or that Uber was required to comply with them. Not trolling, I'm really curious. As for me, I like the idea of the checks given that a driver alone in a car with someone (like my 18 year old daughter) has a lot of power in that situation. It doesn't help that Uber's model of relying on (preying?) folks in need of some extra cash mean their drivers are virtually guaranteed to have a higher than average number of ex-cons.
Then again I recognize that it's unfair to perpetually punish someone. Would you be in favor of expunging someone's record and making it illegal to discriminate against people for convictions that they've paid their debt to society for? Uber could allow the background checks (to weed out potentially dangerous people) while giving folks who've proven they're no longer a threat to society a real second chance.That would solve two problems.
then yeah, it should be 24 hours. It's pretty easy to justify the expense if you factor in the savings from the wrecks. But people prefer to take their chances. After all If you buy a nice enough (and expensive enough) car you're (probably) fine.
I'd just mandate voting (being careful to keep it anonymous so we don't go full North Korea, you never go full North Korea). It's a civic duty. Like Jury. You should have to do it. Always.
Are they diverting precious resources away to enforce the anti-Uber law or are they making tons of money imposing fees for enforcement. You can't have both...
because it stops the muscle spasms. When I injured my back the trouble was the spasms kept it from healing. I have very, very limited side effects when I'm on it (bit hard to pee, being a muscle relaxant and all). Without it it takes weeks for me to heal enough to sit in chair. With it I'm up and running in a few days. After that I'm off the stuff. At least for me it's a wonder drug.
I agree a doctor needs to make sure nothing's going wrong, especially with the elderly. But a $15 call on a smart phone and a free consultation with a pharmacist can do that. I don't need a $200 (out of pocket because my plan doesn't kick in until $1200) visit.
the last time I threw out my back I had to go see a doc for flexeril. The drive was incredibly painful and the entire thing only served to put $200 bucks in the guys pocket. It was literally less than useless. Add to that the cost keeps a lot of low income people away from meds they already know they need. Mix this with an online pharmacy and people the the deep South surrounded by Bible thumpers trying to keep them away from the evils of Birth Control can finally live the way they want.
are popular fast food because there's very little actual skill involved in making it. It's bread and cheese and toppings. If your a restaurateur then you want to make food that doesn't need expensive labor so you can maximize profit and have employees that don't need a lot of training. Well trained employees have to be coddled because they've got options.
This makes the pizza and hamburger biz ripe for automation. I like what some blokes in Europe suggesting: Tax robots and spread the wealth. I don't know what else we'll do besides have a massive underclass of people without food security and absolutely nothing to lose. The cool thing is when this happens you get a high crime rate and then the ruling class gets to move hard right to crack down on all that crime, creating a self perpetuating system. I'm seeing this in Brazil, Venezuela and the Philippians and I figure the whole world is gonna go this route or else Scandinavian style socialism. I'm hoping for the latter but not betting on it.
There is a _huge_ difference between real gambling and financial exchanges. Financial exchanges are heavily regulated with a ton of rules to protect investors. It's assumed that the person selling stock is doing so in good faith and they would go to prison if they didn't. Yes, I'm well aware these rules are not well enforced, but that doesn't make them magically go away. A little political will would solve the problems in the financial exchange system.
As for gambling, it's well known that the "house" has much, much better odds. There is some very basic regulation in place to remove addicts and the mentally ill, but for everyone else it's understood that it's a very, very expensive game. In otherwords, you're comparing an entertainment product to an investment one. Yes, our weak regulatory system sometimes allows the lines to blur. But the solution is to enforce the laws (or make new ones to close loop holes), not throw up your hands and give up.
it's one of the dirty little secrets of these outfits. I know a couple guys that do this sorta work as part runners. By the time they're done writing off their mileage they effectively have $0 income. This doesn't get them food stamps or welfare (God only knows how destitute you have to be to get those, everybody I know who hit a rough patch got turned down) but it gets them healthcare.
On the one hand it's incredibly fucked up because it's a multi-billion dollar subsidy for Uber. On the other hand I think the local gov'ts have got wise to this and started demanding more proof of income documents though so they can kick 'em off the programs. Most of these pseudo employers won't give you that because what they're doing isn't legal.
I can't decide which is more fucked up, giving those bastards a subsidy or the nasty way we're trying to deprive these folks of health care. At any rate it wasn't an issue when it was a few hundred thousand part runners. But Uber & Lyft have millions. Gonna be interesting to see how it plays out.
or even the Brexit. Or Uber and workers rights. Or Unions.
Fascism is the least of my worries. Government is a tool. A powerful one. It's going to get made and it's going to get used whether anyone likes it or not. The rich have _always_ used gov't. If we put our heads in the sand to hide from facism and try to create "Small" government all that will happen is our Small will be crushed by their large. This is just what happens. Spend a few hours on google or even just listening to the court jesters that pass for a left wing press (Stephen Colber, John Oliver, Samantha Bee) and you can prove it for yourself...
If it was anyone else. Executives at IT always demand crap like this. Hell, I think there was a/. article not too long ago with a study on it. It's still awful practice, but if you've ever worked in IT with executives you've done this at least once... a year.
is that Adobe doesn't put enough $$$ behind security. It's not any easier for Google/Mozilla/Microsoft to do this but Google/Mozilla are open source and Microsoft has deep pockets and juicy gov't & corporate contracts as the incentive to spend money on security.
Has a liberal bias. Also, it must be nice to have multi million dollar think tanks around to harass Facebook for you and find bias where none existed. For the record, the media is slightly left on social issues and hard right on anything economic. Which makes sense when you pay attention to ego owns the media.
which is nothing. We've recently had even this taken away from us. Corps can now force us into arbitration. Want it to stop? Start voting for economically left wing candidates. Corps will always use gov't to their advantage. They're run by the ruling class, and the ruling class has _always_ made good use of the gov't. Either you band together with your fellow 99% and get a piece of that action or you get bowled over.
the way it is, not the way I want it to be. Not to sound offputting but I think you're projecting your own neuroticism onto others. My kid, and most people, never give it two thoughts. She's never going to go to/. and post about it. The iPhone is a means to an end for her. It helps her fit in, helps her connect with people and gives her common ground with people in the upper strata. Those people can easily afford an iPhone. It's a trinket the them. And it's worth while engaging with them. They're successful. And while it's true associating with successful people doesn't guarantee success the opposite (associating with failures) most definitely guarantees failure.
And pretty much ignore mental illness, loneliness and Alzheimer's as factors. When people look it's mostly those 3 with a little bit of naivety from living a sheltered life...
there are very specific reasons they want an iPhone. For one, they're a Veblen good. E.g. something you buy because you can. There are very real social advantages to Veblen goods. iMessage is practically a social network, which is another advantage. iTunes is highly desirable and iMusic is $5/mo if you're in college and mostly just works. Apple has an entire ecosystem that powers a social network. I resent buying my kid an iPhone every 2 1/2 years (they last about that long before they're falling apart). But I'm smart enough to recognize that, like it or not, it is a very real social advantage. That's fucked up. But with the amount of fucked up shit in this world it's one of the more minor instances...
since most merchant processors require delivery of goods to be prompt. The best bet here would be to verify the 3/4 digit code on the Card and the billing address and (if you're not in North America) do "3D Secure". The trouble with this is it makes the transaction harder on legitimate purchasers.
What worries me is the possibility that G2A is making most of their sales off this. I honestly don't know, and I'm not sure how you could prove it. These key reseller sites always struck me as a little dodgy though so I've steered clear in the past. I'd rather pay an extra $5 bucks and get it from a site I know/trust. Heck, I don't even shop at GMG anymore because of the shady goings on with the Witcher 3...
My kids iPhones have pretty consistently later 2.5 years. After that they get slower and slower until they're junk. Oh, and can we please get some gorilla glass? Every time she drops the damn thing it's $250 for a new screen.
He didn't settle on Disney Springs. Also there's several interviews of folks talking about how he flirted with the night club patrons. You don't need to do that just to case a joint..
Like Australia did then this is the next best thing. I don't think mental health services would have helped the shooter. It's been suggested he was a repressed homosexual taking it out on the night club attendees. That was likely due to his religious upbringing so It'd be hard to insert mental health services into that without at least the appearance of attacking his religion. America is big on hard-line religion. Basically take gun control and the prospect of mellowing out religion away and I can't think of any other tools. And when you're only tool's a hammer...
it sucks for the band. There's a small group of people willing to pay the inflated prices. They crowd out the regular ticket buyer. There's a _lot_ more money to be had in ticket sales catering to that smaller group. Trouble is very, very few bands get a cut of the tickets. They make their money on CD & T-Shirt sales. If Ticketmaster sell 10000 tickets for $10 the ticket seller just made $100k and the band gets to sell a lot of merch. If the same concert sells through 1000 tickets for $200 Ticketmaster just banked $200k but the band losses out big time. This is why bands fight scalpers and why they also fight your market driven ideas. It's like that old saying: For every sufficiently complex problem there exists a solution that is simple, elegant and wrong...
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or that Uber was required to comply with them. Not trolling, I'm really curious. As for me, I like the idea of the checks given that a driver alone in a car with someone (like my 18 year old daughter) has a lot of power in that situation. It doesn't help that Uber's model of relying on (preying?) folks in need of some extra cash mean their drivers are virtually guaranteed to have a higher than average number of ex-cons.
Then again I recognize that it's unfair to perpetually punish someone. Would you be in favor of expunging someone's record and making it illegal to discriminate against people for convictions that they've paid their debt to society for? Uber could allow the background checks (to weed out potentially dangerous people) while giving folks who've proven they're no longer a threat to society a real second chance.That would solve two problems.
then yeah, it should be 24 hours. It's pretty easy to justify the expense if you factor in the savings from the wrecks. But people prefer to take their chances. After all If you buy a nice enough (and expensive enough) car you're (probably) fine.
I'd just mandate voting (being careful to keep it anonymous so we don't go full North Korea, you never go full North Korea). It's a civic duty. Like Jury. You should have to do it. Always.
Build and fund a proper public transportation system.
Are they diverting precious resources away to enforce the anti-Uber law or are they making tons of money imposing fees for enforcement. You can't have both...
because it stops the muscle spasms. When I injured my back the trouble was the spasms kept it from healing. I have very, very limited side effects when I'm on it (bit hard to pee, being a muscle relaxant and all). Without it it takes weeks for me to heal enough to sit in chair. With it I'm up and running in a few days. After that I'm off the stuff. At least for me it's a wonder drug.
I agree a doctor needs to make sure nothing's going wrong, especially with the elderly. But a $15 call on a smart phone and a free consultation with a pharmacist can do that. I don't need a $200 (out of pocket because my plan doesn't kick in until $1200) visit.
the last time I threw out my back I had to go see a doc for flexeril. The drive was incredibly painful and the entire thing only served to put $200 bucks in the guys pocket. It was literally less than useless. Add to that the cost keeps a lot of low income people away from meds they already know they need. Mix this with an online pharmacy and people the the deep South surrounded by Bible thumpers trying to keep them away from the evils of Birth Control can finally live the way they want.
are popular fast food because there's very little actual skill involved in making it. It's bread and cheese and toppings. If your a restaurateur then you want to make food that doesn't need expensive labor so you can maximize profit and have employees that don't need a lot of training. Well trained employees have to be coddled because they've got options.
This makes the pizza and hamburger biz ripe for automation. I like what some blokes in Europe suggesting: Tax robots and spread the wealth. I don't know what else we'll do besides have a massive underclass of people without food security and absolutely nothing to lose. The cool thing is when this happens you get a high crime rate and then the ruling class gets to move hard right to crack down on all that crime, creating a self perpetuating system. I'm seeing this in Brazil, Venezuela and the Philippians and I figure the whole world is gonna go this route or else Scandinavian style socialism. I'm hoping for the latter but not betting on it.
There is a _huge_ difference between real gambling and financial exchanges. Financial exchanges are heavily regulated with a ton of rules to protect investors. It's assumed that the person selling stock is doing so in good faith and they would go to prison if they didn't. Yes, I'm well aware these rules are not well enforced, but that doesn't make them magically go away. A little political will would solve the problems in the financial exchange system.
As for gambling, it's well known that the "house" has much, much better odds. There is some very basic regulation in place to remove addicts and the mentally ill, but for everyone else it's understood that it's a very, very expensive game. In otherwords, you're comparing an entertainment product to an investment one. Yes, our weak regulatory system sometimes allows the lines to blur. But the solution is to enforce the laws (or make new ones to close loop holes), not throw up your hands and give up.
it's one of the dirty little secrets of these outfits. I know a couple guys that do this sorta work as part runners. By the time they're done writing off their mileage they effectively have $0 income. This doesn't get them food stamps or welfare (God only knows how destitute you have to be to get those, everybody I know who hit a rough patch got turned down) but it gets them healthcare.
On the one hand it's incredibly fucked up because it's a multi-billion dollar subsidy for Uber. On the other hand I think the local gov'ts have got wise to this and started demanding more proof of income documents though so they can kick 'em off the programs. Most of these pseudo employers won't give you that because what they're doing isn't legal.
I can't decide which is more fucked up, giving those bastards a subsidy or the nasty way we're trying to deprive these folks of health care. At any rate it wasn't an issue when it was a few hundred thousand part runners. But Uber & Lyft have millions. Gonna be interesting to see how it plays out.
or even the Brexit. Or Uber and workers rights. Or Unions.
Fascism is the least of my worries. Government is a tool. A powerful one. It's going to get made and it's going to get used whether anyone likes it or not. The rich have _always_ used gov't. If we put our heads in the sand to hide from facism and try to create "Small" government all that will happen is our Small will be crushed by their large. This is just what happens. Spend a few hours on google or even just listening to the court jesters that pass for a left wing press (Stephen Colber, John Oliver, Samantha Bee) and you can prove it for yourself...
If it was anyone else. Executives at IT always demand crap like this. Hell, I think there was a /. article not too long ago with a study on it. It's still awful practice, but if you've ever worked in IT with executives you've done this at least once... a year.
is that Adobe doesn't put enough $$$ behind security. It's not any easier for Google/Mozilla/Microsoft to do this but Google/Mozilla are open source and Microsoft has deep pockets and juicy gov't & corporate contracts as the incentive to spend money on security.
Has a liberal bias. Also, it must be nice to have multi million dollar think tanks around to harass Facebook for you and find bias where none existed. For the record, the media is slightly left on social issues and hard right on anything economic. Which makes sense when you pay attention to ego owns the media.
which is nothing. We've recently had even this taken away from us. Corps can now force us into arbitration. Want it to stop? Start voting for economically left wing candidates. Corps will always use gov't to their advantage. They're run by the ruling class, and the ruling class has _always_ made good use of the gov't. Either you band together with your fellow 99% and get a piece of that action or you get bowled over.
the way it is, not the way I want it to be. Not to sound offputting but I think you're projecting your own neuroticism onto others. My kid, and most people, never give it two thoughts. She's never going to go to /. and post about it. The iPhone is a means to an end for her. It helps her fit in, helps her connect with people and gives her common ground with people in the upper strata. Those people can easily afford an iPhone. It's a trinket the them. And it's worth while engaging with them. They're successful. And while it's true associating with successful people doesn't guarantee success the opposite (associating with failures) most definitely guarantees failure.
And pretty much ignore mental illness, loneliness and Alzheimer's as factors. When people look it's mostly those 3 with a little bit of naivety from living a sheltered life...
there are very specific reasons they want an iPhone. For one, they're a Veblen good. E.g. something you buy because you can. There are very real social advantages to Veblen goods. iMessage is practically a social network, which is another advantage. iTunes is highly desirable and iMusic is $5/mo if you're in college and mostly just works. Apple has an entire ecosystem that powers a social network. I resent buying my kid an iPhone every 2 1/2 years (they last about that long before they're falling apart). But I'm smart enough to recognize that, like it or not, it is a very real social advantage. That's fucked up. But with the amount of fucked up shit in this world it's one of the more minor instances...
since most merchant processors require delivery of goods to be prompt. The best bet here would be to verify the 3/4 digit code on the Card and the billing address and (if you're not in North America) do "3D Secure". The trouble with this is it makes the transaction harder on legitimate purchasers.
What worries me is the possibility that G2A is making most of their sales off this. I honestly don't know, and I'm not sure how you could prove it. These key reseller sites always struck me as a little dodgy though so I've steered clear in the past. I'd rather pay an extra $5 bucks and get it from a site I know/trust. Heck, I don't even shop at GMG anymore because of the shady goings on with the Witcher 3...
And I want the pirate bay version now :). While we're on the subject what ever happened with Green Man Gaming and those gog Witcher 3 keys?
For her iPhone. YouTube is strictly for funny cat videos. These guys are full of it.
My kids iPhones have pretty consistently later 2.5 years. After that they get slower and slower until they're junk. Oh, and can we please get some gorilla glass? Every time she drops the damn thing it's $250 for a new screen.
He didn't settle on Disney Springs. Also there's several interviews of folks talking about how he flirted with the night club patrons. You don't need to do that just to case a joint..
Like Australia did then this is the next best thing. I don't think mental health services would have helped the shooter. It's been suggested he was a repressed homosexual taking it out on the night club attendees. That was likely due to his religious upbringing so It'd be hard to insert mental health services into that without at least the appearance of attacking his religion. America is big on hard-line religion. Basically take gun control and the prospect of mellowing out religion away and I can't think of any other tools. And when you're only tool's a hammer...
it sucks for the band. There's a small group of people willing to pay the inflated prices. They crowd out the regular ticket buyer. There's a _lot_ more money to be had in ticket sales catering to that smaller group. Trouble is very, very few bands get a cut of the tickets. They make their money on CD & T-Shirt sales. If Ticketmaster sell 10000 tickets for $10 the ticket seller just made $100k and the band gets to sell a lot of merch. If the same concert sells through 1000 tickets for $200 Ticketmaster just banked $200k but the band losses out big time. This is why bands fight scalpers and why they also fight your market driven ideas. It's like that old saying: For every sufficiently complex problem there exists a solution that is simple, elegant and wrong...