No, what I'm saying is that socialists try to buy things for a dollar and sell them for a penny and can't every seem to understand why they go bankrupt within 6 months.

ENRON was a bunch of thieves taking advantage of a bunch of socialists. There wasn't even the tiniest bit of free market involvement in that entire debacle.

You are conveniently leaving a few details:
1. PG&E was required by the State of California to provide power no matter what.
2. PG&E was not allowed by the State of California to change retail prices without the State's approval. This resulted in them being forced to buy and sell electricity at a loss until they went bankrupt.
3. ENRON's little scheme was a two part scheme. ENRON was nothing but paper. The entire company was essentially fake. Anyone holding their stock got ripped off. The other part was to take advantage of CA idiotic price fixing scheme to bleed both PG&E and the taxpayers of CA dry which they did for years. Everyone at ENRON was a criminal set on taking advantage of a situation created by the State of California not the market.
4. CA put itself in the situation where they had to buy power from outside the State since they killed off all but the cleanest natural gas power plants with heavy handed environmental regulation.
5. What little solar and wind power was available PG&E was forced to buy at an enormous loss. To add insult to injury, the Federal Gov't was heavily subsidizing wind farms through grants and purchase requirements, causing areas such as Tehachapi to sprout wind turbines like weeds forcing PG&E to buy even more power from them far above the rates charged to customers.
6. With the retail prices set artificially low PG&E customers gorged themselves on electricity priced bellow the market price. This accelerated the collapse of PG&E and resulting in the summer rolling blackouts which continued even after the State stepped in to bail out the now bankrupt PG&E.

So yes I called ENRON a side show, because California set itself up for failure, all ENRON did was take advantage of the very system that California had created.

ENRON could not have pulled off their theft without the utility monopoly created by California, the price fixing set by California, and the severe lack of in state power production, again created by California.

Enron was simply a rent seeking side show that didn't come to light until after CA was going broke trying to price control scheme. It wasn't the cause of it.

Sorry angry person, but us free market types have guns to shoot you non-free market types (Who are out rioting due to price controls causing massive shortages), not ourselves.

What a bad reference to make, poo pooing free markets.

They had price controls at the customer level and market prices at the wholesale level. Guess what happened?

Yep that's right shortages, just like the last million times price controls were tried.

Shhhhhhhh. If you scream any louder at your computer you'll wake your mom and then she wont make any hot pockets for you, and then where will you be?

I checked out that website you posted. Every single story were fluff pieces on "alleged" driver behavior, except for the one where the driver hit a kid (No charges filed btw). I didn't see a single story that said "Lyft/Uber driver convicted of....."

The only rape ones I could find where in Chicago, Boston, New York, and Delhi. So far no convictions and only 1 civil lawsuit, which sounds like someone just hunting for a really big payday rather than justice.

SO I suggest you take some of your own advice and learn to read the articles and maybe develop I don't maybe some basic logic and reading comprehensive skills. That way you don't end up sounding like a giant ass hat there kiddo.

Had to respond to pull my mod point I accidently gave the above.

Throwing out that Uber drivers raping/assaulting rider in one shit hole portion of what, India & Pakistan is somehow endemic to the entire Uber global phenomena and then claim that somehow out of millions of taxi drivers that no example can't be found.

Silly, hater, illogical nonsense.

Ah yes because someone who can memorize grammar rules and word spelling has a truly gifted intellect.

The fact that spell check can do it nearly as well as you should tell you that is probably not the case.

Eat a dick grammer Nazi. ( Like how I misspelled grammer. Does that make your skin krawl when you see speeling errors?)

That's operating under the false assumption that the so called licensed/insured/certified professional will always provide the best and safest service. You can check all the boxes as a cab driver and still come up woefully short compared to the "guy with a car and a smart phone"

Besides there is nothing preventing the pro-cab drivers from participating in the Uber market place. Maybe they need to spend less time whining and more time driving.

You sad, sad little troll. Do you even know what a vigilante is? A citizen defending themselves from a criminal is not a vigilante.

The problem is deterrence only works as an immediate, concrete threat. Most of your criminal types are borderline retarded in their ability to think abstractly. (Thank You Public School system!!). If you can't think abstractly you lack the ability to play the "what if" game and apply that to your decision making process.

"What if I walk into McDonalds with a gun and rob it?"
"What if I have unprotected sex with this $10 prostitute?"
"What if we pass this bill to see what is in the bill?"

We have the death penalty in Florida, it's called "Stand Your Ground", and it works quite well because it doesn't require an abstract thought on the part of the criminal. The deterrent is not in some far away place 5-10 years after the crime was committed. The gun is right there, right now pointed in their face, a block from their dad's house.

The ones with even the smallest spark of intelligence (aka self preservation) back off. The rabid ones get put down on the spot.

but was not breaking the law at the time of his death

Repeating over and over again "I didn't do nuthin" is hardly an indicator for innocent. A reasonable and innocent person would have been upset, but at the same time cooperative. "Officer I wasn't selling XXXXX, where is your proof?" "Well let's get this over with"

He was acting like a 7 year old that had just got caught punching his sister for the 12th time, after being told repeatedly not to, and was trying to avoid the impending ass whooping he knew was coming.

That only works if they are fat, out of shape, and highly upset that they've been arrested for like the 12th time for breaking, you know....the law.

(Frankly I find New York is chock full of stupid laws, but at the same time, you get what you pay/vote for.)

Nothing like a little "Pay Per View" to cover the costs of justice.

Technically I don't either. It's full of "junk" (as per the little woman) for all the other "in work" projects. My project for 2015 is to simply finish all my projects from 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, etc or to sell/put out on the curb the materials for the ones I'll never get to.