It's hard to believe that society feels the need for this sort of site to rate women. Its throughly disgusting. I've routinely browsed the site, and I've notices one particular thing: the more naked the girl in the picture is, the higher the rating. While a normally attractive lady receives low points, one who bares the largest part of her cleavage typically rates a 10. If you're of mature size, then you're labeled 'fat' and given a one. I'm shocked! Hotornot.com is nothing more than a porn site. Women, in order to get higher ratings, send in the sleeziest picture of themselves they can find. Others, who care not for baring themselves to hundreds of hungry men, are slammed in the moderation system, their self esteem ruined. It's appalling that the site gets millions of visitors, daily. Are we no better than this? Oogling over half naked women, and trashing the often more attractive, healthier, counterparts?
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first makes mad Sophocles: Antigone, C. 450 BC
Sophocles had a great insight. Madness is a social phenomenon; people are said to be mad when they deviate from the norm. Madness does not exist in any objective sense. In the eyes of God, we are all sane.
The problem with handheld computers and indeed computers generally is that they raise the bar of sanity. Everyone is expected to be super organised, utterly confirmist and organise the details of their life such that they can be described in Microsoft Outlook's diary functions.
The onset of portable computers continues this trend, and it is most worrysome. Where will the creative free spirits of our society come from when they are expected to obey the whims of the technocratic elite? Portable computers such as the yopy are always imposed on us by the corporate power structures above.
True radicals and free thinkers should have nothing to do with them, as they force one to limit one's ambitions and thoughts.
We should be constraining the use of these devices, not promoting them.
Here we see China beginning to flex its muscles in preperation for assuming its mantle as the world's most powerful state. Of course, this will not happen tommorrow, but China is an extremely ancient nation, ruled by octogenarians, that plans well in advance of the present.
The future as I see it seems clear to be dominated by China. It will become a 'King Khan' state, with an economy 5 times larger than that of the USA by the year 2020. However, because it will be focusing on building up its infrastructure and improving its people's quality of life, we should see the rate of technological advance in the world slow down. America is already hugely in debt to the far east, which contains the world's biggest creditor nations. All it takes is a blip for america to spiral into recession whil China steams ahead.
Many in the world will be wary of this new power, but it is well known that China is a much more outward looking nation that america historically speaking, and far less insular. It also does not have territorial ambitions, beyond claiming back its old lands, like Taiwan. Therefore life under a Chinese superpower should be relatively peaceful. The chinese do not send spyplanes over America, and ar far more relaxed and informed on world affairs.
The simple fact about everything2 is that while it is an interesting place, and a fascinating community, the ecology of any online community ultimately destroys it as a source of reliable information.
Everything2 has its own fair share of trolls and freaks, intent on spreading disinformation and chaos. This means that anything said there must be taken with a pinch of salt.
Furthermore, it has its own 'Karma Whore' equivalents, people who are trying to gain 'experience' and status as a result. It is full of ultimately banal information.
Secondly, the females there are pretty awful - the average female uses the internet to affirm real life relationships, not to make new relationships. Females who post to online communities are usually rather strange creatures, desperate for some sort of attention.
This is why the e2 females cluster around the sex topics.
Having said all that, e2 definately is interesting. It is just not reputable or useful.
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It's hard to believe that society feels the need for this sort of site to rate women. Its throughly disgusting. I've routinely browsed the site, and I've notices one particular thing: the more naked the girl in the picture is, the higher the rating. While a normally attractive lady receives low points, one who bares the largest part of her cleavage typically rates a 10. If you're of mature size, then you're labeled 'fat' and given a one. I'm shocked! Hotornot.com is nothing more than a porn site. Women, in order to get higher ratings, send in the sleeziest picture of themselves they can find. Others, who care not for baring themselves to hundreds of hungry men, are slammed in the moderation system, their self esteem ruined. It's appalling that the site gets millions of visitors, daily. Are we no better than this? Oogling over half naked women, and trashing the often more attractive, healthier, counterparts?
Sophocles: Antigone, C. 450 BC
Sophocles had a great insight. Madness is a social phenomenon; people are said to be mad when they deviate from the norm. Madness does not exist in any objective sense. In the eyes of God, we are all sane.
The problem with handheld computers and indeed computers generally is that they raise the bar of sanity. Everyone is expected to be super organised, utterly confirmist and organise the details of their life such that they can be described in Microsoft Outlook's diary functions.
The onset of portable computers continues this trend, and it is most worrysome. Where will the creative free spirits of our society come from when they are expected to obey the whims of the technocratic elite? Portable computers such as the yopy are always imposed on us by the corporate power structures above.
True radicals and free thinkers should have nothing to do with them, as they force one to limit one's ambitions and thoughts.
We should be constraining the use of these devices, not promoting them.
The future as I see it seems clear to be dominated by China. It will become a 'King Khan' state, with an economy 5 times larger than that of the USA by the year 2020. However, because it will be focusing on building up its infrastructure and improving its people's quality of life, we should see the rate of technological advance in the world slow down. America is already hugely in debt to the far east, which contains the world's biggest creditor nations. All it takes is a blip for america to spiral into recession whil China steams ahead.
Many in the world will be wary of this new power, but it is well known that China is a much more outward looking nation that america historically speaking, and far less insular. It also does not have territorial ambitions, beyond claiming back its old lands, like Taiwan. Therefore life under a Chinese superpower should be relatively peaceful. The chinese do not send spyplanes over America, and ar far more relaxed and informed on world affairs.
I for one welcome our new leaders to be.
Everything2 has its own fair share of trolls and freaks, intent on spreading disinformation and chaos. This means that anything said there must be taken with a pinch of salt.
Furthermore, it has its own 'Karma Whore' equivalents, people who are trying to gain 'experience' and status as a result. It is full of ultimately banal information.
Secondly, the females there are pretty awful - the average female uses the internet to affirm real life relationships, not to make new relationships. Females who post to online communities are usually rather strange creatures, desperate for some sort of attention.
This is why the e2 females cluster around the sex topics.
Having said all that, e2 definately is interesting. It is just not reputable or useful.
It has fun, but no utility.