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Saying this applies to most developed countries is a big claim. My own personal experience in the few European countries is the opposite, that being in the military was great for picking up girls.

Obviously your own experience differs, but you must be careful in applying that to an entire continent. Not to mention the absurdity of university students looking down on soldiers, many (almost all in my unit) of whom will hold degrees themselves.


> My own personal experience in the few European countries is the opposite, that being in the military was great for picking up girls.

As the popular proverb in Poland goes, "za mundurem panny sznurem" - "girls queue up behind an uniform[ed guy; follow him]".


Sky announced a couple of weeks ago that they intended to turn on their filtering by default. Maybe that's now happened.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30896813


Yes, it has been, from my metrics at least - with predictable results! (Seems to be a phased/tranched rollout.)

Don't get CloudFlare to budge you to another IP, you'll never know what may or may not be listed - most of the content on the default filter is not porn. This is Sky's problem, not CloudFlare's.

It's deplorable, but entirely predictable (and they were repeatedly and loudly warned!) that innocent bystander sites have been blocked by the censorship on Sky's broadband network that people haven't even asked for.

Have you perhaps considered legal action against Sky?

You may also want to let them know, but they can't admin the filter themselves (last I heard), so can't whitelist you, and the equipment they have cannot proxy the site on their list without also affecting yours. (That you share an IPv4 address is not itself an issue with CloudFlare.)

Don't mind me, I'm just getting snacks. This is going to get worse.


> Have you perhaps considered legal action against Sky?

This is the real, correct solution but seems unlikely. The OP said his client is unable to shell out the extra $20/month for SSL on Heroku so it seems unlikely they'll want to pay for lawyers required for legal action :(


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