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Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by WiseWeasel » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 10:25 PM UTC

randallsquared wrote: post #98

cshenoy wrote: post #92

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While I respect your opinions in support of Parsons, I'm going to have to disagree with you on a lot of your arguments. >Bob Parsons has always run his company the way he wants, and he has particular freedom to do so since he has zero investors and is the sole owner Parsons does have the freedom to do what he likes but there are consequences to those actions. No one is questioning his freedom to do what he chooses. >…

Both can be equally demeaning and morally questionable to certain parts of the population but let's be real here, killing an "innocent animal" is much more controversial than what is shown on TV almost every night. In a culture where steakhouses dot the roadsides, it seems odd to assert that killing an "innocent animal" is controversial at all. In some US locality where vegetarians make up the vast majority of the po…

Really? You don't see how flying in a rich westerner into some poverty-stricken region of the developing world to carry out an endangered wild big-game trophy hunt might be more controversial than killing an animal farmed for food for its intended purpose? I don't buy it, and as someone with so much at stake, he should have known better.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by d2 » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 10:31 PM UTC

alexqgb wrote: post #238

c2 wrote: post #50

I guess I'll be the lone discenting voice and say I don't think it's that bad. Bob Parsons has always run his company the way he wants, and he has particular freedom to do so since he has zero investors and is the sole owner. He does certain things for shock value, such as the super bowl commercials, which by the way caused outage with a completely different demographic of people. Slaughtering an elephant might offen…

Pro Tip: Actual dissent requires being on-topic. And that means paying enough attention to know what the topic actually is. Had you actually read the OP, you'd have understood that the crux of the criticism has to do with mindless participation in an obviously bad system. That is, a system that turns a necessary but easily abused task into a profit center - thereby ensuring that it will be stretched to utterly unnece…

Parsons hunting Leopard in Zimbabwe in 2009 with some propaganda at the start of the video on why killing leopard is a good thing:

http://www.video.me/ViewVideo.aspx?vid=501

As a citizen of a southern African country I can tell you that A) The educated locals are disgusted by this kind of hunting for sport as opposed to food and B) I can assure you that the "foreign currency" that it supposedly brings in is not converted to Zim dollars and spent on the local economy.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by __david__ » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 10:32 PM UTC

eklovlfjkeos wrote: post #222

mitjak wrote: post #144

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But where to transfer to? NameCheap? 1&1?

Gandi.net seems to have a good reputation here on HN, and I like them myself.

I liked Gandi.net's attitude but I couldn't get over their prices. I ended up at dynadot.com which has a fairly busy home page but a pretty clean UI when dealing with your account. It's prices are more in line with what I expect and they seem to have a good reputation.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 10:34 PM UTC

fistofjohnwayne wrote: post #151

Untitled wrote: post #136

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> As someone who has worked with ecologists in the field on a number of wildlife projects in rural Africa, I find this to be truly repugnant. Really? You know that the majority of ecologists support Elephant Culling (killing elephant family groups wholesale from helicopters)? > There are many ways of controlling "problem elephants" other than killing them There is an oversupply of elephants and an undersupply of spac…

There is an oversupply of humans and an undersupply of space. Killing a lone human male is no problem. I find it sad that a lot of damage is done to the ecosystem and to other animals (which may not be as pretty as humans) because some groups (such as the UN) opposed human culling. How long does it take for a tree to grow? How long for a beautiful Baobab? Do you know how quickly a human fucks up a tree? Humans are no…

Yes very droll. If a human was destroying the food supply of the village then things would probably end badly for them too.

Probably not being killed for meat though but YMMV.

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Post by powertower » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 10:36 PM UTC

lwhi wrote: post #205

powertower wrote: post #169

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> I know at least one person who is angry about this and is a strict vegetarian who has done lots of humanitarian work in Africa. Agreed. There are people like this in the world. But they are few, and certainly not the majority. My issue is not with what is moral, but with how easily people blame and demonize others.

.. and so you generalise and point your finger towards others as a response?

observing != generalising or blaming or finger pointing

I'm not sure how you are getting that from what I have posted.

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Post by visakhcr » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 10:39 PM UTC

visakhcr wrote: post #127

StavrosK wrote: post #80

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> I'm certainly not moving my domains over this. Me neither. I'm moving my domains because this reminded me of the silent, seething rage I have for Bob Parson's face. When I go to a site that registers and manages domains, I don't want to see your face. I also don't want to see ads about how great your company is. When I buy a domain, I don't want to wade through five pages of bullshit you put up in the hopes that I…

Well, did u by any chance mean expert sex change??

well, that was supposed to be joke and u guys are downvoting!!!

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Post by d2 » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 10:44 PM UTC

n8agrin wrote: post #177

c2 wrote: post #50

I guess I'll be the lone discenting voice and say I don't think it's that bad. Bob Parsons has always run his company the way he wants, and he has particular freedom to do so since he has zero investors and is the sole owner. He does certain things for shock value, such as the super bowl commercials, which by the way caused outage with a completely different demographic of people. Slaughtering an elephant might offen…

I don't see how vegetarianism even plays a part in this discussion. I'm not a vegetarian, but this offends me. I'm offended by Parson's bravado and his claim that "Of everything I do this is the most rewarding." Parson kills an animal under the guise of crop protection and to feed a village. Were I watching a local hunt for this elephant to feed their family I would feel that the death was justified. But we're really…

What offends me is the godaddy baseball caps. As a customer I feel like I'm going on Bob's trip with him in full support of what he's doing.

Re: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

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Post by tedjdziuba » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 10:49 PM UTC

n8agrin wrote: post #177

c2 wrote: post #50

I guess I'll be the lone discenting voice and say I don't think it's that bad. Bob Parsons has always run his company the way he wants, and he has particular freedom to do so since he has zero investors and is the sole owner. He does certain things for shock value, such as the super bowl commercials, which by the way caused outage with a completely different demographic of people. Slaughtering an elephant might offen…

I don't see how vegetarianism even plays a part in this discussion. I'm not a vegetarian, but this offends me. I'm offended by Parson's bravado and his claim that "Of everything I do this is the most rewarding." Parson kills an animal under the guise of crop protection and to feed a village. Were I watching a local hunt for this elephant to feed their family I would feel that the death was justified. But we're really…

So if the elephant were dead by the hand of a poor African, it would be okay in your eyes? Income seems like an arbitrary factor to determine whether or not it is morally acceptable to kill an animal.

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Post by pdx » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 10:49 PM UTC

I cringed seeing the neighboring villagers trampling the same field that the elephants had been trampling. Talk about unintended consequences.

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Post by alexqgb » Thu, Mar 31, 2011, 10:52 PM UTC

d2 wrote: post #242

alexqgb wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pro Tip: Actual dissent requires being on-topic. And that means paying enough attention to know what the topic actually is. Had you actually read the OP, you'd have understood that the crux of the criticism has to do with mindless participation in an obviously bad system. That is, a system that turns a necessary but easily abused task into a profit center - thereby ensuring that it will be stretched to utterly unnece…

Parsons hunting Leopard in Zimbabwe in 2009 with some propaganda at the start of the video on why killing leopard is a good thing: http://www.video.me/ViewVideo.aspx?vid=501 As a citizen of a southern African country I can tell you that A) The educated locals are disgusted by this kind of hunting for sport as opposed to food and B) I can assure you that the "foreign currency" that it supposedly brings in is not conve…

Upvoted for pointing out that any marginal program promoted by Zimbabwean officials citing "benefits to the local economy" is utter bullshit.

If any of those officials actually cared about the local economy (or actually intended to let the money reach it), they wouldn't have demolished those economies with their utterly unrestrained corruption and graft.

Honestly, believing propaganda like that makes you look as naive as the people who believe that the wives of abusive husbands "just happen to keep falling down the stairs."