In order to carry a passenger for hire and make a profit you have to have your commercial ticket. Period.
Private pilots ride sharing, not matter the circumstances, are not allowed to make a profit. Period.
So their only reason for doing something like this is to cut their expenses. It would make no sense for a private pilot to start making daily runs to Chicago if they only broke even on expenses and actually lost money considering their time. And not many people are about to trade a nice comfy seat traveling at 5000 MPH for a cramped, drafty, noisy cockpit unless there is no service available or they are just a fan of small planes.
So the FAA's reason's are flawed. No one will start flying others around for profit...that's illegal. Many people DO make regular runs in their aircraft and allowing this service would have the benefit of boosting general aviation.
I suspect this is more about taking away a $250 fare from the airlines.
We have barely scratched the surface of nuclear power generation. Reactor types, waste disposal, efficiency, all have very promising technologies avenues that have been stymied by anti-nuclear zealots who refuse to all their development.
They block, delay, sue, and regulate to the point where nuclear is very, very expensive and then turn around and claim nuclear isn't viable because it's too expensive.
Fossil fuels have enabled civilization to progress more in the last 150 years or so they've been in use, than in all of man's history.
Any "externalities" you might imagine have long since been paid for through the scientific and manufacturing technology that fossil fuels have enabled.
Many Years ago I read a sifi novel about a planet with unlimited energy reserves and through the miracle of Sifi, the ability to fabricate anything. In the novel they had no concept of money. Everyone was able to choose their vocation, which they did out of altruism, or at least, a desire to not be seen as a free loader.
Start trek alludes to a no money society, but the various series are cluttered with Capitalistic enterprises (Ha!) and other examples.
Assuming that one day there is essentially no scarcity of essential materials (food, clothing, shelter, etc.), what structure do you believe a society would take?
Facebook is like a convenience store. You go there for specific and fairly basic reasons: share photos with families and friends, let them know what's going on in your life, message each other and arrange get togethers...probably 90% of what a person does on Facebook.
But, like a convenience store, the places is polluted with hundreds of items you have no interest in and would never buy or use. And if you did actually want any of it, you sure as hell wouldn't get it from a convenience store....or Facebook.
I've been reading how Apple won't survive, it will go out of business, no one will buy their products, etc. Of course now, over 30 years later, it just recently was the highest valued company on the planet and they are still in the top ten.
Every time there is some hiccup in their earnings or some other business launches to compete against them, out come all the doomsayers with the same old crap.
Give it a fucking rest. Apple is just as viable as any other big technology company. The Fan Boys you speak of are they ones who pine for Apple's failure day after day and for some reason feel slighted by its success.
NY and Kentucky still must adhere to national labor laws.
Bumfuck India does not.
Lot's of talk going around about leveling the playing field, but offshoring of any jobs is definitely not a level playing field.
Even though I can be pretty Right Wong on stuff, I don't it's unreasonable to say if you are going to enjoy US distributions systems, regulations, and misc infrastructure, and most of all a consumer market that pays the prices you are asking for, then you need to make your stuff or support your services here. Feel free to build shit in China or India...but sell it there for the prices you can get there.
Make no mistake, this had nothing to do with "safety" on the party of the City Council. This was about control, political connections, and Austin getting a taste of Uber and Lyfts cash. It's a classic shake down. Several City Council members have close ties to the local Taxi companies, who were getting their clocks cleaned.
Taxi Cabs have enjoyed a public monopoly and regulated shortages for decades, The barrier to entry is very high in the Taxi market. The city made lots of money from taxes and fees and regulated what taxis went when and where. Along come Uber and Lyft. they don't play Austin's game.
Before Uber and Lyft, it was very difficult to find a cab at 2AM downtown. There weren't enough for all the partiers. With Uber and Lyft in the market, drunk driving incidents have gone down and people were very satisfied with Uber and Lyft's service. So what happens when a business is making money and has happy customers? Yep, the politicians step in to fuck it up. Austin wants to control prices, wants fees, and wants to limit the number of drivers.
So now Uber and Lyft leave and more people will stumble to their cars at 2am and drive drunk, More people will drive their own vehicles downtown, taking up parking and clogging up traffic. The cost of getting a ride will go up and service will decline.
It's the Detroit model where special interests win out over common sense.
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You just completely blew past his point:
who is already going to fly from point A to point B
It matters not if you are carrying someone else other than increasing your fuel consumption. Safety factors do not change.
In order to carry a passenger for hire and make a profit you have to have your commercial ticket. Period.
Private pilots ride sharing, not matter the circumstances, are not allowed to make a profit. Period.
So their only reason for doing something like this is to cut their expenses. It would make no sense for a private pilot to start making daily runs to Chicago if they only broke even on expenses and actually lost money considering their time. And not many people are about to trade a nice comfy seat traveling at 5000 MPH for a cramped, drafty, noisy cockpit unless there is no service available or they are just a fan of small planes.
So the FAA's reason's are flawed. No one will start flying others around for profit...that's illegal. Many people DO make regular runs in their aircraft and allowing this service would have the benefit of boosting general aviation.
I suspect this is more about taking away a $250 fare from the airlines.
It's because they do that sideways shooting shit. Can't hit the broadside of a barn.
...my daughter uses that much now.
We have barely scratched the surface of nuclear power generation. Reactor types, waste disposal, efficiency, all have very promising technologies avenues that have been stymied by anti-nuclear zealots who refuse to all their development.
They block, delay, sue, and regulate to the point where nuclear is very, very expensive and then turn around and claim nuclear isn't viable because it's too expensive.
Maybe I should invest in caves.
Just because a private organization can censor speech within its domain, doesn't mean that it's not censorship.
And a private legally censoring opinions is just a morally and ethically objectionable as is a government censoring opinions.
Fossil fuels have enabled civilization to progress more in the last 150 years or so they've been in use, than in all of man's history.
Any "externalities" you might imagine have long since been paid for through the scientific and manufacturing technology that fossil fuels have enabled.
As long as they don't lie, go for it.
We've completed sucking all the IP out of Motorola and are ready to ditch it by one means or another.
Many Years ago I read a sifi novel about a planet with unlimited energy reserves and through the miracle of Sifi, the ability to fabricate anything. In the novel they had no concept of money. Everyone was able to choose their vocation, which they did out of altruism, or at least, a desire to not be seen as a free loader.
Start trek alludes to a no money society, but the various series are cluttered with Capitalistic enterprises (Ha!) and other examples.
Assuming that one day there is essentially no scarcity of essential materials (food, clothing, shelter, etc.), what structure do you believe a society would take?
The whole push for a $15 minimum wage will been seen as a "Hold ma beer" moment for the minimum wage activists.
Facebook is like a convenience store. You go there for specific and fairly basic reasons: share photos with families and friends, let them know what's going on in your life, message each other and arrange get togethers...probably 90% of what a person does on Facebook.
But, like a convenience store, the places is polluted with hundreds of items you have no interest in and would never buy or use. And if you did actually want any of it, you sure as hell wouldn't get it from a convenience store....or Facebook.
Subscribe to Netflix and then pay again to see something decent?
I've been reading how Apple won't survive, it will go out of business, no one will buy their products, etc. Of course now, over 30 years later, it just recently was the highest valued company on the planet and they are still in the top ten.
Every time there is some hiccup in their earnings or some other business launches to compete against them, out come all the doomsayers with the same old crap.
Give it a fucking rest. Apple is just as viable as any other big technology company. The Fan Boys you speak of are they ones who pine for Apple's failure day after day and for some reason feel slighted by its success.
...a guy would hammer a show about 4 whiney women.
I watch porn just like every other guy and not a small number of women.
But who actually pays to subscribe to something that is obviously available for free?
If they want me to pay money they'd better send one of those Nubile girls to my house.
The private sector paid for brand new transmission lines from West Texas, where the wind and sun is, to Dallas/Ft Worth.
While watching FX at my friend's place the other day, we put a stop watch on the shows.
8:30 of show, then 4:30 of commercials, repeat.
Most likely
That, by definition, is in no way related to the Market.
Shit...Right Wing.
Maybe Slashdot can outsource to Kentucky and get a fucking Edit button added to this site.
NY and Kentucky still must adhere to national labor laws.
Bumfuck India does not.
Lot's of talk going around about leveling the playing field, but offshoring of any jobs is definitely not a level playing field.
Even though I can be pretty Right Wong on stuff, I don't it's unreasonable to say if you are going to enjoy US distributions systems, regulations, and misc infrastructure, and most of all a consumer market that pays the prices you are asking for, then you need to make your stuff or support your services here. Feel free to build shit in China or India...but sell it there for the prices you can get there.
THAT, is a level playing field.
Austin is going to actually do the fingerprinting and background check
Odds that the costs will be passed along without some fee or markup?
Nil.
Austin never regulates anything without some sort of cost plus arrangement.
They already do perform background checks.
Make no mistake, this had nothing to do with "safety" on the party of the City Council. This was about control, political connections, and Austin getting a taste of Uber and Lyfts cash. It's a classic shake down. Several City Council members have close ties to the local Taxi companies, who were getting their clocks cleaned.
Taxi Cabs have enjoyed a public monopoly and regulated shortages for decades, The barrier to entry is very high in the Taxi market. The city made lots of money from taxes and fees and regulated what taxis went when and where. Along come Uber and Lyft. they don't play Austin's game.
Before Uber and Lyft, it was very difficult to find a cab at 2AM downtown. There weren't enough for all the partiers. With Uber and Lyft in the market, drunk driving incidents have gone down and people were very satisfied with Uber and Lyft's service. So what happens when a business is making money and has happy customers? Yep, the politicians step in to fuck it up. Austin wants to control prices, wants fees, and wants to limit the number of drivers.
So now Uber and Lyft leave and more people will stumble to their cars at 2am and drive drunk, More people will drive their own vehicles downtown, taking up parking and clogging up traffic. The cost of getting a ride will go up and service will decline.
It's the Detroit model where special interests win out over common sense.