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I see an app called UBER[^] on my phone. Never thought of it before.
Anybody who's used it, tell me the good and bad about Uber.
Particularly, how much does it cost ?
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Careful now - you might get taken for a ride.
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Smirk, big smirk.
"Might" is the word for it.
I signed up an hour ago.
I am still trying to figure out how to request a ride.
My car is in the shop.
I am trying (failing, in this case) to speak to a human.
I'm wondering if this is like LinkedIn, i.e., no speaking humans.
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Tried multiple pages on their website, no number, no chat, no living human.
Tried the GetHuman[^] website, who just informed me...
"...GetHuman knows no phone number option for Uber-..."
So, let me take inventory on this...
They (Uber) want my money and offer to provide a ride for it.
I want a ride and am ready to pay them money for it.
The website does not provide an option for that.
When I try to use my account with the "other" option, they tell me that my account is already taken.
When I try find a human to help me navigate through their site which I can't understand (because I simply can't figure out their twenty thousand rules) I can't find one; anywhere.
Uber has no humans with voices.
modified 21-Oct-15 13:53pm.
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Others too..
"Who's driving YOU? Chilling Uber investigation reveals convicted criminals are slipping through security checks"
"INVESTIGATION FINDS UBER DRIVERS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS"
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That's a good catch - after all given the clean history of our governments' leaders and our bankers the last thing society needs is a taxi driver who has been caught with some weed 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It's lucky there's never been a taxi driver with a criminal record.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I was going to post a pun using that "Jo le taxi" record by Venesa Paradis but found myself distracted...
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I live in what could be called Narnia - as does half of the Italian population - so that most of the time there's simply nobody there when needed. Blablacar and Uber are totally useless unless one lives in the big city - but there they are moot anyway
Also cab driver licenses are an organized crime business, so they are pressing to have strict controls and outlaw Uber - there are even gangs of taxi drivers that ambush and batter to near-death suspected Uber drivers and passengers alike, and several times they just beaten normal people who were accompanying friends.
Many taxi drivers also work as drug couriers - most of the times the news do not pass to the national newspapers and remain confined in local ones.
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Uber isn't bad, provided you use it for what it was intended. Just be careful of their flex pricing during times of high demand and never use Uber Black unless you are ready to fork up the cash. If I recall, it gives you an estimate of how much your ride will cost when you book it.
I live in a city where the cab companies suck. You have to call in advance to schedule them and they may or may not show up on time. There is no way to hail a taxi. They will not stop. Nor can you have them say... take you to the dry cleaner, leave the meter running, drop off the clothes, and jump back in to get the rest of the ride to work. Nope, they will leave you at the dry cleaners where you have to call for another taxi.
Uber on the other hand, has no problem with multi stop, they show up quickly, they don't do ride sharing, oh and their cars have always been clean. The only thing you need to be careful of is the "flex" pricing.
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Good: Taxicab user experience for the 21st century.
Bad: patent-protected business model to extract 20% of revenue from local communities, instigating a race-to-the-bottom because price is the major aspect of a cab trip that is objectively comparable before the trip, leading to self-exploitation, deferred responsibility for both drivers and drivees.
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Is there a quick way to find if a smartphone's being owned by a guy or a lady? What signs you'll for when you are asked to solve this puzzle? 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I'd use the phone to call someone in the phone history list and ask them.
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Constraint: You should find it by yourself without asking anybody.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Dang.
Then I would look for husband/wife/girlfriend/boyfriend or similar in the contact list. Also check the age of the phone, phone history and casing to gather enough information to make a guess using my knowledge on stereotypes.
If need check through a lot of sms for further clues.
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In my case it is age...I replace my phone every 5-8 years, where my wife does it every 2 years...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I replace my phone every 5-8 years
 8 Years! is so much time for a smartphone. By the end of 3rd year, the phone itself would be shying away from being called a "smart"phone when the contemporary peers start show off what it really means to be smart
I'd think about this only I can own iPhone-18S & Nexus-20 right today. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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My current phone is my ever first 'smart' phone - it is less than one year old...Before that I had a simple flip-phone from Samsung...
My phones are smart because I use them in a smart way - if not these are only a piece of metal does not matter what version number sticked to it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I still use one of those Samsung flip phones. The screen and buttons are protected, unlike the smart phones that can place calls without your knowledge or crack under the weight of my fat ass. My provider keeps trying to convince me that I would be better off with a new phone on a plan that costs 1200%-1800% over the cost of my existing plan. For that amount, I could fly to Japan and buy a new flip phone off the shelf.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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You can use a smart phone and still get by cheaply. I've got a Moto E and use a pay-as-you-go plan with Page Plus Cellular (an MVNO on Verizons network). I turned off cellular data since I have almost no need to try to view the web on such a small screen. I spent around $65 bucks total for last years cell service (yeah, I don't like to talk/text much). I probably get more usage of the calculator App I installed then actually talking on the phone.
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I still have you beat. I have $32 remaining on my $20/year Motormouth pay-as-you-go plan from Vodafone. At my current rate of usage, my next top up will leave me with a $38 balance. Latest offerings from all local providers keep pushing carryover data which I don't need at a cheap $19/MONTH.
My Samsung came with a calculator app onboard plus a Sudoku app to use while waiting for others to get off their phones. One of my few complaints is the smallish screen size, but I can live with that.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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Never heard of them. Are they America based? What network is it? I like Verizon for the great coverage.
My first year was only $45, but last year I took a number of motorcycle trips and was required by the wifey to call at least twice a day!
The default calculator app on my phone isn't very good, I needed something with more power as an accessory when doing DSP work.
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Vodafone is international, Europe-based (I think). They are one of the few providers we have down here in New Zealand. Verizon does do business in NZ, but mostly dealing with heavy IT networks. They give Cisco a fairly good run for the money.
As far as the trips, it's cheaper here to call cellphone-to-cellphone than cellphone-to-landline. Most of my calls are to the City Council raising an issue regarding maintenance in the city parks. It's always to a landline, and I make sure they never put me on hold.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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