But these companies you’re holding up as examples of SF’s innovation are so controversial for ignoring the very regulations you say are worthwhile. I agree the medallion system encouraged innovation, but moreso in the sense of “look at the wonders we as a society can build when we ignore arbitrary rules.”

Yes and no. Yes, Uber has a service for wheelchair access, but the hard truth is there are not that many vehicles out there with power lifts. Frankly, this was true of the taxi companies too; even if law mandated a certain percentage availability, it could often be de facto impossible to actually utilize that service.…

Speaking of internet sleazebags, the guy you’re replying to has linked that same website like a dozen times in this article’s comments. I think you’re talking to a bot or advertiser.

They have that exact thing.

Are you aware that, in San Fransisco, a license to operate a taxi - just one taxi - is $300,000? It’s higher in other cities, almost a million in NYC. Per taxi. Are you seriously asking why your average uber driver doesn’t adhere to rules like this? Do you know how much money that is?

Oh but there is consumer choice. Consumers have chosen. And traditional cab companies are finding themselves on the wrong side of that choice.

In the absence of convincing evidence otherwise I’m going to have to go with the sources we already have, like the Examiner or for that matter the company’s own statements, stating that drivers are switching from Yellow Cab to services like Uber.

That’s not what this article says. Or what the company’s own announcements and documents say. If “they all came back” I question why San Fransisco’s “favorite” cab company cited a need to attract more, and happier, drivers.

Is the trucking industry dominated by cartels with local monopolies? Are these monopolies enforced by corrupt legislators with financial ties to these cartels passing laws that put up unreasonable barriers to entry for new competition, such as exorbitant fees or corrupt licensing schemes? Is this corruption actively…

Yeah! And Yellow Cab company is much better for its workers, clearly. That’s why so many cab drivers are jumping ship and driving for Uber instead. Because Yellow Cab is better for the workers.

“Deregulation” is a dirty word ‘round here. It’s almost like you think we should live in a market where consumers choose things like which companies succeed or fail based on the merits of their goods and services. We can’t have that, can we?

No, please, tell us how you really feel.

Nearly every cab driver in San Francisco drives like a psychopath.

If they were San Fransisco’s favorite, they probably wouldn’t be driven out of business by their competitors.

Yeah...piracy is a lot easier than basically voluntarily withdrawing from modern art, entertainment, and culture entirely.

Ugh. Please don’t make this a thing. And if you do, TV execs, please don’t spread it to Hulu and Netflix.

I like the politics of some of the EU novelizations. I remember fondly reading long books about how the New Republic slowly transitioned from rebellion to government, beset by problems left and right.

Glad I’m not the only one who thought TFA’s score was a little wanting. Certainly not the bold, adventurous work the original had.

I wouldn’t say the Ewoks flowed with the timing of RotJ. We started on Endor with an infiltration of the Imperial facility there, then stop for half an hour to dance with the silly little teddy bear things that the kids are going to have to have this Christmas, join their tribe, then get back to the infiltration. We…

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