We should go back to living in caves while we’re at it...

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…

Ahh, so that’s why I wasn’t getting matches. I was just too good looking and people thought I was a fake. Or the opposite. lol

OOooh, child. You better hope nobody sneaks in here from Jezebel.

If they match with me, I just assume they are fake

Okay, I mean this in the very best way, but you really DO need to learn your ACAA rights. Each airline in the US is required to have an ACAA section, and we fought hard for this. :)

That was a great reply, seriously. I have never heard of “calling the special needs coordinator.” There are special needs coordinators? We can call them? If you book your ticket online, how do you access such a person?

Now I never said airlines actually trained their staff...it’s just why it’s supposed to be here. :) Most planes don’t have the requisite aisle chair either, and I’ve seen them bump folks from the 1st row in 1st class because they don’t want an ACAA complaint. But my bet is now you know about it, any flight crew you…

Just don’t confuse it with the Wings Fall Off button.

This is actually a disability accommodation. It allows folks to easily transfer from the aisle wheelchair to the aisle seat. It is most often found on the aisle seats closer to the front of the plane. (And yes, every US plane is supposed to have a special wheelchair that actually fits in the tiny plane aisles. Power…