This would explain why I was asked to disable Find My Mac in Australia back in 2019 when I had a 2018 MBP screen repaired. The tech didn't explain why at the time, just said they couldn't accept it for repair with Find My Mac enabled.

"We have incurred operating losses in the past, expect to incur operating losses in the future, and may never achieve or maintain profitability."

Sounds familiar. Where have I heard that before? ... Oh, I remember, Exodus Communication during the last great share market bubble!

Exodus Communication circa 2000*: "It is possible that we may never achieve profitability on a quarterly or an annual basis."

Exodus Communications history:

• Mar 1998: IPO
• Dec 1999: Stock price growth of 1005.8% over IPO price as at 31 Dec
• Dec 2000: Down 55%
• Sept 2001: Filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
• Dec 2001: Down 99.8%
• Early 2003: Last trade at 1 penny/share

* See https://www.sec.gov/Archives/e...

As an Australian I can tell you this is categorically untrue. Each state or territory in Australia has its own state-based police force. Each force has its own policy on high speed chases. In New South Wales (where I live) the NSW Police Force allows officers to pursue vehicles in certain circumstances. Individual officers are supposed to continuously evaluate the situation and call off any pursuit should it become too dangerous to the public. From what one reads in the papers this occurs from time to time. However, every few years or so innocent people are killed in accidents which occur during high speed police pursuits. These accidents are almost always caused by the fleeing vehicle.

A lot of suggestions I'm seeing are not suitable for anyone shooting RAW, even if only irregularly. Sites like Flickr do not exist to provide disaster recovery for your photography archive and treating them as such will only end in tears.

My photography archive is approximately 100GB in size. I keep it safe in the following way:

1. Primary datastore lives on PC.
2. Sync primary datastore to second HDD internal to PC whenever changes are made. I use Beyond Compare for this.
3. Sync primary datastore to external HDD whenever changes are made. Beyond Compare again.
4. Burn to blu-ray once I hit my bucket size of ~24GB[1]
5. Backblaze online backup for offsite disaster recovery. Costs $5/month or less if you sign up for a year.

1. If you care at all about keeping the fruits of your photography labours safe, I cannot recommend highly enough Peter Krogh's "Digital Asset Management for Photographers, 2e". The bucket concept is from there. See http://www.thedambook.com/

> Cats are property. Property cannot be "authorized", cannot "act", and cannot make decisions. The cat is merely a tool she uses to push the button.

Here, let me fix that sentence for you:

HUMANS are property. Property cannot be "authorized", cannot "act", and cannot make decisions. The HUMAN is merely a tool A CAT uses to GET CANS OF FOOD OPENED.

You've never "owned" a cat, have you? :D

Late last year I was involved in a motorcycle accident and came very close to death. Over the past six months while recovering I've drawn inspiration from a few different sources however the two primary ones have been Man vs Wild (Bear Grylls broke his back at 21 and joined the SAS two years later) and Randy's book. The way Randy approached his diagnosis and how he has tried to live his life since have been great and continued sources of succour and motivation for me as I continue on the path back to 'normal' life.

I really hoped Randy would beat this thing. Given his outlook I thought he had a good chance.

Rest in peace Randy. May your family and friends think of you fondly and often.

"Excellent, some piece of technology that can magically make my problem go away without me expending any effort to try and actually solve it."

That's how we ended up with all these fucking computers in the first place.

KFG

I use GPGShell:

http://www.jumaros.de/rsoft/index.html

It requires GnuPG to be installed as well so it's effectively a two part installer, but it works fine and does most of what you ask (it's still not the easiest GUI when it comes to paths but better than WinPT).

HTH

Too bad you couldn't have been on the Operation Fastlink discussion. Mods cut me to ribbons for asserting the same thing.

Yes, there's a little more direct link between an mp3 file and a song... but, say the song was ripped at 128... Craigslist produces lower quality news (from what I hear, I've never read it). Same thing, more or less.