AdamSmith

We see the same evidence; we reach different conclusions. Certainly your prerogative. I believe management is acting and speaking in good faith. I assume management is doing its best with available resources. And I agree with the late great Allan Sherman: Good advice Costs nothing, and it’s Worth the price.

>Honestly Tampa Yankee, that’s about the most convoluted double >talk I have heard anywhere in quite some time. Unless you’re >redesigning the entire escort review format, your response >here really feels disingenuous. ChgoBoy, Tampa Yankee is saying the utmost that can be said about software that hasn't yet been rolled out and proven in live use. >Either the system accepts second, third reviews or it doesn’t. >You’re making this sound as though you’re trying to invent >something that doesn’t exist anywhere else. Perhaps you need >to consult an outside expert. No. Either site management is committed to working the problem until the system accepts subsequent reviews and the user presentation of this functionality is acceptable, or site management is not so committed. From all evidence, the commitment is there. "...which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do..."

Try to imagine something like this happening here... Prostitutes' 'people skills' are used to care for elderly By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor Published: 11 April 2006 Prostitutes in Germany are learning the secret of survival in the modern world - transferable skills. The state of North Rhine Westphalia is spending €1m (£700,000) of local and EU money to get sex workers off the streets and into care homes. All they have to change is their uniform. The retraining scheme, backed by Diakone Westfalen, a welfare programme that runs nursing homes across the country, is based on a simple observation: prostitutes, because of their experience of dealing with people, make excellent carers of the elderly. Officials say they are often better at the job than trainee nurses. Rita Keuhen of Diakone Westfalen said: "They have good people skills, aren't easily disgusted and have zero fear of physical contact. These characteristics set them apart. It was an obvious move." Despite high unemployment, running at 12 per cent, nursing homes in Germany are seriously understaffed. Squeamishness and a reluctance to take on a caring role dealing with personal hygiene have left 6,400 vacancies nationwide. Diakone Westfalen plans to offer 30 prostitutes aged from 20 to 40 the chance to train for a new career, with two years of courses and vocational training. Heinz Oberlach from Germany's Federal Labour Agency said the idea of using prostitutes as care workers was "very logical" and "fits together like the pieces of a puzzle". But Ms Keuhen warned there was one danger. "Nursing home bosses will have to be discreet so that elderly men don't try to get more than they are paying for." Gisela Zohren, 56, a former prostitute who now works at a help centre for sex workers called the Midnight Mission in Dortmund, said life was getting tougher on the streets and at least half the women she met wanted to leave the business. Thousands of prostitutes had come from eastern Europe and South America, swelling the ranks of the local women forced on to the streets by the shortage of employment. She said: "Prostitution taught me to listen and to convey a feeling of safety. Isn't that exactly what is missing so much in care of elderly people?" http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article356998.ece

>1) Is the plaintiff's interest getting back the websites or >punishing the others? "Overinvestment" is the cautionary term my shrink liked to use.

>So please, if prompted, perform the second login and manually >set 'remember my login'. Also please provide feedback on your >experience over the next week. This manual process should only >be necessary once and not every time or most times for this to >be deemed an acceptable workaround. Worked just now...!

>I was a strong advocate for dcfourm in the beginning. I have >continued to be a strong advocate for pushing to make it work. > It seems that we are unable to conquer this beast. Stay >tuned. Sorry, inattentive - forgot some could not post at all. If insoluble, that is a fatal error with only one solution... http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1085000/imag..._odyssey300.jpg

>I would state that its better to have a working, reliable >forum package that's going to work 99.999 % of the time. Well, are we actually in agreement? One could argue that login mode is about 0.001% of forum software functionality. I've had to use and help implement other forum environments with far more irritating attributes than double login.

> Our ulitmate solution was to >replace the offending code with something that was readable, >thus comprehendable and developer friendly. Just encountered double-login requirement again. BUT let me stuff the ballot box in favor of sticking with dcforum no matter what.

TY, didn't mean this as criticism but only feedback/reportage. As I posted before, double login is, to me, a more than acceptable price for staying with dcforum. Re FF, couple weeks ago they issued a point release 1.5.0.1 which I am running. My experience - it is LESS stable than 1.5, if you can believe that. x(

Double-login requirement persists for me tonight. Tried it several times. (Running FF 1.5.0.1, compared to which a piece of whale dung at 30,000 fathoms would look like a fleecy white cloud in the sky.) But I deleted MER cookies, logged into site, and still was asked to log into forum before I could post. Tickled, though, that Member Since date is now showing correct.

Same here. Sometimes login from the main site lets me post. Other times, such as now, I still have to re-log in to the Forum. No evident pattern. Currently running Firefox 1.5.0.1.

Today's quiz: Is the following (a) grossly unfair, ( true but only part of the story, © the reason we're here? http://www.upfrontezine.com/Figs/sww6-2.jpg Saw this in a PowerPoint presentation at a technology conference the other day and nearly wet myself. Most women in the audience seemed not to object but then they were engineers. As in: Q: How can you tell the men from the women at MIT? A: The men shave.

This is not exactly on point, but...if anyone finds Vietnam inconveniently remote, there is a nice Vietnamese guy based in Portland, Oregon who might tide you over. http://www.men4rentnow.com/fs/126539.3A3E04B2.jpg http://www.men4rentnow.com/ds/index.asp?cm...n=YoungAsianboi Have seen him twice, most recently in December. Review in the works.

The Independent followed up today with an unusually sympathetic portrait of a male escort: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_brit...ticle340705.ece The mandatory tut-tutting appears at the end, but it is at least reserved for johns such as Mark Oaten: "The tragedy of such men is that they must secretly want to be caught," they have a shrink explain.

Hallelujah! It worked for me too -- even though I'm using the dread Firefox 1.5. Upward!

Here's another vote in favor of double logins, if that's what it takes to stick with DCForum.