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Swan Oat posted:Disrupt landlords and start squatting Disrupt landlords with a guillotine.
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SnakePlissken posted:When was this episode, anyway? August 23, 2004
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eviltastic posted:Is he just opposed in principle to the idea of someone other than Congress making rules? The manner of enactment of rules and regulations is itself a creature of law. Agencies can get their hand slapped for overstepping their bounds just by going about making a rule or decision improperly. He's a typical libertarian; government can do no good, dysfunctional Congress is good, regulation is bad. He's reasoned some of Trump's statements as not completely outrageous and will acknowledge that domestic terrorism is often just considered crime while not acknowledging that it doesn't make it any better than Islamic inspired terrorism. Economic issues is where he's shown he can be at least temporarily swayed on, but if it at all drags into any other sector (governance for instance) which it inevitably does, all hope is lost. Boon fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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SedanChair posted:Where does Trump stand on Airbnb anyway? Maybe he doesn't care because the people who use it are not likely to be his luxury hotel customers. Or are they? "luxury" "hotel"
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Trabisnikof posted:Which industry did Airbnb improve exactly? The illegal hotel industry? Tax avoision? SedanChair posted:Dynamically Adaptive App-facilitated Couch Surfing I do like couch surfing and AirBNB does make that easier, tho it is less personal which is where the real fun in couch surfing is.
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Stereotype posted:I wish Uber and Airbnb weren't run by ruthless libertarian douchebags because they really did make some significant improvements to their respective industries. I don't know, I was able to pick up gypsy cabs pretty easily back in 2005 and even a few times as early as 1997.
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The State should use IT to disrupt the economy. All residential sales and rentals in a central online market - paygrades and a central market for jobs. Little jobs like ubering and grondskeeping will be the foundation for guaranteed minimum income.
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Swan Oat posted:Disrupt landlords and start squatting Pretty sure exactly that has already happened via airbnb- someone signs up for a short-term stay and then finagles their way into remaining in the apartment long enough for tenant's rights to kick in and make getting rid of them far more trouble.
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KomradeX posted:Do you have any news links? Unfortunately I don't have any bookmarks as I've mostly been hearing stories about it on our local NPR affiliate over the past several months. Here are some that I found after googling it, though. http://www.npr.org/2015/10/05/445975954/elevated-lead-levels-detected-in-some-michigan-childrens-blood http://www.npr.org/2015/09/29/444497051/high-lead-levels-in-michigan-kids-after-city-switches-water-source It's just exceedingly obvious that it's a massive fuckup on so many levels, whether as a result of incompetence or deliberate misdirection and obfuscation. DrPop fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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GreyjoyBastard posted:
The latest FEMA sends 28,000 liters of bottled water to Flint amid lead troubles Here's hoping this is the thing that breaks the camel's back. Here's some background on the disaster that is the Emergency Manager situation in Michigan. quote:Signed into law in March 2011, it granted unprecedented new powers to the state’s emergency managers (EMs), including breaking union contracts, taking over pension systems, setting school curriculums and even dissolving or disincorporating municipalities. Under PA 4, EMs, who are appointed by the governor, can “exercise any power or authority of any officer, employee, department, board, commission or other similar entity of the local government whether elected or appointed.” quote:Despite their relatively short history, EMs have a record of abusing their powers. This past summer Arthur Blackwell II, Highland Park’s former emergency financial manager, was ordered to repay more than $250,000 he paid himself. In Pontiac EFM Michael Stampfler outsourced the city’s wastewater treatment to United Water just months after the Justice Department announced a twenty-six-count indictment against the company for violating the Clean Water Act. http://www.thenation.com/article/scandal-michigans-emergency-managers/ There was an attempt to roll it back through referendum, however... quote:EMERGENCY MANAGER: Michigan voters rejected the state’s controversial emergency manager law in November of 2012. Less than two months later, lawmakers approved a new version that gave emergency managers most of the same powers they had before while giving local communities a few more options in the early stages of the process. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said the new law improved on the old, but critics said it was essentially a clone. It also included an appropriation, making it immune to an additional voter referendum. So again quote:Lynna Kaucheck, Senior Organizer Food and Water Watch Michigan: This stems from the emergency management law and our lawmakers in Lancing [Michigan] taking away municipalities rights to govern themselves...I don’t think so. No. I don’t think the water shutoffs in Detroit would be happening like they were either if it wasn’t for emergency management. We probably would not have the Great Lakes Water Authority that is in the process of moving forward, either. Because a lot of these decisions were made by emergency managers (EM) that they’re not accountable to the people of the city. There is no democracy involved at all, in making those decisions.
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AirBNB basically saw a lifestyle model that's alive and well with normal people who live in Europe and are friendly and pretty cool and decided to exploit it for fat pig Americans who can't be bothered to meet people but would rather just click buttons on a screen. In short, lol if you don't have a good friend in every major city you can crash with on a moment's notice, goons.
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President Trump to issue national shut-down of all mini-golf courses. Only Trump-developed resorts are legal golf and golf-like recreation areas.
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Meanwhile in Alabama... http://abc3340.com/news/local/birmingham-mayor-involved-in-little-bit-of-an-altercation-outside-council-meeting quote:Birmingham Mayor William Bell was involved in an "altercation" with City Councilor Marcus Lundy outside today's council meeting, sources told ABC 33/40.
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My friends all moved to places I don't want to go 
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Yes, if you don't travel by bunking over on a friend's couch, you're a total loser indeed.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Meanwhile in Alabama...
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Radish posted:My friends all moved to places I don't want to go These are the places where jobs typically pop up
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I'm too busy posting in uspol to have friends, bub
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Shageletic posted:So again lmao I rented a house from this woman and it was a shithole (she was nice and she's right about most of this stuff tho) But yeah the Flint water thing is an obscene disaster, whether you opt to look at it from the perspective of EM mismanagement or government bumblefucking in general DrPop fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Dec 15, 2015 |
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DrPop posted:lmao I rented a house from this woman and it was a shithole (she was nice and she's right about most of this stuff tho) EVERYTHING IS CONVERGING
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Hello. My name is Mandy Patinkin. You frequently quoted my most famous role. Prepare to quote:“I would like to be with Senator Cruz for a moment and I would like to respectfully ask him, since he quotes all the lines from ‘The Princess Bride’ and certainly all of my character, Inigo Montoya’s, lines, I would like to know why he doesn’t quote my favorite line?” That line, Mr. Patinkin said, was among the last his character utters in a movie that essentially taught that love conquers all.
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haveblue posted:Hello. My name is Mandy Patinkin. You frequently quoted my most famous role. Prepare to Dude actually did more than just talk about it. He went over there too! http://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeland-actor-mandy-patinkin-visits-greece-refugee-migrant-crisis/
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pathetic little tramp posted:AirBNB basically saw a lifestyle model that's alive and well with normal people who live in Europe and are friendly and pretty cool and decided to exploit it for fat pig Americans who can't be bothered to meet people but would rather just click buttons on a screen. But this isn't what AirBNB is anymore. You don't actually stay with any sort of host. They leave the doors unlocked, you walk in, and you contact them via phone or email if you have any problems.
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Shageletic posted:EVERYTHING IS CONVERGING At one point her partner came over to fix our collapsing front porch we had complained about for a while and he mortared an empty beer bottle into the new porch and stopped every single one of us to show us the good job he did. This was after the basement flooded to biblical proportions and made the house practically uninhabitable for a few weeks.
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Shakugan posted:But this isn't what AirBNB is anymore. Wait, posters criticizing uber and airbnb haven't actually tried the services. poo poo, this changes everything!
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shrike82 posted:Wait, posters criticizing uber and airbnb haven't actually tried the services. poo poo, this changes everything!
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Stultus Maximus posted:I don't know, I was able to pick up gypsy cabs pretty easily back in 2005 and even a few times as early as 1997. With an app that told you exactly where the car was, let you split the fare with friends (even if they weren't with you at the time) and allowed you to pay with credit? Those gypsy cabs?
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unlike these D&D libtards, i enjoy buying bangladeshi sweatpants at wal-mart. mmm, tastes like freedom. heh. liberals
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It wouldn't be a terrible idea just to download the apps and give them a go. Looking at people's responses, it's pretty clear most of the people criticizing the platforms have literally never interacted with them before.
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Riptor posted:With an app that told you exactly where the car was, let you split the fare with friends (even if they weren't with you at the time) and allowed you to pay with credit? Exploitation is a small price to pay for convenience.
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These companies avoid the rules and regulations of their industry and that's a key element of their business model at the moment. Maybe they would still be very successful and be 'disruptive' to their respective industries if they weren't directly breaking the law but I guess we will never know because they don't seem to be stopping nor do most local governments seem too keen on making them stop.
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Donald Trump's New York apartment empire had a No Blacks or Puerto Ricans policy in the 1970. He only wanted to rent to executives and Jews. The guy who went to the government with evidence of the racial discrimination (in the form of codes attached to lease documentation) said he was afraid to talk because Trump might... you know. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...&medium=twitter
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shrike82 posted:It wouldn't be a terrible idea just to download the apps and give them a go. And if they have done so, they may now speak with authority concerning their business model and regulatory issues, or will you continue to assert that Bitcoin Ponzi is a legit business model because people are willing to use it?
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OK, airbnb and uber are literally bitcoin ponzi schemes. People have not gotten rides on them and not staying at residences through them.
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Riptor posted:With an app that told you exactly where the car was, let you split the fare with friends (even if they weren't with you at the time) and allowed you to pay with credit? My those are revolutionary improvements.
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shrike82 posted:OK, airbnb and uber are literally bitcoin ponzi schemes. People have not gotten rides on them and not staying at residences through them. i have used uber and it suits my needs because i enjoy getting low, low prices and lots of convenience because the driver pays all the costs it is still a hilariously bitcoinesque tale of bad venture capital money being thrown after more, also bad venture capital money
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shrike82 posted:It wouldn't be a terrible idea just to download the apps and give them a go.
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Joke's on you, where I live people just drive home drunk because we don't have any taxi uber poo poo. Hah!
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and desperately trying to avoid being banned in every major city or prosecuted or losing a big class action from their drivers and
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shrike82 posted:It wouldn't be a terrible idea just to download the apps and give them a go. Where I'm from there are some cattle farmers who sell meat off the books without being subject to any of the oversight and thus you can get very good meat for a less money. This is only a good deal because most people don't do it and if millions of people became meat renegades there would be tons of cases of salmonella or ecoli. The more people who shortcut the regulatory systems to save money the more dangerous it becomes and that is the core problem with Uber and Airbnb as a business model, in my opinion.
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