Russian Pirates Offer To Host NASA's Website While US Government Is Shutdown
from the adopt-a-us-gov't-webiste dept
The government shutdown leading to various government websites being taken offline has been the subject of much mocking. But, for people who rely on those websites, it can be quite a nuisance. So perhaps it's time to start an "adopt a federal website" program, where others are willing to host the downed websites until such time as the government gets its act together. It appears that the Russian Pirate Party has kicked all this off by offering to host NASA's downed website. The full statement on the party's website is somewhat amusing:To NASA, USAPerhaps we can set up an crowdfunding campaign to get this kind of thing moving.
from Pirate Party of Russia
Dear Madame/Sir,
We do care about the situation around your web site and the budget crisis in USA. Thereby we would like to offer you bulletproof collocation or dedicated servers on our hosting platform till the end of the crisis. We stand for Internet privacy, and as the result you would not have to worry about programs such as PRISM and other illegal activities of secret services of different countries. Your traffic, your activity and the activity of your users will be in safety.
We love Mars!
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preempting blue's "omg they call themselves pirates" bs
scroll down that to the "real life section
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insert OOTB inane rants and ad hominem attacks
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It will probably only cost about 1/10th of what it costs taxpayers.
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It would be nice if the NSA would be the one with funds removed though. But, no, what gets cut are public programs while programs intended to maintain government oppression remain.
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Adopt a federal website
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Re: Can't they mirror them based on Google's cache?
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What we're all thinking.
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If the pirates were ALREADY hosting the website for free, they'd order them to close it, because they're that petty.
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Did they? I would have assumed that the costs of patrolling, securing, maintaining and cleaning such properties would still be there and that it would fall under the "non-essential" category. Open air doesn't mean cost-free. Do you have anything to show that they actually went out of their way to do this rather than it being a natural consequence of the shutdown?
"Today I heard that they put traffic cones on the side of a road from which people can see Mt Rushmore, because they didn't want anyone pulling over where they could get a view of the place while it is "closed"."
Do you have a citation for that, because that seems to be the type of idiotic right-wing crap that gets thrown around as if it's facts and almost always seems to turn out to be a ridiculous lie. I could be wrong and I'll defer to any citation you can provide, but it does sound like the sort of vague story that some people throw around to generate outrage rather than thoughtful debate.
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This whole shut down? It's all a big publicity stunt in a desperate attempt to distract the nation from demanding the shutdown of the NSA's spying apparatus (other demands should include repealing the Patriot Act, repealing the NDAA, voting reforms because the two-party system is clearly not working).
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http://dakotawarcollege.com/federal-government-park-service-blocking-view-of-mt-rushmo re-from-highway-with-tim-johnsons-support/
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/iwo-jima-memorial- closed-barricades-erected_759277.html
http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/blog/d-c-monuments-barricad ed-during-shutdown/
http://webnerhouse.com/2013/10/03/closing-the-memorials/
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http://nationalrevie w.com/corner/360423/national-park-service-attempts-barricade-mt-vernon-sterling-beard#!
Going "out of their way" to block access to open-air memorials means the park service or others constructed barricades where none existed. The Washington D.C. memorials are in parkland and have no gates or other impediments to block access under regular circumstances. As noted in the last sample, Mount Vernon is owned by a privately funded organization, yet the park service attempted to barricade it.
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