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Although I am unable to get to www.dilbert.com, The Dilbert Zone is up and operational. {shrug} Shane

Let me counter-challenge: can you provide evidence that exposing minors to pornography is beneficial to minors and/or society?

What a bizarre question. I sure can't answer it, because I must admit, I don't have a shred of evidence that might suggest that it is beneficial to minors and/or society.

I also cannot provide any evidence that things like Dilbert or Astronomy Picture of the Day are beneficial to minors or society. Are you suggesting that information should be restricted until after it has been studied (by someone -- who?) and shown to be beneficial to minors and/or society?

That would rule out just about every form of entertainment!

I remember something about a 15-year-old coming up with an encryption system a few months or years ago (hard to keep track of Internet time). Imagine if someone had decided that the girl didn't need information about crypto, since there wasn't any evidence that crypto research could benefit her. If you have reason to believe that something can be harmful, then perhaps it's justifiable to steer around it. But if you simply lack the imagination to see something's value, and fence it off since it is "useless" then that's a travesty.

Sorry, but your counter-challenge is just ridiculous.

Oh.. just one more gripe. Whether something is beneficial or harmful to society, it about one five billionth as important as whether it is beneficial or harmful to the individual. So let's just leave the issue of "beneficial to society" out of it. Society belongs to us and it is our slave, not the other way around. No human being should ever hate themselves and degrade themselves so much, as to deign to worry about what might happen to society.

"Do I dare disturb the universe?" -- J. Alfred Prufrock, loser extraordinaire

To clarify: "cow-orker" is an intentional misspelling of co-worker. I just like the way it sounds. I picked it up from the Dilbert List of the Day. It's not uncommon there.

Go here.

With all this "anonymous" service available, how long until someone applies to their own company by mistake? Check out the Dilbert website to see what I mean.

I'm not too sure why the "author" of the Dilbert Hole is really bothering to do this. I don't find it particularly amusing at all.

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Dilbert Hole is an acquired taste, reserved for the true connoisseur! Please be excusing me. I, a subversive counter culture type, have someone's nuts here to shave, and I've been ordered to be gentle. Gurgle.

Definitely an acquired taste. #17 brought a smile to my face, but only briefly.

However, apart from simply using three characters' pictures from the Dilbert comics, there are no real references to the actual characters themselves - so I don't think this qualifies as a parody, or even any type of humour really.

The "Mr T vs ..." page was a much worthier Quickie posting I think. I'm looking forward to the time when my computer knows that I won't find certain things funny and so can filter them from slashdot. :)

Andrew.

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