I am now settled at yet another Contingency Operating Station with blazing fast internet and more importantly, a cooler Army webmaster. When I was in Mosul, the local internet master blocked a lot of atheist related sites…including FTB… but now in Kirkuk everything seems accessible! Whoever runs the intertubes here deserves a near-beer.
Updates will now resume.
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chigau (...---...)
September 20, 2011 at 17:48 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The Military™ can provide a home to the pettiest of tyrants.
Assassin Actual
September 20, 2011 at 18:05 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
/sage
Bob Twaites
September 20, 2011 at 19:43 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
How can you, in conscience, serve a country that censors your reading while you serve it? I think there are other good reasons not to be there, but this alone seems to me to be reason enough to leave.
chigau (...---...)
September 21, 2011 at 07:12 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It must be interesting living in Flatland.
Who really needs more than two dimensions?
Assassin Actual
September 21, 2011 at 12:53 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
T-walls as far as the eye can see…
F
September 21, 2011 at 03:19 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The Army needs its own Norton Schwartz to send a memo to your former SysOp.
Glad to hear you have a bigger, faster pipe and a cooler network overlord. Is the climate in Kirkuk any cooler than your former location? I hope so.
Jessica
September 21, 2011 at 13:03 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hmmm, I wondered. I’m stationed in Kabul and for some reason I can only read pharyngula and not the rest of the blogs here at FTB. I still find that strange.
Assassin Actual
September 21, 2011 at 13:35 (UTC -4) Link to this comment
After dealing with the Mosul censor, this web access thing while deployed has really ticked me off. I would ask your base’s webmaster if he has an official memo on there censorship policy. I encourge other Soldiers to do the same, lets see if there is a theater wide bias against science and godless sites.