Doesn't change the fact that either the person in the car booked the ride, or someone they know did. If the passenger robs the driver, there is a short trail to find out who they are. If the driver kills the passenger, there is a short trail when that person is reported missing.
You are too full of yourself. How productive are you when the computer network is down and you can't do your highly paid job? I'm sure you don't pull out a paper and pencil and design your next product. You call and demand the support team fix it, so you can work. So, without them, you are not bringing in any revenue either.
By the way, you are as replaceable as the IT guy who knows how to fix the system.
Everyone who has worked in end-user support thinks of lusers. Some of them say it, some have the social awareness not to utter the word, but they all think it or something to that effect. There are websites devoted to swapping stories of luser ignorance.
My personal favorite is the user I met who used to manage all her documents by running word, going to save-as and dragging files around in the little save dialog, right-clicking to make folders and delete things. In her years of using a computer, she never figured out that you could go to start->documents.
Either we've met the same person, or that method is now taught in college.
I don't use the services myself, but I saw a poster here say it comes out of his Paypal account. I do use Paypal for Ebay, so I know how much info they can get from that. Much more than just email address anyway.
I guess they sign up before they go on a trip. Once they arrive, they just log in and find someone who is available at the airport. But the driver and rider each knows the other person is verified by the company, and the ride is recorded.
The meters on traditional cabs may sometimes be tinkered with, but that's illegal, and in the vast majority of cases they're accurate and legally binding. Whereas with the new wave of rideshare apps there's no indication of what charges you're racking up until you arrive. You can get an estimate to start with on at least some of the apps but it's not binding, and especially when surge pricing is in effect you can end up with large and unexpected charges that are difficult to predict.
And if people don't like that, they can hail a cab instead. I've never had a problem when I call for a cab ride. "Hey, I need to go to the airport tomorrow afternoon.... What's the general price? (So I will be sure to have the correct amount of cash onhand.).... Great, I'll be ready at 2pm." Getting out at the airport, I paid the $20 charge, and gave another $10 because he was friendly and helpful with the luggage.
If these new guys are cheaper and easier than that, they will have customers. If not, the taxi companies will stay in business. If "surge pricing" is that bad, people will learn when to call a cab instead.
Oh shut up with the ridiculous Somalia comparison. The GP didn't say he wants no government at all. He just doesn't want one the decides who gets to ride in cars with people. Comparing that to Somalia makes you guys (who make that comparison) look like complete idiots.
I stopped driving 2 years ago, voluntarily. My SUV cost me around $800 a month in replacement costs. Another $200 in maintenance. I was burning through $12,000 a year in gas.
Can you clarify those numbers a little? What parts have to be replaced or maintained so often? And why have an gas guzzler of an SUV if it's going to cost $1000 a month for fuel?
Hell I kinda like this. I keep getting Obamabots to waste their mod points on one-liners like that. It means they have one less point to down-vote an actual criticism of his policies in serious discussions.
Actually, just the opposite. I even mention quarks as one of the 'weird' things that they made up a term for. "Black hole" isn't all that unusual of a term, and is quite easy to make a mental image of. Color goes with flavor and spin, which are simply properties of things, and the terms can be used creatively with little worry.
But calling the stuff that we can't see, but know it must exist because the equations say so, as "dark matter" was just stupid. The name causes more confusion than it should, even in casual forums such as Slashdot. That is because it is so non-intuitive that all the talk of dark matter in the conversations above centers on something that doesn't make sense. Namely, that the scientists just aren't looking in the right place, or the right way, for the ordinary matter that just doesn't have light reflecting off it. That is what 'dark matter' means, right? No? Well, it sounds like that is what it means. So everyone who isn't an astronomer is confused, and the astronomers can't figure out why.
As I said, they couldn't have created a worse situation if they named the mysterious substance 'pixie dust'. It would be just as non-sensical as 'dark matter'.
Dark matter is the only real solution left standing at this point and the astronomers and scientists of the world had to be drug to that conclusion, kicking and screaming, over the decades, long before the public started hearing about it.
Maybe if the ones who started talking about it had used a diffrerent term than "dark matter", it would be easier to accept. We hear about quarks, leptons, muons, and things with spin and flavor, etc. I don't understand all that, since I am not a scientist, but I can believe it is serious. Calling it "dark matter" was a dumb move, because it makes it sound as believable as "pixie dust" or "magic beans". At least, they could have used the Japanese words for it like they did with "tsunami".
Well thanks for that. I was actually wondering recently why it was so hard to shop for pants. I have a hard size anyway, as I am built for a much smaller inseam than my waist (or rest of my torso) would seem to indicate. In fact, I would say if you look at my torso vs legs, I have the torso of someone several inches taller than me, and the legs of someone an inch or two shorter.
My stepson was that way as a teenager. His mother had to buy jeans that fit his waist, then have them altered to remove the extra six inches of length from the legs. And that was with buying the shortest inseam available in the waist size.
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Doesn't change the fact that either the person in the car booked the ride, or someone they know did. If the passenger robs the driver, there is a short trail to find out who they are. If the driver kills the passenger, there is a short trail when that person is reported missing.
Maybe the movie reveals how someone can sneak across the border without getting caught. That's a DHS concern.
Yeah. Damn tourists.
Well, we enjoyed the first two. But I will wait for the DVD, just as I did with the first two.
You are too full of yourself. How productive are you when the computer network is down and you can't do your highly paid job? I'm sure you don't pull out a paper and pencil and design your next product. You call and demand the support team fix it, so you can work. So, without them, you are not bringing in any revenue either.
By the way, you are as replaceable as the IT guy who knows how to fix the system.
Everyone who has worked in end-user support thinks of lusers. Some of them say it, some have the social awareness not to utter the word, but they all think it or something to that effect. There are websites devoted to swapping stories of luser ignorance.
My personal favorite is the user I met who used to manage all her documents by running word, going to save-as and dragging files around in the little save dialog, right-clicking to make folders and delete things. In her years of using a computer, she never figured out that you could go to start->documents.
Either we've met the same person, or that method is now taught in college.
You misspelled "inseminating".
I don't use the services myself, but I saw a poster here say it comes out of his Paypal account. I do use Paypal for Ebay, so I know how much info they can get from that. Much more than just email address anyway.
I guess they sign up before they go on a trip. Once they arrive, they just log in and find someone who is available at the airport. But the driver and rider each knows the other person is verified by the company, and the ride is recorded.
The meters on traditional cabs may sometimes be tinkered with, but that's illegal, and in the vast majority of cases they're accurate and legally binding. Whereas with the new wave of rideshare apps there's no indication of what charges you're racking up until you arrive. You can get an estimate to start with on at least some of the apps but it's not binding, and especially when surge pricing is in effect you can end up with large and unexpected charges that are difficult to predict.
And if people don't like that, they can hail a cab instead. I've never had a problem when I call for a cab ride. "Hey, I need to go to the airport tomorrow afternoon.... What's the general price? (So I will be sure to have the correct amount of cash onhand.).... Great, I'll be ready at 2pm." Getting out at the airport, I paid the $20 charge, and gave another $10 because he was friendly and helpful with the luggage.
If these new guys are cheaper and easier than that, they will have customers. If not, the taxi companies will stay in business. If "surge pricing" is that bad, people will learn when to call a cab instead.
Oh shut up with the ridiculous Somalia comparison. The GP didn't say he wants no government at all. He just doesn't want one the decides who gets to ride in cars with people. Comparing that to Somalia makes you guys (who make that comparison) look like complete idiots.
I stopped driving 2 years ago, voluntarily. My SUV cost me around $800 a month in replacement costs. Another $200 in maintenance. I was burning through $12,000 a year in gas.
Can you clarify those numbers a little? What parts have to be replaced or maintained so often? And why have an gas guzzler of an SUV if it's going to cost $1000 a month for fuel?
Hell I kinda like this. I keep getting Obamabots to waste their mod points on one-liners like that. It means they have one less point to down-vote an actual criticism of his policies in serious discussions.
It was a joke, so as Sgt. Hulka said, Lighten up, Francis.
Of course we do.
It's President Obama's Torture Chamber.
Actually, just the opposite. I even mention quarks as one of the 'weird' things that they made up a term for. "Black hole" isn't all that unusual of a term, and is quite easy to make a mental image of. Color goes with flavor and spin, which are simply properties of things, and the terms can be used creatively with little worry.
But calling the stuff that we can't see, but know it must exist because the equations say so, as "dark matter" was just stupid. The name causes more confusion than it should, even in casual forums such as Slashdot. That is because it is so non-intuitive that all the talk of dark matter in the conversations above centers on something that doesn't make sense. Namely, that the scientists just aren't looking in the right place, or the right way, for the ordinary matter that just doesn't have light reflecting off it. That is what 'dark matter' means, right? No? Well, it sounds like that is what it means. So everyone who isn't an astronomer is confused, and the astronomers can't figure out why.
As I said, they couldn't have created a worse situation if they named the mysterious substance 'pixie dust'. It would be just as non-sensical as 'dark matter'.
Because all the non-protected islands have a McDonalds or Starbucks on them.
And you debugged it with a paint scraper.
I've never voted for myself in an election.
Dark matter is the only real solution left standing at this point and the astronomers and scientists of the world had to be drug to that conclusion, kicking and screaming, over the decades, long before the public started hearing about it.
Maybe if the ones who started talking about it had used a diffrerent term than "dark matter", it would be easier to accept. We hear about quarks, leptons, muons, and things with spin and flavor, etc. I don't understand all that, since I am not a scientist, but I can believe it is serious. Calling it "dark matter" was a dumb move, because it makes it sound as believable as "pixie dust" or "magic beans". At least, they could have used the Japanese words for it like they did with "tsunami".
I think I might be the only one to get that.
Meet you at the grocery store.
Well thanks for that. I was actually wondering recently why it was so hard to shop for pants. I have a hard size anyway, as I am built for a much smaller inseam than my waist (or rest of my torso) would seem to indicate. In fact, I would say if you look at my torso vs legs, I have the torso of someone several inches taller than me, and the legs of someone an inch or two shorter.
My stepson was that way as a teenager. His mother had to buy jeans that fit his waist, then have them altered to remove the extra six inches of length from the legs. And that was with buying the shortest inseam available in the waist size.
You can always count on some humorless asshole to downmod. His mother must have forgotten his Lucky Charms during the last grocery run.
Worse. His asshole father ate all the marshmallows in one bowlfull.
That's a bit like avoiding the Mafia by joining the Triads.
So "disagrees with my principles" == "unprincipled" now. Got it.
Well, this is slashdot afterall. We don't want no stinking dissent from anyone, whether we agree with them or not.