if one of these guys was found in his home, dead, his lifeless body hanging by a rope attached to his testicles, blood completely drained, and the word "SQUATTER" carved into his flesh (with forensics reporting it was carved in before he died).... well that would make the news.
If it then happened to one more of these guys every week... we might see a decrease in this buisness model.
Not encouraging anyone...just... planting seeds.... maybe some will take root....
if a concerted effort were made to cause them to truely jam up the system with this. We could potentially cause them to have a cost. you see...they can taste and taste but realize that there is a bigger fish who is letting them taste his waters.... the registrar that allows tasting.
So... right now, domain squatting is a headache for us, but overall, a minor one, and an even more minor one for the resgitrar. If we could hit them with enough queries, that they truely "taste up" the system... you do two things....
1) You decrease their profit per domain 2) You cause headaches for the registrar as you turn up the volume and jam things up for everyone else
thus... you make their bottom line a small bit worst, and their cost to the tit they are feeding off of go up.
Do it enough and they will either have to stop using whois, or the registrars will stop letting them taste.
Either way, its a win for everyone else. This is totally one of those things where the situation needs to get worst so it can be made better, there is currently just no real pressure on the registrars.
Ok, so _I_ would generally be searching for an ububtu CD, since its what I use on the desktop and a desktop is the only think I would consider dual booting. Though, Ubuntu, gentoo... they sound so similar... pure accident that I upgraded him to ubuntu:)
Personally I would like to see them do a study with the boxing game, or even the supposedly better boxing game on the market that I haven't had a chance to play yet.
I have played all these games a bit, not so much tennis. However the boxing game I found to really wear me out. I mean, it was no hour of martial arts class like I used to do several times a week, but it was enough that 2 matches in I wanted to sit for a miniute.
Its because he fucked up the order of operations and reinstalled windows before finding the ubuntu cd. When you add searching for a CD you haven't seen in 6 months to the complexity of a task, it can become far more daunting, (YMMV, I guess not everyone has trouble in this area, you could be an anal retentive organized freak).
> (I don't buy the claim that porn is somehow exempt from the speech label when pretty > much everything else is covered
That has always struck me as wrong too. Why is it that "sex" gets special treatment as a topic? Why is it that something intended to arouse those who view it has no social value? It certainly has value to the people who buy it, to the people who watch it, to the people who jerk off or have sex while or after watching it.
Utter crap if you ask me. I can at least see the argument for the exclusion of kiddie porn that children are unfairly exploited in its creation and its those same exploited persons who are the main subjects of the video.
However... anything made with consenting adults... I say is fair game for free speech.
I did attend a USENIX tutorial that was bad. Well maybe not bad in the grand scheme of things, and I liked the presenter, it sucks to have to slam him for this... however...
It was, if I rememeber right, "Advanced perl CGI scripting", or the moral equivalent thereof. The point was... CGI, PERL, and Advanced.
It began with a 3 minute speech about how thats what the tutorial used to be, but people kept signing up who barely, if at all, understood perl, and didn't know jack about CGI... so the tutorial had been severely dumbed down.
After the morning session it became clear that I was going to learn nothing, and so I took the afternoon to find some better way to waste my time, since my employer wasn't getting any value out of sending me to that tutorial in any case, may as well get some value out of the time.
Again, was too bad, it looked like it could have been cool, and the presenter certainly knew his stuff and could have given a better course. Its just well... lets just say, it looked like I was among the minority who left.
> 4. The law at heart simply states that if you have documents then deleting it BECAUSE of a legal action is illegal.
Though, wasn't that true before?
I clearly remember this coming up in a discussion of backup retention policy 5 years ago. Basically what was stated then was that we needed a policy for backup destruction so that we could get rid of backups because if there were ever a legal case, and we didn't have such a policy, then attempting to purge old backups could be seen as trying to destroy evidence.
However, if we had such a policy, and used it to get rid of backups as it defined, then we were simply following establish policy, and removal of the backups according to said policy would not be "destroying evidence" unless we had been ordered to suspend backup destruction.
SO essentially... was this true 5 years ago? Or was it "possibly true but ambiguous" and this law is a clarification? I am curious as to how this law changes things except for making them more explicit for digital discovery.
Of course this was made all the more interesting then, as we had a policy then of NEVER destroying backups. Why? Well there was a legal case where my employer suspended all tape archive destruction indefinitely. The case resolved, but the policy never changed. We, as the admins, were trying to get them to accept a new policy, that would allow us to purge gobs of old data.
I saw footage the other day on the news of a car that caught fire at a gas pump. The story claimed it was caused by static electric buildup. The person had been filling the tank, got back in their car, then got out to take out the nozzle.
The gas stattion attendant made a comment about how scary it was and how they will be stricter now, and refuse to allow people on their cell phone to pump gas.
Um what? So someone wasn't paying attention and built up a static charge, managed to ignite the tank... so now... we are worried... about cell phones. Which is just great because you know that many of the people watching the news came to the story in the middle, or were not paying attention and now reasonably assume that it was caused by the cell phone and that cell phones at the pump are somehow dangerous....
>(and yeah, I also drive a big honkin' SUV. Bite me)
Actually, I only respond to requests for biting in limited context.
Instead I will joyously ride past you on my motorcycle getting 45 REAL MPG (as measured by fuel consumption not flawed emissions tests) and cheering every time gas prices go up.... I really hope to see $4/gallon as soon as possible.
Hell when that happens, my fuel costs will be a whopping $16 per tank! Good thing a tank lasts me a week.
The thing is, Ubuntu is a Linux distro, Linux comes from the world of Unix. Unix comes from the world of big honkin systems that are expected to be on all the time and going.
Spin down disks to conserve power? what are you, a facilities manager? You don't spin down disks, you install another PDU and A/C unit and leave us alone! Right?
Kidding of course, I think our facilities manager would come kick my ass if he saw this post:)
anyway the problem is "built in". It seems to me like this needs to be built down into the filesystem. So when the disk is put into "ultra low power mode" the system should increase the disk cache and sync the disk a lot less often. Maybe it should try to opportunistically sync... try to wait "forever" (or as long as is feasible by some measure of cache size) and sync only when the disk is already spun up for some other reason (like a disk access that isn't a cached sector)
Of course, maybe the filesystem doesn't even see that, and you need to build that down into the LVM? Perhaps different parts of the filesystem could have different sync priorities... so a change in / or/home might prompt an immediate sync.... a/var/log/.. entry may not (/var/log is far less important on laptops anyway)
Guess you could enforce it at the block device level... just have it block until its internal timer times out (or enough attempts queue up... or either) before it asks the disk to spin back up?
Actually money does have a value... it is backed by the tax system. You have to pay taxes, and the dollar is worth exactly One Dollar of US Tax Debt. I know, its a nit picking point, what can I say?
But you are absolutely right. The modern system of Wage Slavery has some real benefits. However, it is what it is, and I don't think it is wrong to recognize it as such. I am not lamenting so much being a wage slave, as the idea of being a wage slaves while patting ourselves on the back for being so free.
What I do object to, is the manner in which the masters are chosen. I think the system is setup well for the most part. I think it does good things, for the most part. However I do think there is room for improvement, and that to make improvements, we have to call a spade a spade.
Limited liability means that shareholders in the company are limited in their liability. That is, if I invest $1000 in the company, and thus become part owner, I am liable to lose that $1000 and only that money. So even if the company goes under, oweing billions, nobody can come after me, as part owner, for any part of that debt.
If limited liability goes away, then they have unlimited liability, which means that the owners of the company are liable for every dollar the company owes. If limited liability goes away, then I would expect investors to run away like hippies from soap.
Have you ever looked at the term "Wage Slave" and thought of how apt it really is?
I mean, sure, you can do what you want and say what you want. However, you like to eat don't you? Well, unless you raise and slaughter your own, that takes money. Want money? Well I guess you could start your own small buisness and drum up clients among your fellow free people... but realistically, for most, it means being someones wage slave.
Wage slave show up at 8 am. Wage slave, wear clothes according to this policy.
All the money is in the hands of the upper class, and the lower classes are lucky to slurp up what they can. Wages are balanced against social order, pay people just enough to be too comfortable to revolt.... have enough wage slaves under you, and you get the ear of congress. Thats not enough? Get together with a bunh of other upperclassmen and collectively get the congresscritters ear (its cleaner that way).
Overall mass media is capable of keeping things too confusing and spreads the idea that its all rigged and your vote doesn't matter anyway. Put up two nearly identical puppets who are both wholly owned subsidieries of some federation of corperations.
Make the people feel they are getting what they deserve because nobody is willing to stand up en mass, all while making issues too confusing and convoluted for anyone to get such a mass to stand up in the first place. Toss in a few wedge issues to get people a bit worked up over something that doesn't actually matter, to blow off the steam. And voi la.... you have a system of wage slavery that lets everyone pat themselves on the back for how free we are.
And as a side side note.... who is the largest legal importer of coca leaf into this country?
Any guesses?
Yup! The Coca Cola Company! They still use it to produce coke... both kinds! They extract the coke and sell it to the Big Pharma companies for use in medicine, and then use the leftovers to make their product.
Its hard to say which coke is more vile. Both are habbit forming, though the liquid stuff has a far worst nutritional outlook.... all that sugar....
Course then you can get into other weird areas.... how about brining in the concept of a "Safe word" thats a stand in for stop. Such a person could agree to participate in acting out a rape scene "with no safe word".
Then I have to wonder how the law even deals with it.
Here in MA, so I have heard, there are no provisions that allow for consensual beating. So Spanking your spouse, or beating him/her with a whip, crop, or paddle is abuse, whether its consensual or not. This is a bit of a problem for the local BDSM community which is active, but has to watch its Ps and Qs since technically, some of the things that they engage in are illegal.
I mean shit its bad enough how hard some thigns would be to explain if the police showed up at the wrong time... "its not how it looks! she wanted to be tied up, and she likes being hit with the flogger and having hot wax poured on her! Seriously!" but having it not even matter that she liked it, and came back to have me do it again after last week.... talk about a sticky situation.
Overall, I mostly agree with the "my home is my castle" concept... up to a point. That point is when you start interacting with the public. Your home may be your castle... your store? not so much. Your theater? probably not. Your externally facing webserver? only up to a point.
I think its quite reasonable to put into effect some manner of standards for transactions. Your home may be your castle... but I don't think that should mean you are A OK to make your doorbell open a trap door on the porch. Its not what your doing in your house, its how your public face interacts with the external face and what is done with the results of that interaction that I do see both a right and value in regulating.
Funny, I was dozing off a bit as I read that. Actually, I have a sleep disorder that I am trying to get treated, so my sleep sucks and so no matter how many hours I get, I am still tired. I yawn and nod like a narcotic user until I have built up a critical mass of coffee in my blood stream (though I do wonder if its not becoming bood in my coffee stream)
anyway, this ties in interestingly to a sex study I read recently.
In the US average number of sexual partners (lifetime total) for women: Median: 3 Mean: 6
Think about that... lots and lots of 1s and 2s and 3s.... and a few well... lets just say, much higher numbers (they said during the course of a study they ran into a couple of individuals in the hundreds)
So yes, if she is the type to kiss co-workers, theres a good chance shes the type to kiss a bunch of them.
In the immortal words of Andrew "Dice" Clay... to all the virgins out there, thanks for nothin!
admittedly half the time or more I am doing it on purpose. However, yes, no desert here....
I live in one of the places where 6 inches of snow doesn't call off school unless it all falls between 2 and 6 am of the night before. Snow covered icy roads... arn't that bad if you are used to them, and can even be a hell of a lot of fun too.
Assuming your idea of fun is seeing how far you can get your car to slide this way or that.
Heh, but we have been doing this for years. What is my car but an augmentation to my ability to move?
It took moments to begin, but nearly 10 years or so to rewire my brain, but its pretty good at both cars and motorcycles now. Whens the last time you really had to think about it? I don't think "Ok 4k RPMs, lets toss it into the next gear". No, I press the gas, the car speeds up and I just do it.... information comes in via my senses (vibration being a real key, more than most) and I do the right thing, the same thing, over and over.
Even if I spin out, its not like I think "ok, I am sliding, what do I do in a slide, steer into it..." no. the car starts to slide, and I just react, do the right thing, and continue on my way. The adrenalin doesn't even hit anymore. My brain has done it, learned it, and is ready to do it again as needed.
Its no different from mastering any skill. Think how well your brain is wired to use a mouse, a keyboard. Ever seen someone sit down for the first time and see how unskilled they are with the mouse?
I am not really surprized, but I do think that realizing this explicitly and looking at how we can use these aspects of our minds is quite a neat area of research. I hope we see a lot more of this sort of thing.
how about heat vision? sensor to track where the eyes are focused, take a surface temp reading, and use some sort of vibrational or sensational output so you can feel the temperature. No longer would hot glass look like cold glass, you would cast your eyes upon them and know. Could be useful with peoples body heat too. Liars? Sexual arousal? Illness? so many uses!
As someone who has spent a fair amount of time around trannies of various stages (including the "We have been post op and a couple since the 90s" type) I have one piece of advice...and its something most trannies I have met are in various stages of grasping...
Real women do NOT act like Zsa Zsa Gabore.
As far as I can tell, fully assuming the new gender role involves going through a sort of second teenage year s where you act like an obnoxious person of your new gender who is still trying to figure out their role.
I find it all so very bizzare since the majority of a gender role is social construction anyway. Actually I was chatting with a bisexual female friend of mine about gender/orientation signals. Stuff like "its nearly impossible for a woman to pick up girls if she has long hair and doesn't look like a stereotypical dyke" and she pointed out that she has been to places, in the US, where most guys walk with that full hip shift that is associated with woman and gay men.
Seems trannies are the happiest after they have gotten to the stage of being over themselves and they have shocked everyone they are going to shock, and they can just settle into just being people again.
and of course, unless you have the most liberal and tolerant of circles of friends and family, its a path that tends to lead to a cutting off of your social network, and not everyone comes out as terribly stable from that.
I recently gave a tranny a friend's number as she was looking for a job where he works and he gets a bonus for referals. Someone else saw this and pulled me aside later "Don't give her your address, she has a reputation for showing up on doorsteps and staying until you end up trying to have to evict her"
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Oh yah...alternately....
if one of these guys was found in his home, dead, his lifeless body hanging by a rope attached to his testicles, blood completely drained, and the word "SQUATTER" carved into his flesh (with forensics reporting it was carved in before he died).... well that would make the news.
If it then happened to one more of these guys every week... we might see a decrease in this buisness model.
Not encouraging anyone...just... planting seeds.... maybe some will take root....
ahhhh however....
if a concerted effort were made to cause them to truely jam up the system with this. We could potentially cause them to have a cost. you see...they can taste and taste but realize that there is a bigger fish who is letting them taste his waters.... the registrar that allows tasting.
So... right now, domain squatting is a headache for us, but overall, a minor one, and an even more minor one for the resgitrar. If we could hit them with enough queries, that they truely "taste up" the system... you do two things....
1) You decrease their profit per domain
2) You cause headaches for the registrar as you turn up the volume and jam things up for everyone else
thus... you make their bottom line a small bit worst, and their cost to the tit they are feeding off of go up.
Do it enough and they will either have to stop using whois, or the registrars will stop letting them taste.
Either way, its a win for everyone else. This is totally one of those things where the situation needs to get worst so it can be made better, there is currently just no real pressure on the registrars.
I say.... jam up whois with queries!
-Steve
Whops. Mea Culpa.
:)
Ok, so _I_ would generally be searching for an ububtu CD, since its what I use on the desktop and a desktop is the only think I would consider dual booting. Though, Ubuntu, gentoo... they sound so similar... pure accident that I upgraded him to ubuntu
-Steve
Wii!
Personally I would like to see them do a study with the boxing game, or even the supposedly better boxing game on the market that I haven't had a chance to play yet.
I have played all these games a bit, not so much tennis. However the boxing game I found to really wear me out. I mean, it was no hour of martial arts class like I used to do several times a week, but it was enough that 2 matches in I wanted to sit for a miniute.
-Steve
Duh.... read the comment...
Its because he fucked up the order of operations and reinstalled windows before finding the ubuntu cd. When you add searching for a CD you haven't seen in 6 months to the complexity of a task, it can become far more daunting, (YMMV, I guess not everyone has trouble in this area, you could be an anal retentive organized freak).
-Steve
> (I don't buy the claim that porn is somehow exempt from the speech label when pretty
> much everything else is covered
That has always struck me as wrong too. Why is it that "sex" gets special treatment as a topic? Why is it that something intended to arouse those who view it has no social value? It certainly has value to the people who buy it, to the people who watch it, to the people who jerk off or have sex while or after watching it.
Utter crap if you ask me. I can at least see the argument for the exclusion of kiddie porn that children are unfairly exploited in its creation and its those same exploited persons who are the main subjects of the video.
However... anything made with consenting adults... I say is fair game for free speech.
-Steve
I did attend a USENIX tutorial that was bad. Well maybe not bad in the grand scheme of things, and I liked the presenter, it sucks to have to slam him for this... however...
It was, if I rememeber right, "Advanced perl CGI scripting", or the moral equivalent thereof. The point was... CGI, PERL, and Advanced.
It began with a 3 minute speech about how thats what the tutorial used to be, but people kept signing up who barely, if at all, understood perl, and didn't know jack about CGI... so the tutorial had been severely dumbed down.
After the morning session it became clear that I was going to learn nothing, and so I took the afternoon to find some better way to waste my time, since my employer wasn't getting any value out of sending me to that tutorial in any case, may as well get some value out of the time.
Again, was too bad, it looked like it could have been cool, and the presenter certainly knew his stuff and could have given a better course. Its just well... lets just say, it looked like I was among the minority who left.
-Steve
> 4. The law at heart simply states that if you have documents then deleting it BECAUSE of a legal action is illegal.
Though, wasn't that true before?
I clearly remember this coming up in a discussion of backup retention policy 5 years ago. Basically what was stated then was that we needed a policy for backup destruction so that we could get rid of backups because if there were ever a legal case, and we didn't have such a policy, then attempting to purge old backups could be seen as trying to destroy evidence.
However, if we had such a policy, and used it to get rid of backups as it defined, then we were simply following establish policy, and removal of the backups according to said policy would not be "destroying evidence" unless we had been ordered to suspend backup destruction.
SO essentially... was this true 5 years ago? Or was it "possibly true but ambiguous" and this law is a clarification? I am curious as to how this law changes things except for making them more explicit for digital discovery.
Of course this was made all the more interesting then, as we had a policy then of NEVER destroying backups. Why? Well there was a legal case where my employer suspended all tape archive destruction indefinitely. The case resolved, but the policy never changed. We, as the admins, were trying to get them to accept a new policy, that would allow us to purge gobs of old data.
-Steve
However, don't forget the stupidity of people.
I saw footage the other day on the news of a car that caught fire at a gas pump. The story claimed it was caused by static electric buildup. The person had been filling the tank, got back in their car, then got out to take out the nozzle.
The gas stattion attendant made a comment about how scary it was and how they will be stricter now, and refuse to allow people on their cell phone to pump gas.
Um what? So someone wasn't paying attention and built up a static charge, managed to ignite the tank... so now... we are worried... about cell phones. Which is just great because you know that many of the people watching the news came to the story in the middle, or were not paying attention and now reasonably assume that it was caused by the cell phone and that cell phones at the pump are somehow dangerous....
sigh...
-Steve
>(and yeah, I also drive a big honkin' SUV. Bite me)
Actually, I only respond to requests for biting in limited context.
Instead I will joyously ride past you on my motorcycle getting 45 REAL MPG (as measured by fuel consumption not flawed emissions tests) and cheering every time gas prices go up.... I really hope to see $4/gallon as soon as possible.
Hell when that happens, my fuel costs will be a whopping $16 per tank! Good thing a tank lasts me a week.
-Steve
I think I agree with ya here.
:)
/home might prompt an immediate sync.... a /var/log/.. entry may not (/var/log is far less important on laptops anyway)
The thing is, Ubuntu is a Linux distro, Linux comes from the world of Unix. Unix comes from the world of big honkin systems that are expected to be on all the time and going.
Spin down disks to conserve power? what are you, a facilities manager? You don't spin down disks, you install another PDU and A/C unit and leave us alone! Right?
Kidding of course, I think our facilities manager would come kick my ass if he saw this post
anyway the problem is "built in". It seems to me like this needs to be built down into the filesystem. So when the disk is put into "ultra low power mode" the system should increase the disk cache and sync the disk a lot less often. Maybe it should try to opportunistically sync... try to wait "forever" (or as long as is feasible by some measure of cache size) and sync only when the disk is already spun up for some other reason (like a disk access that isn't a cached sector)
Of course, maybe the filesystem doesn't even see that, and you need to build that down into the LVM? Perhaps different parts of the filesystem could have different sync priorities... so a change in / or
Guess you could enforce it at the block device level... just have it block until its internal timer times out (or enough attempts queue up... or either) before it asks the disk to spin back up?
-Steve
Does that mean we caught it spinning dirty?
-Steve
Right but the problem is that its really a l33tspeak filter on english.
I tend to go a lbit more elaborate:
w2tJwhF+G Welcome to the Jungle we have fun and games
So each word accounts for 1 letter, often the first letter, sometimes whole words get changed.
"Its better to burn out than fade away"
Could be Bo>Fa
and thats a good half a password right there...
-Steve
You definitely touch the crux of the matter.
Actually money does have a value... it is backed by the tax system. You have to pay taxes, and the dollar is worth exactly One Dollar of US Tax Debt. I know, its a nit picking point, what can I say?
But you are absolutely right. The modern system of Wage Slavery has some real benefits. However, it is what it is, and I don't think it is wrong to recognize it as such. I am not lamenting so much being a wage slave, as the idea of being a wage slaves while patting ourselves on the back for being so free.
What I do object to, is the manner in which the masters are chosen. I think the system is setup well for the most part. I think it does good things, for the most part. However I do think there is room for improvement, and that to make improvements, we have to call a spade a spade.
Limited liability means that shareholders in the company are limited in their liability. That is, if I invest $1000 in the company, and thus become part owner, I am liable to lose that $1000 and only that money. So even if the company goes under, oweing billions, nobody can come after me, as part owner, for any part of that debt.
If limited liability goes away, then they have unlimited liability, which means that the owners of the company are liable for every dollar the company owes. If limited liability goes away, then I would expect investors to run away like hippies from soap.
-Steve
Well I mean... yah.
Have you ever looked at the term "Wage Slave" and thought of how apt it really is?
I mean, sure, you can do what you want and say what you want. However, you like to eat don't you? Well, unless you raise and slaughter your own, that takes money. Want money? Well I guess you could start your own small buisness and drum up clients among your fellow free people... but realistically, for most, it means being someones wage slave.
Wage slave show up at 8 am. Wage slave, wear clothes according to this policy.
All the money is in the hands of the upper class, and the lower classes are lucky to slurp up what they can. Wages are balanced against social order, pay people just enough to be too comfortable to revolt.... have enough wage slaves under you, and you get the ear of congress. Thats not enough? Get together with a bunh of other upperclassmen and collectively get the congresscritters ear (its cleaner that way).
Overall mass media is capable of keeping things too confusing and spreads the idea that its all rigged and your vote doesn't matter anyway. Put up two nearly identical puppets who are both wholly owned subsidieries of some federation of corperations.
Make the people feel they are getting what they deserve because nobody is willing to stand up en mass, all while making issues too confusing and convoluted for anyone to get such a mass to stand up in the first place. Toss in a few wedge issues to get people a bit worked up over something that doesn't actually matter, to blow off the steam. And voi la.... you have a system of wage slavery that lets everyone pat themselves on the back for how free we are.
Free....to do as we are told.
-Steve
Very simple....
Seems to me that if the law doesn't allow congress to pull their corperate charter for this, then the law needs to be fixed.
Loss of limited liability would either sink them or change their tune right quick.
-Steve
And as a side side note.... who is the largest legal importer of coca leaf into this country?
Any guesses?
Yup! The Coca Cola Company! They still use it to produce coke... both kinds! They extract the coke and sell it to the Big Pharma companies for use in medicine, and then use the leftovers to make their product.
Its hard to say which coke is more vile. Both are habbit forming, though the liquid stuff has a far worst nutritional outlook.... all that sugar....
-Steve
Course then you can get into other weird areas.... how about brining in the concept of a "Safe word" thats a stand in for stop. Such a person could agree to participate in acting out a rape scene "with no safe word".
Then I have to wonder how the law even deals with it.
Here in MA, so I have heard, there are no provisions that allow for consensual beating. So Spanking your spouse, or beating him/her with a whip, crop, or paddle is abuse, whether its consensual or not. This is a bit of a problem for the local BDSM community which is active, but has to watch its Ps and Qs since technically, some of the things that they engage in are illegal.
I mean shit its bad enough how hard some thigns would be to explain if the police showed up at the wrong time... "its not how it looks! she wanted to be tied up, and she likes being hit with the flogger and having hot wax poured on her! Seriously!" but having it not even matter that she liked it, and came back to have me do it again after last week.... talk about a sticky situation.
Overall, I mostly agree with the "my home is my castle" concept... up to a point. That point is when you start interacting with the public. Your home may be your castle... your store? not so much. Your theater? probably not. Your externally facing webserver? only up to a point.
I think its quite reasonable to put into effect some manner of standards for transactions. Your home may be your castle... but I don't think that should mean you are A OK to make your doorbell open a trap door on the porch. Its not what your doing in your house, its how your public face interacts with the external face and what is done with the results of that interaction that I do see both a right and value in regulating.
-Steve
Funny, I was dozing off a bit as I read that. Actually, I have a sleep disorder that I am trying to get treated, so my sleep sucks and so no matter how many hours I get, I am still tired. I yawn and nod like a narcotic user until I have built up a critical mass of coffee in my blood stream (though I do wonder if its not becoming bood in my coffee stream)
anyway, this ties in interestingly to a sex study I read recently.
In the US average number of sexual partners (lifetime total) for women:
Median: 3
Mean: 6
Think about that... lots and lots of 1s and 2s and 3s.... and a few well... lets just say, much higher numbers (they said during the course of a study they ran into a couple of individuals in the hundreds)
So yes, if she is the type to kiss co-workers, theres a good chance shes the type to kiss a bunch of them.
In the immortal words of Andrew "Dice" Clay... to all the virgins out there, thanks for nothin!
-Steve
admittedly half the time or more I am doing it on purpose. However, yes, no desert here....
I live in one of the places where 6 inches of snow doesn't call off school unless it all falls between 2 and 6 am of the night before. Snow covered icy roads... arn't that bad if you are used to them, and can even be a hell of a lot of fun too.
Assuming your idea of fun is seeing how far you can get your car to slide this way or that.
-Steve
Heh, but we have been doing this for years. What is my car but an augmentation to my ability to move?
It took moments to begin, but nearly 10 years or so to rewire my brain, but its pretty good at both cars and motorcycles now. Whens the last time you really had to think about it? I don't think "Ok 4k RPMs, lets toss it into the next gear". No, I press the gas, the car speeds up and I just do it.... information comes in via my senses (vibration being a real key, more than most) and I do the right thing, the same thing, over and over.
Even if I spin out, its not like I think "ok, I am sliding, what do I do in a slide, steer into it..." no. the car starts to slide, and I just react, do the right thing, and continue on my way. The adrenalin doesn't even hit anymore. My brain has done it, learned it, and is ready to do it again as needed.
Its no different from mastering any skill. Think how well your brain is wired to use a mouse, a keyboard. Ever seen someone sit down for the first time and see how unskilled they are with the mouse?
I am not really surprized, but I do think that realizing this explicitly and looking at how we can use these aspects of our minds is quite a neat area of research. I hope we see a lot more of this sort of thing.
how about heat vision? sensor to track where the eyes are focused, take a surface temp reading, and use some sort of vibrational or sensational output so you can feel the temperature. No longer would hot glass look like cold glass, you would cast your eyes upon them and know. Could be useful with peoples body heat too. Liars? Sexual arousal? Illness? so many uses!
-Steve
As someone who has spent a fair amount of time around trannies of various stages (including the "We have been post op and a couple since the 90s" type) I have one piece of advice...and its something most trannies I have met are in various stages of grasping...
Real women do NOT act like Zsa Zsa Gabore.
As far as I can tell, fully assuming the new gender role involves going through a sort of second teenage year s where you act like an obnoxious person of your new gender who is still trying to figure out their role.
I find it all so very bizzare since the majority of a gender role is social construction anyway. Actually I was chatting with a bisexual female friend of mine about gender/orientation signals. Stuff like "its nearly impossible for a woman to pick up girls if she has long hair and doesn't look like a stereotypical dyke" and she pointed out that she has been to places, in the US, where most guys walk with that full hip shift that is associated with woman and gay men.
Seems trannies are the happiest after they have gotten to the stage of being over themselves and they have shocked everyone they are going to shock, and they can just settle into just being people again.
and of course, unless you have the most liberal and tolerant of circles of friends and family, its a path that tends to lead to a cutting off of your social network, and not everyone comes out as terribly stable from that.
I recently gave a tranny a friend's number as she was looking for a job where he works and he gets a bonus for referals. Someone else saw this and pulled me aside later "Don't give her your address, she has a reputation for showing up on doorsteps and staying until you end up trying to have to evict her"
I read it as he was hosting a site, and the complaint was that other people couldn't view it.
-Steve
um he knew that, and was correct.
-Steve