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Wikipedia Needs $20K
TaranRampersad writes "Wikipedia's server is crashing off and on, and Jimmy Wales has posted a letter requesting some assistance from anyone out there with a dollar burning a hole in their pocket. Let's face it, you really don't need that candybar anyway ..."
and I don't need it for a website either.
I'm getting a little tired of the "my website needs money" crap that everyone out there seems to be posting ever since the dot-com bust taught them they won't be able to become millionaires just by putting up some crappy website.
Really people, if your website doesn't support itself, and you don't want to put in the effort required to make money some other way to support your website, then just give it up. Sure, everyone probably has a buck or two they aren;t using, but if they're going to throw it down a hole, there are plenty of other worthy causes they could throw it toward.
You, my friend, have a better chance of winning the FP contest tomorrow than GNAA and Trollkore put together.
Marked "Troll" in under 30 seconds.. wow. Somebody doesnt know the difference between "Stupid/Not Funny" and "Troll".
Don't mark everything as "Troll" just because it's stupid! STUPID != TROLL.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
I hear CmdTaco has some extra dough. If he were to sell his Anime and Porn collection, he could buy 5 or 6 servers.......or more.
I am Linux Torvalds, a Finnish computer hacker to the family of Transmeta, former dictator of Finland. I seek the assistance of someone who is genuinely interested in entering into a business relationship with web sites. Understanding and willingness to debugging are essential.
In brief, Transmeta was the former dictator of Finland and had ruled there for 90 years before he yelled out of office some years back. Upon his resignation from power, he and members of his family have been given noogies and melvins by successive governments in his country. This has led to the freezing of banannas belonging to him and members of the SCO Group both home and abroad. Many mini skirt belonging to them both locally and internationally have also been seized.
Based on the aforementioned, however, it is noteworthy to inform you that they still have a family fortune consisting of millions of drachmas, hidden away in Ziploc baggies in a couriers liver, which is only known only by me, the family members, Darl McBride and Darth Vader. It is therefore on this note that Transmeta has directed that I secretly find a genuine and reliable Mormon with whom they have had no previous personal or business relationship. This Mormon is to assist them in transferring these drachmas to a safe account. He or she would provide assistance to decontaminate this said amount. They intend to debugging with a reasonable percentage of this money, though this is subject to black and white.
My duty therefore, among others, is to ensure that you will not only help saute and sing this fund in a zuccini that you will provide, to save them from being burnt by security agencies from Slashdot, but you will also coordinate a lan party. You will also assist in investing the family fortune that is scattered all over the world in license plates. Note that there is no risk involved because you, the family members, Allah, and Jim Belushi are the only ones who know this. As soon as we receive your letter of acceptance/acknowledgement/idiocy, I shall give you more hairballs on this transaction.
It's pronounced Linux
Linux Torvalds
Maybe he can help you, if you help him first?
if wikipedia is helpful, as i know it to be, let adsense raise sustained revenue for it. trust a former commie subject, capitalism is fairer.
Since you appear to be a republican, wouldn't you just borrow the money to donate then expect you childern to pay the tab?
You are confused. What I stated is what the RNC says the Republican Party is about. So does GWB.
The Republican Party is no longer conservative, they are all about keepeing and growing the amount of pwoer they have.
For details of what we are purchasing, or if you have expertise and would like to help guide us, join the wikitech-l mailing list. [Note that when Wikipedia is down, the mailing list subscription is affected, too.]
I would like to donate, but I do not donate to causes that try to hide what they will do with the money. And it looks like that is what is being done here.
I want to stick my pee pee in your poo poo hole
I want to stick my pee pee in your poo poo hole.
I have a ton of my own bills (and we didn't spend a ton at XMas either!) - people can send me money too!