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Posted on 01/11/2011 5:28:06 AM PST by paulycy
FYI -
Here are statements from Jim about the future of FreeRepublic.com for those who missed them. They are quite serious.
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"Well, I can say that there are definitely two things that will never happen. 1) Banner ads. 2) Oracle [a completely new database system.] And a third is a total replacement [of the current damaged system.] Don’t have the financial wherewithal."
"To those who wish to leave because of it, see ya."
"If FR dies, that’s that."
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[To: paulycy]
Hey, you want us to get an all new system with all new software and add a few more pricey techs, system programmers and database administrators to keep it all working 100% of the time 24/7/365? Well, start coughing up the big bucks.
It’s going to take tens of thousands of donations and many with at least three zeros each after the comma to accomplish the task. And that would be EVERY month like clock work to make the payroll. Once you take on a big load of expensive overhead, there’s no going back. As it is, we get a couple thousand donations per quarter averaging about $30 bucks each and there’s no guarantees we can cover this quarter’s expenses much less next quarter. We’re on a pay as we go system and we have zero employees.We just ask for enough to pay the bills.
Throwing more money at the problem won’t solve it. [This latest glitch] was a technical issue and we just had to keep troubleshooting until we found it. And no, we’re not going to invite a bunch of strangers in to get their hands on our secure systems. John has been programming since he was 14 and he’s pushing 40 now. He built these systems and he’s an expert in them.
And no, we are not going to throw out our software and rewrite it and no we’re not going to move on to some other database system. There are no guarantees that any other system can do a better job and not without hiring a staff to build and maintain it and that’s for sure. And we don’t have the financial wherewithal to do any of that anyway. Maybe if we had a couple million bucks at our disposal and a couple years to do it in we could build an iron-clad system. And maybe not.
All I can say is, if someone else can do it better and cheaper, then please step right on up and get ‘er done!! I’ll bow out and retire. Thankyouverymuch.
Hit it boys:
https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/
And no, we have no plans of taking FR commercial. I like it the way it is. Not sure I could handle getting rich.
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- Jim Robinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2653583/posts?page=168#168
No one wants to censor you, but, when you start calling other peoples beliefs as evil, you put yourself in a holyier than though light!
You could always just avoid the Religion forum. No one forces you to go there or read threads that upset you so much.
So, don't spend any time with us then. I'm sure that only discussing your faith with those who share it 100% is what God has commanded you to do.
Thanks for the data, Quix. I wasn't aware that one could get their handle changed so easily. I'm happy with mine. Been using it everywhere for over ten years now.
Oh yeah! I have seen that first hand! LOL
God Bless you Jim!
I don’t like ads. Apparently neither does Jim. As of right now every inch of space on FR is dedicated to FR and conservatism. Why would I want to foul up the clean streamlined “face” of FR with glitzy junk? I honestly don’t read ads and I find them annoying.
Nope. Only one. You.
Wah, my feelings is hurt..
Wah.....Besides, posting here on a iPhone is a HUGE pain (post 387)
Wah.....I don’t feel like this is MY forum (post 387)
Wah.... I don’t like the conservative litmus test that you have to jump thru. (Post 387)
Wah....FR feels like s a horse n buggy in it’s last days (post 202)
Here. In honor of you.....
Yup, definately the FRinquisition, maybe if you lock them dirty old mormons up and torture them a little, maybe then you can change their evil ways!!!LOLOLOLOL
And it is like my eye doctor me, when you are doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same results, it is time to change a bit.
Melissa.
I would try anything at this point.
After looking at post #761 I can safely say you are not in Jim's dog house.
. . or as Barack’s Aunt Zituni says, “Dey’s mo room out than dey is in!!” (Everyone’s said that at some time, so I felt free to put it in quotation marks.)
I know. Some bloggers are very annoying and unresponsive.
Good grief, i didn’t mean change i really really hate that word. let’s say attempt something else.
melissa :)
You could even hire an accountant to handle the ever intrusive tax burden. But it would also put a huge Holderesque target on your back ...
Did it!!
>>2) Oracle
No Oracle? Good. I’d hate to see the FR streets cluttered up by Delphinian religious prostitutes.
{badumpump}
What people don’t get about the RF is
1) debate helps us hone our theology, bible reading and apologetics as well as our debate skills in general.
2) At the end of the day, even those we fight the most with, many of us would still call the FRiends.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
And, though some are compulsively combative and harshly assaultive out of ATTACHMENT DISORDER or other more perverse reasons . . .
even with those, there’s something redemptive that tends to come out of the efforts. I at least learn things about their perspectives and about them as well as about myself and other people’s responses.
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