Another Reason For Hands Free Cell Phone Use?

I came (no pun intended) across this article during lunch. I guess its true. Attach enough dollar signs to something and it will become acceptable. The part I find particularly disturbing? The apparent rise of the medium on cell phones. Another avenue to deliver it to those who really don't need it, like oh, text-happy teenagers?

"Juniper Research analyst Windsor Holden estimates consumers around the world will spend $1.8 billion on cell-phone porn this year. He thinks that will grow to $4 billion by 2012. Strategy Analytics, another research firm, forecasts the mobile-adult-services market will reach $5 billion worldwide by 2010. Holden chalks it up in part to the cell phone's "anytime, anywhere" availability."

Given the fact that cell phones have lead to a revamping of certain rules of etiquette, I can only imagine some of the questions that will arise from this. "Is it ok to download porn while at Aunt Hattie's funeral?" A: "Yes, as long as you don't have the sound turned up on the money shot."

"The mobile phone affords the user of mobile adult services the opportunity for privacy, which many users may find attractive," Holden says."

Just like all those 'private' conversations that we are treated to in virtually every public setting today. Yeah, I'm really diggin' this brave new world. Who cares if the thoughtless teenage knucklehead just let loose with a litany of curses in front of your three year old? Just try explaining the Jenna Jameson clip he just exposed both your pre-teen children to. Pull the other one, jackass. It plays 'Jingle Bells'.

"Private Media says its content is available to more than 745 million cell-phone users in 33 countries via 78 operators, and it expects big growth. "We think that wireless will be an explosive top-line revenue opportunity for the simple reason that the cell phone is the ubiquitous device in the world," Cohen says."

We smell money. Screw every other consideration.

"Consumers aren't just looking at pictures, watching video and downloading naughty ring tones or video games. "Adoption is really rising rapidly in Europe, and one of the key drivers is video chat," says Holden. Several services provide one-on-one video chat with models for $3 a minute, he says, and the average length of the chat is six to seven minutes."

Yeah, standing in line at the Safeway and hearing someone's purse going "OOOOHHHHH! OOOOOHHHHH! OOHHHHHHH!!!" in a rising crescendo because of their incoming (no pun intended) call. As for the average chat being six to seven minutes, I guess that should go a long way towards shattering some people's expectations about the act itself. Of course no one will care. They'll all be calling these lines on their phones.

"Compared with Europe, U.S. demand has lagged because high-speed data connections aren't as prevalent and carriers are more reluctant to offer cell-phone porn. But Cohen thinks the rollout of faster data service in the U.S. and better age-verification systems will change that. "As those two obstacles get worked out, we see enormous upside," he says."

Ok, I'm a Verizon shareholder, and I do not believe for a minute that any carrier will be reluctant to offer any $ervice that might bring in the dollar$. I suppose I shouldn't be cursing the slow connections any more. The enormous upside I can contemplate is reading the police reports from some of the new accidents being caused by people on their cell phones.

Pink Swastikas to Boy Scouts: Allow Gay Membership or Lose Meeting Place

The gay lobby and its sympathizers continue to demand that an American institution based on bedrock principals change to meet the "new" morality of anything goes. My pal, Darth Bacon, a resident of Philthydelphia brought this to my attention a while back, but I saw this story tonight, and felt that it was comment worthy.


From the A. P.:

PHILADELPHIA - The city may require the Boy Scouts of America's Cradle of Liberty Council to affirm that it will not discriminate against openly gay people or else lose its rent-free headquarters.

Kinda reminicent of the gays who keep trying to tell the Pope that he has to change and accept them they way that they are.

The City Council passed a resolution Thursday that City Solicitor Romulo L. Diaz Jr. said was a last step needed to end the Scouts' lease under a 1928 ordinance that leased the land to them in perpetuity.

You must conform! You must! Gay is good!

Jeff Jubelirer, a spokesman for the Cradle of Liberty Council, said any decision probably would involve the leadership of the scout's National Council, and he did not know how scout officials would react.

What dispute? A decades-old organization based on Christian principals that used to have the support of the body politic in an era when character, not public deviance used to be a civil priority has refused to compromise itself so that deviants can participate in the Boy Scouts without the guilt that comes from a lifestyle choice that is contrary to the principals of the organization. Why start your own your own organization like the Gay Scouts of America, with merit badges in Interior Design, Anonymous Gay Sex, and of course, Stooping to Any Low to Force "Acceptance" by Everyone Else in the World.

The Supreme Court ruled in 2000 that as a private group, scouts have a First Amendment right to bar gays from membership. The Cradle of Liberty Council adopted a nondiscrimination policy in 2003 but was ordered to revoke it by the National Council, which said local councils had no right to deviate from national rules that bar participation by anyone who is openly gay.

Nothing like a local chapter going of the reservation to cater to the Intolerant Scions of Tolerance. Paging the Anglican Church, Paging the Anglican Church!

Jeff Jubelirer, a spokesman for the Cradle of Liberty Council, said any decision probably would involve the leadership of the scout's National Council, and he did not know how scout officials would react.

Because the National Council will yank their charter so fast, they'll be let naked and cold before they have any idea what is going on.

The Supreme Court ruled in 2000 that as a private group, scouts have a First Amendment right to bar gays from membership. The Cradle of Liberty Council adopted a nondiscrimination policy in 2003 but was ordered to revoke it by the National Council, which said local councils had no right to deviate from national rules that bar participation by anyone who is openly gay.

I imagine that Sir Baden Powell is waiting for his opportunity to lead these fine "scouts" on a "special" hike, if you know what I mean.