This may sound strange in some ways, but I have not been tested since 2009, and quite likely will not get tested again…... hehehe
This of course is mainly because once you know you already have it, it's kind of pointless to get the tests over and over again when you know you already have it hehe
Yes a44425, but you're overlooking one critical thing…. There's more than just the $3000 - $4000 monthly price for the cost of meds to take into account. In my case for example, while the meds have been able to keep me undetectable, there are also side effects that have to be considered. For some people, the meds can cause liver and kidney problems, or in my case, can cause cholesterol levels to sky rocket. It kind of makes you wonder where the minds of the big pharma companies really are. I'm just lucky that Triumeq has come out, which doesn't seem to come with the rather "shitty" side effects that the Truvada once did for me.
Also, despite the R&D having been long ago paid for with such meds, the big pharma companies still have not lowered their prices. One can only conclude that this is due to corporate greed, because they know full well that we're either bound to their drugs for life or we die..... As a general rule though, yes, the meds do work. The only question one must ask themselves with the meds is are the side effects worth it?
Don't forget that Transmission and qBitTorrent are both also available for Ubuntu. Ununtu actually comes with Transmission pre-loaded, however either are available through the apt repository with one of the two following commands:
sudo apt-get -y install transmission
or
sudo apt-get -y install qbittorrent
Ah yes… This is also true. While they may not be able to message you directly, site staff will still be able to message you directly, and you will still be able to get assistance through the forum.
The chat server is in the process of being moved and upgraded…. It is my understanding that the new server is up and running, however there are still some back-end kinks to work out in the process. While I do not know how long of a time-frame that we are looking at exactly, you can still use the main IRC chat with any ordinary IRC client. The one I would be inclined to suggest is XChat. You would need the following information:
IRC Server: irc.gaytorrent.ru
Port: 6697
Channel: #gaytorrent.ru
Hmmmm…. As far as I'm aware, if the torrent is uploaded already, the system should stop letting you upload more pictures once you have reached the maximum limit. I think this may be a case of a mod has turned some of them down for some reason.
I'm not entirely sure what the new hard limit is on the system. I know at one point in time, it used to be that you could upload many images if you did it when you upload the torrent, however once uploaded, you can only have a maximum of 10 before the system will not allow you to add any more.
Just out of curiosity, did you upload these pictures with the torrent, or did you upload them after the torrent was uploaded?
EDIT: Merged topic with duplicate topic
What information users can see about you is dependent entirely on your profile settings. That being said however, the only people who are EVER able to see your torrent history, IP address, email address, etc are certain site staff. Not all staff have access to the same parts of the system as others. This is largely in part to help keep your information private. An ordinary user will NEVER be able to see your IP address or email address. As far as I am aware, a regular user cannot view the torrent history of another user. If you set your profile settings to "Strong", you can be sure that only staff will ever be able to see who you are (other than in the forum).
Yes… What you are doing is fine. The main reason why we say not to share the .torrent files is because they contain your personal passkey, which can compromise the security of your account.
That being said however, submitting the .torrent files and the contents to a seed box in order to help share the content with other users is perfectly acceptable. Also, there is nothing saying that you cannot use multiple IP addresses (as I use at least 2 myself on a regular basis). The only thing is that you cannot use more than one account on the same IP address, so as long as you're only doing things with your own account, you're in the clear.
If you're looking for a good torrent client, regardless of what operating system you're running, I would be inclined to recommend either Transmission or qBitTorrent. They're both pretty light weight and more customizeable compared to the conventional uTorrent app.
If you're looking for something more similar to uTorrent, without the add bullshit, I would be inclined to recommend BitTorrent. It's essentially the same thing, only without the ads. BitTorrent also works equally as well with QTM as uTorrent does.
Also, do not forget that there are two other things to take into account when determining whether or not a torrent is a duplicate….. They are:
Format Container - e.g. are both files in .avi or is one .avi and one .mp4... If the format container is different, then they are not considered a duplicate
File Size - If the first rule isn't applicable because the format container is the same (i.e. both files are .avi), then you need to look at the size difference. If the file size is the same, then it is a duplicate. If the file size is different, the newer upload must be a minimum of 10% different than the original torrent in order to not be classified as a duplicate.
Allow me to shed some light on that…We are currently in the process of upgrading and moving our servers. During this process, the site may seem slow, or even generate random database errors. Please be patient with us while we complete this process so that we can better serve our users with the optimal speed and reliability that they should be able to expect.
If it's of any value, I know of a good free IRC client. There are a few actually, but the one that I find works best for me without the need for my custom scripts is XChat, which you can get from http://xchat.org/
If you're on Windows or Fedora Linux, there's an install package available. If you're on Ubuntu Linux, it's easier to install XChat either through the ubuntu software center or by using the following command in a terminal window:
sudo apt-get install xchat
Once installed, the server will be irc.gaytorrent.ru and the port will be either 6667 for regular IRC or 6697 for IRC over a secure connection.
I don't think that there's really any set way of being able to tell how many unique users that we have given that some user accounts aren't active, some are duplicate accounts that are now just sitting in limbo in the system, and some accounts even are test related accounts that staff have… So.... Getting an actual number may not be the easiest thing to do. As far as I'm aware, the number the last I saw was over 10,000
Exploit? Oh hell no…. It's not like you intentionally overdrew your SBP balance. It's just a freaky thing that happened is all.
:hehe:
They better damn well make a poll asking for the chatbox back. You don't kill free speech or make it inconvenient just cause people were being tards.
I completely agree with that point Fisto… The trouble is that it wasn't because people were being tards that the chat box was removed. There was an underlying potential security issue with the chat box for reasons that I am not at liberty to divulge. I know it's inconvenient to have the chat box taken down, but for the current moment, it was the easiest way to be down and dirty with making sure that the security of the site and our users is maintained in the meantime.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if there has been a cure all along, but the doctors, scientists, and pharma companies don't want to let it out of the bag because of how much money they are making off of the meds. Did you know that the average HIV treatment regime is over $3000/mo just for the drugs that you need to stay alive, yet alone all the others that you need for their side effects?
Allow me to shed some light on this whole thing for everyone concerned…. I can speak quite confidently from the perspective of someone who has been living with HIV for over 6 years now, and has been dragged through the legal system, solely for being HIV+.....
First off, I will say quite freely that people like you beachbro are part of the whole reason why a lot of people do not disclose their HIV status. The fact alone that you would compare something like HIV to something that does not perversely affect your overall daily health and does not compound your situation if you get sick quite frankly is an outrage. Imagine that you were to get involved with someone and decided to take it slowly... A month or so of developping feelings for the person you've been seeing and sex comes up, at which point you disclose your status only to be pushed away isn't exactly all that easy of a pill to swallow. Furthermore, your "paranoia" as you may call it is flat out bullshit. The reality is that you're not paranoid, but rather are clearly not properly educated on the subject. Sadly, people like you are the lesser of the problem when it comes to rejection. More specifically, where the fear of rejection comes from is in cases like mine. I was seeing someone at the time that I got the positive test result. My partner was the first person that I told about the test result, and do you know what I came home to?..... I'm guessing you don't..... I came home to find that the partner who I thought loved me had packed all my shit into garbage bags, threw it out onto the front lawn, and changed the locks. The reality is that this is the type of rejection that we face all too often. Don't get me wrong though, I do agree that it is your choice to make, but you say it as though you are the only person with any kind of feeling or emotions involved in that decision. The fact that you would just push away from someone who is HIV+ solely for the fact that they are HIV+ is a form of discrimination all unto itself, so before you open your mouth and insert your other foot while you're at it, I suggest that you properly educate yourself on all the facts. As for your commentary about not knowing that you have HIV being complete bullshit, I also have objections to that as I was once one of them myself. As far as I knew, I was in a monogamous relationship and did not play around. What I wasn't aware of was the fact that the person that I was with wasn't exactly as honest as I thought and went to great lengths to get me to let my guard down. As the result, I found myself in a situation where it didn't seem to make any sense to get regular testing because I trusted the person that I was with, and I trusted that they were not fooling around on me. In theory, if you're monogamous with a partner who you believe to the best of your knowledge to be negative, it makes absolutely no sense to require regular testing. There's more to consider than what it would seem... Also, have you ever stopped to think that there are some people out there who are afraid of getting tested for fear of the legal complications that can come with a positive test result? I am living proof of such complications. Part of why I'm so outraged with your point of view is that you seem to be completely blinded to the psychological effects over time of being rejected solely because you're HIV+. I'll bet you didn't even know that there are places even here in Canada or down South in the USA where if you're known to be HIV+, you had best be prepared to live in exile. I know this all too well as I happen to live in one such area, and I can assure you that the constant rejection and judgement solely for being HIV+ takes a huge toll on your mental health and your ability to feel comfortable with being out about your status. Oh.... And one more thing..... You really should be careful as to what you define as being "risky", as this is an open issue that is up to interperetation. In my case, I was not engaging in anything that most "normal" people would define as "risky", but nevertheless, I was infected. Perhaps you may want to further define the terms that you're using such as "risky" because the definition will vary from one person to the next.
@tony666: I fully agree that disclosing your status to a sexual partner is the morally correct thing to do. What I don't think you understand (and I have stressed above) is the psychological damage that the constant rejection solely for being HIV+ has on a person's mental health. Why do you think so many of them commit suicide or otherwise end up with a severe case of depression? That being said though, there's more than just the fear of rejection to take into account here. The other key factor to take into account is the whole risk of criminal persecution, solely for being HIV+. This too presents a big hesitation to a lot of people when deciding whether or not to disclose their status.
@DennSedai: There is no nice way to put this, so I'm just going to come out with it.... YOU DISGUST ME!!!!!! Allow me to give you a harsh dose of reality hunny because clearly you're a part of the problem. On April 16, 2010, I was arrested and charged with Aggravated Sexual Assault x2 for allegedly failing to disclose my HIV status to a sexual partner. I had my name, picture, and everything dragged through the media, most especially through the local sources, and had the following 3 years of my life completely destroyed because of it as it went through the courts to get taken to trial. Here's the sickening part.... BOTH of the key witnesses to testify were caught committing perjury (mainly because the whole case was a giant lie), and they were busted for colluding with each other during the trial, against a direct judge's order. On top of the more than reasonable doubt of the occurrence (on account of I did disclose my HIV status and I did NOT have sex with the 2nd person in question) there also lies the whole element of questioning credibility on account of what all went down at the trial. Nevertheless, because I live in an area where too many people are afraid of HIV, I was somehow convicted, even though it was clearly established that I did NOT do what I was accused of. In the Canadian legal system (as well as the US system) this type of thing happens far too often. Waaaaaaay too often the person accused is convicted, even when there is more than reasonable doubt, or there is absolute certainty of the person's innocense. Not to mention, I can tell you first hand from having been subjected to the horrid conditions of jail life over it, being in jail WILL in time have a very detrimental effect on a person's health. The statistics on how many cases resulted in a conviction that shouldn't have are scary to say the least. Furthermore, there lies another systematic issue..... By legal classification, Syphilis meets the same legal criteria to constitute the same charge, however no jurisdiction will persecute for Syphilis as a matter of policy, which all unto itself is a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms s.15(1). Despite this however, this type of discrimination still occurs far too often, resulting in innocent people being sent to jail and having their health and quality of health care that they receive seriously compromised, solely for the fact that they are HIV+ whether you're willing to admit it or not. By saying that you fully support these laws being manipulated like this, you are saying that you fully support the discrimination and persecution of individuals solely because they are HIV+, regardless of whether or not they are guilty of the offense in which they find themselves accused. You should be ashamed of yourself. Not to mention.... There is absolutely nothing that is "correctional" in "correctional services". While I will concede that there are some people out there who deliberately intend to infect people, this shouldn't be a matter for the criminal courts for a few reasons. The most obvious of which is the fact that it should not be solely MY responsibility to take care of my own health..... It should damn well be equally the responsibility of the other individual to take care of their own fucking health. By supporting that kind of system, you are supporting a 1-sided set of standards that is soleley set out for the purpose of discriminating against an individual, solely because they are HIV+, rather than looking at the facts. If you don't believe me, I suggest that you take a look at this article, which was written by a man who had only ever heard of me for the first time at my trial. It is completely factually accurate, and was written based solely on the evidence presented at the trial.
Now, while I'm on the whole topic of people who willfully and deliberately infect others with HIV, the criminal system does absolutely NOTHING to deter these people, nor does it do anything to "correct" any behaviours of the person. People like my co-accused (Steven Boone) for example are the classic epitome of what I speak. I'm kind of saddened that people like Steven Boone have been in solitary confinement for several years now, solely because he is HIV+. That type of treatment will only further degrade the state of his mental health and prove to actually have the exact opposite effect than what it is theoretically intended to do. This type of treatment is no better than the type of treatment that gays were receiving with the whole Stonewall Hotel raid (among many others). If you want to really deal with the problem with these people, the correct response is to send them to a psychiatric institution where they can get their mental issues that cause such behaviour in the first place dealt with. Once corrected, they could then be let out back into the public. Instead, we seem to have a system that actively promotes the degrading, persecution, and overall destruction of individuals solely because they are HIV+, placing them in an environment which has great potential to jeopardize their health and does absolutely nothing to correct the problem. This is the system that you are saying that you support there DennSedal, and quite frankly, it disgusts me to find that people like you actually promote this kind of discrimination. It's absolutely no better than persecuting people solely because they are gay. I say that we should take people like you who support this type of system and treatment and lock them up in jail for a reeeeeeeeally long time, solely because you're fucked in the head enough to believe that such a system is the correct way of dealing with that kind of thing. Obviously you must have a screw loose somewhere upstairs to even think that this system is a good thing in any way, when in fact, it only destroys the lives of EVERYONE involved.
Now…. As for you spam17.... My rant isn't over quite yet...... I suggest that before you start running your mouth, you actually check your facts. NOWHERE in North America are there any laws specific to HIV. They simply do not exist. Instead, the Attorney General has decided to manipulate laws that already exist to find bullshit ways of twisting things to make already existing laws apply to lay a charge. The charges themselves range anywhere from administering an obnoxious substance to attempted murder, and all things in between. In my case, it was the CCC s.273(1) that was used under the argument that if left untreated, HIV will result in death, thus posing a significant risk of endangerment to the life of the alleged victim. That's the bullshit twist that they used to make it constitute Aggravated Sexual Assault in the first place...... Because there are no specific laws to HIV, there is also a huge inconsistency in the way that the cases are handled, and no clear presendent seems to be set. Not only that, but in each case, the critical elements and issues that need to be addressed vary greatly from one case to the next, leaving absolutely NO standard in which to follow. It's entirely a matter of who can twist things into something that they're not even better...... So..... Before you start running your mouth, I suggest that you get ALL of your facts because clearly you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. If you don't believe me, I can bring up several cases that I have been directly involved with to reference to prove my whole point.
Now.... All this being said, I must apologize in advance if I have offended anyone with my view on the whole situation. The whole issue is kind of near and dear to me, largely because I am one of the few people to have been dragged through that kind of hell who didn't commit suicide in the process (although I cam very close more than once). I'm a little "passionate" I guess you could say about the whole subject, especially since I'm one of the MANY people who was dragged through the mud over something that I didn't do..... As I've said before and I'll say it again.... There are far too many people, even at this day and age, who are wrongfully persecuted, convicted, and sent to jail for nothing more than being HIV+. I can't help but get a little pissy when I am faced with opposition to my mission to have the whole thing taken out of the criminal system because HIV is not a crime. I also get a little pissy when I see people trying to make a point on the subject, when clearly they do not know what they're talking about.... I have spent MANY hours in MANY court rooms seeing it unfold for myself, prompting me to do my research for my mission to abolish the whole bullshit from ever hitting the criminal system in the first place, especially when you get slammed by public health as well, so you literally get persecuted TWICE over nothing more than a verbal allegation made by two lying sacks of shit who got busted for lying about it in the first place.
I think by "this" the user is referring to our site and torrents…. In response to that I suggest uTorrent Mac or even Transmission to download your torrents. If I'm not mistaken, Transmission should come with the Mac OS by default.