Indiana: 500 applicants in 3 days for one $13/hr job

BURNS HARBOR, Ind. — As soon as the job opening was posted on the afternoon of Friday, July 10, the deluge began.

When Stacey Ross, C. R. England’s head of corporate recruiting, arrived at her desk at the company’s Salt Lake City headquarters the next Monday, she found about 300 applications in the company’s e-mail inbox. And the fax machine had spit out an inch-and-a-half thick stack of résumés before running out of paper. By the time she pulled the posting off Careerbuilder.com later in the day, she guessed nearly 500 people had applied for the $13-an-hour job. “It was just shocking,” she said. “I had never seen anything so big.”

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This article is particularly interesting because it sheds a little more light on the perspective of the employer, and may explain why a large percentage of applicants do not receive a response to an application or resume submission.

Cook County Sheriff Loses Craigslist "Erotic Services" Ads Case

Yesterday, a federal court tossed a lawsuit against craigslist over erotic advertisements. In March, Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart alleged that craigslist was liable for the illegal ads posted by its users in its "erotic services" (now "adult services") category. As craigslist argued in their motion for judgment on the pleadings, and as EFF and others pointed out at the time, Dart's complaint had virtually no chance of success because Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act plainly immunized Internet intermediaries like craigslist from civil liability for material posted by third parties.

On Tuesday, the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois agreed with craigslist, throwing out Dart's complaint in its entirety, confirming that Section 230 immunized craigslist from the allegation that it constituted a "public nuisance." The court made a number of important observations regarding the attempt to saddle craigslist with responsibility for the behavior of its users:

Petman prototype

The makers of the eerily lifelike robotic mule have a new creation: a machine that walks around like a real human being. Boston Dynamics is building the “Petman” prototype for the U.S. Army, to test out protective clothing.

Why BTM failed

Break the Matrix has seemingly failed to accomplish its goals. The goals of the website were to establish a social networking community based on free speech, libertarian ideology, and political fundraising.

Kill BofA!

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Kill fractional reserve banking altogether.

New "conservative" Bible will eliminate "liberal" text

If Andy Schlafly has his way, there will be no socialists or snake handlers in the Bible. No woman caught in adultery. And, definitely, no Stephen Colbert.

Schlafly, founder of Conservapedia.com, wants to save the Scriptures from liberals with his latest venture, the Conservative Bible Project. He says translations like the New International Version have added socialist ideals to the Good Book. But his rewrite of the Bible has drawn criticism from biblical scholars, liberals and conservatives.

Ron Paul/Peter Schiff on CNN

Paradox

Bite your tongue until it bleeds.

This pain is worth more than what you have to say.

Swallow your pride because silence is golden,

And I wouldn't pay a penny to hear your thoughts.



Lie down your guard and surrender.

All that you're proving is your ignorance.



Choose your words carefully.

He that keeps his mouth keeps his life.

He that opens his lips too wide

Shall bring on his own destruction.



Bite your tongue until it bleeds.

The pain is worth more than what you have to say.

Swallow your pride.

Swallow your pride because silence is golden,

And I wouldn't pay a penny to hear your thoughts.



Lie down your guard.



Lie down your guard and surrender.

Huerta: Heart in Hollywood or in Haymakers?

When a fighter is a complete package–skillful, marketable and a winner–its easy to forget the intangible that separates fighters from competitors–heart.

Roger Huerta had an endless supply, it seemed, in and out of the ring. But as FIGHT! contributor Mike Chiappetta excellently discovered at MMA Fanhouse, even the most resilient hearts wear thin under the reproof of others.

Huerta, known for his emotionally draining performances against Leonard Garcia and Clay Guida in 2007, was divided. He was the rags to riches story in the Octagon, however, at the top it feels like critics are trying to rip new clothes into rags. The split lead him to question his identity as a fighter and embrace it as a personality. Hollywood was calling, and even though Marilyn Monroe warned “Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul,” Huerta puckered up, believing the grass in Hollywood was greener than it was in Las Vegas.

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Huerta's super-talented, but he'll go the way of Tito if he's not careful.

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