I used to use old macs, and I now use modern OSX and I don't see anything like the start button. Maybe all the top finder menu entries together form something like the start button.
Where I am, it gets down to -30C (-22F) for at least 25% of the year. I can't use an electric car until they can drive at that temperature with heat reliably.
Except most parking lots give you the minimum electricity for a block heater to work. Something like on for five minutes off for ten. They forbid you from plugging in an interior car warmer. They won't absorb the cost of this. You will have to pay for a fill every time you park your car.
I've said before that lack of regulation invites corruption and here it is. Good for you and your plausible deniability but if you're selling something it is concerning that you don't know where they come from.
So what you're saying is, we don't trust the government. Totally acceptable. Doesn't mean I want to start allowing businesses to run afoul of the law in the name of not trusting the government. When corporations can also do whatever they want, things will be much much worse I assure you.
I don't have to do anything but expect and wait for laws to be enforced. I'm happy the way things are. I'm fine with regulations to protect the food chain, drug manufacturing, farming.. I pay extra for all these things. Perhaps we pay a little extra for Taxis but we get benefits from that as well. To agree with Uber is to basically announce everyone's right to civil disobedience to almost everything.
Voting with your wallet has nothing to do with democracy. That's economics, not democracy. Democracy is what realized the need for regulation in the first place and put it there.
Now you are just poking holes in my analogy because YOU don't feel that stores are being unfair. Just the same way many people are saying taxi's are not being unfair. I feel that it is unfair for me to have to pay the costs that the store currently have, so while I am clad stores work for you with all their regulations I have decided that they don't work for me. I feel stores and regulations are more oppressive then the taxi industry.
Regulations do exist that make it more difficult for me to buy that chocolate bar. The store has to follow certain health and safety regulations, they have to pay their employees a certain amount, they have to keep their entrance free of snow and ice and basically spend time and money making themselves a safe place to do business. They may have to provide a certain number of parking spots. So what you are saying is that I can fight for my rights and take that chocolate bar.
Can you tell me if this same rule applies to jewelry stores?
I'm not really understanding. What does this Facebook solotion do that couldn't be done on a piece of paper? The problem is the work involved in developing each lesson, not in the tracking of each lesson once it is developed. Does this Facebook plan eliminate the work involved in coming up with separate plans?
I always get jumped on for this, but to me the whole 'menu at the top' thing in OSX seems like a beta quirk that never went away. I just can't get used to the fact that they don't even attempt to put all the features I need right next to where the pointer is on the screen (ie. context menu). Mousing to the top of the screen to control a window that is at the bottom of the screen kills me and is probably the main reason why I would never want OSX as my primary OS.
Not to mention all the taxi drivers out there who have been out there working their asses off to own their own car one day. Allowing Uber to exist is a big 'screw you' to all of them.
I agree with you. I think a lot of the problem here is that many people feel they are out of touch with the legal system and that the government and system of laws don't really represent them. But that has nothing to do with Uber, and it doesn't give them the right to ignore said laws. It is a completely different issue. It should be discussed in some forum, yes. But let's not forget there are people doing this as a money making venture NOT as a philanthropic venture and that makes a huge difference.
If we're going to all of a sudden say Uber gets to ignore the rules but Napster, Bittorrent, Grooveshark etc etc do not then that's bullshit as well.
Oh yes and we all know reviews can be trusted. Recently in another article a slashdot user mentioned that the driver of the car that came for him wasn't even matching the picture in the Uber profile.
6) I only look at what I can get now and not what things will be like ten years from now.
Uber is new and shiny. The drivers and the cars they have bought to do Uber are new and shiny. Give it ten years and a lack of a taxi industry to 'shine' over and they will be worse then the current taxi industry I assure you.
There is a process in place to adapt the law. Everyone else uses this process. It's not the fault of the government or the people that Uber doesn't have enough patience and fortitude for the process.
Even Uber knows that it wouldn't work. How long would they last if every 2nd or every 3rd vehicle you called was a rusted heap with smoke billowing out the hood and the exhaust pipe?
I have a front door on my house. If I have a company who is in charge of opening and closing the front door, I want to be damn sure they close it as securely as possible. If they leave it open, then there is a big problem.
People have their lives stolen. It's not the same as dying but it's serious.
A handicapped parking spot allows the disabled person to use the business, a regular parking spot allows you to use a business. How is this not equal opportunity?
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I used to use old macs, and I now use modern OSX and I don't see anything like the start button. Maybe all the top finder menu entries together form something like the start button.
Where I am, it gets down to -30C (-22F) for at least 25% of the year. I can't use an electric car until they can drive at that temperature with heat reliably.
Except most parking lots give you the minimum electricity for a block heater to work. Something like on for five minutes off for ten. They forbid you from plugging in an interior car warmer. They won't absorb the cost of this. You will have to pay for a fill every time you park your car.
"I don't know where the TVs come from"
I've said before that lack of regulation invites corruption and here it is. Good for you and your plausible deniability but if you're selling something it is concerning that you don't know where they come from.
So what you're saying is, we don't trust the government. Totally acceptable. Doesn't mean I want to start allowing businesses to run afoul of the law in the name of not trusting the government. When corporations can also do whatever they want, things will be much much worse I assure you.
I don't have to do anything but expect and wait for laws to be enforced. I'm happy the way things are. I'm fine with regulations to protect the food chain, drug manufacturing, farming.. I pay extra for all these things. Perhaps we pay a little extra for Taxis but we get benefits from that as well. To agree with Uber is to basically announce everyone's right to civil disobedience to almost everything.
Reinventing themselves to be as competitive as Uber would require them to break laws, so no law abiding companies are not going to be able to do that.
Voting with your wallet has nothing to do with democracy. That's economics, not democracy. Democracy is what realized the need for regulation in the first place and put it there.
Now you are just poking holes in my analogy because YOU don't feel that stores are being unfair. Just the same way many people are saying taxi's are not being unfair. I feel that it is unfair for me to have to pay the costs that the store currently have, so while I am clad stores work for you with all their regulations I have decided that they don't work for me. I feel stores and regulations are more oppressive then the taxi industry.
Regulations do exist that make it more difficult for me to buy that chocolate bar. The store has to follow certain health and safety regulations, they have to pay their employees a certain amount, they have to keep their entrance free of snow and ice and basically spend time and money making themselves a safe place to do business. They may have to provide a certain number of parking spots. So what you are saying is that I can fight for my rights and take that chocolate bar.
Can you tell me if this same rule applies to jewelry stores?
If I go to the convenience store and take a chocolate bar and I get away with it, am I fighting for my right to have chocolate bars for free?
I'm not really understanding. What does this Facebook solotion do that couldn't be done on a piece of paper? The problem is the work involved in developing each lesson, not in the tracking of each lesson once it is developed. Does this Facebook plan eliminate the work involved in coming up with separate plans?
I always get jumped on for this, but to me the whole 'menu at the top' thing in OSX seems like a beta quirk that never went away. I just can't get used to the fact that they don't even attempt to put all the features I need right next to where the pointer is on the screen (ie. context menu). Mousing to the top of the screen to control a window that is at the bottom of the screen kills me and is probably the main reason why I would never want OSX as my primary OS.
Not to mention all the taxi drivers out there who have been out there working their asses off to own their own car one day. Allowing Uber to exist is a big 'screw you' to all of them.
I agree with you. I think a lot of the problem here is that many people feel they are out of touch with the legal system and that the government and system of laws don't really represent them. But that has nothing to do with Uber, and it doesn't give them the right to ignore said laws. It is a completely different issue. It should be discussed in some forum, yes. But let's not forget there are people doing this as a money making venture NOT as a philanthropic venture and that makes a huge difference.
If we're going to all of a sudden say Uber gets to ignore the rules but Napster, Bittorrent, Grooveshark etc etc do not then that's bullshit as well.
You could say the same for a lot of taxi companies; take away their dispatch center and they own nothing.
You know people can buy good ratings anywhere on the internet, right?
Oh yes and we all know reviews can be trusted. Recently in another article a slashdot user mentioned that the driver of the car that came for him wasn't even matching the picture in the Uber profile.
You forgot:
6) I only look at what I can get now and not what things will be like ten years from now.
Uber is new and shiny. The drivers and the cars they have bought to do Uber are new and shiny. Give it ten years and a lack of a taxi industry to 'shine' over and they will be worse then the current taxi industry I assure you.
There is a process in place to adapt the law. Everyone else uses this process. It's not the fault of the government or the people that Uber doesn't have enough patience and fortitude for the process.
Even Uber knows that it wouldn't work. How long would they last if every 2nd or every 3rd vehicle you called was a rusted heap with smoke billowing out the hood and the exhaust pipe?
If Uber doesn't want to be a Taxi company, then they should really stop focusing so much on carrying people around in cars.
I have a front door on my house. If I have a company who is in charge of opening and closing the front door, I want to be damn sure they close it as securely as possible. If they leave it open, then there is a big problem.
People have their lives stolen. It's not the same as dying but it's serious.
You have no idea what you are talking about!! How big is YOUR vibrator collection?
A handicapped parking spot allows the disabled person to use the business, a regular parking spot allows you to use a business. How is this not equal opportunity?