🚀 go-pugleaf

Bob Allisat (ab330@torfree.net) wrote:

:          <http://www.fcn.net/tfndoom>

For those of you without access to a graphical browser:

  Text reads:  "12:00 is the end"
  Poorly done graphical representation of digital clock reads:
               "11:59:59"

Wow!  What wit!  What a brilliant insight!

Self-fulfilling prophecy:  if you shout "the sky is falling" often enough 
and loudly enough, maybe it will happen.  boB's message:

          Taking 11:59:59 as based on a 12-hour lifespan, and
          applying this proportionately the the Toronto Freenet's
          3-year history (approximately), we see that boB is saying
          that the Freenet has 36 minutes and 40 seconds left
          before it is gone.

          Thus, boB is saying that it would be unwise to contribute
          funds to the TFN, since in 36 minutes your contribution
          will be lost and the TFN gone forever.  And if you do not
          contribute, boB can take credit for the TFN's failure
          ("I'll teach them not to jerk ME around!).

          It's now 3:27 pm on Saturday, January 11.  If the Toronto
          Freenet is still in operation at 4:04 pm, it means that
          poor boB has once again goofed, and you can safely make
          a contribution to the TFN to help it struggle through this
          difficult period.

"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by 
stupidity."