I am tempted to be a volunteer. Not sure how it keeps the idiots out who may abuse this. (Yes, there are such people out there!)

The fundamental problem of trust (or lack thereof) is the reason many crowdsourced services don't seem feasible. For example, why hire a taxi when you can get a ride from someone going the direction in exchange for taking someone else on a ride in the future? The problem is the driver may not be trustworthy.

So the consumer is stuck trying to decide between "cheap but untrustworthy" and, "trustworthy but expensive". That is, you could hire trustworthy people to guide the blind.

How about we kick down the taxi monopoly instead?

What's that got to do with uber? Simply eliminate the medallion system and that will get rid of the so-called taxi monopoly. Be aware, even if the govt doesn't mind, the existing taxi drivers will protest.

Governments are mafia and they do break legs and kidnap and murder people. Legislation? Nice business you have here, too bad something should happen to it.

Next you're going to say anyone who's read a few medical books and taken a few online medical courses can set up a website to start treating patients, like a doctor would. The govts should answer this question: Does the medallion system exist to restrict the number of taxi drivers so as to keep the fares high (and the profits high for taxi companies)?

A bigger question here is should part-time, low-paid freelancers like uber drivers be allowed to force out full-time taxi drivers by eating into their business? This has happened before in other fields such as photography (flickr.com).

Mac OS, OS X, imac, iphone, ipod etc were all created under Jobs. Let's see what innovation Apple comes up without him.

The only "innovative" thing he did was to dupe the masses into believing the things he copied from other companies were really Apple's inventions.

I don't think there were any commercial, easy-to-use GUI operating systems before MacOS. You only had unix or DOS.

Why fix what isn't broken?

Simple, they want one codebase and UI for windows desktop and windows phone/tablet. So you got tablet UI on your desktop/laptop, which is horrible.

What if a mugger pulls a gun in an alley and asks this info? He could easily make $100 to $300 selling this info. What felony law is going to stop someone who makes a living breaking laws?

A more sneaky way would picking your pocket or hacking your PC to get this info ID.

Another worst part is the people who create and operate the voting machines would know who voted for whom. This is not democracy it's fascism.

Non-anonymous voting = bad and UTTERLY STUPID

Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet; you are a plague and we are the cure."

That may be true of modern, technologically advanced humans. Those humans that have lived in primitive tribes for hundreds/thousands of years haven't harmed the environment much.

And you think the rest of the websites are saints when they install trackers like addthis.com scripts that can uniquely identify and track you without cookies? There is no openness about who they sell your info about your activity on their website. www == spyware

Yeah, I did not read the schedule before I wrote that post. But $600 for changing brake pads and windshield wipers seems a lot.

those truths would continue to exist

But would they still be easily accessible? What if the people who knew them died and the artifacts, such as paper and hard disks, that had a recording of these truths were destroyed. Then these small group of people would have to spend hundreds/thousands of years to rediscover these truths again.

And why should the consumer care whether Tesla sells cars directly or through a dealer? Is Tesla offering a significant discount in direct sales compared to dealer price? For all we know, it could pull an amazon and sell the car at the same price as dealership price and pocket the increased profit from lowered costs, in which case consumers should not care since it's Tesla's problem.

Maybe you should try discovering something new (mathematical or scientific) that will be useful for thousands of years, then come back and tell us it was so easy that you don't deserve any credit.

Now we're talking bandwidth and processing power (encryption). And electric bills.

And who keeps their PC/laptop on all the time. It's not a server.

Will Tesla be able to provide at least one or two service centers in every city/town big or small, in the entire US? That sounds hard to accomplish and people often service their cars at their dealership.

From your link:

1.8 No constructors

Functions can serve the same purpose as constructors without adding any language complexity.

How many good OO language exist without constructors? Maybe only javascript. This seems like a terrible decision.