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I am a huge British TV fan, Red Dwarf is my current obsession, and I've been trying to find a way to get to the program on DaveTV currently. I've got a UKplayTV membership but I am in the US and need a UK postal code to stream the content. I've tried using a VPN and had no luck. Does anyone know a way legal or otherwise to get the content out of the UK. I have the OLD series on DVD, but I'd like to stream the current stuff, I don't have a working DVD player in my laptop and I don't want to spend the money to buy a new one or fix the current one. I can't find DaveTV on amazon or Netflix.

I noticed Ethanol posted a journal about being perma-banned. There were numerous responses including one from TMB stating that he had not been banned but an associated IP and been banned. Several days later I got a another message indicating Ethanol had written another journal entry entitled Permabanned pt2, but when I looked there was no such entry. In fact all of his entries appear to have been deleted. I do hope that he was not cast out, it would seriously narrow the points of view here and make the place much duller. I looked on the back of the milk carton here and no sign of him...
I for one value a good trolling now and then this place needs to keep the view points varied or risk becoming an echo chamber.

I responded to a spam message from my credit union, asking to be removed from their mailing list for things not directly related to my current account status using my standard Live.com email which has for at least 10 years now contained a footer labeled for the NSA which contains dozens of keywords sure to get you scanned. Well it finally worked... 2 days later the Yuma PD responded to my door and questioned me regarding the text of the footer which was reported to them by my credit union as a terrorist bomb threat. 2 Yuma PD marked cars and an unmarked vehicle containing a 'detective' arrived, rang the door bell and asked to speak to me, they wanted in the house badly but I chose to speak to them on the front porch. They had a copy of the email and were as they termed it just following up on a complaint lodged by the AEA credit union. The detective asked some rather pointed questions and tried real hard to get me to admit that the footer was really a threat but seemed rather embarrassed at his presence and went away after apparently I turned out to have valid ID and wasn't brown. The patrol officers openly laughed with me at the over reaction and accepted a bottle of water on their way out. I am debating wearing a turban to the credit union to close my account out and demanding cash in lieu of a cashiers check, but given the state I am in and the gun carry laws that might be too much. I'll report back if I don't end up in Gitmo.

sadly quite a while into this 'experiment' and the basics have not changed. It maybe that there is NO good way to mod stuff but while this place tried I don't see any real difference in approach or results, just a smaller community with a less diverse opinion base and a more reactive crew...Good luck in the future and Be Well.....

Wow, moderated troll for some honest comments. I was really hoping to see a smaller community like SN somehow work a better more honest moderation system, but what I am are seeing and being subject to is the same old game in a smaller pond, can we not better control ourselves ? It hardly seems worth the effort needed to develop 'another' so-called community if it going to end up the in the same place and straits as the one we left. I always browse at raw -1 because every so often I find good stuff posted by AC's who can't or won't login but I've become disillusioned and am questioning my desire to wade through the muck at "another" site to arrive in the same place still covered in FSCK'n crap...

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•Build a more uniformed sense of community throughout the site - Can you actually build a community, it will either form or not based on the quality of those attracted to the place. I would have purchased a sub by now but I refuse to use Pay-Pal, when some other viable option becomes a available I will likely do so, but the intent to build sounds far to structured to hold my interest.

•If possible, try and reach out to other not-for-profit journalist organizations for advice and guidance - Why if possible ? you seem to be over complicating things, just ask for suggestions in an article and send an email to the sites or organizations that seem to be in a place you want to be.

•Identify people who may be willing to work in a journalistic capacity with us - Simply set-up a mechanism for submission of stories and advert that you are accepting such. There are literally thousands upon thousands of people seeking a platform to publish their views, or make local newsworthy events more public. Allow them to submit and then be voted upon for further use, i.e. front-page views. Making sure to credit them for their content and posts. Already stated is the premise that everyone is responsible for their own opinions and views and that SN claims no ownership or responsibility for said items.

Maybe I am oversimplifying things but I do consider myself a rational anarchist and the more control/guidance you seek, the less appealing the place seems to me. More to follow as I have time or develop the desire...