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    Steven_Draker got a reaction from seaboy4hire in Superman's butt   
    Your wish is my command.
     
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    Steven_Draker got a reaction from marylander1940 in Superman's butt   
    Your wish is my command.
     
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    Steven_Draker got a reaction from Zman in Superman's butt   
    Your wish is my command.
     
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    Steven_Draker got a reaction from oceansunshine in uber   
    I use UBER on a daily basis. I have a personal account and also have clients who have ordered Uber for me.
     
    To address OP's question: the only personal information that is shared is your first name. If you want to order Uber for an escort, he would need that information when gets in the car. The driver has no access to your last name or credit card details.
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    Steven_Draker got a reaction from + Oliver in Eliad Cohen   
    Gayest Flight Ever!
     
    I saw Eliad in Mykonos this summer. He looked very hot.
     
    Earlier he posted this on Instagram with the caption: “Gayest flight ever! Mykonos here we come”
     
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    Steven_Draker got a reaction from + funguy86 in Eliad Cohen   
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    Steven_Draker got a reaction from + Just Sayin in Hotel In West Hollywood   
    Take Super Shuttle only if you have a lot of patience and three hours ahead of time to spend. It's a shared-ride van service that's not efficient in the greater Los Angeles area.
     
    I've used Super Shuttle in many US cities, but New York and Los Angeles are the two I wouldn't use their service again.
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    Steven_Draker got a reaction from geminibear in uber   
    3 reasons to cheer Uber and the sharing economy
    JULY 20, 2015, 11:30 AM EDT


    The U.S. needs to increase protections for workers, but interfering too much with freelancing could destroy its benefits.

    The sharing economy, where people rent apartments, cars, boats and other assets directly from each other through the Internet, has received a lot of flak lately. Critics of companies such as Uber, Task Rabbit and the like say workers lose out on the benefits and protections that regular full-time employees at big companies enjoy, such as health insurance and retirement savings. The latest case was perhaps last week when Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized the sharing economy for its sometimes poor treatment of freelancers, and Uber is currently locked in a heated battle with New York Mayor Bill DeBlasio over licenses to operate.
     
    It’s true that today’s laws need to catch up to this emerging business model, but there are three big benefits to the sharing economy that could be compromised if the U.S. government tinkers too much with this arena.
     
    Creates new services

    There’s growing demand for services like ride sharing and short-term apartment rentals that isn’t easily met by traditional means, often due to the capital investment required. Uber has been successful because of the ubiquity of its service. The transportation company requires a massive fleet of vehicles and drivers, which could be prohibitively expensive if Uber had to supply all those cars or hire all those drivers full-time. In other words, if Uber didn’t employ the model that it currently does, it might not be able to provide the valuable service that it does.
     
    That doesn’t mean the company couldn’t pay its drivers more, especially since they have to invest in their own vehicles. Uber has a mercenary attitude toward its drivers and competitors, but solutions are emerging to mitigate some of these problems, such as a startup called Breeze that rents cars to Uber and Lyft drivers to enable them to provide ride sharing services cost-effectively. Uber estimates that on average its drivers make $19 an hour, which suggests that it would take just one week of driving for someone to cover the monthly costs of a Breeze rental, according to a calculation by Billfold.
     
     
    Provides workplace flexibility

    While full-time employees enjoy many benefits, they can also have restrictions placed upon them; it’s an expectedquid pro quo. By contrast, a freelancer can usually set their own hours, work from home or elsewhere instead of an office, take more vacations, and do pretty much whatever they want outside of work. This is particularly important for millennials, who tend put a premium on flexibility, enjoy doing different things and dislike being tied down. According to a study by PwC, the demand for flexibility isn’t just limited to millennials, but is becoming a feature of the wider workforce.
     
    The sharing economy seems tailor made for this trend. Despite its drawbacks, freelancing could well be the preferred work structure of the future. While it may be impossible to ascribe a dollar value to flexibility, it clearly has value for many since almost 34% of the U.S. population is now freelancing, according to a survey conducted by the Freelancers Union. In addition, freelance work, especially something like driving an Uber, can also sometimes be a lifeline for those who lack the credentials for more skilled jobs or need to make a living without committing too heavily to an employer so that they can pursue other passions.
     
    Sharing economy jobs can be just as, or more, lucrative than full-time gigs

    Contrary to what critics might say, wages under the sharing economy are not necessarily inferior to regular full-time jobs. Even though companies like Walmart WMT -0.40% and McDonalds MCD -0.01% are now increasing wages and some cities like Los Angeles have enacted a $15 an hour minimum wage, the minimum wage in most of the U.S. still remains fairly low – the federal level is $7.25 an hour and the 10 states with the highest minimum wage all have wages below $10 an hour.
     
    It’s worth noting that employer-subsidized health insurance does add to full-time wages, but not enough. On average, the annual employer contribution to cover a worker and his/her family was $12,011 in 2014, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, offset by $4,823 that the employee had to pay from his/her side. This translates to net additional compensation for a full-time employee working 40 hours a week of $3.75 an hour and for someone making a base of $10 an hour, a total wage of only $13.75 an hour. By contrast, an Uber driver who makes $19 an hour can get family health coverage through Obamacare at about $570 a month, which translates to $3.60 an hour and therefore a net income of $15.40 an hour.
     
    What this all means is that some full-time jobs may pay less, even taking health insurance into account, than what Uber says their average driver makes.
     
    From a purely financial standpoint, then, there is little difference between the traditional economy and the new sharing economy. There is a need in the U.S. to raise wages for workers of all stripes, but whether they are full-time or freelance is mostly irrelevant.
     
    http://fortune.com/2015/07/20/uber-and-the-sharing-economy/
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    Steven_Draker reacted to + sam.fitzpatrick in Malaysian airliner missing and feared lost   
    I read that there was "other debris" found on Reunion that has been eliminated as being from MH370; however, not the plane debris.
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    Steven_Draker reacted to BgMstr4u in Malaysian airliner missing and feared lost   
    Réunion is a long way from the area in which the search was conducted. It is interesting to speculate about the strength of Indian Ocean currents, if the plane went down where the main searches were centered, or whether perhaps the plane was headed toward Mauritius or Réunion and didn't make it.
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    Steven_Draker got a reaction from cany10011 in uber   
    I agree with your observations, cany10011.
     
    I have used Uber in 7 different countries so far and counting ... The service that Uber provides is superior in many regards.
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    Steven_Draker reacted to cany10011 in uber   
    The first time i ever used Uber was in Lisbon last month. I had the account set up but was always hesitant in using it. After using it for the entire trip in Lisbon, i am now officially hooked. No cash, no tips, no need to speak the language. Just enter your coordinates and desired destination (no need to fumble with the language or showing the driver the address on a scribbled piece of paper) and the app tells you exactly when to expect a driver. Much easier than queuing for taxis or looking for a taxi stand. Plus, the receipts are available online and no need to deal with the hassle of keeping those paper copies for expense reports. I hope it becomes more universally used.
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    Steven_Draker reacted to AdamSmith in uber   
    Zman's experience was much like mine have been here in Raleigh, NC, a middle-sized, spread-out town where taxis take forever to arrive at a suburban residence address, when they come at all. And cost typically 1.5 to 2 times what Uber charges.
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    Steven_Draker reacted to Zman in uber   
    I was in a small California coast city recently and tried Uber for the first time. For previous experience, I knew that local taxi services were unreliable and dispatchers rude. Uber by comparison was a fresh breeze off the ocean. The driver came quickly. I knew exactly when he would arrive. No lying dispatcher pretending to send a cab and then claiming when you call back 20 minutes later that "the driver got lost because his GPS". Yah that's it the driver couldn't find the central train station in town.
     
     
    So Uber isn't just a game changer in large cities. It can provide needed competition to local taxi services. Sometimes taxi companies are given virtual monopolies by local regulations and that's never good for consumers.
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    Steven_Draker reacted to MsCocoNYC in What do our "Titles" here mean ???   
    How many posts for Pretty Princess?
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    Steven_Draker got a reaction from TruHart1 in What do our "Titles" here mean ???   
    I was going to post the story, but you beat me to it, TruHart! ;-)
     
    http://www.companyofmen.org/threads/the-peerage.103921/page-3#post-956494
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    Steven_Draker got a reaction from tedbear in What's Your Earliest "I'm Queer" memory?   
    My earliest memory was some TV program with underwater male swimmers.
     
    http://fringefamily.typepad.com/.a/6a0105364a8fba970c016768e681f3970b-800wi
     
    I immediately got a hard-on. My very first hard-on ... :-)
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    Steven_Draker reacted to + nycman in What's Your Earliest "I'm Queer" memory?   
    Mid-1970's
     
    I was about 6 years old
     
    Mr. Olympia Competition.
     
    I licked the TV....
     
    My father was not amused
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    Steven_Draker reacted to TruHart1 in What do our "Titles" here mean ???   
    Hey BVB, please don't construe this as bragging but simply an explanation: What happened in my case is that a certain very active poster here said, in answering one of my posts, (and I quote) 'You should be named "Mister Congeniality of the Realm" because you're always nice to everybody.'
     
    Deej followed that with, "So it is said, so it is done. (We applaud the thoughtful effort.)"
     
    ...and I received the title. No one was more surprised than I was!
     
    Truhart1
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    Steven_Draker reacted to big-n-tall in Gianluigi Volti - For real?   
    FAKE!!
     
    The real Gianluigi is apparently in Europe at the moment (according to a discussion on Muscle Service Station).
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