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I see cabbies share same traits worldwide.
Actually grey market mediation is still illegal. Taxes need to be paid. Nowadays Uber drivers are LLCs or a "craft" type of biz and Uber is just providing customers. When they started it was actually ordinary people driving, no biz, just money in the pocket.
Also since Uber drivers don't have trade union or such, they cannot provide cash for infrastructure and thus no-one apart from the participating cab services should be allowed to use taxi areas and bus stops.
Here most of the problem is transport between infrastructure such as 15 mile drive from airport to ferry. Both of the stops have taxiing infrastructure. Uber or any other shouldn't be allowed to step onto those, as I said they didn't pay a dime.
Black Wizard
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Probably because US currency isn't legal tender in Croatia.
LooseCannon is best friends with a Somali Uber driver in London. They hit it off immediately. True story.
I've used it once by myself, in Daytona back in December as I arrived on the Greyhound coach at about midnight and had no idea where to find a taxi. The driver was an arsehole so I complained on the app and Uber have given be five pounds or dollars off my next trip. I've still got the app downloaded in case I need to use it but haven't done so.
Meanwhile, someone else pointed out that the Somali Uber driver had a very similar name to a terrorist.
Black Wizard
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Did I? Was his name Osama?
No, the Manchester bomber
Black Wizard
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Manchester Bomber is an odd name to be fair. Parents must be huge football fans.
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bearfan
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I saw a Lancaster today.
Uber drivers pay license fees and they pay income taxes here. I'm sure many don't but that makes them tax cheats, not the other things.
Not best friends, but I enjoy talking to random people. Ask @Perun about it.
bearfan
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I use uber mainly because of how pissed cab companies make me. Final straw was in Vegas seeing Maiden .. we took a cab to go see the Iron Maidens, gave the cab driver the name of the place, he asked me to GPS it, I said I would rather not, I was low on battery ... he said I had to ... I did, and he just talked on his phone the whole way. I used my remaining battery to download and sign up for Uber where the driver asked if I needed to charge up and he had a connector for most any phone.
They we fly home, Uber was not allowed to pick up from the airport back then, again cab driver talking on the phone the whole way to my house, did not hear me tell him to turn and we ended up taking the long way back .. I gave him exactly a $0 tip since my fare went up by $4 due to his inattention ... and he got pissed.
Even since then, I have taken 3 cabs in foreign countries when I had no internet connection. I bought a world wide hotspot to rectify that .. so "Uber uber Alles" for me. Fuck cabs.
They we fly home, Uber was not allowed to pick up from the airport back then, again cab driver talking on the phone the whole way to my house, did not hear me tell him to turn and we ended up taking the long way back .. I gave him exactly a $0 tip since my fare went up by $4 due to his inattention ... and he got pissed.
Even since then, I have taken 3 cabs in foreign countries when I had no internet connection. I bought a world wide hotspot to rectify that .. so "Uber uber Alles" for me. Fuck cabs.
Vegas was also my first Uber experience, when @cornfed_hick bundled us into a car to go to the Maidens. Man, that was a good fucking night, and a great weekend.
bearfan
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That was fun, I think that should almost be the permanent "go see Maiden" spot ... US version, was like going there for a convention ... only no one trying to sell me data integration products , but rather "what is your favorite album"
Wogmidget
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Is that a new Epica song?
Black Wizard
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One could make an entire album of Epica songs by putting fancy words in a hat and drawing them out a hat at random. I think Dimmu Borgir did the same for 'The Serpentine Offering'.