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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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Uber vs London Taxis - Protest via Gridlock
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(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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