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FogerRox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 07:48 PM
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picking pic hosting site-- what is good and why? Take me to school please
Its gotta be free-- and I dont want a limit on visits-- Or should I look at a free blog ?

H E L P
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 07:49 PM
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1. here is a good one run by a DU'er...
http://GlobalFreePress.com

peace
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-07-06 09:24 AM
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13. I just approved your pics
very nice, too :hi:

(the only draw back on GFP is that there is an approval process because of spammers)

Thanks for sharing :toast:

peae
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Reverend_Smitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 07:49 PM
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2. www.photobucket.com
thats the one I always use
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 07:49 PM
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3. I use photobucket and like it; it's easy
and I'm computer challenged.:silly:

http://photobucket.com/
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 07:55 PM
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4. I use Flickr
http://flickr.com
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 07:55 PM
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5. "Bandwidth" = Money
This is an unforseen consequence of what happened when Information Technology met Capitalism.

We now have a new commodity called Bandwidth, created with our tax money, which we don't own.

In fact, there is a new form of crime called Theft Of Bandwidth, created by the people who "own" the commodity.

Gee, I wish I could mint my own crimes. I'd make it a crime for anyone to speak badly to me, to not send me a birthday card, and for pretty women to not sleep with me.

What it all comes down to is that we paid for the Computer Revolution, and now we're paying again.

And again.

And again.

If you want reliable hosting, you pay for it.

Peasant.

--p!
Or, you could call it "Banditwidth"
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FogerRox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 08:24 PM
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6. ok thanks
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 08:29 PM
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7. Wrong
The phone companies are the ones who set up the initial Darpanet with tax dollars. Then the internet was released to private industry and they built the rest for profit.

Bandwidth isn't free.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 08:39 PM
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11. Wrong, how?
"The phone companies are the ones who set up the initial Darpanet with tax dollars."

I thought it was DARPA that set up DARPANet. DARPA is, and was, a part of the Department of Defense.

Either way, it sounds like our money was used. (It's that "tax dollars" part.)

"Then the internet was released to private industry ... "

In other words, they gave it away -- like just about the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

"Bandwidth isn't free."

You got THAT right!

Only imprisonment is free. And some (Red) states have begun charging rent.

--p!
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 08:44 PM
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12. Bandwidth wasn't and isn't created with tax money
The Gov't paid the phone companies for the dedicated lines between research and defense sites.


Now we pay the phone companies for the same priviledge. It's true that the concept was invented on Gov't dollars, but no matter which way you slice it, the phone companies were getting paid
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 08:29 PM
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8. If you want free, go with photobucket.
I use two hosting sites: photobucket, which is free, and ranchoweb, which I pay for. When it absolutely, positively has to be reliable, I use ranchoweb. However, as free site go, photobucket is the best.
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ContraBass Black Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 08:35 PM
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9. My photobucket is 91.9 percent full
And I still use all of the photos. Suggestions?
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-06-06 08:38 PM
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10. pssst.
www.walagata.com

They're now accepting free memberships. Better than photofuckit. If you can spare 10 toadskins per year, you'll likely never fill up your account limit of photos or bandwidth.
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kittykatkoffeekup Donating Member (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-07-06 09:44 AM
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14. If your just looking ....
to post pics on a discussion forum, and not looking for any archive services, try Image Shack.

http://imageshack.us/

They do have an archive service, but costs $$$.
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-07-06 10:07 AM
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15. fyi GlobalFreePress is FREE =)
and run by a DU'er, me ;->

psst... pass the word :bounce:

peace
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kittykatkoffeekup Donating Member (385 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-07-06 10:14 AM
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16. Thanks!
Edited on Sat Jan-07-06 10:26 AM by kittykatkoffeekup
Going to go explore it now!:bounce:
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bpilgrim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-07-06 10:39 AM
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17. no worries - don't forget to vote for your favorites ;->
there are a lot of cool features up there... SLIDE SHOW, EMAIL POSTCARDS, RATINGS, COMMENTS< etc.

don't hesitate to PM me if you have any questions :hi:

peace
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