Do you want any of this crap? InfoWars is being liquidated, you’ve got to get your bid in by 8 November.
There’s probably some worthwhile electronics in that batch, but I’m not at all interested in picking up their domain names or media rights or backlog of bad videos. I’m just happy to see that morass of lies and misinformation being dissolved.
Do Facebook and Twitter next.
I was once a tech for some fancy computer gear, a VAX 11/750. It got way too expensive to maintain, but we couldn’t get rid of it — no one wanted it, and it had a university ID tag on it. So we stored it in an old quonset hut that was scheduled for demolition, and whoops, where did it go? There’s a solution for the InfoWars set.
Except that they need to get money for it, to repay all the victims of Jones’ lying depradations.
I think if someone gets their domain and do something like this, it would be cool, though
That explains why we haven’t heard from Alex Jones lately.
I never missed him for even 1 second though.
I’m sure like Jim Bakker and others, once he is done with bankruptcy, eventually he will start over and soon being selling the same old overpriced gold, dubious nutritional supplements, and End Times doomsday prepper survival gear to his fan base.
I don’t really believe in curses and all that stuff, but before I used any of that equipment I’d order an exorcism, just to be safe!
@raven #2
He hasn’t gone anywhere. Knowledge Fight still does three episodes a week on his shenanigans. He’s just not getting the media coverage he did after the settlement. Most just said “serves him right” and moved on.
So it’s basically a charity auction: buy useless overpriced crap for a good cause!
I know of some podcasters who have their eyes on that desk…
@6
Tom and Cecil, and Dan and Jordan are going to have to fight to make death for that item.
Is Alex Jones’ tongue included? I’d pay serious bank to have that in a bell jar on my mantel.
SNL should buy the set and use it for their sketches.
Next time you have to get rid of fancy old machinery, please consider donating it to a bunch of people who like to teach old hardware new tricks.
I’m hoping that the domain names will be purchased altruistically, in the spirit of contributing to the victims, and either sitting on the domains or changing the pages’ content to say why the BS was BS. It would be unfortunate if the sites just changed owners, with the loony conspiracies and hate speech still being propagated through them.
@10 macallan
Yeah, was going to say, there are people out there that save old systems, if only as museum pieces. Or, for that matter, there might be components in/on them that are impossible to get anymore, and someone who is restoring an old system needs, from original magnetic drum memory, to old chips they no longer make, to the light detecting diodes they used in tape readers. Trying to restore something that literally is no longer manufactured, or is so blindingly rare that a few thousand, or hundred, or less, might still even exist…. there are people out there who might need something off it, even if they can’t use all of it.
I’ll bet John Oliver and HBO could pick up that set for a single sketch and then burn it to the ground for fun.
@ ^ Ray Ceeya : yes! Or Colbert and I’d love to see that happen.