Posts made by Shami94

My work laptop contains a lot of sensitive and commercially secret information and so the hard disk is encrypted so that if I loose it, no one can access the information unless they know my password. We are warned that if we forget our passwords, the data is unrecoverable and they will have to format the hard disk. You can easily do the same thing with your porn. These are Mac Laptops using FileVault (https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25553?locale=en_US) but there would be some similar way to do it with other types of computer.

What matters is that the couple love and respect each other. Age difference, even "age of consent" is irrelevant.

France doesn't have an age of consent, Italy is 14, most other European countries is 15, Australia is 16. As seen by a post above, there is a belief by many that the legal age is 18 "in most places". I first had sex when I grew up in India at 14. I had a crush on my next door neighbour who was 19 at the time and I remember sex with him was a dream come true.

I know that there is a lot in the media about how some sexual relationships with young teenagers has caused terrible psychological harm to them, but that harm is not caused by their age alone but by their inability to cope with an abusive non-consensual, non-respectful, non loving sexual encounter.

It also has to be said that the hysteria around this issue, which is historically recent, adds to the damage these situations cause by causing the perpetrator to have to go to great lengths to manipulate and threaten the victim so that their acts remain secret.

I read recently a book called "Sandel" by Angus Steward which was published in 1968, about a love affair between a 13 year old choir boy and a 19 year old student at Oxford. This book was for many years considered a classic of gay literature, but I don't think people realise how recently attitudes have changed, even in the gay community.

I read some reviews of the recent movie "Call Me By Your Name" which is about an intense love between 17 year old Elio and 24 year old Oliver. One of these reviews (by an American) used the word "pedophillia" to describe the movie. Pedophillia means sex with a child, that is, someone who has not gone through puberty. 17 is certainly not a child and Elio was actually the seducer. Oliver was more reluctant. The age of consent in Italy (where the film is set) is 14. This just illustrates how off the rails many people's attitudes about the sex and age have become.

"It's the left that claims the moral high ground but needs to hide their faces."

Do you mean like the KKK?

Hi,

there is no much of this around these days, especially in ebooks, it is hard to find something written by a gay man. Especially because so many of these women use male sounding pseudonyms. The audience for these books seems to be mainly straight women too.

I read a theory that these books are really about women fantasising about having a penis but since they are straight women, they are still attracted to men. Superficially they therefore appear to be gay men, but the straight women authors as well as their audience are fantasising about being one of the men.

I find these books very bad because they always push the idea that bottoms are passive and feminine and tops are masculine and dominant and there is always the suggestion that tops are only slightly kinky straight men. That is probably because the straight female author wants to maintain the possibility that he will want her.

This kind of gay fiction for a straight female audience has been popular in Japan for much longer that in other countries. In Japan it is a common idea that being gay is a kind of sexual fetish or subculture rather than the way people are born. I wonder how much of this misconception is caused by the popularity of Yaoi amongst straight women.

I strongly recommend "The Lightning Struck Heart" by TJ Klune.

If you go to an Indian shop you will find face lightening cream. I have never used it, but I am very brown all over. I guess you can use it on your bum but not sure about your hole.

BTW, have you heard about penis lightening clinics in Thailand? Guys are going crazy for it. I don't know how they do it:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42575155

I had wey dreams when I was in my early teens but they stopped, however I started getting up in the morning very early when it is quiet to do meditation for 40 minutes. After that I go back to sleep for a hour or so. I find quite often, maybe once a month, I have a wet dream. I remember that I was dreaming but I don't remember what happens in the dream.

And after that long rant above, Fred still failed to point out a single assertion that the books makes which is demonstrably false.

It reminds me of the reaction to a speech Meril Streep made during the US election campaign. All the Trumptards were furious and hurled all sorts of abuse at her. The Trumpanzee's reaction was to call her a bad actress which was typical because not one of the crowd screaming abuse could put forward the slightest argument against what she actually said in the speech.

Though it is actually spelt the "Labor" party, though I'd be crazy to expect you to know that.

Yes lots of people say the book is full of lies, errors, inconsistencies and fabrications. Interestingly none of them (including you) ever point to a specific example.

Trump's lawyers already tried to get the publishers to withdraw the book, but their legal threats were rejected because they failed to point out a single error. I'm sure the publishers will be ecstatic of Trump takes legal action. It will clearly fail and the publicity will result in even more book sales.

I continue to be surprised at how illiterate American's are. I remember I had to look up "Borscht Belt" but in Wikipedia, not a dictionary, and I might have automatically skipped a very small number of unfamiliar words where the meaning was obvious from the context and auto-corrected any spelling errors (though I noticed Mediation where Meditation was obviously intended), but I had absolutely no problem reading this book.

Of course it is well established that people dominated by evolutionary behavioural patterns, with lower intelligence, literacy and vocabulary and with a learning capacity that diminishes very rapidly with age tend to be political conservatives. I expect that the main target audience of the book (political progressives) will have no difficulty reading it.

I read that the book is going to be filmed as a television series. They need to be quick because I doubt that the Trumpanzee will be around for long enough for it to be relevant.

Oh amazing. You really don't get it.

Michael Wolff wrote Murdoch's biography which was based on 50 hours of conversations and interviews with him as well as full access to his family and his employees.

Wolff is a Murdoch minion and has rushed in to Murdoch's defence in the past in relation to the phone hacking scandal. More than anything else, Fire and Fury is about Murdoch's vs. Bannon's fight for the "angry whole conservative" advertising revenue as well as Murdoch's strategy to begin to distance Fox from Trump so that News Corporation isn't destroyed when Trump is.

How do you distance yourself and your business from a failing Trump while keeping the revenue from your angry white conservative target market? Find someone else to blame Trump on.

One of the most interesting and humorous aspects of the way Trump supporters who would not too long ago would have licked Bannon's boots is how they rationalise turning against him. It is interesting because exactly the same process will be replicated in a few months as they turn on Trump himself.

It will probably happen most spectacularly when their social media echo chambers can no longer withstand the already massive weight of evidence against Trump over Russian influence on the election scandal.

For most thinking people, whether or not there was collusion (though there clearly was), whether or not it effected the result of the election (which it did), the mere fact that an enemy of the USA spent millions of dollars and massive effort to help Trump win the US presidency is something that can't be backed away from. It will be extremely hard for any professional journalist or politician who supports Trump to try to deny that they did not realise the significance of that simple and well established fact. The process of them trying to do it will be very interesting for when Trump goes, thousands of careers in politics and journalism also end.

It is hard to imagine how the die hard Trump supporters will handle having their views so strongly repudiated by a restored American democracy. They will have no voice in the media and no one in politics representing them. Some will likely resort to terrorism and civil violence. Some will find a voice in pathetic and cowardly hate groups like the KKK. It will be fun to watch from a distance.

Ignoring your extremely bazaar fantasy that reporters record off the record interviews (other than as notes), the substance of Wolff's book in regard to the "President's" mental health and fitness for office is on the public record.

His tweets are public record.

His attempt to claim the the voice on the Billy Bush "grab them by the pussy" tape was not him and that is was digitally altered is on the public record.

His claim the Obama bugged Trump Tower is on the public record.

His claims about the crowd size at his inauguration is on the public record.

His speech the day after his inauguration to the CIA is on the public record.

etc. etc. etc.

Wow, the "intellectual" who's "read the book" doesn't understand what is really about?

Obviously Murdoch told him about the phone conversation.

As is typical with Fox news "journalists", they clearly neither read nor understood the linked PDF and so completely distort what is being said to feed some political "angry white conservative" audience. In fact there is nothing new here. It is already well established that teacher's expectations of particular student's capabilities effect the student's performance. There are numerous studies on this. Just google "teacher expectations affect student results".

I wonder if there will be a fading of the rabid right's love affair with Rupert Murdoch's Fox Lies when they read:

"Murdoch suggested that taking a liberal approach to H-1B visas might be hard to square with his immigration promises. But Trump seemed unconcerned, assuring Murdoch, “We’ll figure it out.”
“What a fucking idiot,” said Murdoch, shrugging, as he got off the phone.

Wolff, Michael. Fire and Fury (Kindle Locations 699-701). Little, Brown Book Group. Kindle Edition.

Oh my mistake, the rabid right are insulated inside a bubble of ignorance and either don't read anything they might disagree with or can't.

Yes I've certainly read the word "encomium" many times before, even in my school days, but I've looked up the word statistics and it isn't in the top 20,000 words in American English, so it must be true. I didn't realise I was in the top 1%.

But you said that there was a top 1% word in every paragraph as well as spelling errors. Let me know when you've downloaded it again.

Here is a sample with my annotations:

A vivid picture was painted for the preternaturally [weirdly or unnaturally] composed Kushner [money launderer and shady real estate agent] of spies and their power, of how secrets were passed out of the intelligence community to former members of the community or to other allies in Congress or even to persons in the executive branch and then to the press. One of Kushner’s [see above] now-frequent wise-men callers was Henry Kissinger [war criminal]. Kissinger [war criminal], who had been a front-row witness when the bureaucracy and intelligence community revolted against Richard Nixon [criminal in multiple arenas], outlined the kinds of mischief, and worse, that the new administration could face. “Deep state,” the left-wing and right-wing notion of an intelligence-network permanent-government conspiracy, part of the Breitbart lexicon [vocabulary/dictionary], became the Trump [the Trumpanzee] team term of art: he’s poked the deep state bear. Names were put to this: John Brennan [war criminal], the CIA director; JamesClapper [war criminal], the director of national intelligence; Susan Rice [war criminal], the outgoing National Security Advisor; and Ben Rhodes [war criminal], Rice’s deputy and an Obama [war criminal] favorite. Movie scenarios were painted: a cabal [conspiring faction] of intelligence community myrmidons [Remember the movie "Troy" with Brad Pitt as Achilles and someone else as his boyfriend Patroclus leading a band of ferocious warriors that went on strike? Well they were the Myrmidons - Yes, it should be capitalised], privy to all sorts of damning evidence of Trump’s recklessness and dubious dealings, would, with a strategic schedule of wounding, embarrassing, and distracting leaks, make it impossible for the Trump White House to govern. What Kushner was told, again and again, is that the president had to make amends. He had to reach out. He had to mollify. These were forces not to be trifled with was said with utmost gravity. Throughout the campaign and even more forcefully after the election, Trump had targeted the American intelligence community— the CIA, FBI, NSC, and, altogether, seventeen separate intelligence agencies— as incompetent and mendacious [untruthful, but that is superfluous in context]. (His message was “on auto pilot,” said one aide.) Among the various and plentiful Trump mixed messages at odds with conservative orthodoxy, this was a particularly juicy one. His case against American intelligence included its [intentionally] faulty information about weapons of mass destruction that preceded the Iraq war, a litany of Obama [war criminal] Afghanistan-Iraq-Syria-Libya and other war-related intelligence [intentional] failures, and, more recently, but by no means least of all, intelligence leaks regarding his purported Russian relationships and subterfuges [lies and deceptions, also superfluous since the subject is the Trumpanzee]. Trump’s [The Trumpanzee's] criticism seemed to align him with the left in its half century of making a bogeyman [bad guy] of American intelligence agencies. But, in quite some reversal, the liberals and the intelligence community were now aligned in their horror of Donald Trump [The Trumpanzee]. Much of the left— which had resoundingly and scathingly rejected the intelligence community’s unambiguous assessment of Edward Snowden as a betrayer of national secrets rather than a well-intentioned whistle-blower— now suddenly embraced the intelligence community’s authority in its suggestion of Trump’s [The Trumpanzee's] nefarious [criminal and immoral] relationships with the Russians. Trump [The Trumpanzee] was dangerously out in the cold.

Wolff, Michael. Fire and Fury (Kindle Locations 780-802). Little, Brown Book Group. Kindle Edition. (Annotations in square brackets mine)

Yes, the Guardian is a more progressive news organisation, but they were only the messenger. The political leanings of the messenger don't have any bearings on the publisher's lawyer's response, however, I'm more interested in the words in each paragraph that 99% of your population never saw before and need a dictionary to look up. Shall I pick a paragraph at random?

"These powerful figures tried to convey a sense of real-world politics, which they all claimed to comprehend at some significantly higher threshold than the soon-to-be president. They were all concerned that Trump [the Trumpanzee] did not understand what he was up against. That there was simply not enough method to his madness. Each of these interlocutors provided Kushner with something of a tutorial on the limitations of presidential power— that Washington was as much designed to frustrate and undermine presidential power as to accommodate it."

Wolff, Michael. Fire and Fury (Kindle Locations 774-776). Little, Brown Book Group. Kindle Edition. (corrections in square brackets mine)

Surely not "interlocutors"?

BTW, I didn't come across a single word that I had to look up and English is my thirdish language (post Kannada and Tamil). You say each paragraph has a word 99% of the population has never seen before? That's sad but unsurprising. Do you have an example? "Encomium"?