Comment Re:Not really: it's stopped the USA invading. (Score 2) 409
Where are these numbers comming from? In terms of active duty manpower the US is Second after china. If you add reserves an paramilitary it drops to eighth.
Where are these numbers comming from? In terms of active duty manpower the US is Second after china. If you add reserves an paramilitary it drops to eighth.
It doesn't matter what they agree with, I know two women who have been raped by licensed taxi drivers, taxi licenses don't prevent crime, stop repeating that idiocy.
Nothing is perfect. It is a good thing to prevent people who have demonstrated the propensity to harm other to be in charge of vulnerable people. If you are in the back of a moving taxi you are vulnerable.
No, no it isn't. Put a date and a number of miles on the sticker.
How will you see the mileage on the vehicle from outside the vehicle? Anyone standing outside a vehicle can see the date the vehicle was inspected and figure out if it is out of date. Checking mileage requirs seeing the odometer. That is much more difficult from outside the car.
The amazingly shitty experiences I've had in amazingly shitty taxis disagree
Again, nothing is perfect.
The difference between libel and slander is that libel is written and slander is spoken. The legal burden is the same for both. In this case all the plaintiff alleges that none of the transaction actually occurred. The defendant(s) have to show that they did have the transaction with the plaintiff and show evidence that the rest of the factual representations in the reviews are also true and the judgement will go against the plaintiff.
It does make review site look kinda dangerous and in the end does stifle speech.
Libellous speech needs to be stifled. How else does a company fight against people who try to ruin their business through posting on review sites?
Why risk getting a civil suite filed against you just for a review you didn't get payed for
Tell the truth and if it goes to court win and counter sue for costs.
Libel/slander is not protected speech.
Uber has not been around very long. Wait till the drivers have become fed up with the idiots that get in their car and quit. Sure reviews help but for every isiot down reviewed there will be another idiot starting to use Uber. Wait till enough drivers get bad reviews and Uber does not have enough drivers. They will "normalize" the reviews to make everyone look better. Wait till there are no cabs around when you want one because there is little money to be made. Right now Uber is taking the gravy trips from cab drivers. If there are no licensed cabs around there will be few drivers around during low time. If you think it is hard now getting a now cab wait till there are only part time drivers who pick and chose when they drive and only drive when the fares are good.
A problem that solves itself if you permit anyone to perform as a taxi.
Sometimes the free market fails. For example at 3AM on a Monday morning will be almost impossible to find a taxi.
That must be nice. No taxi I've ever been in has been clean.
Did you lodge a complaint?
False everywhere in the world.
Most countries have something similar to the Bill or Rights. If there is no licensing there is no way to pull a license for discrimination.
Basically worthless
So you think criminals should be able to drive people around? Sorry many don't agree.
Everyone should have these based on mileage
Most taxi inspections are based on months between inspections. It is very easy to see a sticker and ensure that the taxi has been properly inspected. It is very difficult to do that based on mileage.
A scam to produce revenues
Another opinion based on no experience in the industry. Professional licenses have a higher standard than standard licenses. They also require the training to do a proper daily pre-trip inspection. They are also another license that can be pulled if the driver breaks too many rules.
That is only one small aspect of the reasons for regulations. What happens when all the brands have a bad reputation?
I drove taxi and we had cleanliness standards. If the owner of the car got a complaint he was down my neck to clean. There have been several taxis pulled by the city for being dirty. We are a tourist town and the local business association is very sensitive to bad comments. Just because your city has low standards does not mean it happens everywhere.
Uber has to do these checks anyway before they are allowed to take the drivers.
Not all and they could drop them at any time.
The goal shouldn't be so that taxi drivers can make a living, but rather that people can get from A to B how they want.
Right now Uber is a new thing and many people are interested in it. Wait a few years when licensed taxis are out of business and there are no taxis on the road when you need them. Wait till there are few if any handicap accessible vehicles and few will pick up certain minorities. The problem with star ratings is that they can be misused. Give every "insert minority here" a negative rating and see what happens.
This assumes that all the laws regarding licensed taxis were instigated by taxi owners. That is patently not true. Many of the regulations were created in response to problems caused by unlicensed taxis. Here are some of the regulations that cost licensed taxis money.
- Minimum number of cars on the road/company.
- ratio of handicap accessible taxis.
- standards of cleanliness.
- language standards
- anti-discrimination
- driving record checks
- criminal record checks
- frequent vehicle inspections
- professional driver's licenses
While it is not perfect there is a mechanism to pull bad taxis off the read. Without being able to pull a license that mechanism is gone.
The reason there is a limit on competition is to create an environment where owners can make a living and still follow the regulations imposed on them.
An upstart breaking that system means going back to the bad days when taxis were unregulated.
Clauses like this allow data to be transferred to the new company running the business. Many of these agreements state that the company the purchases the data will be bound by the privacy provision of the rest of the privacy policy. For example many privacy agreement state that personal data will not be used for marketing. The new owner would also be bound by that policy. Here is Google's policy;
If Google is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of any personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Without this provision it would be much more difficult to sell a company or merge with another company. I am sure that the value of Google with it's user base is much more than the value of Google with no users.
I made a mistake. Sorry. The document is still pretty vague. I would like to be able to actually see how far from the right of way the proposed route actually is. The map is not detailed enough for that.
I finally did read the rest but it never states how much land outside the I5 right of way it would need.
I was off by a factor of 9,8.
That is not much detail at all. Those two page do not show a detailed route or investigations into any of the trouble spots along the way. Drawing a line on a map is very easy. Here is a quote from the article;
This can be achieved by deviating from the current highway system, earth removal, constructing pylons to achieve elevation change or tunneling.
That sounds a lot like "we'lI think about it later". think they will be deviating from the current highway system a lot.
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