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Miss Digital World 2005
dnix writes "With the slogan: "Don't hate me because I'm digital" this year we have a nice new Top Digital Model, called Mi, from Shinichi Yoshimoto. She is a nice cybernetic geisha who was chosen from 15 finalists from Italy, Germany, Spain, Pakistan, Iran, Usa, Chile, India, Australia, Brasil and Mexico."
Look at well the pubic bulge was modeled... I bet the modeler had to actually construct the vulva, and then put clothes on it, to generate this effect.
This website includes the winners of the 2005 website which were announced on December 10. Unless slashdot posted a dupe within the last four days then I'd seriously doubt it. Then again Digg probably had it first (sarcasm).
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
I can see it now. The human race slowly becoming extinct because everyone would rather hump a perfect digital partner in VR than interact with a real person. Perhaps we will have developed technology to the point where we can make babies in a tank though.
Funny thing is though, I know several guys that are probably never going to get a partner let alone have children simply because they have set their sights way to high. They want a perfect woman or nothing. In two cases it is perfect looks that they require and in another it's the perfect little obedient house wife (that last guy makes me cringe everytime we talk). I can't help feeling that there are a lot of guys out there that have lost touch with reality due to constantly having "beautiful" women displayed to them.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
We're speaking English.
Shh.
I like chicks alot. Been married, lived with a few others, like long term relationships. The thing is I don't get the uber smooth, cyber skinned, tricked out, fantasy girls, or, the equally poreless, celluloid supermodels. The first time I seriously came undone in the face of transcendent physical beauty was the first time I saw my first real girlfriend fresh out of the shower sans makeup.
I guess I'm just a regular guy that likes real regular chicks with attractive little flaws.
I'll take the time I've here and now cause obviously I'm not suited to the tailored, gene spliced and diced perfect world to come.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
I don't quite how to say this, but in a world of retouched, airbrushed, p0rn enhanced body mods, this seems a natural progression.
I think I shall change careers to be an undertaker. drug-lord or psychologist; I see an increase in suicide and despair as people try to conform to an unrealistic/unobtainable model of perfection.
All three should continue to be major growth industies, and are lucrative investments for the future
This is progress?
Wow dude, that is pretty messed up. It is hard to see if you are joking or not, (this being slashdot and all) but even if you were joking, you sound pretty angry about something. I strongly recommend marraige counseling, especially if you have kids. Comitted human relationships are much more important than computers, jobs, video games, school, anything.
When I finished school in 2000 (while working full time) we already had two children. And a house. No, I didn't make mega-bucks (still don't and we have 4 children and a much nicer home) but we were very careful with our money and still are. I don't have gadgets (unless you count the XBox, which doubles as our DVD player), my computer is older than my first born (and cobbled together with parts I bought from a wholesaler) and I drive an old car with a lot of miles on it. I bring my lunch from home and we don't eat out much, maybe once every 8 weeks. We rent movies instead of going to the movie theatre. I don't have a lot of spending money, about $15 every two weeks. And yet, I wouldn't trade any amount of money or so-called social freedom for my family. Oh, and by the way, no one I have ever met or heard of was ready for children before they came. They kind of grow on you and you cannot get that kind of practice any other way. Some responsibilities cannot be prepared for until after the weight of them has already settled onto your shoulders and having children is one of those responsibilities.
Poverty is not a poor financial statement. It is a state of mind. I remember an old Appalachian woman being asked what she would do if she got some money. This was in the last few years that she was interviewed. She lived in a one room shack without indoor plumbing, out in the sticks. She said, "Well, I suppose I would give it to the poor." If you must have loads of spending money and lots of cool stuff in order for you to think of yourself as not poverty stricken, well, you don't really want children, do you? It's about your priorities.
Well, I do carry on, don't I? Point is, if you want to take on the responsibilities of children, don't wait until you are ready, because you never will be until you have them in your life.
I question whether this stereotype is true. Most nerdy slashdot-reading guys I know, (myself included,) are either married or have girlfriends.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
A real woman can be in her twenties yet look like much younger than her age, even 16! I've met women like that.
There would be no way to age a digital woman, since she/it isn't real it doesn't have an age. Not all twenty year old women look the same, people age differently.
People of Asian origin tend to look younger to someone from European descent. If the digital woman was an Asian woman of 20 I'm sure it's possible she could look younger compared to a 20 year old European woman.
Then you could get into the debate over body hair and how the lack of it makes someone look younger, pre-pubescent. Add that too an already young looking woman and you pretty much have an image of a very young girl but technically she is 20 years old.
Other than making the digital woman ugly on purpose there's no way around this.
I'm sure the porn websites will be the first to push the envelope on this one.
Dude, 12 years? Grow a pair, muster up some commitment, and marry the babe. I'm surprised she hasn't dumped your ass if you've been GF/BF for over a decade!
Unless you mean she's 12 years old, in which case I'd recommend waiting about 6 more years for that.
It looks like there are two (not mutually exclusive) possibilities here:
/. can see the evidence for #2.
#1 You married a loser.
#2 She married a loser.
As far as proof goes:
We have one witness for #1.
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