If you own a house in a nice quiet street, and someone buys the place next door and wants to turn it into an inn, you'd expect to be consulted about that, right? You'd presumably expect that if everyone else in the street also objects, then planning consent for that business should be denied. If your inn analogy holds, then AirBnB provides no such opportunity for consultation.
The problem of high ratios of short-term occupants destroying communities is well known. The canonical example in the UK is student lets - landlords buy up properties close to universities and let them to students, over time the long term residents are forced out, leading to more and more student housing. These areas attract crime and other social problems because the community is vacant. This is why many councils in the UK restrict the number of HMOs (Houses in Multiple Occupancy) in a given street or area, presumably this happens other places too.
There are good reasons for regulating something like AirBnB or Uber, and it will happen, it just takes lawmakers a little while to catch up.
So it all seems to depend on the ratio of long-term residents to short-term residents. In college towns, the balance shifts dangerously close to the short-term side. But do we have reason to think that AirBnB poses the same danger? Has there ever been a residential neighborhood where AirBnB clients comprise any more than a small fraction of the total population? Yes, some people are renting out entire apartment buildings, but that neighborhood probably has a hundred other apartment buildings, too, with several thousand residents in them.
A neighborhood is whatever its members make of it. If people don't like to have an inn next door, they have every right to speak up against it, organize if possible, and make life hell for the innkeeper so that he moves someplace else. But I'm not sure whether we need the heavy hand of the law to get involved in this at all. In your college town example, what are you going to do? Force students to live at least 5 miles away from campus? Nope, gotta make do with the people you've got, even if it means constructing a new funky subculture just for the student-heavy neighborhood.
I do agree that we need some sort of regulation. But I think those pages of law will be better spent on requirements of safety, taxation, etc. Even a proper enforcement of the fire code will probably wipe out a large percentage of the AirBnB listings.
They may have faked the explosion at the end, and obviously their explanation is total nonsense, but the launch looks pretty authentic, see this alternate angle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoMKy043j_I
Yii is actually incredibly polished, it's not rough around the edges at all. It is not particularly easy on newcomers though, which is the main reason it's not more widely known.
If you put the effort in to learn it thoroughly, you'll be rewarded with an incredibly productive platform that is great not just for getting apps out of the door super quickly, but also provides a secure, scalable foundation which is easy to grow and maintain.
hey, this looks great, but it's not actually working on either on either of my nexus 5s, is that a known issue? There's no crash or anything, the flashlight just doesn't actually turn on.
You are firmly blaming the victim, that's why you are being downvoted. The answer to all this cannot be "there are assholes on the internet so don't go on the internet"
I am not a downvoter, but using your own analogy, your post is like saying "Why are people complaining about the existence of minefields?", criticising people for suggesting that something should be done about the minefields and ignoring the fact that the victims of minefields are mostly people who didn't know there was a minefield there.
Also, I think in plenty of these cases the victims are not going to the places where their attackers are. E.g. the victims of attacks organised at 4chan are not generally people who post on 4chan.
I would say that blogging on the internet is more like going out for a drink at the pub. You aim to meet and interact with many people with the same interests, have discussions, and enjoy a drink.
However, there is the possibility that someone may abuse this, maybe through drinking to excess and becoming argumentative. This, while annoying, can be accepted. However, if that person gets violent and causes harm, I believe that is unacceptable.
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Seems certainly enough for an unfightable civil forfeiture case.
It doesn't really matter if you're committing a crime. The police will trash your life anyway if you look at them funny. If you're a black man they'll shoot you in the back while you're on the ground. There's nothing stopping them.
The purpose of criminalizing such activity is not to discourage people from engaging in it. It is to guarantee that everyone is a criminal, thereby ensuring that leverage is always available.
