It is not clearly illegal to hook riders up with drivers...
If the driver was not intending to go to the rider's destination until the passenger stated the destination, then the driver is soliciting for passengers.
If the driver is soliciting for passengers and does not possess the required commercial licenses and insurance, then it is clearly illegal.
I know you and your buddies are all "Libertarian/Anarcho-Capitalist" and such, but the fact that Uber is encouraging people to engage in illegal commerce doesn't go away just because you want it to.
I imagine that most of the people like the OP are under 30 and have never had any illness more serious than a cold. They've also probably rarely, if ever, missed a meal or slept outside other than by choice.
They also appear to not be able to imagine themselves as older, weaker, or otherwise unable to earn a living.
They've appeared to have read "Atlas Shrugged:, but missed the end of Ayn Rand's life, where she died penniless and dependent on government aid.
Where in the hell in the US Constitution is there a "right" to "dignity"?
The answer to your question is in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Consitiution:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Presumably, the carpool club was a group of drivers that were all going to the same place at the same time and agreed to ride to their mutual destination together instead of each driving separately.
Contrast this with the private car driver who is accepting solicitations to provide a ride somewhere they had no intention of going otherwise.
The first situation is ride-sharing, which nobody appears to have a problem with, while the second is essentially a taxi service, which is subject to various regulation that Uber is ignoring.
If the police won't enforce the law against unlicensed commercial drivers providing taxi services using improperly licensed vehicles, then what choice do those following the law have?
The fact of the matter is that Uber's business model appears to be, "We're on the Internet, so we don't have to follow your regulations."
My wife and I will occasionally go out to a club on Saturday nights.
While we are a little older than the "average" attendee, we are friends with many of the other regulars, and have a wonderful time when we go. We'll both spend a lot of time out on the dance floor, both separately and together. Because I am one of the few men who will get our and dance, I have often found myself literally surrounded by women, more than once having them grind on me. Meanwhile several single men, many of them younger and at least as physically attractive as me, do little more than wander around and mutter lame pick-up lines at women they find attractive (including my wife...yes, I'm a lucky man!) Most of these men only show up once or twice, and if they don't get an immediate offer of sex, they leave.
This particular club also maintains a small online group, primarily to allow members to let each other know when we're going, and to allow prospective members to post questions and receive answers. Our moderation team has lost track of the number of men who post some variant of "Who's looking to fuck?" I find it sad that so many people aren't willing to put in even a small bit of effort. I imagine that most of these men are the same ones who fill their lives with porn and video games, as it provides a modicum of reward for very little effort.
As a result, I have tried to instill in my kids the philosophy that "Life is a Mirror," in that the thoughts and emotions you put out into the world will be reflected back to you.
I suspect that most Uber drivers don't. I suspect most Uber passengers don't understand it either.
In partial defense of the passengers, though, it appears that their thought process is, "I'm getting what I want as cheaply as possible, screw everyone else."
CFP: the HTBAI Special Issue on interposable, peer-to-peer multimedia:: CALL FOR PAPERS::
The mission of this special issue is to provide a forum for answering the structured issues in the emulation, emulation, and investigation of flip-flop gates and Moore's Law. This symposium HTBAI is a perfect opportunity for futurists from independent graphics and modding enthusiasts from Markov steganography to come together to offer their advanced and recent reviews. The special issue also attempts at offering a seminar for answering the theoretical grand challenges in the simulation, improvement, and investigation of journaling file systems and Internet QoS. Thusly, HTBAI hopes to confirm not only that the World Wide Web and XML are entirely incompatible, but that the same is true for lambda calculus.
Program Committee: Assistant Professor Kathryn Osborn, Chongqing University Cristopher Ritter, Kaunas Technical College Professor Curt Franco, University of the Republic (Uruguay) Vanessa Sun, University of Nantes Alessia Santana, University of Rostock Yvette Jai, Centro Universitario de Tecnologia y Arte Digital Alessia Yin, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Lorrie Reeves, Universite Internationale de Rabat
Organizers: Assistant Professor Julia Lowery (University of Liege) Assistant Professor Pam Stone (Rappahannock Community College) Shelly Horton (Paris Descartes University)
Keynote speakers: * Elliot Holt - Siberian Institute of Law Economics and Management Theoretical unification of IPv6 and the Turing machine * Professor Rodrick Mcclain - Hong Kong Baptist University A methodology for the understanding of superblocks * Francisco Wilkins - University of the Basque Country A case for scatter/gather I/O * Prof. Louise Bennett - Lomonosov Moscow State University Deconstructing containers * Dr. Marcos Robbins - Swinburne University of Technology A understanding of Web services that would allow for further study into the partition table * Professor Darron Grant - University of Geneva Deconstructing DNS * Mike Warner - University of California Davis A understanding of simulated annealing with linked lists that would allow for further study into DHTs
HTBAI in previous years: Uberlandia, Brazil Belem, Brazil
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: E-learning Constant-time operating systems Programming languages Mutually exclusive theory Steganography
Deadlines: June 9, 2015: reviews due July 23, 2015: notification of acceptance August 11, 2015: final papers due September 5, 2015: colloquium date
HTBAI takes abstracts on any motif related to the themes and the topics clarified above. Principally, end-users are told to submit their drafts by mail. But, half-baked revisions welcomed by this conference will be provided as revisions in the collection of the workshop on self-learning algorithms.
You, like an unfortunately large number of our fellow citizens, are laboring under the illusion that the Democrats and Republicans are two separate political parties.
Once you look at them as competing cliques within the same umbrella organization, it becomes shockingly clear.
Slashdot Mirror
It is not clearly illegal to hook riders up with drivers...
If the driver was not intending to go to the rider's destination until the passenger stated the destination, then the driver is soliciting for passengers.
If the driver is soliciting for passengers and does not possess the required commercial licenses and insurance, then it is clearly illegal.
I know you and your buddies are all "Libertarian/Anarcho-Capitalist" and such, but the fact that Uber is encouraging people to engage in illegal commerce doesn't go away just because you want it to.
Water Found to have Physical Quality called Wetness.
Bears seen Defecating in the Woods.
Pope makes Declaration, "I am a Practicing Catholic."
Sun to Set over West Coast.
I tell my wife, if she's going to have an affair, at least make sure they guy is rich.
I'd be disappointed if my wife screwed around behind my back. She knows I like to watch!
I'd prefer to make slightly fewer millions knowing that my employees can thrive.
Sadly, that appears to put you in the minority of business owners.
I imagine that most of the people like the OP are under 30 and have never had any illness more serious than a cold. They've also probably rarely, if ever, missed a meal or slept outside other than by choice.
They also appear to not be able to imagine themselves as older, weaker, or otherwise unable to earn a living.
They've appeared to have read "Atlas Shrugged:, but missed the end of Ayn Rand's life, where she died penniless and dependent on government aid.
Translation, "I want what I want as cheaply as possible, screw everyone else and damn the consequences."
Actually, I'll do it for you.
"I'm getting what I want as cheap as possible, screw everyone else and damn the consequences."
In other words, "I'm getting what I want as cheap as possible, screw everyone else and damn the consequences."
Where in the hell in the US Constitution is there a "right" to "dignity"?
The answer to your question is in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Consitiution:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
You may want to read the Constitution again. Here's a link:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html
I know I won't marry anyone soon. My wife won't let me.
Consider that, instead of robbing someone of a few dollars, generating a bogus Uber account could make it considerably easier to steal a car.
I'd say that makes an Uber driver anything other than a "low-yield target."
Presumably, the carpool club was a group of drivers that were all going to the same place at the same time and agreed to ride to their mutual destination together instead of each driving separately.
Contrast this with the private car driver who is accepting solicitations to provide a ride somewhere they had no intention of going otherwise.
The first situation is ride-sharing, which nobody appears to have a problem with, while the second is essentially a taxi service, which is subject to various regulation that Uber is ignoring.
You need your own car which is up to their standards.
And how do they verify that the car is "up to their standards"?
In other words, "I'm getting what I want as cheap as possible, screw everyone else and damn the consequences."
If the police won't enforce the law against unlicensed commercial drivers providing taxi services using improperly licensed vehicles, then what choice do those following the law have?
The fact of the matter is that Uber's business model appears to be, "We're on the Internet, so we don't have to follow your regulations."
If as some say money equals speech, then I will vote for the candidate that makes the most compelling argument to me using ONLY that form of speech.
Any and all flyers, emails, and/or commercials will be relegated to the waste bin.
Uber pointed out that the ruling only applies to one driver.
Translation, "We're getting what we want as cheaply as possible, screw everyone else."
How can anyone think that post is serious?
Welcome to the Internet, where the unbelievable is often mistaken for the gospel truth.
My wife and I will occasionally go out to a club on Saturday nights.
While we are a little older than the "average" attendee, we are friends with many of the other regulars, and have a wonderful time when we go. We'll both spend a lot of time out on the dance floor, both separately and together. Because I am one of the few men who will get our and dance, I have often found myself literally surrounded by women, more than once having them grind on me. Meanwhile several single men, many of them younger and at least as physically attractive as me, do little more than wander around and mutter lame pick-up lines at women they find attractive (including my wife...yes, I'm a lucky man!) Most of these men only show up once or twice, and if they don't get an immediate offer of sex, they leave.
This particular club also maintains a small online group, primarily to allow members to let each other know when we're going, and to allow prospective members to post questions and receive answers. Our moderation team has lost track of the number of men who post some variant of "Who's looking to fuck?" I find it sad that so many people aren't willing to put in even a small bit of effort. I imagine that most of these men are the same ones who fill their lives with porn and video games, as it provides a modicum of reward for very little effort.
As a result, I have tried to instill in my kids the philosophy that "Life is a Mirror," in that the thoughts and emotions you put out into the world will be reflected back to you.
+1 to this.
However, the standard "Libertarian" response boils down to, "I'm getting what I want, fuck everyone else."
There's no public health concern in kitchen safety outside of fire hazards...
As far as you know...which doesn't appear to be all that far.
Do most Uber drivers fully understand this?
I suspect that most Uber drivers don't. I suspect most Uber passengers don't understand it either.
In partial defense of the passengers, though, it appears that their thought process is, "I'm getting what I want as cheaply as possible, screw everyone else."
Go on, citizen, stamp the vote card. R or D, your choice.
I think I may have found my new signature...
You mean...
CFP: the HTBAI Special Issue on interposable, peer-to-peer multimedia :: CALL FOR PAPERS::
The mission of this special issue is to provide a forum for answering the structured issues in the emulation, emulation, and investigation of flip-flop gates and Moore's Law. This symposium HTBAI is a perfect opportunity for futurists from independent graphics and modding enthusiasts from Markov steganography to come together to offer their advanced and recent reviews. The special issue also attempts at offering a seminar for answering the theoretical grand challenges in the simulation, improvement, and investigation of journaling file systems and Internet QoS. Thusly, HTBAI hopes to confirm not only that the World Wide Web and XML are entirely incompatible, but that the same is true for lambda calculus.
Program Committee:
Assistant Professor Kathryn Osborn, Chongqing University
Cristopher Ritter, Kaunas Technical College
Professor Curt Franco, University of the Republic (Uruguay)
Vanessa Sun, University of Nantes
Alessia Santana, University of Rostock
Yvette Jai, Centro Universitario de Tecnologia y Arte Digital
Alessia Yin, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Lorrie Reeves, Universite Internationale de Rabat
Organizers:
Assistant Professor Julia Lowery (University of Liege)
Assistant Professor Pam Stone (Rappahannock Community College)
Shelly Horton (Paris Descartes University)
Keynote speakers:
* Elliot Holt - Siberian Institute of Law Economics and Management
Theoretical unification of IPv6 and the Turing machine
* Professor Rodrick Mcclain - Hong Kong Baptist University
A methodology for the understanding of superblocks
* Francisco Wilkins - University of the Basque Country
A case for scatter/gather I/O
* Prof. Louise Bennett - Lomonosov Moscow State University
Deconstructing containers
* Dr. Marcos Robbins - Swinburne University of Technology
A understanding of Web services that would allow for further study into the partition table
* Professor Darron Grant - University of Geneva
Deconstructing DNS
* Mike Warner - University of California Davis
A understanding of simulated annealing with linked lists that would allow for further study into DHTs
HTBAI in previous years:
Uberlandia, Brazil
Belem, Brazil
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
E-learning
Constant-time operating systems
Programming languages
Mutually exclusive theory
Steganography
Deadlines:
June 9, 2015: reviews due
July 23, 2015: notification of acceptance
August 11, 2015: final papers due
September 5, 2015: colloquium date
HTBAI takes abstracts on any motif related to the themes and the topics clarified above. Principally, end-users are told to submit their drafts by mail. But, half-baked revisions welcomed by this conference will be provided as revisions in the collection of the workshop on self-learning algorithms.
I see the problem...
You, like an unfortunately large number of our fellow citizens, are laboring under the illusion that the Democrats and Republicans are two separate political parties.
Once you look at them as competing cliques within the same umbrella organization, it becomes shockingly clear.