luxor has been in business now for 85 years. and you may have heard talk about cab companies are going bankrupt or something, luxor looks forward to being with you for another 85 years and no intention of going away. miss hayashi referred to problem of competition for drivers and for us that is a very, very serious problem. we have -- let me just given an example. an email is circulated this week, that i was privileged to see was not intended for me was between uber and one of its new drivers. that new driver is going to get a guarantied $5,000 for his first month, his first month as an uber driver. how on earth can we compete with that? a new driver -- we can offer him a decent living, but we cannot guarantee $5,000 in the first month and we can't finance his car either. uber does that and that is what you have when you have over a uber-billion dollars in venture capital just a couple of weeks ago. they can literally throw the money out on the streets. i see the clock ticking, so i will speak quickly and give a word of thanks t

and people in luxor ran to the hospitals to give blood. and after that, i think recruitment for these groups was over with. and they went into very radical decline. and then the government, you know, arrested something like 30,000 people for thought crimes. . somebody wore a beard and looked like they might some day think well of the islamic grouping or the egyptian islamic jihad. the government would put them in jail. and put all the leadership of the islamic grouping in jail, and as a result, the leadership after a few years in jail understood they were going to be there the rest of their lives and their movement was over. they had no further success in rerecruitment. and so then they did repentence. they said we were wrong. the korun forbids this kind of violence. it's basically an document that only allows violence under certain rare conditions, self-defense and so forth. and we just, our interpretation was just in the '90s and '80s, we were like wild men. we were on something and we were wrong. and so they issued this series of pamphl

two years ago analects -- luxor offered several accessible cabs, now we have fewer than 10 in service on the streets today. i assure you that it is due 100 percent to the city and now the c puc allowing uber to skim the cream off the top to cherry pick the most profitable rides while giving disabled people promises about service later. just very briefly, uber is accountable to no one. you have to accept their word for everything. we heard today about the on boarding process. a few months ago did an investigative report. the vehicle inspection was an uploaded photograph of the vehicle. nbc did an investigative report in three cities. the background checks were virtually non-existent. you have to take a lot of what you heard today with a big grain of salt. any ways, there is a lot more to say about for instance, what's next? but i see my time has run out. thank you for your patience. >> thank you. >> next we have charles minister. >> thank you. council. i'm also a member of the senior disability action and california alliance for retired americans. this has been a dis in genius public r

and people in luxor ran to the hospitals to give blood. and after that, i think recruitment for these groups was over with. and they went into very radical decline. and then the government, you know, arrested something like 30,000 people for thought crimes. . somebody wore a beard and looked like they might some day think well of the islamic grouping or the egyptian islamic jihad. the government would put them in jail. and put all the leadership of the islamic grouping in jail, and as a result, the leadership after a few years in jail understood they were going to be there the rest of their lives and their movement was over. they had no further success in rerecruitment. and so then they did repentence. they said we were wrong. the korun forbids this kind of violence. it's basically an document that only allows violence under certain rare conditions, self-defense and so forth. and we just, our interpretation was just in the '90s and '80s, we were like wild men. we were on something and we were wrong. and so they issued this series of pamphl