Not all cab drivers are trying to rob you, but some do.
This is stupid, but they are so thick they don't realise it! Here is why.
The first mile of any cab journey is the most profitable for any cab driver.
The starting price in cabs where I live (UK) is £3.00 (about $1.50), and after that each mile costs £1.20 ($0.65).
Going the long way round or taking a "scenic detour" is not worth the driver's time when you consider the payouts that guy has on his sheet.
Getting a drive can cost up to £250.00 a week here.
Getting a licence to drive costs about £100 a year.
Fuel comes straight out of the driver's pocket, so doesn't need to be wasted on long, unprofitable journeys.
The longer a punter is in the car, the more chance there is of a disagreement (pissed up fools finding something to argue about).
The next job might be a really good one so get back for it.
Taking "marks" for a ride will only make them use another company, thereby decreasing your revenue stream.
Oh, if the idiot in your car clocks your badge number, they might get off their arse and report you.
Cab driving is not an easy thing to do, it is a complex interchange of personalities, possibly ending in violence for the guy who took you home when you had had one too many. Sometimes cab drivers are people too, just like the kind of person that gets a
+5 insightful on Slashdot (hint hint). They spend years learning how to get you to some shithole of a new condo development that isn't even on the (SHIT) SatNav system without you saying to them "do I get a discount for giving you directions?".
Using a computer with built in GPS will have you totally screwed when the place you live has one-way streets and new roads.
Syntax error: There should be a road here, reboot, go the other way "Hey, why are you going this way? This is a dead end street!"
"I was following my SatNav, sorry! I messed up, I won't charge you for this, my mistake."
OR
~bleep~ Direction unclear, please repeat request, thank you for using JohnnyCabs
: note to non Trek geeks - "Direction unclear" line is the TNG sample I use on my XP setup for dialogue boxes, don't know if it is popular.
If you want to check how screwed up GPS systems are (TomTom I'm looking at you) Try putting this short journey into your device:
York, UK. The Roman Bath, in the square on the map, not behind it - A pub in the middle of a busy, historical, tourist-filled city centre
to
McDonalds, Blake St, just up the road. (Hint: the pub is on a square, head north-west for less than half a mile)
The road between the two has been one-way since before I was born. Davygate. Blake St is also one-way. GPS? Tells you to drive up BOTH streets the wrong way.
Do you really want to take a robotic cab whilst people are driving towards you and your cab is going the wrong way?
There are a lot of quotes that deal with this, but sometimes we just don't want to trade liberty for safety.
Reviews for cops are like reviews for movies. Who reads them? Who writes them? Are they the same demographic? Have the same attitudes and tastes? Do the reviews get taken far too seriously by people that hire and fire cops? Should they?
I've been trying to help out with the BitchX article, seeing as it used to be the best known (and therefore the most notable) IRC client.
The editors wonder why it is notable, I say you knew what it was before you read the article, the article is there so that people who hear about it in a channel can go find out what everyone is talking about.
Is that not the point of Wikipedia?
I made the page on Phorm, but someone already had one up that was speedily deleted because it sounded like an advert.
WHAT? Someone would take the time to advertise Phorm? Why bother, it isn't like 70% of UK internet users are going to opt-in to the service or anything, is it?
If the LibDems ever became a serious political party (I mean if it ever looked like they might come to power one day) they would soon find themselves under the same pressures that the Blue&Red parties are under and would be making decisions like this one and justifying them with the same rationales that these guys use.
This isn't about the government, this is about the civil service and the police force, neither department were voted in.
Crikey, ndiswrapper and WiFi Radar replaced the bcm43xx driver and exalt on my gOS (thinkgos.com, Debian/Ubuntu Gutsy) v2 Thinkpad in about three minutes, after that it was all plain sailing.
Someone said WiFi on Linux was hard. It isn't. It is however in the same ballpark as asking your Gran to fit her own PCI card.
It will never happen because you or another geek is there to do it for her.
When Linux says it's experimental, that generally means it won't work for most people. Define "work".
As I posted up in the thread, pata_via incorrectly detects my 80 wire cables as 40 wires, but the whole switch over from/dev/hda to/dev/sda (and sdb, hpt366 still puts my 4 RAID chip devices as hda b c and d) went very smoothly and two kernels ago was labelled EXPERIMENTAL.
Turning off all EXPERIMENTAL kernel options leaves you with a system that really is only good for i386, not the i686 and better.
Funnily enough, the devices connected to the HighPoint chip are using the same cables, so it is just a detection routine, and dropping from ATA133 to ATA33 is a PITA, but not a killer when you're using that damned XP for playing games. Linux is still limited by the 2Mbps internet when torrenting so its not really a killer when you don't expect uber-speed from your desktop. I would trade speed for security any day of the week, but I know a fix is right around the corner (/me prays).
While I believe you quite rightly attained your +Insightful mod, I couldn't even start to tell you what my disk geometry is, and I'm running openSUSE, XP and (sorry) Vista on the same HDD, partitioned through Linux fdisk after XP had the whole disk, and Vista was the last thing on there. Messing around with partitions is not hard, but never have I been asked to delve into things that the BIOS presents and are ignored only to be faced with a utility querying the HDD itself and be asked if the returned information is true.
I'm not ignorant, stupid, unable to find out how to do things (except work out why this 2.6.22-17 kernel that I rolled myself with all the right things in refuses to accept my high quality 80 wire cables) when they need doing, but for serious, how is it that I have never been asked things like that under Linux?
Why is the BSD automatic detection routine so unsure of itself that it asks if you want to override it?
I'm downloading the.ISO right now to give it a fair try, so I'm not baiting anyone. I have a shell account on a server that uses FreeBSD and I find the different layout and commands interesting. Can't wait to give it a try.
Oh, that greyed out box with the NoScript logo is a Flash movie?
Glad it got caught by NoScript rather than FlashBlock!
Yet, I wonder. Would AdBlock Plus have caught it if those two were disabled?
And when they came for the filesharers I said nothing because I wasn't a filesharer.
When they came for the people who wanted to send encrypted emails I was screwed because the government had already made it illegal not to tell them the encryption key.
So if we (the UK downloaders in question) were to set up a website and organise a "National Steal A Song" day when everyone who thought that this issue was important could download a song from a website knowing full well that it was copyrighted and illegal to do so, and we told our friends to support us and then sent the log file as a petition to 10 Downing Street, that would make a difference?
We can't vote with dollars over here, nor is it legal to use lead votes.
Your Founding Fathers gave you guys the right to go and shoot up the White House if you hated the occupant, but after the Bush fiasco (twice!) I don't remember a flashmob with guns outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
I can't see a bunch of Brits hauling ass down to Downing Street screaming about the blood of Patriots and Tyrants, can you?
Vote for the incumbent and you have more of the same.
Vote for the opposition and you get the same Civil Servants advising the new government with the same information (and taking the same lunches, holidays, cruises and sweeteners from lobbies)to help them pass laws that benefit their sponsors.
Vote for a minor party and you can be assured that all that will happen is the government will think their voting population needs a very small tax break to placate them before the next election, no matter which one of the two big ones win.
If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal.
Even less intrusive if you don't have your speakers on by default.
On the bandwidth issue, which is bigger, a Flash ad that nobody looks at or a sound clip that nobody listens to?
We tune out TV ads already and those have both moving images and audio.
Advertising only works on people who can't drag their eyes away from their screens or use the mute function.
I would never spend £30+ on a damn game for my computer.
Penny Arcade makes me laugh at those fools who do.
Idiots that pay £30+ for a game let the game companies know their profit margins are still within reason. Stop paying and prices drop. Too simple for people to figure out it seems.
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Not all cab drivers are trying to rob you, but some do.
This is stupid, but they are so thick they don't realise it! Here is why.
The first mile of any cab journey is the most profitable for any cab driver.
The starting price in cabs where I live (UK) is £3.00 (about $1.50), and after that each mile costs £1.20 ($0.65).
Going the long way round or taking a "scenic detour" is not worth the driver's time when you consider the payouts that guy has on his sheet.
Getting a drive can cost up to £250.00 a week here.
Getting a licence to drive costs about £100 a year.
Fuel comes straight out of the driver's pocket, so doesn't need to be wasted on long, unprofitable journeys.
The longer a punter is in the car, the more chance there is of a disagreement (pissed up fools finding something to argue about).
The next job might be a really good one so get back for it.
Taking "marks" for a ride will only make them use another company, thereby decreasing your revenue stream.
Oh, if the idiot in your car clocks your badge number, they might get off their arse and report you.
Cab driving is not an easy thing to do, it is a complex interchange of personalities, possibly ending in violence for the guy who took you home when you had had one too many. Sometimes cab drivers are people too, just like the kind of person that gets a +5 insightful on Slashdot (hint hint). They spend years learning how to get you to some shithole of a new condo development that isn't even on the (SHIT) SatNav system without you saying to them "do I get a discount for giving you directions?".
Using a computer with built in GPS will have you totally screwed when the place you live has one-way streets and new roads.
Syntax error: There should be a road here, reboot, go the other way
"Hey, why are you going this way? This is a dead end street!"
"I was following my SatNav, sorry! I messed up, I won't charge you for this, my mistake."
OR
~bleep~ Direction unclear, please repeat request, thank you for using JohnnyCabs
: note to non Trek geeks - "Direction unclear" line is the TNG sample I use on my XP setup for dialogue boxes, don't know if it is popular.
If you want to check how screwed up GPS systems are (TomTom I'm looking at you) Try putting this short journey into your device:
York, UK. The Roman Bath, in the square on the map, not behind it - A pub in the middle of a busy, historical, tourist-filled city centre
to
McDonalds, Blake St, just up the road. (Hint: the pub is on a square, head north-west for less than half a mile)
The road between the two has been one-way since before I was born. Davygate. Blake St is also one-way. GPS? Tells you to drive up BOTH streets the wrong way.
Do you really want to take a robotic cab whilst people are driving towards you and your cab is going the wrong way?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
There are a lot of quotes that deal with this, but sometimes we just don't want to trade liberty for safety.
Reviews for cops are like reviews for movies. Who reads them? Who writes them? Are they the same demographic? Have the same attitudes and tastes? Do the reviews get taken far too seriously by people that hire and fire cops? Should they?
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This needs to get on the front page, or write your own story.
I've been trying to help out with the BitchX article, seeing as it used to be the best known (and therefore the most notable) IRC client.
The editors wonder why it is notable, I say you knew what it was before you read the article, the article is there so that people who hear about it in a channel can go find out what everyone is talking about.
Is that not the point of Wikipedia?
I made the page on Phorm, but someone already had one up that was speedily deleted because it sounded like an advert.
WHAT? Someone would take the time to advertise Phorm? Why bother, it isn't like 70% of UK internet users are going to opt-in to the service or anything, is it?
How can we educate the general public into being able to raise their voices against something like Phorm without scaring the crap out of them?
...
Once you know that every character in your page request has been sent through an adware service, you kinda lose control of your bowels
Oh. I posted another comment as AC further down (Baldrick) and my mods got wiped =(
Apologies. I didn't mean to lose the mod, you deserve it. Could someone with points please give parent an insightful?
I thought you could post as AC without that happening, maybe because I previewed without ticking the boxes.
She is too poorly to do the job now ...
Going home to Dennis.
Funny thing is, a lot of people thought she was too poorly to do it in the first place, only at that time it wasn't anything physical.
If the LibDems ever became a serious political party (I mean if it ever looked like they might come to power one day) they would soon find themselves under the same pressures that the Blue&Red parties are under and would be making decisions like this one and justifying them with the same rationales that these guys use.
This isn't about the government, this is about the civil service and the police force, neither department were voted in.
I would need to buy a sATA PCI card or a new computer to go with it, but right now I'd prefer to have the detection routine fixed so that it works ...
Crikey, ndiswrapper and WiFi Radar replaced the bcm43xx driver and exalt on my gOS (thinkgos.com, Debian/Ubuntu Gutsy) v2 Thinkpad in about three minutes, after that it was all plain sailing.
Someone said WiFi on Linux was hard. It isn't. It is however in the same ballpark as asking your Gran to fit her own PCI card.
It will never happen because you or another geek is there to do it for her.
As I posted up in the thread, pata_via incorrectly detects my 80 wire cables as 40 wires, but the whole switch over from
Turning off all EXPERIMENTAL kernel options leaves you with a system that really is only good for i386, not the i686 and better.
Funnily enough, the devices connected to the HighPoint chip are using the same cables, so it is just a detection routine, and dropping from ATA133 to ATA33 is a PITA, but not a killer when you're using that damned XP for playing games. Linux is still limited by the 2Mbps internet when torrenting so its not really a killer when you don't expect uber-speed from your desktop. I would trade speed for security any day of the week, but I know a fix is right around the corner (/me prays).
While I believe you quite rightly attained your +Insightful mod, I couldn't even start to tell you what my disk geometry is, and I'm running openSUSE, XP and (sorry) Vista on the same HDD, partitioned through Linux fdisk after XP had the whole disk, and Vista was the last thing on there. Messing around with partitions is not hard, but never have I been asked to delve into things that the BIOS presents and are ignored only to be faced with a utility querying the HDD itself and be asked if the returned information is true.
.ISO right now to give it a fair try, so I'm not baiting anyone. I have a shell account on a server that uses FreeBSD and I find the different layout and commands interesting. Can't wait to give it a try.
I'm not ignorant, stupid, unable to find out how to do things (except work out why this 2.6.22-17 kernel that I rolled myself with all the right things in refuses to accept my high quality 80 wire cables) when they need doing, but for serious, how is it that I have never been asked things like that under Linux?
Why is the BSD automatic detection routine so unsure of itself that it asks if you want to override it?
I'm downloading the
Reminds me of a
Oh, that greyed out box with the NoScript logo is a Flash movie?
Glad it got caught by NoScript rather than FlashBlock!
Yet, I wonder. Would AdBlock Plus have caught it if those two were disabled?
Same place everyone without a job or hope for the future goes, I guess.
And when they came for the filesharers I said nothing because I wasn't a filesharer.
When they came for the people who wanted to send encrypted emails I was screwed because the government had already made it illegal not to tell them the encryption key.
No weapons. Weapons demonstrate violent intent. A mob displaying violent intent is likely to be treated as a riot instead of a demonstration.
Just wear a mask.
So if we (the UK downloaders in question) were to set up a website and organise a "National Steal A Song" day when everyone who thought that this issue was important could download a song from a website knowing full well that it was copyrighted and illegal to do so, and we told our friends to support us and then sent the log file as a petition to 10 Downing Street, that would make a difference?
We can't vote with dollars over here, nor is it legal to use lead votes.
Your Founding Fathers gave you guys the right to go and shoot up the White House if you hated the occupant, but after the Bush fiasco (twice!) I don't remember a flashmob with guns outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
I can't see a bunch of Brits hauling ass down to Downing Street screaming about the blood of Patriots and Tyrants, can you?
Define serious trouble.
Vote for the incumbent and you have more of the same.
Vote for the opposition and you get the same Civil Servants advising the new government with the same information (and taking the same lunches, holidays, cruises and sweeteners from lobbies)to help them pass laws that benefit their sponsors.
Vote for a minor party and you can be assured that all that will happen is the government will think their voting population needs a very small tax break to placate them before the next election, no matter which one of the two big ones win.
If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal.
Even less intrusive if you don't have your speakers on by default.
On the bandwidth issue, which is bigger, a Flash ad that nobody looks at or a sound clip that nobody listens to?
We tune out TV ads already and those have both moving images and audio.
Advertising only works on people who can't drag their eyes away from their screens or use the mute function.
I would never spend £30+ on a damn game for my computer.
Penny Arcade makes me laugh at those fools who do.
Idiots that pay £30+ for a game let the game companies know their profit margins are still within reason. Stop paying and prices drop. Too simple for people to figure out it seems.
I like to imagine that my cable TV box makes some sort of record of my button clicks.
Whenever the ads come on in a show I hit the "mute" button and they become a lot less intrusive.
Can't we just punch those 6% until they stop clicking ads?
Wolfenstein3D actually.
That DX chip kicked the arse out of the SX models.
Solitaire on "You just won. Watch the cards leap" was good for checking out the Windows performance, but Wolf told you how fast the PC was.