Blindly following GPS in London is what will get you all screwed up. It simply does not compare to taking the Knowledge. Uber is perfectly capable of running as an actual minicab company, but they'd have to make sure all their drivers are licensed to drive a minicab. They don't want to do that (because it's expensive and decreases their driver pool), so they are complaining that somehow they are special and the hundreds of years of successful regulations which ended up with one of the best taxi services in the world should be defenestrated because some startup wants to make money by worsening the entire market.
The background checks are not meaningless. Uber's might be, but the state ones are anything but. Being logged in to an app is clearly not the same thing as having your entire registration, license, insurance, and tax details in the public carriage office's systems.
If Uber wants to play the game, they have to play by the rules. Taxis in London are currently very well regulated, and it shows. Uber can't just complain and pay off websites to speak favourably about them in hopes that an already-working system will be degraded to allow their business model to shit over everything and everyone.
So everyone needs to perform a full audit of what they're buying, including purchasing something to test that it's safe/fit to purchase? I hope you have a lot of free time or vanishingly small respect for your own safety...
The real-time traffic information is not real-time, so it doesn't compare. If a cabby comes up to a blocked street, they instantly know which route to take to get around it. Satnavs need time to calculate. The knowledge also improves the cabby's ability to determine the destination address, as such a fundamental understanding of the hotels, businesses, pubs, and former hotels, businesses, and pubs is amazingly useful when finding out where someone actually wants to go. Mumbling a bit of your address or using a long-closed pub as a route reference is something perfectly adequate for a Knowledge-equipped cabby, but nowhere near enough for a satnav. Seriously, these cabbies know London incredibly well, including how London used to be.
So no, London still needs black cabs and the Knowledge.
p.s. I'm very impressed you didn't slip in your usual hate-filled attack on over 1.6 billion people. You might just be growing up.
Or maybe it's because people like you think making massive generalizations of 51% of the population is perfectly acceptable. Hint: It's not. Not all women think the same, just as all men don't think the same. Old-fashioned, lazy thinking such as yours is the real danger, as it festers, builds up, and becomes something ridiculously toxic, where anyone speaking against it is labeled with whatever easy badge you can pin on them in order to simply ignore the reality that maybe you are an antisocial bigoted fuck...
Women trash talk just as much as guys and are (on average) no better or worse at it. Some will be worse at it, some will be better at it, just as with guys.
Yes, biologically different, but still able to have a decent conversation and discuss possibly-contentious topics. This characterisation of women as verging on emotional breakdowns is fucking disgusting. We're not all identical, but there are greater differences among men and among women than there are between men and women, so getting caught up on gender is, well, pathetic.
Speak for yourself! Stop trying to validate your shortcomings by foisting them on all geeks. Plenty of geeks are not competitive, work well in teams, and are not rude. You being socially maladjusted does not mean we all are.
You disgusting, lazy human being. Whatever society shat out your flaccid intellect should be thoroughly ashamed of itself. You just made a generalisation of over 1.6 billion people and didn't even blink. You need help.
I've heard that claimed lots of times, but no-one has given a sensible answer to it. Is it to allow the citizens to rise up against the government? If so, the armed forces are in the way, and no amount of weekend warriors with no support or decent training will overcome them. If the armed forces are not going to stand in the way, then there is no need for the guns in the first place. This "we need our guns to protect our rights!" logic is bizarre. Plus, with all the screaming from various parts of the electorate, why hasn't it happened yet? And what is the signal anyway? A bunch of strangers with guns, no training, no logistical support, no common aim, no close air support, aren't going to accomplish nothing, except make for a very easy turkey shoot for whoever's up against them. Now, on the other hand, if you'd said explosives were important and not guns, I'd have to agree with you, as those are a real threat to an army (just ask anyone back from Iraq or Afghanistan what was worse - AK47s or IEDs).
The knowledge doesn't just help the driver navigate, but gives them such an extensive knowledge that partial or even flat-out contradictory addresses can be resolved to real places, and the journey can continue. Falling drunk into the back of a black cab and muttering your street name and/or a bit or two of postcode, only to fall asleep and be woken outside your flat by a driver asking for a very fair price is simply not possible with Uber.
When a GPS knows where "just of the Essex road where that pub used to be on the corner. I think it was called the Two Foxes or something", I'd concede that GPS beats those who've taken the Knowledge. Of course if you give it two addresses to navigate between it'd do fine, but that's not what makes the Knowledge so impressive - it's the fuzziness it eliminates, and its ability to rapidly update the route should something untoward happen en route.
The Taliban offered to hand OBL over shortly after 9/11, on the condition the US handed over evidence of his complicity. So yeah - no reason to be there.
And that the attack went on for over an hour, and that Washington and the local forces were contacted by MSF during the attack, and yet the attack continued for another 30 minutes. If that's incompetence, the US military is simply shit at being a modern fighting force.
MSF told the US military during the attack that they were under attack. Yes, we all know 100% perfection is not possible, but this was clearly no accident. Please stop defending war crimes - it's not helping anyone.
If size is the problem, then why aren't US cities the best in the world for internet access? They have lots of money, many subscribers, and manageable amounts of space.
Stop making excuses for the chain cluster-fuck that is US internet infrastructure. The more you keep hand-waiving it away the longer it will exist.
I know what you mean, but I think you might have overlooked something: It's kind of like sex. For free it's one thing, to use it as part of your business model is clearly something else entirely.
And they'd think you just as mad to treat the constitution as some sort of divine document that can never be updated. If the FAA regulating the national airspace is of vital importance to the functioning of the country, add it to the constitution. Simple. Problem solved.
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Except where it does not, of course. Or are you saying all the successful projects which used Agile methodologies to be created don't exist?
Blindly following GPS in London is what will get you all screwed up. It simply does not compare to taking the Knowledge. Uber is perfectly capable of running as an actual minicab company, but they'd have to make sure all their drivers are licensed to drive a minicab. They don't want to do that (because it's expensive and decreases their driver pool), so they are complaining that somehow they are special and the hundreds of years of successful regulations which ended up with one of the best taxi services in the world should be defenestrated because some startup wants to make money by worsening the entire market.
The background checks are not meaningless. Uber's might be, but the state ones are anything but. Being logged in to an app is clearly not the same thing as having your entire registration, license, insurance, and tax details in the public carriage office's systems.
If Uber wants to play the game, they have to play by the rules. Taxis in London are currently very well regulated, and it shows. Uber can't just complain and pay off websites to speak favourably about them in hopes that an already-working system will be degraded to allow their business model to shit over everything and everyone.
So everyone needs to perform a full audit of what they're buying, including purchasing something to test that it's safe/fit to purchase? I hope you have a lot of free time or vanishingly small respect for your own safety...
The real-time traffic information is not real-time, so it doesn't compare. If a cabby comes up to a blocked street, they instantly know which route to take to get around it. Satnavs need time to calculate. The knowledge also improves the cabby's ability to determine the destination address, as such a fundamental understanding of the hotels, businesses, pubs, and former hotels, businesses, and pubs is amazingly useful when finding out where someone actually wants to go. Mumbling a bit of your address or using a long-closed pub as a route reference is something perfectly adequate for a Knowledge-equipped cabby, but nowhere near enough for a satnav. Seriously, these cabbies know London incredibly well, including how London used to be.
So no, London still needs black cabs and the Knowledge.
p.s. I'm very impressed you didn't slip in your usual hate-filled attack on over 1.6 billion people. You might just be growing up.
But... but... 2nd amendment! You said it yourself the other day. You can't have it both ways.
So you think the news stories in the newspapers you read were put there to put pressure on Iran?? Is that what you're saying?
Or maybe it's because people like you think making massive generalizations of 51% of the population is perfectly acceptable. Hint: It's not. Not all women think the same, just as all men don't think the same. Old-fashioned, lazy thinking such as yours is the real danger, as it festers, builds up, and becomes something ridiculously toxic, where anyone speaking against it is labeled with whatever easy badge you can pin on them in order to simply ignore the reality that maybe you are an antisocial bigoted fuck...
Women trash talk just as much as guys and are (on average) no better or worse at it. Some will be worse at it, some will be better at it, just as with guys.
Grow up. The future implores you.
Yes, biologically different, but still able to have a decent conversation and discuss possibly-contentious topics. This characterisation of women as verging on emotional breakdowns is fucking disgusting. We're not all identical, but there are greater differences among men and among women than there are between men and women, so getting caught up on gender is, well, pathetic.
Speak for yourself! Stop trying to validate your shortcomings by foisting them on all geeks. Plenty of geeks are not competitive, work well in teams, and are not rude. You being socially maladjusted does not mean we all are.
You disgusting, lazy human being. Whatever society shat out your flaccid intellect should be thoroughly ashamed of itself. You just made a generalisation of over 1.6 billion people and didn't even blink. You need help.
Plenty of countries do, but not in the first world.
I've heard that claimed lots of times, but no-one has given a sensible answer to it. Is it to allow the citizens to rise up against the government? If so, the armed forces are in the way, and no amount of weekend warriors with no support or decent training will overcome them. If the armed forces are not going to stand in the way, then there is no need for the guns in the first place. This "we need our guns to protect our rights!" logic is bizarre. Plus, with all the screaming from various parts of the electorate, why hasn't it happened yet? And what is the signal anyway? A bunch of strangers with guns, no training, no logistical support, no common aim, no close air support, aren't going to accomplish nothing, except make for a very easy turkey shoot for whoever's up against them. Now, on the other hand, if you'd said explosives were important and not guns, I'd have to agree with you, as those are a real threat to an army (just ask anyone back from Iraq or Afghanistan what was worse - AK47s or IEDs).
The knowledge doesn't just help the driver navigate, but gives them such an extensive knowledge that partial or even flat-out contradictory addresses can be resolved to real places, and the journey can continue. Falling drunk into the back of a black cab and muttering your street name and/or a bit or two of postcode, only to fall asleep and be woken outside your flat by a driver asking for a very fair price is simply not possible with Uber.
When a GPS knows where "just of the Essex road where that pub used to be on the corner. I think it was called the Two Foxes or something", I'd concede that GPS beats those who've taken the Knowledge. Of course if you give it two addresses to navigate between it'd do fine, but that's not what makes the Knowledge so impressive - it's the fuzziness it eliminates, and its ability to rapidly update the route should something untoward happen en route.
The Taliban offered to hand OBL over shortly after 9/11, on the condition the US handed over evidence of his complicity. So yeah - no reason to be there.
And that the attack went on for over an hour, and that Washington and the local forces were contacted by MSF during the attack, and yet the attack continued for another 30 minutes. If that's incompetence, the US military is simply shit at being a modern fighting force.
MSF told the US military during the attack that they were under attack. Yes, we all know 100% perfection is not possible, but this was clearly no accident. Please stop defending war crimes - it's not helping anyone.
Yeah, but north/south not east/west...
If size is the problem, then why aren't US cities the best in the world for internet access? They have lots of money, many subscribers, and manageable amounts of space.
Stop making excuses for the chain cluster-fuck that is US internet infrastructure. The more you keep hand-waiving it away the longer it will exist.
"We"?
So it's exactly the same as everywhere else then...
Holy jumping-to-conclusions, Batman! Maybe he just realizes that owning property does not include owning the part of the universe above it.
I know what you mean, but I think you might have overlooked something: It's kind of like sex. For free it's one thing, to use it as part of your business model is clearly something else entirely.
And they'd think you just as mad to treat the constitution as some sort of divine document that can never be updated. If the FAA regulating the national airspace is of vital importance to the functioning of the country, add it to the constitution. Simple. Problem solved.