for-profits either have owners (if they are private) or shareholders (if they are public) who expect a return on their investment each quarter. so for-profits make short term decisions to maximize profits. Non-profits don't have this pressure, so they can make decisions that are in the best interests of the institution and possibly the students.
Actually yes, if you click on the link (not just look at the url) you see that they sold 74m iPhones in Q1 alone.
I don't think anybody has accused anybody of being criminally liable. nobody's in prison. I think there is civil liability
dogfights have outpaced bvr by 5.2:1.
Uber can't compete with taxis in many markets because they have been frozen out due to the anticompetitive medallion system.
I would have the slightest shred of sympathy if taxi unions hadn't used their protectionist racket to provide the nastiest most unpleasant rider experience. If taxi companies were really good at providing good service and uber came in with some sort of unlicensed fly by night business, then it would be clear. But even if uber were the same price as cabs, I would choose uber every_single_time. Maybe cabbies should think on why that is, and try to make an experience that is good for the customer so they win their business, rather than focusing on their entitlements and how they should be able to shut everybody else out of the market.
I suggest you read about the glazier's fallacy. by reducing inefficiencies in the system (like expensive equipment sitting in a lot) we have more money to invest in the economy, which makes everybody better off! A rising tide floats all boats...
what I'm trying to say, uber is better. open your mind to the future, cuz it's not going anywhere.
they call them "TV time outs"
American football (NFL): The National Football League requires twenty commercial breaks per game, with ten in each half. (Exceptions to this are overtime periods, which have none.) These breaks run either a minute, or two minutes in length. Of the ten commercial breaks per half, two are mandatory: at the end of each quarter, and at the two-minute warning for the end of the half. The remaining eight breaks are optional.[1] The timeouts can be applied after field goal tries, conversion attempts for both one and two points following touchdowns, changes in possession either by punts or turnovers, and kickoffs (except for the ones that start each half, or are within the last five minutes). The breaks are also called during stoppages due to injury, instant replay challenges, when either of the participating teams uses one of its set of timeouts, and if the network needs to catch up on its commercial advertisement schedule. The arrangement for college football contests is the same, except for the absence of the two-minute warning.
NBA: "Mandatory timeouts" are called at the first dead ball after 6:00 and 3:00 in each quarter and after 9:00 in the second and fourth quarters. First mandatory timeout is charged to the home team and second TV timeout is charged to the away team (or whichever team has not been charged previously in that quarter), assuming no other full 1:40 timeouts have been called, which replace the mandatory TV timeouts. In addition, a timeout after 3:00 in the second and fourth quarters is called but not charged to either team, if neither team has called one prior to that point. If they do, then the "official's timeout" (as it is called) is given at the first minute mark in which it is not taken early by either team.[5]
nobody said anything about an environmental benefit. I'm arguing for a net benefit to society that we can all stop investing in really expensive machines then leaving them to rust in the driveway. it's an efficiency improvement and a productivity improvement. Even in your taxi example, the taxi would be sitting on the curb less often, because taxi prices would be lower and there would be more riders. So everybody wins.
in a recent nail-biter of a basketball game, it took 18 mins of real time to play the last minute of game time!
Agreed, $100/mo would be really steep. GP said he pays $150/yr.
I'll throw in another fact. American sports like (hand egg) football, baseball, and basketball are all structured in a way that supports TV advertising. There are TV time outs and delays between innings or football plays. so even if you watch sports with no ads, you're going to be twiddling your thumbs a lot because there is always downtime to accomodate ads.
it varies by person, but for me, uber is stealing jobs from car salesmen, because I have delayed buying a car because I don't really need one because it's cheaper for me to take uber when I really need it, combined with shopping local and transit.
The ultimate truth is that we as a society are wasting a lot of money by buying expensive machines and then parking them in a lot, or hiring expensive drivers but then they are only actually on the clock a small portion of time. think about it - you spent $30k for the car in your garage - what percent of the day is it actually used? 10%? less? wouldn't it make sense that instead of parking money in a spot it is used to provide service, so that one car can serve 5 people instead of there be 5 cars that are hardly used? this is the opportunity that uber provides.
Same with taxi drivers. yes, rates are much lower, but you can get more fares and spend a greater % of your day with a passenger.
the biggest opportunity for uber is to make cars be used a greater portion of the day. this is the benefit for everybody.
true, but from comments on this thread, it seems that a lot of people have found taxies to be really nasty throughout the world.
It would hurt you cuz indecent exposure to a child, then you'd go to jail and face 20 years of big dongs in ur ear and up ur nose.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?
