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A friend and I had an argument yesterday about television broadcast standards. I was trying in vain to explain how the new digital standard in the U.S. actually has 18 different formats to muddy the waters; the argument  [more...]

As a follow-up to my Wal-Mart screed, here’s an interesting article looking at Costco and other companies that have concentrated on higher wages and better treatment of the lowest strata of their employee  [more...]