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.
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have duplex and triplex backup servers?
Maybe it has to do with an aversion to 'failover.'
without JimRob telling them what to think or what they can or can't say?
but since you've mentioned it a search indicates it wasn't backed up. 
but since the subject was raised here I had a quick root around. They seem to have set up a temporary site on Yahoo and there was mention of the absense of a back up there. 
"Whoever" is attempting to retrieve the files - whatever that means.
'...But nowhere was the post-election butthurt more palpable than on Free Republic, that bastion of children-bashing "freedom fighters," where an open letter was posted shortly after Obama reelection, apologizing to the Queen of England for "that little misunderstanding we had 236 years ago," and asking the British Empire to "take us back..."
Your Majesty,
We, the people of the former American colonies, would like to offer our most sincere apology over that little misunderstanding we had 236 years ago. Had we known that we were going to be subjects anyway, we could have saved a lot of trouble and hard feelings.
We were under the mistaken belief that we would be free, sovereign citizens; we believed that our hard work would yield its own rewards without someone coming along and taking what we built in the name of "Fairness". We thought our laws and Constitution would protect us from a foreign born dictator, and our freedom to worship would prevent us from becoming a corrupt, morally bankrupt society (silly us).
Little did we know that our own free press would intentionally sabotage, deceive and withhold the truth from us in order to reelect a Socialist that still holds distain for our nation and contempt for its founding principles. Nor did we believe that there would be so many citizens dependent on government handouts that they would blindly elect an unqualified charlatan, let alone reelect him.
Anyway, Your Grace, we are truly sorry and humbly sincerely beg your forgiveness. If you can find it in your heart to forgive us and take us back, we promise never to trade British oppression for Socialist tyranny again.
Your most humble servants,
The American People
The Left has already taken the liberty of issuing a response to the Freepers on behalf of the Queen in the form of (what else?) an animated GIF':
http://gawker.com/free-republic/
Is that anything as cool as Cat versus the Internet?
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cat_vs_internet
Praying for the best.
Thank you very much for your patience.
Very sorry about the downtime.
Lots of questions being asked about whether proper back-ups were being done.
Sid
RimJob and his crew will probably have to make an attenuator to adjust the gain on their TRS-80's cassette drive. They called and asked me for the schematic and I snail-mailed it to them because you know... they don't have a fax machine.
Or they can get the expansion package with a 5.25" floppy drive and an upgrade to 42kb of RAM. I've heard they've been trying to call Tandy Corp for days and haven't gotten an answer.
a while back. Not sure about Inannity.
At any rate, I doubt RimJob's 2400 baud dial up modem would be able to connect his Trash-80 to Carbonite.
... to which we go, "what a guy, is there anything he cant do?"
Commodore 128 Computer they could purchase? Might help them? Nah... fuck 'em they can't have it.
Or even more appropriate:
Something a bit more immutable than politics, of course
More like what I wanted to style after, and much older.
This will be a WIN! Unless JR can still ZOT libruls.
They have to agree to hate whoever he calls the enemy of his world view, but he changes it and won't allow any dissent. Like a dysfunctional family, they think they can't survive without it.
It's classic cult technique, like Beck and Fox, inoculating, keeping them in a state of low-level anxiety all the time, often hiding behind religious themes. When it's really about the money, all the time. They think of JR as a suffering working class stiff who cares about them if they toe the line.
It's pure nutsoville over there.
I suspect you've already read it, but if not, download The Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer.
It describes this method of control and just how dangerous it can be. If you haven't read it, you can download it and a few other good reads on the subject for free at the link below. There are audio versions available, as well:
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
More about it and individual chapters:
http://issuepedia.org/index.php?title=The_Authoritarians&printable=yes
Okay, last edit, reviews for you:
http://www.cherryhillpublishing.com/About%20Authoritarians.htm
(Man, I wish I was an artist!!)
RimJob with a hamster in a death-grip under his chin, and a pistol in his other hand pointed at his temple; RimJob saying, "A'right, nobody move or the hamster gets it!!"
. . . . .
Just imagine how they must feel when they come here and see us making fun of them. 
You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
Awwww...poor kitty! Looks like how mine reacts when his sisters get treats before he does. 
Hats off to the DU admins who have given us the best platform ever for an internet discussion board.
And all my pity goes out to the neo-nazis who frequent that other site.
-Laelth
I would almost think that Jimrob must be my ex-boss, who still had me using one of these when I left the company in 1995...
