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Re: Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA!
« on: January 18, 2012, 07:02:09 AM »
Oh no :( When they said they were blacking out Wiki i thought they were just going to change the theme colour from white to black like they did to spidy. No Wiki for 24 hours :(
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Re: Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA!
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2012, 10:08:43 AM »
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Yeah, I know, but there's a partial solution! If you can get to the page you need through google, do it and when the page shows up, immediately press CTRL-A and then CTRL-C. Now you can paste the page into a text editor as ascii text. Not ideal, but it works (checked it).

Nah. I have decided to ease my suffering by getting **** faced. Hopefully it will be over soon (before i sober up). I've already started sculping down the Guinness - Almost up to my 3rd pint. :drink::drink::drink:

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A handier way might be to disable JavaScript - it should work as before then. But can you really not go a day without Wikipedia? ;)

Obviously not. *SCULP* *SCULP* *SCULP* :pint::pint:

Although interesting to note that all the other wiki's seem to be unaffected so i may survive yet :)

For example:

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Portal:Main

http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_Wiki

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Re: Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA!
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2012, 09:15:55 PM »
I think maybe they are doing it because they think it's what people want. We had a similar thing in Australia about media censorship. The government bowing to public pressure to stop child porn (and other stuff) from the net proposed internet censorship. The result was a back lash of the government being accused of trying to oppress peoples lives (like China does). After the backlash they canceled the proposed changes because that's what people wanted. This just goes to show that sometimes you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. Sheeesh... you just can't win  :(

Now I'm off the beach. My friend Glen just got half his leg eaten off by a 2 metre white pointer shark. Cool! I'm going down there to take a look.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/beaches-closed-near-newcastle-following-shark-attack-on-local-surfer/story-e6frg6nf-1226247956225
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