162k in the US? Didn't know it was that much. So does the number of taxi drivers that have murdered people account for 1/4 more drivers + 45 more years of operation?
Municipalities have gone through great lengths to integrate taxi services with communities. To make sure that the industry performs a function that people need in the way that all people need it. To ensure that we know who these people are, and the fact that they are scrutinized somewhat before driving means that they are trustworthy. Uber threatens to completely undo all that.
So Uber has been around for, what, 5 years? With 1/100th the number of drivers as the US Taxi industry. And this has happened already. I challenge you to find a corresponding number of proper registered taxi drivers who have killed people.
I saw these kinds of comments coming, and I googled on 'taxi driver shooters'. I found many Taxi drivers getting shot in the US but none actually doing any shootings. The taxi industry knows who they are, so it is far less likely someone who is on the edge will engage in an industry that takes their fingerprints before they can participate.
Because someone who is a psychotic killer is far less likely to engage in a profession where they know who you are, and have all kinds of information on you including fingerprints. There is something to be said for using an industry where people know who the others are. Uber is next to anonymous, which is a perfect job for freaks. If the Uber rating system is so great, why did the riders feel the need to go to facebook about this guy? They should have given him a poor rating and been absolutely satisfied that the rating system would do its job.
I loved Google Reader too back in the day, but I stopped using it when I found out they track you down to the time you spend on each article. Made my stomach turn.
As far as I know, ZFS is the only file system that can deal with duplicating hard links appropriately. Say you have a backup pool that works with hard links, and you want a clone of that pool, very difficult with anything else.
So every Uber driver that has ever driven a rider happened to be going to the EXACT SAME PLACE that the rider was going? And then they just happen to change their mind about what they are going to do that day and just happen to be going to where the next rider is going? Sounds like they are taxiing people around to me.
taxi: a boat or other means of transportation used to convey passengers in return for payment of a fare.
Name one other company that is allowed to exist while their very premise breaks laws. Grooveshark found out you can't do that. I find it fascinating that Uber isn't finding that out as well. It is a crack showing in our civilization as we know it, when companies no longer have to follow laws.
Because at least the people have had the benefit of having a say when it comes to regulation or anything the government does. Capitalism doesn't care what we think and screws us over every chance it gets. Despite what people seem to think, government and regulation is what keeps our society civilized, because it keeps everyone playing along together. Capitalism just does what it does, and while there is a place for that, without the common ground that regulation brings we are totally screwed as a civilization.
Uber will have a problem in any market where it is already standard to take advantage of impoverished desperate people. They have just been surviving in North America because they found an untapped resource of desperate 'workers' who have not been taken advantage of yet due to the recent years of poor economy. We're all headed for the conditions that poorer nations are in, really.
I don't really get Scribd's business model. The only time I end up there is through Google results, and they try to make me pay for something that the next Google result has for free. Scribd and Experts Exchange could possibly be the two most annoying sites on the internet for that.
So instead they try to hire people where you need $100K/year for a comfortable living, rather than hire where you need $50K/year, and complain how expensive people are.
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162k in the US? Didn't know it was that much. So does the number of taxi drivers that have murdered people account for 1/4 more drivers + 45 more years of operation?
Wow. Did you do that analysis all by yourself?
Municipalities have gone through great lengths to integrate taxi services with communities. To make sure that the industry performs a function that people need in the way that all people need it. To ensure that we know who these people are, and the fact that they are scrutinized somewhat before driving means that they are trustworthy. Uber threatens to completely undo all that.
Oh, and they did go to Facebook about poor service. To my knowledge they didn't actually know he was killing people in between taking rides.
So Uber has been around for, what, 5 years? With 1/100th the number of drivers as the US Taxi industry. And this has happened already. I challenge you to find a corresponding number of proper registered taxi drivers who have killed people.
Only in the movies do the good guys with guns do the right thing in the right place at the right time.
I saw these kinds of comments coming, and I googled on 'taxi driver shooters'. I found many Taxi drivers getting shot in the US but none actually doing any shootings. The taxi industry knows who they are, so it is far less likely someone who is on the edge will engage in an industry that takes their fingerprints before they can participate.
Because someone who is a psychotic killer is far less likely to engage in a profession where they know who you are, and have all kinds of information on you including fingerprints. There is something to be said for using an industry where people know who the others are. Uber is next to anonymous, which is a perfect job for freaks. If the Uber rating system is so great, why did the riders feel the need to go to facebook about this guy? They should have given him a poor rating and been absolutely satisfied that the rating system would do its job.
You know there are databases of fingerprints being stolen every day, right?
I loved Google Reader too back in the day, but I stopped using it when I found out they track you down to the time you spend on each article. Made my stomach turn.
You took that one too far! TOO FAR!
Most humans are sheep.
As far as I know, ZFS is the only file system that can deal with duplicating hard links appropriately. Say you have a backup pool that works with hard links, and you want a clone of that pool, very difficult with anything else.
That's a relief, because I chose the totally naive route and IGNORED THEM.
There are no laws governing taxis? Ok that's news to me.
As long as the driver expects (in their mind) that they will be paid for taking a rider somewhere, they are a taxi.
taxi: a boat or other means of transportation used to convey passengers in return for payment of a fare.
So every Uber driver that has ever driven a rider happened to be going to the EXACT SAME PLACE that the rider was going? And then they just happen to change their mind about what they are going to do that day and just happen to be going to where the next rider is going? Sounds like they are taxiing people around to me. taxi: a boat or other means of transportation used to convey passengers in return for payment of a fare.
Donald Trump is probably already an investor.
Name one other company that is allowed to exist while their very premise breaks laws. Grooveshark found out you can't do that. I find it fascinating that Uber isn't finding that out as well. It is a crack showing in our civilization as we know it, when companies no longer have to follow laws.
Because at least the people have had the benefit of having a say when it comes to regulation or anything the government does. Capitalism doesn't care what we think and screws us over every chance it gets. Despite what people seem to think, government and regulation is what keeps our society civilized, because it keeps everyone playing along together. Capitalism just does what it does, and while there is a place for that, without the common ground that regulation brings we are totally screwed as a civilization.
Uber will have a problem in any market where it is already standard to take advantage of impoverished desperate people. They have just been surviving in North America because they found an untapped resource of desperate 'workers' who have not been taken advantage of yet due to the recent years of poor economy. We're all headed for the conditions that poorer nations are in, really.
I don't really get Scribd's business model. The only time I end up there is through Google results, and they try to make me pay for something that the next Google result has for free. Scribd and Experts Exchange could possibly be the two most annoying sites on the internet for that.
But rounded corners doesn't 'make' the look of the iphone, so that's why it's silly.
So instead they try to hire people where you need $100K/year for a comfortable living, rather than hire where you need $50K/year, and complain how expensive people are.
An even better question is why things seem to work so well working remotely from India, yet no one can work remotely from across the country.