There is a reason taxi's are regulates heavily. The industry was rife with abuse. Random charging, taking long way around
These problems are eliminated in the Uber model. There is no exchange of cash, no opportunity to randomly charge and the fare is fixed so no incentive to "take the long way around".
dropping people off in the wrong place, extortion, and people had no avenue of recourse.
A uber driver does this once and no more customers.
Already happened.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
However it happens with Taxi drivers also.
http://www.wcax.com/story/2457...
Sorry no complete security in any system. However with Uber the driver that shows up has a reputation one can review... with a taxi company you have no control over that. I would prefer Uber. IMHO.
I dunno maybe I am moron but I can't understand the new desktop paradigm... An unsophisticated I bet couldn't figure our the new gnome shell but my grandmother could navigate gnome 2 just fine.
SXSW is a tradeshow & alot of the "keynote" speaking slots are for sale. It's a revenue stream for SXSW: keynotes get alot of press for their product therefore there is value to trade. Not that Snowden would have to pay to be a "keynote" speaker but it's possible.
To go another level, I don't trust anything about the Snowden Narrative from the ***very beginning*** It's fishy as hell, from the Russian poled-dancing girlfriend to his repeated wearing of the same two shirts...on the face of it the whole thing was backwards.
Typical sysadmin, thinking they know everything about how you should do your job, even if your job has nothing to do with administering systems.
Yes. This is a fact that alot of fanbois want to ignore. We all may be happy about the increased awareness of gov't spying, but that doesn't mean we turn off our brains entirely.
IMHO Snowden was/is being blackmailed. He may have had nothing but good intentions but it's obvious that he's getting worked.
I tend to agree. But he is also attempting to blackmail the US by holding on to a trove of data as a poison pill. Is this data secure? He thinks it is secure but foreign govts probably have already stole it or bought it. Patriots don't risk endanger national security as as shield for personal protection.
I know I know mod me down now
ah very clever of you... have your soul divided up between various deities. I sneaky way of achieving a sort immortality.
Ignorance indeed. Funny that people automatically assume that Creationism and Science cannot coexist.
Creationism is NOT science. Please point me to a single individual that believes in a recent creation, an earth centered creation, a global flood etc. that doesn't have prior theological commitments.
I'm a Creationist, and I am also a published author in Quantum Physics. Go chew on that for a bit...
"Sabotage". Get a clue.
Citation please...
Why in 2014, do I have to decorate variables with '$'?
Well for one thing effortless string interpolation... and it nicely identifies what is a scalar
Being long in the tooth I do all my web development via Perl using my own nice call back templating engine and of course CGI.pm. Nice separation of code and html -neither of the two find themselves in the same file. Once in a while I have to do some repair work for customers in PHP and in horror find the html and code mixed to together with wild abandon and massive uses of global variable and I wonder PHP is so darn popular.
I guess because the girl in question used technology to enable her to screwup in a really big way.
If whole foods was pushing to include their advertising/propaganda into the Health Education school curriculum under the banner of teach the controversy I think you see an equal reaction.
Pat Tillman... are you nuts... global gangsta's?
Ask your doc to increase you meds...
All I can say is, what I reported is not just my own personal experience, but that of every vet I know who uses the VA. I'm sorry that you ran across a set of bad apples, and that they did your father's condition so much damage. And, I'll agree that the psych departments are probably the worst; I needed help from them at one point and I had to fight with the person doing the original write-up to get her to describe my complaints as I told them to her, instead of re-writing them to fit her own pre-conceived ideas. (She simply couldn't understand that I could be unemployed, broke and depressed without being violent and/or suicidal.)
I understand we each have our experiences. Yes the psych departments are the worst.... I didn't really have a problem with the physical medical care side of things. In fact I would agree that the teams assigned to the general medical side generally do a good job.
People need to understand that wars produce causalities and those causalities need to be taken care... sometimes for the rest of their lives. A war is never over until the last person involved dies.
My father was a service connected disabled (both physical and mental) WW2 Vet and I would strongly disagree with this assessment. I took care of him for many years and struggled with the VA - although they did increase his pension towards the end.
The VA psych doctors were compassionless, unprofessional and bottom of the class grade doctors and I would often have to research the drugs they were prescribing and inform them of the side-effects and suitability to his condition. They eventually killed my father by over prescribing drugs like Haldol and other harsh psychotropics.
WTF is "Rake" and why should anyone care? I gather it's some sort of Ruby thing, but again, why should anyone care?
Because Make sucks...
I don't know about you but I don't want the government "classifying" screwups or incompetence to spare themselves the embarrassment... unfortunately that does happen.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
