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
Cheap humor my specialty.
The position of Forum Character was already taken by Laz, so I had to settle for Village Idiot third class. The pay stinks, but the expectations are low.
Too bad. Your loss.
Thank you, Jim. And God bless you.
I would. This isn’t that kind of site. You can find “Japan U15” on google, girls as young or younger as 3 posing sexually. The mags and DVD’s are sold at corner shops.
I guess they are very libertarian over there.
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I think this site would really be done and finished if the Christians are driven off too.
HELLO, IT TAKES NOTHING BUT FILLING OUT AN ONLINE FORM TO HOST GOOGLE ADS, AND YOU GET PAID PER IMPRESSION, YOU DO NOT OPEN YOURSELF UP TO LAWSUITS, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GO COMMERICIAL (SILLY).
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Finds it every time it seems. This saves a lot of frustration.
With the Robinsons’ blessing?
But I flipped the first time somebody posted a "blank" post after a software change. And then more people did it. Then I learned to highlight the "blank" posts. I hated it when we first changed software. Curmudgeons are like that.
She's not the only person COMMENTING on it.
Grow up. If FR bugs you so much that you don't want to donate and you can't make it work easily on your iPhone, leave already. Or grow up and quit yer whining.
And you fulfill them wonderfully! Wait a minute..... uh...oh well.
Let me know when you get an answer.
I’ll be busy watching out for those black helicopters.
And cleaning the house now that the kids are back to college.
They post very little.
With you on that. If it would help.
It will if the problem is not enough money :-)
Politics and religion don’t mix?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh soooooooooooooooooo
all those churches working so hard to elect the closest thing we could to conservatives last election had NO impact?
What idiocy.
Large donations from single individuals tends to open the door to undue influence. I'd suspect that's Jim Rob's reasoning.
I don't understand why there's no discussion of replacing the fried 8th server that's been down for months or longer. That's simply a matter of money, right? Why not raise it and spend it and increase our capacity?
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