Well...there's the point. It doesn't seem that he did in fact donate it. He agreed to work out pricing at a later date, and then the sherrif's office shut him out whenever he tried to bring the subject up.
Let's reverse the situation: You buy a product on finance. You have basically agreed to pay for it later. Whenever the comapny you're financing through tries ot contact you to discuss payment, you tune them out or make up some kind of excuse. What would happen in this situation? You would have whatever it was your purchased taken away from you, wouldn't you? Well that's exactly what Pat has done here. He provided a service under finance. When he tried to discuss payment with the sherrif's office, they shut him out, so, after a period of time (a period that displayed a level of patience that no financial institution would have) he took the product back. Under the reverse situation, you would have no way of getting your purchase back. In the real-life case, the opposite is happening. How would oyu like to be imprisoned for being a nice guy?
But did he actually wait 2 to 3 years before asking for payment? I think he spent 2-3 years waiting for payment, attempting to negotiate payment and not getting anywhere due to the fact that he's dealing with people who just don't want to pay. In business terms he is an incredibly patient and considerate guy, to have even kept working on the site and hosting it for 3 years before finally pulling the plug.
Where is your evidence, besides one highly biased small-town newspaper article, that this guy even asked for 300K?
Personally, I think he went to the sheriff's office at some point a while back and broke down for them what his costs in building, running, hosting and maintaining this site, and they took it as 'I want $300,000 or else'. I think he probably only asked for some kind of financial assistance so at least he wasn't losing money from hosting this site
Why is it unfortunate? That is simply another website that RunningWolf has designed that is sucessful, and looks good, so they display it as an example of their work. That in no way implies that they decided on the content or that they agree with the points of view expressed there. That'd be like someone coming on slashdot and posting something controversial, then someone else coming along, reading it and saying 'The owners of/. should be shot for having this on their website!'
That is like saying that everyone with an extremist view should be locked up. Well, I'm very much against child molestation...does that mean I should spend a few years behind bars?
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Well...there's the point. It doesn't seem that he did in fact donate it. He agreed to work out pricing at a later date, and then the sherrif's office shut him out whenever he tried to bring the subject up.
Let's reverse the situation: You buy a product on finance. You have basically agreed to pay for it later. Whenever the comapny you're financing through tries ot contact you to discuss payment, you tune them out or make up some kind of excuse. What would happen in this situation? You would have whatever it was your purchased taken away from you, wouldn't you? Well that's exactly what Pat has done here. He provided a service under finance. When he tried to discuss payment with the sherrif's office, they shut him out, so, after a period of time (a period that displayed a level of patience that no financial institution would have) he took the product back. Under the reverse situation, you would have no way of getting your purchase back. In the real-life case, the opposite is happening. How would oyu like to be imprisoned for being a nice guy?
But did he actually wait 2 to 3 years before asking for payment? I think he spent 2-3 years waiting for payment, attempting to negotiate payment and not getting anywhere due to the fact that he's dealing with people who just don't want to pay. In business terms he is an incredibly patient and considerate guy, to have even kept working on the site and hosting it for 3 years before finally pulling the plug.
Where is your evidence, besides one highly biased small-town newspaper article, that this guy even asked for 300K?
Personally, I think he went to the sheriff's office at some point a while back and broke down for them what his costs in building, running, hosting and maintaining this site, and they took it as 'I want $300,000 or else'. I think he probably only asked for some kind of financial assistance so at least he wasn't losing money from hosting this site
Why is it unfortunate? That is simply another website that RunningWolf has designed that is sucessful, and looks good, so they display it as an example of their work. That in no way implies that they decided on the content or that they agree with the points of view expressed there. That'd be like someone coming on slashdot and posting something controversial, then someone else coming along, reading it and saying 'The owners of /. should be shot for having this on their website!'
That is like saying that everyone with an extremist view should be locked up. Well, I'm very much against child molestation...does that mean I should spend a few years behind bars?