i find the notion of republicans seeing trump as a "straight talker" to be hilarious.

Ok...so i guess it's cost prohibitive to just mirror all the data to a different machine. i haven't looked lately, but there used to be a disk space limit on most of the popular off-the-shelf NAS's. and 20+TB exceeded it, IIRC. i think, if you can pull it off, you'd want a RAID 5 setup, where (for i...

so wait...what's your inventory right now? you have 9TB in your HTPC and 12TB in your external enclosure? is the external for backup, or do you have 21TB of "production" space. a 6TB western digital drive is $249 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236797 if that external enclos...

her...i liked it. a lot. while i don't think the world will ever see THAT level of A.I. (or anything close to it, really), it was still thought provoking as to the value of the relationship. i don't believe in the human soul. and i believe that all we are is a collection of our past experiences comb...

my issue with RAID is that if the controller dies, you're in trouble. so there is still a single point of failure. i don't know how common that is, but it gives me the willies none the less.

and like i said, i can't imagine THAT level of need for redundancy in home use.

It's all show. This happens almost every year.

agreed. the North Korea royal family are such gigantic ego maniacs, that they in no way want to sign a contract for their own destruction.

Bigger Megalomaniacs than Sadam?

i'd say yes

I need to commit to a server. I'm scared of raid mostly because I'm a novice with it. unRaid sounds like the right flavor for me.

don't get a "server". set up another low profile PC, with 2 6TB western digital green drives on it. it will serve files, yes. but will also be a stand alone HTPC.

It's all show. This happens almost every year.

agreed. the North Korea royal family are such gigantic ego maniacs, that they in no way want to sign a contract for their own destruction.

there might be a more unnecessary animation on the internet...but i challenge you to find one

You could just set up port forwarding to Remote Desktop into your PC, and move files that way. Not that you need convincing...just a different way to go about it. I'm sure there are plenty if programs you can install on a PC that match the integrated remote access features of a NAS. And while those ...

I don't see the benefit of a NAS. Any PC can perform file sharing. And it's less hardware to buy. I'm a picture quality junky so I collect uncompressed blue ray rips. The average movie is 25GB or so. I have no idea how disks work but I think this one stacks memory into several layers...or something.

Samsung built a 16TB SSD.

Can't wait to put all my movies (I have about 11TB worth) on one fast drive in my compact home theater PC. I could take it on family trips, or if I'm in the hospital or something.

Definitely want. Do not want to pay thousands of bucks for it. Will wait a few years.

Where is all of the outrage from the fappening about the violation of privacy with the AM leak?

Why doesn't apple juice taste like orange juice?

It was a really sad attempt by Scott Aukerman on this week's CBB pretending like the paywall was for our benefit. If anyone fell for that, I hope they don't have kids.

i think @NAN has called the police, if that's any indication

i think they're all john stamos

What about people that stay away from the stuff because it is illegal? what about them? congrats, i guess. but something being illegal doesn't eliminate its use. They stay away from using it, therefore avoid becoming an addict. considering you're the resident "every man" on this board, i find this....

if you consider .00001% change to be considerable, you really need to look at a dictionray it's considerable, trust me. if you spend even a modest amount of time looking into the opposition of legalization who are in power and the reasons that are provided to support their position, you would agree.

tif said it was down "considerably". according to the first chart, drug use has gone UP since decriminalization (of course, down since 2007). As per the other two, I don't think going down half a percent is "considerable" any drop higher than 0.0% is considerable. you're nitpicking in a weird way h...

portugal is decrim'd - not legalized True, that's a misspeak on my part. But the overall observation remains the same. agree. i think the basic model is that they aren't going to make drugs into a business, but you also aren't going to get in trouble for using them. i'm not sure how this applies to...

tif said it was down "considerably". according to the first chart, drug use has gone UP since decriminalization (of course, down since 2007). As per the other two, I don't think going down half a percent is "considerable" any drop higher than 0.0% is considerable. you're nitpicking in a weird way h...

drug use is down because it was legalized (edit - or decriminalized according to shmenguin)? I have a hard time believing that. I've never known anyone who makes a decision about using drugs depending on the drug's legality. do you have a source for those claims (that drug use is down in all demogr...

drug use is down because it was legalized (edit - or decriminalized according to shmenguin)? I have a hard time believing that.

it happened in the netherlands as well. you should believe it.

portugal is decrim'd - not legalized

What about people that stay away from the stuff because it is illegal? This was discussed at the old place, and I have to say I was surprised to learn how many people here admitted to saying they stayed away from pot almost solely because of the illegality. It just never struck me as a real deterre...