Automatic english subtitles for an anime? That's more of a job for speech recognition software(which is also being worked on, one of the profs in my department had a friend working on Japanese to English speech recognition/translation many years ago).
This OCR based stuff would still be handy for automatically translating manga I suppose though. I know that there are a few things out there in Japanese that haven't been released in English yet I wouldn't mind.
Perhaps he means something that plays well with Amarok? According to their website there are plugins available for various media players... And they claim to work well with "the following digital music players: iPod, iRiver iFP, Creative NOMAD, Creative Zen, MTP, Rio Karma and USB devices with VFAT (generic MP3 players) support."
*shrug* Seems this might be what he meant.
That sort of protest really works best if The Powers That Be at the company(or at least management) get the messege of WHY you're not buying from them. People who don't shop at Walmart are indeed making a point, kinda. But the Walmart exec don't know if you're boycotting their stuff because of their questionable hiring practices, their effect on the mom & pop stores, the staff working at a particular location, or if maybe, you just think their prices are still too high(leading to the higher ups trying to squeeze a little bit more out of their employees, and performing more questionable acts in their pursuit of the lowest price possible.
That assumes a closed system doesn't it? People DO emigrate and immigrate from the UK, and their genes wouldn't be on the record anymore in theory. Plus mutations happen, only half the genes get passed on / kid, etc...
Besides, I thought that DNA was supposed to be good at proving someone didn't commit the crime, not finding who did?:/ Or am I totally off-base with that?
Oh, humans are very readily controlled. Check out Asch's line length study, or Milgram's study on obedience. Those are two pretty famous experiments in psychology, and you can read about them at length in pretty much any introduction to psychology text. There's plenty, plenty more examples in the history of psychological experimentation, but people can be played pretty readily. That's why psychopaths do so well, it's really not as hard as we'd like to believe to control our thoughts.
Even worse, a tinfoil hat provides little protection against this sort of thing.
As to the false confessions bit, it's my belief(can't cite good evidence for this though), that people expect to get a plea-bargain of sorts. For a judge to go light on the sentencing if they just admit that they did it rather than maintain their denial. If I give you two choices, one where the judge is going to probably lock you away for the next 20 years, and one where you can confess and only get 5-10, which are you going to choose? Keep in mind that we already have multiple eye-witnesses that place you at the scene, and DNA evidence.
There are policing agencies out there who already do similar things. Despite it's absense, they may explain that there's incontrevertible evidence that shows that the suspect is guitly, they just want a confession so that the trial goes faster and with less fuss/humiliation for others/etc...
Turns out that one can get a fairly large number of confessions that way, much like you apparently desire. The problem is, it's not all THAT uncommon for the confessions to be lies. Innocent people will lie and confess to horrible, horrible crimes. And a confession given to a jury is a really really good predictor of them finding the defendent guitly. Even if there's little to no other evidence. People tend to believe confessions, which is sort of confusing since they have to reconcile the idea that "this is a dangerous lunatic with no morals and a willingness to kill" against "this is an honest man, who will condemn himself to jail by giving a confession". Still, they manage it.
Feel free to read a bit more about the subject of false confessions here, on some webnotes for a college class here or even here(this last one is perhaps more likely to cherrypick it's evidence, but what it says appears to be true).
False confessions are a rather worrying thing to me, as once a person confesses, the police have a tendency to cease looking for other potential guilty parties. While it's possible some other person will eventually be found guilty and you get released, it's not really something that The System tries for. Makes 'em look bad if they accidentally put someone in jail and gave 'em a whole bunch of publicity as a convicted rapist.
And how do said binary digits "influence" you? Trust me, 1s and 0s can have a great influence on your life. Goatse, Tubgirl, Lemonparty, etc... they're just 1s and 0s, but they can influence you. They can shatter a man's soul. Or make a/b/tard really happy I suppose.
[Matthias is about to be stoned to death]
Matthias: Look, I don't think it ought to be blasphemy, just saying "Jehovah".
[Everyone gasps]
Jewish Official: You're only making it worse for yourself!
Matthias: Making it worse?! How can it be worse?! Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!
(Shamelessly stolen from Life of Brian) Sorry, you just reminded me of that scene and I agree with both you and Matthias. You might as well appeal that death sentence/court judgement. As is now, they'll almost certainly burn. A small chance of success on appeal sure, but they might as well. Appealing is unlikely to land them in jail after all.
A lot of people complain and say they listen to indy artist, and while I can appreciate a good song. How do you find these artist? Everyone know's Gwen Stephanie, and whoever is on the top billboards, and they are there more or less because of the amount of money that was dumped into marketing. I've been finding most of my indie music from the commentary and content of Jeph Jacques's "Questionable Content", a 959 page(and growing!) webcomic. Jeph's a music dork, and a number of the characters in the webcomic are music nerds too. While we don't always agree on what makes a good album he and his characters have introduced me to quite a few new bands I'd never heard of before. He makes some of his own music too, which I think is worth a listen.
Pitchfork Media might be of use as well, a music review website that covers alot of indie CDs. I trust it somewhat less than I do Jeph, but it can at least expose you to music(good or bad). Their reviews can be... a little bit pretentious at times, but one learns to just deal with that over time. Other random websites sometimes, or talking to some of my friends(trading music back and forth) are other sources for joy.
It's a grassroots sort of marketing style for sure. One has to actually go out and LOOK for the material in order to learn about it. But the resources are out there, if you are willing to put a very mild amount of time into it. Gwen Stephanie? I wouldn't cross the street to get her entire discography for free. Not even if it was in FLAC or high quality ogg vorbis files!(gasp)
Personally, I've been happier reading QC and hearing about Broken Social Scene or The Postal Service or Battles or The Fiery Furnaces or or or... Well, you get the idea. I'd never heard of these bands until I started reading QC, and now the "Indie" folder on my computer has works from many dozens of artists.
If you want some music suggestions send me a msg, I'll fire off the names of some favoured bands that you can check out. >=}
If you don't like it, don't go there. I haven't been on US soil since 9/11. I used to go to the US a couple times per year. 2 or 3 usually to go shopping and such, give my money to Americans.
I'm not likely to get pulled over by profilers(I almost always drive rather than fly to the states, and I am as white as freshly fallen snow), but... I had a friend who got detained at the US border during during February 2002. The treatment he described was despicable. It didn't take me long to decide to avoid travelling to the US unless I could find a very good reason.
I may in time return to my habit of going to the states to shop(especially since the Canadian dollar is valued fairly handsomely against the USD now), but it wont be for a few years. I've certainly missed the ability to buy some cheap clothing in some of your outlet stores. Drop me a line and let me know when it's safer for good, law abiding people to enter your country again.
It's true that exercise doesn't directly burn off THAT many calories, unless you exercise long and hard.
What exercise does do though, is build muscle mass. Muscles (even at rest) use a higher number of calories than fat cells do. So running those kilometers and lifting those weights burns some calories off directly, and then the new muscles you have will continue to burn off calories while you sit on your progressively more muscular butt watching TV.
Trying to lose weight off of pure cardio is difficult, cardio + resistance/weights is the way to go. You don't need to be Mr Universe, but a couple pounds of muscle distributed over your body will do some good.
A fairly decent distance, if I've had a chance to prepare myself, and especially if I have some very low tech diver's fins. I'll grant you that I couldn't go 300 meters on one breath, but I couldn't go the 300 meters with these things anyway. I'd have to hold my breath for 5 minutes.
If I was bobbing up for a breath every once in a while, then diving back down again these would convey some advantage certainly. The fact that they'd be doing some of the work for me means less O2 consumed and CO2 produced. But I still need to breathe. Probably a couple times over the course of 5 minutes of swimming.
These things don't seem to convey a very large advantage in this domain(yet) since they're so slow. It's not like you have an outboard motor strapped to your behind to REALLY add some speed to your swimming.
I'm hoping that these are just the first iteration in what will be a progressively more impressive technology. A low-end set of SCUBA equipment can be bought for less, and let me swim way, way further than 300 meters.
For those of you not as comfortable with knots and meters(and with the help of google)...
2 knots = 3.37561971 feet / second
300 meters = 984.251969 feet
So it's about 3.4 feet/s over 984 feet. Takes about 289 seconds, or 4 minutes 49 seconds.
Honestly, that's not as fast as I'd expect from DARPA equipment. Nor does it really have great endurance. *shrug* It's cool, don't get me wrong, but it seems like it'd be a long way away from USEFUL except in very, very specialized situations. Help me out, I can't actually think of any times where you'd want something like this if it only lasts 300 meters. In the time you're strapping that to your legs I'll already have swam most of the way there at a leisurely pace(and as a bonus, I don't have some dolphin fin to remove when I arrive.
While *I* don't think she's "stunning" you might be interested in the Governor General of Canada, Michaëlle Jean. Google image search is your friend. While it's not *quite* the institution that the US has, she's the Commander-in-Chief of Canadian Forces, and de facto head of state.
In the order of precedence, the Governor General outranks all individuals except the Monarch; as direct representative of the Sovereign, the Governor General even outranks other members of the Royal Family.
Besides French and English, Jean is fluent in Spanish, Italian, and Haitian Creole and can read Portuguese She's also willing to speak her mind more openly than most people in Ottawa.
Not the president of the US, so I know she's not perfect, but perhaps she'll pique your interest at least a little bit =P
That, in and of itself makes it appealing to me. A woman is going to be a hard sell as a presidential candidate for some time yet in the states(opinion pulled from my Equus asinus, and possibly without any bearing in reality). I'd like to see how people react to a woman suddenly as "leader of the free world" and the commander in chief of the US military.
Giving her wikipedia page a quick once-over, I tend to agree with most of Pelosi's views and votes, though obviously there will be some disagreements too. That approval of her voting record is probably colouring my desires. I might not be so intrigued by the idea of her as a president as I would be with say, Hillary.
Because I was replying tongue-in-cheek. I don't HONESTLY believe that people should have to be fluent in a language to move someplace.
It's certainly advantageous, and I'd encourage them to learn it, but it's ultimately their choice. And I can't realistically expect them to learn it in a day(how long had that person been living in the US anyway? If I move to South Korea to hang out with the old people, I'll try to learn Korean. I'll probably eventually become pretty good at it. But for quite a few years I expect I'll suck quite badly. As long as I'm able to make do though, I don't see any really good reason to restrict my freedom to move there.
What about people born here, who have problems with language(english or otherwise)? Should someone who's suffering from a stroke-induced Broca's aphasia be forced to leave? How about dysarthria? I bet you'll have an easier time understanding that moved-here-from-Korea-a-month-ago guy than someone with pronounced dysarthria.
I'm not American, nor familiar with your laws, but I keep seeing this point(President Cheney) brought up as a reason to not impeach Bush. Sort of a "Hey, he's the lesser of several evils" arguement I suppose.
Is there honestly no method to simultaneously impeach them? Knock off both at once, and then the next guy in the line of succession takes their place. Or are you just worried that one will suceed and the other fail? Is the THIRD guy in line for the presidency ALSO an ass even bigger than Bush? It seems hard to believe that many despicable people would get elected:P Surely you'd hit a worthy guy eventually.
I get annoyed with incompetent government official leaving data where they can be copied freely. *I* think they're responsible for the data they have, and making sure they don't release that data freely for others to see.
If someone from the CIA or the pentagon left a flash card filled with naughty stuff in their unlocked car, someone came along and copied it... You don't think they're culpable? I figure they should get a warning/pay cut/change or responsibilities/fired/fired out of a cannon.
Sounds like you're referencing the phoenix there with the whole death and then reborn from it's ashes bit.
Since this is a site largely for nerds, need I remind you that the reborn Phoenix might be rather... "dark". The patent system might go up in flames, and be designed anew, and be even worse(I know, I know, hold the laughter) than the current version.
Change would be nice, but who do you have lined up to design the new version? Will they make a version we slashdotters will approve of?
I have a... friend, who's totally not me, who pirates music. I often call him by the nickname "me" or "I" *cough*
This friend also buys music, either directly from the artists or in CDs. The fact is, I've never heard the vast majority of those bands played on the radio, or locally(since, y'know, they're from entirely different continents and I don't live in a major metropolis).
Most of this stuff is pretty difficult to find to buy anyway, but if I decide I really really like that new Architecture In Helsinki album and I can find it, I've no problems paying for it. I'm not going to buy the music blindly though either. Just because Jeph Jacques says it's good. I'll theive it visciously because he says it's good, and then keep it/pay for it if I agree.
Pirating is my radio, it's a way for me to learn about new bands that have arguably little appeal to my peers, but I think are awesome.
How about a right to bare breasts? Now that really would be popular! Legal protection for topless women already exists in Ontario, Canada. I'm not aware of any efforts made in other provinces in Canada, but the Ontario supreme court ruled back in 1996 that it was fine for women to be topless in public.
Few women do so, but I've seen women sunbathing topless in the park south of my house in the summer(grassy area, near Lake Ontario). It's not really made a huge deal of, at least that I've seen. The women have no shirt on, and neither do the men. They get a tan and then go home. *shrug*
A boob is just a boob, not anything to get TOO frantic about.
Definitely, sexual satisfaction can come from lots of things besides orgasms. Find a bunch of people that enjoy BDSM and you'll probably find a few that can have a thoroughly enjoyable sexual experience without any genital contact whatsoever. A good flogging can activate all sorts of pain receptors, and then send off endorphines giving a great high. Taking that sort of stimulation can be great fun. And it's quite possible to get enormous satisfaction from tying your partner up and inflicting just the right sensation to bring them to that point. Knowing that they're trusting you so deeply, and the feeling of competence and skill with bondage/a riding crop is fun!
Some people follow through with genital stimulation and enjoy the orgasms too(I do!) but a scene that just has the BDSM elements can be greatly fun.
I'm not really sure that this'd be an example of what I view as altruism, since both partners are getting off and having a great time, but it might link to what TFA is talking about. We enjoy giving generously. A top can get a great feeling of empathy and connection with the bottom, and derive great amounts of pleasure without really getting any physical stimulation to themselves.
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Automatic english subtitles for an anime? That's more of a job for speech recognition software(which is also being worked on, one of the profs in my department had a friend working on Japanese to English speech recognition/translation many years ago).
This OCR based stuff would still be handy for automatically translating manga I suppose though.
I know that there are a few things out there in Japanese that haven't been released in English yet I wouldn't mind.
Perhaps he means something that plays well with Amarok? According to their website there are plugins available for various media players... And they claim to work well with "the following digital music players: iPod, iRiver iFP, Creative NOMAD, Creative Zen, MTP, Rio Karma and USB devices with VFAT (generic MP3 players) support."
*shrug* Seems this might be what he meant.
That sort of protest really works best if The Powers That Be at the company(or at least management) get the messege of WHY you're not buying from them. People who don't shop at Walmart are indeed making a point, kinda. But the Walmart exec don't know if you're boycotting their stuff because of their questionable hiring practices, their effect on the mom & pop stores, the staff working at a particular location, or if maybe, you just think their prices are still too high(leading to the higher ups trying to squeeze a little bit more out of their employees, and performing more questionable acts in their pursuit of the lowest price possible.
That assumes a closed system doesn't it?
:/ Or am I totally off-base with that?
People DO emigrate and immigrate from the UK, and their genes wouldn't be on the record anymore in theory. Plus mutations happen, only half the genes get passed on / kid, etc...
Besides, I thought that DNA was supposed to be good at proving someone didn't commit the crime, not finding who did?
Oh, humans are very readily controlled. Check out Asch's line length study, or Milgram's study on obedience. Those are two pretty famous experiments in psychology, and you can read about them at length in pretty much any introduction to psychology text.
There's plenty, plenty more examples in the history of psychological experimentation, but people can be played pretty readily. That's why psychopaths do so well, it's really not as hard as we'd like to believe to control our thoughts.
Even worse, a tinfoil hat provides little protection against this sort of thing.
As to the false confessions bit, it's my belief(can't cite good evidence for this though), that people expect to get a plea-bargain of sorts. For a judge to go light on the sentencing if they just admit that they did it rather than maintain their denial. If I give you two choices, one where the judge is going to probably lock you away for the next 20 years, and one where you can confess and only get 5-10, which are you going to choose? Keep in mind that we already have multiple eye-witnesses that place you at the scene, and DNA evidence.
There are policing agencies out there who already do similar things. Despite it's absense, they may explain that there's incontrevertible evidence that shows that the suspect is guitly, they just want a confession so that the trial goes faster and with less fuss/humiliation for others/etc...
Turns out that one can get a fairly large number of confessions that way, much like you apparently desire. The problem is, it's not all THAT uncommon for the confessions to be lies. Innocent people will lie and confess to horrible, horrible crimes. And a confession given to a jury is a really really good predictor of them finding the defendent guitly. Even if there's little to no other evidence. People tend to believe confessions, which is sort of confusing since they have to reconcile the idea that "this is a dangerous lunatic with no morals and a willingness to kill" against "this is an honest man, who will condemn himself to jail by giving a confession". Still, they manage it.
Feel free to read a bit more about the subject of false confessions here, on some webnotes for a college class here or even here(this last one is perhaps more likely to cherrypick it's evidence, but what it says appears to be true).
False confessions are a rather worrying thing to me, as once a person confesses, the police have a tendency to cease looking for other potential guilty parties. While it's possible some other person will eventually be found guilty and you get released, it's not really something that The System tries for. Makes 'em look bad if they accidentally put someone in jail and gave 'em a whole bunch of publicity as a convicted rapist.
Tell me, did you intend to link to a parody site? Or do you just not know the URL of the whitehouse website?
I believe you wanted http://www.whitehouse.gov/ as should be fairly easy to tell if you'd loaded & read your own link.
Matthias: Look, I don't think it ought to be blasphemy, just saying "Jehovah".
[Everyone gasps]
Jewish Official: You're only making it worse for yourself!
Matthias: Making it worse?! How can it be worse?! Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah!
(Shamelessly stolen from Life of Brian) Sorry, you just reminded me of that scene and I agree with both you and Matthias. You might as well appeal that death sentence/court judgement. As is now, they'll almost certainly burn. A small chance of success on appeal sure, but they might as well. Appealing is unlikely to land them in jail after all.
Pitchfork Media might be of use as well, a music review website that covers alot of indie CDs. I trust it somewhat less than I do Jeph, but it can at least expose you to music(good or bad). Their reviews can be
It's a grassroots sort of marketing style for sure. One has to actually go out and LOOK for the material in order to learn about it. But the resources are out there, if you are willing to put a very mild amount of time into it. Gwen Stephanie? I wouldn't cross the street to get her entire discography for free. Not even if it was in FLAC or high quality ogg vorbis files!(gasp)
Personally, I've been happier reading QC and hearing about Broken Social Scene or The Postal Service or Battles or The Fiery Furnaces or or or... Well, you get the idea. I'd never heard of these bands until I started reading QC, and now the "Indie" folder on my computer has works from many dozens of artists.
If you want some music suggestions send me a msg, I'll fire off the names of some favoured bands that you can check out. >=}
I'm not likely to get pulled over by profilers(I almost always drive rather than fly to the states, and I am as white as freshly fallen snow), but... I had a friend who got detained at the US border during during February 2002. The treatment he described was despicable. It didn't take me long to decide to avoid travelling to the US unless I could find a very good reason.
I may in time return to my habit of going to the states to shop(especially since the Canadian dollar is valued fairly handsomely against the USD now), but it wont be for a few years. I've certainly missed the ability to buy some cheap clothing in some of your outlet stores. Drop me a line and let me know when it's safer for good, law abiding people to enter your country again.
It's true that exercise doesn't directly burn off THAT many calories, unless you exercise long and hard.
What exercise does do though, is build muscle mass. Muscles (even at rest) use a higher number of calories than fat cells do. So running those kilometers and lifting those weights burns some calories off directly, and then the new muscles you have will continue to burn off calories while you sit on your progressively more muscular butt watching TV.
Trying to lose weight off of pure cardio is difficult, cardio + resistance/weights is the way to go. You don't need to be Mr Universe, but a couple pounds of muscle distributed over your body will do some good.
A fairly decent distance, if I've had a chance to prepare myself, and especially if I have some very low tech diver's fins. I'll grant you that I couldn't go 300 meters on one breath, but I couldn't go the 300 meters with these things anyway. I'd have to hold my breath for 5 minutes.
If I was bobbing up for a breath every once in a while, then diving back down again these would convey some advantage certainly. The fact that they'd be doing some of the work for me means less O2 consumed and CO2 produced. But I still need to breathe. Probably a couple times over the course of 5 minutes of swimming.
These things don't seem to convey a very large advantage in this domain(yet) since they're so slow. It's not like you have an outboard motor strapped to your behind to REALLY add some speed to your swimming.
I'm hoping that these are just the first iteration in what will be a progressively more impressive technology. A low-end set of SCUBA equipment can be bought for less, and let me swim way, way further than 300 meters.
For those of you not as comfortable with knots and meters(and with the help of google)...
2 knots = 3.37561971 feet / second
300 meters = 984.251969 feet
So it's about 3.4 feet/s over 984 feet.
Takes about 289 seconds, or 4 minutes 49 seconds.
Honestly, that's not as fast as I'd expect from DARPA equipment. Nor does it really have great endurance. *shrug* It's cool, don't get me wrong, but it seems like it'd be a long way away from USEFUL except in very, very specialized situations. Help me out, I can't actually think of any times where you'd want something like this if it only lasts 300 meters. In the time you're strapping that to your legs I'll already have swam most of the way there at a leisurely pace(and as a bonus, I don't have some dolphin fin to remove when I arrive.
You can read about rider bills on wikipedia if you want.
Interestingly enough, the Real ID act is given as an example of a rider =P
Not the president of the US, so I know she's not perfect, but perhaps she'll pique your interest at least a little bit =P
That, in and of itself makes it appealing to me. A woman is going to be a hard sell as a presidential candidate for some time yet in the states(opinion pulled from my Equus asinus , and possibly without any bearing in reality). I'd like to see how people react to a woman suddenly as "leader of the free world" and the commander in chief of the US military.
Giving her wikipedia page a quick once-over, I tend to agree with most of Pelosi's views and votes, though obviously there will be some disagreements too. That approval of her voting record is probably colouring my desires. I might not be so intrigued by the idea of her as a president as I would be with say, Hillary.
Because I was replying tongue-in-cheek. I don't HONESTLY believe that people should have to be fluent in a language to move someplace.
It's certainly advantageous, and I'd encourage them to learn it, but it's ultimately their choice. And I can't realistically expect them to learn it in a day(how long had that person been living in the US anyway? If I move to South Korea to hang out with the old people, I'll try to learn Korean. I'll probably eventually become pretty good at it. But for quite a few years I expect I'll suck quite badly. As long as I'm able to make do though, I don't see any really good reason to restrict my freedom to move there.
What about people born here, who have problems with language(english or otherwise)? Should someone who's suffering from a stroke-induced Broca's aphasia be forced to leave? How about dysarthria? I bet you'll have an easier time understanding that moved-here-from-Korea-a-month-ago guy than someone with pronounced dysarthria.
I'm not American, nor familiar with your laws, but I keep seeing this point(President Cheney) brought up as a reason to not impeach Bush. Sort of a "Hey, he's the lesser of several evils" arguement I suppose.
:P Surely you'd hit a worthy guy eventually.
Is there honestly no method to simultaneously impeach them? Knock off both at once, and then the next guy in the line of succession takes their place. Or are you just worried that one will suceed and the other fail? Is the THIRD guy in line for the presidency ALSO an ass even bigger than Bush? It seems hard to believe that many despicable people would get elected
I agree entirely
English is the language of the land.
I get annoyed with incompetent government official leaving data where they can be copied freely. *I* think they're responsible for the data they have, and making sure they don't release that data freely for others to see.
If someone from the CIA or the pentagon left a flash card filled with naughty stuff in their unlocked car, someone came along and copied it... You don't think they're culpable? I figure they should get a warning/pay cut/change or responsibilities/fired/fired out of a cannon.
Sounds like you're referencing the phoenix there with the whole death and then reborn from it's ashes bit.
Since this is a site largely for nerds, need I remind you that the reborn Phoenix might be rather... "dark". The patent system might go up in flames, and be designed anew, and be even worse(I know, I know, hold the laughter) than the current version.
Change would be nice, but who do you have lined up to design the new version? Will they make a version we slashdotters will approve of?
I have a ... friend, who's totally not me, who pirates music. I often call him by the nickname "me" or "I" *cough*
This friend also buys music, either directly from the artists or in CDs. The fact is, I've never heard the vast majority of those bands played on the radio, or locally(since, y'know, they're from entirely different continents and I don't live in a major metropolis).
Most of this stuff is pretty difficult to find to buy anyway, but if I decide I really really like that new Architecture In Helsinki album and I can find it, I've no problems paying for it. I'm not going to buy the music blindly though either. Just because Jeph Jacques says it's good. I'll theive it visciously because he says it's good, and then keep it/pay for it if I agree.
Pirating is my radio, it's a way for me to learn about new bands that have arguably little appeal to my peers, but I think are awesome.
http://www.fcn.ca/Gwen.html
Few women do so, but I've seen women sunbathing topless in the park south of my house in the summer(grassy area, near Lake Ontario). It's not really made a huge deal of, at least that I've seen. The women have no shirt on, and neither do the men. They get a tan and then go home. *shrug*
A boob is just a boob, not anything to get TOO frantic about.
Definitely, sexual satisfaction can come from lots of things besides orgasms. Find a bunch of people that enjoy BDSM and you'll probably find a few that can have a thoroughly enjoyable sexual experience without any genital contact whatsoever. A good flogging can activate all sorts of pain receptors, and then send off endorphines giving a great high. Taking that sort of stimulation can be great fun. And it's quite possible to get enormous satisfaction from tying your partner up and inflicting just the right sensation to bring them to that point. Knowing that they're trusting you so deeply, and the feeling of competence and skill with bondage/a riding crop is fun!
Some people follow through with genital stimulation and enjoy the orgasms too(I do!) but a scene that just has the BDSM elements can be greatly fun.
I'm not really sure that this'd be an example of what I view as altruism, since both partners are getting off and having a great time, but it might link to what TFA is talking about. We enjoy giving generously. A top can get a great feeling of empathy and connection with the bottom, and derive great amounts of pleasure without really getting any physical stimulation to themselves.
Sounds like old news to me.