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Mack, there is no reason that Jim and John would have implemented these changes unless there was a compelling need. This is not a "toy", this isn't a vanity fling ... this is a reconstruction of the forum.

They invented and nurtured the FR that everyone is mourning over. These two. They didn't wake up one morning and commit their lives to screwing over their patrons. There's no upside to that. The new look took time, effort and expense to execute, there was a beta site. This isn't a frivilous move, they are re-engineering Free Republic. I know about stuff, I know when capacities are stretched ... and the point when you need a new server is scary as hell ... that's 15-20K. I don't know if that's the case here. I don't care. We've got a new interface. Let's embrace the opportunity. It's here for a reason.

SuperAmerica put in a new ATM last week, with all kinds of touch screen scariness and discombobulated steps. I fought my way through the fear and doubt.

...SuperAmerica put in a new ATM last week, with all kinds of touch screen scariness and discombobulated steps. I fought my way through the fear and doubt.

Never, ever, not again use an ATM.

1. The gubmit will have a record of your transaction immediately, know you are not home, go there and steal all your guns...and your dog.

2. They will have a very recent photograph of you, your fingerprints from the screen and your optical bio recognition. They will also know you are neither at home or work and will immediately go to your place of business and interview some of your colleagues to determine if you have made any radical statements concerning 1993-2001.

3. And, finally. Going to a cash machine is indicative of an irrational and dysfunctional personality profile. The gubmint will see this and have the excuse to have you committed ... and to pay for it they will sell all the guns they confiscated...and start breeding your dog.

I LIKE the new format...VERY easy on the eyes...but probably a lot harder to recognize somebody who wants to hit me...then again I could always change my preferences.

I hope this doesn't mean that John will now be free to annoy the anti-freepers. We were just settling down to only laughing at Mochajoke and the Maggott.

If it wasn't for a whole bunch of meddling Freepers, the Robinson's plan to destroy Free Republic as we know it might have WORKED, dammit.

Leave it to FReepers to have exposed this clever plan just in the nick of time to save us all. Not just from each other, but from Jim and John too, who are very obviously out to get us by changing the Free Republic format without even CONSULTING US!!! Those rats! What nerve!

Don't they know that conservatives don't like change and aren't technically competent to figure stuff out on their own? It explains why we supported Clinton for eight years and Al Gore had to invent the Internet for us.

I already know what the main motivation for this new forum was. There were comments made by JR that you could figure it out from. The idea was to seperate us all into groups. The Bushies over here...the Kooks over there...Ect...

And strangely enough people now feel alinated. I warned him way back then. But then what do I know.