Posted on 10/08/2008 11:34:59 AM PDT by refermech
If things really go south and all the advertising dried up, who would pay the bills to keep all the computers up? Will the whole system go belly up. Why wouldn't it? School me please.
If things got that bad...I would be sitting in the dark clinging to my gun and my bible and would not be worried about computing.
Only if you can’t afford to make your Free Republic donation...Then the only important part of the internet might go down.
DU has advertising. Free Republic doesn’t. I welcome the coming computer apocalypse so that JimRob can buy DU’s servers at salvage prices and set them on fire in the parking lot.
There fixed it.
LOL! Three cheers to that!
All these vanity post WILL brake teh internets.
If things got that bad.......that’s what the dems are hoping for. They’d love to shut down the internet, talk radio, etc.
I just made a contribution. Maybe I’ll have to pony up a little more.
Ummm .... That would be all of us that pay the monthly bills that we get from our ISP (Internet Service Providers).
Advertising just affects web pages that want to earn money off of our clicks. It does not affect the computers.
I miss the days when you could click on a web page and read it immediately instead of waiting for the end of the two minute battle between my Pop-Up Stopper and the hordes of advertisement.
My take on all this. Things will never get bad enough to jeopardize the re-election of incumbent members of Congress. Pelosi, Hoyer et all will do whatever it takes to insure that their brood is re-elected.
That would probably include keeping the internet up.
How else do I get some input from you guys? It’s not like I’m posting large pics or huge files.
My job involves online marketing for my company.
Google and Yahoo, and many, many sites are free because of advertising. We pay Google everytime someone clicks through to our site from one of our ads.
In our business model, if business was very bad, we’d still have to advertise, we’d just advertise less. Possibly move our ad position on Google or other search engines. So if Google’s revenue is limited by lower ad revenues, they’d have to make it up somehow (possibly fee per search...I really don’t know.)
I imagine other sites could become “pay” sites, much like Glenn Beck or Rush’s site. Certain pages free, but for more indepth things you’d have to pay for access.
Before that happened, all them government checks the welfare types and the government deadheads got every month would stop cashing.
No, but Vanities are killing FR.
Thanks. I was too bitter to write it...
Does FR have a HAM/Analog/CB channel set up just in case?
Actually, contrary to popular opinion, posting pics, no matter how large, does NOTHING to slow down FR’s servers, since FR’s servers do not serve the pics - they only serve the LINKS to the pics. The pics themselves are downloaded from someone else’s servers.
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