the-mill sh*thole Walmart, I would think. When I go there I never, ever wait on line even if there are 20+ person lines at the cashiers. Why? Self check-out is always, always, always open. I think the fact that you're doing the process yourself plays into it, possibly on a subconscious level, but I think you'd find the laziness factor to be pretty high in the average Walmart patron.
I should know better than to make a general statement, but you at least get the idea. Winco and companies like it are good to have and as long as people continue to have evolving needs and desires there will be a market for unique and thoughtful business models. Winco found one, and god bless 'em for running with it, but it's just not something that can bring down the giant, so to speak. Walmart will dwarf the Wincos of the world in this type of economy because their business model is full-proof for different geographies, demographics, regional economies, etc. If a place isn't likely to adapt to a Walmart, they don't bother going there. It's just a different, admittedly more ruthless, type of business model, but objectively it's no better and no worse. They both make lots of money, one is just kinder to its employees (a lot kinder, actually).
That's an interesting point about Winco vs. Walmart wrt financial services/shadow banking. The credit sales estimate I saw was 15%, but you're spot on: it's a segment that Winco doesn't serve. But that number isn't inclusive of its other Money Center "services" aimed at cash users, either. The percentage of customers who are captive from payday to checkout is much higher than 15%, and they're not going anywhere else.
If there's a natural limit to how much money it's possible to make off poor people, we haven't yet found it. What's scary about that is that the more companies like Walmart do to sandbag household income, the more money they make. It's a hell of a perverse incentive.
So what brings down Walmart? I don't know, at least not in this nation of crummy job outlooks and student loan bubbles, but I'd be even more afraid of whatever it is than I am of what Walmart is now.
Unless it's 3D printers, so you can make your own cheap plastic crap for pennies at home instead of buying it. Maybe there's a business opportunity: 3D printer kiosks right next to your local payday loans office?
So what brings down Walmart? I don't know, at least not in this nation of crummy job outlooks and student loan bubbles, but I'd be even more afraid of whatever it is than I am of what Walmart is now.
$16 an hour minimum wage, universal single-payer health care system which runs as a non-profit system, worker protections, ending free trade agreements around the world which have taken millions of American jobs, etc... Give the people purchasing power and the right to live with any hope of upward mobility. Laws established in the 1930s helped rise many out of poverty into the middle class, and the rolling back of these laws in the 1980s threw them right back into the dirt.
You'll probably see a near total economic collapse first, where you have a nation of just a handful in the very wealthy status and their minions - and about 200-250 million people poor, hungry, and suffering. Once this happens, and there's a majority of people in this country with little if anything to lose - you'll see mass demonstrations in the street and total societal and governmental upheaval. Like Egypt, it'll probably end up going badly the first time around and some extremists will take over from the power vacuum - which have alliances to the monied interests. Have to go back and do it again and again until it gets right.
So what brings down Walmart? I don't know, at least not in this nation of crummy job outlooks and student loan bubbles, but I'd be even more afraid of whatever it is than I am of what Walmart is now.
$16 an hour minimum wage, universal single-payer health care system which runs as a non-profit system, worker protections, ending free trade agreements around the world which have taken millions of American jobs, etc... Give the people purchasing power and the right to live with any hope of upward mobility. Laws established in the 1930s helped rise many out of poverty into the middle class, and the rolling back of these laws in the 1980s threw them right back into the dirt.
You'll probably see a near total economic collapse first, where you have a nation of just a handful in the very wealthy status and their minions - and about 200-250 million people poor, hungry, and suffering. Once this happens, and there's a majority of people in this country with little if anything to lose - you'll see mass demonstrations in the street and total societal and governmental upheaval. Like Egypt, it'll probably end up going badly the first time around and some extremists will take over from the power vacuum - which have alliances to the monied interests. Have to go back and do it again and again until it gets right.
Yeah, I should've been more specific. Ideally those social reforms would be awesome, but I was speaking specifically of fear of a corporate model that could conceivably come along and out-Walmart Walmart.
Oh, and also:
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w00t! i can fit in my old karate uniform! think i may take it up again...and one of my neighbors says i should have enough stored up Chakra energy for bayttle.....i just gotta get over my anger issues and revenge plotting xD because this is reality, and in reality life sux cuz the most I CAN DO is minor telekinesis