We should go back to living in caves while we’re at it...
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I had to get fingerprinted to volunteer for the city (animal shelter in Austin).
No, sorry. Don’t care. The regulations are too cost prohibitive. I’d rather have the cheaper rates and cleaner cars.
Instead of trying to bind up Uber and Lyft with the same regulatory nonsense the cab companies endure, the city council should be freeing the cab companies to be better competitors to the new companies. Of course, those rules help keep out competitors, so the cab companies are happy to pay the campaign donations to…
If they want to disrupt an abusive monopoly they should follow the rules that monopoly has imposed.
Exactly the way I feel. We’re in the early stages of something very similar here in Houston. Uber’s threatening to leave if the city doesn’t stop mandating fingerprints. On one level I completely support the city’s view that a fingerprint background check is for our own safety but on the other I don’t really have an…
The only way you can get fingerprinted where I live is with an appointment. By the time you drive there, sign in, wait to be called, go up to the desk, wait for the person to do it and fill out the forms, then drive back to my job I'm looking at two hours. The quickest I've ever been in and out of a fingerprinting is…
The (no longer) shocking thing here is how little it takes to buy off local politicians relative to potential income from doing so.
$54k to the City Council for millions in revenue. If only I had a little more money and an idea for a good racket to pursue corruption within.
Uber has exited the Corpus Christi area as well. At the same time, city council airs commercials over public radio about the sexual assaults committed by uber drivers etc. Personally I find it unfair that the city has decided on my behalf which service I should take. I can also tell you that my friends and I simply do…
What has always confused me is that so many cab companies refuse to adopt the methods that make Uber and Lyft so convenient and rather force competition out through regulation instead of meeting the changing demands of the consumer. Adapt to the market, don’t make the market adapt to you, it only causes frustration…
You can pick one up on ebay right now, free shipping.
The sloping sides will help the cannon balls bounce off.
“and the destroyer features a new tumblehome design”
This may not be a trend that will end well.
What kinda blasphemy are you speaking?!
It can fire new generation rail guns and lasers ...
Navy denies the fourth ship was to be the USS Keyser Söze…
Is this a good place to point out that the commanding officer of this amazing piece of technology is Captain James Kirk?
If I remember correctly, in “Skunk Works” by Ben Rich, the Sea Shadow had a similar problem to a much larger degree. It was actually returning less radar than the ocean around it, making it look like a giant hole in the ocean on any radar operators screen. It was stealthier than the ocean!
the radar signature should be able to change with the touch of a button.. when not in battle there would be no way to study it to find a way to detect it..