VivaColombia is a Colombian low-cost airline based in Medellín, Colombia.[2] VivaColombia is the first true low cost carrier in Colombia. It is partly owned by the founders of Europe's biggest low cost airline, Ryanair.
That is completely different from prosecution for criminal negligence.
The settlement meant that the family got some money and the film company lost a small bit of their profit.
Criminal prosecution would inform the industry that they can't behave like that without the possibility of going to jail.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference, Trump refuted recent rumours the company was set to sign a luxury hotel in Damac’s Akoya Oxygen development, which will house the Trump World Golf Course, saying ‘there was no hotel planned as of now’.
She added: “Dubai is a top priority city for us. We are looking at multiple opportunities in Abu Dhabi, in Qatar, in Saudi Arabia, so those are the four areas where we are seeing the most interest. We haven’t made a final decision in any of the markets but we have many very compelling deals in each of them.”
The Wikipedia article calls it "self-inflicted" but then goes on to explain that he didn't realize that even blanks could cause injury at close range.
The film company should have been held liable for criminal negligence. It was their responsibility to ensure that when they hand an actor a gun that he is aware of how to properly (safely) handle it and they apparently did not do that. This is not something one can just assume that everybody already knows.
Exactly right. 60 years ago "small" (8oz) bottles had a 2-cent deposit and "large" (quart) bottles had a 5-cent deposit. Back then most folks found it cost effective to return the bottles and retrieve their deposit.
Fast forward 60 years and bottles and cans now have a 5-cent deposit. Almost nobody but the impoverished homeless folks find it cost effective to stand in line to recover the deposits. I see some spending their days and nights collecting and then lugging sacks of cans as big as themselves worth only about five dollars, maximum.
One possible solution: Uber can order an accessible taxi from some real taxi service, have it sent to pick up and transport the customer, and yet charge the customer the standard Uber rate for the ride. With the usual time and "lowest price" guarantees just like every other customer receives.
Uber should pay their drivers more for wheelchair-accessible trips. That is their responsibility as a business, to ensure compliance with the law. It's the only way to make sure drivers with wheelchair-accessible vehicles are actually willing to do the job in their expensive gas-guzzler.
This is an expense on the business, yes. So's installing wheelchair ramps. Suck it up; every other cab company does.
As the other AC says, you are now an accessory. Note that you have to have a license to buy liquor for sale for a start. Nothing requires you to buy a license to taxi people around. That license has agreements, so you'd be in contravention of that agreement too.
On the contrary, in NYC one cannot lawfully "taxi people around" as a vocation without a taxi license; the driver must be licensed and the car itself must be licensed as a "for hire vehicle".
Uber do not get the same rights as official taxi ranks and they cost less which is the only reason why they get selected, after all, this is like just asking someone in a town if they'll put you up for a night in a makeshift one-off B&B. You'd not do that if you had an alternative or if it weren't much cheaper.
Again, not quite. It's more like paying some guy in a storefront to hook me up with someone who will put me up for a night. That's covered under "hotels" in my part of the woods.
And as to the regulation, would it be fine if Uber just bought 2% of their fleet with wheelchair access capability and let the people choose whether they take that car out or not? Because that is all Uber can do: make available the cars on a lease basis. If nobody chooses those cars, then nobody is at fault and nobody can be made to pay for the breech because there isn't one.
Then Uber would be a transportation company, not a technology company, and they would be fully bound by the usual regulations regarding "vehicles for hire".
I don't own a liquor store but I take payment from people who want to buy gin and send a liquor store owner over to hand it to them. I pay the liquor store owner a percentage of what the customer paid me. Therefore I can connect junior high school students with gin; I'm not bound by the laws regarding the sale of liquor to minors.
Thanks for the tip. I think I'll be able to buy that new house after all.
"He called me a genius," Trump said of Putin at two campaign events in February, three times in April, in a May interview on CNN, at a June rally in California, twice in July, and at an August town hall in Ohio
The inflammation on her arm suggests that she is very allergic to the bugs' bites. Not everybody reacts the same - some develop huge bumps and swelling, others show no reaction at all. There is no indication that anybody involved disputes the presence of bedbugs at that site.
He was being honest there. You know the old saying "Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining." Well, he warned them ahead of time that "it's not rain - I'm pissing on your legs".
What comes next will be "Urine computing", where we all get on our knees and receive a golden shower from a government-corporate consortium that will save $1 trillion dollars (over the next ten years).
They're keeping track of the blocks of IP addresses corresponding to various government entities, making it easy to spot them in the logs I guess, and eventually plan to make the data publicly available, according to what I read here:
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Da6d?
And Bob's your uncle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VivaColombia
Our real estate developer in chief preferred to buy his steel and aluminum from China:
http://www.newsweek.com/how-donald-trump-ditched-us-steel-workers-china-505717
That is completely different from prosecution for criminal negligence.
The settlement meant that the family got some money and the film company lost a small bit of their profit.
Criminal prosecution would inform the industry that they can't behave like that without the possibility of going to jail.
I.e., short-term versus long-term "solutions".
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The Wikipedia article calls it "self-inflicted" but then goes on to explain that he didn't realize that even blanks could cause injury at close range.
The film company should have been held liable for criminal negligence. It was their responsibility to ensure that when they hand an actor a gun that he is aware of how to properly (safely) handle it and they apparently did not do that. This is not something one can just assume that everybody already knows.
Exactly right. 60 years ago "small" (8oz) bottles had a 2-cent deposit and "large" (quart) bottles had a 5-cent deposit. Back then most folks found it cost effective to return the bottles and retrieve their deposit.
Fast forward 60 years and bottles and cans now have a 5-cent deposit. Almost nobody but the impoverished homeless folks find it cost effective to stand in line to recover the deposits. I see some spending their days and nights collecting and then lugging sacks of cans as big as themselves worth only about five dollars, maximum.
The bottling industry has a very strong lobby.
I find it simpler:
:-)
1. put dish on scale
2. turn on scale (automatically tare is zero)
3. add food to desired weight
4. serve
Especially for smaller portions, this easily beats trying to read the volume of a bunch of kibble or a dollop of canned food.
A small kitchen scale that reads out in grams is much more accurate than trying to measure kibble by volume in a measuring cup.
One possible solution: Uber can order an accessible taxi from some real taxi service, have it sent to pick up and transport the customer, and yet charge the customer the standard Uber rate for the ride. With the usual time and "lowest price" guarantees just like every other customer receives.
Spot on! Thank you.
On the contrary, in NYC one cannot lawfully "taxi people around" as a vocation without a taxi license; the driver must be licensed and the car itself must be licensed as a "for hire vehicle".
Again, not quite. It's more like paying some guy in a storefront to hook me up with someone who will put me up for a night. That's covered under "hotels" in my part of the woods.
Then Uber would be a transportation company, not a technology company, and they would be fully bound by the usual regulations regarding "vehicles for hire".
I don't own a liquor store but I take payment from people who want to buy gin and send a liquor store owner over to hand it to them. I pay the liquor store owner a percentage of what the customer paid me. Therefore I can connect junior high school students with gin; I'm not bound by the laws regarding the sale of liquor to minors.
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Thanks for the tip. I think I'll be able to buy that new house after all.
Other taxi services have the same cost issues you describe and yet they somehow manage to deal with them lawfully.
Uber could just raise all their rates a wee bit to cover this; they managed to raise prices for "surges", didn't they?
There you go again! Inserting reason into places where reason dare not go!
He lied for our sins?
The inflammation on her arm suggests that she is very allergic to the bugs' bites. Not everybody reacts the same - some develop huge bumps and swelling, others show no reaction at all. There is no indication that anybody involved disputes the presence of bedbugs at that site.
He was being honest there. You know the old saying "Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining." Well, he warned them ahead of time that "it's not rain - I'm pissing on your legs".
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/there-is-a-second-sacred-wall-at-the-cia-trump-disrespects-that-one-every-day/2017/01/29/d1961480-e675-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Steaks
Already answered, starting at 1:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Gf0mGJfP8
Probably moisture got into the electrical contacts. They'll upgrade to "dry fog" and things will clear right up, you'll see.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/trump-epa-budget-noaa-climate-change/527814
They're keeping track of the blocks of IP addresses corresponding to various government entities, making it easy to spot them in the logs I guess, and eventually plan to make the data publicly available, according to what I read here:
http://www.speaktogether.org/blog/we-built-a-tool-that-gets-congress-browser-history