"If FR dies, that’s that." - Jim Robinson [Jim's reply at post # 588]

freerepublic.com ^ | 1/11/11 | paulycy

[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

[brytlea]

Thanks, someone explained it to me. :) I am sometimes not paying close attention to things. I live on planet brytlea...

[reaganaut]

I know, I know...don’t feed the trolls. Sorry, dad.

[Elsie]

I dislike small minds and it seems that you are one of those, this is our last communication, Elsie is then a male cow?

Actually; LITTLE Bill; a DEAD one...

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http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/elsie.html

[brytlea]

Ah! I don’t go to the religion forum and don’t have a clue about the rules.

[Quix]

Still posting mysterious and enigmatic messages. :-)

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Yeah, well . . . tough job but someone’s gotta do it.

LOL.

[Allegra]

L0L

[Col Freeper]

The body expressing air is normal. We accept sneezing but get silly about air from the other end. That has always struck me as odd.

Ummm, maybe because sneezing doesn't tend to have the oxygen depleting, odoriferous content, the other has -- especially when encountered in limited space areas, like elevators?

[eastforker]

Standing up and browbeating is two different things.So a nominal christian isn’t OK with you, or an athiest?Man, talk about being prejudiced, you nailed it, the FRinquisition lives!

[reaganaut]

LOL

[woofie]

You've grown an American resource that millions of Americans don't want to see go away. How can we ensure that it won't?

Start a similar hobby?

[Osage Orange]

Elsie is a cow with a small mind who would revive burning at the stake. There are many LDS on FR some of whom are family, though I am not LDS I disapprove of the Elsies of the world.

Well..thank God that settles it. Little Bill has said it...and the thinking has been done.

[Elsie]

“I don’t know how they could enforce the mandatory search.”

Vee haff our veys...

[Quix]

TRUE. TRUE.

Though some folks BEG to be swatted down in the tone, if not manner to which they are obviously accustomed to spewing.

[Windflier]

I would love to support a Freeper business.

It does create accounting headaches for FR unless the businesses specified their payments to FR were donations.

Somehow, I don't see any accounting problems associated with accepting payments for banner advertising. Millions of website owners accept payment for services rendered, as does every other sort of business on earth.

The revenue generated by banner ads would more than pay for any needed accounting services.

I'm saying, of course, that payments for banner advertising wouldn't be donations. Mine is a capitalist solution.

[Lady Jag]

You may also donate by hitting Never Land

[paulycy]

Start a similar hobby?

Incapable.

[eastforker]

and don’t allow evil to go unchallenged ................................................................................Are you now calling mormons evil??? You just keep reinforcing your stand as an iquisitor.

[reaganaut]

What people don’t get about the RF is

1) debate helps us hone our theology, bible reading and apologetics as well as our debate skills in general.

2) At the end of the day, even those we fight the most with, many of us would still call the FRiends.

[mel]

well, it was a suggestion, just ike at my daughter’s school. there are different levels and you don’t have to be identified.

[onyx]

Jim just wrote,


Woo hoo!!

And this just in:

$20.00 from Michigan
$50.00 from New York
$50.00 from California
$5.00 monthly from California
$20.00 from Missouri
$20.00 from Germany
$10.00 from Texas
$25.00 from California
$20.00 from Never Never Land
$100.00 from California
$20.00 monthly from Texas
$33.50 monthly from New Hampshire
$365.00 from Arizona
$20.00 monthly from Illinois

Thank you all very much!!

Woo hoo!! The first twenty four percent is in!!