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Posted by bryce (Member # 42) on :

I leave for school on Thursday. I have been packing for some time now, which is why I haven't posted lately. Once I get settled down and have my PC set up I will get back here as soon as possible. I will change all my preferences and stuff once I get there.

I hope I am not blocked out of here, but oh well...?

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It's all about the Pentiums, Baby!
"I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him Money for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support"

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Don't know why you would be blocked.

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Kosh: Well, by the school's server.

Good luck, Bryce! (I would say "G'luck!" but that just sounds weird. )

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Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")

Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

Yeah, Tom's school blocked out the old Risa Beach chat ages ago..... "It's getting lots of hits! It MUST be bad!"

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Avon: "You really do believe in taking risks, don't you?"
Tarrant: "Calculated risks."
Avon: "Calculated on what? Your fingers?"
-- Blake's Seven, Ultraworld

Posted by bryce (Member # 42) on :

I dunno how the server would pick and choose, but since it's a Christian school they may block me out of a lot. (I dunno anything about the web access) I will have ICQ and AOL up so you guys can always get in touch with me.

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It's all about the Pentiums, Baby!
"I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him Money for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support"

Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

I should have thought of that, I keep waiting for the admin here at work to catch up with me. I was warned once to lay low for a couple of weeks, but most of my friends have moved on to other jobs.

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Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, it's to dark to read. Groucho Marx

Posted by bryce (Member # 42) on :

I got here! There is a firewall up, but that doesn't matter. I can't install AOL or ICQ because I don't know the Proxy codes! I have to find help or call I/S on Monday. See ya!

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It's all about the Pentiums, Baby!
"I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him Money for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support"

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

"Onward Christian firewalls, blocking all sites fun..."

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"When we turn our back on our principles, we stop being human." -- Janeway, "Equinox"

Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

*L*

That incident...

*wasted sooooo many hours of homework time on RB*

Our Microsoft Feces Flinger picks on a lot of things... a lot of outward-moving Java, IRC, ICQ... AOLIM apparently can be made work through it, though I don't care to exploit that loophole much.

I have a worm on the inside, though, and things might improve this year..

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"MORE OVALTINE PLEASE!"
-American Radio Ads... *gag*... one more reason I'm glad to be above the 49th.

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

I guess it's time to pray for the end of the firewall?

"Te Profundus Clammo, Ad Te Domine" ... Out of the Depths I Cry, To You, Oh Lord ... ....

Anyways... I had the same problem with my Catholic College... they had this huge firewall up and ICQ BARELY worked. It was a pain in the ARSE, and now it's worse in the computer lab, because they don't have any sort of AOL or anything. I had to use the java pop-up Yahoo pager for awhile. I can only thank my lucky stars that they have no such precautions with the net hook-ups in the dorms. *crosses her fingers*

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�From Me all things proceed and unto Me they must return. Let
My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold � all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Let there be beauty and strength, power
and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you. ... Know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. For
behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I am that which is attained at the end of desire.�

Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

*Begin obscure cartoon reference*

Hexadecimal, breach this firewall with your viral energies!

*End obscure cartoon reference*

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Darlene: I read a lot of science fiction.
Herbert: Bless you, my child.
Kay: The world needs more people like you.

-Deep Space Nine, "Far Beyond the Stars."

Posted by bryce (Member # 42) on :

Guys, the Firewall just blocks Playboy.com and crap!

AIM is installed on our cps, they are pretty cool. I love it here.

The network keeps track of where we have been and if we hit a firewall too often they make us go to Student Development for counseling! -LOL-

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It's all about the Pentiums, Baby!
"I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him Money for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support"

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Censorship is obscene.

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"We shall not yield to you, nor to any man." -- Freak, The Mighty.

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

That's just absurd.

"WHY did you go to those forums so often, (insert RL name here), why??"
"Err... I like the people?"
"But didn't you know that that place is run by a cult-like Cappsian and his flock of merry sheep?.. It MUST be evil! If you continue to go there, we're going to have to speak to God directly about it."
"*o_O*".

*LOL* *Joking, of course, guys*

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�From Me all things proceed and unto Me they must return. Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold � all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you. ... Know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I am that which is attained at the end of desire.�

Posted by bryce (Member # 42) on :

I am going home to ICQ this weekend!

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It's all about the Pentiums, Baby!
"I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him Money for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support"

Posted by Gaseous Anomaly (Member # 114) on :

You're back in college, and you're complaining!? You ingrate! I have to wait until the 13th until college can welcome me back to it's warm embrace. I'm bored feckless at home at the minute.

Speaking of college censorship, want to hear something sick? About December last year, there was a huge furore over some guy accessing porn from college terminals. No problem, you might say, Galway is a fairly cool place, and non-denominational, so what?

Weeeeeel, the chap in question was caught playing with himself at the same time (covertly, of course. He didn't let the little general out of the bunker while dancing on a desk). Now this is in a computer suite, with at least 10 other users in the same room at the same time. How we laughed when we heard.

Anyway, the college authorities then had cattle, as did the Students Union, the money-grabbing blood-suckers that they are. From what I've read here, I wouldn't be suprised if there will be a firewall in operation come Monday next, when I return.
Onwards.

"Every time I have some fun,
Mom you turn around and sigh;
I ask myself, why oh why.
See you must understand,
I can't work a Nine-to-Five,
So I'll be gone,
Come September.

Yes I'll be gone come September,
Yes I'll be gone come September,
Don't cry for me,
I'll be gone come September.
January, February, March, April, May
You start your sighing,
But Mom I can't stay.
I'll be gone come September,
I'll be gone on a bender,
So send me lots of spondoolics."

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The unexplained phenomenon that crippled the U.S.S. Unimpeachable --
Gaseous Anomaly...
What anomalises gaseously.

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

*LOL*

What a sad little wanker.

And of course, they're going to blame this on the computers, or their content, rather than the guy who was pulling it where he shouldn've.

"Oh, if that hadn't been available, he wouldn't have done it..."

What a crock. A guy twisted enough (no pun intended) to do that will do it anyway, but instead he'd have come down to the library and tossed while reading "Fanny Hill" (which IS rather an *ahem* book, btw. My library has it.) Or found some worse way to relieve his.. problems.

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Censorship is the Establishment's way of telling you that they think you're an idiot.

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

He can't have been enjoying it much if no-one noticed...

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"Ray...the next time someone asks you if you're a god you say 'Yes!'"
-Winston Zeddmore

Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

Gee... they never caught me......they must have been looking REALLY hard...

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"If you will not have me as myself, Perhaps as someone else. Perhaps as you, I'll be worth noticing. Then even a eunuch won't resist, The power of one kiss, from such as me.
I'll be that girl: and you would be right over. If I were a field, you would be in clover. If I were the sun, you would be in shadow. If I had a gun, there'd be no tomorrow."
~ Barenaked Ladies