Posts by Steve Barnes
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OMG, here they are The men of the Internet
And 29 out of the 39 wear glasses. Is there a conclusion to be drawn there?
I wonder.Anypoo. For all those of you that have lost stuff on the interweb and wonder where it went, have a look at The Museum of Broken packets A curiosity of the net, those poor little lost packets of data that forever roam the net looking for their home.
If you really get a kick out of this you a probably wearing glasses. I know I am ;-)I don't really have a story as such but there was a time when i sent out an eMail invite to a gallery opening for a friend (1998). I inadvertently sent a flashy graphic as a .bmp instead of a .jpg, it came out at a "Massive" 600K file. I got blisteringly nasty responses from all those that managed to download it and it didn't help the gallery owner one bit.
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I've always found it's a whole lot easier to maintain the moral high ground in a debate when you don't resort to making up silly versions of a person's name.
I have never claimed the "Moral High Ground" Morals vary from person to person, to a certain degree. There are, no doubt, many morally defined positions that Grunt shares with many of us. I don't believe that anyone on this site would condone theft, lying, murder or even cavorting with your neighbours ox. There is, unfortunately , nothing in Grunts book of rules, the Bibble, that says "thou shalt not rape" or "Thou shalt not beat your children" which is why the likes of Bob McCrossprick claim to occupy the "Moral High ground" and justify their repugnant vision of a "Perfect" society. My Dog has higher morals than those self righteous tossers.
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And I hate to be the guy who tells others posters what to do,
I would hate to be that guy too, speshly on this thread, I value my cojones....;-)
But seriously. I consider for sexually explicit material to have it's desired result, arousal, it cannot be "acting" (unless it is exceptionally good acting) It has to be believable, you have to be able to relate to the subject. With that in mind, I find any violence in the material to have a negative affect. I guess I must be the "caring sharing" type.
As to what Women want, that's easy. -
Ah, Dickster, all the debating skills of Whack-a-Mole
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Teenagers and young women of today kiss each other at parties. I don't get it.
Neither do I. It's just not fair eh. ;-)
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You can order a copy of the aforementioned paper from here for €13.87 or you could go to a good library and get it for free.
I can't share my view on their work as I am not going to spend a thousand dollars paing for it.
So. Grunt cant convert Euros to NZ Dollars?
The evidence is not fabricated, the correlation is real, but the conclusions are not necessarily warranted.
Ore did he mean "are not necessarily wanted."?
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neither online journalism nor online payment systems are mature enough for this to happen. Yet.
My thinking on this is that Newspapers already have a payment system for their employees and freelancers. The transition from print to online should be as simple as replacing your Printer with a webmaster (do we still use that term?) reducing production costs and raising revenue through advertising. No big change to anything but coverage.
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The thought that occurred to me, whilst watching your show, was "Is the print media as a prime source of information dead or in it's last death throws?"
I thought it could be a good idea to hybridise online news with print news, a website with more of a newspaper feel and look, maybe with a big friendly banner at the top "NZ Observer" for instance.
There must be plenty of journos who no longer have a regular outlet for their work and as Stephen saidif a trust did have publishing as its mission, online delivery is far cheaper than print or broadcast.
I like the idea of a trust and the owners of small and failing provincial papers maybe just the people to kickstart such a venture?
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Here ya go Grunt;
Pornography.
Writing intended to provoke feelings of lust in the reader. Such works are often condemned by critics and teachers, but those which can be shown ...
www.informationaccess.com/free_resources/glossary/glossary_p.htmFrom a definition standpoint, pornography is anything that is created to cause sexual excitement or arousal. Most of us think of: erotic imagery that is considered obscene and offensive.
www.coolnurse.com/sex_glossary/glossary_p.htmSexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.
choices-az.org/resources/glossary/Verbal or visual material or acts that embody violence, coercion, discrimination, force or brutality on women, men, children, or animals in sexual acts, and represent them in a degrading position.
www.ifsha.org/glossary.htmThis is probably Master Roshi's favorite hobby in the world, maybe even more than fighting. He spends countless hours of the day looking at it.
www.myfavoritegames.com/dragonball-z/Info/Glossary/DragonballZGT-Glossary-P.htmSexually oriented material that is not considered acceptable to the viewer; the same material when judged subjectively acceptable is often referred to as "erotica."
www.4sexual-pleasure.com/definitions.htmlA work featuring graphic/explicit sex between characters.
www.public.clunet.edu/~research/definitions.htmlcreative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwnPornography or porn is the explicit depiction of sexual subject matter, especially with the sole intention of sexually exciting the viewer. It is to a certain extent similar to erotica, which is the use of sexually-arousing imagery for mainly artistic purposes. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PornographyYou think you won? All you did was rant without coherency or any semblence of relevance. And your advice was ludicrous:
Couldn't have put it better myself.
Boobs on Bikes has nothing to do with graphics.
And you're a plonker. :-) -
Grunt Dickster? is he back? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!