Mass Effect players know and expect that players will have their own version of the main character with different genders. Nobody has that expectation about the Legend of Zelda.
An X is also a commonly accepted way to select a checkbox though. The only sure way to indicate a checkbox as not selected is to leave it empty. That's the true opposite, and actually does work.
True but that doesn't mean there is no place for those who just want to build a small business without having to sacrifice their personal life to it.
Decreasing risk is also beneficial to society at large if a larger portion of people are allowed to build businesses that provide jobs.
There is also the thought that lowering the personal risk to you and your family allows you to take more chances with your business ideas and become more innovative.
Companies get cheap labor and foreign workers get great opportunities. Protectionism may appear to help local workers in the short term but it will damage the entire country in the long term.
The wars we are currently in have not affected me one bit, except perhaps by adjusting prices for various goods by slim amounts that I can afford to ignore. Most people are like me. Saying that wars will affect all of us and our children as well is a huge exaggeration (unless you actually believe the government will attempt to pay down the national debt, which is just preposterous). It doesn't affect most people in any noticeable way, which is verified by how most people don't care.
If we weren't in all of these wars, we could afford to cut your tax rate in half (and every other federal tax rate) without changing anything else. That's equivalent at least an instant 10% raise, maybe more depending on your tax bracket.
If you believe that the US government determines the tax rate based on anything remotely related to the amount that it spends, I just don't know what to say to you. Did your taxes really increase by 11% when the wars started?
He means that the military engine that keeps us constantly able to fight these wars is expensive. If we did not fight foreign wars, we would have a much smaller military budget. The would mean that federal government spending would be lower, which would reduce the need to revenue. While it is true that the federal government finances part of its huge budget with debt so sudden increases are not immediately felt, they do translate into increased interest payments which must be financed by revenue, and again, there is also the need to pay for the general level of power and readiness to fight between wars.
Now that it's more clear what the poster meant, you should be able to think of something to say.
But even eliminating the wars, spending is higher than revenue. And historically, we can see that the government does not finance its spending with revenue, it does so with borrowing, and it pays back its loans with more borrowing. Lower spending does not reduce taxes, nor does increased spending raise them. To say otherwise is to ignore the facts.
Yes, the wars contribute to spending but it's not being argued they are the entirety of excess spending.
We do perpetually borrow but our finance charges steadily increase, and not all of that is able to be deferred. The deferral will eventually have to be repaid or there will be an enormous disaster. It's actually worse in the long run than steady expenses.
To use an everyday example, it is similar to saying a laptop is not expensive because it's on a credit card and the credit card payments are financed with another credit card and so on. The laptop eventually costs more for using such a scheme.
Sure, but my point was that in the meantime, payments aren't actually higher, which is what was originally asserted. IOW, the average citizen such as myself isn't materially affected by this ballooning debt.
How is promoting the Uber model better for drivers, if it forces them to pick up customers that are located in places they would rather not drive to and forces them to destinations they would rather not drive to?
As an aggregate model, it would make taxis much more attractive for a lot of people who don't like the uncertainty, smelly cars, crazy drivers, poorly maintained vehicles, and long waiting times. Those people would be much more likely to hire taxis, increasing the business liquidity, reducing the uncertainty for taxi drivers in the business who might go a few hours without a ride. The advantage to drivers, is that an uber customer is identified before they get into the vehicle. They also have the means to pay. The ability to discriminate on source/destination is removed, but, in many taxi regions, they aren't, in theory, allowed to do that anyways.
I'm not arguing that 100% of all the uber rules are an advantage for drivers - in particular, the ability to turn down a $30 cab fare in order to wait for the $70 SFO trip will be to their economic disadvantage, but it will result in a healthier business overall.
Is that really allowed in CA? I know that in both NYC and Boston/Cambridge, a hailed cab can't refuse a destination. In fact, after being stranded in uptown Manhattan for an hour, I now make a point of not declaring my destination till I'm in the cab.
What's "allowed" and what a cab driver will do are two different things, as you've already discovered. Also, on the peninsula in the bay area, you don't really "Hail" a cab, you have to call for one. And, it's while you are calling one, they can decided whether to send one. I've spent several hours at AMC Mercado in Santa Clara waiting for a cab for a short trip, and continually having it confirmed that they are "Waiting for someone to pick up the ride."
>I've spent several hours at AMC Mercado in Santa Clara waiting for a cab for a short trip, and continually having it confirmed that they are "Waiting for someone to pick up the ride."
Which cab company was this? they sound way more reputable than any cab company I've rode with.
man, when I worked on the peninsula, it was maybe an hour walk to the caltrain. Now, they had a free shuttle, but I work late often.
I can walk for an hour, really, it's not that big of a deal, but if I can get a cab within 15 minutes? that would be my preference.
So I call the cab service, they tell me someone will be there in 15 minutes. I call again after half an hour. they say the same thing. I call to cancel the ride and "oh, they are almost there, just a minute"
I mean, if they would tell me that nobody was on it, I'd just start walking. It was pretty frustrating, and I finally stopped even trying, and walked every time I missed the shuttle.
Sure, there are other boards, but /b/ is bigger than all of them combined, and is the primary reason for 4chan's fame. It's not entirely accurate to assume that they are one and the same, but it's mostly accurate.
