Godaddy CEO Bob Parsons is proud of shooting an elephant in Africa - Disgusting!

[jasdon11]

Let's have a show of hands; who here is reliant on what they can grow, to survive? Anyone? Well imagine what it must be like to have your crops detroyed; your children's and your excitence in jeopordy. Would you be saying to Bob 'don't shoot it'?

You can see from the video those villagers are pretty desperate for food. There's something wrong if you feel no empathy for members of your own species.

If an elephant or any other animal is going to get killed, surely you would want it to be under such circumstances, where every last bit goes to good use and the problem of destroyed crops is minimised?

 

[elius]

Zimbabwe is a dictorship and Mugabe brought this relatively prospering African country into poverty. Those people really don't need some American hotshot coming in to do their killing. Pretending he is doing them charity is just laughable. He is killing for sport and supporting a dictator by doing so. If you want to support those people help them create real wealth and support their freedom. If you want to get rid of the elephant, make a better fence.

 

[jasdon11]

I'm sure that poor farmer can afford an elephant-proof fence, sure.

 

[Seraphim]

Let's have a show of hands; who here is reliant on what they can grow, to survive? Anyone? Well imagine what it must be like to have your crops detroyed; your children's and your excitence in jeopordy. Would you be saying to Bob 'don't shoot it'?

You can see from the video those villagers are pretty desperate for food. There's something wrong if you feel no empathy for members of your own species.

If an elephant or any other animal is going to get killed, surely you would want it to be under such circumstances, where every last bit goes to good use and the problem of destroyed crops is minimised?

The animal kingdom is losing habitat in Africa at a very quick rate, and obviously the only possible outcome of that is a clash between man and beast. The African bush-meat market is exploding, they eat bonobos, gorillas, chimpanzees, dogs, even humans. Are you suggesting that it's all ok so long as the bloated bellied Africans clean their plates? Am I a traitor to the human race if I think that's bullshit?

Africa and especially Sub-Saharan Africa has a demographic growth rate second to none. As a collective whole their population is scheduled to sprint past China and India in just the short term. I would be shocked if any of the more renown African fauna survive another century or two.

 

[whitebark]

With human encroachment onto wild animal ranges this kind of thing was bound to happen. There are problem elephants but to shoot one and gloat about it is wrong. If he was sad and showing remorse then his 'kindness' might be seen as that. Instead he comes off as just another yahoo with a gun.

I'll be taking advantage of the name.com deal.

 

[DomainsInc]

Let's have a show of hands; who here is reliant on what they can grow, to survive? Anyone? Well imagine what it must be like to have your crops detroyed; your children's and your excitence in jeopordy. Would you be saying to Bob 'don't shoot it'?

You can see from the video those villagers are pretty desperate for food. There's something wrong if you feel no empathy for members of your own species.

If an elephant or any other animal is going to get killed, surely you would want it to be under such circumstances, where every last bit goes to good use and the problem of destroyed crops is minimised?

Parsons obviously did not do this to help the villagers. He did it because he thought it would be fun. if he really wanted to help, why not just donate a shitload of money to them? i'm sure the villagers are capable of shooting a gun, they don't need white guys to come there and do it for them. with the money parsons has, he could of paid to relocate the elephants and buy the villagers food and tools. instead he choose to act out some kind of strange childhood dream of shooting an elephant.

 

[jasdon11]

Lets just deal with the subject at hand and not get into population explosions etc.

The farmer wanted the animal off his crop. Parsons wanted to go big game hunting. Better than shooting it as a trophy. His trophy was the video; the animal went to do some good.

 

[Ridge]

The wrong elephant got shot.

 

[A D]

The farmer wanted the animal off his crop.

So he called Go Daddy and said send Bob, nobody in Africa can kill this elephant, we need Bob!

Bob loves to hunt, always has, he has pictures of hunting trips in his office.

I don't dispute the killing of animals for food. I do dispute shooting an elephant and boasting about it.

-=DCG=-

 

[H2FC]

No sport in that at all....waiting in ambush in the dark of night to kill such a majestic and innocent animal is nothing less than cold blooded murder. As long as Bob Parsons has anything to do with Godaddy they will never again get one cent of my business. I urge all domainers to boycott them.

 

[jasdon11]

So he called Go Daddy and said send Bob, nobody in Africa can kill this elephant, we need Bob!

Bob loves to hunt, always has, he has pictures of hunting trips in his office.

No, they didn't need Big Bob, but someone was going to shoot it...why not him? Does the fact someone gets enjoyment from it discount them from being eligible for the task?

I don't dispute the killing of animals for food. I do dispute shooting an elephant and boasting about it.

-=DCG=-

Ultimately, it went for food - what does it matter if he showed off about it.

 

[DomainsInc]

No, they didn't need Big Bob, but someone was going to shoot it...why not him? Does the fact someone gets enjoyment from it discount them from being eligible for the task?



Ultimately, it went for food - what does it matter if he showed off about it.

I think its a sad statement towards their personality that they get enjoyment from killing such an animal.

 

[jasdon11]

I think its a sad statement towards their personality that they get enjoyment from killing such an animal.

I don't disagree with this.

 

[Johnn]

We spent too much time for nothing!

I am going to knock some doors and may be I can make a sale today.

 

[Gerry]

The Daily Beast currently has this as the number 7 story in their feed.

It has been picked up by BusinessInsider.com.

The writer sums up the episode as;

It's definitely the kind of thing only a super rich CEO/founder of a privately-held company could get away with.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/goda...self-killing-an-elephant-2011-3#ixzz1ICdlASmb

 

[ksinclair]

Sport hunting is disgusting and primitive. Hunters struggle to come up with justifications for it but they just love to kill something, it makes them feel powerful I guess. Pitiful, if you ask me.

Re: moving domains away from godaddy:

I have most of my domains at Godaddy. I have defended godaddy as a user interface for a long time. I like the features. But this kind of behaviour from Parsons is disgusting. I dont see it affecting where I keep my domains, but I dont think I will defend godaddy anymore.

I have always wanted a 'domainers registrar', and IMO it does not exist yet. Moniker for some reason had that potential but the UI sucks badly. The old Bulkregister was quite good, I wish it was still here. I tend to move my domains away from Enom and over to godaddy but I am not sure why. Enom has a very good UI. Their site does not respond sometimes, like searches fail; which is frustrating. And their support can be crap at times - but good at other times.

I am going to review what features godaddy has, that enom does not, and see how much it matters. I might move to enom. What do people think of Enom vs. godaddy?

Kevin

---------- Post added at 11:24 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:24 AM ----------

Does Enom have anything like godaddy's DTVS, for protecting domains?

 

[whitebark]

Check out fabulous.com - nobody locks down a domain better.

 

[Deleted member 73132]

GoElephant.com Will transfer my domains there.

Can't believe how STUPID and CRUEL Parsons is.

To ksinclair:
Enom SUCKS.
To whitebark:
Fabulous is a ripoff last I recalled

 

[Nathan King]

Can't believe how STUPID and CRUEL Parsons is.

How is he cruel? Cruel would be making the elephant suffer or going on an elephant killing spree. He paid to legally hunt an elephant that was gonna be killed anyways.

Cruel is destabilizing a region and destroying people's lives by creating war. All of the corruption, killings, and rapes that are the direct result of America creating war zones in countries we have no business being in is cruel.

Remaining apathetic to the fact that the current bunch in Washington (democrats and republicans alike) are creating so much death, pain, and corruption in the world is cruel. And that blood is on all of the American people's hands that keep electing these whores into Washington...doesn't matter if you vote republican or democrat, you being influenced by and promoting evil in it's purist form: mass murder, destruction, and rape. Even if they seem like nice people on the TV screen, they are well aware of the destruction their actions are causing in the lives of millions. And they just don't care. Now those are cruel people.

Hunting an elephant...now that's just satisfying a primal instinct without hurting anybody (even the elephant was gonna die regardless of who pulled the trigger). It's hard to comprehend how people could have more passion for a single elephant than the millions of people who are having their lives destroyed by the US.

 

[ksinclair]

Nathan,

Your response is very disappointing. So by your logic you could go hunting humans, who are on death row, since they are going to die anyway. Or shoot old people that are near the end?

How about we take dogs and cats, that are about to be euthanized, and release them into a forest - oh yeah! - and people like who like to watch living things die, like you, can go hunt them. Its ok right? Because, to use your phrase, its just satisfying a primal instinct? And there are, apparently, no other considerations?

How is he cruel? Cruel would be making the elephant suffer or going on an elephant killing spree. He paid to legally hunt an elephant that was gonna be killed anyways.

Cruel is destabilizing a region and destroying people's lives by creating war. All of the corruption, killings, and rapes that are the direct result of America creating war zones in countries we have no business being in is cruel.

Remaining apathetic to the fact that the current bunch in Washington (democrats and republicans alike) are creating so much death, pain, and corruption in the world is cruel. And that blood is on all of the American people's hands that keep electing these whores into Washington...doesn't matter if you vote republican or democrat, you being influenced by and promoting evil in it's purist form: mass murder, destruction, and rape. Even if they seem like nice people on the TV screen, they are well aware of the destruction their actions are causing in the lives of millions. And they just don't care. Now those are cruel people.

Hunting an elephant...now that's just satisfying a primal instinct without hurting anybody (even the elephant was gonna die regardless of who pulled the trigger). It's hard to comprehend how people could have more passion for a single elephant than the millions of people who are having their lives destroyed by the US.