I'm not following the reasoning there. Surely they wouldn't need to name Uber in any such law.
If that's what they want, surely they could just go for a law that essentially says, 'Any taxi hires in the city of New York without this particular license are illegal.'
Maybe they just want Uber drivers to clean up their act if they're going to operate in that area?
They tried that and it's hung up in the courts and will be for a long time.
By far the easiest way to shut a company down in New York is to hit them with a ton of violations.
Technically Uber shouldn't be legal at all in New York, but they are arguing they are a limo but not a taxi service. And it's clear they'll appeal that up to the Surprme Court which means a decade of them operating while the legal fight goes on.
I had the impression that generally the drivers aren't the medallion owners. In a separation of capital from labor, a fleet owner would buy the medallions and lease the cabs out shift by shift. That way a single cab could stay active nearly 24 hours/day.
Years ago I remember reading something about how Chinese hackers had managed to infiltrate almost the entire US system, and their initial doorway in was through hardware sales. They'd manufactured millions of chips in Chinese factories for global consumer products that all had backdoors hardcoded into them. And as these processors and memory chips made their way out into the world, into various products, some of them wound up in government computers. And slowly they got more and more access.
...I can imagine that maybe there wasn't an existing law against flirting, but SURELY there should have been enforcement of laws against ejaculating on people :(
Yeah, I did STEM subjects at university and work in STEM and I still think that's a pile of crap. My A level history teacher taught me communication and reasoning skills that have been at least as useful to me as any of the science and maths I've learnt. And where precisely is her evidence that Arts students don't get jobs? There certainly aren't enough science jobs for everyone who studies it, and if they want everyone to work in sciences, why precisely do they keep cutting funding? Gah, ruddy Tories.
I totally agree. I have an arts degree and work in a school Design and Technology department, so I tend to be very angry with the whole arts versus STEM thing anyway. We need both.
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If that's what they want, surely they could just go for a law that essentially says, 'Any taxi hires in the city of New York without this particular license are illegal.'
Maybe they just want Uber drivers to clean up their act if they're going to operate in that area?
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By far the easiest way to shut a company down in New York is to hit them with a ton of violations.
Technically Uber shouldn't be legal at all in New York, but they are arguing they are a limo but not a taxi service. And it's clear they'll appeal that up to the Surprme Court which means a decade of them operating while the legal fight goes on.
This law could get rid of them in a year or two.
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God knows if it was true though.
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Fortunately it looks like a weird subbing choice rather than the law wording.
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