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Poll Question: Would you give up Prog Archives in its entirety for life to get $12k?
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    Posted: July 30 2011 at 16:12
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Points: 12794 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2011 at 13:23
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Originally posted by Alitare Alitare wrote:

Money! Hell, I'd construct a virus to ruin this site, indefinitely, for 12,000 dollars!


Is this the beta version?
No, its the alpha
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Points: 11415 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2011 at 05:36
Originally posted by Alitare Alitare wrote:

Money! Hell, I'd construct a virus to ruin this site, indefinitely, for 12,000 dollars!


Is this the beta version?
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Points: 3595 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2011 at 21:51
Money! Hell, I'd construct a virus to ruin this site, indefinitely, for 12,000 dollars!
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Yes. I'm a student. Therefore I would automatically do almost anything for money. Tongue
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2011 at 12:32
Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

No for me as well.

If I'm lucky I have a few decades left on the planet, and as they say, you can't take it with you.  Enjoyment trumps bank balance for me at this point.  Yeah, I could pay some bills or maybe put it into new wheels, but the fact is that sites like this one give me more pleasure than most other material things, or paying bills would.  Here I find new music which gives me great joy, I help musicians gain attention, and work with some very nice people in the Collab zone.  $12K wouldn't bring me as much pleasure unless as other alluded it were spent on a weekend of partying and high priced escorts....kidding

Now if the amount were elevated to an amount that could change my life, like allowing me to retire from work a few years earlier....then perhaps I'd vote Yes.  But $12k would simply not change my life in any exciting way, thus, I'll take the fun of PA for now.  Beer



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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

Would you leave Prog Archives (forum, database, everything) for life if someone offered you 12,000 USD (7,400 GBP) right now to do so?

I take it!

please paypal it me to my email address and you wont see me here never again.
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Points: 16111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2011 at 12:24
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

I don't think people really know how little $12,000 is...


That's like 6 months of work for someone who makes $8/hr.


I don't think you realize how little most of us make.


Considering I make like, -$7000 in 6 months, I'd gladly take it.


Y'all are proving my point. Other than Equality you're all teenagers Tongue


I live in a really cheap apartment building in Vancouver and that wouldn't pay my rent for a whole year.
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^ where do you talk about those prog records though? Don't tell me "in real life"... ;)
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I take the money...
 
imagine the amount of prog records you can buy with it...
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Now that the euro is still worth something Confused , somebody needs to re - calculate this for the Europeans of the euro zone, and if I checked the thread well, nobody has done that yet. Let me see, that's almost € 8 500.
 
Yes, I would take it. I like PA a lot and it's one of the 4 or 5 sites that I visit most, but I wouldn't call PA an essential part of my life. PA isn't prog itself. I would miss it, but the prog itself remains. With €8 500 euro I could do a lot of things and still talk about prog in another way, through another channel.
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No for me as well.

If I'm lucky I have a few decades left on the planet, and as they say, you can't take it with you.  Enjoyment trumps bank balance for me at this point.  Yeah, I could pay some bills or maybe put it into new wheels, but the fact is that sites like this one give me more pleasure than most other material things, or paying bills would.  Here I find new music which gives me great joy, I help musicians gain attention, and work with some very nice people in the Collab zone.  $12K wouldn't bring me as much pleasure unless as other alluded it were spent on a weekend of partying and high priced escorts....kidding

Now if the amount were elevated to an amount that could change my life, like allowing me to retire from work a few years earlier....then perhaps I'd vote Yes.  But $12k would simply not change my life in any exciting way, thus, I'll take the fun of PA for now.  Beer
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Points: 1795 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 22 2011 at 07:27
No. You cannot buy me. You can only buy my work. Not my hobbies or the things I like to do.
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Points: 1902 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2011 at 20:02
Ouchies.

I probably would lolz
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

maybe I could have the only parrot-run hotdog cart



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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

I don't think people really know how little $12,000 is...


That's like 6 months of work for someone who makes $8/hr.


I don't think you realize how little most of us make.


Considering I make like, -$7000 in 6 months, I'd gladly take it.
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Points: 8667 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2011 at 10:07
Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

I don't think people really know how little $12,000 is...


That's like 6 months of work for someone who makes $8/hr.

So you're saying that $12K is equal to 6 months off for most people? Shocked
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2011 at 10:01
It doesn't really matter how much I make. If M@x made PA so that there would be a one time membership fee of $12,000, I would laugh as I closed my browser never to return again. Most other people would too. That's not how the question is phrased, but it's equivalent. 
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Points: 21795 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2011 at 09:20
Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

I don't think people really know how little $12,000 is...


That's like 6 months of work for someone who makes $8/hr.


I don't think you realize how little most of us make.


Yeah, you silly TV set worker/something of that sort.
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2011 at 08:31
Originally posted by King By-Tor King By-Tor wrote:

I don't think people really know how little $12,000 is...


That's like 6 months of work for someone who makes $8/hr.


I don't think you realize how little most of us make.
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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