"progress" means we go from a safe cab ride from a licensed cab drivers, to scary joy rides from unknown unlicensed unaccountable strangers who downloaded an app.
No, Uber's model is to bring in real competition to a service industry that has rested easily on a state-imposed monopoly for WAY too long.
if that were ACTUALLY true then they would be working WITH governments to improve competition instead of blatantly breaking existing laws and feigning ignorance.
Silly silly you, their model is to make as much money as possible for the stakeholders while not caring about anyone else. They really don't care if their drivers are ruined financially if they get in an accident. They don't care if their passengers are robbed or raped. They are a corporation, they are not allowed to care about these things.
How about Uber bothering to check their drivers are actually properly insured for commercial activities?
If Uber actually did that, nobody would use them, because then Uber drivers would be at a disadvantage because they have to pay Uber, normal cabs don't.
However, once you start interfering with other people's lives (who aren't involved in this at all), I view that as unacceptable and utterly puerile.
Martin Luther King:
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”
However, you don't get to stop others from getting where they're going. That's what a gang does.
Martin Luther King:
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”
What's illegal about protesting illegal government actions? Uber is ILLEGAL in France but they continue to operate! Do you understand the concept of "protest"? The idle rich like you are SUPPOSED to be inconvenienced, it is the INTENTION that you get annoyed.
but not especially tasty. Ice-cream or chocolate will still trump "healthy"
I've seen a whole bunch of people who thought just like you did, they are drooling and moaning as I walk past them in the nursing home. You can throw around your hysterical rant about ice cream but at some point someone is going to be changing your diapers.
I don't think the OP is suggesting gmail is going anywhere soon. I think he is suggesting that they may not be round in the (not soon) future.
There was a time when AOL wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. Maybe they still aren't, but that claim is straining credulity. At the very least, being stuck with an AOL email address in 2015 is not an ideal situation to be in. Is it really so hard to imagine that one might not want to be stuck with a gmail email address in 2035?
Since when is google an ISP?
And oh yes we should use wild unreasonable predictions of the future to guide our present actions!!! What a great idea!!! Maybe we should dig our graves now to avoid inconveniencing our heirs.
You have one apple and no people, no one gets the apple. In the real world there is no problem with this reasoning,
In conclusion, math fails to express the natural world.
Umm, math is not failing to express the natural world, NOT AT ALL. It is the IMPLEMENTATION of the math that fails to express. Mathematics is totally comfortable with the idea of infinity. Integer arithmetic IS NOT.
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yeah in the USA the rioters start wrecking stuff when they lose a football game, that's SO much more important
"progress" means we go from a safe cab ride from a licensed cab drivers, to scary joy rides from unknown unlicensed unaccountable strangers who downloaded an app.
No, Uber's model is to bring in real competition to a service industry that has rested easily on a state-imposed monopoly for WAY too long.
if that were ACTUALLY true then they would be working WITH governments to improve competition instead of blatantly breaking existing laws and feigning ignorance.
Silly silly you, their model is to make as much money as possible for the stakeholders while not caring about anyone else. They really don't care if their drivers are ruined financially if they get in an accident. They don't care if their passengers are robbed or raped. They are a corporation, they are not allowed to care about these things.
So the violent protesters (possibly paid thugs) nullify the message of the non-violent ones?
Are you so gullible to be taken in by this?
not by default they don't
actively preventing people from going about their business.
dimwit, how else will people pay attention? inconveniencing the idle rich IS THE WHOLE POINT of non-violent protesting.
What a great way to shut down a protest! Hire some thugs to go in there, bust up a few cars, blame it on the protesters. We saw it in Seattle too.
How about Uber bothering to check their drivers are actually properly insured for commercial activities?
If Uber actually did that, nobody would use them, because then Uber drivers would be at a disadvantage because they have to pay Uber, normal cabs don't.
yeah someday your parents will let you out of the house
Why don't the cab drivers move to Uber so they don't have to pay the licensing fees and are on an even playing field?
"Prosecutors have cracked down on Uber, filing almost 500 legal cases"
because taxi licenses are cheaper than lawyers
However, once you start interfering with other people's lives (who aren't involved in this at all), I view that as unacceptable and utterly puerile.
Martin Luther King:
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”
However, you don't get to stop others from getting where they're going. That's what a gang does.
Martin Luther King:
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”
What's illegal about protesting illegal government actions? Uber is ILLEGAL in France but they continue to operate! Do you understand the concept of "protest"? The idle rich like you are SUPPOSED to be inconvenienced, it is the INTENTION that you get annoyed.
so in other words it's okay to put poisons in food as long as you pretend to list them on the label
yeah the fat old guy in the nursing home who needs someone to roll him over, that's what he used to think.
but not especially tasty. Ice-cream or chocolate will still trump "healthy"
I've seen a whole bunch of people who thought just like you did, they are drooling and moaning as I walk past them in the nursing home. You can throw around your hysterical rant about ice cream but at some point someone is going to be changing your diapers.
they all got what they paid for
As this is slashdot, I think that for "girlfriends" we can safely substitute "my sister and her friends".
because slashdotters can get a sister and her friends out of a 3-d printer?
Sorry, all my girlfriends are Canadian.
so then you must be well acquainted with the word "lush"
what about the free email address your college gave you when you graduated? why aren't you using it?
Run your own MTA, problem solved.
Yeah, you'll never get ANY mail if you're not on the white lists. Problem solved!
Along the same line of thinking: Don't use Google either. They're quickly becoming a bigger monster than Microsoft ever was.
Tell us more about how monster corporations are more likely to snoop into your email than smaller ones. And go ahead and try to provide proof.
I don't think the OP is suggesting gmail is going anywhere soon. I think he is suggesting that they may not be round in the (not soon) future.
There was a time when AOL wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. Maybe they still aren't, but that claim is straining credulity. At the very least, being stuck with an AOL email address in 2015 is not an ideal situation to be in. Is it really so hard to imagine that one might not want to be stuck with a gmail email address in 2035?
Since when is google an ISP?
And oh yes we should use wild unreasonable predictions of the future to guide our present actions!!! What a great idea!!! Maybe we should dig our graves now to avoid inconveniencing our heirs.
You have one apple and no people, no one gets the apple. In the real world there is no problem with this reasoning,
In conclusion, math fails to express the natural world.
Umm, math is not failing to express the natural world, NOT AT ALL. It is the IMPLEMENTATION of the math that fails to express. Mathematics is totally comfortable with the idea of infinity. Integer arithmetic IS NOT.
FAIL
Which infinity? There are many.
I think this counts as an "understatement"