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04-06-09  06:59am - 5739 days	#6
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by RagingBuddhist: That's assuming that they're actually attempting to restrict or cut-off access for security reasons, which I seriously doubt. It's just more abrogation of freedom. The less we know and the less we see, the better for the people running the show. Given that the Obama Administration has already taken over the auto and banking industries without any uproar, it's no stretch at all to see them take over everything else. And as the Administration creates more and more "czars" to run everything it's no stretch at all to see a "Cyber Technology Czar" who will run MicroSoft, Apple, Intel, etc. Then the information and communications czar who will decide what information we sheeple are allowed to know. That's when access to the web will be totally compromised in the USA as it already is in China. Remember one of Obama's campaign promises was access for everyone to broadband. How will he do that except by setting up the government as the internet provider with the ability to control (limit) all web activity.
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04-03-09  06:12pm - 5741 days	Original Post - #1
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	OK, guys, start downloading whatever you can. UpChuck Schumer promised this would happen if Obama was elected when he was on the stump during the Presidential Campaign that fall. Now it looks like it's just a matter of time when our access to the Internet will be limited to whatever the Obama Administration decides we should have. Originally Posted by Network Workd Magazine: Bill would give Obama power to shut down Internet, networks during cyber attacks Federal legislation introduced in the Senate this week would give President Obama the power to declare a cybersecurity emergency and then shut down both public and private networks including Internet traffic coming to and from compromised systems. The proposed legislation, introduced April 1, also would give the President the power to "order the disconnection of any Federal government or United States critical infrastructure information systems or networks in the interest of national security." Some critics of the bill say that phrase needs to be more clearly defined. "We are confident that the communication networks and the Internet would be so designated [as critical infrastructure], so in the interest of national security the president could order them disconnected.", said Leslie Harris, president and CEO at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), , which promotes democratic values and constitutional liberties for the digital age. Harris and the CDT don't think such sweeping power is good news for anyone, including private networks that could be shut down by government order. Those same networks would be subject to government mandated security standards and technical configurations. The bill says the president must have a comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy in place 12 months after the bill passes. "This is pretty sweeping legislation," says Harris. "Seems the President could turn off the Internet completely or tell someone like Verizon to limit or block certain traffic" she said. "There is a lot to worry about in this bill." In addition, an agency appointed by the President would control how and when systems are restored. For more of this article click HERE Edited on Apr 03, 2009, 06:16pm
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03-27-09  08:40am - 5749 days	#20
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	I have the same issue with PornstarXS.com where I joined their 2 day trial. After 24 hours I was denied access. No response from either customer support or the webmaster; just a confirmation from Epoch that the account was paid and active. After posting a comment and a reply to the posted review in PU, the webmaster replied to the comment telling me to email him (already did, twice, but I did it a third time.) He sent me a new temporary ID and password that worked for 24 hours, then got blocked. No reply to my emails. I'm giving him another few hours then I'll post a new comment to see if that works again. It's a good site with good stuff, but clearly it has no real customer service function so they aren't going to see any of my money. Edited on Mar 27, 2009, 08:47am
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03-20-09  08:57am - 5756 days	#4
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by zierbengel: I am member at pornpassforall.com, including all sites (member for 15 months). Since three weeks I can't login anymore although there is no reason (no firewall is blocking, cookies enabled, membership still active, no change of password, never shared my login). At the billing company they say my account is still active and password did not change. I already wrote lots of emails to support@websupportcentral.com, which is the only contact they provide. I got no answer. THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY, they just ignore my messages. Can anyone help me with some information? PLEASE Suggest you post this as a comment under the pornpassforall.com listing in PornUsers. That way the issue will get much more attention.
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03-20-09  08:54am - 5756 days	#3
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Nutz. That makes my collection of old Playboys worth a lot less now. I was planning on selling the set someday on eBay and retiring with no money worries. I guess I'll have to change my plans.
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02-08-09  09:17am - 5796 days	#68
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by badandy400: Toadsith, I checked them out. I am thinking of giving them a call and seeing what they would say. I bet they would not be willing to accept my system. They would likely call it more than one computer. I am currently at 18-20 TB of porn alone. At $50 per year and unlimited space they would never recover even the hardware cost, even if they use lower end consumer class drives. I believe part of what they do to limit the volume is limit the connection speed. They even state on the site that it will be slow due to "current DSL and Cable speeds"....? Plus me being on asymmetrical DSL I could never get it uploaded with out going somewhere else to do it. It would still be pretty funny though. It seems like they want to keep people limited to a few dozen GB by limiting the upload speed. Since the program runs without user input I do not figure I could tell it to use several connections. I am a Carbonite customer right now and you nailed it. I use it to back up my 900 Mb "My Documents" directory that contains all of my basic stuff (tax files, correspondence, spreadsheets, pdf's, etc.) I do not include the My Pictures and My Videos directories. The process starts with your designating the files/directories you want to back up, then starting the upload process. The process all happens in the background but you can check periodically to see the progress. If your computer goes into hibernate or you log off completely, the upload is suspended and will resume with no user intervention required once the computer is back on line. The initial backup process, for me, took about 3 days to complete. In other words, the slow upload speed is the primary limitation imposed by Carbonite. I also used the restore backup procedure to download my backup to a new computer. That process is just about as slow as the upload. Therefore the Carbonite idea should be looked upon as the cyber equivalent of having your stash backed up on CD's or hard drives that are stored in an offsite Public Storage facility that you'd need to spend a lot of time accessing. Their business model, clearly, involves huge amounts of high capacity storage but relatively little bandwidth, and is useful only for ensuring that the stash is not lost through accident or error. It's not a way to secure stuff to which you would like quick access.
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02-05-09  09:25am - 5799 days	#53
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by badandy400: I am damn glad they are not that high now. Hum....perhaps I should go back in time....think about it, a 1 GB drive would b worth a million at that rate. I could have over 22 billion dollars!!! Hell yeah!! Where is my time machine? :) Dont worry though, these SSDs will come down in price. They would be ideal especially for laptops and such. But for a normal desktop I do not think the demand will be there for a while, particularly for just storing bunches of porn and other stuff (porn). Unless you do some hardcore HD video capturing and such it really is not necessary to speed up the drive's capabilities. Obviously they are more than fast enough to read 8 Mbit videos and write at the same time. Basically, for as long as there is a cost difference between the two, I will be sticking with the normal drives for simple storage. My first desktop (1980) was an IBM 8088 with dual 5-1/4" floppy drives, 640Kb of RAM and no hard drive. My employer agreed to buy me a 20 Mb external Winchester hard drive for $500. This capacity was so far beyond my comprehension that I figured it would be sufficient for the next several decades. Right now external drives are getting cheaper very quickly. A 1 Tb 7200 RPM drive is available today for $119.95 when as recently as 4 years ago you'd be looking at close to $1,000 for the same capacity but a 5400 RPM drive. The reason? SSD's will probably be the standard by 2010 which will make prices even lower. That's a good thing for us horn dogs who can store our stash, even on redundant hard drives, at a relatively low cost.
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02-01-09  10:19pm - 5802 days	#48
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by badandy400: Squirrel. I do not want to scare people away from using them, I just want people to be aware that they will fail at some point in time. Most of them out life their practical life span. How many of those old 2 GB hard drive from 10-15 years ago do people keep around? It very well may be that by the time our new drives are being considered "old" that we will not even need them anymore because there will be petabyte or larger drive drive at the same price we pay for a 80 GB now. Elephant, I feel your pain! 3 MBit is the fastest that is offered where I live. They can get 4.5 Mbit out here, but the next tier is 5 MBit and they will not allow me to go part way in between. Otherwise my connection could be 50% faster. So until they beef up the lines a little I am stuck at 3. Certainly beats the hell out of dial up though! The likely future hard drive will be solid state (like super huge flash drives). Right now a 250Gb solid state hard drive goes for $400. But it's faster and more stable than today's hard drives. But at $1.60 per Gb it's a bit too steep for me right now. See the review written on 1/27/09 at this link - OCZ Apex Series 250GB Solid State Drive Review
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01-31-09  07:42pm - 5803 days	#41
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	EBay can be a good source but try IOMEGA.com. They have occasional deals on refurbs (with warranties). Just got an email from them for a $49.99 360Gb harddrive. If you use eBay, read the descriptors very carefully and set a maximum price you're willing to pay before you start looking. There are some great deals, but there are some lousy no-name drives as well. One I bought worked for about a week then died. The seller was nonresponsive.
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01-15-09  09:59am - 5820 days	#72
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by TheSquirrel: Brilliant post Wittyguy. You sum everything up perfectly. Clyde brings up a great point that others have touched on. That is, if you have trial offer why not just put a limit on the downloads. Give people the ability to download a handful of material. Tell them they can download whatever they wish under a certain limit, just so they can see how it works and what the material is like. If I ran a great site I wouldn't want people downloading everything for a dollar, but I would want them to sample how great the site is. To me, this makes sense. One site I visited solely because of a review on PU is American Vice. It's a DVD site. In the review (or a comment) someone said that they offer 5 scenes for free, no restrictions. So I tried it and, yes, sure enough, 5 full length high quality scenes absolutely for free. So you are right. I was impressed by the quality, the site's price is right and their search function is the best in the business. And the sample process did prove how great the site is. A $1 trial for a sample, or as these guys did, a flat out free ride with real stuff, did the trick. I'm about to spend $18 to join this site for a month and give it a real trial. (BTW, they even offer a pay-as-you-go option if you want to buy scenes one at a time instead of signing up for the unlimited access.)
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01-11-09  07:43am - 5824 days	#58
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Excellent commentary, guys, and I agree by and large with Squirrel on the legalities and "moral" aspects and with BadAndy400 about the desirability. I remained totally pissed at the Danni.com ripoff I experienced a few years back where Danni (Ashe) protected all of her material with DRM, but also said that, if a subscriber downloaded DRM protected material and made sure it stayed in the same place, she "guaranteed" unlimited lifetime access to the stash after the subscriber cancelled. Sadly, I believed her. I bought a 500 Gb external hard drive (rather expensive back then) and downloaded a whole lot of material in a carefully structured set of directories. The monthly subscription set me back $29.99 a month for a lot of months but at the time I figured I was developing a great collection. So when I had about 400 Gb of stuff saved I decided to cancel. Guess what? Access denied. I tried everything. Still denied. The email support and telephone support both said I had to re-subscribe to get any support. So I did. I paid for their non-VIP membership ($19.99) and tried again. This time they said support was available only for billing and download issues, not for DRM issues. Sorry. In other words, I was screwed, and lost all respect for Danni Ashe and her "Danni's Pledge" about fair treatment and responsive Customer Service. I understand Khan's point completely and will respect it, but I still have an external hard drive loaded with a whole lot of material that I cannot access because of the fraud committed by a site that used DRM. Sites use DRM to protect their content. I'm down with that. But when a site lies as Danni.com did, I feel that I have every right to find a workaround.
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01-10-09  10:39am - 5824 days	#52
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by Ergo Proxy: I bought some program for removing the DRM and it works fine. If the streams are taking over, I will buy a video capture program, no problem. Though it takes away the fun of simply enjoying your porn. But the bottomline is, if someone really wants to keep a certain content he/she will find a way to do it, so I am sort of relaxed concerning all that copy protection stuff. Are you willing to share the source of the programs that remove DRM and that will capture and save streaming video?
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01-02-09  06:50pm - 5832 days	#11
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	I see that TBP now posts a warning when a website has the "opt out" boxes on the credit card authorization page, which is a good thing and addresses one of my beefs. And a similar post that advises that a site has become inactive would be really good.
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01-01-09  10:13am - 5834 days	#98
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Now I gotta say, IKnoPorn, your avatar is the best one I've seen. Great work!
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01-01-09  10:10am - 5834 days	#9
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by ramscrota: I think what is suggested is desireable, but there would be problems with it. It might make this site a sitting duck for libel or legal action. But I think there's a need for it. I joined a site recently, and not only were there pop-ups galore, I found I was given 'free' membership to 3 or 4 others sites, without approving it. These 'free membership lasted only a few days, after which I would be charged $39 per month. I had to slog through all the emails, and cancel my membership to all these sites. I think these kinds of practices need to be dealt with. I agree. The liability issue is easily avoided simply by discrete choice of terms. For example, the list could be titled something besides a "Warn List" (say. "Sites with Exceptions to Standard Practices" and include both what "standard practices" are, followed by a list of "non-standard" practices coded for simplicity. The list need not include any deroigatory inferences but be more along the lines of the current warning message for limited access trials. Your example, the check box option, and so on, are facts and if PU were to describe them factually, they cannot be subject to any liability.
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12-31-08  11:13am - 5834 days	#9
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by ramscrota: PS Monahan, I love your avitar! Thanks. And thanks for resurrecting the thread.
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12-25-08  09:33am - 5841 days	Original Post - #1
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	This is scary and could easily be the first step to some form of Big Brother oversight of internet porn. Associated Press Published: December 25, 2008 Australia considers "Great Aussie Firewall" SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Australia is considering an Internet filter that could be one of the strictest among democratic countries. What's being called the "Great Aussie Firewall" would block at least 1,300 Web sites prohibited by the government. The sites in question mostly contain child pornography, excessive violence, instructions in crime or drug use and advocacy of terrorism. The government is not making public the list of prohibited sites. Hundreds protested in state capitals in Australia earlier this month, and critics include consumers, engineers, Internet providers and politicians from opposing parties. A lab test of six filters found they missed 3 to 12 percent of material they should have blocked and wrongly blocked access to 1 to 8 percent of sites. The most accurate filters slowed browsing speeds up to 86 percent.
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12-07-08  07:17am - 5859 days	#14
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	While were at it, an adjunct glossary of porn terms would be useful, such as Spoon, Pile Driver, Mish, Reverse Cowgirl, Clean Finish, etc.
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12-03-08  05:40pm - 5862 days	#8
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	I forgot my favorite: PTA P = Pussy T = Tits A = Ass
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11-26-08  04:41pm - 5869 days	#80
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by Drooler: ...PU has turned out to be, more often than not, and quite fortunately, a place for intelligent and reasoned discussion.... I agree and, because I enjoy well done porn, am a consumer of internet porn and am interested in the economics of the business, I really like the quality of this site and the discussions. I have found some terrific sites and avoided lousy sites because of PU and have learned a lot of fascinating stuff. TBP has been my "go to" site for checking out porn sites for quite a while now, but the addition of Porn Users to TBP has made it much, much better.
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11-26-08  10:29am - 5869 days	#42
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by IKnoPorn: ... centered in the lower half of the screen, often OVER the model's genitalia!!! Yes. That's not good. It's almost as bad as when the watermark covers her pussy. ;o)
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11-26-08  09:16am - 5870 days	#74
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by Toadsith: .... I guess it is good evidence as to what a classy group we all are :-D I wonder if loving porn statistically places a group in a higher socioeconomic category? Wait until Washington finds out! I want to hear campaign minions deep in the bowels of the Capital racking their brains on the best way to capture the porn users vote, lol I agree. The attraction of PU over other similar sites is that there is a good level of intelligence and common sense here. Now the question is, how do we elevate the abysmal intellectual vacuum in our various governments?
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11-05-08  12:55pm - 5890 days	#45
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by Jeffrey99: ...My second factor is what billing company they use. If a only uses Epoch, I will not sign up for them under any circumstances. I had a credit card number stolen after signing up for a site with Epoch, which included some unauthorized charges from Epoch. I didn't have 2 pieces of information, no subscription id or email since I didn't sign up, so they said they couldn't help me. And my former bank wouldn't do anything becuase I authorized the first charge. Needless to say I now use Discover Cards Secure Online Account numbers for almost everything I buy online anymore and I'll never use Epoch again. That's why I haven't tried Karups Hometown Amateurs yet, no Discover Cards. Interesting experience with Epoch. I've used them for several sites with no problems with Epoch. Site problems? You betcha. But they were caused by the site, not by Epoch.
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11-03-08  04:16pm - 5892 days	#17
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by Wittyguy: Ohhhh yeah, I am the mega collector :) I'm pretty much a picture guy so about 70% of my space is jpegs. A lot of what I have gets edited down so the sets aren't huge (I get bored easily and don't really dig sets with more than 30 to 50 pics at most) so that's a big reason I don't have a huge amount of space. Once in a while I clean out the stuff I'm not interested in as well so it keeps the content limit down to a manageable level. I don't keep stuff I don't intend to look at. Now that's why you photo guys have it good. It's easy for you guys to delete the boring and repetitive stuff in an otherwise great photo set. We vid guys can use the Windows movie editor but at the cost of a degraded video quality, or we can buy an expensive piece of software that can preserve the quality, or we can do like we used to do with our VCR's and just fast forward through the boring stuff. And videos are space hogs in comparison with even HD photos. So that's why us video guys have to buy a big old 500 Gb external hard drive to store our stuff and you photo guys only need a 250 Gb or smaller. At least the external hard drives are getting cheaper at the same time as they are getting bigger. I saw a 1 Tb external hard drive on sale today for $129.99.
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11-03-08  02:39pm - 5892 days	#53
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by TheSquirrel: ... stealing lolipops from sweet shops. You left out busking in the corridors of the London Underground and failing to look right at crosswalks. In any case, welcome to the Porn Users forum. We're an interesting bunch and look forward to a British perspective.
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11-02-08  09:47am - 5894 days	#12
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by ace of aces: do you know if that also works in europe/germany? No, I don't know, but I see no reason why it would not work in Europe. If you buy something denominated in US$ and pay for it in US$, then why wouldn't it work? (So long as the EBay seller will ship to a European address.)
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11-01-08  10:46pm - 5894 days	#15
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	The bottom line with PU/TBP (and all other porn site review sites is that their business model is based on what badandy's post describes well. But the big difference between PU/TBP and the other review sites is the active interaction of us porn users and the fact that the commentary supports the good sites and punishes the bad sites. If you check the sites that get bad marks from PU members on the other review sites you will usually find that the other sites are heaping praise on the lousy sites. Interestingly the few other review sites that actually provide an opportunity to its audience to comment on sites (usually in forums) don't highlight those comments (a user has to dig rather deep to find them), have no cumulative scoring and the user comments are not linked to the reviews posted by the site. That's why a positive review by a PU member is so valuable to the honest sites and, as a result, to PU/TBP, because the users have no reason to post a positive or negative review other than because it's their honest, unsubsidized, point of view. And that's also why we porn users will stay with PU because it has everything; the discounts, the comprehensiveness and the heavy influence of its members on the content.
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11-01-08  10:19pm - 5894 days	#10
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by Cybertoad: ...Hey Monahan like to hear how the ebay things worked out too if you do not mind sharing? Cybertoad Works fine. Works on EBay just as if it were cash, a credit card or a positive balance on your PayPal account. The winnings are posted to PayPal as a gift certificate. When you win (buy) something on EBay you copy the gift certificate number into a box on the EBay pay now form and the amount of the purchase is deducted immediately from the gift certificate and the seller is paid immediately by PayPal. If the purchase exceeds the amount remaining on the gift certificate, it will eat up the gift certificate and will ask you to pay the balance due in the usual manner. I've bought a 500 Gb external hard drive for my porn downloads and some other stuff not associated with porn with the gift certs. I suspect the Amazon deal works about the same way.
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10-30-08  10:56am - 5897 days	#2
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Just for everyone's info, I selected PayPal (eBay) gift certificates and, having been a lucky winner, I can report that it works perfectly.
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10-29-08  01:46pm - 5897 days	#42
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by pat362: ISP's can choose which sites they will allow and which ones they will filter. Of course once you start to limit access to you customers then in return your customers are going to look for other ISP's. I don't know if people will buy extra hi-speed internet for email and regular surfing? I don't use my hi-speed for only porn, but the reason I went hi-speed as oppose to medium is because I get a higher allowed download capacity. Even with hi-speed I still sometimes go over my limit. Is the "allowed download capacity" imposed by the Canadian government or by your ISP? Originally Posted by pat362: I can guarantee that when the Government starts to put pressure on ISP's to filter certain sites, and in return it affects the ISP's profit. There will be some major players putting pressure on Government to back off. Lets not kid ourselves. Many of the owners of ISP's are big name industries. Most of the sites with the highest amount of activity on the web are porn sites so any limits placed on access to those sites will hit the political contributors the hardest. Given the sorry state of politics these days, I suspect that any attempts at access restrictions or prohibitions will be seriously resisted by the politicians who rely on the contributors to survive.
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10-28-08  11:07pm - 5898 days	#38
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by pat362: It's strange that you mention that because last night I read an article that some Australian senators want to force ISP providers to ban all internet porn in Australia. see link: http://www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=30947 Interesting article. Especially because Australia recently has moved leftward. The Europeans, recently moving right, haven't said much of anything about this. Just wondering if the Liberals are interested in taking away yet more of our rights.
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10-26-08  10:32pm - 5900 days	#6
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	The two that are my all time faves are the original "Taxi Girls" where Nancy Suiter gets fisted in a group lez scene in jail (the retro houses still carry that video, but the fisting has been taken out), and "F and plenty of it" with Annette Haven, Seka, Rhonda Jo Petty (a total fuck maniac), Kandi Barbour (still the greatest puffy nipples in porn), Chris Anderson (a total babe that did very little work in porn), and John Leslie. And any and all videos with Traci Lords that are now just very pleasant memories of her uniquely hot mammaries. If it wasn't illegal to own any of her work, I'd buy up any and all copies ofg everything she ever did.
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10-26-08  10:23pm - 5900 days	#5
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by shooterbo: Can't find our old thread that covers this, so.... I have found the best of the best. Check out Brooke Lane in first few minutes of Scene 2 from Fast Times at Deep Crack High 4(Videobox). Unbelievable! Just did, you are right on. Nice labia package as well, although the padded boobs are a bit overdone.
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10-26-08  10:15pm - 5900 days	#7
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Being a Porn User before the PC was invented (yep, been around a while) I've had the same question. Back in the day when the only porn available over the counter was a bare nipple or two and the "good stuff" was hard to come by and expensive, the majority of the photo shoots had the babes looking at the camera, but no pubic hair, let alone insertions of any kind, were ever shown. Then when the Immoral Mr. Teas came out in the early 1960's, we got bobbing boobies and silly plots, but still no pussy or ass. But also the action was like most all movies; there was no eye "contact" with the camera. Until the mid 1990's when specialty mail order outfits produced solo soft core stuff (Fiona Cooper and Private Performance come to mind) where almost all of their stuff had the babes making eye contact and, in some cases, actually talking to the camera. But hard core stuff that played at the local porn theatres in the 1980's, then showed up at video stores stayed with the legit movie biz and offered no eye contact. Now it's the exact opposite; virtually all porn now has eye contact. Dunno why, but it really doesn't matter much to me. So long as I can check out the PTA of the babes, I really am not bothered by the eye contact issue. But a friend did say he really was pissed about it. Why? Because he saw it as a put down of the poor schlemiel whose whole sex life was limited to wanking off at porn videos. He figured the babe was looking at the voyeur and thinking, "you sap. This guy is getting fucked by me and getting paid for it while you are the sad sack that buys this shit and makes it possible for both me and the dude to make a buck."
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10-25-08  05:10pm - 5901 days	#17
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by Denner: I like this thread - WHY? Because I've sometimes wondered myself - AND I think I remember we've been aorund this item before - somehow, anyway... I tend to collect too! And I'm fond of my collections - and, by golly - to visit these collections once in a while... But the best part of porn-search will always be: Finding something new and exiting!!! Again when the vast amount of sites do not do it for you - what is there to turn to: Your collection - going through it all, deleting some, edit some and of course enjoying the files you have not been around for some time - like a re-run of old movies... Bingo. When I feel like taking a break from stuff, I'll go to the My Videos folder and find a name (I catalogue every download by the babe's name) that I don't recognize, I'll load it and watch it...skimming through it for the "good stuff." If I find myself losing interest, I close it and delete it.
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10-23-08  02:25pm - 5903 days	#20
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by messmer: Tell the truth, I have no great desire to take a vacation in Canada either, there's too many miles of bush and wheat to traverse in order to get where I really long to be: The Mountains! And my SO doesn't particularly care for those either because she's seen the Alps, together with romantic Swiss chalets and quaint medieval towns and, in her mind, nothing will ever beat that! A trip from Jaspar to Banff on the Iceland Parkway is fantastic. If you liked the Alps, Swiss, Italian and/or French, you'll love the Canadian Rockies.
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10-21-08  11:18am - 5906 days	#6
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by shooterbo: All refunds and subsequent credits from Brazzers are finally completed. Required many e-mails back and forth. Congrats. The loss is the amount of time and effort you had to expend just to break even.
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10-21-08  08:52am - 5906 days	#13
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by Cybertoad: ....Whats sad is try posting this on a Christain website and they will blast you for even saying anything, which is weird in its own right as wouldnt you think they would want to know more not censor? That's an interesting phenomenon these days. Beware of the folks who say they are on the side of "tolerance" because they most likely are the least tolerant.
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10-20-08  08:03pm - 5906 days	#11
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	I gotta say that I would never have expected in a thousand millenia (that means a million years) that I would run into a serious and nuanced discussion of comparative religious symbolism on a Porn Users forum. Next up, a conceptual comparative analysis of the impact of the Pythagorean Theorem on Einstein's development of his Theory of Relativity (while watching Carmella Bing whacking Lee Stone's schlong with her fabulous rack). ;o)
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10-20-08  11:55am - 5906 days	#7
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	I've had the same question both with the cross and the Star of David dangling from a babe's neck as she's doing the nasty. I've thought it more as a personal thing where the babe: 1. Is thinking that it can't hurt to wear it, especially if she gets religious later in life. 2. Is wearing it as a fashion statement, not as a symbol of her faith. 3. Is wearing it as her last hope for eventual salvation. 4. Is wearing it to show her parents that she still retains a small part of her moral upbringing in case she is ever outed. In this day and age of secularism and the prohibition of anything even suggesting religion in the "public square," I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone submits legislation prohibiting the wearing of any religious symbols in any entertainment activity (porn, movies, TV, stage, etc.)
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10-18-08  10:37am - 5909 days	#5
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by Toadsith: Okie dokie, I just spent an hour writing up a reply only to have the computer delete it because instead of popping up a "You are over your character limit" window it just refreshed the page. I'll try to refrain from beating my computer to death with my keyboard and rewrite it later. ::sigh:: Boy can I relate. In posting to web forums now, what I will do is switch to MS Word to pound out a post that can be long to avoid just that (and it's evil twin, the site goes offline because of a connection blip and won't post my superbly written commentary). Edited on Oct 18, 2008, 10:41am
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10-18-08  10:30am - 5909 days	#7
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by RagingBuddhist: I have to say I'm still disappointed that TBP took cost out of the ratings. It's still one of the first things I look at when considering joining a new site. And, from the amount of times cost has been brought up here, I see it still figures in with a lot of other people too. I understand your point but cost is relative and a great site at $39.95 is still a great site. Despite the strategic pricing failure of the site, if it's otherwise a superior site it should be rated that way. A BMW is still an excellent vehicle even if it is far too expensive and its high cost should not negatively affect a review of its performance. But, much as I would like to own one, I'll never buy (or lease) one because there are great cars available at far better prices. Originally Posted by RagingBuddhist: ... For some reason, I like having food in the refrigerator more than I do porn on the hard drives... Clearly your priorities are mixed up. I thought man was supposed to be able to live on porn alone. ;o)
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10-17-08  10:43am - 5910 days	Original Post - #1
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	There have been a few polls on this subject but I'm curious what strategies other have in deciding to join a site from a pricing standpoint. After finding good sites using the reviews on PU and checking out the preview material, and if the biller is either CCBill or Epoch (PayComm), I then look at price. It's my observation that any site that's worth a shit will ask for $19.95 or more but once in a while a small, single model site will go for less. My personal max for a single site is $29.95 on the basis that there are a ton of good sites (I have over 70 in "My Favorites") that are priced at, or below, $29.95 and see no reason to spend more than that even for a totally outstanding site. My budget is set at $90 a month 3 (sites X $29.95). I have found that many (most?) sites offer "stick around" discounts so I now have one site at $5.95 a month, 2 at $9.95 a month, one at $14.95 and one at $19.95, all of which started at $29.95 a month. That lets me join one additional site each month at $29.95 and stay within budget. The strategy causes me to have some sites that I go to only once in a while but there is enough good stuff that I'll hold onto the great price. I've signed up for multiple months on some sites when the 3 or 6 month price is really good, but only after I've signed up for a month to check it out thoroughly. I adjust my budget accordingly. I'm curious what other members do in this regard. How do you factor pricing into your decision process?
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10-17-08  09:55am - 5910 days	#35
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by JBDICK: Hi Toadsith... Christy Canyon...does this sound weird but I'd love to take her out to dinner and just talk about life and where's she's been and what she's done... no hanky panky...just love to talk to her...I bet she has a million and 1 stories to tell. She looks beautiful. i had another look at her site and she looks and probably is amazing... Yes in her day I'd love to have been a mark on her bedpost (if I were so lucky) and I'd be delirious to have that opportunity today...but the thought of actually just sitting with her for a whole everning (no sex) and just talk seems to be very appealing...she is definitely in the very short list... She wrote an autoibiography in 2004 that I was able to check out from our local Library. "Lights, camera, sex!" It's an interesting insight into the industry and into her life as a sex object. I know it's not like a schmooze over drinks and dinner, but getting the book is probably a lot easier to arrange.
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10-15-08  11:57am - 5911 days	#15
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by Cybertoad: I am pretty ure CBill has agreements with the websites when they sign up how they want refunds handled. CBill is a brokerage type setup like PayPal, and you need the owners consent to give refunds, I suspect that there is check box option o how you want refunds handled, because CBILL refusedto give me a refund on a site that didnt even show up when you tried to look for it crashed and stayed down. Yet no refund ever. So I think how refunds are handled is and option for webmaster upon sign up. After all they would have to pay CBILL something for them to hassle a customer over. That's exactly right. CCBill and Epoch both do only what the websites want them to do. But they both execute the sites' instructions extremely well and fast and also are good at quick response to customers. Some of the lesser processors are less than competent (honest?) and can screw things up royally. I just had an experience where my card was charged by Epoch but the site blocked my access. They said I had to deal with the site about the block, or, if I'd like, they would reverse the charge. I opted for the reversal. I can always sign up later as a new customer. They said it would take 2-4 weeks for the credit to appear on my account but it took exactly 2 days.
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10-15-08  08:49am - 5912 days	#13
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	I've had no trouble with refunds from CC Bill or Epoch (Paycom). They always say 2 to 4 weeks but always delivered for me in 2-3 days. The old underpromise/over deliver trick I suppose. I suspect porn sites are reluctant to get into billing disputes because they know they'll probably lose, so fast refunds avoids the hassle for them.
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10-15-08  08:44am - 5912 days	#2
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by dghillza: Anyone having problems with Twistys - I log in No problem with that and get to the page where I can enter anyone of thier sites - Twistys- Naughty Staff, BustyOnes etc.. But the moment I cick any one of those links It just doesn't go any where and when I use another browser besides IE I get the error massage that the Server is not responding Slower, by far, than normal, but I'm getting access.
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10-13-08  01:00pm - 5913 days	#10
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Originally Posted by messmer: Thanks Monahan, I got the player and love it! One problem though, I associated all formats with my new player but Windows Media Player is hesitant in giving up .mpg and wmv. files. Where on the WMP do I find "associations" so that I can uncheck the two formats. I looked high and low but can't find them. By the way, I realize that I can play the files with the new player by right-clicking and then choosing it but don't want to go through the constant bother. I also saw some replies referring to watching a movie in cartoon effect. How do I do that? Sounds interesting! :-) Cartoon effect If you are using version 0.9.2 or later (go to Help>About... to see the version you have), go to Tools>Extended Settings>Video Effects>Image modification OR Go to Tools and check Advanced Controls. That brings up a console that will have several icons, one of which is a simple looking equalizer control. Click on that icon and it has the same panel as the first option. I haven't learned how to disable the WMP default either except to remove WMP altogether, which I'm not prepared to do. Perhaps someone else knows. Switching back and forth is a bother, I agree, but I can live with it. [Edit] Toadsith posted a WMP reply while I was composing this reply. I will try that later today. Off point...but if someone can create a VLC freebee with all of its features, why can't Bill Gates and his gang of rocket scientists do the same damned thing? I know. Because he doesn't really want to and doesn't have to. Sigh. Edited on Oct 13, 2008, 01:04pm (Monahan: Later info just posted)
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10-13-08  12:24pm - 5913 days	#36
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	I can accept watermarks, now that I've gotten used to them, and can handle the discretely small ones that appear on most porn these days. However a practice that seems to have fallen into non-use is the intermittent watermark; one that appears periodically, then goes away. (These days I see it only on in flight movies where a two liner pops on once in a while that says, "Licensed for use on United Airlines (or whatever)") That way it's less obtrusive and won't cover an important body part during a scene that features energetic consensual sexual activity.
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10-12-08  08:16pm - 5914 days	#5
Monahan (0) Active User Posts: 348 Registered: Jan 17, '07 Location: SF Valley, CA	Check out More Gonzo. The site is by DEV8, the same outfit that does AssTraffic and AllInternal. The site takes scenes from many of DEV8's sites so, while you won't get all of the content of both sites, you will get enough so that you can make a call.
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