One sleepless night in Fargo
Unable to sleep the other night, I found myself at 2 am doing laundry in a truckstop in Fargo, North Dakota of all places.
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Who was at fault? Response
In retrospect, and according to paralegal John Papadakis, there should have been a third option for which to vote:
#3 – both drivers were at fault
“Both drivers were at fault, both should have been charged,” Papadakis said, after viewing the video. “Of course, you never know how things will go at court until you get to court, but based upon the video clip, I would say both drivers made significant errors and should have been charged.”
Read MoreVaccine passports
So, first, they license, and then, once they have their hands around your balls, mission creep sets in and they start to behave as if they own you.
Their insatiable hunger never satisfied in their pursuit of dominance and control, politicians are now widening their scope in an effort to put EVERYONE under their thumbs.
Now the issue is immunization passports, which is really just a different word for the same thing – universal licensing.
Taxi News was not able to locate the photographer who took this picture in order to give photo credit. It’s an almost perfect visual metaphor for service consumers and providers in the gig economy.
Businesses need to make money to provide the services consumers want: New York Times
“Finally someone admits it. All those years we were told that the low costs of Uber, Airbnb, etc. were the result of technological magic driven by their special talents for innovation; that these silicon valley companies all had lightning in a bottle. Now we can all see the emperor never had any clothes, that it wasn’t magic. It was just wildly wasteful and inefficient cash burn. The only real “disruption” these companies managed to effect was the evasion of labor laws, anti-monopoly laws, and consumer protection.”
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ELOG review: “It’s like having your mother sitting in the passenger seat”
Alberta trucker Mike Murchison took a break near the Manitoba-Ontario border to do a livestream to fans and friends and followers, which included a brief summary of the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) he uses.
“It’s kind of like having your mother sitting in the passenger seat, telling you when to stop, telling you when to go to bed,” he laughs. “I like it, because I’m getting my sleep. It’s an improvement, for me.”
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Uber: one man’s opinion
The Gravel Institute
The ride-hailing company Uber is everywhere: it has rapidly become one of the most ubiquitous corporate entities in the United States. But beneath all of its bluster, Uber has a big secret: there’s no profit, no gains in efficiency or effectiveness, and, above all, no innovation. Simply put, Uber is one of the biggest scams in American economic history. And it’s not just scamming its investors (although it definitely is): it’s scamming you – its users – and, most of all, it’s scamming its drivers. While they get rich, you get ripped off. Edward Ongweso, Jr., technology reporter at VICE News, explains.
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The Honourable Steven Fletcher has served as a member of Parliament as part of Canada's federal government and Manitoba's provincial government.
“Zoom” funerals: how to make them slightly less hard
I wish to share some lessons that may be helpful to you when using Zoom or equivalent.
It happened so quickly and my family is all over the world, so we could only participate using Zoom. Unfortunately, it was done badly.
I will share with you some suggestions so you will not have to experience what my family did this week.
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Nothing to do but carry on…
I remember the most shocking fact about his stories was his calm demeanour while he told them. His soft-spoken voice contrasted with the atrocities he described, such as the murder of his uncle. The man’s matter-of-fact descriptions of the dynamics of the conflict seemed both horrific and endlessly complex. But the reality that much of the fighting was carried out by children — and one of them was now standing before me as an adult — was what really got inside my head. I remember driving away at the end of pre-deployment training wondering if I would speak as calmly as that man after witnessing the world he came from.
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