Another Forum that uses false information??

[Donny]

I realized after posting this, that my reference to the link was unsuccessful.
Still trying to determine proper web reference.

Any way, it was the about.com signup page, where you're prompted for a password, if you don't use cookies. At the top of the page, you can't miss it.

Bear with me, please.

Just thought you guys might want to see some of this disinformation being propogated.
Anybody have some current statistics to wave under the sysop/Admin's nose to bring them around??

Best Regards,
Don

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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler

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[deanf]

Could you be a little more specific about what the problem is?

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"Anyone feel like saluting the flag which the strutting ATF and FBI gleefully raised over the smoldering crematorium of Waco, back in April of ‘93?" -Vin Suprynowicz

 

[Don Gwinn]

OK, here's the deal. I think what he's referring to is a banner ad for some "Stop the Violence Against the Children" type of org. The reason nobody is seeing it is that it's in a random rotation. If you want to see it, just keep hitting reload. But I just tried it and it might take awhile to see it.

The ad is a red background with a black hand on the right--kinda looks like the "Black Power" fist. It counts off 17 by blocks of five slashes, and then says that 17 kids are killed every day. To be honest, I think it may be true--the figures we usually dispute are deaths involving firearms, not all forms of violence where children die. I think 17 might be true, though it's probably inflated by including pretty mature "children."

The really weird thing is that the ad doesn't take you to their website if you click it. Probably some glitch at about.com. It took me to some kind of elderly health care site, so I went back and hit reload about 30 times to get it again and this time it took me to some sort of domain name registry.


Anyway, when you see a banner ad, DON'T assume it'll be there later. If it makes you mad, CLICK on it even though that inflates their stats, or you might never see it again 'cause it's usually random.

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