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hmmm...gully must be a Longhorn. lol
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I ask because there are so many Texans chiming in. Reminds me of a little story. I've always been a bit of class clown/smart arse sort of fellow. When I was about 21 I got a job with a pretty good size company and there was quite a few of us in orientation. You know how they always want you to stand and tell everyone your name and a little about yourself. Well this cute little ol' gal stood up gave her name and said she was from somewhere Ohio. I piped in, "What Part of Texas is that in, Sweetie." Her ol' eyes flashed in my direction and gave me a go to heel look and said something under her breath. That attempt at breaking the ice was a strike out.
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Now if you're in that 1% where ponds and fish, (or covered wagons), are paying the bills and putting food on the table, then that's where the share the blame thing I spoke of earlier comes into play. If it's really about your livelihood, then step up and take control of the thing....don't rely on a third party like photobucket. And it sounds like that's what's happening with a few members, who are putting photos on their own websites, trying to reduce their dependence upon third parties. Nice.
Tony, I agree 110%. I'm in the 1%, and I'm not going to rely on a 3rd party to host pictures. I found a way to put them on my website, but not leave them all visible to the public, so if anyone downloads the web page say with their phone, it won't eat up a lot of their data like it would if I made them public (I think). Still working on it albet slowly because there's still pond stuff to do even though it's HOT out. OTOH, I really think Photobucket should say "O.K., we screwed up, from now on all 3rd party hosted pictures will cost "X" per year as a subscriber but all the pictures that were there before will be grandfathered in and those pictures will remain as it was." I see the internet as a huge library, and that's where many people go to learn. I see a lot of the photos as parts of the text book so to speak, not just put up there frivolously.
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I see the internet as a huge library, and that's where many people go to learn. I see a lot of the photos as parts of the text book so to speak, not just put up there frivolously. Well said. I would not be able to do 3/4 of what I am able to without it. I love to learn and read but the net has made things SOO much more accessible. Its hard to swallow buying a 600 dollar caterpillar service manual for one of the several engines or machines you are working on. The net has made it possible to "afford" to learn and be able to fix things.
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Esshup, If the photos are important to your line of work, consider watermarking them. It deters people from ripping them off for their own commercial use. I know Condello recently had some of his fish photos ripped off for some tackle company's advertisement. Now if you're in that 1% where ponds and fish, (or covered wagons), are paying the bills and putting food on the table, then that's where the share the blame thing I spoke of earlier comes into play. If it's really about your livelihood, then step up and take control of the thing....don't rely on a third party like photobucket. And it sounds like that's what's happening with a few members, who are putting photos on their own websites, trying to reduce their dependence upon third parties. Nice.
Tony, I agree 110%. I'm in the 1%, and I'm not going to rely on a 3rd party to host pictures. I found a way to put them on my website, but not leave them all visible to the public, so if anyone downloads the web page say with their phone, it won't eat up a lot of their data like it would if I made them public (I think). Still working on it albet slowly because there's still pond stuff to do even though it's HOT out. OTOH, I really think Photobucket should say "O.K., we screwed up, from now on all 3rd party hosted pictures will cost "X" per year as a subscriber but all the pictures that were there before will be grandfathered in and those pictures will remain as it was." I see the internet as a huge library, and that's where many people go to learn. I see a lot of the photos as parts of the text book so to speak, not just put up there frivolously.
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