The consequence of false fire alarms are a fine for an incorrect call-out.
The consequence of a false suicide alarm is spending 3days in a mental asylum and getting a blood test for TB, HIV, and other diseases?

I don't think anyone here is saying there shouldn't be consequences for what he did. But WTF were they doing to him other than giving him a free health check and pushing a potentially unstable person over the edge by detaining them in quite bizarre circumstances?

Implying without context that it was a bad decision...

What in the actual fuck does taking one's own life have to do with the police and on what grounds do you even consider detaining someone for a thought crime that someone intends to commit on ones self? How the hell should someone be held liable if you actually do off yourself? What is the alternative? Arrest the person and throw them in jail? Did suicide become illegal at some point and what is the proposed punishment if it has been?

None of what you said makes any sense at all in our legal framework. Or any legal framework for that matter, I'm sure even the most repressive regimes don't have issues with people offing themselves. They certainly don't lock people for the thought of it.

Or just do it Saturdays and with absentee ballots. I don't understand what the problem is. You guys are supposed to be the greatest country in the world, why are you having such problems figuring this out?

You're assuming a perfect sample with no bias. 37% is not adequate for instance if a whole social economic group is excluded.

Wait, is this a thing? There are people in the USA who don't have a form of acceptable ID? How do you buy alcohol when you're 21? Or do you just keep shopping around till someone gives you some? What about get jobs, tax returns, hell government handouts?

I don't understand why ID is a problem. In many countries of the world most people have drivers licenses, those who don't have another form of ID typically a government issued seniors card, passport, proof of age card, a welfare card, birth certificate, certificate of citizenship.

How is it that the USA even knows how many people are in the country if people can't be ID'd?

It's hard to call it a regression when it was driven by popularity.

Also isn't your comment about a year too late to be relevant? Right now there are more QWXGA and QHD screens on the market than ever, let alone the incoming 4k screens. And they are affordable too!

You didn't manage to read past that first sentence did you...

1. Commercial licenses are a farce that makes no sense. You're either capable of driving and operating a business, or you're not. If you are, what's the point of obtaining yet another piece of paper at yet another cost when all the benefits are covered by other laws. If they aren't covered by other laws, that says more about your legal system than the license.

2. Makes sense. Supply and demand doesn't work well in taxi services.

3. I don't operate a taxi and yet am subjected to yearly inspections. If you aren't in your state, why not? You sound like you may have dangerous vehicles on the road.

4. I have a vehicle that is registered and therefor have complete 3rd party liability insurance. What kind of strange state do you live in where there are drivers on the road which don't have insurance?

5. That is covered under any business law already. How does uber manage to get around this?

6. This I actually agree with, except that a handicapped person can never get a taxi by just hailing one. In many regards they would be better served with a dedicated company handling their service requirements.

7. They don't have anti-discrimination laws where you live? You can refuse to serve black people in your business? Wow!

8. Not going to start this one because I've heard valid reasoning on both sides.

9. Again what part of this helps where other laws don't? Do you have people so dangerous on the street they aren't allowed to conduct a business? If so why are they on the street?

10. hahahahahahah yeah right. Taxi drivers are universally considered the worst drivers on the road in every country I've been to and the company's don't do shit. Ok this is an extreme example given I'm in China right now but the taxis here also have a number, and a complaints line, and that did nothing to stop my driver mounding the median strip to avoid a speed camera.

11. Why have a separate board for taxis? Why not have a business ombudsman?

There's no arguing your principles have merits, but I don't believe that most of them are part of some magical rules of operating a taxi. Many of the things you list should be part of any kind of business, the disputes processes and the governing laws should be part of any business, and a taxi company even one like Uber is still a business.

You should have laws in place to cover all of what you suggest. None of those laws should be specific to taxi drivers.

So what, it's down to a game of name the feature and you get to decide how valid it is for an argument? You're talking like it's the exact same OS under the UI, it's not and there are considerable improvements beyond just Disk IO including management interfaces, tablet integration, power management, encryption, and then add on it the user facing features like the improved file copy interaction, more intelligent handling of wifi and other networks, better bluetooth, native support for USB3.0, and I'm bored.

You can read the rest on any review site. Suffice to say that Windows 8.1 with classic shell is a hell of an improvement over Windows 7.

What causes the value of the stock market to decline? Cashing out. The money will go to speculators and other finance brokers who skim money out of the system by buying and selling when appropriate and not "investing".

Money doesn't disappear. It is simply hidden.

Hey you mentioned something that I never thought of before. How does the car sharing service pay for parking? If you use a car that's been parked for 10 days do you have to pay $300 in parking fees?

That's standard modus operandi.

Embezzle $1m, go to jail.
Embezzle $100m, get fired as CEO, collect massive golden parachute, go work for someone else for more money.
Embezzle $10b, get a taxpayer funded bailout.

This right here. I have several friends and colleagues in China, all of them have Facebook accounts, many of them use Google a lot. When the government does something that the general populace disagrees with the populace will typically:

1. Sit back and take it because what can one man do vs the government right?
2. Talk, search, and find a way around the problem.

The terms Tor and VPN are becoming common household names.

As a matter of interest, what did MS have to do with it? I was under the impression that Creative effectively drove the path towards software audio.