Want to browse Vanity Fair magazine on the Denver airport's free Wi-Fi system? Sorry. You'll have to buy it at the newsstand, because DIA's Internet filter blocks Vanity Fair as "provocative."I wonder if you can access WarOnGuns?
Why people wouldn't want to self-censor most of the trivia mentioned is beyond me, but I guess that's why they're wildly popular and this site is obscure.
Still what gets me most is some of the comments from the informed public along the lines of "Quit complaining--it's free."
Yeah, right. No one had the fruits of their labor plundered to pay for a public airport, so they have no say. The money to pay for it just grew on trees. Public trees.
Everybody wants "free." Nobody wants "freedom," or they do until they realize the two are incompatible.
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stupid filters < proxy + opendns.org
baby boomer + techspeak = ?
I used to live in Denver and the DIA insanity had an influence over my life.
I don't live there now. Hopefully the homes I own will sell there and I can forget that episode of my life.
I miss the people who I met at the gun clubs there. I don't miss much else.
Denver was poisoned by a large influx of people who came from California and/or NYC. Instead of being Denver it tried to be the San Francisco of the Midwest and instead became something not free and not beautiful.
He's saying that using a web proxy that may not be blocked will allow patrons to get around stupid filters.
Example
They can block the addresses, but it's so simple to buy cheap web hosting and throw on a script to make your own, that it's impossible to get them all.
I lived in Denver for a time. Two things I noticed, one; a man could not go home alone unless he fought. I assumed at the time that the women of the area just couldn't find enough native Coloradoans that qualified. I wasn't a fighter.;)
Two; I eventually came to the conclusion that the only difference between Denver residents and weenie Californians was that even their ancestors were too weak to finish what they started and until the advent of the automobile were fairly isolated, thus keeping the jelly gene strong in the shallow pool.
YMMV, but those were the two main impressions I came away with. Perhaps it was only a Denver thing, but it didn't seem much different in Pueblo, either.
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