http://www.heavensgate.com/
How come they offer German translations (out of all languages)?
The German translations are pretty bad.
For example: "for starters" is translated as "für Starter" which does not make any sense.
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#72The Heaven’s Gate cultists have been spreading dangerous misinformation for 20 years? They MUST be deplatformed! Why on earth do Google, Facebook, Hacker News, their web hosting and DNS providers allow their dangerous messages to be spread? /s
The US constitution guarantees special protection for purely irrational beliefs. Once a belief starts to vaguely makes sense or to make an honest attempt to make sense, it loses its protection.
Well we’re in luck because, as has been pointed out many times in recent years, the private organizations I mentioned are not bound by the first amendment!
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#73They have a section with instructions on how to set up PGP: https://www.heavensgate.com/misc/secure.htm
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Thanks for this comment. I was initially impressed that the site stated up that long with no human maintenance. Also, now I want to watch that documentary
It wouldn't surprise me too much. My completely embarrassing website from the 90s has been running on the same host and subdomain with zero work done by me to keep it running: http://boglin.iwarp.com I think I edited the HTML once since 1999 to add a Google Analytics tag because I was curious if anyone ever visited it.
Looking forward to your next update. And I didn’t sign the guestbook.
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#75I absolutely archived this site onto a 100MB Zip Disk back when this first happened.
So I guess now I need to find an ancient SCSI card and unearth that archive.
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How come they offer German translations (out of all languages)?
The German translations are pretty bad. For example: "for starters" is translated as "für Starter" which does not make any sense.
Yeah, it reads like a very literal amateur translation by a native German speaker without much editing.
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It wouldn't surprise me too much. My completely embarrassing website from the 90s has been running on the same host and subdomain with zero work done by me to keep it running: http://boglin.iwarp.com I think I edited the HTML once since 1999 to add a Google Analytics tag because I was curious if anyone ever visited it.
Looking forward to your next update. And I didn’t sign the guestbook.
Best be sleeping with one eye open then
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Thanks for this comment. I was initially impressed that the site stated up that long with no human maintenance. Also, now I want to watch that documentary
It wouldn't surprise me too much. My completely embarrassing website from the 90s has been running on the same host and subdomain with zero work done by me to keep it running: http://boglin.iwarp.com I think I edited the HTML once since 1999 to add a Google Analytics tag because I was curious if anyone ever visited it.
Your ICQ number is lower than mine by a little bit, jealous.
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You may have heard the expression “drank the koolaid” to mean someone has fully embraced an outlandish ideology, or even just fully committed to a cause. At Jonestown, many cult members committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced koolaid. Koolaid is a sugary, flavored drink powder that is mixed with water. It was a staple for many kids in the 80’s and 90’s.
It was Flavor-Aid. One of my supervisors in the USAF helped with the bodies when they arrived in the US.
I mean, if you’re going to go out that way you might as well go Kool-Aid brand.