http://www.thefarside.com/2021/11/02/0

Also, your https://videosift.com/member/dag shows a missing http://dl.dropbox.com/u/288567/bh.png image.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a46me9qrjee89dx/1955-10%20Denver.JPEG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a46me9qrjee89dx/1955-10%20Denver.JPEG?dl=0

less than NZ$1500 for both and they look like this

Well, it would appear that MS is monitoring my posts here and felt that my defending them was unwarranted because literally just this morning I returned to work to find my PC had rebooted without my permission.

Granted, this is a brand new machine that I haven't finished configuring, but still, that is bloody annoying.

So I'm off for a coffee and a slice of humble pie.

Damn you M$!!!

The HuffPo link is pretty much just the same list of polls on the real clear politics site.

And there 6 polls out of 68 that show Trump winning, and 3 of those are within the margin of error.

If we removed the polls where the result is within the MoE, Clinton wins 48 out of 51 polls.

here's the spreadsheet I copied the data into
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w54ueevd5y658ld/polls.xlsx?dl=0

Ok, so this is weird.
I'm not even in Dublin. I am literally on the other side of the planet and not using any proxy.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ro19k5ulk490ft7/videos.png?dl=0

The monthly updates on YT, the ones you introduced me to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMXfBm0IPd0

I completely forgot about the podcast, so cheers for the reminder. Is there any "proper" download link for the podcasts? I've been picking the dropbox url from TruthDig's source code by hand, there's got to be an easier way...

As for Taibbi:
The Vampire Squid Strikes Again: The Mega Banks' Most Devious Scam Yet

It's about how the too-big-to-fail/jail banks became a cartell in the physical commodities market. The story itself was reported on before, primarily the aluminium shenanigans of Goldman Sachs.

I thought the Watchmen movie was competent rather than inspired. In fact, I thought the most original clever part of the movie was the opening credits.

It wasn't bad, but there was just no way it could handle the sheer depth of the comic. To be fair, I haven't seen the ultimate cut though, but well... I went with a few friends who hadn't read the comic, and they came out wondering why I had made such a big deal of going to see it. Then I loaned them the comic and they understood....

I really think the only way the movie could have been truly great would be to get someone with their own vision and go at it from a different angle. Terry Gilliam would have been interesting. It probably would have failed, but it'd have failed gloriously.

BTW, have to share this..my signed Rorschach portrait by John Higgins

I've been trying to use Drive for a daily journal but lately I've not bothered. I think the problem is that the mobile app is not great to use (nor even the desktop version) with the main problem being that you're using a watered-down Office productivity service.
Searching is really clunky and when I need to retrieve something I realise it's going to be a slog.

I used your link for Copy and am just going to try it out. If it's just a Dropbox alternative I may not be that interested. But effective, rich document management would be useful.

I also use www.papyrs.com for my "intranet" needs but hard to get my mates on there but with Drive everyone I know has a google account and sharing docs is very easy. In fact Drive seems to work best for working with other people but isn't so great for the individual user.

Copy is a service of Barracuda Networks who's been around for a decade now and has their fingers in lots of areas of technology, so they're a company I'd feel is more likely than some random cloud storage start-up to still exist a decade from now.

There a couple of benefits with Copy over Dropbox, which btw I love otherwise, but the primary reason I had to find an alternative was price. Dropbox charges $19.99/month for 200GB, whereas Copy charges $9.99/month for 250GB (and $19.99/month for 500GB).

A couple of other benefits are Copy offers 15GB with a free account and includes undelete and version restoration, whereas Dropbox offers 2GB free and you have to upgrade for the "Pack Rat" (aka. undelete) feature.

One other benefit, which is an unscientific comparison and may be totally subjective, is upload speed. While my upload speed to Copy is always 200kb/s, in my experience with Dropbox, it always seems to vary from as slow as 20kb/s up to 170kb/s. (This is most important when doing a mass upload of hundreds of gigs, which, as you may guess, is not often.)

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What would be the main advantage over something like Dropbox? I've coincidentally been looking at personal cloud storage after the failure of an external backup drive. The main thing for me is I want to make sure it's a system that will be around in 10, dare I say 20 years? Tough these days with the rapid change in tech.

I use Dropbox for basic everyday cloud storage, but I don't need much for that so I'm good with the free account. I use Crashplan for cloud backup, it costs me less than $3 a month for unliminted storage and does a good job backing up all my important files (got a couple hundred gigs backed up there). I used to use Mozy, but they changed their pricing model and removed the unliminted option so I switched to Crashplan and have been pretty happy with it for the past couple of years since I switched.

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But the big difference is that *everyone* here in Australia relies on things like Gmail, Microsoft cloud tech, Amazon etc. It's not like we have our own local systems to fall back on.

We didn't see Google and Apple and Amazon as arms of the US government - and I guess that's naive - but now we will.

Expect to see more pushes for decentralising the Internet. Look for Australia, the EU and Asian countries to take control of their own Internet infrastructure.

Microsoft is going to have a tougher time selling things like Office 365 to overseas governments and multi-national groups. Likewise for Google Docs, Dropbox, Apple iCloud etc.

This whole thing is very, very bad for American IT companies.

>> ^Kofi:

Its this kind of entrepreneurialism that makes America the nation it is today.


This seems more like parasitism, which is the opposite of high-contribution entrepreneurship like Dropbox and Tesla Motors.