Just because Uber themselves have public liability insurance (and you're right, it would be extraordinary if a business didn't) doesn't mean that an individual driving for Uber is insured to take paying passengers.

They are two totally different things, and my understanding was that drivers don't actually work for Uber, but that Uber act as a middle man between driver and passenger. I hope I'm wrong.

And the idea that autonomous vehicles will replace taxis and cars within a decade is frankly laughable. Even if self-driving cars were a technically solved problem, the economics do not stack up, unless someone magically finds a way of making them cheap enough.

Just because I write in my terms and conditions "any attempt at unauthorised access to my computer systems means I can murder you" does not grant me immunity from the laws against murdering people.

No, they're not. A bunch of billionaires are funding them handsomely, presumably on the basis that if enough laws get broken, everyone will just give up with the rule of law, and revert to a pure laissez faire system. At which point the billionaires will be happy.

There is no other logical explanation for investing so much in a fucking taxi company.

PS what is up with the slashdot layout? There are huge slabs of unlovely grey everywhere, it looks like Day One of a "build yourself a website in 7 days" course.

With the exception of those of the religious persuasion, most people do not think of their beliefs as irrational.

Apparently crazed neo-Nazis will quite happily defend their beliefs with apparently rational arguments.

Whereas I'm sure you spend most of your time and money going to lectures by people you hate, with views you despise or find ridiculous?

The internet must be a very confusing place for you.

If you're not being "rationalist" you're not doing science. Your argument makes exactly no sense.

Ade Edmonson from Bad News.

I don't think anyone who believes in God, Jesus and the Bible is in a position to call someone who takes the very foundation of the Biblical creation myth seriously a nutter.

It is up to people who believe in the Bible (for instance) to provide the "hard science" as to why it should be elevated above any other collection of words.

Yes, the fact is that pretty much all the Anti-Capitalist Scientists in the world who have looked at this are in a giant conspiracy with The Government and the all-powerful Green Lobby. Only a few brave voices in the wilderness (coincidentally funded by oil companies) dare to speak out against this Communist Plot.

Classic reactionary false equivalence reasoning.

"You're a racist/misogynist/homophobe."

"Yes but there are black racists, misandrists and straight-haters too, so what's the problem?"