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I have seen many news stories on this but I like Steven's article the best. http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/rentboy-com-bust-im-an-escort-not-a-terrorist-so-get-out-of-my-pants/

Calli...it's awfully easy to be brave, even foolhardy, with other peoples freedom & property. If Daddy's site hunkers down for a while...well, it was cited by name a number of times in a criminal information filed by the Justice Department, not an outfit to be tweaked lightly.

And then this thing Clarke said after K had tried but failed to get Clarke to help him in K's ultimately failed effort to make AI: "Well, you know -- Stanley's Stanley."

I have now had the opportunity of using Easy Taxi four times. All when I was in the Zona Norte and there were not either any circling passing taxis nor cooperativo taxi stands. The power center behind Norte Shopping in Cachambi to be precise. It worked like a charm. My biggest fear with the taxis down here as to get in one with a rigged taximetro/meter. Little recourse. Am I really going to get into an argument and risk a fight/bodily injury over 30 Reais/US$8.00? Try to flag down someone from the Guarda Municipal or Policia Militar and waste lots of time filing a protest? I have on a couple of occasions told the taxi driver his meter didn't read right and the trip to the airport should be x number of reais and his meter wasn't correct. And at the airport there are police right there. So he agreed with what I offered and took off QUICKLY with ZERO complaints. But how many foreign travelers who don't speak Portuguese are going to do that? (Let me add that I even complained once after being charged in an elegant restaurant in Geneva Switzerland when simple table water was charged to the bill for EACH glass. I told them I wasn't paying the bill and they could call the police to decide if they didn't want to take the 6 glasses of water off of the bill for the three of us. I won that round. Better to have peace in a restaurant than a raving crazy American tourist screaming in terrible French mixed with English and German for the polizei to come help.) So it seems that both Easy and 99 are great Apps. The taxi drivers still get their clients. The government still gets their taxes. The vehicles still get their inspections. We get taxi drivers who are known and registered with Easy and 99. I still try to find a taxi with a cooperativo decal on the left and right rear quarter panels, But no longer have a rule against getting into one or worry so much about a rigged meter.