Located 2481 results from search term 'street'
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Commented in Google Is Protesting a Canadian Law by Blocking News in Search Results
Won't happen...I don't even use Google,I use Startpage and Duck Duck Go.
All we’re asking the tech giants to do is compensate journalists when they use their work,” a spokesperson for Rodriguez told The Wall Street Journal. “Tech giants need to be more transparent and accountable to Canadians.”
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Commented in Rep. Devin Nunes is resigning from Congress to be CEO of Trump's new media company
I predict he will be thrown under the bus within 6 months. Loyalty is a one way street with orange Julius.
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Commented in 'Companies will do everything but pay you a living wage': McDonald's blasted for viral 'free iPhone' promise to applicants
Let's say the average franchise has 20-30 workers, We'll say 25, that is 8.3 workers per shift. Of those 25 I'm guessing 5-10 are part-time. So I'm going to go with 15 full and 10 part-time workers for this. Let's say the full time staff are making $10 or $400 a week. The part timers are making minimum wage, let's call it $7.50 or $150 a week. OK, so now let's go with the "living wage" of $15 an hour, that means the full time group is now making $600 a week and the part timers are making $300. We'll guess and say they need 5 full and 5 part time employees, you only get the iPhone if you stay for 6 months, which is about 26 weeks. With the living wage rate of 15 that equals out to $45,500 extra those employees would get... then since the ad doesn't say what phone, we'll go with the cheapest new iPhone the SE at 400, 400x10 is $4,000. So it's a no brainer from the business standpoint for the franchise to offer the iPhone over a higher wage. I will also point out Illinois already pays $10 as minimum wage for non-tipped people, meaning my math is off for where this is actually happening but doesn't change the fact that a business owner would rather buy iPhone's than pay more.
I'm not saying that higher wages aren't a necessity, I'm just pointing out that franchise operators aren't always in a position to offer more. After they buy the materials and ingredients from McDonald's or McD's mandatory partner. They then have to pay McDonald's part of their yearly intake, on top of that my understanding is that McDonald's owns most of the real estate and the Franchise owner has to pay that lease too. Then you have, electricity, water, payroll, taxes, trash, etc...
Here is what they pay to McD's, it's interesting:
Ongoing Fees
During the term of the franchise, you pay McDonald’s the following fees:
Service fee: a monthly fee based upon the restaurant’s sales performance (currently a service fee of 4.0% of monthly sales).
Rent: a monthly base rent or percentage rent that is a percentage of monthly sales.
Mashed says that the average store brings in 2.7mm a year, but after fees, payroll, the costs of buying the food, etc it works out to the average store profit of just $150k. The initial cost to open one is $1,000,000-$2,000,000. So it's going to take 10 years just to pay off the initial investment to open a McDonald's at the 150k profit margin. So the $15 living wage has the ability to absolutely destroy that profit, especially if McDonald's Living Wage raises prices and McDonald's iPhone down the street doesn't because most people will just go to the cheaper one.
It's a lot more complicated than just saying raise wages.
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Commented in Water-worried Vegas wants useless grass a thing of the past
I think grass looks absurd in places like that. I hate that people want everything to look like a damn golf course.
The Southern Nevada Water Authority estimates there are almost 8 square miles (21 square kilometers) of “nonfunctional turf” in the metro area — grass that no one ever walks on or otherwise uses in street medians, housing developments and office parks.
Even in parks,they should use native plants with paths going hither and yon.
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Commented in We Do Not Have the Internet We Deserve
We have fiber at the street level, but even if we pay to have it connected to the house, we still have non-fiber in the house. It's just too expensive for the average person to pay for connection to the house then pay to have fiber ran in the home (IMHO).
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Commented in NYC cops find decapitated, limbless man in million-dollar condo; electric saw found next to torso
I live in the American Gardens Building on W. 81st Street on the 11th floor. My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old. I believe in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
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Commented in GE is saying goodbye to its 129-year-old light bulb business
Yeah, I think so. :-)
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Commented in This Man Created Traffic Jams on Google Maps Using a Red Wagon Full of Phones
HA. Clearly he isn't into social media or he would never have made it down the street.
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Commented in The Worst Song of 2019
"Sunshine on the street at the parade But you would rather be in the dark age"
An interesting list to say the least.
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Commented in Facebook leaves no doubt: It's the right wing's social network now
Really? Other partners include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, which are about as far from right-wing as you can get. Digital-only outlets like BuzzFeed and Business Insider are also going to be news sources.
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Commented in Here's What Will Happen to Our Cities When They Hit 120 Degrees
“The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
~Utah Phillips
A lot of them work on Wall Street.
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Commented in Public anger seethes in Hong Kong ahead of another anti-extradition law rally | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
The theme is black....and everybody on the street is in black! Pretty amazing, little old Hong Kong roaring like a lion!
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Commented in Chicago mayor demands answers after Smollett hoax charges dropped
When, not if, me and my goons circle him on a deserted dark empty street, swinging chains and tossing knives from hand to hand, I look forward to telling him deadpan: "No one will ever believe you."
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Commented in The cheeky gnomes taking over Wrocław
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Commented in World's richest man Jeff Bezos divorces
The way they talk about it make me wonder why on earth they’re getting divorced.
Then I realized that they started dating over a job interview and wonder if that relationship was ever a two way street.
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Commented in Blogger U Review: Beware The Bloggers Pitching The Path To Prosperity And Traffic
HaHa, Snapzu seems to be working out for me. It's free and a few people seem to find the blog from the site. You have me stumped on the Insane Clown Posse, all I know about the ICP is from the Z Nation episode they were on. Back in 1999, I was in the Army and missed out on some pop culture. If you want to test my geeky street cred, you will have to hit me with something else.
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Commented in Motorola and Nokia’s new phones make $350 look like $1,000
I don't mind saying, I've just about heard enough of new phones. However, having intensively researched this subject the conclusion I've come to is that Motorolas cheapy phones are the best pure Android phones on the market only recently (potentially) superceded by Nokia, and mainly due to Motorola phones only updating to the next itteration Android whereas Nokia promises to update its phones infinitely. That being said, the word on the street is that Androids potential has almost reached its peak and any further updates will be handset specific and not software advancements.
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Commented in It's Trump's turn to be afraid
Well of course because running down the street with no clothes on and a traffic cone on your head shouting "I am the space police" is a) illegal and b) not sustainable!
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Commented in ‘China’s Great Wall of Debt’ Review: The Chinese Growth Charade
Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Economist magazine stories about China’s shadow banking system is about to crash, what struck me is that China has a great wall of debt // Lucid dream: Chinese Dragon, (London) Whale, glass bottom boat... see last post on China: https://gab.ai/beaconheart
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Commented in “Trump Believes There’s a Coup”: The President Is Seeing Enemies Everywhere
Last I checked, loyalty was a two way street. Trump doesn't seem to understand that.
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Commented in Killer robots ‘no longer the stuff of science fiction’ warns expert at UN talks
It's funny, we are already listening, being directed, manipulated by algorithms (AI). Wall Street is a perfect example. Trades are done in microseconds and we gleefully win or lose on those outcomes. More and more of our decision process will be handed over to machines, not just the physical parts of humanity. It's happening all over, surveillance, medicine, law. China is using AI to come up with citizen ratings using this. We are designing our own electronic prisons one happy click at a time.
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Commented in What's next for Julian Assange?
As I recall, you also bought into him being smeared as a rapist, right? Like you'd seen him look a little too long and a little too sideways at birds on your street?
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Commented in Wikileaks' Julian Assange will be removed from the Ecuadorean Embassy 'imminently'
Downing Street is in “ongoing” discussions with Ecuador and the United States over his fate.
And the United States? What have they got to do with it?
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Commented in Blue in the Dark
I grabbed this shot driving by in a bus. Nikon D610, 24-70 2.8 Nikkor lens. It's a street scene from an area in Hong Kong called Wan Chai.
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Commented in The Opioid that Made a Fortune for Its Maker — and for Its Prescribers
So did I...Now I know they are no different than the street pusher,except they can get away with it with no jail time,and meanwhile,people who need drugs for real pain get treated like addicts.