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Submission + - Wal-mart files a formal complaint about employee demands for fair wages (cnn.com)

Submitted by ourlovecanlastforeve on Monday November 19, 2012 @03:06PM

ourlovecanlastforeve writes: In a delicious spout of irony Wal-Mart has filed a complaint with an unnamed federal agency claiming unfairness of actions by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and its subsidiary known as OURWalmart; that they are trying to force the store into collective bargaining.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Is it morally/ethically wrong to ask people to "like" a product? 1

Submitted by ourlovecanlastforeve on Friday August 24, 2012 @07:57PM

ourlovecanlastforeve writes: Many of the tech blogs I read will sometimes feature a sweepstakes where you can win an iPad, an Android tablet or some other toy or gadget by "liking" them on Facebook or otherwise promoting them in a way that you normally would not do if you weren't trying to win something. Is it morally or ethically wrong for those people to do so? If you're clicking a button that indicates you like something but you really don't care for it, are you lying for personal gain? If so, is the company behind the sweepstakes asking you to lie to promote their product?

Submission + - SAP to buy Ariba for $4.5B - Meanwhile, Lego Thief (ap.org)

Submitted by ourlovecanlastforeve on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @04:52PM

ourlovecanlastforeve writes: In an astounding coincidence today two stories broke about SAP with their $4.5 billion purchase of Ariba and news that their sticky-fingered VP software engineer Langenbach, who has been with the company since 1988, was arrested recently in a Lego barcode scam.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: When Will Our (US) Own Needs be More Important than Afghanistan's? (ap.org)

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ourlovecanlastforeve

on Monday May 21, 2012 @06:57PM

ourlovecanlastforeve writes: "AP reports that NATO's big players have settled on a leisurely date of 2014 to stop killing our children, "affirming they will close the largely stalemated conflict at the end of 2014 but keep their troops fighting and dying there for two more years in the meantime." So my question is, at what point does it become important to stop throwing human lives and trillions of dollars at Afghanistan's problems when we can't afford to pay our own bills? Where is the altruism in this proceeding; why are we really wasting all these resources, when there are plenty of other nations that would be grateful for our aide that we could easily throw just as much money we don't have at?"

Submission + - Jaguar and Land Rover to be built in China (autoblog.com)

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ourlovecanlastforeve

on Friday May 18, 2012 @03:56PM

ourlovecanlastforeve writes: "Those of you still hanging on to Jaguar and Land Rover as the last vestiges of the truly British automobile in the States may find yourselves grasping at straws as Chery announces a nearly two billion dollar joint effort with the auto brand to move production to Changsu in China."

Submission + - Judges Order Apple to Talk to Competitors Instead of Suing Them Out of Business (engadget.com)

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ourlovecanlastforeve

on Thursday May 17, 2012 @05:55PM

ourlovecanlastforeve writes: "US judges have clearly had enough of Apple trying to build their market share by throwing phalanxes of lawyers and patent claims at competitors who might have a product that would compete and reduce their market share. After two HTC launches were delayed and and before Apple is to meet with Samsung executives Magistrate Judge Sherry R. Fallon tells Apple to sit down and talk it out with competitor Samsung instead of dragging them into yet another court battle."

Submission + - 80 Percent of Americans Do Not Trust Their Government (theatlantic.com)

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ourlovecanlastforeve

on Thursday May 17, 2012 @02:10PM

ourlovecanlastforeve writes: "The US Government's trust among US citizens is at an all time low according to a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center. Factors of this distrust include extended infighting between political parties in congress, continued job loss, the recession that we are only now admitting is a recession. Trust is down 5% from 1981 to a staggering %20."

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