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London's black cabs have promised to bring "chaos, congestion and confusion" to London as a protest against the growing presence of smartphone taxi service Uber. They are planning for 10,000 drivers to meet at a London landmark (which hasn't been named yet) in early June.
Steve McNamara, LTDA's [Licensed Taxi Drivers Association] general secretary, told the BBC: "I anticipate that the demonstration against TfL's [Transport for London's] handling of Uber will attract many many thousands of cabs and cause severe chaos, congestion and confusion across the metropolis."
This amid lawsuits in some places and drivers being fined in others.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 10 2014, @02:49AM
They loved that word...
"Deutschland uber Alles" = Germany above everything (the national anthem of the 3rd reich)
"Ãœbermensch" = aryan
It is a normal German word that means over or above, but when it means "better than" or "master", the author sounds like he is emulating Nazis. It is not a word that one should be enamored with. At least that's my interpretation as a native German speaker.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 10 2014, @02:52AM
And f*ck your encoding.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 10 2014, @05:12AM
Sounds like a usual case in the meaning of words changing based on the recipient. As someone who likes strategy games, when the word Uber is used I think of 'Uber Entertainment'. A video game production company responsible for a small number of games, most important of which is Planetary Annihilation. It is akin to Total Annihilation or Supreme Commander. It is a large scale game with many units under control of the player. It is a continual disappointment that Uber, the transport company, does not give me the option to sit at home and direct the movements of thousands of people silly enough to be controlled via smartphone app.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 10 2014, @05:36AM
"Sounds like a usual case in the meaning of words changing based on the recipient."
Indeed, but when folks use a word from another language to name their company, they would be wise understand its major connotations.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday May 10 2014, @08:51AM
As a German you should know that "Deutschland über alles" was part of the German anthem already long before the Nazis (indeed, the text was written before Germany was a single country), and wasn't meant as saying that Germany is superior to other countries; that is just a reinterpretation of the Nazis.
Also "Übermensch" does not mean "aryan" (the German term for that is "Arier"), and also was not an invention of the Nazis, although they, again, misused the term. Although in that case the previous use, by Nietzsche, wasn't exactly a positive one either: The "Übermensch" (which just means "superhuman") was considered by Nietzsche to be a "better" human who is above good or evil ("jenseits von gut und böse"), that is, a human who is "better" because he's completely amoral and therefore makes only rational decisions.
And yes, it is true that those terms today are generally associated to the Nazis. But anyway, I think it is important to get the facts straight.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 10 2014, @01:28PM
"Über" simply is "over" - both in terms of status, concept and position. For instance a "superhuman" would be an "übermensch", an "overview" would be "überblick" and a plane "flying over the city" would be "fliegen über der Stadt"..
Or put another way "Über" is about as much nazi as the eagle on emblems is US-american ;)