Re: English-speaking taxi number?

2018-08-03 Thread Karen M. Sandler
Another choice is Sam Chiu, mobile 0936-081430, email samchiu...@gmail.com I got his taxi at a taxi stand last night and he came promptly today at the time we agreed yesterday. karen

Re: English-speaking taxi number?

2018-08-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 03:23:24PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 07/29/2018 07:52 AM, John Sullivan wrote: > > (trying to avoid direct use of Uber due to the proprietary software > > required) > > You have more a problem with the fact that UBER uses proprietary software > than the

Re: English-speaking taxi number?

2018-07-31 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/31/2018 09:27 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 07:31:20PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> It's not incorrect, it's the ruling of the highest European court: > > I believe we are in Asia right now. Yes, and even in Asia they have sane laws to protect workers

Re: English-speaking taxi number?

2018-07-31 Thread Holger Levsen
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 07:31:20PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > It's not incorrect, it's the ruling of the highest European court: I believe we are in Asia right now. -- cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: English-speaking taxi number?

2018-07-31 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 07/30/2018 09:48 AM, Andrej Shadura wrote: >> You have more a problem with the fact that UBER uses proprietary software >> than the fact that they are exploiting their workers through by declaring >> them as "contractors" through the help of loopholes in the law? [1, 2] > > That is incorrect,

Re: English-speaking taxi number?

2018-07-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: English-speaking taxi number?"): > Read paragraph 67 of the ET judgement if you want to see what the > Tribunal thought of some of Uber's claims. I particularly like; Oh, and para 87: 87 In the first place, we have been struck by the remarkable lengths

Re: English-speaking taxi number?

2018-07-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Andrej Shadura writes ("Re: English-speaking taxi number?"): > Uber has many (and in the past had even more) different issues (e.g. > company culture and their attitude towards certain issues), but fake > contractorship is not one of them. This is simply false, at leaast as

Re: English-speaking taxi number?

2018-07-30 Thread Andrej Shadura
On 29 July 2018 at 15:23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 07/29/2018 07:52 AM, John Sullivan wrote: >> (trying to avoid direct use of Uber due to the proprietary software >> required) > > You have more a problem with the fact that UBER uses proprietary software > than the fact that they are

Re: English-speaking taxi number?

2018-07-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dijo [Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 03:23:24PM +0200]: > On 07/29/2018 07:52 AM, John Sullivan wrote: > > (trying to avoid direct use of Uber due to the proprietary software > > required) > > You have more a problem with the fact that UBER uses proprietary software > than the

Re: English-speaking taxi number?

2018-07-29 Thread Henry Law
Bad translation... Should be Mr. *Su* (蘇先生) instead. (Forget that this should be a Mandarin name not Cantonese) Henry Law Sent from mobile > On 29 Jul 2018, at 10:34 PM, Henry Law wrote: > > Asking help from my hotel’s reception and they give me this taxi driver’s > number: > > Mr. So >

Re: English-speaking taxi number?

2018-07-29 Thread Bdale Garbee
林博仁 writes: > I'm not a member of the local team though, just FYI while I edit the > page for good. For what it's worth, I had good success using Uber last night to get to/from a restaurant in town. Bdale signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: English-speaking taxi number?

2018-07-29 Thread 林博仁
First of all, sorry for the inconvenience. I've just called the number on the page and confirmed that: * The number on the page is indeed only in Mandarin, and * They don't offer a number for English service, at least not in the knowledge of the people who took the call. I'm not a member of the

English-speaking taxi number?

2018-07-28 Thread John Sullivan
Last night I called the number on the wiki (https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf18/Getting_Around) flagged as a taxi service with English-speaking reception last night, but just got an automated message/menu in Mandarin. Does anyone know another number or what I might've done wrong? It also seems