Okay, but at some point Uber has to make money, and at that point, it is then a net loss for the driver and his co-conspirator.

If that's not the case, then that is what is wrong with Uber's business model, and a problem that is easily fixed.

"As long as cryptography is only used for authentication and integrity purposes"

Which means you can't encrypt the content of a message.

Yes, somewhat like that.

Live free or die.

Yes. While he's in Russia, the CIA is most vested in keeping him safe.

I can't think of a safer place for him on the whole planet.

Hm. Predict again:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

"...hurricane-force winds and rough seas in London"

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-297...

"The woman died in central London..."

A lib's answer to every issue. A tax.

"They could require ... all sorts of things to force the change"

You've put your finger on the main difference between the US and Europe. Europe seems to have no problem with top down forced changes, while the US is fairly resistant to that.

Yes, I remember.

They did change soda pop bottles. Well, the big ones.

I wouldn't worry about AI, at least for a very long time. We are not going to see it in an electronic digital computer.

Oh, you'll be able to fool me; you could probably do that now. But real free will in a machine, that is simply a complex array of electric switches? Don't get your hopes up.

Or fear, actually, instead of hope...

"I think that they'd actually be worse than the retreads, for the most part."

Why would you think that? Based on what the establishment has told you about them? By the time we are even aware of them, the narrative seems to be already set.

And yes, I knew you meant Bernie. Speaking of him specifically, as a conservative, I'd vote for him over any current Dem and most of the current Republicans. Those people are exactly the same; a vote for them is saying you love things just the way they are.

What we need is a really good politician. Bill Clinton was a decent politician, and Reagan was pretty good.

Those are about the only two I can think of in my lifetime that were good at the job of being a politician.

But you really can't guarantee that it won't taint groundwater for 10,000 years. We sure can't post a sign that will last that long.

The fact is, the only thing that can be done with the existing waste is to burn it up in a reactor. Supposedly, it can be got down to around 300 years, which we could then deal with.

We have no choice, and the people who still debate whether or not we should build new reactors are just uninformed. Or I am.

"warpgate technology"

Eh? How so?

They are tricking you. We could get by with the 2 parties if the primaries weren't so totally screwed up.

But even so, We sometimes come close to getting a real person.

Last time, 2 that come to mind are Herman Cain and Newt. You know good and well that Cain was not part of the big money establishment. Which is why he had to be destroyed.

Newt, on the other hand, was in like Flint at one time, but wouldn't play ball, so they used him against Clinton and then ran him out of town on a rail. Then, he has the nerve to almost come back in 2012 and win Georgia. They fixed him good this time didn't they...

We get good people (well at least not already bought and paid for) in all the time. They just don't last long.

That's not entirely true.

There are always a few candidates early in the mix that are not retread copies. It's just that they are always destroyed early, I guess before you noticed that they were running.

We have a few that are 'independents' this year; hell even one on the Democrat side, which you don't see too often lately.

Right, from an outside perspective. But from the traveler's perspective, they pass right through without even noticing the event horizon.

I remember reading something that said roughly, that as you approach a singularity, that absolute time slows. In other words, it takes the lifetime of the universe for something to actually fall into the singularity. Which makes you wonder then, how there could be a singularity in the first place