It's a weird feeling..

[Gore]

Knowing how much greater than all of you I am.

[Sinz]

Yeah It Kinda is weird

[Gore]

This is directed to people who, y'know, aren't in NSAC.

[Sinz]

Edited ;)

[Super]

:(

[kds]

he only got promoted because his husband (me) is staff whore.

[Otaku]

yeah, I've been feeling odd for a while...

[Calavera]

yeah, I've been feeling odd for a while...

me too.

[_AmPLiTuDE]

Feels like secksz.

[IversonAli3]

he only got promoted because his husband (me) is staff whore.

[Greek]

bwhacks is just like walmart, we allow retards to work here

[_AmPLiTuDE]

Wow... That's pretty ****in true... The wallmart comment. I never thought of that but it's completely true!

[Deg™]

OH HAI GOREGY

[JeweyK]

Walmart allows all people to work (elderly, retarded, black, etc.) because they are cheap workers. Walmart is really cheap. Watch documentary Walmart.

[Deg™]

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is an American public corporation, currently one of the world's largest corporations (by revenues) according to the 2007 Fortune 500.[2] It was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972. It is the largest private employer in the world and world's fourth largest utility or commercial employer, only trailing the People's Liberation Army of China, the National Health Service of the United Kingdom and the Indian Railways. Wal-Mart is the largest grocery retailer in the United States, with an estimated 20% of the retail grocery and consumables business, and the largest toy seller in the U.S., with an estimated 45% of the retail toy business, having surpassed Toys "R" Us in the late 1990s.

Wal-Mart operates in Mexico as Walmex, in the United Kingdom as ASDA, and in Japan as The Seiyu Co., Ltd. Wholly owned operations are located in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the UK. Wal-Mart's investments outside North America have produced mixed results. In 2006, Wal-Mart sold its retail operations in South Korea and Germany due to sustained losses and a highly competitive market.

Wal-Mart has been the target of criticism from some community groups, women's rights groups, grassroots organizations, and labor unions. Specific criticisms include the company's extensive foreign product sourcing, low rates of employee health insurance, resistance to union representation, alleged sexism, as well as accusations that Wal-Mart destroys small business, among other things.

[Super]

Wal-Mart Discount Stores are a chain of discount department stores that range in size from 100,000 square feet (5,000 m²) to 224,000 square feet (21,000 m²) with an average size of approximately 102,000 square feet (9,500 m²).[17] They carry some general merchandise products and a selection of food items. Many of these stores also feature a garden center, a pharmacy, Tire & Lube Express, optical center, one-hour photo processing lab, portrait studio, and a fast food outlet. Some also have Gasoline Stations.

The first Wal-Mart store in Rogers, Arkansas, has been remodeled and expanded, becoming a 24-hour Wal-Mart Supercenter. A similar Wal-Mart concept, Discount City, opened in Rogers a year earlier, but all of these stores were later closed or converted into Discount Stores.

As of May 31, 2007, there were 1,040 Wal-Mart Discount Stores in the United States. The busiest Wal-Mart in the world is in Rapid City, South Dakota.[20]

Wal-Mart Supercenter

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The history of Wal-Mart can be traced back to the 1940s when Sam Walton began his career in retailing. After being interviewed by recruiters from both Sears Roebuck and JC Penney just before graduating from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Sam accepted a job offer from JC Penney.[1] He began working at a JC Penney store in Des Moines, Iowa on June 3, 1940, making a salary of $75 a month.[1] During his employment there, Sam was able to meet James Cash Penney, the department store's founder, during a visit to the store. He remained at JC Penney for eighteen months.[1]

In September 1945, Walton acquired, from George Scharlott, the franchise and lease on a Ben Franklin in Newport, Arkansas. The variety store was part of a chain operated by the Butler Brothers, a regional retailer. After three years, Walton increased annual sales from $80,000 to $225,000 by 1948. However, the landlord, P.K. Holmes, declined to renew the lease on favorable terms and Walton was forced to relocate before the end of 1950. Walton was prepared to purchase a five-and-dime from Jim Dodson in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, but the two were $5,000 apart on agreement on a purchase price. On May 9, 1950, Walton purchased a store from Luther E. Harrison in Bentonville, Arkansas, and opened Walton's 5 & 10.[2] Thus, the Ozark Mountain town of 2,900 residents would become the headquarters for the world's largest retailer.

As a typical businessman, Walton was always looking for better deals from his suppliers, and he realized that he could obtain higher sales volume by passing on the savings to his customers, instead of pocketing them. By 1962, he had eleven Walton's stores[3] Inspired by the successes of other discount department store chains, Walton opened the first store in his own discount chain in Rogers, Arkansas that year. Responsible for the purchase and maintenance of signage, Walton's assistant, Bob Bogle, came up with the name "Wal-Mart" for the new chain.[4] By 1967, the company grew to 24 stores across the state of Arkansas, and had reached $12.6 million in sales, and by 1968, the company opened its first stores outside of Arkansas in Sikeston, Missouri and Claremore, Oklahoma.[5] The chain continued to add locations in small towns and had 78 stores by 1974.[6] A inter-store computer network was created to improve communication and ordering, and over the next three years, sales more than tripled from $167.5 million to $479 million. The number of stores had more than doubled to 153.[7] The chain continued to grow dramatically, with 330 stores in 1980 and $1.2 billion in sales; 1,114 by 1985 ($6.4 billion); and 1,528 by 1990, with sales of $25,800,000,000.

The company was incorporated as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. on October 31, 1969, and by 1970, opened its home office in Bentonville, Arkansas, as well as its first distribution center. There were now 38 stores operating with 1,500 associates and sales of $44.2 million. The company began trading stock at this time as a publicly held company, and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange by 1972.

The company's first stock split occurred in May 1971 at a market price of $47. By this time, Wal-Mart was operating in five states: Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Oklahoma, and entered Tennessee in 1973, and Kentucky and Mississippi in 1974. As the company moved into Texas in 1975, there were 125 stores with 7,500 associates, and total sales of $340.3 million.

By 1977, Wal-Mart made its first corporate acquisition, assuming ownership and operation of the Mohr-Value stores in Michigan and Illinois. This was followed by the acquisition of the Hutcheson Shoe Company in 1978.

Also in 1978, Wal-Mart branched out into several new markets, launching its pharmacy, auto service center, and jewelry divisions.

By 1979, with 276 stores and 21,000 associates, Wal-Mart reached $1.248 billion in sales. In November 1980, the company saw its fourth stock split with a market price of $50.

In 1981, Wal-mart moved into the southeastern U.S. market, opening stores in Georgia and South Carolina, and acquiring 92 Kuhn's Big K stores. They moved into Florida and Nebraska in 1982.

In April 1983, the company opened its first Sam's Club store, a membership-based discount warehouse club, in Midwest City, Oklahoma. They also opened new Wal-Mart stores in Indiana, Iowa, New Mexico and North Carolina, and implemented "people greeters" in all of their stores. In 1984, they entered the Virginia market.

In 1985, with 882 stores with sales of $8.4 billion and 104,000 associates, the company enters Wisconsin and Colorado, and Minnesota stores first open the following year, in 1986.

By the company's twenty-fifth anniversary in 1987, there were 1,198 stores with sales of $15.9 billion and 200,000 associates. Also this year, they had completed their satellite network, a $24 million investment, linking all operating units of the company with their Bentonville Office via two-way voice, data, and one-way video communication. At the time, this was the largest private satellite network, and allowed the corporate office to track inventory, sales, and send instant communication to their stores.[9] Continuing their technological upgrades, they had equipped 90% of their stores with barcode readers by 1988, to further assist in keeping track of their large inventory.

In February 1988, company founder Sam Walton stepped down as Chief Executive Officer, and David Glass was named to succeed him.[10] Walton remained on as Chairman of the Corporate Board of Directors, and the company also restructured their senior management positions, elevating a cadre of executives to positions of greater responsibility.

Also in 1988, the first Wal-Mart Supercenter opened in Washington, Missouri. The supercenter concept features everything contained in a standard Wal-Mart discount store, in addition to a tire and oil change shop, optical center, one-hour photo processing lab, portrait studio, and numerous alcove shops such as banks, cellular telephone stores, hair and nail salons, video rental stores, and other fast food outlets.

By 1989, Wal-Mart was operating in 26 states with the addition of Michigan, West Virginia, and Wyoming. By 1990, they entered the markets of California, Nevada, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Utah. The Wal-Mart Visitor's Center also opened this year on the site of Sam Walton's original store.

[Super]

Also in 1989, George Bush Senior succeeded Ronald Reagan as President of the United States.

George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the forty-first President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Before his presidency, Bush was the forty-third Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan. He has also served as the member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th district of Texas (1967–1971), the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1973), Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1973–1974), Chief of the United States Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China (1974–1976), and Director of Central Intelligence (1976–1977).

Bush is the son of Prescott Bush, who served in the United States Senate from 1953 to 1963, and Dorothy Walker Bush. He is the father of George W. Bush, the 43rd and current President of the United States, and Jeb Bush, the 43rd Governor of Florida.

With the passing of Gerald Ford in 2006, he became the oldest living United States president.

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Forty-three is the 14th smallest prime number. The previous is forty-one, with which it comprises a twin prime, and the next is forty-seven. 43 is the smallest prime that is not a Chen prime. It is also the third Wagstaff prime.

43 is the fourth term of Sylvester's sequence, one more than the product of the previous terms (2 × 3 × 7).

43 is a centered heptagonal number.

Let a(0) = a(1) = 1, and thenceforth a(n) = (a(0)2 + a(1)2 + ... + a(n-1)2) / (n-1). This sequence continues 1 1 2 3 5 10 28 154... (sequence A003504 in OEIS). Amazingly, a(43) is the first term of this sequence that is not an integer.

43 is a Heegner number.

43 is a repdigit in base 6 (111).

43 is the largest natural number that is not an (original) McNugget number.

This is the smallest number, which draws up as sum of 2,3,4,5 different primes: 43=41+2 43=11+13+19 43=2+11+13+17 43=3+5+7+11+17. The following date magic square illustrates the magic constant as the sum of four primes:
4 15 17 07
5 19 13 6
20 9 2 12
14 0 11 18

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