Don't even come at me trying to derail this conversation by claiming I'm making it about "the menz".

What I get is that the actors in their time (up through the late 90s) made a decision to go nude where it was for the use in the film, in a world where television would never show nudity, and the Internet didn't exist. The photo from the Goldie Hawn movie, which showed the dicks of Wesley Snipes and other extras in…

She's right.

Your fiance is an idiot and probably an abysmal lawyer if he thinks this is what you get disbarred for. Chances are he's not actually a lawyer and he's a 1l and you're lying.

Not only did Cornwell not break any florida laws, he's not a member of the florida bar anyway, so they cant punish him for shit. Even if he were…

Yes, they can well be a 900% or more markup over best available (a standard $119 a night room could easily go for a couple grand). And no, on the types of specialty days I've noted (as well as others - Superbowl, SXSW, Final Four, etc) you can't lock in low pricing in advance at particular hotels.

Ah, see, but you could get filet mignon pre-packaged in the meat aisle, at the butcher's counter, at a chain steakhouse, as part of a surf & turf at a high end, or at Michelin rated restaurant. All the prices are different and there is no regulation on how to price it.

Are you fucking with me? Uber is a private car service. That is the definition of a luxury service. Even a cab is a luxury service. I am all about regulation, but places where cabs are heavily regulated, like NYC, are places where uber thrives because cabs are so terrible.

No, she did not. She had one way of getting home: uber. Any idiot can understand that on a night like Halloween uber demand is going to be off the charts. It's kind of like how you don't go out on New Year's Eve expecting it to be easy to get a cab at 3 am. In my experience, all you have to do during a surge is check…

Look, I am actually a socialist, and I strongly believe in regulation of public and necessary services. But Uber is not a public and necessary service. It is a luxury service. The only thing they are responsible for is giving you the service you paid for. You have a problem with someone being left in an unsafe area?…

Ummm, then don't expect to take Uber both ways? Who is forcing you? I never go anywhere where I have one option for getting home. My guess, just based on my personal tracking of outrageous uber surges, is that surges die down pretty fast. If she had waited 20 minutes the surge would have likely dropped to 2 or 3 x the…

Your feet are also an option. Planning ahead is an option. Calling a cab is an option. Waiting is an option. Public transit could be an option. Usually some combination of all of the above are options. People just don't want to do it.

No, I don't want to see her punished. I just think calling her resourceful is ludicrous, and that her claims that uber "stole her birthday" are childish and asinine.

Ok, uber does not let you proceed to request until you have clicked that you accept the surge and what the surge rate is. You can even ask uber to give you a price estimate for your ride based on the surge.

Uber uses the price surge to get more drivers out, so the fact that you saw more cars means the surge was working. However, you can imagine the demand was also off the charts. It's supply and demand. You're not entitled to a personal ride home at any hour of the night. If people weren't willing to pay that much for an…

Do YOU panhandle to the entire country when you make an error? I bet you do like the rest of us adults: We suck it up. We may BORROW the money, but none of us PANHANDLE as though some unfortunate event happened.

Good. You are welcome to tell your tale to everyone you meet.

Your options are the same as they were before a stranger invented Uber.

Everyone knows about surge pricing though, so nobody should be surprised. I also work like three jobs and "rely" on uber to get home if I am too far away to walk/bike, and I am just really unsympathetic to this story. In Austin, during ACL surge prices, I got held at work past the time buses stopped (I had planned on…

Customers are super duper warned. You have to press a button saying you accept the surge pricing before you can book, and you can also request a price quote. I mean, barring some kind of weird glitch on this women's smart phone I feel like she a) wasn't paying attention or b) just didn't care and didn't think through…

Yes. There's a whole screen that warns you how much over the usual fare the surge pricing will be. For example, last time I tried to book during surge pricing, I was told that it would be 1.75x the usual cost. So they don't just say something vague like "it's going to be more, probably."