Or worse block a big pile of the internet as they do in UK, you know to protect the children (you wouldn't want them pirating Myley Cirus...)

It's ok, its not a long way to China from there

Try filecloud.io they are an Irish company with servers in Amsterdam

free accounts come with up to 1000GB free storage (reduced redundancy sort of like amazon) and more if you pay 6.99$ / month (29.99/6 months) that comes with raided storage

you can encrypt files yourself before uploading whichever method you want

they have previously went to courts and got advice from Irish Data Protection commissioner that if any 3rd party wants your data they have to get an Irish court order.

They close accounts without providing reasons nor being able to get in contact with a human

this is not "news for nerds" this is a "this marketing message has been brought to you by the Paypal PR department"

The main purpose wont be filtering, the main purpose would be giant data collection filters for the Chinese

Except your windmills and solar panels need all sorts of exotic arare earth materials which cause huge amounts of environmental damage when mining and processing in places such as China, out of sight out of mind eh?

http://filecloud.io/ cloud storage site (with more features + cheaper than Mega btw) has been accepting bitcoins for a long time, and being an Irish company has to follow Irish+EU dataprotection laws

The Death Star

Oh god no! In ireland all we have are fucking roundabouts, and are now being replaced by traffic junctions and traffic flows much better at rush hour

Except one can not buy bitcoins with a credit card or paypal,
1. because these companies hate bitcoin and what it represents for them
2. because of a high chargeback risk no one who doesnt trust you would sell you bitcoins for paypal

I am fucking sick of a bunch of hippies speaking for me and the rest of the 99%

Especially a bunch of hippies with a full belly and iphones who are better of than the 99% of humanity

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Estimated time of arrival, Mr. Data?

You are correct, the spokesman on the radio (here in Ireland) was blabbing on about them putting pressure on the government now via lobbying.
government who in all honesty have better things to be worrying about such as getting the country of out the deepening depression we are still in (and one that they helped get us into!)

aint the ISS in low earth orbit while all the solar wind is way out outside the protective belts?

how do you get power to a station in a different orbit as well...

theres quite a difference between 4KM (title) and 4000KM (article summary)

Or are slashdot admins smoking da weed again?