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'My Airbnb Guests Threw a New Year's Party For 300 People' (theguardian.com)
"What's the worst that can happen?" thought Nicko Feinberg last December when he listed his house on Airbnb.
The listing explicitly said no parties. Then a request came through to book the house for one night on New Year's Day. It was from a young man, probably in his early 20s. He had one review but it was terrific.... I picked up my boys and we stayed down the road at my mother's apartment... When I got back [the next day] I saw three or four cars in the driveway. I threw my food down and knew I was screwed. Inside there were about 12 young adults, all trying to clean.
The floors looked like someone had poured Jagermeister and champagne everywhere and then danced on them. Everything seemed wrong: my artwork was not on the walls; there was furniture missing; the glass panel on my staircase was shattered; even the floor didn't seem level any more. Then I noticed they were using my best sheets and towels as mops....I told them no one was leaving and I called the police and Airbnb. When a police officer turned up, he said it was a civil matter, before adding: "We were here last night...."
Ultimately, it was just stuff and I knew it would be OK. But I felt a massive disappointment in humanity. That night, it wasn't hard for me and my boys to find Instagram pictures and videos of the party. It was horrifying to see so many people in the house, jumping up and down on the furniture and windowsills. They broke my hot tub and tiles in the bathroom; when I looked in the rubbish bags, I saw all my drinks bottles empty, as well as broken glasses and towels. I found an image online of the invite that said, "Mansion Party" with my address. There had been 300 people there. Boys were charged to enter; girls got in free.
While he won't disclose what Airbnb paid him for the damage, "a year later repairs are continuing. The floor is still uneven." But he told one local news channel that the damage was over $100,000, adding "There's footprints on my bathroom walls."
At one point more than 100 cars had been parked outside, according to a police report, and the 23-year-old was ultimately charged with "disorderly conduct". He also was banned permanently from Airbnb -- which said in a statement that "negative incidents are incredibly rare."
The floors looked like someone had poured Jagermeister and champagne everywhere and then danced on them. Everything seemed wrong: my artwork was not on the walls; there was furniture missing; the glass panel on my staircase was shattered; even the floor didn't seem level any more. Then I noticed they were using my best sheets and towels as mops....I told them no one was leaving and I called the police and Airbnb. When a police officer turned up, he said it was a civil matter, before adding: "We were here last night...."
Ultimately, it was just stuff and I knew it would be OK. But I felt a massive disappointment in humanity. That night, it wasn't hard for me and my boys to find Instagram pictures and videos of the party. It was horrifying to see so many people in the house, jumping up and down on the furniture and windowsills. They broke my hot tub and tiles in the bathroom; when I looked in the rubbish bags, I saw all my drinks bottles empty, as well as broken glasses and towels. I found an image online of the invite that said, "Mansion Party" with my address. There had been 300 people there. Boys were charged to enter; girls got in free.
While he won't disclose what Airbnb paid him for the damage, "a year later repairs are continuing. The floor is still uneven." But he told one local news channel that the damage was over $100,000, adding "There's footprints on my bathroom walls."
At one point more than 100 cars had been parked outside, according to a police report, and the 23-year-old was ultimately charged with "disorderly conduct". He also was banned permanently from Airbnb -- which said in a statement that "negative incidents are incredibly rare."
In Melbourne this would be a normal Saturday night with 300 Sudanese teenagers.
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I felt a massive disappointment in humanity.
You played a stupid game with your personal property, and it looks like you won some pretty stupid prizes. Hopefully this was a learning experience.
Let's all slasdotters have a similar party on New Year's Day at that IT janitor place on Fruitdale street in San Jose!
You rent your home full of your stuff to a total stranger. What do you expect?
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
In a world where everyone reviews everyone, airbnb type places are a lot less likely to have negative reviews. It's not worth giving a negative review and getting negative effects in the future. So you start getting reviews like this:
"It was a great experience. I enjoyed looking at the interesting patterns the mold made on the bathroom tiles. Five stars."
Another thing: for a while, Agoda would ask you to rate a place, and if you didn't put five stars, would ask, "What was wrong with this place?" As a result, it was easier to just not review, unless you wanted to give them five stars.
Lately I've stopped looking at hotel reviews at all, and just sorting by cleanliness rating. If it doesn't get a top clean rating, it's probably not worth visiting.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
they are self-entitled and have no respect for anything or anyone. A product of a culture and society in decline.
Stupid person did a stupid thing and what everyone who is not an idiot expected after the first line happened.
Seriously. A 20-something rents a house for one night on New Years Eve. If that didn't raise every red flag within 20 miles, I have no idea what it takes to telegraph you "something just might be a bit wrong here".
I have a hard time believing this story is real. If it were told to me as the plot of a movie I would say it stretches the suspension of disbelief quite a lot.
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A couple of wifi-enabled cameras in front of the house could be used to mitigate renter abuse.
Reading this earlier, it appears he received an undisclosed sum from Airbnb for damages.
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A 23 year-old male with 1 review? On New Year's Eve?
How about using some common sense. You would have to expect some problems with a 1 night rental on New Year's Eve, although I'm not suggesting that the homeowner deserved what happened.
I grew up in a different time. I'm sure things like this occurred infrequently. Nowadays people film bad behavior for laughs and share with their friends, each trying to be more outrageous. There seems to be little morality anymore, it's all selfishness and laughing at someone whom you've screwed over.
It really makes me depressed thinking about the future. It's like Clockwork Orange is being mimicked by the mainstream. How incredibly sad.
I was a little surprised the guy did not have a neighbor that called him up, if I were renting a place out I'd let the houses on either side know and give them my number to let me know if anything seems strange...
As you say, some kind of precautions would have been warranted, especially around NYE.
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change him like an rent a car place say the full cost of the house (best list price of an smaller one in your area - the sell it now income) + lost of use say $300-$400 a day (to cover meals + a high end hotel)
If the the article doesn't mention race they are black.
Do you know how to tell if someone doesn't give a shit about their place or their neighbours? It's on Airbnb.
He's probably not allowed to, per the typical clause in arbitration agreements that all decisions and remedies are kept secret, away from the disinfecting power of sunshine and transparency.
When folks do this, it wouldn't be a hard jump to think the kid's thought process could have been... This guy has money, is not living here and clearly has insurance. It is possible he didn't think that this was that big of a deal. In the end, it wasn't a big deal. Some bureaucrats had paperwork to do, and eventually some business was transacted locally to get things fixed.
I'd argue that it would be good if American's let their puritanity down occasionally, and let this stuff be done in public without all sorts of crazy rules and regulations.
Examples of crazy rules. Once you leave times square on new years eve, even 9 hours later, you can't get back in, so you piss on the ground. All parks closed after dark 24/7/365, yet we're going to change the time in the middle of the darkest months to make them closed even earlier in the day. Roads are for cars only, to drive at or near the speed limit,so that when there is an occasional car, the people that live there better be the ones to yield to a wild driver or risk persecution. Parks shouldn't have bathrooms, because people that don't have homes might look for shelter.
... though not as bad as in the linked article.
Never rent out for a "model shoot", etc.
It was supposed to be some sort of a photo shoot for some MMA personality.
It turned out to be a big party and porno shoot. There was a rape reported by the neighbors.
They ruined the pool table felt.
At least the Roomba captured about a pound of weed.
You're a twat
"I let random strangers that I didn't know stay in my house unaccompanied and unsupervised and it got trashed".
News at 11.
Honestly, no matter WHAT the rules for Airbnb may or may not be, why on earth would you be stupid enough to do that? If someone "random" asked to borrow your car for one night, would you let them? Would you let them if it was a sportscar? But you'll let them do it with a house worth what? 10 times as much?
20-something pays a minimal fee to use your house for one night over New Year's... bad enough. With a single review? Just what the hell were you thinking?
This is nothing to do with Airbnb per se, it's just bog-standard stupidity. And I bet it's not covered under any of your home insurance policies - for good reason. Airbnb probably aren't even obliged to do anything either... they just choose to do so to as a goodwill gesture to limit the bad press.
Honestly, some people are so stupid it defies belief.
The whole idea of Airbnb is a stupid concept in the first place, though I'm sure profitable when it does work. When it goes wrong, seriously, what did you expect?
If nothing else, a ten second Google will show you things like people Airbnb'ing and turning places into brothels and drug-dens, by comparison a party is the low-end of the scale. Not to mention that they have access to your address for the period of time they are Airbnb'ing... they could be doing all sorts with that kind of access - I could destroy your credit rating in a week in my country by getting access to things addressed to me at your mail address.
I wouldn't even trust a 20-something who might be my own son to have a place "just for New Year's" without making sure they couldn't have a party without my knowledge. Let alone a random stranger.
You learned a lesson that most people never have to learn because they're just not that thick.
Either rent out your place, with a full rental agreement, deposit, month's-rent-in-advance, insurance and all the legal trimmings that come with that, or don't. Short-term rental based on an app EULA is the most ridiculous thing ever and you only need one bad incident to wipe out an entire lifetime's profit doing it.
It was from a young man, probably in his early 20s. He had one review but it was terrific....
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The summary says the owner "stayed down the road at my mother's apartment". If I were renting out my house on New Year's Eve, and I was just down the road, I would probably drive by once or twice myself.
Who cares about some idiots who have a disagreement?
Fuck, is Slashdot going to cover every small quarrel in every Dumbfuck, USA?
I like it how Slashdot is now publishing New Years "news" three days in advance.
Don't know that many houses that can hold 300 people or was this a mansion?
OK, that's not quite the word I was searching for..., ph, right, PREDICTABLE.
Of course this is what they did, they got it because they could trash it an walk away. Don't want you stuff to get broken? Then don't rent it to strangers.
For nights like New Year's Eve, the deposit will be like in the "rent a helicopter" scene in the film "Clear and Present Danger":
Jack Ryan: I’m here to rent the Huey.
Helicopter owner: We don’t rent it anymore, but it is for sale.
Jack Ryan: How much?
Helicopter owner: Two million dollars.
Jack Ryan: Uh, my pilot and I will have to take it for a test drive.
Helicopter owner: Of course, you just have to leave a deposit.
Jack Ryan: How much is that?
Helicopter owner: Two million dollars.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
A 20-year old rents your house for New Years, and you are just down the road and didn't think to do a drive-by???
At least AirBnB stood behind the homeowner is making good on what its idiot customer did. I would have expected AirBnB to hide behind some nebulous legal language and walk away from this scot-free. I guess I am jaded towards corporations and impressed that AirBnB took actions to try and make the entire situation right. Still, I never would use AirBnB offering accomodations.
I wonder... Did this person report their AirBnB income on their tax return...
The listing explicitly said no parties.
Here's my wallet. No running off with it, now. *dust cloud heads off toward sunset*
He'll be back aaaaany minute now...
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
That's what you get for being stupid enough to rent YOUR OWN HOME via Air B'n'B. (or pretty much any other similar service.)
Sounds like this guy asked for it by opening an Air BnB. He's lucky if his neighbors didn't sue him.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Nearby and do not even swing by. Hook up a remote camera to watch who comes in and out. Watch the movie Prospect Heights ( Michael Keaton - renter). Get new toothbrushes.
Sounds like a good argument not to rent to anyone who doesn't have a reasonable minimum number of positive reviews.
Even if you leave a justified lukewarm (neither positive or negative) review the other party will retaliate with a negative review. This is why I tend to not bother leaving non positive review. They could anonymize the reviews and disguise who left the review to encourage negative ones without retaliation but with anonymity the bigots will be embolden to mark down groups they dislike.
sentenced to military conscription
mad bcz true
Wait until this guy finds out people travel in excess of posted speed limits and buy illegal drugs.
I didn't get an invite :(
Calling bullshit on this one.
I can see where she went and what she did based on the credit card receipts. She's a total milktoast. More than once she's remarked that it's only old folks where she goes, and I know she ain't lying because, again, I can see the admission fees and souvenirs on my credit card. I didn't even raise her this way. Doesn't help that she hasn't got much to rebel against (I'm kind of a loser, so the only "rebelling" she can do is not being a failure in life, also I'm pretty into death metal so there's not a whole hell of a lot of music she can "shock" me with. )
Anyway, Not every 20 year old is a party animal. This one was pretty clearly running a professional party for money. Anyone could do that, not just a 20 year old. The real problem is that you put 300 folks in a building meant for 20 tops it warps the floors.
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I use to drive a tour bus and the company had to get a $450 deposit along with full payment before any college group would get a bus. Almost every time, someone would get drunk and bust out a bus window. Young high school and college punks with alcohol are almost always going to become violent and destroy things.
Weren't there two movies with this plot?
One was called "Risky Business", and can anyone answer the name of the other one?
Bueller? Bueller?
Young europeans aren't any better btw.. nor are other cultures, like the ones promoting tyranny and abuse of liberty. Also, don't forget the ones stuck in the 14th century.. At least in america, there are enough reasonable people left to keep princess types like hillary out of office.
...imagine your house being used as a meth lab, and then being condemned by the city because of all of the contamination.
And no, I have no sympathy for AirBnB landlords. Suck it up, buttercup.
If the cops were really there they would have called for backup. Two cops versus 300 (assumably drunk) idiots is a no-win situation. Similarly, if there were really 100 cars parked outside, how in the hell big was his property? Claiming damages of $100,000 is a complete joke. Just like this story.
Q: "What's the worst that can happen?"
A: Not thinking through the question of what's the worst that can happen.
Circle the wagons and fire inward. Entropy increases without bounds.
I get the logic of "of course this could happen", but why would someone with a mansion go stay at their mother's apartment to rent it out? If they need the extra money, why don't they sell the damn house and buy something smaller? I figured most people who rented out mansions on there had multiple homes or an apartment in another part of the city for whatever reason, but it seems rather inconvenient to oneself to do this, and clearly quite costly if it goes wrong.
Ha! Like Trump isn't a "princess type"?
Instead on one cartridge in a 6-shot revolver, let's offer a single cartridge in a Glock 17 with a 17 round magazine!
I'm wondering if this is one of those situations where someone throws a party intending to have 10 or 15 people over and it turns into the "Party of the Year" that everyone at the high school talks about for years afterwards. The renter may have not intended for it to get so out of hand. Whoops!
I have no sympathy for this douchenozzle. When you turn your home over to a perfect stranger there's always risk. If you don't want the risk don't play the game. I think homeowners insurance companies and Airbnb should just be honest about the risk here. If you don't want the risk don't let strangers have access to your home. Simple as that.
Personally the whole idea of Airbnb is stupid to me both a s a property owner and a potential renter. As a property owner you are trusting people not to turn your house into a meth lab and trusting them not to do stupid shit. That's unacceptable risk to me. As a renter you are staying in someone's home and they could on a whim come back and invade your privacy or worse toss you out. Not to mention dealing with nosy neighbors who want to call the cops because you happen to be black or don't fit in to the community you are renting in.
Airbnb of course wants to protect their business model where they just pair idiots together for their own horror shows. I still can't comprehend why this is still legal on a home owners policy other than the fact that the insurance and financial industries both are still in the stone ages with half of their business pushing paperwork around.
With $100,000 in damage, and given how poorly the military pays (given expenses), he'd be in it for the rest of his life (like everyone else in the military).
I think the military teaches respect for the military, and no one else. How much respect can you have for the people you're invading, shooting at, torturing and killing, and the suckers that pay for it all?
Thats what you get, dumbass. You want to make a few extra bucks renting out your mansion in pure greed. Anyone who rents their actual house is an utter moron. I can maybe see if you owned a rental. But even then, no. Also, I would run some bleach through that hot tub for a while.
explain why any hotel would accept a reservation without ID and credit card
Pretty much any hotel I've stayed at does that, but then I don't stay at the places that are hourly and bill more for discretion than anything else...
and a pre-auth on the credit card of say 1,000 to 10,000 to cover damages
Sadly such a large pre-auth would lose probably about half of all hotel customers. Yes, even at $1k. Not to mention it's really pad PR as it panics most people to see such a large charge on the CC, they don't necessarily understand it will not actually go through.
I would have thought it was more like, the guest used a fake ID and also one of those temporary CC numbers you can't charge above a certain amount to (though how you'd go about using that in conjunction with a fake ID I'm not quite sure).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Q: My superiors have decided to punish me!
Picard: And punish us as well, it would seem...
You're threatening to crapflood Slashdot for a day because you have a vendetta against the owner of the site. And in the process, the rest of us will have to wade through your spam comments. Why should the rest of us be punished because of your dispute with whipslash? Even if you loathe whipslash that much to carry a massive grudge after two years, surely you ought to have the decency to take out your frustrations in a way that penalizes everyone else here.
Slashdot is, indeed, deleting posts in large numbers. The reason is because a tiny minority of users such as yourself and the spammer posting ASCII art swastikas have so egregiously abused the comment system. Deleting posts was once unthinkable, but now it's becoming commonplace here due to the rampant and highly persistent abuse. The ability to remain anonymous while participating in the discussion has been an important principle since Slashdot's inception. If Slashdot is willing to delete crapflood posts, it may be a matter of time before anonymous posting is completely disabled.
This is why we can't have nice things. A minority of people abuse features so egregiously that the rest of us lose privileges. Now I get back to the topic of the story. You're no better than the Airbnb guests in this story. Airbnb is a nice service for travelers, offering them an alternative to expensive hotels and an environment that may be quieter and more pleasant during their travels. It also allows property owners to be flexible in renting out their premises to earn extra money. In principle, it should be a good deal for everyone.
While most people wouldn't think to severely damage a person's residence by hosting a party like the individual in this story, a few horror stories like this would make a lot of people unwilling to use a service like Airbnb. While Airbnb can do some vetting of hosts, it's probably impossible for them to fully ascertain the intentions of guests. Because of abuses by a small fraction of people, the rest of us are also penalized.
I assure you, the vast majority of us would prefer that you simply refrain from abusing anonymous posting altogether, and take your crusade against whipslash elsewhere. Unfortunately, you seem unwilling to consider that, and the rest of us will be punished because you want to punish whipslash. You're just like the individual in this story, who didn't care about the harm he caused, just as long as he got the pleasure he wanted.
Seek professional help.
Curious why airbnb doesn't ask for an incidentals charge. I stay 50 plus nights with a chain and they still ask me for the $100deposit. For a HOUSE I'd expect $2K.
at least ms is trying
Google is #1 so just wants to control you
I'm sure she goes a few places with cash she doesn't want me to know about. But the fact is she still spent an awful lot of that trip time going to museums and tourist traps.
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See subject: Says it all/it shuts you down right off the bat. It's not MY crusade. It was whimpslash's. I just nullify it & defy whimpslash. Easily.
APK
P.S.=> End of story... apk
I suspect that every wave of immigrants, no matter where they come from and no matter where they settle, experiences this.
North American citizen here (country does not matter). I have seen identifiable groups (and not just visible minorities) of every description, complain about discrimination and difficulty fitting in. It's not just about 'people of color', it's about difference of any kind, and even about friends and neighbors versus people who are new.
Again, the origin and characteristics of the immigrants seems to matter little. Jamaicans, Norwegians, Irish, Portuguese, Africans of every variety, Puerto Ricans, Columbians, Jews, Muslims, Czechs, Polish, Russians, Hungarians, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, on and on it goes. I'll grant that greater and more identifiable differences make it easier to discriminate, but I don't think that discriminations origins are so much about skin color, religion or hats. It's about difference, about 'them' versus 'us'.
Really, there are better things to do than waste your time STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anon posts & defaming cdreimer you do. Take your own advice RUBBER WILLY (lmao).
APK
P.S.=> Effete little "Rubber Willy" (RoTfLmAo) - I defy you & make you look like the POWERLESS LITTLE FOOL & WANNABE you truly are - & you KNOW it (everyone sees it too, hahahaha)... apk
You rent your home full of your stuff to a total stranger. What do you expect?
Most of the shit rich people have in their mansion ends up going for pennies on the dollar, if they have to liquidate it. Get someone to trash your house/steal your stuff and insurance picks up the tab. This whole thing smells exactly like when people stage a car accident (for the insurance money).
I can't imagine their finances were that stable to begin with, if they were having to rent the place out.
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Yea yea yea, lol - the "jailhouse lawyer" strikes again, lmao!
* Unbelievable... ever heard of coercion & threats? Don't TRY them on me stupid.
APK
P.S.=> I made no threat, I only speak truth on what he does to me & does he do it to creimer? I wouldn't doubt it BUT that I don't know for sure... apk
See subject 2nd year after you said you'd stop me posting & failed. Act your age, quit STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts WHIMPslash.
* ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS KNEEL & ask me POLITELY to leave under your REGISTERED USERNAME whimpslash - I'll leave (but YOU must KNEEL to me BOY, lol - that's what GALLS you & you refuse to simply ask (after I blew away your PUNY tricks)).
APK
P.S.=> I just laugh @ "your kind" you know, lol - why? Hell - I know YOU whimpslash BETTER than YOU KNOW YOURSELF (& how do I prove it? Just ask me to leave politely - KNEEL - you can't & that's why I do it, because I know it crushes it to do that vs. me BOY)... apk
See subject BOY: You're whimpslash & a USELESS piece of shit, not I - I prove it to everyone after you failed to stop me posting!
* ALL YOU HAVE TO DO, is KNEEL before me BOY - ask politely for me to leave under your REGISTERED 'luser' account vs. STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts pussy.
APK
P.S.=> I take GREAT PLEASURE in seeing you GROVEL bitch, lol... apk
See subject: ALL you have to do is just ask me under your registered username "whipslash" Mr. Logan Abbott - is that too hard to do for you?
* Apparently so... "Gosh, I wonder why?" (NOT, after all your attempts @ being 'sneaky' & "wannabe technical" failed, lol).
APK
P.S.=> Tomorrow we continue "the tradition" of quoting you & what you said + me posting showing IT'S NOT TRUE - lmao... apk
All whipslash needs to do is ASK me - I'll leave, & it's THAT simple (for me but his "hubris of the defeated"'s in HIS way & he won't KNEEL to me (lol) & ask).
* Plenty of folks DISAGREE w/ you in 100's of upmods I've gotten on my posts (even as an AC poster here, much HARDER to do vs. the "downmoderation system" for CENSORSHIP SUPPRESSION goofs like YOU game via multiple sockpuppet accounts & don't even TRY tell me different - I've caught assholes with TONS of accounts here MANY times since 2005). On my posts on hosts too (yet you call me "spammer"? LOL - that's a laugh - GOOGLE is the big SPAMMER out there & they are whipslash's PRIMARY FINANCIER)).
Lastly - you don't LIKE what I post? Don't READ IT. I don't break any rules (& disregarding 'site policy' isn't 'breaking laws' - I don't break those, I abide BY THEM in full, in laws). Heck, set yourself to browse ABOVE 0 (where ALL us ac posters are) & don't see my posts @ all (your loss)).
APK
P.S.=> Take YOUR OWN ADVICE & quit STALKING ME by UNIDENTIFIABLE anon posts WHIMPSLASH - do you REALLY think you're fooling anyone? Delete my posts, I can easily repost in SECONDS to override that bs too (funny you don't DELETE the posts giving cdreimer shit & he's no longer even HERE ANYMORE - imo, it's because cdreimer CRAPPED on /. publicly (me too I think in a way on his 'jock' portion but I don't care since the guy has issues & doesn't need ME making it worse for him) - you DELETED POSTS OF MINE that only WARNED SPECTRUM USERS (which even their network techs @ all levels AGREE w/ me on - they're leaving users NOSES WIDE OPEN if not the nation (why a logon w/ "nothing to logon to"? No, why insert code for it (that I can't get into, hell I had to RIG MY HOSTS FILE TO GET A LOGON SCREEN even + the ISP itself can't access that screen either (but you can BET CHINA CAN remotely via the default gateway OR other means, who knows, but SOMEONE DEFINITELY CAN (else why a logon screen @ all?))... apk
See subject: All you spout is BS & this is all you get from me now since I proved you wrong @ every turn in my replies already.
APK
P.S.=> You're NO LONGER WORTH MY TIME... apk
Let me translate your comment:
You know I'm correct about how absurd your comments and behavior are. You know I'm correct about your arrogance and massive sense of entitlement. You know I'm correct that you shouldn't spam Slashdot tomorrow like you've threatened. You know I'm correct that spamming Slashdot tomorrow will make you look even worse than you already do.
However, you're too much of a narcissist to admit that you have no rebuttal. Therefore, you're pretending that you've refuted everything I said, so you can pretend that you're justified in whatever abuses you have planned for tomorrow. You won't let logic, reason, common sense, or any sense of decency stand in the way of the spam campaign you apparently have planned.
Have fun showing the world what an obsessed narcissistic piece of trash you truly are. You will undoubtedly sit around tonight and obsess about whipslash in your shithole $1 house because that's all you have in your life. Meanwhile, I'll be going out to party and ring in the new year.
Perhaps if you weren't so obsessed with spamming Slashdot, you might have released the Mac version of your hosts file software you keep posting about. That is the crowning achievement of your life, that you wrote a program to download text files, concatenate them, sort them, and remove duplicate entries. It's a project for a first semester freshman-level college class, but you pretend like it's the eighth wonder of the world. You think your God's gift to Slashdot and have even proclaimed yourself God's instrument to carry out vengeance against whipslash. You think whipslash should bow to you, but you haven't earned it or even done a single thing of value in your wasted life.
You'll probably view your planned spam campaign tomorrow as the new crowning achievement of your life, replacing your toy software for downloading and manipulating text files. Have fun making an ass of yourself yet again.
Unlike you, I don't live in a $1 house and I actually have friends. I'm going out to party with those friends to ring in the new year. Perhaps I'll even show your comments to a few of them to provide some laughter for the evening at the expense of your worthless life and your delusions.
You're BLOWN AWAY in my replies on all your bs 'points' already. CRY of the "injured ne'er-do-well" in "NPD" too? Hahahaha & You're OFF TOPIC bitching I AM? How droll (not). The "last refuge" of the DO-NOTHING vs. those that DO good things which my hosts program does & many like & use it worldwide? IS MORE THAN A LOSER LIKE YOU HAS TO YOUR NAME (you don't even have THAT, lol - you don't even STAND BEHIND YOUR WORDS, weezil).
* Quit cryin & STALKING ME by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts already loser - you'll ALWAYS LOSE to me (all "your kind" KNOWS how to do vs. MY KIND (who do things of VALUE others like/use/praise - you don't)).
Only a couple hours & I requote whipslash too (saying he could "stop me" well, how come I am posting then? LMAO!)
At least I own my own home fully paid off - do you? DOUBT IT (prove otherwise, that will be FUN to see you TRY as I've never EVER seen a title to a home say "UNIDENTIFIABLE ANONYMOUS COWARD" (you) is the owner on it, lol).
No - TROLLS LIKE YOU? Live under bridges (lol, like drug addicts & BUMS).
Go "party" your life away little boy - it's probably WHY you'll never have anything of value.
Druggies & DRUNKS = demons, not friends. There's NO LOVE among DEMONS of that class. LOW...
APK
P.S.=> STUPID - I can't release a MacOS version UNTIL I get my Mac-Mini up & I just got it (other things here take precedence in a business I run - but I should have it online in a day or two hopefully & 1st thing I do is WRITE the port - you know - creating an EVEN MORE MULTPLATFORM EXCELLENT PROGRAM, again, here - you never do or will (LOL))... apk
Whipslash/Logan Abbott: Stop being SUCH a "Rubber Willy" (lol, i.e. DILDO), ok? You're pissed @ cdreimer for shitting on /. & perhaps RIGHTFULLY so (on BOTH your parts) - but look @ the guy: He has issues imo - he doesn't need YOU compounding them! I feel cdreimer even "took shots" @ ME in that video but I don't bug him about it - again, he has problems enough.
& of course "but, But, BUT '/. doesn't delete posts'"?
BS - I've got you recorded in doing 100's vs. me literally in screenshots (never mind those of others you did as well) - I was only warning folks of issues in Spectrum "bricks", deceiving things too (logons to NOTHING exist in them but then they do NOT ROUTE PACKETS like dual connect (or more) routers do).
Which yes I did MORE research w/ SPECTRUM personnel (after a modem I was told I would get had its ORDER CANCELLED & not by ME but by their POLICIES that leave users exposed).
I am MORE CONVINCED THAN EVER along w/ their personnel that they are sacrificing short-term profits vs. users' safety - but then, that's the "arbitrary cost" involved + "moral relativism" isn't it?
Just like YOU as a webmaster? BOTH sides = CONVINCED they're 'right' - profit is "our fidiciary duty" to our shareholders (& OURSELVES as profiteers too, of course & "BONUSES")!
As I am vs. YOUR TRUE "puppet-master" in GOOGLE your primary financier who TRACKS/SLOWS/INFECTS US ALL! ... & ALL those LIKE them, in advertisers (BIGGEST "spammers" of all yet YOU CALL ME THAT? Hypocrisy abounds!)
Please: Unlike YOU? No 'crass motivations' here as I absolutely KNOW I'm doing the RIGHT thing, the ABSOLUTE GOOD protecting even advertisers (who yes, use hosts to prototype their machinations as do many a webmaster)).
APK
P.S.=> Grow up BOY - You can DELETE ALL DAY? I can REPOST ALL DAMN DAY overriding you (you already KNOW this) - but our "2 yr. anniversary" of ME quoting YOU saying you can "STOP ME" (an impossibility as everyone knows, only thing that stops ME, is ME, not you)?? It's going to happen - only thing is, I haven't decided YET how I'll do it (Marcus Allen/Jonathan "rollerball" https://www.youtube.com/watch?... since that's how you TRIED & FAILED to "do me") OR via "Rubber Willy" & the old 'glam-band' SWEET & "Little Willy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (lol, in YOUR CASE? RUBBER WILLY, lol)... apk
See subject & your delusions of grandeur libeling me (heard of the goldwater law/rule?) that way - you're no professional shrink, nor do you possess a license to practice psychiatric sciences, nor do you have professional work experience in it (but I BET you have been a psych patient, lol) NOR a degree in it either that qualifies your "snap prognosis" of my ALLEGED "mental condition" from a LOSER like you blowhard bullshitter.. lol!
BEYOND all THE ABOVE: Have YOU performed a mental examination of MYSELF in a professional psychiatric environs? No.
* Is THAT "the best ya got" RUBBER WILLY? It's not even FUNNY or ORIGINAL for Pete's sake (but then your DULL BRAIN is VERY limited & I also suspect DAMAGED as you PROJECT it in your bs).
APK
P.S.=> Of course, I offer you the CHANCE to prove me wrong & PROVE you have all the qualifications needed for your "insta-prognosis" of yours Dr. Quack - no, lol - you're the WANNBE & "SiDeWaLk-ShRiNk of /." & NOTHING MORE, lmao... apk
Not knowing all the circumstances, can't say what all she did wrong. But renting to an unknown person, leaving the house with them, and not even cruising by or calling a neighbor to check things out doesn't sound particularly smart.