A note about Wikipedia for today

Messy Recipe · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:26 am Post subject: A note about Wikipedia for today

The true spirit of opposition is in circumvention, so do this to get past the SOPA/PIPA protest blackout:

http://i.imgur.com/ubm7e.jpg
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ABC News wrote:

Birds can disable planes, Ostrom said, by flying into the engines and shutting them down.

Eugene · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:35 am Post subject:

Cool guide. All though I keep ad-block off in order to support those that make a living off adds on YouTube and twitch.

However, being the negative nancy that I am, I cannot condone this as it defeats the entire purpose of this blackout in the first place. ( though you can certainly make the argument that finding the workaround is the Internet resisting.)

TLDR; I'm a douche, and USAF is awesome.

Messy Recipe · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:13 am Post subject:

The purpose of the blackout is to inform people -- presumably, most people looking for ways around it are informed. Razz

In fact, people running extensions like Adblock (or Noscript, which stops it by default), are likely to know about this stuff regardless of the blackout...
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ABC News wrote:

Birds can disable planes, Ostrom said, by flying into the engines and shutting them down.

Cap'n Crunch · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:39 am Post subject:

USAF marry me.
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Berry Punch · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:20 am Post subject:

....Wat.

And i've got my way around it already... Though hopefully it dosn't come to that.

Eugene · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:24 pm Post subject:

https://twitter.com/herpderpedia

that twitter account made me laugh

Messy Recipe · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:31 pm Post subject:

Wow... how can people wonder why it's down when the explanation is only fucking thing on the site right now (for them)?
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ABC News wrote:

Birds can disable planes, Ostrom said, by flying into the engines and shutting them down.

Draco · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 5:39 pm Post subject:

USAF 777 wrote:

Wow... how can people wonder why it's down when the explanation is only fucking thing on the site right now (for them)?

A lot of people are surprisingly illiterate.

ChrisT · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:21 pm Post subject:

Cap'n Crunch wrote:

USAF marry me.

Cap'n Spotted!
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Erwin Rommel · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:58 pm Post subject:

Wikipedia has actually said they don't mind people circumventing it.

Also, I've just been going to google's cache of the wikipedia pages.
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Vlad Piranha · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:02 pm Post subject:

I love the posts from people whining about how they can't do school reports with Wikipedia down. For the record: you aren't supposed to use Wikipedia as a source for reports. That's one of the cardinal rules of research papers unless times have changed that much and our school system truly is that inept now. If that's the case, I weep for the future.

No wonder there are activists trying to get iPads for grade schools to "improve education". I guess a half-assed Google search counts as an education now.

Hanna Banana · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:09 am Post subject:

I guess they don't know that there are other sites that exist with pretty much the same information, especially if what they are looking up is something for school. And I must say, some of those comments just make me realize even more just how stupid people are (especially around my age). >.<

Stealth · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:51 am Post subject:

I used Wiki, not as a source, but because they have links to sources.

Makes it cake.
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atatme · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:51 am Post subject:

Stealth wrote:

I used Wiki, not as a source, but because they have links to sources.

Makes it cake.

junkyard · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:17 am Post subject:

Stealth wrote:

I used Wiki, not as a source, but because they have links to sources.

Makes it cake.

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