I think he's quite clever. Trading a little up front discomfort for paying off $22k of student loans in 10 months? Sounds pretty smart to me. Hes sacrificing less than a year of his life.
Sacrificing a year of your life in your early twenties is much more psychologically costly than doing it in your forties or fifties.
Full disclosure, I strongly support physician assisted suicide.
Why would you want to prevent suicides?
Because many suicides are caused by depression or other mental illness which may be only temporary, and in any case needs treating. They differ profoundly from people choosing to die to avoid being in constant agony.
There can't be many people who haven't at some time thought "if I could just press a button and die I'd do it right now". It's why you need to make suicide a considered process rather than a snap decision, and it's one of the problems with having guns easily available, since they are pretty close to the "simply pressing a button" scenario, at least compared with swallowing loads of pills or jumping in front of a train.
I'm not a huge Trump fan, but if he does win it'll be amusing to watch all the people with pee dribbing down their pantsleg sputter and fume and latch onto anything 'dumb' that a microphone can capture him as having said.
Trump specialises in saying spectacularly unpleasant things, not dumb ones. They're not accidental.
Yup, and that is exactly why they are going after Uber in many places. It is the government's job to make sure that organizations providing livery or taxi service on public thoroughfares have the required insurance to cover them in the event of accidents or incidents which could harm their clients. And that is what they are doing, and that is why Uber is coming under fire in many jurisdictions.
It's at this point that Uber supporters say "but that's unfair because Uber is just a ride sharing service, not a livey or taxi service".
What's the difference between the state and the mafia? The mafia actually wants your business to do well so they can get their cut.
No, in reality gangsters will willingly bankrupt businesses by squeezing too hard. They are criminals, and have the normal criminal habits of stupidity, greed and inability to defer gratification.
Black cabs are really not that expensive compared to minicabs, but the old "I don't go south of the river/sorry mate I'm actually on my way home to Essex but forgot to turn my for taxi light off" thing still applies unless you're lucky.
Uber strikes me as fitting right in with the minicab model.
Yes, of course they do. That's because they are a minicab company.
The problem many of us have with Uber isn't that they're providing an alternative to conventional minicab services, but that they try to pretend they're not providing a minicab service at all, and are therefore entitled to ignore any laws relating to minicabs.
Like Dark Knight or not, it was a wildly popular movie
You might as well just look at the box office receipts to judge popularity. In any case, there is no connection at all between popularity and quality. From Wikipedia the five highest grossing films of all time are Avatar, Titanic, Jurassic World, The Avengers and Furious 7. All but Avatar are crap, and Avatar itself is not that great.
I hardly ever read reviews for this same reason. Everyone has different opinions, so for this reason I find the whole concept of a professional critic ridiculous.
Some people's opinions are more valuable than others. For instance, I know nothing abut Icelandic folk music, so my opinion on a recent song in that genre would be of negligible value compared to that of a music journalist. from Iceland.
If we extrapolate from Kennesaw, then the answer is mandatory gun ownership.
Criminals given the choice of an armed victim or an unarmed victim will choose the unarmed victim. What's never been proven is that if every victim were armed, that the criminals wouldn't commit crimes. You are making an illogical leap.
If every potential victim were armed, criminals would just become a lot more ruthless, and/or better organised.
For example, if I was a burglar in a place where every householder was armed, I would clearly go armed myself. This would inevitably lead to more people being shot in burglaries, and they wouldn't all be the criminals.
If I was a mugger, I'd have a friend or two help me ambush people properly, rather than walking up to them and asking for their wallet and letting them draw their weapon.
If I was a bank robber, I'd ensure my gang shot anyone who even looked like they might be going for a gun.
Nope. The same week as a large shooting in the US (may have been Sandy Hook, not sure) there was a mass stabbing in China. The difference is there was a tiny chance of living if shot in the shooting, and a 100% survival in the school mass stabbing.
And a little more than a year later there was a mass stabbing in China that left 29 victims dead:
That was a terrorist attack, rather than a crime. And it would have been even worse if the perpetrators had used automatic weapons (or bombs). The point is, that China's gun laws made it hard even for serious terrorists to get guns, and at least in this instance that was a good thing.
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I think he's quite clever. Trading a little up front discomfort for paying off $22k of student loans in 10 months? Sounds pretty smart to me. Hes sacrificing less than a year of his life.
Sacrificing a year of your life in your early twenties is much more psychologically costly than doing it in your forties or fifties.
OTOH with a fascist government there is no shame in posting racist comments so he would be happy.
Only if they're on the approved hate-list this week.
Full disclosure, I strongly support physician assisted suicide.
Why would you want to prevent suicides?
Because many suicides are caused by depression or other mental illness which may be only temporary, and in any case needs treating. They differ profoundly from people choosing to die to avoid being in constant agony.
There can't be many people who haven't at some time thought "if I could just press a button and die I'd do it right now". It's why you need to make suicide a considered process rather than a snap decision, and it's one of the problems with having guns easily available, since they are pretty close to the "simply pressing a button" scenario, at least compared with swallowing loads of pills or jumping in front of a train.
then stfu, don't read the article, and go get a life. it's not as if you had a gun pointed to your head making you read this stuff.
Wow, you Uber shills are getting pretty fucking aggressive.
I'm not a huge Trump fan, but if he does win it'll be amusing to watch all the people with pee dribbing down their pantsleg sputter and fume and latch onto anything 'dumb' that a microphone can capture him as having said.
Trump specialises in saying spectacularly unpleasant things, not dumb ones. They're not accidental.
Carter was a nuclear engineer but came off as dumber than Reagan. Not saying stupid shit in public is a different skill to others.
Speaking as a non American I can tell you that the only politician who ever came off as dumber than Reagan was George W Bush.
Carter always seemed like someone who was too thoughtful to be a politician.
No, you're a troll for posting obnoxious opinions and then reveling in the response you get.
Why is it obnoxious to say that he had sex with his slave, which by definition was non-consensual and therefore (in modern terms) rape?
Do you have some credible references to Trump committing rape
Didn't Ivana Trump say that she was raped by him when they were married?
Of course, his real crime is that rug.
I'm sure plenty of factory owners had their profits cut when anti child labour laws were introduced.
To be fair, a gentleman of our generation judging another gent's behavior a century and a half ago is a bit presumptive.
You could still purchase another man then.
Like it or not, it's statistically likely you had to be a tiny bit pro-slave back then to make ends meet as a southern farmer.
Plenty of civilised people both in the US and elsewhere had decided that slavery was morally unacceptable by that stage in history.
The Koch brothers political contributions tend to be pro-freedom.
If you define freedom purely as the absence of obstacles to making money, I suppose that's true enough.
Labor laws are dead
That's certainly what Uber and similar Silicon Valley fascists would like.
incriminating the fare
Incrementing.
They are registered with Transport for London as a Minicab dispatcher.
Well someone at TfL fucked up then, because we all know Uber is a ride sharing service, and nothing to do with minicabs.
That's the job of the police and the DOT.
Yup, and that is exactly why they are going after Uber in many places. It is the government's job to make sure that organizations providing livery or taxi service on public thoroughfares have the required insurance to cover them in the event of accidents or incidents which could harm their clients. And that is what they are doing, and that is why Uber is coming under fire in many jurisdictions.
It's at this point that Uber supporters say "but that's unfair because Uber is just a ride sharing service, not a livey or taxi service".
What's the difference between the state and the mafia? The mafia actually wants your business to do well so they can get their cut.
No, in reality gangsters will willingly bankrupt businesses by squeezing too hard. They are criminals, and have the normal criminal habits of stupidity, greed and inability to defer gratification.
Black cabs are really not that expensive compared to minicabs, but the old "I don't go south of the river/sorry mate I'm actually on my way home to Essex but forgot to turn my for taxi light off" thing still applies unless you're lucky.
Uber strikes me as fitting right in with the minicab model.
Yes, of course they do. That's because they are a minicab company.
The problem many of us have with Uber isn't that they're providing an alternative to conventional minicab services, but that they try to pretend they're not providing a minicab service at all, and are therefore entitled to ignore any laws relating to minicabs.
Really? If you were caught advertently or inadvertently causing a security breach at your company, we could line you up along the wall as well?
YMBNH. OP is a slashdot reader, and therefore incapable of making any sheeple-y computer-related mistake.
Anything with more than 2 options is too much granularity for a movie rating system.
Three would work: thumbs up, thumbs down and meh. Which you could translate as worth seeing again, not worth seeing at all and OK to see once.
Like Dark Knight or not, it was a wildly popular movie
You might as well just look at the box office receipts to judge popularity. In any case, there is no connection at all between popularity and quality. From Wikipedia the five highest grossing films of all time are Avatar, Titanic, Jurassic World, The Avengers and Furious 7. All but Avatar are crap, and Avatar itself is not that great.
I hardly ever read reviews for this same reason. Everyone has different opinions, so for this reason I find the whole concept of a professional critic ridiculous.
Some people's opinions are more valuable than others. For instance, I know nothing abut Icelandic folk music, so my opinion on a recent song in that genre would be of negligible value compared to that of a music journalist. from Iceland.
A death caused by a toddler finding a gun is not more tragic than a death from falling off a ladder.
It's a lot more avoidable though.
If we extrapolate from Kennesaw, then the answer is mandatory gun ownership.
Criminals given the choice of an armed victim or an unarmed victim will choose the unarmed victim. What's never been proven is that if every victim were armed, that the criminals wouldn't commit crimes. You are making an illogical leap.
If every potential victim were armed, criminals would just become a lot more ruthless, and/or better organised.
For example, if I was a burglar in a place where every householder was armed, I would clearly go armed myself. This would inevitably lead to more people being shot in burglaries, and they wouldn't all be the criminals.
If I was a mugger, I'd have a friend or two help me ambush people properly, rather than walking up to them and asking for their wallet and letting them draw their weapon.
If I was a bank robber, I'd ensure my gang shot anyone who even looked like they might be going for a gun.
And so on.
Nope. The same week as a large shooting in the US (may have been Sandy Hook, not sure) there was a mass stabbing in China. The difference is there was a tiny chance of living if shot in the shooting, and a 100% survival in the school mass stabbing.
And a little more than a year later there was a mass stabbing in China that left 29 victims dead:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That was a terrorist attack, rather than a crime. And it would have been even worse if the perpetrators had used automatic weapons (or bombs). The point is, that China's gun laws made it hard even for serious terrorists to get guns, and at least in this instance that was a good thing.