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These tattoos are amazing, thank you everyone for sharing them. Stupid question: why do people get tattooed where they can't see the tattoo?

Seeing a baby born. "Wow, that's gotta hurt!"

45 minutes generally isn't long enough for me, but if it weren't advertised I wouldn't ask as it would feel like negotiating a reduction of the 1 hour donation, something I won't do with a lady. On the other hand, asking about a 2 hour session when only 1 hours are advertised I see as ok, because it would be just double the 1 hour donation, and I would have no problem if it were declined as some find it too taxing.

[URL="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/10/25/why-death-pc-is-myth/"][FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/10/25/why-death-pc-is-myth/[/COLOR][/FONT][/URL] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][SIZE=1][COLOR=blue]By [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/archive/author/blake-snow/index.html"]Blake Snow[/URL] Published October 25, 2013[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]The news is wrong. Or at least the perception of it is.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]If you look at only recent sales (PCs down 10 percent this year, tablets up 50 percent, according to [/COLOR][/FONT][URL="http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2610015"][FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]Gartner market research[/COLOR][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][IMG]http://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/external-link.png[/IMG]), you might think the world has already entered the so-called â??post-PCâ? era of computing. Lending credibility to that belief, an estimated four out of five Americans have access to or own a smartphone.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]Game over. The [/COLOR][/FONT][URL="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2011/08/11/time-to-ditch-pcs-altogether-behold-rise-smartphone/"][FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]PC is dead[/COLOR][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]. Trash your mouse and keyboard.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]Wrong. While itâ??s true that smart devices have overtaken the total number of traditional computers, the former are largely complementing, not replacing the latter. We donâ??t live in a â??post-PCâ? era. We live in a â??PC plusâ? epoch.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]The reason: Traditional computers still account for the bulk of our total computing and Internet time, according to multiple reports. This is largely due to work demands. In other words, heavy digital lifting (i.e. creating, inputting and contributing digital things) requires significantly more time than it does to consume, monitor or quickly react to information â?? things that smart devices excel at.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]Although we may not be as intimate, personal, and fond of traditional computers as we are with handhelds now, we still heavily rely on the former. A lot of that has to do with size.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]â??The most important reason why more than a billion people will continue to perform the bulk of their computing on traditional PCs are basic physical attributes,â? found a [/COLOR][/FONT][URL="https://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-Shared%20Assets/Documents/TMT%20Predictions%202013%20PDFs/dttl_TMT_Predictions2013_PCNotDead.pdf%20"][FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]recent report from Deloitte[/COLOR][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][IMG]http://global.fncstatic.com/static/v/all/img/external-link.png[/IMG], a notable professional service firm. â??PCs have larger screens, full- or mid-size keyboards and mice or trackpadsâ? â?? things white-collar humans prefer to use for time-consuming, detailed or otherwise specialized work.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]â??I've seen a lot of people try to use tablets and then move back to laptops,â? said David Cole, a help desk manager from Boston. â??They still use an iPad or smartphone to read email, but they typically wait until they get back to their desk or laptop to do â??real work.â??â?[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]What constitutes â??real workâ?? Depending on the person, one cutoff is anything from 50 up to 500 words. Anything below that is okay for smart devices. Anything above that, including heavy manipulative functions such as number crunching in Excel, creative production, long-form writing, and copy and paste were best suited for PC, according to people I spoke to.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]That said, there are two anomalies to the â??PC Plusâ? economy. The first is the trend of some baby boomers to contribute and work more on tablets than younger generations that learned how to operate traditional computers in their formative years.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]My mother-in-law is a good example of this. Before the rise of smartphones and tablets, she almost never participated or contributed digitally from her PC. Since acquiring an iPad two years ago, however, she emails and computes considerably more. For her and many others, touch interfaces are [/COLOR][/FONT][URL="http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/01/07/year-internet-split-in-half/"][FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]easier to use[/COLOR][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue] than keyboards with 125 intimidating buttons.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]The other inconsistency depends on whether you reside in a developed or developing country. Of the 1.5 billion estimated PCs in use, many are owned by businesses and consumers that can afford to own a smartphone, tablet, and PC, according to a recent Pew Internet study. Meanwhile, the majority of developing countries are gravitating towards cheaper smart devices, neither owning or replacing a PC in the first place.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]When a PC is replaced by a tablet in a developed country, the occurrence is rare, Deloitte reported. Of the estimated 500 million PCs being used by businesses, just 5 million have been replaced by a smart device over the last yearâ??just 1 percent. That percentage is likely higher among consumers, but certainly not enough to suggest a sea change.[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]A friend of mine recently tried to replace his laptop and desktop with a smartphone and tablet, but changed his mind after a few weeks. â??My tablet and smartphone were too much of an in-between,â? he recalled. â??When it comes to getting stuff done, I suspect Iâ??ll always need a keyboard. As exciting as phones and tablets are, they really only intensify our computing.â?[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue][/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Century Gothic][COLOR=blue]That could certainly change as generations that were born with touch devices in their hands grow older. But in this, a largely Gen-X, Millennial, and Baby Boomer age, traditional computers are still a part of everyday life.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[URL]http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/10/23/source-list-actress-used-to-make-rounds-hollywood-secret-sex-parties/[/URL] [SIZE=1]By [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/archive/author/hollie-mckay/index.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]Hollie McKay[/COLOR][/URL] Published October 23, 2013[/SIZE] LOS ANGELES â?? In Hollywood, when the cameras stop rolling, some stars go home to their husbands, wives and children. Others take a detour to invite-only parties where anything goes, including group sex, S&M, drugs, hookers, and every kind of debauchery. Welcome to the secret sex societies of the entertainment industry. E! News explores the underground phenomenon in a new series of two-hour specials, "Secret Societies of Hollywood," premiering on Thursday. "Within these exclusive members-only organizations, the search for excess can be found everywhere,â? the network claims. â??From notorious Hollywood madams like Heidi Fleiss, who was believed to have supplied prostitutes for many big name stars, to an underground society of people who celebrate their love of bondage and other bizarre sexual tastes at parties that rotate from clubs and mansions to all over the city." FOX411 talked to one of the Hollywood insiders interviewed on â??Secret Societies,â? who said the modern proliferation of paparazzi and tabloid journalism has forced more and more stars -- gay and straight, young and old -- to pursue their sordid interests behind closed, very high, very thick, doors. "Law enforcement stays away as they have no right to do anything regarding a house party, and there is usual careful discretion with these types of parties to make sure that there is nothing that could warrant unwanted attention," said alternative sentencing expert Wendy Feldman. Sources tell FOX411 that code words are used to gain entrance to the ultra-secret soirees, sometimes called â??NHâ? parties, for â??Never Happened.â? One well-placed entertainment insider told us that one of the biggest A-list actresses in the entertainment industry today was notorious for frequenting S&M clubs when trying to get bigger and better roles in the not-too-distant past. "She was famous for her escapades, it was right up her street," the insider said of the star. "High end hookers also frequent these places, using it to try and break into show business." Todayâ??s secret orgies have their historical precedents. Last year, former WWll Marine Scotty Bowers wrote a tell-all --"Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Starsâ? â?? in which he claimed he set up sexual encounters for Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, Vivian Leigh and Katharine Hepburn. And in the upcoming tell-all "Nicholson," by New York Times bestselling author Marc Eliot, the Oscar-winner Jack is painted as the poster child for hedonism. Eliot says, even before he was famous, the legendary actor's apartment was the go-to spot of round-the-clock partying, drinks, drugs and sex. Eliot claims that Nicholson was outdone only by one other: Harry Dean Stanton. "On weekends, Harry Dean liked to throw sex parties that started on Friday night and ended sometime Monday morning," Eliot writes. Reps for Nicholson and Stanton did not respond to requests for comment. These days, weâ??re told that subterranean shindigs are typically attended by a big-name star or two, while the majority of guests are hopefuls willing to do just about anything in an attempt to score that big break. â??Itâ??s sad,â? said one source. â??But that always was, and still is, show business.â?

Earth from Endeavour:

homes with only 3 electronic devices: TV, cable box, radio/stereo vacuum tubes (valves for our British friends) - many TVs and radios in our homes still had them CB radio antennas on cars lugable computers - you couldn't use them on your lap if you tried disco cassette organizers & carrying cases continuous form paper - wide format 15" x 11"

Belated Happy Birthday BirdBoy -- I hope you enjoyed your special day with a special gal or two.

Titillating is my favourite word because it starts with "tit". It also like titillate and titillation, but they don't appeal to me as much as titillating does -- I don't know why.

Let's do some time math for a quickie: Before deed: -Get in the door, say hello, untie & remove shoes, take coat off and hang up: 5 minutes (stuck coat zipper, add 1 minute; knot in laces, add 1 minute) -Give donation: 1 minute -Quickie hand wash: 1 minute -Take cloths off without rips or popped buttons: 2 minutes (stuck pants zipper, add 1 minute) -Quick minimal hand wash: 0.5 minutes After deed: -Quick minimal wash-up: 1 minute -Put cloths on, neat & tidy: 3 minutes -Put shoes & coat on: 2 minutes So far, were up to 15.5 minutes, without the eventualities added in. Maybe with practice my times could be improved, but even with a half-hour session, 14.5 minutes left for fun-time isn't enough for me.

Great advice. Also, phone numbers sometimes change too -- calling an old number brings only frustration.

Happy birthday PP!

Cute commercial! "1984 won't be like 1984", but 2012 is -- Orwell was right about most of his predictions, he just got the dates wrong: in 2012 televisions started to have cameras that watch you http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2117493/Samsungs-latest-TV-sets-built-cameras-spark-concerns.html and cable boxes that record what you watch when you watch it and report this to rogers, etc., have been around for a long time. Here's a couple commercial parodies that I hope you'll like:

Happy to hear that! Most problems are simple problems that have simple solutions. The problem is that it's quite difficult and complicated discovering what the simple problem and simple solution are.

Granted, a tree fort would be cool. But I don't have any interest in a guys-only private section. I can't think of anything I'd like to discuss that I wouldn't want the ladies to see, and in fact actually enjoy their input -- it is the main reason that I come to CERB. A guys-only section could turn into a he-man woman-haters club. The ladies are screened before they are allowed into the SP-only section. I can't begin to comprehend the effort that would be required to screen the guys. And how many guys could refuse the request to let them see the private section on their account from a lovely lady wearing just a smile? Ladies are strong, men a weak -- nothing in the guys-only section would be private for very long.

Way to go Luxe!

"Civilians" don't seem to grasp the obvious -- an SP does not have to accept all callers and can refuse to see anyone for any reason, and do only the things you want to do (i.e., YMMV). Many other professions don't have that flexibility.

Euphoria - the feeling you have after spending time with a fine lady.

Looking at pictures of fripples.

The only "unsafe" way of communicating with an SP is in a public place (shopping mall, parking lot, lobby, bar, etc.), and only because doing so is illegal. No SP you'd want to connect with would communicate with you in such a way. All private communications, made by whatever means, are legal.

[URL]http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/10/24/major-setback-for-aids-cure-study-finds-reservoir-hidden-hiv-bigger-than-once[/URL] [SIZE=1]By [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/archive/author/loren-grush/index.html"][COLOR=#0066cc]Loren Grush[/COLOR][/URL] Published October 24, 2013[/SIZE] Over the past decade, scientists have made incredible strides in the field of HIV research â?? leading to the development of numerous medications that can effectively manage the disease and provide patients with a near normal life expectancy. But a cure for the human immunodeficiency virus has still eluded scientists, and now a new report from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has revealed that completely eradicating the virus may be much more difficult than previously thought. In a new study published in the journal Cell, researchers have discovered that the reservoir of latent or inactive HIV that silently lingers in a patientâ??s body is much larger than scientists believed. In fact, this pool of viruses â?? known as HIV proviruses â?? may actually be 60-fold greater than previous estimates. According to researchers, these findings are a major setback in the fight to cure HIV. â??Weâ??re working very hard on developing better ways to assess the size of this reservoir,â? lead author Dr. Robert Siliciano, an HHMI investigator at Johns Hopkins University, told FoxNews.com. â??But I think thereâ??s a lot more we really need to understand before we do a lot more clinical trials on (HIV cures).â? In order to effectively cure someone of HIV, the entirety of the virus must be eliminated from the body. This has been difficult to accomplish, since HIV exists in two states â?? an active version that is constantly replicating and destroying the immune system and an inactive version that hides in the bodyâ??s memory T cells and remains dormant. When memory T cells respond to the virus and try to eradicate it from the body, they inadvertently become hosts for HIV. The virus â??infectsâ? some of the responding T cells by physically inserting itself into the cellsâ?? DNA. Then, when the T cells go back to a resting state, the HIV is â??turned offâ? and silently hides in its host cell. Current antiretroviral medications for the treatment of HIV work by targeting the actively replicating form of HIV â?? but not this inactive form. â??In resting stateâ?¦the virus is not actively replicating, so the drugs donâ??t affect it, and the immune system canâ??t see it, because no viral proteins are being made,â? Siliciano explained. â??Thatâ??s why you canâ??t cure the infection, because as soon as the patient stops treatment, some of these memory T cells get activated every day, and they start to replicate, and the virus takes off again.â? [B]Finding the true size of HIV[/B] Previously, researchers would estimate the amount of these latent proviruses by removing T cells from an HIV positive patient and activating them in test tubes. This approach was thought to force all of the functioning inactive proviruses hiding in the T cells to â??turn back on.â? Using this technique, approximately one HIV provirus was reactivated out of every million T cells. But Siliciano and his colleague Ya-Chi Ho, an HHMI international student research fellow in Silicianoâ??s lab, believed this method did not provide the whole picture, since some of the proviruses remained inactive or latent in the T cells even in response to activation. So the researchers developed a technique to further analyze the composition of the viral reservoir. In order to do this, they first activated the T cells but then focused on the non-induced proviruses. Using a genetic technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), the researchers were able to study the genomes of the proviruses that had failed to turn on, which remained in 300 out of ever million T cells. While 88 percent of the non-induced proviruses contained some obvious mutation or defect in their DNA preventing them from replicating, approximately 12 percent had fully intact genomes, meaning they were entirely capable of being reactivated. And after a second and third attempt at stimulating the T cells, Siliciano and Ho found that these proviruses did, in fact, become active. "If you take the T cells that did not produce virus, and simply reactivate them a second time, some start to produce virus,â? Siliciano said. â??â?¦So the total number of cells you have to worry about is any cell that could turn on the virusâ?¦Maybe thereâ??s some random process governing this, but those are the things that are not understood.â? These findings mean that scientists have many more proviruses to kill in order to fully cure an individual of HIV. However, [B]Siliciano hopes his research will dissuade patients from entering into clinical trials testing a â??shock and killâ? approach to curing the virus, which involves activating many of the bodyâ??s T cells to force the proviruses to activate. Since the size of the provirus reservoir is so large, Siliciano said this technique could lead to major damage in the body.[/B] â??The current approach to curing patients is to try and turn on all of the latent virus and then get the cells to die,â? Siliciano said. â??You canâ??t do that in a patient because it would cause too many side effects. Having all your T cells turn on at the same time would lead to major toxicity.â? The HHMI study was released just as recent tests have found that a baby born with HIV in Mississippi is still in remission 18 months after being aggressively treated, potentially indicating that the child is cured. While Siliciano said this is great news and extremely important for HIV research, there is still much more to learn about the virus before a true cure can be developed. â??In the (Mississippi childâ??s) case, there are no memory T cells at the time of birth, and thatâ??s why the infection is curable if you treat on the first day of life,â? Siliciano said. â??So for the vast majority of patients to cure them, weâ??ll have to deal with this reservoir. These cases of cures are exciting and have given people the feeling that â??Yes, maybe this is something we can do.â?? But itâ??s going to be a long and difficult struggle.â?

Great points! Another downside to using a VPN service is that you have to trust them. absolutely as all of your information is visible to them should they choose to look at it, just as bell is going to do. HTTPS is vulnerable to "man in the middle" attacks, and a VPN service could thus easily see all of your information, encrypted or not. I despise bell (and rogers), but I trust them enough not to worry about doing my on-line banking, etc., through them and not be concerned about them doing anything inappropriate. I don't have that level of confidence in a VPN service -- even if I were to trust the service providers themselves, without knowing the design and security of their systems, they could be vulnerable to hackers gaining access to their systems and gaining access to my data. Another issue is in what country the VPN service is physically located, and what the laws governing access is; for example, using a service in the US we are foreign communications and not given any protection from US government inspection whatsoever. The only real solution I can think of at the moment for an ISP like bell that is misbehaving is switching to an ISP that you dislike less.

It's now an oldie, but you've probably seen "Pretty Woman" with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. Tell folks that many clients are a lot like Richard Gere's character, just not as rich.