The newer Iomega's are much different than the last generation ones. I'm not positive, but I think that is why they include Prestige in the name.
I debated on getting one for nearly a month because I can remember when Iomega Zip Drives were a big thing and I had terrible problems with those. But these Iomega Prestige externals really seem to be nice. They aren't much bigger than the Passport drives.
I'll give you some of my results so far using at least one of each of these brands.
Iomega Prestige - I have 3 of these, all are 1 TB. I've had zero problems with them and one is over a year old. I don't know if it would make a difference, but they do have a manual on/off switch on them, so you don't have to run it the whole time your PC is on. This also can be a problem since I've often left mine on for weeks since I forget to turn it off. It also is by far the quietest and runs coolest of the three. The only noise is when you first turn it on and it lasts about 5 seconds. One other advantage, the Prestige comes formatted in NTFS instead of Fat 32. I guess the quietness of it can be shown by my leaving it on accidentally. The only flaw I've noticed is a fairly big on light that will light a room up. I just put a piece of tape over it.
I have 1 Seagate Free Agent Desk 1TB. I haven't had any problems with it, but it gets moody. It goes into sleep mode, you move your mouse and it wakes up, "whiiiiiiz" all day long whiiiiz. It is to the point that I completely unplug it and use it only to store anything that I'm not positive that I'm going to keep. I do think it is very sturdy and dependable though. I've had it for about 16 months.
Western Digital MyBook - I've had 4 (two 500 GB, two 1 TB) total and two of them died on me, a 500 GB and a 1 TB. These are really good when they are working. There are a few things about it though that I don't like even when working. It stays on as long as your PC is on. When it wakes up from sleep mode it triggers my anti-virus. It also is the noisiest of the three. And much like the annoying light on the Iomega, the MyBook has a circle or strip on the front of it that lights up all the time and flashes when in use. The circle itself is bigger than a silver dollar and depending on which model can either be a green light or blue one. Put two of them together, one green and one blue, you will look like you have a Christmas computer desk!
One last one, I had a Lacie 1TB as my first 1TB. It was very good, but it ran very hot. It still works though. I've had it nearly 2 years, but I won't leave it plugged it up.
I've had this happen 3 different times. The first time was with Videobox. Thing is, I didn't realize the account was still accessible. One of their staff members sent me an email a few months later. It wasn't the nicest email. It said that their biller at the time, Paycom, which is more commonly known today as Epoch, had alerted them to a week period where their software was not removing canceled accounts. This was probably in 2005. While they weren't exactly nice about it, they did say thanks for not taking advantage of the situation since they could see that I hadn't signed in. If you've read my reviews over the years, you know that I, especially in 2005, surfed porn in a cycle. I had certain genres that I would group together in one month.
Never really had the chance to use this one since I had no idea it was still active.
Second time, Eve Angel's old official site. I had a payment plan that was no longer even an option, one year at $72, granted by Eve back in the days when she was pretty much running the site. When the year was up, I decided not to renew since they had already split with Eve and were recycling the content. I did go back to it several times to get anything I had missed and to get anything that was glitchy. Some of the older videos were not playing as .wmv files, but would play as .mov files, so I went back and got those to replace the faulty ones. I finally sent them an email and told them that I had canceled my account, but still had access. Their only reply back, "Thank you, we have now removed your access".
Third time and most recent, Club Sandy, about 18 months ago. The reason I realized this one, they had put a new set up the day after my account should have been canceled, that I wanted. I went into the preview without trying to sign in and clicked one of the pictures. I was still signed in from a previous session. I DID download that one set, then signed out and went back a few days later to see that I still had access.
It was tempting, but they had been very helpful in a billing problem I had had. I contacted them about it. They thanked me multiple times in one email and gave me the rest of the month (3 weeks) access. Sort of like returning a lost wallet without taking the money out and the person gives you some of the money. Which they didn't have to do.
I picked no and inform the billers. While the first answer says, "Yes this is good karma". There also is bad karma and taking advantage of the situation is just asking for that. I prefer not to play with either side of karma.
Funny question in a way. I'd get my wife out first. I need someone to catch those hard drives!
Seriously. I have one external hard drive, a 1 TB one that I don't have hooked up. It is in a closet in a box right beside the door. It has about 750 GB of my favorite porn on it, and 100 GB of my favorite music on it and 25 GB or so of family pictures/records/history. I would do all I could to grab it, but wouldn't risk my life or my wife's for it.
Can't say I have tried any and doubt those pills work, though I do enjoy the commercials! While playing golf with two small men, "Bob has bigger woods now and can drive much deeper than his friends". That's good comedy.
On the pumps, what was the guy's name that used those, Dick Rambone? Something like that. I remember him having a video where a woman measured him as 11-12 inches then nearly 15 inches after using the pump. Though I would imagine those could be dangerous for your health since they are removing blood from other areas of your body and sending it to your penis.
Always remember what a lesbian told me, "I don't need a dick to get hot women, I have a tongue that rotates and vibrates."
My guess is that it wouldn't change anything. B/G sets now are just as stimulating for women who like to look at naked guys as it is for men who like to look at the naked girls. I honestly believe more women are into g/g sites than guys are. Girls being with girls is more acceptable for some reason, in our society, than guys being with guys and I've never known a woman under 40 that doesn't find women attractive. The one change would probably be more solo male sites. There was a mention of this one time before that the niche we call "gay" niche is actually as much for women as gay men.
From my own experiences, once the woman is ready to have sex, they are as aggressive, as impatient as men are. Even if that is them masturbating. Also as dcracken said women do hide their sexual desires, but I'm not for sure that most men don't as well.
In a way, I'm more suspicious of those that down known good sites. They'll say things like, "That site is terrible, no customer service, download speeds at 1.9 kb/s on a 10M connection, tried to rip me off" The overly excited new members are no different than me when I first joined and reviewed Eve Angel's site a 96. Keeping in mind, no forum back then. I was in a way gushing about my favorite site.
Back when I was webmaster of a forum based around Philosophy/Psychology, the rest of the staff and I would notice patterns. We had three new members in three nights at nearly the same time. None of them posted at first. We had to verify and allow members. Well, one posted one night and was talking about a book he had read about Philosophy and Debate. The next night, one of the other new ones posted and agreed with him, calling it "The best book I've read on the subject". The third night, the other new one posted and agreed with them. If not for the timing of the posts and fact that none of them had anything else to post, we wouldn't have been suspicious.
Turned out to be the author of the book. He was using an IP changing software, so all 3 accounts had different locations. The staff left it up to me to piss him off. I posted on his thread and said I had read the book, giving it a review of, "Amateurish, redundant, Roget is your friend, reads like a middle-school report". He signed in with name A, but it had name B's IP address. After arguing for awhile, he signed in with name B, but with name C's IP address.
Then to end, he bit when I offered him a banner ad for his book to come clean. He came clean and I replied, "It would be unethical of me to promote your book, now that we know you're a liar."
Oh and I don't know how many of you see the many threads by new members after midnight Pacific time, but there are many that Khan must remove early in the morning hours.
No problem Khan, one thing, you mentioned talking to us privately? I mention this because I am using a free Yahoo account with PU and I didn't know if I'm missing emails. It sends everything I want to read to spam and everything that is spam to my inbox.
Now, my allegation against you, is not an allegation. I'm not posting it on the forum. I'm not chasing your every review with "I think this guy has something to do with kink". It is just something that had went through my mind over the last couple of years. And anyone with the ability to comprehend those 4 points I made, can see why I would wonder. I wonder if Jennifer Lopez' ass is flabby. I wonder if Burger King has the Angry Whopper back. I wonder a lot of things. But, this is not my site, I'm sure Khan and Rick have more means than I do to know if you are affiliated with the kink sites. If they're okay with you, than so am I. Doesn't mean I can't still wonder though. You are welcome to find one time where I have said, "I know you work for kink". Go ahead. That's an allegation. My opinion is that there are some things that makes your membership here a little fishy. That's my opinion.
Tell me, how many times have I replied to you without you replying to me first? Zero. I know your type all too well. You like to argue meaningless shit while soothing your ego by trying to talk over others.
Why do you keep mentioning the other members reading this? What are they going to do? Say, "Oh hell asmith is right about everything, I no longer trust exotics because he won't apologize to him." You don't think they will look at those 4 points and understand why I would wonder? And see that I never allegedly said you worked for the site? And then wonder why in the hell you keep asking me to apologize to you? And then see how petty you are?
The members here, whether they like me or hate me, know that I am mainly here to post reviews filled with factual information, and offer any help to any of them with any site they are interested in and I've been a member of. You think this little petty shit is going to change that? You've got serious problems if you believe any of this was "serious allegations" or if you think I "attacked" you. Why don't you dip into the old sensationalistic writing bucket a little? Create a little drama there.
Most of all though, when you start to wave your moralistic values flag again, remember that you are claiming not to have a problem with different opinions. Then, ask yourself, who replied to who in this poll? Then ask yourself if you agreed with my opinion. If not, did dispute it? Yes? So that is you showing how you have no problems with differing opinions? And to think, you really think you have everyone on your side. Catch the next train, the one that says "Reality" on the front. At least my harshness at times, is known and isn't directed at other long-time members. I won't argue this with you anymore. Go change my trust vote. I'll leave yours at yes. Like before, unlike you, I take members for their reviews and contributions to the site. Doesn't mean I necessarily like them though. So, get over it or don't.
You're just being foolish now. If you remember, I plainly said that I had wondered about your affiliation with the kink.com sites long before this incident. The word mistake, was one that I admitted and apologized to the site for. That doesn't change me wondering about your affiliation with the sites. Because you're not going to shut the hell up until I explain that, I will do that now. You can see that my wondering had much weight to it before this incident.
#1 Your original problem with me was a 70 review for Ultimate Surrender. A review that clearly said the site would have been a 90 if they dropped their DL Limit or raised it to a more respectable number than 10 GB per month. I even said if they do one of those things, I will edit the score and add the 20 points back, which I have done. Why would a customer of a site get as pissed off as you did over my deduction? The regular PU or general public could read where I even said, if that download limit doesn't bother you, go ahead and add the 20 points back in your head. The only possible reason I can see for someone being upset over the deduction is because of the fact that the site went into PU's average score per site rankings with a 70. It would hurt the cumulative score.
#1a You have posted a comment on one of kink's sites questioning the calculation of the cumulative score. How many regular members go around calculating the scores of sites? And when added with #1, I think it is safe to say that anyone would have right to be skeptical of your involvement here.
#3 and #4 Three of your four top sites are kink.com sites. I don't have a problem with that. But when added to #1 and #1a, the skepticism rises. Especially seeing that you have those 3 sites about 20 points higher than you do your average site. Add to this, you, like other webmasters and site staff members that post here, do not participate in the weekly member raffle or collect tickets. Now, mind you, that is your business and I want no explanation for it. All I am saying is that there is 4 things to make me skeptical of you.
You're not helping matters by saying you have no problem with differing opinions. So, why exactly were you mad over my 20 point deduction? That was, in my opinion, the right deduction since the limit severely limited how much content I could download. But you don't have a problem with differing opinions?
How about in this very poll. You countered my opinion to it, by telling me what was correct. Maybe you missed the memo, but opinions cannot be wrong or right. It could be wrong to you, but unless you can list facts to show how someone is wrong, you're just saying your opinion is right, theirs is wrong.
Well, counsel, just as you suspected, huh? Like I've said before, you're always right. Of course, the link doesn't work and if you missed it in the previous post, my whole purpose of pointing out the false claims was to show you what a hypocrite you are. Now, I can show you what a know-it-all you are. I'll be happy to apologize to the site. Most likely, I saw the words "brutal head-scissors" on another page in the tour, as I said earlier, I had to clear my cookies to get back to that page which shows I had been beyond that page.
An apology to you? For what? The "allegation" wasn't against you. It was against the site. Unless you do work for the site. I see no reason that the allegation pertained to you. You've dodged everything else in this. You've talked in wannabe lawyer jargon, up until now. I never said you worked for the site. I simply said I've never seen a customer defend a group of sites like you do. You like to argue the meanings of things and you can figure out how to twist that into me saying you worked for these sites.
You're not touching the rest of it though? The parts about how you are a hypocrite. And how you have tried this twice with me now. As I told you before when you changed your trust rating to yes, I didn't care if you did it or not. I don't care if you change it back now to no. I just don't like someone singling me out to try and prove themselves right against me when we're just talking about opinions here. And that was the second time. It makes probably the 4th time by other members. I told them the same thing I will tell you. If you don't like my opinion and you're going to dodge any debate that comes from it, then don't reply to me. Your request of an apology on a site that you are anonymous on is hysterical.
But it is as simple as I said. Don't reply to me if you're planning to try and change my opinion, tell me how my opinion is wrong because you know everything and understand everything better than everyone else does or else, you're going to have another situation just like this one. If you want to reply and say, "I disagree because..." and it doesn't include anything about you being right, we'll be fine and can forget this, if not that's fine too. Just don't expect apologies from me when you replied to me to tell me that my opinion was wrong.
I'll get to the other one in a minute. There are some things you don't seem to understand. I first brought Ultimate Surrender up with this line "If you really are holding sites to truth in advertising, then you might want to reconsider that one." Because you were lecturing on truth in advertising, yet your #1 site had multiple false statements on it. You were being a hypocrite.
As for me questioning you about your relationship with kink.com, I said, "It sounds like you are part of the kink.com family because you defend them". Now you tell me, a member has 3 of their top 4 sites from one company. And your last contact with me before this incident was when you went off about me dropping 20 points from a kink.com website because they had a 10 GB per MONTH DL Limit. You were so adamant in their defense that you gave me my only no trust vote. You've since changed it to yes, but that was how much that deduction bothered you. And you've since posted a comment asking about why a kink.com site's score is not listed as high as you thought it should be. That sounds more like an employee than a customer to me.
Moving on, to have any kind of real violence against another human, without facing charges, you have to have sanctioning. Like the UFC has, they worked for years on getting sanctioning, they had to ban headbutts, groin strikes and a dozen other moves. Or they could have taken the WWE route and said it is staged or scripted. Or else, their fighters would be jailed for assault charges. Same thing against the Jerry Springer show and its fights. Which he admitted were staged and scripted. I know good and damn well if the UFC can't allow groin strikes that Ultimate Submission cannot allow sexual penetration during what they call a "unscripted match" without sanctioning.
A reality of real fighting/wrestling is that you are trying to injure the other person or else, they injure you. I wouldn't say WWE is anymore scripted, they've had performers end up paralyzed. But you see, my problem wasn't with Ultimate Submission. My problem was with you being a hypocrite. WWE is not "real" wrestling. WEC, K-1, UFC, those are the real wrestling events I was referring to. And you remember, it is just me showing you that you were supporting a site that did exactly opposite of what you believe in. That is what you should expect anytime you try to persuade another adult to believe like you.
I could give a damn about the 2 to 1 ratio. Do you follow polls and base your beliefs on the majority vote? I make up my own mind. Even then, I'm also not going to try and tell you to make up your own mind. I could care less if you follow the majority. I'm not here to persuade anyone. On that note, I'm not going to respond kindly to people who try to persuade me either.
I don't think you understand that I consider "teen" a genre and not a number. When used in context with adult sites. You can look at most sites with Teen in their name and see something like this, "The #1 Teen Site". Just like you can look at an interracial site that says, "The #1 Interracial Site."
I don't know why you are saying "exactly" on the monitor part. Those numbers 17 and 15 were specific, when you find a site that says, "18 and 19 year old models only" then I will say that they are wrong for saying those specifics and not sticking within in them. Until then "teen" is not defined in the porn world.
I didn't say German could effect English ads. I said people from those countries could live under different laws about what age defines a legal age, meaning 18 and 19 could be illegal in some countries.
What gets me is this, "I don't know and don't care." About mature porn. Yet, you hope others are reading this and can see that I'm impossible to persuade?
That might be the worst thing anyone has said to me on here. Maybe I haven't made myself clear. I bring my own opinion, from my own mind. I don't say anything to make anyone else happy. I've been this way since I joined and I'm not changing. That is part of life that I enjoy called having my own opinion. I don't need you to persuade me. How highly must one think of themselves to think their opinion is so much better than others that they should persuade others to think like them? Just don't hold your breath on that one. It would be like a brutal head-scissors effect.
As for where it was changed, you probably need to clear your cookies to get the Click yes if over 18 to enter. The changed part is in the last paragraph, "Female wrestling holds on UltimateSurrender.com include severe leg scissors, head scissors, boston crab, back breaker, full nelson, grapevine and more. Enjoy women in bondage photos, movies, streaming video, and shoots you can buy at UltimateSurrender.com!"
I had other ones, but liked those 3 the best! Bond could possibly survive, depending on how many were scripted or not. I would give him a 0.07 chance if not scripted!
I've had one other long drawn-out mostly pointless debate with you on here before and in it, I mentioned that you sounded like you were part of the kink.com family. The way you defend them and so on.
So, tell me, why is it that their main page for Ultimate Submission changed the wording over the last 24 hours? It changed from "Brutal leg-scissors" to "Severe leg-scissors". Not that severe is any better, since you like in context discussions. A severe leg-scissors would mean lots of pressure being applied. Like if you went outside and it was hot. You would say the heat is severe today.
You then say this about the 3 tags, "Nope. Per their rules, 3 tags per round are only ALLOWED for each of competing teams to be exercised (and they USUALLY happen, as they're very beneficial for the team), but are not required." Their site clearly says, "The rules are set. There are three tags per team per round and three 12 minute non-scripted wrestling rounds."
There is nothing there about three tags not being required. So, either way, they are being dishonest. I could have my hope up that each team would tag 3 times and the front page says that, but you say it isn't true.
As far as it not being scripted, you really should think about that before saying it. IF ultimate submission is not scripted, they would be in jail. In the world of REAL wrestling, if one wrestler popped a finger in the other wrestler's ass, that would be molestation/sexual assault. That is where they stretch the truth a bit, by saying, "REAL" wrestling. There is no such thing as sex in a real sport. You don't see players blowing each other during timeouts. Also, backbreaker, Boston Crab, moves they list, are not REAL wrestling moves. You cannot do a move intended to break a person's back. Now, if this is true, that these moves are not done with the intention of hurting each other or winning the match, then it is scripted. Which makes "unscripted" a lie. If those moves are intended to hurt each other, then the authorities should have already looked into it. Especially seeing that a man stands there as the "referee" while another videotapes, and the ref assists at times in the assault.
My whole point in all this, including Ultimate Submission, is that porn is a perceived fantasy. If you don't believe that, I recommend watching WWE and betting on the matches. Or watching Jerry Springer. And remember, Ultimate Submission claims "unscripted". Gay models aren't always gay. Mature models are only mature based on the viewer's age.
I may have to use two replies for this. First of all, tell me what the word in front of "model" is. Teen Models, Gay Models, Lesbian Models, Mature Models and lets say Transsexual Models? The word in front is the adjective that separates the models based on actions/age and look perception. None of those other adjectives are specific though. Mature is an age/look perception one. But no one has defined what is and what isn't a mature model. Why would teen be any different? When anyone who has surfed porn for even a relatively short time goes to a site, say like, Teen Dreams, they know there are models that are not 18 and 19. If the don't, all they have to do is preview the site and can see Sophie Moone (28), Eve Angel (26) just to name two. How is that site misleading or even wrong? Does a site stop putting new content of member favorites like Sophie and Eve up, just because they are no longer 18 or 19? And anyway, what adjective comes after "mature"?
Your monitor example did nothing but strengthen what I said. They said their monitors were 17 inches, but the viewable area was only 15.8 inches. That is specific. Just like if a site was named 18and19yearoldmodels would be. If the monitor company had said, "Big monitor". There wouldn't be a problem. In porn, no genre, is age defined, unless the site defines the word teen or mature or as in the case of Allover30. Teen is no different than MILF, Mature, Lesbian, Gay. Sure, they could go re-program their site and put youngermodels dreams as the name, but it would then be subjective since you would say, "28 is not really a younger model...to me". What would be the point then of doing all of that reprogramming to only give those few complaining, something new to bitch about?
The definitions I used were relevant in the discussion, as it showed that the word Teen does have definitions in different languages that mean a time of life. As in adolescent and juvenile. The actual numbers 18 and 19 are irrelevant since neither 18 nor 19 are the legal age in some countries/cities/states.
I'm going to end this one with the lead-in of the next one. You really believe "brutal" means hot and innovative? There is no definition in this world that lists brutal as those things. You can give me that bullshit about it is up to the ad writer's understanding of the word, but that is hypocritical since you are making "teen" be defined "correctly". Look up bullshit and you'll see a picture of that belief. Scroll down.
Honestly, I have no idea what the first half of your post is saying. I felt like I used the correct contextual definitions, and have no idea how archaic "One which preserves meaning" would have to do with an age/perception question. I never said 18-19 means teen models. I said if the sites got together and defined teen as 18-19 year old models, there would be a possibility of fraud. As it stands now, there is no clear definition of "teen" model. Let me show you a few examples. Lesbian porn. No one is complaining that those women aren't lesbians. Gay porn, from what I've read, a good portion of those men are straight in real-life. Heterosexual porn, we know that many of those men are at least bi-sexual as are the women. Nobody has a problem with those. Teen to me has always meant the younger models, usually solo masturbation to show their perceived innocence. It is an age/look perception.
Think about something, your favorite site is Ultimate Submission. If you really are holding sites to truth in advertising, then you might want to reconsider that one. They advertise brutal leg scissors. Brutal leg scissors on the body or neck would cause serious damage. Broken larynx, broken ribs, the girls would be puking. And in my 20+ years of Lua/grappling, I was never taught the dreaded nipple twister or the pussy grind aided face sit or the 3 finger jammer-slammer. They also advertise "unscripted" then say "3 tags per round" in the tag team matches. That's scripted! If they were really wrestling, one could lock a brutal leg scissor on and hold the opponent in one spot until she was unconscious. Perception/fantasy is the rule in porn, always has been.
I picked no for a couple of reasons. The word teen can be taken different ways in different languages. For example, the German word for teen is "jugendlich", Spanish and Portuguese is "adolescente". Both of those words mean "juvenile" and adolescente as the English word adolescent means "minor". I think if the sites clearly defined teen to fit all languages by saying, "18 and 19 year old models" then there would be problems with fraud. Similar to a discussion we had on here before about "MILFs" and how this genre of porn is almost always 28-42 year old models, though a MILF by definition could be 18.
I'm usually more specific. I need to know that at least some of my favorite models are on the site. Once I know that, reviews, comments, won't sway me away unless they are about bad business practices.
The whole thing for me when it comes to previews is a model list and preferably the amount of content each model has. That kind of pisses me off at In Focus Girls and Sapphic Erotica. Their previews won't let you see how much content the model has so you have to join to find out that they haven't added any new content of your favorites.
It mainly depends on who the model is for me. Some models can make a photo set very sexy with their expressions. I've always thought Gemma Massey was one of the best at this. The opening pictures of her sets she has a curious but shy look, this goes on to become playful, then she can turn it on to come get me now levels. I don't think I will ever change in that sense. It is probably the same reason I prefer solo videos, I get those same feelings from the models and their expressions.
I'm under 36, barely, and picked as many as possible. Not that I prefer tattoos, but having grown up in Southern California, Pico Union, lots of Hispanic girls and some do have tattoos to promote the heritage. I love the Aztecan tattoos, usually a small bird with a traditional Aztecan headdress on the bird. I don't care for seeing the little beach girls in Santa Monica with their "tribal" suns around their bellybuttons. To me, it is more about heritage and understanding the meaning. My late grandfather had tattoos from his thighs to ankles on both legs as a tribute to his Samoan heritage. So, I guess you could say I'm used to them, but will continue to say no to the ones that are just there for a fad.
My thinking is similar to Messmer. I always looked at on DDF sites as the girl has her orgasm, then slips into her clothes to leave. I picked could go either way. I'm not for sure if any OS works this way, but in Vista you can always click the heading above the file name and click "descending order" That gives you the sets however you like them.
My uncle used to say, "Women do get finer with age like vintage wine does, just divorce one after 20 years of marriage and see how much more she costs you than if you divorced her after one year"
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