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Don't forget that I've attended WorldCon 76. :P

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/protest-against-pedophiles-in-sci-fi-held-outside-worldcon/1381192689

Opposing rallies held outside of the San Jose Convention Center kept police on their toes Saturday afternoon. Sci-Fi fans, writers, and artists are all in town for Worldcon. The event also brought out a group called Predators Out Now, who were protesting pedophiles in sci-fi. According to their Facebook event page, the group believes, there's been an epidemic within the sci-fi community, abusing children and covering it up.

Murdered by Antifa:

Joann Ward, 30;
Emily Garza, 7;
Bryan Holcombe, 60
Karla Holcombe, 58;
Annabelle Pomeroy, 14;
Brooke Ward, 5.
20 others.. and more. Just search instead of trolling the same thing every time.

https://www.blacklistednews.co...

https://digitalempire.wordpres...

http://kron4.com/2017/01/07/po...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

Paranoid bullshit.

Idiot that hasn't been paying attention.

Banning of expression and speech banning wrongthink
Banning of speech on university campuses and another banning costumes and another safe spaces, and no dissent safe spaces and pro-racial segregation. Did I miss anything, or do you need a few dozen more examples? This isn't isolated, you can find more examples of every single one.

All right. I give you another link S.F. Taxi Driver Chokes Passenger For Not Leaving Tip

A taxi driver choked and robbed a passenger in a dispute over a tip near San Francisco’s Buena Vista Park early Sunday morning, a police spokesman said today.

Not quite on murder, but licensing does not guarantee safety per se.

1. The plural of anecdote is not data. You need a comparison of licensing vs non-licensing stats
2. Licensing clearly cannot guarantee safety, but the best should not be the enemy of the good. Licensing can cut rates of assault etc.

So, now knowing that cabs operating under ridesharing companies do follow safety regulations, does this change your opinion?

"When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"

For you to make your case effectively, you'd need that page to be about murders of passengers by their taxi drivers.

All right. I give you another link S.F. Taxi Driver Chokes Passenger For Not Leaving Tip

A taxi driver choked and robbed a passenger in a dispute over a tip near San Francisco’s Buena Vista Park early Sunday morning, a police spokesman said today.

Not quite on murder, but licensing does not guarantee safety per se.

I can talk about London, UK. Here, there have been several rapes, assaults and murders carried out by licensed taxi drivers. But the rates are substantially higher in the unregulated (and illegal) world of unlicensed cabs. This is unsurprising, given that to drive a licensed cab you need to have a clean criminal record.

I agree with you that unlicensed gypsy cabs are unsafe. However, here we are talking about cabs operating under ridesharing companies, which is a totally different animal. To get an idea of how they operate and their safety record, have a look at this article.

They key point is this :-

The problem is, the company typically partners with third-party limo and taxi services to pre-vet drivers, doing background checks and ensuring that they have all the necessary licenses or permits. City to city, Uber drivers are required to abide by whatever local regulations are in their jurisdiction.

For the most part, Uber and its partners follow the same regulations all the usual cab or limo services do. Which is to say, if Uber’s regulations are soft, so are those that are followed by every other taxi or limo service out there.

So, now knowing that cabs operating under ridesharing companies do follow safety regulations, does this change your opinion?

Getting in a car with a stranger carries some risk. Regulations can and do help lower that risk. Not perfectly, and not completely, and there are other ways of lowering the risk as well, but denying an obvious truth is just dumb.

That actually depends on the nature of the regulations. If they deal specifically with safety issues like background checks, then yes. If the regulations are of the "pay $$ for a licence" variety, that will not increase your safety. For the record, the taxi drivers were arrested by SFO not for being unsafe, but for unlawful trespassing. You can draw your own conclusions from that.

Incidentally, it's pretty unpleasant to joke about sexual coercion.

Hmm, the taxi driver was certainly making an unwanted proposition, but I hardly think it was coercive...Nevertheless, since my joke offends you, I apologise.

OK, how about these cases:

Hans Reiser - $60M
Roberto Ramirez - $10M
Jose Antonio Ramos - $2M
Aaron Walter Foster - $6M
Jason Young - $15.5M

...getting found liable in a civil trial for murder is going to cost you thousands of times what it costs to be found liable for copyright infringement.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think your math is off by a few orders of magnitude.
first award: $222k
second: $1.9m
third: $1.5m

Even the lowest of those is only off by 1 order (10x's) compared to the lowest of the examples you provided, and the highest (1.9mil) is basically the same as Ramos' $2mil.
Granted, those are all still higher, and this case was for 24 counts of infringement (which is pretty silly IMO), but they're a hell of a lot closer to each other than I'm comfortable with.

OK, how about these cases:

Hans Reiser - $60M
Roberto Ramirez - $10M
Jose Antonio Ramos - $2M
Aaron Walter Foster - $6M
Jason Young - $15.5M

Are all these people rich and famous? No. The point remains valid - getting found liable in a civil trial for murder is going to cost you thousands of times what it costs to be found liable for copyright infringement.

some news agencies are quoting a AP press report:

http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=3757295

Hilarious story you've probably already seen on the news. So, er, AC. But damn funny if you haven't.

This article may show some insight into the reasons why there were so many homeless people in the first place in S.F. and why the numbers might be going down soon. I couldn't believe the city gives cash handouts to the homeless. The money they give out is not enough to rent even the cheapest housing in the San Francisco area, but it is enough to fuel one hell of a drug binge, which regularly kills many homeless people every year. Cash assistance for the homeless was seen as a good idea for understandable reasons, but now that the negative effects from it are clear, the 'progressive' thing to do would be to stop the cash handouts and use the money to provide actual services to get people off the street.

Customers who don't like Google's privacy policy can just say no and choose another provider, said Sen. Tom McClintock, a bill opponent.

Speaking of worthlessness:

Congress renames French Fries

Gee, I wonder why so few Americans vote. Could it be because Congress does worthless shit like the Do-Not-Call-Unless-You're-Taking-A-"Survey" Registry and renaming french fries?