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| 08-28-16 07:29pm - 3038 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
There was a thread started by Wittyguy in 2008, titled: What should a PU review include? https://www.pornusers.com/forum/forum_thr...57&showPost=7#_7 If you read that thread, you will find an excellent guide to how to write an excellent, comprehensive review of any paysite. The thread also includes a post by Toadsith, who was probably the finest review writer to grace this site. He has intelligence, knowledge, and the ability to write clearly. It's a shame he hasn't written any new reviews in years. If you read this thread, you will gain a solid understanding of what an excellent review should contain. However, the truth is, very few of us have the energy or drive or whatever-you-call-it to write those excellent reviews. We do try to write reviews that have some value, but to write an excellent review is just too hard, too time-consuming. | |
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| 08-28-16 03:00pm - 3038 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Your recent reviews have been excellent. With lots of details. Your earliest reviews were good, but very short. But still useful. As you mentioned, PU is basically a friendly site. Not a lot of harsh criticism. About a month after I joined the PU site I got a negative trust rating from Anonymous, who wrote: "Reviews are too much like other members and english prof. would most likely think that you copied some material just makes your reviews a little questionable for me." I certainly didn't appreciate the negative trust rating, because it implied/stated that I was copying from other people's reviews to write my own reviews. But you and I have to shrug off criticism. Not everyone thinks we are the greatest. Or honest. Or fine. --------------------------------- As for the review that was criticized: Since you left out names, it's not possible to be 100% certain what review you were writing about. But the probable one that seems to fit is the review of Sins Life by vipguy. pat362 wrote a comment on the review. The original review was short. It gives an honest opinion of a site. pat362 wrote a comment on the review. He was trying to be helpful to the review writer, indicating details that would make the review more useful to PU members. There are some guidelines that were published years ago, by the PU staff, on what a review should contain. And there were some guidelines that were published by PU members on what makes an excellent review, the criteria that should be met. No-one follows the guidelines on what makes an excellent review any more: it's too much work. But pat362 has written almost 200 reviews: they are uniformly excellent: readable, informative, helpful. He has more knowledge about porn sites than almost any PU member, and, from a consumer standpoint, more knowledge about porn sites than the PU staff members. So he knows what he is talking about. And he was trying to be helpful to vipguy, by indicating details that would make vipguy's review better. He was not being overly harsh. I believe he actually spent more time on his comment than vipguy did writing his review. pat wasn't giving harsh criticism. He was trying to be helpful. That's my take, anyway. vipguy took the comment the wrong way. It happens. You (jook) write: "One thing that got my goat was that no one ever said thanks, or thanks for trying. Old management even took down some early reviews with the only explanation being the vague statement "refer to the guidelines." I believe in my first post in the User Forum, someone, no names, called me a shill for praising the glories of a particular site. Management said nothing." I have praised MetArt, one of my favorite paysites, and have given it scores in the high 90s. A few people have written that I was giving the site too high a score. Well, I knew that I would be criticized for giving a site a score in the high 90s, when I wrote those reviews. Because the common belief at PU is that no site deserves a score of 100, and if you give a site a score near that impossible score, your review is tainted. So people believe different ideas. pat362 was trying to give helpful advice. PU is one of the friendliest sites I know of. MetArt is another site, where the community is basically friendly. But I've been told I need a new pair of eyes when I have dared to criticize some of the photosets at MetArt, in the comment section. Which I did not appreciate. And I was told I was impolite. And told I was talking nonsense. To sum it up, you are making valid points: -the PU community is friendly. -criticism can hurt. But I honestly don't think that, in the main, pat362 could have been more tactful in his comment. He was giving advice on how to improve the review. He was not being harsh. Just my 2 cents. (Which, in today's world of inflation, 2 cents is not worth a heck of a lot.) Edited on Aug 28, 2016, 07:03pm | |
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| 08-28-16 05:18am - 3039 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
It's been years since I was a member of I Feel Myself,, but I think that's probably your best bet, based on a realistic, emotional connection to a woman having an orgasm. | |
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| 08-23-16 10:39am - 3043 days | #9 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
http://www.zdnet.com/article/has-your-in...84754384421679931766 Has your internet provider been compromised? Malicious insiders are helping cybercriminals hack telecoms firms Hackers are using both willing and blackmailed staff at internet and phone providers to help them breach networks and steal data. Danny Palmer By Danny Palmer | August 23, 2016 -- 10:59 GMT (03:59 PDT) | Topic: Security Be it for financial gain, or because they're being blackmailed, insiders are helping hackers. Be they disaffected insiders or victims of blackmail, staff at telecommunications firms are providing cybercriminals with the information required to carry out cyberattacks against their employers. With the sector a top target for hackers -- as demonstrated by last year's TalkTalk hack -- Kapersky Lab's Threat Intelligence Report for the Telecommunications Industry warns telecoms providers that they need to do more to protect themselves from cyber threats, from both outside and inside their networks. According to the report, 28 percent of all cyberattacks and 38 percent of all targeted attacks involve malicious activity by company insiders -- although not everyone involved in passing corporate credentials and other inside information to hackers are willing participants in the criminal schemes. One tactic used by hackers is to find compromising information on an employee -- be it available on the open internet or from a previous cache of stolen data -- at the organisation they wish to target. Hackers will then blackmail the person, forcing them to hand over information which will compromise their employer or distribute spear phishing emails on their behalf, in order for the potentially embarrassing personal data not to come to light. The report suggests that cybercriminals may have used data exposed following the hack of Ashley Madison, a dating website catering to adulterers, in order to blackmail workers. However, Kaspersky warns that not all insider attacks are carried out by reluctant participants: some are done with the help of willing insiders who are more than happy to put their telecoms employer -- and therefore their customers -- at risk from cybercriminals. More often than not, these malicious insiders will offer their services on underground message boards on the dark web, or via 'black recruiters', and are paid for their services. Researchers warn that these malicious insiders also have no qualms about identifying co-workers who could potentially be blackmailed. One incident of such malicious insider activity occurred at Securus Technologies, a telecoms company which provides phone services to prisons, when a rogue employee handed over records of 70 million inmate calls to hackers. Another example saw an SMS centre support engineer spotted on a popular dark web forum advertising their ability to intercept messages containing the one-time passwords used for the two-step authentication process required to login to customer accounts at a popular fintech company. For the cybercriminals, recruiting an insider makes hacking a company a much simpler task, providing them with easy access to internal networks and data. The report notes how insiders at phone companies are mostly recruited to provide access to data, while staff at internet service providers are more often used to help carry out man-in-the-middle attacks. "The human factor is often the weakest link in corporate IT security. Technology alone is rarely enough to completely protect the organisation in a world where attackers don't hesitate to exploit insider vulnerability. Companies can start by looking at themselves the way an attacker would," says Denis Gorchakov, senior information security analyst at Kaspersky Lab. "If vacancies carrying your company name, or some of your data, start appearing on underground message boards, then somebody, somewhere has you in their sights. And the sooner you know about it the better you can prepare," he adds. | |
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| 08-22-16 06:26pm - 3044 days | #8 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Maybe I should add that this surcharge is basically an additional new tax on pre-paid cards and accounts. I believe it started this January 2016 in California. Before that year, I don't remember paying any surcharge for my pre-paid T-Mobile account. So this is just another way for California to tax or collect money from its citizens and residents. And having the ability to say they are not increasing taxes, because a surcharge is not a tax: instead, it'a a surcharge. A voluntary payment.    | |
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| 08-22-16 06:18pm - 3044 days | #7 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I just added to my pre-paid T-Mobible account today. I had paid $50 for additional minutes. But I had to pay an additional $4.64 for an MTS Surcharge. This is not a tax. It's a surcharge. What's the difference? A tax is money you pay to the government. A surcharge is money you agree to pay for a service. I'm not sure what the real difference is, because if I want to buy more minutes, and if I don't agree to pay the surcharge, I can't buy the additional minutes. But my receipt/bill states that I paid $0.00 tax on the transaction. But also states that I paid $4.64 in surcharge. If people lie to you, that is a crime. Can we put the politicians and lawyers in jail for lying to us, when they take our money and say that we are agreeing to surcharges, that are required by law, even though in theory the surcharge is a voluntary payment? Where is the voluntary in paying a surcharge, if you want to pay for a service? It's a requirement, by law, not a voluntary act, that the surcharge must be paid, when you buy a service. | |
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| 08-22-16 09:08am - 3045 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Bugatti price: $2,600,000 estimated, base price No MSRP available This is an estimated base MSRP for a 2017 Bugatti Chiron. 11 radiators. 16 cylinders. 1,500 horses. How Bugatti built the monstrous Chiron By Ronan Glon — March 11, 2016 3:00 AM A Bugatti is more of a work of art with four wheels than a car. And new models don’t come around very often. When one is introduced, the entire auto industry sits up and takes notice. Introduced at the Geneva show, the Chiron receives an 8.0-liter W16 engine that uses four turbochargers to generate a jaw-dropping 1,500 horsepower and 1,180 pound-feet of torque from 2,000 all the way up to 6,000 rpm. That’s enough power to fling the carbon fiber-bodied coupe from zero to 62 mph in 2.5 seconds, from zero to 124 mph in less than 6.5 seconds, and from zero to 186 mph in 13.5 seconds. Top speed is electronically limited to 261 mph, though insiders suggest the Chiron maxes out at over 290 mph when the limiter is turned off. Digital Trends sat down with Willi Netuschil, the head of Bugatti’s engineering department, to find out what makes the Chiron tick. Digital Trends: Saying that the Chiron has big shoes to fill is an understatement. What was the most challenging aspect of designing it? Willi Netuschil: The most challenging aspect was clearly to combine that much power and that much torque in a package that the driver can really control. As you can imagine, putting all that power to the ground is difficult, even with four-wheel drive. We looked into a lot of different solutions, and we ultimately developed a special two-stage turbocharging system that delivers a very straight power curve. In other words, it’s easy to control the Chiron. How much of the engine is new? Keep in mind the base engine was developed to generate 1,000 horsepower. We increased that figure to 1,200, and now we’ve just bumped it up again by 25 percent, so we re-worked it entirely for the sake of durability and efficiency. We didn’t stop at the engine, either. Notably, the air intake system is very innovative and completely new. It’s a one-piece component made out of carbon fiber in order to reduce back pressure and to shed as much weight as possible. We did the same with the exhaust system, which is made out of titanium. The transmission is a seven-speed, dual-clutch unit that has also been redesigned. The W16 generates a lot of torque over a very wide band so the durability requirements are much higher. Why did you choose 1,500 horsepower? We spent a lot of time discussing how much power we should give the Chiron. We knew we had to set a new high speed record, and it was clear from the beginning that we needed 1,500 horsepower. With eight liters of displacement we achieved more or less 200 horsepower per liter, which is amazing. How do you cool 16 cylinders? You can’t compare the Chiron with anything else on the road. There’s really only one way, and that’s to channel a lot of cold air to the radiators. The Chiron has 11 radiators, though they don’t all cool the engine. There’s one for the transmission, the braking system, the differential, and so forth. Speaking of brakes, tell us a little bit about what brings the Chiron to a stop. We had to really improve the braking system because the Chiron is so much faster. We’ve patented a completely new system. It has new calipers with titanium pistons, and a special cooling design with three channels that bring cold air through the discs. We also developed a shield that covers the discs to ensure that the heat generated while braking doesn’t go directly into the rims, because that would cause problems with the tires. Air curtains bring hot air away from the brake system while simultaneously keeping it out of the rim. You used carbon fiber to keep weight in check, right? Up front we have very short frames made out of aluminum, we need those for safety reasons. They’re about 21 inches long, and we installed carbon fiber crash elements inside of them. Then we have the carbon fiber monocoque, and then we’ve got the complete rear frame which adds stiffness. Finally, we have very short aluminum frames at the rear end of the car, also for safety reasons. This packaging solution allowed us to achieve the best level of stiffness in the industry. We’ve reached nearly 37,000 pound-feet of torque per degree, which is really on par with a LMP1 car. http://content.jwplatform.com/previews/kLTeMx1C-ERPbx32c Did you ask Veyron owners to give you feedback when you were designing the Chiron? We met with a lot of customers, and they told us they wanted a car with a relatively comfortable ride, that’s easy to handle, that provides very quick acceleration, and a high top speed. They also said they want to feel safe inside the car. Finally, buyers expect a luxurious interior and, broadly speaking, a very exclusive car. You can’t compare the Chiron with anything else on the road. Are you worried about competition from companies like Koenigsegg? The Regera makes 1,500 horsepower, too. If you select competitors by looking at performance data then you will find a few cars that come close to the Chiron, but I’m sure we’ll top them because we combine performance with four-wheel drive. Our car has more traction under heavy acceleration than other cars at this level. Also, most of the other cars are, in a way, race cars. Our philosophy is different: you can enjoy speed and acceleration while sitting in a relatively quiet cabin with excellent ergonomics. You can drive the Chiron long distances. We’re not out to develop race cars. Most of our customers own a lot of exclusive, high-end cars so if they’ve generally got at least one that they can take to the track if they want to. If anything, Bugatti owners drive to a track, go out for a lap or two, and drive home. Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/bugatti-engineering-chief-willi-netuschil-interview/#ixzz4I4qrxuhB | |
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| 08-22-16 08:22am - 3045 days | #6 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
NSA (a US intelligence agency) leaked tools are being used by illegal hackers for criminal activity. Or--how the US government is helping civilians to commit computer crimes. The US government is in the business of hacking into computers worldwide. Which is giving criminals access to some of those tools. Can we put the government in prison for hacking? No, because they have immunity. But if a civilian does the same thing, the government fights to prosecute the civilian, and put him in prison. A one-way street? Seems like it. What used to be called a double-standard. It's OK for me, but not for you. ---------------------------- http://www.zdnet.com/article/snowden-doc...tools-belong-to-nsa/ Snowden documents confirm that leaked hacking tools belong to NSA Documents suggest a smoking gun between the US intelligence agency and the malware it allegedly developed. By Zack Whittaker for Zero Day | August 19, 2016 -- 14:51 GMT (07:51 PDT) | Topic: Security A newly released document from the cache of documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden appear to confirm that hacking tools leaked earlier this week belong to the National Security Agency. A group that goes by the name of "Shadow Brokers" published a number of malware and tools used by a hacking organization known as the "Equation Group." The Shadow Brokers described the malware as "cyber weapons" that were used by the NSA to conduct surveillance. US government pushed tech firms to hand over source code US government pushed tech firms to hand over source code If source code gets into the wrong hands, the damage would be incalculable. The Intercept, which still has a copy of unreported Snowden documents, reported Friday on what it believes is the smoking gun that connects the two. One of top-secret slide decks used by the intelligence agency instructs NSA hackers to track how they use one of the malware "weapons" using a 16-character string. That string, "ace02468bdf13579," was found in a number of leaked programs, including one dubbed SECONDDATE, which is described as a tool "designed to intercept web requests and redirect browsers on target computers to an NSA web server." We put in a question to an NSA spokesperson, but didn't hear back at the time of writing. (In the unlikely event that this changes, we'll update the piece.) What remains unknown is how the Shadow Brokers came about the malware dump in the first place. These are highly-effective, specialized malware programs designed to penetrate some of the best firewalls and networking equipment in the world. Cisco and Fortinet, which both confirmed their products are affected by the malware, have already begun patching their appliances and technology. Granted it wouldn't be the first leak at the NSA in recent history. Snowden, who was the source of the most significant leak in the past decade, himself hypothesized on Twitter that the "hack of an NSA malware staging server is not unprecedented." Snowden too hinted that Russia, where he currently lives in exile, may have been behind the leak. "This leak looks like a somebody sending a message that an escalation in the attribution game could get messy fast," he said. Looks like we're already there.  2016 CBS Interactive. | |
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| 08-21-16 11:23pm - 3045 days | #74 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
MetArtX and LoveHairy, two of the newer sites in MetArt network. | |
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| 08-20-16 04:59pm - 3046 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Obama, fighting for the rights of US citizens. Before he became President, he fought to preserve the rights of US citizens for privacy. When he became President, he fought for the safety of US citizens (and realized that privacy must be sacrificed for increased safety). Yea, Obama. Keeping his pledge of no more secrecy. What a man! What a politician! http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/articl...llance-then-and-now/ PBS FRONTLINE May 13, 2014 / by Jason M. Breslow On the campaign trail in 2008, Barack Obama promised to preside over the most transparent administration in U.S. history. “No more secrecy,” he said. “That is a commitment that I make to you.” As president, however, Obama has embraced many of the same domestic surveillance programs he once derided as a candidate. For the one-time constitutional law professor, the shift has been particularly striking. Here is a brief history: 2004 — The Race for the U.S. Senate Obama, campaigning for Senate, begins to address questions about the intersection of national security and privacy. He takes aim at the Patriot Act for “violating our fundamental notions of privacy,” and tells the Democratic National Convention, “We don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries.” 2005 — Obama the Critic As a senator, Obama focuses on reining in government surveillance. In 2005, he sponsors a bill to make it harder for federal agents to use a special type of subpoena, known as a national security letter, to obtain business records without a court order. That same year, he joins Democrats to press for additional civil liberties protections in a vote to extend the Patriot Act. The law, he says, “seriously jeopardizes the rights of all Americans and the ideals America stands for.” 2006 — A Vote Against Michael Hayden for the CIA Obama votes against confirming Gen. Michael Hayden, who as head of the NSA under President George W. Bush, developed the administration’s highly controversial warrantless wiretapping program. Explaining his vote, Obama says: Americans fought a revolution in part over the right to be free from unreasonable searches — to ensure that our government could not come knocking in the middle of the night for no reason. We need to find a way forward to make sure we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy and liberty of innocent Americans. 2007 — A Promise on the Road to the White House By 2007, Obama is campaigning for the White House and making government transparency a central part of his platform. He tells an audience in Washington that the Bush administration “puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we provide.” As president, Obama says, he will provide U.S. intelligence agencies the tools they need to defeat terrorists without undermining the Constitution. “That means no more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime … No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient.” July 2008 — A Vote for the FISA Amendments Act Seeking to enhance his national security credentials amid a close race for president, Obama votes for a law expanding the government’s ability to eavesdrop on communications inside the U.S. without obtaining a specific warrant for each case. The measure includes a controversial provision granting legal immunity to phone companies that participated in the NSA’s wiretapping program. The vote comes just months after an Obama spokesman told Talking Points Memo, “To be clear, Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies.” 2010 — Keeping the Power to Seize Records In an early move as president, Obama signs a one-year extension for several controversial elements of the Patriot Act. Among the provisions renewed is Section 215, which allows the government to petition the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to compel businesses — such as Verizon — to hand over customer records. 2011 — Patriot Act Is Renewed Again, with an “Autopen” The president again renews the Patriot Act, offering a new lifeline to several controversial elements of the law, including Section 215; the use of “roving wiretaps”; and the so-called “lone-wolf” provision, which allows for surveillance of individuals with no known ties to a terrorist organization. Obama is traveling in Europe as the law is set to expire, so he directs the bill be signed into law by a mechanical autopen. Administration officials say it is the first time in history that a president has used a mechanical signature to turn a bill into law. 2012 — An Extension for the FISA Amendments Act Obama signs a five-year extension of the FISA Amendments Act, the same law he once threatened to filibuster as a senator. The extension is approved despite a failed push in the Senate for more oversight and public disclosure. Later in the year, he tells Jon Stewart on The Daily Show (apx. 27 seconds into the video below) that the administration had “modified” Bush-era surveillance practices and put “safeguards in place that weren’t there before.” June 5, 2013 — NSA Spying Under Obama is Exposed The Edward Snowden revelations begin to come out. The Guardian reports that for the first time under the Obama administration, the telephone communications records for millions of Americans “are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk — regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.” The next day, Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras report in The Washington Post that the NSA is tapping into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet firms, “extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs.” June 7, 2013 — Obama Responds to the Snowden Leaks The president makes his first public statement on the Snowden leaks, saying the telephone records program “is fully overseen not just by Congress, but by the FISA Court.” No one, he says, “is listening to the content of people’s phone calls.” Obama admits to having had “a healthy skepticism” about the surveillance programs he inherited as president, but ultimately concluded that they helped prevent terrorist attacks. “It’s important to recognize that you can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience,” he says. “We’re going to have to make some choices as a society.” Jan. 17, 2014 — A Call for Reform Obama outlines reforms for the NSA’s telephone metadata program “as it currently exists.” Critics “are right to point out that without proper safeguards, this type of program could be used to yield more information about our private lives, and open the door to more intrusive bulk collection programs in the future,” he says. Under the White House plan, outlined in March, the phone data would no longer stay in the hands of the NSA. Instead, phone companies would warehouse the data themselves. In order to access it, the government would first need a judge’s permission. | |
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| 08-20-16 01:37am - 3047 days | #10 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Computer can be wonderful. But they can also cause a lot of damage. I remember years ago, I was a member of some site. I don't remember what it was, or what the site did. But a couple of times, the site sent me some text messages, that appeared on my desktop. I had not approved or agreed consciously to let the site control my computer. There are valid programs, or times, when you are connected to some service, and you do agree to let the service control your computer, usually to fix some computer problem. But this was different. I was just a member of some site. And as far as I knew, I had never agreed to let the site take control of my computer. When I saw the first text message on my computer desktop from the site, I was amazed and frightened, because it came out of the blue. I had not expected someone to use my computer that way, or to have the power to do so. I sincerely believe that hackers can access most computers, and gain whatever information is on those computers. When you read about cybercrime, you can read stories where hackers have put their malware on hard disk drives and other computer hardware at the manufacturing level, before you ever buy your computer or the hardware. | |
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| 08-19-16 03:36pm - 3047 days | #200 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
This Farm Boy Goes Into a Whorehouse... A farm boy who had just finished his schooling on the farm, was sent by his Ma and Pa to the big city to go to college. The first thing the boy does when he gets to town, is go to find a whorehouse. He goes inside to talk to the madam about getting a girl. She leads him upstairs, opens the door to a room and tells him to sit and wait for the girl to arrive. After several minutes of anxious waiting, a young, blonde prostitute comes in. The boy is beside himself, and he leaps up from the bed, grabs the television, and throws it out the window. The girl thinks this is odd behavior, but she shrugs it off, and begins to undress. As she strips, the farmboy runs over, grabs the night stand and throws it out the window. Again the girl thinks this is odd, but being an experienced hooker, she figures it's a fetish and continues disrobing. The girl removes her panties, and with that, the farm boy grabs the entire bed and starts lugging it toward the window. The girl, figuring this is one even she hasn't heard of, finally asks, "What the hell are you doing?" The farm boy replies, "Ah ain't never been with no woman before but, if it's anythin' like fuckin' sheep, we gonna need all the room we can git." | |
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| 08-19-16 03:06pm - 3047 days | #199 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Dumb blonde joke: A married couple go to a restaurant. A blonde waitress takes their order and returns several minutes later, carrying a plate with only a plain hamburger bun on it. The man asks, "Where's the burger?" The waitress lifts her arm and pulls out a burger from her armpit. "I was keeping it warm," she replies. The wife says, "Please cancel my hot dog order." | |
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| 08-16-16 12:04pm - 3050 days | #7 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I live in Los Angeles county (California), so we have a utility board. But I've never contacted them. I believe my water supplier is privately owned. But they are regulated by a public commission. There is a water shortage in California. So the state passed laws requiring us to reduce our water usage. Fine. Recently, they relaxed the conservation requirements. But the local water supplier has requested a rate increase, because they made less money because their customers used less water. Wonderful. You are required by law to use less water. Then the water company wants to increase your rates, because they are making less money.  True story. | |
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| 08-16-16 10:13am - 3050 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
merc77, You need to switch to my location. I was late paying my water bill one month. The first time I was late, in over 20 years of service. I had a notice left on my front door, that threatened to cut off my water. I think the total bill was around $20. The notice stated that if I did not pay the overdue bill immediately: My water would be cut off. To resume service, I would have to pay a re-connect fee (if my water was cut off). To resume service, I would have to pay a deposit on the water service. There was a late fee charge on the account, of a few dollars, because I hadn't paid on time. Over twenty years of paying on time, and they were treating me like a vagrant who couldn't be trusted. | |
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| 08-16-16 08:52am - 3051 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I don't know if this fits the definition of identity theft, but I have been victimized numerous times where different credit card accounts in my name were used/attempted-to-use to fraudulently pay for purchases. I'm sure that is a FEDERAL offense. So it is very common for FEDERAL offenses to be committed. No big thing. It's not rare. It's a common, everyday thing. You (merc77) might have had a bad experience with identity theft. I don't know if people using my credit card accounts for fraud is identity theft. But it does qualify for theft. And it happens a lot. As for the article, I thought it was humorous and ingenious the way criminals are expanding the programs to rip off other people. And frightening, as well. As a side note, none of the attempts to use my credit card accounts actually used my valid credit card. Either the crooks used a fake credit card, or they just used the account number, without having to present a physical credit card. In other words, I never lost a credit card, and it was then used for fraud. The criminals/crooks/whatever-you-want-to-call-them got my account numbers somehow, and used them. | |
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| 08-16-16 08:30am - 3051 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Welcome to the world of cyber crime, where even dummies can make profit (illegal?). I found this article on computer crime fascinating. I knew that hackers can sometimes make a lot of money. But here is an article showing how anyone can become a hacker, even the computer illiterate. I've been using a computer for many years, but I'm still computer illiterate, as far as knowing how to effectively protect myself against viruses, spyware, etc. But there's still hope for me, with friendly and unfriendly hackers willing to share their programs for a fee. http://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-...84754384421679931766 Ransomware-as-a-service allows wannabe hackers to cash-in on cyber extortion Authors of the Cerber ransomware are selling their ransomware as-a-service for a 40 percent cut of their customers' ill-gotten gains. Danny Palmer By Danny Palmer | August 16, 2016 -- 13:02 GMT (06:02 PDT) | Topic: Security The Cerber affiliate scheme allows anyone to become a cyber extortionist -- for a price. A ransomware-as-as-service scheme is enabling even the most technically illiterate cybercriminal to extort payments from victims infected with data-encrypting malware -- with the developers of the service taking a significant chunk of the ill-gotten gains. Cerber is one of the largest active ransomware rings operating today, with data collected by cybersecurity researchers at Check Point claiming 150,000 Microsoft Windows users were infected in July alone. One of the key reasons it's so widespread is because its original creators are selling Cerber on the dark web, allowing other criminals to use the code in return for receiving 40 percent of each ransom paid. With an average ransom payment of one Bitcoin, overall profit from Cerber during July is thought to be around $195,000, with the authors receiving around $78,000 in that month alone. In exchange for giving up some of the profits, wannabe cyber fraudsters are provided with everything they need in order to successfully make money through extortion of victims of the malware -- it's essentially "ransomware for dummies" in an all-in-one kit, says Maya Horowitz, group manager of intelligence operations at Check Point. "Our assumption is the affiliates wouldn't be able to create their own ransomware or malware, so they'd be willing to pay as much as the creator wants because, to them, it's either that or nothing. They get a very user-friendly panel to manage the Cerber ransomware campaign, detailing how many infections there are on a daily basis, how many people pay, the income they're generating. It's very much ransomware for dummies." she told ZDNet. The availability of Cerber to anyone who wants to pay for it differentiates it from another of the most successful ransomware families, Locky. "Locky is only being sent by one threat actor -- they use it on their own and don't share or sell it. Cerber acts as ransomware-as-a-service -- those who created it are now leasing it for anyone to use," says Horowitz. That arguably makes Cerber more dangerous than Locky because each affiliate user can infect victims using a variety of different attack methods, although the two most common involve the victim unknowingly executing a malicious program disguised as a legitimate file, delivered in a phishing email, or the victim is infected browsing a compromised website. Why Investing Only in "What You Know" Could Be a Mistake The temptation to focus your investments on companies or products that you already know and like is understandable. But does it make sense? Sponsored by Charles Schwab Researchers believe there are currently over 150 active Cerber campaigns targeting users in 201 countries, with victims in South Korea, the US, and Taiwan accounting for over half of ransom payments. Perhaps significantly, however, Cerber doesn't infect targets in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, or Uzbekistan. They're all former Soviet states, suggesting that Cerber is potentially developed in Russia. "It's pretty much everywhere except for Russian-speaking countries. Encoded in the ransomware is an instruction that if it finds a machine configured for Russian language, then it will not run. That makes us assume the writers are of Russian origin," says Horowitz. While the malware authors could just sit back and wait for the profits to roll in -- the original Cerber was spotted early this year -- they're craftier than that. Indeed, researchers discovered that a new version of the ransomware, Cerber 2, was released in July, advertising improvements to the malware. Affiliates are encouraged to become part of the Cerber programme via banners and marketing on dark web forums, with claims that up to three percent of victims will pay the ransom. In reality, Check Point says only 0.3 percent of victims pay the ransom to regain access to their files. While that number seems low, the sheer amount of Cerber infections means its creators are thought to make almost $1m a year using the affiliate scheme alone. The money made is effectively laundered by passing it through a maze of Bitcoin accounts in order to evade detection. In order to combat Cerber, Check Point has released a free Cerber decryption tool, allowing victims to decrypt their locked files without being forced to pay a ransom. | |
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| 08-13-16 12:38pm - 3053 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I take the opposite approach. For me, a collection is one or more pieces. Of whatever. For porn, it's whatever photos or videos I happen to enjoy or like. Which can change over time. So if I have 1 video, or 10 videos, or more videos, that's my collection. And since I'm very disorganized, I don't sort the videos and galleries very well. If I had more energy or drive, I might sort what I have into categories, but it just seems to be too much work. Though I do respect the effort some people put into their porn collections. But that's not for me. | |
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| 08-11-16 02:02am - 3056 days | #6 | |
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I want to nominate skippy as one of the most persistent members of PU. He submitted this thread/comment over 20 times, never stopping even when PU did not acknowledge his effort to post the thread/comment. My hero.    | |
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| 08-11-16 01:45am - 3056 days | #5 | |
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tangub, I wrote my response before I read your comment. We both use a text file to write the review, then cut and paste to PU. But you are much faster than I am, both with your comment, and with your pasting. I takes me much more than a few seconds to post a review. It takes at least several minutes, because I usually get a lot of errors that my review is too many characters, or too many lines, for each section.  | |
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| 08-11-16 01:32am - 3056 days | #4 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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On my last review, when I clicked to submit the review I had written, the review disappeared. That has happened a few times in the past. Normally, I write the review in a text file, and cut and past the review into the PU boxes. Sometimes, I can click the page back-page forward and get the review to re-appear. Other times, I have to re-paste the review again into the PU submission form. But I think my problem is different from yours, because my mouse is buggy, and it sends signals to my laptop that I did not mean to send, so that might be causing part of my problem. But I would suggest, that when you write your review, you do it in a text document, and then paste the review into the PU submission form. Then, if the review disappears from the PU page, you still have the review, and don't have to start over from the beginning. You just have cut and paste the review from the text file to the PU page. It's saved me a lot of time and frustration if the review I am entering into the PU submission page disappears. And it's easier for me to write the review in a text document, because I can edit it more easily. | |
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| 08-10-16 10:50am - 3056 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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My opinion. The article is extremely one-sided, and does not make sense. Porn is an industry. The price of porn has gone down over time, especially since it became available on the internet. Back in the 1970s, to buy a single porn VHS tape cost maybe $80 or more. To buy a non-porn, commercial movie VHS tape cost maybe $80. Once DVDs came out, the prices dropped rapidly. And when the internet became popular, prices dropped even more, for both porn and non-porn. The article compares a subscription to netflix to a paid porn site. The author does not mention that netflix has over 75 million streaming subscribers. And that is separate from the DVD customers. If a porn paysite had 75 million subscribers, they would scream with joy, and they could afford to drop their membership fees. The author writes: "With the insane pricing detailed above, it’s actually amazing that anyone pays to join any of these sites." So I guess he is implying: Steal the porn instead, or watch it for free on a tube site. Or maybe pay a few dollars a month and use one of the services that he is promoting. I don't think the author is an idiot. But he is biased. He believes he should get his porn as cheaply as possible. Which is the natural way of thinking. But he doesn't believe that the porn producers or sellers should be paid very much, if at all. People believe in different ways. If paid porn-sites lose their paying customers, they will have to shut down. The US government does not spend a lot of money trying to support paid porn sites. Duh. Edited on Aug 10, 2016, 11:41am | |
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| 08-08-16 02:32am - 3059 days | #15 | |
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Suicide Squad' Shoots Down August Record with $135 Million Opening. I don't know how that plays out against what Pat read, that the studio needs $750 million box office to make a profit. But in the US, at least, the movie, in spite of poor reviews, is off to a big box office. And still waiting to hear from Amanda, if she is willing to give us a personal review. | |
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| 08-06-16 09:38am - 3061 days | #13 | |
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Suicide Squad' Set for August Opening Record Despite Negative Reviews Suicide Squad is getting a massive start this weekend, with around $45 million on Friday. However, we don't know if this includes Amanda's ticket price, because, even though she wrote that she would be seeing the film, she has not reported back yet. Waiting to see if Amanda has seen the film, and her reaction to it if she did. | |
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| 08-05-16 03:07pm - 3061 days | #67 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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MY PRECIOUS VIRGINS This used to be listed at PU. I think it would be more helpful, if you want to stop promoting a site, to still list the site, with the warning or explanation that "PU is no longer doing business with the site", as a warning that the site might have problems. This gives the PU members more of a heads-up that the site has problems. And even better, if you longer promote the site, but it still had reviews or comments, if you would still keep those old reviews or comments at PU--with the warning that PU no longer promotes the site. As I said, this would give PU members and non-members a better idea of the situation. Otherwise, a PU member or non-member might think PU had no information on the site. Just my 2 cents. | |
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| 08-05-16 02:57pm - 3061 days | #12 | |
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Amanda, let us know what you think of Suicide Squad. Even a short review would be helpful. Most of the professional reviews have been negative. But most fans seem to ignore the professional reviews. Enjoying a movie can be a very personal experience. Sometimes a review is helpful, other times, you wonder if the reviewer is freaking crazy.  | |
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| 08-04-16 06:57pm - 3062 days | #10 | |
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Suicide Squad is set to open this weekend. Expect strong opening, with a lot of pre-open ticket sales. I haven't seen the new Jason Bourne movie yet, but I'm thinking about it. | |
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| 08-03-16 07:33am - 3064 days | #4 | |
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Are there any good, free programs to download/capture streaming videos for the PC? I've never downloaded a streaming video. Might try it once, if I found a free program. Would be curious how the quality of the captured video would be compared to the download version (all the sites I belong to offer a download file for their videos). Toadsith, good to see you popping back up at PU. | |
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| 08-02-16 05:38pm - 3064 days | #64 | |
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vixen.com is a new site. Still small, but started by blacked and tushy creators, so this should be a fine site when it's had time to grow in size. Edited on Aug 03, 2016, 07:11am | |
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| 07-31-16 03:25am - 3067 days | #8 | |
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OFF TOPIC: Floyd Mayweather Drops $50k On Car Repairs 7/31/2016 12:45 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF EXCLUSIVE There's only one thing crazier than spending $1.5 million on a Bugatti Veyron ... spending $50k just to get the damn thing fixed ... but that's exactly what Floyd Mayweather just did. We spoke to Obi Okeke from DoctorBugatti.com who tells us he just serviced Floyd's Bugatti ... and it came out to a little bit more than your annual trip to Pep Boys. Here's the breakdown ... 4 2015 Bugatti tires $33k ... basic service (oil & fluid changes) $23k ... then to top it off a $3k detailing service where the damn Armor All must be made out of 24k gold. Final price tag was well over $50k. Wanna feel even LESS normal? Obi says he's had to start AN ENTIRELY SEPARATE COMPANY to service Floyd's cars because he has to move them around for service so often. Just ... wow. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> $33,000 for 4 tires. $23,000 for oil and fluid changes. Must be nice to have enough money to keep your car on the road. | |
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| 07-30-16 09:13pm - 3067 days | #7 | |
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Game of Thrones Will End After Season 8, HBO Confirms By Maria Mercedes Lara @maria_mercedes 07/30/2016 AT 09:45 PM EDT The end of Game of Thrones is coming. HBO's programming president Casey Bloys confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that the hit fantasy series would end after season 8. The news may not come as a huge surprise to GOT fans as showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss had previously stated that they wanted the series to end after its eight season. "Yes, they have a very specific plan about the number of seasons they want to do," Bloys said at the Television Critics Association's press tour in Beverly Hills on Saturday. "Believe me, as the new [programming executive] coming in, if I could get them to do more. I would take 10 more seasons. But we take their lead on what they think they can do the best version of the show." However, while Benioff and Weiss had previously said the eight season would only consist of six episodes, Bloys said the exact number of episodes in the final season has not yet been determined. As for a GOT spinoff, Bloys said he had talked about the possibility with Benioff and Weiss but that it would have to "make sense creatively" and that the showrunners couldn't really plan for it as they prepare to begin production on season 7. The seventh season of GOT is expected to premiere in summer 2017 on HBO. | |
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| 07-28-16 08:12pm - 3069 days | #4 | |
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Boy, have comics (and movies) changed. I just read that Brie Larson has been cast as Captain Marvel, a movie that is scheduled for 2019. The Captain Marvel that I read as a kid was a man. But Brie Larson (who recently won an Oscar) is a woman. Will she be playing a man in the forthcoming movie? No, Captain Marvel is now a woman super-hero. | |
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| 07-26-16 12:35pm - 3071 days | #3 | |
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I might see the new Wonder Woman in 2017. That has Chris Pine as Wonder Woman's sidekick. Wonder Woman reminds me of Captain America, with the way she uses her shield. | |
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| 07-26-16 11:51am - 3071 days | #2 | |
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I'm waiting for the new Jason Bourne to come out. Only have a limited amount of dollars, so I'm trying to spend them wisely. I used to be a Star Trek fan, back when it was in its original run on TV (back in the 1960s?). But I never got into the Star Trek movies. The thrill had gone. LOL. | |
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| 07-08-16 10:51pm - 3089 days | #2 | |
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I never had any experience with the seller. But you are talking about a DVD (or VHS tape) of a very old movie. And you are talking about a very expensive price to pay for the DVD. You have no idea of the quality of the DVD. For a movie this old, the copies are usually of poor quality. Even the DVDs of old movies of commercial movies can be of poor quality. So you would be paying a high price for a DVD of questionable quality (in terms of visuals, sound, etc.). It's probably better to keep your memories, and buy something else that you might find interesting, that will be of better quality. I know I've bought several copies of The Story of O (1975) and Emmanuelle (1974), two French erotic movies I saw in a movie theater in the 1970s. I bought the DVDs from Amazon. None of the DVDs I bought had the visual clarity of the original films. So they were disappointing. Both films were major films (for R or X rated erotic films). So you would think that the copies should be excellent quality. Both films in the theaters had outstanding clarity. The DVDs are much lower clarity. Which, for me, reduces the value of the DVDs greatly. | |
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| 06-26-16 04:48pm - 3101 days | #6 | |
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Game of Thrones Season 6 finale: Spoilers ahead! Evil people will be threatened. Winter is coming. The 50% off winter clothing sale is coming to an end. It will take almost another year for the next season of Game of Thrones to come to HBO. Cersei Lannister is on trial for incest and adultery. Can she convincingly claim that she is truly a virgin who was forced into sexual submission because of the base desires of men? Stay tuned for the Season 6 finale, which will reveal the truth behind the Iron Throne. And how does Game of Thrones tie in the Warcraft movie? Obviously, the Game of Thrones series ia based on warcraft. As is the Warcraft movie. So there! | |
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| 06-16-16 06:18pm - 3111 days | #28 | |
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Photos are easier to collect than videos. They take less hard drive space. But videos can be nice, as well. But overall, I think it's easier to make an excellent photo. Videos require more work, a lot more factors to control, so it's harder to make great videos. But there are plenty of videos out there, with some gold mixed in with the crap. | |
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| 06-13-16 11:24am - 3114 days | #2 | |
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Not a gamer. I saw Warcraft this last Sunday. I enjoyed it. The theater was mainly empty. The movie is only doing so-so business in the states, but doing very well overseas. The plot seems very dense, with a lot of major players, so it seems easier to watch the movie as a spectacle, instead of trying to bond with any characters. Especially since so many of them keep dying. | |
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| 05-31-16 04:24pm - 3127 days | #8 | |
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The legal system in the US is messed up. This man should never have been convicted of second-degree murder. He shot his wife in the back. Then he told her: "If you like running, then run to heaven," before firing the second time. (He shot his wife in each leg after shooting her in the back). (His wife enjoyed running as a hobby). The truth is, if he wanted to kill her, he would have shot her in the front. So finding him guilty of murder is wrong. And if he thought his wife was having an affair, of course he would be emotionally disturbed, and that means he is not guilty of murder, but manslaughter (even though he killed a woman, so maybe it should be woman-slaughter). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sh...ace-convicted-898425 Former 'Shield' Actor Convicted of Second-Degree Murder 11:00 AM PDT 5/31/2016 by The Associated Press Michael Jace AP Michael Jace's lawyers acknowledged that he killed his wife April and argued that he should be convicted of voluntary manslaughter. LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury on Tuesday convicted an actor who played a police officer on TV of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife that was partially witnessed by their two young sons. The verdict in the trial of Michael Jace, who appeared on the FX series The Shield, came after a weeklong trial in which Los Angeles jurors were told the actor shot his wife April in the back and then twice in the legs with a revolver that belonged to her father. Jace, 53, did not testify in his own defense. He told detectives soon after the attack that he had retrieved the gun to kill himself but couldn't do it. Instead, he planned to shoot his wife, an avid runner, in the leg so she would feel pain, Jace told detectives in a recorded interview. Deputy District Attorney Tannaz Mokayef told jurors the actor was waiting for his wife and he shot her in the back and taunted her before shooting each of her legs. Jace's 10-year-old son testified that he heard his father say, "'If you like running, then run to heaven,'" before firing the second time. Savoy Brown, an adult son of April Jace, said the family was pleased with the verdict. He said watching Jace has been difficult for the family, and said he is hoping the actor, who bit his bottom lip when the verdict was read but showed no other emotion, will show his feelings when he is sentenced. Deputy District Attorney Tannaz Mokayef said the potential sentence would be 40 years to life in prison. She said during the trial that the actor was upset that his wife wanted a divorce and believed she was having an affair, although no evidence was presented during the trial that she was cheating. Jace's attorney, Jamon Hicks, said his client is remorseful for killing his wife. He said the actor may speak during his sentencing hearing to express his remorse, but he wants to be respectful of April's family. Hicks previously told jurors the actor accepted responsibility for killing his wife but should be convicted of voluntary manslaughter because he shot her in the heat of passion. Jace also had small roles in films such as Planet of the Apes, Boogie Nights and Forrest Gump. He turned himself in to police after the shooting and has been jailed ever since. April Jace, 40, was a financial aid counselor at Biola University. | |
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| 05-25-16 03:30am - 3134 days | #7 | |
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In prostitution, the law can penalize the client or the sex worker or both. Personally, I think it's dumb or hypocritical or whatever term works best for you to describe the laws against prostitution as stupid and unhealthy and immoral. But the laws reflect human nature: People in authority (and people without authority) always seem to enjoy telling others what to do, and passing laws to enforce it. At the same time many of the people in authority have a double standard: do what I tell you to do, not what I do. Religious leaders speak out about the evils of prostitution, and then many famous preachers are caught in scandals because they had sex with prostitutes or had homosexual/gay sex. So the religious leaders and politicians that are caught, say they did wrong, ask for God's forgiveness, and continue to condemn others for sexual depravity. It's a crime to have sex. For pay, for whatever other reason. Except that it's wonderful to have sex, because you are carrying out God's plan and sex leads to children (which is part of God's plan). It's interesting to read debates on whether the changing laws about prostitution in different countries in Europe are helping or hurting to make prostitution safer for the clients and sex workers. If you read a short article on prostitution in Europe, you can see it can be a very complicated issue. https://mic.com/articles/112814/here-s-w...stitution#.Aojz52Fot | |
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| 05-24-16 11:34am - 3134 days | #4 | |
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I am not a lawyer. And my understanding of the law is simple. Not backed up by study in school--college or otherwise. But- You are arguing (or writing or however you want to put it) based on moral principles. The law is not based on moral principles--although people might argue that it is. The law is based on rules that have been passed by the lawmakers--and by state and national constitution. To ask that the US Congress or a US Constitutional amendment allowing the death penalty the way you have proposed, seems to me to be almost impossible. I am not talking about moral principles. I am talking about the way the law works-and what changes are possible. Can you talk to a lawyer about your ideas about capital punishment (without having to pay him any money)? It took many years for some states to allow the use of marijuana. That, in my opinion, was a far easier task than getting the law changed to permit fast legal executions for certain crimes. Again, I am not talking about moral issues here. I am talking about how difficult it would be to change the law to allow fast legal executions for criminal offenses. You have a dream. And you think that you are trying to protect the freedoms of people to act responsibly. I'm not saying you are wrong in a moral sense. But I am saying that your idea of capital punishment is just not practical in the legal sense. Although you might find some people that will agree with you. But you would need to convince or convert the vast majority of the US voting population-or the lawmakers-- that your ideas are sound. I don't think that will happen. Not in my lifetime. Or in yours. Just my opinion. But I suggest you talk to a lawyer, and ask whether your idea on capital punishment is legal--or possible without a Constitutional amendment or the support of Congress, or both. My guess is that the US Supreme Court would declare your idea unconstitutional, if they bothered to hear a case based on your idea. | |
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| 05-23-16 11:17pm - 3135 days | #2 | |
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The idea that proven rapists, murderers, human traffickers will be executed within 24 hours of verdict seems illegal. That idea might appeal to some people, but I doubt that such a law would ever pass. Or be found legal. Trying to put such an idea or law into your forum makes the forum seem unrealistic and pie-in-the-sky. | |
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| 05-22-16 02:45am - 3137 days | #198 | |
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Q: What's 6 inches long, 2 inches wide and drives women wild? A: A $100 bill. Q: How do you get a nun pregnant? A: Dress her up as an alter boy. | |
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| 05-18-16 05:58pm - 3140 days | #4 | |
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I hope that it was obvious that I was being ironic when I posted my thoughts about the "missing" Rolex. It's wrong to steal. Nobody will argue that. I wasn't there when Gandolfini died, but it seems highly unlikely he willingly gave the expensive watch to the paramedic. So if the paramedic had Gandolfini's watch, it seems obvious that the watch was stolen. When I wrote that "Restores my faith in human nature", I was trying to be cute. Based on the following ideas: Gandolfini died. Who will notice that his watch is missing? So if the paramedic took the watch, an expensive item that many people who know watches or recognize the Rolex trademark would realize it was an expensive piece of jewelry, the paramedic probably thought the risk was small that he would be caught. Why was the paramedic accused of the theft? The People article does not give details. But the paramedic probably did something stupid: either he wore the watch, and someone recognized it was an expensive piece of jewelry. Or the paramedic tried to pawn or sell the watch. And the pawnshop or the prospective buyer reported this to the police. As far as greed: I assume that Gandolfini was a wealthy man. He starred in the Sopranos, which was a huge hit for HBO. So he should have made a ton of money. His estate was estimated at $70 million at the time of his death. But no matter how much money his heirs will get (after paying taxes), I know very few people, wealthy or otherwise, who would be willing to turn a blind eye to a watch that is worth thousands. Whether the heirs claim it is a sentimental item or otherwise, it's only natural (natural human nature, as I understand it) for the heirs to want that watch, and to want the paramedic prosecuted. I don't call that greed. I call that natural human nature. Just because a person might have millions of dollars, they can still be as generous or as cheap as someone else who only has a net worth of hundreds or thousands of dollars. It depends on the person. I've read a story years ago, about an actress who was a leading lady in a hit TV series. The actress said she didn't leave tips when eating at restaurants because "She worked too hard for her money." I have no evidence that the story is true, but it seems logical to me, not fantasy, based on the ways people can think and behave. I've read other news stories about actresses that demand--and get--massive discounts if they buy expensive clothes--because they are "stars". On the other hand, actresses can be paid thousands of dollars (or more), if they wear designer clothes to celebrity events. So maybe it's natural for the actresses to wake up and realize that as celebrities they are entitled to discounts when they buy clothes or other items. Or not entitled. Depending on who is buying-who is selling. I doubt that the paramedic who took Gandolfini's watch was taking it as a keepsake. But maybe he will try to use that as part of his defense. Because if you read enough about criminal trials, the accused (or their lawyers) can come up with amazing stories about why they are innocent. And sometimes the fantastic stories will get the accused off or with a very reduced sentence. Edited on May 18, 2016, 06:41pm | |
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| 05-18-16 03:00pm - 3140 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Restores my faith in human nature. One of the paramedics who treated James Gandolfini when Gandolfini suffered a fatal heart attack in 2013 has been accused of stealing the actor's Rolex Submariner watch. The watch is worth thousands of dollars. But I think the paramedic might have just wanted a keepsake of Gandolfini. Maybe the paramedic was a fan of the actor. I know I was a fan of the Sopranos, and I enjoyed some of the movies that Gandolfini appeared in. What do PU members think? Did the paramedic have the right to keep Gandolini's watch as a keepsake? That might depend on the way it happened. Assuming the paramedic did take the watch: 1. Did he take it before or after Gandolfini was dead? 2. If he took it after Gandolfini died, did the paramedic take it off Gandolfini's wrist, or find it in the actor's hotel room? 3. If the paramedic took it off Gandolfini's wrist, was the paramedic trying to make Gandolfini more comfortable, by removing a constricting band from the actor's wrist? This can be an amazingly complicated event, that will be difficult to unravel. So: If you were one of the attending paramedics, what would you have done? Assuming you were a fan of Gandolfini. Would you have taken the watch, and told yourself, after Gandolfini died, that Gandolfini no longer needed the watch? Enquiring minds want to know. =================== =================== Paramedic Who Treated James Gandolfini Allegedly Stole Actor's Watch PEOPLE.com By Naja Rayne @najarayne 05/17/2016 AT 08:00 PM EDT A paramedic who treated James Gandolfini in Rome shortly before his death is on trial for allegedly stealing from the actor. According to NBC News, Claudio Bevilacqua, who was one of the attending paramedics when the actor suffered a fatal heart attack in 2013, is being accused of swiping the Sopranos star's Rolex Submariner, which is worth $3,000. Bevilacqua, 43, went on trial on Monday, but the judge decided to push the start of the trial back to November. It has not been confirmed if the watch taken from Gandolfini's hotel room or if it was still on his wrist we he collapsed, NBC reports. Gandolfini was 51 when he died while traveling in Rome as he was scheduled to take part in the Taromina Film Fest in Sicily. "He was a genius," Sopranos creator David Chase said at the time of his death. "Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time. A great dal of that genius resided in those sad eyes." | |
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| 05-17-16 04:17pm - 3141 days | #10 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I thought that the continuing economic downturn that started around 2008 was responsible for many of the porn sites that died? Because it's not just porn sites, but worldwide business in general that has experienced a downturn that we've not really recovered from. | |
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| 05-11-16 05:48pm - 3147 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Denis Reed, adult film star, dies in motorcycle accident. He was in straight and gay films. You've probably seen him, even if you don't recognize the name. http://www.towleroad.com/2016/05/denis-reed/ Adult Film Star Denis Reed Dies in Motorcycle Accident by Andy Towle May 9, 2016 | 7:15am Denis Reed Denis Reed, a Czech adult film star also known as Jan Velička, Pavel Matous, Honza XL, and Jan Vector, who appeared in many gay films from William Higgins, Staxus, and CzechBoys, died over the weekend in a motorcycle accident. He was one of the men behind Czech Hunter as well. Reed was one of the most well known adult stars in straight and gay films in Eastern Europe with a career lasting 12 years and encompassing hundreds of films. The death was reported on Reed’s Facebook site. His rep wrote: “In a sharp right-hand bend on the horizon mishandled his machine, the motorcycle fell to the ground and flew straight into a tree. During transport to hospital succumbed to serious injuries. We see the moto pictures but we will not publish them.” According to Czech media, his wife hated his motorcycle and discouraged him from using it: The short article has a picture of him. Good-looking guy. Young. RIP. Edited on May 11, 2016, 05:52pm | |
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| 05-09-16 01:13pm - 3149 days | #11 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I remember back in the 1970s that Emmanuelle and Story of 0 were shown in mainstream, regular movie theaters. They were considered softcore porn, as I recall. But they were the only porn movies that I know of that played in regular movie theaters, and not just in porno theaters or art house theaters. Both of those movies had high production values, and I still remember them fondly. I don't think either movie would qualify as "The most famous porn movie of all time", but I think they were famous at the time of release, and still famous today. | |
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| 05-06-16 01:05pm - 3152 days | #25 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Captain America: Civil War (2016) opens today, in America. And no one has posted at PU about this movie. Are we all a bunch of commies, that we are ignoring the greatest superhero in the western world? (Commies used to be a curse word, when I was growing up. I guess it's different in today's world. But I seem to remember when I was drafted into the US army, that I had to swear I wasn't a communist.) (Until 2014, to enlist in the U.S. armed services [air force, army, marines, navy] a person has to use the phrase "so help me God" when swearing his oath of allegiance. But today, if you are an atheist, you do not have to swear to God. So times change. Or the rules do.) | |
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| 05-05-16 06:10pm - 3153 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I'm not an expert on Tube sites. But aren't some of them offering a premium service, which has a pay membership? The pay membership upgrade would offer download privileges, maybe higher definition files or streaming, etc. | |
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