I'm on a Macbook right now and the touchpad sucks. For example, in the text I'm writing, if I want to select a range of it it takes me around five more seconds to pinpoint the location I need with a touchpad as opposed to a mouse. Then to make the selection I must lift my finger off the pad which makes things take even longer. Multiply this by the 100+ times in a day I need to do this and it gets frustrating.
Usually all I want from a pointing device is to be able to hit the spot between two characters on an 8-pt font and drag to a spot between two other characters. Touchpads just aren't as accurate for that. Also, I've never really understood how to drag across a distance that is longer than the touchpad. I seem to always end up with my finger at the edge of the pad. I have a mac that I use for development and I've tried the various finger swipes but none of them seem to fit with how I work with a computer.
Like I've said before, I was brought up to respect the rules. We seem to be entering into a "I want what I want and I don't care about the later consequences" kind of society, and that's not a world I want for my kids. To have a choice of a job at McDonalds, WalMart, or Uber is not what I want for my kids. The last taxi driver I had a conversation with was leasing his cab, and he had a plan to own it one day. I was going to take him 5-10 years but he was working towards something. Those are the types of people I feel should be rewarded.
The law of demand is not a real legal law right? In that it doesn't actually give businesses the right to ignore real laws in search of some 'pure' law of supply and demand. Almost all produce markets are regulated, drug markets are regulated, the service industry is regulated. The regulation is in because of good ideas and are supported by real laws. Fight the law, but don't take advantage of everyone else following it before you do.
Of course it smells clean, Uber hasn't been around for that long. They will have forced taxi's out by the time they start smelling 'off'. Do they even have a requirement to make the seats washable? Eww.
Only if you don't see the benefits that we get from it that we will lose. I'm tired of typing them. There will be no Taxi industry if Uber is allowed to continue. Perhaps there needs to be a new set of rules worked out that eliminate the bad effect while not giving up the good, but starting a corporation that won't even call their employees what they are is no way to do it.
Sorry, let me explain what I mean. Uber will relax the requirements for the cars, and the drivers will eventually follow suit. Except now these are cars that are getting older, and never even built as proper taxis in the first place. Just health-wise to be inside the car, that will be a nightmare. It's not a stretch.
Only because they don't have a very big piece of the business. I've talked to Taxi drivers that have 5-10 year plans to buy in, and in the mean time they make ends meet. These are the hard workers of our society. These are the ones America is supposed to be rewarding. If Uber wanted to be a service *specifically for these drivers* then we might be able to talk but that is not the case.
Slow down. So previous to Uber, everyone had agreed to play by these rules. The service is what it is, but it is protected by law because it was agreed to. Now Uber comes along and stands in a room with these people and tells them they are going to play with their rules and their rules don't happen to cost them as much. Sorry, they're the bullies in the playground. How just is the Uber cause anyway? The people aren't winning here. All they get is something cheap. Mark my words, as taxi's die out, Uber will find that they can make more money by deceasing the quality. Back where we started, and probably a bit worse.
Well most people are playing with the system where laws are there not to be broken. In your system it's way too confusing because everyone gets to do almost what they feel is right, as long as they don't kill anyone. I don't like your system, and I hope that we never adopt it. Thus the taxi drivers are understandably upset.
And don't compare this to civil rights. The people win in a true civil rights case. I can assure you that the people are not winning here.
Uber will become the same thing. They're just new and flashy now. Once the taxi industry is gone, there will be a new low bar. And now the drivers will be payed almost nothing (if they exist at all by then, of course) and the cars will suffer for it.
Unless you have been in a serious accident in an Uber car and had to rely on whatever insurance was in place for treatment, you haven't really had the full experience yet.
It's not a monopoly, but you have to admit, it is a whole new level of having money float to the top while paying the workers nothing. In my mind this is worse than a monopoly.
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I'm on a Macbook right now and the touchpad sucks. For example, in the text I'm writing, if I want to select a range of it it takes me around five more seconds to pinpoint the location I need with a touchpad as opposed to a mouse. Then to make the selection I must lift my finger off the pad which makes things take even longer. Multiply this by the 100+ times in a day I need to do this and it gets frustrating.
Usually all I want from a pointing device is to be able to hit the spot between two characters on an 8-pt font and drag to a spot between two other characters. Touchpads just aren't as accurate for that. Also, I've never really understood how to drag across a distance that is longer than the touchpad. I seem to always end up with my finger at the edge of the pad. I have a mac that I use for development and I've tried the various finger swipes but none of them seem to fit with how I work with a computer.
Like I've said before, I was brought up to respect the rules. We seem to be entering into a "I want what I want and I don't care about the later consequences" kind of society, and that's not a world I want for my kids. To have a choice of a job at McDonalds, WalMart, or Uber is not what I want for my kids. The last taxi driver I had a conversation with was leasing his cab, and he had a plan to own it one day. I was going to take him 5-10 years but he was working towards something. Those are the types of people I feel should be rewarded.
So this means we should just throw them out? No, we enforce them.
Watch the Amazing Race and witness the shape that those Taxi's are in.
The law of demand is not a real legal law right? In that it doesn't actually give businesses the right to ignore real laws in search of some 'pure' law of supply and demand. Almost all produce markets are regulated, drug markets are regulated, the service industry is regulated. The regulation is in because of good ideas and are supported by real laws. Fight the law, but don't take advantage of everyone else following it before you do.
What if some restaurant undercuts current restaurants because they find a way around health code violations?
I question whether Uber drivers will ever want to serve the core. Short trips and high accident rate doesn't sound like a recipe for success.
I figure it will be like rickshaws, but more private with the driver.
Of course it smells clean, Uber hasn't been around for that long. They will have forced taxi's out by the time they start smelling 'off'. Do they even have a requirement to make the seats washable? Eww.
One thing that makes Taxi's more expensive is that they are contracted to be in certain places.
Only if you don't see the benefits that we get from it that we will lose. I'm tired of typing them. There will be no Taxi industry if Uber is allowed to continue. Perhaps there needs to be a new set of rules worked out that eliminate the bad effect while not giving up the good, but starting a corporation that won't even call their employees what they are is no way to do it.
Sorry, let me explain what I mean. Uber will relax the requirements for the cars, and the drivers will eventually follow suit. Except now these are cars that are getting older, and never even built as proper taxis in the first place. Just health-wise to be inside the car, that will be a nightmare. It's not a stretch.
Uber will take over, and then everyone will be shitty again.
Only because they don't have a very big piece of the business. I've talked to Taxi drivers that have 5-10 year plans to buy in, and in the mean time they make ends meet. These are the hard workers of our society. These are the ones America is supposed to be rewarding. If Uber wanted to be a service *specifically for these drivers* then we might be able to talk but that is not the case.
And you still got into the car?
Slow down. So previous to Uber, everyone had agreed to play by these rules. The service is what it is, but it is protected by law because it was agreed to. Now Uber comes along and stands in a room with these people and tells them they are going to play with their rules and their rules don't happen to cost them as much. Sorry, they're the bullies in the playground. How just is the Uber cause anyway? The people aren't winning here. All they get is something cheap. Mark my words, as taxi's die out, Uber will find that they can make more money by deceasing the quality. Back where we started, and probably a bit worse.
Well most people are playing with the system where laws are there not to be broken. In your system it's way too confusing because everyone gets to do almost what they feel is right, as long as they don't kill anyone. I don't like your system, and I hope that we never adopt it. Thus the taxi drivers are understandably upset.
And don't compare this to civil rights. The people win in a true civil rights case. I can assure you that the people are not winning here.
What is their alternative? McDonalds??
Uber will become the same thing. They're just new and flashy now. Once the taxi industry is gone, there will be a new low bar. And now the drivers will be payed almost nothing (if they exist at all by then, of course) and the cars will suffer for it.
Unless you have been in a serious accident in an Uber car and had to rely on whatever insurance was in place for treatment, you haven't really had the full experience yet.
They're terrible for ignoring the law before they tried to change it.
It's not a monopoly, but you have to admit, it is a whole new level of having money float to the top while paying the workers nothing. In my mind this is worse than a monopoly.
I've never needed more than one extra battery. It's small, not a bother.
I bought a battery for $18 and it came with a wall charger.