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Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« on: January 18, 2012, 01:33:35 AM »
So...

...wikipedia is protesting SOPA by blacking out their articles today. I just tried it and although I appreciate their taking a stand against SOPA, their so-called blackout is easily defeated.

A wikipedia page begins to load normally and then it shifts to a black/gray page with information about SOPA. To defeat it all you have to do is hit the stop page load button on your browser and you get the article you are looking for without allowing it to black out.

So, great idea poorly executed. Way to go, wiki-liberals. Great protest.
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2012, 02:35:26 AM »
I wish Wikipedia was that concerned about the accuracy of its entries .
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2012, 06:42:48 AM »
Still, this is a rare instance that liberals and conservatives seem to be not only on the same side of an issue, but for the same reasons.
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2012, 07:33:25 AM »
Quote from: Sectionhand on January 18, 2012, 02:35:26 AM
I wish Wikipedia was that concerned about the accuracy of its entries .

Back when you could edit their pages I used to correct the entry for Slick Willie...somebody would come back within 5 minutes and reset it it sans my corrections.  Back and forth, back and forth...

 ::)

You do have to take them with a big grain of salt and review their content before passing it on.
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2012, 07:35:59 AM »
Quote from: IronDioPriest on January 18, 2012, 06:42:48 AM
Still, this is a rare instance that liberals and conservatives seem to be not only on the same side of an issue, but for the same reasons.

True enough, and in the cyber frontier there may be enough opposition to protect it from tyrannical incursions...but government will always look for alternate ways to curtail freedoms...they are relentless and power-hungry...so vigilance cannot wane.
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2012, 08:16:32 AM »
Oh, and this...

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he was open to changes to satisfy critics."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/17/source-online-protest-threatens-piracy-bill/

Yeah...sure...whatever.

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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2012, 08:25:53 AM »
Cache page works, also.
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2012, 12:29:29 PM »
My local forum is in "maintenance mode", with a SOPA protest banner the only visible thing.
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2012, 01:13:58 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on January 18, 2012, 12:29:29 PM
My local forum is in "maintenance mode", with a SOPA protest banner the only visible thing.

Did Gene allude to any scheduled event? I really really need to bash some leftists!
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2012, 01:18:19 PM »
Quote from: Alphabet Soup on January 18, 2012, 01:13:58 PM
Quote from: Pandora on January 18, 2012, 12:29:29 PM
My local forum is in "maintenance mode", with a SOPA protest banner the only visible thing.

Did Gene allude to any scheduled event? I really really need to bash some leftists!

Not that I know of, he didn't.
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2012, 01:20:28 PM »
We got almost 10 inches of Global Warming last night and I'm not going any further than the woodpile.
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2012, 02:37:00 PM »
I did not know that Rubio was a co-sponsor of PIPA, but apparently he's gotten the message.  (Gawd, even the smart ones act stoopitly!)

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/18/rubio-on-second-thought-sopapipas-a-bad-idea/
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2012, 03:51:44 PM »
I remember once meeting and speaking with South Carolinas Fritz Hollings about his proposed "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act". I rapidly learned three things:

1. The rich (and virtually every Congress Critter is rich) don't GAF about the impact of new laws since they systematically exclude themselves from their impact.

2. Politicians are generally ten miles wide and a half-inch thick. They can speak convincingly (YMMV) on a whole range of subjects they really don't know jack about.

3. Egomaniacs (like Hollings) can't understand why anyone would prefer anonymity on the Internet.

4. Politicians are generally twice as gullible as the average bear. Even the best of them get taken in by a convincing sales schpeal.

For me the true question is how they handle the revelation that they just bought the Brooklyn Bridge. Do they admit fallibility or double-down on stupid?
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2012, 03:55:15 PM »
Quote from: Alphabet Soup on January 18, 2012, 03:51:44 PM


For me the true question is how they handle the revelation that they just bought the Brooklyn Bridge. Do they admit fallibility or double-down on stupid?

I'll take double-down on stupid for a hundred, Alex.


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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2012, 05:25:18 PM »
You obviously missed the memo. Once elected to office, one is an expert on any subject. ::unknowncomic::
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2012, 06:02:16 PM »
Quote from: Alphabet Soup on January 18, 2012, 01:20:28 PM
We got almost 10 inches of Global Warming last night and I'm not going any further than the woodpile.

That fat bastard AlGore lurch into town?!

 ::hysterical::
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2012, 06:04:23 PM »
Quote from: Pandora on January 18, 2012, 02:37:00 PM
I did not know that Rubio was a co-sponsor of PIPA, but apparently he's gotten the message.  (Gawd, even the smart ones act stoopitly!)

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/18/rubio-on-second-thought-sopapipas-a-bad-idea/

Must be that Pelositis bug...have to pass it to know whats in it...

 ::facepalm::

DC needs to be sterilized...

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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2012, 06:17:15 PM »
As if we needed another reminder which side of this is the right side and which is the wrong side...another example for the latter -

http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/exclusive-hollywood-moguls-stopping-obama-donations-because-of-administrations-piracy-stand/

For this reason I DO NOT trust the dem's to get this right, regardless of the other special interest groups on the Left aligned with us...so if Repub's begin to crack (Lindsey! The crazy ladies from Maine! J-Mac and the rest of the mavericks and loons!) we are screwed!
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2012, 04:49:32 PM »
HAH!!

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In darkness, there is apparently much sunlight.  As a number of Internet sites either went dark or protested the proposed anti-piracy bills circulating in Congress, a number of sponsors ran for cover, reports The Hill:
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Re: Wikipedia's Wednesday Blackout Protest Easily Defeated
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2012, 09:24:39 PM »
The Regime shut down Megaupload today.  Can hear the cheers from Hollyweird form here, didn't take long, Hollywood just bitched yesterday.
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