Showing posts with label profitability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label profitability. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
taiwan mcdonald's magical pretty soldier sailor moon..,
dailymail | McDonald's
is not always considered the most glamorous place to work, however one
server in Taiwan is bringing a little added allure to the counter.
Hsu
Wei-han, whose age was not given, has been attracting plenty of
customers to her branch of the fast-food chain in the city of Kaohsiung
after she was discovered by a blogger.
RainDog
spotted the doll-like beauty and noted that Wei-han, who is also known
as 'Weiwei' or 'Haitun' ('dolphin' in Chinese), was cute and wore a pink
shirt and heels.
She has been called the 'cutest McDonald's
goddess in Taiwanese history' after fans pointed out that the country's
branches are famous for dressing up their female employees in cute
themed outfits, such as sailors or maids.
By CNu at August 18, 2015 0 comments
Labels: peasants , political economy , profitability
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
rule of law: neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted..,
truthdig | Prisons employ and exploit the ideal worker. Prisoners do not receive
benefits or pensions. They are not paid overtime. They are forbidden to
organize and strike. They must show up on time. They are not paid for
sick days or granted vacations. They cannot formally complain about
working conditions or safety hazards. If they are disobedient, or
attempt to protest their pitiful wages, they lose their jobs and can be
sent to isolation cells. The roughly 1 million prisoners who work for
corporations and government industries in the American prison system are
models for what the corporate state expects us all to become. And
corporations have no intention of permitting prison reforms that would
reduce the size of their bonded workforce. In fact, they are seeking to
replicate these conditions throughout the society.
States, in the name of austerity, have stopped providing prisoners
with essential items including shoes, extra blankets and even toilet
paper, while starting to charge them for electricity and room and board.
Most prisoners and the families that struggle to support them are
chronically short of money. Prisons are company towns. Scrip, rather
than money, was once paid to coal miners, and it could be used only at
the company store. Prisoners are in a similar condition. When they go
broke—and being broke is a frequent occurrence in prison—prisoners must
take out prison loans to pay for medications, legal and medical fees and
basic commissary items such as soap and deodorant. Debt peonage inside
prison is as prevalent as it is outside prison.
States impose an array of fees on prisoners. For example, there is a
10 percent charge imposed by New Jersey on every commissary purchase.
Stamps have a 10 percent surcharge. Prisoners must pay the state for a
15-minute deathbed visit to an immediate family member or a 15-minute
visit to a funeral home to view the deceased. New Jersey, like most
other states, forces a prisoner to reimburse the system for overtime
wages paid to the two guards who accompany him or her, plus mileage
cost. The charge can be as high as $945.04. It can take years to pay off
a visit with a dying father or mother.
Fines, often in the thousands of dollars, are assessed against many
prisoners when they are sentenced. There are 22 fines that can be
imposed in New Jersey, including the Violent Crime Compensation
Assessment (VCCB), the Law Enforcement Officers Training & Equipment
Fund (LEOT) and Extradition Costs (EXTRA). The state takes a percentage
each month out of prison pay to pay down the fines, a process that can
take decades. If a prisoner who is fined $10,000 at sentencing must rely
solely on a prison salary he or she will owe about $4,000 after making
payments for 25 years. Prisoners can leave prison in debt to the state.
And if they cannot continue to make regular payments—difficult because
of high unemployment—they are sent back to prison. High recidivism is
part of the design.
By CNu at January 20, 2015 0 comments
Labels: American Original , just-us , profitability , Rule of Law , What IT DO Shawty...
Saturday, November 29, 2014
negroes off your knees - on the current trajectory it's NOT going to get any better...,
physorg | Last year, University of Pennsylvania researchers Alexander J. Stewart and Joshua B. Plotkin published a mathematical explanation for why cooperation and generosity have evolved in nature. Using the classical game theory match-up known as the Prisoner's Dilemma, they found that generous strategies were the only ones that could persist and succeed in a multi-player, iterated version of the game over the long term.
But now they've come out with a somewhat less rosy view of evolution. With a new analysis of the Prisoner's Dilemma played in a large, evolving population, they found that adding more flexibility to the game can allow selfish strategies to be more successful. The work paints a dimmer but likely more realistic view of how cooperation and selfishness balance one another in nature.
"It's a somewhat depressing evolutionary outcome, but it makes intuitive sense," said Plotkin, a professor in Penn's Department of Biology in the School of Arts & Sciences, who coauthored the study with Stewart, a postdoctoral researcher in his lab. "We had a nice picture of how evolution can promote cooperation even amongst self-interested agents and indeed it sometimes can, but, when we allow mutations that change the nature of the game, there is a runaway evolutionary process, and suddenly defection becomes the more robust outcome."
Their study, which will appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, examines the outcomes of the Prisoner's Dilemma, a scenario used in the field ofgame theory to understand how individuals decide whether to cooperate or not. In the dilemma, if both players cooperate, they both receive a payoff. If one cooperates and the other does not, the cooperating player receives the smallest possible payoff, and the defecting player the largest. If both players do not cooperate, they both receive a payoff, but it is less than what they would gain if both had cooperated. In other words, it pays to cooperate, but it can pay even more to be selfish.
By CNu at November 29, 2014 4 comments
Labels: evolution , profitability , What IT DO Shawty...
Saturday, July 26, 2014
how far should society go to make sure "the least of these" get the best available treatments?
WaPo | Months before Gilead Sciences’ breakthrough hepatitis C treatment hit
the market, Oregon Medicaid official Tom Burns started worrying about
how the state could afford to cover every enrollee infected with the
disease. He figured the cost might even reach $36,000 per patient.
Then the price for the drug was released last December: $84,000 for a 12-week treatment course.
At
that price, the state would have to spend $360 million to provide its
Medicaid beneficiaries with the drug called Sovaldi, just slightly less
than the $377 million the Oregon Medicaid program spent on all
prescription drugs for about 600,000 members in 2013. It potentially
would be a backbreaker.
Faced with those steep costs, Oregon and
several other states are looking to limit who has access to the drug
that nearly everyone acknowledges is a revolutionary treatment for the
disease affecting more than 3 million Americans.
Expensive
specialty drugs aren’t new to health care. But Sovaldi stands out
because it is aimed at helping millions of Americans who carry hepatitis
C, and a large share of those infected are low-income and qualify for
government coverage. Its arrival also coincides with the aggressive
expansion of Medicaid and private coverage under the Affordable Care
Act, whose purpose was to extend health care to tens of millions
Americans who previously couldn’t afford it.
Sovaldi has prompted
fears among insurers and state officials that the breakthrough drug,
despite its benefits, could explode their budgets. And that has sparked
an urgent and highly sensitive debate in Medicaid offices across the
country: How far should society go to make sure the poor get the best
available treatments?
By CNu at July 26, 2014 60 comments
Labels: profitability , ROI , scarcity , scientific morality
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