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Any additional thoughts here? Edited on Apr 19, 2023, 01:01pm | |
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| 11-09-13 04:31pm - 4061 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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| 10-02-13 09:49pm - 4098 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Alright, the forum has been way too quiet as of recent and filled with too many people saying "adios amigos" in lieu of the upcoming demise of this corner of cyberspace. Guess it's time for me take another brain dump with just a few random thoughts caused by excessive brain damage and too much time looking at porn. Feel free to add you own to this thread: If you really like someone but can't seem to escape the "friend zone" to take it to the next level does that mean your serving time in Palcatraz? If someone doesn't believe that they'll ever get laid does that make them a sexual atheist? If a cop pulls you over for drunk driving can you get let off by saying "In dog beers, I've only had one ... ossiffer." This one basically speaks for itself ... and maybe Drooler: With all the famous tag lines movie stars have had over the years I often wonder no porn stars have every tried to come up with one. You know, some porn starlet could squint and say before every come shot "Go ahead, make my day" or something similar. If I ever started a vegan porn site -- a yet undeveloped niche that would involve no pussy/beaver eating but lots of cream fillings -- I'd make sure my porn stunt dick bellowed out this line at the start of every scene: And, last for now, what the members of Congress are currently doing during our fabulous government shut down: | |
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| 02-16-13 11:03am - 4327 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Came across this article today called "Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers." A longish read about a guy who spent way too much time digging through the IAFD database. As per most studies of this type, his conclusions are only as good as the source material which as we know ain't always true. However, it does cover a lot of subjects that have repeatedly come up in the forum over the years and gleans some interesting facts. Worth a read. | |
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| 09-14-12 10:54am - 4482 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
There's been a fair amount of chat in the forum over the years about why porn stars do what they do and what happens when they leave the biz. Apparently there's a new documentary called "After Porn Ends" that interviews about a dozen porn stars including Asia Carrera, Amber Lynn and Tiffany Millions about the whole ride. I've not seen it so I can't offer a recommendation but apparently it's now available on i-tunes and will be out on dvd in a couple of weeks. Here's a link if you're interested in reading more. | |
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| 05-04-12 11:52am - 4615 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
In case any of you social media media nubes haven't heard, the website Pininterest.com is the hot new site. It's basically a bulletin board where you can "mark" any image on the web and have it appear on your personal bulletin board. Apparently, women really dig this site because it's already one of the top new social media sites for them, mostly dealing with recipes and fashion. Men, as usual, are the late comers to Pininterest. Unless I'm into building a mullet identification chart or interested in building a virtual baseball card collection I can't see why I'd want a bulletin board. Until now that is. It didn't take the porn people long to figure out that the same thing could be done for porn. Yup, there are now a bunch of apps that let you build a personal porn bulletin board to extoll your lust for the latest hottie so the rest of the world can admire your good taste (for the article and links go here). Personally, I don't see the interest. I don't share my porn interests with others now, and if adding to my collection is my goal then wasting time showing the rest of the world any fetish I have in Ukrainian Tramp Stamps (I don't) just seems like another time waster. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words (but then what is a GIF worth?) but I don't see the appeal in looking at whatever all the other pervs think is hot and nasty. Of course, these web sites will be great for future reading when some politico gets busted for his porn interests and his pin page gets posted for the world to see. I guess we all like voyeurism in that sense. | |
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| 04-06-12 11:18am - 4643 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
OK, this is a rhetorical question: the only answer is "as much as you got, bring it on bro". While this never say attitude is what fuels a lot of us here it looks like it also fuels the rest of the world. Came across an interesting article that actually attempts to calculate the size of the internet porn world by actual usage, not just dollars spent (click here for the article). In a nutshell, the article claims that as much as 30% of the worlds total web traffic is taken up by us pervs looking at porn. Other statistics in the article show that despite some PUer's having porn stashes in the 20 terabyte range that there's still plenty of content out there waiting to be collected. Admittedly, some of the mind boggling numbers in the article are extrapolations based more on guessing than true data but even if porn only consumes 15% of all web traffic it's a telling sign that despite many governments trying to block porn that it's here to stay. In other words, if you're worried about porn going away from the internet any time soon the sheer size of the industry almost dictates that it's impossible to get rid of despite censorship rules and hardware. In other words, internet porn is sort of like that nasty rash you've got down there ... you just keep telling yourself it's just a temporary problem but it's there to stay unless you're willing to go medieval on it. | |
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| 03-01-12 11:36am - 4679 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
To everyone who clicked on this thread hoping to read salacious tales of peoples personal perversions (the P to the 3 principal ... does that make it the P4 rule?) I apologize. No, instead this thread focuses on the fact that Ides of March have come early this year. Today marks the 1st day that Google introduces it's new "privacy" rules which are really anything but that and that maybe today is the day we should start thinking about taking more control over our passive web lives. Basically, the universal Google has revamped it's privacy rules and consolidated everything it had into one main policy that everyone has to follow. Basically, the new rules allow them to collect and store even more personal information about you: (For a good article with links discussing this in depth, go here). From a business perspective, I don't really blame Google. Collecting more info about you makes them more money because they can brag to advertisers about all the good inside stuff they know about you. It also makes life easier for your everyday tasks; Google's personalized search program is evidence of this. It also allows integrated platforms for gathering personal info (they track your Android use, Google docs use, gmail and other stuff) and for making life easier for the lazy masses. In other words, Big Brother has come not in the form of the government but in the form of a company offering to make your life easier and sporting a friendly "First, Do No Evil" corporate motto. Most people don't really care about all this since they don't see a direct impact on their lives. However, being someone who does engage in some risk management work, you have to think about the consequences. One of my favorite punching bags is former Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld who did have this memorable line about dealing with strategic situations: "[T]here are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns; there are things we do not know we don't know." So, you know their taking your web info (almost all of it) and offering to target you with more advertising. What you know you don't know is who they are giving / selling this info to and what exactly they are going to do with it beyond some innocent advertising banners. The unknown unknown stuff is what the hell might happen with your personal knowledge in the future (hackers, government tracking, identity theft, whatever your perverted mind can conjour up). If you know that your being used like the web tool you are, then why put up with it? Personally, I'm in the process of migrating away from Google and taking privacy a little more seriously. What I've learned is that there's a lot of good stuff out there that does the same job as all the Google offerings but with better privacy. Here's the quick primer: 1. Quite Google. A very good explanation of how to it is here. I am currently trying Icloud for email and documents and the Wolfram Alpha search engine as mentioned in the article and both are recommended. 2. Find out who is tracking you all the time (how "out there" are you). Collusion is new cool tool that lets you visually see how you are tracked every time you go from site to site (go here for more info, do run the demo to see how it works). The program can't block all the tracking but it does show how integrated web sites are in terms of who is tracking you and sharing data about you. 3. Find some useful cookie cutters, aka programs that destroy tracking cookies and cut down on web advertising while you cruise the internet seas (I only use adblock plus with Mozilla and cookie destroying program that runs everytime I finish a surfing session but I am looking for a good real time cookie limiter program). 4. Sleep better at night knowing that Mark Zuckerberg's soon to be billions coming from Google's IPO offering won't be subsidized by you. Edited on Mar 01, 2012, 11:39am | |
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| 07-28-11 12:36pm - 4896 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
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| 04-21-11 02:17pm - 4994 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Just wanted to say congratulations to Exotics4me for crossing the 400 point threshold ... and he still only accounts for about 3.5% of the total reviews here. Keep 'em rolling in there big guy. Also, congrats to Lk2fireone for finally crossing the 100 point threshhold (apparently he's too busy oogling porn to finally off the kitty). | |
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| 04-20-11 12:54pm - 4995 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
For those of us who have too much time on our hands, here's some pointless but entertaining links: 1. Graphs showing sex habits around the world here. 2. Masturbation statistics here. 3. Proof that internet porn can lead to unanticipated violence here. 4. Proof that internet porn leads to diminished violence here. 5. Pointless pictures: Beatles (the group) Bukkake, the reason why all computer viruses aren't bad here, Chuck Norris markets in everything here, proof of how messed up America is here, the real man's medicine cabinet here, why the internet makes everything better, the PornUsers medical emergency mantra, and, how Maslow's hierarchy of needs has been altered by the internet here. Add your own if you got 'em. | |
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| 12-16-10 08:13pm - 5120 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Mmmmm. Nothing says Christmas like the aroma of my gym socks hung over an empty bottle of lube with care and a big heaping plate of this festival of feces more commonly known as the PU Forum Awards! The whole thing reminds me of my childhood and the abusive foster family I never had ... but that's another story ... one that will probably be told in some bestiality porn parody coming soon to a website near you. After having dished, dissed and pissed on everyone and everything the last two years, some of you may have noticed that I haven't been my usual postaholic self this last year. Instead I've been trying to atone for my sins by contributing to mankind's knowledge base; pondering deep and important issues like; If Snooki passes out drunk, is that called a "hoe down"; If a quiz is quizzical, then what is a test?; How do blind people know when they're done wiping?; If "pro" is the opposite of "con", is "progress" the opposite of "congress"; If silence is golden how come duct tape is silver and gag balls are red?; and, What if there were no hypothetical questions? When faced with such daunting challenges, people employ different coping mechanisms - I prefer heavy masturbation and my aura of awesomeness ... or is that "odor", I forget. Unfortunately for humanity, and the benefit of countless unopened cans of Four Loko, I was left befuddled and bedazzled (God, I love my neon sequined crotchless PU jumpsuit) by these issues and was forced to return here ? cause when life gives you nothing but douchebags you either make "Jersey Shore" or the Forum Awards. I know, I know. I can already hear your chants of "Let's skip the fairy tale (err, "tail") and go right to the happy ending". Thus, it's time for me reject your awesomeness and substitute my own with this annual franchise of doom known as the Forum Awards. So strap on your kevlar underwear, turn on some soothing gonzo gangbang music, turn on the gas in your stove and open the door and relax with another sorry edition of of the Forum Awards ... [Disclaimer: If you can't handle having won an award, lost an award, failed to receive your prize or feel that you have been inaccurately portrayed in this thread please direct all complaints to: wittyguysucks/google.beefdepartment@theinternet.com. All awards are humorous in nature and unaffiliated with the PU/TBP staff. Votes were tabulated and verified by drunken lemurs. If you're clueless as to what the hell is going on, check out the 2008 and 2009 awards and buy your disgrace insurance now.] As is customary, we open the awards with our "POSTER CHILD OF THE YEAR" Award. Like last year, we have double winners in the guise of Messmer and Pat362! Armed with conflicting attitudes of "Posts? Bitches love posts!" and "Prose before ho's" this Canadian tag team duo managed to crank out over 1200 forum posts between them this year. Unfortunately for us, they forgot that posts are sort of like farts (you can only tolerate your own) and greatly confused the concept of "I can" with "I.Q." Like Master Yoda said, "Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice." I'll let you two fight it out for domination ... master / apprentice ... top / bottom ... (do I sense a 'dance off' in the near future?). For his prize, Messmer receives a mirror to mount next his computer (so he can high five himself after every post) and a lifetime membership to Awesomenessreminders.com in case he ever loses his mojo. Pat362 receives a General George Patton wall clock that chimes out "Pat, you magnificent bastard, I read your post!" on the hour and his avatar prominently featured in the upcoming unofficial shoot of the "I'm Awesome" video. Our next award is AVATARD, err, I mean "AVATAR OF THE YEAR" AWARD. Frankly I was a little worried since there very few new avatar faces this year but, borrowing a page from reality t.v., Advent is our winner! As webmistress for the ATK franchise, she graced us with an actual photo of herself without apparent fear that her image would fuel many a forum pervs fantasy. Sporting shades and a tight t-shirt with a giant blue sperm on it, how could she not win? Of course, being bestowed with such an honor should result in a little quid pro quo ? Advent ? just email me a bunch of free ATK passes, OK? Her prize is a t-shirt that reads "Save the Trees - Eat more Beaver" and a free membership to Chatroulette where she see and visit with all the admirers she has here at PU. Honorable mentions go out to WeeWillyWinky for his granny pants over the head look (I don't think that's what people mean when they talk about ?bringing sexy back?) and DavidX for posting a purported real mug shot pedo-bear look alike photo of himself. The only thing keeping DavidX from winning this year was the fact that his picture wasn't taken in a front of a van with the words "Free Candy" spray painted on the side or that his signature line didn't read "What's better than a 22 year old porn star? Twenty two year old porn stars!". No offense meant DavidX, sarcasm and sadistic humor are just some of the services provided by the forum awards. Next up, we have the "TALKING 'BOUT MY DEGENERATION AWARD" going to everyone who contributed to the "Can Someone Clue Me In" thread. We do have a tendency to stray from the original thread topic but Messmer's initial question (a brief "no" reply post would have sufficed) about file compression standards ended up as a free for all bestiality fest (God, why does it always have to be bestiality? Why?!?) involving midgets, horses and anal sex. Unfortunately, like a black light shown on a computer desk, what has once been seen can no longer be unseen as that thread any and all intellectual currency it might have once contained. For prizes, everyone who contributed to this train wreck gets a "Meat is Murder. Tasty, Tasty Murder." sweatshirt and a can of whoop-ass to open up on the next poster who heads down bestiality avenue. Honorable mentions go to the "Do these girls know the consequences" thread which ended with a debate about who has the classiest shoppers: Walmart or Target (simple solution, just count the number of teeth the average shopper has); those who chimed in the "If you had a chance with your favorite model" thread which ended up with some discussing how they'd like to bone Ariel from "The Little Mermaid" (God, why does it always have to be bestiality? Why?!?); and, contributors to the "Surprise, New Forum Features" thread which went talk of the new emoticons to people posting pictures of boobies (the kind that affirm PU's unofficial motto "PU: Where every month is breast awareness month" and the avian kind which made me question if a bird in the hand is really worth two in the bush). Up next, is "THREAD TITLE OF THE YEAR AWARD" which goes to Lk2fireone for his thread "When was the last time your balls felt clean?"! Illuminating the world to this cruel and embarrassing condition puts him on the short list for next years Nobel Prize and inspired many a reply post that ... well, you can probably guess where that lead to. I'm sure Lk2fireone's pointed inquiry will drift over into mainstream media like the Old Spice guy doing a body wash commercial - "Ladies, look at my balls. Now look at your man's balls. Now back to mine. See my balls on horse." (God, why does it always have to be bestiality? Why?!?). His prize is a bottle of Viagra and a ticket to a private TSA pat down room in order to verify his own condition. Honorable mentions go to Denner for "Porn in Afghanistan" (a serious thread despite the title); Drooler for "Dangling Corners" (maybe Drooler is the one who needs the Viagra?); RagingBuddhist for his self descriptive "My Rage" thread; Messmer for "Can someone clue me in" (ahh, no) and Graymane for the "Inquisitive minds want to know: beastiality?" thread, which I take to mean he wants to recode the Farmville game for more "action" (God, why does it always have to be bestiality? Why?!?). We have a new category this year; the "GREAT GRANDPA GA-GA AWARD" which goes to Graymane! This self professed 77 year old geezer who mainlines prune juice has been trying to relive his sexual past through the PU glory hole by donning his meat suit and relentlessly posting polls and threads asking PUer's to discuss sex acts and sexual preferences. I get it. Porn mimics life ... but jabbering about sex gone by doesn't make him The Most Interesting Man in the World (I'm just waiting for him to claim that he once visited the Virgin Islands and now they're just called "The Islands"). Today, Graymane is celibate by choice (not his choice, rather the choice of billions of women around the world) and he needs your support to keep him living cause apparently the little blue pills are losing their effect on him. Seriously, I'm glad to see the AARP crowd represented here at PU; affirming that Old School means that you still have the internet ? you just have it on vinyl. Edited on Dec 16, 2010, 10:32pm Edited by Staff on Dec 16, 2010, 09:27pm | |
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| 12-10-10 02:26pm - 5126 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
By now everyone has probably heard about the whole Wikileaks controversy. Basically, some people at Wikileaks persuaded a junior level US military intelligence guy to download boatloads of "secret" intelligence file and turn them over to Wikileaks which then published all the files on line. Nothing earth shattering was revealed, just a bunch of private memos about how the government really feels about other governments and some pretty snooze worthy intel we wouldn't otherwise know about. The result? Wikileaks gets raged at by several governments, the Wikileaks founder gets tagged by the Swedes for some questionable sex crime ("sex by surprise", give me a break). Companies and ISP's that originally hosted Wikileaks began pulling them off the web and that in turn resulted in these companies getting slammed by an army of anonymous hackers as revenge. Who needs reality tv when we got this. I will say that I'm no big fan of Julian Assange (Wikileaks founder). He is an quasi-anarchist egomaniac who believes that government by its very nature is corrupt and must be exposed at any price. He doesn't edit anything which in past releases of info included private info of soldiers and identities of people helping the US who might pay with their lives for their disclosure. In this context I see Wikileaks as a bit of a cult of personality that lacks journalistic credibility that could harm the future release of confidential material that the world really should see, not the trove of mediocrity that we recently got. His threats to release more government materials should he ever be arrested attests more to his sense of entitlement than his journalistic credibility. Underneath all the b.s. there is some interesting shit going on though. First, let me start by committing my first felony of the day: click here. That's right, by merely posting to the classified reports, I have committed a felony under the US Espionage Act. Anyone who clicks on the link and reads the classified documents is also committing a felony. This is what the US government is planning on charging Wikileaks with (the case is not yet filed but it will be). WTF? I won't get into the whole debate about if it was appropriate to release the docs or not but I'll suffice to say that nothing revealed was of vital national security. If this revealing of the proverbial dirty underwear underneath the Statue of Liberty is so bad why weren't the journalists who released the Pentagon Papers in the 1970's tried for treason? Why wasn't Dick Cheney tried for releasing Valerie Plames name? The list could go on but my point is that this seems like an over reaction that could have a chilling effect on legitimate news organizations, whistle-blowers and other less than criminal types. This is a seriously out of date law that is being selectively used as a club in an age where the internet arms everyone with an automatic weapon. Second, it points out the fact that while the internet is viewed as a public place it is in fact run by private enterprise that has a financial stake in the game. Paypal and Amazon both had previous dealings with Wikileaks which they severed after the posting of the classified documents. In return, they got hacked with denial of service prompts by so called Wikileak supporters (I say so called because a lot of them were probably just looking for a reason to slap big corporations in the face for fun). I'm afraid that companies and countries may start to shy away from supporting free speech that might be controversial because they don't want to deal with negative publicity and attacks. This chilling effect could harm us all in the future as corporations deny people a platform to expose true crimes committed by governments or the powerful. Third, this situation brings into the debate the whole question of journalistic integrity, free speech and government secrets. Governments need secrets in that we shouldn't know everything our government is doing when it comes to national security and foreign affairs. Politicians going ape shit over the release of these documents seems to me to be a case of them feeding their own egos by filing time on cable tv which needs them to feed their bottom line. This whole thing also raises the question of what a journalist is in the internet age and where the lines of free speech get crossed. No answers for anyone, but it will be interesting to see where this goes. For those of you who suffered through this post, I reward you with a link to some products that inadvertently got a bit too sexy for themselves: here. | |
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| 12-07-10 01:50pm - 5129 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
The issue of people being able to snoop on your cyberporn habits has come up numerous times in poll questions and in forum topics. However, I hadn't seen any discussion about how good the "usual suspsects" (e.g. - standard internet cleanup tools) work in terms of hiding your tracks. I came across an article here that actually looked at how good the cleanup tools worked in terms of hiding someones visits to porn sites. The results were mixed. For the average person, it would be pretty hard to find evidence. For an IT person, it only takes a 1/2 hour max to resurrect the deleted cookies and other traces. The article does suggest a program that can permanently destroy all cookies. This does lead to a related question I had know that the online version of porn tracking seems to be answered. That is, how secure is your porn on your hard drive if you password protect those files? Assuming the IT guy doesn't run a password cracking program is it easy to work around a standard password protect setup? If so, are there simple ways or programs that can provide better security? Just thought I'd try and create a "hide your tracks" one stop shopping thread here. | |
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| 11-01-10 12:41pm - 5165 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
Handing out awards for porn vids is sort of like handing out candy at Halloween, everyone seems to get something for just showing up. No one whose into online porn takes these things seriously or even follows them (do they?). Finally, there is an award that speaks to me ... and honors some hot pussy at the same time: http://www.avn.com/galleries/Industry-Cat-Nominees-416323/416333/ | |
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| 08-26-10 12:37pm - 5232 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Wittyguy (0)
Active User Posts: 1,138 Registered: Feb 04, '08 Location: Left Coast, USA |
OK, first things first. Before all you porn jihadists get fired up and issue a fatwa on my ass like the last go around on this (here), let me clarify by saying this is only a "partial" defense and probably not for the reasons most people think. Also, in my defense, I post this picture from last night to explain my mindset:  In the past, I've pretty much taken the view that DRM and Stream only videos (DRM equivalent) are "evil" because you don't get to keep what you see beyond your membership time. From a collectors point of view (and most everyone who is active on PU is collector, not just a casual viewer) this is sacrilege. Given the thousands of hours I've put into my collection (surfing, sorting, viewing, discarding, organizing, editing, etc.) it's understandable that we treasure keeping what we seek. However, two things have recently caused my to shift my mindset. First, I've sort of reached a plateau or saturation point in my collection. I have stuff that hasn't seen the light of my monitor in years. I join fewer and fewer sites because I don't have the time, don't want to spend the money and I know that I got enough to keep me happy for a while. I have the mental perspective that if I don't look at my collection and tend to it then what's the point of having it. I know many here are basically freakin' hoarders who want nothing more than the next new thing and take pride in the terabytes of material they've got. That's just not how I approach my collection. Second, it's only technology that has allowed us to become collectors. I think a lot of us wouldn't have the porn collections we have if we had to actually collect dvds, magazines and tapes like the days of old. That's a bit hard to keep tastefully hidden and pretty damn expensive too. It's the big ass hard drives and higher speed web connections that have paved the way for our hobby. We also formed our collections because, realistically, that is/was the only viable way of viewing porn. If price points are the same for DRM vs. download, I'll choose to join the site that lets me download most every time. I think it's also technology that might pave the way for a resurgence in DRM or stream only porn too. If I were young today and living off of my smart phone, texting away all the time and simultaneously trying to manage both my real and virtual life while working or going to school I just wouldn't have the time to devout to building a real porn collection. Chances are pretty good too that my main computer would be a laptop with a wi-fi connection that isn't the most reliable in the world and doesn't offer blazing fast downloads and I'd be seriously thinking about ditching the laptop for an Ipad or similar device in the near future. I'd also have grown up in an age where porn is nothing more than a commodity; not knowing there was a time when download quality was mostly crap and having to hunt and peck through the online porn universe to find sites that I liked. Instead, I can go to review sites like here and instantly price compare and look at reviews and make a decision as opposed to shopping off of dubious site tours. For this fictional version of me, I'm thinking that stream or drm only makes sense in that I don't have time to build up a big ass collection (Farmville and Facebook -- the "F You's" of social networking to porn world -- take priority) and that if priced right then stream or drm lets me sample a variety of sites, sites I might later want to join later and download from to build a collection. Now, here's where the "partial defense" part comes in; and it does so in two words: "price point". Websites come into the stream / drm debate from the protection angle. They want to protect their intellectual property rights and protect their content from being posted else where or shared for free. They typically slap the same flat rate on their sites, thinking that people will still really love their product and want it just because they made it. They forget that porn is just a commodity to today's generation and that us old school types won't fork over dough just for the privilege of basically renting some of their porn flicks. Today, both my fictional self and porn/time saturated real self would consider joining a stream / drm site if the price were right. That means tiered pricing where I can pay less for stream only / drm (what exactly that price point is relative to most people so I won't delve into that issue). I'd even be happy if some of the top rated sites had a "classics" site where I could join for less and only see content that isn't the newest release -- I got enough for now so that I have the patience to wait. This doesn't mean that I only want vids geared towards smart phones, I still want quality. However, I might be willing to compromise and give up the download only if the price were right. Hell, if I really liked the stuff, then I might pay more for the privilege of downloading it (pure DRM / stream will never really work as an economic model in this porn saturated age with everyone making porn vids). Most sites don't seem to get this concept, still offering flat rates or tiered pricing based upon access to content, not the format of viewing available. So, my partial defense is really more of a defense of a fictional future, not the current reality. That's too bad since I think there is a market with today's younger generation and some of us porn saturated types. | |
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| 08-19-10 12:39pm - 5239 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Apparently, some billionaire is taking pity on the rest of us fools and offering us the chance to live a life of luxury ... albeit in a federal prison hospital paralyzed after being shot by the secret service. All you have to do is get someone to videotape you running naked in front Obama with the words "Battlecam.com" printed on your stomach. A small price to pay for money and immortal fame ... to go along with your wheelchair. Here's the article: http://business.avn.com/articles/Billion...nt-Obama-408602.html. | |
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| 06-16-10 11:59am - 5303 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Admittedly I'm just a casual soccer fan, not really paying attention except for the World Cup. Since I don't pay that much attention, here's some World Cup stuff that got my attention: 1) You knew it was bound to happen. First there was the Lingerie Bowl that has played for years during the Super Bowl (hot chicks in underwear playing touch football - that is "Real American Touch Football" ). Seems like the rest of the world has picked up on it. Here's a photo gallery of supposed porn stars playing a "Germany vs. Brazil" soccer match wearing nothing but body paint: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/15/world-cup-sexy-soccer-bod_n_613410.html#s100871 ... though I see in a couple of pics that the girls just can't keep from using their hands to touch the balls; coincidence? 2) If you missed the England vs. US game, catch the highlights featuring Lego players: http://upnextinsports.com/2010/06/14/funny-sports-pictures-lego-world-cup-highlights/ 3) Pretty much self explanatory (from the England / US game):  Edited on Jun 16, 2010, 12:03pm | |
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| 06-03-10 12:16pm - 5316 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Though this has come up before in various other posts, here's another rehash of some interesting stats about the internet and porn:  All I can say in regard to all those stats is ....  | |
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| 05-06-10 06:26pm - 5344 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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About two months ago when I was bored out of friggin' gourd I decided to do a bit of number crunching (it seemed more entertaining than doing my taxes at the time; hell, I guess doing anything but my taxes would be entertaining at that point). After months of time churning advanced calculations that would make Stephen Hawking cry on a highly advanced liquid cooled parallel processing supercomputer (also known as a hand held calculator splashed with beer and operated with 2 fingers), the results are finally in. I looked over the top 30 points leaders here at PU. Am I biased? Maybe. I figured the top 30 was manageable and it provided enough of a sample pool to see what people were up to. In case you're wondering the top 30 have generated about 40% of the PU reviews here and they had enough reviews to discount the one review wonders and site bashers. I also noted that in the top 30 there were a grand total of 10 "no trust" votes out damn near a thousand trust votes cast. We seem to all score pretty conservatively. Exotics4me had the highest average site score of 85.4. James4096 bottomed out the group with an average site score of 72.5. The average score for all sites among the top 30 was a 79 (same with the "mean" or weighted average). For comparison, the average score among all reviews at TBP is in the low 70's: then again they look at everything while we presumably are only joining sites that we're interested in. When looking at each of the top 30 reviewers 10 highest rated sites, only 18 out of the 30 had an average score of 90 or greater. TBP's top 10 reviews averaged out at about 93.5. There was only score of 100 from a PU top 30 and none at TBP. For the most part, we tend to stick to the well beaten path of usual sites. Mbaya seems most likely to review sites that haven't been reviewed before. However, most of the PU top 30 haven't posted reviews of any more than 2 of the TBP top 10 ranked sites. I attribute part of this to the fact that the majority of the top 10 TBP sites tend to be softcore glamor sites which most of us can't stomach in large quantities. Here are some other random thoughts and observations from looking at a number of random reviews among the PU top 30 points leaders: 1. We tend to talk about price a lot while TBP doesn't factor it into a score. This in part might explain why we are scoring lower on average than TBP since even though we liked a site we can't get over having forked over some hard earned bling to view the goodies. Does free access make TBP more of a softie when it comes to reviews or are we just more jaded? 2. We tend to be more objective than subjective when discussing sites. A few, but not many, talk about specifically what they liked in a site but most of us talk about site statistics and overall impressions as opposed to specific models (unless a solo site) or issues. 3. One review that I found interesting was Asmith12's review of "Fucking Gamble" (go here: https://www.pornusers.com/replies_view.html?id=45107. I don't know if it was intentional, but he used a +++, ++, and + feature in his "Pros" section to emphasize what he really liked over what would just be considered a standard positive note. I liked this aspect because it emphasizes what a site does really well (or not in the case of a con comment) without having to get too wordy about it. I might start using this on my future reviews. Asmith probably writes the best "subjective" reviews in that he doesn't focus too heavily on the site statistics and numbers and focuses more on his impressions. 4. With 40% of the reviews, you figure that the Top 30 PU points people have to be generating some decent coin for the TBP folk. I see that there aren't any page view counters on any TBP or PU site (trade / proprietary / business secrets?) but you have to guess that people who go to TBP (they're always among the top couple of listings on Google when you search for "porn site reviews" ) read at least some of the PU linked reviews too. Multiple reviews from multiple authors in one place; no other porn review site has that -- now that's marketing. At least I can say that I've probably won more on the weekly drawings than I've spent on porn since joining PU. How many of the points leaders are running a deficit in that regard? Should we unionize and demand reparations or be happy with a pass time hanging out with a bunch of pervs who inform us on our hobby? 5. We seem to expect more from our sites than TBP / other commercial sites. This seems kind of obvious given the Top 30 have an average site score of 79 and presumably we only join sites that we think will interest us. Is this because we go back to our favorites and end up seeing more of the same at the same quality levels (boring) or because we are seeing stuff we like and we want more of it at the highest quality level our modems and hard drives can handle? Enough for now, I'll leave the rest to the accountants .... | |
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| 04-30-10 01:58pm - 5350 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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The fine hard working folks at Apple aren't content with just offending women with the I-Pad, they're now on a quest to conquer the planet by patenting forms of nonverbal communication. Here's what Steve Jobs just got a patent on: Apparently these hand gestures are patented in conjunction for use in some upcoming touch sensitive screen device. So, here's my question:  Apparently this is part of Apples plan to make any future I-gadgets incompatible with future competitors touch devices (and you thought learning different software was a pain in the ass, try remembering which device uses which hand "save" function ... promptly leading to frustration and use of the universal "save this" sign  ). Seeing this made me realize that at some point some porn geek is going to patent different hand positions for some futuristic "love glove" or similar device. Good forbid someone try to get exclusive domain over my "double eagle claw technique" (advanced users only), my "SpongeBob Jizz Pants" maneuver, or even my choreographed "Knock on Wood" rhythmic interpretive dance special. The government has let people patent human genes, business models and animal creations but I'll be damned if I'm going to let them patent something that's in direct violation of my freedom of masturbation (one of the lesser known amendments). I urge all pervs to unite and send me large amounts of money so that I can patent all of the "basics" (see here: http://www.89.com/d/?d=advice-masturbation) and donate those rights to goodwill of all mankind. Any leftover money will be used to "erect" a statue of  on the mall in Washington DC. | |
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| 04-28-10 12:53pm - 5352 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Came across an article talking about how Visa was starting to crack down on businesses that share customer credit card with third parties without the customer's consent. Visa has imposed a new rule prohibiting this practice which cost consumers over $1 billion last year and it results in a lot of time and hassle for the credit card companies to deal with customer complaints. It appears this rule would have the effect of banning prechecked cross sales upon signing up for a website without providing follow up emails and consent disclosures. The problem with this rule is that Visa is only applying the rule to transactions involving different merchant account numbers -- meaning that you sign up for a site run by merchant A and the cross sales are for sites run and processed by merchant B. Thus, it appears that you can still get slammed with cross sales if the cross sale is for a site or product owned by the same company. Apparently the billing processor Epoch is in full compliance with the new rules. Proof once again to think twice before using lesser known billing processors. The end result is that I think we'll see fewer prechecked cross sales overall but the practice will still continue, especially with the large porn companies that have multiple sites. I'm sure some of the smaller sites using foreign processing companies will still try and go the traditional "bait and switch" route relying on the fact that they're just small fish that Visa might not care that much about. I honestly don't see why Congress couldn't pass a simple law banning the principal. Such a law wouldn't have to apply only to porn but would cover all sites. Simply make it so that prechecked sales to US residents are prohibited and require a separate web page for consumers to check the special "ripoffs" ... I mean "offers" that they want. Some in the porn industry will bitch about this because it cuts into their revenue but I say if your business model heavily relies upon duping customers then maybe you and Bernie Madoff should be spending some quality time together making license plates for $2 a day. Here's the full article: http://business.avn.com/articles/37893.html | |
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| 03-25-10 01:12pm - 5386 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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| 02-04-10 01:37pm - 5435 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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I've noticed some of the recent site reviews on Thebestporn have "Billing Certified" certificates attached to them on the right hand side of the page, under the "Site Facts" section (here's a link to once such review: https://www.thebestporn.com/review/thehardcorenetwork/). On the surface it seems all well and good but what does it really mean? Edited on Apr 20, 2023, 01:57pm | |
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| 02-03-10 01:49pm - 5436 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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I recently joined the 21st century by acutally acquiring an MP3 player (slowly but surely dropping my Luddite ways). Anyway, I was recently searching around for sites from which I could ala carte (pick and choose singles) download songs from. When I started looking into a lot of them I quickly became disenchanted. A lot of sites like Rhapsody and others have this fairly inexpensive monthly subscriptions (less than $15) but you can only stream the music. Stuff that you can download goes "poof" when your subscription ends. Basicially, it seems like DRM rules the land now-a-days in the music biz and I'm not terribly happy about it (sorry if I'm coming late to the party here people and telling all of you crap you already know). So, what I'm looking for is a site that is legal (support the musicians you like just like the porn sites you like so they keep making more of it), that has one off songs you can load and then transfer around without restrictions (no DRM b.s.), has a large catalog of artists and songs (not just the old crap either), has, preferably, download options (preferably .wmv files along with .mp3 files in case you actually want quality over quantity) and that have reasonable prices. Am I asking for too much or am I left pissing into the wind? | |
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| 01-14-10 02:48pm - 5456 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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| 12-28-09 02:52pm - 5473 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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| 12-21-09 01:06pm - 5480 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Since I started the earlier "2009 Upcoming Movie Thread" and we're pretty much done with the year, I guess it's time to kill that one and start a more generically titled thread of the same. Edited on Apr 19, 2023, 01:21pm | |
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| 12-14-09 07:33pm - 5487 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Jumpin' baby Jesus on a pogo stick! I smell Christmas in the air -- although it may just be the urinal cakes I stash around my place to keep things smellin' fresh for da' ladies -- and the PU forum is bursting at the seams with utter crap. The only thing this can mean is that it's time for Dr. Wittyguy's one size cures all laxative: the 2009 PU Forum Awards (also known as the PUey's)!!! Taking after Chuck Norris, I once again became a force of one by bravely descending into the contaminated cesspool that constitutes the demented, depraved, and mostly thought devoid PU forum; kicking ass with my Texas Ranger sized mullet blowing in the breeze until the best of the worst was finally revealed and I round house kick it onto your monitor. So here I am, handing out awards as I see fit, accountable to no one but voices in my head ... and respected by even fewer. I now ask that my fellow pervs put away your beef stick (or whatever it is your calling your Mr. Shrinky Dink today), put on your favorite clip-on tie (it goes on your "I'm With Stupid /\" t-shirt, not your "I Fuck On The First Date" ballcap) and in order to comply with federal health and safety standards, ask that you wash your hands: not because of the swine flu but because we know where your damn hands have been! [Disclaimer: If you can't handle having won an award, lost an award, failed to receive your prize or feel that you have been inaccurately portrayed in this thread please direct all complaints to: wittyguysucks/google.beefdepartment@theinternet.com. All awards are humorous in nature, unaffiliated with the PU/TBP staff and not subject to public humiliation by Kanye West, so suck it up! If you're clueless as to what the hell is about to happen to you, check out the 2008 Forum Awards and start crying now.] We begin the ceremonies with our award for "POSTER CHILD OF THE YEAR" which is a double award this time, going to Badandy400 and Denner! Badandy only had about 290 posts at the time of last years awards but, due to a serious case of verbal diarrhea, now has over 670 posts. Believing that the forum was actually his Twitter account, Badandy would not, and could not, be denied from sharing every fucking thing that ever fucking happened to him since the mother ship intentionally deserted him here. Denner is not as verbose but for some reason he feels the need to share every damn thought that fires up both of his neurons by starting a new forum thread, crapping out over 70 threads since the forum began. His favorite topics include trust votes, regional pricing and how Danish butter cookies lower your IQ. Don't you guys have anyone else to talk to ... like a pet gerbil or a fire hydrant? For his award, Badandy gets a 10 Pentabyte hard drive which just might hold all his posts through the year 2010 thus actually making him bigger than the Library of Congress. Denner's prize is a computer auto lock: groundbreaking technology based upon breathalyzer interlocks for cars. This device requires Denner to breath into his computer before logging onto PU to determine his level of sobriety and sanity. Next we have the "THREAD TITLE OF THE YEAR AWARD" going to Williamj for his thread entitled "Vagina Aroma". Contrary to popular belief, Williamj's thread wasn't self descriptive, just one perv's lonely cry for help. After suffering a back alley beat down in last year's forum awards for starting a thread on a topic he knew nothing about, what does he do this year? He starts a thread on a topic he knows nothing about ;) Deciding this wasn't enough, he then had to go the extra mile and give us the thread "Vagina Queif" to talk about "pussy farts". For his award, Williamj gets a pair of unwashed panties from my obese, 86 year old incontinent neighbor lady. Hopefully this will cure him (and save us) from any future dialogue on the subject. Honorable mentions in this category go out to Drooler for "Goodnight, Moone"; "Burger King Butts" by JD1961; "Masturbation is the Cure for Hay Fever" by HotMandy, and; "Help Me, I'm Starting to Download BBWs"" by Messmer. [Hint to Messmer: If BBW are becoming your thing, I'd suggest the Burger King parking lot under a full Moon(e) during allergy season. Just don't mix up your French/Canadian with your English or else you might end up with a Queif instead of the fries.] Next up is a new category, the "MILLI VANILLI AWARD" which, again, is a double award this year going to Cybertoad and Drooler! Cybertoad wins for his tearfully poetic and pornofied rendition of our favorite holiday poem in his thread "Twas the Night Before PU". In descriptive prose that pretty much captures Cybertoad's fantasy world, he dashes the innocence of all who believe that fat little elves in flying sleighs who break into your home at night don't have a few screws loose. Drooler wins for his pornofied Fog Hat cover of "Slow Ride" in the thread "Song Parodies". Yes, "Slow Site" describes the pain felt by all with their pants around their ankles and greasy palms waiting for that ... last ... download ... to ... finish (yeah, like that ever stops anyone from "finishing"). Cybertoad and Drooler each get a 10,000 watt Mr. Microphone -- with a speaker setting that goes to "11" -- that they can use in their home, car, and office to impress their friends and family with their vocals (lots of practice in the shower with Mr. Microphone plugged in is highly recommended). Each also gets a copy of "The Complete Works of Militant Bull-Dyke Lesbian Poetry" to inspire their creative muses. I can't wait to hear these two wax poetically on new themes in the forum such as "Unlubricated Dildo Jihad"; "Fisting Ain't Just for Breakfast Anymore"; "You'll Be My Bitch and Like It" and "I Queif, Therefore I Am". Cybertoad also gets an honorable mention for his "arousing" rendition of Frosty the Snowman in "Frosty the Porn User". The "PORN SNOB OF THE YEAR" award goes to Ramscrota for his combined rants in "Good and Bad Porn Photography" and "What is good and bad taste ..."! Unable to generally describe what he likes to see in his porn, Ramscota went for broke. His preferences and demands covered every conceivable variance that could take place during a photo shoot from the model's posture, to the brand of toothpaste she used that morning, to how Scooby-Doo's astrological sign must coincide with the color of the model's dildo in order to properly calibrate lighting angles. Ansel Adams would have sold his camera and became a drag queen had Ramscrota tried to commission a shoot from him. Methuselah trees would die from boredom listening to his diatribes on how angular lens telemetries fail to offset a diffused lighting matrix reflecting off a tramp stamp when properly taking a "gape" shot of Ms. Skank of the Day. Ramscrota's award is a awarded a copy of "Martha Stewart's Sumptuous Porn Set Designs", a jug of White-Out to put on his computer screen to correct any improper juxtapositions in a shot, and Last Rites from the Pope ... because mankind will be long since dead when the sun swallows up the Earth in 6 billion years with Ramscrota still searching for a photo set he likes! Next, we have the "AVATAR OF THE YEAR AWARD" going to Iknoporn! This award goes to the best new, long term avatar a user posts each year. Repeating our animal theme from last year when Drooler won, Iknoporn features a kitty admiring the ultimate bird (the ultimate pussy for a pussy?). His avatar touches on such unhealthy themes as lust, interspecies sex, anthropomorphism, lesbianism and Col. Sanders secret recipe -- all of which are healthy enough at PU to win this award. Iknoporn's prize package includes being named fan club president of Animal Planet tv's new porn site Kittychickenbeaver.com and his avatar being featured on an "EaT MoRe ChiKin" commercial from Chick-Fil-A. Honorable mentions go out to ramscrota for his cheesy smiling goat, lk2fireone and his suicide kitty, ragingbuddhist for his new cartoonized avatar (also having gotten an honorable mention last year) and Pinkpanther for his new cartoonized avatar. Edited on Dec 14, 2009, 10:04pm | |
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| 12-01-09 04:40pm - 5500 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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I happened to come across a little article at AVN where a "porn middleman" site was crowing about how four of it's sites hit scores of 90 or better on TheBestPorn. The sites include Onlytease, Onlyopaques and Onlysecretaries. Here's the link to the article: http://business.avn.com/company-news/33679.html. There is a quote from TBP's Vegas Ken at the end: "[W]e only have 22 sites that are rated at 90 percent or better. Out of those 22 sites, 4 are OTCash sites, ... As you can imagine, OTCash sites have an excellent conversion ratio as well. If you are not promoting OTCash sites, you're leaving money on the table!" Obviously that last sentence sort of woke me up a bit. Is Vegas Ken implying that TBP is trading scores for cash flow? Looking at the OTC website they promise a 50% return on all subscription fees from sites that forward traffic to these sites. Edited on Apr 20, 2023, 01:35pm | |
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| 11-02-09 05:09pm - 5529 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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While on my PU hiatus, I've come across some articles and conjured up some ideas that I thought beared a thoroughly long and boring post here. Namely, the idea that regardless of our preferences and any number of laws that might get passed that within a generation the concept of "personal privacy" will be radically smaller in comparison to how we think about it today. The underlying theme for all of this is that technology is growing so fast and so large in scope that anything that's digitized can and will be subject to being found. London, England leads the world in its use of public security cameras operated by police. There are thousands of them currently in use. It recently has come out that the police were monitoring one family because the local school district wasn't sure if they were truthful about their home address and, thus, if their kid should be enrolled in the local school. Turns out that over 200 government agencies and entities can request that the police follow people without notifying the subject for almost any reason. What makes the public cameras so helpful is facial recognition software which is still in its infancy. However, the technology already exists where using a G3 or G4 network and GPS I could hold up, for example, an I-Phone's camera lens and display in real time a picture of street. Using "an app", in turn I could get real time feedback that shows me what reviews the restaurant I'm displaying has received, advertisements for the store on my display and information about who lives above the store fronts if I want it. Soon, the technology will exist that will allow me to turn on my phone and photo recognition software will tell me the names of the the people walking by me. In turn, they may be programmed through my app to give me their digital business card and other information. What drives these "apps" is better technology. It's time consuming, expensive and the results aren't always the best when doing facial recognition today. That will change and it will become faster, better and cheaper. The same will be true for data mining. Currently, digging through a Googe search and long and painful. As time goes by, you will be tightly hone in on a specific person or subject without getting three million results. Data mining really becomes the key to all of this for one simple reason: "cloud computing". Cloud computing is where we're all headed. For example, if use Google Docs, your documents are not stored your own hard drive (though they can be). They're digitally compressed and stored in the digital cloud of servers and hosts. And then because of liability concerns over lost content, Google backs up that data on some other server, which backs up that data somewhere else, etc., etc. Soon you have a situation that whatever gets put into the cloud will remain in the cloud or leaves a "residue" for decades afterwards. As data mining gets better and better, it becomes easier and cheaper to track down these fragments and assemble them into meaningful facts and fictions about individual people. [As an aside, you might be curious to know that if the government conducts a search of your email that your ISP / Email provider is not required to let you know if your email was subject to a search warrant. By unleashing your message into the cloud you can be deemed to have placed your email into the care of a third party custodian and the government may only have to notify the custodian of the records, not the creator of the message, about a search. If you store stuff on Google docs, assume the same. I can't even imagine what could happen when your 17the level of backup docs stored on some server in Russia that Google doesn't even know about might interest the state police there. In other words, if you store your porn collection or sensitive information in the "cloud" at this point in time, you're an idiot.] Finally, we end up with the demise of the newspaper. Soon most of our media will be delivered on line. In an effort to stay relevant and generate revenue, papers or their sucessors will try to find and publish everything local since the national news is already territorialized. From who got traffic tickets, who got divorced, who helped out at the local nonprofit fundraiser, to who signed a petition to recall the bozo mayor; all will appear online. As everyone and every organization gets more digitized more information will get generated in an attempt to provide more content in an effort to create a successful business model. Businesses and search services will be created just to provide deep data mining on people, places and things because there will be so much digital noise to sift through. The result is that just about anything good or bad you have done that ends up in the digital world will stay there and be searchable. Got arrested for theft at age 19 but never convicted? At age 50 your prospective employer will know that. Went down and protested the opening a garbage inceration plant? Anyone who shot digital video of it with your face on it will expose your part to the world. Got a divorce and your ex said some untrue and nasty things about you in some court papers? One click of a button will reveal that info to a potential girlfriend doing a background check on you. Don't forget that your medical records are currently being digitized. Don't be shocked if some hacker contacts you and asks for $10,000 to not reveal your sexually transmitted disease or psychiatric history to everyone you know. Redundant backups of data just create more portals for the unsavory criminals to potentially access and steal all this information. The end result is a world where once you leave the confines of your home or do anything digitally then you've left a foot print behind that can be analyzed and probably tracked back to you at some point and at some level. It will be a different world when people can track just about everything ever done by you if they wanted too. Like the movie "The Invention of Lying", the world will be different but everyone will be in the same boat except for those leading a Taliban level of existence. On one level I can see that it would be refreshing and would force people to be more accepting of each others sins and shortcomings. On the other hand, to a person living in 2009, it scares the crap out of me. Big Brother from 1986 is coming, he's just going to be a few decades late. Edited on Nov 02, 2009, 05:14pm | |
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I realize that we're in the dog days of summer here but that's no excuse to leave all the forum posting to the two big dogs ("Drenner"  and a few others. It seems like were down to about 10 or so regular posters. Edited on Apr 20, 2023, 11:33am | |
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I came across this article at AVN the other day which talks about websites rethinking how they charge the public for their wares. The articles a tad long and biased towards the industry. Edited on Apr 20, 2023, 02:15pm | |
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Both Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died today. Edited on Apr 20, 2023, 01:15pm | |
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Some of the girls I've seen on the previews seem pretty young - as in questionably 18. I'm sort of thinking that these sites are taking some chances with all the rage about child porn, especially pics that minors take of themselves and pass around. Edited on Apr 20, 2023, 01:04pm | |
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This is just tossing out an idea that PU originally started with but never implemented. PU used to state that the points system would function with earned points expiring after a year or two. In other words, your points ranking would go down after a year or two because your reviews would essentially expire. This system was never started and no longer seems to be the policy. I was just pondering this and wondered why it was never implemented? Let me start by saying that I have no problem with the points system as it currently exists; I have no aspirations to be "numero uno" here and never will be under any points system. However, my thought is that if people stop contributing or quit coming here then why should their points remain the same. In other words, why not let newer, more active members move up the rolls? In terms of badges and the weekly drawing there would no problem. I could see creating two levels for points. One level would be your "current points" (points for reviews in the last year or two) and "lifetime points" (points earned since signing up at PU). Your "lifetime points" would count towards earning your hardcore badge and that would always stay with you. That way, if it takes you 10 years to reach your hardcore badge, you'll still get credit for your effort. Your "current points" would just reflect your activity level in the last year or two and would affect your points ranking (you can find this on the bottom left of the PU home page with the link to the full rankings). Maybe I'm just alone in wondering if this might be an entertaining change or am I making a fuss over nothing. Anyone elses thoughts? Edited on Mar 27, 2009, 03:42pm | |
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