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Mark_Wallace17-Feb-20 20:04
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charlieg18-Feb-20 11:42
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GeneralBacon and Gin for Breakfast Anyone? Pin
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charlieg18-Feb-20 16:54
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Mark_Wallace17-Feb-20 19:46
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Perfectly legal.  If it sounds ridiculous, remember that human ownership of anything at all is just as ridiculous.  cats have just as much right to claim ownership of stuff as people do, and they're one of the few species we interact with (without massacering them) that assert their ownership.

But they have the common sense to only assert temporary ownership.  As soon as they walk away from something, they relinquish ownership.  Humans are much stupider than that.
My favourite quote from the article:
When the online marketplace noticed her outrageous claims two years later
Two years?  Seriously?  Given the number of offers on the site, that would mean that the number of employees dedicated to ensuring that offers aren't scams would be... lemme think... multiply number of pages by scanning time... carry the one... take away the number you first thought of... Oh, cool!  It comes out at a round number!

The number of people checking that their customers aren't being conned is... Precisely Zero!

Looks like too much effort is put into scraping as much money as possible out of the site, and almost no effort is put into customer safety and requirements.

The "microsoft testing method" is not appropriate to an environment where people can do harm.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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