Also, if you're a private contractor, you're required to pay the portion of Social Security taxes that your employer would have: i.e: you pay 1.5x what a standard employee would. Does anybody know? Does Uber issue 1099s to their "contractors"?
Where I come from, cabs, and livery (airport limo) vehicles, i.e.: the vehicles themselves, have to undergo a state safety inspection every six months or N miles, whichever comes first, same as school buses and other commercial vehicles. Because without that, people and companies would cheat and cut corners: they'd be driving passengers around with bald tires, worn-out brakes, broken suspensions, etc., and the unsuspecting passengers would be put at risk by the operator's greed and laziness. Also, the drivers themselves need to have a Public Chauffer's License, meaning (minimalist) special training, clean background (no DUIs, etc.) and periodic drug/health* testing. Again, without that, people (potential drivers) would cheat. What's the acceptable/allowable Blood Alcohal Content??
Uber seeks to outflank all of that: the vehicle condition is the subcontractor's responsibility, the drivers fitness is the subcontractor's responsibility, all Uber does is makes a profit.
My question is: how long before some front-page uber**-tragic wrongful death lawsuit drives them out of business?
* Think: diabetes and epilepsy
** OK, pun intended, mea culpa
Ten minutes after Challenger blew up, the other engineers I worked with and I were saying to each other: "Watch, it'll come down to some idiot middle manager screaming "Whaddya MEAN I can't ship on time???". The thing about Rocket Science is: IT'S FUCKING ROCKET SCIENCE!!! Shut the fuck up about your pulled-out-of-your-ass ship date!
That's why it's so delicious, him demanding "proof" of Russian interference in the election. You could even call it ironic. I wonder what he's going to have to say once Trump is in charge of the HAARP machinery controlling the weather, earthquakes, chemtrails and tsunamis.
Let's see: with their market cap at about 620 BILLION dollars, 2 million is: a pinch of shit. They lose more than that annually in stolen office supplies.
Not at all. I'm responding to your thuggish behavior in kind. If you insist on being a bully simply for the sake of being a bully, then I will answer back the same way. Dolt. Your lack of intelligence makes ME sick.
This. This is what's wrong with Trump's winning, it empowers/emboldens room-temperature IQ fucktards like yourself to be LOUD room-temperature IQ fucktards. Go away and come back when you have more to add to the discussion than chest-thumping.
No, you mean "Rod Blagojevich decided to have taxpayers buy rides for certain people as a re-election tool, but then he went to jail, so they rolled it back as far as they could get away with."
So you're saying the firmware embedded in the devices to allow the operational parameters to be changed allows the operational parameters to be changed?
A young girl marries an older Greek sailor. On her wedding day, her mother warns her, "These Greek sailors can be pretty strange, if he suggests anything out-of-the-ordinary in the bedroom, you tell him No Way!". Sure enough, after about a month of marriage, one night, he suggests something different, and like a good girl, she shuts him down. He says "But darling, don't you want to have children?".
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I'm hearing, a lot of people are saying, there's no such thing as Near Earth Asteroids. Just sayin'.
Also, if you're a private contractor, you're required to pay the portion of Social Security taxes that your employer would have: i.e: you pay 1.5x what a standard employee would. Does anybody know? Does Uber issue 1099s to their "contractors"?
Where I come from, cabs, and livery (airport limo) vehicles, i.e.: the vehicles themselves, have to undergo a state safety inspection every six months or N miles, whichever comes first, same as school buses and other commercial vehicles. Because without that, people and companies would cheat and cut corners: they'd be driving passengers around with bald tires, worn-out brakes, broken suspensions, etc., and the unsuspecting passengers would be put at risk by the operator's greed and laziness.
Also, the drivers themselves need to have a Public Chauffer's License, meaning (minimalist) special training, clean background (no DUIs, etc.) and periodic drug/health* testing. Again, without that, people (potential drivers) would cheat. What's the acceptable/allowable Blood Alcohal Content??
Uber seeks to outflank all of that: the vehicle condition is the subcontractor's responsibility, the drivers fitness is the subcontractor's responsibility, all Uber does is makes a profit.
My question is: how long before some front-page uber**-tragic wrongful death lawsuit drives them out of business?
* Think: diabetes and epilepsy
** OK, pun intended, mea culpa
TFA was misquoted. Actual article title was "Norton announces Core, a smart router to consume every remaining byte and CPU cycle on your IoT device".
Any sufficiently advanced (Intel) technology is indistinguishable from the 4040.
Ten minutes after Challenger blew up, the other engineers I worked with and I were saying to each other: "Watch, it'll come down to some idiot middle manager screaming "Whaddya MEAN I can't ship on time???". The thing about Rocket Science is: IT'S FUCKING ROCKET SCIENCE!!! Shut the fuck up about your pulled-out-of-your-ass ship date!
That's why it's so delicious, him demanding "proof" of Russian interference in the election. You could even call it ironic. I wonder what he's going to have to say once Trump is in charge of the HAARP machinery controlling the weather, earthquakes, chemtrails and tsunamis.
It sure comes in the nick of time, because their profits from their extortion racket have been declining.
Wanna bet on who wins this particular game of Mutually Assured Destruction?
Well played. I honestly can't tell if you're sarcastically trolling or if you're serious. Either way, well done.
I hear it just spys on him 24x7 and reports his every action back to .... Mark Zuckerberg.
Let's see: with their market cap at about 620 BILLION dollars, 2 million is: a pinch of shit. They lose more than that annually in stolen office supplies.
There's plenty of sunlight on Vega, so, problem solved.
Not at all. I'm responding to your thuggish behavior in kind. If you insist on being a bully simply for the sake of being a bully, then I will answer back the same way. Dolt. Your lack of intelligence makes ME sick.
This. This is what's wrong with Trump's winning, it empowers/emboldens room-temperature IQ fucktards like yourself to be LOUD room-temperature IQ fucktards. Go away and come back when you have more to add to the discussion than chest-thumping.
Well, if **Scott Walker** says it's on the up-and-up, it MUST be squeaky clean!!!!
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo".
No, you mean "Rod Blagojevich decided to have taxpayers buy rides for certain people as a re-election tool, but then he went to jail, so they rolled it back as far as they could get away with."
Damn! Where's my mod points when I need them?
So you're saying the firmware embedded in the devices to allow the operational parameters to be changed allows the operational parameters to be changed?
A young girl marries an older Greek sailor. On her wedding day, her mother warns her, "These Greek sailors can be pretty strange, if he suggests anything out-of-the-ordinary in the bedroom, you tell him No Way!". Sure enough, after about a month of marriage, one night, he suggests something different, and like a good girl, she shuts him down. He says "But darling, don't you want to have children?".
No. No dinner. You go ruminant on your behavior.
Oh shit, now you've got me doing it.
I want you to go to your room and think about what you've done.
You Democrats crack me up.
LOL. Not real smart, are you, uneducated milinial scum, you just ELECTED a populist, didn't you? Hope ya' choke on it.