nobody said anything about an environmental benefit. I'm arguing for a net benefit to society that we can all stop investing in really expensive machines then leaving them to rust in the driveway. it's an efficiency improvement and a productivity improvement. Even in your taxi example, the taxi would be sitting on the curb less often, because taxi prices would be lower and there would be more riders. So everybody wins.
Agreed, $100/mo would be really steep. GP said he pays $150/yr.
I'll throw in another fact. American sports like (hand egg) football, baseball, and basketball are all structured in a way that supports TV advertising. There are TV time outs and delays between innings or football plays. so even if you watch sports with no ads, you're going to be twiddling your thumbs a lot because there is always downtime to accomodate ads.
it varies by person, but for me, uber is stealing jobs from car salesmen, because I have delayed buying a car because I don't really need one because it's cheaper for me to take uber when I really need it, combined with shopping local and transit.
The ultimate truth is that we as a society are wasting a lot of money by buying expensive machines and then parking them in a lot, or hiring expensive drivers but then they are only actually on the clock a small portion of time. think about it - you spent $30k for the car in your garage - what percent of the day is it actually used? 10%? less? wouldn't it make sense that instead of parking money in a spot it is used to provide service, so that one car can serve 5 people instead of there be 5 cars that are hardly used? this is the opportunity that uber provides.
Same with taxi drivers. yes, rates are much lower, but you can get more fares and spend a greater % of your day with a passenger.
the biggest opportunity for uber is to make cars be used a greater portion of the day. this is the benefit for everybody.
wow. first, i did a typo and meant 8.3. the last jailbreak was for 8.1.2, so very few were at risk. but just yesterday the 8.3 jailbreak was released! so I take back what I said. http://www.techtimes.com/artic...
This is me sucking on the dick of truth: B====D ~ ~ ~
not even the most advanced security system will protect against weak passwords. since the fappening apple has made 2fa default and rolled it out across more services. which it should have been before. but still, choose good passwords!
My watch has force touch, and I'm not a big fan. You have to push a little too much to make me comfortable, it's not a natural motion. It's also just a binary thing, you either tap or force touch. There's no gradient of pressure. We'll see what the implementation is on the watch
And if you think that a random 'private detective' can't sideload shite on you iphone because it's an iphone, I have bad news for you - you're wrong, and it isn't all that hard or expensive.
Actually, yes it is hard. 8.4 has never been jail broken. How would you do your detective stuff on my phone?
your post uses the word immoral twice so... also from what I've read on this issue there are no laws saying its illegal for passengers to use uber... I haven't seen any passengers be arrested or fined, have you??? so it's not illegal to use uber, it's not immoral to use uber. if anything it's my obligation to use uber cuz that's the only thing that will force taxi companies to not be nasty.
because they don't believe taxes are moral - so they don't consider it illegal or immoral to avoid taxes. I imagine this kind of people representing themselves in front of a judge (to cut on the "middleman" lawyer) telling the judge that, and expecting a ruling such as "you know what? you're right. good job OP".
Depends where you're from, I suppose. In the U.S. It's called Tax Avoidance - reducing your taxes by any means as long as it's not technically illegal. Supreme Court said
“The legal right of an individual to decrease the amount of what would otherwise be his taxes or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.”
And more on point, the abscond Circuit court said (same link)
“Anyone may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.
you can't tip the Uber driver. If you use Lyft you can tip the driver, but you can't do it in Uber. You coudl theoretically give the guy cash, but that is frowned upon and may be against uber rules.
The fare is fixed for everyone at a particular time and in a particular place, but the fare can change based on demand/availability or place.
maybe the pricing structures vary in different countries? In US the pricing is fixed in each market (eg LA, SF, etc). There is surge pricing for peak times, which is clearly labeled 1.1x, 1.25x, 2x, etc and you see this when you order the ride. If you don't want to pay the surcharge then they can text you when the surge charging prices end, usually within 30 mins.
It's not like uber prices constantly vary throughout the day like the stock market. nor do they vary depending on your origin and destination. Or is that what it's like where you are?
that's an interesting point... you remind me, I had a couple great taxi rides in Ireland. just one of those cultural things. your points about france remind me of every city in US.
sorry dude. i thought it was self evident. it's been in the news and was on slashdot yesterday. If I mentioned Obama in a post would you expect me to link to his wikipedia page? also, i'm sure it's in TFA.
If Uber is allowed, it should have the exact same requirements: Publish fare, must take customers at this rate irrespective of where you want to go and should take passengers strictly in the order in which requests are incoming. Otherwise, it is giving unfair advantage to Uber over taxi service.
In the US, this is exactly how Uber operates. The fare is fixed. It varies by area, but in LA it's about a dollar per mile and 20 cents per min. When you order the uber ride, the driver accepts before he knows where you're going. I've never had a driver tell me "no I won't go there" and I'm pretty sure they would be cut off if they did that.
Your taxi analogy is flawed, because taxi drivers can serve whatever areas they want, regardless of what Uber does.
The main difference in my eyes in why Uber is cheaper is because taxis are set up so people have a career as a taxi driver, but uber is set up for temporary work. So with uber people don't worry about job longevity, or living wage, or health insurance.
But honestly, even if uber were the same price as taxis I would take them way more often because the uber passenger experience is so much NICER. This is a fact and it is a shame that the taxi companies have not tried to step up their game, and instead are looking for regulatory interference to save the day.
Also, it's fair to say that while uber is cheaper than cabs I use the service a whole bunch more, so my total "cab expenditures" in a year is much greater on uber than it was with cabs.
But the biggest point that I'm making is that cabs are 90% NASTY while uber is just 20% NASTY. I like Lyft the best, which is just 5% NASTY.
I heard that protesters were flipping cars over and smashing windows. Perhaps they should be the ones cracked down upon? This hasty reaction to appease the angry mob seems like the wrong message you would want to send. Unless France wants to encourage angry mobs...
Oh, but surely, Obama, our fearless defender of all that is good and just, Constitutional scholar and gentleman, would never, ever resort to such methods!
True, but you never know who's coming into the White House in 2017. Could be a tea party nutzo.
This sounds like a nightmare scenario. your planet has mellowed to a nice sustainable temperature, and then your dying star starts dumping flaming radioactive matter on you, raising the surface temperature of the planet to hundreds of K
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nobody said anything about an environmental benefit. I'm arguing for a net benefit to society that we can all stop investing in really expensive machines then leaving them to rust in the driveway. it's an efficiency improvement and a productivity improvement. Even in your taxi example, the taxi would be sitting on the curb less often, because taxi prices would be lower and there would be more riders. So everybody wins.
in a recent nail-biter of a basketball game, it took 18 mins of real time to play the last minute of game time!
Agreed, $100/mo would be really steep. GP said he pays $150/yr.
I'll throw in another fact. American sports like (hand egg) football, baseball, and basketball are all structured in a way that supports TV advertising. There are TV time outs and delays between innings or football plays. so even if you watch sports with no ads, you're going to be twiddling your thumbs a lot because there is always downtime to accomodate ads.
it varies by person, but for me, uber is stealing jobs from car salesmen, because I have delayed buying a car because I don't really need one because it's cheaper for me to take uber when I really need it, combined with shopping local and transit.
The ultimate truth is that we as a society are wasting a lot of money by buying expensive machines and then parking them in a lot, or hiring expensive drivers but then they are only actually on the clock a small portion of time. think about it - you spent $30k for the car in your garage - what percent of the day is it actually used? 10%? less? wouldn't it make sense that instead of parking money in a spot it is used to provide service, so that one car can serve 5 people instead of there be 5 cars that are hardly used? this is the opportunity that uber provides.
Same with taxi drivers. yes, rates are much lower, but you can get more fares and spend a greater % of your day with a passenger.
the biggest opportunity for uber is to make cars be used a greater portion of the day. this is the benefit for everybody.
true, but from comments on this thread, it seems that a lot of people have found taxies to be really nasty throughout the world.
It would hurt you cuz indecent exposure to a child, then you'd go to jail and face 20 years of big dongs in ur ear and up ur nose.
Since the diameter of the earth is 7 926.3352 miles, this could conceivably remove any need for repeaters.
true, although I'm not sure if "through the center of the earth" is the next big thing for high speed communications.
wow. first, i did a typo and meant 8.3. the last jailbreak was for 8.1.2, so very few were at risk. but just yesterday the 8.3 jailbreak was released! so I take back what I said. http://www.techtimes.com/artic...
This is me sucking on the dick of truth: B====D ~ ~ ~
not even the most advanced security system will protect against weak passwords. since the fappening apple has made 2fa default and rolled it out across more services. which it should have been before. but still, choose good passwords!
https://www.quora.com/How-were...
My watch has force touch, and I'm not a big fan. You have to push a little too much to make me comfortable, it's not a natural motion. It's also just a binary thing, you either tap or force touch. There's no gradient of pressure. We'll see what the implementation is on the watch
And if you think that a random 'private detective' can't sideload shite on you iphone because it's an iphone, I have bad news for you - you're wrong, and it isn't all that hard or expensive.
Actually, yes it is hard. 8.4 has never been jail broken. How would you do your detective stuff on my phone?
your post uses the word immoral twice so... also from what I've read on this issue there are no laws saying its illegal for passengers to use uber... I haven't seen any passengers be arrested or fined, have you??? so it's not illegal to use uber, it's not immoral to use uber. if anything it's my obligation to use uber cuz that's the only thing that will force taxi companies to not be nasty.
because they don't believe taxes are moral - so they don't consider it illegal or immoral to avoid taxes. I imagine this kind of people representing themselves in front of a judge (to cut on the "middleman" lawyer) telling the judge that, and expecting a ruling such as "you know what? you're right. good job OP".
Depends where you're from, I suppose. In the U.S. It's called Tax Avoidance - reducing your taxes by any means as long as it's not technically illegal. Supreme Court said
“The legal right of an individual to decrease the amount of what would otherwise be his taxes or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.”
And more on point, the abscond Circuit court said (same link)
“Anyone may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.
you can't tip the Uber driver. If you use Lyft you can tip the driver, but you can't do it in Uber. You coudl theoretically give the guy cash, but that is frowned upon and may be against uber rules.
who got the comment? I can't find it.
The fare is fixed for everyone at a particular time and in a particular place, but the fare can change based on demand/availability or place.
maybe the pricing structures vary in different countries? In US the pricing is fixed in each market (eg LA, SF, etc). There is surge pricing for peak times, which is clearly labeled 1.1x, 1.25x, 2x, etc and you see this when you order the ride. If you don't want to pay the surcharge then they can text you when the surge charging prices end, usually within 30 mins.
It's not like uber prices constantly vary throughout the day like the stock market. nor do they vary depending on your origin and destination. Or is that what it's like where you are?
that's an interesting point... you remind me, I had a couple great taxi rides in Ireland. just one of those cultural things. your points about france remind me of every city in US.
sorry dude. i thought it was self evident. it's been in the news and was on slashdot yesterday. If I mentioned Obama in a post would you expect me to link to his wikipedia page? also, i'm sure it's in TFA.
If Uber is allowed, it should have the exact same requirements: Publish fare, must take customers at this rate irrespective of where you want to go and should take passengers strictly in the order in which requests are incoming. Otherwise, it is giving unfair advantage to Uber over taxi service.
In the US, this is exactly how Uber operates. The fare is fixed. It varies by area, but in LA it's about a dollar per mile and 20 cents per min. When you order the uber ride, the driver accepts before he knows where you're going. I've never had a driver tell me "no I won't go there" and I'm pretty sure they would be cut off if they did that.
Your taxi analogy is flawed, because taxi drivers can serve whatever areas they want, regardless of what Uber does.
The main difference in my eyes in why Uber is cheaper is because taxis are set up so people have a career as a taxi driver, but uber is set up for temporary work. So with uber people don't worry about job longevity, or living wage, or health insurance.
But honestly, even if uber were the same price as taxis I would take them way more often because the uber passenger experience is so much NICER. This is a fact and it is a shame that the taxi companies have not tried to step up their game, and instead are looking for regulatory interference to save the day.
Also, it's fair to say that while uber is cheaper than cabs I use the service a whole bunch more, so my total "cab expenditures" in a year is much greater on uber than it was with cabs.
But the biggest point that I'm making is that cabs are 90% NASTY while uber is just 20% NASTY. I like Lyft the best, which is just 5% NASTY.
I heard that protesters were flipping cars over and smashing windows. Perhaps they should be the ones cracked down upon? This hasty reaction to appease the angry mob seems like the wrong message you would want to send. Unless France wants to encourage angry mobs...
I don't understand your question... Can you rephrase with less tortured grammar?
Lot of stereotypes out there against people in the bondage community. Even though most of them are in really close relationships.
Oh, but surely, Obama, our fearless defender of all that is good and just, Constitutional scholar and gentleman, would never, ever resort to such methods!
True, but you never know who's coming into the White House in 2017. Could be a tea party nutzo.
This sounds like a nightmare scenario. your planet has mellowed to a nice sustainable temperature, and then your dying star starts dumping flaming radioactive matter on you, raising the surface temperature of the planet to hundreds of K
Keep in mind: Greece is a poor state with rich citizens!
what does this mean?