with an Intel i3 540 3.06 Ghz CPU running 64-bit Debian 5.
I think they use that mobo because it has lots of SATA ports.

Here's the problem:
Amazon payments charges:
Transactions greater than or equal to $10.00: 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction. So a $25 donation yields $23.97 to archive.org, or 95 cents on the dollar.
Transactions less than or equal to $9.99: 5.0% + $0.05 per transaction. So a $5 donation yields $4.70, or 94 cents on the dollar.


Now, they are most likely using Amazon's volume payment system, so are paying between 2.2 and 2.5% + $0.30 per transaction, but only for transactions greater than $9.99. Let's assume the lower rate (although it's calculated as a 3-month average, so I doubt they're eligible). Now a $25 donation yields $24.15, or 96 cents on the dollar. It's just not as cost-effective for them to solicit tiny donations (btw, PayPal's rates are similar).

As to the worth of the service, whether you use it or not, archive.org is still there 24/7/365. Would you prefer to submit your query and then wait 72 hours for the results?

..and yes, I donated also.

Might I suggest that you are a cheapskate.
$25/annum = 7 cents ($0.07) per day.
How much do you pay for your mobile data plan and/or ISP?

My time is worth more than $1.00.
Let me set the price, FB can take 10%.

A "2,000 year old" ice core implies that was how long ago it was drilled...
Just sayin'....

The jury's still out as to whether it warms up passing through the pump...

Anyone who purchases gasoline is potentially being cheated because gas pumps measure volume without regard to temperature and the thermal expansion of gasoline.
A 5 degree C rise in temperature is equivalent to paying US$0.03 more per gallon.

Only the oldest CFLs used a magnetic ballast at line frequency; virtually all on the market today use a high frequency (> 10 kHz) switching supply to in order to reduce the size and cost of the transformer.
If your CFLs are perceptibly flickering, it is due to some other device affecting the power quality (large appliance motors, usually).
Older and "bargain" tube-style fluorescent fixtures use magnetic ballasts, so it isn't uncommon for those to flicker.
Sometimes perceived flicker is due to vibration (jiggling eyeballs).
View the light source through a moving electric fan blade.
If you can see blade images (think wagon wheels in the movies), you have a magnetic ballast light source.
I'm pretty sure that no human can perceive flicker faster than ~110 Hz.

Earthicans banned it in 2010...
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/air/dry_cleaners_perchlorate.shtml

Thousands of zip ties. And lots of clippers for trimming / removing them.

You'll have to help, for a while...
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crayon-physics-deluxe/id300830915?mt=8

..if you use agricultural (or even residential) runoff. Here in the NE USA we build treatment plants to remove the phosphorus (from lawn chemicals and detergents) from wastewater and stormwater so as to prevent algal blooms in our lakes and streams.

“Marblar, these marblars want to change your marblar. They don't want Marblar or any of these marblars to live here because it's bad for their marblar. They use Marblar to try and force marblars to believe they're marblar. If you let them stay here, they will build marblars and marblars. They will take all your marblars and replace them with Marblar. These marblar have no good marblar to live on Marblar, so they must come here to Marblar. Please, let these marblars stay where they can grow and prosper without any marblars, marblars, or marblars.” -- Kyle Broflovski

... so it's really just an abandoned amusement park ride. Recycle it as scrap.

It's a major component of having an informed citizenry, who can make educated decisions about public policy.
If more people understood basic statistics and risk, some basic chemistry, and Newtonian physics, we could have intelligent discussions about
subjects like nuclear power, hydraulic fracturing, antibiotic abuse, GMO's, climate change, etc. without whipsawing between the
two extreme positions selected by the media to maximize the vitriol.