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Sharks would laugh this place out of the room! FR is useless - those servers have been coming for years, same rhetoric over and over and the problem still remains. Kinda makes one wonder where the money is going doesn't it.
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LOL,
Well Jim, looks like you, and FreeRepublic's days are really, really numbered now (it appears that it may only have a few weeks, maybe a couple of months left).
Reading through this thread it is clear that there are folks posting that can do that FreeRepublic thingee you do faster, cheaper, and better than you'll ever be able to do it.
And many of them have apparently been hanging around at FR for years developing their plans to take the lead with their faster, cheaper, and better websites.
Hey guy, they've outed you as a bigger grifter than Clinton and/or Obama.
They will probably post the pictures they have of your new Malibu Mansion, your string of Cadillacs, Collectors cars, giant RVs, private 747, gold-plated and air-conditioned dog house, etc., on their stunningly faster, cheaper, and better new websites, for all the world to see.
They're probably also working with the major media outlets to release a brutal "tell-all" story about your greed, avarice, and wasteful spending of the vast amounts of money they are sending to you as fast as they can acquire it (the core of the story will probably point out that their family has been doing without the necessities of life because they've been sending all the money to you -- you know, the women and children hit hardest meme).
But hey, that's what's wonderful about America, eh? They'll build it, and the giant sucking sound heard around the world will be every last one of the people currently on FR, as well as those who ever did, or ever will, visit here, rushing to join up at those faster, cheaper, and better new websites.
So, sadly, it seems you might as well just give in to the plans of these new web magnates and throw up a giant flashing announcement on the front page of FR that you're going out of business.
And you need not even think about selling any of your equipment to these dynamos of the interwebs, after all, they can acquire and provide equipment at almost zero cost, and 24/7 service, with 100% up-time rates, at prices so low, it might as well be free.
It was good while it lasted Jim, but these go-getters have plans that you clearly won't be able to compete with. Their business and operational plans are so good that when you sign-up at their faster, cheaper, and better new websites, your home pc/mobile device will actually run faster than it has ever run before!
But Wait! If you sign-up in the first 24 hours, you will get a free lifetime membership (for the lifetime of their faster, cheaper, and better new websites), and 3 sets of stick-free cookware (not sold in stores, S&H extra).
Jim, don't feel too bad though, these folks are just natural-born powerhouses who will ROCK the interwebs!
Google, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft better be watching their backs! These faster, cheaper, and better new websites are just going to be that good!
So, as you fade into history, knocked out of the top spot by these individuals who will change the world, just console yourself with the fact that you were privileged enough to have had them spend a little time (well, actually, years) at your useless site, before they ROCKED OUR WORLD!
I know I will be watching for the opening of their new sites -- I'm soooo excited just thinking about it!
Wow, quite a cynical post. The simple fact is that the site isn’t performing as it should. I’m sure even Jim would agree this is true. You may be okay with FR choking at important moments, but some of us aren’t. Some of us remember when FR could handle the load. There’s a difference in being a supporter and being a cheerleader. Supporters want FR to live up to its mission. Cheerleaders shift blame when it doesn’t. I’d like to see FR succeed.