I predict that 6 months after the first internet rating system is widely deployed, the largest use of search engines such as altavista will be to look for pages with the most "naughty" ratings. Perhaps such services will allow text searches for free, but charge for searches based on the rating tag... -- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.
In the mid-eighties in the UK they adopted the idea of a red triangle continuously displayed on the screen of movies shown on TV that were considered to have more than the normal share of wobbly pink bits, airborne blood, etc. Viewing figures for obscure 70's French movies shown at 1:30am soared as all the horny geeks sat through two hours of forest/eating/traffic or whatever scenes waiting for the 7 seconds of nudity. I'm sure that far more children saw these movies than would have without the government sponsored red flag with the words "Get It Here" being waved like crazy as the movie rolled. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Weller | "The Internet, of course, is more | than just a place to find pictures | of people having sex with dogs." stevenw@best.com | -- Time Magazine, 3 July 1995
On Sat, 9 Mar 1996, Steven Weller wrote:
In the mid-eighties in the UK they adopted the idea of a red triangle continuously displayed on the screen of movies shown on TV that were considered to have more than the normal share of wobbly pink bits, airborne blood, etc.
I seem to remember this being something Channel 4 introducted on there own to try and deflect criticism (and probably saved the station). Probably saved the station, and introduced a lot of people to the art of subtitles :-) Has anybody registered CrotchWatch as a trademark? Simon --- i gotta say this you're acting blameless you're making bucks like you're fucking shameless i'm coming hard it won't be painless coding styles of the rich and brainless
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