Posted on 03/06/2012 5:37:01 AM PST by Toaster tank
Yesterday, we informed in this space of what was going on behind the scenes with the CEO of Carbonite. CEO David Friend's real actions as recorded in the books of the Federal Election Commission completely rebuked his alleged reasons for dropping Carbonite's sponsorship. His thoroughly documented connection to Ed "The Slut" Schultz, MoveOn.org and other fanatically left-wing smear groups belied his indignant words.
This is not the case with Lifelock CEO Todd Davis. What does a peep at Mr. Davis's FEC records show? Why – horrors -- the man has given money to Arizona conservative Republican Congressman Jeff Flake's U.S. Senate bid. And to the famously crime-busting Rudy Giuliani's campaign for president.
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Lifelock is one of the good guys.
This is a war people. You better fight it! The other side sure is.
Just to add this, there is now a movement to call local stations and complain......we need to start local and call and tell them THANK YOU for airing Rush. The twitter, email or write the advertisers
I was using Carbonite.
My subscription expired in January, and I let it lapse.
The reason was that it wash’t backing up all my files, and was hanging up.
They told me I had unusual characters in the files, things like ‘_”. “#”, etc., and told me to rename them. These were news articles that I had downloaded, and there was no way that I was going to be able to do that.
Now I back them up myself.
I dumped tv in 1997, so I can’t boycott shows. And dumping TV really melted away a lot of my consumerism. I don’t use any of the products made by companies that abandoned Rush, so I can’t boycott them. I have no desire for any of their services as it is.
I am beyond pissed now! I have my daughter's computer with Carbonite and that subscription is going away too.
can I ask you a question and others on here.
Why do you use these companies?
I mean why not use an external harddrive so your data is private instead of letting a company , a liberal company in this case back your data up and so they can see what you have done or what you like etc?
To me it doesn’t make sense to pay a company to back your files up when all you have to do is back them up yourself and that way no one see what what files you have, especially this left wing company
Geographical separation. If your house is hit by a fire or tornado, it isn't going to matter that all your stuff is on an independent hard drive that was sitting next to your computer.
If they were ‘smart’ (and they obviously are not if they are no longer advertising on Rush), they would have said “sorry to lose you as a customer, if you ever change your mind, we’d love to have you back and here is your refund for the 6 months you won’t be using.” That would engender at least some ‘neutral’will if not a little goodwill. Instead they are creating “illwill”. Their stock hit a 52 week low yesterday after they decamped from Rush’s camp .... suspect with them treating customers like this, it is doomed to go lower. The old saying applies here “You reap what you sow”.
The main reason for this type of backup is that it is off-site. If your house burns down, or is robbed etc, your main PC and your backups are both lost, unless you move backups off-site regularly, which is a lot of work.
Last night I went to Costco and bought a 2T server backup drive and it is now chewing on my data. I am also going to backup my daughters computer myself from now on. I've had it with these people!
The only “irreplaceable” data on my computer is pictures and I already burn them to DVDs and store them at work. I didn’t even trust Carbonite with that!
And with your own external hard drive, if your computer fails you, you can recover what you need when you need it. You won’t ever have to see “Site Unavailable Due To Server Maintenance, Please Try Again Later”.
I use Mozey, my lawyer and have dropped pro flowers. I will not use the extra bonus pro flowers has allotted me after they left my MIL’s flowers at an unused door to her home. It was obviously an unused door because they have removed to walkway to the door and allowed the shrubs to almost cover the entrance. Pro Flower delivered there anyway leaving flowers in the hot southern sun for two days. Nice. Goodbye to a bad business.
You can buy a 1 TB drive that fits into your shirt pocket for a hundred dollars or so. Back your stuff up and take it to work or some secure location, such as a safe deposit box.
1. Legal Zoom - You pay a high price for public domain legal forms, and since you don't have the advice of a real lawyer may very well be shafting yourself without even knowing it.
2. Quicken Loans - If you want a high price loan, with lots of hidden fees - they are perfect.
3. Pro-flowers - Is it really too much to stop at the neighborhood florist to pick up flowers for the one you love?
4. Carbonite - Charges a yearly fee to solve a problem which doesn't exist. $39.95 will get you a back-up drive almost anywhere. Plus, just how secure is your data when its stored by a bunch of lberals?
How far are people going to take this...?
Which operating system is the most conservative...?
Windows or Apple?
What about your ISP?
Yup. Last May, a lightning strike on our house, with the resulting power surge and fire, ended up destroying our backup along with our PCs.
I don’t know how many know this,
but Carbonite has a “default setting” of not backing up your video files.
If you have a subscription, they will not refund your money.
However, since you’re “locked in”, make sure they have to back up as much as possible. Go set your video files to be backed up, for starters.
If the carbonite logo box is still on your computer, go to the uninstall and right click on it and it will tell you how to get a refund, it may not work for you since you've already cancelled it.
Write a snail mail letter to Friend, the CEO of carbonite and you might get a refund.
I'll take it all the way to my Smith & Wesson, Remington, Colt, etc...
Depends on how far they want to go.
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