I do find it hard to believe that a driver with no criminal background would just get it in his head to start shooting up his own car over something minor. Either the driver is batshit crazy or the passenger likely did something pretty threatening to elicit that kind of response. But how about we wait for the actual facts of the case come out before we jump to any conclusions?
And if the passenger did really go psycho and tried to grab the wheel or harm the driver and driver hadn't had a gun, maybe we would be seeing the alternate headline "Two killed in Mysterious Uber Crash." Just some food for thought there.
Either way, might I make the radical suggestion that we wait for the actual facts of the case to come out before we all jump to conclusions that fit our various pre-defined narratives?
Nah, we need to add in some other elements to make it really work:
1) Make it crazy expensive. 2) Add in a direct incentive for the drivers to run up your bill as high as possible, maybe by charging by the mile and not defining the mileage at the start of the ride. 3) Remove any incentive for the driver to keep their vehicle clean or to treat customers well. 4) Make it very slow and cumbersome to order one of these "Takesys," by requiring a phone call where you have to speak to a rude and ill-informed dispatcher instead of providing a simple, easy-to-use app.
Just a few ideas there. It might also be good to only recruit drivers whose English is piss-poor, that way they can play dumb when their route takes a passenger 20 miles outside of the quickest path to the destination.
Is your hobby shop model going to have to survive being launched at 25,000 mph into space, then travel for months in an absolute zero cold vacuum, then be dropped from orbit onto the surface of a frigid cold planet with almost no atmospheric pressure?
They're all moving back to Miami, where you can buy a mansion with a suitcase full cash still. The real estate agent will even agree to clean the coke dust off for free.
...is still communism. Transferring vast amounts of wealth from the corporations and wealthy to the common people for the common good always sounds like a great idea in theory. But the practical results have pretty consistently proven disastrous.
Humans seem to need motivation to work and achieve. They need to feel like a big reward is possible, even if it's practically out of reach for most people. Penalizing success to give everyone more motivation to do the bare minimum is ultimately unhealthy for most societies (beyond a certain point anyway). No one disputes that we should have a social safety net for the old and infirm certainly, but a universal income for even the young and healthy only encourages a type of social stagnation.
Considering the sad state of NASA these days, does it really matter? If you gave me the choice between a asshole with no scientific credentials who might actually have the vision and leadership skills to be able to put men back into space and finally put men on Mars vs. one of the long series of boot-licking bureaucrats who've run the agency into the ground since the end of the Apollo era, I would choose the asshole any day.
Keep in mind that the/. staff is probably based in Silicon Valley, where it's just accepted dogma that all Republicans are Nazis, along with anyone else to the right of Karl Marx.
you have to tell me HOW allowing hate speech is going to benefit society at all
Because protecting someone else's right to speak today, even if I find their speech vile and reprehensible, ensures my right to speak tomorrow, even if my ideas become unpopular.
People should remember the Robespierre lesson. The laws you pass today to guillotine your enemies will be used by your enemies to guillotine you tomorrow. I mean, are you really so naive as to believe that hate speech laws will never be turned around and used against you one day?
It's more than the amount of time it would take to count every atom in the universe, if you had to wait from the Big Bang until now in between counting each atom.
AFAIK, this repeal doesn't stop anyone from developing clean energy on their own. It just removes the mandate that they HAVE too.
Apple is just pissed that other companies won't be forced to waste a ton of money developing a lot of clean energy that usually turns out to not be all it's cracked up to be. As a Silicon Valley company with a smug liberal customer base, Apple doesn't have any choice but to go clean. And they want to government to force other companies to do it too, so they won't be the only ones stuck with the additional costs.
State lawmakers in 21 states, after generous brib....ahem "campaign contributions" from cablecos and telcos, have decided that cities in their states don't get to make this choice for themselves. The most embarrassing example of this is Tennessee, which restricts other cities in the state from following Chattanooga's groundbreaking example.
Are you seriously arguing that this *wasn't* a joke, that he was seriously trying to convert his girlfriend's dog into an actual Nazi?
A dog.
Read that again: A dog.
Here, I'll repeat it once more to let it sink in: A dog.
You, and the Scottish Court that decided this for that matter, have lost your goddamned minds. Seriously, something is VERY wrong in the UK right now. And it fucking scares the shit out of me that your bizarre mass delusions could spread into the U.S. as well, like some sort of intellectual cancer.
Yeah, we crazy Americans believe in brutal practices like putting our pedophiles in prison, instead of just letting them go about their business for decades. We're such a barbaric shithole that way.
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Hasn't Uber itself argued that its drivers aren't employees?
I do find it hard to believe that a driver with no criminal background would just get it in his head to start shooting up his own car over something minor. Either the driver is batshit crazy or the passenger likely did something pretty threatening to elicit that kind of response. But how about we wait for the actual facts of the case come out before we jump to any conclusions?
And if the passenger did really go psycho and tried to grab the wheel or harm the driver and driver hadn't had a gun, maybe we would be seeing the alternate headline "Two killed in Mysterious Uber Crash." Just some food for thought there.
Either way, might I make the radical suggestion that we wait for the actual facts of the case to come out before we all jump to conclusions that fit our various pre-defined narratives?
Nah, we need to add in some other elements to make it really work:
1) Make it crazy expensive.
2) Add in a direct incentive for the drivers to run up your bill as high as possible, maybe by charging by the mile and not defining the mileage at the start of the ride.
3) Remove any incentive for the driver to keep their vehicle clean or to treat customers well.
4) Make it very slow and cumbersome to order one of these "Takesys," by requiring a phone call where you have to speak to a rude and ill-informed dispatcher instead of providing a simple, easy-to-use app.
Just a few ideas there. It might also be good to only recruit drivers whose English is piss-poor, that way they can play dumb when their route takes a passenger 20 miles outside of the quickest path to the destination.
Rich cunts get progressively more inbred with each generation. And the Kennedys have been rich for a lot of generations.
Stick to union busting.
Oh and I forgot: All the while bathed in intense radiation
Is your hobby shop model going to have to survive being launched at 25,000 mph into space, then travel for months in an absolute zero cold vacuum, then be dropped from orbit onto the surface of a frigid cold planet with almost no atmospheric pressure?
They're all moving back to Miami, where you can buy a mansion with a suitcase full cash still. The real estate agent will even agree to clean the coke dust off for free.
The only difference between Democrats and Republicans are the excuses they use for censorship.
...is still communism. Transferring vast amounts of wealth from the corporations and wealthy to the common people for the common good always sounds like a great idea in theory. But the practical results have pretty consistently proven disastrous.
Humans seem to need motivation to work and achieve. They need to feel like a big reward is possible, even if it's practically out of reach for most people. Penalizing success to give everyone more motivation to do the bare minimum is ultimately unhealthy for most societies (beyond a certain point anyway). No one disputes that we should have a social safety net for the old and infirm certainly, but a universal income for even the young and healthy only encourages a type of social stagnation.
Considering the sad state of NASA these days, does it really matter? If you gave me the choice between a asshole with no scientific credentials who might actually have the vision and leadership skills to be able to put men back into space and finally put men on Mars vs. one of the long series of boot-licking bureaucrats who've run the agency into the ground since the end of the Apollo era, I would choose the asshole any day.
Keep in mind that the /. staff is probably based in Silicon Valley, where it's just accepted dogma that all Republicans are Nazis, along with anyone else to the right of Karl Marx.
Would you prefer I cheat on my husband?
Global warming caused me to cheat on my wife. She understands now that I'm the real victim here.
I was just a little ahead of my time. But the business plan was sound.
So far it's only able to isolate Fran Drescher's voice in a crowd of Amish people. But they're improving it every day.
you have to tell me HOW allowing hate speech is going to benefit society at all
Because protecting someone else's right to speak today, even if I find their speech vile and reprehensible, ensures my right to speak tomorrow, even if my ideas become unpopular.
People should remember the Robespierre lesson. The laws you pass today to guillotine your enemies will be used by your enemies to guillotine you tomorrow. I mean, are you really so naive as to believe that hate speech laws will never be turned around and used against you one day?
It's more than the amount of time it would take to count every atom in the universe, if you had to wait from the Big Bang until now in between counting each atom.
That's a big Twinkie.
AFAIK, this repeal doesn't stop anyone from developing clean energy on their own. It just removes the mandate that they HAVE too.
Apple is just pissed that other companies won't be forced to waste a ton of money developing a lot of clean energy that usually turns out to not be all it's cracked up to be. As a Silicon Valley company with a smug liberal customer base, Apple doesn't have any choice but to go clean. And they want to government to force other companies to do it too, so they won't be the only ones stuck with the additional costs.
What if your religion is extremist?
State lawmakers in 21 states, after generous brib....ahem "campaign contributions" from cablecos and telcos, have decided that cities in their states don't get to make this choice for themselves. The most embarrassing example of this is Tennessee, which restricts other cities in the state from following Chattanooga's groundbreaking example.
Are you seriously arguing that this *wasn't* a joke, that he was seriously trying to convert his girlfriend's dog into an actual Nazi?
A dog.
Read that again: A dog.
Here, I'll repeat it once more to let it sink in: A dog.
You, and the Scottish Court that decided this for that matter, have lost your goddamned minds. Seriously, something is VERY wrong in the UK right now. And it fucking scares the shit out of me that your bizarre mass delusions could spread into the U.S. as well, like some sort of intellectual cancer.
Well, maybe we should ask our cops in America to just look the other way and pretend crimes aren't happening, like your UK cops do.
Yeah, we crazy Americans believe in brutal practices like putting our pedophiles in prison, instead of just letting them go about their business for decades. We're such a barbaric shithole that way.