yhwx

Which model?

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

I’m not very good at taking compliments.

Wrong thread.

Reported.

I’m not very good at taking compliments.

Holy shit. Another one.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/george-takei-accused-sexually-assaulting-model-1981-1056698

A former model and actor is accusing Star Trek icon George Takei of sexual assault in 1981. The accuser, Scott R. Brunton, who was 23 at the time of the alleged incident, claims that Takei took advantage of him when he was most vulnerable.

“This happened a long time ago, but I have never forgotten it,” Brunton tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. “It is one of those stories you tell with a group of people when people are recounting bizarre instances in their lives, this always comes up. I have been telling it for years, but I am suddenly very nervous telling it.”

The two men went back to the actor’s condo for a drink the same night. “We have the drink and he asks if I would like another,” Brunton recalls. “And I said sure. So, I have the second one, and then all of a sudden, I begin feeling very disoriented and dizzy, and I thought I was going to pass out. I said I need to sit down and he said sit over here and he had the giant yellow beanbag chair. So I sat down in that and leaned my head back and I must have passed out.”

“The next thing I remember I was coming to and he had my pants down around my ankles and he was groping my crotch and trying to get my underwear off and feeling me up at the same time, trying to get his hands down my underwear,” Brunton says. “I came to and said, ‘What are you doing?!’ I said, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ He goes, ‘You need to relax. I am just trying to make you comfortable. Get comfortable.’ And I said, ‘No. I don’t want to do this.’ And I pushed him off and he said, ‘OK, fine.’ And I said I am going to go and he said, ‘If you feel you must. You’re in no condition to drive.’ I said, ‘I don’t care I want to go.’ So I managed to get my pants up and compose myself and I was just shocked. I walked out and went to my car until I felt well enough to drive home, and that was that.”

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Fucking disgusting.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/alabama-state-auditor-defends-roy-moore-against-sexual-allegations-invokes-mary-and-joseph/article/2640217

“Take the Bible. Zachariah and Elizabeth for instance. Zachariah was extremely old to marry Elizabeth and they became the parents of John the Baptist,” Ziegler said choosing his words carefully before invoking Christ. “Also take Joseph and Mary. Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter. They became parents of Jesus.”

“There’s just nothing immoral or illegal here,” Ziegler concluded. “Maybe just a little bit unusual.”

1. To compare Mary and Joseph to what Roy Moore, offends me as Christian.

2. The auditor obviously does not believe in the Bible. If he did, he would not call Mary and Joseph the parents of Jesus. Mary is a parent of Jesus, Joseph is not. Joseph is merely married to his mother.

3. Also, he’s defending a pedophiliac.

DominicCobb said:

Jeebus said:

DominicCobb said:

Jeebus said:

Warbler said:

Jeebus said:

Warbler said:

Why do fellow members of my gender have to act like such idiots. KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF!!

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I don’t care how much you give me, I may get corrupted because I am human, but I will never stick my hands on a woman where they don’t belong.

yhwx said:

Jeebus said:

Warbler said:

Why do fellow members of my gender have to act like such idiots. KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF!!

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

This has to more to do than just power.

Maybe there’s something about Hollywood that attracts that sort of person. Or, even scarier, perhaps that sort of person is just much more likely to succeed.

https://www.alternet.org/culture/10-careers-most-psychopaths

http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/features/psychopaths-top-10-and-bottom-10-professions

It’s not specific to Hollywood, it’s everywhere. The only reason we’re hearing about this stuff from Hollywood is because we know those peoples names, and often the names of the victims. People in less famous professions aren’t so lucky (or ones in professions where political affiliation will save you from any amount of heinous crimes).

I didn’t say it was specific to Hollywood, just that it may be more commonplace in Hollywood than other professions. And you’re right, it is only a big deal because these people are famous. If this kind of abuse was happening in the Lawyer ‘industry;’ I doubt people would even hear about it, and those that did probably wouldn’t care beyond a passing “that’s unfortunate.”

Maybe it is more commonplace to an extent, due to the nature of things like the auditioning process, dressing rooms and such, but this kind of thing is commonplace everywhere. It’s happening in law, I can assure you that. And, I know that was just a random example, but it’s one of the most dangerous professions for this, as the predators there know exactly how to get away with it.

It also happens very often in tech.

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

and yet another interesting discussion goes down the drain

Get a thread.

Then people would make fun of me for creating what they believe to be an unnecessary thread.

Use this one.

Warbler said:

huh?

I assume it has to do with that movie that you haven’t seen.

I haven’t seen it, either.

Warbler said:

and yet another interesting discussion goes down the drain

Get a thread.

Well, there’s more where that came from.

https://thehustle.co/facebook-nude-picture-filter

The “preemptive revenge porn defense” will be tested in Australia and 3 other countries for now, and to execute the idea, Facebook will be partnering with e-Safety, an Australian government agency focused on preventing digital abuse.

If a user thinks she might be a potential revenge porn target, she contacts e-Safety, which then instructs the user to upload any suggestive photos and/or videos she thinks might be used against her into Facebook Messenger.

Facebook claims it won’t store the images, but rather a “hash system” that would allow their algorithm to recognize similar pictures without holding them on their servers.

Turns out, before the image can be “hashed,” an actual human at Facebook has to look at it to make sure it “fits the definition of revenge porn.”

So, the solution to preventing complete strangers from seeing your nudes is… to send your nudes to a complete stranger.

Though well-intentioned, it seems like a bad move all around: instead of strengthening its algorithm to prevent such things from happening, Facebook is shifting responsibility to (and making things very uncomfortable for) the potential victim.

I believe so, yes.

We still receive telephone books here.

If you were to leave a private topic, may you join it again?

TV’s Frink said:

Oh carp, how will I ever finish the Ridiculous Saga now?

Sounds like you need clones.

TM2YC said:

Warbler said:

Tyrphanax said:

Puggo - Jar Jar’s Yoda said:

With all due respect to people’s religions, it irks me when politicians tell me that I need to pray. I’m not religious, and we are supposedly in a country that values separation of church and state. Yet every time some catastrophe happens, the first thing politicians tell us is that we need to pray. Not “pray if you’re religious”, but “we need to pray”. While I don’t mind if people want to pray, I don’t appreciate politicians telling me that I need to become religious.

It’s not a big deal, it just irks me. I realize I’m probably in an extreme minority.

Eh, there’s this whole “separation of church and state” thing that literally everyone seems to have utterly forgotten in this country, so you’re not alone there.

No one is forcing anyone to pray.

Correct me if I’m wrong (which I probably am) but haven’t school kids been required to hold their hands on their hearts and recite “Under god” everyday since 1954? Seems close enough to mandatory prayer to me.

You’re not wrong. At least where I went to school, you were chided pretty severely if you didn’t stand up and recite the pledge.

Of course, this is all the result of anti-Communist hysteria, because, supposedly, all Soviets were atheists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/09/arts/television/louis-ck-sexual-misconduct.html

In 2002, a Chicago comedy duo, Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov, landed their big break: a chance to perform at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo. When Louis C.K. invited them to hang out in his hotel room for a nightcap after their late-night show, they did not think twice. The bars were closed and they wanted to celebrate. He was a comedian they admired. The women would be together. His intentions seemed collegial.

As soon as they sat down in his room, still wrapped in their winter jackets and hats, Louis C.K. asked if he could take out his penis, the women said.

They thought it was a joke and laughed it off. “And then he really did it,” Ms. Goodman said in an interview with The New York Times. “He proceeded to take all of his clothes off, and get completely naked, and started masturbating.”

Tyrphanax said:

dahmage said:

Tyrphanax said:

Yeah the Liberal snapback from Trump’s stupid reign is probably going to end up in a Democrat supermajority that ends up slapping us with a bunch of stupid California-esque gun control laws.

Imagine how many people will die as a result… Oh

DominicCobb said:

Tyrphanax said:

Yeah the Liberal snapback from Trump’s stupid reign is probably going to end up in a Democrat supermajority that ends up slapping us with a bunch of stupid California-esque gun control laws.

Can’t wait.

*sigh*

Welp, I guess you can’t get everybody on board.

I say “be-loved.”

Mr. kittykittyX, the word you’re looking for is “thread.”

Woah.

I’ve never even heard of the third stanza until a few weeks ago, so I don’t know why it’s so important.

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

Also, nobody buys anything from iTunes anyway because of streaming services.

Hahahaha.

I don’t get what’s so hilarious.

No.

Music encoded as 256kbps AAC files first came to the iTunes Store in 2007 with the launch of Apple’s iTunes Plus. That marked the debut of DRM-free music tracks encoded at a higher quality bitrate that Apple claims is virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings.

As of 2007 the audio files sold in the iTunes store have been encoded using the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) codec and distributed with .m4a extensions from the iTunes store. The 256 kbps setting is an average bit rate encoding scheme, not a fixed bit rate encoding scheme. The actual sample rate is varied dynamically based on the content and time.

ray_afraid said:

yhwx said:

there’s no real point distinguishing between iTunes and CD because they’re both digital and the quality difference is minute.

That’s not true. Just because it’s digital doesn’t mean it’s of the same quality at all.
Does iTunes still keep it’s MP3s around 120kbps?
And, if so, why does anybody still buy from iTunes?

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/141570/what-is-the-quality-of-the-music-sold-in-the-itunes-store

Also, nobody buys anything from iTunes anyway because of streaming services.