Why did Mr. Burns want all that water? If he was going to resell it at an even higher price, then Apu should have just raised his price higher, and/or Barney would have gotten out his Plow King and shuttled water from another town. I suspect, however, that Mr. Burns needed the water because there was a problem at the plant, and he needed water for the cooling systems, which helps EVERYONE by preventing a meltdown.

IE rich people don't get rich or stay rich by monopolizing resources for no reason.

Yeah, just like those damn college guys who give each other gas money in exchange for rides. Don't they know they are supposed to pay a million dollars (!!!) for a medallion before they can do that?

"The American Way" was something tangential, namely that a man should be allowed to go about his business with no interference from the federal government, very little from the state government, and only a little from the local government. Further, he should be entitled to enjoy the fruits of his labors in full. Go watch an episode of The Andy Griffith Show and realize, in silent horror, that that really is what America used to be like, hilariously incompetent deputies aside.

The American Way has changed. No longer a dream, it's a nightmare.

"The two aren't mutually exclusive"

Sorry, but they are. If you have government regulations, then you don't have a free market. You have something else. Stop destroying the meaning of words, please.

Why have innovation and free markets when we can have government regulations?

I'm sure this will be a great success, just like Obamacare and Amtrak.

"Him"

Whatever you say, same"fag".

No, the laws were enacted to protect corrupt taxi cartels (you know, the ones signing your paychecks) from competition.

Too bad the guys who own SeLECT Defense are such terrible salesmen. Everyone in the US, at the very least, should have their teeth sealed with this. I put it on four or five years ago, and ever since then I've only had to brush once every few days, to get rid of attached food particles. Stopped my tooth decay dead in its tracks, and it was a real problem before I put it on.

Why don't you log in? Afraid you'll be made for the shill you are?

Funny, since a taxi driver can rape you, murder you, and dump the body without leaving any evidence that you were ever in his cab, as opposed to Uber where the company knows exactly when and where you got in and out, what route you took, etc. An Uber driver raping a passenger is like a guy raping someone in the lobby of a police station. He's going to get caught, and he knows it. So in reality, it just doesn't happen, except maybe when someone just poses as an Uber driver, but fuck, you can pose as a police officer and rape someone too.

"The taxi laws were built over the years to deal with problems."

Yes, problems like competition from the little guy limiting the cash flow for the big boys.

Sorry, but they do, in fact, pay for commercial insurance. The other costs are the fault of government intervention in the marketplace on behalf of the taxi companies. Fuck them both is a broken broomhandle. Medallions are fascism, plain and simple. The merger of government and corporate power to produce income for the government and shield the corporation from competition. Uber is what will make THEM behave, not the other way around.

You don't get it. The reason people gave up their seats on lifeboats was social pressure which, due to the slow moving nature of that catastrophe, was able to take precedence over the individual survival instinct, very much like the initial analogy.

He's right, only humans are stupid enough to allow themselves to die in such a manner--see men giving up their seats on lifeboats to women and children on the Titanic.

Why do you think someone will have sex or do drugs in front of a camera? Are you developmentally disabled? Maybe sociopathic? Completely unable to put yourself in someone else's shoes and predict what they might do?