I wonder why Uber don't have the appropriate license?
Probably because getting an appropriate license involves things like:
1) Paying a huge brib...ahem...."registration fee" to the issuing authorities, and/or 2) Being a good friend or relative of the right people, and/or 3) Making generous campaign contributions to the right politicians, and/or 4) Being the son or daughter of an existing license holder.
Just look at New York City, where a taxi medallion is treated like a royal asset and can set you back $1 million+. Once you get one, it's basically a privileged monopoly license to treat customers like shit.
Because 30-40 years ago, every mother wasn't a panicky obsessive who was scared to give her kid a peanut butter and jelly sandwich because she read in some magazine that it would be abuse if she didn't treat her kid like a delicate snowflake.
Yeah, they have some shitty side-effects, but without at least some drive everyone would just sit around smoking weed all day until the winter did us all in.
No doxxing, please (two wrongs don't make a right). The guy's apparently well-known already anyway, and quite the infamous judicial nutcase. A classic case for why judges shouldn't be allowed to serve for life.
I wonder if Judge Kenneth Hoyt would be cool with hackers openly posting all of his personal info online. After all, it's not a cognizable injury or anything.
Perhaps I should have stated it differently. They can make you sign it, but the contract itself wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on. I can twist someone's arm and make them sign a contract agreeing to be my slave for life. But no court of law is going to recognize it as a valid.
From the smug "genius" who tried to blame the owner for the problem, who kept asking if they had dropped it, who insisted that Apple just doesn't make faulty products.
A contract usually requires an exchange of consideration. If you're going to demand that one of the parties agree to terms beyond their agreed upon work duration, then you need to provide them with compensation beyond that duration.
And anyway, you can't sign away your civil rights. An employer can't make you sign a contract that says "...and I will be your slave forever and will never work for another company."
Assange? I was talking about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF chief who made the foolish mistake questioning the primacy of the U.S. dollar. He was publicly arrested for rape shortly thereafter in what the prosecutor called at "rock solid" case. Then three days after his successor at the IMF took office, all charges were dropped.
FUCK YOU, Rob, you sad McJob manager! I just got into Carnegie-Mellon's CS program for grad school! So you can SUCK MY DICK, Rob! And that goes for you too Stacey! This motherfucker right here is GOING PLACES, BITCH! So you can shove this smock right up your tight asses! And don't look to see me again, 'cause I'm going to be in Pittsburg getting my Masters on!
Oh look, I just got another letter from them. Must be to congratulate me AGAIN! Let's open it up, so I can shove it right in your FAT FACES!
That makes another good reason to go back to the Moon!
And I take it you're volunteering my grandchildren to pay for it? Because *YOU* and *I* aren't even paying enough taxes for the government to pay its bills for the stuff it's already doing right now. And I say "government" because I don't see any private companies stepping forward to go to the moon (not unless they're looking for the government to pay them to, that is).
But if you want to start a company that's going to go to the moon without using any of my grandkid's tax money to do it, then yes, I'm all for it. I'll be watching your launch on TV and wishing you well.
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I wonder why Uber don't have the appropriate license?
Probably because getting an appropriate license involves things like:
1) Paying a huge brib...ahem...."registration fee" to the issuing authorities, and/or
2) Being a good friend or relative of the right people, and/or
3) Making generous campaign contributions to the right politicians, and/or
4) Being the son or daughter of an existing license holder.
Just look at New York City, where a taxi medallion is treated like a royal asset and can set you back $1 million+. Once you get one, it's basically a privileged monopoly license to treat customers like shit.
With companies like Uber capitalism has really hit rock bottom. No products, no innovation, just a parasitic entity
If you define competition as a "parasitic entity" then you must have a VERY strange definition of capitalism.
Because 30-40 years ago, every mother wasn't a panicky obsessive who was scared to give her kid a peanut butter and jelly sandwich because she read in some magazine that it would be abuse if she didn't treat her kid like a delicate snowflake.
All the other jobs are being filled by H1-B's. Looking for the jetpack is all we have left.
He started on a TN visa, recruited from an engineering school in Mexico. After a year he was transitioned to an H1-B visa, where he still is.
Just out of curiosity, do you pay him the same as your American engineers?
I wonder if our American programming grads could get visas to go work in India and China. It must work both ways, right?
He'll demand the best agent and then take out a full page ad telling us how his agent is going to make all other agents his bitch.
Highlander II was an abomination of a movie. I refuse to accept that it can teach us anything except how low Sean Connery will sink for a buck.
Any fix on this scale will come with many, many unintended consequences.
Yeah, they have some shitty side-effects, but without at least some drive everyone would just sit around smoking weed all day until the winter did us all in.
No doxxing, please (two wrongs don't make a right). The guy's apparently well-known already anyway, and quite the infamous judicial nutcase. A classic case for why judges shouldn't be allowed to serve for life.
They seem to be having some difficulties.
I wonder if Judge Kenneth Hoyt would be cool with hackers openly posting all of his personal info online. After all, it's not a cognizable injury or anything.
Perhaps I should have stated it differently. They can make you sign it, but the contract itself wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on. I can twist someone's arm and make them sign a contract agreeing to be my slave for life. But no court of law is going to recognize it as a valid.
From the smug "genius" who tried to blame the owner for the problem, who kept asking if they had dropped it, who insisted that Apple just doesn't make faulty products.
A contract usually requires an exchange of consideration. If you're going to demand that one of the parties agree to terms beyond their agreed upon work duration, then you need to provide them with compensation beyond that duration.
And anyway, you can't sign away your civil rights. An employer can't make you sign a contract that says "...and I will be your slave forever and will never work for another company."
Assange? I was talking about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF chief who made the foolish mistake questioning the primacy of the U.S. dollar. He was publicly arrested for rape shortly thereafter in what the prosecutor called at "rock solid" case. Then three days after his successor at the IMF took office, all charges were dropped.
Don't fuck with the CIA.
It's also pretty unlikely that the CIA is going to trump up fake rape charges on you for buying heroin.
How do you sort the fake info from the real??
Always doing some new Superman spinoff.
"You're deep in debt, about to go bankrupt--and you BOUGHT A NEW CAR??"
"Yeah, but the cost of this new car is relatively small next to the mountain of debt I already owe. Besides, it's a really cool car."
FUCK YOU, Rob, you sad McJob manager! I just got into Carnegie-Mellon's CS program for grad school! So you can SUCK MY DICK, Rob! And that goes for you too Stacey! This motherfucker right here is GOING PLACES, BITCH! So you can shove this smock right up your tight asses! And don't look to see me again, 'cause I'm going to be in Pittsburg getting my Masters on!
Oh look, I just got another letter from them. Must be to congratulate me AGAIN! Let's open it up, so I can shove it right in your FAT FACES!
That makes another good reason to go back to the Moon!
And I take it you're volunteering my grandchildren to pay for it? Because *YOU* and *I* aren't even paying enough taxes for the government to pay its bills for the stuff it's already doing right now. And I say "government" because I don't see any private companies stepping forward to go to the moon (not unless they're looking for the government to pay them to, that is).
But if you want to start a company that's going to go to the moon without using any of my grandkid's tax money to do it, then yes, I'm all for it. I'll be watching your launch on TV and wishing you well.
Is anyone going to talk about the elephant in the room?
Someone activate the ZOE SIGNAL! ...or just turn on any spotlight really, she'll come to it either way.