[ExI] privacy in class

[William Flynn Wallace]

 A smart techy sort might even be able to pull off the same gag using only
free internet porn videos.



spike



*Add Photoshop, so you can put the principal's head on Long John Silver and
you have it.   bill w*



On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:59 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] privacy in class
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> >>…How do we deal with privacy please? spike
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> >…There is no way you can force people to alter the backgrounds in their
> homes, so I think that privacy is up to the students, who should be warned
> about that.  What about nudist homes, where Mama might waltz through the
> house, naked as a rock?  Up to them, but that particular example might be a
> misdemeanor - obscene (how is that women's bodies can be the most beautiful
> and desired thing and also be obscene?  I will wonder about this till I
> die).   bill w
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> On the contrary for one adjective please BillW: if mama (or more likely a
> mischievous sister) strolls by in all her refulgent glory in the student’s
> background, in the home, that is neither a misdemeanor nor obscene.  That
> person (identity unknown (since she appeared only from the neck down)) was
> presumably in her own home, where her manner of dress (or un) is her own
> business.  She did not broadcast anything, even if her brother did.  Her
> brother committed no misdemeanor, for there is no evidence he asked, hired,
> dared, wagered or compelled his accomplice (?) to do that.
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> We are a status-seeking species.  It occurred to me there is a clear path
> to an arbitrarily-large helping of nearly-free risk-free status, one which
> surely will  occur to our young virtual learners, particularly those
> unfortunate nerds otherwise completely devoid of other sources of actual
> status (the kind of guys who will go to the most effort to get some
> (including cost and personal risk (you know the type (hell I AM the
> type.))))
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> Envision: teenage with a video camera (I have one) a video projector (I
> have one) and a silver projector screen (I have one (so all three available
> to my own son (and presumably others who are far more likely to pull off
> such a gag)) has everything he needs except one thing perhaps: a
> cooperative female participant.
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> He sets up his video camera in his own room so that the top of the field
> of view is about 20 cm below the height of his adventurous sister or friend
> or hired accomplice.  He starts camera, leaves the home.  She gets out of
> uniform, creates a video of herself walking past, stage left to stage
> right, perhaps pretending to bend down to retrieve an object (buns appear
> briefly stage right) then walks back across stage right to stage left,
> perhaps briefly turning to face the camera just to remove any doubt.  She
> dresses and leaves, collecting her 20 bucks perhaps.  He returns, turns off
> video camera.  Now… he is ready to pull of the epic gag of the year.
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> OK.  Status-free lad goes to virtual class, except instead of his actual
> room in the background, he has cleverly substituted that silver screen with
> the video of his room with the cooperative friend/harlot/adventurous sister
> walking by in the background.  Goes to “class” in the virtual Brady Bunch
> matrix, Mr. Lorensax droning on about some irrelevant nothing, nekkid girl
> walks past twice in the background, motion catches the attention of the
> testosterone-factory classmates, they see it, deluge him with inquiries, at
> which time he pretends he didn’t notice and didn’t know anyone was ever
> behind him, weakly suggests he was home alone at the time (and has evidence
> that his mother and sister were accounted-for elsewhere) answers inquiries
> on the subject with a clueless whut? where?  what girl?  I didn’t notice
> any girl.  Oh her, ah, did she do that again?  That is just… oh a friend,
> or you know, someone, well nobody really, sorta…
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> And so on.  Keeps em guessing.
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> He becomes a legend, goes from zero to hero in 5 seconds, using only
> easily-envisioned and broadly available technology, with only a little
> cleverness required.  A smart techy sort might even be able to pull off the
> same gag using only free internet porn videos.
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