Avoiding Sulla has requested that I post the damning evidence as well as request of the software cognizenti here at FR possible means of defeating the Nanny so that he can get his fix amid a hotbed of liberal unconsciousness.
FReegards, C_O.
Those lefties are such cowards.
Open minded my a$$.
Time to change hotels and inform the manager why.
Just go to a Cyber/Coffee Shop/Bar. They are all over the place!!
Does NetNanny evaluate the page content, or just the web address? If it's just the web address, try:
http://209.157.64.200/
Not sure if it will work, but it's worth an attempt.
Look up Virtual Private Networks. Establishing a VPN Server on your home computer may be overkill and unnecessarily complicated but when it comes down to it - using a VPN to bypass a local networks internet access restrictions is worth the effort.
As an added benefit all of your internet traffic will be encrypted. Only downside is that traffic will be funneled to you via your home computer, which may add to the lag.
No idea if this will work, but how about using one of those web sites that allow anonymous web surfing like, http://www.anonymizer.com/
It could be something that was not deliberate against FR, the admin may have just blocked all sites with the word "free" in them. It could just unintended consequences, that same way that some similar software blocked access to cancer sites, because it blocked all sites, where the word "breast" was mentioned.
If I were in that situation, I would ask the manager, if I could speak to the computer admin and go in with the assumption of an accidental blocking, and ask the computer admin, if he would be so kind, so as to unblock FreeRepublic. My guess is that he would succeed.
I don't know how he could get around it otherwise, because I think they would have the computer set up, so the guests don't have admin privileges and can't change the blocked sites.
Does the hotel allow DU?
If so; you got em!
Is DU available?
Tell him to check rates at another hotel and move. Before he moves tell the manager he is publicizing the business actions/inactions on Free Republic.
Then call and complain to the Holiday Inn corporate, and fill out a customer satisfaction survey. If he is really pissed off call/web the local better business bureau and complain that he is being discriminated against for his political affiliation, and submit a complaint. It can be done online.
This is 2005, not 1996. Move with your feet. Dont support businesses that pull this BS.
When I was working at a client site, the client blocked FR.
I googled freerepublic, then clicked on "cache".
I was in. Not sure why....
Here's a link to the Net Nanny quick start guide. Maybe it will help. http://www.netnanny.com/assets/docs/nn5/qsguide.pdf
It is wrong to purposely damage your room or anything in it. However, if management and staff are evil, or you realize that your room sits above violated burial grounds, then what you need is a project of untraceable origin to keep your mind clear of "bad things." (Note: Do not try this at home!)
March to the market and pick up a zip-lock baggie and one whole, uncleaned fresh fish. Now, return to your room and place your uncleaned and securely zip-locked tight aquatic bomb behind the grill of the Time-Release Natural Disaster Storage Unit (a.k.a. the Heater Vent). Mother Nature will take over from here, as she proves that although Fishy may be quite dead, he's still not quite done!. And sure enough, after a feverish week or so of super-natural gas-accelerated frenzy, the highly pressurized action becomes uncontainable in a dramatically explosive manner so sensorily devastating that even evil gets the hell out!
Of course, you'll be long gone by that time, or at least you'd better be! It's checkout time, so haul ass!!
you could copy/paste every single thread and email them one at a time :)
(ya, I know, I'm a jerk)
My cybersitter blocks FR because of the words on the site. For example, "homosexual agenda" which is on the first page every day, will cause it to be blocked.
Maybe it's not political.
blame pissant