#The railway man synopsis driver#

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. …commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged…īy the President of the United States of America. Note these lines, on who to remember especially on this day of gratitude and thanksgiving: And President Lincoln called for Thanksgiving. Suffering was everywhere felt, everywhere present. Abraham Lincoln, and Who We Should Remember on Thanksgiving They are playing fast and loose with the truth.Īnd, if you think this post is just about Uber, well… let me tell you about a few other companies. And, even if Uber’s lawyers find a way to win the argument that Uber is not a “transportation-services company, but a technology company,” I won’t believe them. This kind of dishonesty, I think, hurts us all. Challenge the existing law directly, Uber. But I also think that Uber should tell the truth, and not try to use treachery to get around existing laws. Now, I think Nevada should allow Uber to operate. Their product is a ride – they are in the transportation business. You are using technology to access, and to purchase, their product. No… read Uber’s website, buy their “product,” and you are not buying technology. “With the click of your mouse, you can reserve your spot for our monthly book synopsis event.” With Uber’s thinking, our monthly event, the First Friday Book Synopsis, would be a technology company.

In one sense, every company is a technology company these days. The fact that Uber is using new technology instead of old technology does not make them a technology company. One can imagine “at the twirling of a rotary dial, through the modern technological marvel of a telephone, a taxi will come to your house and take you wherever you would like to go.” If Uber is a technology company, then so is a traditional taxi company.

#The railway man synopsis driver#

Use Uber on your phone to connect to a driver in Dallas at the touch of a button.” “Uber is Dallas’s best way to request a safe, reliable, and affordable ride within minutes. I challenge you to go to their website for your city, like I did for their Dallas website, and after reading it call them a “technology company.” This is what they say themselves, about themselves: But “a technology company, not a transportation-services company?” I don’t think so… I understand that they represent a paradigm shift. Now, I happen to be a fan, in principle, of what Uber is doing. So, Uber argues that it is a technology company, not a transportation-services company. The state is trying “to compel a legal round peg into a square hole,” said Don Campbell, a Las Vegas lawyer representing Uber. The Delaware-based Uber maintains it is a technology company, not a transportation-services company subject to Nevada regulations that apply to taxis or commercial motor carriers. Read this paragraph carefully, from the Business Insider account: Here’s where the honesty, or lack of honesty, came in. But, of course, it is really about the battle between traditional taxi companies and the new upstart, Uber. So, I was captivated by reading about the battle, with big stakes, in Nevada. Issues of honesty and dishonesty are everywhere present.īetrayal of trust deceptive action or nature. Sadly, I suspect that some level of treachery persists long after the dawn of American fortune. “Our method of doing business,” said the railway man Charles Francis Adams, Jr., a grandson and great-grandson of presidents, “is founded upon lying, cheating, and stealing.” As in China, the dawn of American fortune was accompanied by spectacular treachery.