No, it's because often force is the only argument that works with any duration (or effect) on idiots.

Idiots by definition, cannot and will not learn so higher order appeal is lost on them...

Thus has it been historically also.

Sure but those are all individual efforts, not a group of car pools where the organizing group itself takes a cut or facilitates the transfer.

Will they go after the car pools next?

No because those are free. It's the presence of money in any form or amount that triggers the primal instinct by the state (and taxi unions) to control or kill.

What would be nice is a kind of Tinder for car sharing, where you could put in a starting point, and ending point - people could read your profile and see a rough distance from their own starting and ending points, and swipe right if you seemed like someone they would want to ride with...

There would be no money in that (for the drivers anyway) so the taxis/state would lay off.

By the way, you can't make a living wage driving full-time for Uber either

Hey guess what THAT DOESN'T MATTER.

The last Uber driver I had, was also a comedian/writer (Los Angeles). He didn't need a living wage, he wanted a part time job with a ton of flexibility to supplement income.

There are a LOT of people like this (including, perhaps you've heard of them, TEENAGERS). The next time someone says "that doesn't make a living wage" the correct response is to punch them in the mouth.

P.S. on a side note those claiming things like Uber cannot make a living wage are generally ALSO simply too lazy to work the amount required to live on what is offered. I have also met Uber drivers who DO live on uber income only, so your statement that Uber drivers do not make a living wage is false by example.

If the restriction remains after the initial test, it could be a simple way to avoid pseudo-professional drivers, and all the taxi-related legal problems

You don't know much about taxi unions or city regulatory agencies, do you?

In no way does it avoid anything except making 100% a driver cannot make a living through this. So it's a lose-lose.

Although you meant it to be funny your statement is really wrong - I'd say a good 90% of Browncoats didn't find the show until way after it was off the air. A number I know of didn't get into Firefly until well after the movie even...

Slashdot is the ultimate mecca for the "Harbingers of Doom", a site literally ripe with people who will vociferously back the worst of products that obviously have no future. In fact I use this very site myself to predict failure for some things, as there are a lot of repeat posters here that spend 24x7 backing future failed products.

If your kids knock plug out, you still have car next day, it is not necessary at 0% charge, why it should be?

Why should it be anywhere near enough to get you to work and back? For most consumer electric cars today that is the truth.

And what if your kids punch a hole in your gas tank and start playing with matches?

Or what if a velociraptor brought back by time travelers eats the children which prevents the problem to begin with!

Don't be an idiot. Knocking out a plug is several orders of magnitude easier than penetrating a car gasoline tank by accident.

So one percenters want to ban firearms? Can you name a few of them?

Except in Chicago where you have to pay all of that, and then you technically aren't even allowed to have a gun in your own house. (Well, you can have the gun but probably not the ammunition.)

Didn't Phil Zimmerman already resolve an issue exactly like this? The US government said PGP was a munition and was banned from export, so he argued that he could print the source code in a book and mail it overseas, and since it was in book form it was explicitly spelled out in the constitution as protected speech.

Snippet:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;

While the constitution doesn't say anything about executable binary code (which if you REALLY stretch it, it can be considered machinery, and thus can be munitions) there's absolutely no slipping around the "press" part of it. It's very much ironclad and can't be broken, I don't care how they word any laws. So while they may be able to prevent digital distribution because some of the old people in the judicial branch don't always understand the difference between that and a book, you just print the schematics or even a bunch of QR codes (or whatever) that convey digital information in print form, and you easily get around any kind of law like this that even old people can understand.

Once Obama finally becomes President, that will be solved and the racial healing can begin.

It's not about any other country. The goal of the regulation is to prevent Americans from having access to 3D printed guns and to intimidate any American who would design one of these guns.

The best answer is for people outside the US to create these designs and post them online.

I must be a new minority or something. At first I followed all of the arguments against SystemD, but just for shits and grins I tried Ubuntu Server 15.04 in its default configuration when I built three new network appliance VMs and...I actually like the result. I never did figure out how to get upstart to reliably make e.g. rtorrent restart when it crashes (and it crashes a lot) with upstart, whereas with systemd its crash recovery seems flawless, and it was easy to configure (you just need one line.) It was also very easy to tell it to wait until NFS was actually accessible before starting (upstart only gives you the ability to check that the NFS service is running, not that the NFS partitions actually mounted first.) With upstart I had to hack together a bash script that checked if NFS was mounted and then launch rtorrent as just a regular (non service) process.

Not only that but I was also impressed by how fast the reboots happened as I was setting up these VMs. Namely, I could open a new putty session to the server immediately after I issued the reboot command and closed the last one, whereas with upstart I would wait at least a minute or so. Now I no longer feel tempted to keep the vsphere client open just to watch its progress either.

Of course, I'm not a Linux guru as this server is mainly working as hobby tool and as a lab tool for running Cisco CSR1000v's for my CCIE training (though the server ONLY runs Linux, vSphere 6.0, and Cisco IOS, so I guess unlike most power users I have no dependence on Windows.) So having said that, I'll still defer to somebody who is a Linux guru for better judgement on systemd.

Not only are there many people who will continue to share such documents on peer to peer networks, but also it may surprise our Wise and Venerable Legislators to learn that there are foreign web hosts not subject to US law. You can't really ban anything from the internet or keep anything "offline".