See comments above. A prosecutor who says they have probable cause but isn’t going ahead with charges because the victim/key witness is too fragile, is so far from ‘hearsay and bitterness’ that I wouldn’t know where to begin explaining the difference.

I also like the “it’s gotten very quiet in here” line. Calling out the cowardice of Hollywood.

This is completely incorrect. The prosecutor in the case stated that there was probable cause to go ahead with charges, but Dylan was so fragile that he didn’t want to pursue them. Woody spent millions of dollars pursing his allegations that Dylan had been coached and he lost every time. This information is public…

Susan Sarandon isn’t without problems, but damn if I’m not here for this.

I fly three to four times a year and it seems every time the rules are different: shoes on or off, laptops out or not, a tablet is or is not a laptop. No signs explaining what to do. And half of the TSA employees stand around doing nothing.

that’s not how the real world works. calling oneself a “startup” isn’t carte blanche to just ignore whatever laws you think are inconvenient.

I don’t see how they’re “targeted.” Uber tried to posit themselves as a “ride sharing” service, when anyone with half a brain cell could see that was a load of horseshit. Then when they get told they’re clearly a taxi service and need to play by at least some of the rules governing taxis they cry foul. Like a toddler…

It would make more sense if the new restaurants said they conduct their own health inspections and the ones the city tries to impose are onerous and cost-prohibitive.

all well and good for you, so long as it’s other people who are getting paid a pittance to make your “delicious taco.” You’ll be singing another tune when some start-up comes and “disrupts” whatever it is you do for a living, and you find it hard to make enough to get by.

So far the Austin sub-reddit seems to take the gold for crap content created largely by U/L evangelists. It’s 90%+ of the posts for the last day and a half with a lot of the same language as the passive-aggressive U/L notices.

Maybe. I realize uber was founded under the concept of “I’m already going that direction so why don’t I pick up someone who also needs a ride to the same destination” but pretty quickly transformed into what would be in the UK and unlicensed minicab service. So it became less about ride sharing and more about ride…

Even *pedicab* drivers are fingerprinted in Austin.

Most of that crowd takes one look at the exploitative practices of Uber, Travis Kalanick’s Ayn Rand worship, and the spate of sexual assaults in Uber cars, and rightfully want Uber to expect to behave like a taxi company if they want to operate like one.

Maybe this is oversimplifying, but it seemed to me an analogy might be:

I feel like regular people won, but I also feel like we only won because two massive companies don’t know what the word “compromise” means. It’s the old “I’m taking my ball and going home” tactic that an eight year old would use because they haven’t figured out how to negotiate properly yet.

car2go doesn’t get any love, either, and it’s been here in Austin for awhile. At $.41/minute, an airport trip is even cheaper than Uber/Lyft and if you live even remotely near downtown, there’s a car2go car nearby.

I’ll provide some data that refutes their claims regarding profitability:

Even in death, Uber/Lyft continue to play the victim role and use the resulting plight of their “employees” as leverage to drum up public sympathy. I say “employees” because they’ve already done everything in their power to ensure their drivers are as far from actual employees (and the resulting benefits) as possible.