Sounds to me like he's pissed off because one of the purveyors of services he contracted with turned out to have the same equipment he already had. At least, that's the only explanation I can find for singling out craigslist.
Why did craigslist have an "erotic services" section in the first place? To keep the pros from advertising under the dating and other inappropriate categories. Apparently McMaster would prefer all the pros call themselves "masseuses" and drive all the legitimate, trained massage practitioners out of the business. Or apparently he expects whores to adhere to a rigorous code of professional ethics, and only advertise in forums specifically designed for them?
I would caution that it does no good to try to bait McMaster into an argument about this; that would only get you categorized as a "McMaster baiter".
Uh... doesn't a "redirect" from a phone number controlled by you mean that your ex is no longer being harassed by random people, but is now being harassed by YOU? Congratulations, you've just given your pissed-off ex an excuse to have your sorry ass thrown in jail. I can assure you that is not a good thing!
Oh, and requiring a faxed driver's license accomplishes nothing. Every time I post random sex ads giving out my ex's phone number, I use pictures of women much hotter than her! (Disclaimer: I've actually done this zero times.)(It's not like pictures of hot women are difficult to find on the web.) So yes, actually using the contact information supplied in the ad to ascertain identity is the best approach. Now, if only I were a Yahoo or Craiglist employee, so I could give the vice cops and my wife a valid excuse to be calling those numbers...
The question in court is not "were you drinking tonight", but "how much did you drink" which is a very specific very objective, very deturminable piece of information.
You're spelling begs the question -- how much have you had to drink today?
Parents let their kids get fat. Absolutely. That's why I keep my daughter supplied with plenty of cocaine, so she looks just like a supermodel! Not bad for an 8 year old!;-)
The restaurant wars come first, after which all restaurants become Taco Bells. And then it becomes illegal to put salt on your food! Yes, Demolition Man was a great movie, for those of you that missed the reference.
The sustainable population of cows is limited by the availability of water and forage, both of which I hear are in short supply in Australia. Ecological damage and erosion caused by cattle overgrazing may exceed the damage caused by cane toads. And no one wants to eat an emaciated cow -- it's the fat that makes them so tasty.
You mean you're expected to give ACCURATE personal information to those quizzes?!? I always put down that I'm a 16-year old blond female with an email address of billg@microsoft.com. I hope Bill enjoys feminine hygiene product spam!
Apparently burglars and rapists lead much more interesting lives than I. In the final analysis, the only real defense I currently have against government intrusion into my private life is that anybody attempting to track my actions would be bored to tears. They would eventually break down and start shouting: "What the hell?!? Doesn't this guy ever do anything or go anywhere? Man I'd give anything for a suspect that bought an occasional joint or hooker! We've got nothin' we can use against this guy!"
It also helps to be a nerd with no social skills who dreams of someday building himself a hot sexbot, but hey, who am I to judge? What a waste, spending all this time and money on robotics when they could be home in their mom's basement working on teledildonics instead!
In the good ol' days, when an ex really pissed you off, you could always place an ad for her "services" on craiglist, causing her to be unendated night and day with phone calls from drunk, horny men. Now what am I going to do when these bitches piss me off?;-)
Except that game DRM usually requires you to have the disk physically inserted to play. So if you are playing on a netbook (they don't come with internal CD/DVD drives) or your 5-year old decided to use your disk as a frisbee, then you are screwed. All DRM that doesn't require a physical token to be connected to your machine is defeatable -- you can simply save the entire state of your machine and copy it to another similar machine. The DRM that does require a physical token sucks because, well, because it requires a physical token, which can be misplaced, stolen, or broken. Case in point: I installed The Sims 2 on a macbook in the (licensed copy of) Windows XP running under Parallels. It let me install the game, but refused to play. Why? Because Parallels virtualizes the CD drive! So because of DRM, I can't play a game which I have every legal right to play. As I've said before (about Sony's OpenMG): "The purpose of DRM is not to keep you from copying the content. The purpose is to make you pay for the same content over and over again." E.g. every time you sell, lose, or upgrade your current hardware.
So, should single player games simply have no DRM at all?
Why can't game developers just accept the fact that their software will be copied, and instead adopt a business model that is unaffected by unauthorized distribution of their software? For example, distribute the software for free via bittorrent etc., but charge monthly fees for connection to the servers? The shrink-wrapped software business is dead -- time to bury it. People need online access for patches and updates anyway; it is a safe assumption that 99% of your customer base has at least occasional connectivity to the internet. Also, first-sale doctrine becomes irrelevant if all you are paying for is server access. (There is a related issue that remains -- should accounts be transferable? If I grind a WoW character up to level 80, should I be able to sell it to somebody else?) Sure, there is a side effect that even single player games would require an online login. But I really think the software-as-a-service model makes a lot more sense for games than for businesses. Businesses are as geographically distributed as game players, and you really don't want a third party to have access to your business's data.
It is still frowned upon to tape a sign that reads, "Your Face!" to a pumpkin in your boss's front yard and shoot it with an AR-15. Why does is sound like samzenpus is speaking from personal experience? Man, I'd hate to be his boss!
I'd say somebody with the bad judgment to pick up a bomb and play with it should never have been a school bus driver in the first place, but as the assistant superintendent of Forest Grove School District told me: "We pay these people $10 an hour for a 15 hour week... how qualified to you really expect them to be?"
How is that "out of control". Harris fucked up -- he ran from police, either because he was carrying contraband or because he simply didn't trust police. The police fucked up -- they tackled somebody and unnecessarily injured him. In their defense, at the time they tackled him, they didn't know whether or not he was armed, thus for their own safety they needed to get him under control quickly. Finally, if the cops have to chase you, it gets their adrenaline up and generally makes them angry. Like most human beings, they make mistakes, especially in high-stress situations. Unlike most human beings, cop's mistakes can have deadly consequences, so we try to hold them to a higher standard. But the truth remains, they are human and screw up constantly, just like everyone else.
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Sounds to me like he's pissed off because one of the purveyors of services he contracted with turned out to have the same equipment he already had. At least, that's the only explanation I can find for singling out craigslist.
Why did craigslist have an "erotic services" section in the first place? To keep the pros from advertising under the dating and other inappropriate categories. Apparently McMaster would prefer all the pros call themselves "masseuses" and drive all the legitimate, trained massage practitioners out of the business. Or apparently he expects whores to adhere to a rigorous code of professional ethics, and only advertise in forums specifically designed for them?
I would caution that it does no good to try to bait McMaster into an argument about this; that would only get you categorized as a "McMaster baiter".
Uh... doesn't a "redirect" from a phone number controlled by you mean that your ex is no longer being harassed by random people, but is now being harassed by YOU? Congratulations, you've just given your pissed-off ex an excuse to have your sorry ass thrown in jail. I can assure you that is not a good thing!
Oh, and requiring a faxed driver's license accomplishes nothing. Every time I post random sex ads giving out my ex's phone number, I use pictures of women much hotter than her! (Disclaimer: I've actually done this zero times.)(It's not like pictures of hot women are difficult to find on the web.) So yes, actually using the contact information supplied in the ad to ascertain identity is the best approach. Now, if only I were a Yahoo or Craiglist employee, so I could give the vice cops and my wife a valid excuse to be calling those numbers...
Man, the customer reviews for that product are hilarious! "Worst mothers day ever" indeed!
I uploaded a picture of my wife; the computer's response was "I'd hit that!"
Are we sure they are not using a Mechanical Turk?
The question in court is not "were you drinking tonight", but "how much did you drink" which is a very specific very objective, very deturminable piece of information.
You're spelling begs the question -- how much have you had to drink today?
I hear they will soon be unveiling The Virgin Mary in a Bikini.
Parents let their kids get fat. Absolutely. That's why I keep my daughter supplied with plenty of cocaine, so she looks just like a supermodel! Not bad for an 8 year old! ;-)
The restaurant wars come first, after which all restaurants become Taco Bells. And then it becomes illegal to put salt on your food! Yes, Demolition Man was a great movie, for those of you that missed the reference.
I've been told that most Australian students have just been taking up space in the classroom for a long time now.
How does NZ expect to run a space program and remain a nuclear-free zone? Sorta limits your options for powering satellites, doesn't it?
The sustainable population of cows is limited by the availability of water and forage, both of which I hear are in short supply in Australia. Ecological damage and erosion caused by cattle overgrazing may exceed the damage caused by cane toads. And no one wants to eat an emaciated cow -- it's the fat that makes them so tasty.
You mean you're expected to give ACCURATE personal information to those quizzes?!? I always put down that I'm a 16-year old blond female with an email address of billg@microsoft.com. I hope Bill enjoys feminine hygiene product spam!
Man, if only I had one of these as a kid... I would have been the undisputed champion at hide-and-go-seek!!!
Still won't change the pleasure your new elephant can give. What's the matter, sheep aren't good enough for you?
Apparently burglars and rapists lead much more interesting lives than I. In the final analysis, the only real defense I currently have against government intrusion into my private life is that anybody attempting to track my actions would be bored to tears. They would eventually break down and start shouting: "What the hell?!? Doesn't this guy ever do anything or go anywhere? Man I'd give anything for a suspect that bought an occasional joint or hooker! We've got nothin' we can use against this guy!"
Nah, with Jesus doing tech support you still get a blue screen of death. Only difference is, 3 days later, Windows automagically reboots itself!
Invisibility cloak?!? Ha! I'll believe it when I see it!
It also helps to be a nerd with no social skills who dreams of someday building himself a hot sexbot, but hey, who am I to judge? What a waste, spending all this time and money on robotics when they could be home in their mom's basement working on teledildonics instead!
In the good ol' days, when an ex really pissed you off, you could always place an ad for her "services" on craiglist, causing her to be unendated night and day with phone calls from drunk, horny men. Now what am I going to do when these bitches piss me off? ;-)
Except that game DRM usually requires you to have the disk physically inserted to play. So if you are playing on a netbook (they don't come with internal CD/DVD drives) or your 5-year old decided to use your disk as a frisbee, then you are screwed. All DRM that doesn't require a physical token to be connected to your machine is defeatable -- you can simply save the entire state of your machine and copy it to another similar machine. The DRM that does require a physical token sucks because, well, because it requires a physical token, which can be misplaced, stolen, or broken. Case in point: I installed The Sims 2 on a macbook in the (licensed copy of) Windows XP running under Parallels. It let me install the game, but refused to play. Why? Because Parallels virtualizes the CD drive! So because of DRM, I can't play a game which I have every legal right to play. As I've said before (about Sony's OpenMG): "The purpose of DRM is not to keep you from copying the content. The purpose is to make you pay for the same content over and over again." E.g. every time you sell, lose, or upgrade your current hardware.
So, should single player games simply have no DRM at all?
Why can't game developers just accept the fact that their software will be copied, and instead adopt a business model that is unaffected by unauthorized distribution of their software? For example, distribute the software for free via bittorrent etc., but charge monthly fees for connection to the servers? The shrink-wrapped software business is dead -- time to bury it. People need online access for patches and updates anyway; it is a safe assumption that 99% of your customer base has at least occasional connectivity to the internet. Also, first-sale doctrine becomes irrelevant if all you are paying for is server access. (There is a related issue that remains -- should accounts be transferable? If I grind a WoW character up to level 80, should I be able to sell it to somebody else?) Sure, there is a side effect that even single player games would require an online login. But I really think the software-as-a-service model makes a lot more sense for games than for businesses. Businesses are as geographically distributed as game players, and you really don't want a third party to have access to your business's data.
It is still frowned upon to tape a sign that reads, "Your Face!" to a pumpkin in your boss's front yard and shoot it with an AR-15. Why does is sound like samzenpus is speaking from personal experience? Man, I'd hate to be his boss!
I'd say somebody with the bad judgment to pick up a bomb and play with it should never have been a school bus driver in the first place, but as the assistant superintendent of Forest Grove School District told me: "We pay these people $10 an hour for a 15 hour week... how qualified to you really expect them to be?"
You probably want to google "Repetitive Strain Injury" too... chances are you will be needing that information by morning.
Not only are you at risk for contracting breast and ovarian cancer, but now you can be sued for patent infringement too!
How is that "out of control". Harris fucked up -- he ran from police, either because he was carrying contraband or because he simply didn't trust police. The police fucked up -- they tackled somebody and unnecessarily injured him. In their defense, at the time they tackled him, they didn't know whether or not he was armed, thus for their own safety they needed to get him under control quickly. Finally, if the cops have to chase you, it gets their adrenaline up and generally makes them angry. Like most human beings, they make mistakes, especially in high-stress situations. Unlike most human beings, cop's mistakes can have deadly consequences, so we try to hold them to a higher standard. But the truth remains, they are human and screw up constantly, just like everyone else.