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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 10/29/2008 : 15:05:03 [Permalink]
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Gorgo.....
| But then, vice is nice, but incest is best. |
Straight on, Gorgo! I frequently say to my daughter, "fuck you!". |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2008 : 15:21:05 [Permalink]
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Kil......
| I do have one thing going in my favor at SFN. I'm an administrator... |
Yeah, it's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it!No thanks due. Best pincushion I ever played with.....I'm having more fun than a barrel of hypnotoads! |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2008 : 15:27:50 [Permalink]
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Dave.....
| Your memory is obviously shot to hell. |
No doubt about that, Davey! Helps me forget all the pompous intellectuality that I and a few other infallibles keep spreading heavily all over this site!
Like Mac Davis used to sing - Lord, but it's hard to be humble.....!! |
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bngbuck
SFN Addict
USA
2437 Posts |
Posted - 10/29/2008 : 22:58:13 [Permalink]
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Mabuse.....
| If you have cash lying around waiting to get donated for a worthy cause, then I suggest Skepticality is a more worthy recipient. |
Why not SFN, Mabuse? |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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 Posted - 10/30/2008 : 07:58:14 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
Mabuse.....
| If you have cash lying around waiting to get donated for a worthy cause, then I suggest Skepticality is a more worthy recipient. |
Why not SFN, Mabuse?
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Being a member of the staff, I know you've already made contributions to SFN (which we are thankful for). I was offering what I think is a better alternative to Infidel Guy.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
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"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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Hittman
Skeptic Friend
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 Posted - 11/07/2008 : 19:59:36 [Permalink]
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It's been a while since I listened to his show, but I tried a couple of episodes a while back and found them deadly dull. It takes a special talent to bore me with one of my favorite subjects.
His e-mail sounds almost like blackmail. If you don't give, he's going to re-join the army, so there.
Let him. The army just loves atheists, and treats them so well.
QUESTION: At worst, what can happen if I don't support the show?
Well, without continued support. IG.com can possibly be off the air permanently. |
Boo Hoo. Shows I've loved have podfaded. One of my favorite shows stopped with the podcaster died. (I still miss it, and him.) If that's the worst that can happen, it's a tragedy I can live with.
I've never made a dime from my podcast, and never expected to. I've been meaning to put up a donation button, just to see if I can get a few bucks, but haven't got around to it. (I have had a few people send me cigars, which I very much appreciated.) I wouldn't pay to hear my show, (or any show, for that matter) so how can I expect others to pay for it? And with that in mind, why should I pay for a show I don't even like?
I've run forums since the days of 1200 baud modems. I even tried to make money on one in the mid-nineties. I had 21 modems flashing in my office, and charged ten bucks a month for access. On a good month I only lost $100 or so. Just as it was starting to show the possibility of a profit the internet killed it. (I knew the internet was coming, but mistakenly thought that people would use it for research and use BBSs for local contacts. What I hadn't foreseen was the impact of browsers.)
The bottom line is: Doing this for money is a bad business model. A very, very bad business model. I don't feel any obligation to support a bad business model. Especially when it's built around a boring show.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2008 : 20:27:12 [Permalink]
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Yeah.
If the guy wanted to raise funds for his site he should have stuck with a basic PBS style professional appeal. He should have just stated that the website and his show were running short and asked people to donate a few bucks if they can.
The melodrama about him having to re-enlist in the military ensured that I will never give him a dime. It strikes me as fake. You don't resort to amateurish emotional appeals if you want to get money from skeptics. Just lay out the facts and make a humble request.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26021 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2008 : 23:12:54 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hittman
His e-mail sounds almost like blackmail. If you don't give, he's going to re-join the army, so there. |
It just occured to me where I've heard such a threat before. The movie Blazing Saddles, with the wonderful Cleavon Little playing Sheriff Bart:[the Johnsons load their guns and point them at Bart. Bart then points his own pistol at his head]
Bart: [speaking in a low voice] Hold it! Next man makes a move, the nigger gets it!
Olson Johnson: Hold it, men. He's not bluffing.
Dr. Sam Johnson: Listen to him, men, he's just crazy enough to do it!
Bart: [low voice] Drop it! Or I swear I'll blow this nigger's head all over this town!
Bart: [now speaking in a higher voice] Oh, lo'dy, lo'd, he's desp'it! Do what he sayyyy, do what he sayyyy...
[the Johnsons drop their guns. Bart jams the gun into his neck and drags himself through the crowd and towards the station]
Harriett Van Johnson: Isn't anybody going to help that poor man?
Dr. Sam Johnson: Hush, Harriet, that's a sure way to get him killed!
Bart: [higher voice] Oooh! He'p me, he'p me! Somebody he'p me! He'p me! He'p me! He'p me!
Bart: [lower voice] Shut up!
[Bart places his hand over his own mouth, drags himself through the door into his office]
Bart: Ooh, baby, you are so talented! And they are so DUMB! |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2008 : 14:42:04 [Permalink]
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Years ago I saw some outtakes from that scene(and others in the movie)... They must have had to shoot it a hundred times to get a take where no one was cracking up.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 11/10/2008 : 13:43:08 [Permalink]
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Amusingly; I just remembered that 'The infidel guy' was one of the guest fighters of the on going poll.
He is not doing that good there. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Who is The Infidel Guy?
