jmason Posts

All you need is a handful. Squeeze! ^_^ Yeah.

harDenS man

Hugs?

You're right, it may be the cultural differences.

In Japan, they hold celebrities to a standard of what we call the "clean-cut" image. Americans don't hold theirs to this ideal image - I mean, you got the hip-hop culture (most rappers got shady records), rock stars (some who smoke and do sleazy parties), pampered teen pop idols, and Jersey Shore. There's no way America would hold someone like Steve-O to ideal citizen standards.

Except the usual gravure and AV actors and actresses, most of the Japanese celebrities carry burdens of being model people. You know, typical celebrity that smiles, dresses nicely, pleases the fans and being clean as a whistle. They carry advertisements, clothing lines, products and their entertainment companies' "image" on their backs. One big mistake, one salacious controversy, one juicy scandal later and suddenly their affiliations distance themselves, not wanting their companies to be associated with bad news. And their culture assert this a lot, since the Japanese habit of associating themselves with good people and things ensures their own self-image is presentable to society.

One of the users here on CTFG that I encounter quite often. Had nice loli in black lace dress previously in avi. Mansion pic looks slightly with a Chinese inspiration to it (the mansion only, not including the girl on the right)

Yeah. Me in mood for sexy time.

I've read some more about this "right", and I also found it is already redundant, being covered by one existing right already.



Note the bolded terms above "to benefit from scientific progress" and "to share in scientific advancement and its benefits". Internet is a scientific progress under information technology. We are all benefiting from it. So why the hell should we make "internet access" so fucking special? Should all major scientific progresses from this century be given their own special right as well?

If iPhones become the standard cellphone of the majority, would the "right to own an iPhone" become a right as well?

Hell, Microsoft Windows, as of October 2009, had approximately 90% of the market share of the client OS - should there be a "right to Windows"?

Almost all of us use some form of communication - cellphones, telephones, and God knows if someone's still on pagers - and we use them very extensively. So why don't we have the "right to telecommunication" as well?

We have already quite a good set of human rights - and some of us are just busy bloating some of it up. We can just simply list "internet" as a whole subcategory under the common "right to science and culture", that's it. No need to put it on some stupid special pedestal and trumpet it.

That one's "Trinity Seven: 7-Nin no Mahoutsukai". Chapter 1, Page 14. It's on my bookmark list on on MangaFox, so I easily remembered it.

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/trinity_seven_7_nin_no_mahoutsukai/v01/c004/14.html

If you're linking a Gelbooru image, better download it and have it shown via image hosters, like SadPanda.

Anyway, found it. Thought I had it in my old HD, here it is - "Matou Ichi" - a Vocaloid doujin. The pic you linked is page 3.

http://www.mediafire.com/?2w8e0m6gtmgmrqk

A few "counted" posts away from Eldership.

I do not think internet access constitutes a "human right".

First off, it's not free. There are internet service providing companies (mostly telecoms) that lets people subscribe to internet access through them, for a reasonable fee. Anyone can get it, but they have to pay for it. You can connect, but unless you are a subscriber or somebody authorized to connect freely, you can't have internet access.

There are establishments that offer free internet access, like the nearest Starbucks, or McDonald's, or the nearest consumer business establishment near you that have a "Free Wi-Fi" outside their doors. They offer it for free to all, but if you're astute enough you know somebody else is paying for the "free" internet access. Just to attract customers to stay and possibly buy a product or two, that's why they offer internet access for free. And to think it's not always a guarantee people go to malls and buy anything.

I've worked part-time in the past at a restaurant that offer Wi-Fi, and I know the business owner is paying for that wi-fi access monthly, and it's a costly "business plan" internet package plan from a telecom company. You think they get back that cost from the customers other than "passing the buck" and increasing the prices a wee bit to help pay for it? Think again. How about leechers? There's no guarantee they get that "operating cost" back, they just write it off as a liability in the sheets and move on. It's a business expense, then. It's worse if it's on a government establishment, like parks or libraries. The government doesn't provide costly wi-fi access out of thin air - it's from taxes. You're still paying for it, or somebody else does for you.

So where's the right there if either you're paying for access, or somebody else's paying for your access?

Also, do you own any electronic gadget that allows you to access the internet? iPads, iPhones, laptops, cellphones, desktop PCs, you name it. You NEED one to access the 'net. I don't see anybody accessing the internet without such gadgets. You have the right to internet access but you don't have anything to use to access such right? Cool. That's one of the main reasons against this one becoming a right - it's too dependent on technology. Your government isn't going to provide you with the gadgets to "allow you to freely exercise your right" - you go buy one yourself. Or in the case of desktop PCs, go to an internet cafe and pay for use.

You need ISPs, you need an internet-capable electronic gadget, and either you pay for it or others pay for you (both either by direct money or taxes)... no, "internet access" by these terms isn't even close to being a human right.

Why not? Lay down and I'll give you the smackdown.

7/10. More skin please.

Still is the "ghaust".

I wish for a traffic-free morning tomorrow.

9/10

Your avi looks like a loli queen.

Fuck yeah, live food, why not? Nothing like REAL fresh stuff.

"I'd love to be your friend. You can call me Kim!"

I wish for another major netorare game soon from Atelier Sakura featuring lolis.

Granted. I found a hot nurse for you:


Pretty one I found for you.

I wish I have to superpower to find out a person's gender DNA-based) just by looking.