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• PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS IN THE WRONG ON DONOR DECEPTION BUT IN THE RIGHT ON HIDDEN CAMERAS (c) Carrie Devorah
  
• OFFICERS DOWN. IT IS TIME.
  THERE IS A WAZE TO COMPENSATE THE RAMOS & CHU FAMILIES FOR MURDERS IN THE RANKS OF THE THIN BLUE LINE (c) Carrie Devorah
  
• IT'S TOO BIG TO SUCCEED NOT TOO BIG TO FAIL, CONGRESS (c) Carrie Devorah
• AOLs STEVE CASES FOUR WHEEL REVOLUTION (c) Carrie Devorah 
• BLOWING AIR @ CONGRESS’… (c) Carrie Devorah
• UBERCADES . UBER THE TOP (c) Carrie Devorah
• UBER & BEYOND REGULATORY TECHNOLOGY OVERSIGHT (c) Carrie Devorah
• DOES IT MATTER THAT WAPO MISSED A RAPE STORY OR THAT CONGRESS FAILED THIS CHILD WITH LACK OF SAFEGUARDS (c) Carrie Devorah

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PLANNED PARENT IS IN THE WRONG ON DONOR DECEPTION BUT IN THE RIGHT ON HIDDEN CAMERAS (c) Carrie Devorah:

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I would like to offer the balance to the academics POV on the Planned Parenthood pre-texting that I heard expressed on OTM, ON THE MEDIA, a radio hour hosted with Brooke Gladstone.

As a former NUJ and NPC member, as a trained crime analyst and investigator, I object to a mispresentation of fact:

1- Rightly or wrongly on fetal tissue sale- the group, the Center, lied their way on to private property

2- Rightly or wrongly on fetal tissue sale- the group, the Center, violated the video taped person(s) Rights of Publicity and Privacy
3- Rightly or wrongly on fetal tissue sale- claims can be made on trademark violation, restraint of trade, after it, it wasnt just any non profit name being bandied about in the news, it is particularly Planned Parenthood.

What Planned Parenthood did or did not do is not my role to adjudicate just to find data details, make them public for others to read informatively. The Center failed. There is a consequence other hotshot camera wielders are to learn, and lawyers who rely on Case Precedence rather than investigative reading of laws outside that lawyers box of comfort. A little legal hard work goes a long way to creating benchmarks.

The Center and all others forward sharing (which is not reporting) missed the real crunch of Planned Parenthood's crimes which are actionable.

Planned Parenthood is a 501(c)(3) that filed its mission with the IRS to be reproduction consult not sale of dead body parts.Lying to a federal agency on a federal form comes with a severe penalty.

People donating to Planned Parenthood were not told they were funding dead body part selling, amongst other 'in plain sight' details that I point out in my piece I wrote in the shadow of the video releases.

Planned Parenthood is at potential for investigation by the Securities Commission for accepting donated stocks that Planned Parenthood then converted, an issue the overseeing regulators, several, will adress from a regulatory POV.

Moreso the Center did not act in lockstep with the Journalist's Creed. The Center jumped on board with the other Gotcha setups others self promoting as journalism, funded by donors or going for Viral Gold. These acts of charade, misrepresented as acts of courage are entertainment not news reporting. Journalist investigators, REAL journalist investigators would have pored hours in to finding bills of sale, tracking leads, trucks, getting a job and working on the inside then revealed documented facts as a whistleblower instead of relying on food chomping sound bytes between mouthfuls, an act of cowardice and self grandeur.

Tell the people the truth. Get the interview through proper channels not stalking. More often  than not, I have experienced, the subject wont believe your stated mission anyhow. More truth in testimony has been secured compliant with law in that people are too often lonely, wanting to dump, not trusting family, friends or having no one to talk to. Data mining gold when done authentically.
Like you havent TMI told the clerk at Walmart, at checkout, about the bunions doctor diagnosis or the breakup that percolated the designer to rip a bed and recover header to footer.
Taking a video with a hidden camera is chump bringing one change only, bringing journalism down farther than it has fallen before- a head chop to an already suffering industry.

Journalists lose their authenticity as journalists when they accept ad payment for their viral videos etc. Legitimate journalists bring their own coffee to avoid being caught in bias.

Journalism once was an honorable profession ballast needs to be brought back to..... it may be too late

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3RD PARTY MANIPULATED SEOs DRIVING TOURISM STICKER SHOCK AT AIRPORT CAR RENTAL PICK UP WINDOWS (c) Carrie Devorah:
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Some call it good business.

Some call it deceptive.

Others even suggest it is an anti-consumer conspiracy.

No matter what one chooses to call it, seems that traveling car rental customers are being hit with up-stepped sticker shock at their rented car pickup window.

The car renter knows the online checkout approval summation includes taxes. The traveler can see on their invoice if and what taxes they are charged.

Sticker shock hits when the consumer after the consumer's plane hits the tarmac, luggage is in hand and they are standing at the car rental pickup counter.

Tacked on rental fee disclosure is not immediate. Blame is, though.

Tacked on fees disclosure is made to the car renter, at the counter, after 'the rental pitch' is completed. The 'rental pitch' includes, but is not limited to, insurance pitches, waivers, disclaimers and gas fill up return obligations none of which were disclosed to the traveler on the website the traveler rented from.

Had the traveler been forewarned on the rental website, at their time of booking, of the rental sites insurance package pitch choices package 1, package 2 or package 3 the supplemental package, the renter could save decision making time on dollars ie. $11 or so dollars a day to not report the claim to the driver's insurance company is a viable dollar cost averaging to consider when a driver's deductible is $500 or more.

A seasoned traveler may be prepared for extra fees. A business traveler most likely doesn't look at invoice breakdowns since their costs are passed along to employers. Casual and international travelers may rise eyebrows at an invoice that is unexpectedly higher than their online invoice disclosed rate. The final at the counter invoice includes state taxes, municipality and local taxes.

Travelers questioning the final invoice unexpected rate get  push back ranging from 'this is how the industry does it' or 'this is how we do it' or 'you rented from a 3rd party booker, it's not our problem.'

Nor is it the consumer problem.

Retailers have succumbed to the explosion of business identity thefts online, claiming 'there is nothing we (the corporation) can do.' That is not true. Something should be done, and can be done to stop 3rd party bookers stealing established business identities and trademarks to profit from.

It is theft- identity theft, trademark theft, privacy theft, rights of publicity theft, client theft and copyright theft.

Section 107 of the Copyright Law states that it is not Fair Use of a copyright when the Copyright theft causes the copyright owner to lose profit. Splitting fees with a 3rd party booker would constitute loss of profits. And, all said and done, when a customer is put through the gyrations of onsite pitches that pump up the travelers cost, the copyright owner is the one left to deal with complaints against the car rental site and its airline partner.

The blight of 3rd party bookers is not endemic to the car rental industry alone. The internet quarterbacks set out to disrupt business. They have disrupted business breaking laws in the process.

Something can be done but few will take necessary steps to take on the 3rd party bookers. Laziness and ignorance of the laws are two good reasons to start with. A 3rd reason will be the dollar cost averaging of going along with the flow citing the 'cost of doing business.'

3rd party bookers are no more the cost of doing business that is accepting that each day you have to give up your lunch money to the bully demanding it. A company that does not demand the 3rd party bookers remove the infringed company's logos and trademarks from the infringers websites is accepting a implied business arrangement with the 3rd party booker, hence not able to push blame on to the consumer for using the 3rd party booker.

Are legislators doing something about it? Well, maybe. With legislators failing to disclose their holdings and board positions- past and present- there is no knowing the legislators ties to Technology Industry of motivations behind the legislator pushing the Internet of Everything agenda intent on busting traditional business models.

It is easier for the car rental sites to bully-blame car renter for the car renter's costlier 3rd party booker experience than it is to accept that gaming consumers is the new norm that legislators can prevent, if they chose to. Had Judiciary Chair Bob Goodlatte not shared, at a hearing, he has or had a kid working in a Silicon Valley for Facebook, it may not have been known to question the Committee chair's allegiances and alliances.

Finding business's original websites these days is like looking for a  website needle in an internet haystack. Online consumers have become inundated with websites stealing the identities, trademarks of original sites with the intent of taking customer data with the intent, ultimately, of busting industries, in this case, the car rental industry.

The counter person told the customer to trust the facts he stated because that he had been in the local car rental business over 20 years. The same counter person then told another customer that his company's $3.86 a gas gallon refill was the cheapest gas price around, telling the customer that they had to make there gas replacement decision 'here and now' warning his company's rental policy was to require customers to fill up or top off the gas  within 10 miles of Thriftys. The customer has to produce their gas purchase receipt had to be produced at the rental company's gate to be permitted to pull on to the rental site property.

Why require refills at a gas station within 10 miles? The mathematics  of requiring customers to fill up within 10 miles of the rental site was due to the rental site learning that gas gauges don't accurately measure gas already used to drive.
Gas gauges were indicating full tanks when it seemed, between fill up and drop off, a gallon or two of gas  had been used. The car site rental company supervisor some cars get 22 miles to a gallon which, she said as raison d'etre for their tough renal car love.

Searches for 'cheapest' car rentals kept returning results of the airport site rentals. Searching by keying in zip codes a distance away was ineffective, too. It seems that companies that pay to bump up their SEOs pay to bump down their competitors SEO rankings.

With the motivation it seems being money and blames-fingers being pointed at everyone but themselves, the loser is the consumer.

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THE SCIENCE EXPERIMENT IN MY FRIDGE THAT IS ARGUMENT #1 vs GMO          (c) Carrie Devorah:
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Ok. My fridge needs cleaning. Not. I have a science experiment growing. We all heard that one before. Take a gander at the pic, I really do.

Didn't start out that way. But here it is now, I cannot take a life, even the life of the cabbage growing in my fridge.

I was going to get around to slicing and dicing the farm grown cabbage a friend gave me but essentially I "hell'd" it, I had intentions that got bested with life happenstance.

And then one day I did a double take upon opening the fridge door. Something was growing. No. Not fungus or mold. Something was growing. A designer/inventor from way back, I did what is in my nature, I let curiousity get the best of me. I watched. And I watched. And eventually I shared a pic with others who said THROW IT OUT AND CLEAN YOUR FRIDGE.

Corrected them I did explaining fridge is cleaned this had become a science experiment watching how a farm grown cabbage began to propogate itself in to a plant and from the inside out, a feat I have concluded no GMO 'growth' can do.

So there you have it. Picture led, picture perfect, my self sexing cabbage that continues to replicate from inside.

I haven't the heart to toss it. The only dirt I own is under my fingernails or after not dusting a week. I havent gone so far as to name "her" yet. I do know that moving her may risk her life, wink. I would sooner find her a scientific home to lovers of nature who know there are gifts from the earth that Man cannot replicate, as the expression goes, 'man plans, God laughs' well, I think God's belly is rumbling over this headline (with pics)

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OFFICERS DOWN. IT IS TIME.
THERE IS A WAZE TO COMPENSATE THE RAMOS & CHU FAMILIES FOR MURDERS IN THE RANKS OF THE THIN BLUE LINE (c) Carrie Devorah :
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  You have no clue what I am referring to, do you? You hear the headlines about a cop being executed. You have no idea what the Thin Blue Line is.

You should.

Officer down. Once a year, come May, officers are mourned by brethren and by the naked few understanding the role of Law Enforcement in our day to day. Come April. Officer down. Names are chiseled in to walls embracing lives lost in the line of duty.

Officer down. The memorials live. Few respect officers down. The cold blooded executions of Officers Ramos and Chu are change while flowers mount as a memorial at the site of their execution.

Pundits are banking bucks for talking time to opine. Not one of them have the balls it takes for an officers family to let go at the start of each shift knowing this may be a last, “I love you.” Sure, no one knows when death is coming. Officers and their loved ones know, no one knows when life will cease as it did with officers Ramos and Chu. Officer Ramos is being buried with Vice Presidential ‘oversight.’ What struck me about Officer Chu, was sadness, hearing Chu’s burial is paused until his family arrives from China.

Two men. Not black or white. Officers down. In Tech terms, it is time.

Pivot.

Officer Ramos 13 year old son took to Facebook to share his anguish. What world, what inhumanity sanctions a child becoming a man before his time. Tech terms? The annonimity, the inconsequential in humanity of Technology. For all the purported good that came at a cost Users were not apprised of in advance, there is the bad.  All those protesters against Officers in the matters of Garner and Brown, were escorted by the very Police officers the protesters decried. Officers, in DC, at least, clear streets for the protesters to walk up, without incident. Police officers are there in the event a counter-protest breaks out. Few of the bused in protesters, often paid for their appearances to bulk up body, few say thank you to the cops. Ever. Even when the call goes out. Officer down.

There are the accountable. Think people, think. Like Comcast selling Net Neutrality on the warm blood of two dead. If the Net was not so ‘neutral’, there is a chance two dads, sons, brothers and bro’s would be alive today. If the Net was not so ‘neutral’, it would respect the murdered, respect their photos, workplace or other, are protected by Life+70, WAZE, cites in its TOS, Terms of Service, protected, too, by New York States laws of Rights of Publicity, Rights of Privacy, even Comcast can be challenged on.

Accountability, in a real world of blood and crime, is in the books. Title 18, Criminal Code. Accountability, in a real world of dollars and dimes and bitcoins, too, there is The Investment Advisors Act wherein the top guy is held accountable for behaviours and actions of the people below.

In cold blooded murder of two men doing a job few of you would do, choosing lives at risk of paper cuts or of Internet Addiction versus being part of a blue presence, Cesar Beccaria’s model of crime mitigation.

Officers Chu and Ramos were not just shot. NYPD officers Chu and Ramos and brethren were hunted. No amber alert was signaled as their murderer travelled from Baltimore to New York City. No mute button was pushed to muffle activists lining their pockets. No slap on the wrist was issued by the FCC for using the airwaves to incite hate. While it is a gun that put a bullet in to their bodies, it was Technology that brought Ramos and Chu to the convergence of their fatal day.

The name of the murderer has dropped from headlines. Photos of the executed officers in their uniforms remain.

The Technology the murderer used to stalk his victims has been glossed over. Not here. Not now. It is time.

There is a WAZE. More correctly, it is WAZE that is complicit to executioner’s Ismaaiyl Brinsley crime shooting two officers in Cold Blood. WAZE is the Google app Brinsley was using to map the travel of law enforcement officers. WAZE is a GPS-based geographical navigational application program for smartphones that provide turn-by-turn information and use-submitted travel times and route details. Wikipedia says, so it must be true (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze) WAZE won the Best Overall Mobile App award at the 2013 Mobile World Congress. WAZE is different from traditional GPS navigation software, says Wikipedia. WAZE is a “community driven application using complementary map data and other traffic information from Users… giving real time updates… People can report… cheapest fuel stations near a user…police traps” and now for Users to engage with Ads. Wikipedia continues, “nearly 50 million WAZE users as of June 2013”… “downloaded 12 million times.” WAZE is free.

Not any more. WAZE came at a price. And with a culpability. Officers down.

June 11, 2013. Google acquired WAZE. $1.3 billion dollars. Before WAZE even got to this point of mega wealth, the profiteers making big bucks that are complicit in the murders of these two men. Officers down.

Lawyers who understand corporate liability of the firms involved- the Wall Street firms that took Google public, WAZE’s Venture Capitalists, WAZE’s principals, Google, WAZE’s registrar MARKMONITOR, and ICANN the purveyor of domains, even, even the DoC, the Department of Commerce and its Secretary Larry Strickling…. the line of liable grows including the FTC, Federal Trade Commission that decided it would not challenge Googles acquisition of WAZE. WAZE is a cash generator. The site sells ways to Advertise with WAZE, using the WAZE map, even hooking up with WAZE for Broadcast and Business Development. Accountant Roey Gorodish headed a class action suit against WAZE, March 2014. Maybe it is time for people with class to lead litigation for “Murder By Waze.” For whatever it is worth, don’t let that be SRO’s or Unions. They both magically have a way of gumming things up. Let it be a person.

Let it be a 13 year old son, WAZE made in to a man. Tragically.

 “The UK Office of Fair Trading and the Israel Antitrust Authority are also investigating.” Each of WAZE’s 100 employees who received, reportedly the biggest payout for an acquired Israeli high tech, about $1.2 million, the blood of Officers Down is on their hands. Blood liability crosses borders. That is why countries have extradition processes in place.

With each and every new Tech toy and free apps, with every good that is created, there is the reality, there may be a Brinsley. Explain the difference between Brinsley and the guy the executing gun came from and Brinsley and the APP that ratted out two cops in a car.

Interesting thought isn’t it. Actionable. Officers down.

Officers Chu and Ramos are going to be the last of Officers murdered by Technology. WAZE has a complete base map of the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Israel, South Africa, Columbia, Ecuador, Chile and Panama, with plans to map even more, says Wikipedia. Complicity crosses borders even state borders, New York to Silicon Valley. This is the time for Law Enforcement to take their street privacy back from Technology.

A small point but a big one, as someone who was at UCLA PD the day the officers got their Tech Tablets for their cars….. is it maybe the Technology officers are being given to use while on the job or their personal PDA’s connected to their Social Networking that told Brinsley where to find them. SONY is everyone’s lesson there is no such thing as safe Technology. Never was. Just no disputing now.

How WAZE facilitated the executions will be determined by lawyers who, competently argue not just from case precedence but from being case precedence. WAZE’s Copyright Policy alleges to respect the Intellectual Property rights of others. Alleges. (https://www.waze.com/legal/copyright) Someone gave away the location of two dead cops.

Blood is on Google’s hands.

WAZE’s Privacy Policy describes how the information WAZE gathers from Users is used, further the rights and options available to Users (www.waze.com/legal/privacy) WAZE’s Privacy Policy is incorporated in to WAZE’s Terms of Use (www.waze.com/legal/tos) A TOS page buried on the site limits who may download or use the Application. 13 year olds cannot. There is nothing said about Stalkers and Executioners. Persons who “believe that your privacy has been compromised by any person, in the course of using the Services” are asked to “please” contact WAZE at [email protected]

Officers Ramos and Chu cannot. Officer down.

WAZE states, Users are giving WAZE “detailed location and route information” ie GPS signals and other info, that WAZE uses to locate and route information creating “a detailed location history of all the journeys you have made while using this Application…”, “Information shared from your Social Networks”. Privacy, or lack of it, goes on for 10 pages. Of note, “the Services may access, make available and store… such information as it is available on and through your Account.”

Who led WAZE to Officers Chu and Ramos. The answer is remembered. The Internet never forgets. Start with one. The dominos will fall in to place and play.

It is time. Officers down.

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IT'S TOO BIG TO SUCCEED NOT TOO BIG TO FAIL, CONGRESS (c) Carrie Devorah :
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This is Fair Use For Educational Purposes

Concurrent to Congress looking at Comcast’s merger with Time Warner Cable, President Obama announced executive actions intended to support U.S. tourism industry $1.5 trillion. Federal statistics support approx. 8 million jobs. President Obama wants to cut back on wait times at America’s largest airports. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson were ordered to oversee the initiative. The goal? Ease the flow of travelers utilizing “more efficient airport staffing, better signage and a greater reliance on cutting edge technology” the White House said, alleging international tourism boosts 1.3 million jobs, revenue and employment.
White House Presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett said “The president … wants America to be the No. 1 travel destination in the world.”

Concurrent to Congress looking at Comcast’s merger with Time Warner Cable, President Obama announced executive actions intended to support U.S. tourism industry $1.5 trillion. Federal statistics support approx. 8 million jobs. President Obama wants to cut back on wait times at America’s largest airports. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson were ordered to oversee the initiative. The goal? Ease the flow of travelers utilizing “more efficient airport staffing, better signage and a greater reliance on cutting edge technology” the White House said, alleging international tourism boosts 1.3 million jobs, revenue and employment.

White House Presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett said “The president … wants America to be the No. 1 travel destination in the world.” Ms. Valerie, there are some realities beyond wanting to adress first to get America there. Case Study? United Airlines and its DCA departure, May 8th, is a good start.

What does Tourism have to do with Too Big To Fail? Plenty. Millennials staffing Congressional offices, growing up on Wikipedia instead of Britannica Encyclopedia, are young enough to not know about the Merger between United Airlines and Continentals. Teasing staffers aside, I had forgot, too, until I was forced to remember.

DCA and United Airlines.

Technology allows passengers to pre-vet through Security along with confirming flight departures, seats, etc. Emails from United started coming the day before. Arrived at the airport in a timely fashion. Yes. There is a United counter there. Yes, there are United employees. Few. There were a lot of freestanding ports United staffers were being called to for assistance by passengers. And then there were passengers who like Customer Service, working with an Airline staffer, chatting, you know, the old fashioned way of Social Networking. They call it, these days, P2P, peer to peer. It used to be called Person to Person.

A passenger hit a snag, asking the United employee behind the counter for help. The United employee said “I don’t know that answer” followed by “Nothing I can do about it” eventually stating “call them” them meaning reservations, advising the customer there was no phone from which she could do “customer service”, reminding she had nothing to do with Reservations. When the Customer expressed disbelief there was no counter phone with which an Airline employee can call within the United System, another employee plopped an old fashioned phone on to the counter. The Customer was told “Dial 9.”

And then the automatic voice prompts started. Everyone could hear the Customer going “Agent, agent, agent, agent…” all the while hitting 0-0-0-0-0-0-0 until finally the call was answered, affirming the question the customer was asking, finishing with “but the counter agent knew that.”

No. The counter agent did not, which was the moment the client began to learn about Too Big To Succeed and when Cultures are approved for Merger by Congress. Along come a Continental Airlines employee. The difference was like night and day, setting a benchmark for what became the loss of civility when one company absorbs another forcing bottom lines to replace civility and Customer Service.

But that’s not where the story ends. Or really begins.

All the passengers were loaded on to the puddle jumper headed to Newark Airport when it was hit hard enough the plane shook, near tilted, so it felt. Crew said nothing. And nothing. And nothing. And eventually passengers were asked to disembark the plane. Some took everything with them. Others did not. Eventually after a lot of running around and no conversation from United Crew or Staff, word was the plane needed to be checked by a Mechanic. A Mechanic needed to be found. One Mechanic was found. Timing? A minimum of a half hour wait.

Now, this was an evening flight with a good portion of the flight passengers connecting to flights to elsewhere. All connecting passengers were told they would make their flights. And then the emails started coming updating on why the plane was delayed and when it would deport. Email after email after email. Except, one slight detail…. That… wasn’t the truth… the plane did not have Mechanical problems. The plane was hit by a Tug Truck. In any shape of the word, that is a crash, not, a Mechanical problem.

Small thing? Nope. You see airlines are regulated. Transportation Statistics Annual Report Regulations mean the Truth must be told. And telling the Truth means that if you lie or file False paperwork there is a Penalty. Don’t get your knickers wet from excitement just yet. In Government, filing False paperwork translates to the chance to file it again without penalty, and lying on Government papers? 8 U.S. Code § 1324c – is the penalty for document fraud.

Well, most agencies are neutered lacking Enforcement capability but we can wait and see in that United’s problem goes deeper. It seems the “Official” reason for flight delay filed by United changed from the reason sent in emails to customers from Mechanical Problems to blaming Air Traffic Control. There is a boatload of Passengers that will testify to the other……. The friggin’ plane got hit by a truck which appears is a common occurrence at airports but not a category included in the RITA statistics for the Airline industry as one can read for themselves.

Passengers connecting to international flights were told they would catch their flights. United crew eventually decided to remove luggage from the plane. It was then it was learned airlines do not deal fairly with passengers and baggage.

A passenger that rolls a bag to the airline does so avoiding the $25 or $50 or whatever the fee is per bag that a passenger storing their bag under the plane must pay. When the overhead cabin storage bins are filled, the extra bags are placed at the ramp, to be stored inside the plane… for free, unfair to the Passenger forced to pay for putting bags down below. There is a logic airlines don’t pursue, Mr. President. Charge all passengers storing bags in the overhead cabins. Let all the bags that store below, do so for free. By not doing so, there will be less need for baggage handlers and for the real estate where luggage customers sit today.

TWO crew eventually addressed rebooking international passengers to catch their flights. Crew would be kind as an adjective. Reinforcements with mobile stands should have been called over immediately. A panicking anxious United airlines staffer was suffering apoplexy as the queue before him grew. He was focused on one customer as the line grew longer and longer. She was returning home to her country. Catching a flight that night was not her concern. She was rebooking out of DC later that week. The United crew member failed. He did not understand Prioritize or Delegate or Call In Reinforcements.

Needless to say all international passengers missed their flights even after suffering the humiliation of being left back on to the plane, sitting again inside a hot cabin with no offer of food or water all this time which was the dinner hour.

It doesn’t end there. It begins there still.

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Land in Newark. Passengers needed to rebook departing flights to get to Destination where expenses were being lost for hotel rooms, etc. The staff at the Airline were, well, Continental staff all recognizable for the way they engage customers. By 11 or so, customers were re-booked. What do you do if there is ONE flight a day to your destination, departing at 9:20pm each night?

The Continental staff now United employees eventually distributed limited Vouchers for a hotel night stay and if pushed further, vouchers for “meals.” The meal vouchers are $7. The hotel? 15-20 minutes away from Newark, reachable by going to a distant terminal, catching a bus to a shuttle to the hotel in time to risk the restaurant closing. Meal cost? Look for yourself. A lot more than a meal voucher for $7. After not eating for hours, it seemed logical to spend the 3 vouchers intended for Night and Day sustenance and blow them on one meal. There is no cash back as Passengers learned. The restaurant keeps the balance.

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Before the restaurant there was another step. Reconnecting with luggage which meant traveling from one terminal to another. One learns that only after waiting online and meeting Tyrone who if he doesn’t like a Customer, they get a cold shoulder and attitude. His job is to bring out box after box of “you missed your flight” swag. Box after box stacked 3+ at a time, dipped in to for customers wanting their luggage or change of clothes. Was not going to happen. International luggage is locked up until it is put on the connecting flight the Passenger will travel on- the next day.

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SMINT (package back) States Clearly FREE SAMPLE NOT FOR SALE

SMINT (package front)

The swag is little of what one needs when they are separated from their Pajamas, T-shirts or other, unwilling to pay airport extravagant prices for T-shirts or dropped at hotel United ships their Passengers to. Families with little kids would be forced to sleep in their clothes grimy from the experience they were subjected to. Room departure? A hard fast noon time even if a passengers flight was late at night.


The Bottom Of The Bag Says In Barely Readable Print "The (unreadable) Toothpaste Made In India, S(?)mint Made In Spain," "Toothbrush, Razor, Shave Crean, Laundray Grains, Deodorant, Shampoo, Conditioner, Body Wash, Lotion, Lip Balm, Shoe Polish, Comb and Dental Floss Made In China." Then Further Down The Bottom Is Printed "Support Conservation Package Made From Recyclable Materials..."

5-8-2014 Gate Departure Confirmation

DAMAGED LUGGAGE TAG

The connecting flight out that night was delayed time after time. Word was, almost two hours later, the airport’s runway is under construction hence the departing flight had not been allowed to leave. Hotel room fees already paid were lost. And then it was time to return.

It gets better. The luggage arrived in Europe filthy and broken.

Menu From The Ramada Inn Restaurant. Prices Are In Excess Of The $7 Voucher Given By United. United Employees Are Told To Not Give Vouchers To Customers Unless Customers Ask, Are Disabled Or Other

DELAYS BY CAUSE does not list Getting Hit By Tug Trucks A Frequent Enough Occurrence On The Ground

Causes Of National Aviation System Delays - March 2014

On-TIme Arrival Performance National - October 2013 - March 2014

The Chart Shows Statistics Of Non-Weather Delay v Weather Delay

The return flight was delayed, blamed on the crew being late. Funny. Not so. The crew was there but it appears Crews have become the fall guys for airline excuses, as have become Air Traffic Controllers the “point to” people. Within seconds of hitting the luggage carousel in Newark, the emails started again.

The United flight to DC was cancelled. Not delayed. C-A-N-C-E-L-L-E-D. For two days. And then for a third day and then again. Reason given? Overbooking of flights so flights have to be cancelled. And then there was the first headline of a near hit with a United Plane and then the reporting, again, the near hit of two more United Planes.

So is it too big to fail or is it too big to succeed. It is a no brainer what will happen. More customers will get angrier quicker. Customers may end travelling less or suck it up because once one lands it is as if the troubles have washed away. Until the return trip home, wherever that may be.

Comcast already has a problematic record of customer service hiring “contractors” for regional territories. Unless one hits the jackpot getting a Customer Service Rep in America, Customer Service calls are routed to a Call Center overseas. And that is where that fun begins. It gets better, knowing contractors are late for service calls, Comcast offers customers a $20 credit and, for constantly failing service, Comcast offers Product ie shows for a period of time. They are no dummies. Comcast is hoping the customer loves the service and will pay to keep it. Nope. Customers like free. Customers like being valued. Comcast also has a track record of upselling clients. New installs are being given hardware for HD TV and ie recording show capabilities only, months later, being send PRE PRINTED MASS CUSTOMER notices stating “we just figured out you have the wrong hardware so we are going to charge you going forward or else you have to give our equipment back to us….” In any other forum that would be Bait and Switch but in the world of Too Big To Succeed its called trolling for customers.

5-7-2014 Gate Departure Convention 6:52pm

DCA flight to Newark was delayed due to being hit by a Tug Truck. United listed the delay cause as Mechanical. The Department Of Transportation has a unique specific definition for "Mechanical." Getting hit by a Tug Truck on the ground is not one of the provided reasons for Mechanical. The explanation for the flight delay that appeared to United personnel in Newark was Air Traffic Control issues. Tug Truck is not an Air Traffic Control issue.

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GATE DEPARTURE CONFIRMATION 5:27pm

5-8-2014 Gate Departure Convention 6:45pm

5-9-2014 GATE DEPARTURE CONFIRMATION 6:38pm

5-8-2014 GATE DEPARTURE CONFIRMATION 6:29pm

5-9-2014 GATE DEPARTURE CONFIRMATION 6:37pm

5-8-2014 Gate Departure Convention 6:45pm

Gate departure confirmation times were starting at 5:27pm
Then updated to 6:29pm
Then updated to 6:37pm
Then updated to 6:38pm
Then updated to 6:45pm
Then updated to 7:13pm
Then updated to 7:19pm

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5-8-2014 Gate Departure Convention 9:15pm

May 9 2014 the flight departure times were 
9:15pm
then 9:22pm
then 9:23pm
finally 11:07pm
Retired Senators Howard Berman and Jon Kyl made their flights out of Newark. They were flying to Israel.

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GATE DEPARTURE CONFIRMATION 5-9-2014 11:07pm

Lets get down to dollars- the cost of the hotel room $92.80, 5 vouchers at $7 each, cost of the overnite swag bag, employee time spent, shuttle buses taking passengers to and from the refugee hotel next to a prison (yup)…. Nothing can replace the bad PR generated.

Bad Public Relations is something of a familiar refrain with the current CEO, Newark based airline pilots are calling to resign. They wrote in a letter PRASM has declined at United. PRAMS is “Passenger revenue per available seat mile.”                        [ http://www.thestreet.com/story/12689098/1/exclusive-united-airlines-newark-based-pilot-leaders-call-for-ceos-ouster.htmlelations IS the bottom line. ]

5-16-2014 GATE DEPARTURE CONFIRMATION 11:36am

5-15-2014 GATE DEPARTURE CONFIRMATION 6:30am

5-16-2014 GATE DEPARTURE ADVISORY THE FLIGHT WAS CANCELLED TO MAY 18 CITING "DUE TO AIR TRAFFIC CONDITIONS IMPACTING OUR FLIGHT OPERATIONS"

5-18-2014 GATE DEPARTURE CONFIRMATION 10:27pm

5-19-2014 GATE DEPARTURE CONFIRMATION 4:08am

United is not doing so great there. “"We have absolutely ero confidence in the ability of present management to lead a turnaround," wrote LEC Chairman Glenn Johnson, Vice Chairman Mark Leneski and Secretary-Treasurer Tim Boyens,” wrote Ted Reed for “The Street.” @ JetBlast
commented “That's not quite the correct assessment. 

5-18-2014 GATE DEPARTURE ADVISORY THE FLIGHT WAS DEPARTING MAY 19 CITING "DUE TO AIR TRAFFIC CONDITIONS IMPACTING OUR FLIGHT OPERATIONS"

UAL management is not negotiating. They are attempting to gut the legacy-UA flight attendant contract and strip the division of its work rules, duty times, and contract language.” Ted Reed continued, "It's time to find a new CEO who understands how to run an airline, not just make excuses for his failures," said the top three officers of Local Executive Council 5, the Air Line Pilots Association chapter that represents New York and Newark-based United pilots, in a strongly worded letter to the local's 2,300 members.”

Look, the formerly-Continental employees I engaged with are wonderful. It is killing them to do a crappy customer service job just because bottom lines have to be met. I challenge Congress to take a field trip with me to DCA during rush hour and just watch the angst the Continental staff are going through at the free standing kiosks challenging the very International Customer President Obama seeks to impress to come to America. 

[ http://www.thestreet.com/story/12689098/1/exclusive-united-airlines-newark-based-pilot-leaders-call-for-ceos-ouster.htmlelations IS the bottom line. ]

This is Fair Use For Educational Purposes showing the off ground in air record of United Airlines Post Merger With Continental Airlines

It will never be about faster- better. It will always be about Customer Service, Cost and workable solutions to real problems. The Continental employees, HUG, want to do a better job. They cant.

So hear is the nutshell of what I told the Continental employees, HUG, double HUG, I engaged with speaking confidentially, knowing they are being spied on by Management, watching their performances on the floor.

1-    United employees think they don’t have a voice. They do. I encouraged the employees to Speak up. Speak out. Public comments sought do get Boots-On-The-Ground heard, in the least read. Go to the website overseeing the industry and file a public comment. A good format to engage is to Copy and Paste the summary criticism in to a Word document. Number the points you are responding to one by one, title and underline. Click, submit.

Legislators, committee staff and media and industry wonks and lobbyists will read the Comments. Fearful of retribution? Don’t use your PC. Get a friend or other to send the comment in. I did re my United Airline trip.

2-    Video tape the activity near the kiosk. Don’t break the law. Take a selfie if you have to. A memory of your nightmare of being confronted by machine rather than man.

3-    Save everything- emails, stubs, vouchers if you can

4-    Customers must understand the New complaint box is the Internet.. ie Yelp. Listen, if a plane load of people felt a plane being hit? Trust me, you are not alone

5-    Make sure letters that are sent to the airlines are copied and sent to your legislator or the Committee that oversees this industry…. www.senate.gov  and www.house.gov  Look up your Legislator by last name and hit Click. A good idea is to list both the senator and congressperson and FCC and FTC and DOT and whatever agencies or others you include in the same letter to assure the recipients know it is harder to sweep your letter under the carpet, writing it off as a burr under the saddle

6-    Airline Oversight must require Passengers Rights are printed, short, sweet and bullet point, like a cheat sheet, on the back of the tickets issued through the free-standing self-serving kiosks the President is pushing for. Points to include would be ie. Vouchers for  meals, swag bag for forced stay overs. Knowing how long you are legally to be kept on a plane. What happens when you ask to be rebooked to not miss your flight and are refused…. Stuff like that.

7-    Cancelling flights for several days breaches a customers contract. There must be a compensation along with reimbursement for rooms centrally located not in the fringe of Podunk along with Vouchers that reflect the real price of foods. There is the other option. Don’t overbook flights. Wink, bottom line.

8-    Stay over swag bags MUST include a one size fits all T-shirt ie XXX and a pair of socks or sockets. Nothing is more disgusting than being forced to sleep in grimy clothes or in the nude because an airline cut too much to their bump their profit line. As pictured, the swag bags don’t need soap and shampoo, or other of the sundries, the hotel provides, as pictured. Passengers inconvenienced by airlines disservice, need respect and stress alleviated.

9-    Congress must start getting passengers stories at the Witness table. Enough of the same professors testifying hearing after hearing getting things beyond wrong to worse. With yet another near crash of a United flight being reported, with accidents from Tug trucks on the ground being more of a norm than a one-off, Congress may want to roll back a coupla mergers before Amazon starts delivering passengers by drone.

10- To kick this ball going, provide Passengers, in flight, with surveys to fill in, one per assigned seat. A random poll of flights out. Random customers will be called to confirm that is their signature at the page bottom. None of this online surveying. Fact is, not as much of the world outside of America is as Online as Stats are being fluffed to indicate. Besides, nothing beats paper and pencil when it comes to paper trails.   

If Congress needs yet another lesson in Too Big To Succeed, let me point Congress back in time to Domino Rally, Coleco, Tyco Toys, this is my world of familiarity. Any one them on the radar anymore? Coleco filed for Chapter 11 in 1988. It is around. It is not the Coleco it once was [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco ] Tyco Toys was defunct as of 1988 [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyco_Toys ] And then there is Domino Rally. Domino Rally is a classic still selling toy designed by a 16 year old boy and his Dad. Pressman Toys brought it to market. Pressman Toys had many offers to sell or grown. Legend remains to this day that Pressman was ok at $50 million dollars a year. Covered their bills, float and then some. So they rejected offers for Cash influx to grow. There is something OK with being medium or average, something Congress needs to hear from Lobbyists pitching Congress now on Comcast and Time Warner Cable. 

So, President Obama gave Pritzker and Johnson a deadline- 120 days to create a plan to bring Americas 15 largest airports in lockstep with Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Chicago’s O’Hare International, credited with reducing airport waiting times, 40%, to 15 minutes using technology and queuing strategies including Automated Passport Control kiosks, during a time of terrorism and illegal migration concerns.

Pritzie & J? Start here with United to get POTUS to his goal
HUGS Continental people HUGS…. majorly

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AOL AWAY!: Steve Cases REVOLUTION company’s ZIPCAR has a Rent By The House challenger in Da DC House- CAR2GO is in the Capital differing from ZIPCAR w NO mandatory return locations NO deadlines & NO pedestrians wearing earphones not looking when they cross the street almost getting hit by ZIPCAR drivers racing 2 avoid the steep penalty 4 being a minute late. Advertisements say take it and leave it when you are done. Best deal remains old school car sharing Ancient Ones used to call Car Rental Companies ie Hertz, Budget etc. 24 hour rental w oversight who takes & returns the cars… good old fashioned security basics needed these days ESPECIALLY in the Capital w so many special people working @ making America better

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AIRBNB www.airbnb.com launched a public policy blog. The blog is written by David Hantman. Hartman formerly YAHOOs Hartman Vice President of GLOBAL  Public Policy was hired as AIRBNBs head of global public policy presenting the image AIRBNB is taking regulatory challenges potentially facing AIRBNB seriously. AIRBNB break local laws governing Hotels, laws for acting as a Business in an area/region/district/state/county etc., tax reporting laws, background check requirements when applicable plus.

AIRBNB STRANGER LANDLORD community rents to STRANGER TENANT persons SPACE ie Rooms or Entire apartments or Sofas or garages to sleep in etc for short stays without the RENTER knowing IF the SPACE is the STRANGER LANDLORDs space to legally rent ie subleasing in a matter of speaking.

AIRBNBs Hantman wrote on the AIRBNB blog “On these pages, we will try to keep you informed about important public policy debates surrounding what we do. We will also ask for your local knowledge, advice, and suggestions as we work together to clarify or improve laws around the world that sometimes make it more difficult for our users to provide great local experiences to travelers,”

Hantman does post “We sometimes just won’t be able to comment publicly regarding ongoing regulatory discussions or changing laws, and I am sorry about that. I am hopeful, though, that with this blog and your participation, you will at least know much more about our current work and what we are doing every day to advocate on your behalf. Hantman doesn’t state WHAT  regulations Airbnb plans to work to amend or WHERE IN THE WORLD what cities.

District of Columbia is no different than any other city around the world besieging the OTA Office of Tenant Advocacy with even MORE problems than the OTA has enforcement trained to pursuer. DCRA Regulatory requires ALL landlords to be licensed & to notify tenants of both the BBL License number & the RAD number the landlord has received when applying to be compliant with DC Law. A year after this blogger made the OTA aware of rental fraud of Apartments/Houses offered on line for rent VIRTUAL TOUR or photos provided to unsuspecting tenants who (1) send money then arrive in the District only to learn the Rental never existed (2) filled out online TENANT INFORMATION unsuspecting potential ID theft or actual theft from banking details provided in GOOD FAITH.

A few months after UBER the unlicensed CAR SERVICE was launched a 13 year old girl being driven to her parents affluent home in NW DC was raped by a driver an issue that would have been mitigated had REGULATORY COMPLIANCE been mandated in advance or near birth of the Technological Entrepreneurial explosion under the perview of CONGRESSMEN Fred Upton Ed Markey & Joe Barton is second to the FISCAL CLIFF with the INAUGURATION a short month away the security concern to the DISTRICT still reeling from terrorism on 9/11

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UBERCADES are racing the District in a marketing ploy to bring users on board. Black car convoys are motorcading past embassies complete with American flags flapping in the wind as unsuspecting driver yield to the SUV escorted long black sedan a common site in DC except zipping intersections is done under police escort when dignitaries are enboard REAL motorcades. The RANDOM marketing ploy is surprising unsuspecting UBER USERS. There is a price in for impersonating Federal employees. No word if that extends to MOTORCADES. The promotion was a second PRESIDENTs DAY promotion according to ALEX PRIEST Ubers DC Community manager conceived of by two young UBER employees most likely unfamiliar with a potential infraction of law with potentially serious repercussions. PRIEST made sure to outfit his drivers with Secret Service style earpieces as unsuspecting DC drivers cleared the way for what may turn out to be another regulatory concern for UBER to look into in that UBER drivers are operating in a hack/cab capacity without being licensed by the DC TAXI commission

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UBER & BEYOND REGULATORY TECHNOLOGY OVERSIGHT          (c) Carrie Devorah :
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The DC TC officer who stopped in for a Playboy Girl Vegan Weiner outside Rayburn building made his opinion very clear, the Battle of the Fleets is brewing, in DC- UBER v Licensed Hacks. Its not even going to be a fight once DC cabs are metered, the officer expressed, along with cab drivers themselves. They have the law on their side. As for customers? All they care about is the ability to use credit cards instead of cash.

Those days are numbered as is the when manslaughter charges will be launched against an Uber, Lyft, Sidercar or other car share driver racing to pick up a ride will kill and or maim a poor soul being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It happened, the case that is going to test the VC model in that companies like Uber, are Venture Capitol funded on steroids where the model moves forward on data gathered then sold to entities undetermined. The data is auctioned off within seconds of entering, in this case, Uber's system, leading to anticipationg Uber's defense will be argued on the premise of the Communications Decency Act, arguing, in this case, Uber is a data gatherer, a Transportation Network company, not a Cab Company sending drivers on call. Super angel investors included Chris Sacca. Question to be seen is will related entities Benchmark funding, Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures and Bezos Expeditions be named too for funding this business model. Benchmark led the Series A funding to raise more than $11.5 million. More than $32 million was raised in 2011 from investors including Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures and Bezos
In early 2011, Uber raised more than $11.5M in Series A funding led by Benchmark Capital.[12] In late 2011, Uber further raised $32 million in funding from several investors that include Goldman Sachs, Menlo Ventures and Bezos Expeditions[13] bringing their total funding amount to $49.5M.
It was a matter of time for someone to be vehicularly murdered. New Years eve. San Francisco. She was six years old [http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/01/08/big-liabilities-for-uber-sidecar-and-lyft/ ] Uber is liable, case precedence being Viado v. Domino’s Pizza, LLC [ http://caselaw.findlaw.com/or-court-of-appeals/1274440.html ] which determined a franchisor can be responsible for the actions of their franchise driver.

It was a matter of time for DC cabs to be metered. DC hack drivers reason the gush for Uber is the cabs lack of meters. Not so. It’s a psyche thing. Yet another toy that people are loving to play with, for the moment, maybe. To get a grasp on UBER its important to focus on UBER when it comes to Regs, Compliancy and THE Green, money.

To understand, Uber, one of those hot Tech ‘things’ hitting the Hill offices under the wings of the Internet Association, one has to understand The Internet Association, the umbrella organization for multiple of new technologies that pop up big with VC bucks and political clout, with little correlation to what is going on in the ground in check with Regs and Checks, Regs being regulations that help to some degree to keep citizens safe in providing a system of balance and security.

UBER is a member of THE INTERNET ASSOCIATION self described as “supporting policies that protect and promote internet freedom- information should flow freely across national borders uninhibited by tariffs regulations and government censorship that are fundamentally inconsistent with the transnational free and decentralized nature of the Internet. To preserve the Internet’s role as a conduit for free expression Internet intermediaries must not be held liable for the speech and activity of Internet users.” (www.internetassociation.org/policy-platform/protecting-internet-freedom/)

The idea of filling a pocket with chump change or more in spare time sounds attractive. It is proving a little less so as areas are cracking their whip at technology to back off and back down. Tech companies are learning that legislators, with Facebooks and Googles relations that legislators and constituents lives are being stalked with technology, the green light Legislators gave to startups a few years back, isnt going to be as forthcoming as it was before. Donations or not- legislators are people too and value their privacy AND owning their own Intellectual property something the Internet Association Members seem to have two sets of rules for- protecting their Intellectual Property and gathering customers IP and lives through algorithms and data harvesting.

UBER is one such company. Buried into its pages of TOS, Terms of Service is UBERS position on IP, “Intellectual Property Ownership: The Company alone (and its licensors, where applicable) shall own all right, title and interest, including all related intellectual property rights, in and to the Application and the Service and any suggestions, ideas, enhancement requests, feedback, recommendations or other information provided by you or any other party relating to the Application or the Service. This Agreement is not a sale and does not convey to you any rights of ownership in or related to the Application or the Service, or any intellectual property rights owned by the Company. The Company name, the Company logo, and the product names associated with the Application and Service are trademarks of the Company or third parties, and no right or license is granted to use them.”

UBER is an anomaly for a company that demands disclosure of Customer Data for their purpose. UBERS origin is Unknown on their own website. No about us. No brick adress. Nothing but a lot of Clicks and then some. If you want to learn about UBER, one has to go on to the magic Internet and ask this question of its universe “WHO IS UBER.” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, outed them. UBER is a ‘private, transport industry founded March 2009 by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick, headquartered in San Francisco, in the US provding Vehicles For Hire, uber.com” easy enough but for some reason not for Uber to state.

Uber was born as UBERCAB, a venture startup GPS-based cab-hailing service company, based out of San Francisco. Its an APP to match make drivers of “Luxury Vehicle for Hire’ with passengers in the respective countries of America, Europe, Asia, plus. Speculation is the pickup is for within that same city but, hey, as the site promo says, once someone is in the car, the driver will take them anywhere. Wikipedia continues further that Uber drivers, booked through a passenger’s text or Mobile App, show up in Lincoln Town cars, Cadillac Escalades, BMW7 series and Mercedes-Benz S550’s with plans to expand their operations to ridesharing in Non-Taxis. Passengers are kept busy occupying themselves watching their “reserved car’s location.” z

Four grad school-mates came up with the notion of UberCab- Garrett Camp, Travis Kalanic, Oscar Salazar and Condrad Whelan. A year later, the start up launched its app on iPhones and Android phones, in San Francisco with their first employee, complete with a CEO and Board Members, just another day in a dorm room project. More cities came on board domestically and then internationally with 25 cities outside the US. Of course, are planned to join on, says the very forward reading “advertisement like” Wikipedia page

UberCab changed name to Uber.com in 2010 after Universal Music Group sold that domain name to the Startup. Uber.com had been owned by a defunct social networking and blogging company. 

A Virginia hack with no interest in becoming an UBER driver notated, UBER is a caution waiting to happen. DC licensed cabs offer riders Face ID Licensing and Renewals for compliant drivers. No one is asked about their driving record or insurances. UBER states “Does Uber provide my transportation?
No. Uber is a technology company that allows its users to connect with drivers and request transportation through our apps and mobile website. These drivers are either licensed professional drivers or local drivers who have passed a background check and driving record check. Uber does not own any vehicles or employ any drivers.”

One young woman said she’s not worried about no “vet checks” on Uber drivers each time she gets in one of their cars. She said her dad is a cop. Her dad lives in Calgary Canada. She lives in DC. She was stoked that she can hire a sedan to drive her to and from DC for $35 just from a click of her APP (and a required 20% mandatory surcharge and a $2.00 fee. Uber sites say that fee is $1.00)

 Not long after UBER Launched, it secured a Series A round of more than $11.5 million in funding from Silicon Valley “Super Angels” led  by Benchmark Capitol www.benchmark.com. Investors included Christopher Sacca  a former employee of Google Inc who became a venture investor in companies like Twitter, a public speaker and a private equity adviser.  Second round of funding brought in over $32 million dollars from Bezos Expeditions, Menlo Ventures and Goldman Sachs. Math time. That is over $49.5 million dollars by 2011 for a company just hitting the roads with no brakes on for local, federal and state regs. Uber is seeking its third round of funding- $150 million to $200 million through another round of funding- valuating its company at $3.5 billion coincidental to its on demand UBER ICE CREAM service launching and UBER HELICOPTER in NY for $3000 flights to and from the Hamptons. There is talk of further expansion to carpool and ride-share, short notice short rides.  

All well and good but not. Authorities outside of the very impressed halls of Congress are dealing with reality checks Congress is overlooking. Local jurisdictions rule. Congress is creating them headaches. San Francisco’s MTA, Metro Transit Authority fired off a cease and desist letter to UBERCAB citing it to be an illegal cab operation. California’s PUC, Public Utilities Commission’s legal notice called the billion dollar rides an ‘unlicensed limousine dispatch. UBERCAB had an answer, it seems. That’s when UBERCAB became UBER.

2012, an UBER cab was impounded for operating as an unlicensed cab. UBER used social networking to cyber bully to hit back at DC, sort of along the lines of Social Networking’s cyber bullying against Congress for SOPA. DC gave in. Mayor Vincent Gray’s agenda wanted high fives for his agenda to make DC a tech capitol in the world, most likely wanting people to forget his ill timed announcement of Millions of Dollars in grants and perks to LIVING SOCIAL the night before the company announced it was laying off thousands of employees. Even Chicago stood up against the UBER money magnet, stating UBER violates Illinois laws “designed to protect safety, consumer protection and fair practices.” New York City’s TLC, Taxi and Limousine Commission, suspended UBER’s taxi service. It is reported that when Hurrican Sandy hit, UBER “surge priced” its fees and fares. http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-blog/2012-10-31-uber-reverses-on-hurricane-sandy-cab-price-hike-in-new-york/ Local regulators in Vancouver challenged UBER. UBER had not applied for a Vancouver license. Toronto city officials had to remind UBER it had to comply with local regulations. UBER didn’t resulting in 25 municipal infractions including unlicensed limo service and unlicensed taxi service.

UBER says “At times of intense demand, our rates change over time to keep vehicles available.” Surge Pricing is effected to maintain Equilibrium of the economic kind. Charge more at certain times brings more drivers on board like in bad weather, flooding streets, Hurricane Sandy and the usuals like Christmas, New Years when prices reportedly when up to 7 times normal rates. Co-founder Travic Kalanick was cited saying riders are just going to have to get used to UBERS new way of doing things different from 70 years of traditional taxicab pricing. With billions of dollars in Venture Capitol rolling in to an idea that failed to define itself in compliance to existing laws on the books and regulations others are bound to, one can afford to be arrogant, cant they or can they……

Traditionally, cab drivers took cash. Companies like in Arlington are taking credit cards, following the New York City model. Entrepreneurial hack drivers are shelling out for their own mobile credit card machines. Other jurisdictions like DC are coming on board. UBER takes the payment for the UBER driver, tacks on the $2 service fee and a mandatory 20% tip and a booking rate that is 50-75% higher than “traditional cabs.” UBER says the price is set at a premium to compensate for a ride that is comfortable and on time. NOT! Nor does the 20% tip go to the driver. Depends which day, which city the question is asked- half of the 20% goes to UBER- marketing costs they explain when pushed for answers, not an answer that is rolled out to exuberant riders loving this newest tech toy, a hands free way to book a cab without cash- dial the car wanted, position the map pin to the pick up point, hit “set pickup location’ and wait for the driver. Credit card is stored on file. That is worrisome.

DC cab drivers are outfoxing UBER. It is typical to hail and DC cab and see an UBER cell phone mounted on the dash. It is a matter of which call comes first. AND riders are being picked up in DC hoopdies… cars with back seats so sunken in the passenger is practically hitting the floor. Not all cars, but enough cars to initiate the conversation of ‘WHAAAAAT-T-F?’

The drivers have noticed a drop in their ability to make their living. They are as spitting mad as the DC-TC cops who regulate Cab Drivers to protect District passengers. The young lady who cited her Dad in Canada will protect her from an UBER driver was nonplussed when asked if UBER’s drivers being unvetted worried her. She said no. Her ride was in her credit card information, assuring she would be found. Her credit card was on file with UBER and not with the driver, she said, she had nothing to worry over….. got to wonder but there was no explaining to her what DC cab drivers and DCTC cops explain very well.  No one asked the drivers to provide a background check, proof of insurance or a driving record at that- just sign up, hook up to bank accounts and they were good to go. UBER drivers are reporting a bump in their earnings. New toy time still. Novelties do wear off as economic realities thin.

Drivers exclaim at their receiving the IRS notices they do. UBER, it appears, is turning their information over to the IRS, weekly if not daily. They are getting paid but less than they anticipated or was explained. It seems the drivers ride info sum totals goes to the IRS before the driver not that it bothers them just that the organization never clearly properly told them, they say. But UBER did. Sort of. As with all new ideas that germinate from dorm rooms, wake-up call of competition is hitting UBER fast motivating UBER to expand to keep the VC funding valuations up- Lyft, Taxi Professional and SIDECAR compete at price points. Lyft asks for "voluntary donations" in lieu of fares. And then there is SLUGS- people that walk with Destination Signs in their hands waiting for a similar destined driver to come along. Do people not recall Ted Bundy.

The pushbacks they are-a-coming. UBER thought it prepared for such a day, citing protection under Safe Harbor. More correctly, UBER is UBER Technologies Inc. It cites that it is compliant with U.S. – E.U. Safe Harbor framework and the U.S. - Swiss Safe Harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data from European Union member countries and Switzerland. http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/. Interesting enough despite the age demographics using UBER are loudly outspoken against NSA data collection, despite the site clearly states that “If you are located anywhere outside of the United States, please be aware that information we collect, including, Personal Information, will be transferred to, processed and stored in the United States” they continue to use UBER in droves. Text messages that confirm driver arrival are stored and read by NSA along with issued receipts. Cab riders, on the other hand, using cash are, technically, NSA free. UBER Community managers around the world, assure foreign data is returned to UBER in the United States- New Zealand, Dubai, Bangkok and more.

 “Limitation of Liability…THE COMPANY MAY INTRODUCE YOU TO THIRD PARTY TRANSPORTATION PROVIDERS FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION. WE WILL NOT ASSESS THE SUITABILITY, LEGALITY OR ABILITY OF ANY THIRD PARTY TRANSPORTATION PROVIDERS AND YOU EXPRESSLY WAIVE AND RELEASE THE COMPANY FROM ANY AND ALL ANY LIABILITY, CLAIMS OR DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE THIRD PARTY TRANSPORTATION PROVIDER. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIRD PARTY TRANSPORTATION PROVIDERS PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION SERVICES REQUESTED THROUGH UBERX MAY OFFER RIDESHARING OR PEER-TO-PEER TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AND MAY NOT BE PROFESSIONALLY LICENSED OR PERMITTED. THE COMPANY WILL NOT BE A PARTY TO DISPUTES, NEGOTIATIONS OF DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND ANY THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS. WE CANNOT AND WILL NOT PLAY ANY ROLE IN MANAGING PAYMENTS BETWEEN YOU AND THE THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS. RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DECISIONS YOU MAKE REGARDING SERVICES OFFERED VIA THE APPLICATION OR SERVICE (WITH ALL ITS IMPLICATIONS) RESTS SOLELY WITH YOU. WE WILL NOT ASSESS THE SUITABILITY, LEGALITY OR ABILITY OF ANY SUCH THIRD PARTIES AND YOU EXPRESSLY WAIVE AND RELEASE THE COMPANY FROM ANY AND ALL LIABILITY, CLAIMS, CAUSES OF ACTION, OR DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE APPLICATION OR SERVICE, OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE THIRD PARTIES INTRODUCED TO YOU BY THE APPLICATION OR SERVICE. YOU EXPRESSLY WAIVE AND RELEASE ANY AND ALL RIGHTS AND BENEFITS UNDER SECTION 1542 OF THE CIVIL CODE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA (OR ANY ANALOGOUS LAW OF ANY OTHER STATE), WHICH READS AS FOLLOWS: "A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH, IF KNOWN BY HIM, MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR." THE QUALITY OF THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SCHEDULED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE OR APPLICATION IS ENTIRELY THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE THIRD PARTY PROVIDER WHO ULTIMATELY PROVIDES SUCH TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO YOU. YOU UNDERSTAND, THEREFORE, THAT BY USING THE APPLICATION AND THE SERVICE, YOU MAY BE EXPOSED TO TRANSPORTATION THAT IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS, OFFENSIVE, HARMFUL TO MINORS, UNSAFE OR OTHERWISE OBJECTIONABLE, AND THAT YOU USE THE APPLICATION AND THE SERVICE AT YOUR OWN RISK.”

Claim damages are limited to $75,000 citing compliance with Abitrators but no recitation of compliance with local or governing jurisdictions. To be clear, a driver licensed through RED TOP cannot use his Red Top license claiming to be licensed to drive for UBER. UBER must have its own regulatory compliant license.California Public Utilities Commission threatened Uber with $20,000 fine for ignoring insurance regulations. The PUC is writing ride sharing rules to adress UBER and its mimics.  UBER got hit with a ti-skimming suit in Boston.There is a state law that says "no employer or other person" may take any portion of a worker's tip referencing UBERS own paperwork citing "We will automatically deposit the metered fare + 10% tip to your bank account each week.” UBERS FAQs states “Should I tip my driver?

With UberBLACK, UberSUV, and uberX there is no need to tip. With uberTAXI we'll automatically add 20% gratuity for the driver by default, and you'll see it reflected on your receipt. We charge your credit card directly, so there's no need to hand any payment to the driver.” Uber rider Caren Ehret filed a class-action lawsuit  arguing UBERs taking part of the "gratuity" charge defrauded her into thinking the metered fare was actually lower. Cab drivers in San Francisco filed a class action suit against UBER stating the dispatched cars are not licensed therefore taking income and passengers away from legally sanctioned cabs.

UBER makes effort to skirt local, state and federal laws by stating on their TOS, Terms of Service for drivers and riders, “By signing up I agree to the Privacy Policy and understand that Uber is a request tool not a transportation carrier.” No no no. Definition of Request is request “ /riˈkwest/ [ noun ] An act of asking politely or formally for something [ verb ] Politely or formally ask for” Definition of Transport is” /transˈpôrt/ [ verb ] Take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship [ noun ] A system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship.” If it walks like a duck, it talks like a duck, it’s an UBER.

UBERs Terms OF Services finds it necessary to type the following disclaimer in Caps “THE COMPANY DOES NOT PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, AND THE COMPANY IS NOT A TRANSPORTATION CARRIER. IT IS UP TO THE THIRD PARTY TRANSPORTATION PROVIDER, DRIVER OR VEHICLE OPERATOR TO OFFER TRANSPORTATION SERVICES WHICH MAY BE SCHEDULED THROUGH USE OF THE APPLICATION OR SERVICE. THE COMPANY OFFERS INFORMATION AND A METHOD TO OBTAIN SUCH THIRD PARTY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, BUT DOES NOT AND DOES NOT INTEND TO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES OR ACT IN ANY WAY AS A TRANSPORTATION CARRIER, AND HAS NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES PROVIDED TO YOU BY SUCH THIRD PARTIES.” It is a shame people and legislators don’t read the fine print.

UBER is using the mantra cited by freemarket proponents alleging their stand is against monopolies. San Francisco Cab driver association president Barry Korengold gave it back to UBER challenging their thinking having $50 million in backing from Venture Capitalist is giving UBER the right to break the laws. Seems to have been working so far but the reality that Cab drivers support local economy and industry while UBER cannot be pinpointed down on so many fronts while cities are clawing for dollars to get by on need that money or as UBER cab drivers wrote on the banners they protested UBERs San Francisco home base… signs that read STOP STEALING OUR TIPS!

Uber brings on affiliate drivers https://partners.uber.com/‎ easy enough to do by going on line and filling in the blanks, below is all there is to it, contrasting to pages or Terms of Service and Contracts and Violations and such- 6 boxes to fill in.

“No Signup Fee: Joining Uber is free. Pay a small commission on the metered fare: Easy Payments: Payments deposited directly into your bank account Calling all: Taxi Drivers Name

Email
Password
Washington D.C.
Taxi Company / Radio Assoc.
Mobile
__________ Face ID
Expiration Month 2015 “

Here is where the rubber meets the road….. 6 boxes for a match making made by a $3.5 billion transport OR “YO-CAB” hailing a rider operating under a governing authority that gives back to the local jurisdiction where there is oversight..... do you even have to think about that one?

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 Complaints and an Operating Authority governed by
http://dcregs.dc.gov/Gateway/TitleHome.aspx?TitleNumber=31 31-1

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TAXICAB COMMISSION: RULES OF ORGANIZATION

31-2
PANEL ON RATES AND RULES: RULES OF ORGANIZATION AND RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR RATEMAKING

31-3
PANEL ON ADJUDICATION: RULES OF ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE

31-4
HEARING PROCEDURES APPLICABLE TO NOTICES OF INFRACTIONS

31-5
TAXICAB COMPANIES, ASSOCIATIONS AND FLEETS

31-6
TAXICAB PARTS AND EQUIPMENT

31-7
COMPLAINTS AGAINST TAXICAB OWNERS OR OPERATORS

31-8
OPERATION OF TAXICABS

31-9
INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS

31-10
PUBLIC VEHICLES FOR HIRE

31-11
PUBLIC VEHICLES FOR HIRE CONSUMER SERVICE FUND

31-12
LUXURY SERVICES - OWNERS, OPERATORS, AND VEHICLES

31-13
LICENSING AND OPERATIONS OF TAXI METER COMPANIES

31-15
LICENSING AND OPERATIONS OF DOME LIGHT INSTALLATION COMPANIES

• Chapter: 31-8 

OPERATION OF TAXICABS
Title: 31 TAXICABS AND PUBLIC VEHICLES FOR HIRE

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Total Records: 30

Rule Number
Rule Heading
Latest Version
Effective Date

31-800
APPLICATION AND SCOPE
8/17/2012 31-801

PASSENGER RATES AND CHARGES
6/22/2012 31-802

[REPEALED] 31-803

RECEIPTS FOR TAXICAB SERVICE

8/17/2012 31-804
SNOW EMERGENCY FARES

4/20/2012 31-805
DISPOSITION OF DISPUTED SNOW EMERGENCY FARES

8/17/2012 31-806
CARRYING AND MAKING CHANGE

8/17/2012 31-807
SMOKING PROHIBITED/CELL PHONE USE

8/17/2012 31-808
GROUP RIDING AND SHARED RIDING

6/22/2012 31-809
DIRECTIONAL SIGNS

31-810 DISPLAY OF SIGNS

31-811 UNAUTHORIZED USE OF TAXICAB

31-812 FILING OF LEASE AGREEMENT

31-813 [RESERVED]

31-814 DISPLAY OF IDENTIFICATION
8/17/2012

31-815 MESSAGE DELIVERY AND PARCEL PICK-UP

31-816 STANDARDS OF CONDUCT; UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES PROHIBITED
8/17/2012

31-817 THREATENING, HARASSING, OR ABUSIVE CONDUCT PROHIBITED
8/17/2012

31-818 DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED
8/17/2012

31-819 CONSUMER SERVICE AND PASSENGER RELATIONS
8/17/2012

31-820 ON-CALL AND OFF-DUTY SIGNS

31-821 TAXICAB STANDS
8/17/2012

31-822 OPERATION OF PUBLIC VEHICLES FOR HIRE
8/17/2012

31-823 MANIFEST RECORD
8/17/2012

31-824 SANCTIONS AND PENALTIES
8/17/2012

31-825 TABLE OF CIVIL FINES AND PENALTIES
8/17/2012

31-826 FILING OF COMPLAINTS
8/17/2012

31-827 PUBLIC VEHICLE FOR HIRE OPERATOR AND VEHICLE FEES
8/17/2012

31-828 RECIPROCITY WITH SURROUNDING JURISDICTIONS
8/17/2012

31-899 DEFINITIONS
8/17/2012

• Notice ID: 2801474  

DC Taxicab Commission publishes Final Rules on operation of taxicab and public vehicles for hire
Register Category:
Final Rulemaking

Title:
31 TAXICABS AND PUBLIC VEHICLES FOR HIRE  

Chapter:
31-8 OPERATION OF TAXICABS

Section:
31-800 APPLICATION AND SCOPE
31-801 PASSENGER RATES AND CHARGES
31-803 RECEIPTS FOR TAXICAB SERVICE
31-805 DISPOSITION OF DISPUTED SNOW EMERGENCY FARES
31-806 CARRYING AND MAKING CHANGE
31-807 SMOKING PROHIBITED
31-807 SMOKING PROHIBITED/CELL PHONE USE
31-808 GROUP RIDING AND SHARED RIDING
31-814 DISPLAY OF IDENTIFICATION
31-816 STANDARDS OF CONDUCT; UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES PROHIBITED
31-817 THREATENING, HARASSING, OR ABUSIVE CONDUCT
PROHIBITED
31-818 DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED
31-819 CONSUMER SERVICE AND PASSENGER RELATIONS
31-821 TAXICAB STANDS
31-822 OPERATION OF PUBLIC VEHICLES FOR HIRE
31-823 MANIFEST RECORD
31-824 SANCTIONS AND PENALTIES
31-825 TABLE OF CIVIL FINES AND PENALTIES
31-825 CIVIL FINES FOR TAXICAB INFRACTIONS
31-826 FILING OF COMPLAINTS
31-827 PUBLIC VEHICLE FOR HIRE OPERATOR AND VEHICLE FEES
31-828 RECIPROCITY WITH SURROUNDING JURISDICTIONS
31-899 DEFINITIONS

Agency Name:
Taxicab Commission,DC

Notice Files:
Register Issue:
8/17/2012  
Vol 59/33 Publish Date:
8/17/2012

How to Link to this Notice:
http://dcregs.dc.gov/Gateway/NoticeHome.aspx?NoticeID=2801474

• Rule: 31-801  

PASSENGER RATES AND CHARGES
Title:
31 TAXICABS AND PUBLIC VEHICLES FOR HIRE
Chapter:
31-8 OPERATION OF TAXICABS
Latest version of the final adopted rule presented in D.C. Municipal Regulations (DCMR)
Effective Date:
6/22/2012

Authority:
The Chairperson of the District of Columbia Taxicab Commission (Commission), pursuant to the authority set
forth in section 6(a) and (d) of the District of Columbia Taxicab Commission Establishment Act of 1985, effective
March 25, 1986 (D.C. Law 6-97; D.C. Official Code § 50-305(a) and (d)) (2009 Repl.)); section 105 of the 2005
District of Columbia Omnibus Authorization Act, approved October 16, 2006 (120 Stat. 2023; D.C. Official Code
§ 50-381(a) (2011 Supp.)); Mayor’s Order 2007-231, dated October 17, 2007; Mayor’s Order 2009-104, dated
June 15, 2009; and Mayor’s Order 2011-116, dated July 11, 2011.

Source:
Final Rulemaking published at 37 DCR 3595, 3611 (6/1/90); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 53 DCR
854 (2/10/06); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 55 DCR 3831 (4/11/08); amended by Final
Rulemaking published at 55 DCR 9738 (9/12/08); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 57 DCR 9734
(10/15/10); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 58 DCR 9046 (10/21/11); amended by Final Rulemaking
published at 59 DCR 3154 (4/20/12); amended by Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 7504 (6/22/12).

Editor's Note:
Rulemaking notices presented in D.C. Register(DCR) and Rule versions presented in D.C. Municipal Regulations (DCMR)
Total Records: 28
ID
Register Category / Adoption
Heading Notice / Adoption
Publish Date 4474724
Final Rulemaking
Updates Chapter 8 to fully implement the modern taximeter system (MTS).
7/26/2013

Vol 60/32 4382574
Emergency and Proposed
Amends Chapter 8 to update the regulatory framework to implement the Modern
Taximeter System (MTS).
6/7/2013

Vol 60/25 4340282
Final Rulemaking
Amends Chapter 8 to include adjustments in the passenger rates and charges for
taxicab service consistent with the implementation of the Modern Taximeter
System (MTS).
5/17/2013

Vol 60/21 4265204
Proposed Rulemaking
Amendments to Chapter 8 of Title 31 relating to Modern Taximeter Systems.
4/5/2013

Vol 60/15 3698724
Emergency and Proposed
Second Emergency and Proposed Rulemaking to amend 31 DCMR 800
10/5/2012

Vol 59/40 3990209
Adopted Rule
PASSENGER RATES AND CHARGES
Effective:
8/17/2012 2801474
Final Rulemaking

DC Taxicab Commission publishes Final Rules on operation of taxicab and public
vehicles for hire
8/17/2012

Vol 59/33 3941903
Adopted Rule
PASSENGER RATES AND CHARGES
Effective:
6/22/2012

2638126
Final Rulemaking
DC Taxicab Commission Publishes Final Rules to Allow Shared Riding at Nationals
Park
6/22/2012

Vol 59/25 2639484
Proposed Rulemaking
Taxicab Commission Republishes Proposed Clarifications to the Regulations on
Operation of Taxicabs
6/22/2012

Vol 59/25 3921048
Adopted Rule
PASSENGER RATES AND CHARGES
Effective:
4/20/2012 2274667
Final Rulemaking
DC Taxicab Commission publishes Final Rulemaking Adjusting Taxi Fares
4/20/2012

Vol 59/16 2004134
Emergency Rulemaking
DC Taxicab Commission Extends the Emergency Fuel Surcharge.
3/2/2012

Vol 59/9 1933421
Emergency and Proposed
Emergency and Proposed rulemaking to add shared riding at Nationals Park
2/17/2012

Vol 59/71934876
Proposed Rulemaking
Republication of Propsoed Rulemaking on Taxicab Fare Adjustments
2/17/2012

Vol 59/7 1232014
Proposed Rulemaking
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Amend Chapter 8 of Title 31 to adjust taxicab
fare rates and eliminate certain other fees
12/23/2011

Vol 58/51 1804120
Emergency Rulemaking
DC Taxicab Commission Extends Fuel Surcharge
11/11/2011

Vol 58/45 3826085
Adopted Rule
PASSENGER RATES AND CHARGES
Effective:
10/21/2011

1775117
Final Rulemaking
Notice of Final Rulemaking to lift the $19 taxicab fare cap
10/21/2011

Vol 58/42 1749606
Proposed Rulemaking
Notice of Proposed rulemaking to eliminate the $19 cap on taxi fares in the
District of Columbia
9/30/2011

Vol 58/39 1483341
Proposed Rulemaking
Taxicab Commission Re-publishes Proposed amendments to Chapter 8 Operation
of Taxicabs
8/12/2011

Vol 58/32 1365874
Emergency Rulemaking DC Taxicab Commission Extends Fuel Surcharge
7/29/2011

Vol 58/30 999117
Proposed Rulemaking
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to amend Chapter 8 (Operation of Taxicabs) of
Title 31 (Taxicabs and Public Vehicles for Hire) of the District of Columbia
Municipal Regulations (“DCMR”).
4/29/2011

Vol 58/17 888634
Emergency Rulemaking DC Taxicab Commission imposes emergency fuel surcharge.
4/1/2011

Vol 58/13 3672631
Adopted Rule
PASSENGER RATES AND CHARGES
Effective:10/15/2010

554372
Final Rulemaking
Amendment of Section 801.5 to clarify that the $19 fare cap applies only to one
way trips and discusses enroute stops.
10/15/2010
Vol 57/42 462998
Emergency and Proposed Round Trip Fare Limit
7/30/010

Vol 57/31 16507
Adopted Rule
PASSENGER RATES AND CHARGES

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DOES IT MATTER THAT WAPO MISSED A RAPE STORY OR THAT CONGRESS FAILED THIS CHILD WITH LACK OF SAFEGUARDS:       (c) Carrie Devorah
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I cautioned UBER was an OH NO the minute I heard DC was embracing Technologys newest unlicensed unregulated disaster waiting to happen in DC Mayor Vince Grays race to bring VC money & hackers & technos to the CapitolGrays bid to make DC the East Coast version of the LEFT COAST silicon valley. Boobs aside. While the LEFT COAST may inflate breasts DCs Gray version inflates techno realities. Days after announcing DC chained LIVING SOCIAL to the Capitol for 5 years with a $32.5 million package LIVING SOCIAL upped & announced they were laying off thousands nationwide 400 in DC alone. LIVING SOCIAL had not defined for themselves a sustainable model that outpaced LS clones that are sure to follow when a Techno impresses when unproven to succeed. Yet.

As with UBER. UBER is an idea that was a rape & is a murder waiting to happen. UBER is an unlicensed unregulated entity competing with Licensed & regulated limos in a District dependent on Tourists Convention dollars from everyday people & global dignitaries.

A week ago the worst happened. A 13 year old girl was raped on surveillance camera a few blocks from Gods home in DC the Washington National Cathedral an affluent neighborhood. Mainstream media WAPO did not report the story. There but for the Grace of Blogs the story would not be circulating the Blogesphere. Popville & Nibletz ran the story the day of the girls rape December 14. The story shifted gears to challenging WAPO insiders way of saying Washington Post when the story should be running up the pant legs of the FTC & the legislators charged with protecting the American people in these areas- Fred Upton ( R) Chairman of the House Energy & Commerce & co-chairs Joe Barton ( R) & Ed Markey.

Same song different day the legislators are dropping the ball on how this works- licenses are applicable on all levels in this case of UBER  www.uber.com & others like CAR2GO or ZIPCAR & the expected other online car shares torking the profits from established CAR SHARES THE OLD FASHIONED way [ Hertz Budget etc ] who are Regulated Pay Taxes & even into Obamacare with every click they take OR the Airbnb www.airbnb.com or Car Slugging you name it. POST THE LICENSES or fine them heavily. OMG! How does one fine someone without a BRICK PRESENCE or using Call Centers in some ungodly place in the world that keeps you on the phone for HELP when trying to renew a payment for Free Storage [ Google ]…40 minutes & counting. Where are the standards Congressmen?

1-     Licensing required

2-     Brick presence required

3-     Phone time waiting limited to _______ minutes required

4-     FINES that are collectable from the brick presence or the VC that invested in a hairbrained idea that didn’t consider 13 year olds in backseats as a reality check of Technological Creative Thought Gone Wild

This isn’t rocket science. Act Fast or hmmmmmmm …. Hold Congress accountable for their focusing on the BIG WIG companies being the hare setting the pace in this greyhound of Faster Better legislation is desperately failing in their catch-up to regulate RULES to save people not Make Money. IF UBER WAS REQUIRED TO BE LICENSED THROUGH THE DC TAXI COMMISSION maybe the 13 year old would not have been raped BUT ohhhh the DC Taxi Commission itself is failing in prepping DC for the Inauguration knowing that unlicensed men are renting cabs from non existent Cab Barn fronts in the runup to the Inauguration so who dropped the ball here or is government on all levels dropping their pants & mooning the people with a shell game of Now You See The Legislation & Licensing Requirement & Now You Don’t. Gentlemen. It is simple. You are either pregnant or you are not. And right now you aren’t pregnant… not doing your jobs.

NOTE: 1 hour 7 counting waiting for the LIVE PERSON promised on the incoming call from 0000466453 to address adding more money for a free GOOGLE WALLET

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