Monthly Archives: July 2003

"Infoporn"

The current dataset (as of 2 PM) contains 2,104 answer sets (ie. 2,104 IAM members have filled out the survey so far). Below are some questions people had for the system (this will be publicly accessible later, and I will also release a slightly stripped down for privacy version that will include individual datasets). Sorry I couldn't answer them, my current search capability are a quick hack that's very limited in scope and power…

1. Goat asks, “How many people [on IAM] are religiously goth?”

Only four people selected that as their “religion”.

2. gorelord asks, “how many iam members are sxe, yet have trafficked drugs?”

Of straightedge IAM members (117), 14 (11.97%) have trafficked drugs, and of the ones who describe themselves as “militant” (14), 4 (22.22%) have trafficked drugs. By comparison, the average for all IAM members is 26.28%.

3. goddam asks, “how many people on iam wished they had bigger genitals and how many wished they had smaller genitals?”

324 people (15.4%) said they wish they had larger genitals, and 46 people (2.19%) said they wished they had smaller genitals.

4. kenoki asks, “I'd be interested to see the number of men vs. women who have had genital piercings.”

For males, here's the breakdown:
Prince albert - 255 (29.89%)
Ampallang or Apadravya - 106 (11.43%)
Dydoe - 9 (1.06%)
Frenum - 135 (14.56%)
Scrotal piercing - 101 (10.90%)
Guiche - 25 (2.70%)
Other male genital piercing - 58 (6.26%)

For women, here's the breakdown:
Horizontal hood piercing - 80 (6.93%)
Vertical hood piercing - 203 (17.59%)
Inner Labial piercing - 67 (5.81%)
Outer Labial piercing - 53 (4.59%)
Christina - 24 (2.08%)
Princess Albertina - 2 (0.17%)
Other female genital piercing - 35 (3.03%)

5. MiL0 asks, “I would like to know who thinks they're hotter than average?”

117 (5.56%) thought their face was much more atttractive than average, and 846 (40.21%) thought their face was more attractive than average. 48 (2.28%) thought their body was much more atttractive than average, and 411 (19.53%) thought their body was more attractive than average.

6. frank_prov asks, “how many feel their mods have effected them in a negative way”

That's a broad question, so I'll instead answer where some people feel they've been negatively treated:

Work (Job interview) - 835 (39.69%)
Work (quality) - 0103 (4.90%)
Work (Interactions with coworkers) - 425 (20.20%)
Work (Interactions with employer) - 510 (24.24%)
Work (Performance reviews) - 137 (6.51%)
Work (raises) - 140 (6.65%)
Work (Promotions) - 186 (8.84%)
School (fellow students) - 374 (17.78%)
School (teachers) - 495 (23.53%)
School (grades) - 46 (2.19%)
Family (parents) - 1120 (53.23%)
Family (siblings) - 272 (12.93%)
Family (extended family) - 758 (36.03%)
Friends (close) - 178 (08.46%)
Friends (social) - 352 (16.73%)
Authority figures (police, judges, etc.) - 619 (29.42%)
Retail sales staff - 724 (34.41%)
Restaurant service - 605 (28.75%)
Dating - 433 (20.58%)
Marriage - 43 (2.04%)

Not that it's a big surprise, but it's interesting to note that by a wide margin, the group most likely to give someone grief over body modifications is parents… That said, 199 (9.46%) said that their relationship with their parents was improved by their mods.

7. Boromir-_ asks, “How many on IAM smoke Marijuana regularly?”

Never - 1114 (53.38%)
Occasionally - 608 (29.13%)
Frequently (socially) - 144 (6.90%)
Frequently (privately) - 101 (4.84%)
Regularly, addicted - 120 (5.75%)

8. Terran asks, “how many people over 21 are sXe?”

On IAM, 50.21% of members are 21 or younger. When you limit that to members that identify as straightedge, that jumps to 63.7% being under 21 (which to me suggests that there's no real evidence of a “straightedge till 21″ phenomena).

9. joy asks, “Of those who've raped/murdered, what was the ratio of male: female?”

For males, 4 (0.43%) say they have committed rape, and 7 (0.76%) claim to have committed murder. For females, 4 as well (0.43%) say they have committed rape, but only 2 (0.17%) claim to have committed murder.

10. Finally, darkelvis asks, “how many IAM members have committed bestiality?”

65 (3.09%) say they have once, 41 (1.95%) say they have multiple times, and 3 (0.14%) say they still do…. 53 (2.52%) say that they never have but that they'd like to.

Survey

Thank you to everyone who's been answering the survey. Best “virtual $3038.33″ I've spent all year (the value of 1,823 extensions, in theory, although if I was going to be realistic the real number is about a quarter of that since at least three quarters of IAM has free accounts anyway)…

  MsAnal - Megasurvey Analysis Tool    Loaded 1,823 answer sets.  Loaded 12 pages of questions (282 questions with 2,967 reponses).  Please wait; parsing data..................  Found 483,630 answers and 30,456 prefer-not-to-answer responses.    0. Finish MsAnal  1. Show question results  2. Show question results, with limitation    Display question number (ie. 'Page-Question') --> 1-1  1,818 people answered that question (5 did not)    AGE    RESPONSE    NUM   %RAW%  WEIGHTED    0 - 10 - 0000 - 00.00% - 00.00%   11 - 12 - 0000 - 00.00% - 00.00%        13 - 0003 - 00.16% - 00.17% *        14 - 0004 - 00.22% - 00.22% *        15 - 0010 - 00.55% - 00.55% *        16 - 0053 - 02.91% - 02.92% ****        17 - 0087 - 04.77% - 04.79% *****        18 - 0177 - 09.71% - 09.74% **********        19 - 0200 - 10.97% - 11.00% ***********   20 - 21 - 0411 - 22.55% - 22.61% ***********************   22 - 24 - 0412 - 22.60% - 22.66% ***********************   25 - 30 - 0276 - 15.14% - 15.18% ****************   31 - 35 - 0100 - 05.49% - 05.50% ******   36 - 40 - 0048 - 02.63% - 02.64% ***   41 - 50 - 0027 - 01.48% - 01.49% **   51 - 60 - 0009 - 00.49% - 00.50% *   61 - 70 - 0000 - 00.00% - 00.00%   over 70 - 0001 - 00.05% - 00.06%  

Anyway, two items I wanted to mention. First is I think a very valid comment from Charley Reese about both the Constitutionality and the basic “common sense” of going to war (aka peacekeeping) in Liberia: Stay Out Of Liberia.

I also wanted to point out this story, Upping the ante for Kim Jong II, which discusses the strategy of how the US will engage North Korea without requiring Congressional or public support — basically by “legally” harassing North Korea until it's so desperate that it fires its missiles at either the US military or Japan. It's sort of like if you want to get in a fight with someone and you don't want to be charged, so you insult them until they hit you.

Doesn't seem like a good idea when you're dealing with a crazy country with a standing army of something like 6 million people… with nothing to lose, and potentially a small nuclear arsenal.

Connectivity

Someone appears to messing with a switch near me or something along those lines… IAM is going on and offline (the server is fine though), and when it comes on, all pending requests are hitting at once it seems, judging by my usage stats:

So… I apologize for the inconvenience but I'm pretty sure it's not something that's within my control.

Sweeping the clouds away

I'd mentioned that we rented a dumpster for BMEfest cleanup (and the house too). Anyway, this was the smallest one they had. It's half the size of a railway car. Pretty gigantic. That said, as it turns out we'd have overflowed a smaller one.

Other than that, the dumb dogs ran away a couple days ago and were then kidnapped. The old woman who lives across the street knew that there were two boxers that someone a half hour away reported missing a month ago, so when she saw our dogs down by her place she captured them and was about to return them to the wrong owners… we found out just in time!

Because they like to run away and are far too stupid to find their way home they have to be tied up when they're unattended — and before you say “Oh, Shannon, they're not that stupid… I'm sure they could find their way home…”, let me illustrate their brilliant escape plan.

That's right. It's not “gnaw on the leash”, “pull really hard”, or anything like that… It's the “let's dig a hole to China” style of dog logic. After walking around the tree until they had only little short leashes, they decided the only way out was down. It was an unsuccessful escape to say the least.

In the news, there's a strange back and forth going on between the White House and the intelligence community over these various claims made about Iraq that we now know are false (such as the WMDs, nuclear weaponry, al Qaeda ties; more, and so on). Bush has blamed the CIA, then told them he forgives them (more, more), then the CIA is saying that no, they did in fact inform him (more, more) along with many others backing them up (more), and then Bush scales it back to “this is silly, let's just move on!” But basically it looks like Tenet is going to play the patsy to keep Bush and the Cabal from being tried for treason as they should be. (Australia is playing the same game by the way; more)

I thought it was mildly amusing that Comical Ari's last day in office is Bastille Day (more). This story on the other hand, about another Camp X-Ray victim trying to hang himself after being kept in a small wire cage for a year and a half by the Americans, is not so amusing (more). This story about a trained assassin (”The Hunter”) stalking US troops in Iraq, however, smells like a hit movie (now that the Jessica Lynch movie has been cancelled)!

Chock full of lies.

PS. Keep an eye on Rumsfeld. He's dangerous. (more)

The Daily Show

Dunno if anyone got a chance to see this, but this is the final quote from Jon Stewart on last night's Daily Show. Carson Daily had been on the show, and was talking about putting his nose ring back in — he'd had it in high school, but MTV had forced him to take it out as a condition of hiring him (seriously). Anyway, here's what he said,

Carson [Daily] told me that at thirty you get a nose ring. At forty, the Prince Albert — I didn't realize that. (Ask your parents!)

Ah, it's nice to be mainstream after all these years!

Anyway I finished the survey, so hopefully by some time late tomorrow it will be posted as well as two new columns. I should also mention that anyone who fills out the suvey will get a free month of IAM time added to their account, and anyone who is currently expired will get a free month as well! (I really think it's important that we make this survey definitive — I have big plans for it that will help us all a lot I think.)

"You are a loser and it's such a shame   that you're a fool and you don't know!"

I did some work on BME/Risks this afternoon. I'm still horribly behind on it, but I'm finally starting to get caught up — I'm going to be fiddling with it and the glossary quite a bit now because I'm planning a 100% re-write of them soon:

Anyway, the following items have been added:
Bell's Palsy, Bloodborne Pathogens, Blood loss, Cancer, Ear Reconstruction, Enlarged nipples, Green soap allergy, Lobe Circulation, Loss of Hearing, Lymph Node Extraction, Numb Nipples, Shock, Tattoo Scars

I've also made changes and updates to the following items:
Boils, Epidural, Gum Recession, Ink Allergy, Keloids, Lidocaine Toxicity, Mastitis, Scrotal Infection, Self-harm, Shallow Industrial, Small Nipple Rings, Torn Lobe

People send a lot of stupid messages to me regarding the Risks section. Below are a giant pile of examples (about 70% of what I get are just questions — most that are already answered of course, 20% is crap like this, and 10% is positive feedback):

From: lilcutie7
Subect: infection Poletivine, Navel piercing

It is when you get ANYTHING pierced with a bad earing you will die. Die a slow and painfull death


From: booty
Subject: Regarding Keloids

this is so stupid. If someone wants to get there nose pierced like me let then dummie!!!


From: ROCKSTEADY434
Subject: Thinning

I THINK U ARE STUPID TO LET UR BODY TO KEEP GOING ON WITH INFECTOINS AND THE PAIN! YOU SOULD JUST TAKE IT OUT, I FIND IT UNATRACTIVE TO SEE THAT, AND ALSO THAT YOU SHOULD TAKE CARE OF IT, LET IT GET BETTER AND IF YOU REALLY WANT IT ,DO IT AGAIN AFTER IT IS HEALED AND DOES NOT HAVE A PUPLE INFECTION!


From: bonybob
Subject: Thinning

i think this is rediculoes and i think things like this should be band


From: Angelus Fate
Subject: Penis splitting related infection

Why the hell would anyone in their right mind want to do that?! What woman would want a guy with a dick that looked like that?! That's just nasty looking, and I'm sure it don't feel too good.

~Fate~


From: rocksteady434
Subject: Shallow industrial

no affence but after reading and seeing all the information i have today i think that u should complain and take out the peircing let it close or heal and then do it again for better or worse to be happy with ur self!


From: Joseph
Subject: Broken Dick

I want to know what to strike the penis so that I can break my penis with a hard blow during an erection in order the my penis to be broken and what cracking sounds like would be able to take sych risk so that i don't need medical treatment.

I want to break my dick like really bad I tried bending it back as far as I can wth all my might and try twisting it as hard as I can with all the strength I have so what do I do next stiking it real hard with a hammer of any kind signed risk taker.


From: milf169
Subject: Broken Dick

I was masturbating a few weeks ago and when I was getting out of the shower I lost my balance and planted my foot outside the shower and hit my penis straight on against the tile wall. I didn't hear a snap and I didn't get a lump or a bruise but my penis just can bend more when I have an erection, and it is more flexible. Please tell me what it is and or what I can do about it. Thank you.


From: devilmaycry321
Subject: Regarding Broken Dick

how u get your dick broken


From: susanne91770
Subject: Regarding Broken Dick

dumb asses, thats all


From: Morrgan
Subject: Tattoos, Parent Kicks Your Ass

Minor gets a piercing, tattoo, or other mod in a visible area. Parent notices mod; severely beats child. Other complications may include grounding and/or prompt and sometimes painful removal of jewelry by said parent.


From: dj poo masta
Subject: Poo risk

u will poo ur pants. then you will die of pooing ur pants. it will smell really bad when u poo ur pants.


From: KoCo
Subject: Penis splitting related infection

this is absolutly disgusting.Doesnt look like he will be getting any anytime soon.


From: Rabz2005
Subject: Penis splitting related infection

THATS THE NASTIEST THING I EVER FUCKING SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE AND TAKE IT OFF THE FUCKING NET IM SCARED FOR LIFE NOW!!!

I don't even know why I bother sometimes. I just hope that for every hundred idiot out there that think BME/Risks is a horrible idea that there's one person who gets helped by it in some way… Anyway, I'm sure there are horrible typos and perhaps even technical errors in these posts. If you spot some, or have feedback in general on anything in Risks, please submit it (via the forms on the Risks pages).

I'm goin' to hell! Who's comin' with me?

Well, I'm off to the gym… Yeah, I know it's early. The sun's not even up yet. But it was either that or wait till Monday and I'd rather do it now… plus it'll give me a full workday and I have a lot to do. I have a couple IAM things to tweak, and then I need to get a bit caught up with glossary and risks work.

Two pieces of news I'll mention:

  • Bush knew Iraq info was false (CBS) - The CIA has actually come out and said that Bush was informed specifically that the Niger nuclear claims were innaccurate. This coupled with Rumsfeld's statement that there was no new WMD intelligence on Iraq should make it clear that not only should Bush be impeached, but he should be tried for high treason and executed along with the rest of those bloodthirsty rich bastards.
  • 9/11 Reeport to be 'Explosive' (Miami Herald) - Rep. Tim Roemer, who was on the House Intel Committee, and has read the (uncensored version of the) report has said that it shows the government actively blocking any attempts to stop 9/11, and not only that, it directly ties in the Saudi Royal Family, close friends and business associates of the Bush family. Bush is actively fighting the release of the report since he (and the Cabal) are implicated in the crimes of 9/11.