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Free Wi-Fi access at McDonalds with a value meal purchase :-)

How will they be able to tell who paid for a combination meal vs. someone who just buys a cheeseburger alone? 😕
 
This is a covert liberal attempt to kill republicans on the web. Don't do it! Step away from the cheeseburger!


mmmmm.... cheeseburger....
 
This is very cool indeed if you ask me. I could walk into the golden arches, order a Double Quarter Pounder Value meal, then stream news to my PDA or laptop as I'm eating.
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no you couldn't, it ain't in north carolina yet 😉


anyway, they already do this in every schlotzsky's i've been to in the past few months, in addition to having had computers for you to surf at in many of their locations. so its not a gee-whiz thing to me

though it is better than that starbucks thing
 
Originally posted by: iwearnosox
This is a covert liberal attempt to kill republicans on the web. Don't do it! Step away from the cheeseburger!


mmmmm.... cheeseburger....
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LOL! 😛
 
Saw this yesterday morning on Yahoo and was sure someone was going to post it then... guess not.

Anyway, the LAST thing I wanna do around a $1k+ machine is eat near it... especially with greasy hands. WTF ?!
 
This is very cool indeed if you ask me. I could walk into the golden arches, order a Double Quarter Pounder Value meal, then stream news to my PDA or laptop as I'm eating
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You do *NOT* want to be eating that man.

Seriously. CTrain, BBWF, come help me help NFS4 out here.

😛

That is seriously cool though. Your first post will be for a ketchup+mustardproof cover for your laptop's keyboard though.
 
The economy is really in the pits! McDonalds NEVER used to advertise that much or have contests. Traditionally they had the Monopoly every few years, but WiFi access? Man their numbers must be way off. I spend on average 16 hours a day in front of a terminal. (Really, I'm not kidding!) I don't surf from the dinner table or the crapper. I'm not really a fast food person, but if I go out I have no interest in surfing or checking email whatsoever.

I have some friends that are into war driving so now I'm sure they'll have to go to Mickey D's drive through! 😀

Cheers!
 
On the rare occasion that I find myself in a McDonalds, I try to spend as little time in there as possible.

WiFi in coffee shops I can understand. Maybe even nicer sandwich places like Panera, Einsteins or Altanta Bread Co.
but McDonalds? I'll pass


 
There's free wifi all over town and you don't even have to buy any food 😀

Does this remind anyone of jay and silent bob strike back and the internet terminal at mooby's? Movie poop chute here I come!
 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060938455/103-2980227-1832600?vi=glance
On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.

Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed
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Originally posted by: Gunbuster
Do they filter the link or can you stop for a burger and some warez
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Lol.

How will they monitor it? Couldn't you just stop your car outside of Mcdonalds on a trip and go online to get directions or something. What will they do? Do they give you a wifi card to use that will only work with their connections not letting you use your own?
 
Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060938455/103-2980227-1832600?vi=glance
On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.

Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed
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WTF?!?!?!
 
Originally posted by: AgaBooga
Originally posted by: Gunbuster
Do they filter the link or can you stop for a burger and some warez
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Lol.

How will they monitor it? Couldn't you just stop your car outside of Mcdonalds on a trip and go online to get directions or something. What will they do? Do they give you a wifi card to use that will only work with their connections not letting you use your own?
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It'll probably work like the ones in the airport do. You can only go to certain websites until you unlock full access. There is probably a wifi access code on the receipt. You enter the code and you get time on the internet.
It's a pretty good idea.
 
Originally posted by: iwearnosox
This is a covert liberal attempt to kill republicans on the web. Don't do it! Step away from the cheeseburger!


mmmmm.... cheeseburger....
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damn liberals! you up for some hunting? 😉
 
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