Blocked (cross-posted to get a broader perspective)
 

If they have blocked the name but not the ip numbers you can connect using those. Try lawtalkers.net that connects through the numbers.

Also try http://www.anonymizer.com/ if you have a popup blocker on make sure it doesn't interfere.

Am I compliant?
 

Nicely done.

Vanity Plate in my garage
 

On the other end of the spectrum, I've seen a plate that reads "Redeemd."

I think that's a bit presumptuous.

Just screw IT
 

Try going through an anonimizer, e.g., http://www.anonymizer.com

The left side of the screen at that site allows you to plug in the URL and allows you to surf snoop-free (and, possibly allow you to get around you IT nazis).

We discussed this site a few years ago in the context of trying to hide the gifs/jpgs from your cache, and I explained then that the anonymizer likely would not work as that poster needed it, as everything ultimately is captured both at your computer and at your firm's server.

As an aside, if you are using the same computer (laptop) at home and at work, some systems (like the newer Novell) will image/synch your laptop to the firm's system and, therefore, you run the risk of having all your internet files copied onto the system for later persecution by the firm (Jesus, I'm starting to sound like Laird Bell. . .)

Just screw IT
 

If you use anonymizer you won't be able to log in to the site. Not a big issue, unless you want to post.

You can try doing a search for "public proxies" on the internet, and then set your browser up to use one of the working proxies. it will filter all traffic and your IT people probably wont be able to block sites that way. Just depends on how crafty your IT peeps are. They may not even let you access IE's proxy settings.

The other thing is, of course, to access the site with the IP address. Here it is: http://205.214.94.186

Just screw IT
 

That might not work. I enter www.lawtalkers.net (without the penis gavel) and the URL automatically shows the numerical IP address.

Blocked (cross-posted to get a broader perspective)
 

Alternatively, if your firm blocks third-party proxies and "anonymizing sites" (which it should do if it is serious about making sure that its censorware is not circumvented), or if these proxy sites don't properly handle cookies, you might also consider bypassing the firm's network altogether by bringing in your own laptop and either (1) logging onto your current ISP through your cellphone (assuming that you have a dialup account and your cellphone plan has a sufficient amount of extra minutes for you to use it for daytime surfing)*, or (2) subscribing to your wireless provider's data network.

*This is not idle theorizing as I have applied option (1) in order to surf the web while on a picnic in Central Park.

Just screw IT
 

It's a redirect. So you actually go to lawtalkers.net which in turns sends you to the numerical address.

It might not work anyway, if they were clever enough to block the IP address instead of just the name.

Am I compliant?
 

DON'T

SAY

COMPLIANT.

f(fucking sadists)b

Compliance
 

How YOU doin?

Telluride, Colorado was full of "Trust=afarians" back in the early '90s.

Am I compliant?
 

I'm about to have a breakdown due to that word.

A Really Gross Etiquette Issue (welcome back DS!)
 

From "Dear Prudence" column:

Prudie,
Recently, my mother passed away. I live more than 1,000 miles away and couldn't make it home for the funeral. The problem is that when I went online to read the obituary, it said that my mom had five daughters, not four. What happened was that the woman taking care of her as she got sicker was having an affair with my dad, and she was called a "daughter" in the obituary. My mother expressed to me many times that she didn't like this woman, but my dad wanted to keep her, for obvious reasons. Well, I called my dad and told him that I thought it was cheap and that he was a pig for doing such a thing with the obituary. He told me all my brothers and sisters, and even my mom's family, thought it was a good idea. My brothers and sisters knew he was having an affair with her, and now they think it is OK to write that this girl was a sibling? My brothers and sisters think that I was wrong and I shouldn't have said anything to our father. I don't think I am wrong in the least bit, and if he asks for an apology, I won't give it to him. He is almost twice her age.

—Burned Up

Dear Burn,
If you know for a fact that your sibs OK'd this nonsense, then they AND your dad are all whack jobs. You're either a child or you're not, and the caregiver/girlfriend certainly is not. The age difference, of course, is charming. And boy, it's really true: There's no fool like an old fool. Prepare yourself, dear, for the possibility that this woman will wind up in the paper again—on the wedding page.

—Prudie, empathetically


Aside from the sheer squickiness of calling one's mistress one's daughter, I am now looking forward to a proud new era of obits such as "Mrs. Jones is survived by her husband, Robert, and her younger, hotter side action, Bill." That's the kind of thing that will really comfort the cuckolded spouse and who-the-hell-wants-to-know-about-your-parents'-sex-lives kids in their time of grief.

A Really Gross Etiquette Issue (welcome back DS!)
 

Yet another reason not to have kids, eh?

Anyway, where are the cops to arrest the guy for "incest"?

DA: So, Mr. Smith, Miss Hoochie is your daughter?

Smith: Um, well, no.

DA: But you described her in your wife's obituary as your daughter?

Smith: Yes.

DA: So you've been having carnal relations with your "daughter"?

Dear Prudence
 

Well that woke me up on a sleepy, boring Friday.
If my father did that he'd be quickly making his own appearance on the obit page.