| Re: Help! Can not land David website. [message #64622] |
Tue, 13 January 2009 05:43  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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James Kuyper writes:
> They're also a highly bureaucratic authoritarian state; self-defeating
> strategies of this kind are the norm, not the exception, in such states.
> However, this sounds more like a mistake than a strategy, depending upon
> what reason they had for blocking David's site.
Having had some recent experience with bureaucratic, authoritarian
states--I speak of the Driver's License Bureau--I can't help but
think a complete lack of a sense of humor plays a role. These people
seem to resent even the tiniest smile as an affront to their
role in making people's lives as miserable as possible in the
three or four hours you wait in their endless lines.
If I were going to crack down on teenagers listening to
subversive music and middle age men leering at pictures of young
women, these people are certainly the ones I would put in charge. :-)
Cheers,
David
P.S. As for why they are targeting me, I can only assume it
is because of the article explaining the history of the IEPA. :-(
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Help! Can not land David website. [message #64713 is a reply to message #64643] |
Tue, 13 January 2009 07:30  |
David Fanning
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David Fanning writes:
> Jean H. writes:
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>> Unless you are talking about your driver license, it might as well be
>> your subversive reading list... tss tss tss
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> Oh, yeah, I hadn't thought about that. Dr. Tatiana's Sex
> Advice to All Creation is certainly something we don't
> want the Chinese to get their hands on. :-(
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> http://www.dfanning.com/reading/coyote_reading.html
Now that I think about it, there may be something to this.
I did review The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the
Dalai Lama. I would think "Dalai Lama" has got to be on
their list of forbidden search terms. Wow. :-(
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Help! Can not land David website. [message #64716 is a reply to message #64622] |
Tue, 13 January 2009 06:52 |
Jean H.
Messages: 472
Registered: July 2006
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> P.S. As for why they are targeting me, I can only assume it
> is because of the article explaining the history of the IEPA. :-(
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Unless you are talking about your driver license, it might as well be
your subversive reading list... tss tss tss
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