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Dry_vby
Skeptic Friend
Australia
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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 Posted - 08/15/2005 : 20:47:07 [Permalink]
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I tried to surf to that link from work. This is what I got:
Access Denied (content_filter_denied)
Access denied to "www.landoverbaptist.org" according to:
- <my company> Code of Business and Ethics and Conduct and
- Monitoring the usage of systems and services
This page is categorized as: "Humor;Sexual Materials;Gruesome Content"
I wonder how the content filter determins that this site should be blocked. |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 08/16/2005 : 04:30:02 [Permalink]
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penguins and polar bears from the Antarctic
polar bears ... Antarctic ?
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... the Center for Creation Research was able to secure several fossilized remains of flying dinosaurs valued at over $14 million. The remains will be studied exhaustively for evidence of the leather harnessing used to secure Noah's sons for their long transcontinental journeys.
LOL
I suppose that the original authors didn't think that men riding flying dinosaurs was very important to the story. Fabulous, don't you think... |
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2005 : 06:59:59 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
I tried to surf to that link from work. This is what I got:
Access Denied (content_filter_denied)
Access denied to "www.landoverbaptist.org" according to:
- <my company> Code of Business and Ethics and Conduct and
- Monitoring the usage of systems and services
This page is categorized as: "Humor;Sexual Materials;Gruesome Content"
I wonder how the content filter determins that this site should be blocked.
Censorware usually works by a combination of a site blacklist supplied by the censorware maker and keyword detection. If you find out just what package your company is using, you might be able to find out more about it at http://www.peacefire.org , which you'll probably have to access from home, since it's pretty universally blacklisted by censorware makers.
If it turns out to be a USA-made package, there's probably a right-wing politico-religious agenda involved. |
"The Republican agenda is to turn the United States into a third-world shithole." -P.Z.Myers |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 08/16/2005 : 16:51:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dry_vby
More proof, if proof be needed, that God is great (for a laugh):
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0605/flyingdinos.html
Faith based "science"! Here's another not-so-far-from-reality parody. Also good for a chuckle:
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133&n=2 |
Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/16/2005 : 16:56:32 [Permalink]
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Chippewa, you're right, that Onion article is nearly indistinguishable from the nonsense it parodies. This bit sounds like something a fundy would actually say:quote:
"Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the 'electromagnetic force,' the 'weak nuclear force,' the 'strong nuclear force,' and so-called 'force of gravity,'" Burdett said. "And they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force. But readers of the Bible have already known for millennia what this one, unified force is: His name is Jesus."
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Dry_vby
Skeptic Friend
Australia
249 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2005 : 17:32:54 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by H. Humbert
Chippewa, you're right, that Onion article is nearly indistinguishable from the nonsense it parodies. This bit sounds like something a fundy would actually say:quote:
"Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the 'electromagnetic force,' the 'weak nuclear force,' the 'strong nuclear force,' and so-called 'force of gravity,'" Burdett said. "And they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force. But readers of the Bible have already known for millennia what this one, unified force is: His name is Jesus."
This is the paradox with parodies.
If misunderstood, they can be taken by the intended target as support for their position and turned back against it's creator with confusing results.
The moon landing hoax is a classic example of this.
It is a major problem with situationalism. |
"I'll go along with the charade
Until I can think my way out.
I know it was all a big joke
Whatever it was about."
Bob Dylan
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 08/16/2005 : 20:05:14 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dry_vby
This is the paradox with parodies.
And the Landover Baptist site is spectacular in this way, getting hate mail from all over the religious spectrum.
The guy who started it even once did his schtick live at an atheist rally in Washington, DC, and screamed over the loudspeakers that the Christian counter-protesters across the street were wimps and going to Hell because they weren't Christian enough to come beat the devil out of the atheists.
I wish I had been there. |
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
1613 Posts |
Posted - 08/16/2005 : 23:40:12 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by H. Humbert
Chippewa, you're right, that Onion article is nearly indistinguishable from the nonsense it parodies. This bit sounds like something a fundy would actually say:quote:
"Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the 'electromagnetic force,' the 'weak nuclear force,' the 'strong nuclear force,' and so-called 'force of gravity,'" Burdett said. "And they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force. But readers of the Bible have already known for millennia what this one, unified force is: His name is Jesus."
Yes and Jack Chick wrote something similar in "Big daddy?". (The gluons is a made-up dream part at the end.) |
"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
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Dry_vby
Skeptic Friend
Australia
249 Posts |
Posted - 08/17/2005 : 16:46:43 [Permalink]
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Chicks stuff is hilarious enough in it's own right but I think even better when it's done by these guys:
http://www.weirdcrap.com/chick/
You might have to hit refresh to get in. |
"I'll go along with the charade
Until I can think my way out.
I know it was all a big joke
Whatever it was about."
Bob Dylan
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