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    TV series recommendations?

    A lot of poeple had already listed these too, but here is a few others... Lost Mad Men Breaking Bad Big Bang Theory Walking Dead Vikings Family Guy The Americans Lilyhammer  Lost is a classic once you get into it. Vikings is now a favorite too, hate waiting between episodes...
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    Seagate introduces radical new product, sounds delicious

    I have switched back and forth over the years, I used to swear by seagate, then I had a couple drives that sounded like a drawer full of marbles, they ran fine, just noisy which annoyed the hell out of me using them in my pc. So I switched to WD and used those for a few years, then had a couple...
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    Need an OS recommendation for children.

    Crazy - I just had my 5 year old daughter do the same exact thing on prime about 3 weeks ago, I never even noticed it at first because I use an old email address for Amazon and I hardly ever check it, it wasn't until I checked my bank account that I noticed I had over 5 overdrafts and a very...
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    Mt.Gox shuts down, is insolvent

    Yeah, this is going the way of e-gold, e-bullion and Liberty Reserve, all digital currencies that came and went. Amidst being buried a million times on reddit when contrary to popular opinion I stated bitcoin is nothing new, never has been other than the mining and decentralized system. Its...
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    Where do you buy your hardware from?

    Amazon or NewEgg. Amazon mainly because of free shipping with prime. I did have a return on a power tool once and they sent a replacement overnight so I had it the next morning. On that I was pretty much sold after having to do DOA's elsewhere in the past and having to wait sometimes weeks for...
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    Where are you from?

    Fargo... my business is located there too. And embarrassingly enough, alot of poeple around here actually talk that way...
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    Stock Market

    That's what I did for quite a few years, luckily I started buying silver at around $5 an ounce, I held a lot of it until it hit around $22 and sold pretty much everything, while a very excellent run, I kind of wish I would have hung onto some of it, I do feel we are going to see another increase...
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    Great cloudflare alternative from Google

    Ok that makes sense.
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    Who are your favorite higher-end providers?

    Linode and KnownHost were always good to me, have not used either of them in a few years though. I have also managed a few cloud servers for a few different customers at AWS and RackSpace, RackSpace has been awesome, in over 3 to 4 years I can't say I have ever needed to contact support with...
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    Great cloudflare alternative from Google

     So WelltodoInformalCattle, not to pry but is your website politically motivated? I'm assuming so if they accepted you?
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    Great cloudflare alternative from Google

    I noticed when someone posted it on reddit a few months ago, but I think their focus is more along the lines of protecting against censorship, helping political activists etc., probably not so much personal websites...
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    Do you accept Bitcoins as a payment method? Why? Why not? (Plus other questions)

    Wow, I'm impressed with all the success, guess I need to reconsider.
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    Zeneva - Bad experience? I want to hear about it.

    My experience is nothing like dano's but I did sign up for there $49 L5520 24gb when they were listed on LEB. His 2 to 3 business day setup turned into about a month, I asked for a refund twice, was told they don't refund once they receive payment so instead of arguing again I just waited. When...
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    Do you accept Bitcoins as a payment method? Why? Why not? (Plus other questions)

    Your right, I remembered reading & forgot all about overstock.com...
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    Do you accept Bitcoins as a payment method? Why? Why not? (Plus other questions)

    I can see why some would want to allow it, more signups etc., but yeah I agree with Aldryic and dcdan that I think the vast majority of new signups would be abusers just due to the anonymity. Its still too much of a "clandestine" currency kind of like e-gold and liberty reserve used to be. I...
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