Uber

[MoValley John]

It is across the country. I handle the maintenance for a large retailor and every state that I know of requires backflow testing and rebuilds every 3-5 years. Kansas seems to be one if the cheaper states actually. I would say the national average is around $125 per device.

Backflow preventers for lawn sprinklers do not need an annual inspection in Omaha. All other applications, do. If you have a boiler, you have a backflow preventer and an annual inspection.

[Rlh04d]

Not a fundamental part, I'm more focused on them being banned in India and Germany.

As for 'listing the things China has banned', the one I got the biggest kick out of is that China bans encryption of any computer device unless the encryption algorithm has been approved by the government. And 'approved by the government' probably means that they have a back door on the encryption algorithm that allows them to snoop, which leads to espionage and theft of trade secrets (for China-based business).

That would make me very leery of doing any business in China, since you're giving the state open access to any information you might have on a network, in a data center or on a device.

And don't forget the tracking malware installed by Lenovo (who is now owned by the Chinese) that tracks all the internet websites the user visits. Lenovo refused to remove the malware until a tech columnist called BS on them and it blew up on the tech blogosphere.

Exactly. I don't trust companies that haven't been banned from China, personally.

I don't know that I particularly care they were banned in India, either. Germany is the only one that gives me pause, but I don't know enough about their political influences to make a logical conclusion.

[wufan]

Germany requires that drivers be "professional" and charge on a per km basis. They considers Uber drivers to be non-professional. The Uber Taxi and Limo services are still operating.

[shocka khan]

Is this about lack of ethical framework?

No, chief, I'm waiting for you to tell us the story about how you soaked tennis balls in piss when you were a kid, then launched them from a cannon at the neighbor. When the neighbor got the stinking piss all over their clothes, they went to your folks and told them, whereupon you got an buttwhopin and was sent to bed.

Or maybe it is about an ethical framework, you decide. All the frat guys in Animal House grew up to be successful, but that was the movies.

BTW, you just need to relax a little, not take things so seriously, and go with the flow.

[shocka khan]

There's a similar plumbing industry shakedown in Wichita wherein backflow prevention devices on in-ground sprinkler systems hooked up to public water are required to be "inspected" regularly by an "approved professional" for a silly amount of money. Obviously, a backflow prevention device has all of 3 or 4 moving parts held together by a couple of phillips head screws, so you can figure out the real point the "program."

I would say that it depends on what 'problem' these inspections are fixing. If the 'problem' is real (and I don't know enough about sprinkler systems to speak), then perhaps inspections would be a good thing. If inspections fix a 'problem' that doesn't exist, then it's just a ripoff some businessperson managed to get through the legislature.

Lobbyists exist and make money by looking out for their customer's best interests.

[Kung Wu]

No, chief, I'm waiting for you to tell us the story about how you soaked tennis balls in piss when you were a kid, then launched them from a cannon at the neighbor.

That TOTALLY doesn't work. Peeing in balloons and launching them via catapult does though.

[shocka khan]

That TOTALLY doesn't work. Peeing in balloons and launching them via catapult does though.

So does peeing off the bridge over the interstate.....'partly cloudy with a chance of scattered golden showers.....'

[Kung Wu]

So does peeing off the bridge over the interstate.....'partly cloudy with a chance of scattered golden showers.....'

Now that's just plain rude. :)

[MoValley John]

We didn't soak tennis balls in pee, we soaked them in gasoline. We used white gas as a propellant and hit the garage two blocks away...

[MoValley John]

However, Denver Bronco and Oakland Raider fans are famous for their urine bombs.

Must be poor ethical frameworks. We need more urine bomb regulation.

[shocka khan]

However, Denver Bronco and Oakland Raider fans are famous for their urine bombs.

Must be poor ethical frameworks. We need more urine bomb regulation.

Urine, Imine, everybodysine. Let's do it!!!!!

[MoValley John]

Maybe time to rethink Uber.

http://thechive.com/2015/05/22/these...ing-12-photos/

[shox1989]

Uber is apparently back. http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-...e21673137.html

[wufan]

Uber's bad but this is okay in India:https://www.google.com/search?q=too+...2F%3B340%3B222

[MoValley John]

Uber's bad but this is okay in India:https://www.google.com/search?q=too+...2F%3B340%3B222

Well, that motorcycle looks kind of fun. What I enjoy more than looking at the picture of an overloaded motorcycle is the annual ferry sinking. The story is always the same, some overloaded ferry sinks just off the coast, hundreds die. The actual death count is impossible because half of the people jump on as the ferry leaves the dock and there is no manifest. They fall off trains on a daily basis in India, too.

Uber= poor ethical framework.
Rest of India transportation infrastructure= awesome ethical framework.