RockRaines

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 21, 2015 -> 09:19 PM) According to the BLS less than 10% of food workers are 19 years old and under. And they should all be making less than 15 dollars hopefully. When I was a "food worker" in college and after I also should have made less than 15 bucks an hour because my job was a joke.

The power play is horrendous.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 21, 2015 -> 06:55 PM) There's a weird assumption here that nobody making less than $15/hour worked hard in school or works hard at their job. Maybe they make that at first but if they work hard they will make more. If you work hard and succeed in school odds are you will be able to further your education, sometimes for free. And minimum wage isn't something you would be at for long if at all. Today $15 is not minimum wage so certainly some skilled people make that much. Which is why the high school freshman cooking fries shouldn't make that much.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 21, 2015 -> 09:04 PM) Feels like Anaheim is in full control of the game, but it's still just one goal. I don't get the lineup changes for the Hawks at all. We lose face offs and offensive ability and replace it with turnovers.

Missed chances.

Four min power play. 2 shots

Sweet goal off a weak makeup call

I don't get these lineup changes

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 21, 2015 -> 05:18 PM) If wages were dependent on how hard one had to work , there would be zero incentive to even attend college. Depends if you consider working hard in high school to make it to college and then in college to graduate.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ May 21, 2015 -> 02:38 PM) Our factory workers start around $16 an hour and get paid time and half for OT with double pay for weekends. Most of these jobs are filled by people with nothing more than a HS diploma. Some of these jobs can be physically tough, mundane or even dangerous. They deserve to be paid more than the high school students working down the road at Taco Bell. Agreed. I have worked in demo and in the Wrigley factory and ive seen these guys work harder than those fast food workers and I have also seen them work extra hours for pay and advancement opportunities.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 21, 2015 -> 01:09 PM) But Rock, in a socialist utopia you could have gone to school for free! And then you could have chosen your profession and worked it for the same wage as everyone else! And then we'd all get to enjoy cell phones and tv's and nice cars. Don't you see?! I do believe in things like healthcare being a human right. But advanced education, wages and luxury goods are something you work for. And I don't see any reason to change that. I've worked 3 fast food jobs and they were a joke. Paying someone the same salary as a teacher or the like is hilarious.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 21, 2015 -> 12:54 PM) Should health care coverage be a handout? If you get sick can you just work harder to get over that? Should the ability for kids to go to college be a handout? I worked my way into and through college. So no. College isn't a right IMO. Either are luxury items. Too many people are of a different mindset.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 21, 2015 -> 12:51 PM) What you're not realizing is THIS IS A PROBLEM. Why is it a problem? People shouldnt have to work for what they get? If you want luxuries and opportunities in life you have to work for them. Too many people expect to do the minimum and get handouts, THATS the problem.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 21, 2015 -> 12:42 PM) There are 0 parts of Los Angeles County, for example, where a $15/hour minimum wage full time job can afford that list, especially since you included kids. 2 full time $15 minimum wage jobs can barely pull that while renting a 2 bedroom apartment based on livability calculations/rent. Nothing in that article supports that you cannot make it on minimum wage in this country. So if you live within your means in an affordable pad in a place that isnt downtown San Francisco you will be ok. Even if you have to work minimum wage for a few years and live lean, if you are a hard worker you will make more at some point. Plus 40 hours a week is a LUXURY. I made 23k out of college and worked 2 jobs to afford what I wanted. I worked 10 plus hours a day 7 days a week to move up. Oh and I lived in Lincoln Park in Chicago, which by your crappy link would have required much more money to even make ends meet for rent.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 21, 2015 -> 12:17 PM) I seriously hate this line of thought. Yes, people who have jobs should be able to afford cell phones. Yes they should be able to afford a television. And it's not the Tv/Internet that gets people in trouble these days any more, its health care costs and college costs if they have families. A century ago you could have said the same thing about people who worked in factories. We decided as a society that those were instead going to be decent jobs, jobs that people could actually afford to live off of. People could say the exact same junk about lazy people on assembly lines turning bolts and how they don't work hard enough to deserve a decent life. At least for a while we decided to be better than that. Ok but not those luxury goods, then yes making even minimum wage people can live a decent life. They can have shelter, food, indoor plumbling, electricity, can send their kids to school and have basic healthcare. And if they work at that job hard enough they may even make MORE money. So it is possible in this country.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 21, 2015 -> 12:11 PM) Nothing makes me shake my head more than the idea that you can work a 40 hour a week position in this country and not be able to afford a decent life. Define decent. Would having satellite tv, iphones, internet and flat screen TV's be part of that? And 40 hours is bulls*** if you want to be comfortable, most of us work way more than that.

The entire basis of Sansa's/Jenye's arc is to eventually take the Boltons out of the North. In conjunction with Stannis they are going to eliminate them at some point. I feel like the mistreatment of Sansa is going to kick off the support of the northerners left in Winterfell for her.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 21, 2015 -> 10:02 AM) According to KC Johnson, about the best the Bulls could do in a trade for Thibs is a 2nd round pick. Fine, I'd take that. You can get value in the 2nd round.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ May 21, 2015 -> 08:15 AM) What's worse is they are gaining traction. I know people with 10+ years of experience that are making less. Open bag of fries, pour into fryer, hit button, make 30k

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Nothing makes me shake my head more than fast food workers asking for the wage rate of a college graduate.

I don't think the rape turns Sansa into a victim, it empowers her to finally fight back against the people who have been attacking her and her family from day one.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 20, 2015 -> 03:09 PM) Lol, this comment basically sums up the faux outrage on this topic. Let's pooh-pooh away the fact that she was physically beaten by grown men (also terrible!), but get upset about a rape scene, in a TV show with dragons eating people, dude's getting beheaded, people getting sliced open, people being murdered and poisoned... Frankly, the fact that people are responding the way they are means the writers really hit a note and did a good job. People are upset because they feel so sorry for a (fake) character being put through something like that. Kudos to them. Also, anyone complaining about the "well they didn't have to go that far" just needs to stop. It's called creative license. They didn't HAVE to show the red wedding, right? They could have just made mention of the fact that characters died! Or made it less graphic. Blood was flying everywhere. But they didn't. And people loved it. I think the rape scene fits. I think it's a scene that now forces Sansa and Theon to work together to defeat the Boltons from within. Sansa's been a follower basically her whole story. Now she's going to act for once. At least that's my hope. They basically are tying up the super long plot of Sansa and littlefinger sitting and waiting for a time to act into one where she is forced to because of the abuse. She is going to pay them back for what theyve done to the North. I understand its place in the show and I dont mind it. I thought the Jayne Poole stuff was dumb in the book as was Sansa and Littlefinger just wandering around.

QUOTE (almagest @ May 20, 2015 -> 12:07 PM) http://www.nba.com/bulls/news/samsmith/dra...-nba-mock-draft Some chatter in the comments about the Knicks wanting to trade their pick. I wonder if Thibs/our pick/the Bobcats pick option/Noah/Taj/etc could get it done? If so, what would the Bulls want at #4? A guard or a wing pretty much. So whoever fell to them.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 20, 2015 -> 11:56 AM) Visual depiction of rape is going to be more powerful, and the show creators have not shown they are sensitive to that, and sometimes even claim it is not rape. For a scene that handled it well - see Mad Men season 2 Where was the outcry when Theon's junk was sliced off and sent to his father? The media is ridiculous sometimes.