Database Issue Nov 13th 2008

[John Robinson]

We were experiencing a database issue today that effectively froze the site content. It has been defrosted.

We've experienced numerous technical issues this past month. In an effort to handle increasing traffic, we've made upgrades to our internal structure that have rendered the site far more brittle than it ever was, coupled with general growing pains, coincidental hardware failures and a little foul play (at least one nasty denial of service attack) has seen the site down far too many hours this month. It's been frustrating for everybody involved and I apologize.

[Syncro]

Like I said lots of people are watching.

John has always taken good advice from people.

Much more than just a second pair of eyes.

I'm sure he would appreciate any good advice you could post to him on this thread.

[null and void]

‘Sok, we appreciate the hard work, understand the difficulties, and are grateful for the results.

[don-o]

It’s not my field of expertise. I’m glad to hear the rest of what you shared.

[Cacique]

ping

[USMCPOP]

You can’t be all things to all people, but you are to us. We wuz thinkin’ about you. Keep up the good work!

[Jo Nuvark]

I guess it’s true... absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Thank you for all that you do to keep us together.

[Doogle]

.."ya mean I didn't fix what I thought after 103 reboots 200 log offs,200 signs ins, and changing the ink cart,dusting off the back of my monitor, and scraping the screen clean from cat snot...wasn't,wasn't the problem?"

Thanks John..*grins*

[topher]

There are a number of cyber attacks going on by the left on Christian/Catholic sites...

One such site that is totally down is:

http://www.lifesite.net/

They had some very negative articles about homosexual activism as well as Obama and other things...

FreeRepublic.com just have some very Savvy technical folks...

[NellieMae]

Thanks. I’m just glad it’s back.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I would certainly hope our personal information is being kept in a very secure location. If that information got hacked, it could be very ugly, in the larger context of a full scale attack on the First Amendment by Obama’s thugs.

Protection devoutly to be wished - but frankly, it took me awhile to decide to FReep because I thought so little of Clinton's respect for the law, and my appreciation of the difficulty of keeping identity information secret. I have no illusions that I cannot be traced, any more than Buckhead could remain anonymous.

Someone has said, "Free speech isn't free." Pray for the Robinsons, because they are the ones whose freedom of the press is at issue. With our post submittals we are mere contributors; they actually do the publishing.

Actually the First Amendment, in a way, is used by our opposition to confuse the issue of freedom of the press. Associated Press journalism, which calls itself "the press" and calls its employees "objective journalists," did not exist before the advent of the Associated Press in 1848 - which was enabled by the development of the telegraph and the Morse Code long after the composition and ratification of the First Amendment. Newspapers of the founding era lacked sources which were inaccessible to the general public, and so were usually weeklies rather than dailies since scoops were not crucial to their business.

The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which were agreed to as a condition for the ratification of the Constitution as a whole. They exist as amendments rather than existing in the body of the document, not because the framers of the original document opposed the freedoms they specify but because they feared that the existence of an explicit "bill of rights" would ironically be used to denigrate rights which the "bill of rights" failed to articulate. Justices of the Supreme Court, including "liberal" ones, have recognized this, and understood that the First Amendment is a lower bound and not a limit to our rights to communicate. And that is how Associated Press Journalism, Obama, and the Democratic Party intend to euchre us out of our right to communicate with the public via this web site, and to do likewise to Rush Limbaugh et al and their rights to broadcast their political opinions.

The Constitution including the First Amendment plainly did not, and could not possibly have, include any mandate for the specific development of telegraphy - let alone the telephone, the radio, the TV, the Xerox copier, the computer with printer, cable TV, or the internet. But what the Constitution does explicitly do is to provide for incentive "to promote the progress of science and useful arts," (Article 1 Section 8). There can be no implication that the intention of the framers of the First Amendment intended to limit freedom of political advocacy to in-person speech and ink-on-paper printing - and certainly not to limit freedom of the press to members of an organization, The Associated Press, which did not even exist until two generations after the ratification of the First Amendment. of the framers of the Constitution.

The Right to Know

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[T Lady]

'The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which were agreed to as a condition for the ratification of the Constitution as a whole. They exist as amendments rather than existing in the body of the document, not because the framers of the original document opposed the freedoms they specify but because they feared that the existence of an explicit "bill of rights" would ironically be used to denigrate rights which the "bill of rights" failed to articulate. Justices of the Supreme Court, including "liberal" ones, have recognized this, and understood that the First Amendment is a lower bound and not a limit to our rights to communicate. And that is how Associated Press Journalism, Obama, and the Democratic Party intend to euchre us out of our right to communicate with the public via this web site, and to do likewise to Rush Limbaugh et al and their rights to broadcast their political opinions.'

Should they try this, they will have one heck of a fight on their hands, especially if the Conservatives line up enough Constitutionally savvy lawyers.

And should Obama not be reelected to a second term, the Left needs to keep the following in mind: What goes around, comes around...and could bite them very hard.

That's why people really need to be careful what they wish for, particularly when you trade freedom for security.