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Old 07-29-2019, 05:52 AM   #46
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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.

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Old 07-31-2019, 08:25 PM   #47
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Things are neither good nor evil.
http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Do...et/tdet08.html

perhaps.
 
Old 07-31-2019, 09:40 PM   #48
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Interesting notion. "it generates 300 million tons of CO2 per year"

If they weren't doing that, would they simply be doing some other CO2 producing thing?
 
Old 07-31-2019, 11:27 PM   #49
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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.
 
Old 08-01-2019, 03:33 AM   #50
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Things are neither good nor evil.
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
And with that I concur with your post, enorbet.
 
Old 08-05-2019, 05:33 AM   #51
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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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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.
 
Old 08-05-2019, 07:04 AM   #52
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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.
 
Old 08-05-2019, 04:19 PM   #53
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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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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).

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Old 08-06-2019, 06:25 AM   #54
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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!
 
Old 08-06-2019, 06:30 AM   #55
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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.

Focus on the goal. Recycling is not the goal.
 
Old 09-03-2019, 10:28 PM   #56
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The answer, of course, is Tor or a VPN.
You not suppose to use Tor to download or watch streams, it hurts the network.
 
Old 09-06-2019, 07:28 PM   #57
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I think pornography boosts the male immune system.

General Practitoners should dispense pornography for coughs and colds.

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Old 09-07-2019, 11:15 AM   #58
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I think pornography boosts the male immune system.

General Practitoners should dispense pornography for coughs and colds.
And also decreases libido testasterone levels and overdoses dopamine release.

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Old 09-13-2019, 02:45 AM   #59
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Or you could try some "sound wave therapy" if you don't like porn...
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.

Add: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...ck-awake-again
You'll shoot your eye out!

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Old 09-22-2019, 05:22 AM   #60
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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.
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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