A Tribute to Freepers - Summer Freepathon! Thread 2

June 10, 2002 | Freepers

[WIMom]

 
 
 
 
 
 

Let the FReepathon Begin!

Thank you FReepers!

Since we have been hitting our goal

at an incredible pace

the last two fundraisers,

our goal for this quarter's fundraiser is

$70,000.

This fundraiser is for us!

Post your original FReeper

Activism projects

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Pictures

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Other creative freeper works.


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Let's have some fun!


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[WIMom]

Thank you California!

Thank you Washington State!

Thank you Florida!

[Grampa Dave]

Re your computer. Have you shut it off for a few minutes and then turned it back on and rebooted it. I mean totally turning off your computer taking a break and then turning it back on.

My nephew made his first computer when he was a teenager and is never unemployed. The company he works for can disappear and before he gets home, he has another job in making computers do things for us. He is the one, who told me to do this little trick. He recommends that all the older pentiums be turned off at night.

Anyway this worked great for my old computer that finally gave up the ghost. Try it and let me know.

[Jim Robinson]

You may be interested to know that I received a complaint from the antifreeper known as "Lord of the Flies" that your post (#49) and my reply to you greatly offends him:

JimRob,

I expect you know this, but it is a violation of federal law to use the image of the President of the United States for commercial purposes. The following post is illegal:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/697723/posts#49

Your subsequent reaction to the post would appear to encourage the illegal use of the President's image:

To: d14truth

Beautiful. Thank you, Jim

58 posted on 6/10/02 1:13 PM Pacific by Jim Robinson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

The post in question offends me greatly, especially in light of things you have said about Mr. Bush in the past. I trust that you will recognize the wisdom of removing it, and that you will discourage such posts in the future.

Sincerely,
LOTF (aka Z2)

Guess we made his day.

Regards,

Jim Robinson

[firewalk]

New Jersey Bump

[WIMom]

It was off for hours during the storm. I unpluged and disconnected it from the surge protector. Then, when I left earlier, I turned it off. It seems to be running ok again. Maybe that did it.

[Billie]

You sweet-talking thang you. :) How are you and Miss Willa doin?!

to you both! Looks like this fundraising is having the usual 'spurts', doesn't it? :)

[WIMom]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA ..... LOLOLOLOLOL ...... hahahahahahaha ............ gasp ............ hardy har har ............ hehehehehehe ............. gasp .......... ROTFLMAO .............. giggle giggle giggle ........... hohohohohohohohoho ...........

Thanks for the great laugh!

[mystery-ak]

Are you including monthly donations pledged in previous Freepathon's in your total?

[WIMom]

No, the current total you see does not include the monthlies yet. The monthlies are added to the total as we near our goal. BADJOE uses the million FReeper math formula.

[don-o]

Confession time: I let my FR donation lapse when CCard was lost.

Resisted getting back in, purely because of sloth

The header on "Latest Posts" -- "84,000 Freepers, 200 helpers" or some such, touched a nerve.

Rocky Top is reporting!

[Grampa Dave]

Oh this photo, the one I used in the last Freepathon:

"NO DEAR, THAT ISN'T AN UGLY LITTLE CLOWN. THAT'S THE EVIL LITTLE TOMMY DA$$HOLE. DON'T WORRY, I WON'T LET HIM HURT YOU OR YOUR FAMILY!"

[Jim Robinson]

I've received quite a bit of email from banned posters in the last day or so, plus several anonymous complaints and remarks. Seems the bannees are taking great delight in their perceived belief that the current fundraiser is not doing so well. Well, we're not quite a full four days into the fundraiser and we're at 20% from credit card donations. Not bad. And, when you roll in the $21,000 in monthlies, plus the 8,000 to 9,000 that we usually receive in checks and through PayPal, we'll be over 60%. That's fantastic!

Also, receiving a lot of snickering remarks about the 84,000 FReeper number. Yes, that's the number of registrations we've had, but obviously we do not have 84,000 active FReepers (at least not registered active FReepers). The server stats show 65 to 75 thousand unique visits per day and I know that during big news events that number goes a lot higher, so I wouldn't doubt that we do approach 80,000 FReepers and LURKERS.

Also, receiving many nasty remarks about how can it cost $300,000 per year to run this website. Well, the short answer is, it doesn't. Our budget totals a little over $20,000 per month in regular recurring expenses. That includes 6,000 for management, 1,000 for admin, 3,000 for programming, 5,800 for bandwidth, 3,000 for legal and the remainder is for office expenses, travel, lodging and misc. Plus there's usually repairs, maintenance, improvements, projects, events, etc., that are budgeted and funds raised separately. Our bandwidth price this year is a couple thousand less than last year, but some of the other expenses are higher so I expect we'll probably need about the same amount overall.

Thanks for all your hard work and thanks to all who are helping you. You're doing a great job and a great service. And special thanks to all who are donating. Without your support there would be no Free Republic.

Regards,

Jim Robinson

[Mo1]

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[Grampa Dave]

The Guy below called up an offered to help raise funds for Free Republic. He wants a 90% finders fee and 50% of what's left as a bribe, er donation to his re election fund!

[WillaJohns]

New donations just in!

$100 from NNL
$100 from Georgia
$50 from Florida
$10 from California

Freepers Rock! THANK YOU ALL!

[BADJOE]

Thank you Jim. Now how about a prominent Hot Link on the top of the home page so I can get Lodwick's 500 bucks for us? : )

[RedBloodedAmerican]

check 832

[d14truth]

Found one of those 'lords lurking' in GOOGLE, Jim. Says, "Imation",(Maybe, imitation) though--Think he'll help inspire the FReepathon?

I never was 'big' on the Tolkien bandwagon. Wasn't 'Lord of the Flies' basically a study of 'arrested development' for lack of continuity in the passing on of generational wisdom?

[zip]

I've rebooted a zillion times already today

I've told you a million times "Don't exaggerate".

[Mo1]

OK ... did my carpet bombing for now ..

Now I have to go pretend to be a good mom and feed this crew of mine

BBL