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?

No, I am trying to explain human nature to you. People aren't as stupid and violent as you seem to think they are. The incentive for them not to trash the vehicle is there, and that is enough for everyone who isn't insane, and most who are.

It's not so much that they are stupid as they are caught in a sort of (I suspect purposefully designed) prisoner's dilemma. They get to vote on who will be "their" warden, and only get fed according to the seniority of their warden. Thus, it pays to keep a sadistic nutjob in office once they have any seniority at all. If they don't, then they starve.

Systems like this can't be changed from the inside. At best you can have a constitutional convention to fix these problems. At worst, you get civil war when one group becomes so oppressed they have to secede or risk real and literal starvation.

Sell the video online and report to the police respectively. Remember, you have their credit card info, and it would be foolish to think there wouldn't be cameras.

The joke has gone over grandpa's head. Grandpa has gone down the stairs.