"Fares are regulated to make sure that cab drivers can earn some kind of living..."
A cab driver who can't provide a service good enough that they can make a living needs to improve. Provide wifi to customers, or their choice of music, or aromatherapy, or an armed escort to/from the cab in dangerous neighborhoods. Just knowing when a driver has chosen to give you a ride and having information about where the driver is and about when they'll arrive is a vast improvement over the cabs I've taken--but the entrenched government-awarded monopolies have no reason to improve.
Of course, this will all be moot when autonomous cabs come along--except that the entrenched cab companies will be fighting them instead of Uber et al.
Kind of like Calvin Mooers's TRAC, which Nelson wrote about at some length in Computer Lib/Dream Machines. Mooers protected his IP very well--so darned well that it's at best a historical footnote.
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Re: Define extremist
Well... there are DoD training documents that say extremists tend to use phrases like "individual rights".
Russia and streaming content servers
Why am I reminded of Canadian Content laws?
Re: This ain't ride sharing
"Fares are regulated to make sure that cab drivers can earn some kind of living..."
A cab driver who can't provide a service good enough that they can make a living needs to improve. Provide wifi to customers, or their choice of music, or aromatherapy, or an armed escort to/from the cab in dangerous neighborhoods. Just knowing when a driver has chosen to give you a ride and having information about where the driver is and about when they'll arrive is a vast improvement over the cabs I've taken--but the entrenched government-awarded monopolies have no reason to improve.
Of course, this will all be moot when autonomous cabs come along--except that the entrenched cab companies will be fighting them instead of Uber et al.
Secretaries of the Treasury
I must respectfully disagree. Ms. Cabral's signature is very nice, but for elegance and rhythm, you just can't beat Francine I. Neff.
Re: A better what-if...
Kind of like Calvin Mooers's TRAC, which Nelson wrote about at some length in Computer Lib/Dream Machines. Mooers protected his IP very well--so darned well that it's at best a historical footnote.