Let me lighten the heavy load you're carrying around.

No matter what country you are born & raised in, a child's parents & extended family participate in the indoctrination process that instills the values, expectations & rules that will be required to exist & prosper in society.  This usually includes an introduction to the family's belief system, people to admire, people to fear & hate and so on and so on.

I was taught that LUST was bad and LOVE was good, as if one was opposite the other. I have come to the conclusion that LUST and LOVE are not even related to each other.  One is an emotional response and the other is a bodily function that we are pre-programmed to experience as a means to the continuation of the species.  We sometimes fall in love with someone we have sex with, but we most certainly do NOT have sex with everyone we truly love.

All male mammals have much the same "Wiring By Mother Nature" instincts.  There are three distinct parts to a male mammals sex life: 1) The Hunt for a Potential Recipient, 2) The Chase & Staging after Capitulation, followed quickly by 3) The Planting of the Seed.  Think about First Time Sex with an individual as compared to Sex in a Marriage. The comparison can best be summed up with the phrase 'You can't Rape the Willing."  There is no Hunt, no Chase, no Capitulation.  Our indoctrination most certainly did not include the factoid that a Man's biggest thrill wasn't the moaning & the groaning if it didn't include the Hunt and Chase portion.  Who knew?

An education system that hides certain important facts about Human Sexuality is ultimately responsible for sending vulnerable teen age boys and girls out into the world with false expectations and ill prepared for the events that may lead to infidelity and far too many single parent households.  Boys are often told that marriage means never having to go on the hunt for sex partners and for the inexperienced, that shady promise turns hollow when the sexual boredom becomes apparent.

You may not be comfortable lumping the sex act with coughing, sneezing, pooping, peeing, eating & sleeping.  Just think how different 'wedlock' would be for both participants if sexual fidelity didn't enter into the vows spoken during the wedding ceremony.

The practice of mutilating the male sex tool began centuries ago and was intended to make the penis less sensitive, which was to make sex less enjoyable.  It was first used as punishment for the crime of fornication outside of wedlock and was performed on the guilty in a public place, to dissuade other men from responding to their urges in a similar manner.  After a decade or two, someone got the notion to perform the act on all newborn males as a preventative measure.  If you were born a Jew, the community turned the barbaric act that was to be performed on you & yours, into a coming of age party, lucky you, complete with songs & ritual dances and lots of gauze bandages.

This atrocity will continue because the mother has the final say.  The line Doctors use to get consent: "If we don't cut off this unnecessary skin now, when the boy begins to mature, he'll require instructions & assistance to keep his penis clean or it will more than likely get infected.  Then we'll have to chop off the entire penis, rather than just a little bitty piece of skin.  So what's it going to be?"  And if that didn't work, they'll make up some statistic that claims 90% of men convicted of rape in the last ten years were uncut.

You can blame your mother for your missing foreskin, but the ultimate blame rests with the doctor who got paid an additional fee for the extra operation.

Agreed that her older material was better.  If you skip listening to the radio edits of her handful of huge hits and focus on the 12 inch remixes, the production sparkles.  At the time of their release, her tunes were arguably the highlight song of the night for months after, especially in the gay clubs.  There was nothing to top them.  She had a string of club hits that, at the core, were beautifully produced by John Benitez.  Her career was greatly helped by his skill and musical choices.  The same could be said for Donna Summer who was one of many voices used by Giorgio Moroder, the grandfather of disco.

For technical reasons (and not content) my latest video re-edit has been blocked in ONE country only.  Why Germany?  Don't know.  And don't care because the rest of the world can watch it.  It's a video that tackles some rather weighty topics surrounding sex, love, prostitution and slavery.  It's not your average fan-remix video that contains full-frontal nudity (only one erect penis, sorry) and lots of hugging and kissing.

And the link:  https://youtu.be/1yd4NQq2FXQ

I was never a huge Madge fan so I have no idea what has attracted me to the idea of reworking her old tracks.  To all her detractors, I apologize for not being one of you.  To all her remaining fans, she was never that great.  :cheers:  (I hope that makes at one person laugh out loud.)

Here's the promised link.  Enjoy (or not)!  https://youtu.be/iS4wFlGNLdM

While we're on a Madge rant, here's a link to a reworking of one of her old tunes "Who's That Dub" (and not one pic of the bitch).

Youtube Video

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I received a thoughtful PM that suggested I hadn't tried hard enough to retrieve my account through the normal means.  Luckily, I park my feelings and ego and few blocks away at all times, so I took the suggestion with a smile and tried a few variations that I must not have tried before.  Long and short story, I owe [someone] personal pleasure center attention when and if they visit Vancouver BECAUSE I AM NOW LOGGED BACK ON to TranceTraffic.  The panic is over.  It feels like a pet you lost 6 months ago has finally returned home.

This speaks highly of the usefulness and effectiveness of the forums.

A few months back, I struggled with a browser-helper object that installed adware and wiped my cookies and history. I lost my only access I had to one of my absolute favorite music sites - - TranceTraffic and I can't even remember what email and password I used. I was a long time member, contributing to the radio stream occasionally and was a one time psytrance uploader. I'm hoping a fellow member can contact the owner or perhaps Silx with a plea for help. If you can help, please send me a PM here and I'll pass on pertinent details you'll need.

If all else fails, I'm looking for an invite, but that hopefully will be my last resort.

My latest work of art is on display here: https://youtu.be/o6lOV2WwFVo

It's an extended re-edit and video of Madonna's first big hit and what is still the best 'I need a Holiday' anthem.

Now that they're selling computers to just about anybody, programmers have had to find ways to simplify the complex.  Dumbing down bittorrent at the programmer level in many cases means the client application (the one the downloader installs and uses) will do it's best to give as many features to the user without requiring technical knowledge such as how to open a port.  By tweaking the bittorent protocol, applications such as utorrent are able to let non-connectable users (the ones without an open port) at least connect with some members of a busy swarm.  The plus-side to opening a port is the added ability to connect to any and all members in a swarm, both connectable types and non-connectable types.

By the way, my original message in this topic pre-dates (I believe but can easily be corrected if wrong) the softer approach to ratio requirements that this site adopted. Harsher ratio requirements require fastidious attention to detail at the user end and most of the masses would be left out if such harshness was the norm.  Not that the masses should be considered dumb, but let's be honest that there is a fairly steep learning curve when you step into concepts like swarms, seeding, ports and packets.  It's always good to have as many nerd friends as possible to help you through these moments.