Interesting Links for 29-08-2013

[andrewducker]

• Generational shift in attitudes among young soccer players towards gay teammates
  (tags: uk football sport lgbt )
• Syria: what do Liberal Democrats want?
  (tags: libdem syria )
• The Middle East, explained in one (sort of terrifying) chart
  (tags: middle_east )
• Isaac Asimov's 1964 predictions for 2014.
  (tags: asimov thefuture predictions )
• Will we ever

Comments

[bart_calendar]

Yes we will eventually fuck robots.

Any and all interactive technology is eventually used to cause orgasms.

And the first company to deploy decent sex robots will be the company that is the dominant company in the robot business.

Remember back when Blu-Ray had competition and nobody was sure which HD shiny disk format was going to win?

As soon as Blu-Ray locked up the contracts with the major porn companies they won so strongly that I can't even remember what their competitor was called.

Remember back when there were Beta tapes and VHS tapes? Beta was actually better - but the people who built the VHS format made all the initial contracts with the porn studios and Beta died.

[bart_calendar]

To say nothing of the fact that high speed broadband access pretty much became a thing because people wanted to watch porn without a ton of buffering.

[andrewducker]

I'm sure that there are now people out there with a fetish for judderiness :->

[bart_calendar]

There is actually a site for that!

http://slowloadingporn.com/

[strawberryfrog]

> Yes we will eventually fuck robots.

If you count a plastic phallus with adjustable speed motor, then we've been there for a long while.

[bart_calendar]

ha!

[danieldwilliam]

Only if they want to fuck us.

[theweaselking]

Remember back when Blu-Ray had competition and nobody was sure which HD shiny disk format was going to win?

As soon as Blu-Ray locked up the contracts with the major porn companies they won so strongly that I can't even remember what their competitor was called.

HDDVD. And for a while HDDVD was winning hands down, because Blu-Ray *didn't allow porn* while HDDVD was handing HD cameras to porn studios.

In a "has never happened before" move, Sony changed their minds and decided to not fuck their own format to death, and eventually won because Sony is huge and could throw more money at the problem.

(Betamax, by the way? Also Sony. And prohibited porn, because Sony.)