OK. What about sex with children of a non-human but humanoid and intelligent species?

One more thing about the mobile interface -- it's really slow. Granted I have a crappy underpowered android, but I can still browse most websites just fine. I'm not sure if the problem is heavy scripting crapping out the processor, or a lot of requests piling onto the (fast but still not THAT fast) 4G connection, but it's extremely hard to use.

Lol, you still believe in that? Pretty sure that ship has sailed. Now go back to your regularly scheduled programming of making fun of RMS for walking around barefoot and having weird hair.

What you are alluding to as trampling on others' rights would be if you were legally obligated to print speech you don't want to print. You're still thinking of it in terms of prohibitions under penalty of law. But there is a whole big world out there that has nothing to do with the law. You can start here.

That's global, not US.

You forgot the steam engine -- first conceived of in ancient Greece.

Yes, and it's your choice to interpret surge pricing as necessarily inevitably excessive. You haven't explained why there can be no instance of non-predatory surge pricing.

But for some reason, you haven't broken into an art gallery and stolen a Picasso to give it to some of those non-rich folks. And before you tell me that a taxi is different because it's a basic necessity, 1) there is already a federal almost-ban on surge pricing during disaster events, 2) Uber isn't a monopoly, 3) there is a difference between limited surge pricing and absolutely no surge pricing, which you have failed to address, 4) did I mention Uber isn't monopoly, which is typically a pretty damn important component of price gauging?

And look, I can link to articles too. Here's one:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ub...

Hey, look at that, even the NYC council isn't considering completely banning surge pricing, only limiting it:

http://dailysignal.com/2015/09...

And even that seems to be dead in the water:

http://legistar.council.nyc.go...

I bet if you'd lived in post-WWI Weimar Republic you'd be calling for the heads of the Novemberverbrecher.

I don't think anybody's saying religion is what makes people capable of doing bad things. I think they're just saying it's been one hell of a motivator. So no, it doesn't prove anything of the sort.

Well, I think there would have to be some minimal temporal granularity to it, so the price isn't changing by the second. Also, I think they should be required to get explicit consent before applying the surge price, like a popup saying "surge pricing in effect for the next hour, accept or limit to 3G speeds?"

Wait, if all carriers are under capacity, doesn't that actually support the point made by the person you're calling a dumbass?

It's funny how you can say literally the same idea as the person you responded to, but make it sound bad by using negative words like "gouge" and "desperately". Without any sort of explanation as to why his characterization is invalid.

That can be addressed by regulation requiring disclosure of high granularity usage and pricing data.

How is that any different from charging more for their service, which they are already free to do? It might give them a tiny sliver of a PR defense, but that won't stop people from switching providers. Phone service, unlike wired internet, is actually a competitive market.

Price gouging is already generally illegal. If you're worried about excessive disaster surges, talk to your local, state, or federal representatives to put caps, or lower existing ones, on the maximum amount you can be charged, or to put in place a policy of especially low caps in the case that a state of emergency is declared.