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[dragnar]

So my father installed a web protection thing on my computer. Basically it limits when I can be on (not what I can look at, be trusts Me in that regard) so I may not be on as often. Sure, it'll be trivial to bypass but until I do, thts why I'm not on.

I don't know why a parent would do this.

Probably thinks "computers rot your brains". Not that there was ever any proof for this sort of thinking, and in fact there is evidence against it.

Deleting the program would be suspicious, but installing another web browser would probably get around it without much hassle.

[ToonyMan]

If I didn't have a computer I wouldn't bother staying home.

[ein]

I keep passing out today.
It's really annoying.
Awake one moment, then BAM! it's two hours later.

[Cthulhu]

My grandma apparently thinks if you look at a computer screen too long you'll go insane.  Huh.

[JoshuaFH]

My grandma apparently thinks if you look at a computer screen too long you'll go insane.  Huh.

Yeah, just look at Toonyman.

Anyway, Ein, go see a doctor or something. Like, right now. I don't think it's healthy to be passing out like that.

[ein]

It's related to the food poisoning or whatever I mentioned earlier.
Lack of food plus a crappy night's sleep can screw up your daytime schedule.
At least I feel like I'm gonna be able to stay up from this point.

[Armok]

Jack, can we get something that forwards to your parents emails so we can help you out?

[Vector]

I am currently enraged.

[JoshuaFH]

I am currently enraged.

*clicks More Info*

[cowofdoom78963]

My grandma apparently thinks if you look at a computer screen too long you'll go insane.  Huh.

Listen to your elders kids.

[Hippoman]

If I had all the time in the world, I still wouldn't have enough time.

[ToonyMan]

I had a perfect 90 minute recording and I forgot to unmute the mic.

I am in tears right now since ages.

[cowofdoom78963]

I had a perfect 90 minute recording and I forgot to unmute the mic.

I am in tears right now since ages.

At least you havent ever written a paper for 9 hours straight and the file gets corrupted.

[ToonyMan]

You have to write everything on paper.

[Jackrabbit]

Jack, can we get something that forwards to your parents emails so we can help you out?

Nope. It's not like it's a big problem, I'll get around it somehow. Now, as for why he did it, it wasn't because he thinks he net rots brains, or even that paranoia I so often accuse my parents of (that's where I got it, by the way) but because I was hogging a the internets so we ran out of download all the time. Now, my brothers are constantly on YouTube or playing battlefied heroes and flash games. I'm usually here or on tv tropes. Who hogs more net? So once I get around it (I'm close to convincing him it's a silly move anyway) I think it'll end up proving that if my brothers have a limiter and I don't, the net'll run much smoother. And of course, the limiter doesn't stop what you look at, so it's not really censoring. I can understand why he did it too. He works from home, he needs web access. But he needs to understand I'm not going to take it from him.