How can they not be workers for Uber? They can't get ride-share jobs off the platform and all the money comes from the platform. They can't be contractors because they could contract with anyone if they were.
True. I own an EV and after 6 months gas-powered cars are dead to me.
I have a reservation on a Tesla Model 3 and the money is sitting in the bank waiting. In the meantime my 30kWh Nissan LEAF more than gets the job done.
I charge up at home for $1 / day. I pay nothing in servicing because there's bugging to service. EVs are so simple compared to gas cars. No radiator (so no coolant), no fan, no fan belt, no gearbox, no transmission fluid, no spell plugs, no alternator, no alternator belt, no pistons, no gaskets to blow, no air filter to clog or replace. No oil filter. No oil.
All those things you pay to have maintained in your gas powered car? In a battery electric car they do not even exist.
Both Musk and Kalanick want to remove people from their businesses in order to reduce costs.
I have no issues with ending paid work as we know it provided I still get paid.
But if no one gets paid, Houston, we will have a BIG problem.
My father died and left me more than enough so that I never wanted to work again I don't have to. The earnings on the capital annually is more than I earned each year by working.
So instead of paid employment I split my time between volunteer work and things to sell. Stuff I always wanted to do, but couldn't. I'm visit than ever and enjoying every minute of it.
It's given me a glimpse of what a world on a universal basic income could be like. Positice, constructive people doing positive constructive things..... And negative, destructive people free to fund their own destruction.
Hopefully there would more of the former as time went on.
The Constitution is deeply flawed and in need of major reform, particularly around anything to do with elections. It gives pets to states that states shouldn't have and prescribes a two year term for the House of Representatives that now acts little more than a driver of corruption. Only two Senators per state is now utterly ludicrous.
This is why the Constitution gets ignored: It's to hard to change and it hasn't kept up with the real world. I can't that changing until the Constitution changes.
True. In some way they will be held to account by reality for their ignorance in allowing either Clinton or Trump to be nominees.
Too many good people doing nothing...... And Clinton / Trump is the price they pay for it.
To conservatives, reality has a left wing bias.
There's because conservatives tend to believe things that aren't true (starting with God and moving right along from there, having bought the Big Scam.)
Electing anyone who has never held any elected office before to the top job rarely ends well.
On climate change alone Trump is a disaster for the planet. For anything else he's just a likely disaster for Americans.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean no one can disagree with you. It just means you don't get imprisoned or killed for saying what you think.
Where people get this idea they can talk drivel without consequence may hold the key to why they talk drivel in the first place.
Because weapons contactors need fear to keep subbing hard on trillions in tax dollars. This is why the schools are falling apart and you can't get good health care.
The GFC made it obvious that conjuring up trillions of dollars wasn't a problem. Easy. The issue is who gets the money. Bankers got it. They hung their heads for an hour or two then carried on making money hand over fist from the rest of us.
Money isn't the problem. Who gets it is the problem. A UBI will be essential. But it has to be aligned with food supply and hiding supply and transport costs. You can't do one in isolation from the others.
I'm concerned about private technical advances they are "owned" for a time by one company and may be known to a small number if individuals. With corporate copyright and patent period getting longer and longer we risk losing that work because it is so narrowly held.
Agreed. Military spending is mostly a waste of money anyway. It's the price the US has to pay for screwing other people over for their resources and then blaming them.
Stop screwing other people over. A century of bad US policy in the Middle East should and could end any day now, though the $38 billion annual gift to Israel want a step in the right direction.
Almost $700billion / year for the military - and that's just the money we know about.
But no money for health or schools or crumbling understructure....
You're have to be a special kind of very dim to support that.
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How can they not be workers for Uber? They can't get ride-share jobs off the platform and all the money comes from the platform. They can't be contractors because they could contract with anyone if they were.
True. I own an EV and after 6 months gas-powered cars are dead to me. I have a reservation on a Tesla Model 3 and the money is sitting in the bank waiting. In the meantime my 30kWh Nissan LEAF more than gets the job done. I charge up at home for $1 / day. I pay nothing in servicing because there's bugging to service. EVs are so simple compared to gas cars. No radiator (so no coolant), no fan, no fan belt, no gearbox, no transmission fluid, no spell plugs, no alternator, no alternator belt, no pistons, no gaskets to blow, no air filter to clog or replace. No oil filter. No oil. All those things you pay to have maintained in your gas powered car? In a battery electric car they do not even exist.
Robots don't need H1Bs.
Both Musk and Kalanick want to remove people from their businesses in order to reduce costs. I have no issues with ending paid work as we know it provided I still get paid. But if no one gets paid, Houston, we will have a BIG problem.
My father died and left me more than enough so that I never wanted to work again I don't have to. The earnings on the capital annually is more than I earned each year by working. So instead of paid employment I split my time between volunteer work and things to sell. Stuff I always wanted to do, but couldn't. I'm visit than ever and enjoying every minute of it. It's given me a glimpse of what a world on a universal basic income could be like. Positice, constructive people doing positive constructive things..... And negative, destructive people free to fund their own destruction. Hopefully there would more of the former as time went on.
The Constitution is deeply flawed and in need of major reform, particularly around anything to do with elections. It gives pets to states that states shouldn't have and prescribes a two year term for the House of Representatives that now acts little more than a driver of corruption. Only two Senators per state is now utterly ludicrous. This is why the Constitution gets ignored: It's to hard to change and it hasn't kept up with the real world. I can't that changing until the Constitution changes.
I'm fairly sure those won't be the same people.
Nobody you know. Either of them.
They just won't turn their Geiger counters on and everything will be fine.
True. In some way they will be held to account by reality for their ignorance in allowing either Clinton or Trump to be nominees. Too many good people doing nothing...... And Clinton / Trump is the price they pay for it.
Yeah, but there are so many of those folks. They just elected a president. The US is dead. The rest of the world needs to route around the asylum.
To conservatives, reality has a left wing bias. There's because conservatives tend to believe things that aren't true (starting with God and moving right along from there, having bought the Big Scam.)
You're forgetting the US$14 billion penalty?
He'll be a conservative doing what they imagine is thinking. Not hard to spot. You just say dumb stuff like it's true and you mean it.
Trump narrowly beat Clinton in 3 states and lost the popular vote. Hardly a strong mandate.
Electing anyone who has never held any elected office before to the top job rarely ends well. On climate change alone Trump is a disaster for the planet. For anything else he's just a likely disaster for Americans. Freedom of speech doesn't mean no one can disagree with you. It just means you don't get imprisoned or killed for saying what you think. Where people get this idea they can talk drivel without consequence may hold the key to why they talk drivel in the first place.
Because weapons contactors need fear to keep subbing hard on trillions in tax dollars. This is why the schools are falling apart and you can't get good health care.
Hello, Mr Frog-in-pot. Yet. Hadn't harmed anything yet.... Except Syria and a few million hungry, displaced people.
The paid trolls and flat-rather autistic spectrum folk do the denying. The rest of us stopped paying attention to them years ago.
The GFC made it obvious that conjuring up trillions of dollars wasn't a problem. Easy. The issue is who gets the money. Bankers got it. They hung their heads for an hour or two then carried on making money hand over fist from the rest of us. Money isn't the problem. Who gets it is the problem. A UBI will be essential. But it has to be aligned with food supply and hiding supply and transport costs. You can't do one in isolation from the others.
I'm concerned about private technical advances they are "owned" for a time by one company and may be known to a small number if individuals. With corporate copyright and patent period getting longer and longer we risk losing that work because it is so narrowly held.
The "full glass" is the case of measles caught domestically. Not the passing bottle of water.
Yeah, because this bunker sales dude knows their innermost thoughts on political matters.
Agreed. Military spending is mostly a waste of money anyway. It's the price the US has to pay for screwing other people over for their resources and then blaming them. Stop screwing other people over. A century of bad US policy in the Middle East should and could end any day now, though the $38 billion annual gift to Israel want a step in the right direction. Almost $700billion / year for the military - and that's just the money we know about. But no money for health or schools or crumbling understructure.... You're have to be a special kind of very dim to support that.
Will they run Linux?