HAVE WORTHLESS WEBSITE! Need FREE HOSTING!

I am sorry, but I have to scream.

Every time I drop in here I see all these headers that cry, "Need FREE
hosting!", Need Free registration", "Must be CHEAP", "Must be
affordable".
Are these websites so worthless, so devoid of value, that someone will
not spend the price of a weekly beer on them? What's the problem
here? Are the Homeless running websites now?
I have had sites since 1987, and like most things, I have found that
if you are lucky, you might get what you pay for. "Free" means "Zero
Value".
Having just cleaned up hundreds of trojans, etc from a niece's
computer from "free" downloading and dubious "services", I want to
repeat a phrase I drove into her head: "Nothing is really "FREE",
dammit."
I am sorry for the rant, in a way, but it needs to be said:
If someone cannot afford a dollar/Euro or two a week, maybe they
should get off the WWW and the dole, and try getting a JOB.
Or leaving the cocaine alone.
Bah.

Grunty wrote

> I am sorry, but I have to scream.
>
> Every time I drop in here I see all these headers that cry, "Need FREE
> hosting!", Need Free registration", "Must be CHEAP", "Must be
> affordable".
> Are these websites so worthless, so devoid of value, that someone will
> not spend the price of a weekly beer on them? What's the problem
> here? Are the Homeless running websites now?
> I have had sites since 1987, and like most things, I have found that
> if you are lucky, you might get what you pay for. "Free" means "Zero
> Value".
> Having just cleaned up hundreds of trojans, etc from a niece's
> computer from "free" downloading and dubious "services", I want to
> repeat a phrase I drove into her head: "Nothing is really "FREE",
> dammit."
> I am sorry for the rant, in a way, but it needs to be said:
> If someone cannot afford a dollar/Euro or two a week, maybe they
> should get off the WWW and the dole, and try getting a JOB.
> Or leaving the cocaine alone.
> Bah.

Agreed. Best yet, some of them claim to be running a business!!

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

Grunty wrote:
> I am sorry, but I have to scream.
>
> Every time I drop in here I see all these headers that cry, "Need FREE
> hosting!", Need Free registration", "Must be CHEAP", "Must be
> affordable".
> Are these websites so worthless, so devoid of value, that someone will
> not spend the price of a weekly beer on them? What's the problem
> here? Are the Homeless running websites now?
> I have had sites since 1987, and like most things, I have found that
> if you are lucky, you might get what you pay for. "Free" means "Zero
> Value".
> Having just cleaned up hundreds of trojans, etc from a niece's
> computer from "free" downloading and dubious "services", I want to
> repeat a phrase I drove into her head: "Nothing is really "FREE",
> dammit."
> I am sorry for the rant, in a way, but it needs to be said:
> If someone cannot afford a dollar/Euro or two a week, maybe they
> should get off the WWW and the dole, and try getting a JOB.
> Or leaving the cocaine alone.
> Bah.

Something must be rotten in the kingdom of Norway,
because we Norwegians can get a quite decent
website for free at http://home.no.net/ !
(I have nothing to do with home.no.net, I'm just a
user.)
My website gives me no income, so why would I pay
for it when I don't have to?
And not everybody can get a job, either because
they are sick or disabled, or just because there
*are* no jobs in their district...
*And* all unemployed aren't drug addicts, either...


--
Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen
http://home.no.net/ingernet/

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 1341 GMT, Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen
<Inger@neseblod.invalid> wrote:

>My website gives me no income, so why would I pay
>for it when I don't have to?

Because it's a hobby. Why does someone have to provide resources for
someone else's avocation?
Example:
I need new fuel injectors for my Jaguar. Low impedance Bosche's,
please. I deserve them free, and expect someone to donate these
resources. Preferably next week. Or, at worst, they have to be CHEAP.

>And not everybody can get a job, either because
>they are sick or disabled, or just because there
>*are* no jobs in their district...
I have been unemployed in various reccesionary periods, myself. And
when I was, I made decisions on what I could afford, and what I could
not. Nobody "owed" me free anything, nor did I expect to be provided
with free resources for a hobby. There is no UN Declaration that the
World is entitled to free hobbies. (Though it would not surprise me if
there were...)
I am NOT trying to be adversarial! It is just that I keep seeing
these posts all the time, and wonder what people are expecting, and
what kind of disappointments are awaiting them in the future.
Do you realize that there have been headers where people are
COMPLAINING about the quaity of FREE hosting, etc..?

Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen wrote:

> I'm triyng to learn something new every day. Today
> I've added the word avocation to my glossary, but
> Google can't help me with adversarial. What is that?

http://www.bartleby.com/61/48/A0104800.html

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Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen wrote:
>
>>Google can't help me with adversarial. What is that?
>
>
> http://www.bartleby.com/61/48/A0104800.html

Thanks, Blinky! It even came with an audio file,
so I can practice on my pronounciation!


--
Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen
http://home.no.net/ingernet/

Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen wrote:

>> http://www.bartleby.com/61/48/A0104800.html
>
>
> Thanks, Blinky! It even came with an audio file, so I can practice on my ...

pronunciation!
While I'm at it, I'll work with my spelling, too...


--
Inger Helene Falch-Jacobsen
http://home.no.net/ingernet/