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Channel 4 News is Homophobic - Attacks gay men for doing what hetrosexual take for granted
Channel 4 has rapidly removed this article but thankfully it has be saved for posterity - the related homophobic slurs may well be repeated on channel 4 tonight

Last Modified: 26 Mar 2008
By: Benjamin Cohen

Thousands of gay men risk getting HIV through internet organised "bareback" sex

More 4 News will tonight explore the downside of internet social networking as part of its dot.com decade series of reports by showing how technology has normalised extreme forms of sexual behaviour.

Gaydar and other gay "hook-up" websites were popular long before the launch of mainstream social networks like Bebo and Facebook boast millions of British members.

As More4 News will show, users are able to search for a partner based on a variety of criteria: hair colour, eye colour, height, weight, even penis size.
Dot.com decade reports

The frank nature of the site has had an impact on the gay scene, with bars and clubs scaling back, some even closing down completely as users opt to locate a partner online rather in real life.

As one user says:"It's like take-out pizza, you just order in sex."

The websites also allow users to search for people willing to have unprotected, so called "bareback" sex. Within minutes online, More 4 News was able to find thousands of British gay men willing to have bareback sex. On one website, 613 men said they only have bareback sex

Using language that can not be broadcast, users set their "status" with "adverts" such as "XX HUNG BARE BACKING PIG - CONDOM FREE ZONE" and "Lets get raw and bare"

One 19-year-old boy says he is a "boy for older daddy to use and abuse". Shockingly, an 18-year-old boy says he is looking to "BUGSHARE." Another 18-year-old says he is a "young teen poz bottom for poz top guys."

'It's like take-out pizza, you just order in sex'

As More 4 News reports, the Health Protection Agency are warning of a rise in a so called super virus where someone is infected with two strains of the HIV virus.

Gaydar director David Muniz told More4 News: "We don't dictate to individuals how they are going to change or how they are going to act. We work within the confines of the law.

The ability to search for and locate sexual partners who are willing to engage in the same forms behaviour has only been possible thanks to the technology of the web.

Despite the negatives, some believe that the websites have revolutionised gay life in a positive way. Labour MP, Chris Bryant was revealed a user of Gaydar in a tabloid frenzy in 2003.

He told More 4 News: "30, 40 years ago [for] most gay men and lesbians who lived in a rural area or a district like mine in the South Wales valley as soon as they knew they were gay they would disappear off to Cardiff or one of the big cities and nowadays they can go online and find one another on the internet"

Social networks aimed at the gay community were trailblazers, in technology terms laying a path that the mainstream social networks would soon follow. But they also stand as a warning to society as mass mainstream online social networks take off.

for a more enlightened repost see the inquirer

The 200 local super centres (polyclinics) to be run by Tesco, Virgin and American HMO's
the government is not only interested in selling our medical details to insurance companies(1), its wants to privatise us by selling us to private health companies such as Tesco's and Virgin, that will run these "poly clinics/super centres". A surgery I use has already been sold to Virgin!!

As

vampwillow has just said an American HMO 'bought' 3 local surgies in kentish town. They didn't even put the highest offer in. Corruption anybody? I bet its the HMO that the adviser to Gordon Brown has just become head of?

Remember how there used to be a post office on every corner, and now you have to go into a big town? Who needs a local doctors surgery when people can travel to see a doctor in a big town's super centre? You can pick up your healthcare at Tesco's (healthcare), along with your prescription and your groceries.

Meanwhile companies like Virgin healthcare like any supermarket will reduce cost from suppliers i.e. doctors and nurses, by getting rid of experienced doctors. You'll still get a doctor, but who knows how they will feel about your sexuality, race, body shape, what if they refuse treatment say an abortion on religious grounds? As advertised by the government you will not have any regular doctor, it will be a cattle call like A&E who will rely solely on your notes, which we all know are always correct! We already have payment by results, pay linked to keeping medical cost down i.e. refusing care, will be here all too soon.

Of course if you want a regular doctor I'm sure you be able to BUY a PRIVATE doctor for a price! Think about getting a dentist now? Go watch Sicko if you want to see what we have to look forward too. As private health insurance become ever more 'attractive' - such as American style HMO's.

(1) If you need referring to another doctor or clinic all your details including medical details MUST be uploaded to a central database. These details are then sold on who ever will pay. So for example bloggs insurance knows your bisexual and thus your mortgages (because of life insurance) goes up - because of fears by companies that you will become ill.

Please tell others or repost it on your journal - this is entirely about the government privatising healthcare along American HMO lines. We need to tell the world before the government force this through.

a request for anyone who knows or uses spoon theroy to re-edit my wikipedia post
I just noticed that the article on spoon theory on wikipedia has been flagged for possible deletion.

If you know anyone who could re-write what i have put to make it clearer or or more fully explain spoon theory could you please follow the link above

thanks

geek food tricks and whipped cream machines [edited]
For kitchen geeks - very cool additives that let you produce Heston Blumenthal type tricks from Solegraells

also available from cream supplies are those really cool stainless steel whipped cream dispensers you see in cafes.

which are actually made by iSi, kayser, liss and Mosa

Obviously they also can be used to make 'solid' foams or 'esPumas' of various liquids - as seen on a cooking programme near you

bimbling in web tech space
whilst bimbling round wikipedia I was looking at twitter that i recently joined because I knew someone other than

the_borderer who actually used. This lead me to pownce, i also found out about Xing which is a European competitor to linkedin which I thought about joining because of other stuff. Anyhew pownce looks rather cool since its supports file sharing. In its about section its listed its tie in with XFN which itself is a microformat and looks like a nice relationship mech that would be good to have implemented everywhere. So I just went across to mychores to see if they are linked into any of this stuff, it would seem logical if they were, where I have just found about Gravatar which is rather like openid and I just added an rss feed of the mychores blog

its amazing when your away for a bit the web evolves along at frightening pace it even has conferences (which was in London and i missed). I just found out about a us competitor for mychores called rememberthemilk, obviously I want MYCHORES to win and win BIG!

tranny code
I was trying to short form of my herstory etc and I was trying to use short form to explain it fast
now there is geek code, goth code, multiple code, what do we need for trans code?
any ideas

I was using things like PT17-FT@25
then there's GRC, GRS, BAS, so e.g. PT17GRC18FT18BAS19GRS20
what other short forms e.g. for suicide attempt, loud to parents, school etc
so any ideas?

happy birthday mentalbunny
happy birthday

mentalbunny

The only good thing about Dairy Milk is their ads
I assume that you have all seen the cadburys gorilla ad I'm just wondering
Poll #1050289
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

how was it created

View Answers

trained gorilla?
1 (11.1%)

somebody in monkey suit?
5 (55.6%)

animatronics?
1 (11.1%)

animation?
0 (0.0%)

computer animation?
0 (0.0%)

MOCAP & Computer Graphics?
0 (0.0%)

God?
1 (11.1%)

Garon Michael?
0 (0.0%)

what?
2 (22.2%)

who?
1 (11.1%)

who cares?
2 (22.2%)

don't care?
2 (22.2%)

don't know?
2 (22.2%)

don't want to know!
2 (22.2%)

what I do know is that remixes are already available

I want to be like you

eclipse of the heart

don't stop believing

skillz vz Gorilla remix

Also see

My Penis and I - BBC 3 Wednesday 11.15 pm
can I recommend a programme that's on BBC3 at 11.15pm Wednesday and 3.05am Thursday morning its called

My Penis and I _____(this is also a link to the after show discussion)

I think its important as feminists that we be aware of the effect that societies oppression around gender has on men. This film is one man's exploration about peoples fears around talking about penises and especially when they are smaller than average. It covers people obsession with men having larger penises, the industry that caters to this obsession, how the ancient Greeks viewed penises differently then we do today, his attempts to talk openly about penises in society, and the exhibition he held in Hoxton London in February 2007 where he displayed lots of pictures of flaccid penises sent to him anonymously by men. It shows that penises are diverse and are as different from each other as peoples faces. It also breaks the taboo that says women bodies can be seen naked but not men's.

In western society, there seems to be a growing presumption that all men are expected to be at least average in size and if not then they should be ashamed. For me this is part of a growing need for people to be as sexually dimorphic as possible, it also speaks volumes about peoples fears around feminism, and ideas that sex/gender/sexuality is something that is personally defined.

post chaos stuff
I still learning things that I wish I had known at chaos
for instance people could have rung into me onto my internal dect phone

i really wish it was possible to hire in eventphone everywhere but I assume the over head would be to great. I can see it would be amazing for a BiCon

N weeks on, the memory's of chaos is still blowing me away - I want to go back NOW!!!

I seem to have a new computer
I hopefully have bought a dual 1ghz ultimate quicksilver (2002) powermac G4, to run a cinewave HD system ( I already have the cinewave HD-SD box and the relevant breakout box) using RT 4.0 or (Final cut pro)

Its running the panther version of OSX. My only problem now is getting it to interface to a belkin KVM, and the small matter of never having run mac, knowing slightly more about BSD, and knowing nothing about running either FCP or RT.

other than that things are dandy

I know have two seriously high end editing suites
1. a Toaster VT4 (HD capable)
2. a Cinewave HD (mine is the breakout box on the left)

maybe I should actually go out and shoot some video now - with my betacam sp based Sony DXC325

um perhaps not - don't have the tuits/spoons

updated care and feeding and understanding kate 2007
for BiCon 2007, my care and feeding, understanding etc

( Care and feeding of Kate at BiCon 2006 )

( Understanding Kate: why I am doing, what I am doing )

I'm in heaven, I'm an angel and I'm in heaven, I'm in chaos
I am at the chaos computer camp.
And this is big hello to anybody who can read this.
my dect phone is 4268 (if your at CCC)
I'm in the big green tent in the lower field by the runway between the swiss and the swedes
and i am currently posting from angel heaven in the command bunker
why oh why didn't I come a week earlier and frankly I'd be happy to miss BiCon to stay longer
I am in geek heaven and i cant tell you the phone i have been having - actually i really cant :)
I been a herald and I ran two seminars today
one on GNU radio and a software peripheral built on fpga
the second on hacking gsm using, and various attempts to crack the A5 cipher - again using fpga's
some really cool fpga on a pcmcia kit

some more stuff in a friends post

Illegal and harmful activity a repost of burr86 on LJ_biz
( Read more... )

DON'T COMMENT HERE PLEASE - THIS IS A REPOST

for a vonage tech support guy
everything is working
we put the dmz the other way around and its all rock and roll
if you happen to wonder this way, or happen to get an Lj add me
it would be good to talk to you some more
edit
looks like the vonage box is flaky
tried using it as our sole router
it has fallen over repeatedly
trying a backup option if it fails again
we know its the vonage for sure
edit

best wishes
kate

think bear
I did a reply on

compilerbitch's journal but I wanted to repost it here. I think its important as whilst we are independent of the US, the old saying goes if the US sneezes - we catch a cold!

There are some significant issues in the us stock market right now. Mortgage rates are way up from sub 1% to 5+% that's in a few short years (the effect of debt financing a war whilst cutting taxes).

( CLO's )

( covenant lite bonds )

( Now for the real problem )

( I assume you see the problem in this? )

Oh and one small thing stock market crashes have typically but not always been linked to high oil prices. Where are oil prices now??

just in case cinevate is looking in
I though I should post this from the brevis 35 adapter (which does look super cool)
again about 45MB download

beautiful, just beautiful
just saw this video on the ( sgpro site )
warning download is 43MB Quicktime using H.264

not quite what john lennon wrote - or meant
Words are flowing out
Like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither while they pass
They slip away, across the universe
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
Are drifting through my open mind
Possessing and caressing me
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Images of broken light
Which shines around me like a million eyes
They call me on and on, across the universe
Thoughts meander
Like a restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly
As they make their way, across the universe
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Sounds of laughter, shades of joy
Are ringing through my open ears
Inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love
Which shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on, across the universe
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world
Nothing's gonna change my world