@raphjd: In the UK, it used to be that you got a new IP address every time you logged on to the internet.    You had to pay double or more to get a static one. Now pretty much everyone has a static one, except when they are using hotspots and whatnot. I switched my provider to one that provided free static IP addresses about 8 years ago.   About 4 years ago, static became the standard.  I don't know of any that offer dynamic still. Dial up modems resulted in new ip  addresses with every connection.  The one advantage of having a static ip address is if you want to use your own computer as a server.  When you do that, you could hypothetically keep a server with top secret confidential emails on it in your basement, and if you ever got in trouble just delete them, and since they are not on a remote server, you are safe. Frankly, having a server in one's own house is silly.  It ties up a computer, is prone to crashing, and eats up your bandwidth.  There are many remote hosting services which are dirt cheap. IPv4 has a LOT of ip addresses, so they don't need to be re-used much. IPv6 has so many ip addresses that they would never run out of them.. and each address is permanently assigned to a specific location - hello Big Brother. What gets me with Facebook is that they want it both ways.  They both demand to know exactly who you are and where you are by your ip address and email address.. yet at the same time they demand more for advertising purposes such as your cell phone number and everything else.    Here's an idea.. when you set up an account.. give them your PHYSICAL address.. then they can SEND you via snail mail a verification letter. Facebook doesn't fool me.. they are crooks.

One of the things that really piss me off about NASA is that they hide tech that could benefit humanity. They should put everything, excluding the very few things that absolutely need secrecy, into the public domain.  They could patent the tech and sell/lease the rights to recoup the money. +++++ Back on topic. NASA never cared about maintaining stuff because since Kennedy, Presidents have been flooding them with cash. The oil industry spends BILLIONS to maintain their old data.  I've been to warehouse complexes where they have binders with paper data stored.  There are warehouses that have the old reel to reel tapes being stored.    Even warehouses with normal hard drives being stored.

Flozen, you picked the WRONG MESSAGE to downvote.. I highly suggest you apologize for that. THAT message is not one that I will tolerate being attacked. I promise you that you will regret it if you don't apologize.

Flozen downvoted my message above… Obviously he didn't even read the message.

@Shami94: Well it is an interesting example of what is driving the "alternative facts", "fake news" political environment in the USA which got a failure like Trump elected and which is destroying the reputation of the USA worldwide. People think that freedom of speech means freedom to lie and freedom to believe and express whatever opinion you happen to like, regardless of the facts. The economy and jobs are doing GREAT again.. I don't know what else you want out of Trump. Who would you have voted for if you lived in the USA instead of in a 3rd world cesspool?

Basically "liberals" whoever they are, don't see any point arguing with someone who thinks it is OK to ignore facts and believe whatever bazaar fiction happens to attract their attention on a given day. Yes the earth is flat and drinking turpentine cures cancer. Keep walking until you find the edge. Take a few bottles of turpentine with you because you might find you run out before you get there.

We're crazy here. Or stupid.

I think the main problem with the left is that they think that their violence is always justified. When Richard Spencer got sucker punched, the left exploded with "punch a Nazi" justification tweets, posts, videos and whatnot. Yvette Felarca and Eric Clanton  have plead not guilty in their separate assault cases.  Eric Clanton is claiming it wasn't him, but if it was him, he was justified under "self defence".    Yvette Felarca is using "self defence" as well.    Neither are claiming, at least not currently, that they were victims of physical violence.  They are claiming that they were victims of "thought violence", so they had to fight back physically. Democrat mayors are telling the police to stand down, then arresting mainly those on the right. Charlottesville was a disaster because of the situation caused by the mayor and police.    The police forced the right to go through the leftist crowd.  Of course this caused problems.  The police used the violence to justify calling it an unlawful assembly by the right.

If you believe this nonsense, I don't think you have brain cells.

"My company murdered 100K people. But how dare Trump for not being fast enough for condemning racists." You have got to be out of your damn mind.

They are too stupid to understand this. They are just fixed on everything being racist if it isn't negating Trump.

How dare you. How dare you talk about Trump saying the Central Park 5 should be executed… He is only expressing his opinion based on facts given by the fake media and their own statements. He isn't saying they should have no trial. You liberals are ridiculous. Hillary is literally responsible for their deaths, and you wanna get up here talking shit about Trump for saying they need to be punished. You should be ashamed of yourselves. You make me vomit. It's absurd.

India is where most scams (especially telemarketing) in the UK come from. India call centers are where most of your details get sold off.  This is why EU businesses are bringing their call centers back to the EU.

Umm, 2 + 2 = gender fluid

Derailment!!!  :cool2: During the Obama regime, the NSA grew tremendously. Obama completely lied to voters.  He promised to end all the GWB spying on US citizens.  He expanded it far beyond what GWB envisioned, according to an interview with GWB after Obama's 2nd election. ++++ Back on topic, most mainstream social media actively promotes leftist speech, while hiding/banning righties speech. Patreon banned Lauren Southern with no appeal.  Patreon took the money in her account and gave it to Antifa groups.  When it came out, Patreon made some extremely pathetic excuses/justifications.