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Offline formerlurker

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is Free Republic finally finished?
« on: February 21, 2013, 04:02:22 PM »
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is Free Republic finally finished?
"Well, faithful readers, the Free Republic website has been up and down like a yo-yo over the past couple of weeks. I thought that maybe the hampster just died, but it seems to be more serious than that. Apparently the entire steam-powered server system needs new copper tubing!"


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. 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.



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Need a financial Knight in shining armor. Rush? Are you there?
28 posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 7:50:56 AM by TheRake
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Dunno - are you a young boy in the Dominican Republic?
This is how little these yahoos know about their "heroes".
You'll get money from Rush Limbuagh the day you marry him, and not one minute before.


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Ok not meaning to be a smart as* here but I am paid 6 figures as a web and database programmer and have 3 websites and 13 years experience. So with my pedigree stated, I fail to see why this board cost gazllions to run each year.
My three websites, 2 of which have dynamic content, shopping carts, stream video and link to most social networking sites, total web hosting cost per month is 150 bucks. The highest end dedicated, unlimited bandwidth server can be had for 1000 per month, and we are talking Facebook like data traffic there.
There is no way, probability 0 that this site cost 70k a year in technical costs to manage, not possible. Technical costs cannot cost more than a few hundred per month, if they are are the board founder is getting ripped off.
For 100 bucks an hour and maybe 200 hours of total development and testing time, some shrink wrap PHP scripts for forums, and some other cheap addons I could write an ASP app that would do it all here with minimum maintenance. Don’t mean to pull on Superman’s cape , but educate me why it cost so much.

The IP address of FreeRepublic traces back via GeoIP to Robinson-Defehr consulting in Englewood Colorado. Yes, that Robinson. So it looks like he's paying his own company for colocation services!! How's that for tacking on the extra costs - instead of billing for a T-1 to his office, he sets up a shell and then charges for managed server "colocation!" I'll bet that Robinson-Defehr consulting has only one colocation client.



more hilarious comments here:

http://www.first-draft.com/2011/01/today-on-tommy-ts-obsession-with-the-freeperati-if-fr-dies-thats-that-edition.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022409881



Nah, most of the loons that frequent that site actually have the money to keep it going - morons that they are.

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Offline Mr Mannn

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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2013, 04:05:56 PM »
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The IP address of FreeRepublic traces back via GeoIP to Robinson-Defehr consulting in Englewood Colorado.
Legalize weed and FR goes down. coincidence?
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2013, 04:07:55 PM »
FR tits up?  Meh.  Looks like the servers are as unhinged as one of Jim Rob's rants.  It was fun for a while, but then when he went all Charles Johnson/LGF on his subscribers, well...
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2013, 04:08:22 PM »
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free republic's 3-day standoff with teh interwebs continues..
the redirect with useful info about johnbob's epic journey to San Josey to kickstart the db server won't even load! I haven't had an opportunity to check the facebooks to read jimmyrobby's latest missive from the FR compound, but freepers must be in full blown defcon 1 panic mode, what with their sore knees and chapped hands from all that praying. some may even be coming here to get caught up on the day's events. please keep these poor souls in your thoughts and prayers. FR withdrawal symptoms are as bad or even worse than those one might experience when trying to kick cigs or meth.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022408012

2 threads on this?   What is going on in Mr. Robinson's neighborhood?

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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2013, 04:18:28 PM »
Came back up 11 minutes ago.

So sorry to disappoint.
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2013, 04:25:57 PM »
Let's say for the sake of argument that FR dies.  Do you know what happens to the people posting there?  They don't vanish.  They come here.  They go to CU.  The go to Breitbart, Hot Air, michellemalkin.com, Daily Caller, the Blaze.  They go to any number of right-leaning blogs and forums.  You don't win either way.
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2013, 04:33:06 PM »
Quote from: ExGeeEye on February 21, 2013, 04:18:28 PM
Came back up 11 minutes ago.

So sorry to disappoint.
Wouldn't know.

Crazy JimRob's zot list is neck-and-neck with nutcase nadin's iggy list.
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2013, 04:40:26 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on February 21, 2013, 04:07:55 PM
FR tits up?  Meh.  Looks like the servers are as unhinged as one of Jim Rob's rants.  It was fun for a while, but then when he went all Charles Johnson/LGF on his subscribers, well...

I liked littlegreenfootballs until I think the dude running it swallowed one.
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2013, 05:28:32 PM »
Quote from: WinOne4TheGipper on February 21, 2013, 04:25:57 PM
Let's say for the sake of argument that FR dies.  Do you know what happens to the people posting there?  They don't vanish.  They come here.  They go to CU.  The go to Breitbart, Hot Air, michellemalkin.com, Daily Caller, the Blaze.  They go to any number of right-leaning blogs and forums.  You don't win either way.

My thought as well. Getting rid of FR wouldn't change very much.
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2013, 05:45:56 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 21, 2013, 04:40:26 PM
I liked littlegreenfootballs until I think the dude running it swallowed one.
Swallowed more than one.
That porky peddle-pumping pederast, choked on his own bile.
Had to be the second most egotistical pos's I've ever seen.
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2013, 07:11:10 PM »
Quote from: WinOne4TheGipper on February 21, 2013, 04:25:57 PM
Let's say for the sake of argument that FR dies.  Do you know what happens to the people posting there?  They don't vanish.  They come here.  They go to CU.  The go to Breitbart, Hot Air, michellemalkin.com, Daily Caller, the Blaze.  They go to any number of right-leaning blogs and forums.  You don't win either way.

Please don`t let some of them show up here...FR purged most of the normal a long time ago.
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2013, 07:18:09 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on February 21, 2013, 04:07:55 PM
FR tits up?  Meh.  Looks like the servers are as unhinged as one of Jim Rob's rants.  It was fun for a while, but then when he went all Charles Johnson/LGF on his subscribers, well...

Exactly the same.  I'll go there for the articles, but that's it.

...and the constant fundraising is ridiculous.


Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 21, 2013, 04:40:26 PM
I liked littlegreenfootballs until I think the dude running it swallowed one.

Same here.  I found it, right before Rathergate.  Boy, that didn't last long.  

Quote from: GOBUCKS on February 21, 2013, 04:33:06 PM
Wouldn't know.

Crazy JimRob's zot list is neck-and-neck with nutcase nadin's iggy list.

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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2013, 08:00:42 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on February 21, 2013, 04:07:55 PM
FR tits up?  Meh.  Looks like the servers are as unhinged as one of Jim Rob's rants.  It was fun for a while, but then when he went all Charles Johnson/LGF on his subscribers, well...
What happened over there (FR, that is)? I do remember the whole Little Green Footballs fiasco, and it was one of my favorite sites until they went all looney and started sounding more like DailyKos than even some of the people on DailyKos.
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2013, 10:14:35 PM »
I can absolutely not stand the site design or lack there of.  Looks like old news group sites.  I need shinny little things to keep me occupied.
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2013, 11:00:47 PM »
Quote from: Maxiest on February 21, 2013, 10:14:35 PM
I can absolutely not stand the site design or lack there of.  Looks like old news group sites.  I need shinny little things to keep me occupied.

Their web design looks to be intended for an early version of Lynx.

I used dial-in BBS systems in the early 90's that were superior.
 
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2013, 03:18:52 AM »
Quote from: Carl on February 21, 2013, 07:11:10 PM
Please don`t let some of them show up here...FR purged most of the normal a long time ago.

heh.

I are one.  Current FReeper, that is.

But because I'm a conservative, I won't get all butt-hurt about your obviously calling me abnormal.

I am abnormal.  In another era, Eye-gor would have supplied Dr. Fronkensteen with my brain.

I've seen "normal".  It's overrated.

Cheers!  :tongue: :fuelfire:
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #16 on: February 22, 2013, 03:32:18 AM »
I used to read Little Green Footballs until one day they turned left and I stopped.
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #17 on: February 22, 2013, 07:46:40 AM »
LGF was a great site right after 9/11/01.  I became involved with another forum and let that one drift away before it went full-blown nutty.

I sometimes read the comments at FR after one of Charles' DUFU's.  It's rather headache-inducing, the style of it all.  

Curious, I popped over to LGF to see what they were talking about.  What a snoozefest.  

A conservation photographer talking about the true cost of oil in a video
Bitching about something on Breitbart
Jon Stewart video
Bitching about the hilarious LiberalTips2AvoidRape#
Bitching about other blogs, such as Sooper Mexican and GatewayPundit.  

I hit comments on one of them, and a huge annoying pop up animated ad blocked everything, and there was no way to x out of it.  Then, my internet crashed.  So much for that experiment.  
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #18 on: February 22, 2013, 07:59:23 AM »
I don't see how someone can change their ideology overnight like Charles did. Just doesn't seem like his convictions were ever grounded on anything.
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #19 on: February 22, 2013, 02:43:23 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on February 21, 2013, 04:33:06 PM
Wouldn't know.

Crazy JimRob's zot list is neck-and-neck with nutcase nadin's iggy list.

Has anybody ever seen JimRob and nads in the same place together? Perhaps they're the same person...both crazed egotists for a start.
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Re: is Free Republic finally finished?
« Reply #20 on: February 22, 2013, 02:53:23 PM »
Quote from: Rebel on February 22, 2013, 07:59:23 AM
I don't see how someone can change their ideology overnight like Charles did. Just doesn't seem like his convictions were ever grounded on anything.

Certainly not reality.

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