Posts by Jr, 4242

Ahem! Uber, Lyft etc: California Supremes just shook your gig economy with contractor ruling

KISS Keep it simple stupid!

Eliminate independent contracts. If someone does work for a company, unless truly self employed or is employed by a third party, then they are employees of that company. Under this model, everyone is either self employed or employed, but in one way or the other, they are either owner of a company* or employed. No one is contracted.

Everybody knows why these companies use the independent contract model, to dodge responsibility. If a company can't make it using the employee model, they don't deserve to make it. There's no need for this to be so complicated that even the courts seem to have trouble figuring it out, especially when the fix is so easy.

*I do not consider an Uber driver as being an owner of a company because of Uber's rhetoric about Uber drivers being their 'own boss' and 'working for themselves', or being their 'partners'. All complete BS.

For once, Uber takes it up the tailpipe: Robo-ride gets rear-ended

I believe you'll find the reason for that is that a seat belt can easily be used as a weapon against the driver by a backseat passenger.

Oh, boy! Uber investors behind CEO sueball say Travis Kalanick won't let the company grow up

Re: Contrary to beliefs, People Depend on it!

You either don't know much about Uber or you're invested in Uber. It sounds a lot like you're invested. Uber can't die fast enough.

Google's Larry Page faces four-hour grilling in Waymo-Uber spat

Despite losing its effort to get a hold of Lyft documents, Uber hailed the hearing and its upshot as a victory, claiming that Waymo effectively admitted there was no use of its technology at Uber and was now "resorting to floating conspiracy theories not rooted in fact." ®

Yeah, I didn't quite get the same thing that Uber got from their 'victory'. Uber does like to spin crap, don't they.

Uber bros pull out wallet, $32.5m later the 'Safe Rides' row is over

Re: The goal is safety

That would definitely be a "YEAH RIGHT".

Why Uber threw top engineer Levandowski under self-driving bus

Even though Levandowski did some stupid crap I don't think he's a stupid man. You can be assured he has proof that Uber, and very possibly his brother from another mother, Kalanick, were in on everything from day one and that he'll use it when it's time to deal his way to shorter jail sentence. I hope they share a cell.

Uber may face criminal charges over alleged stolen self-driving tech

"Uber could be totally innocent". Good to see a judge with a good sense of humor.