Uber wants to take the profits while transferring all the risk to the driver.

They also want to transfer all the expense to drivers. I would be curious to know if they had designed Uber as a ride booking app and tried to sale or license it to existing taxi services somehow and failed prior to the current situation.

My wife went and got her hair cut in a short bob once although I didn't say it she could tell I didn't like it. At the time I had a fairly short haircut and she told me "It's longer than your hair and will always be longer." Wrong move, I let my hair grow out and it's been an on going joke for the past 8-9 years.

I can look in a real mirror if I want to see myself with flowing locks... I am frequently called Fabio and women in bars that I don't know and sometimes are there with a jealous boyfriends or husbands want to play with my hair.

Although it doesn't always work out that well. Once my brother and I went to the store to pick up some stuff to BBQ and his mother in-law saw us in the car. She called his wife and told her that she had seen her husband driving with a skinny blond bimbo.

Unfortunately it probably won't work because it will be unable to determine if there is any substance to their speech or the difference between lies and incompetence.

I got a couple of those.. At first I would pretend I was going through OS X or ubuntu and would tell them I don't have that feature then describe what it looked like, but it stopped being fun so I started telling them "but I don't have a computer" this would make them hang up almost immediately.

Businesses are obsessed with total cost of ownership and return on investment you think getting them to migrate away from xp was hard? Just wait win 7 is going to have a shorter life cycle, I'm imagining companies trying to hold onto it for 10 years 4-5 years past the current end of life.

I imagine at work I will be staying on win 7 until we are forced to choose, but my next home build is going to be linux. I just don't see spending money on Windows, MS Office, Adobe, or any other commercial software when over the years I have adopted cross platform open source projects that do what I need. I don't require excel to make a list of parts for my next home depot project calc will work just as well and gimp is fine for cropping and resizing half a dozen photos.

I had a phillips mp3 player for about a decade it was dropped multiple times, stepped on, submersed in water, left on top the car while I drove away, put through the washer 5-6 times. I picked it specifically because it didn't require any software to get music on it but was very pleased with it especially after buying my sons a few ipods and saw how easily they cracked the screens and broke them. The later versions were more cheaply made I bought my wife one it worked well and though more durable than most competitors was no where near as durable as the original. It still didn't require any software to get music on it and had more storage. No idea what the new ones are like since everyone has a smart phone that can play music and much, much more.

I modified a Yamaha RGX 110, a fm transmitter for a walkman, and added a 9 volt battery then connect a portable fm radio to my peavy distortion pedal... wireless guitar. I just cut a few slits in the plastic plate cover on the back of the guitar so I could change channels, turn it off and on. Still worked normal if I wanted to plug it in directly so long as the transmitter was off.

My brother built a few classic arcade games from scratch and ordered decals and some parts for them from a game vendor. After playing them for awhile he sold/gave them away, I'm sure after they change hands a few times someone who knows nothing about them might think they are something else since they look professionally built but not like the original. Are they fake? No, just my brother's hobby when he was in college.

I'm betting on spiteful ex-girlfriend but it could be a disgruntled ex-employee.

After reading the reviews it sounds more like an ex-girlfriend being spiteful, but who knows.

Uber left my state although it's one of the most loosely regulated because they didn't feel they should be required to have more than minimum private liability insurance as apposed to the same commercial insurance that taxis are required to have. Medallions are not required and a commercial license for a taxi driver is about $15 more than a regular driver's license every four years.

Those type regulations don't exist everywhere and they still cry foul when they are asked to have insurance other than the personal minimum liability required by the state for a private noncommercial car. It appears to me that they simply want to first reduce their costs as much as possible by putting the burden of maintaining a fleet of vehicles on the drivers but when they have trouble finding drivers because they can't support the burden they try to claim they are exempt from insuring and licensing their vehicles commercially.

To call Uber a ride sharing service is silly... I go to my phone be it a call, text, or an app and order a ride a car shows up and I pay them for a ride this is how a taxi company works.

I saw these in magazines but couldn't afford one back then and although you could get a car phone for a pretty penny all my friends and I had cb radios instead.