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Comment Re:I have an even better idea (Score 1) 304

The right to travel is basically saying the government doesn't have a right to lock you into one position not allowing you to move by any means you have available to you.

Citation needed.

Also, if right to travel doesn't pertain to means of transportation, what if the government said private jets were now the only vehicle you could legally travel in? Wouldn't that prohibit our right to travel freely? Or are you going to pretend a person could walk from LA to NY in any amount of time considered reasonable in the 21st Century?

Comment Re:Bad economics leads to bad policy (Score 1) 154

Speaking of prices, who pays the price when some untrained Uber taxi driver crashes during the emergency condition, causing emergency services to have to divert resources from where they are needed to handle the greedy idiot who crashed his car? The driver? Uber? Or does society pay for it, and thus have incentive to keep those morons from creating unnecessary dangerous situations in the name of avarice?

Comment Criminals (Score 0) 154

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.co...

http://www.nationaljournal.com...

Price gouging, especially during an emergency situation, is illegal in many places. So basically what Uber is doing here is making themselves legally liable to return every red cent they collect over the normal rate during the snowstorm, not to mention inviting punitive damages.

Comment Re:I have an even better idea (Score 2) 304

Not that I disagree with the premise, but it's important to note that some people don't have access to busses nor horses (which, take it from the voice of experience, are really hard to park without being hassled), and cabs are too expensive... but they do own a car.

If we had kick-ass, Euro style public transit all over America, I would agree with you wholeheartedly. But we don't.

Comment Re:Assholes, indeed - NRA doesn't like them. (Score -1, Flamebait) 573

First, I'd like to point out that you would have had an excellent point here, if you hadn't resorted to generalization - no, not all gun rights advocates are 'Duck Dynasty' types who fail to properly handle their weapons. In fact, like most groups, the extreme idiots you speak of are a slim minority who just happens to be incredibly visible.

Second, regarding Ferguson - we were at fucking work. The whole world doesn't shut down because some fascist cops somewhere did some fascist shit. Yea, it's bullshit, and a lot of us feel that if we could have been there we would have, but you know what? We've got mortgages to pay and kids to feed.

Finally, also regarding Ferguson - where the fuck where you, Judgy McJudgington?

All hat and no cattle indeed.

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