None of those examples strike me as funny; I am somewhat concerned that you can laugh in the face of human suffering.<p>I am also not defending taxi drivers. The other day I had to take a taxi for a $9 ride and the guy was less than graceful about the fact that I wasn&#x27;t going very far from his taxi line.<p>But the solution is not knee-jerk deregulation - although I agree that a shakeup is necessary and warranted.