03-16-2006, 07:34 AM
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I consider this as a very interesting article as it shows a pure contradiction where contradiction is the LEAST needed.
Opinions? http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid27710.asp
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03-16-2006, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Pauli | Great. Now my company's website tracker thinks I'm surfing gay websites. I suggest to those a bit more astute than I, that if you haven't hit the link yet, wait until you're not in the office. | |
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03-16-2006, 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Slim Great. Now my company's website tracker thinks I'm surfing gay websites. I suggest to those a bit more astute than I, that if you haven't hit the link yet, wait until you're not in the office. | Sorry Slim, I made the same mistake as you a few hours ago, and should have put out the warning you did. My bad. | |
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03-17-2006, 12:20 PM
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possibly your website tracker is set to avoid all that has the word "Bush" in it.
Well, it seems that it's too much of a difficult topic and of no interest. Not a prob.
Gav: pls close this post
p.s. Sheez, now here you have a "language barrier". I totally wasn't aware this was a gay website....... I posted it for the article, not for the website.....
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03-17-2006, 04:00 PM
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| Heh. This raises an interesting question...
At what point in the past did searching the Internet for the term "Bush" return more politics then pornography?
James.
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03-17-2006, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by jBirch Heh. This raises an interesting question...
At what point in the past did searching the Internet for the term "Bush" return more politics then pornography?
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I don't know.. do you have safe search set on your search engine, or not? | |
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03-17-2006, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Larrison I don't know.. do you have safe search set on your search engine, or not? | Google. No safe search (though I had to re-run the query to be sure).
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03-18-2006, 02:06 AM
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| To return to the substance of the topic, leaving aside the various permutations of "Bush" on the internet (frankly, I think the political "Bush" is far more obscene than any so-called pornography, but let that lie undisturbed...)
The phrase "setting the fox to guard the henhouse" comes to mind. Appointing people to oversee the covert dismantling of the very agencies/councils/boards they ostensibly are protecting and promoting is a common tactic of the Bush administration--witness his appointments to the EPA.
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03-18-2006, 04:29 PM
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| Right - so Bush appointing a homophobe to serve on an AIDS panel should not be a surprise to anyone.
Side note to those worried that their browsing to a gay site could get them in trouble: maybe that should lead to a little appreciate for what groups like the ACLU do to protect you...
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03-19-2006, 04:18 AM
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| This doesnt really surprise me in the slightest. Since when has any administration (be it American or any other) actually appointed people to committees who knew what was going on? The day a helath minister is a doctor with experience as a GP is the day I eat my hat.
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03-20-2006, 12:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Zelda This doesnt really surprise me in the slightest. Since when has any administration (be it American or any other) actually appointed people to committees who knew what was going on? The day a helath minister is a doctor with experience as a GP is the day I eat my hat. | Just for grins, I went and looked up the bio of the current US Surgeon General. I recall at least one was a fairly well experienced MD (koop) who was a bit outspken. The current US Surgeon General is Richard H. Carmona.
His bio is at http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/aboutoffice.html#biosg
Dr. Carmona has worked in various positions in the medical field including paramedic, registered nurse and physician. Dr. Carmona completed a surgical residency at the University of California, San Francisco, and a National Institutes of Health-sponsored fellowship in trauma, burns and critical care. Dr. Carmona is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and is also certified in correctional health care and in quality assurance.
Well, maybe not experience as a GP, but seems to have a bit of experience in the field.. | |
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03-20-2006, 04:17 AM
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| 2 things occur to me after reading this thread:
1 : I've been asked to close the thread and will now do so. ]
2 : That some people seem incapable of seperating the concept of AIDS, homosexuality and what is appropriate for looking at at work. Frankly; if your office has a stict Internet access policy then you shouldn't even be looking at this site. Your average admin is not going to care that you are looking at a gay site - your sexuality being your own business and no one else's - only that you are not surfing material likely to cause offence; most likely pornography and most likely images. This sort of material can be straight, Bi, metro, up, down, donkey, plant, pasta ... whatever, but is unlikely to include a straight (ha ha ha) gay information site. Get a grip people - I thought it was supposed to be us brits who were uptight about sex.
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