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It's not quite as simple as that. There are suggestions [I emphasise, 'suggestions'] that some girls [and maybe guys] are occasionally treated more roughly than they are comfortable with. However, they don't complain about it for fear of not getting paid at the end of the scene.
One of the standards at the end of a porn scene is for the starlet to get interviewed on camera briefly to say that the scene went well and that she wasn't mistreated. In some cases she will say yes to both questions for fear of not receiving her paycheck.{...}
Hold on a sec. Are those "some girls and guys" been raised in a cave by primitive parents|relatives with no friends and education? After reaching age of consent they should know what "camera" is. They should know that that industrie is not just rose garden but thorns aswell. When i was in school i was informed about drugs and sex sideeffects so aren't everyone? Then it is exception of rule and should be police or fbi involved. In normal standart conditions people learn all this growing up.
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{...}Things are neither good nor evil. A hammer can build a house or cave a man's head in. It isn't the hammer's fault.{...}
Dooh! Of course it is not fault of object|item|tool for being produced or used for multipurpose tasks. They are not alive so cannot take blame. Same thing with science and religion and everything else in our world. It does not matter what exist but how it exist and affect everyone.
Last edited by Arcane; 07-29-2019 at 05:58 AM.
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I didn't say choices don't have consequences as they obviously and not so obviously (in cases of unexpected package deals) do. In fact it is my opinion that choice is THE crux of the matter, not the unthinking, non-choosing thing. Without choice there can be no morality, no good nor evil, and things can't choose.
Deliberately ignoring most of this thread, and the p-word, and assuming that the numbers are more or less correct - I am left with an important observation:
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Originally Posted by hazel
According to an article in last week's New Scientist, online video is responsible for 60% of all internet traffic, and it generates 300 million tons of CO2 per year. That's equivalent to the carbon footprint of Spain!
Bandwidth adversely affects our planet!
I have been suspecting for a while that the numbers might be uncomfortably large, what with whole software suites running through the web, and digital photo/video being extremely data hungry. Really, think about the games you played 15-20 years ago - a whole world encoded in less than 1MB - or the whole bible in as little as 1.4MB - compare that to any smartphone picture, let alone a video. The size comparison to actual software/code used today just boggles the mind. And everybody and their 3 kids are pushing most of it through the web, redundantly.
Video streaming as a whole and "the cloud", must account for most of the web traffic.
Needless bandwidth usage - i.e. where "the cloud" is used where local storage would have sufficed or where videos are streamed and watched over and over instead of just downloaded to watch locally. As ever with streaming, with DRM, with the computer increasingly being used as a TV, (which in the case of a smartphone is fully portable) corporate greed and the general fecklessness, demanding nature and laziness of people is at the root of the problem.
Who knows, as with the current fashion for reducing "single use plastic" (not that I've noticed much reduction), "bandwidth conservation" may be the next hot topic. Any proposed measures would of course be squarely targeted at the end consumer, while sparing corporations to be as wasteful as they please.
i.e. where "the cloud" is used where local storage would have sufficed
classic: you take a picture on your phone and send it to your friend, who is standing next to you, via whatsapp (or plain email, doesn't matter in thiscase). we're doomed.
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Originally Posted by cynwulf
Who knows, as with the current fashion for reducing "single use plastic" (not that I've noticed much reduction), "bandwidth conservation" may be the next hot topic.
I sincerely hope so (and I also hope the single use plastic reduction will take hold).
I sincerely hope so (and I also hope the single use plastic reduction will take hold).
I hope it doesn't take hold like it did at McDonalds! Turns out their new paper straws aren't recyclable whereas the old plastic ones were in principle. Ouch!
I hope it doesn't take hold like it did at McDonalds! Turns out their new paper straws aren't recyclable whereas the old plastic ones were in principle. Ouch!
No point, it generates more carbon to recycle small scraps of paper than they represent. Paper is fully and cleanly biodegradable. If we start using hemp paper so it does not represent TREE loss, there is a large net gain to using paper over plastic. The net gain is smaller, but real, even using tree fiber.
Set VLC up to run multiple instances. Open two of them and que In A Gadda Da Vida start one then start the other, slowing one down speeding one up make the match close enough to blow your mind! Don't try this with porn... especially if you have a heart condition.
Sounds like a good idea though put your babies in an old rag‽
Sex, drugs and rock n' roll; even if you don't use them pretend to sell.
I didn't say choices don't have consequences as they obviously and not so obviously (in cases of unexpected package deals) do. In fact it is my opinion that choice is THE crux of the matter, not the unthinking, non-choosing thing. Without choice there can be no morality, no good nor evil, and things can't choose.
For this reason erotica and pr0n is also neutral. Just like video games. What matters is viewer and player itself. And i watch(it makes me alive human with dreams not static vegetable) and play(not too much as before but still). It helps release steam and calm down nerves etc. without making me into criminal out of 'not having been exposed to it'(for obvious reasons) etc. But your example of choice also work in faith&religion thread. If Creator would not give creation ability to decide stuff we would become program-robotics. Congratz to admiting possibility of creation over evolution.
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