Hey ho! I applied for a Canadian passport today. You know, they charge you 60\$ for one? So, if you want to leave the country because you aren't doing too well, you can't, 'cause you need money in the first place to get a passport! I mean, you'd think that they'd make a system that encouraged the poor people to leave Canada, and the rich people to stay, but *no~o~o~o~o*. Yeah, I have to go pick it up on the 10th.
 

OK, cue the fanfare!

O.o!: *blows half-heartedly into a trumpet*

O.o!: *no sound is heard*

Um, You might want to get a mouthpeice for that....-_-;

O.o!: Quiet, you.

That's *my* line!

Well, anyway...I now have a brand new home page! It's @
http://homepages.go.com/homepages/b/e/i/beidy/
hehe...and it has *frames*! Which are *pathetically* easy to make, which is somewhat disappointing, but oh well. The one thing that worries me is the part in the Terms of Use...or whatever, that says that all the stuff on the pages hosted by the Go.net *belongs* to the Go.net, unless the person who runs the site gets sued for it, or something, in which case it's then the person's property. That kind of worries me. (The only reason I was reading the Terms of Use document was 'cause I was trying to find out how much space I have...I'm now going to assume that I have unlimited space.) The good thing about that is I can put the most blatently offensive matterial I can find on my site, and as long as it isn't copyrighted, or if it is I disclaim it thoroughly, and Go.net won't take it down! That's my beef with other "family friendly" hosts...if you have anything on your site that's even *remotely* offensive to *anyone*...or if you badmouth Geocities, Angelfire, or whatever, they tear the site down on the pretense of letting the internet/server be a "friendly place for everyone". If you get caught, that is. Most sites don't get caught, but enough do.
 

For example, a couple of months ago there was a doujinshi image archive...a wonderfully extensive image archive....I think it had somewhere around--well, @ least a thousand, most likely more than that, beautifully drawn, nicely scanned doujinshi pages. (Doujinshi--Japanese fan-comics...like fan fiction meets fan art meets fan-zine...comic books, or mange, drawn by fans of a manga/TV show/movie/whatever, sold to other fans) The only thing was, most of the doujinshi focused on same-sex relationships--some of them *cough* quite graphic. It was a very thorough site, with warnings on, like, every single page, stating exactly what that page had on it. Like, if the page had two guys who were in love (with each other...), then the warning would say that that page contained two people of the same sex in a romantic relationship. Then, it would elaborate furhter by saying just how far their relationship goes (holding hands, kissing, screwing each other straigth through the mattress, etc.), whether there's any nudity in the dj, any blood or violence, and states the dj's "sex rating" and "mood rating". (Which told the person how explicit and how emotion-wrought that particular dj was, on a scale of 0 to 4. Like, a TV soap would probably get a mood rating of 4 and a sex rating of 2.) In addition to that, there was a big red warning on the front page, and big red warnings on series archive pages. I mean, unless the person's illiterate, or dumb enough not to read/heed warnings, you couldn't *possibly* be in that site unless you wanted to.

Then this mother found print-outs of the images on that site in her 13-year-old's son's room, and she got pissed @ *the site*! So she threatened to sue readygonet.com (which hosted the site), which lead to the shutting down of the site. (The mother later appologized to the web-master of the site, but it's still down, which is sad 'cause that place was a great place to see the differant styles of anime....I like, learned to draw anime from that site.)

Well, anyway, what I'm saying is, I can put hard gay porn on my site, and as long as I throw out a disclaimer, the site stays up! ^.^ Not that I'd put hard gay porn on my site....it's just the freedom to do so that makes me happy.

Yeah, and another thing, why don't porn sites put warnings on their pages? Ok, so if you go to one, you'd automatically see that it's a porn site, but still, if they have a front page that says "This is the hottest Sweedish porn site on the net." or something, I think people would, I don't know, make less of a big deal about the whole issue of 'porn'.

OK, I've said my bit. The only reason I sent this out to inform people of my home page (http://homepages.go.com/homepages/b/e/i/beidy/), and look what I ended up talking about. Porn. -_-;
 
 

~Beidy

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