Posts made by raphjd

To be honest, I have no idea about the job in this thread.

I might as well lock and unsticky it.

I wonder if "carrying my luggage" is a euphemism like "tossed salad".

For those who forgot, the Obama administration has done 2 defences of DoMA so far {getting ready to start a 3rd} and they said that gay relationships were not better than incest, pedophilia and bestiality.

That is how they justified DoMA and discriminating against gays.

The new defence of DoMA supposedly won't use that language, but will try to say that the the equal protection clause of the constitution does not apply to gays.

Yeah, this is the guy that says he is the best friend we {GLBTs} ever had in the White House.  With friends like that,…........... well, you know the rest.

Oh, the media outlets I read said his preferred site was WorkMyManPussyWithYourHugeCock.com.

Not sure who you are talking about, but Mickey Rouke was never attractive.  :puke:

hXXp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSB9aBMayxU&feature=related

This is an amazing video.

As Uwe mentioned, I do not want my name mentioned outside this site unless I cause it to be; ie I upload something.

You will find that a lot of stuff has gone through several "hands" before you get it.

I used to give credit for everything I didn't personally rip.  That was until I saw that most of the stuff I got came from a long distant source from the one I got it from.

The forums have an automatic time limit on editing posts.

hXXp://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/fat-americans-pose-a-threat-to-national-security-generals-say/story-e6frfku0-1225860894973

Fat Americans pose a threat to national security, generals say

From correspondents in Washington From: AFP May 01, 2010 9:24AM

INCREASING rates of obesity among young Americans could undermine the future of the US military, with potential recruits increasingly too fat to serve, two retired generals said today.

"Obesity rates threaten the overall health of America and the future strength of our military," generals John Shalikashvili and Hugh Shelton, both former chairs of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in a commentary.

Obesity disqualified more potential recruits for military service than any other medical factor, the two former commanders wrote in the Washington Post.

The two generals urged Congress to adopt legislation that would ensure better nutrition in schools, offering children more vegetables, fruits and whole grains while cutting back on foods with high sugar, sodium and fat content.

"We consider this problem so serious from a national security perspective that we have joined more than 130 other retired generals, admirals and senior military leaders in calling on Congress to pass new child nutrition legislation," wrote the commanders, part of a non-profit group called Mission: Readiness.

The warning came amid growing concern that childhood obesity has turned into an "epidemic" affecting a staggering one in three American youngsters.

A study released in March warned more American children are becoming extremely obese at a younger age, putting them at risk of dying decades younger than normal-weight children and of suffering old-age illnesses in their 20s.

The US military also faces a problem with troops already serving who are overweight, with some soldiers losing out on promotions because of their failure to meet fitness standards.

Although the military enjoyed record-breaking recruitment levels last year, officials say the growing problem of obesity could present a serious problem for recruitment efforts over time.

The two retired generals endorsed a plan by President Barack Obama's administration to increase funding by $US1 billion ($1.08 billion) a year over 10 years for child nutrition programs.

Investing in nutrition made sense as the country was already spending $US75 billion ($80.87 billion) a year on medical costs associated with obesity, they said.

Citing figures from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, the commentary said the proportion of potential recruits who flunked their physical tests because they were overweight has jumped nearly 70 per cent since 1995.

General Shalikashvili, who led the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1993 to 1997, and General Shelton, who held the same post from 1997 to 2001, cited school lunch legislation passed in 1946 as a model.

Military leaders at the time recognised that poor nutrition reduced the pool of qualified candidates for the armed forces, they said.

"We must act, as we did after World War II, to ensure that our children can one day defend our country, if need be."

The same thing can be said about most countries.

Are you sure you have your ports forwarded properly?

Another thing to look at is if you are overwhelming your computer's RAM.  If I have too many over active torrents going at once on my seedbox, it overloads my RAM and I have to reduce the number of active torrents.

I agree.

Puerto Rico needs to make up it's mind, but I'd only give them to options; statehood or full independence with all the burdens that entails.

My best friends growing up were Puerto Ricans, well mostly, as their mom {one of my mom's best friends} was half German.

I always found my hometown {not rural but not urban} in northern Illinois kind of odd.  While like most of the towns in the area, it had a high German population, our town's 2nd highest population was Puerto Rican, while the rest of the area's towns 2nd highest population was what's now the former Soviet block.

Illinois may give a few token rights to gays, but it won't want to upset the people in the south part of the state.

Illinois is a weird state.  The northern half is fairly liberal most of the time, while the southern half is very conservative all the time.  As an example, Illinois never had a state law banning interracial marriage, but the entire southern half had local laws that banned it, while the northern half it was completely legal.

My {smallish} home town in northern Illinois currently has 3 gay bars {1 of which opened in 1981}, but the surrounding 3 towns refuse to grant liquor licenses for gay bars.

I don't see Illinois changing their laws for a long time.

Homosexuality is a minority group in that, as a whole, we are discriminated against by laws and people.

As for the other minority groups, as a whole, they have plenty of laws {Affirmative Action, quotas, etc, etc} to protect them and give them special rights.  When we lived in Houston, they had laws that required x amount of city contracts be given to the "good" minority groups, even though the contracts usually cost the city more than those given to white men. I remember one city contract that was given to a woman {to fill the quota} and it cost nearly 40% more than her nearest competitor.

Btw, as this is an international site, you can't always assume that everything is about the US.

The question was asked here because this is the forum section it best fit into.  Also, the fetish torrent section is pretty active on this GAY site.

I'm not offended by the question, even though, like you, I'm gay and not into BDSM.

I do question where you get the idea that it's most prevalent with older women and their male partners.

And NO, I don't think the original poster looks like an asshole for asking.

I doubt any of this is true.

I think a lot of guys are extremely over acting when they cum.

If the file is small I do it from my pc, otherwise I use my seedbox.

"Is it worth it", well we can't answer that for you, only you can answer that.  However I can give you a of help for you to decide for yourself.

1. Do you do a lot of torrents?

2. Do you need your computer for other things?

3. Do you turn off your computer a lot during the week; ie over night?

4. Do you share the computer?

If you answered YES to any of those, you might want to consider a seedbox.

It's difficult to recommend a seedbox because it varies by region.  In Europe and North America {probably others as well} you can get full severs that you control or purpose built seedboxes that are completely setup for you to do torrents.  Getting a server tends to be a better value as you get a larger size hard drive for the same cost.  On the flip side is if you don't really know computers, then a pre built seedbox is a better value as it's all done for you.

Yes, that's why we are letting it drop to the bottom of the forums.