dblfugger9
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posted on December 13, 2005 06:29:43 AM
Heard today this is reality now? Copied below from www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65509,00.html
What do you all think? I think its ridiculous! who are these people who are sooo oversexed or sexually deprived they now have to watch porn on their cell phones??
From wired.com:
Bloggers and journalists have been all over a Yankee Group study released Monday that predicts a $1 billion global market for mobile porn by 2008.
On the off chance you missed the flurry, let me clarify. Mobile porn is not a big bus that travels to underserved rural areas a la mobile libraries or hearing test centers. Rather, it's the next logical step for adult content delivery.
Or is it?
On one hand, mobile phones are an ideal content receiver. We carry them with us everywhere we go, and we can send and receive data packets from just about anywhere, too. Despite dead zones -- which for some reason seem to include my desk and my bed no matter what city I'm in -- phone service is ubiquitous compared with wireless internet.
On the other hand, if you wanted to watch two or more people having sex, they'd have to be very, very small people to fit into a phone display. Even the Treo that I covet tops out at 320 by 320.
The whole point of a mobile phone is to escape the tyranny of the phone cord and talk while we're out and about. On the train, standing in line, walking down the strand at Venice Beach. That's the joy and the curse of cell phones -- we use them in public. And even when you think you're being discreet, you never know who might be looking over your shoulder.
I once provided an accidental peep show with my PDA on an airplane. I was playing strip poker on a red-eye flight, carefully angling the display away from my neighbors. About 10 minutes into the game, I realized that my screen was reflecting off the dark window and presenting a clear, magnified picture to anyone who cared to look. Whoopsiedoodle.
While porn in public spaces may be part of the thrill for some, most of us prefer privacy. And you probably have a private space with a more porn-friendly technology like a computer or television -- or an iPod.
Apple's new photo iPod -- which one Slashdot wag dubs the iPorn -- maxes out at 25,000 pictures or 15,000 songs. It's a triple-X theater in your pocket, even if it's only for slide shows. But you know video is next, along with image capture. The iPod already has a microphone attachment that enables you to record audio. (I use it to record the bad country songs I compose in my spare time.)
Cell phones, PDAs, browsers, e-mail clients, cameras and video recorders converged into single handheld devices years ago (did I mention I want a Treo?); the Apple brand will just make it cooler to have one. I imagine the iStudio or iLife is not that far off. Or maybe they'll call it the miniMac.
When video phones are cheap, data transmission is fast, and airtime charges are a thing of the past, will we have the adult industry to thank? Maybe. Porn may be the killer app that persuades the masses to associate phones with content, which in turn would pave the way for other types of mobile content. (Wired News readers are ahead of the curve on this one.)
But I think the real opportunity here is not pornography at all. The real killer app will take advantage of the No. 1 property of a cell phone, a function even more important than its mobility: the ability to connect people with other people. When I asked the Sex Drive forum whether anyone would pay for cell-phone porn, most said no, or not yet. Not unless it had a "unique twist that really made it stand out for phone," said one member. Another points out, "Why pay a professional when there are so many enthusiastic amateurs?"
Cell phones are interactive and interpersonal. They aren't entertainment boxes waiting to receive content to display to a passive user. Until the mobile-content industry finds a way to incorporate personal communication into its porn -- perhaps with multiplayer sex games or seamless cybersex -- I don't see us spending a billion dollars on phone porn.
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replaymedia
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posted on December 13, 2005 07:42:17 AM
"Apple's new photo iPod -- which one Slashdot wag dubs the iPorn -- maxes out at 25,000 pictures"
25,000 Pictures?
When are they coming out with the eBay Seller version?
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classicrock000
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posted on December 13, 2005 08:10:15 AM
"I think its ridiculous! who are these people who are sooo oversexed or sexually deprived they now have to watch porn on their cell phones?? "
I wish you would leave me outta this...what did I do to you????
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WashingtoneBayer
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posted on December 13, 2005 08:15:00 AM
I think it is money to be made, need to talk to my broker.
Ron
"Better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not."
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Linda_K
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posted on December 13, 2005 08:26:33 AM
LOL....classic.
dbl - "I think its ridiculous! who are these people who are sooo oversexed or sexually deprived they now have to watch porn on their cell phones??
You're a woman....thinking like a lot of [most] women do. We're talking about men here  and according to some research they think about sex every seven minutes of their day.
edited to make that minutes...although I'm sure some do think of 'it' every seven seconds. 
[ edited by Linda_K on Dec 13, 2005 08:28 AM ]
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cblev65252
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posted on December 13, 2005 08:31:05 AM
To each his own! Personally, it doesn't bother me one way or the other. I don't have to look at it so why should I care if other adults want to?
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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maggiemuggins
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posted on December 13, 2005 08:35:56 AM
Off topic.
Just wanted to say welcome back, LindaKay, you have been on my mind this week, I hope your treatments were bearable and that your recuperation will be swift. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Maggie
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Linda_K
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posted on December 13, 2005 08:44:10 AM
Are you hitting the 'bottle' this early in the day, again, maggie? LOL
I see you changed your mind [also, again] and have decided to honor us with your presence.
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Helenjw
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posted on December 13, 2005 08:45:43 AM
"Just wanted to say welcome back, LindaKay, you have been on my mind this week, I hope your treatments were bearable and that your recuperation will be swift. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Maggie"
Are you referring to her "treatments" at OTWA?
Or did I miss something about a medical treatment?
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Linda_K
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posted on December 13, 2005 08:49:33 AM
Oh now helen....don't go showing everyone you're so jealous that they didn't tell me to 'go home'/leave like they did to you and KD. 
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maggiemuggins
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posted on December 13, 2005 08:57:37 AM
No, I don't drink, never drank or smoked, Linda.
I was being sincere, I hope all went well.
Maggie
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Helenjw
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posted on December 13, 2005 09:01:40 AM
Only Spaz, who has a long term grudge and his little attack dogs told us that. Other posters there welcomed us. And I will return. Will you? LOL
No one told us that we were "certifiable".
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dblfugger9
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posted on December 13, 2005 09:02:17 AM
wish you would leave me outta this...what did I do to you????
hahaha Classic!!!
Linda that is what they say every seven minutes! But I can see it now: people (if only men) going into orgasmic spasms in the airport and malls, in the school parking lot waiting to pick up johhnyboy...we'll be calling 911 out thinking they're seizuring. lol.
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dblfugger9
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posted on December 13, 2005 09:13:59 AM
Linda, what treatments did you have? Are you trans gendering like some here obviously have?
Ron, there must be money in it!
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classicrock000
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posted on December 13, 2005 09:19:58 AM
"But I can see it now: people (if only men) going into orgasmic spasms in the airport and malls"
I do that already
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Linda_K
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posted on December 13, 2005 09:22:21 AM
dbl - lol....well at least they'll have smiles on their faces. But yes, I can just picture that.....
Maybe that's what helen needs....might put her in a more joyful mood. Any volunteer to cheer helen up?
And on maggie's statement...and being sincere....once again neither she nor I know what's she's talking about. No surprise there.
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Linda_K
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posted on December 13, 2005 09:25:01 AM
hellen - Once again you mention spaz's name when it was made QUITE CLEAR to you, not only by spaz, but by others that it's pretty low of you to mention a person's name HERE when they don't post/can't respond HERE.
What part of that concept don't you get?
Just have no self-control nor respect to honor the requests of others do you?
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classicrock000
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posted on December 13, 2005 09:28:28 AM
"Maybe that's what helen needs....might put her in a more joyful mood. Any volunteer to cheer helen up?"
wheres piin when ya need him???
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Linda_K
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posted on December 13, 2005 09:44:59 AM
LOL.....I sure wish he would.
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Helenjw
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posted on December 13, 2005 10:02:03 AM
Oh, I'm happy as a lark!
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Helenjw
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posted on December 13, 2005 10:04:37 AM
So much comedy going on this morning in chatboard land... Linda having treatments etc.
That was a good one, Maggie.
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Linda_K
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posted on December 13, 2005 10:09:59 AM
Now helen...you wouldn't be taking 'delight' in the fact you are assuming maggie was trying to 'insult' me would you? Here I thought you'd posted how only I do that....according to your distorted way of viewing things.
Ever THINK that maggie may just have me confused with another Linda....maybe on another board who's going through some sort of treatment.
If you recall that's why when they were all posting here I decided to use Linda-K....rather than just Linda as we had three Linda's posting here before the CC requirement. DUH...
Jokes on you, helen.
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kiara
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posted on December 13, 2005 10:11:47 AM
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dblfugger9
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posted on December 13, 2005 10:30:38 AM
I thought you were Linda_K ? Where has your underscore gone?
classic, shaken head at you. Whats worst a dirty old man or a dirty old woman? Or a dirty old man pretending to be a dirty old woman? {big beanie head grin}
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piinthesky
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posted on December 13, 2005 10:34:16 AM
We're talking about men here and according to some research they think about sex every seven minutes of their day.
The trick is, as a man, to find women that think the same as you.
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"Maybe that's what helen needs....might put her in a more joyful mood. Any volunteer to cheer helen up?"
'wheres piin when ya need him???'
Hey, i keep trying but she just won't come around to my way of thinking. She's a closed-minded, stern and set in her ways kind of woman when it comes to matters of romance. She's like 'Rapunzel' but she just won't let her hair down.
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dblfugger9
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posted on December 13, 2005 10:36:06 AM
Keep working at it Pii, theres gotta be some kinda reward at the end of it for ya!
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piinthesky
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posted on December 13, 2005 10:45:22 AM
I just know that deep down, within hidden recesses of her mind that she's got thoughts and feelings that are straining to come out but she suppresses them. She's afraid to just let go and give in to her hidden desires.
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fenix03
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posted on December 13, 2005 10:46:43 AM
::I think it is money to be made, need to talk to my broker. ::
Ron - tell your broker to keep an eye on Vivid Entertainment. They have been talking about going public for awhile and are the cutting edge, top of the heap in the porn industry.
http://www.forbes.com/home/business/2005/03/07/cz_bp_0307vivid.html
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Linda_K
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posted on December 13, 2005 10:48:40 AM
sorry, dbl, I think you have that reversed. It would be 'we' who would benefit from it.....not piinthesky. [the mood change that is.]
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The trick is, as a man, to find women that think the same as you.
Oh...don't worry they're out there....just waiting to be found. But then absolutely nothing will get accomplished if two sexually alike people meet - including remembering to pick the kids up from school as dbl suggested. ....they'll spend all day doing nothing else.
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Linda_K
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posted on December 13, 2005 10:54:56 AM
dbl - I thought you were Linda_K ? Where has your underscore gone?
I registered here and on otwa as Linda_K. I may have registered on Barry's Board, years ago, as LindaKay....just can't remember. Never registered anywhere else.
But I do believe I've seen a LindaKay posting somewhere else....just can't remember where...been too long ago. My bet would be this is Aurora on TRB...but even that's only a guess.
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