Posts made by eobox91103

@john32123666 said in Is there a do not upload list?:

@eobox91103 child pornography is illegal ...

Absolutely. But some producers (often in Japan) have tried to escape the definition of child pornography by making drawings or animations of figures that look like minors, making the argument that no "actual minors" were involved in the production. Prosecuting a case like that requires a finding of fact (rather than law), and most juries will find that a drawing, however crude, of a 12-year-old does indeed constitute the depiction of a minor, and convict on child pornography.

This site doesn't tolerate that kind of material, and won't accept an uploader's argument that "this is a drawing, not a photograph."

@john32123666 There are also a lot of Japanese-made animated films that depict an adult having sex with a character that is clearly under age. Different places have different laws about whether that sort of thing constitutes "child pornography," but it's not permitted on this site.

@bi4smooth There are lots of issues swimming around here, perhaps foremost among them that CNN, like Fox News, is an entertainment channel whose goal is to draw audience that supports higher advertising revenue. The technology behind masks is too complicated for sound-bite television to convey: Even if it did so, audiences with microscopic attention spans would get confused and switch channels...the ultimate fail of at TV programme.

It has been indeed been demonstrated that, under laboratory conditions, a patch of N95 or other medical-grade filter material, will do a better job of filtering out nasties than a a couple of layers of cloth. Those demonstrations, though are only relevant if all exhalation goes through the material--think of tightly clamping a patch of that material around the end of a pipe--or the highly unlikely situation that a person wearing a mask of such material has it so tightly fitted to their face that there is no leakage path around the edges. Nobody's mask-wearing ever satisfies that condition. People often complain about their glasses fogging up whilst wearing a mask--that's due to water vapour-laden exhalation leaking from the top of their mask.

In real life, a primary benefit of a mask, whether cloth or medical grade, is to decelerate and diffuse exhaled breath. This will significantly reduce the spread of that breath to other people, especially if they are socially distanced by two metres. An N95 mask will be better than cloth, but only marginally so. A poorly-fitting but properly-worn cloth mask is still infinitely superior to no mask at all.

Two additional points in favour of an N95 mask:

1. The shape of an N95 mask is such that it's much less likely to slip down below the nose (and having an uncovered nose is the same as not wearing a mask at all). For careless people who let their cloth or light blue surgical masks slip down below their nose, an N95 mask would be of great benefit.

2. My discussion above addressed exhalation. Breathing, of course, also involves inhalation. An N95 mask is shaped in such a way that it will be pulled closer to the face during inhalation, thus drawing more air through the mask material and less from around the edges. A cheap cloth mask, especially a shapeless rectangle, will not do this, and much of the inhaled air will come from the loose sides of the mask rather than through the cloth--effectively eliminating the benefit of a mask

So, yes, an N95 mask is better than a cloth one...but not by much for most people. A well-fitting cloth mask is still very beneficial, and infinitely superior to wearing nothing at all (or wearing a mask incorrectly).

And now, a final slam at CNN: When I pulled up the link in the original post, I saw the following (snipped from the full page):
Note that while the headline--and article--essentially say "Wear a medical mask, not a cloth one," the image right below is a link to a video of Sanjay Gupta showing us how to make a shapeless cloth mask out of a bandana--something completely antithetical to the story content. It seems that the web designer who built the page didn't bother to read the story. We are not surprised.

@loststoner said in Do I have to....:

Also what is the quickest and easiest way to get my upload ratio increased?

In addition to the freeleech approach mentioned by @bi4smooth above, you can download a torrent file into your client but only select a very few files to download (maybe 10% of the material). If you do this very soon after the torrent is posted to this site, you'll get that small amount of material very quickly, and then become a "source" for that material for other leechers, and you'll get a lot of upload credit.

Also, keep seeding anything you're already downloaded, even if you don't want to keep the material for your own collection. I have some torrents that I downloaded years ago that occasionally get a hit from someone.

Finally, if you have some material tat isn't already on this site, create a new torrent to upload, and that will get you a bunch of upload credit. If you don't have anything like that, I can put some on a cloud site that you can download from and then post here. Just send me a PM and we can work the mechanics off-line. (I hope this doesn't break any site rules.)

@boxingclever said in Escorts:

So, we all like porn and it's why we're here, but have you ever hired an escort or thought about it? what was your experience like?

I would answer, "sort of:" I met a rather attractive guy at the gym a couple of years ago who was (1) definitely gay, especially enjoying sucking and getting fucked, and (2) working as an escort for women--who he would accompany to dinners, concerts, etc., and sometimes fuck. That was a lucrative arrangement for him, especially given that the startup firm where he worked had collapsed. We dated for several months, and I didn't pay him. It was an odd experience, but most enjoyable.

On another note, a very attractive (gay) intern I worked with a while back told me that he often hired escorts. I was surprised, as he could have had almost anyone he wanted. I presumed that it was a matter of convenience given his complicated work schedule, but he said simply, "I don't pay guys to have sex; I pay them to leave afterwards."

@bi4smooth said in Trump goes to the Dark Side...:

Should any of THEM question my facts, I'll be happy to respond.

Oh, but facts are such inconvenient things for some people, as are the basic principles of logic: Some want to simultaneously believe,

• (1) Coronavirus is a hoax. It's no more a problem than seasonal flu. It's being used as a tool by governments to oppress people; and

• (2) Donald Trump is the great Saviour, because his Warp Speed programme developed a Vaccine to save us from this horrible Plague [gratuitous capitalisation in honour of the Dear Leader].

'Tis Christmas Eve...
Merry Christmas to ALL!

and as we Anglicans would say, And also with you.

@raphjd said in Sarah Palin says she’ll get Covid vaccine ‘over my dead body’:

@eobox91103

Didn't you say that NO ONE ever said those things they said in that video?

No. When did I do that?

"Intelligent people" just keep obeying their masters, is what you mean.

No; intelligent people can learn when the knowledge advances or their own world view matures. Coronaviruses are better understood now than they were one year ago.

Even you admitted that vaccines, especially against viruses, don't work the way they claimed in the video.

Informed people today have a different understanding of vaccines than they did months/years ago. Again, that is due to the increase and advancement of knowledge, not from "lying" or some malevolent conspiracy. The person who put together the video on Twat-er would have done well to put a date stamp on each of the sound bites. For example, at one point Bill Gates is talking about vaccines, and 2021, in the future tense:

The video editor would be more responsible using current information such as:
from two days ago.

I expect that one year from now intelligent and informed people will have new understandings of covid based on the advance of knowledge. That doesn't mean that people are lying today or will be lying one year now. It means that people are able to learn. This is a good thing.

@raphjd said in Sarah Palin says she’ll get Covid vaccine ‘over my dead body’:

@eobox91103

https://twitter.com/i/status/1473680044044263426

These are the people you want us to listen to.

No.

That piece from Twitter is a cherry-picking of excerpts from over a year ago. Science evolves. People learn. Things can change. Intelligent people keep up with them.

@geobear40 said in Sarah Palin says she’ll get Covid vaccine ‘over my dead body’:

Why are you so hyped up on a virus that has a death rate of 1.8% and most of those had underling conditions.

I don't think I'm "hyped"--but I would prefer 0% to 1.8%.

If people listen to some stranger on rather they should get the shot they deserve what happens to them.

I largely agree. A foundational principle of conservatism is that people should make their own choices, and also be responsible for the consequences of them. (I think a large majority of all people would subscribe to this.) Ideally, though, people would be properly informed about these choices when they make them. Getting medical advice from an Alaskan "hockey mom" is probably not prudent.

@geobear40 The problem I have with Sarah Palin's blathering is that it can further encourage unvaccinated & non-previously-infected people to not get a vaccination...and thus they are more likely to join the millions of unvaccinated people who have died from covid.

Mandated vaccination is a separate topic. I'm not comfortable with government requiring a vaccination, as long as people understand that being unvaccinated can have consequences: If a business owner wants to require customers to be vaccinated, s/he has that right. Similarly, if a business does not require customers or staff to be vaccinated, I have a right to not patronise that business.

See https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/21/sarah-palin-covid-vaccine-coronavirus

I wonder if she appreciates the irony of her statement.

@lizejing1994 said in Is there a do not upload list?:

@iaimtoplease https://www.gaytorrent.ru/notallowed.php is this what you're referring to? Because I'm actually thinking about joshua armstrong. I used to remember there are a lot of his seeds on this site but they're all gone so I presume he is on a no-upload list or something like that.

The page linked by @iaimtoplease shows material that can't be uploaded at all. There are also studios (like EnglishLads and OnlyFans) that often request that torrents of their material be deleted for copyright reasons. It's OK to upload that material, but know that it might be deleted.

I'm not familiar with Joshua Armstrong, although I did a quick image search and he's definitely not under-age. If his stuff has disappeared from this site, it's probably for copyright reasons.

The moderators/staff of this site seem to follow a good policy here: If a person/company can demonstrate that they own the copyright to material being torrented here, the torrent will be deleted and the uploader notified to that effect, although the site will not tell the copyright owner who the uploader was. Furthermore, the admins/site will not comment to others regarding a torrent that they have deleted. These policies protect users' privacy while honoring copyright requests.

(There is another torrent site that currently has five Joshua Armstrong torrents active. I won't mention that site's name here, but you can send me a PM if you're interested.)

@bi4smooth I do indeed get the joke...but it would have been just the same if the caption had read "chemistry team" instead of "math team." This makes one wonder why someone would put on an erroneous caption, when the real one would work just fine. It reminds us to check the veracity of graffiti on the electronic superhighway.

@geobear40 said in Straight porn vs gay porn, your thoughts:

They are both overly scripted. First they do oral then this position than that position and finally the cum shot.

Amen to that...and in male-male porn, the first guy to suck is almost always the bottom. (It doesn't happen that way in my bedroom.)

@adonismix said in Straight porn vs gay porn, your thoughts:

I think it's either that, or an issue where the audience (primarily heterosexual and male) feels as if a more attractive man is some sort of competition.

I agree. Porn is a business, after all, and the customer base for male-female porn is overwhelmingly male...males who don't want to be threatened by guys with better bodies, bigger cocks, etc.

Conversely, many straight women like male-male porn: They're not as much interested in watching women, but they like watching guys...either solo or paired up.

@lololulu19 Cute story, although there's some fake news here: This is actually the winning team from the 49th International Chemistry Olympiad in 2017 (see https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/web/2017/07/US-team-makes-history-IChO.html).

@eobox91103 *Make that GT.ru (this domain) in my missive above. For some reason I can't edit the post.

As the discussion above shows, this is a complex topic. I'll add a few of my own thoughts here.

As for underage material, as @bi4smooth points out, you can't simply look at a "model" and determine their age. While a pre-pubescent 10 year old would not be mistaken for an adult, someone who's 15 can look 20, and vice versa. It would be nice to be able to rely on a producer's certification of age-compliance, but this is not infallible. Some get it wrong, and some purposely misrepresent the facts.

Then, there's the issue of amateur material--anybody with a smartphone can make and post a video. There's no way to determine the age of the performers, and thus some sites will not host (or share) material that isn't from a commercial producer. There is amateur material on GR.ru, and it's possible that there are some underage performers. The moderators can't look at everything that's uploaded.

Part of amateur material is voyeur content--filmed in a locker room, shower, or over the divider of a toilet stall without the consent of the subject. These subjects could pursue both the person taking the photos and anyone possessing that material for an invasion of privacy--the usual norm being that photos or videos taken where a person has a "legitimate expectation of privacy" constitute such invasion. This gets further complicated given that there's no way to verify the age of a person being recorded in such circumstances. I have seen some toilet stall videos where I am less than convinced that the subject was 18 or over.

And finally, we need to distinguish age of consent from age of majority: In Canada, and most of the United States, it is legal to engage in sexual activity with someone 16 or 17 years old--but possessing a photo of that person's genitalia would be a crime.

One conclusion from all this is that each of us needs to use caution about what material we download and/or keep on our computer. Ultimately, it doesn't matter that you believe it's "legal" or can make an argument for that being the case, but rather it's what the legal system would think if you come under scrutiny. There have been cases where a person's computer or download records were seized for one reason or another, and when an investigator had reason to believe that there was banned material present, criminal charges were made. These might be later dismissed or acquitted, but only after considerable inconvenience and/or embarrassment. I don't say this to frighten people, but only to recommend that all of us be careful in what we do. Unless one is really into child (i.e., pre-pubescent) material, there's an abundance of clearly legal content available on this site that will be more than satisfying.

@dilemmax Take a look at "Auto Movie Thumbnailer," at https://funk.eu/amt/. The user interface is a bit clunky, but it will do a bunch of thumbnail sheets at once. I have it installed on a Windows 10 machine, and it passed all of my computer's multiple virus checks. I don't think there's a Mac version, but I haven't looked closely.

@raphjd said in Once again, Biden can't stop lying:

@eobox91103

So you admit you are a total hypocrite.

How can you say that? I think you would benefit from a course in remedial English comprehension.

@iaimtoplease said in Why do torrents that have already been taken down still affect my ratio?:

@bi4smooth Their topic and message are two different things. A torrent taken down, I read that as removed, would error in your client as "unregistered" in which case you should absolutely stop seeding if you want credit for any data that you're uploading.

I'm not sure I would say "absolutely stop seeding." It's true that one won't get credit for anything seeded after a torrent is deleted from the site, but one can still share data with a leecher that was connected prior to the deletion. This upload from my client doesn't hurt/cost me anything, and it benefits the leecher--which is probably a Good Thing.

If I have a deleted torrent in my client and no leechers are connected to it, then no new ones will be and I can delete the torrent, saving any downloaded material that might have come through.