Has anyone else noticed the new push by charities to even out contributions by pushing monthly donation deductions -- and the parallel development of cloud drive technology?

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answer:I’m not sure I get the connection between these phenomenon, but what the charities are doing does make sense in terms of evening put cash flow. As for cloud storage, I’m inherently distrusting the whole concept. All it takes is one disastrous outage (for whatever reason no matter how valid) on the part of the hosting company and all that wprk goes down the drain. It has happened before and will likely happen again. When I upgrade my iPhone it will come with free icloud and I’ll probably use it as a backup for convenience. But the version that’s in the cloud certainly won’t be my only, that’s for sure. And the second they want to start slapping a charge on it, I’ll have no problem kissing it goodbye.

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