Because like most people, I can't afford to just up and move to another city and because the cops never harass me. They only harass people stupid enough to stick a camera in their face or give them lip.
Why do I suspect that Republicans in the U.S. would happily use this as yet another excuse to shift another hidden tax onto the poor, while giving another hidden tax break to the rich?
I bet John Boehner would be more than happy to support a bill that would give big tax breaks to those owning new cars, and big tax penalties to those owning much older cars. All in the name of environmental concerns, of course.
No, it's called the "Having a place to go to party and meet hot women, hang out with a bunch of buddies who will back me up and help me out" program, as opposed to the cheaper but somewhat less fulfilling "Sit in my dorm room and jack off to Porntube all day" program.
You go be the hero then. I've got a wife and kids who aren't going to accept "Daddy did something heroic" as an excuse when I lose my job and we're living in a van down by the river. Is the ACLU going to pay my mortgage when I have to call into work and explain to them that I can't come in because I'm in jail?
Where I'm from if you backtalk a cop, they take you to jail (if you're lucky they don't beat you for "resisting arrest" too). They make up some charges after-the-fact. Or maybe there are no charges and they let you go after 48 hours of sharing a cell with crackheads. Either way, the lesson is "don't backtalk."
Every generation, VR and 3D-TV/3D-movies become these fads for a while. Everyone is talking about them. They're going to be the future! The tech is coming out! Blah blah. Then the fads pass and everyone forgets about them for another 20 years.
Keep in mind that these laws don't just effect Uber, they also apply to Lyft or any other consumer-priced competitor to that dirty taxi with the driver who barely speaks English and who tries to screw you on the fare by taking you the long way. You know that taxi, right? It's the one you're stuck with because there's no alternative now.
And that's exactly why Linux will never take over the desktop space. Every time a distro is poised to do it, the linux userbase turns on it for one reason or another.
I actually rooted for Linux early on (no pun intended). But it didn't take long for me to realize that the Linux community was Linux's own worst enemy. MS and Apple are nothing next to the damage done by the Linux's own users every time they get into another fucking childish squabble and produce yet another one of thousands of confusing forks.
They get off on being outsiders and being different. So anything that threatens to take their precious OS mainstream in any way is seen as a threat. MS and Apple aren't the ones holding it back at this point. It's being held back by its own douchebag user community and a confusing morass of competing distros and desktops.
It made the mistake of becoming popular (at least by pathetic Linux standards) and DARED to aim at appealing to general users (ick!). And that made it forever uncool for Linux hipsters. Linux users hate any distro that's not obscure and all-but-impossible to use without knowing arcane command line syntax.
One of the biggest problems in any polygamous society is getting rid of young men. Every man with 4 wives leaves 3 angry, young, horny men in his wake who got no wives. So Islam came up with the perfect solution, Martyrdom! Just blow yourself up in some mall and get all the virgins you want!
And they were right. It only came back into fashion again recently. But throughout the 80's and 90's, solar and wind energy all but disappeared from the zeitgeist.
Either you live in a state that heavily subsidizes solar or you DYI'ed the installation. The lowest quote I have ever gotten was $25,000 (and my house isn't even that big). That included panels, installation, inverter, etc.
What would make solar energy viable would be panels that didn't cost $30,000 to buy and install. Much like Tesla cars, solar panels are still mostly toys for the rich. Real people can't just go out and spend $30,000 on panels that may or may not eventually pay themselves off at some point in the distant future (decades from now, assuming they never need any maintenance and your power company let's you piggyback them onto the grid at no extra charge, which are HELLUVA assumptions).
Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE to put solar panels on my house and stick it to the man and all. I just don't happen to have $30K laying around.
I used to think the Steve Jobs worship around here was bad. But compared to the slovenly Elon Musk dick slurping that permeates slashdot now, Jobs was nothing.
So all you Musk worshipers go ahead and whip out your dicks and start furiously masturbating to a picture of this new battery that promises big but will never go mainstream (just like his cars). You know you want to.
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Frankly, if I was king for a day, I would ban all sororities for campuses.
They would just move off campus.
Because like most people, I can't afford to just up and move to another city and because the cops never harass me. They only harass people stupid enough to stick a camera in their face or give them lip.
Why do I suspect that Republicans in the U.S. would happily use this as yet another excuse to shift another hidden tax onto the poor, while giving another hidden tax break to the rich?
I bet John Boehner would be more than happy to support a bill that would give big tax breaks to those owning new cars, and big tax penalties to those owning much older cars. All in the name of environmental concerns, of course.
Maybe if someone paid them a decent living wage, they could afford a newer, more well-maintained car.
No, no. that's COMMIE talk!
Effectively you'll be targeting the poorest people in your country, since they're the ones most likely to own older, less well-maintained cars.
Only people who haven't had real adversity in their lives
So, pretty much every college kid in American then?
Politicians are nothing if not hypocritical. They'll vote wherever the campaign donations are biggest, regardless of whether they use Uber or not.
No, it's called the "Having a place to go to party and meet hot women, hang out with a bunch of buddies who will back me up and help me out" program, as opposed to the cheaper but somewhat less fulfilling "Sit in my dorm room and jack off to Porntube all day" program.
You go be the hero then. I've got a wife and kids who aren't going to accept "Daddy did something heroic" as an excuse when I lose my job and we're living in a van down by the river. Is the ACLU going to pay my mortgage when I have to call into work and explain to them that I can't come in because I'm in jail?
Where I'm from if you backtalk a cop, they take you to jail (if you're lucky they don't beat you for "resisting arrest" too). They make up some charges after-the-fact. Or maybe there are no charges and they let you go after 48 hours of sharing a cell with crackheads. Either way, the lesson is "don't backtalk."
Every generation, VR and 3D-TV/3D-movies become these fads for a while. Everyone is talking about them. They're going to be the future! The tech is coming out! Blah blah. Then the fads pass and everyone forgets about them for another 20 years.
Hoes, time to look for new work! Gotz to find me some new robot hoes!
Keep in mind that these laws don't just effect Uber, they also apply to Lyft or any other consumer-priced competitor to that dirty taxi with the driver who barely speaks English and who tries to screw you on the fare by taking you the long way. You know that taxi, right? It's the one you're stuck with because there's no alternative now.
How did I know this was Quebec without even reading the summary?
I must be psychic!!
And that's exactly why Linux will never take over the desktop space. Every time a distro is poised to do it, the linux userbase turns on it for one reason or another.
I actually rooted for Linux early on (no pun intended). But it didn't take long for me to realize that the Linux community was Linux's own worst enemy. MS and Apple are nothing next to the damage done by the Linux's own users every time they get into another fucking childish squabble and produce yet another one of thousands of confusing forks.
They get off on being outsiders and being different. So anything that threatens to take their precious OS mainstream in any way is seen as a threat. MS and Apple aren't the ones holding it back at this point. It's being held back by its own douchebag user community and a confusing morass of competing distros and desktops.
It made the mistake of becoming popular (at least by pathetic Linux standards) and DARED to aim at appealing to general users (ick!). And that made it forever uncool for Linux hipsters. Linux users hate any distro that's not obscure and all-but-impossible to use without knowing arcane command line syntax.
One of the biggest problems in any polygamous society is getting rid of young men. Every man with 4 wives leaves 3 angry, young, horny men in his wake who got no wives. So Islam came up with the perfect solution, Martyrdom! Just blow yourself up in some mall and get all the virgins you want!
Dumb motherfuckers.
All other distros suck balls.
And they were right. It only came back into fashion again recently. But throughout the 80's and 90's, solar and wind energy all but disappeared from the zeitgeist.
Either you live in a state that heavily subsidizes solar or you DYI'ed the installation. The lowest quote I have ever gotten was $25,000 (and my house isn't even that big). That included panels, installation, inverter, etc.
Hey, I'm not the one drinking the smooth creamy Elon Musk spoogeshakes here. I'm strictly a Bill Gates cum drinker.
Best I can do now is a shark that can slow dance. It's just not the same.
Think the U.S. Is heavily behind electric power and this could be the start of an electric revolution.
I think 20 years from now, we'll look back and remember this as a passing fad.
Anyone else remember when Carter put solar panels on the White House?
What would make solar energy viable would be panels that didn't cost $30,000 to buy and install. Much like Tesla cars, solar panels are still mostly toys for the rich. Real people can't just go out and spend $30,000 on panels that may or may not eventually pay themselves off at some point in the distant future (decades from now, assuming they never need any maintenance and your power company let's you piggyback them onto the grid at no extra charge, which are HELLUVA assumptions).
Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE to put solar panels on my house and stick it to the man and all. I just don't happen to have $30K laying around.
I used to think the Steve Jobs worship around here was bad. But compared to the slovenly Elon Musk dick slurping that permeates slashdot now, Jobs was nothing.
So all you Musk worshipers go ahead and whip out your dicks and start furiously masturbating to a picture of this new battery that promises big but will never go mainstream (just like his cars). You know you want to.