Well, basically, because you are using the roads that belong to others and these others want to go to the places they are given pieces of paper for going too, or they want to go to places to give pieces of paper to others and you and a few others may be in the way. And the couple of millions of others that are on the road wiht their properties at the same time that you are trying to enforce your rules will not feel very happy about that.
And you may have an accident with your property while enforcing your rules and the insurance company will not give you any pieces of paper, specially not if something happened to the person who wanted to give pieces of paper to you.. and you may end up in a big house with bars on the doors and windows and you may end up being the property of somebody else and subject to his rules;)
Just imagine the situation in stations and airports. It is bad right now, everywhere, in every country. Taxi Mafia are global. Now change the taxis for normal drivers... no matter if you can call them via an app or not... it will be total chaos. and this will mean that normal people who drive themselves will suffer the consequences of that, including economical ones with Uberpoppers just topping anywhere they want and releasing passengers everywhere and there would of course be wars and Mafia, you doubt it?
The "Locals" were either a bunch of retards or a bunch of motherfucking pranksters.
Assuming you visit Amsterdam, 38 Euros is a lot of rides to be taken... and that's the minimum fine you can get. Not worth the risk for a the 1.5 buck of the ticket from Hoofdorp to Amsterdam. And the Metro has closed doors, no way to ride "black".And the train controllers will go for the tourists, take it for granted
Well, maybe it's me. But in my country (Hilversum, capital of the The People's Republic of t'Gooi) we have a few yellow and blue machines that say "Losse kaartjes", made of paper.
And I have a "Special Chipkart" that I pay every month... well, my boss pays it as here in my exotic country the companies cover for the cost of transport... I use it every day to travel between my country and the Republic of Equatorial Utrecht were I work in a Banana plantation (they grow so big in this climate!)
That's universal here, not only in the public transport: All card readers are pin and chip readers. There are a few on bigger stations that accept credit cards (as opposed to the ubiquitous ATM cards or "bank pass") but I don't know if they accept cards with magnetic strip only.
I think that chipless cards are not accepted EU-wide.
Well, despite being a small country we have a few airportS (note the plural) and quite a large number of STATIONS. And yes, you can buy the OV Chipkaart at any vending machine on any station.
And don't waste your money in one of these "reusable" cards, they will cost you 4.5 € extra just for the sake of it. Just buy a dead-normal paper ticket. They are new too but made of paper and you can recharge them. Business as usual: Single trip or return trip. Remember to check in at the door and out if you have a return, later you can just throw it away.
Yes, it's a very difficult situation indeed. As the train station in Schiphol is so difficult to find and the buses are normally also carefully hidden...
Of course, renting a car is a very good option, this way you can enjoy or SpeedWays of Dead were you can recklessly drive at 45km/hour in the traffic jam and admire our beautifully crafted road signs indicating a speed limit of 130km/h.
Ah, the pleasures of living dangerously
Not to speak about the joy of searching for a place to park in the big cities
I always wondered which kind of person in this country could ever use a Taxi... well, I have seen a couple of elderly dames with "Rollator" using them;)
A, yes, and the tourists.
Read Again: ONPublic Roads, unless you refer to an Helicopter, of course. You are free to do as much business as you want, but if you use a resource you have to pay for it. Sorry. And roads are a resource, that happens to be public. And you are not free to what you want because you may hinder other persons who are also wanting to use the road to get to the places THEY make their business and practice their entrepreneurship it if fits them.
Sure that people don't take taxis because they are expensive? And not just because everybody and the dog has a bike or a few of them (and nothing beats Gratis)? Or because you pay 0 EUR for home-to-work transport ?
Taxed about 65-70%? Sure? With a modal salary of 35K/year this would mean 24500 EUR year... I mean... are you really sure that we are talking about the same country mate, het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden? Well, maybe I live in a different country: Noord-Holland may have segregated and we are now a Republic?
Taxes are TIERED meaning that we pay 30% for the common tier (biggest part) of our salaries and 42% for the highest tier and for some stuff that is taxes expressly like extra hours and vacation that you want to get paid out instead of taking them... but heck, that's with a reason.
And not for nothing we are the country with the HIGHEST productivity in the world, because we are well treated workers and generally like our jobs and this is for a reason.
And anyway: I don't give a flying fuck about these Uberpop users, I use the bike, that why we have our fietspadden for, paid with the taxes. I have no issue with taxes, it's always better to having to learn to breath underwater, LOL
If you recall that these 50K extra inmigr5ation are DUTCH coming back from abroad, BRITISH and GERMAN expats... well...
And you commit a very stupid statistical fault: Those GERMANS, BRITISH and most of the rest of the extra 50K are actually working just like you and me and paying as much as we do. And specially among the GERMANS they may be paying MUCH MORE than you and me.
The last thing a Wilders fan would say is that we live in a happy country.
And you are wrong: Geert not only blames the Muslims, he also has the Leftist-Church, the Polish and East-Europeans (except his wife, of course) , Brussels (may be allergic to sprouts) and the Global Warming Alarmists (1)
1) So, basically, this guy doesn't want us to become a second French Midi, thank you very much Geert!
And whores are way more abundant in Nevada (or wherever the state were it's free) than here. Not so speak about Germany. Even their weed-laws are less restrictive than ours. Heck, they were already better with medical marijuana legislation, now it's almost free in several states with more population and several times larger (Washington and Colorado, AFAIK).
And talking about inmigrants: I have a new neighbour freshly immigrated from... The USA:)
Not necessarily "limited knowledge..." but mate, for many people having the opportunity to live in a warmer country and buying a decent sized house is enough of an incentive to to go live to the land of their ancestors.
And don't forget Benidorm,
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about mate.
"Emigration" does not mean "Leaving your land for all eternity without ever returning": Our INmigration rate is slightly higher than the EMigration rate.. and if you think on hundreds of thousands of poor Mexicans coming here you are wrong, in fact the bulk of the emigration are RE-inmigrantes; The very ones that went away and come back.
The reasons for Emigration here are: Young people who traditionally go a year or two abroad, people who go to study abroad and people who go to LIVE a few kilometers away to Germany and Belgium (this is a small country mate).
And finally another important group of "Native Dutch" emigrants are Dutch of Morokkan and Turkish origin who go back to live in their country of origin (Elderly) and young people born here but who have the opportunity go to to live to Morokko.
And finally there is a HUGE group of elderly and pensionists of all ethnic origins that go to live in the south of Europe for rather obvious reasons. Hint: Despite the idea that USians may have we don't have tropical beaches nor snowy mountains.
So that I have no idea what point you were trying yo make, but whatever it was: We happen to have internet too here in Good Old Holland (1)...
1) Yes, this is written from the very Holland, Noord-Holland to be precise, so spare me your display of geographical knowledge fresh from Wikipedia
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I thought doctors were completely private in the USA.
Bah, we have our bikes. Who want's a shabby taxi?
And it's not only "Bad neighbourhoods", what about not profitable ones?
Well, basically, because you are using the roads that belong to others and these others want to go to the places they are given pieces of paper for going too, or they want to go to places to give pieces of paper to others and you and a few others may be in the way. And the couple of millions of others that are on the road wiht their properties at the same time that you are trying to enforce your rules will not feel very happy about that.
And you may have an accident with your property while enforcing your rules and the insurance company will not give you any pieces of paper, specially not if something happened to the person who wanted to give pieces of paper to you.. and you may end up in a big house with bars on the doors and windows and you may end up being the property of somebody else and subject to his rules ;)
Excellent point. I don think the common car insurance will cover accidents in these situations, and neither will the company Uberpop do.
Just imagine the situation in stations and airports. It is bad right now, everywhere, in every country. Taxi Mafia are global. Now change the taxis for normal drivers... no matter if you can call them via an app or not... it will be total chaos. and this will mean that normal people who drive themselves will suffer the consequences of that, including economical ones with Uberpoppers just topping anywhere they want and releasing passengers everywhere and there would of course be wars and Mafia, you doubt it?
The "Locals" were either a bunch of retards or a bunch of motherfucking pranksters. Assuming you visit Amsterdam, 38 Euros is a lot of rides to be taken... and that's the minimum fine you can get. Not worth the risk for a the 1.5 buck of the ticket from Hoofdorp to Amsterdam. And the Metro has closed doors, no way to ride "black".And the train controllers will go for the tourists, take it for granted
Are you sure you are talking about the Nederlands? http://www.ns.nl/reizigers/ovc...
Well, maybe it's me. But in my country (Hilversum, capital of the The People's Republic of t'Gooi) we have a few yellow and blue machines that say "Losse kaartjes", made of paper.
And I have a "Special Chipkart" that I pay every month... well, my boss pays it as here in my exotic country the companies cover for the cost of transport... I use it every day to travel between my country and the Republic of Equatorial Utrecht were I work in a Banana plantation (they grow so big in this climate!)
That's universal here, not only in the public transport: All card readers are pin and chip readers. There are a few on bigger stations that accept credit cards (as opposed to the ubiquitous ATM cards or "bank pass") but I don't know if they accept cards with magnetic strip only.
I think that chipless cards are not accepted EU-wide.
"Poorly Implemented"? Lol. that's a very creative understatement :)
And don't waste your money in one of these "reusable" cards, they will cost you 4.5 € extra just for the sake of it. Just buy a dead-normal paper ticket. They are new too but made of paper and you can recharge them. Business as usual: Single trip or return trip. Remember to check in at the door and out if you have a return, later you can just throw it away.
Ah, the pleasures of living dangerously
Not to speak about the joy of searching for a place to park in the big cities
I always wondered which kind of person in this country could ever use a Taxi... well, I have seen a couple of elderly dames with "Rollator" using them ;)
A, yes, and the tourists.
Read Again: ONPublic Roads, unless you refer to an Helicopter, of course. You are free to do as much business as you want, but if you use a resource you have to pay for it. Sorry. And roads are a resource, that happens to be public. And you are not free to what you want because you may hinder other persons who are also wanting to use the road to get to the places THEY make their business and practice their entrepreneurship it if fits them.
Hey! Good idea!!! Very good idea actually!! Can we make an app for that?
Sure that people don't take taxis because they are expensive? And not just because everybody and the dog has a bike or a few of them (and nothing beats Gratis)? Or because you pay 0 EUR for home-to-work transport ?
Taxed about 65-70%? Sure? With a modal salary of 35K/year this would mean 24500 EUR year... I mean... are you really sure that we are talking about the same country mate, het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden? Well, maybe I live in a different country: Noord-Holland may have segregated and we are now a Republic?
Taxes are TIERED meaning that we pay 30% for the common tier (biggest part) of our salaries and 42% for the highest tier and for some stuff that is taxes expressly like extra hours and vacation that you want to get paid out instead of taking them... but heck, that's with a reason.
And not for nothing we are the country with the HIGHEST productivity in the world, because we are well treated workers and generally like our jobs and this is for a reason.
And anyway: I don't give a flying fuck about these Uberpop users, I use the bike, that why we have our fietspadden for, paid with the taxes. I have no issue with taxes, it's always better to having to learn to breath underwater, LOL
And you commit a very stupid statistical fault: Those GERMANS, BRITISH and most of the rest of the extra 50K are actually working just like you and me and paying as much as we do. And specially among the GERMANS they may be paying MUCH MORE than you and me.
The last thing a Wilders fan would say is that we live in a happy country.
And you are wrong: Geert not only blames the Muslims, he also has the Leftist-Church, the Polish and East-Europeans (except his wife, of course) , Brussels (may be allergic to sprouts) and the Global Warming Alarmists (1)
1) So, basically, this guy doesn't want us to become a second French Midi, thank you very much Geert!
And whores are way more abundant in Nevada (or wherever the state were it's free) than here. Not so speak about Germany. Even their weed-laws are less restrictive than ours. Heck, they were already better with medical marijuana legislation, now it's almost free in several states with more population and several times larger (Washington and Colorado, AFAIK). And talking about inmigrants: I have a new neighbour freshly immigrated from... The USA :)
Not necessarily "limited knowledge..." but mate, for many people having the opportunity to live in a warmer country and buying a decent sized house is enough of an incentive to to go live to the land of their ancestors. And don't forget Benidorm,
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about mate. "Emigration" does not mean "Leaving your land for all eternity without ever returning": Our INmigration rate is slightly higher than the EMigration rate.. and if you think on hundreds of thousands of poor Mexicans coming here you are wrong, in fact the bulk of the emigration are RE-inmigrantes; The very ones that went away and come back.
The reasons for Emigration here are: Young people who traditionally go a year or two abroad, people who go to study abroad and people who go to LIVE a few kilometers away to Germany and Belgium (this is a small country mate).
And finally another important group of "Native Dutch" emigrants are Dutch of Morokkan and Turkish origin who go back to live in their country of origin (Elderly) and young people born here but who have the opportunity go to to live to Morokko.
And finally there is a HUGE group of elderly and pensionists of all ethnic origins that go to live in the south of Europe for rather obvious reasons. Hint: Despite the idea that USians may have we don't have tropical beaches nor snowy mountains.
So that I have no idea what point you were trying yo make, but whatever it was: We happen to have internet too here in Good Old Holland (1)...
1) Yes, this is written from the very Holland, Noord-Holland to be precise, so spare me your display of geographical knowledge fresh from Wikipedia
With 32 "customers" at 4303.77 EUR per head, that's quite a nice amount of Eurobucks for these guys...
Obama is the CEO of Apple? Heck! I didn't knew that.
Fuck give this guy some +1, even it only for hte historical value