"There have been no conclusive studies linking prolonged cell phone use to cancer, however anecdotal evidence would seem to suggest that there is a correlation. "

Actually, your wrong; there have been studies, and though I'm not one for conspiracy theories, every so often you DO hear quick news flash stories about all this,  like how so and so many increased many people have gotten brain tumors from prolonged cell phone usage and how a lot more cops than anyone else have been diagnosed with prostate cancer due to keeping their radar guns propped between their legs and so on and so forth.

They seem to hush this stuff up rather quickly for some reason, probably because no one likes to hear about how our wonderful technology we all seem to need so much and enjoy so immensly might actually be in any way, shape or form bad for us too.

Common sense logic would dictate all this magnetic field we're subjected to day in and day out must have some affect on us, but who cares, it's necessary and fun!

Just try to get folks to NOT use for example, cell phones! Hahahaha!! Imagine the rampaging stampede of protesters!! Now imagine crackberries being taken away!!

Just two hefty examples.

Utter MAYHEM and CHAOS there would be if we were to somehow have all this taken away or even limited just to protect our well being!! Can't have that!

Ockaie, bakc too teh badd speling ishue...off tu mek brekfust in my mikrowave..

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Okay, wondering just how many children, or folks who don't really have a clue or are just a wee bit ignorant are online here? Or do so many just want to make a fuss for the sake of joining the bandwagon and making a fuss?!

I suggest this only because of all the mishmash garbled here.

Sometimes I think folks just want a reason to whine and vent, or they'd sure find better things to gripe about like the hot twenty or naked stuff or big boobs or too many fairies in the gallery or so many other online cult classics of familiarity around here days gone by and so on and forevermore.

I suppose I just think there's really no reason to jump at Rendo about all this, it's all so stupid, what they supposed to do? They're really not doing anything different than any other place nor are they doing anything so worth hooting and screaming about like so many are doing here!

Not this time, well, other than being kind of evasive and dancing around, probably because they just don't really know what to say a lot of times; and what else is new huh, better to dance and be evasive than feel kinda at a loss at what to say. 

 Listen up!

Just an FYI.

Did you all know that ANY isp can access your e-mail, not just Rendo?

So why you making it JUST a Rendo thing?

It's the SAME not only on ANY FORUM to be able to ACCESS not only e-mails and PRIVATE MESSAGES, (which are not so private at all and probably the least PRIVATE, so I'm not so sure why the lovely description, but oh well, get over it, it's a way to gab online, and so is chat and msn and so many other PRIVATE ways, yet they are not so PRIVATE as we would like to believe in any way, shape or form), but  did you not know that ANY place hosting e-mails or communications online, including YOUR PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT and/or SCHOOLS or for that matter, any place you inscribe something online that gets logged or saved CAN do the SAME??!! Just like YOU, on your personal computers at home, CAN access all the same DATA anyone documents or uses on your computer no matter how many users/guests you have!! And yes, even after it's deleted!!!

As long as you know HOW, and it's not hard! Not at all!! A baby could do it with the right access!!

And did you know that once on a server, ANY server, ANYTHING and EVERYTHING is most certainly logged until it is at some point PURGED by a person qualified/responsible and doing that PURGING???

And did you know that even THEN it CAN still be retrieved if and when necessary?

Unless a GIANT stomps on the hard drive with BIG feet or some BIG magnet happens by or it's shot into outer space or there's a hard drive melting fire.

Did you also know that it is NOT COMMON for isp's and probably Rendo to access PERSONAL e-mails for ANY reason unless absolutely necessary, such as harrassment/court orders/warrants or worser concerns? Why would they offer personal communication just to snoop and be voyuers, I mean, what kind of business would do that unless they wanted to trace habits of their users so they can market better? There are plenty of them folks out there, but I think there are enough skilled folks as members here that would clue in quickly and/or track being tracked in such a ways if that were so!

BUT do not ever kid yourselves!!

It may well be illegal for any Joe Blow to access your accounts and browse your e-mails, (not talking private messages because they're just not the same and just a forum thing falling under forum TOS and forum scrutiny and how much those forums adhere to their own suggested principles, we'll really never know, only they will on they're side and you if your on that side peeking in or not), however, I will tell you one very CERTAIN FACT, e-mails ARE accessable!! And if there is a suggested valid reason it's quite amazing how something documented, (and everything online IS nowadays documented someways), can be held against you, no matter how bad a moment you might have been having or how drunk you were or how stupid or angry, it's a DOCUMENT and it CAN be held against you just as anything I write here can be right now if it were something awful!!

I've known people who have had charges laid against them only because of what they wrote into e-mails as proof; I've known people FIRED from  their jobs because their places of employment found out they were spending more complany time on personal e-mails and/or browsing personal sites, (like forums) while they were supposed to be working, and I've even known people to lose their schooling because of same!!

I'll tell you one more for the road, TODAY, this last year alone, many companies have started (secretly) hiring SPECIFIC task forces, and all these task forces do all day is look into company servers to SEE what the employees are doing all day ONLINE and yes, what kind of e-mails they communicate and what they browse online!! Why?? Because there are just too many people abusing company time; and time theft is what it's called and believe me there's a LOT of it, that's why they're doing this; and yes, it CAN be a reason to find you LET GO suddenly due to restructuring really fast, or just outright FIRED!!!

I've seen it many times, and just another person a month ago, she was a friend, she had no idea her habituals online at work were logged and peeped at and eventually also used against her as lost time when her company was trying to find a REASON to downsize and say byebye to the nests of slackers!

So think hard next time so many of you may jump online here or anywhere while doing your daily routines and KNOW it's being logged too, nevermind your e-mails sitting pretty for anyone to see that may have a reason to see them if need be and/or someone finds you a suspect to anything.

And don't go crying ILLEGAL, apparently it IS quite legal and valid for any company to peep at their own servers anytime at whatever YOU do while employed by them using their equipment! As for personal time and forums and home computers, even they are not safe havens if there is suspicion of you being some kind of suspect or weirdo doing weirdo things online. What you type and/or upload is documented somewhere and can be seen until purged appropriately and not by your mouse clicking deletes either.  

The internet and computer is probably the easiest way to catch people doing what they think nobody will ever know or see, and well, I guess you could say it leaves the best FINGERPRINTS you could ever leave wherever you go and whatever you do or say!

People can be so naive, and if your talking about the same people that drive around day after day thinking that just because they are in their cars with the window rolled up they are invisible, then any wonder so many really have no clue they may be leaving so many various computer/online entrails everywhere nowadays. 

Suppose it wasn't always like that, so goes the wonders of advancements and the beauty of the net huh? May as well have a tracking device built into every one of us while online nowadays because the moment your online, it's the same thing, your just a tattoo of what you do.

Unless your a tracker and know how to remain trackless; and the average computer person sure don't or you certainly wouldn't get conversations such as this thread.

Now, shall I start up about cell phones and blackberries and...??

Naaw, another time.

Sure, perhaps someone will come on with a smartass remark here. I'm not meaning this in a bad way at all, I just don't understand why so many slap on Renderosity about all this when it's not really something wicket or bad, it's just the common sense internet/and computers nowadays; in fact they couldn't give you this forum without the software you sign on to use, so what's the gripe??

Do you all do the same with all your isp's and online chatting devices and dating services and even when you browse or google or play online games??? Do you yell at your own computers for leaving a trail behind?? Because I tell you, SOMEONE is able to watch you or perhaps is tracking your every move no matter WHAT you do!! So start complaining at all places online and all forums online and everyone and everything online if your going to nitpick about all this here, because it's no different except for different admins and folks running it all, and some places you go online to I'm certain have no TOS at all and your still ONLINE bigtime!!

Hey look, I know folks that have been AWAKENED the hard way, I also know folks that work in this field, and I myself work with this stuff enough to know what gets logged on a server too, EVERYTHING!!

Excuse me, time for my bath now; and when I'm done my dirt will go down the drain for anyone to see somewhere in the river or the big lake...glub..   

That's so funny you know.

Looking at this William Shatner and the one around today, wouldn't even know it's the same guy.

How much people change!

I hear he dons a toupe, or is that newly inserted hair follicles? And he sure potrudes quite the belly, and he always looks so darn puffy and sweaty, like he's dripping or melting away.

Spaceflight sure does amazing things to people.

The ego thing is still there though, hasn't managed to sweat it all out as yet.

One thing for sure, professional this is not.

I think that was the onset question.

Answered.

Well, on the contrary, I think a lot of the newer Enterprise show DID in fact explain a lot of left out stuff!

I felt the same way at first and when the new show came out I wouldn't even watch it noway, but then one rainy night was nothing to do and nothing much on the boob tube so I sat a little longer watching this show and somehow got hooked in one good episode.

Sure, it's not perfecto, but then, it's also just science fiction and imagination too. Look at the different varying stories they tell about poser and people using poser and poser forums and how all this wonderful stuff came about. Sure isn't much chronological there either, all depends on the klingons I guess, and how good your story is, hee hee. 

I heard a long time ago there was a lot more pink here, gotta go plaster on some make up, bye.

I'm not a trekkie, but I have watched star trek this and star trek that plenty.

Lately I've watched the newer Enterprise series with Scott Bakula who IS apparently the first Captain of the first real warping, star hopping, planet jumping, phaser shooting Enterprise, according to star trek universe chronological order of things that is.

Look it up, you'll see I'm right.

Much to the dismay of the Vulcans who insist humans are by no means ready for long range space antics, and who don't want it to happen yet, Captain Archer and a so called half assed Star Fleet kinda force the issue of allowing humans to finally warp around and exlpore their space in the first interstellar starship Enterprise, donning a top speed of warp 4.5, half assed weapons, meager hull plating, low range sensors and a grappling hook, only to find a lot of hostile aliens, like the warfaring Klingons, as well as every species with attitude you can imagine,  and eventually even a race of reptilian Xindi that want to destroy Earth completely. 

All way before any kind of Captain Kirk steals the scene.

I especially get a cringing hoot outta the pic where that poor girly mannequin has them awful bruises around her privating areas; and of course it can't be because of anything else other than she's probably been jumpin' up and down on her bicycle way too much and ouched herself.

Of course not.

Tim sings? I didn't know this, I guess this forum stuff must be his sideline. Wonder what kind of stuff, Opera? Blues? Country? Heavy Metal? Reggae? Wow, maybe even Hip Hop, can you imagine?? Tim might even be competition for Rapper Fifty Cents!! Lol!!

I always wondered about one thing while browsing these forums? Why do some of you sign your names at the end of your posts like we don't know who it is just from the title where it tells us anyways? It just seems so funny because you know we already know who you are when you post it so why bother telling us again? Maybe one day I will get the shock of my life and see a post where it says by so and so and the name is different at bottom!! Lol!! Oh dear, my dog is barking to get in, better go before she howls up a storm and upsets the neighbourhood! LornaW

"If his GND relies on DAZ' V3 character, shouldn't he show a tad more gratitude, as opposed to being outright insulting towards it? I mean, no V3, no GMD. Right?" You have a point there eudoxus! I can never understand that. It's like someone buying or taking a regular GM car and adding a spoiler and a few stripes and a low profile and mag wheels and then trying to make resales by spouting off how shapeless and boring a regular GM car is!! Lol!! If this was "newly built model" stuff your all talking about I'd perhaps get the point of new and better and the competitive attitude with one of the very hands of the "Daz" that feeds you to be able to create all this stuff in the first place so you can have your shining star moment, but you know what, if I buy add on nails it really don't make my nails any better than they are already, just prettier maybe, accentuated, but they are still my nails and I'm glad about them and won't go yelling they're shapeless on they're very own. Without my real nails, those clip on's would be garbage!!

Yeah well, maybe you have a point. I found out recently that my boyfriend seems to like it better when I don't shave my armpits! Lol! It's a European thing. Now, if he starts telling me to stop shaving my legs, I'm going to have a real problem with that one!! Lol!! Blast! Fluffy my dog is in heat again!! Better go save my pillows.

"lol, well hopefully you'd use more tactful words than that ;)" Lol! Well, you know what I mean, and of course I would!! Point is, sometimes no matter how wonderful you may make it sound, some just do not want to hear anything bad at all about their image! I'm not kidding either!! Oops, pork roast in the oven starting to smell real good, better go check on it.

Okay, so if I was to make a comment under a picture that the models butt is busting through the material of the dress and the eyes look as if they are popping out of her head like some zombie, it is helpful, no? I mean, one would think they would understand to fix this stuff and make a much better picture? Unless your making a zombie picture, of course. Lol! Whether your a hobbyist or a professional one would think everyone wants to actually be good with what they do and maybe even look somewhat professional, not just think they are? What is better, some comments to improve the work, maybe repost it and then get some hails for work well improved, or no comments while people snicker silently everytime you post something because it just continues to be bad? People are so quick to yell "troll" when getting criticism, even constructive criticism, yet, I dare say the worst trolls as far as I am concerned are those many that will woohoo and say how wonderful a picture is, while there are oodles of bad mistakes and faults, because that person will then think they are a great kahuna, and be so disapointed when it all falls back on them in the real world one day. There has to be a time we are able to part with our egos enough to realize someone may have a point and they are not necessarily a troll just because they really are attempting to help improve your image or skills. Same goes for all the clappers and hailers. I wonder if people posting don't sometimes ask themselves why so many comment no matter what they may post, it would make me weary if I was to deliberatly post a bad image and still got a ton of wonderful yay's under it, thinking there's something very wrong here and maybe it's not my good images but because of who I am or what I sell?? My two cents worth.

First I heard of this. Usually the only complaints I ever see is merchants getting in a huff if someone in the hot twenty doesn't list them as credits to thank them for being able to spend money buying they're stuff and making such pretty pictures with it all. Sometimes I swear people never really buy, they just lease to show! Lol!! Time for my morning lecture at the Church now to find out just how bad I've been this week.

"professional artist & merchant" What? No professional merchants? Lol!! Don't mind me, I think I had too much Froot Loops this morning already. Way more sugar in cereals these days than needed, makes you do cartwheels while trying to be funny! Bad for my butt too, ouch!