Amazing.

A McDonalds Employee making $21 an hour?

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Well, at least in Denmark. Also the teenagers over there start out at $15 an hour.

I work for McDonald’s and I make $21 an hour.

No, that isn’t a typo. It’s really my salary.

You see, I work for McDonald’s in Denmark, where an agreement between our union and the company guarantees that workers older than 18 are paid at least $21 an hour. Employees younger than 18 make at least $15 — meaning teenagers working at McDonald’s in Denmark make more than two times what many adults in America earn working at the Golden Arches.

So they’re being paid a living wage AND McDonalds is still in business? Color me fucking shocked! The local McDonalds here is practically a retirement home. There are literally more elderly folks working there than teenagers. I wonder how many of them read that article…

I’ll be sure to tell people about it though. Hell, I had one customer today tell me about a friend of his from a different store in another town and how they have special benefits and such. He instantly assumed that I would have the same and seemed shocked when I told him that was a union store. He said “You shouldn’t have to rely on a union to get better pay and benefits”. I just don’t understand… People seem to make the constant mistake of thinking a company will look out for it’s employees. Now, there are some companies that DO in fact take care of their employees. However, those are few and far between.

People can say what they want about a union. I’d love to have a fixed set of hours that don’t change or don’t drop. Seems like less of a pain compared to understaffing, cutting back, then calling people in at the last minute to try and cover a job because they were too busy understaffing and cutting back. Well… if you’re not a big CEO type. I’m sure I heard their teeth chattering when I mentioned teenagers in Denmark making more money than most Americans. 😛

Valve proves once again how awesome they are.

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There has been quite a bit of controversy regarding the Tux item released to people who use Linux distros. People have been “faking” linux installs to get the item and Valve is paying attention.

Well I didn’t personally but, this is something that I was curious about and, a friend just confirmed it. I offered him the use of my Linux machine via Teamviewer to get his Linux Penguin. He said he was uneasy about doing that and, said he was gonna look and, see if there was another way on Youtube.

Okay, whatever, it’s no skin of my nose. He came upon a video about changing what TF2 reads as your OS and, I guess he did it because I later saw that his name changed to I cheated for a tux. I thought he did it himself so I didn’t press the issue but, we started talking about the penguin like 30 minutes ago and, he mentioned that Steam changed his name on it’s own.

I wondered why and, then it hit me. It had to have been because he didn’t get it through the correct means and, the outcome made me laugh. I did a search for the name “I cheated for a tux” and, this is what I saw “Showing 1 – 50 of 3,884” amazing, huh.

That is hilariously awesome.

Get ready to laugh. HBO is telling teh google to get rid of HBO from their search engine, well sorta.

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This is just comic gold.

The request was made on behalf of HBO by a company called DtectNet, which is the anti-piracy arm of MarkMonitor. It asked Google to remove links to the Eastbound and Down section of HBO’s online store, but it wasn’t just their own site they were after. HBO also demanded that links from MTV.com, IGN.com, and Pinterest be removed. None of the links to these sites had any content that violated copyright laws, and were just news stories and reviews of HBO content.

Best day I’ve had in awhile!

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Well, aside from my morning shift (still groggy from that and may pass out after dinnerbreakfast), I bought a new laptop, 2 1TB 7200 RPM drives AND made it into the Steam Linux beta! So I might have to download the latest Ubuntu ISO later on to prepare, either that or wait for my new gaming system to arrive. I’ll post specs about it later when I’m less tired.

On another note I have a couple SFM things in the pipeline. One of them being my latest dream from last night. I think I’ll start on that one first.

Gonna go read up on some stuff now.

Want some of Glenn Beck’s special jarate?

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Glenn Beck, infamously being known as yet another crazy radio show host and has been on both CNN and Fox News is trying to get back into media. How you may ask?

So he pisses in a jar, sticks an Obama figurine in there, and calls it art. Honestly I think the sniper should sue. Or at least Jarate him with his own piss jars.

Things you never knew about women… So secret that not even women know about it!

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Another fun read I found over at manboobz and by fun I mean Fucked Up Nonsense.

He found some real gems posted by the guys that put the fun in dysfunctional. Lets see what we’ve got to work with…

women gain a sexual satisfaction from lying. the bigger the lie, the greater the thrill.

And men get sexual satisfaction out of staring at trees, breathing, murder, morning wood is funny like that.

EVERYTHING relating to female appearance in based on deception. Women put blush on their face and lipstick to suggest that they’re sexually aroused thereby causing men to get stupid and malleable in their presence.

Better think twice before putting on that gloss or lipstick ladies… Nothing says rape victim like a fresh painted set of lips. Careful on the eyeshadow too, the deeper the shade the more slut you reveal.

They are organized into cunt coalitions. we are fucked.

ZOMG it’s teh uterati!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111

most women simply can’t hack it at that high of a professional level. Their minds and bodies are simply not designed for that. Not surprising given how nature has clearly designed them to bear and raise children.

and in other news man sticks dick in toaster.

Twats wear heels in order to not only appear taller but also to elongate the appearance of their legs.

Oh for fucks sake I can’t even wear them on my feet, so why would I want to shove them up there? Hell, awhile back I saw a dude wearing stilettos. He really knew how to walk in them too. I guess you can add that to the argument that men can do anything better than women.

They put hideous silicone filled sacs onto their chest to create a more alluring figure (although as any man who’s actually ever felt these knows it’s like playing with a skin wrapped basketball).

Yeah, and unlike that one guy that did it on a dare, they didn’t get the million dollars… Again, men do it better.

They paint their nails to create the illusion they’re always clean.

I think they spend more time talking about how much they hate women, than have actually been with one… ever.

They shave and wax and pluck to show off as much bare skin as possible – to conceal the fact that they’re hairy beasts.

In America anyway due to it being disturbing. Whereas it’s a norm in certain parts of Europe. If you want us to stop shaving and waxing please let us know. Stubble is fucking annoying. After all you’re always saying that the women over here should be more like the ones overseas.

It has already been said in several posts in this thread but it bears repeating since it is the simple quintessential truth: Women. Ruin. Everything.

I’m sure they have their own boys only tree fort to go with that talk. Remember those boys only clubs from age 12 and below? Good times. Where they would indulge in each others manliness…. giggity.

And they wonder why people think they’re all teh ghey…

The hood of illusions.

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http://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=24053

RAWA wrote:

Explorers,

An explanation of what “The Hood of Illusions” is….

As you may have read from my IC counterpart, we are trying something new in the Cavern: two new neighborhoods where the hackers who have been playing by the rules are authorized to make changes on the live MOULa server. Creating these specific ‘hoods serves several purposes: 1) It provides an authorized location for those who want to see / experience the changes that can be made, while keeping the other instances of the Cavern unaltered for those who do not. 2) If any of those changes cause unintended, unforeseen problems, it’s more desirable to reset a private instance than to have to reset the main, public instances.

The first of these hoods will be called “The Hood of Illusions”. This hood is meant for the scheduled hacking demonstrations that were suggested recently. When the demonstration is over, the hood should be put back in its normal state.

The second hood will be called “The Fun House”, where these “illusions and special effects” can happen at any time.

A few notes of clarification:
– “Cracking” (making unauthorized changes on the live server to any hood other than those specifically authorized for this purpose, or making any changes that are malicious in nature) is still against MOULa policy. Just don’t do it.

– In the context of authorizing changes on the live server, approved hoods’ instances are also considered as part of those hoods, (e.g. demonstrations can happen in The Hood of Illusions’ instance of Kadish, or have skydiving in The Fun House’s instance of the City.)

– This is an experiment. If these new freedoms are abused, or if they end up making more work for us at Cyan, the experiment will very likely end. Play nice: respect all other explorers even if you do not agree with them, both here in the forums and in the Cavern. If things go well, and it can be shown that there is need for other hoods in the future to serve other specific purposes, we’ll “burn that bridge while we’re crossing it.” For now, though, we’re sticking with just these two.

Thanks for your continued cooperation and support.

RAWA

“I don’t know the keys to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.” – Bill Cosby
“We try anyway.” – RAWA
“That is why you fail.” – Yoda
This post was brought to you by the word “authorized” in return for its overuse for the sake of clarity.

RAWA has been caught talking about hacks! He must be punished!!!

Old news is good news?

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http://forums.guildofgreeters.com/index.php?showtopic=15445&pid=238137&st=0&#entry238137

Cyan has released there games on steam. You can buy the complete pack this includes realMYST, Riven: The Sequel to MYST, Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel, Manhole Masterpiece, Spelunx and the Caves of Mr. Seudo, URU: Complete Chronicles all for only $19.99 as of today date. These might have been on Steam for awhile but I just today decided to check.

It’s nice to know they read outside the GOG once every several months. Oh well, better late than never I guess.