True... if only they could make computers that we're slow and stupid touch screens you can't type on...
Anyways, if you're late or there is some complication... Humans are nice...
It looks like a bill if you don't read the bit that says "THIS IS NOT A BILL"?
So everybody agrees that they are deliberately trying to trick you; by giving their offer the graphical appearance of a bill. IMO that's fraud.
It's certainly not honest business conduct.
Well buddy, if you're in the habit of just randomly throwing your money at anyone who shoves a bit of paper in your face
I am in the that habit... In most cases the bill is probably legitimate, and it's a lot of work for me to validate that everything is correct. Even more work and cost, if I decide to fight a bill. Often the cheapest way out is to pay.
You right that failure to pay a "fake" bill, like have no consequences, but failure to pay a legitimate bill on time, because I could validate it, will cost me late payment fee, etc...
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Sure you can treat that as a contract breach, but it seems more like a criminal matter to me... Why do you even put that in the contract, it's needless to say that criminal conduct will not be tolerated.
How about stop trying to place restrictions on things just because they could be abused. We're supposed to be 'the land of the free,' for fuck's sake. This is just embarrassing.
Indeed, this is embarrassing... America never fails to deliver on the crazy...
Seriously, if you're afraid of self-driving cars being used to deliver explosives... Then it takes a special kind of crazy to worry about self-driving cars, as opposed to be worried about ease of access to guns and explosives.
Putting an automated weapon system in one. Now you can drive by shoot and be miles away.
This requires two main components:
1) An automatic assault rifle, and
2) A self driving car.
Which one of the two, do you think Americans would prefer to regulate/restrict access to?:)
Lol, my money is on self-driving car regulation... Long live status quo!
Seriously, though... How crazy do you have to be to be more concerned about self-driving cars being useful for delivering explosives, as opposed to be worried about access to explosives in the first place... America never disappoints to deliver a laugh:)
Only if they make sure everyone leaves their cell phones out the door.
Really, you think they are allowed to carry in cell phones?:)
That's like the number one thing not allowed... then followed by USB keys, cameras, etc...
Yeah, this smells like NSA trying to hide that Snowden did in fact try to bring up the issue through official channels, before he leaked documents to the public.
That is the short term result a major economic crisis in the US would have.
Yes, nobody wants that...
I dislike the US for many of the crimes your government is actively committing in the US and around the world. And I want the US to fix these issues, not go down some dark bottomless hole of political chaos.
Negotiations in a modern world is always about power... Too many nations are too powerful for this to be a viable option.
It's not in Germanys interest to weaken the American economy... That would hurt them just as bad...
I'm pretty sure no European country even wants to indicate that they want to mess with the US economy... Not because they are scared of a US response. But because they don't want to weaken the world economy, upon which many European countries depend.
If Germany made thebUS dollar fall even more. That would hurt the European economy and weak EURO economies would need further bail outs...
This is an appropriate and proportional response... It's not enough, I agree, but it's pretty good start! A European country deporting US officials is a big thing.
By the time the dust of WW2 had settled, the current system of employer-provided health insurance was firmly established. Leading us inevitably to today....
It sadness me that American politicians can't see that this inhibits competitions as employers use healthcare benefits to retain employees... It's very close to a lock-in, which hinders the powers of the free markets. Seriously, when you read ads for employers to provide healthcare, the ad is all about how the employer can retain his employees... Tsk tsk...
Compared to other countries, this is also a major blocker for start-ups, etc... Long term these things are going to keep the US behind.
Exactly - there are plenty of workers here in America that can fill that void - employers are just reluctant to pay the proper price for it.
I'm an H1B worker here... and I get paid enough - just don't tell my manager:)
But a fact is that without H1B I would be working from Toronto, London or home somewhere else in Europe... For the same company, doing the same thing.
All you're going to change is the location of the worlds largest tech cluster... without immigration silicon valley is nothing.
My non-expert opinion: Uber has a strong case that the drivers are independent contractors, not employees.
I don't dispute that this is the case under US law... My problem is with this practice of doing this... In the US the same happens to taxi drivers and pizza delivery drivers.
I find it distasteful to cut costs on people who have very little income. Sometimes these people makes below minimum wage. It seems to me like they are trying to exploit the little man. Because people do drive taxies, uber and deliver pizzas for a living, making them contractors is a distasteful way to cut money from people who make very little.
You need a file system which uses checksums on all data block so that it can detect a corrupted block after reading it, flag the file as corrupted so that you can restore it from a good backup.
When I decide to archive a lot of files I put them in a tarball and generate par2 files... That way a single bitflip or two will be okay:)
I have only been in one CA cab, but the driver was very relaxed and not at all assholish. Could be we got lucky.
SF cab drivers aren't the worst IMO... But uber drivers are much better, not speeding up like crazy, etc...
The shared shuttle rides from SFO though is the most crazy thing I've every tried, constantly speeding like crazy and going hard on the breaks at every stop sign, as if every single stop sign as a surprise:)
If Uber were really offering legitimate competition, I would be more sympathetic. But they're partly undercutting existing taxis through ridiculous things like using drivers who lack commercial vehicle insurance, which is rather irresponsible.
True, and calling the drivers self-employed, which is also a lie that moves more liability to the drivers and in the US frees uber of having to pay benefits etc...
That said, I'm pretty sure uber requires drivers to be insured, also uber does have insurances that covers the passenger, etc. google it for details.
Another, big cost saving that uber does is letting people use their private vehicles, which does make sense from a cost cutting perspective. And enables drivers to offer better service. For example by keeping their car clean.
Note, cost cutting is not the only reason uber is nice. Ordering and paying through an app is really nice too. So is the rating system, which holds drivers accountable.
Armed robbery of people on a train haven't been a profitable profession for at least 150 years:)
And I'm basing that fact that it ever as profitable on movies:)
Crime has long been the employment of quite a few members of society but now they will be caught.
s/employment/desperate measure/
By the way, criminals being caught is not a new thing... close to 1 percent of the prison service eligible US population is behind bars.
Your arrogance is your assumption that you have anything to say worth recording, let alone even listening to you. What makes your personal life so relevant?
So because my private life is utterly uninteresting, you suggest that I shouldn't care about giving up my human rights?
The right to privacy is a human right...
One might as well ask, why you should care about fair trails or torture, if you're not a criminal then why should you care? After all why should anybody want to torture a confession out of you?
This is not about being personally targeted or affected, it's about basic human rights.
There is no concrete information that the NSA or a national security letter was involved.
Before Snowden we used to say the same thing about NSA messing with encryption standard bodies, or NSA conductive widespread warrant-less surveillance of everybody.
We used to think people wasn't subjected to secret trails in the US. That's no longer the case, we now know by fact that the US doesn't honor basic human rights, not for it's citizens or anybody else.
Do we really need more proof. This isn't the worst thing the NSA have attempted yet.
How can the state of California guarantee that without price controls, then.
The things sounds more like a political goal.. Not something they plan to enforce by law... And if they plan to do so, it'll probably be through added taxes to conventional cars..
Either way, this smells of a CEO who didn't invest electric car development now wants to stop politicians from promoting electric cars...
I call it the aggressive, psychotic driver who makes random, unsafe lane changes, fails to signal, and swoops across several lanes of traffic while doing well over the speed limit.
Lemme see your driverless car handle that, then we'll see.
I personally look forward to driverless cars... no more looking before crossing the street..
If you want to cross the street just jump out in front of a car...
I saw one of the cars when I visited Mountain View a few weeks ago, and I was so tempted to jump out infront of it to see what happens:)
Just because one set of criminals gets off easier than they should, it does not follow that all other criminals should be treated leniently.
What good does it do?
How come Americans can only want harsher punishment?
Sure, what he did was bad... But one year in prison is enough. He will have learned the lesson.
Giving him 4 years, isn't going to make a difference. Except, it'll cost money to lock him up, and he will have a harder time getting a new job when he gets out, there by costing society even more money.
Oh, and he won't pay taxes for 4 years.
It's not like people do this stuff after having consider the consequences.
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True... if only they could make computers that we're slow and stupid touch screens you can't type on...
Anyways, if you're late or there is some complication... Humans are nice...
It looks like a bill if you don't read the bit that says "THIS IS NOT A BILL"?
So everybody agrees that they are deliberately trying to trick you; by giving their offer the graphical appearance of a bill. IMO that's fraud.
It's certainly not honest business conduct.
Well buddy, if you're in the habit of just randomly throwing your money at anyone who shoves a bit of paper in your face
I am in the that habit... In most cases the bill is probably legitimate, and it's a lot of work for me to validate that everything is correct. Even more work and cost, if I decide to fight a bill. Often the cheapest way out is to pay.
You right that failure to pay a "fake" bill, like have no consequences, but failure to pay a legitimate bill on time, because I could validate it, will cost me late payment fee, etc...
Brandon Gray’s resellers subjecting Registered Name Holders to false advertising, deceptive practices, or deceptive notices, pursuant to Section 3.12.7 of the RAA and Section 3 of Domain Name Registrants’ Rights of the Registrants’ Benefits and Responsibilities Specification (“RBRS”). >
Sure you can treat that as a contract breach, but it seems more like a criminal matter to me... Why do you even put that in the contract, it's needless to say that criminal conduct will not be tolerated.
How about stop trying to place restrictions on things just because they could be abused. We're supposed to be 'the land of the free,' for fuck's sake. This is just embarrassing.
Indeed, this is embarrassing... America never fails to deliver on the crazy...
Seriously, if you're afraid of self-driving cars being used to deliver explosives... Then it takes a special kind of crazy to worry about self-driving cars, as opposed to be worried about ease of access to guns and explosives.
Putting an automated weapon system in one. Now you can drive by shoot and be miles away.
This requires two main components:
:)
:)
1) An automatic assault rifle, and
2) A self driving car.
Which one of the two, do you think Americans would prefer to regulate/restrict access to?
Lol, my money is on self-driving car regulation... Long live status quo!
Seriously, though... How crazy do you have to be to be more concerned about self-driving cars being useful for delivering explosives, as opposed to be worried about access to explosives in the first place... America never disappoints to deliver a laugh
Only if they make sure everyone leaves their cell phones out the door.
Really, you think they are allowed to carry in cell phones? :)
That's like the number one thing not allowed... then followed by USB keys, cameras, etc...
Yeah, this smells like NSA trying to hide that Snowden did in fact try to bring up the issue through official channels, before he leaked documents to the public.
That is the short term result a major economic crisis in the US would have. Yes, nobody wants that...
I dislike the US for many of the crimes your government is actively committing in the US and around the world. And I want the US to fix these issues, not go down some dark bottomless hole of political chaos.
Negotiations in a modern world is always about power... Too many nations are too powerful for this to be a viable option.
It's not in Germanys interest to weaken the American economy... That would hurt them just as bad...
I'm pretty sure no European country even wants to indicate that they want to mess with the US economy... Not because they are scared of a US response. But because they don't want to weaken the world economy, upon which many European countries depend.
If Germany made thebUS dollar fall even more. That would hurt the European economy and weak EURO economies would need further bail outs...
This is an appropriate and proportional response... It's not enough, I agree, but it's pretty good start! A European country deporting US officials is a big thing.
By the time the dust of WW2 had settled, the current system of employer-provided health insurance was firmly established. Leading us inevitably to today....
It sadness me that American politicians can't see that this inhibits competitions as employers use healthcare benefits to retain employees... It's very close to a lock-in, which hinders the powers of the free markets. Seriously, when you read ads for employers to provide healthcare, the ad is all about how the employer can retain his employees... Tsk tsk...
Compared to other countries, this is also a major blocker for start-ups, etc... Long term these things are going to keep the US behind.
Exactly - there are plenty of workers here in America that can fill that void - employers are just reluctant to pay the proper price for it.
I'm an H1B worker here... and I get paid enough - just don't tell my manager :)
But a fact is that without H1B I would be working from Toronto, London or home somewhere else in Europe... For the same company, doing the same thing.
All you're going to change is the location of the worlds largest tech cluster... without immigration silicon valley is nothing.
My non-expert opinion: Uber has a strong case that the drivers are independent contractors, not employees.
I don't dispute that this is the case under US law... My problem is with this practice of doing this... In the US the same happens to taxi drivers and pizza delivery drivers.
I find it distasteful to cut costs on people who have very little income. Sometimes these people makes below minimum wage. It seems to me like they are trying to exploit the little man. Because people do drive taxies, uber and deliver pizzas for a living, making them contractors is a distasteful way to cut money from people who make very little.
You need a file system which uses checksums on all data block so that it can detect a corrupted block after reading it, flag the file as corrupted so that you can restore it from a good backup.
When I decide to archive a lot of files I put them in a tarball and generate par2 files... That way a single bitflip or two will be okay :)
I have only been in one CA cab, but the driver was very relaxed and not at all assholish. Could be we got lucky.
SF cab drivers aren't the worst IMO... But uber drivers are much better, not speeding up like crazy, etc... :)
The shared shuttle rides from SFO though is the most crazy thing I've every tried, constantly speeding like crazy and going hard on the breaks at every stop sign, as if every single stop sign as a surprise
If Uber were really offering legitimate competition, I would be more sympathetic. But they're partly undercutting existing taxis through ridiculous things like using drivers who lack commercial vehicle insurance, which is rather irresponsible.
True, and calling the drivers self-employed, which is also a lie that moves more liability to the drivers and in the US frees uber of having to pay benefits etc...
That said, I'm pretty sure uber requires drivers to be insured, also uber does have insurances that covers the passenger, etc. google it for details.
Another, big cost saving that uber does is letting people use their private vehicles, which does make sense from a cost cutting perspective. And enables drivers to offer better service. For example by keeping their car clean.
Note, cost cutting is not the only reason uber is nice. Ordering and paying through an app is really nice too. So is the rating system, which holds drivers accountable.
Crime is no longer a career choice.
Armed robbery of people on a train haven't been a profitable profession for at least 150 years :) :)
And I'm basing that fact that it ever as profitable on movies
Crime has long been the employment of quite a few members of society but now they will be caught.
s/employment/desperate measure/
By the way, criminals being caught is not a new thing... close to 1 percent of the prison service eligible US population is behind bars.
Mod parent up...
USA is land of the free,
Yes, free to be poor... :)
home of the brave,
Indeed, cheap guns and poverty is a cocktail only for the brave :)
Your arrogance is your assumption that you have anything to say worth recording, let alone even listening to you. What makes your personal life so relevant?
So because my private life is utterly uninteresting, you suggest that I shouldn't care about giving up my human rights?
The right to privacy is a human right...
One might as well ask, why you should care about fair trails or torture, if you're not a criminal then why should you care? After all why should anybody want to torture a confession out of you?
This is not about being personally targeted or affected, it's about basic human rights.
There is no concrete information that the NSA or a national security letter was involved.
Before Snowden we used to say the same thing about NSA messing with encryption standard bodies, or NSA conductive widespread warrant-less surveillance of everybody.
We used to think people wasn't subjected to secret trails in the US. That's no longer the case, we now know by fact that the US doesn't honor basic human rights, not for it's citizens or anybody else.
Do we really need more proof. This isn't the worst thing the NSA have attempted yet.
It would stop, though if you're going to try it, be sure it does have sufficient stopping distance to actually come to a halt before it reaches you.
Well, that's just boring... He he :)
:)
I see a future where teenagers jump infront of cars to see who dares wait the longest
How can the state of California guarantee that without price controls, then.
The things sounds more like a political goal.. Not something they plan to enforce by law... And if they plan to do so, it'll probably be through added taxes to conventional cars..
Either way, this smells of a CEO who didn't invest electric car development now wants to stop politicians from promoting electric cars...
Yea, because the government totally won't have a backdoor already installed at the factory for dealing with... let's call them "undesirables."
What makes you think they don't already have that... most cars can be drive to accidents electronically these days...
I call it the aggressive, psychotic driver who makes random, unsafe lane changes, fails to signal, and swoops across several lanes of traffic while doing well over the speed limit.
Lemme see your driverless car handle that, then we'll see.
I personally look forward to driverless cars... no more looking before crossing the street..
:)
If you want to cross the street just jump out in front of a car...
I saw one of the cars when I visited Mountain View a few weeks ago, and I was so tempted to jump out infront of it to see what happens
Just because one set of criminals gets off easier than they should, it does not follow that all other criminals should be treated leniently.
What good does it do?
How come Americans can only want harsher punishment?
Sure, what he did was bad... But one year in prison is enough. He will have learned the lesson.
Giving him 4 years, isn't going to make a difference. Except, it'll cost money to lock him up, and he will have a harder time getting a new job when he gets out, there by costing society even more money.
Oh, and he won't pay taxes for 4 years.
It's not like people do this stuff after having consider the consequences.