Note to moderators: before you think I'm trolling, read the entire article. I am serious, and I am just relating my own experience here.
That's called "porn creep" and it's a myth.
My experience is that porn can be used to sensitize a person to an experience. For example, for the first 33 years of my life, I couldn't come from a blowjob. It felt good, but I just couldn't get into it. So, I started looking at blowjob porn. Facial shots, bukkake, Cum on Her Face (cumonherface.com), spunk eating, snowballing, gagging, you name it, I whacked off to it. For months and months and months.
And you know what? I really dig it now. When my wife wants to give me a blowjob, she can really turn me on with it. We also do regular sex too, in case you're wondering. Enjoy that too.
So, I just have to wonder how good your "anecdotal evidence" really is. Has the subject really been studied? One thing we've got to understand is that there's a lot of myths about porn going around, and some of them have been pushed by people who are just anti-porn for other reasons.
Anyway, I guess you can chalk my experience up as another anecdote that would indicate that the truth, as always, is somewhere in between extreme viewpoints.
This is a neat little database, but I have to wonder what the quality of the database is. If it's like other databases, it's sorely out of date. Can't be an easy job to keep tabs on 98% of the population.
And I also wonder about the false positive rate. Extensive databases might just show up how connected we are. Just like studies that show that a huge number of us are related to the Queen of England through some tenuous tie, if we dug deep enough I bet we could find links between millions of average Joes and people who are terrorists. Insignificant links, but how does the database know that? It comes down to the judgement of the officer, and his training. And any security system that shows a false positive rate is weakened by that. False negatives are much less damaging to security.
I get a picture in my head from the movie "A Beautiful Mind" where John Nash is in his shed, putting pictures and strings on the wall, showing all the relationships between them. Except, these relationships are going to be in a database, and will be taken seriously just because a computer said so.
Writing a program to detect if another program is a virus is pretty much the same problem as writin a program to detect if another program halts. I'd say that we're not ever going to see a perfect universal virus filter.
One of the big reasons that drugs cost so damn much is that they are developed with trial and error methods. That't right, they develop a chemical. Then they go "Is it good for disease #1. Nope. How about disease #2. nope.... (years pass)... How about disease #65536. Nope. Oh well, let's try the whole thing again with potential drug #2."
Genetic engineering will change all that. We'll be able to do this: "Hey, this bad protein is doing this bad thing to this other thingy. And I've figured out that if I had a molecule that looked like this (pulls out a model of a molecule) I could make the bad protein stop doing the bad thing." Then the monkeys in the chemical factory would make the molecule.
Don't you think that some of today's Internet laws are suspiciously reminiscent of the laws the Nazis used to have?
What? What did I say? Why are you looking at me like that?
Funny you should mention Bill Gates. 10 years ago today, Bill Gates was telling his company to get with the next big thing, which was obviously the multimedia PC equipped with a CD-ROM. He never realized that a network card would be a more useful thing.
Damn right we shot it down. The infidel spacecraft was destroyed at the gates of Mars. And if you want to see the wreckage, I will take you there in ONE HOUR.
No rovers have landed on mars. The infidel dogs have failed to land on our planet. Our patriots have shot the infidel spacecraft from our skies. If you want to see the wreckage, I will take you there in ONE HOUR!
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Absolutely NO rovers have landed on Mars. Our defenses have shot it right out of the sky. The wreckage fell to the ground and was torn apart by patriots defending our planet from the Infidel spacecraft. It did not have a chance. If you would like to see the wreckage of the Mars Rover, I will take you there in ONE HOUR!
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Note to moderators: before you think I'm trolling, read the entire article. I am serious, and I am just relating my own experience here.
That's called "porn creep" and it's a myth.
My experience is that porn can be used to sensitize a person to an experience. For example, for the first 33 years of my life, I couldn't come from a blowjob. It felt good, but I just couldn't get into it. So, I started looking at blowjob porn. Facial shots, bukkake, Cum on Her Face (cumonherface.com), spunk eating, snowballing, gagging, you name it, I whacked off to it. For months and months and months.
And you know what? I really dig it now. When my wife wants to give me a blowjob, she can really turn me on with it. We also do regular sex too, in case you're wondering. Enjoy that too.
So, I just have to wonder how good your "anecdotal evidence" really is. Has the subject really been studied? One thing we've got to understand is that there's a lot of myths about porn going around, and some of them have been pushed by people who are just anti-porn for other reasons.
Anyway, I guess you can chalk my experience up as another anecdote that would indicate that the truth, as always, is somewhere in between extreme viewpoints.
I'm sure that he is quite accomplished at documenting the ins and outs of the task at hand.
This is a neat little database, but I have to wonder what the quality of the database is. If it's like other databases, it's sorely out of date. Can't be an easy job to keep tabs on 98% of the population.
And I also wonder about the false positive rate. Extensive databases might just show up how connected we are. Just like studies that show that a huge number of us are related to the Queen of England through some tenuous tie, if we dug deep enough I bet we could find links between millions of average Joes and people who are terrorists. Insignificant links, but how does the database know that? It comes down to the judgement of the officer, and his training. And any security system that shows a false positive rate is weakened by that. False negatives are much less damaging to security.
I get a picture in my head from the movie "A Beautiful Mind" where John Nash is in his shed, putting pictures and strings on the wall, showing all the relationships between them. Except, these relationships are going to be in a database, and will be taken seriously just because a computer said so.
Writing a program to detect if another program is a virus is pretty much the same problem as writin a program to detect if another program halts. I'd say that we're not ever going to see a perfect universal virus filter.
Don't sue me for letting her sleep with you.
"Risk, risk is our business. That's what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her." -- Captain Kirk
Ahh yes, the big dumb round-eyes with their brand new countries don't know about nothin' but their own backyard. Give me a fucking break.
"Shaped like a dog bone, it was simple to use, easy to understand, and a pleasure to hold."
That's the secret to getting people to love your product. A few things in life just never seem to get old.
Use a password to log in. And set your screensaver to activate, with a password, after a short amount of time.
One of the big reasons that drugs cost so damn much is that they are developed with trial and error methods. That't right, they develop a chemical. Then they go "Is it good for disease #1. Nope. How about disease #2. nope .... (years pass) ... How about disease #65536. Nope. Oh well, let's try the whole thing again with potential drug #2."
Genetic engineering will change all that. We'll be able to do this: "Hey, this bad protein is doing this bad thing to this other thingy. And I've figured out that if I had a molecule that looked like this (pulls out a model of a molecule) I could make the bad protein stop doing the bad thing." Then the monkeys in the chemical factory would make the molecule.
More interesting, has anyone ever had to wait for a turbolift?
It's also a lot easier to replace a blimp than a satellite.
Don't you think that some of today's Internet laws are suspiciously reminiscent of the laws the Nazis used to have? What? What did I say? Why are you looking at me like that?
Funny you should mention Bill Gates. 10 years ago today, Bill Gates was telling his company to get with the next big thing, which was obviously the multimedia PC equipped with a CD-ROM. He never realized that a network card would be a more useful thing.
Damn right we shot it down. The infidel spacecraft was destroyed at the gates of Mars. And if you want to see the wreckage, I will take you there in ONE HOUR.
No rovers have landed on mars. The infidel dogs have failed to land on our planet. Our patriots have shot the infidel spacecraft from our skies. If you want to see the wreckage, I will take you there in ONE HOUR!
Absolutely NO rovers have landed on Mars. Our defenses have shot it right out of the sky. The wreckage fell to the ground and was torn apart by patriots defending our planet from the Infidel spacecraft. It did not have a chance. If you would like to see the wreckage of the Mars Rover, I will take you there in ONE HOUR!