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quiver
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: Redstorm]
#6163708 - 10/12/06 08:17 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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then again theyd like that,theyd monopolise their areas and be happy carting their kin around
its another arab trick taking a bite out of the freedom apple plain and simple
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: Redstorm]
#6163711 - 10/12/06 08:18 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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No, it is not, they are licensed transporters of the public. And the good reason is that no black person could have gotten a cab before and now no Muslim would be able to get a cab, and next it would be no Redstorm who could get a cab. They are basicly forbidden to deny service except for very good reason as a part of the terms to get their license. Nobody made them be cabbies and those are the rules. If you don't like them, get a different job. England is way tougher.
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: zappaisgod]
#6163719 - 10/12/06 08:20 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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They may be the rules, but they are absurd ones. Any idiot who turns down people who wants a cab is just lowering the amount of money they are going to make. Plus, Christ, it's not like there aren't like 15,000 cabs in any decent sized city in this country. If someone wants to turn a cab ride down to me, I'd be happy to pay the next person who comes by.
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: zappaisgod]
#6163742 - 10/12/06 08:25 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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next thing theyll only accept dirhams
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: Redstorm]
#6163744 - 10/12/06 08:25 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Not in NYC. They limit the number of hack licenses so they have to make sure everybody will pick up everybody else. The TLC is a very tightly regulated industry. And for very good reason.
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: Redstorm]
#6163754 - 10/12/06 08:28 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Redstorm said: That's the damn point. It is a privately run business, and they should have the right to run it however they please. If it hurts them financially, it's their own fault.
right, no racial issue here, just business freedom.
but it seems you are anti muslim...
chill out dude. taxis are not a right, they are a privlage, that you have to pay for and abide by their rules.
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: barfightlard]
#6163772 - 10/12/06 08:34 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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a privilege? where in hell did you learn that? somalia?
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: quiver]
#6163785 - 10/12/06 08:37 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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just like any other business. Taxis are a service, but a service that can be denied at any time by the provider.
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: barfightlard]
#6163900 - 10/12/06 09:15 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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are you a muslim living in canada like that 19 yr old prick behind those suicide bombings...the one that is still held at an undisclosed location in the US?(justly held that is)
i was born in my culture and still live in it do you still live in the culture you were born in?
eat shit
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: Redstorm]
#6163903 - 10/12/06 09:15 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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If they own the car and are an independent cab driver, they should be able to drive whoever they want and deny whoever they want.
I don't agree.
It's a regulated industry. It's regulated for the good of the public. The best interests of the public are served by requiring taxis service everyone equally.
Imagine if a privately owned power company decided to turn off the power to anyone they suspected of drinking alcohol in their homes?
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: Diploid]
#6163915 - 10/12/06 09:18 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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ha by this !j$@# standards that would be ok,'business freedom' he calls it,just like our business of owning arab oilwells i guess
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: Diploid]
#6163947 - 10/12/06 09:25 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
Diploid said: If they own the car and are an independent cab driver, they should be able to drive whoever they want and deny whoever they want.
I don't agree.
It's a regulated industry. It's regulated for the good of the public. The best interests of the public are served by requiring taxis service everyone equally.
Imagine if a privately owned power company decided to turn off the power to anyone they suspected of drinking alcohol in their homes?
If I had the choice (yeah), I wouldn't be in business with that power company. Would you?
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: quiver]
#6165097 - 10/13/06 09:30 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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And the true colours show lol
Actually I am a white 20 year oldfrom British, Irish, and Scotish Decent. I've lived in Ontario all my life. I actually boarder with the US.
What in my last post drove you to assume I'm a muslim and that I do not live where I was raised? And why the anger?
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: Diploid]
#6165122 - 10/13/06 09:39 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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A power company and a taxi driver, can't compare. The driver sits about 2 feet from you and are very vulnerable to being assaulted. The power company owner sits in his mansion, all safe an cosy, and since his business is can not threatend by somebody drinking in their home why would he give a fuck.
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: distgre1]
#6165130 - 10/13/06 09:42 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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distgre1 said: i would ship them back to somalia
if a western woman would go to somalia , she would have to cover her face. the woman would have to respect thier culture, beliefs. if she didn't, they would probably imprisoner her?
when muslims come to a western country to live a better life, they should a least respect the western culture. alcohol is permitted here. they should learn how to deal with it.
No, it is us who must bend over backwards, going there, and in our own land.
The cabs do not have the right to turn down service, if that was true, there would be no cabs in uptown Manhattan.
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: Hank, FTW]
#6165159 - 10/13/06 09:52 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Hmmm... so what happens when the doctor refuses to see a patient because the patients religious beliefs conflict with that of the doctor. Keeping it simple, what happens when the clerk refuses to checkout a customer because the clerk is offended by the customers dress? Oh, wait, I have a good one.. what about a store owner that refuses service to people that don't speak English?
This could get nasty...
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: barfightlard]
#6166913 - 10/13/06 07:11 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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my colours were never hidden
would you be angry if i refused to take your canadian dollar because i dont like pasty skin?
denyng me my rights is good cause for anger in my book
and thanks for the bitchy rating
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: barfightlard]
#6168339 - 10/14/06 09:22 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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A power company and a taxi driver, can't compare.
Taxis are granted a partial monopoly (like power companies) in exchange for giving up some autonomy to government regulation. This is done because when cities have attempted to deregulate taxis, it turns into a mess and the public ends up getting ripped off more often than not by unregulated taxi drivers.
Both the power company and the taxi company provide a public service where there are limited choices. If taxis were unregulated and free competition ruled the game, I'd agree with you, but taxis are strictly regulated and there are a limited number of them. Allow them to refuse people a ride for arbitrary reasons, and what will follow will be dysfunctional.
Gay drivers will refuse women, Jewish drivers will refuse Muslims, old drivers will refuse young fairs, and every sort of absurd reason for refusing a fair will come up.
The industry is regulated for good reasons based on past experience. If a taxi driver doesn't like that, there are other jobs.
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: quiver]
#6168370 - 10/14/06 09:38 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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eat shit
quiver,
You need to drop the name calling, flames, and personalisms. That's appropriate for discussion in the OTD forum, but not here.
Consider this your official warning.
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Re: Muslim Taxi Drivers Refuse To Transport Alcohol [Re: quiver]
#6168515 - 10/14/06 10:28 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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everyone should say they have alcohol when calling a cab from home or anywhere else from now on
best suggestion i've heard here.
if i owned a cab company i would fire these people.
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