My Tivo thinks I like mexican porno

[Eleusis]

I honestly don't know where it got that idea.


But oooh aren't they sweet?

[The King of Soup]

That's nothing. My toaster thinks I like smouldering lumps of carbon, my shower thinks I'm into hypothermia, and my car thinks I enjoy vigorous exercise.

Your TiVo, on the other hand, is a sophisticated piece of technology (allow me to repeat that magic word: technology) that was designed expressly to record, remember and ultimately anticipate your preferences in an arena (televised entertainment) that has over the decades been market-researched and focus-grouped to the limits of mathematical precision. Odds are, it spends a lot more time on the task of choosing programming, at heaven knows how many billions of calculations per second, than you do.

What I'm saying is, it's probably right. After all, you don't second guess your pocket calculator or digital watch even if you might have guessed a different answer or felt like it was not that late. And that's pretty primitive compared to the technology represented by TiVo.

So you should just go with it. Enjoy the frolics of our southwestern neighbors, perhaps with a nice snack. If you ask nicely, your refrigerator may suggest something tasty that you never knew you wanted.

[nocturnal_tick]

But oooh aren't they sweet?

TiVos or Mexicans?

[Revtim]

There's very likely a line of code in the Tivo program-choosing module that loosely translates to "Hey! Who DOESN'T like mexican porn?".

[nashiitashii]

A friend of mine has a TiVo. He recorded <i>The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy</i> and some more adult-oriented anime, and it continued to record anything aimed at children. Then again, he also recorded a lot of movies of all different genres. It recorded show tunes and bad sitcoms for him. I'm not entirely sure how the categories work on TiVo, but I guess they're unable to distinguish between cartoons that are okay for kids and animated stuff intended for adults. It's got a "stupid American factor" built in. Joy.

[Chastain86]

TiVos or Mexicans?


You mean we have to choose now? Aw, man.

Okay, TiVos.






No, Mexicans.

[UncleRojelio]

There's very likely a line of code in the Tivo program-choosing module that loosely translates to "Hey! Who DOESN'T like mexican porn?".


if((genre == PORN) && (ethnicity == MEXICAN))
{
record();
}

[ShibbOleth]

Hey, who doesn't like Mexican porn?






And who knew there was Mexican porn?

[Shirley Ujest]

I, for one, welcome our TiVo overlords.




or should it be I, for Juan, welcome.... oh, never mind.

[Uvula Donor]

Well, y'know, this Niblets Green Giant Mexi-corn is tasty stuff, what with the little bits of green and red bell pepper and all. And it's festive, too. Really brightens up a meal. So I can see why your TiVo thinks you like it. What's not to like about Mexican corn?





What?

[Tapioca Dextrin]

You think you've got problems? Check out this guy (http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/4662397.htm?1c) :D

[Archergal]

or should it be I, for Juan, welcome.... oh, never mind.

Excuse me while I clean up my monitor. And that tea was good, too.

[silenus]

Bow-pollo-bow-bow! :D

[confessorknight]

Am the only one whose getting a registration screen for Tapioca 's link?
anybody care to summarise the contents?

[Tapioca Dextrin]

you can find the article by googling "My TiVo thinks I'm gay" and clicking on the "cached" page.

Iwanyk, 32, first suspected that his TiVo thought he was gay, because it inexplicably kept recording programs with gay themes. A film studio executive in Los Angeles and the self-described "straightest guy on earth," he tried to tame TiVo's gay fixation by recording war movies and other "guy stuff."

"The problem was, I overcompensated," he says. "It started giving me documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich."

[Zog_10]

or should it be I, for Juan, welcome.... oh, never mind.

Yo soy Juan, bienvienido a TiVo jefes

[confessorknight]

Ah, got it now. Thanks.

[JRDelirious]

I definitely do not want technology that tries to read my mind. I want technology that does what I tell it to. Is that too *&^%$# much to ask?

[Jurph]

I definitely do not want technology that tries to read my mind. I want technology that does what I tell it to. Is that too *&^%$# much to ask?

I think what you mean to say is, "I, for Juan, welcome our TiVo overlords." I've filled out your application and submitted it for you. You do like Mexican porn, right?

[Chairman Pow]

I definitely do not want technology that tries to read my mind. I want technology that does what I tell it to. Is that too *&^%$# much to ask?

Ah, *&^%$#. Mexican porn for you!

[Zsofia]

So you should just go with it. Enjoy the frolics of our southwestern neighbors, perhaps with a nice snack. If you ask nicely, your refrigerator may suggest something tasty that you never knew you wanted.

My fridge suggests things I never I knew I wanted all the time. It's really gross and I wish it would stop that. I'd like the fridge that throws that out when it starts talking, please. Or sets it free, whichever.

[Giraffe]

Am I the only one wondering what mega-deluxe cable package you have to sign up for to get Mexican porn? I'm pretty sure it doesn't come with extended basic.

[noname]

I always knew that AI was a bad thing. You know things are bad when the machines start becoming smartasses themselves. My mobile phone thinks that I shouldnt be taking pictures on the sly anymore. And my i-pod is too lazy to update my playlist automatically and I have to do it manually now. :mad:

[JSexton]

Bow-pollo-bow-bow!

As a general rule, I do not reply to posts just to point out that I did, in fact, laugh out loud.

Every rule has its exception, I have learned.

[UncleRojelio]

Why does Mozilla, after 6 months of using it, still think that email from my sister-in-law sending pictures of my 3 yr old niece is porn, yet email with subject lines that contain "MILF", "Vicodin", and "Greeetings from Nigeria" make it straight through?

I'm thinking TiVo and Mozilla bought into the same lame AI package.

:dubious:

[velvetjones]

Am I the only one wondering what mega-deluxe cable package you have to sign up for to get Mexican porn? I'm pretty sure it doesn't come with extended basic.

Hey I've got the mega deluxe package. Digital cable and at least 5 movie channels, pay per view, I control and yet here I sit, completely and utterly devoid of Mexican Porn. (and mexican corn for that matter)

Maybe the cats have it.

[Sean Factotum]

I always knew that AI was a bad thing. You know things are bad when the machines start becoming smartasses themselves. My mobile phone thinks that I shouldnt be taking pictures on the sly anymore. And my i-pod is too lazy to update my playlist automatically and I have to do it manually now. :mad:And our brand-new multifunction fax/copier/scanner/printer/toaster decided Wednesday that it will no longer send faxes to anywhere within the state of California.
I can understand its point of view on this, but dammit, we have to do business with people out there!

[noname]

And who knew there was Mexican porn?

Umm, Dirty Sanchez? :eek:

[Hypno-Toad]

Britches? We don' need no steenkin' britches!

[Shirley Ujest]

Why is it when I read this thread
I have the Wall of Voodoo song, " Mexican Radio "
going on in my head?



A Short bus haiku/limerick brought to you by Shirley Ujest

[NinjaChick]

And our brand-new multifunction fax/copier/scanner/printer/toaster decided Wednesday that it will no longer send faxes to anywhere within the state of California.
I can understand its point of view on this, but dammit, we have to do business with people out there!
But, damn, it makes toast? That pretty much rocks.

I've learned since I moved into a dorm that, yes, you can use an iron - like you use to get wrinkles out of clothes - to sorta make toast. And heat other food stuffs up. Multi-function, I tell you.

[Peri Nickel]

My Tivo thinks I like mexican porno

I honestly don't know where it got that idea.


But oooh aren't they sweet?

Eleusis = Mycenaean for lover of porn.

:rolleyes:

[Wesley Clark]

My Tivo kicks ass. I remember one weekend I went home to visit family and while I was there I watched maybe 8 or 9 shows at home. When I came back to Bloomington my TiVo had recorded about 3 of these shows I watched at home as well as some other shows, so I guess i'm predictible as hell. What was weird is it recorded dexters laboratory, I have never watched dexters lab on my Tivo, but I have about 10 hours recorded on VHS, I have no idea how it knew I liked that show.

[Paranoid Randroid]

But, damn, it makes toast? That pretty much rocks.

I've learned since I moved into a dorm that, yes, you can use an iron - like you use to get wrinkles out of clothes - to sorta make toast. And heat other food stuffs up. Multi-function, I tell you.

I've never lived in a dorm, but I work in one, and I assure you they've got a kitchen with microwave, oven, stove, and craaazyyy stuff like that, even in Kentucky. Surely it beats an iron!

I don't get Mexican Porn, but I do get the Spanish language channel where everyone's always dancing - news anchors, weathermen, whatever. If I just squint my eyes I can imagine them naked ...

[Vreemdeling]

My Tivo kicks ass.
My thumb has amazing built in technology and often it ends up chosing shows I like to watch. Completey kick-ass AI package. And the interface! - I just have to think of a channel and it takes me there. I am telling you, man, my thumb rocks.

[Shirley Ujest]

My thumb has amazing built in technology and often it ends up chosing shows I like to watch.


I have no idea how it knew I liked that show.


If this is not a sign of a Big Brother Is Coming, then I don't know what is.

[Wesley Clark]

My thumb has amazing built in technology and often it ends up chosing shows I like to watch. Completey kick-ass AI package. And the interface! - I just have to think of a channel and it takes me there. I am telling you, man, my thumb rocks.

But you can't sit in front of the TV 24/7 waiting for good shows to come on, people have other things going for them. The shows I watched at home were shows I just happened to see while browsing through listings and TiVo knew they were the types of shows I wanted to watch. Had I been outside doing something the shows would still get recorded and I could watch them later.

[percypercy]

My Tivo also thinks I'm a Nazi. See what happens when you record one episode of Hogan's Heroes?
-Lil

[Tentacle Monster]

I picked up a Mexican hentai magazine when I was down in San Felipe last New Years.

Yes, a Mexican hentai magazine. I'm pretty sure it isn't just a Spanish translation -- I think I saw artist credits. I don't feel like digging it out right now.

[sturmhauke]

My TiVo is starting to piss me off. It's taken to dialing for updates when I'm in the middle of a phone conversation. I tell it to listen for a dial tone first, but like a surly teenager it ignores me and then screeches in my ear about how it wants to call its friends RIGHT NOW.

[Vreemdeling]

But you can't sit in front of the TV 24/7 waiting for good shows to come on, people have other things going for them. The shows I watched at home were shows I just happened to see while browsing through listings and TiVo knew they were the types of shows I wanted to watch. Had I been outside doing something the shows would still get recorded and I could watch them later.
I just upgraded my thumb with similar features. I have to admit I am getting no mexican porn, though...

[TheSeaOtter]

Why does Mozilla, after 6 months of using it, still think that email from my sister-in-law sending pictures of my 3 yr old niece is porn, yet email with subject lines that contain "MILF", "Vicodin", and "Greeetings from Nigeria" make it straight through?

I'm thinking TiVo and Mozilla bought into the same lame AI package.

:dubious:

The problem is not that the AI in question is stupid, but rather than it has an interesting sense of humor. :smack:

[UncleRojelio]

The problem is not that the AI in question is stupid, but rather than it has an interesting sense of humor. :smack:

That, or it knows something about my sister-in-law that I don't.

[manhattan]

OK, I got about a trillion channels and I can't sort through them all. So, just in the interest of science, of course, where could one find Mexican porn?

[smallrougeone]

The problem is not that the AI in question is stupid, but rather than it has an interesting sense of humor. :smack:

I noodled with my old Macintosh so that it'd talk to me- and adjusted my PC to come close - But somehow I never liked much of what it had to say... TiVo too was designed to do what it does - thank its designers and also thank them for keeping statistic on every choice you (or tivo for you) make- and selling it-some of the telephone jockeys are laughing at you now because sweerr innocent doris 43 isn't watching "teletubbies" with her granddaughter but steaming mexican porn at 11 am.

[Shirley Ujest]

OK, I got about a trillion channels and I can't sort through them all. So, just in the interest of science, of course, where could one find Mexican porn?


The dedication of our Mods inspires me to almost want an uppity inanimate object with a monthly subscriber fee so it can find me some Mexican Porn.


Almost.

[Eleusis]

Am I the only one wondering what mega-deluxe cable package you have to sign up for to get Mexican porn? I'm pretty sure it doesn't come with extended basic.


OK, I got about a trillion channels and I can't sort through them all. So, just in the interest of science, of course, where could one find Mexican porn?

Well, it's Playboy Latina. I'm not supposed to get it, but it's there. When I signed up for my cable modem they seem to have accidently given me the previous resident's cable channels (I use dishnetwork for my main TV viewing). I know I should call them up and tell them but....

[noname]

OK, I got about a trillion channels and I can't sort through them all. So, just in the interest of science, of course, where could one find Mexican porn?

Umm, Mexico?