Err anyone on wikipedia can resolve disputes (admins have no real special authority in that area) and single admins can't generally resolve persistent bad behaviour. Admins are more targeted to dealing with obvious vandalism, copyvios and other simple stuff.
Well on paper (and that's where the valuation is) they have first mover advantage (well sort of, somewhat related home exchange vacations have been around for a long time) in what could be the next big area of the Hospitality industry. With the total value of the hospitality industry and their currently very low overheads they would only have to capture a small percentage of the hospitality industry to be worth that.
Let me get this straight. The gimmick is you rent out your place to a total stranger, you don't even meet them face-to-face, and expect them not to run away with all your phat loot ? Moronic. Hotels don't trust them anywhere near as much. They sure as shit don't leave anything of real value in closets, despite the cameras on each floor and at all exits.
What happened to EJ is truly vile, but what the fuck was she expecting ? She probably felt generous thinking 3% of Airbnb users would be vile, but she got the math wrong. Yes, 3% might be wanted criminals, but then about 90% are opportunist scum, and the remaining 7% are people like EJ with their heads in the clouds. All the locks and home insurance in the world are pointless if you're handing your keys to any stranger with a credit card.
I would argue that perhaps the more interesting side of the story is the whole PR battle aspect. Airbnb falsely make people feel safer than Craigslist and the current PR mess is complicating that. Oh and opportunist scum are probably less of a risk than you might expect. After all they would probably like to rent cheaply in future and could do without the criminal record. It's simply not in their interest to rise above the level of minor annoyance.
Of course realistically you are just falling for another PR line. In reality all the locks and home insurance in the world are pointless when dealing with actual criminals. Hotel rooms get broken into, there are dodgy B&B places out there and burglars are unfortunately smart enough to break in while you are away on holiday.
Cost mostly. Confirming identification takes time and money. It also annoys the customer who is having to go through the process. Worse still once you start down that line there is pressure to add more and more anti fraud measures which again costs money.
Yes I'm not entirely sure what to make of that. Its also a a little odd in the sense that generally any worthwhile crime reporter will have enough contacts with the police to get tipped of to interesting stories without having to make payment beyond the odd pint of beer.
Strangely no. For some years the police database has been the one database the tabloids won't touch. Everything else up to and including medical records is fine but going for the police database has historically resulted in the police carrying out investigations and no one wants that.
See Nick Davies's book flat earth news for details.
He has the advantage that we already know his private life isn't whiter than white and has in any case semi-retired from acting. There isn't much you could really threaten him with.
Again rotaries are not roundabouts. However depending on the significance of the roundabout pedestrians are either expected to look after themselves or pedestrian crossings or in serious cases pedestrian underpasses are supplied.
Roundabouts (rather than Traffic circles) work fine (or at least slightly better than controlled junctions) in high speed areas. There are a few on UK dual carriageways (speed limit 70 MPG) and they don't generally cause problems. It is also not uncommon to find them at the end of motorways.
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Can you provide an example?
Err one of the side effects of publish or perish is that hard science topics find it very easy to meat wikipedia's inclusion criteria.
So care to provide a link to the article in question?
Err anyone on wikipedia can resolve disputes (admins have no real special authority in that area) and single admins can't generally resolve persistent bad behaviour. Admins are more targeted to dealing with obvious vandalism, copyvios and other simple stuff.
Well on paper (and that's where the valuation is) they have first mover advantage (well sort of, somewhat related home exchange vacations have been around for a long time) in what could be the next big area of the Hospitality industry. With the total value of the hospitality industry and their currently very low overheads they would only have to capture a small percentage of the hospitality industry to be worth that.
Its a PR fight and if the recent history of tech is anything to go by it is the PR that matters.
Eh you can insure against that so again it boils down to cost. But yes there are a whole bunch of reasons why that gets messy fast.
Let me get this straight. The gimmick is you rent out your place to a total stranger, you don't even meet them face-to-face, and expect them not to run away with all your phat loot ? Moronic. Hotels don't trust them anywhere near as much. They sure as shit don't leave anything of real value in closets, despite the cameras on each floor and at all exits.
What happened to EJ is truly vile, but what the fuck was she expecting ? She probably felt generous thinking 3% of Airbnb users would be vile, but she got the math wrong. Yes, 3% might be wanted criminals, but then about 90% are opportunist scum, and the remaining 7% are people like EJ with their heads in the clouds. All the locks and home insurance in the world are pointless if you're handing your keys to any stranger with a credit card.
I would argue that perhaps the more interesting side of the story is the whole PR battle aspect. Airbnb falsely make people feel safer than Craigslist and the current PR mess is complicating that. Oh and opportunist scum are probably less of a risk than you might expect. After all they would probably like to rent cheaply in future and could do without the criminal record. It's simply not in their interest to rise above the level of minor annoyance.
Of course realistically you are just falling for another PR line. In reality all the locks and home insurance in the world are pointless when dealing with actual criminals. Hotel rooms get broken into, there are dodgy B&B places out there and burglars are unfortunately smart enough to break in while you are away on holiday.
Cost mostly. Confirming identification takes time and money. It also annoys the customer who is having to go through the process. Worse still once you start down that line there is pressure to add more and more anti fraud measures which again costs money.
Yes I'm not entirely sure what to make of that. Its also a a little odd in the sense that generally any worthwhile crime reporter will have enough contacts with the police to get tipped of to interesting stories without having to make payment beyond the odd pint of beer.
Strangely no. For some years the police database has been the one database the tabloids won't touch. Everything else up to and including medical records is fine but going for the police database has historically resulted in the police carrying out investigations and no one wants that.
See Nick Davies's book flat earth news for details.
The broadsheets are fairly happy to attack other papers. Its the tabloids which generally avoid attacking each other.
He has the advantage that we already know his private life isn't whiter than white and has in any case semi-retired from acting. There isn't much you could really threaten him with.
Wikipedia's policy on external links is at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links
But with over 3 million articles there will always be a few that have been missed.
RIAA labels offer marketing. The general failure of myspace bands to ah "make it" suggests this is important.
True Roundabouts are a 1960s invention. 1950s would be the related traffic circles which don't work so well.
Try this one. 70MPH and no lights:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.059173,-0.898878&spn=0.002542,0.004823&t=h&z=18
Traffic circles are not roundabouts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Difference_from_traffic_circles
Again rotaries are not roundabouts. However depending on the significance of the roundabout pedestrians are either expected to look after themselves or pedestrian crossings or in serious cases pedestrian underpasses are supplied.
Rotaries are not roundabouts though.
Roundabouts (rather than Traffic circles) work fine (or at least slightly better than controlled junctions) in high speed areas. There are a few on UK dual carriageways (speed limit 70 MPG) and they don't generally cause problems. It is also not uncommon to find them at the end of motorways.
Sure. History goes all the way back to this edit in 2001:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vince_Lombardi&oldid=293638
No one by the name of "citking" has ever edited the Vince Lombardi article. Care to link to your edits?
Citation needed
Mostly large scale lashing and ropework projects. This kind of thing:
http://www.webofroses.com/scouting/pioneering_projects.html
Designs can get considerably more advanced than those though.