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Yesterday, the White House held a small briefing with health-care reporters to discuss the implications of the Supreme Court ruling. Unsurprisingly, the administration is thrilled with the outcome and expects implementation to continue.
There is one thing, however, senior administration officials do not expect: A big jump in the law's popularity before the 2012 election.
The reason largely has to do with the structure of the law. The biggest benefits do not roll out until 2014. That's when insurance companies can no longer deny access to coverage for any reason and Americans begin to get subsidies that make health insurance more affordable.
When that happens, later this decade and after the upcoming election, the same White House officials predicted the law will become more popular. Until then, they cautioned, no changes should be expected in how the public views it.
Polling has shown a long-standing public divide over the law pretty much since it passed over two years ago. The Kaiser Family Foundation polls on the favorability of the law each month and has generally found public opinion to be stagnant:
That's not to say the White House won't keep trying: Senior administration officials say they'll continue talking about the health-reform law. It will largely be framed as a discussion of what benefits Republicans would want to take away from the country. These are probably the benefits you've heard about before, such as extending young-adult coverage up to age 26 and ending co-pays for preventive care. That's what President Obama talked about in his Thursday speech after the Supreme Court ruling — and what you can expect him to continue discussing as we head toward November.
It's worth noting that some Democrats do think speeches like that will help make the law more popular in the short term.
"I think its going to get much more popular before the election, " Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told me in an interview yesterday. "People will start saying that the Supreme Court made the decision, and trying to understand how it will affect their family."
There is some historical precedence for this: One study in Political Research Quarterly found that, after the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, support for legal abortion rose, at least in the short term. That was especially true among those who were aware of the decision, as opposed to those who were not.


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From the "How come people don't like joy-killing, puritanical, pimples on the nether of humanity" file...
...another example.
The obligation to respect and tolerate doesn't include an obligation to be mocked, and when an atheist disingenuously invoked Thor and describes his beliefs as scientific and rational and religious belief as superstitious, it would take a very dim person - or a Bright - not to perceive the mockery.
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Rihanna & Drake Share Loving Embrace at Clippers Game
She had a fun-filled evening of sport at the Staples Center last night (April 9) and when all was said and done, Rihanna opted to turn in early.
The "We Found Love" singer arrived at her hotel following the Los Angeles Clippers vs. Oklahoma City Thunder game, looking snazzy in a zippered blue dress with red and yellow stripes teamed with Nike sneakers and gold jewelry.
At the game, Ri-Ri met up with her boyfriend Drake however they ended up sitting in different sections as she wanted to catch up with a gal pal and he brought a friend of his own.
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text: Understanding Net Neutrality and How it will Affect You Understanding Net Neutrality Effects on You! The concept of who can govern the rule of freedom and equality reminds so much of a quote by Alan Moore, "Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining." Recently, Internet service providers like Comcast, Verizon and Time Warner Cable went into a heated debate against the U.S government, Netflix and consumer groups, reveals first post. Why? They say that internet is a kind of highway, and platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Whatsapp are vehicles. So every time they travel on it, they are supposed to pay some toll tax. Not a very invalid statement. The head of Federal Communications Commission is proposing that Internet access has to be seen like a public utility, so it necessary to ensure that all websites and content creators be treated equally and there's no "pay-for-faster-play". FCC chairman Tom Wheeler says that the U.S must come forward and regulate Internet Service providers more closely who now have the power to play favorites when delivering legal content such as streaming video, online games or retail shopping. But as the highway rule goes, Internet Service providers are fiercely opposing this new move. Probably, freedom and equality are cheap thugs, just probably. This very principle of fairness is called net neutrality. And we the users are not big fans of this term. Before we proceed why we are biased towards this term, let's us first understand what it actually means. So, what is Net Neutrality? So now you are trying to buy a microwave from one of the ecommerce site or streaming the new season of Game of Thrones or just watching the latest video of Coldplay, your Internet Service provider would have to load all of these websites (irrespective of their own preferences) quickly. Broadband service provider are not creating a kind of tiered system where platforms have to pay "tax" to get the content to customers faster. The idea is that if sites don't pay toll on their own highway, they might observe a sharp decline in traffic, because failing to pay toll will result a website to load slower than others. This means that smaller businesses will forever loom in the shadows of mega budget businesses, thus making the ecosystem of enterprise society somewhat – disturbed. Internet service providers will obviously favor digital content produced by their affiliates unless rivals are more willing to pay. So? Now, there are three primary goals. Prevent Internet Service providers from blocking traffic on websites. Ban the practice of slowing down service for a commercial purpose Break the highway. There is no real time space here. This is space. No fast lanes. What's with Internet Service providers like Verizon, AT&T and Comcast? Major internet service providers refused to consider a plan for fast lanes and also insist that there is no need to alter the ways in which they are regulated. They consider that slowing down specific content on specific sites or blocking content isn't what they are after. However, they maintain that few companies take a lot of data, such as Netflix and YouTube, so they should bear the cost of handling such heavy traffic they generate. However, this step wasn't much appreciated by designers across the globe. Henna Ray, leading designer and blogger who has published dozens of thought-provoking blog posts and reports was cited as saying, "Good user engagement is all about interactive content, rather than traditional text-based content. So, with the limitations in the threshold of data, designers will force themselves to use inferior graphic elements in rising concepts such as infographics and ad posts. Thus, losing a lot of creative value for the sake of this so called ''Highway Rule". Such an old news though!!! Since 1996, the FCC has managed to keep the concept of "open internet", courtesy to Telecommunication Act. This was done with the intention to encourage competition in the telephone and cable industry. However, the glass was shattered by almost a weightless stone. President Barrack Obama and consumer advocates share same opinion over this chaos. They consider implementing Title II of 1934 Communication Act which was written some odd 8o years ago. This specific law wouldn't allow companies to charge unreasonable rates from services which are critical to society. …and smartphones? When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. Most of the users across the globe are most active on internet through smartphones. Be it to watch online video, play games, read or shop. The FCC estimates that as much as 55% of Internet traffic comes through mobile broadband networks. This means that services on mobile won't be blocked or go into ninja mode after being a tortoise, because it competes with an offering from the carrier. This specific proposal applies for app as well. In fact, the border lines has been extended to far-off companies. Rumors are that Verizon and AT&T are in development stage for a mobile payment system called Soft Card which blocks the access to rival payment apps such as Apple Pay. The last inch of us So what's there not to like about net neutrality? Internet service providers love the concept. But they don't want to fall under costly regulation and live with guilt that it will hurt the economy. This is what they say; the internet is having a perfect walk in the garden, thanks to many expensive investments in network upgrades and infrastructure. 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Come back to this page around 9pm PDT, on 5/10/2013. Opening act, Big E starts at 9pm, and the webcast will come online at some point during that set. You can open the player to full screen once it starts!
Jam Cruise 12 revealed its 2014 artist lineup last night on SiriusXM's Jam_ON. Watch the Jam Cruise 12 announcement video illustrated by resident artist David "LEBO" Le Batard.
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Life is for Living
Poem by: Kathleen Oakwood
Status: Finished
Genre: Religion and Spirituality
Life is yours, life is mine,
But we're running out of time,
If only we could see,
That it's love which sets us free,
A smile which cures it all,
Hands to protect a fall,
If only we could really know,
Ourselves and each other though,
We may not always get along,
Yet hear the ancestral call in song,
Whispering to us the answers we seek,
Trying to save us from our own defeat,
Then with our differences we may still,
Learn to love and not to kill,
Communicate and trust in good,
Do all to help we can and should,
Respect and honour each other's way,
That we may live in Peace some day.
© Copyright 2017 Kathleen Oakwood. All rights reserved.
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Dear Kathleen,
I enjoyed your poem and its clear message. Lasting peace may yet be far away, but it is a dream worth dreaming.
I did 8 years in the Navy myself, over here in 'the colonies.' I was a pusher on a submarine for four of those. I learned much about human nature and how precious life is.
We share the hope that we may be saved from our own defeat. Well-written. I liked it. // r.w.
Thank you so much for your comment Robert. I am glad that you liked it. Peace is indeed one of those things we can but dream about for now, but we can perhaps find a peace in other ways. Human nature is a funny thing; whilst it infuriates me, it teaches a lot, if we would but listen and learn. Here is to "hope" and lessons in life.
Thank you again. :)
I loved this poem. The meaning behind it is simply mesmerizing. I honestly feel the exact same way about this sort of thing. I wish sometimes that people could all be kind and loving. Destroy greed, and anger. Not holding grudges and witholding justice in the most truthful and honest of manners. I love this poem!
This was so beautiful, very emotional too, I liked it! My favourite line is, Learn to love and not to kill. If that could only happen. Anyways, thanks for a special moment!!!
This peom was amazing, so tue and i loved it. If i could i would give you a million i Liked it.
The flow of your words was true and beautiful.
~I wait upon that day,
when peace becomes,
the day in which we rejoice with praise~
Simply Beautiful.
Poignant message written in impeccable rhyme and rhythm. You nailed this.
The last line may sound to be a wishful thinking to most people or even to you.
But i got to say it is not. Believe it or not, but we WILL live in peace. Eternal peace. And that will be in a new heaven and earth. Not in this world we live in now. For this world has long been corrupted with the virus called Sin. And each one of us is infected. The reason real peace can never be achieved.
But good thing is as you said--we may still learn to love and not to kill, while here.
May you always have a peaceful heart no matter what:-)
Maria, though I am not a religious person per se, I am a Spiritually driven person. While I do not call it Sin, I do understand the point you try to make regarding it. We may be different, we may believe differently, have different labels for diferent things, but that is where our differences end. I thank you for your comment, and I appreciate that you took the time to read this. I think that you understand the message I was trying to give out, and that you understand the emotion behind it.
Thank you sincerely for this. May your life too, be peaceful and filled with all the joys that life can bring. All the best to you, friend,
A poem full of hopes.
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Feeling stretched? Keep reaching, says futurist David Houle. During the next 10 years, the best companies will grab the 21st century. They'll have to dare to be different. "Decade 2010 to 2020 is the transformation decade," Houle, author of "Entering the Shift Age," told IBD.
How to be the best firm of the year in 2030 and beyond:
• Bust out. "Pause and imagine 2100," Houle said. "Do you think that, in that year, your grandchildren or great-grandchildren will get the gas tank filled up to go to the mall to shop for stuff? Do you think they will get in a car all by themselves to drive one to two hours to go to a place of work at the same time everyone else does?"
Has your firm thought about how it will steer sales and staff when human habits change?
• Get a new vision. "We now have two realities we have to manage and live in: physical reality and screen reality," Houle said. "Screen reality is in an almost constant state of transformation. Physical reality, 20th-century reality, is changing much more slowly. In fact, much of the change in this physical reality is being triggered by screen reality and how it alters how we do and think about things."
• Mesh. Youngsters are already masters at blending screen and physical reality, Houle says. Microsoft (MSFT) leverages that sensibility by combining actual and virtual reality in its on-screen Bing maps.
"A couple of days after the disaster in Haiti, we had an earthquake map that showed before and after pictures from the sky," said Microsoft engineer Blaise Arcas.
• Where are we? Bust out of geographical limitations. Strategize how you'll click with like-minded folks all over the world. Pack those connections with meaning. "Place is no longer a restriction on our ability to communicate at will with people in any other place," Houle said.
• Get quick. When the Superdome's lights died during this month's Super Bowl, Oreo cookies (KRFT) tweeted an image of the chocolate sandwich treat framed by dark gray with the tag line, "You can still dunk in the dark." Ad firm 360i released the spot 10 minutes after the power went out. By the next day, it had been re-tweeted 14,000 times and garnered 20,000 likes on Facebook (FB), making it arguably the top Super Bowl ad of all.
Its creation depended on a sharp team ready for real-time ads. "The Oreo cookie tweet was both brilliant and an example of the way marketers will reach their audiences in the future," Houle said. "Marketing messages will be ever more immediate, personal and relevant."


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Deranged Weddings
Bereaved at birth,
losing a life-time.
Bolstered by those
who bred you.
Your life laid out,
precise and perfect.
Silver shinning cutlery
on an elegant table.
Expected to play
your part as a pawn.
A bargaining chip
at a banquet of business.
Your destiny dealt,
your soul spent
on an advantageous ally.
This meal, inhospitable, inhumane.
False dreams fed to you
every despairing day.
An afterthought, compassion
a ridiculous redemption.
And on that Judgement day,
you will smile and
flaunt false affection,
while tears trace your cheeks.
You've been handed,
this rugged, desperate desert,
and it you must tend
and make love flourish.
You will come to the day,
when your heavy, hardened heart,
will pass down the flawed favour
perpetuating the pain.
Weakened on your deathbed,
you heart once soft again,
you'll realise your faulted logic,
guilt your final feeling.


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Are Icons Christian imagery or idolatry as John of Damascus describes them?
I have been reading John of Damascus document at http://www.ccel.org/ccel/damascus/icons.html . I had been taught by my evangelical teachers that icons came into the Church because christians compromised the faith and allowed Roman emperors to add idolatrous practices into Church worship. Most all of us Bible believers know that "Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath"(Exodus 20:4 and similar to Deut 5:7-9)" clearly condemns uses of any images when worshipping God of the Bible. So this practice has to be against God's revealed will. After reading John's exposition here, I am starting to find some problems with our belief and wondering if others might have some insights on this topic please?
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> Historically, from reading the message by John of Damascus above, it is clear that he was most concerned about godliness and was actually speaking in fear of emperor's powers, since the emperors had crushed forcefully any use of icons in Church for what seems like about 100 years. How can I believe it was the emperors who forced use of icons into the body of Christ, when it is obvious historically that they actually were forcefully disallowing icons at that time, rather than promoting it. And, it was actually Bible believing Christians, like John, who in fear and trembling in the manner of Esther, presented what seems like a strong Biblically Christian basis for the holiness of icons in worshipping God, to emperors and for the benefit of other believers? That is fairly obvious from reading the 1st few humble hearted introductory paragraphs.
Most important, his amazing and moving Biblical exposition pointed out certain passages I had never heard of in the same context before:
Abraham offered worship to a couple of ungodly men in Gen. 23:7 (cf Acts 7:16). Jacob worshipped (proskuneo) his brother Esau and Pharao, the Egyptian, but on the point of his staff. (Gen 33.3). Josue and Daniel worshipped an angel of God; (Jos 5.14) I looked up the Greek version of the Old testament and found the greek word used in Genesis and other places were "proskuneo" (strongs 4352) meaning literally or figuratively to prostrate oneself in homage (do reverence to, adore):--worship.
Now, I am also noticing that if our interpretation of Exodus 20 is right, why does God command the faithful to make graven images of cherubim to cover the mercy seat where God "would meet men"? Can read the whole beautiful chapter of Exodus 25, but from just the following verses it seems John was right that God only condemns certain forms of graven images that promote idolatry and never condemned believers' use of artistic imagery of heavenly things in the midst of our worship:
"18 And you shall make two cherubim (winged angelic figures) of hammered gold on the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub on each end, making the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat, on the two ends of it. And the cherubim shall spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, facing each other and looking down toward the mercy seat. 21You shall put the mercy seat on the top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you. There I will meet with you and, from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim that are upon the ark of the Testimony, I will speak intimately with you of all which I will give you in commandment to the Israelites."
How can I explain the fact that God would meet with us in the midst of such "idolatrous icons" as we call them when God calls us to use certain imagery in the very Word of God? Do we not all agree what God said about these "that thou make all things according to the pattern which was shown thee on the Mount." (Heb. 8.5; Ex. 25.40)"? Obviously God condemns any form of idolatry, but based upon these passages alone, it seems that he does reserve one form of worship for himself while allowing reverence even in the midst of such icons in the Bible, since it was made exactly as Moses was shown on the Mount by God himself.
What am I missing here (besides a few loose marbles :-)? In the most convincing words of John of Damascus: "We have passed the stage of infancy, and reached the perfection of manhood. We receive our habit of mind from God, and know what may be imaged and what may not. The Scripture says, "You have not seen the likeness of Him." (Ex. 33.20) What wisdom in the law-giver. How depict the invisible? How picture the inconceivable? How give expression to the limitless, the immeasurable, the invisible? How give a form to immensity? How paint immortality? How localise mystery? It is clear that when you contemplate God, who is a pure spirit, becoming man for your sake, you will be able to clothe Him with the human form. [HOWEVER]When the Invisible One becomes visible to flesh [Incarnation of God in the flesh (John 1:14)], you may then draw a likeness of His form. When He who is a pure spirit, without form or limit, immeasurable in the boundlessness of His own nature, existing as God, takes upon Himself the form of a servant in substance and in stature, and a body of flesh, then you may draw His likeness, and show it to anyone willing to contemplate it. Depict His ineffable condescension, His virginal birth, His baptism in the Jordan, His transfiguration on Thabor, His all-powerful sufferings, His death and miracles, the proofs of His Godhead, the deeds which He worked in the flesh through divine power, His saving Cross, His Sepulchre, and resurrection, and ascent into heaven. Give to it all the endurance of engraving and colour. Have no fear or anxiety; worship is not all of the same kind. " [bracket content mine]
John was clear of what he believed about the invisible God: "I believe in one God, the source of all things, without beginning, uncreated, immortal, everlasting, incomprehensible, bodiless, invisible, uncircumscribed, without form. I believe in one supersubstantial 5being, one divine Godhead in three entities, the Father, the Son, and the Holy [Spirit], and I adore Him alone with the worship of latreia. I adore one God, one Godhead but three Persons, God the Father, God the Son made flesh, and God the Holy Ghost, one God. I do not adore creation more than the Creator, but I adore the creature created as I am, adopting creation freely and spontaneously that He might elevate our nature and make us partakers of His divine nature." It is obvious that John of Damascus has no intention of lowering God away from His supernatural indescribable position and provides a wonderful declaration of God's supernatural indescribable nature in the limits of human words.
Also, he says something I had not realized but does make a lot of sense and that is that every time we hear God's word describe the indescribable God, we obviously make some sort of mental images, but none of us condemns mental imagery, although imperfect they obviously are often:
"visible things are images of invisible and intangible things, on which they throw a faint light. Holy Scripture clothes in figure God and the angels, and the same holy man (Blessed Denis) explains why. When sensible things sufficiently render what is beyond sense, and give a form to what is intangible, a medium would be reckoned imperfect according to our standard, if it did not fully represent material vision, or if it required effort of mind. If, therefore, Holy Scripture, providing for our need, ever putting before us what is intangible, clothes it in flesh, does it not make an image of what is thus invested with our nature, and brought to the level of our desires, yet invisible? A certain conception through the senses thus takes place in the brain, which was not there before, and is transmitted to the judicial faculty, and added to the mental store."
So, would evangelicals have a hard time accepting John of Damascus' exposition here as the word worship must be put in context of different degrees of "worship". One kind is ONLY FOR GOD AND NONE ALONE, but other kinds of "worship" are more bowing down in reverene like Abraham did, and much lower forms of "worship", no where near the way believers would use towards Christ or any member of the Holy Trinity? In John's words:
"Worship is the symbol of veneration and of honour. Let us understand that there are different degrees of worship. First of all the worship of latreia, which we show to God, who alone by nature is worthy of worship. When, for the sake of God who is worshipful by nature, we honour His saints and servants, as Josue and Daniel worshipped an angel, and David His holy places, when be says, "Let us go to the place where His feet have stood." (Ps. 132.7) Again, in His tabernacles, as when all the people of Israel adored in the tent, and standing round the temple in Jerusalem, fixing their gaze upon it from all sides, and worshipping from that day to this, or in the rulers established by Him, as Jacob rendered homage to Esau, his elder brother, (Gen. 33.3) and to Pharaoh, the 14divinely established ruler. (Gen. 47.7) Joseph was worshipped by his brothers. (Gen. 50.18) I am aware that worship was based on honour, as in the case of Abraham and the sons of Emmor. (Gen. 23.7) Either, then, do away with worship, or receive it altogether according to its proper measure."
I have searched all over the web and the main argument I find among us evangelicals against John's godly use of icons seems to be the same verses he clearly showed us in context to be differentiating between godly icons and ungodly idolatrous graven images so far. Appreciate any thoughts or links that would help shed light on the subject of John's understanding of icons here.
humbly in His service,
Some things I think may provide clarity...
1) Confusions in the English language. "Worship" has a double meaning: a) to bow down in front of; b) to praise and exalt. The worship of idols / statues has never been encouraged in the bible, that I know of. However, I believe the worship offered towards Joseph, others was of a limited fashion. For example, we are to serve our employers (new testament says "masters"), but not to the same extent that we serve our Lord -- also provided, we were never to serve idols.
2) What is the difference between a statue and an idol? I would say, a statue is simply a work of art. An idol, however, is a statue that is also prayed unto, sacrificed to, praised, worshipped, and sang songs unto. Now then... when high priests sacrified unto YHWH, did they sing & praise the Ark of the Covenant / praise cherubim -- or, was it unto the invisible YHWH? If they did not worship the Ark of the Covenant DIRECTLY, then there was no idolatry.
Hope this helps-


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I was raised with the discipline of dance. Leaving dance as an adult
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Figures and trees
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Trained in art at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), Felice
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Small works, measuring 20 x 20 or so, illustrate a similarly rich
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"They're a challenge," she says of commissions. "You know, you can't
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When it comes to online video sites, YouTube is the big kahuna. It arguably started the whole video-sharing revolution that's been picked up by sites all over.
Last week, though, I read an interesting story. Wendy Seltzer's, a former lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (and founder of the Chilling Effects project), had put up a short clip from the Super Bowl. Not of the game, but of the NFL's copyright notice.
Even to a non-lawyer, what Seltzer did was clearly fair use. She's a lawyer specializing in copyright commenting on copyright. But the NFL — the same folks who demanded that churches not have Super Bowl parties and who are claiming to own the trademark "the Big Game"— saw otherwise.
It demanded that YouTube remove the video, invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. YouTube removed it. Seltzer filed a counter-notification with YouTube, pointing out that her clip was fair use. YouTube restored it, but then the NFL — rather than taking the issue to court, as the law requires — filed a duplicate takedown notice with YouTube. And YouTube automatically removed it again.
I won't get into the legal details here, because Seltzer does a fine job. What interested me was how quickly YouTube bowed to the NFL's demands, and what that means for its future.
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There's a good part of me that wonders how long YouTube (and other video-sharing services) will be with us.
An untold number of websites now sport video, either as part of a video blog, or to illustrate something, or just to share a funny tidbit. That video is stored and served by YouTube and its kin, even though it appears to be on those individual sites.
But YouTube's popularity is also the reason it can't last long in its current incarnation.
The reason for that popularity is simple: It allows people to share enormously high-bandwidth content, free. With most Web-hosting plans setting bandwidth limits (or charging for use over a certain amount), YouTube is an incredible convenience.
In exchange for having a translucent YouTube logo at the bottom, anyone can have as many videos as he wants hosted gratis. Google (which bought YouTube) pays for storage, bandwidth, backup, and so on. What's not to like?
A few things actually.
The videos on YouTube and other free video-hosting services are first generation. They're small, mediocre-quality files that are certainly good enough to see the action, but that's about it. In a world that's moving toward large screens and high definition, it's decidedly low end.
For now, though, the low cost outweighs the low quality. As I've written before, you don't always need high-end, professional production to be powerful and popular.
But now won't last forever. Eventually users will want better quality. Better quality means more bandwidth. More bandwidth means more expense, and eventually YouTube will have to make money.
There are a limited number of ways to do that.
Two roads diverge
First, keep in mind that YouTube serves two different markets. There are the people who visit YouTube.com to view, rate, and comment on videos, and there are the people who use YouTube to embed videos on their own sites.
The former are the most likely sources of revenue for YouTube. They can easily be shown ads and their demographic information can be collected, for starters.
The latter, on the other hand, are more of a drain on YouTube's resources. Luckily, some of those "embedders" are using YouTube to host their own content, so they're giving back— they're providing YouTube with the content it needs.
YouTube spends a ton every month on bandwidth alone; conservative estimates range from $1.2 million and up. Embedders aren't helping offset that.
The easy way for those embedders to be profitable for YouTube (or any video service) is to have ads run at the beginning of everyone's videos. But once that happens, the dynamic changes as users have to make a choice.
Right now, the video-hosting alternatives are all free and easy, so there's no incentive to switch. The popular sites stay popular. But if and when free video hosting stops being free, that changes. Then there's something to compare.
Some users will stick with YouTube because they're comfortable using it. They'll either deal with having ads or they'll pay whatever other price there is — maybe a monthly fee for having ad-free videos.
But others will start to compare the options. After all, the services are the same; video is standardized, so what comes from YouTube is the same as what comes from Revver or Yahoo Video or whatever.
Thus, once the free ride is over, video-hosting services will start differentiating themselves. Some will have ads, some will charge (or offer different plans). Some will allow longer videos, or R-rated content, or whatever.
Which leads us back to the elephant in the room — copyright. All these video services are run out of the U.S., where draconian and poorly understood copyright laws are squelching content.
Looking elsewhere
Seltzer's Super Bowl clip is just one example. Despite the law, YouTube bent over backwards in favor of the NFL. And it has been the target of copyright enforcers for all sorts of media companies, taking down hundreds if not thousands of videos.
I'm not talking about entire episodes of shows, which should come down. I'm talking about things like mashups — creative combinations of shows like " Dr. Who and the French Dalek." Or those who use copyrighted content in legitimate, fair-use ways, such as Seltzer did.
And there's one kind of competitor that can eat YouTube's (and Yahoo's and MySpace's) lunch: foreign ones. Other countries don't have the restrictions we do here; that's why The Pirate Bay, the ultimate source of links to music, movies, software, etc., operates with impunity... out of Sweden.
Mashups and other mixes aren't going away. And as more and more artists start mixing and mashing content, they'll look to find a place that won't take their work down at the drop of a corporate hat. And the chances of that being YouTube, or any other service beholding to U.S. laws, is limited.
Video-sharing is great — today. But tomorrow looks to be different. With users bound to want more, with companies needing to pay the bills, and with lawyers champing at the bit, the future for the market doesn't seem quite so rosy.
Andrew Kantor is a technology writer, pundit, and know-it-all who covers technology for the Roanoke Times. He's also a former editor for PC Magazine and Internet World. Read more of his work at kantor.com. His column appears Fridays on USATODAY.com.
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Okay, this is the school I saw in my vision; hopefully it can help me get my memory back. My purple eyes are searching the faces of my fellow students of Eclipsing Sun Academy. Each face is different. Some have the same pale skin; they're the vampires. I push an electric blue curl out of my eyes. Yep, this definitely the place. I remember the building from my vision.
My ability isn't just vision but I can also read minds, control electricity and… and… something else that I once had that I don't anymore. Oh, I can't remember what. Man, this amnesia thing is bloody annoying. Why can't I remember? What's wrong with me? What happened? 'New girl, hmm, wonder what she can do?' 'What's she looking at?' 'Back at this shit hole again.' 'What the hell is up with her hair?' 'That new girls eyes are really creepy.' Great, my first day and people already think I'm weird. And to make things worse, I'm getting a migraine!
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I'm now walking straight for her, using my electricity power to push away people who are in my way. Taking no notice at all about their reactions, I speed up my pace as the tanned skinned girl got closer to the building. Damn it, I'm not going quick enough! She's now a couple of steps away from standing on the stone steps.
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INDISCRETIONS ~ When you have two lovers, life is never simple.
Viscount, Lucerne Marlinscar, never wants to choose between his lovers—Vaughan, the Marquis of Pennerley and Miss Bella Rushdale—thus he is caught in the middle of a constant tug o' war as the pair battle for his affections both publically and privately.
However, considering the effort Vaughan and Bella pour into tormenting one another, Lucerne's beginning to wonder if it's not he who is the outsider in their relationship.
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Both she and Lucerne were now eyeing him like he was some sort of meal they planned to devour. They'd each convinced him that they weren't in league over Lucerne's impromptu departure from the recital, but there was no mistaking that they were plotting something together now.
Impatient to learn what, Vaughan steepled his fingers before him. He turned his dark gaze first on Bella and then on Lucerne. "You had better speak plainly, or you're both going to be sorely disappointed over whatever it is you think to embroil me in."
Bella's eyes widened slightly. He didn't believe her innocence. Lucerne's chin grew more pointed as he clenched his teeth.
"What do you want?" Vaughan asked. Some manner of truce or permission to spend time alone without me, he imagined. Though heaven knows why they were troubling him with it. They could have spent the entire day tupping and he wouldn't have known.
"You," they replied in unison.
The words sent a jolt through his chest. His heart sped a little even as he continued to gaze on them in wary silence.
"Spend the night—"
"—and the day with us, Vaughan."
"Tell us what to do."
"How to please you."
This was wrong in so many ways. He thought he preferred it when they were begrudging his presence and branding him some sort of demon for not allowing them any space in which to grow together. This smacked too much of deceit. They were trying to get him to lower his guard before attacking. Leastways, he believed that of Bella. He wasn't nearly so sure about Lucerne.
"Do you expect me to believe that's what you both actually want? Me? Together?"
"It's the truth, Vaughan," Lucerne replied, while Bella dipped him a curtsey. He supposed he was vaguely willing to believe it, although there was definitely some purpose behind it beyond affection or lust.
"What are you reading?" Bella picked up his book before he had a chance to put a hand down on top of it. Her mouth fell open in surprise, one that quickly transformed into delight at the illustration revealed. "Lord Pennerley, what sort of book is that to be perusing in broad daylight?"
"A perfectly filthy one, I should imagine if your expression is anything to go by." Lucerne sidled up behind her. Hands resting lightly, yet possessively upon Bella's shoulders, he leaned forward to glimpse the image so that his blond hair flopped over his eyes, partially hiding the delight that flickered there.
Vaughan's lips thinned in bemused silence. If they imagined they'd embarrass him, then they were sadly mistaken. He had no qualms about his sexuality, or what he liked. It was simply a shame the rest of society wasn't so open. "Maybe we should try it," he suggested. If they were so keen on gaining his attention and pleasing him, then they'd best be prepared to indulge some of his kinks.
Bella's head came up immediately, an unvoiced gasp upon her lips. Lips he'd kissed so hard that they were still rather ruddy and certainly a little tender even now.
Lucerne fixed him with an uneasy frown. He took a stiff pace backwards, suddenly defensive. "Who exactly do you envisage being in the middle?"
Vaughan laughed. "Not so game for my affection now, Lucerne? You disappoint me. I thought you were more open than that."
Defensively, Lucerne poured his tall frame into one of the library's narrow wingback chairs, where he folded his arms across his lap. "Open is one thing. I am however no acrobat. I don't think I could hold that position for more than forty seconds, let alone sustain it with a cock in my mouth, breasts enveloping me and a lit candle anywhere near my arse."
A bright image of peeling creamy blobs of hardened candlewax from off Lucerne's belly, his buttocks and groin, played inside Vaughan's head. Had he never punished him so? The thought of introducing Lucerne to such delights enchanted him. Lucerne would protest, claiming pain didn't excite him, but the truth was it aroused him far more than he cared to admit.
Besides, denial of any kind had always acted like a drug upon Vaughan. "Another time, perhaps," he muttered. "What about you, Bella?"
Bella rubbed at her cheeks, which had turned a gaudy shade of scarlet at the mere suggestion. Her reply rolled out of her unevenly. "The person at the centre is clearly a man, which I am certainly not. So I couldn't possibly take such a position, even if it were in the bounds of possibility to do so. Are there not any more sensible arrangements in this tome of yours?" She flicked over several pages, her eyes growing rounder and hungrier over each successive image. "What is this?" she demanded.
Vaughan retrieved the book with its leather unmarked binding from her and returned it to shelf behind a locked glass door. "It's privately published, circulated only to a select few connoisseurs." On another occasion he might allow her to study it further. For now, he preferred to preserve its secrets in favour of more mundane pleasures. "About your proposition—I would suggest that we find somewhere more comfortable, but I do find that discomfort can be equally, if not more satisfying, can it not, Lucerne?"
"I wouldn't know."
"Oh, you know, Lucerne. You know exactly how much you like to be made to squirm." Lucerne shook his head. "I think you're mistaking me with Bella. What I like is straightforward. It's less about dominance and more about enjoyment."
"Are you saying you don't like what I do to you?" Vaughan sallied forwards, stopping when his knees were level with Lucerne's and a mere fraction of an inch divided them. He braced his hands on the arms of the chair and leaned over Lucerne, so that their eyes met on a level. Their gazes locked.
"Haven't you punished me enough?"
"I'll never punish you enough. It stokes the fires in the very pit of my soul to see you writhing in ecstasy beneath me."
"That's not what we came here for."
Vaughan turned his head at the same time as Lucerne to glance at Bella.
"Can't we really be together for once, Vaughan? I mean really together. Without the posturing and pettiness. Won't you lie down and let us make love to you—together?"
"Why not?"
"You know why. It can never be." He would never lower his guard and let them both press close to him at once. Alone they tested him, shredded all his restraints, which left him feeling exposed and vulnerable. Together they would flay him, expose every particle of his being right down to the core. He would never risk it. Could never risk it. Besides, it would upset the balance of the relationship. Lucerne had to remain central. He was the pivot; all this revolved around him. "You know I think I might go to Darleston House alone."
"No, don't." Bella stepped forward. She lay a hand upon his chest. It was not enough to prevent him moving; it was barely any sort of pressure at all. Still he remained frozen, watching her, waiting as she slowly moistened her pink lips. "Lucerne is right. It doesn't always have to be hard between us. It hasn't always been so. Don't you remember the first time? I remember how you both moved inside of me. How we were all one and in perfect agreement. Will you not join us all together again like that?"
Let her be central. Let her be the pivot. That was what she was asking. Nay, pleading. He saw it in her eyes. She didn't want to be on the outskirts of their relationship looking in. She wanted to be loved by both of them in equal measure. In short, she desired everything to be about her, rather than about Lucerne, whom both she and he loved.
Bella's hand left his chest and pushed upwards into the dark strands of his hair. On tip-toes she leaned into him, offering herself up to him. Vaughan allowed her to graze his lips with a kiss. He caged the growl in his throat, not for her, but because Lucerne was watching his every nuance.
"For me," Lucerne mouthed.
At what price? Vaughan didn't speak. The communication between them passed in silence.
I'll give you everything you desire, later. All you have to do is go along with this now, for me and for her.
The stubborn, prideful part of him wanted to disagree. It wasn't that he didn't desire Bella. He did. Admission of desire was not something he had any reservations about. He simply didn't like the implied subtext of taking part. Just because they came together as a threesome, didn't…wouldn't make them whole. But if Bella, nay Lucerne wanted to believe that it did, then he would let them have their fantasy—at least for a little while.
"William," Vaughan hollered. The footman immediately appeared from the hallway."Make sure that no one comes in. We'll be busy for a little while."


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