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Global Warming!!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Is terminal velocity how fast you can run when late for your flight?
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Ahh --- another chance for me to carry on about linguistic abuse! Aloft at this, at first, but decided it wasn't really funny, but rather was taxiing my patience.
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Yer just winging it on these crash-landing posts; you should try a new approach.
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff
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don't worry if you're running late, these days all sizeable airports have travel laters.
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I think terminal velocity is the speed you have on your way down when you accidentally step out of a plane in mid-air without a parachute.
I hate it when that happens! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
modified 5-Apr-18 4:09am.
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I've been storing all my media backups into free services like Google Photos. I got tired of taking backups offline in External drives, DVDs etc. None of the CD backups I took late in the 1990s are working now  May be it's the plastic booklet type CD/DVD archive I used. Almost 90% of the CD-Roms fail to read.
Now I'm just going only with online backups. It's good to see them providing free services.
But how far is this going to go?
All of a sudden, what if Google says "Pay $2000 to continue accessing your files" like a ransom?, and may be precisely after my storage size reaches several dozen TBs.
I wish they are going to be reasonable when, one fine day they start to think of charging for the storage.
Having this in mind, I'm keeping my "media-production" rate very normal. Over all, it should be just less than a TB as of now. I use the services very consciously. Even I feel a lot of guilt if I'm taking photos in Burst mode in camera.  lol!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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You ought to look into "M-Discs[^]"
I actally picked up a burner (external) for like US$30 (after rebate) from NewEgg (once upon a time).
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Vunic wrote: when, one fine day they start to think of charging for the storage
Or they put ads over the images and force you to click them to make them go away, of course using AI to pick an appropriate advert ...
picture of:
- car: tire add, sericing, if older car ad for new car
- house: ads for paint, lawn mowing, kitchen accessories
- food: ads for grocery shopping, mcdonalds, kfc
- ladies (including the wife) : bed linen, beds, viagra
- professionally dressed men: shotguns, flame throwers, RPG...
- sheep: condoms gumboots
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Hand over all your data to me. I promise I will never hold your data ransom. But once I have figured out how to get into your house you might get:
Message from Megafree storage: Pay $2000 if you want to see your parrot Polly alive again
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Vunic wrote: None of the CD backups I took late in the 1990s are working now
I recently just ran into some CDs I created in the late 90s, and everything on them is intact. The secrete to accessing the data, storing the CDs in the absolute worst way possible at the bottom of a box with no protection. [Thankfully most of what I had written was in a text format so it should aways be accessible, no matter what format changes may happen]
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Once they have your data, they know they have you by the ba&&s. Then they will squeeze you until you pay. And they can ask any price. Just business or capitalism at its finest.
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Spot the film explained badly:
1) A conversation about hamburgers ends in violence.
2) A billionaire devotes his fortune to cosplay and beating up the mentally ill.
3) A lot of people take the Ice Bucket Challenge. It doesn't end well.
4) A white boy is told he's special; then he goes to private school.
5) An old man forces child into volcano.
6) A drug crazed lunatic slowly kills children one by one in front of their parents.
7) A man's wife is brutally murdered by a serial killer and his son is left physically disabled. His son is then kidnapped and he has to chase the kidnapper for thousands of miles with the help of a mentally disabled woman.
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All of them?
Ad astra - both ways!
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1.) Pulp Fiction?
2.) Batman
3.) ???????
4.) Harry Potter
5.) ??????
6.) ??????
7.) Finding Nemo
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1, 2, 4, and 7: Yep!
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1) Pulp Fiction.
3) Titanic.
5) Not the Lord of the Rings, Frodo wasn't a child, and Gangalf wasn't a man.
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1: Beaten to it by Pom Pey
3: Yep!
5: Close enough! 
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Correct - but Pom Pey beat you to it!
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It's about fish; not a man and a woman.
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6) Charlie and the chocolate factory
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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