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HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 06:41 PM Dec 2011

Free Republic crashed my computer

I know, I know. I should not be trolling that hell hole, but I like to know what the opposition has to say. I did not download anything from there. I was just reading posts on one of their threads. Crashed my computer and I could not get it to stop crashing. I finally got it to work by using system restore.

No more Freepers. Kinda of appropriate? If they can crash a computer, not a stretch to think they can crash the COUNTRY with their agenda.

We can see what they have done just controlling the house. Imagine if they controlled EVERYTHING?????

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gateley

(62,683 posts)
1. I think you're giving them too much credit - I don't think they'd have the wherewithal to
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 06:45 PM
Dec 2011

be successful in such an attempt.

 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
3. It's probably because the site is infested with viruses...
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 06:46 PM
Dec 2011

I have had crap attack my computer from less suspect websites.

 

George Glass

(22 posts)
2. You know, I will never understand why people go and read that site.
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 06:46 PM
Dec 2011

I will listen to Rush now and then for the same reason but Rush is smarter than FR posters, as well as funnier.

11 Bravo

(24,310 posts)
10. Ah, Hell ... I enjoy going in and fucking with them from time to time.
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 07:31 PM
Dec 2011

Yeah, occasionally it feels like I'm hiding my Lab's chew toy, but sometimes you just can't help yourself.

 

George Glass

(22 posts)
11. LOL- I never thought of effing with them...
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 07:49 PM
Dec 2011

That might be fun but I remember the old Yahoo board. Lots of them like that and it got pretty ugly when they were pissed at what I said.

Arkansas Granny

(32,265 posts)
5. I used to go over there from time to time to see what they were saying and thinking.
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 06:48 PM
Dec 2011

Unfortunately, anyone who could think for themselves was "zotted" long ago when they wouldn't fall in line with JimRob's worship of SP. It's not a discussion forum anymore. It's just an echo chamber these days and mostly irrelevant.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
8. RimJob sells spyware privileges to the highest bidder.
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 07:04 PM
Dec 2011

They will do Anything to fleece their sheep.

I stopped going there a long time ago when my Mac warned me.

muriel_volestrangler

(106,212 posts)
9. The computer equivalent of this?
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 07:05 PM
Dec 2011
The second worst is that of the Azagoths of Kria. During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode To A Small Lump of Green Putty I Found In My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos is reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his twelve- book epic entitled My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save life and civilization, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.

http://hitch14.tripod.com/chapter_7.htm


Who knows what your computer may have had to display, if it hadn't decided to Take One For the Team.

Tippy

(4,610 posts)
12. Mine kept doing the same thing earlier today
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 07:51 PM
Dec 2011

But I never go to Freeperville...Working great right now....

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