You're correct that numerous stock are not really attached to reality anymore and are more related to "gamble" then "investment". I think lot of people are aware of it. But the thing is, outside of picking and choosing stocks that are most realist, what can we do? And even there, those choosed stocks will most likely suffer when the inflated stocks will start going down. Don't wonder why people are looking at cryptocurrency, inflated stock and anything else that are hyped as profit maker.

Is it just me that see an issue with "investing" money to buy a cryptocurrency that somebody somewhere started while keeping millions of those virtuals coins and getting richer as people are exchanging those while thinking they may get richer at some point? It seems the real winner is that "somebody" which started something that cost him programing effort and from there, miners and "investors" are doing the work for him. And what if that somebody is actually any illicit group that you would not lend 20$ to and that you are now making billionaires? I think the technology has some merit (not at the current cost of a bitcoin transaction however) and could be useful but I wouldn't not "buy" what is supposed to be another form of money and hope for it to increase multiple % per day. It just don't make any sense that you pay somebody for a piece of pizza with a virtual coin and that this same person could buy a car with that same virtual coin one week later... And it could be the other way around as well which will make the car dealer sad if the virtual coin is getting back to the value of a piece of pizza the other week...

As already said by a few, I prefer the "before" in all case shown. The girl has a lot of personality in the original picture and look fake on the right... A lot like what we see in artists magazine... you know, the picture where nobody never has a wrinkle!

Words are not telling what they are supposed to say and now... people are not looking how they are supposed to look. I would say we are doomed! What is supposed to be the benefit? Even if you trick yourself with those modified pictures, others are still seeing you with their own perception. Once there, why not put somebody else face and body instead? It is just easier not to take picture of you at all and take the one of somebody you enjoy looking at!

I was reading the various comments and I was surprised that nobody suggested a hardware raid ctrl. There is some from well known business (Adaptec, promise and so on) that will support from 4, 8 and more SATA drives and do RAID 1/5/1+0. They usually support hot spare, raid level change, volume growth, etc. These are available from about 300$ with a median for 8 drives at about 500$. Using this kind of solution would be faster and more robust (make sure you are taking a full RAID chipset, not just a RAID accelerator where a combination of software and hardware is necessary) and should be easier to manage as well then a zfs setup over OpenSolaris. These are also often available for multiple OS. I'm looking at this kind of solution for my personal LAN. I didn't had time yet to order the hardware and the disks so I have no experience doing it but on paper, it look good. At this point I'm looking for an Adaptec 2820SA which support 8 drives and offer a lot of interesting features. Does anybody have comments on taking that road or on the Adaptec 2x20SA particularly?