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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

UFO?

WebSlave said:
Quite honestly, would you really expect the government to publicize bonafide evidence of alien civilizations that it found?
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they don't even tell us about possibly dangerous approaching asteroids/close calls until after they've already passed and the threat is gone. I highly doubt they would tell us anything about alien civilizations or alien contact if it were made (and would probably only try to use such knowledge for their own military advancement). scary stuff our government.
what, me, worry?
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Okay. :-] Sorry if I was preaching to the choir, Donna.

Yep, that's SETI@home, and as far as I know, it's still going. Others have made similar programs like Einstein@home (reduce data from gravitational wave detectors) and some stuff for cancer, I think.

As for asteroids, actually there are multiple websites that track NEAs (Near-Earth Asteroids). There are astronomers whose entire jobs are to look for and catalog asteroids. No asteroids (as of yet) have truly threatened Earth. The astronomers put up probabilities of collision long before an accurate orbit has been calculated, and the media/public tend to go off the deep end about it without bothering to look at the errorbars of the calculation!

Oh, I know what you mean, Webslave. :) I don't trust much (if anything) any politician says, and I know the government lies to us, probably on a daily basis. I wouldn't be surprised if there's semi-decent evidence of alien civilizations. However, astronomers are not well-known for being tight-lipped; the astronomer grapevine here is a short one indeed! I find it difficult to believe that if someone observing on Arecibo found possible evidence of alien life and/or one of the asteroid-hunters found a dangerous asteroid, word wouldn't get around. Especially with the asteroid stuff, 'cause there are tons and tons of amateur astronomers who are constantly looking for asteroids as well.
 
I don't know what would be more disconcerting to me. That there is no other detectable intelligent life in the universe, or that there is, but they are hiding from or ignoring us.
 
Thanks again, R Eventide.

That's the program I was using...SETI@home.

Cool stuff.

I may even get back to it now that I know it's still available.
 
WebSlave said:
I don't know what would be more disconcerting to me. That there is no other detectable intelligent life in the universe, or that there is, but they are hiding from or ignoring us.
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Indeed. :-/ Though, I'd probably guess the former. If it's the latter, at least we know there's intelligent life out there. :D

SamanthaJane13 said:
Thanks again, R Eventide.
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No prob. :)
 
Hey Chuck, what happened?
Did the aliens abduct the cable? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
 
NASA launches rocket, dozens report strange lights

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. – NASA says it successfully launched a rocket in Virginia as part of an experiment, and the blast may have caused dozens of people to report seeing strange lights in the sky.

The space agency said it launched the Black Brant XII on Saturday evening to gather data on the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere. About the time of the launch, dozens of people in the Northeast started calling local television stations to report seeing strange lights.

The calls came from as far away as Boston, which is about 380 miles northeast of the launch site.

The rocket is designed to create an artificial cloud. NASA hopes the experiment will provide information on the formation and properties of noctilucent clouds, which occur at high altitudes.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090920/ap_on_sc/us_rocket_launch

Hey, Chuck.

Are these your friends??

I know that there's an air field there in Tejas that NASA uses...could this possibly be an explanation??

I'm not being bitchy.

Just curious...
 
Chuck, what you was was real, not fake.

Their are alot of sightings in Florida strictly because its by the waters, and because we have alot of interlligent bases for the military. Just whatever you do, dont make yourself visible to them, or they will haunt you till your scared.
 
SPJ said:
Hey Chuck, what happened?
Did the aliens abduct the cable? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Steven, that wasn't nice.

I inherited this video camera from my dad. It is so old that I'll bet you anything that your brothers marriage had a longer shelf life than the battery that came with it.

I got the cable. Its the perfect length if I were considering hanging myself with it, but the:censored: thing that plugs into the :censored: camera end of it doesn't seem to want to fit. So now I have to send the :censored: thing back to the seller and he'll see if he has the right cable to :censored: send back to me. And that means a trip to my lovely spanish only speaking post office here in the lovely kissimmee, fl. Last week it took me twenty minutes to explain I wanted a roll of stamps.

So thank you for your patience. :rofl:
 
critical bill said:
It is so old that I'll bet you anything that your brothers marriage had a longer shelf life than the battery that came with it.
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Hell, a gallon of milk has a longer shelf life than his marriage. :rofl:
 
Okay Chuck, I wasn't going to chime in on this, but I think we live pretty close to each other and you are a Vince Slap-Chop guy so I'll throw this in.

I leave for work early in the a.m. (5:15ish). I was on my short-cut to I-75 about 2 months ago (and quite wide awake). Just crossed the Hernando-Pasco county line and saw movement over the treetops about a quarter of a mile away.

Whatever I saw was probably a couple of hundred feet long and cigar shaped. It was flying straight and fast about 50 feet over the treeline. No lights at all. It was dark in color, but not so dark I couldn't make it out against the sky (it was night for all intents and purposes). The three things that really stuck out to me were the speed, lack of sound and no lights (including any kind of visible jet burn).

Could have been some freaky experimental thing I guess, but I'm in the Air Force and even the various stealths had nothing on this...

There's my UFO story - and it really was a UFO. It was flying and damned if I could identify it.

I just hope we're not comparing anal probes in a year... LOL
 
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Theres alot of planes that travel to the Homestead military base at midnight, and mornings, might have been a plane traveling to a base.
 
What I can't figure out is why travel all those light years just to probe some Earthling's anus???? Are evenings REALLY that long and dull on Betelgeuse?
 
Helenthereef said:
What I can't figure out is why travel all those light years just to probe some Earthling's anus???? Are evenings REALLY that long and dull on Betelgeuse?
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I think I just though of the reason for the probing of the Earthling's anus'. There is a large portion of the Earthlings I have encountered with their heads up their asses and probing is the only way to get to the brain to see how they tick. It's a theory. :shrug01:
 
Yep, Where else ya gonna find an anus with a head in it?
 
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