Henry Austin posted:Shoppers eager to take advantage of early Thanksgiving deals brawled late Thursday as retailers across the country prepared for more crowds on what was expected to be a bumper Black Friday.
After buying a big screen TV, a Las Vegas shopper was shot at around 9:45 p.m. local time (12.45 a.m. ET) late Thursday as he tried to take his purchase home, Lt. Gordon of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department told NBC News.
“As the victim was walking through his complex he was approached by a suspect who fired warning shots which caused the victim to release the television,” he said.
As the thief tried to load it into a vehicle the victim approached him to try and get it back, Gordon added.
“The suspect fired two more shots and the victim was struck in the leg,” he said. “He was not seriously injured."
Early Friday shoppers started arriving at a Chicago-area Kohl's store just hours after a police officer shot the driver of a car that was dragging another officer responding to a call of alleged shoplifting which came in at around 10 p.m. local time (11 p.m. ET).
An officer chased a fleeing suspect to his car when "the car started to move as the officer was partially inside the car," Romeoville Police Chief Mark Turvey told NBC station WBCD. "The officer was dragged quite some distance." A backup officer then shot the driver of the car.
Both the driver and the dragged officer were taken to a hospital with minor injuries. Three people were arrested, police said.
At least three people got into a fight in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Rialto, Calif., because shoppers were cutting in line, Sgt. Nicholas Borchard told NBC Southern California. Two were taken into custody after the fight at around 7p.m. local time (4p.m. ET), he added. A police officer suffered a minor unknown injury.
A man in Claypool Hill, West Virginia, was slashed to the bone with a knife after threatening another man with a gun in an argument over a Wal-Mart parking spot, Tazewell County Sheriff Brian Hieatt told NBC station WVVA. Both faced charges after the incident that happened at 6:30 p.m. the station reported.
Bill Simon, CEO of the retail giant Walmart, tells TODAY that he is comfortable with how much he pays employees and that his workers are familiar with working on the holiday.
Another shopper was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer after getting into an argument with a New Jersey Wal-Mart store manager about a television set, police told NBC New York. Officers arrived at the scene at 6:39 p.m. and once they had pacified the customer they also charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, Garfield police told the station.
Stores have braced themselves for the Black Friday rush despite a Consumer Reports poll this week that found 56 percent of Americans had no plans to shop at all this weekend.
Because Thanksgiving fell on Nov. 28, the latest possible date, there are six fewer shopping days this holiday season than last. The most common reason — named by 70 percent of respondents — was a desire to avoid the crowds.
A Gallup poll this year found that 53 percent of Americans are very or somewhat likely to do their shopping online, the highest share since Gallup started asking the question in 1998.
However Wal-Mart President and CEO Bill Simon told TODAY that the company had a “terrific night” Thursday and expected a busy Black Friday too.
He also defended the decision to open on Thanksgiving.
“We’ve been opening since the eighties,” he said. “We’re in the service industry. We open when our customers want to shop.”
Sounds like we can just let this run the course until society realizes the superiority of full communism.
acephalousuniverse posted:probably some retarded shit as usual
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Panopticon posted:isn't it a lower organic concentration since the meatbags are being replaced by capital goods
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Panopticon, I posted with mustang. I know mustang. Mustang was a shit pantomime. Panopticon, you're no mustang.
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stegosaurus posted:at work I make use of as many power tools and lifting aids and trucks and pallet movers as possible, so as to contribute to the higher organic concentration of capital., bringing the final crisis that much closer. you can thank me later
That's cool. I use hand trucks and pallet jacks because I don't want to injure my body which is apparently the only thing worth paying me money for in this economy.
My thoughts and education are completely worthless because they run contrary to capital. A true accelerationist would have a business degree and work at goldman sachs.
Will Leia be killed? Yes
Total Rebel civillian casualties: 500 dead
Total military casualties Rebel: 3000 dead
Total military casualties Empire: 15 dead
Will the Rebel army regulars hold the lines? No
Will the Republican Guard fight to the end? No
Will chem/bio weapons be used on invading troops?: Yes
Will Mothma launch attacks on the Correlians? Yes
Will Mothma launch attacks on Tatooin? No
-If yes; will Tatooin retaliate harshly? Yes
Will Mothma sacrifice the Rebel Base (gas/nuke it)? No
Will the Wookies make a grab for independence? Yes
Will Bespin do anything silly like try for land? Yes
Will Calrissian burn the oil fields? Yes
How long will the Empire be occupying the Rebel Base? ~15 years
Will the Rebel war catalyze increased terrorism in the Empire?No
In the long run, will this war be good or bad for the galaxy? Good
We have to look at what those civilian casualties are- just because they're civilian doesn't make them innocent! Lets take a look at a few possibilities:
1) A civilian walking down the street to market gets killed by a photon torpedo fired at the market.
2) A civilian asleep in their house is killed when their house is targetting by a droid and blown up.
OK, these two are regrettable innocents being killed- but since the Empire doesn't make a habit of targetting markets or houses, they're very small in number!
3) A civilian working at a chemical weapon factory gets killed when the chemical weapon plant is bombed.
4) A civilian security guard at a weapons depot is killed when the weapons explode.
5) A civilian contractor repairing a tank is killed by a MOAB dropped on the unit.
6) A civilian engineer is killed when the military command center he works at is destroyed.
7) A civilian delivering snackiecakes to the Rebel bunker vending machines eats a 5,000lb bunker buster.
etc, etc. The list goes on. My point is that there are a lot of civilians directly supporting the military that aren't exactly "innocent" and would be mire rightly counted among the military casualties than civilian. I'm a civilian and work for the Empire military, but I acknowledge I'm also a valid military target because of what I do. And I think the vast majority of civilian casualties in this campaign will not be innocent.
Another trademark of Passions is its unusual handling of the passage of time. A single story day can take weeks of episodes to play out, with simple conversations sometimes taking days to complete on-screen. On the other hand, events that should take many hours, such as international travel, can take place in just a few minutes of story time.
or mabye the other guy because he accelerated afaster
gastarbeiter posted:Accelerationism: it works
gazorra used to own. now its all homestuck BS
