We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.
Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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A victim of our own success We Samizdatistas are in the blogging business for the long haul and so it is very gratifying indeed to be involved with a highly a successful blog… we may not be in the same league popularity wise as Instapundit or Andrew Sullivan but we are nevertheless a significant fixture in the Blogosphere.
However as our hit rate steadily creeps upward, so do our bandwidth costs. As a result, Samizdata.net has finally succumbed to the economic facts of life and our sidebar now has buttons which give our truly global readership the option to send us a donation via PayPal to help defray our mounting bandwidth expenses.
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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I’d pay in Euros, but I think that may upset the theme of the blog.
That said, have some Canuck bucks. They’re worth more than they used to be…
Well deserved blog ranking.
God save the Queen!
I don’t see a button to donate in Iraqi Dinars. 🙂
Good to see that you put Daddy’s paypal button first! Good old British libertarians, about as patriotic as the Republian Guard. Which come to think on it, is probably the name of some British blogger’s drooling pro-Dubya site.
Unsurprised: There is an easy answer to that. Our hit counter tracking info reveals that the majority of our readers are in the US. In that we are prepared to be ‘democratic’ rather than patriotic and happily put their currency first. And as always we are grateful to all our readers for their attention and comments.
Actually Scott, we do indeed welcome contrubutions from Iraq in the real currency of that country…
…the US dollar
I coughed up a few bucks of fiat currency for Samizdata after posting that.
Been there, done that, what now? I paid in €, they are not real money anyway.
I couldn’t resist:
Cash Crisis Forces U.S. to Print Saddam Banknotes
Two and a half stars of the €uropean flag on Samizdata! It’s a plot!
I was on the verge of having one of my feudal serfs and his half-starved family turfed out of their smallholding, so that I could graze sheep, have them fleeced and direct the money to your goodselves, when it occurred to me to wonder just how *much* do you need?
It’s not very polite to discuss money, I realise, but, damn it, you raised the subject. Some sense of proportion might help here…
Seriously – are we talking tens, hundreds, thousands..?
We would be delighted if you send us thousands, G Cooper, but we are quite happy to take rather less than that… but as you seems to have money to burn (they would not be only half starved if you were really hard up for dosh), feel free to turf out the serfs and give us enough money to buy our own server!
…more seriously the costs to run the site is something in the order of 50-60 bux a month, which might not seem much but for a non-profit free site does add up a bit and they are steadily rising along with the hit rate
Perry de Havilland writes:
“(they would not be only half starved if you were really hard up for dosh),”
Mr. de Havilland, you are confusing necessity with entertainment 😉
Thank you for the guidance. It helps.
I will give — I honestly will — if you guys either change the color scheme here or offer a Sullivanesque alternative in black-and-white.
I love this place. I was thrilled when I discovered it some time back. But I have found myself more and more reluctant to click my little “Samizdata” link when making my daily bookmarks run, because I dread the pained viewing effort that I know will ensue.
Please … white-on-blue just isn’t the way our eyes were designed to see little things. The strain is sometimes unbearable.
I’ll donate, I swear!
I’m donating, and I urge all fellow lovers of Freedom to do the same. Fight back the Belgian Imperialists!
In the meantime, how about a round of that rarely heard verse from the National Anthem (slightly tweaked for the occasion)!
O Lord Our God Arise:
Scatter our Enemies:
And make them fall.
Confound their Politicks:
Frustrate their Belgian tricks:
On Thee Our Hopes we Fix:
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Best wishes,
Matt Foster
Tomas:
Do you use a browser that allows you to override the authors’ style-sheet? I use Opera, and with one mouse-click I can change the page from white-on-blue to black-on-battleship gray.
Tomas: Just click on the ‘Print Friendly Format’ option in the sidebar and you will get Samizdata in black and white
Perry, Like G Cooper, I would have no objection to cutting off my serfs’ hot water in order to afford sending a contribution your way, but like G Cooper, I don’t know what’s expected. When you say 50-60 bux a month, is that a cute way of saying bucks, meanings dollars, or is bux a new financial term that I alone in the Western world don’t understand — as in ‘Billions Under a factor of X’ or something? Please clarify for the humiliatingly ignorant.
Liberty Belle, I suspect when Perry says “bux” he means US dollars, since this website is provided by an American webhost.
Very nice blog