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quote:If I ever have to date again I'm going to carry a pocket DNA test just to make sure Billie Joe wasn't born Billy Joe. I'm not even sure where to start with that one.
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Guavanaut posted:I'm not even sure where to start with that one. Don't DNA tests take about a month? Boywhiz88 posted:I like the guy bitching about a woman who would want to go "dutch," because it's super reasonable for a first date. Some guy's can be real assholes about entitlement "I bought you dinner, why won't you go on a second date/gently caress me?" I find it funny though because I guarantee you if that person and the FReeper ever got married, he would probably bitch about his spoiled and entitled wife if she asked for money. Honestly, at this point either person insisting on paying for a first date would seem a little creepy. I'd personally take it as a warning sign that the person in question might be a little overinvested.
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Sep 9, 2015 19:30
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Jim Bob URGENTLY needs all you can eat salad bar and unlimited bread sticks. Donate NOW before it's too late!
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Sep 9, 2015 19:38
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Tias posted:Yeah, and she's a young pill addict who's already in way more trouble than she would have been in any sane legal system - the judge should have known better. poo poo, had I known being a pill addict means I could ignore warnings from a judge I would have been popping them long before now.
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Sep 9, 2015 19:38
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Keeshhound posted:Don't DNA tests take about a month? Dienes posted:poo poo, had I known being a pill addict means I could ignore warnings from a judge I would have been popping them long before now.
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Sep 9, 2015 20:03
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Aw, drat, the title gold is pouring in! My vote is for Freepers:Even the monthly donors can give extra. It doesn't hurt at all. Dienes posted:poo poo, had I known being a pill addict means I could ignore warnings from a judge I would have been popping them long before now. Is there some reason the freep is coming from inside the thread lately? Stop being a fascist dickbag, kthx.
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Sep 9, 2015 21:34
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Tias posted:Is there some reason the freep is coming from inside the thread lately? Stop being a fascist dickbag, kthx. Staring into the abyss and all that.
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Sep 9, 2015 21:59
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Tias posted:Aw, drat, the title gold is pouring in! whoa whoa whoa, JOKES!? ON SOMETHINJG AWFUL!?! mods????
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Sep 10, 2015 15:30
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Guavanaut posted:I'm not even sure where to start with that one. It says something that the first woman's name that comes to LouAvul's mind is "Billie Joe." I'm not sure what it says, but it's something. Maybe he was going for "Billie Jean," like the song, but misremembered?
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Sep 10, 2015 17:20
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Dienes posted:Contempt of court law is a judicial reason with substantial precedent. That's what some people in the comment thread say that is wrong. What counts as contempt has guidelines and, as you say, long precedent. "I'm bitter and you kind of annoy me, $5,000 fine" is not valid legal grounds. It's only treated as valid because the judge has absolute power and no one to challenge him. I skimmed the video, though, was she even put in contempt? The judge dismissed her then doubled her bond, she was going back to a holding cell anyway. Contempt is, generally, when a trial is in progress and a free person is put in chains or a holding cell for being a dick (or because Judge decides: because I said so). Georgia Peach posted:DATING ETIQUETTE IN THE MODERN ERA: WHO PAYS ON THE FIRST DATE? This reads like an angry man whose marriage may end in divorce or murder. I wonder how old he is, I'm in my 30's and the standard is to split it on the first date unless you're feeling generous. Honestly, in this age paying for the whole thing just seems like a bribe, like paying for all the drinks and expecting something in return. It's not as complex as he makes it out to be, especially since he will never encounter anyone who is trans.
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Sep 10, 2015 17:40
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Tias posted:Yeah, and she's a young pill addict who's already in way more trouble than she would have been in any sane legal system - the judge should have known better. She's not in any trouble at all. The judge dropped jail sentence after she aplogized and all of the rest of the charges were dropped after she successfully finished a drug recovery program. So actually she was treated properly by a sane system.
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Sep 10, 2015 17:53
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The real reason this quarter's freepathon took a record amount of time:quote:To: Jim Robinson
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Sep 10, 2015 18:00
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Why is it that there is no one at Freep who hasn't gone "You're taking all this money from us and not doing a thing to make this site look better"? Is it just because Freep is old and hates change with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns?
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Sep 10, 2015 20:01
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I thought that happened occasionally and resulted in a dog-piling from the users and eventually a zot.
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Sep 10, 2015 20:03
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Alter Ego posted:Why is it that there is no one at Freep who hasn't gone "You're taking all this money from us and not doing a thing to make this site look better"? Freepers look at it as gas money for the servers. Also as proving loyalty and for dick waving.
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Sep 10, 2015 20:07
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Alter Ego posted:Why is it that there is no one at Freep who hasn't gone "You're taking all this money from us and not doing a thing to make this site look better"? None of them understand how computers work and they largely seem to genuinely believe he needs all of that money just to maintain the shite as it is. Most of them would also certainly freak the hell out if he changed anything, which is great because he probably has neither the inclination nor the ability to do so.
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Sep 10, 2015 20:20
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Alter Ego posted:Why is it that there is no one at Freep who hasn't gone "You're taking all this money from us and not doing a thing to make this site look better"? They do. They get banned.
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Sep 10, 2015 20:21
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Do they report how much money they take in during these pledge drives?
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Sep 10, 2015 20:22
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Keeshhound posted:Do they report how much money they take in during these pledge drives? Supposedly, the drive ends when the goal is met, so you can make a rough guesstimate of their income based on what the quarterly drive goals are. But FReep is an LLC, not a publicly held or nonprofit company, so they don't have to release actual numbers.
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Sep 10, 2015 20:25
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Keeshhound posted:Do they report how much money they take in during these pledge drives? What relationship that number has with the actual amount of money raised, or the actual costs of running the site, is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Sep 10, 2015 20:27
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Trump Criticizes Carly Fiorina’s Looks: ‘Look At That Face!’ This thread is really telling for how Freeper's view the world. Trump can do no wrong, it's all a false flag! quote:To: Cincinatus' Wife quote:To: DouglasKC quote:To: toddausauras quote:To: Cincinatus' Wife quote:To: Cincinatus' Wife
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Sep 10, 2015 20:38
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Keeshhound posted:Do they report how much money they take in during these pledge drives? ...minus JimRob's Olive Garden budget, of course?
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Sep 10, 2015 20:39
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Poe's Law and all that but I've been pretty convinced for several months that re_nortex is a deep cover troll.
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Sep 10, 2015 21:39
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Elephant Ambush posted:Poe's Law and all that but I've been pretty convinced for several months that re_nortex is a deep cover troll. Once again, if he is then he's been at it for years.
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Sep 10, 2015 21:45
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Cleretic posted:Their comparing Kim Davis to Rosa Parks got me thinking... have there been any actually successful protests by conservative groups? I've only ever seen them make ineffectual, homophobic and lovely displays that cause no progress in any direction except against them. The Tea Party was never really a 'protest' except in the minds of the people on the absolute lowest level, so that doesn't really count. Would the armed stand-off at Cliven Bundy's ranch count? Because they definitely won that.
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Sep 10, 2015 22:00
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"Existential threat." This is a relatively rare time in American history where no one is trying to blow us up. Security at borders and soft targets like shopping malls is little to nothing yet those promised bearded hoards have never appeared. Any day now? Existential threat is pulled straight from AM radio and syndicate news, were it uttered by someone describing something that isn't a complete fantasy, like climate change, that term would be called, "five dollar words."
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Sep 10, 2015 22:28
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Post 9-11 User posted:"Existential threat." This is a relatively rare time in American history where no one is trying to blow us up. Security at borders and soft targets like shopping malls is little to nothing yet those promised bearded hoards have never appeared. Any day now? Existential threat is pulled straight from AM radio and syndicate news, were it uttered by someone describing something that isn't a complete fantasy, like climate change, that term would be called, "five dollar words." Outright, angry denial of clearly observable reality appears to be the stock-in-trade of late capitalism.
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Sep 10, 2015 23:00
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FMguru posted:They report a number. The one thing we can be certain of is that they're probably getting taken to the cleaners on hosting because the admin is JimRob's idiot son. I think they're still colo'ing their own personal machine somewhere.
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Sep 11, 2015 00:35
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Sep 11, 2015 01:00
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ErIog posted:The one thing we can be certain of is that they're probably getting taken to the cleaners on hosting because the admin is JimRob's idiot son. I think they're still colo'ing their own personal machine somewhere. FR's current size and bandwidth could probably be handled by an AWS instance for $100/month or so. Someone is making a pile off of these miserable old farts' SS checks and military pensions
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Sep 11, 2015 01:06
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FMguru posted:They're either being taken to the cleaners on hosting, or JimRob and family are skimming huge sums off the top. Or both. So they're basically Fox News commercials if they were stuck in 1996?
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Sep 11, 2015 01:27
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AWS is a tool of the leftist 0bamunists and cannot be trusted! The only way that the Free Republic can stay online is if it is hosted on a privately owned controlled server that is buried deep under
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Sep 11, 2015 01:31
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Khizan posted:AWS is a tool of the leftist 0bamunists and cannot be trusted! The only way that the Free Republic can stay online is if it is hosted on a privately owned controlled server that is buried deep under Just a note to the new folks, this post isn't really far off from actual justifications that have been posted on Freep when server cost discussions have come up. The other one that gets brought up if the site ever experiences any slowdown is, "OBAMA IS HACKING US!" FMguru posted:They're either being taken to the cleaners on hosting, or JimRob and family are skimming huge sums off the top. Or both. Given that, in the past, JimRob's son has had to drive multiple hours to reboot the server I am going to assume that they are really bad at managing their hosting costs due to lack of technical skill.
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Sep 11, 2015 02:34
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It's not all that well-known outside of tech circles but unlimited salad and bread sticks won't keep servers running.
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Sep 11, 2015 02:43
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I wonder what's going to happen when the 20-year-old Windows 95 machine I assume they're running the site on finally just craps out completely.
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Sep 11, 2015 03:22
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Mister Bates posted:I wonder what's going to happen when the 20-year-old Windows 95 machine I assume they're running the site on finally just craps out completely. The URL will be redirected to a GoFundMe to 'rebuild the website', the website will never actually get rebuilt, JimRob and family will continue to live off of the donations of old racists, and the GoFundMe comments section will replace the website itself.
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Sep 11, 2015 04:15
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Mister Bates posted:I wonder what's going to happen when the 20-year-old Windows 95 machine I assume they're running the site on finally just craps out completely. At that point they'll probably buy a new machine and raise the freepathon goal for the quarter.
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Shugojin posted:At that point they'll probably buy a new machine and raise the freepathon goal for the quarter. Upgrading to Windows MEMEMEMEME I'll show myself out
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Glenn Beck Is ‘Embarrassed’ that He Ever Supported ‘Clown’ Sarah Palinquote:To: 2ndDivisionVet  quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet; Jim Robinson re_nortex just keeps on delivering the goods  quote:To: UnwashedPeasant quote:To: Liberty Valance quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet
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Bran Loghair posted:She's not in any trouble at all. The judge dropped jail sentence after she aplogized and all of the rest of the charges were dropped after she successfully finished a drug recovery program. So actually she was treated properly by a sane system. Oh, allright. Serves me right for drawing conclusions from a video bite 
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