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4/10/2004: Gashcroft
Thanks to SteveDallas for passing this along. This week Atty Genl Ashcroft announced new prosecutions of porn, the first such charges to be filed in a decade in the US.
And according to FBI officials, "nothing is off limits... even soft-core cable programs such as HBO's long-running Real Sex or the adult movies widely offered in guestrooms of major hotel chains."
And so one proper response to clampdown on speech is more speech, and thus this picture of Ashcroft composed of 1023 little tiny porn pictures. You could see this larger (668kb) version.
We await the Photoshop filter to create such things.
Nothing But Net Saturday Apr 10 04:49 PM
This is much better than the Bush version
Or should I say the anti-Bush version? Or is UT's the Bush version? Shit, I'm confused...
<img src="http://www.michaelmoore.com/_media/images/special/war_president_high.jpg">
Michael Moore is an ass, and your pic is sweeeet, UT!
xoxoxoBruce Saturday Apr 10 09:01 PM
I never thought I'd be saying this, but the closer I look at Ashcroft, the better I like him.
Beestie Saturday Apr 10 10:45 PM
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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce I never thought I'd be saying this, but the closer I look at Ashcroft, the better I like him.
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zeet Sunday Apr 11 03:27 AM
Re: 4/10/2004: Gashcroft
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Originally posted by Undertoad We await the Photoshop filter to create such things. [/b] |
AstroJetson Sunday Apr 11 11:27 AM
Please hire me!!!
From the article:
Either way, Nguyen, and his co-workers spend their days scouring the Internet for the most obscene material, following leads sent in by citizens and tracking pornographers operating under different names. The job wears on them all, day after day, so much so that the obscenity division has recently set up in-house counseling for them to talk about what they're seeing and how it is affecting them.
Oh I feel your pain! Hours and hours staring at the screen, megabytes of pixels downloaded.
Wonder where I can sign up for that job???
wolf Sunday Apr 11 01:14 PM
Looking at regular porn has got to have been a better job than looking only at pictures of assholes ...
(good to see you Astro! Missed yah.)
plthijinx Sunday Apr 11 03:13 PM
[quote]Originally posted by wolf
[b]Looking at regular porn has got to have been a better job than looking only at pictures of assholes ...
ok. who farted?!?!
richlevy Sunday Apr 11 05:49 PM
| Brian Roberts, the CEO of Comcast, which offers "hard-core" porn on the Hot Network channel (at $11.99 per film in Baltimore), was co-chair of Philadelphia 2000, the host committee that brought the Republican National Convention to Philadelphia. In February, the Bush campaign honored Comcast President Stephen Burke with "Ranger" status, for agreeing to raise at least $200,000 for the president's re-election effort. Comcast's executive vice president, David Cohen, has close ties to Gov. Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. |
Undertoad Sunday Apr 11 05:53 PM
I don't understand that comment at all.
SteveDallas Sunday Apr 11 05:56 PM
Try this one.. dated, but good.
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail...00/000042.html
richlevy Sunday Apr 11 06:45 PM
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Originally posted by Undertoad I don't understand that comment at all. |
Nice article, Steve, it really brings up the difference between public perception and truth, and the reason for the Fourth Amendment. Public and private behaviors are not the same, and any attempt to make them so by regulation is doomed to failure.
Commercial sex, either prostitution or pornography, has been around for thousands of years. Like tobacco and alcohol, it is a 'sinful' product that can regulated but never sucessfully outlawed. This is because while everyone can agree on regulating public behavior, most of us also agree that an individuals private behavior should be left alone. Most of us agree with this because we know that there will always be some variance with what the majority believes is acceptable behavior. Public behavior, like 2.4 children, is an artificial construct which is intended to adhere to the common beliefs of thousands of different cultural and religious biases and which can only be maintained in public.
Pornography is one form of proscribed behavior that most individuals will not admit to. The definition of what is obscene was sidestepped by the Supreme Court which could not come up with any measureable standards other than 'community standards'. Of course, defining community boundaries is always tricky. If I want to receive Playboy in the mail, do I check with my township, county, or state office to find out if it is permissible?
The Internet and cable TV have bypassed the community and delivered to everyone whatever they want. Other than insuring that the 'actors' are over 18 and that noone is actually injured, the industry can deliver whatever it wants and people now can make their own private decisions about what is acceptable. In other words, a free market.
The White House and Ashcroft are now about to position themselves against this free market, proving once again that they are social conservatives and not 'true conservatives' in the 'less government interference' sense.
I hope their contributors are watching and ask for refunds.
glatt Tuesday Apr 13 12:00 PM
Re: This is much better than the Bush version
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Originally posted by Nothing But Net Or should I say the anti-Bush version? Or is UT's the Bush version? Shit, I'm confused... Michael Moore is an ass, and your pic is sweeeet, UT! |
However, after looking at the Bush one for a while, I noticed that some of the faces were used more than once. So then I counted the "pixels" and saw that there were over a thousand faces. I don't know what the death toll is now, but it's less than the number of "pixel-faces" used to create the image of Bush.
So now I don't like the Bush image anymore. Even though there is some truth to it, it's deceptive. I hate deceptiveness.
ladysycamore Tuesday Apr 13 01:01 PM
Re: 4/10/2004: Gashcroft
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Originally posted by Undertoad And according to FBI officials, "nothing is off limits... even soft-core cable programs such as HBO's long-running Real Sex or the adult movies widely offered in guestrooms of major hotel chains." |
| "Ashcroft, a religious man who does not drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke, gamble or dance..." |
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| ""I think a lot of adults would say this is not what they had in mind, spending millions of dollars and the time of the courts and FBI agents and postal inspectors and prosecutors investigating what consenting adults are doing and watching." " |
| "Obscenity cases came to a standstill under Janet Reno, President Bill Clinton's attorney general, who focused on child pornography, which is considered child abuse and comes under different criminal statutes. The ensuing years saw an explosion of porn, so much so that critics say that Americans' tolerance for sexually explicit material rivals that of Europeans." |
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"In 2001, though, one interesting case emerged from St. Charles County, Mo., the heart of Ashcroft's conservative Missouri base. First Amendment lawyer Cambria defended a video store there against state charges that it was renting two obscene videotapes that depicted group sex, anal sex and sex with objects. Cambria won, convincing a jury of 12 women, all between the ages of 40 and 60, that the tapes had educational value and helped reduce inhibitions. They reached the verdict in less than three hours." |
| "Either way, Nguyen, father of a 2-year-old girl, and his co-workers spend their days scouring the Internet for the most obscene material, following leads sent in by citizens and tracking pornographers operating under different names. The job wears on them all, day after day, so much so that the obscenity division has recently set up in-house counseling for them to talk about what they're seeing and how it is affecting them." |
Yeah, I'm sure he and his co-workers are taking notes...
smalland Tuesday Apr 13 01:01 PM
Re: Re: This is much better than the Bush version
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Originally posted by glatt So now I don't like the Bush image anymore. Even though there is some truth to it, it's deceptive. I hate deceptiveness. |
Although, if you look at the Ashcroft image, it also contains duplicates! I can't imagine there's a shortage of porn images... So perhaps it's a feature of the software used?
Happy Monkey Tuesday Apr 13 01:33 PM
Yes, the software assigns a certain color value (or, for more advanced versions, a color pattern) for each component picture, then builds the target picture using those values.
I, for one, don't look forward to a time that we could remove the duplicates from the picture.
smalland Tuesday Apr 13 01:39 PM
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Originally posted by Happy Monkey Yes, the software assigns a certain color value (or, for more advanced versions, a color pattern) for each component picture, then builds the target picture using those values. |
It's also a relief to know that not all those images correspond to lost souls in real life...
jinx Tuesday Apr 13 01:46 PM
Here are the "real" souls.
xoxoxoBruce Tuesday Apr 13 08:06 PM
Glatt, now you've got me wondering if the picture of Bush, that was made up of asshole pictures, used repeats. I really don't want to check it that closely though.
Happy Monkey Tuesday Apr 13 08:32 PM
It did indeed. And some were most definitely not healthy.
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