Or as gamergate would call it, "Ethical journalism."

All of Go and Swift's documentation is available as free PDFs.

Regulation of industry, particularly interstate industry is in the Constitution(Article 1, section 8). Furthermore, States have the right to further regulate industry in their own jurisdictions.

Some of the taxicab regulations are protection rackets, but some of them are high barriers to entry for a reason. Namely things like public safety and accountability.

Like I said, regulations don't have to suck.

I'm me willing to bet number 2 was true, but they screwed it up and rather than admit that they're trying to freeload off of iTunes and the iPod, they're blaming them for not sharing.

Despite the fact that RealNetworks had years to get into the game and establish a real actual standard. Sorry RN, you snooze, you fucking lose.

As someone who's on the opposite coast, Valley and San Francisco both are one and the same to me. So, oops.

I'm also a fan of the ride sharing concept. When I flew out of Laguardia last week, I took an Uber from the Roosevelt Ave/Jackson Heights station to LGA and the process was smooth and simple(Also I had Uber credit so, might as well).

I just don't like Uber as a company.

Lyft seems like it's doing the right thing by complying with NYC taxi regulations though. So I'm going to have to look into that.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/go...

speaking of screwing up...

Stupid forbes capture page.

http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welc...

If a taxi company screws with me in New York I can get redress because our regulators aren't idiots.

Apparently not. But I am American, and I understand the problem here.

What bothers me isn't the lack of an understanding of history but rather a lack of understanding about civics.

Regulations can suck, but they don't -have- to.

If the regulation sucks, reform the regulations. Don't throw a huge hissy fit and shit the bed out of spite.

There's so much entitled Valley logic in the business model at Uber that it's hideously disturbing,

(Not to mention the whole "let's get a PI on a journalist who didn't like us" thing)

Actually it'd have to go through the Tropicana, and/or swerve around several blocks because the side of the airport that faces the strip is the runways. Getting the monorail out there would be a clusterfuck to say the least.

In an ideal libertarian world, what stops the mega-wealthy from exploiting the people? Is there any room for labor laws? OSHA? EPA? Regulations of any kind? FCC?

How does any of that square with extremely limited governance?

What does Libertarianism mean to you?

From what I've been told by libertarians is that the government needs to be smaller, less rules, less regulations, less interference. Individuals and market forces and rational common interest will benefit us all.

I don't buy it myself, but...

The problems you're describing where the hyper wealthy are colluding in an oligarchy to oppress the people and keep them consuming isn't solved by being more libertarian. Being hands off, having less regulations and rules doesn't solve that problem.

That problem's solved by *more* rules, specifically the rules to reform election laws to keep money out of politics.

The implicit theoretical side effect of libertarianism is that the wealthy, those with the means and resources, would do every well and those with out wouldn't. If you don't have people paying taxes for schools, libraries, roads, etc. How do things get better? When you've got concentrated wealth, what's stopping the wealthy from taking over?

Violent insurrection is a fine idea in that case, but, I wouldn't bet on it.

Of course SHIELD runs Android, how else could they have gotten Ultron?

I don't think Ultron's too keen on sweets though. Must be a proprietary fork.

"Conjoined?" Good.

TBF, given globalization, part of it, even marginally, was probably actually built in Siam. So it wouldn't be a stretch to call it Siamese...

I'm not saying exactly "we're not fucked YET" I'm saying, "We're fucked for a lot of other reasons and it's no shock that this isn't on the radar."

If you think this is the biggest problem we face, you are extremely privileged.

Getting the Half Life 2 Episodes is just heartbreaking.

It's like somehow the double reverse inverse(or something) of the Star Wars prequels. They're really REALLY good... but leave you hanging. You're actually better off acting like the Star Wars prequels and just pretend they don't exist.