I don't mind paying taxes if I get something back for them. What I don't like is paying taxes and the only thing I get back is another aircraft carrier. I don't mind paying taxes to support good schools but we spend more money on education without getting good value in return. I also resent paying more so a billion dollar corporation can go full deadbeat and skip paying taxes.
It's also an issue of representation. I pay the bills but my Congressman doesn't represent me, he represents the people putting up the money to get him elected.
This is a much bigger issue than just the number on the tax bill.
It wasn't bad enough WikiLeaks played ball with a foreign intelligence service, now they're extorting companies for information. They're becoming more deplorable by the day.
Those who are regular Uber users or non-users looking for traditional taxi alternatives will continue to use or look to Uber
And their user experience is going to continue to decline. Getting canceled repeatedly if you're going to an airport hotel, drivers who don't speak English, and drivers suddenly "losing connection" to the app and asking for cash. Instead of competing with cabs, Uber decided to go after the mass transit market. They cut rates twice and increased the company's percentage. More and more of those Uber ratings are reflecting the market's opinion of the company.
Maybe a couple low level contract managers will lose jobs, but even that's doubtful. Certainly no one will get prosecuted. The taxpayers are out millions, Lockheed Martin can continue bidding government jobs and don't even have to pay the money back.
After their interference in the last election where the FBI was on the same side of a US election as the GRU, is this any real surprise? The perception it creates is an image of a law enforcement agency that's gone off the rails. Snooping without a warrant and the nearly unchecked expansion of surveillance powers makes me wonder where this country is headed and whether the FBI needs a reboot.
there's a lot of opportunities to reduce our costs in this area, and the alternative of keeping all the work here in the States just got a little worse.
And if the big boss knew they were going to pay a tax or tariff on outsourced services, that might also change the decision math.
Maybe the only good thing Trump has done so far is to put companies on notice that if they keep dicking over American workers it's going to catch up with them at some point. It doesn't even have to be 100% enforcement. Stomp on one, scare 10,000. At least he's doing something, as much as it gags me to support that idiot on anything.
I see outsource providers who think they have a right to US markets and foreign workers who act like they have a right to the US labor market. Trump has proven that both of those assumptions may be false.
I'm not certain about the group think but maybe we could admit we were letting too many people into the country in general and letting too many companies get away with abusing work visas.
I don't think it's racist or xenophobic to suggest we needed to clamp down on abuses in the H1-B program long ago. What makes people from other countries feel like they have a right to our labor market?
I hate Trump but can we at least admit he identified a real problem that was eating at many Americans? Or are we beyond the capacity to have a rational discussion about anything related to his policies?
I don't have to pull out my wallet, worry about tips or even talk to the driver.
Drivers have a word for people like you, Captain One Star. Keep that up and your user rating will eventually drop low enough you'll start having trouble getting a ride.
Tip your Uber driver...every single time. Just a couple bucks is enough. Most of them are making between $9 and $13 hour, before expenses. In a few major high density areas (LA, New York, Boston, Seattle) they're making between $18 and $25 but that's not normal. Working the surge at LAX, some really good drivers can average $27 over a ten hour shift. You try operating a car profitably on $13/hour. Write back, I'll wait.
Some of those poor chumps are sleeping in their car trying to squeeze out a living and you can't part with a couple bucks in spare ones?
not because if price (it's expensed after all), but because of quality of service.
If Uber keeps promoting Pool, the quality of service is going to decline dramatically. Experienced drivers won't take Pool rides, even in the face of being deactivated. That means the best cars and best drivers are the most likely to go do something else rather than be forced into competing with mass transit with bottom feeder rates. Uber had a great business model but Pool is corrupting the entire industry.
Uber started out as a simple middleman, matching up people with a car with people needing a ride. Now they're burning billions of dollars trying to shape the future of transportation. Instead of letting market forces shape the future transportation market and adapting to it, Uber has a grandiose vision they're trying to cram down the market's throat.
I don't think people really want the future Uber is trying to push. They should stop the self-driving car research, today. That future will happen anyway but it's not clear when cars will be able to transport passengers without a driver. Uber and Lyft are already treating human drivers like the machines they're working on to replace them. Neither will survive until robots are ready to take over unless they go back to basics. They'll need human drivers at least three years, probably closer to five. They can't survive that long burning through cash like they are today. The rider experience is already suffering from second rate drivers and high turnover.
Think about self checkouts at grocery stores when contemplating how long it will be before cars can drive themselves.
I think we've all seen how good the FBI is at keeping secrets. Any encryption backdoor would be in the wild in a week. In the week before it got loose it would be mostly a political weapon.
I know they have concepts and maybe some engineering drawings but have they actually contracted out for the development of anything? There has to be some supporting equipment they could be accumulating right now, right?
I wonder if they ever considered partnering with a company like SpaceX?
I could see this going somewhere with the right mix of companies, but right now I just don't see one organization pulling it all together.
Sure, it's an appalling idea, but can we wait until it's an actual plan before pouring out the vitriol?
So, we should wait until the actual contracting stage to express indignation? The fact the other companies didn't unanimously and immediately shit-can this idea says more bad things about America than burning a flag could ever accomplish.
How about you stop wasting MY taxpayer money on this boondoggle...
With that mindset we never would have had railroads or the interstate highway system. We all contribute and then make a collective decision about the best use of the money. I'm one of the people who votes we spend the money to go to Mars. Not because I benefit, but because we all benefit.
That's life in a democracy. If you don't like it, move.
What about using water? They have to carry water as a consumable anyway, could you store in thin panels in the walls or as ice and get any decent shielding effect or is water not hydrogen dense enough?
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Interrupt his golf game for something as nebulous as cybersecurity? You must be joking.
I don't mind paying taxes if I get something back for them. What I don't like is paying taxes and the only thing I get back is another aircraft carrier. I don't mind paying taxes to support good schools but we spend more money on education without getting good value in return. I also resent paying more so a billion dollar corporation can go full deadbeat and skip paying taxes.
It's also an issue of representation. I pay the bills but my Congressman doesn't represent me, he represents the people putting up the money to get him elected.
This is a much bigger issue than just the number on the tax bill.
It wasn't bad enough WikiLeaks played ball with a foreign intelligence service, now they're extorting companies for information. They're becoming more deplorable by the day.
After working with them on Navy projects saying "IBM" and "failed to deliver" is pretty redundant.
Those who are regular Uber users or non-users looking for traditional taxi alternatives will continue to use or look to Uber
And their user experience is going to continue to decline. Getting canceled repeatedly if you're going to an airport hotel, drivers who don't speak English, and drivers suddenly "losing connection" to the app and asking for cash. Instead of competing with cabs, Uber decided to go after the mass transit market. They cut rates twice and increased the company's percentage. More and more of those Uber ratings are reflecting the market's opinion of the company.
My ancestors were British and I'm still kinda cheesed off that you all don't recognize my claim to the crown.
Maybe a couple low level contract managers will lose jobs, but even that's doubtful. Certainly no one will get prosecuted. The taxpayers are out millions, Lockheed Martin can continue bidding government jobs and don't even have to pay the money back.
After their interference in the last election where the FBI was on the same side of a US election as the GRU, is this any real surprise? The perception it creates is an image of a law enforcement agency that's gone off the rails. Snooping without a warrant and the nearly unchecked expansion of surveillance powers makes me wonder where this country is headed and whether the FBI needs a reboot.
there's a lot of opportunities to reduce our costs in this area, and the alternative of keeping all the work here in the States just got a little worse.
And if the big boss knew they were going to pay a tax or tariff on outsourced services, that might also change the decision math.
Maybe the only good thing Trump has done so far is to put companies on notice that if they keep dicking over American workers it's going to catch up with them at some point. It doesn't even have to be 100% enforcement. Stomp on one, scare 10,000. At least he's doing something, as much as it gags me to support that idiot on anything.
I see outsource providers who think they have a right to US markets and foreign workers who act like they have a right to the US labor market. Trump has proven that both of those assumptions may be false.
So, what's the "group think" on this one?
I'm not certain about the group think but maybe we could admit we were letting too many people into the country in general and letting too many companies get away with abusing work visas.
I don't think it's racist or xenophobic to suggest we needed to clamp down on abuses in the H1-B program long ago. What makes people from other countries feel like they have a right to our labor market?
I hate Trump but can we at least admit he identified a real problem that was eating at many Americans? Or are we beyond the capacity to have a rational discussion about anything related to his policies?
I don't have to pull out my wallet, worry about tips or even talk to the driver.
Drivers have a word for people like you, Captain One Star. Keep that up and your user rating will eventually drop low enough you'll start having trouble getting a ride.
Tip your Uber driver...every single time. Just a couple bucks is enough. Most of them are making between $9 and $13 hour, before expenses. In a few major high density areas (LA, New York, Boston, Seattle) they're making between $18 and $25 but that's not normal. Working the surge at LAX, some really good drivers can average $27 over a ten hour shift. You try operating a car profitably on $13/hour. Write back, I'll wait.
Some of those poor chumps are sleeping in their car trying to squeeze out a living and you can't part with a couple bucks in spare ones?
not because if price (it's expensed after all), but because of quality of service.
If Uber keeps promoting Pool, the quality of service is going to decline dramatically. Experienced drivers won't take Pool rides, even in the face of being deactivated. That means the best cars and best drivers are the most likely to go do something else rather than be forced into competing with mass transit with bottom feeder rates. Uber had a great business model but Pool is corrupting the entire industry.
I don't think people really want the future Uber is trying to push. They should stop the self-driving car research, today. That future will happen anyway but it's not clear when cars will be able to transport passengers without a driver. Uber and Lyft are already treating human drivers like the machines they're working on to replace them. Neither will survive until robots are ready to take over unless they go back to basics. They'll need human drivers at least three years, probably closer to five. They can't survive that long burning through cash like they are today. The rider experience is already suffering from second rate drivers and high turnover.
Think about self checkouts at grocery stores when contemplating how long it will be before cars can drive themselves.
I think we've all seen how good the FBI is at keeping secrets. Any encryption backdoor would be in the wild in a week. In the week before it got loose it would be mostly a political weapon.
I know they have concepts and maybe some engineering drawings but have they actually contracted out for the development of anything? There has to be some supporting equipment they could be accumulating right now, right?
I wonder if they ever considered partnering with a company like SpaceX?
I could see this going somewhere with the right mix of companies, but right now I just don't see one organization pulling it all together.
And projecting ads will be a day 1 feature in this application.
Sure, it's an appalling idea, but can we wait until it's an actual plan before pouring out the vitriol?
So, we should wait until the actual contracting stage to express indignation? The fact the other companies didn't unanimously and immediately shit-can this idea says more bad things about America than burning a flag could ever accomplish.
NPR tracked down one of the fake news sources. It was basically some guy who figured out how to use the traffic to make $10,000 to $30,000 a month.
There has also been talk about ending the H1-B visa program. So, all the slave labor from Pakistan can start packing your bags, you're going home.
NMCI was supposed to prevent all that. Is it gone now or still not working?
Trump is a business man
So are most of the Republicans in Congress.
for those mid- to late-career technical folks, how have you managed to adjust to new realities like this?
Drive for Uber.
Or at least spend the money on something that works. An EMB 314 that flies is better than an F-35 on the ground.
How about you stop wasting MY taxpayer money on this boondoggle...
With that mindset we never would have had railroads or the interstate highway system. We all contribute and then make a collective decision about the best use of the money. I'm one of the people who votes we spend the money to go to Mars. Not because I benefit, but because we all benefit.
That's life in a democracy. If you don't like it, move.
The reason you need lots of hydrogen...
What about using water? They have to carry water as a consumable anyway, could you store in thin panels in the walls or as ice and get any decent shielding effect or is water not hydrogen dense enough?