* Posts by Michael Reed

15 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Nov 2007

Can 24/7 porn rescue Google TV?

Michael Reed
Meh

[Shudder] American hardcore porn. Fake breasts, fake everything. What would be better is someone created the tech to make endless porn with realtime 3D rendering of the participants. For people who like American commercial porn the fakeness, the smoothness of the skin and the unrealism of the sex would be even better than the "real thing".

I suppose someone enjoys it or they wouldn't make it. However, if they enable the success of a video service, good for them.

UK teens bullied into sending sex texts

Michael Reed
Big Brother

So in other words...

So... feminists have stretched all logic to find an explanation that makes the female protagonists the victims. If these really are the result of "bullying" they would constitute a serious sexual assault and the police should be involved. The current laws can deal with a crime of this nature.

'Bart Simpson' punts Church of Scientology

Michael Reed

System of beliefs

The Simpsons seems pretty consistently left when you compare it to South Park.

Speeding Oz teen may face 'gorillas in the mist'

Michael Reed
Stop

Sounds fair

No doubt, if a judge threatened a female criminal with rape as a punishment, the media would be equally full of praise.

'Sonic boom' golf club may 'damage hearing'

Michael Reed
Paris Hilton

This explains everything

No wonder Doctors never seem to hear what I'm saying!

Spinning the war on the UK's sex trade

Michael Reed
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Great article

Great article. It's nice to see someone talking some sense on this issue for once. An article like this is not only informative. Once someone has laid down the issues in a clear way, it provokes useful and interesting debate. I don't mind the occasional tangent from IT in this way. It certainly seems to be a subject that the readership is interested in.

Facebook breastfeeding pic takedown gets backs up

Michael Reed
Paris Hilton

So in other words...

A bunch of lefties have come up with another tactic to assure themselves and the world that they are mature, experienced and hip and above any purely human reactions.

"I'm great, I am. Everyone else is immature and childish compared to me!"

I don't think that I /want/ to become so desensitized that seeing the naked breast of a female friend or coworker produces absolutely no reaction in me. If women don't like breast fetishism, why don't they give up the plunging necklines and push up bras? Ah right, they like breast fetishism, sometimes.

When I'm masturbating I don't feel that I'm doing anything wrong. Actually, I spend quite a lot of time doing it, and it says a lot about me as a person. Perhaps I'll feature the act in my Facebook profile pic.

Tabloid girl's jubs freeze at -130°C

Michael Reed
Coat

I knew it

I knew that it was a mistake to buy the editor of that newspaper a copy of The Day After Tomorrow. I told him that although Al Gore had endorsed it, it wasn't a documentary. Gotta love the print media's understanding of science.

Facebook in goldmine potential deficit

Michael Reed
Happy

So...

So... all those people like me who though "How can something like Facebook be worth hundreds of millions?" were right then. That's good as I had worried that I missing something obvious.

Dixons Group still suffering

Michael Reed
Coat

Contact

We contacted the Dixons Group earlier today. The teenager who answered had this to say about the economic problems facing the chain, "Erm... I'll just go ask."

UK.gov pushes £50,000 fine for online copyright infringement

Michael Reed
Coat

Slashdot

Looking forward to the Slashdot take on this story. "Those bastard fascists attempt to take away our freedom to back up data again. Brain implant tracking devices can't be far behind!"

OpenSolaris still has some Linux copying to do

Michael Reed

Good article

Nice article. I'd been looking for something that explains what a typical Linux user could expect to find when they have a go with Solaris. Thanks.

Lily Allen to judge Orange women's fiction award

Michael Reed
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and another thing...

It's particularly maddening in the case of a field in which women are so well represented as book authorship.

AMD hit by birth defects lawsuit

Michael Reed

Legal conundrum

IANAL but...

There can exist a legal situation in which a company is not allowed to exclude fertile women from certain types of hazardous workplace, even though they are aware that the work would expose women to chemicals that could possibly cause birth defects. In the book I read, it seemed that case law had established that the parent, if informed of the medical hazard, could not sue the employer but that the child can. Perhaps this is the case and the woman has waited until her child is old enough to sue, and then sued on her child's perhalf as the child is brain damaged?

Oz motorist reacts rather testily to small todger slur

Michael Reed
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Double standard

A woman is obsessed with her body and how it measures up to cultural expectations: she's a victim. A man is similarly obsessed: he's an idiot for being so silly.

That advert obviously recognises and re-enforces such expectations.