So, let's leave out the insurance question and separate it from the taxi-licence issue. Provided that all cars are insured, how am I putting other people at risk by riding a cheaper unlicensed taxi?
It works anywhere. Stupid state monopoly mafia trying to control how people are supposed to make money is scared. That's all there is to it. If I want to drive somebody and make money I don't need no licence. There's absolutely no justification for requiring a licence.
The problem with sanctions and manipulation of the oil prices by the US is that while trying to get rid of Putin, they're hurting average Russians, not Putin. And something tells me they know it very well.
In a game between politicians, average people are the real losers.
A failed state doesn't mean absence of government. Similarly to how if you burn a church, it wouldn't make all the people in the village atheists.
What people who dislike governments can realistically do is not comply and ask for no permission. Don't pay taxes, use Bitcoin, ignore stupid laws, don't send children to government schools. Peacefully disobey.
What I'm saying is, governments foster violent crime by criminalizing many peaceful things. The best thing you can do to dramatically decrease violent crime rates is get rid of governments.
Crime too. If you look at what are most of the crimes that are committed in any given country, it quickly becomes obvious that those are mostly victimless crimes or crimes that are invoked by governments declaring something to be illegal (while it harms no one): like drugs being illegal provokes a lot of violence, gang culture etc. The only true systematic source of evil in any country is its government. Without it, you'd still have bad things happening, but it won't be on the same level.
I'm always amazed at how people want to fight corruption not really understanding that corruption is inherent to politics and government. You can't fight it. It's like fighting aging with plastic surgery. Sure, it may look good on the surface and it may even make you feel good psychologically, for a while. But you're still aging. Best you can do is accept that and lead a healthy lifestyle.
So, if you try fight corruption, it simply becomes more obscure. Corruption exists purely because governments and institutions exist. If you didn't have those, you wouldn't need to bribe some third party in order to be able to establish a business relationship with someone else (e.g. get a licence, permit, etc).
The question people should be asking, how come in Eastern European countries internet access is so cheap and fast, yet barely regulated? It's so easy to argue for more regulation when things go wrong: trying to control businesses always sounds like a more noble idea than settings them free. And yet, in every possible example we see that where there's more freedom of enterprise, the customer always wins. And this is especially obvious with ISPs.
1. At the very least take down the option from the website.
2. There are no transactions on the blockchain. All withdrawals are stuck within MtGox.
3. People who withdrew money don't care about the fix, they care about getting their money back. Start paying now or say goodbye to your business. This is no game.
Why would that anyone holding a lot of coins need some incomparably small sum from MtGox while he can clearly make more selling it before the meltdown on other exchanges?
I personally would never give them my business ever. Many people won't either. I'm sorry, they already screwed me once last year holding withdrawal for 2 days, now again. They are going down in history. The only question, again, if they will return the coins. I doubt they will. Even if we assume incompetence, it doesn't mean they suddenly can't SPEAK, right? Go and tell your customers what's going on. When people are not open about things, it most likely means they want to screw you and you are safe to assume this to be the default version.