Usually I try to go Alamo as I've not had the same bullshit I've experienced with Hertz. The bar is low. My experience with Budget during this past July when they were the only option was they didn't have any mid-sized car despite a reservation, there was a crazy line at the airport, and they removed my direct booking discount because they had to rebook me for a compact economy car, and at the time they were billing ~$100 a day. Felt more like hunger games than an actual fucking business, but I guess that's the experience when there are shortages. Feels like you should get some customer service when you're burning over a grand. Basically, the industry seems to be run on customer disservice, and paranoia about the cars being stolen. I suspect if someone could figure out how to effectively filter the crappy customers and actually provide customer service, they could do very well. Typically you just don't have much of a choice when you fly out to whatever regional airport and you're just stuck with Hertz or Budget hell.

Let's focus on the fact that other giant corporations charge about the same rate, and that we are not colluding. We simply don't allow other app stores to exist in iOS and prevent web standards from competing with our app store, because we gotta milk our monopoly status *cough* I mean we need to make sure our users have a great experience.

If this is like Firefox Send, can we expect the service to just indefinitely shut down when it doesn't meet their security aspirations? Did they threat model this one, or is their model to figure out the threat model after dumping the product?

Yes, co-working has a model that is very similar to hotels, which are great in some scenarios. Why would someone invest in this, compared to a completely underwater hotel chain about to go bankrupt, beats me. I guess I do wonder if investors are higher on the food chain of bankruptcy than landlords, but I think Chase also agreed to give them a big loan. I guess we are going to see if the open market is crazy enough to bail softbank out of this.

Not to say that there arenâ(TM)t already competitors that have been around longer, including some that make money, but there are plenty of barriers to entry. Itâ(TM)s not that easy launching and running a brick and mortar location. Getting long term leases in the city core is not easy, you need a lot of money. Itâ(TM)s also hard to actually be profitable, which WeWork hasnâ(TM)t been able to figure out. Itâ(TM)s hard to get investment and loans when you are losing money. To open as many locations as WeWork, you need a fuckload of money. That still doesnâ(TM)t mean itâ(TM)s a good idea that will not result in a complete loss.

I hate to be pedantic, but isn't the greater of 15% vs 30% for a figure that only measures positive numbers like revenue always 30%?

There is such a thing as jurisprudence, and it's the job of high ranking officials in law enforcement to determine which the laws on the books get pushed. If you directly fuck with those people in a criminal way, either expect to get the book thrown at you or you might qualify for a Darwin award.

The low hanging fruits of justice... You're right in that most people expect law enforcement to enforce the law when crime hits them in the face.

It's called JHipster. You probably haven't heard of it.

There are many two-party consent states. Also, how far does consent of a teenager go, even if a parent signs off on it? Teenagers are generally not of the age of "consent", and the "consenting" adults aren't members of the conversations that are being recorded.

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guid...

Is it legal to record private conversations without telling the party you are communicating with, or to record private conversations without being a party of the conversation?

Did the third party that's communicating with the idiots agree to have their communication snooped by Facebook?

If you encourage someone to commit a crime and help them along the way, you are an accessory to that crime. How is paying teenagers to silently send over private communications without broadcasting that fact not a violation of existing privacy laws?

If you can't set your usage policy straight, you're just asking to piss off your paying customers, and asking for competition - if you have any - to disrupt you. Corporate stupidity knows no end.