Physical: No more full frontal nudes from Playboy, at least not for now! Hefner looked at the website they've revamped and found that it was viewed more without the nudes, so he's going to allow the people viewing Playboy to use their imagination a little more.
Psychological: As Hefner discovered in the 1950's, people like sex. I really enjoyed what Dian Hanson stated when talking about sex. "I see it the same way they describe a good marriage. In a good marriage sex is only 20% of the equation, and yet if you take that 20% out of the marriage, the marriage is dead. People really don't buy Playboy as a masturbatory agent. But that 20% nudity is what made it Playboy, in the minds of people. If you take that out, it's a different entity and I don't see how it can survive."
Sex is going to sell. Any country, any place, anytime, there will be people drawn to sex. I do think it will survive, simply because when it isn't doing as well as planned, they're going to switch back real quick.
Cultural: "Sexy pictures are not passé, what is passé is men paying for them." - Dian Hanson. Like Brooke mentioned, maybe this will make it to other countries where porn wasn't allowed, thus increasing it's sales, possibly. On the other hand, the other countries may just make up for the loss of audience after the loss of nudity. Maybe if the people in the US wasn't so shy of the sexuality of other people, Playboy wouldn't be such a big deal here.
Social: Personally, if this change is going to make a big difference in Playboy's sales, they're going to go right back to it, obviously. But right now, according to Hugh Hefner, it's all a fantasy and is supposed to get the viewers dreaming.
I think that social media brought this upon themselves. There's not much more to it besides, if you're viewing it, you're supporting it, no matter what your intention is before you click on the picture or ad, or visit the website.
Temporal: You don't need Playboy if you want to see naked women or men. I'm sure there are plenty of sites where you can see more action on with naked men and women than you do in a magazine. So the audience directed towards that may in fact just move on, I mean technically it's all pretty much the same thing, just different 'fantasies'.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Climate Change 1.0
I've been hearing about this climate change for years now, it's never not been an issue. The first thing I saw while researching the current climate issues is that each year has increased by a total average temperature of 1.7 degrees overall. My first thought was well that's not even that bad, St George gets to 120 during the summer all the time and we still survive.
So, what's really the deal with it? If I were to just search social media, I would assume 'climate change' is simply the earth getting warmer. Digging deeper (into NASA's website), I actually discovered that it's not just the earth getting warmer. It's all the pollutants in the air that we as humans aren't caring about. Obama put in this type of save the earth plan and is actually finally seeing some really good results. Our amount of carbon dioxide in the air is the lowest it's been since 1998, and he is making solar panels more affordable for middle class and low income families by making the power companies they go through switch to solar panels, brilliant. Thus, making their power bills cheaper, and in the long run making the earth a little cleaner. So there are good things happening, but social media continues just to say it's the earth getting warmer, and never exactly states what exactly is contributing to it.
If you'd like to read more about Obama's plan to Fight Climate Change, I've provided the link to where I got all of my information below.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/climate-change
So, what's really the deal with it? If I were to just search social media, I would assume 'climate change' is simply the earth getting warmer. Digging deeper (into NASA's website), I actually discovered that it's not just the earth getting warmer. It's all the pollutants in the air that we as humans aren't caring about. Obama put in this type of save the earth plan and is actually finally seeing some really good results. Our amount of carbon dioxide in the air is the lowest it's been since 1998, and he is making solar panels more affordable for middle class and low income families by making the power companies they go through switch to solar panels, brilliant. Thus, making their power bills cheaper, and in the long run making the earth a little cleaner. So there are good things happening, but social media continues just to say it's the earth getting warmer, and never exactly states what exactly is contributing to it.
If you'd like to read more about Obama's plan to Fight Climate Change, I've provided the link to where I got all of my information below.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/climate-change
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Religion 3.0
Well, if you've ever been or lived in Utah, then no doubt about it, you know what religion is. Whether you know the biased opinion of religion, or you've formed your own belief about it, (which I would prefer), you know the basic idea of it. But why is it that Utah, and many of the active LDS members make such big deal about it? Why does it come as a surprise to them and almost offend them if you don't know their background and ask a simple question? Sorry to get your hopes up, I don't have the answer either, but it does bother me as well.
I don't want to talk about the LDS religion because I am forced to enough already, but I do want to say, there are some good Mormons out there that practice their religion without making other people feel like they're bad people if they don't join. Anyway! Off of the LDS topic and back to the general topic of Religion. What defines it? A belief in God? A belief in the Bible? What is it?
Personally, I think that's up to us to decide. If we want to consider our practices religions, so be it. There only becomes an issue when your religion practicing conflicts with someone else's rights or the law in general. Our Godfathers, the men who established our country made it a point in the constitution to make a direct correlation towards God. So we base our country off of God, and then decide to abandoned our speech towards our country because it has the word God in it...cool. What the crap is wrong with people? It's not like our teachers were forcing us to stand and say the speech, but it was a great tribute to our country and the people who fought for it. As you can tell, I'm slightly offended by the removal of this, but I understand why they got rid of it, however I still get frustrated with the subject.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Darkode Radiolab
Physical: Super smart people are taking advantage of the not so smart people and making them pay for not being as smart as them. Also known as geeks hacking into your technology and then making you pay for not being smart enough to out hack them. Hackers are brilliant minded jerks. They manipulate people that aren't smarter than them and pretty much force them to pay the consequences of not being smart enough.
Psychological: The crappy part is, you can't really do anything about it, except out smart them. Which in this case, seems pretty darn hard to do! Your best bet is to hopefully have a connection with someone who works for the geek squad at Best Buy and can out-hack the hacker! It's annoying and I wish there was a better solution I could come up with to stop it, but the best thing I have is use our technology wisely. Make sure that we're using a virus protector if we can, and our private browsing modes when surfing the internet.
Cultural: Unfortunately for Americans, we don't have the smartest kids come out of our public schooling systems like other countries. So I will admit that I think we're a little more vulnerable as a whole, but almost every stabilized country has access to the internet nowadays, which immediately put them at risk of being hacked. Just like the lady said, when she figured out her computer was hacked, she automatically assumed it was the Russians, they're brilliant. Just like the old saying "you gotta do what you gotta do." If that's the trade they learned to make a living, I guess they're putting it to good use, but sucks for the victims. Educate ourselves. That's all we really can do. We have to understand that any time we turn our piece of technology on, we're putting ourselves at risk of being hacked, or getting some crazy virus. It's pretty unfortunate that we even have to take these types of precautions, but if we want to keep ourselves protected, we have no choice but to take every precaution or we might serve the consequence. So use our incognito mode, obtain a blind email, and keep our location services off!
Social: The problem is the hackers. They're not going to stop, they aren't afraid of getting caught because they're to smart for that. Instead, they're going to threaten us and manipulate us to the point that we feel like we have to obey their orders or we're going to get the down fall of it!
Temporal: Educate ourselves. That's all we really can do. We have to understand that any time we turn our piece of technology on, we're putting ourselves at risk of being hacked, or getting some crazy virus. It's pretty unfortunate that we even have to take these types of precautions, but if we want to keep ourselves protected, we have no choice but to take every precaution or we might serve the consequence. So use our incognito mode, obtain a blind email, and keep our location services off!
Psychological: The crappy part is, you can't really do anything about it, except out smart them. Which in this case, seems pretty darn hard to do! Your best bet is to hopefully have a connection with someone who works for the geek squad at Best Buy and can out-hack the hacker! It's annoying and I wish there was a better solution I could come up with to stop it, but the best thing I have is use our technology wisely. Make sure that we're using a virus protector if we can, and our private browsing modes when surfing the internet.
Cultural: Unfortunately for Americans, we don't have the smartest kids come out of our public schooling systems like other countries. So I will admit that I think we're a little more vulnerable as a whole, but almost every stabilized country has access to the internet nowadays, which immediately put them at risk of being hacked. Just like the lady said, when she figured out her computer was hacked, she automatically assumed it was the Russians, they're brilliant. Just like the old saying "you gotta do what you gotta do." If that's the trade they learned to make a living, I guess they're putting it to good use, but sucks for the victims. Educate ourselves. That's all we really can do. We have to understand that any time we turn our piece of technology on, we're putting ourselves at risk of being hacked, or getting some crazy virus. It's pretty unfortunate that we even have to take these types of precautions, but if we want to keep ourselves protected, we have no choice but to take every precaution or we might serve the consequence. So use our incognito mode, obtain a blind email, and keep our location services off!
Social: The problem is the hackers. They're not going to stop, they aren't afraid of getting caught because they're to smart for that. Instead, they're going to threaten us and manipulate us to the point that we feel like we have to obey their orders or we're going to get the down fall of it!
Temporal: Educate ourselves. That's all we really can do. We have to understand that any time we turn our piece of technology on, we're putting ourselves at risk of being hacked, or getting some crazy virus. It's pretty unfortunate that we even have to take these types of precautions, but if we want to keep ourselves protected, we have no choice but to take every precaution or we might serve the consequence. So use our incognito mode, obtain a blind email, and keep our location services off!
Monday, October 5, 2015
Privacy 2.0
While watching the video, I was angry. I mean who wouldn't be? Our own President is looking our country in the face and lying to us through his teeth. Snowden had good intentions. I will admit that I'm not quite sure he went about it in the right way, but what other choice did he have? Obviously going to authority gets your fired for not following the chain of command, so he had no choice if he wanted America to know the truth.
The extent to which the US went to in order to keep us safe is unreal. I understand where they're coming from, but why are they not showing America that what they're doing is working? Why the heck are they not proving that they are stopping terrorist attacks by monitoring our every move? In some people's eyes, they would still no be okay with being monitored 24/7 but at least the government has evidence to back up their actions.
Snowden. I don't believe he was a trader. I think his ethical and moral values got the best of him and he saw what happened to his coworkers that tried to step forward. To the best of his knowledge, he did what he needed to in order to let the public know the truth. We have no privacy. Not if we use technology! I knew that when I signed up for my social media sites and email accounts. You give them all this information about you when you sign up, pretty much handing over your privacy. If people want to be private, they don't use the internet for one, and for two, it requires them to do everything in person. Exactly like how Snowden reached out.
With all the continued advances in technology, it's impossible to be private, and the government is simply taking advantage of that. Is it ethical? No. Do I think they're really catching the bad guys? Not really. I mean how many mass shootings have happened in the last 5 years? All in all, we can't change what they're doing, we can only make ourselves aware of it and proceed through life accordingly.
The extent to which the US went to in order to keep us safe is unreal. I understand where they're coming from, but why are they not showing America that what they're doing is working? Why the heck are they not proving that they are stopping terrorist attacks by monitoring our every move? In some people's eyes, they would still no be okay with being monitored 24/7 but at least the government has evidence to back up their actions.
Snowden. I don't believe he was a trader. I think his ethical and moral values got the best of him and he saw what happened to his coworkers that tried to step forward. To the best of his knowledge, he did what he needed to in order to let the public know the truth. We have no privacy. Not if we use technology! I knew that when I signed up for my social media sites and email accounts. You give them all this information about you when you sign up, pretty much handing over your privacy. If people want to be private, they don't use the internet for one, and for two, it requires them to do everything in person. Exactly like how Snowden reached out.
With all the continued advances in technology, it's impossible to be private, and the government is simply taking advantage of that. Is it ethical? No. Do I think they're really catching the bad guys? Not really. I mean how many mass shootings have happened in the last 5 years? All in all, we can't change what they're doing, we can only make ourselves aware of it and proceed through life accordingly.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
On the Media: The Pope Is Not a Politician
Physical:
The Pope Francis visited our country this week. Kind of cool seeing how he has only visited a 3 different continents, including our own.
Social:
The Pope is being characterized as a politician. Why? Who the crap knows. People are comparing the Pope and Trump, putting him on a side for voting, and giving him approval ratings. Multiple politicians are commenting about his visit and his beliefs and trying to back their own statements up by putting the Pope's beliefs down.
I cannot believe that people are making such a big deal about what the Pope stated while he was here. He was simply here to share his belief, not to promote politics. He came to talk about what he thinks is ethical and right in his eyes, not to tell people what they should do or who they should vote for.
Psychological:
So the Pope came. Awesome. But as the Americans we have become today....instead of listening to his teachings and trying to keep an open-eye towards his beliefs, we are taking his visit offensively. Like Bob mentions, The Atlantic newspaper states "the pope doesn't care", and we aren't realizing it, and well, obviously the politicians aren't either.
Instead we've decided to spread rumors about what side the Pope is really on, Republican or Democrat, Hero or Villain (like Bob says). Which is absolutely ridiculous! If the Pope would've visited our country 50 years ago, he would've got a standing ovation and the people of America would've been writing in the newspapers about how the Pope has changed the lives of many Americans.
Culture:
Unfortunately we live in a generation where, when someone states an opinion or belief, they must be placed in a political category afterwards. Like Bob mentions, "For God's sake it's not always about you." We have become so selfish with ourselves and we say things without even thinking. Or maybe we are thinking and we're really just that close-minded, ugh.
There are a lot of things we could do to change this, but the first thing is starting with ourselves. We have to begin with our own voice before we're going to change anybody else's.
Temporal Context:
People are taking his words out of context and putting them into a politicians mouth and looking at it from that point of view. Aka, the Pope is either telling the truth or he's lying. I love that he took the time out of his busy schedule to come and visit and speak about the things that matter to him, but I'm embarrassed at what we are doing to his visit. He doesn't sit at home and watch the polls, he doesn't care what we think about him (and he shouldn't), so why do we care so much about whether or not his beliefs are the same as ours?
I've come to the conclusion that, there are some people out there who only care about themselves and will say anything to make sure people like them. I've kind of always known this, but it's hard to put into words without sounding like a total jerk.
The Pope Francis visited our country this week. Kind of cool seeing how he has only visited a 3 different continents, including our own.
Social:
The Pope is being characterized as a politician. Why? Who the crap knows. People are comparing the Pope and Trump, putting him on a side for voting, and giving him approval ratings. Multiple politicians are commenting about his visit and his beliefs and trying to back their own statements up by putting the Pope's beliefs down.
I cannot believe that people are making such a big deal about what the Pope stated while he was here. He was simply here to share his belief, not to promote politics. He came to talk about what he thinks is ethical and right in his eyes, not to tell people what they should do or who they should vote for.
Psychological:
So the Pope came. Awesome. But as the Americans we have become today....instead of listening to his teachings and trying to keep an open-eye towards his beliefs, we are taking his visit offensively. Like Bob mentions, The Atlantic newspaper states "the pope doesn't care", and we aren't realizing it, and well, obviously the politicians aren't either.
Instead we've decided to spread rumors about what side the Pope is really on, Republican or Democrat, Hero or Villain (like Bob says). Which is absolutely ridiculous! If the Pope would've visited our country 50 years ago, he would've got a standing ovation and the people of America would've been writing in the newspapers about how the Pope has changed the lives of many Americans.
Culture:
Unfortunately we live in a generation where, when someone states an opinion or belief, they must be placed in a political category afterwards. Like Bob mentions, "For God's sake it's not always about you." We have become so selfish with ourselves and we say things without even thinking. Or maybe we are thinking and we're really just that close-minded, ugh.
There are a lot of things we could do to change this, but the first thing is starting with ourselves. We have to begin with our own voice before we're going to change anybody else's.
Temporal Context:
People are taking his words out of context and putting them into a politicians mouth and looking at it from that point of view. Aka, the Pope is either telling the truth or he's lying. I love that he took the time out of his busy schedule to come and visit and speak about the things that matter to him, but I'm embarrassed at what we are doing to his visit. He doesn't sit at home and watch the polls, he doesn't care what we think about him (and he shouldn't), so why do we care so much about whether or not his beliefs are the same as ours?
I've come to the conclusion that, there are some people out there who only care about themselves and will say anything to make sure people like them. I've kind of always known this, but it's hard to put into words without sounding like a total jerk.
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