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"shame that our government is in shambles and cant help them." What's really a shame is that so many people fail to remember JFK's advise; "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country".

Too many people have become dependant on our government. These dependent people have no idea what it is like to be self reliant. Good thing we have people and groups like Bungie who are proactive. They choose to act, not out of the lack of help by others, but purely because they want to do something for the people of this country. They are asking themselves what they can do for their country, and they are not questioning what they get in return.

Did you know that only 10% of the people threatened by the hurricane in Florida, actually left Florida? And of those that stayed, hardly any of them prepared for the hurricane by stocking food and water. So many people fail to be proactive in light of a recent hurricane disaster. Maybe people think they can ignore warnings and pleas for evacuation, because they think they are entitled to relief?

People once again question the government's role, when instead they should ALSO be questioning the people's inability to be responsible for themselves. Irresponsibility is the cancer of this country, and as long as people and government are irresponsible for their actions or inactions, we are only going to become more divided as a country...

By the way, great auction Bungie! It's nice to see people who are proactive, and doing their part to help this great country of ours.

And I would like to give a shout out to the men and women of the Armed Forces, who are currently risking their lives to give the people of the oppressed countries of Afghanistan and Iraq the opportunity to enjoy and have the freedoms we hold so dear to us.

  • 10.28.2005 11:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: AscendantLaos
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

BUNGIE U SUCKS NOWADAYS, WHO GIVES A -blam!- ABOUT SOME DROWNED RATS?

AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED THEY CAN ALL -blam!- DROWN THE NIGGGGARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Man what the hell is wrong with you? I bet youd be singing a different tune if your house was under 10 ft of water and all your valuables were soaked in sewage water. Its great that Bungie is at least trying to do something for them. And if Bungie really sucked why are you even at Bungie.net

  • 10.28.2005 12:34 PM PDT

pears

lmao, did anybody else notice that Frankie had like 10 links to the HBO auction site which were in like every simile he wrote. I just thought it was funny. :-)

  • 10.28.2005 2:54 PM PDT
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ur icon is shiny..........

  • 10.28.2005 4:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: AscendantLaos
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

BUNGIE U SUCKS NOWADAYS, WHO GIVES A -blam!- ABOUT SOME DROWNED RATS?

AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED THEY CAN ALL -blam!- DROWN THE NIGGGGARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Man what the hell is wrong with you? I bet youd be singing a different tune if your house was under 10 ft of water and all your valuables were soaked in sewage water. Its great that Bungie is at least trying to do something for them. And if Bungie really sucked why are you even at Bungie.net


seriosuly, acendant, you need anger management. ever heard of it?

  • 10.28.2005 4:28 PM PDT
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Frankie u bastard answer me i have so many questions to ask and i leave u so many messages n u dont answer them please do so im gettin very impatient wit FREAKIN BUNGIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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  • 10.28.2005 4:48 PM PDT
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I wish I could buy some... Unfortuately im broke

  • 10.28.2005 4:51 PM PDT
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Why didn't people leave Florida when they knew a hurricane was going to hit them? SOBs

  • 10.28.2005 4:53 PM PDT
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... What about Rita victims? why is it that Lake Charles is always left out.. hell we got hit by a cat 5 too so they arent the only ones hurtin. My house is fine but some people have to completely rip down everything to the foundation and start all over again. well, at least FEMA is giving out free food and some money :)

  • 10.28.2005 5:13 PM PDT
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cool.

  • 10.28.2005 6:47 PM PDT
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R u Crazy
U have a point... Halo 1 is good
But Halo 2 Blows the socks off Halo 1
Maybe u juss getting owned in Halo 2 :)

  • 10.28.2005 7:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: John____________
Posted by: Louis Wu
Posted by: John____________
glad to see some bungie rep or ebay rep noticed this and desided to explain the "90 %" ordeal. That is of course, if your from ebay, which you and i know anyone can make a claim there someone on cyber space. Not that i am doubting you of course, since your explanation is very logical. To bad all the fees it takes to run the auction could not be free as well to make sure that it was 100%. :/
To bad eh? None the less, it could be argued that people have to make a living some how.
What postion do you work in if you dont mind me asking. I was very close to getting some of the stuff, but since i saw the 90% goes to charity deal, i was a little uneasy. Hell, i am single and on my own, with a lil under 5 grand for holliday -blam!- in a now ended CD. But i am still a little uneasy after seeing it.
Thx for reading this,
-John__________
EDIT: was some spelling errors that i could catch >_<
Remember kids, if your a bad speller, it does not always mean your gonna not have a very successful life. ;) :)


I've put all the items up on eBay myself. As OKI TI MATA says, the 10% I pulled out should mostly cover expenses - maybe. (eBay takes 2.7+%. Missionfish takes 2.9+%. PayPal takes 2.9%, plus another 3+% if the payer is outside the US.)

It's really, really, REALLY unlikely that I'll end up with any cash left over when all is said and done - I'm counting on OWING a couple of hundred bucks after everything's finished. (Bungie's absorbing 100% of the shipping costs themselves. And they paid all the framing costs, too.) If there IS cash left over, though, I'll donate THAT to the Red Cross, as well.

I've been running bungie.org for 6 years now, and every penny it costs comes out of my pocket. We don't accept advertising, I don't accept donations. It's NEVER been about the money. As I've said in the past, you could buy a midsized car with the money it costs me to run the family of sites every year... so thinking that I'm trying to pocket some cash here is just plain insulting.


Well I am sorry that I insulted you. However, what I don’t get, is why eBay and Missionfish forgo the "taxing" as I call it, considering this is money going strait to help our helpless brethren. They, in a since could help to, on the relief.
Why charge someone (and someone who is this big I might add, responsible) for something there trying to help others? Making money off money that needs to go to the helpless? Hell, your working with eBay right? you had a "eBay rep" on here yes?

Bungie please don’t think I am attacking you, or halo.bungie.org. Any (I assumed) smart eBay user would understand who would be making the money when I said "who is getting the other 10%" Perhaps I was not clear though, in which would be my fault. I wanted to know why a charity like this was being charged. Even though OKI TI MATA gave a good description of the charges, (which is why now I think he is an eBay user at least, because you do have to pay to have your item show on eBay) what I was trying to get at was why are you guys being treated like other sellers like me? That’s why I said "To bad eh? None the less, it could be argued that people have to make a living some how."
I have a lot of respect for Bungie for doing this-more then you think.
I had several relatives down in the southern states that lived there, till I brought them up here after the disaster. I donated about $200 dollars per disaster (about). I love helping out those who need it. But it is just plan insulting to see that eBay or Missionfish can't let this one go free for the people down there (after all, I lost a lil, but who cares right?). Sure hope the items sell well so that people can get at least 90% of it which they badly need,
-John________
Edit: was on spelling errors and I left 1 or 2 things out >_<



eBay was created and based on equality. That's why all users pay the same fee, from the stay at home mom to the multimillion dollar corporation that sells on the site. This is why charity auctions also pay for the fees. I don't even have an employee discount for goodness sake. That shows how equal everybody is charged.

However, eBay has done a lot to help victims. eBay has done a lot that anyone can know about by checking news and researching online. They also made a lot that most people will never know. They have done to the personal level that will never be known but to a few.

The company did a lot based on its own resources. They also communicated with employees. Employees were able to participate and contribute. The employees' contributions, which were monetary and non monetary, were enhanced by the company's resources made available. I really put a lot of effort to contribute.

It is very easy to say someone or an entity is doing or not doing something. We need to remember that we don't know everything that happens that is out of public view/knowledge. The experience that the employees had by helping the victims of the hurricane are priceless, at least to me. I know the stories of some of the people who were helped. The majority of the good was done to people I'll probably never meet. It doesn't matter. To do good and help a felow human being is the right thing to do.

  • 11.01.2005 7:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: HBO
Blow Me Away Nets Ten K
Had to head out for a couple of hours... and now it's all over but the shouting. (Well, the paying, I guess.) You guys rock: the items for the Blow Me Away charity auction went for a total of $11,717.97, which means you guys are contributing over $10,000 to the American Red Cross hurricane relief effort (as well as taking home some pretty cool schwag). A really cool side note is that almost half of the money has ALREADY BEEN PAID. Nice. As soon as I have information from Bungie about shipping, the winners will be notified with details... congrats to all!


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Congrats Bungie and HBO, that's a nice little icing to the $175,280.15 brought in by the T-shirt sales..

Grand total = $186,998.12

And that doesn't count all the shipping, time, etc that has been spent on this also.

I was happy to be able to play some small part (and I LOVE my t-shirt), but nothing could have ever happened without Bungie and HBO putting it all together and enabling the rest of us to help also.

*tips hat to Bungie and HBO* Thanks.

  • 11.08.2005 8:09 AM PDT

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