If I were running taxi "business" I would be a cab plate owner that rents it to mule drivers at predatory rates. I would also likely be involved with or on the city council, working hard on preventing more plates from getting issued, ensuring artificial scarcity. Yes, I would be loosing money to Uber, but would be completely unqualified for any kind of sympathy.
If you don't like taxi regulations, then seek to have them changed. Just don't sacrifice the benefits to the regulations because all you can see is the negative.
As individual, I have no practical means to change taxi regulations. However, as a consumer I now have choice that allows me to avoid traditional cabs. As a result, traditional cabs drastically improved, because they have to compete with uber.
Uber vs. Taxi Industry is a techno-thugs fighting traditional mafia. There are no good guys here.
Lets assume he is innocent. Do you think there is even a small chance that he won't end up extradited to US and convicted in a closed-door FISA Court hearing?
I'm not convinced that that is a bad thing. Uber is like a parasite.
Yes, but traditional taxi industry is Lupus. So having parasites is lesser evil. As a frequent business traveler, Uber made my life much better. I still remember dumpster-like cabs, waiting for more than an hour for one to arrive, and sightseeing detours that were common before Uber.
I asked Alexa if Facebook listens to every word I say without me knowing, she said no.
In not so distant future, when Google and Amazon cement their hold on being conduit for all information, such approach won't be considered stupid. At that point these companies will be able to dictate what is and sell to the highest bidder the truth.
Cheap Chinese goods are not worth it when in exchange we get manufacturing capacity losses, intellectual property and know-how gets stolen, and on the net we end up exporting wealth to China. More so, Chinese use our money and technology to build up government-controlled organizations and military to challenge us geopolitically.
Such trade-centric view is naive. Geopolitical power brings prosperity, not trade. More powerful China means less powerful US. This means US has less means to impose ts will and extract resources outside its borders. This means people inside US get less prosperous.
Mexico and Canada are neighbors and allies. They also happen to be democratic countries that are closely allied to US interests. It is possible to make a case that better-off Canada and Mexico will benefit US. I don't think you could ever make such case for China.
You are wrongly assume that perpetual growth, infinite resources, and non-zero sum trade are real/possible outside of MBA spreadsheets.
It happens that in post WW2 period it was mostly true, but this will not remain so indefinitely. Strong China is a long-term threat to the Western World. Trading with China, on unequal footing, makes China grow more than us. Hence, long-term a trade war with China is better than uneven trade with China.
b) Why are you framing this as an altruistic move? it could be the case that they now seek to make money from you by selling you means to partially restore your privacy.
refusing a subpoena can result in being held in contempt of Congress. And yes, that can result in imprisonment.
So you expect GOP controlled congress to issue a subpoena to publicly air their own sausage making? If anything, it will be congratulatory closed door hearing with free hookers and blow.
You are absolutely correct, it should be scandal every time it happens, but I will settle for even occasional scandal in hopes that it gives the people back some of the privacy.
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If I were running taxi "business" I would be a cab plate owner that rents it to mule drivers at predatory rates. I would also likely be involved with or on the city council, working hard on preventing more plates from getting issued, ensuring artificial scarcity. Yes, I would be loosing money to Uber, but would be completely unqualified for any kind of sympathy.
If you don't like taxi regulations, then seek to have them changed. Just don't sacrifice the benefits to the regulations because all you can see is the negative.
As individual, I have no practical means to change taxi regulations. However, as a consumer I now have choice that allows me to avoid traditional cabs. As a result, traditional cabs drastically improved, because they have to compete with uber.
Uber vs. Taxi Industry is a techno-thugs fighting traditional mafia. There are no good guys here.
Lets assume he is innocent. Do you think there is even a small chance that he won't end up extradited to US and convicted in a closed-door FISA Court hearing?
Without self-driving cars Uber is dead.
I'm not convinced that that is a bad thing. Uber is like a parasite.
Yes, but traditional taxi industry is Lupus. So having parasites is lesser evil.
As a frequent business traveler, Uber made my life much better. I still remember dumpster-like cabs, waiting for more than an hour for one to arrive, and sightseeing detours that were common before Uber.
I asked Alexa if Facebook listens to every word I say without me knowing, she said no.
In not so distant future, when Google and Amazon cement their hold on being conduit for all information, such approach won't be considered stupid. At that point these companies will be able to dictate what is and sell to the highest bidder the truth.
You should also consider that whatever Facebook was showing you, convinced both you and your friend to talk about red cookware.
To give you a data point, I talked exactly zero times in my life with anyone about red cookware.
Without self-driving cars Uber is dead. They are not sufficiently profitable with regular rides to service their debt.
You can't steal a password off someone's body, dead or alive.
Rubber hose crypto analysis still applies.
Just slightly microwave the dead face to warm it up and it should work, right?
The last time he died was in Star Trek Generations.
I only identify this way now after I transitioned. I was born a meat-head jock.
Cheap Chinese goods are not worth it when in exchange we get manufacturing capacity losses, intellectual property and know-how gets stolen, and on the net we end up exporting wealth to China. More so, Chinese use our money and technology to build up government-controlled organizations and military to challenge us geopolitically.
Such trade-centric view is naive. Geopolitical power brings prosperity, not trade. More powerful China means less powerful US. This means US has less means to impose ts will and extract resources outside its borders. This means people inside US get less prosperous.
Mexico and Canada are neighbors and allies. They also happen to be democratic countries that are closely allied to US interests. It is possible to make a case that better-off Canada and Mexico will benefit US. I don't think you could ever make such case for China.
Since when China is an Ally?
You are wrongly assume that perpetual growth, infinite resources, and non-zero sum trade are real/possible outside of MBA spreadsheets.
It happens that in post WW2 period it was mostly true, but this will not remain so indefinitely. Strong China is a long-term threat to the Western World. Trading with China, on unequal footing, makes China grow more than us. Hence, long-term a trade war with China is better than uneven trade with China.
Against good-faith trading partner, it is boneheaded move. Against China, that is anything but open market themselves it is not.
Banning pornography from the Internet?! What next, banning cat pictures? Might as well shut the whole thing down.
I have seen that Black Mirror episode, why are they trying to LARP it?
a) Even bad people can give you good advice
b) Why are you framing this as an altruistic move? it could be the case that they now seek to make money from you by selling you means to partially restore your privacy.
Not even that. FB is under attack because wrong-thinking people used its capabilities.
refusing a subpoena can result in being held in contempt of Congress. And yes, that can result in imprisonment.
So you expect GOP controlled congress to issue a subpoena to publicly air their own sausage making? If anything, it will be congratulatory closed door hearing with free hookers and blow.
You are absolutely correct, it should be scandal every time it happens, but I will settle for even occasional scandal in hopes that it gives the people back some of the privacy.
He's not going to say anything in public or on the record until his legal team has sorted their strategy out.
You mean pleading the fifth, right?
> No, but I tightly control what is disclosed in my /. posts. No such luck with Win10.
I'm sure you do *in the post*, but do you really know what's leaking from your browser when you simply visit ./ ?
I do. I run Pale Moon + No Script and don't allow any kind of third-party plugins. So all /. knows about me is IP address and contents of my posts.
It wouldn't abbreviate into BC then.