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IainB:
This could arguably also go into the jokes section...
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)
Blacked Out Government Websites Available Through Wayback Machine
Posted on October 2, 2013 by brewster   

Congress has caused the U.S. federal government to shut down and many important websites have gone dark.  Fortunately, we have the Wayback Machine to help.
Many sites are displaying messages that say that they are not being updated or maintained during the government shut down, and the following sites are some who have shut their doors today.  Clicking the logos will take you to a Wayback Machine archived capture of the site.    Please donate to help us keep the government websites available.
noaa.gov - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - noaa.gov
parkservice - National Park Service - nps.gov
LOClogo3 - Library of Congress - loc.gov
NSF_Logo - National Science Foundation - nsf.gov
fcc-logo - Federal Communication Commission - fcc.gov
CensusBureauSeal - Bureau of the Census - census.gov
usdalogo - U.S. Department of Agriculture - usda.gov
usgs - United States Geological Survey - usgs.gov
usitc - U.S. International Trade Commission - usitc.gov
FTC-logo - Federal Trade Commission - ftc.gov
Corporation_for_National_and_Community_Service - Corporation for National and Community Service - nationalservice.gov
trade.gov - International Trade Administration - trade.gov
 
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Renegade:
On some sites you can use view-source like this:

view-source:http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/sitemap.shtm

Copy & paste that in your browser address bar.

They are using this:


--- Code: HTML ---<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=/shutdown.shtml" />
To shut the site down. So, the site *IS* live and functional. They've just used a cheap hack to make it look like it isn't up.

Ahem... Can we say "theater"? :P Drama queens. Pfft.

I'm not sure if browsers have an option to disable meta refreshes. That would also work.

IainB:
Ahem... Can we say "theater"? :P Drama queens. Pfft.
-Renegade (October 03, 2013, 01:33 AM)
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Yep. I guess we can! That's very silly/pathetic.
In NZ, deliberately withdrawing in angry fashion is called "spitting the dummy" - it's immature.
That arguably seems to be what we have here.
Moronic.

Well, they say you get the government leadership you elect and thus deserve, and that it's a reflection of the voting majority...

Renegade:
Well, they say you get the government leadership you elect and thus deserve, and that it's a reflection of the voting majority...
-IainB (October 03, 2013, 03:28 AM)
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I don't vote. I refuse to vote for more evil. Only ever voted once, and tried to actively decline the ballot as there was only evil listed on it.

40hz:
This involves the post-911 US Government, therefor yet more opera.  :-\

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