@nmd:

but I generally haven't encountered a lot of circumcised guys in my "investigations"… 

Dammit… I mistyped... that should have read:  but I generally haven't encountered a lot of uncircumcised guys in my "investigations"… 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision

As a Canadian, of the age of 45, I can generally say that everyone my age and older is highly likely to be circumcised and guys younger than me are somewhat more likely to be…. but I generally haven't encountered a lot of circumcised guys in my "investigations"... 

In my first relationship, we had three rules that would lead to immediately ending the relationship.  (It lasted 4 years.)

• No Violence
• No Smoking
• No Cheating

Listed in order of perceived severity.

I grew up in a house of chain smokers where I fled the main rooms as much as possible to try and breath (asthma runs in my family)…  I NEVER saw the appeal of a cigarette... and certainly never the second hand smoke...

I don't follow a lot of Mac news… but I remember reading somewhere that a recent update restored a feature back with respect to photos.  Perhaps this is what you're seeing, and perhaps you can Google for news related to this and see if there is an update.

The stupid shit I think about when I am not at a computer.    If it was me designing this thing, I'd have it remember what it last used successfully and have it default to that when it first powers up, and only attempt to auto-switch away when the signal was dead for a bit (10 seconds) or something (to prevent hysteresis.)

HDMI is a special form of black magic anyway… my PS3 works great with my TV, and my TV works great with my HDMI switcher, but my PS3 does NOT work great when connected to the TV via the HDMI switcher (and I have tried more than one HDMI switcher to solve this problem.)  One thing I noticed is my TV has a memory for what was where, even when going through the HDMI switcher... so maybe once you have it working well, it will become the default/preferred state and just keep working.  Once could hope.

I did want to mention that I once had an issue with an HDMI cable.  I replaced my PS3 because I thought the video was failing... when it warmed up it would get all glitchy and cut in and out.  When the same problem reproduced on a brand new PS3, then I got wise and replaced the cable.  I think the PS3 pushed enough warm air out the back to cause the cable to become slightly loose in the port... or something.  Anyway... just something else to wonder about...

Well a quick Google found me the owners manual in PDF, in which I found the following:

Auto source function enables the HD media player to detect and switch to a new interface connection. For example, the HD media player automatically switches to HD mode when it is connected through an HDMI cable.

source: http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/UM/ENG/4779-705025.pdf

My guess is that you have both sets of cables connected at once and this is confusing for it or your TV or both.  Try only using HDMI and see how that goes.

You seem to be under the impression that straight guys get less sex then gay guys…?  I don't necessarily think that is the case at all.  But if the guy is truly straight and is having sex with a gay guy, then I suppose it is likely the case that he is harder up... or else he'd be sleeping with a woman (if that is his orientation.)  So then you get down to why is that guy not getting any... and it's my belief in something like karma... they guys who have good personalities are good lovers and get good amounts of sex... so if some guy is not getting a good amount of sex he's probably not a great person or great at it...

@portokall:

@Kinsey6:

Found a link of interest
Gallery one of ten - showing deceased porn stars, performers, activists, etc.
hXXp://doesn't work

In days past, the site did not allow "live links" (for a number of reasons) so we substituted the two "t"s in HTTP with "X"s.  It was assumed the user was able to copy the URL, correct the X's back to T's and get the link to work.

There has been no effort made to go back to old posts and edit them to make the links live links… and this is an older post.

I guess my tastes are not as kinky as you, apparently, as I don't think I've ever run into a video the VLC didn't play just fine for me.  Actually now that I think of it, I did once have a hard time playing a blueray file of some sort (equivalent to the VOB files for DVD).. but it was just a matter of not playing the whole directory but selecting the specific file I wanted to play.

Related to VLC is Handbrake… they are related in that they use some of the same ffmpeg code in the back end (or at least that is my understanding, I have never delved into the code for either.)

Handbrake does not have the world friendliest UI, but it can do a pretty passable job of transcoding a file from some other format into MP4.  I have had to use it to transcode my 1080p video's from men.com to play on my TV or PS3.  It seems to properly support multi-core CPUs also, so it can be faster on a machine with more cores.  Handbreak can also resize and or limit the bitrate of files for other devices... such as for cellphones and portable gaming devices (PSP/Vita) as well.

On a vaguely related note, I am anxious for support for H.265 to grow... I believe it will allow better quality at the same bitrate, or smaller files with lower bitrate for same quality.  I won't consider H.265 to be a success until its the default output format for tools like Handbrake... which won't happen until most devices can successfully play it.

@Pawpcorn:

Since I haven't been one to suffer uTorrent crashing….

WHY (and how?) do members experience the problem of uTorrent "crashing" ???

Actually Pawpcorn that's a good question.  The user that requested a means to have uTorrent auto-restart said he had 800+ torrents in it, and thought that might have been part of the reason for it crashing.  I gave him advice on cleaning it up (how to select and remove multiple torrents at once) but then I also thought the script was a kinda fun challenge for a a couple of hours (well not long to write, longer to test it properly

It could be used for any process that might exit unexpectedly…  Or hell.. if you changed the checking interval to much longer, you could even use in unexpected ways, like to occasionally do a backup or something

Nick