Posts made by raphjd

I was about to suggest PMing the seeder and asking them to increase the speed but I think they changed the site and made all uploaders anonymous. That's too bad.  If you sent me a PM asking nicely to increase the speed I would have no problem doing it.

We changed it because people were wrongly accusing us of giving the info to the studios/anti piracy groups.  We're stuck in a perpetual catch 22.  Damned if we do, damned if we don't.  Can't win for losing.

Also, most times, people don't keep their upload after a certain amount of time.  I no longer have any of the stuff I uploaded here prior to Jan 2011.  This was either due to hdd crashes or making space for new stuff.

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Apparently, he's not gay though.

If god is using stuff like this because of gays, then why doesn't he wipe us all out?

Just more ancient goat fucker stupid-stitions used to justify bigotry.

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Report: Married politician had gay hookup in hotel

43 comments by Reid J. Epstein - Aug. 12, 2011 10:55 AM
POLITICO.COM

A married Indiana Republican state legislator who voted for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage sought to pay an 18-year-old man "for a really good time" in a hotel room, according to an email exchange published Friday by the Indianapolis Star.

The 1,600-word front-page story details the interaction between state Rep. Phillip Hinkle, 64, and 18-year-old Kameryn Gibson, who met the lawmaker after the sixth-term Republican responded to Gibson's Craigslist advertisement in a men's section of the site.

Within an hour of posting the ad, Gibson received this emailed response from Hinkle's published personal email address: "Cannot be a long time sugar daddy, but can for tonight. Would you be interested in keeping me company for a while tonight?" The email, the Star wrote, offers "to make it worth (your) while" in cash and adds: "I am an in shape married professional, 5'8", fit 170 lbs, and love getting and staying naked."

It carried the tagline, "Sent from Phil's iPad."

Hinkle's attorney provided a statement to the Star saying he is "aware of the inquiries by The Indianapolis Star and we are investigating the matter at this time. We request that everyone respect the privacy of the family at this time."

Hinkle's press secretary referred POLITICO to Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma.

Bosma released a statement saying: "If the circumstances are as reported, it is an extremely sad and disappointing situation for all of us, especially the families involved. Our next step will be to try to discuss this matter with Rep. Hinkle and chart a course from there."

Gov. Mitch Daniels told reporters in Indianapolis the situation is "a personal family tragedy," the Star reported.

"It's not for me to say," he said. "It's for him and his constituents."

According to the paper, Hinkle and Gibson carried on an email conversation in which one email from Hinkle's account offered: "How about $80 for services rendered and if real satisfied, a healthy tip? That make it worth while?" A later email concluded: "Final for the record, for a really good time, you could get another 50, 60 bucks. That sound good?"

The email exchange "contains no mention of sex acts," the Star wrote.

Hinkle then picked up Gibson and drove him to a local Marriott where, Gibson told the paper, Hinkle identified himself as a state legislator and showed him an identification card. Gibson, scared, phoned his sister, Megan Gibson, and asked her to pick him up. At that point, Gibson said, Hinkle "grabbed him in the rear, dropped his towel and sat down on the bed – naked," the Star wrote.

When Gibson's sister arrived, Hinkle offered to give them his iPad, BlackBerry and $100 cash, the Star wrote. Gibson and his sister left with the electronics and the money.

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I agree with Ballard1 on both points, better quality is always good.

Leave the music out and use the original soundtrack.

They actively refuse my gay tainted blood, then whine of a shortage.

Yet, they will readily accept my gay tainted organs.

@ thedude99

First off, "seem to be implying most" is not saying saying everyone, not is it actually saying "most".

Let me get this right.

Just because some members abuse the SB system, doesn't mean it I'm right.

Just because you (and most everyone else) go completely against your own point, doesn't mean you are wrong.

In other words, "heads you win, tails I lose".

Nice logic.

I also question why you are only now posting about this, since you have been here for nearly 4 years.  Surely our system was crap in your eyes before the other 188 weeks you've been a member.

NOTE:  I would say that a lot (not a few, as Uwe said) of people cheat at SB, just like we saw with picture uploading and every other benefit we gave.  We had to cut back on the reward for uploading pictures to torrent pages because it was massively abused.

People that shrink dvds should be executed in the most painful manner possible.

DL DVDs are so cheap that there is no need to do it anymore.  Maybe 5 years ago they had a point, but no longer.

@thedude99:

@raphjd:

As it is now, people leave 1 torrent "seeding" but turn down the speed so low that it won't ever seed properly.  All so they can get the SB for free.

How do you know that every person that leaves 1 torrent open has turned the speed to low? I have 2 torrents that I've been seeding since 2009 and I have not changed the speed at all.

Show me the exact point where I said everyone with 1 torrent seeding does it.

I'll wait.

I also note that you claim to be doing something that you say isn't worth your time because you aren't getting enough SB reward for it (seeding 2 torrents at a time), so you are proof that our current system works, because you are seeding more than 1 torrent.

So people won't do anything unless they are rewarded?  No fairness, No community spirit or No sharing, just greed for SB points?  What does that say of the members here?

On the topic of "you suck because other sites do free leech and all you give us is some shitty, we hate you, die mother fucker die!!!, seed bonus", well I'm still sitting here downloading a free leech torrent from another site and it hasn't moved for 2 days now and it's taken 3 weeks to get to 11.8%.

I don't see how that would make it unfair or cheat the system

As it is now, people leave 1 torrent "seeding" but turn down the speed so low that it won't ever seed properly.  All so they can get the SB for free.

The purpose of the seed bonus is to help people, not to make it so they never have to see ever again by giving them 10 billion GB worth of SB points a day.

This idea is as bad as the "no ratio limits" and "pay us cash for uploading and seeding" camps.  Effectively, all 3 concepts will destroy the community because no one will be seeding anything.

NOTE:  YES, there some people here who believe they should be paid cash for seeding back things they downloaded of free from here, as well as uploading things they got free from other sites.

We've been discussing the things you mentioned for a while now.

The problem is, like with the picture uploading for torrents, people will cheat by either spamming the forums with junk for points or uploading duplicate torrents for points.

Once we (when I say "we" I mean Mgr for coding stuff like this) get past the coding issue so when stuff is rejected/removed it also takes away their SB points, then it will probably go on-line.

Whatever system we have, people will always complain.  That is the nature of the beast.

I don't believe that people will wait for a torrent for several months.  They will delete it from their client and move on.

I also don't believe that people only upload for SB points and if anyone does that, then they are silly beyond words.

Are you honestly telling me that you would let it sit there for 3 months or more waiting for a single download?  I'm sorry but I don' buy it.  You'd be back on here complaining that we need to make people give more speed to their uploads.

Actually, a lot of the DVD-Rs are shrunk so badly, that they are nearly impossible to watch due to motion blur.

If you look at the first line of my last post, I agree that only those that download the file should be allowed to rate the file.

One of the admin would have to code this in and I'm not sure how easy it would be or when they can do it since they have a fairly long "to do" list already.

I agree that only those that download a file should be able to rate it.

However, due to the recent crap over a certain studio, we won't list user names that rate files.

Ok, lets go with Scott's reasoning here.

If they are not gay, then why did the producers use the code phrase "life long bachelors" when describing them?

I said nothing will change as it was the best answer, though not completely correct.

Eventually, gay relationships will be legal in the US but it will take many more years to come.

Black centric and muslim nations will continue to be extremely homophobic.  The worst part is, we as gay men have to pay for Africa while they actively campaign against us.  No one dares stand up to them on the issue for fear of being called a racist.

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Great America sued over gay slur in photograph

John King, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

California's Great America has been sued on charges that include sexual harassment by two men who say a photograph of them was doctored in humiliating ways and then put on public display.

The lawsuit against the Santa Clara amusement park was filed Monday in Santa Clara County Superior Court by Craig Person and Edmund Yang, both of San Jose. It is the delayed reaction to an incident on August 17, 2008, that began with a ride on the Psycho Mouse roller coaster.

The two men exited past a counter where park employees were selling photographs taken of patrons during the ride. Person and Yang declined to purchase a shot showing them from overhead, holding hands.

Later in the day, friends discovered the same photograph on display at a different ride's counter - but with a thought bubble added that contained the phase "Were (sic) Fags!"

The 10-count lawsuit asks for damages, saying the men were distressed at the time and have continued to suffer humiliation and discomfort.

"They were very upset," said Elisa Stewart, the pair's attorney. As for nearly three-year gap between the incident and legal action, "complaints were made early on, and at some point Great America became nonresponsive."

A spokesperson for Great America did not return a call seeking comment.

We have a while before we consider killing them or turning them into garden pets.

First they have to do the egg laying bit for a few years.