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Virginia DMV Cracks Down On Uber, Lyft
An anonymous reader writes 'Talk about regulatory capture! As radio station WTOP reports, "The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles says that ride services Lyft and Uber are violating state law and must stop operating immediately. The DMV sent cease and desist orders to both companies Thursday." Who benefits most? It's not the people who are voting with their dollars and feet — seems more like the current stable of taxi drivers and others blessed by the state of Virginia. Good thing there's no call for or benefit from greater per-car occupancy, or experimentation more generally with disruptive disintermediation. Given enough bribe money down the road, I'm sure a deal can be struck, though.'
Impossible to guess. The Republicans have shown that they're no better than the Democrats when it comes to sucking the auto dealers' cocks.
That's almost unheard of. Republican politicians are almost universally more skilled than Democrats at sucking cocks.
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How about children playing with poisoned mushrooms in the forest! Let's ban all species of poisonous mushrooms, stingy bees, and poisonous snakes and spiders. Eradicate them from the world just so we are safe! People will let a lot of their freedoms be taken away in the name of a little safety! You know in the national anthem it says the land of the free and the home of the brave, and all I hear is pussies like you that are neither brave, nor complaining about their freedoms taken away by regulations, in the name of some marginal safety. Watch George Carlin's airport security on youtube. Yeah, there are two sides to everything, and he may be swinging too much to the other side of proper balance, but he does have a point, in how out of balance things have gotten. Airport security hasn't found a single bomb yet. After all this waste of time, not one found. So Da Man who's pulling the strings on this let's herd this herd-crowd gradually into more and more bondage by slowly eroding their freedoms, til we can turn them into total salves and exploit them, like we used to back in the old days, so Da Man is gonna now put it in the paper and in the news that all these bombs have been found by airport security scanners. And they will be actual stories of conspiracy gangstas operating on behalf of Da Man doing it, so we can keep up this, camera on every streetlight I can't even pick my nose at a red light in privacy anymore, world.