Condiv posted:

lol uber got banned after operating in new delhi for 3 weeks

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/08/us-india-rape-uber-idUSKBN0JM0CE20141208

they hired a convicted rapist after failing to do any background checks, then the rapist raped someone

then they got banned while sputtering about "there were no defined rules in India on background checks for commercial transport licenses..."

PokeJoe posted:

do workers in those giant mines get paid to take the very long elevator down

Citizen Tayne posted:

I may be a loving idiot who doesn't understand anything, but I'd figure that if my boss is making me do a thing and I have to do that thing to have my job, my boss should be paying me for that time.

A Pinball Wizard posted:

but that's not even a good analogy because at least my commute is my time in my property which is v different from my boss not letting me physically leave until I perform this one weird task discovered by an asset protection manager

VLADIMIR GLUTEN posted:

this but unironically. imagine how many fewer cars would be on the road if management was at all discouraged from hiring people who lived 4 hours away

PuTTY riot posted:

but no it's not ~a lot~ of time

bobbilljim posted:

lol @ a person who needs a dog to remind them to do the thign that keeps them alive. the dog is smarter and fitter than them.

uncurable mlady posted:

probably because they already have a discount code feature but not a account flag feature idk

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana

comin atcha aaaallllll the way from 1995

quote:

Consider today’s online world. The Usenet, a worldwide bulletin board, allows anyone to post messages across the nation. Your word gets out, leapfrogging editors and publishers. Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats. When most everyone shouts, few listen. How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it’s an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can’t tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.

Clifford Stoll posted:

The Internet? Bah!
Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana

After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic.Baloney.

Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

Consider today’s online world. The Usenet, a worldwide bulletin board, allows anyone to post messages across the nation. Your word gets out, leapfrogging editors and publishers. Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats. When most everyone shouts, few listen. How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it’s an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can’t tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we’ll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure.

What the Internet hucksters won’t tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don’t know what to ignore and what’s worth reading. Logged onto the World Wide Web, I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them–one’s a biography written by an eighth grader, the second is a computer game that doesn’t work and the third is an image of a London monument. None answers my question, and my search is periodically interrupted by messages like, “Too many connectios, try again later.”

Won’t the Internet be useful in governing? Internet addicts clamor for government reports. But when Andy Spano ran for county executive in Westchester County, N.Y., he put every press release and position paper onto a bulletin board. In that affluent county, with plenty of computer companies, how many voters logged in? Fewer than 30. Not a good omen.

Point and click:Then there are those pushing computers into schools. We’re told that multimedia will make schoolwork easy and fun. Students will happily learn from animated characters while taught by expertly tailored software.Who needs teachers when you’ve got computer-aided education? Bah. These expensive toys are difficult to use in classrooms and require extensive teacher training. Sure, kids love videogames–but think of your own experience: can you recall even one educational filmstrip of decades past? I’ll bet you remember the two or three great teachers who made a difference in your life.

Then there’s cyberbusiness. We’re promised instant catalog shopping–just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet–which there isn’t–the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.

What’s missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display comes close to the excitement of a live concert. And who’d prefer cybersex to the real thing? While the Internet beckons brightly, seductively flashing an icon of knowledge-as-power, this nonplace lures us to surrender our time on earth. A poor substitute it is, this virtual reality where frustration is legion and where–in the holy names of Education and Progress–important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalued.

triple sulk posted:

Larry's about to find out what happens when you found an Oracle near the Alto

keyboard vomit posted:

if you live on a fault line it's your own fault

now excuse me as i live in tornado country

bassguitarhero posted:

all those kidnapped nigerian girls could use the OLPC laptops to post help messages to Facebook

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

*saved to wedding_ideas_pics*

FamDav posted:

god bless the steelers for being just an amazing team over the years, but my favorite historical fact is that the only reason they dont suck is because they took 3 million from the league to cross over into the AFC. before that they had (and still have problem) the record for worst season ever.

Citizen Tayne posted:

No he isn't.

incoherent posted:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/uber-drivers-say-rideshare-surge-pricing-backfired-on-new-years-eve/Content?oid=2915795

Bloody posted:

lmfao, just kidding, i walked out of a party and onto a train and was home in a couple minutes

Mr Dog posted:

it's me, i'm the person raising a family in a loving apartment

but hey at least i can take the subway to work!

prefect posted:

what state was that? i've seen at least one "left turn on red okay, just wait a second" sign in massachusetts

Sniep posted:

blinking red for a left turn is the best

why arent there more of these

Nintendo Kid posted:

you're basically saying we should force people who don't have time to take a test that we know doesn't work because it makes you feel better.

it's you, you're the uber ceo

prefect posted:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bill...tts&deg=90&z=19

prefect posted:

it very much does, yes

Shaggar posted:

obviously the difference is a train can try to stop and people understand their car being there is a problem. bollards are secret and will hit you without warning.

triple sulk posted:

Posting on page 69

Beast of Bourbon posted:

i know right? so curious that all that land was bought up before the plan was announced! just weird how the world works sometimes, but it's all for the best. chinatown always needed a whole foods!

Citizen Tayne posted:

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

when edwin edwards ran for governor against former kkk grand wizard david duke, the edwards campaign was successful by putting out these bumper stickers



this was in 1991

quote:

"The only thing we have in common is we're both wizards under the sheets. "

qirex posted:

all salads not made primarily out of unprocessed vegetables are haram

also:

Sagebrush posted:

it's kinda special how you have this weird personal vendetta against me yet i don't think i've ever seen one of your posts, other than the occasional angry ones following me around

anyway i later found out that that story was actually from a movie, lol. i still tell it to people (with this qualification) when it seems appropriate though because i think despite the white racism it has a nice message about grief and revenge.

qirex posted:

yeah mass market retail and tripping balls aren't really a good combo

qirex posted:

also the future for amazon is to automate the pushing carts around part so all the humans do is put things into boxes

Metrication posted:

i can go on a train that goes under the sea to another country

bobbilljim posted:

sounds good. one person tried to tell me uber was safe since you can track them with "technology" if they do a crime on you

fart simpson posted:

thanks radium