There you go again with your anti-Muslim nonsense again. Iran is not working on nuclear weapons, according to the intelligence services of Britain, Israel, France, and the US. Pakistan hasn't launched a weapon in anger, and whose only perceived enemy is India (which, at this point, are not really enemies but a countries sharing a historical feud tempered by bilateral understanding of benefit of mutual existence and no war).
Just admit you are an ignorance xenophobe and we can all move on. Don't pretend you're some sort of well-informed person simply trying to educate or participate in a discussion - no-one's buying that nonsense from you. You are pathetic.
No, the deniers have been saying there has been no warming during their cherry-picked years. Science has shown that there has been warming, but the rate of warming has been less than one would expect. See the difference?
Errr... One example is "plenty"? You have to admit that if there are two entities - one with more power than the other - that haranguing the one with less power is clearly not as acceptable as haranguing the one with more power. Both suck, but if there is an imbalance, one should expect the powerful entity getting it in the neck. Beating the less-powerful from on high is clearly not cool.
"[W]hite western women" are not "the most privileged creatures on this planet", as things like wage disparity, sexual abuse, access to healthcare (including abortion), and attitudes like yours point out. It's astounding that you can write that and expect to be taken seriously, when the chip on your shoulder is casting a shadow over your entire post.
Or simply send round the "Welcome to the Global Climate Conspiracy!" email that you seem to think everyone gets, and instantly name your prize.
If the conspiracy exists, it takes just one scientist to blow it open and receive riches beyond their wildest dreams, guaranteeing their research for the rest of their life.
Have you noticed you can't argue with the science, so you are now arguing against the scientists? You sound desperate, childish, and really pathetic.
All it takes is one scientist to demonstrate this alleged "groupthink" and they've instantly won a Nobel prize or two, and guaranteed funding for whatever they want to work on for the rest of their life. I know it's convenient to assume there is some plot when science points to your closely-held beliefs being nonsense, but that is verging on the pathetic.
We know how much CO2 human industry is releasing. We know how much CO2 is being released naturally. We know how much CO2 is being absorbed. We know that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. The sums are really not that difficult. The complicated part is knowing how the world is dealing with the increased temperatures, which also well understood.
Future generations will look back upon attitudes like yours with confusion and shame.
You didn't have any logic or facts either, just your opinion. He chose to highlight the fact that your opinion is not based on the scientific findings of the decades of research on climate change by simply pointing to your name, which is incredibly apt. Don't confuse brevity with laziness:)
It sounds more like it was directly attributable to his existing medical condition which could have been triggered any number of ways, such as sleep deprivation, poor diet, or drinking too much...
So you see no difference between someone who is simply driving from point A to point B regardless of whether someone comes with them asking if someone wants a ride and taking them along asking only for petrol money, and someone who waits to be asked to drive from point A to point B, and will do the same many times a day, in order to make money as their job?
The pound of flesh is hardly that - it costs a few hundred Euros to get a license, and guarantees that everyone who drives a taxi is up to it. Ride sharing is clearly something completely different.
Your argument sounds absolutely pathetic, and you sound incredibly whiny complaining about it all the time. It's actually quite funny reading about you wanting everything to suck so people have lots of choice of things that suck...
So people should be able to practice medicine or law without a license, then, as that's denying people choice? You are really stretching your point here...
The laws governing the taxi service in Berlin (which the city seems very happy with - I've taken a bunch and they're great, just as in other parts of Germany) has nothing to do with profit, but of providing a service of a set quality for the public. Weird, I know.
You really don't like to think that something's less awesome in the US than somewhere else... How sad. That attitude ensures that anything less awesome in the US will stay less awesome for generations to come. I hope you're happy!
The basic & public transport tests are much harder than in the US. The personal license test includes basic medical training, for instance.
The public transport license tests go above and beyond a private license test, as they need to be as good as you can possibly get, as they drive many more people around than just themselves, and those people need guarantees of the ability of the driver.
There's nothing to be smug about, just sad that the US's taxi drivers (and private drivers) have no guarantee of ability, leading to the insane amount of deaths on US roads. That's just tragic for everyone, regardless of where you live. You sound a bit defensive...
Except in the EU, specifically in Berlin, Taxis are actually brilliant, and letting Uber into the market would degrade service for the public. This isn't just cronyism, but actually defending a public service which is worth defending on merit alone.
I hear your complaints, and as you said - none of them apply to Berlin. Those other methods of transport currently work within the law, so it seems strange that people appear to think something needs to be changed in Berlin "to improve service" - the service is already fantastic, with the protection of the public!
Yes, you provided a source, but it was wrong. I can appreciate how you got caught out and are now pretending that the test and the license passing the test provides are two different, unrelated things. In Germany you need a special series of tests to get the special license for carrying paying passengers. So yeah, your source was present, but incorrect.
How is this insightful? The law states that people carrying passengers for a fare must have a special license. That's it. Uber wants to have fare-carrying drivers without the special license. It's as mad as if Uber was asking for their drivers to not need any license at all.
The playing field is already level - want to drive Uber fares? Get a commercial license like everyone else.
Those 'services' are private drivers who are driving that way regardless of whether they have passengers. The fare is not profit, but to cover the fuel cost. If said driver was charging more than the cost of the fuel, and was making several trips a day to places they wouldn't be going anyway, then they'd be breaking the law and face prosecution.
That's still not very civilised. In more developed parts of the world medical expenses will be paid by the same entity regardless of who was at fault, meaning no need for lawyers and such to determine who's at fault, and bankruptcy over medical costs is never even a possibility.
There are public transport systems which can easily do that, and don't require densely-populated areas in order to function. Where I live you can catch a tram on the street which can take you directly to neighbouring cities/towns/villages, or to the train station to other cities/countries. Don't confuse all public transport with your public transport.
In countries with such a system, everyone pays for it in their taxes. It's a constant, manageable amount with no surprises, and costs less per person than under the US system. That means everyone pays the same whether they are sick or not, and the difference between being sick or hurt and not will never cost your house, or even endanger it in any way. Heck, it won't even touch your bank account, as you simply are never charged in a hospital, beyond what happens in some countries where you pay a small fee (~$10) for every visit to the ER. People are also free to get "upgraded" to private health coverage where they can get better rooms, etc., but that costs about $100 per month.
When everyone works together great things can happen.
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There you go again with your anti-Muslim nonsense again. Iran is not working on nuclear weapons, according to the intelligence services of Britain, Israel, France, and the US. Pakistan hasn't launched a weapon in anger, and whose only perceived enemy is India (which, at this point, are not really enemies but a countries sharing a historical feud tempered by bilateral understanding of benefit of mutual existence and no war).
Just admit you are an ignorance xenophobe and we can all move on. Don't pretend you're some sort of well-informed person simply trying to educate or participate in a discussion - no-one's buying that nonsense from you. You are pathetic.
No, the deniers have been saying there has been no warming during their cherry-picked years. Science has shown that there has been warming, but the rate of warming has been less than one would expect. See the difference?
Errr... One example is "plenty"? You have to admit that if there are two entities - one with more power than the other - that haranguing the one with less power is clearly not as acceptable as haranguing the one with more power. Both suck, but if there is an imbalance, one should expect the powerful entity getting it in the neck. Beating the less-powerful from on high is clearly not cool.
Of course people can choose a lifestyle, but as homosexuality (or, indeed, bisexuality) is not a lifestyle, your point is rather moot.
"[W]hite western women" are not "the most privileged creatures on this planet", as things like wage disparity, sexual abuse, access to healthcare (including abortion), and attitudes like yours point out. It's astounding that you can write that and expect to be taken seriously, when the chip on your shoulder is casting a shadow over your entire post.
Get a grip.
Or simply send round the "Welcome to the Global Climate Conspiracy!" email that you seem to think everyone gets, and instantly name your prize.
If the conspiracy exists, it takes just one scientist to blow it open and receive riches beyond their wildest dreams, guaranteeing their research for the rest of their life.
Have you noticed you can't argue with the science, so you are now arguing against the scientists? You sound desperate, childish, and really pathetic.
So you've not even read the IPCC's fifth report, then. Brilliant.
All it takes is one scientist to demonstrate this alleged "groupthink" and they've instantly won a Nobel prize or two, and guaranteed funding for whatever they want to work on for the rest of their life. I know it's convenient to assume there is some plot when science points to your closely-held beliefs being nonsense, but that is verging on the pathetic.
We know how much CO2 human industry is releasing. We know how much CO2 is being released naturally. We know how much CO2 is being absorbed. We know that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. The sums are really not that difficult. The complicated part is knowing how the world is dealing with the increased temperatures, which also well understood.
Future generations will look back upon attitudes like yours with confusion and shame.
You didn't have any logic or facts either, just your opinion. He chose to highlight the fact that your opinion is not based on the scientific findings of the decades of research on climate change by simply pointing to your name, which is incredibly apt. Don't confuse brevity with laziness :)
It sounds more like it was directly attributable to his existing medical condition which could have been triggered any number of ways, such as sleep deprivation, poor diet, or drinking too much...
So you see no difference between someone who is simply driving from point A to point B regardless of whether someone comes with them asking if someone wants a ride and taking them along asking only for petrol money, and someone who waits to be asked to drive from point A to point B, and will do the same many times a day, in order to make money as their job?
The pound of flesh is hardly that - it costs a few hundred Euros to get a license, and guarantees that everyone who drives a taxi is up to it. Ride sharing is clearly something completely different.
Your argument sounds absolutely pathetic, and you sound incredibly whiny complaining about it all the time. It's actually quite funny reading about you wanting everything to suck so people have lots of choice of things that suck...
So people should be able to practice medicine or law without a license, then, as that's denying people choice? You are really stretching your point here...
The laws governing the taxi service in Berlin (which the city seems very happy with - I've taken a bunch and they're great, just as in other parts of Germany) has nothing to do with profit, but of providing a service of a set quality for the public. Weird, I know.
You really don't like to think that something's less awesome in the US than somewhere else... How sad. That attitude ensures that anything less awesome in the US will stay less awesome for generations to come. I hope you're happy!
The basic & public transport tests are much harder than in the US. The personal license test includes basic medical training, for instance.
The public transport license tests go above and beyond a private license test, as they need to be as good as you can possibly get, as they drive many more people around than just themselves, and those people need guarantees of the ability of the driver.
There's nothing to be smug about, just sad that the US's taxi drivers (and private drivers) have no guarantee of ability, leading to the insane amount of deaths on US roads. That's just tragic for everyone, regardless of where you live. You sound a bit defensive...
Except in the EU, specifically in Berlin, Taxis are actually brilliant, and letting Uber into the market would degrade service for the public. This isn't just cronyism, but actually defending a public service which is worth defending on merit alone.
I hear your complaints, and as you said - none of them apply to Berlin. Those other methods of transport currently work within the law, so it seems strange that people appear to think something needs to be changed in Berlin "to improve service" - the service is already fantastic, with the protection of the public!
Yes, you provided a source, but it was wrong. I can appreciate how you got caught out and are now pretending that the test and the license passing the test provides are two different, unrelated things. In Germany you need a special series of tests to get the special license for carrying paying passengers. So yeah, your source was present, but incorrect.
How is this insightful? The law states that people carrying passengers for a fare must have a special license. That's it. Uber wants to have fare-carrying drivers without the special license. It's as mad as if Uber was asking for their drivers to not need any license at all.
The playing field is already level - want to drive Uber fares? Get a commercial license like everyone else.
Then you're woefully incorrect :)
They're not that expensive in Europe.
Those 'services' are private drivers who are driving that way regardless of whether they have passengers. The fare is not profit, but to cover the fuel cost. If said driver was charging more than the cost of the fuel, and was making several trips a day to places they wouldn't be going anyway, then they'd be breaking the law and face prosecution.
Ueber doesn't work in that context. Vorbei would probably be better.
That's still not very civilised. In more developed parts of the world medical expenses will be paid by the same entity regardless of who was at fault, meaning no need for lawyers and such to determine who's at fault, and bankruptcy over medical costs is never even a possibility.
There are public transport systems which can easily do that, and don't require densely-populated areas in order to function. Where I live you can catch a tram on the street which can take you directly to neighbouring cities/towns/villages, or to the train station to other cities/countries. Don't confuse all public transport with your public transport.
In countries with such a system, everyone pays for it in their taxes. It's a constant, manageable amount with no surprises, and costs less per person than under the US system. That means everyone pays the same whether they are sick or not, and the difference between being sick or hurt and not will never cost your house, or even endanger it in any way. Heck, it won't even touch your bank account, as you simply are never charged in a hospital, beyond what happens in some countries where you pay a small fee (~$10) for every visit to the ER. People are also free to get "upgraded" to private health coverage where they can get better rooms, etc., but that costs about $100 per month.
When everyone works together great things can happen.