What you just described is exactly what we have now. Prices are regulated so that they average out over a period of time to avoid this kind of gouging. We do this so cabs are always available, and we do that because they're a quasi public resource. They're the closest to public transportation we can get in this country. Maybe if we had a real bus and train system I'd be willing to humor you, but as it stands I wouldn't trust Uber as far as I could throw their drivers with their carts included.
Because it involves transfer of ownership. Any attempt to do that on a country wide scale will end in a dictatorship when one ass hat manages to steal it all. This is why I'm a socialist. Let people own whatever the hell they want so long as I'm not made to suffer for the sake of their whims.
And I wish people would stop acting like he will. As soon as the GOP clown car empties we'll be left with Jeb and Walker because those are the candidates the billionaires want and we are not a Democracy. Then the billionaires will decide amongst themselves out of those two and the Democrats will lose because Hillary had all the charm of a ball python and Americans vote with their feelings...
He's only polling so low because there are so many candidates. Also he's very popular with big donors. It's going to either be him or Walker running, and odds are winning. Hillary is probably going to get the nomination this time around and she completely fails the 'have a beer with' test.
If you like playing old games your pretty much stuck. ATI doesn't do a good job on backwards compatibility. Try digging up a game like No One Lives Forever or even Psyconauts and you'll have nothing but troubles...
With advancement in hardware. Most encryption schemes are cracked because they're implemented on underpowered hardware. This is changing rapidly. More's law might be at a dead end but we've only just started making processors cheaper and more power efficient. Give Xerox ten years and their carts will be uncrackable. I know it's fashionable to day the hackers always win, but in the real world they don't..
they're competing to see who scores the most points with the billionaires that actually decide who our candidates will be (google "Sheldon Primary"). You didn't think we had a democracy, did you? Whada ya think this is, Canada?
it's mostly the military and keeping old folks alive (Social Security + Medicare). After that there's some money for foreign aid (Israel especially) and some money for the Interstate Highways.
I know a billion dollars sounds like a lot of money, but to a nation it's not. Trump won't be able to solve our problems without raising taxes because to really fix our infrastructure problems would require rolling back the tax cuts and loopholes we've been doling out to the 1% since Regan. There's a reason why our countries best years were when we had a 90% top marginal rate.
I know a lot of folks aren't going to like hearing this, but Basic Research (e.g. the expensive groundwork stuff) is almost exclusively done by central governments.Then businesses move in, do a few quick studies to figure out which of the 3 dozen or so studies can be made profitable in less than 10 years and go from there. I've heard that in the Bell Labs day this wasn't true, but it's certainly true today.
Well, we've been cutting education funding world wide (with the exception of a Germany & a few Icelandic states) for 30 years. There are consequences...
You mean like going to war over intelligence we know is bad for ideological reasons? Or tapping every phone in the country? Or diverting funds from a major US city's levies for the aforementioned war. I could go on you know....
at the bottom of Motorola's smart watch is a small black section that isn't part of the display. Since the display is round it makes the whole thing look like slightly deflated tire (not really flat, just a bit deflated:P). There's a good explanation at the top of this article.
that right when the entire US economy was imploding in 2008 and my life was going to shit because of it that several thousand more foreign workers were allowed to stay in this country. I was wondering why Bernie Sanders has been doing so well in the polls. As always vote left. Vote for the most left leaning candidate you can get your hands on. You can bet we'll have fewer judges when Jeb is in the Whitehouse...
but I'd rather see more desalinization plants. The trouble is shade balls were probably pretty cheap. If you think California lacks the political will to tell their 1% to back off on the water usage try getting the tax raises through needed to support desalinization plants.
The AVGN, Kotaku and the Escapist (mostly Zero Punctuation). All of these guys make money off ads. A few are big enough to survive w/o ads now, but that also means no new content creators since they won't be able to use advertising to get off the ground.
I've been offered ad free/. for years and haven't bothered. And no, I don't count the slashvertisments.
RC Planes? What makes a 'drone' a drone is that it's being used for some specific purpose. Delivery, spying, dropping bombs, etc. Without that what else is there?
The solution to one company flaunting the law is not to let another company do so. It's to enforce the bloody law. Your right, Taxi cab drivers are being illegally abused. The companies doing so should have their medals revoked and auctioned off to companies who follow the law. They should also be heavily fined with a cost equal to at least twice the profit from the illegal activity.
to runaway power that mega corps and the 1% have? Gov't is a tool, like fire or a gun. It's a dangerous tool, but there are lots of dangerous tools. If you don't use them someone else will (to your detriment).
The 1% have shown they have no fear of large, central governments. They'll use their wealth and power to make one that suits their needs at your expense. So I ask you, what are you going to do about it? I really am asking. I've never once heard a convincing response, or even something that didn't sound like it came out of that old movie "Red Dawn".
nice narrative you've got there. It'd be a real shame if some reality got dropped on it...
This isn't about competition. It's about removing the protections employees have been afforded and treating folks who are very plainly not contractors as contractors. In most countries the gov't imposed costs on employment to make sure employees (who were largely powerless) weren't abused. It's sorta like how you can never sell yourself into slavery in fairly because if you're making that kind of deal you're already as such a huge disadvantage that the deal could never be 'fair'.
I don't know about Finland but in America we've based our entire quality of life on this system. There's no safety net here, not even a token one. These phoney "contractor" jobs eliminate the last real protections workers here had. It's also not sustainable. The $15/hr you'll max out at with Uber (after accounting for gas & routine maintenance) won't buy you a new car at 200k when the old one falls apart and you can't get parts (and before you say: I can get parts for a 20 year old car! Try actually _using_ those parts. they're junk, and you'll break down constantly. How long will you last as a driver with 2-3 breakdowns a year?).
Uber isn't the sharing economy, it's the desperation economy.
they stop letting you drive. This is well documented. That's because like any business they need reliable employees. I will grant they let you use your own phone now. My other points still stand. You don't make enough off Uber to keep a car running after 200,000 miles. After that you'll need a new car, and the $15/hr or so their best 'black' drivers can make won't get you a car nice enough to do the work. When you're driving for Uber you're on borrowed time.
Uber isn't the sharing economy, it's the desperation economy.
I assume it's just fighting off the lawsuits. Their business model is fundamentally sound. Horribly, horribly vile, but sound. They find folks who recently lost a job and still have a decent car, declare them 'contractors' while forcing them to act as employees in all respects (can't work for anyone else, work when we say or we fire you, use our phone, etc, etc), don't pay benefits or unemployment. They get the benefits of employees without the responsibilities, which for a society like America where we're based our entire quality of life on your job ends fabulously for the employer.
Uber's just like Amazon. They'll keep getting money because if they can clear their hurdles (for Uber it's legal, or Amazon it's just killing brick n mortar) they'll be insanely profitable. If you're a billionaire investor then you can afford to wait it out.
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What you just described is exactly what we have now. Prices are regulated so that they average out over a period of time to avoid this kind of gouging. We do this so cabs are always available, and we do that because they're a quasi public resource. They're the closest to public transportation we can get in this country. Maybe if we had a real bus and train system I'd be willing to humor you, but as it stands I wouldn't trust Uber as far as I could throw their drivers with their carts included.
Because it involves transfer of ownership. Any attempt to do that on a country wide scale will end in a dictatorship when one ass hat manages to steal it all. This is why I'm a socialist. Let people own whatever the hell they want so long as I'm not made to suffer for the sake of their whims.
And I wish people would stop acting like he will. As soon as the GOP clown car empties we'll be left with Jeb and Walker because those are the candidates the billionaires want and we are not a Democracy. Then the billionaires will decide amongst themselves out of those two and the Democrats will lose because Hillary had all the charm of a ball python and Americans vote with their feelings...
He's only polling so low because there are so many candidates. Also he's very popular with big donors. It's going to either be him or Walker running, and odds are winning. Hillary is probably going to get the nomination this time around and she completely fails the 'have a beer with' test.
If you like playing old games your pretty much stuck. ATI doesn't do a good job on backwards compatibility. Try digging up a game like No One Lives Forever or even Psyconauts and you'll have nothing but troubles...
With advancement in hardware. Most encryption schemes are cracked because they're implemented on underpowered hardware. This is changing rapidly. More's law might be at a dead end but we've only just started making processors cheaper and more power efficient. Give Xerox ten years and their carts will be uncrackable. I know it's fashionable to day the hackers always win, but in the real world they don't..
You buy a Mac when you're a web developer and want Unix that that works. It's too much trouble keeping Linux going...
Is a heck of a lot harder than a regular license.
they're competing to see who scores the most points with the billionaires that actually decide who our candidates will be (google "Sheldon Primary"). You didn't think we had a democracy, did you? Whada ya think this is, Canada?
it's mostly the military and keeping old folks alive (Social Security + Medicare). After that there's some money for foreign aid (Israel especially) and some money for the Interstate Highways.
I know a billion dollars sounds like a lot of money, but to a nation it's not. Trump won't be able to solve our problems without raising taxes because to really fix our infrastructure problems would require rolling back the tax cuts and loopholes we've been doling out to the 1% since Regan. There's a reason why our countries best years were when we had a 90% top marginal rate.
I know a lot of folks aren't going to like hearing this, but Basic Research (e.g. the expensive groundwork stuff) is almost exclusively done by central governments.Then businesses move in, do a few quick studies to figure out which of the 3 dozen or so studies can be made profitable in less than 10 years and go from there. I've heard that in the Bell Labs day this wasn't true, but it's certainly true today.
Well, we've been cutting education funding world wide (with the exception of a Germany & a few Icelandic states) for 30 years. There are consequences...
You mean like going to war over intelligence we know is bad for ideological reasons? Or tapping every phone in the country? Or diverting funds from a major US city's levies for the aforementioned war. I could go on you know....
at the bottom of Motorola's smart watch is a small black section that isn't part of the display. Since the display is round it makes the whole thing look like slightly deflated tire (not really flat, just a bit deflated :P). There's a good explanation at the top of this article.
that right when the entire US economy was imploding in 2008 and my life was going to shit because of it that several thousand more foreign workers were allowed to stay in this country. I was wondering why Bernie Sanders has been doing so well in the polls. As always vote left. Vote for the most left leaning candidate you can get your hands on. You can bet we'll have fewer judges when Jeb is in the Whitehouse...
but I'd rather see more desalinization plants. The trouble is shade balls were probably pretty cheap. If you think California lacks the political will to tell their 1% to back off on the water usage try getting the tax raises through needed to support desalinization plants.
The AVGN, Kotaku and the Escapist (mostly Zero Punctuation). All of these guys make money off ads. A few are big enough to survive w/o ads now, but that also means no new content creators since they won't be able to use advertising to get off the ground.
/. for years and haven't bothered. And no, I don't count the slashvertisments.
I've been offered ad free
RC Planes? What makes a 'drone' a drone is that it's being used for some specific purpose. Delivery, spying, dropping bombs, etc. Without that what else is there?
The solution to one company flaunting the law is not to let another company do so. It's to enforce the bloody law. Your right, Taxi cab drivers are being illegally abused. The companies doing so should have their medals revoked and auctioned off to companies who follow the law. They should also be heavily fined with a cost equal to at least twice the profit from the illegal activity.
to runaway power that mega corps and the 1% have? Gov't is a tool, like fire or a gun. It's a dangerous tool, but there are lots of dangerous tools. If you don't use them someone else will (to your detriment).
The 1% have shown they have no fear of large, central governments. They'll use their wealth and power to make one that suits their needs at your expense. So I ask you, what are you going to do about it? I really am asking. I've never once heard a convincing response, or even something that didn't sound like it came out of that old movie "Red Dawn".
nice narrative you've got there. It'd be a real shame if some reality got dropped on it...
This isn't about competition. It's about removing the protections employees have been afforded and treating folks who are very plainly not contractors as contractors. In most countries the gov't imposed costs on employment to make sure employees (who were largely powerless) weren't abused. It's sorta like how you can never sell yourself into slavery in fairly because if you're making that kind of deal you're already as such a huge disadvantage that the deal could never be 'fair'.
I don't know about Finland but in America we've based our entire quality of life on this system. There's no safety net here, not even a token one. These phoney "contractor" jobs eliminate the last real protections workers here had. It's also not sustainable. The $15/hr you'll max out at with Uber (after accounting for gas & routine maintenance) won't buy you a new car at 200k when the old one falls apart and you can't get parts (and before you say: I can get parts for a 20 year old car! Try actually _using_ those parts. they're junk, and you'll break down constantly. How long will you last as a driver with 2-3 breakdowns a year?).
Uber isn't the sharing economy, it's the desperation economy.
Japan has an aging populace...
Not completely anyway. Insurance companies don't like new drugs they have to pay for. Most of Europe is some single payer
until computers replace $500k/yr radiologists. It's just Heuristics.
they stop letting you drive. This is well documented. That's because like any business they need reliable employees. I will grant they let you use your own phone now. My other points still stand. You don't make enough off Uber to keep a car running after 200,000 miles. After that you'll need a new car, and the $15/hr or so their best 'black' drivers can make won't get you a car nice enough to do the work. When you're driving for Uber you're on borrowed time.
Uber isn't the sharing economy, it's the desperation economy.
I assume it's just fighting off the lawsuits. Their business model is fundamentally sound. Horribly, horribly vile, but sound. They find folks who recently lost a job and still have a decent car, declare them 'contractors' while forcing them to act as employees in all respects (can't work for anyone else, work when we say or we fire you, use our phone, etc, etc), don't pay benefits or unemployment. They get the benefits of employees without the responsibilities, which for a society like America where we're based our entire quality of life on your job ends fabulously for the employer.
Uber's just like Amazon. They'll keep getting money because if they can clear their hurdles (for Uber it's legal, or Amazon it's just killing brick n mortar) they'll be insanely profitable. If you're a billionaire investor then you can afford to wait it out.