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
Great insight. Thanks.
How did those get there?
OK, here we go for the millionth time. I did not kill Sidebar. Sidebar was drowned in a tragic yacht accident. After Sidebar was killed, Sidebar's twin brother from Texas, Gil, came to help. To keep things from being awkward, we chose to call Gil, Sidebar and pretend nothing happened.
"Neat idea, but at home printing, local printers, Costco…etc all do it at the same or better cost than I ever could.
I still have over 400 Pajama Patrol badges + 1,000 embroidered badges in stock…"
If anyone's interested, here's the site: Ocents Images
No noob with obnoxious behavior should be running off an old timer like you.
It's not really stalking or harassment, it's just a general attitude of demeaning the people that they disagree with. And quite frankly they're not noobs, it's usually someone who's been around here for two, three, or even five years. I don't like to whine to the mods, so I just try to avoid the provocation. And I'm happy with that except for the loss of what FR once was.
Goes without saying.
Soothesayer9 is just saying what a lot of people feel. They sense that the site has become much more restrictive than in once was. To say this isn’t blackmail and it has nothing to do with growing up. Jim’s words have been up on the door to this site for many years. But the under-pain-of-banishment-orthodoxy is something relatively new, as is the gleeful cheering surrounding it.
You can always make a folder for great articles within your browser 'favorites', and bookmark them. That's what I do.
As far as articles going 'missing', I don't know what you can do about that, except to copy the whole thing into a new document and save it to your computer.
How very kind of you to remember me Darksheare.
You, back in the pit!
You need to review my posts, I have never proselytized on here, nor bashed any other religion.
Wow, lots of hate in that response. Really nothing more to say...
See how they treat me! It is an outrage I tells ya. It is a hugh and most seriess outrage.
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Like the Seinfeld Show was -
Then this is a thread about -
Nothing
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She rubs the lotion on the skin or else she gets the hose again.
If you don’t think that Elsie’s response is full of hate then you clearly have a different definition of hate.
I agree 100%.
Yep, the ol’ Rodney Dangerfield treatment ... ;)
Everyone thinks their thoughts and comments are important, or witty. I see hateful ones here just as on other threads.
Elsie’s posts may be snarky, at times sarcastic, often funny, and occasionally too long, but they are NEVER, EVER ‘hateful’.
Me thinks thou are thin skinned.
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