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An Urgent Appeal to Jimmy Wales from the Internet (Page 3)
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Originally Posted by Shaddim 
I ran that by her, and she said something for you to do that isn't anatomically possible for most males. 
Send her cousin over and I'll give it a try.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Originally Posted by Doofy
Send her cousin over and I'll give it a try.
Hottie, isn't she? She's been a model for a few years now.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
- Thomas Paine
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I can't figure out what's worse: the fact that this thread reached 3 pages or the fact that I posted in it.
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
Hottie, isn't she? She's been a model for a few years now.
Yeah man, she a cutie. I'll go as far to say that if she'd been grimacing at me every time I went to Wiki, I'd prolly have donated by now.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Originally Posted by Laminar
PBS has ads. The kids shows are "brought to you by" Juicy Juice or something, the carpentry shows are "brought to you by" Stanley and Delta, Sesame Street is "brought to you by" the letter "H," etc.
Call your local PBS station and ask explicitly if you can buy ad time. The answer is no, they do not have ads.
The corporate sponsorships are essentially donations from various corporations -- they are not explicitly done for publicity purposes. That said, do those corps get publicity, yes, do they likely interfere with the neutrality of programming, yes. Could PBS have ads and continue the same degree of current neutrality. In my opinion, yes, and that was my point.
Further, could Wiki, have google-esque adsense ads and still be user maintained and neutral +/-, yes, absolutely.
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Originally Posted by Laminar
PBS has ads. The kids shows are "brought to you by" Juicy Juice or something, the carpentry shows are "brought to you by" Stanley and Delta, Sesame Street is "brought to you by" the letter "H," etc.
H for Halliburton
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Wales
If 25,000 more donate $23 before midnight we can end this fundraiser
Emphasis mine.
Please, please donate so he'll stop. 
Seriously though, it looks like they'll make the goal or get close. I predicted they wouldn't. Well deserved kudos for them, parboiled crow for me.
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It's rather clever what they did, really. They've been using a sort of Darwinian method to continually tweak the banner while measuring the results, and determine what works best.
They've even been publishing the stats: link
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Would it have been too much for them to do some charts of that? Ouch.
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