I think this is an interesting question and is not off topic. I personally don't believe in god until proven wrong. i think the concept of believing in god is Ridicules it's no different then believing in unicorns.
Michael,
I live in Silicon Valley and grew up most of my life in Israel and Europe (France). All I can say is honestly Americans don't even know how good they have it. France is doing so bad I don't even know where to start. They barely have any innovation and whatever they have comes from companies that have been in power for decades. France made it so easy to get welfare and taxes so high (40-50%) that it's better to collect welfare then actually do any work (I have friends there in their 20s actually doing this). What I love about Capitalism is NEW wealth and power is created every 10 years. Where was Facebook, Google, Salesforce and Twitter 10 years ago? (this is a short list there are many smaller multi million dollars companies created in the past 10 years in the US). I know you see this as something normal or not such a big deal, but in other countries this never happens, the same companies stay in power. What I am trying to say is that Capitalism WORKS very well, the wealth in America changes hands very rapidly and there are endless opportunities to create more wealth. Did you ever think of the impact that Facebook/twitter/reddit had on the world? Helping the Arab spring, flowing information freely etc.
I am sure you will find holes in what I said, all I can say is that I am a huge fan of what this country represents (capitalism) and if you stray away from this system that has made the US what it is trust me we will fall hard.
What I think is happening in the US is a bunch of lazy people who want something for nothing are rising up. They hate the 1% (which created a lot of jobs and innovation) for no good reason.
I hope Capitalism gets more "sexy" and gets great new representatives who defend it not retards like Paul Ryan and Romney. I think it will make everything a lot better :)
I am not making any money from your data. We make money from the enterprise and it will stay that way, we don't charge consumers and wont charge in the future.
Hey Martin,
We are planning to stay alive for 100 years this is a very long term play. We are planning to kill the OS by letting users execute any file type in the cloud: PSDs, AI, you name it, open, edit, save and publish. The way we will make money is from enterprise (which we got already some clients) and from apps that will be built on top of Thirsty. We don't believe that people should be charged for backup because it complicates things: data plans, pricing, data transfers etc all this is just confusing to most users. We make it simple it's free that's it. This is our first day launching we will be adding some awesome features in the upcoming weeks. Thank you for the feedback.
You can see it in the footer, sorry we just launched today and we are only 2 engineers trying our best to fix everything asap.
Tell me if you see it in the footer.
Btw it is free back up for life and its safe, so your files are there no worries, tell me if you would like anything else to improve your exp you can email me at michael@thirsty.com if you need any help with something.
We just launched today, technically you can we are soon releasing an update that will let you upload any size file. for now the limit is 5GBs. Do you have smaller files you can upload would love for you to test it and give us feedback.
Hey sorry about that you can check out more about the product here: http://thirsty.com/why_us email me at: michaelabehsera@gmail.com if you have any questions would love to help :)