[Quix]

I will likely donate half my tithes for this month when my $361 social security check posts on my bank.

I’m still praying about it, however as there’s a lot of other things seeking the same measley amount.

And . . . welll I’m praying about it.

I sometimes get tired of being treated with undeserved hostility and disrespect by a couple of the mods who seem to hate me with a blood lust level of hostility.

[sanescold]

I’ll be trying to keep up! Only money quiets the squeaky wheal!

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

Brother, yours was just the reply to get into the thread with. You sound like you have your priorities straight. I’ll pray for you if you do the same for me. God Bless and good night!

[Wolfstar]

I will likely donate half my tithes for this month when my $361 social security check posts on my bank.

Quix...my Lord!!!! Don't spend a penny here. Use that $361 a month for things you need or, if you must, give to your church or other local charity.

Don't you know what a fraud FR has become? $94,000 a calendar quarter for a website?! That's $376,000 a year. I have worked in the information systems field since 1988, so know whereof I speak.

Where is the public accounting? Where are these supposed new servers we keep hearing about? Do you know that Dell PowerEdge enterprise-class servers (to use one example) are cheap? You can buy rack-type servers for as low as $599, tower-type servers for $399, and blade servers for $1034. Dell's high-end servers start at $4360. In other words, about $10,000 to $15,000 will buy two top-of-the-line servers. So where are they?

Here's a link to Dell's server web page. People can research this information for themselves.

FR's programming is 1996-vintage. It does not need massive enterprise-class servers to run. In addition, web hosting costs have come way, way down since 1996.

The low-end $399 Dell server has up to absolutely massive 12TB(squared) of storage. That's terabytes. One terabyte = 1000 gigabytes, or 1 trillion bytes. Even if they've saved every thread ever started on FR since 1996, and every private message, no way would such simple HTML data consume the storage of two servers, each with 12TB*squared) storage.

Please, Quix, your $361 is much more important in your real life than it is on this fantasy called Free Republic.

[Tribune7]

I will likely donate half my tithes for this month when my $361 social security check posts on my bank.

You're really not going to let him give you his SS money are you?