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Re: RD.net to be re-revamped!

Post by lordpasternack » Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:03 am

Stop that press! They have evidence!

Allegedly…

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Post by Thinking Aloud » Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:12 am

Damn. No-one wants to buy hate these days.

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Post by lordpasternack » Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:23 am

I do think it was a remarkable coincidence that Pakistan unblocked RD.net roughly coinciding with me asking grassroots secularists in Pakistan if they knew anything about the supposed ban. And also a remarkable coincidence if I was the first person they heard about it from…

I wonder what made the Pakistani authorities change their mind? Maybe it was RDF and their staunch activism, urging people to rise up and give RDF money - with which it proposed to do, well, nothing in particular about the stated situation in Pakistan…

But well, if it wasn't RDF - I suppose it must have been all those brave grassroots groups - like the ones who said they'd been accessing the site everyday, had no idea about any supposed ban - and could find no evidence even when asking around. They must have swayed the Pakistani authorities.

Or maybe the Pakistani authorities just wanted to fuck with their heads at RDF - because they knew that people like me would start asking questions, and might threaten to make them look stupid, if it turned out they weren't really blocked at the time.

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Post by lordpasternack » Tue Aug 27, 2013 11:22 am

Tero wrote:Does the old forum still allow search?
http://forum.richarddawkins.net/index.p ... dbcec68c49

I've forgotten my password. Can someone point me to my last post there? I was Tero.
The search function is very temperamental, and I'm not sure what you can do about forgotten passwords.
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Post by PsychoSerenity » Tue Aug 27, 2013 12:11 pm

Tero wrote:Does the old forum still allow search?
http://forum.richarddawkins.net/index.p ... dbcec68c49

I've forgotten my password. Can someone point me to my last post there? I was Tero.
Is this you? http://forum.richarddawkins.net/search. ... mit=Search
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Post by lordpasternack » Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:01 pm

Y'know, if you're gonna insist so snarkily on my disappointment about the fact that you have evidence - the very least you could do is provide some evidence that you have evidence… :coffee:
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Post by Svartalf » Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:08 pm

Evidence of what? You know, I think that SCA is actually an atheist branch of the other SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism)
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Post by Tero » Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:23 pm

PsychoSerenity wrote:
Tero wrote:Does the old forum still allow search?
http://forum.richarddawkins.net/index.p ... dbcec68c49

I've forgotten my password. Can someone point me to my last post there? I was Tero.
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:24 pm

Tero wrote:
PsychoSerenity wrote:
Tero wrote:Does the old forum still allow search?
http://forum.richarddawkins.net/index.p ... dbcec68c49

I've forgotten my password. Can someone point me to my last post there? I was Tero.
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Post by lordpasternack » Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:26 pm

Exactly. What kind of evidence? Demonstrating what? Refuting what? Corroborated by what?

How the fuck am I supposed to skulk away in disappointment if they haven't told me the specifics of what I'm supposed to be disappointed about, and why?

For the time being - they only continue to impress me mightily…
Then they for sudden joy did weep,
And I for sorrow sung,
That such a king should play bo-peep,
And go the fools among.
Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach
thy fool to lie: I would fain learn to lie.

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Post by PsychoSerenity » Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:49 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Tero wrote:
PsychoSerenity wrote:
Tero wrote:Does the old forum still allow search?
http://forum.richarddawkins.net/index.p ... dbcec68c49

I've forgotten my password. Can someone point me to my last post there? I was Tero.
Is this you? http://forum.richarddawkins.net/search. ... mit=Search
Yeah, probably, I can't see that either. If you could link the last post, that would be great!
You still have to sign in, I believe.
How's this? http://forum.richarddawkins.net/viewtop ... 0#p2741810
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Post by Tero » Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:01 pm

Yeah that was it, thanks, 2010! I may even figure out the password now. It was when my daughter was still somewhat connected to the Unitarian youth group. I was bored with my last religion fling and had read most of my Joseph McCabe. But that year my son still did his last scout work, so I was maintaining religion friendly attitudes, a sort of casual tolerance.

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Post by lordpasternack » Tue Aug 27, 2013 2:49 pm

I wonder if I was the only one who wondered why Pakistani censors would display their notices in English, and only English?
Then they for sudden joy did weep,
And I for sorrow sung,
That such a king should play bo-peep,
And go the fools among.
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Re: RD.net to be re-revamped!

Post by Svartalf » Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:00 pm

Because RDF & whatnot are not published in Urdu?
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