Except that Uber punishes drivers who don’t pick up a certain percentage of rides. They also restrict what kinds of vehicles you can use. There most recent compensation system lowers your pay if you don’t pick up enough rides. Those are the actions of an employer, not a contracting agency.

So, here’s what I can make out:

All too often, when people adapt books for television, they basically treat the source material as a series of suggestions.

Look, if you’re going to get pedantic about language, at least be accurate in your pedantry.

HBO Now is just good enough for me right now. For Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley, it’s definitely worth it. I’ve also watched a handful of docs and comedy specials and my wife is finally getting around to the last season of True Blood while we’re about to pick up Veep if we can find the time. I wish it were $10,…

Then explain to me why I can’t just watch this on my computer. I don’t use an Apple device to watch HBO Now, I just use my computer. To not even offer the ability to watch on a browser just reeks of Apple desperately wanting to ship more Apple TVs.

I rewatched the entire season this past summer. Season four is a trainwreck elevated by two phenomenal performances by Hall and Lithgow. Everything else is terrible.

Have they announced whether there will be a time limit on the free upgrade? I’m interested, but I’d prefer to let others work out the bugs first (and figure out if my three-year old low-end laptop can handle it) before I upgrade.

While it’s harder to estimate the average amount of water used to keep a lawn green depending on yard size, turf type, and climate, it’s certainly feasible that a homeowner could use 30,000 gallons of water to water a lawn over the course of a year.

I’m assuming there’s more context to this story, but if the worst things he posted were:

Honestly, this is has become something of a selling point for me. My wife loves Maleficent. I’m not sure why. I don’t hate it, but it’s not particularly great. Still, I’ll happily watch with her whenever she wants. Why? Because it’s 97 minutes long. It has a story to tell and it tells it. Minimal setup, two or three…

If you want to be as prepared as possible, build your emergency fund for several months–or even years–before you commit to the home buying process. The money will be there when you need it that way, which will make the entire purchase a lot less stressful.

Just as a point of clarification, it is not illegal to ask these questions, it’s illegal to make hiring decisions based on the answers to those questions. For that reason, most HR companies will strongly discourage their interviewers from asking them in order to avoid potentially opening themselves up to litigation.…

Looked like his shoulder to me.

And yet I can’t run for state house because I, you know, have a job, and my employer (a local government) doesn’t allow its employees to miss time by serving in politics and the legislative pay won't make up for my salary. Child molesters? No problem! Government employees? No way.

I’m assuming we’re supposed to ignore order of operations, so I played around a bit and got

A physicist, a chemist and an economist are stranded on an island, with nothing to eat. A can of soup washes ashore. The physicist says, “Lets smash the can open with a rock.” The chemist says, “Let’s build a fire and heat the can first.” The economist says, “Lets assume that we have a can-opener...”

I actually see it the opposite way. We used to waste so much stock buying the boxes because we would need a cup or two and then not need any more and so the half-empty box would sit in the fridge until we had to throw it out because we weren’t sure it was good anymore. Now I make my own stock all the time and I find…

I’m just tired of rape being used as a plot device. It’s just so common now as shorthand for “the worst thing that can happen to a woman” and this show (and books I’m guessing) fall back on it so easily (much they way they use “having your dick cut off” for men) It’s lazy and boring and I’m just done with it.

I mean, that four-part image from Jurassic World is an image Bell specifically created for his piece to show what the movie would look like without color saturation. This is complete plagiarism.