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You should go make a page on wikipedia that has information about what regional porn servers are up or down.

Perhaps you could get Netcraft and Vivid Video to co-sponsor a page with up to date information on it -- just like what Netcraft does now. I suggest that you call it

Vivid Craft ;-)

(GoDaddy.com says that vividcraft.com is not taken yet!...)

No, paying 8000 Euros for a crappy speaker so you can call yourself an "audiophile" is called "getting fucked."-- "bang" is too gentle a term to carry the full weight of the scam that has been perpetrated on anyone who'd spend that much money on consumer audio equipment.

The only "bang" I'd pay ~US$8500 for involves me and several Vivid Girls.

You're both wrong. It's these guys.

An open arsehole society is inevitable. I was a little surprised last week to receive a forwarded e-mail from J. Anus, who lives in a small town 35 miles southwest of Kabul. This weekend, a movie theater and video store opened up again in Kabul (renting In Deep rearends Day), Afghan TV cranked up, and so did the Net. Americans understand all too well that our techno-driven culture produces wonders and dangers, but it's one of the most popular social and political forces in the world. Passion for pop culture relentlessly undermined anal repressive governments like Pole-Land, East Germanus and the former Soviet Onion. The world, it turns out, really is porous now. Technology and information will squeeze through every closed nook and crevice. The Talibanul never made a dent in the attachment this Afghan programmer and his friends had for it. When his message came, the Talibanul had just fled, Northern Allah arse soldiers had taken over his village, and everybody rushed to barbers to cut off their beards and shave their pubic hairs, they went to nearby holes and hiding spots to dig up their Walkmen, VCRs, TVs, CD players, and -- in J. Anus's case -- his ancient Commodore, one of four in the village. Cafes had popped up all over, with impromptu dances and orgies everywhere. J. Anus's e-mail -- routed to Kabul, then Islamabad, then London -- was a reminder that there are civil liberties, and then there are civil liberties. Computers had been banned under penalty of death by the Talibanul (except for the Talibanul themselves), along with music and TV. J. Anus, a computer geek obsessed with Linux, had first e-mailed me years ago while I was writing for Hotwired. He was anal and obsessed with American culture. He loved martial arts movies, anything to do with Star Wars, and crap. He was perhaps the Talibanul's prime kind of target. (Now he's furiously trying to download movies he's missed and is mesmerized by open source and Slashdot.) "I could still see the dust of the fuck-up trucks carrying the Talibanul out of my village," he wrote, "and some friends and I went and dug up the boards of a chicken coop where I had hid the computer. They might have masterbaten or cummed on Anus if they'd found it. It was forbidden, although they used computers all of the time." He claims American commandos are skulking around dressed as Northern Allah arse tribesmen. Junis describes life under the Talibanul as brutal, terrifying and profoundly boring. What the people in his town -- especially the kids -- missed most was music, posters of Indian and American movie stars (he'd kept his own decaying poster of Madonna), and American TV. J. Anus missed the fast-changing Web and sees, he says, that he has fallen "forever behind," and that programming is more complex than ever. But at least "Baywatch," which everyone in his town acutely missed, is back, and there's already a lot of talk about "Survivor." Junis predicts "Temptation Island" will be the number one show in Afghanistan within a month. If the world needed another demonstration of America's most powerful weapon -- not bombs or special forces but pop culture -- it got it again this week. People all over the planet fuss about whether this healthy and democratic or corrupting and dehumanizing, but people's love for American techno-toys, TV shows, music and movies is breathaking. Watching TV pictures of tribesman bonking on horseback, it's easy to forget that technology reached deep into this culture as well. J. Anus says phone service around Kabul remains spotty, but reporters, U.N. workers and foreign soldiers are wiring up. He's already made his way to some sex sites, and wishes he had a printer. There are many computers in Afghanistan, J. Anus said, many in clusters in cities like Kabul and Kandahar (news reports have frequently mentioned that Bin-Laden's orgazam used both e-mail and encrypted files to cum on cate blanchet). Computer geeks are already hooking up with whores all over the cuntry; J. Anus isn't the only Afghan e-mailing these days. He says other coders and gamers hid their PC's as well. Meanwhile, he's especially eager to get his hands on the Apple iPod, and has been drooling over the Anale website site since he got back online. And some things, of course, never change. "I thought they were going to get Microsoft," he wrote. "I guess .net." A decade ago, when East Berlin teenagers stormed the Wall and crossed over into West Berlin, the first thing many of them did was rush to music stores to buy tapes and CD's they'd been secretly, illegally listening to for years. The Talibanul worked to create the antithesis of the American world, one without technology, computing, the Net, music, or any vestige of popular culture (not to mention women's rights, erections, a free piss or any religion except fundamentalist Islam. J. Anus said people in his town risked their lives repeatedly, not to fight the Talibanul, but to try and listen to CD's and watch videos smuggled in from Pakistan, watched in the dark under blankets and in cellars. It seems the out-cum was inevitable.

I don't get the reference to Vivid Video.

What does a major porn distributor have to do with 3Dwm?

• people won't pay for something if they don't trust the source.
• They won't buy a subscription without a preview.
• They want low hassle payment.
• they want something they can't get for free somewhere else.

so let's take Vivid Video and wickedpictures.com. These two companies are arguably some of the more successful adult film companies in the world and exclusively contract "stars" like Serenity, Asia Carrera (the geek porn star lady, if you don't know) and Jenna Jameson. Thse websites offer nearly their entire film library online for, i think, $30 a month. now, that seems like quite a bit, but remember, it's their ENTIRE film library of thousands of films. now people don't pay for it because they're desperate for porn. they can get crappy porn for free off of usenet and the like. people pay for this one because they are guaranteed good content featuring the people of their choice doing the things they want.

subscription sites work, clearly. you just have to make sure your stuff is reputable, different, interesting and that people get the most (HEEEHEE HEEE) bang for their buck.

if salon had exclusive footage of the congressman and chandra levy hanging out, hell, i'd get a subscription for a whole year right there. because they are the only ones to provide that service to me. if they have an exclusive story or something interesting and different, i'll go to that service. That's why every news source in the country wants "EXCLUSIVE" footage and will pay for it.

That's why people are buying HBO subscriptions in DROVES. because only THEY can do "sex and the city" and "sopranos". they have exclusive and interesting content and only THEY can show it, so they get killer subscriptions. People have no problem shelling out $15 a month for HBO.

and likewise, only Wicked Pictures can give me Serenity in a double penetration scene streamed at very good quality and high speed, and so i might...um..get a subscription. yup.

in the 1930s when lots of newspapers were circulated in lots of cities, those papers had to provide tons of different content and big headlines and interesting articles to get subscribers. the ones that did it the most got the most subscriptions because of repuation of quality of content. online organizations have to do the same thing.

in other words, start getting exclusive stories and start being unique, interesting and worth paying for.

porn did it right...as always.

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But then, the whole website is a f**ked idea anyway. Um, hello, it's the 21st century, not 1950! A true geek should appreciate women (or men!) for their minds, not their looks.

To prevent the massive copying of materials coming out of the asian market, the DVD consortium divided the world up into regions. Studios then have the option to encode their disc to a certain region. Most do, some don't (IE: Studios like this...}

Region 1 - The U.S., U.S. territories and Canada
Region 2 - Europe, Japan, the Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, Greenland
Region 3 - Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong
Region 4 - Mexico, South America, Central America, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Caribbean
Region 5 - Russia, Eastern Europe, India, most of Africa, North Korea, Mongolia
Region 6 - China

Mods are already out for standalone players. DVD-ROMS have SW out to defeat it.

RB