You all are smart, and I enjoy hearing your opinions... So I am now wondering, is anyone following this Uber fiasco and if so, what is your take on it? For those of you not informed- At a dinner last week attended by media members a VP at Uber suggested they hire investigators to dig up dirt on journalists writing negative news about them. one of those journalists reported on it. http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/uber-executive-suggests-digging-up-dirt-on-journalists This brought to the surface some other issues. Now one the manager of the NYC Uber office is being investigated for tracking people without cause. http://www.buzzfeed.com/johanabhuiyan/uber-is-investigating-its-top-new-york-executive-for-privacy
So I'm at the dentist. And I needed X-rays. It's one of those standing ones where it circles your head. Can you at least close the door as I'm getting them done? I know it's really not that big of a deal, but I felt stupid as I'm standing there and glance to the side and the three ladies at the reception desk are staring at me. I even waved at them as a joke. Hoping they'd realize maybe they should give me some privacy. Nope. They laughed.
All I can say is that people are and have been going HARD at Uber for reasons that are not unique to them at all, they're industry problems. They say Uber doesn't vet drivers like usual cab companies, yet both of them still have minor (rude drivers) and severe issues (abductions/sexual harassment). They bring up the "predatory surge pricing" but guess what? You can still go and use one of the other car apps or just flag a normal cab. Most of the time, a normal cab still costs more. Then the chick that's the theoretical target was talking about their promotion to have hot chick drivers in France. If the women are independent capable women, not sex slaves, let them do them. Calling it sexist, because they're using sex to sell is dumb. The company is trying to make money, they're going to make money, they're not a perfect company. One exec gets drunk, says some shit and its a huge fire. I just think its dumb. And that's all I got to say about that.
Re: Step into my orifice Well then, they need to state their rules a little clearer first. I'm sorry, but I don't want to live in a world where I can't disrobe at my leisure. Besides, it's not like I didn't have one of those radiation protection vests covering me. Technically, not naked.
Well first of all, I think a lot of this is faux media outrage. For example, the journalist who deleted her Uber app did so because she didn't like a partnership between Uber in France and an "escort" service which was providing attractive female drivers for a promotion. So many things there. 1) Its a foreign country with different customs and views on things like that, so by shoehorning your moral structure into that scenario and then making a wide ranging judgement on a company for it, is a bit overdoing it. 2) Great, delete the app, no sense in attempting to smear a company for it. Especially making rash claims about it not caring for your safety. Sloppy "journalism" 3) While its a douchey thing to say by the Uber exec, he's not incorrect and funny that doing what the media does all the time, but to the media, is now construed as bullying or threatening. Also, I find it hilarious that this is coming from Buzzfeed news and spearheaded by the Buzzfeed editor in chief. You get your clicks and pageviews from top 30 lists about why it sucks to get old and funny cat vids, you're not Time magazine. And its always a great idea to put off the record stuff onto the record. As for the tracking, thats a whole different bucket of worms, but its also annoying that people are outraged about a service predicated on GPS and geolocation actually utilizing those functions. The Uber backlash lately has been a bit exhausting and obnoxious. Either use the service or don't. It provides great value and is a space that is still kind of the Wild West. I get privacy concerns, but people have to realize the edges of this get blurred when you start utilizing services that are based on you giving up pieces of your privacy for convenience and value.
I would have no idea what you are talking about if it weren't for the fact that just last night I tried to send a rambly one to someone and it gave me the warning when I hit submit.
Anytime he looks right in the camera and says "this is CNN" after some hilarious analogy or some native saying something that CNN would never let through is great. Bourdain is great, I have watched and read anything he has put out, minus his first novel because even he says it sucked. If you haven't watched him and Eric Ripert try and pull a double shift at Le Halles you should, funny shit to watch. It may be on Netflix
They have a lot of terrible people on there, but so does everyone else. Cooper, Burnett, and Bourdain aren't so bad. You look at all the morons who think the Daily Show is news and you realize you can do a lot worse.
I like Bourdain. That guy is the cat's pyjamas. But they jumped the shark a long time ago, beyond repair. This is the same fucking network who when I was 12 was filming anti-aircraft battle footage inside enemy lines when Desert Storm began. That shit was completely unheard of, re-inventing reporting. Now it's holographs, reporters in rain ponchos standing ten feet from shelter and I'm pretty much expecting a waterskiing squirrel any day now.
Today a patient had his wife bring me jalapeño soup as a token of appreciation. That's great...it's wonderful. The only weird part is he insisted I taste it in front of them. In his room. Beiskebfuskendudn!!!! I couldn't think of a great excuse so I opened up a plastic spoon and did it. And probably inhaled about 12 different creepy crawlies at the same time.
So I occasionally text a girl that used to work with me that had moved back to Cali after breaking up with her boyfriend. Just to catch up from time to time. Her boyfriend has since moved out there and they got married. Texting tonight that one of our old project managers now works the lingerie counter at Macy's I get a text back to "never text mice wife again." Never had that happen before. Now Ive kept it totally above board with her. I have two girls that are former workers I keep up with in a similar fashion. I think the dude is just being a wierdo control freak (based on his past behavior Ive heard about/witnessed whens he lived here). I kind of feel like I want to text back and fuck with him.
I think it would be fun to fuck with him, but on the other hand he's just looking out for his mouse friend's wife. Really, if you can't stand that your girl is simply communicating with a guy then you have serious insecurity issues. Jealousy really brings out the teenager in adults. My wife is stil friends and talks with one of her exes, but I'm okay with it because in the end it's me she's married to, isn't that reassuring enough? Send him goatse and tell us his reply.
Or understand that the chick you're texting is going to be the one that has to deal with the resulting shitstorm, and just let it go.