I don't see how anyone could possibly have mistaken that for Ed. That voice isn't even in the same register. And of course that song sounds nothing like any of the Into the Wild songs.
I swear, last night we were watching The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown and a Wal Mart commercial comes on. I wasn't paying attention, but my husband said, you know, that was Ed singing. So, I hit rewind and I swear to god, it was him. Very surprised, and the commericial had nothing to do with Into the Wild. It was about a family on a road trip and how much money Wal Mart saves a family every year, and where are you going to go!!!!
It is the parent's responsibility to parent their kid. Too many use the TV as an electronic babysitter then wonder where their kids get things.
When I grew up my parents tried to keep me from watching R movies and listening to rap and metal. When I heard bad words they informed me (repeatedly) that certain language in certain situations is highly inappropriate and punished me when I crossed the line.
I'm not sure when exactly parents became so lazy but that is a far bigger source of societal decline than Jay-Z saying the word "fuck."
Very well-articulated!! You said everything I wanted to say to the letter!
I always hear Wal Mart getting slagged. What do they do (I assume its a large shop/chain) and why are they looked upon so badly?
Just a naive aussie inquiring. Cheers
Dude.....you have got to watch the Wal Mart Documentry! You gotta find it and watch it. After you see it you will be floored.
I have never shopped there since it saw that Doc.
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I've had friends who've worked for Walmart. All the crap you hear about them is true. Yes, they donate to charities, but they also destroy small businesses, treat their employees like crap, and sell really crappy products. Almost every electronic device or piece of clothing I bought from there didn't last a month.
My friend has worked there for 4 years. They make her work 12 hour shifts with few breaks and no overtime, and she doesn't get paid that much to begin with. Plus their health insurance is only offered to full time employees in most cases, and most of their employees are part time, yet end up working full time hours.
Walmart sucks.
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Not sure if this has been posted yet but has anyone seen the new Wal-mart commercial playing Ed from Into The World. I was speechless! He must not own the rights to the soundtrack? Not sure he would agree for his song to be used for the catalyst of our economical decline that is Wal-Mart?
its not eddie and thats not the name of the movie / album
3. They don't censor anybody, its up to the artist. I have bought virtually every PJ album from there, several boots included, and not even a "fuck" has been touched.
They have a right to sell or not sell what they want. I think its pretty sweet that they have censored versions. It's mostly rap and most of that shit needs censored anyway.
nothing needs to be censored, EVER. the reason you get things uncensored there is that walmart was SUED for doing it. they were cutting scenes from movies (they cut what's her name's nipple from titanic, among others) and editing song lyrics at will and selling it as the same product with no notification and no permission from the artist or director. they were ordered to stop. it is the artist's product. nobody should be able to take it and sell a censored version without the artist's permission. that is the basis of many a lawsuit. it's why sampling used to be so hard to do in the early days of hip hop. if you're offended, don't fucking buy it. if you don't want your kid listening to it, be a fucking parent. and if you're goign to censor another person's work, you better fucking cover your ass legally... as walmart learned.
wal mart is good for consumers
their buying power keeps prices low
and you can get all you need in one stop
but
their corporate model is not good for society-a lot of cost cutting trends start with wal mart and trickle to the rest of the country-thats the truth.
OK, what about Ed singing the song for the Walmart commercial, has anyone heard/seen it?
He's deffo in it! Its about 40 secs in, if you look closely he's a passenger in that truck. You can also see his legs in the Zoo shot. Thats it though, nothing else is Eddie.
"First of all, there’s the palpable camaraderie and good feeling you get from the entire band as they smile and nod at each other, and huddle together in various formations throughout the show --- They look like they really like each other. They look stoked!"
i dont think thats ed. doesnt sound like an ITW song.
WalMart is evil! I hate walmart - but i cant stop shopping there because they do have good prices on SOME items, not all though. Good place to buy needless junks.
To check out the WM documentary "Is walmart good for America?"
go to : frontline.org
in the 2004 videos section about half way down. Great video, along with other PBS/Frontline vids.
(if we made all the gangsters constantly watch these kinds of vids instead of gang music videos with bitches and ho's, we'd probably be better off)
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last year wal mart was so naughy.......they only donated $272.9 MILLION to charities......people only hate them because they are on top......
this point doesn't work because you need to look at their overall profit for last year and you'll see that the amount they donate is a ridiculously small percentage of that.
Wal Mart got on top and provides low prices because they bully small manufacturers. They hold meetings with a rep from three or four companies at the same time and demand a certain price saying the one that can meet this unreal expectation is the only one who can sell to them, or they just refuse to carry their lines effectively driving them out of business because of their market share in rural/suburban areas makes competition impossible. I'm sure their charitable and do things well, but at the end of the day capitalism is a dirty game. Anyone on top of the money chain haven't gotten there totally ethically, unless of course they can hit a baseball 400 feet.
it's just not small manufacturers it's all manufacturers. if you can't get the price down, you're out of all the stores. and the only way to get the price down any lower is to produce in Mexico or China. so Poof! there go all the American jobs. the problem is it's not a level playing field for small business owners. the manufacturer charges the smaller businesses more for their product to make up for their losses of selling cheap to walmart.
Oooops Jim, you did it again. I'll leave you alone now, although listening to somebody try and defend wal-mart is actually pretty amusing. I just thought all of this was common knowledge. Guess not...
Wal-Mart forces employees to work off-the-clock
* Wal-Mart's 2006 Annual Report reported that the company faced 57 wage and hour lawsuits. Major lawsuits have either been won or are working their way through the legal process in states such as California, Indiana, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington. [Wal-Mart Annual Report 2006]
* In December 2005, a California court ordered Wal-Mart to pay $172 million in damages for failing to provide meal breaks to nearly 116,000 hourly workers as required under state law. Wal-Mart appealed the case. [The New York Times, December 23, 2005]
* A Pennsylvania court, also in December 2005, approved a class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. by employees in Pennsylvania who say the company pressured them to work off the clock. The class could grow to include nearly 150,000 current or former employees. [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, January 12, 2006 ]
* In Pennsylvania, the lead plaintiff alleges she worked through breaks and after quitting time — eight to 12 unpaid hours a month, on average — to meet Wal-Mart's work demands. "One of Wal-Mart's undisclosed secrets for its profitability is its creation and implementation of a system that encourages off-the-clock work for its hourly employees," Dolores Hummel, who worked at a Sam's Club in Reading from 1992-2002, charged in her suit. [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, January 12, 2006 ]
Wal-Mart executives did not act on warnings they were violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
* Wal-Mart has known for years of a massive companywide problem of fair labor standards violations but did not take sufficient steps to address the problem. An internal Wal-Mart audit of one week of time records in 2000 from 25,000 employees had alerted Wal-Mart officials to potential violations. The audit found 60,767 missed breaks and 15,705 lost meal times. It also alerted Wal-Mart executives to 1,371 instances of minors working too late, during school hours, or for too many hours in a day. [Steven Greenhouse, "Suits Say Wal-Mart Forces Workers to Toil Off the Clock," New York Times, A1, 6/25/02]
* In March 2005, Wal-Mart agreed to pay $11 million to settle allegations that it had failed to pay overtime to janitors, many of whom worked seven nights a week. [Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 11/7/05, Forbes, 10/10/05]
and this is the number one reason that ethically they are not up to standards. it's easy to get ahead when you are pulling this stuff.
this point doesn't work because you need to look at their overall profit for last year and you'll see that the amount they donate is a ridiculously small percentage of that.
And what percentage of your income did you donate...?
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They are known for destroying downtown areas of smaller towns and treating their employees poorly (no health care, cutting hours so they dont have to provide it, etc.). Typical greedy behavior (I'm not opposed to Capitalism but choosing not to shop there is where smart people can change their ways). They develop enormous buildings on wetlands. They censor certain artists. The list goes on.
They do destroy the environment by building on wetlands and streams. But guess what, ALL BOX COMPANIES do it, not that it makes it right. Thanks to the Clean Water Act, they now have to apply for a 404/401 permit and are held to strict guidelines about what they must do to offset the destruction. Usually, it ends up being that they have to restore 1.5 times more than they destroy, and it is a pretty penny to take on this type of restoration. I have designed several stream restoration projects for companies such as wal-mart, some care some don't, but either way, they are beginning to be forced to become responsible for their actions, granted, the guidelines can be stricter, but it is a good start....
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They do destroy the environment by building on wetlands and streams. But guess what, ALL BOX COMPANIES do it, not that it makes it right. Thanks to the Clean Water Act, they now have to apply for a 404/401 permit and are held to strict guidelines about what they must do to offset the destruction. Usually, it ends up being that they have to restore 1.5 times more than they destroy, and it is a pretty penny to take on this type of restoration. I have designed several stream restoration projects for companies such as wal-mart, some care some don't, but either way, they are beginning to be forced to become responsible for their actions, granted, the guidelines can be stricter, but it is a good start....
hhmmm...I haven't seen nor heard of any restoration in my area where there are THREE SUPER Wal-Mart's within a 15 miles radius...not necessarily saying that it doesn't happen, just all I see is the stores, no restoration...
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I don't think he sounds anything like Eddie except that they're both baritones and play guitar. Their phrasing is completely different as are their vocal characteristics and... I could really go on but I'm surprised anyone thinks they sound the same. Voice aside, Their music isn't similar (in any way) and Eddie's acoustic guitar playing is significantly more ornate, influenced by classical guitar's right handed playing style.
That being said I thought the music was ok if repetitive in melody.
Seriously, since when does Vedder write boring melodies?
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how do you fuckers take a thread about a single commercial and turn it into some 4 page bitchfest about evil corporations... the guy was just looking for feedback on the commercial... which is definitely not ed... christ... just stay on top instead of showing off your extensive knowledge of the economy
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ROFLMAO!
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Wal-Mart's Health Insurance Falls Far Short of Other Large Companies
* On average for 2005, large companies (200 or more workers) cover approximately 66% of their employees. If Wal-Mart was to reach the average coverage rate, Wal-Mart should be covering an additional 318,000 employees [Kaiser Family Foundation, 2005 and http://www.walmartfacts.com/docs/1625_jan2006healthcarebackgrounders_576890240.pdf].
Wal-Mart's Health Care Eligibility is Restrictive
* Part-timers—anybody below 34 hours a week — must wait 1 year before they can enroll. Moreover, spouses of part-time employees are ineligible for family health care coverage for 2006. [Wal-Mart Stores, "My Benefits, New Peak Time Benefits Making a Difference For You," 2006]
* Full-time hourly employees must wait 180 days (approximately 6 months) before being able to enroll in Wal-Mart's health insurance plan. Managers have no waiting period. [Wal-Mart 2006 Associate Guide]
* Nationally, the average wait time for new employees to become eligible is 1.7 months. For the retail industry it is 3.0 months. [Kaiser Family Foundation & Health Research and Educational Trust, 2005]
All of Wal-Mart's Health Plans Are Too Costly for Its Workers to Use
* Since the average full-time Wal-Mart employee earned $17,114 in 2005, he or she would have to spend between 7 and 25 percent of his or her income just to cover the premiums and medical deductibles, if electing for single coverage. [Wal-Mart 2006 Associate Guide and UFCW analysis]
* The average full-time employee electing for family coverage would have to spend between 22 and 40 percent of his or her income just to cover the premiums and medical deductibles. These costs do not include other health-related expenses such as medical co-pays, prescription coverage, emergency room deductibles, and ambulance deductibles. [Wal-Mart 2006 Associate Guide and UFCW Analysis].
* Wal-Mart trumps the affordability of its new health care plan. According to Wal-Mart, "In January [2006], ...Coverage will be available for as little as $22 per month for individuals" [www.walmartfacts.com]
* What Wal-Mart's website leaves out: Coverage is affordable, but using it will bankrupt many employees. Wal-Mart's most affordable plan for 2006 includes a $1,000 deductible for single coverage and a $3,000 deductible for family coverage ($1,000 deductible per person covered up to $3,000). [Wal-Mart 2006 Associate Guide]
Wal-Mart Admits Public Health Care is a "Better Value"
* President and CEO Lee Scott said in 2005, "In some of our states, the public program may actually be a better value - with relatively high income limits to qualify, and low premiums." [Transcript Lee Scott Speech 4/5/05]
Wal-Mart's Health Care is Getting Costlier
* Between 2000-2005, the cost of premiums rose 169 percent for single coverage and 117 percent for family coverage. [UFCW analysis of annual Wal-Mart Associate Guides].
* In comparison, premiums for family coverage in the U.S. have increased only by 59%, from 2000-2005. [Employer Health Benefits: 2004 Annual Survey, Kaiser Family Foundation & Health Research and Educational Trust, 2004] Wal-Mart Employees Pay More for Health Care Costs
* In 2004, Wal-Mart employees, in total, paid approximately 41% of the plan costs [Wal-Mart IRS 5500 Filings, 2005].
* Nationally for 2004 on average employees paid for only 16% of single coverage costs and 28% of family coverage costs [Kaiser Family Foundation, 2005].
Wal-Mart Covers Less of the Health Care Costs Compared to Its Competitors
* In a state analysis, the Massachusetts Department of Health and Human Services found that in 2003, Wal-Mart covered only 52% of total health care premium costs compared to K-Mart which covered 66%, Target which covered 68%, and Sears which covered 80% ["Employers Who Have 50 or More Employees Using Public Health Assistance," Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, 2/2005]
Listen, I hate Walmart. But I wonder how these figures compare not to average American companies, but to companies employing low skilled labor.
Ultimately, I will reserve my scorn on the issue of health care for the American administrations and those who elect them who don't think it's a government's job to provide health care to its citizens.
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I'm by no means a fan of rap or hip hop, but wouldn't a better solution be for us to do a better job of educating our kids?
I've heard plenty of this kind of music and I simply take it for what it is--it doesn't turn me into a wannabe gangster.
DP
Very well-articulated!! You said everything I wanted to say to the letter!
Dude.....you have got to watch the Wal Mart Documentry! You gotta find it and watch it. After you see it you will be floored.
I have never shopped there since it saw that Doc.
Sweep the Leg Johnny.
My friend has worked there for 4 years. They make her work 12 hour shifts with few breaks and no overtime, and she doesn't get paid that much to begin with. Plus their health insurance is only offered to full time employees in most cases, and most of their employees are part time, yet end up working full time hours.
Walmart sucks.
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nothing needs to be censored, EVER. the reason you get things uncensored there is that walmart was SUED for doing it. they were cutting scenes from movies (they cut what's her name's nipple from titanic, among others) and editing song lyrics at will and selling it as the same product with no notification and no permission from the artist or director. they were ordered to stop. it is the artist's product. nobody should be able to take it and sell a censored version without the artist's permission. that is the basis of many a lawsuit. it's why sampling used to be so hard to do in the early days of hip hop. if you're offended, don't fucking buy it. if you don't want your kid listening to it, be a fucking parent. and if you're goign to censor another person's work, you better fucking cover your ass legally... as walmart learned.
their buying power keeps prices low
and you can get all you need in one stop
but
their corporate model is not good for society-a lot of cost cutting trends start with wal mart and trickle to the rest of the country-thats the truth.
He's deffo in it! Its about 40 secs in, if you look closely he's a passenger in that truck. You can also see his legs in the Zoo shot. Thats it though, nothing else is Eddie.
WalMart is evil! I hate walmart - but i cant stop shopping there because they do have good prices on SOME items, not all though. Good place to buy needless junks.
To check out the WM documentary "Is walmart good for America?"
go to : frontline.org
in the 2004 videos section about half way down. Great video, along with other PBS/Frontline vids.
(if we made all the gangsters constantly watch these kinds of vids instead of gang music videos with bitches and ho's, we'd probably be better off)
Thank you.
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this point doesn't work because you need to look at their overall profit for last year and you'll see that the amount they donate is a ridiculously small percentage of that.
it's just not small manufacturers it's all manufacturers. if you can't get the price down, you're out of all the stores. and the only way to get the price down any lower is to produce in Mexico or China. so Poof! there go all the American jobs. the problem is it's not a level playing field for small business owners. the manufacturer charges the smaller businesses more for their product to make up for their losses of selling cheap to walmart.
And what percentage of your income did you donate...?
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They do destroy the environment by building on wetlands and streams. But guess what, ALL BOX COMPANIES do it, not that it makes it right. Thanks to the Clean Water Act, they now have to apply for a 404/401 permit and are held to strict guidelines about what they must do to offset the destruction. Usually, it ends up being that they have to restore 1.5 times more than they destroy, and it is a pretty penny to take on this type of restoration. I have designed several stream restoration projects for companies such as wal-mart, some care some don't, but either way, they are beginning to be forced to become responsible for their actions, granted, the guidelines can be stricter, but it is a good start....
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hhmmm...I haven't seen nor heard of any restoration in my area where there are THREE SUPER Wal-Mart's within a 15 miles radius...not necessarily saying that it doesn't happen, just all I see is the stores, no restoration...
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I don't think he sounds anything like Eddie except that they're both baritones and play guitar. Their phrasing is completely different as are their vocal characteristics and... I could really go on but I'm surprised anyone thinks they sound the same. Voice aside, Their music isn't similar (in any way) and Eddie's acoustic guitar playing is significantly more ornate, influenced by classical guitar's right handed playing style.
That being said I thought the music was ok if repetitive in melody.
Seriously, since when does Vedder write boring melodies?
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Aless
Tell them you love them. Never let the mundane, the unimportant, or worse, the misunderstood, be the final words of parting.
Tell them.
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ROFLMAO!
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Aless
Tell them you love them. Never let the mundane, the unimportant, or worse, the misunderstood, be the final words of parting.
Tell them.
"It's Evolution Baby"
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Listen, I hate Walmart. But I wonder how these figures compare not to average American companies, but to companies employing low skilled labor.
Ultimately, I will reserve my scorn on the issue of health care for the American administrations and those who elect them who don't think it's a government's job to provide health care to its citizens.
That is just crap. They put the other businesses out of business because people prefered Wal-Mart. Why blame them for the consumer's choice?
I'm not a fan of Wal-Mart but the bashing has just become the "IN" thing to do for those that think they are better than everyone else.
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all