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That would explain the huge wolf paw print in the back garden...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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considering someone here on CP introduced me to Sirenia 'Perils of the deep' not that long ago, I'll see what I can find on Youtube from Tarja - given Wikipedia describes her voice as a Lyric Soprano, It will be interesting to see what she actually sings
[edit] so far, 'Victim of ritual' - meh, '500 Letters' - 9/10 shows 'selective' promise [/edit]
'g'
modified 21-Feb-14 17:06pm.
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You won't be disappointed (maybe).
If you like that kind of music then look up Nightwish as well. She was their singer
for the first several albums.
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[Edited for KSS-ness]
A father hears about a new robot that acts as a lie detector and slaps people when they lie. He decides to test it out at dinner one night, and asks his son what he did that afternoon.
The son says, "I did some schoolwork." The robot slaps the son. The son says, "OK, OK. I was at a friend's house watching movies."
Dad asks, "What movie did you watch?"
Son says, "Toy Story." The robot slaps the son. The son says, "OK, OK, we were watching p--n."
Dad says, "What? At your age I didn't even know what p--n was." The robot slaps the father.
Mom laughs and says, "Well, he certainly is your son." The robot slaps the mother.
Robot for sale.
/ravi
modified 21-Feb-14 12:58pm.
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"It's a new joke"
Robot slaps me.
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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And here I thought all your jokes were kid sister friendly.
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Edited - thx.
/ravi
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Well, technically, it's still not a kid sister joke since they're bound to ask what p--n is. And since the mother's quip can't be told to a child, I won't be telling my son this joke.
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Good stuff Ravi!
Thanks.
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Never heard that one.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Fantastic
It made my day(working Saturday)
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Mom laughs and says, "Well, he certainly is your son." The robot slaps the mother.
And that is when the fight started.
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I've started seeing spam from Microsoft (I've checked and, yes, it's legit) heavily pushing a cloud storage system called "OneDrive." Apparently, because I have a Hotmail account, I have been automagically signed up for this free service. I have also seen a number of other companies, reputable and otherwise, pushing similar cloud storage for little to no cost.
I have to wonder: where is the profit in all this? When I read the advertisements, I keep seeing this image of Edward Snowden, and news articles about the assistance given by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and others to governments conducting massive, very likely illegal, surveillance. Am I just being overly cynical, maybe even borderline paranoid? Or is this like free email: a massively expensive loss-leader intended to develop brand loyalty and funnel people into buying much more expensive services?
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No profit yet - trying to establish a market presence.
(Then, when monopoly or duopoly, commence with the profit stuff)
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Probably so they can scan your files to spy on you and for targeted advertising
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Get some usb external TB drives while they're still legal and tell the "rental drives" to go suck a funnel cloud.
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Exactly the external drives, like MyPassport by WD are very inexpensive.
I bought a 1TB for $80 and use it for off site backups.
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I know that, but the average Joe or Jane doesn't: presumably, those are the people actually being targeted by the ad campaigns.
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What do you mean, "still legal"?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I keep old laptop drives as I upgrade, and buy external enclosures for them. The enclosures are about $25 apiece. I have a couple TB in external drives now.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's to get an entry into businesses who will pay for the stuff. And advertising. It's also to get you hooked so that when you fill up your "free" quota, you'll pay for more since you've just gotta have all your stuff available all the time!!!! Didnyaknow???!!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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A year or two of huge/unlimited amounts of storage works really good to lure new customerssuckers in. After they've spend 6 months uploading several terabytes of data a lot of them will end up sticking around when you start charging enough to cover your actual storage costs to support them rather than have their internet snarled for several months again and be backupless during the transition period.
The several GB of free storage that companies like Dropbox offer is provided for similar reasons. A free tier thats cost to the provider is low enough that it remaining free indefinitely works great as a teaser offer; and enough people will decide that switching around everything that's integrated with it at some point in the future is too much of a PITA if they grow beyond the free tier or want to use it for a purpose that the free tier doesn't permit. (And Dropbox's $100/year for $100 GB is a license to print money even with heavy redundancy in the data center; so they can support a lot of free users 2gb accounts for each paying customer they have.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Oh, I mean the underpants gnomes:
Step 1 Product
Step 2 ?
Step 3 Profit
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