Sex and drugs and auto-tune: What motivates a millennial perp? "Thirty years ago people couldn't imagine online porn." I beg to differ. "Private-interest" bulletin boards existed even back in 1989, and I have a sneaking suspicion that comparing notes on the most effective autoexec.bat sequence wasn't the only reason modem'd PC users wanted access to Usenet from their spare bedrooms. The …
Circulation in the hundreds and usually ended their life under a hedge to be found by teenage boys who were playing football until the person sent to retrieve the ball from said hedge found a jazz mag instead.
I am also reminded of a Chewin the Fat sketch where cave paintings were invented in prehistoric Paisley, follwed almost instantly by the first drawing of a cock and balls. The point being that almost every new form of media becomes a vehicle to deliver porn.
Usenet existed more than 30 years ago. Tiny pictures were posted on alt.sex.pictures in uuencoded form split into multiple posts because the size of posts was limited to a few kB (yes, KILO bytes, not MB), so you had to download each post, strip off the headers and run it through uudecode before viewing a tiny 200x140 pixel image on your 640x480 16-color CGA screen.
Nowadays 12-year olds post selfie-porn on social media.
Yup, progress.
Well, not quite 30 years ago, but when the BOFH's company got a content management system, the disks were quickly filled by the PFY adding the McHenry "service documents" and the RustyNEddie "interactive processing stuff" from the tape archives. No doubt originally downloaded from Usenet in multiple file format. You can find that episode here.
(With no new BOFH in sight have to make due with re-reading previous episodes!)
I am trying to remember from my memory of the office building the first time a developer gleefully showed everybody an animated 3 second fellatio porn clip. It was based on a Max Headroom coca cola advert called c c c catch the wave or something and must have been contemporary to it.
Must have made an impression as I can still remember it.
In the '80s the UK porn industry was mainly ignored by the Govmt, so there was plenty of backstreet stuff going on... The money came from Europe and US, where there was no problem...
Yeah, but anything available in the Uk was a con anyway. Labels like Electric Blue generally promised more than they actually delivered.
virus and buggy PC sold for money ? I was baffled by that PC "art" A seldom seen brother had a laptop that was slow when I visited. I have no idea where he got so many PUPS, trojans, virus and other hindrances, aside from Windows 8. I could have sold it for thousands instead of considering a serious fire.
As for millennials, so little makes sense. At Oz fast unfood institutions, they dont even look at physically present humans of prefered gender for partners, just use fondle slabs instead of fondling the wetware near them. Is it to avoid charges of unwanted touching ? Maccas has changed but not its menus
They Stihl make good chainsaws
According to OldestBrother (he of the tree-monkey habit) they are OK for lay people but serious tree surgeons use other brands.
Not that I can remember the ones he mentioned - I wasn't *that* interested. My tastes run more to cameras and optical devices..
Where is your brother based?
For various complicated reasons to do with a client's project I've recently been on a tree felling course and been hanging out with tree care folk. In the UK and the rest of Europe they mostly seem to use Stihl and Husqvarna, though some folk use Dolmar or Pellenc (French, nice, expensive). And the larger Stihl units are definitely not designed for use by laypeople.
Incidentally, I went to a presentation by a Stihl trainer. He mentioned that both Stihl and Husqvarna make excellent products, sometimes one brand is in the lead, sometimes the other, and that their personnel and management get on perfectly well. But apparently some of their customers are so loyal to their chosen brand that they're like religious zealots.
Happy sawing.
well I'd like to point out that the desire for robo-sexuality (in general) could be explained with the term '3DPD'.
You have to ask yourselves _WHY_ the '3DPD' term even exists. A great deal of it comes from radical feminism and the general attitude towards men, the "all men are toxic masculine" (by defining normal male behavior as 'toxic', not simply the rude ass-hattery that's a stereotype of normal male behavior).
So from THAT perspective, when an overwhelming number of 'available' females are of the "bitch princess from hell you owe me because you have a penis" variety, robots look PRETTY DAMN GOOD.
Ultimately you can blame Gloria Steinem, Patricia Ireland,Irina Dunn (the originator of "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle") and others who have gone beyond equal rights for women into the realm of outright man-hating and "misandrony".
So what do men do? ROBOTS! And porn. And hookers. And go to other (non-westernized) countries.
(for those women who really DO want men in their lives, and not a Big Member 3000, consider NOT listening to those over-the-top radical feminist HARPIES and behaving NORMALLY, like 100,000+ years of human evolution defining the traditional roles and behavior of men and women have people do, and men will not only respect you, but probably not do things that anger you either; otherwise you'll play 2nd fiddle to the Lucy Liu-bots that are only COPIES of you, except without all of the "toxic femininity")
sad-face icon because, let's face it, this is sad.
If indeed the future is filled with wankers, then that means less 1st-worlders using much too many resources and polluting the world.
It also means that I look forward to seeing how that works when I'm 80 and so full of arthritis I can hardly move. Unless I'm still spry and agile, in which case it's the nurse who's going to wish I was full of arthritis.
Let's pity the nurse and hope I'll be full of arthritis.
"The WankoBot (© 2029 Estate of Donald Trump) has a number of settings inline with customer satisfaction demand, which range from gentle erotic massage to having Kim Kardashian pounding on you for 10 minutes.
It is normal for nurses to switch the WankoBot to its Kardashian setting* and leave the patient for a few minutes: death is always guaranteed and our happy customers always go out with a smile on their face."
* cleaning and servicing should be carried out afterwards: please see the manual for more information.
a number of settings inline with customer satisfaction demand, which range from gentle erotic massage to having Kim Kardashian pounding on you for 10 minutes.
EEEEWWWWW!!!! That would have me limp within 10 *seconds*, and not from excitement either.
I think the only reason Kanye West has her around is because she's about the only person in the world with less talent than him.
Relax, the trend is that more people live longer and healthier than ever. In particular if you are in the wealthier and better educated part of the population (of course you can have bad luck).
When I was a kid/teen, people in their 80es were more or less expected to be in care homes. Less so these days, my mum and her friends have very busy lives.
"less 1st-worlders using much too many resources and polluting the world."
*facepalm*
Without enough babies being born to create the next generation, nobody is going to PAY FOR your arthritis treatments. It'll become SO expensive to 'take care of' the aging population that any kind of 'austerity' for the 'old and retired' will get shoved under the bus. Run the numbers, you'll see. The only way that you'll get your arthritis treatments at age 80 is if you have private retirement, assuming it's not confiscated and/or taxed out of existence. That is, unless millenials "get busy" and start making babies...
(but millenials are too busy texting each other on their 4-inch screens)
If sex weren't so damned pleasurable, nobody would EVER have kids. Then humans would die off. But someone with the attitude as seen in the above quote might actually LIKE that outcome...
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> "some of us will be having "great sex" without human contact within the next six years" - hmmm, doesn't he know prison is full of purveyors of beastility already?
It's still perfectly legal in six states of the USA. It's a God given right, to fuck anything that can't eat you, or bite your dick off.
"...decision... ...does not make any logical sense..."
Many organizations provide formally-defined 'Decision Making' processes. Such procedures typically mandate a very careful, explicit, highly verbose, stepwise process. Devoid of any reliance on common sense or instinct.
The very nature of the stepwise process enables, and in facts makes easy, what would otherwise be nearly impossible... ...bad decisions.
Here's how.
Whereas it's very difficult to leap straight onto a bad decision because the incorrectness is too obvious, it's actually quite easy if one takes an overly-verbose, step-by-step approach, gently circling around and sneaking up on the simply-awful decision. It's similar to the old 'slowly boiling a frog' metaphor.
Corrective actions:
Senior reviewers should skip over the body of any such 'decision making' report (because it likely contains cognitive contagions), and flip straight to the idiotic conclusion. Makes it more obvious.
Wise leaders would have such decision making procedures deleted from their business policies. i.e. If you have a brain, then use it.
If need be, tell everyone that the instinctive decision was made by an A.I. Many seem to trust a 10k synapse A.I. over a trillion synapse class intelligence that's been evolved over hundreds of millions of years. They probably snuck up on that decision.
One trouble of such systems is that they inevitably depend on the input of many people. Some of those people are aware of what they're doing, others not. Some are consciously or subconsciously trying to manipulate the outcome. Nearly all are manipulating the data, if only to make themselves look better.
All have subtly, or not so subtly, different ideas of what's relevant to the question.
Then all this bullshit gets fed into a system designed by a psychopath to solve a problem that is about four orders of magnitude more complex than anyone concerned realises.
" "Only a fool writes for anything other than money." Millennials, on the other hand, clamber over each other in their insatiable desire to have their reporting and expertise published for no financial gain at all.
Not to side with millenials too much, but for most of those these days wanting to get into the media industry or anything art or industrial design based, you need to have a "portfolio". I.e. a bunch of your sh&t, sorry work that you've posted somewhere. The more popular you can show it became, the more likely you are to be able to get that shitty unpaid internship, which might eventually turn into some gig economy style part time contracting (dont call it employment), which might end up with you eventually getting employed somewhere (no doubt at minimum wage).
You have always needed to prove that you can write before an editor will consider commissioning you. In t'old days, you could only do this by writing stuff on spec or reviewing a gig for your local fanzine. It's much easier now to build a personal portfolio via the wonders of blog. The difference is that today's budding writers are willing to have their hard work published in commercial magazines and newspapers FOR FREE or for peanuts on an ongoing basis, thereby needlessly keeping themselves penniless while at the same time queering the pitch for colleagues who have dependents to feed.
I take the gig economy seriously. For the magazine I write for I literally get paid in gigs. I'll be working in the press tent at Download Festival in a couple of weeks (saves me the couple of hundred quid for the ticket and all I need to do is write up the review afterwards which takes about an hour)
Spelling and grammar aren't really a sign of the quality of the journalism. The Grauniad has been known for this for decades, even back when it was a much better paper than the Lefty Mail that it's degenerated into now.
The lack of checks is a sign of the lack of money the papers have. Which is also the reason why they've lost quality, due to having to do the same with less cash. But I suspect writer's pieces have always been full of typos and such - it's just that in the good old days [TM] you had the sub-editors to sort it all out. Subbies, were one of the first things to get cut.
Obviously journos now have to produce more articles per day (and updates to previous ones) in order to keep the website constantly turning over with new stuff. And that reduces the quality, by cutting the time on each piece - as well as meaning more deadlines to meet, hence more typos. But I suspect that stuff was always written at the last minute before deadline in the good old days too, because people are people...
As IQ is currently defined, the average IQ is exactly 100
Are we absolutely sure?
Theresa Mays recent Brexit deal strategy resembled the act of repeatedly trying to jam the square block through the round hole and expecting a different result each time, and measured against the general population, she's clearly not of below average intelligence.
Then there's the further evidence of the general population repeatedly voting conservative.
Believe it or not, "oldschool" sex has (at least) one giant glaring problem: it kinda requires an available and willing partner. Now I do understand those more fortunate of us might find this hard to believe, but for some of the rest of us those are effectively insurmountable obstacles. And most "digital" versions tend to just don't have that problem...
Perhaps, but knowing my luck I'd get the Megurine Luka sexbot, and she'd reject me and shag the Miku sexbot instead...
Surely there's not a great deal going on in there worth selling to the forces of criminality unless there is a teeming black market ...Alastair Dabbs
There's always teeming black markets, AD, .... ergo .........there be honeypots to tender and server.:-)
Inffinitly preferable to most movies produced from the mid 80's all the same.
I prefer movies that run into the surreal rather than those designed to be understood by the vast masses of hick yokels who resent any expectations toward out of the box thinking.
I can see it now, once online sex becomes feasible, I highly doubt the services will invest in sophisticated AI to drive the surrogates but instead, other anon players will drive your 'partnet', operating via a highly restricted window of allowed behavior by the server, while the dialog will be supplied by a huge Markovian server farm. Not PVP, but PFP.
>Sex and drugs and auto-tune
A harsh, and justified, indictment of the Kathy Perry, Ariana Grande and Dua Lipa generation, sir.
To be fair, reading a Top 40 list from the 60s, my birth decade, shows a lot of stuff that seems equally vapid and insipid. Despite the occasional appearance of the Stones.
Cage the Elephant, Lana Del Rey and Weezer back to you!
There is a theory that when a business decision or government policy does not make any logical sense, it can be explained by money or sex.
Ideology seems a greater motivation for illogical failure; from the liberal idealisms of marxist-leninism or it's brother, Thatcherite Randite libertarianism, neither the USSR or our present governments in Britain escaped disaster, even in their own aims, judged by what they hoped to achieve.
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