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Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by ajkjk »

jeangenie wrote: post #266
ajkjk wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Astonishing naiveté." "delusion of a shared struggle" "What a meaningless statement." "Post on your blog if you don't want your opinion torn apart like a piece of meat" You have not been "civil". Quit being an ass.

Am I a tool or an ass? Do you have anything of substance to add?

yeah, I reconsidered the wording since 'tool' has a certain connotation that I didn't intend.

I was hoping to be part of the several voices that were telling you you were wrong, because maybe hearing it from lots of people would make it more convincing.

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Post by mcv »

I'm in the process of switching to Wuala, which is secure and encrypted and everything. But my new phone came with Dropbox already on it, and Wuala doesn't have quite the convenient interface that Dropbox has, so I haven't cut my ties with Dropbox completely yet.

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Post by mcv »

tripzilch wrote: post #297
azinman2 wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm certainly no fan of hers but "war criminal" is a label that's thrown around way too often with no basis or grounding. It's too often used to describe someone who engaged in some kind of war someone else doesn't like, so they're labeled as such. The actual term stems from The Hague conventions, which were not violated by her or the U.S. in this case.

Well, "war crime" is actually quite hard to apply to actions of the US, because they refuse to recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court in the Hague who decides whether these conventions were violated or not.

War crimes exist independently from the ICC. Plenty of Nazis were convicted of war crimes despite the ICC not existing and their government at the time of their actions not agreeing that genocide was a crime.

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Post by joeclark77 »

toleavetheman wrote: post #142

I dropped Dropbox when it was only giving me like 5GB of storage, and my Onedrive had like 1TB due to an Office 365 Home subscription. They waited FAR too long to upgrade their storage space.

I dropped OneDrive because Microsoft Office kept trying to sync to it instead of just saving files locally and letting OneDrive handle the sync. The result was you'd hit "save" in Word or Excel and it would lock all windows for 30 seconds or more while it was communicating with "OneDrive in the cloud". So I switched away from the Microsoft product and started using Dropbox because it was more compatible with Office.

As for Condi, I don't see the big deal. As far as politicians go, she's a little too left-leaning for me, but she's a nice enough gal and it's not like the Dropbox board is a government position.

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Post by inklesspen »

I keep my free Dropbox account, but I won't pay them any money while they have Rice on board. (I was a paid member of Loom, which they acquired. As a result of the acquisition I was to become a paid member of Dropbox's photo syncing service. Instead I demanded and got my money back.)
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