On 13/05/14 00:39, Stephen Loosley wrote:
Victoria government issues $1700 fines to Uber ride-sharing drivers
as media gaffe surfaces May 8, 2014 by Ben Grubb
On 2014/May/15, at 8:57 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
On 13/05/14 00:39, Stephen Loosley wrote:
Victoria government issues $1700 fines to Uber ride-sharing drivers
as media gaffe surfaces May 8, 2014 by Ben Grubb
On 2014/May/13, at 12:16 PM, Glen Turner wrote:
It's the standard Silicon Valley disruption model. Choose a industry
with high margins, break the law to enter it,
I'm not sure that is right at all.
It's more like: a technology makes an old model irrelevant. It does things
that were not
We were talking about this today over lunch and a question arose; given
that they are looking for everyday people to do the driving, wouldn't
this affect your registration and insurance, as your really not private
use any more? If you didn't change your insurance, things could get
rather ugly
Surely that just requires a driver to pay some company a bit more. It's
fixable.
On 2014/May/13, at 5:53 PM, Alan Hargreaves wrote:
We were talking about this today over lunch and a question arose; given that
they are looking for everyday people to do the driving, wouldn't this affect
On 14 May 2014 09:50, Hamish Moffatt ham...@cloud.net.au wrote:
On 14/05/14 08:56, Jim Birch wrote:
On 13 May 2014 17:53, Alan Hargreaves alan.hargrea...@oracle.com
wrote:
wouldn't this affect your registration and insurance, as your really not
private use any more
Sooner or later,
On 14/05/14 11:52, Jim Birch wrote:
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
whether a user-pays approach to everything is really in our best
interests in the long term
I'm not in favour of user-pays as some kind of general moral/economic
principle, but I am strongly in favour of the Pigovian
Mmmm,
And like most/many others I already pay a user-pays levy for my visits to the
GP (twice a year) via the Medicare Levy - which effectively increases every
year. And I also pay a private user-pays levy via my private health insurance
... which I wouldn't have entered into if it didn't make
