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Can't say I fully understand the decision being made and the implications.

Not really up to reading about it right now.


Here's what I can tell you: this is what a REAL country should look like:

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Greece is stiffing the rest of the world, Casper style, but in a much more deliberate and self-aware fashion.

BTW the CBC's reporting is absolute garbage - they obviously have orders to support the Yes and they're still saying that the No is only slightly ahead despite a 60/40 split.
 
In other news, Uber has received a favorable court decision on something in Toronto.

You know who doesn't like Uber? Taxis.


As someone who has had my own car basically since I was 16, it is all a distant, mysterious situation to me.

I do recall taking a taxi somewhere a few years back when my car just wouldn't start and I absolutely had to be somewhere. Called a cab.

I found it mind-blowingly expensive. Could not believe how much cash they wanted for a little jaunt.
 
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Greece is stiffing the rest of the world, Casper style, but in a much more deliberate and self-aware fashion.

BTW the CBC's reporting is absolute garbage - they obviously have orders to support the Yes and they're still saying that the No is only slightly ahead despite a 60/40 split.
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go Greece, go Casper on their ass
 
Taxi driver seems to me like a profession where ---> ehh, I dunno.

Jenny has a friend who is a taxi driver. Without getting into character issues and whether or not he is a douche - which is an interesting discussion actually - (he's a huge, fat, Ethiopian, racist/homophobe, religious simpleton) - but that aside, his experiences say to me that the profession of cab driver needs to go the way of the horse and buggy.

He was robbed and seriously beaten and hospitalized a couple years back. He is constantly having people attempting various weaselly drive-and-dash moves on him. Sometimes he grabs someone. Then he has to decide if it is worth his time to wait for the police or it's better to just let them go and concede the lost cash and get back to work. If it's a woman he often gets accused of sexual misconduct. If it's a guy with any level of fitness, they can just kick him in the nuts or whatever and walk away.

So there's that. And then there is the actual guy. If I had kids would I trust his skill and judgement to drive them around for two seconds, nevermind pay him 40 bucks to take them for a 19 minute ride (or whatever)?

No.

There has to be a better way.
 
People need cabs. The Uber model is basically a modern e-twist on the traditional taxi model and it's enslaving the same type of mostly-unemployable people, convincing them to drive in return for meager wages.

Only, the company is sidestepping all local laws.
 
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