If you’re from the US, I believe that your passport already includes a biometric suite of data to enable computerized facial recognition technology. If you have applied for TSA Pre or Global Entry, they also have your fingerprints. Europe already has fingerprint data included in many/most passports, and they’re about…

Once upon a time, I might have even been willing to entertain an administrative/bureaucratic reason for not allowing this. But in 2018, the checkbox that says M/F might be the absolute last thing that would truly establish one’s identity. Pictures, fingerprints, facial recognition, travel history, other aggregated…

So let’s be clear here just a second. 95% of the article has nothing to do with anything. She was held in a specially-created trans holding unit (which may or may not be a good thing depending on what day and whom you ask); she was (according to ICE) suffering from AIDS/HIV-related health complications; she was…

Get out of here with your logic. We’re all about the feels here.

I would never use them if I was subjected to that even once—unless they took 10% off the bill for the time. The whole point is the time savings, and if that’s out the window then there’s no reason to use them at all.

It was ret-conned. You may think it was a skillful ret-conning, but it was ret-conned nonetheless, and they fucked it up in the original.

Except now your congress passes a law that student loans can’t be extinguished in bankruptcy. As far as I know, taxi medallion loans can be. Most of them likely have personal recourse (so you’d have to declare bankruptcy of the entity that owns the medallion as well as yourself) depending on how recently they were…

For what it’s worth, all “real” real estate investors run models in which you assume that you’re paying down the loan each year—not just paying interest only. If it can’t support that, then it’s not really a viable investment. I assume that someone sophisticated enough to borrow many hundreds of thousands would do the…

I’ve seen a lot of your comments. I’m virtually certain that you’re the person who has no idea how it really works.

Except for the fact that it was a bad product back when the medallion prices were supported by the cab monopoly. I don’t understand all these people who constantly jump to the defense of NY taxis and the Taxi and Limousine Commission. It’s been corrupt as shit managing a terribly flawed product for 100 years.

By definition it’s not a “free market” if there’s an artificial limit placed on the number of medallions.

Do you really not understand the difference between the medallion owners and the people who rent the taxis from them?

Regulated is not at all the same thing as the medallion system which prohibited all new entrants (regardless of regulation). The taxi system is the same as saying that there are a maximum of 10,000 restaurants in the city, and if you want to open one you have to buy a medallion from a current owner. That’s a far cry…

Correct me if I’m wrong, but e-ink doesn’t take energy to display—only to change the display. Once you have a message on the plate, there is no more energy requirement until you want it to show something else. It’s different than an LED screen.

Not true. Miniatures were always optional and not even necessarily encouraged.

Next time any Gawkermodo “writers” try to tell you about how professional they are, point them back to this. That’s a mistake that no actual writer would make, and certainly an organization with actual editing would catch. This is truly no different that reading someone’s wordpress site, except it has this crappy…

Hell no they don’t (fight fair). I’ve got an 8 pound house cat that can do some serious damage when it feels feisty. I can’t imagine what 12x bigger would be like.

What’s the big deal?

You can’t put uncooked, diced potato in with eggs. It would never cook in time. Unless you like raw potatoes or way overcooked eggs.

I went last year after not having been for at least 5 years. It was fucking terrible. It was terrible; it was overpriced, and the decor was straight out of 1988. How that place stays in business is beyond me.