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Comment Medallians (Score 1) 40

Speaking as someone who drove for Yellow (ugh) in the mid-seventies, this is NOT RIDE SHARING, this is a taxi service. Therefore, Waymo needs to buy the $37k (last I heard) taxi medallion for each one. That is, until they hit the city's limit.

Waiting to hear some moron go on about the world always needs ditch diggers and taxi drivers, as a way to work for a living.

Comment Re:Not entirely surprising (Score 5, Informative) 94

100% true. I was out of work for almost five solid years during the W Bush recession (2001-2006). One job I applied for that looked like it was literally written for me, I did something I never did: the day after emailing my resume, I called the recruiter. She said, and I quote, "Well, you're not fresh."
Infuriated, I asked if she were to take a year off to have a kid, whether she would be no longer employable, because she wasn't fresh. Gee, she'd never thought of that. Supposedly, she put me in, I didn't get it.
Then a friend dug me up online, and I fixed his small private corporate website, and listed myself as employed by him. Within six months, I had a regular job again.

They're ASSHOLES. Rather than figuring it's cheaper to hire out of work, they only want people currently working.

Comment New jobs? (Score 2) 93

Back in the seventies and eighties, as automation was hitting hard, and offshoring beginning, the talk was all about how everyone would get newer, better jobs in the "information economy".
They at least could point to something.

Now? They have *nothing* at all, and "we'll have fewer people, but other companies will pick up the slack" ... said by every one of them.

Comment Greed is the point (Score 5, Informative) 84

Maybe some of you are old enough to remember payphones. As a kid, they were a dime. Then a quarter. Then $0.50.

Twenty-one years ago, my soon-to-be late ex was in jail in Brevard Co, FL for terrorism (yes, I married a terrorist).

It's a proven *fact* that the more contact prisoners have with the outside, the lower the recidivism rate. But not only were the calls EXPENSIVE (trying to remember if it was $50/mo, or more). But also, there were only certain numbers - actually, I think it was one number - that they could get calls from, and landlines only.

A lot of prisoners got zip.

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