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Uber launches in Portland (Oregon) without city's approval.
KGW.com ^
| December 6, 2014
| Sara Roth
Posted on 12/06/2014 10:15:53 PM PST by Veggie Todd
PORTLAND, Ore. – The ride-sharing app Uber launched in Portland Friday night without the city's approval.
Uber's regional manager Brooke Stever said the app began working at 5 p.m. and drivers were able to immediately begin offering rides.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: oregon; portland; uber
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I don't see what the big deal is - it's just an undocumented taxi service. Dems love anything that's undocumented.
To: Veggie Todd
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:16:55 PM PST
by
C. Edmund Wright
(www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
To: Veggie Todd
I like things that defy the idea that government has a natural right to be involved in everything people do. The answer is down this road. The finger, and down this road.
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:18:22 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: Veggie Todd
The big-government/big-corporate crony-fascist complex does not take kindly to disruptive technologies.
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:19:33 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
To: Veggie Todd
It’s funny how our dear Dems want their noses in everything except illegales, and then they don’t want to hear anything about them.
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:19:57 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum; DesertRhino
The government is. Small potatoes here.
The BIG people who have gone after Uber in L.A. And every city I saw were UNIONS.
The unions willl fig to the death to kill Uber.
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:23:06 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: Veggie Todd
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:25:04 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: BunnySlippers
Big labor is a member of the big-government/big-corporate crony-fascist complex.
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:25:12 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
To: HiTech RedNeck
The Dems and the govt don’t really car about Uber. The UNIONS will try with every fiber of their being to kill Uber.
That was how it went in Los Angeles.
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:26:49 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: BunnySlippers
It would seem to me a system like Uber would be quite vulnerable to being harassed out of existence, extra-legally.
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:27:55 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Here in LA, unions came after them in a death match.
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:28:14 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: BunnySlippers
Yep when the unions go figging that is trouble
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:28:28 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: BunnySlippers
Uber in L.A. is incredible. You can get around the city for pennies compared to cabs.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Big labor is the third leg of the stool.
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:29:17 PM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Uber is very popular here in LA.
Until someone wipes them out.
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:29:48 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: Veggie Todd
I love a fight against their own. A taxi service, all with legal driver's licenses, how can that be wrong? Wait, I forgot you cannot pump your own gas in Oregon, a means for keeping the hourly worker permanently on the hour.
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:31:31 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: Fungi
“I love a fight against their own.”
That’s what I was thinking while watching the local news on this, and the interviews with the liberals.
Hey - I wonder if any of them will come up to Washington state and march with us as we protest government requiring permits to buy and sell guns?
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:35:47 PM PST
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
To: Veggie Todd
Hilarious!
They were “looking for drivers operating illegally but they couldn’t find any!”
We have a friend in the Silicon Valley who uses UBER a LOT and swears by it.
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:38:23 PM PST
by
b9
(II Timothy 1:7)
To: Veggie Todd
How does insurance of the driver work, how is it affected? Am I riding in a car with minimal medical insurance coverage?
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:49:04 PM PST
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: Veggie Todd
Why should a business need government’s approval (unless they’re selling drugs or something that they shouldn’t be doing) to operate?
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posted on
12/06/2014 10:56:03 PM PST
by
JSDude1
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