With sites like whitehouse.com, sanfransisco.com and others, people are often getting fed material they don't want. Requiring proper labling so people can make these choices for themselves is not only NOT censorship, but it's really just treating people respectfully.
Just to nitpick, whitehouse.com hasn't been a porn site for a couple of years now. Not familiar with the other site that you mentioned, but looking at archive.org it seems to have been a tourism website since July 2002.
Actually, you might be surprised at how few people give a shit about it. I'm quite regularly amazed. Trouble is, there are so many users out there who barely understand what a browser is, they just think that teh interwebs is something their computer 'does'.
For example, today in work I was trying to demonstrate the OSS project management system that I've set up at the client, which is quite a large retailer, to their IT project manager. First I had to point him to the blue 'e' icon on his desktop because he didn't understand the terms 'web browser' or even 'Internet Explorer', and then when he opened it he wasn't sure where to type the new address (no wonder he has dozens of bookmarks, then). When he finally figured it out, he said he still couldn't access the site and turned out he was putting "www." in front of the IP address that I was calling out to him. And he's been working in an IT department for the past 20 years. Try explaining about FF to someone like that.
I was also angling for a NES for Christmas when I was 7 or 8, but my Dad thought the same way as yours and so I ended up with a second-hand ZX Spectrum 128 with a dodgy power supply and an ancient black-and-white TV. I only remember having had a single 128k game, which was the infuriating "NeverEnding Story" adventure game that came with the machine ("east". "Atreyu has fallen down a hole and been savaged by a giant spider. Play again?". "piss off i've just spent 4 hours getting to that point!". "Sorry, I don't understand the command 'piss'").
Thanks to older friends and the columns in Your Sinclair magazine, I soon became quite adept at writing my own simple programs in BASIC, and it all went from there, really. Given that I'm of a fairly lazy disposition, dropped out of uni because I couldn't be bothered attending lectures, but am now a well paid IT consultant travelling round the world on expenses, I think I can safely say "cheers for the Speccy, Dad!":-)
Yet again, the Americans are claiming credit for "discovering" something that has been known about for decades in other countries. Anybody who grew up watching Bagpuss on the TV in the UK could have told you that mice can sing.
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Often with Vim it's a case of knowing how to use the integrated help. Here you could've started out by looking for help on Ctrl-V:
:help Ctrl-V
This brings up the following information:
CTRL-V start Visual mode blockwise. Note: Under Windows
CTRL-V could be mapped to paste text, it doesn't work
to start Visual mode then, see |CTRL-V-alternative|.
In the Vim help system, terms surrounded by vertical bars are hyperlinks. Position the cursor between the bars and press Ctrl-] to jump to the help on 'CTRL-V-alternative', and there it tells you about Ctrl-Q.
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"PHP and MySQL use is so prevalent that nowadays it is hard to miss seeing a book review on the front page of Slashdot concerning these technologies."
There, that's better.
Actually, you might be surprised at how few people give a shit about it. I'm quite regularly amazed. Trouble is, there are so many users out there who barely understand what a browser is, they just think that teh interwebs is something their computer 'does'.
For example, today in work I was trying to demonstrate the OSS project management system that I've set up at the client, which is quite a large retailer, to their IT project manager. First I had to point him to the blue 'e' icon on his desktop because he didn't understand the terms 'web browser' or even 'Internet Explorer', and then when he opened it he wasn't sure where to type the new address (no wonder he has dozens of bookmarks, then). When he finally figured it out, he said he still couldn't access the site and turned out he was putting "www." in front of the IP address that I was calling out to him. And he's been working in an IT department for the past 20 years. Try explaining about FF to someone like that.
I was also angling for a NES for Christmas when I was 7 or 8, but my Dad thought the same way as yours and so I ended up with a second-hand ZX Spectrum 128 with a dodgy power supply and an ancient black-and-white TV. I only remember having had a single 128k game, which was the infuriating "NeverEnding Story" adventure game that came with the machine ("east". "Atreyu has fallen down a hole and been savaged by a giant spider. Play again?". "piss off i've just spent 4 hours getting to that point!". "Sorry, I don't understand the command 'piss'").
Thanks to older friends and the columns in Your Sinclair magazine, I soon became quite adept at writing my own simple programs in BASIC, and it all went from there, really. Given that I'm of a fairly lazy disposition, dropped out of uni because I couldn't be bothered attending lectures, but am now a well paid IT consultant travelling round the world on expenses, I think I can safely say "cheers for the Speccy, Dad!" :-)
Yet again, the Americans are claiming credit for "discovering" something that has been known about for decades in other countries. Anybody who grew up watching Bagpuss on the TV in the UK could have told you that mice can sing.
Often with Vim it's a case of knowing how to use the integrated help. Here you could've started out by looking for help on Ctrl-V:
:help Ctrl-V
This brings up the following information:
CTRL-V start Visual mode blockwise. Note: Under Windows
CTRL-V could be mapped to paste text, it doesn't work
to start Visual mode then, see |CTRL-V-alternative|.
In the Vim help system, terms surrounded by vertical bars are hyperlinks. Position the cursor between the bars and press Ctrl-] to jump to the help on 'CTRL-V-alternative', and there it tells you about Ctrl-Q.