I came to RinkWorks this afternoon and I noticed that Sam had added a new dialect, specifically ahcker or whatever the official title is. I clicked on the link, only to get the message of doom:

WEB RESTRICTED
You do not have access to this page as a result of the current Parental Control settings. To change or review the Parental Control settings, the master account holder must sign on, then visit the Parental Controls area online.

Yes. That's right. AOL, in all their infinite wisdom, has decided that the Dialectizer is inappropriate for my eyes.

My Parental Controls -- and I know this for a fact -- are set at "Mature teen", the highest you can be set at without getting access to everything the Internet has to offer. The Mature Teen setting goes like this: access to everything, minus these sites we don't like.

What, may I ask, is so bleeding wrong with the Dialectizer?

-eric "of course, for a time last summer they blocked me from RinkWorks completely" sleator
Fri 23 Jun A.D. 2000