When I first heard about Mozy a few years ago, I jumped on it. It was great. Since then, I’ve found their service has slowed down, and makes my computer run slowly.
So recently I tried out Carbonite and really like it. It probably isn’t any faster, but I like that I can see what files are backed up, and it doesn’t seem to slow down my computer. So I switched, and as I write this, 43% of my 137Gb of data is backed up.
But then yesterday my girlfriend showed me a funny clip of Glenn Beck (as in, he does his thing and we laugh at him). In the middle of his rant, he does a plug for Carbonite.
My jaw dropped. It’s probably a smart demographic to go after, and I guess I take it for granted that tech companies are generally going to be liberal. But it hurts. I do not like Glenn Beck, and do support most things he does. Why should I support companies that give him money?
Now I’m honestly conflicted. I know it’s “just business” but I do my best not to support companies like Walmart that I think are not doing good. Do I keep using Carbonite?
Do you let politics influence whether you hire/pay for services?
Tags: back up services, blue companies, caarbonite, glenn beck, mozy, politics
i definitely and always let politics, “morale” and economics influence my decisions when bying things.
this is the ONLY way to influence our environment.
it drives me crazy, that i sometimes have to support companies i dislike. a few months ago, all the airlines which flew to where i wanted to go where using boeing aroplanes and i really really really dislike them for being one of the companies who produce atomic bombs… this is bad karma. a lot of bad karma.
or that time when i realized, that my favorite icecream company has been bought by nestle… no more icecream for little spammie
-> i wont buy things from people who are selling poisonous food…
in some cases i refuse to buy a whole branch of products, for example fast food, gasoline, weapons, in other cases i love the branch and dislike only specific products ( i love computer games and i hate world of warcraft and the other buy monthly games)
i only minimally use facebook because they are being monitored by the cia (but from the inside, not the outside)
in the end most of those things make no difference. just because i am not driving a car doesnt mean that the products i buy havent been transported by car and plane.
if i have to go to some other town for a few days of work i usually take a plane if the train needs more then 16 hours. thats a lot of cerosine.
i guess thats a new interpretation of politics to you, isnt it?
what can we learn out of it?
all we can do to influence is:
nothing…
but in the end i sleep better not doing those things but i would sleep even better if the other people would think about the things they buy as well ( they can buy what they want, but they have to know what they want first, that means that you look at videos of the life and butchering of a whopper for example [and you will not eat those things again after those videos if you still got a brain] )
i could write on here, seems like you triggered something
but its half past six in the morning and i programmed for the whole night, so i am going to bed now,
maybe we can talk on in the next days,
greetings
spammie
you have been spammed.