U.N.O disclosure of an interview with an Alien Being

We need to revive our old industry now that foreign liqueurs are banned!

 

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U.N.O disclosure of an interview with an Alien Being

 

What happens next?

 

Multi Purpose Multi Liner

I am fed up of quotations or one liners.

But I start with a one liner to be interspersed between Trump's Twitters.

Quotations or Twitter one liners are good for repetition or reputation of the quoter but worth nothing in between!

Now my Multi Liners come after the closure of a U.N.O disclosure of an interview with an alien being at the Water's Edge in Colombo.

This should not be taken as a hypothetical case but a real encounter.

1. One who goes and search the archives is none other than our Pope.

2. One who takes the Koran and makes a new entry with a back dated entry is a Muslim.

3. One who ask for redeem of a Merit (Kusal) Re-Commission is a Buddhist.

4. One who goes for a pee (poo is excluded by the request of the alien guy who smells like, what not?) is an Indian M.P.

5. One who takes a plaster cast (for reverse engineering) of the Teleporting Machine is a Chinese.

6. One who taps the wire or the computer system is a friend of Putin.

7. One who sends a ballistic missile for testing is a North Korean scientist.

8. One who orders an  anti-ballistic missile from America is a South Koren.

9. One who asks the closing question after the disclosure is over is an American Journalist (he is still skeptic that aliens are real) from CNN.

He asks are you really an Alien from the Alien/s?

 

FOX News wait till TRUMP has his first twitter feed to enlarge upon!

10. One who orders to look up instead of look down is P.M. Abe of Japan (No Japanese has ever seen an alien due to the polite head bending attitude to foreigners and foreign affairs.

11. One who digs his own grave is an old communist from Ceylon.

12. One who asks for a pint-ah (Pilsner, Lager, Stout, McCallum's Three Coins ) is our Finance Minister after the budget speech.

13. One who test a Nuclear Missile is an Iranian.

14. One who blames America for financial melt down is a Saudi Foreign Minister.

 

This list can go and anybody can edit or reinvent it but the catch 22 or the catch phrase is;

33. One who asks for a long term loan to settle old loans of an adversary is none other than our own P.M.

Old Breweries in Ceylon (now defunct after J.R.J),

 

The largest of Sri Lanka's brewers is the Lion Brewery, which is also the oldest brewery in the country. It produces over 80% of Sri Lanka's beers. In 1988 it constructed a new brewery at Biyagama to replace the century-old facility at Nuwara Eliya. In 1993 the brewery became a subsidiary of Carson Cumberbatch & Co Ltd, and in 1996 the Carlsberg Group acquired a 25% share of the company. The brewery's portfolio includes lagers, strong beers and stouts, notably Lion, Lion Strong and Lion Stout. The company also brews Carlsberg and Guinness under license. The brewery exports its beers to the U.S., Europe, Japan, Australia and the Maldives.

The largest of Sri Lanka's brewers is the Lion Brewery, which is also the oldest brewery in the country. It produces over 80% of Sri Lanka's beers. In 1988 it constructed a new brewery at Biyagama to replace the century-old facility at Nuwara Eliya. In 1993 the brewery became a subsidiary of Carson Cumberbatch & Co Ltd, and in 1996 the Carlsberg Group acquired a 25% share of the company. The brewery's portfolio includes lagers, strong beers and stouts, notably Lion, Lion Strong and Lion Stout. The company also brews Carlsberg and Guinness under license. The brewery exports its beers to the U.S., Europe, Japan, Australia and the Maldives.

Sri Lanka's second largest brewer is Asia Pacific Brewery Lanka Limited, which acquired local brewer, United Brewery, in 2005. Asia Pacific Breweries is a Singaporean-based joint venture between Heineken International and Fraser and Neave. It has a brewery in Mawathagama where it produces a range of King beers, including Bison XXtra, Kings Lager, Kings Pilsner and Kings Stout.



The country's third and smallest brewer is the McCallum Brewery, which was established in 1963 in Meegoda. In 2011 the brewery was acquired by Cargills Ceylon PLC. It produces a number of lagers, ales and stouts, notably Three Coins and Sando Stout.

Cholesterol, The Truth

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Cholesterol, The Truth
If You had been cheated by American Drug companies, please read the real Biochemistry!
Your body makes saturated fats, and your body makes Cholesterol – about 2000 mg per day. In general, cholesterol
that the average American absorbs from food amounts to
about 100 mg per day. 
So, in theory, even reducing animal
foods to zero will result in a mere 5% decrease in the total
amount of cholesterol available to the blood and tissues. 
In practice, such a diet is likely to deprive the body of the
substrates it needs to manufacture enough of this vital
substance; for cholesterol, like saturated fats, stands unfairly
accused.
It acts as a precursor to vital corticosteroids, hormones that
help us deal with stress and protect the body against heart
disease and cancer; and to the sex hormones like androgen,
testosterone, estrogen and progesterone; it is a precursor to
vitamin D, a vital fat-soluble vitamin needed for healthy bones
and nervous system, proper growth, mineral metabolism,
muscle tone, insulin production, reproduction and immune
system function; it is the precursor to bile salts, which are vital
for digestion and assimilation of fats in the diet. 
Recent research shows that cholesterol acts as an antioxidant. This
is the likely explanation for the fact that cholesterol levels go
up with age. 
As an antioxidant, cholesterol protects us against
free radical damage that leads to heart disease and cancer.
Cholesterol is the body's repair substance, manufactured in
large amounts when the arteries are irritated or weak. 
Blaming
heart disease on high serum cholesterol levels is like blaming
firemen who have come to put out a fire for starting the blaze.
Cholesterol is needed for proper function of serotonin receptors
in the brain.
Serotonin is the body's natural "feel-good"
chemical. This explains why low cholesterol levels have been
linked to aggressive and violent behavior, depression and
suicidal tendencies.
Mother's milk is especially rich in cholesterol and contains a
special enzyme that helps the baby
utilize this nutrient. 
Babies and children need cholesterol-rich
foods throughout their growing years to ensure proper
development of the brain and nervous system.
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Ten or More Things Apple Mac won’t tell its customers

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Ten or More Things Apple Mac won’t tell its customers.

Ten or More Things Apple Mac won’t tell its customers.

 

1. It is a Unix derivative i.e. BSD (Berkeley Systems Distribution) which form the basis for both Mac OS X and the iOS that powers the iPhone.

 

2. It was hooked to a O.E.M platform (Power PC) till recently.

 

3. BSD is what Darwin is based on.

 

4. Darwin is Apple’s Open Source Unix operating system foundation.

Somebody should revive this, now that Steve Job is no more.

 

The Darwin kernel is equivalent to the Mac OS X kernel plus the BSD libraries and commands essential to the BSD Commands environment.

 

5  It uses Open Source OpenGL – Standard 3D graphics library

 

6. jEdit  4.3

 

7. Perl  5.10  Accessible through Terminal under Utilities

 

8. Python  2.6.1  Accessible through Terminal under Utilities

 

9. Python  3.3  Accessible through Terminal under Utilities

 

10. Ruby  1.8.7  Accessible through Terminal under Utilities

 

Items 6 to 10  are programming languages (now mostly platform independent) which made the backbone of  Linux.

 

11. Audacity   is a Linux derivative

 

12. Thunderbird is a Linux derivative

 

13. VLC    Media Player is a Linux derivative

 

14. Geogebra             is a Linux derivative

 

15.TeX

 

No operating system is Pure and I have  used OpenOffice or Libre Office since they originated from Sun Solaris system and later became Open Source.

 

One does not need Microsoft Word.

AbiWord is my pet writing Utility!

Truth Embargo

Truth Embargo

About Moon Landing

It is very difficult to fathom that the mankind can penetrate Van Allen Belt without a shield, which they did in 1960s!

One has to penetrate the Truth Protecting Layers of secrecy  of NASA program

Why they could not repeat the feat for another 25 years of advancement is a big unanswered question.

Neil Armstrong

 

Bart Sibrel

Published on Apr 14, 2013

Please, see the film, "Something happened on the way to the moon".

“All Truth passes through three stages. 

First, it is ridiculed;

Then it is violently opposed;

Finally it is accepted as self-evident.”

Arthur Schopenhauer-

“In an age of universal deceit, telling the Truth is a revolutionary act.” 

“Whoever controls the past, controls the future.”

George Orwell-

“

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: 

If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. 

We’re no longer interested in finding out the Truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. 

Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

Carl Sagan-

“It is easier to fool people, than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

Mark Twain-

Truth Hunters and New Year Message

Jan 16, 2020

Truth Hunters and New Year Message

I was off the web for quite a long time, simply because all the web browsers except few developed by Linux community are snooping on you even when you are dead.

I thought they were doing that when you fall asleep in front of your TV or Computer.

They save all the information surreptitiously obtained in a server farm for futuristic use and very soon the Artificial Intelligence will take hold of them and send you a drone laid with explosive material.

I think this happened in Iran and the end result was downing of a civilian plane.

This will be a huge impact on Amazon deliveries.

Now I fear boarding a plane managed by autopilot badly configured by Boeing.

I do not think even the Linux community can develop fail safe utilities.

They use Linux in space station to save money for NASA and the civilian airlines are slow to embrace Linux.

Near at home I went for Pizza treat (Thaipongol Holiday) and the guy at the counter could not place an order for nearly half an hour.

He had a problem with his computer and he was engrossed with troubleshooting the Microsoft utility in his terminal, ignoring the customers.

The manager came in but he was not of any help to manage the password crisis.

I politely told the guy hang the computer but go to the kitchen and get my order, instead (he abruptly obliged, surely won’t happen in a government institution, like water board, electricity board or Telecoms).

Once I got the order in my hand I told the manger, it is high time you use SAMBA bind (back end) for the network and use Microsoft as front end (user).

Incidentally, our land phone was out (I take it as a blessing and no annoying gossip calls) for three days.

Thankfully Dialog line was on and I did not miss the CNN and BBC.

Mind you I do not watch any of the local TVs polluted with political messages, in between programs.

Now to Truth Hunters.

1. Microsoft is on top of my list as Big Liars, stating that its software are robust. They never will be and that is why they are using Linux in their Clouds.

2. Facebook is the next American Liar that they do not share Private Information with the government. Now they have a scapegoat- security reasons for divulging information but they cannot prevent terrorist attacks.

I believe now terrorists use hand to hand information not cellphones until such time human beings become honest with themselves and to their fellow beings.

3. Twitter is the third in the line of liars and President Trump and Nancy Pellosi are on top of it.

4. To me the biggest liars are the religious priests (from Vatican to Khomeini in Iran) including Buddhist Political guys in Ceylon and Myanmar.

All religions promise something on next life and for me this life with a quick Pizza is all I need!

5. I have not found a politician who does not lie from Tony Blair (Iraq War) to Marayas of Ceylon.

There are no Devas (Angels) to protect us from airborne drones!

I think we must build bunkers or underground swellings.

That is my new year message.

Amnesia "Webbo Amnesia"

This piece is pretty old.

There are many more applications available in new Linux distributions!

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Amnesia "Webbo Amnesia"

Please note that this was posted with Incognito Live CD with Vidalia activated!
 
Within 24 hours of posting this my Firefox has deleted all recently accessed sites. 
Thank you Firefox.

You were open source based and you do not have to feed your information to business vultures.
Please make the browser cookie free if one prefers that. I am one of them.
I love this term for a Linux distribution.
It is called Amnesia Live System.

It is a medical term.

We have two terms anterograde and posterograde Amenesia or post traumatic Amnesia and this is "webbo amnesia" that is developing and evolving.

It uses Tor-to Ram utility where the web browser is clean as a slate.
It has no cookies.
It has no search term records.
Access log deleted on shutdown.

Hassle free Browser Iceweasel (which also blocks access denied message) in situ.

If you need a fast browser, this is what you should go for.

All the other browsers have cookies which remember you and your password and on the day you are hacked you are fully naked on the world wide web.

Yes, stark naked, like "Indian bolly" after the world cup win.

If you have personality to protect not a shady one of course this is the one (distributions) for you.

Browse the web in anonymity, yes it can be done with Linux.

It has nothing on the mostly visited column.
It has web mail and tor and no logs of where you have visited.
It boots and connects immediately with the Internet with a green onion on display.

I like this onion saga too.

It has Vidalia Control Panel from which you can view the entire network connected to you with the name of site and IP address.

One name is I-dis-agree (USA), another is trusted (Austria) and lemondrop from Russia.

You can see who is eavesdropping on your computer but they do not know who you are?

You can zoom it up to his door step if your computer has good graphic card.
Similar to Google Earth but with the IP address of the offender.

If the intruder is nasty, you may type some four letter words and exit with a thank you.

This is Debian and with powerful Gnome and Iceweasel.
It has Globby Collaborative editor, open office, Inkscpae, Scribus and a scanner.

Home has bug reports and tail's documentation and nothing else.

This live CD is amazingly good and I wish they add a message that says "catch my tail if you can"-reminding me of that famous film "catch me if you can"

Well done Guys and Girls!

With this utility sends chills down the spines of power hungry politicians.

Beware, you are scrutinized by the seconds, but you cannot catch the voter who is posting this message.

Mobile Mania Fancy and SwiftKey Typewriter Application

Mobile Mania Fancy and SwiftKey Typewriter Application
I have gone into Mobile Mania Fancy with few of my cellphones.
It was irritating for me to speak to the Nokia phone to download few games. Finally I succeeded with shouting Garfield. 
Mind you my English pronunciation is pretty good and clear, if not excellent.
It only got word download right.
It could not understand a sentence with please at the end!
I found a way round with one night of trying on the new year's eve, and I managed to download SwiftKey Typewriter for Android and cancel the voice setting.
It is pretty good and let you use the voice commands by clicking the phone icon.
Of course I downloaded few more Typewriter applications including Ginger and Grammaerly but with minimum clutter and themes to download SwiftKey is good enough for me.
Thank YOU very much the SwiftKey Typewriter developer TEAM.

Constipated Opposition Politics in Ceylon

Constipated Opposition Politics in Ceylon

I should write something political today.

Having had an extended sleep, I woke up fresh with new ideas, for the opposition parties (U.N.F), so that they can to pull up socks and have a coherent opposition strategy to save democratic norms.

We are heading the path of Myanmar and Un Suu Kyi’s defense of army is not an acceptable norm in politics.

One should not mix religion with politics which is happening daily in this land of many religions.

Politics should be divorced from all forms of religions,

Especially because monks / (priests in other religions) are forgetting Buddha’s teaching (other teachings) and acting in divisive politics including having four or five sectors of Sasana based on caste system (there is no caste system in Buddha’s teaching, it is borrowed from our Tamil Kings of yo).

I have no qualm for monks taking a political stand but once they take that stance they should drop the saffron garb.

It should be a knee jerk reaction of wisdom. 

They should not do both and lead to conflict of interest in legal terms.

Opposition

Regard to the opposition they should form an organization like Unite Nations Organization and unify minorities.

If we do not protect the minority rights to have a political voice, we are going back to the past of trauma and human right violations.

Taking Buddhist monks into the fore of this organization (U.N.O) is a political liability.

It should be named as United National Organization.

United National Party should be a party within that Organization.

The name front (U.N.Front) is inappropriate since we do not see the back end (in other words, the motives or vision) of that front.

Coming to power is not the only motive.

Organized opposition is mandatory and J.V.P is practically dead if they do not join this Organization upfront.

In opposition parties disintegrate, not if they are organized.

We must prevent a monk becoming a President one day.

That is their political motive and NOT to spread the word of Dhamma and Wisdom.

Constipated Post of Presidency and Constitutional Conundrum

I was following the “Attempt to Impeach President Trump” who was elected electorally (not by the number of popular vote casted- but by the bizarre system of electoral colleagues of USA).

Having listened to the democrats, I was emotionally constipated and switched off CNN telecast.

To begin with President Trump was an astute businessman, fabulously rich (he does not need any remuneration from US Government for his survival except the status of pomposity extended to any individual with empirical narcissist ideology) with powerful twitter control of his emotions.

I do not mean he is narcissist but upfront capitalist with some good ideas (NATO sharing responsibility-swipe at France and German leaderships and withdrawing troops from Afghanistan) and some bad ideas (meddling with Iran and Middle East and one state solution for Palestine).

One of his twitters can stymie a month of deliberation in the house controlled by majority democrats.

It is pretty obvious it is not a constitutional issue but a constitutional (political) conspiracy to oust an opponent, bringing a constitutional conundrum albeit veracity.

It is a foregone conclusion that attempt to impeach will be rejected with full force of the Senate.

Spending so much money and time with Christmas bells chiming is an absolute waste of human resources.

It is time that American public realizes this precocious and precarious entanglement and take control of the public funds and divert them for better outcome like education and health care.

We also have a similar post here and ever since it was instituted and fully established we became poorer and poorer and our national debt extend up to 100 (steps of 40, 60, 100) years, now.

Every sworn in President promised to abolish it but did sweet nothing for over 38 years!

I have a saying that if we “Abolish The Post of Presidency” (real white elephant) for 10 years, we can improve the transport system including introducing a few domestic air lines, for people in the North, instead of giving India our air space to drop Mysore dhal (Parippu) in a crisis.

Constipated Post of Presidency and Constitutional Conundrum

Constipated Post of Presidency and Constitutional Conundrum

I was following the “Attempt to Impeach President Trump” who was elected electorally (not by the number of popular vote casted- but by the bizarre system of electoral colleagues of USA).

Having listened to the democrats, I was emotionally constipated and switched off CNN telecast.

To begin with President Trump was an astute businessman, fabulously rich (he does not need any remuneration from US Government for his survival except the status of pomposity extended to any individual with empirical narcissist ideology) with powerful twitter control of his emotions.

I do not mean he is narcissist but upfront capitalist with some good ideas (NATO sharing responsibility-swipe at France and German leaderships and withdrawing troops from Afghanistan) and some bad ideas (meddling with Iran and Middle East and one state solution for Palestine).

One of his twitters can stymie a month of deliberation in the house controlled by majority democrats.

It is pretty obvious it is not a constitutional issue but a constitutional (political) conspiracy to oust an opponent, bringing a constitutional conundrum albeit veracity.

It is a foregone conclusion that attempt to impeach will be rejected with full force of the Senate.

Spending so much money and time with Christmas bells chiming is an absolute waste of human resources.

It is time that American public realizes this precocious and precarious entanglement and take control of the public funds and divert them for better outcome like education and health care.

We also have a similar post here and ever since it was instituted and fully established we became poorer and poorer and our national debt extend up to 100 (steps of 40, 60, 100) years, now.

Every sworn in President promised to abolish it but did sweet nothing for over 38 years!

I have a saying that if we “Abolish The Post of Presidency” (real white elephant) for 10 years, we can improve the transport system including introducing a few domestic air lines, for people in the North, instead of giving India our air space to drop Mysore dhal (Parippu) in a crisis.

Politically Motivated Man Made (M.M.M) Environmental Destruction

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Politically Motivated Man Made (M.M.M) Environmental Destruction

කිතුල්ගල ජනතාවට කරන්ට් වදීද?

නිමල් අබේසිංහ

කිතුල්ගල ජනතාව සිටිනුයේ අති දැවැන්ත පරිසර විනාශයක් සමග දැඩි මහජන පීඩාවක් සිදුවිය හැකි අනතුරක මුව විටෙහිය. ඒ කැළණි ගග හරහා බැම්මක් ඉදිකර පෞද්ගලික ජලවිදුලි බලාගාරයක් ඉදිකිරීමේ සැළසුමක් ක‍්‍රියාත්මක වන බැවිනි. කිතුල්ගල හයිඩ්‍රො ෆවර් නමැති සමාගමක් මෙම කාර්යයේ නිරතවෙන අතර එය ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ සුප‍්‍රසිද්ධ ව්‍යාපාරිකයකු වන ධම්මික පෙරේරාගේ ව්‍යාපාර සමුහයට අයත් එකක් බව කිතුල්ගල ජනතාවගේ අදහසය.

ධම්මික පෙරේරා යැයි කිවූ සැණින් අප සිහියට නැගෙනුයේ එංගලන්තයේ සායනික අපද්‍රව්‍ය සහිත කුණු කන්ටේනර් ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට අපනයනය කර ඇති හේලිස් ෆ‍්‍රීසෝන් නමැති සමාගමය. එවැන්නෙකුට පරිසරය ආරක්ෂා කිරීම හෝ මහජන පීඩාවක් සිදුවීම යන්න කිසිදු වැදගම්මකට නැති කාරණාවක් බව නිසැකය.

කිතුල්ගල උපාලි සේනානායක වන සංරක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ හිටපු නිලධාරියෙකි. ඉදිකිරීමට යෝජිත විදුලිබලාගාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඔහු දක්වන අදහස් මෙලෙසය.

උපාලි

විදුලිබලාගාරයක් ඉදිකරන්න සුදානම් වූයේ දෙදහස් දහය වසරේදි විතර. බැම්ම ඉදිකිරීමට නියමිත ස්ථානයේ ගල්වෙඩි පවා දැම්මා. මිනිස්සු විරුද්ධ වෙලා ඒක නැවැත්තුවා. 2012 දී මේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය නතර කළා. ඒක කළේ කෑගල්ල දිස්ත‍්‍රික් සංවර්ධන කමිටුව. දැන් ආයෙත් වැඩ ආරම්භ කිරීමේ සුදානමක් තිබෙනව. මිනිස්සු දැන් කලබල වෙලා සිටින්නෙ. ප‍්‍රධාන ගංගාවක් හරහා බැම්මක් ඉදිකර පෞද්ගලික විදුලිබලාගාරයක් ඉදිකරන ප‍්‍රථම අවස්ථාව තමයි මේක. උපාලි දක්වන තොරතුරු අනුව බැම්ම ඉදිකිරීමට නියමිත ප‍්‍රදේශය නාය යෑමට බදුන් වූ ප‍්‍රදේශයකි. කොළඹ හැටන් මාර්ගයේ 34 වැනි කිලෝමීටර් කණුවේ සිට 36 වැනි කිලෝමීටර් කනුව දක්වා ප‍්‍රදේශය නාය යෑමේ අනතුරට ලක්වෙන ප‍්‍රදේශයකි. මාර්ගය අසල ඒ බැව් දැක්වෙන පුවරුද සවි කර තිබීමෙන් එය සනාථ වේ. බැම්ම ඉදිකිරීමට නියමිත ස්ථානය හදුන්වනුයේ මඩ මෝදර යනුවෙනි. එසේ හදුන්වන්නේ මෙම ස්ථානය මඩ බහුල ප‍්‍රදේශයක් බැවිනි. එම මඩ ගලා එන්නේ හැටන් පාර අසල භූමියෙනි. අවස්ථා දෙකකදීම මේ ස්ථානය අසල මහා මාර්ගය ගිලාබැස ඇති අතර මගී බස්රථ පවා එම ස්ථනයෙන් ධාවනය කර ඇත්තේ මගීන් ඉවත් කරය. මෙම ස්ථානයේ වෙළෙද සැලක් පවත්වාගෙන යන කිතුල්ගල වෙළෙද බල මණ්ඩලයේ සභාපති නන්දිත කරුණාරත්න කියන්නේ නාය යෑමේ උවදුරට ලක් වූ විට තමන් ඇතුළුව එම ප‍්‍රදේශයේ ප‍්‍රජාව එම ප‍්‍රදේශයෙන් ඉවත් කර කිතුල්ගල විහාරස්ථානයේ රදවා සිටි බවය.

නාය යන ප‍්‍රදේශයක්

නන්දිතගේ කඩය අසල කදු බෑවුම නාය යෑමේ උවදුරට ලක්වීම හේතුවෙන් එය වළක්වා ගැනීම සදහා යෙදු උපක‍්‍රම තවමත් පෙනෙන්නට තිබේ. කදු බැවුම දිගේ ජලය ගලාගෙන ඒමට සැකසු විශාල කොන්ක‍්‍රීට් කාණු කීපයක් බෑවුමේ සිට කැළණි ගග දක්වාම ඉදිකර ඇත. එකී කොන්ක‍්‍රීට් කාණුවට තැනින් තැනදී පොළොවට සම්බන්ධකර ඇති කුඩා නලවලින් ජලය ගලාගෙන එනු දැනුදු දැකිය හැකිය.

නන්දික

මේ ප‍්‍රදේශයට කියන්නේ මඩ මෝදර කියලයි. ඒ නමින්ම පේනවනේ මෙතන කොහොම තැනක්ද කියලා. පරණ මිනිස්සු මෙතනට ඒ නම දාලා තියෙන්නේ මෙතන තිබෙන විශේෂත්වය නිසානෙ. තදින් වැහැපු අවස්ථා දෙකකදි මෙතන පාර පුපුරලා අඩි දෙකක් විතර ගිලා බැස්සා. මේවට අනුමැතිය දෙන්න පරික්ෂා කරන්න එන මහත්තුරු මේව ගැන හොයන්නෙ නැතිවනේ අවසර දීලා තියෙන්නෙම. එක පැත්තකින් නාය යනව කියලා බෝඞ් ගහනව. අනෙක් පැත්තෙන් ඒ අයම මෙතන ජලාශ ඉදිකරන්න අවසරත් දෙනවා.

මෙම ඉදිකිරීමට විරුද්ධව උපාලි සේනානායක ඇතුළු කිතුල්ගල පිරිස විසින් බලධාරීන් වෙත දන්වා යැවු ලිපිවල සදහන් තොරතුරු අනුව සිදුවෙන හානි බරපතළ ඒවා වේ. මෙම වේල්ල ඉදිකිරීමට යෝජිත ප‍්‍රදේශයේ ගගට මායිම් වූ එක පැත්තකින් ඇත්තේ ලෝක ප‍්‍රකට මාකන්දාව වැසි වන්නාන්තරයයි. එය ලෝක ප‍්‍රකට වනුයේ ලොව කිසිදු ස්ථානයකින් සොයාගෙන නැති, එමෙන්ම ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේද වෙනත් කිසිදු වනාන්තරයක නැති සුවිශේෂී ශාඛ වර්ගයක නිජබිම මෙම වනාන්තරය වීමය. ‘‘ බැලනොකාපුස් කිතුුල්ගලනීස්’’ නමින් හදුන්වන මෙකී ශාඛය සොයාගන්නා ලද්දේ ඒ. ජේ. ජී. එච්. කොස්ටර්මන්ස් නමැති උද්භිද විiාඥයා විසිනි. එවන් දුලබ සුවිශේෂි ශාඛය විනාශවීමේ අනතුරක් තිබෙන බව හදුනාගන ඇත්තේ මෙම ව්‍යාපෘතිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් පරිසර අධ්‍යයනයක යෙදුන ආචාර්ය සුරන්ජන් ප‍්‍රනාන්දුය. එයට අමතරව වේල්ල ඉදිකරන ගංගා ප‍්‍රදේශයේ ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ ව`දවෙමින් පවතින මත්ස්‍ය විශේෂයන්ද සිටී. අශෝක පෙතියා ඉන් සුවිශේෂය. 

ගංවතුර උවදුර

වේල්ල ඉදිකිරිම නිසා ඇතිවන ජලාශයේ ජල ගිල්ම මීටර් 600ක පමණ දුරට ගග ඉහළම අල්ලා සිටිතැයි ගණන් බලා තිබේ. මේ හේතුවෙන් මාකන්දාව වනාන්තරයට මෙන්ම ගෙග අනෙක් දෑලේ වෙසෙන නිවාස කීපයක පිරිස්වලට ඝෘජු බලපෑමක් ද ඇතිවෙන බව කියවේ. එලෙස ගගට යාව පවතින වගුරුබිමක් සහිත කුඹුරු යායද ජලයට යටවීම වලක්වා ගත නොහැකි වේ. කිතුල්ගල වෙළෙද බල මණ්ඩලයේ සභාපති නන්දිත කරුණාරත්න පවසන්නේ කිතුල්ගල නගරය ආශ‍්‍රිත කිසිදු වෙළෙද සැලකට ගංවතුරෙන් වන හානි නිසා සංරක්ෂණය කිරීම රක්ෂණ සමාගම් භාර නොගන්නා බවය. එයට හේතුව කිතුල්ගල නගරය දැඩි වර්ෂා කාලවලදී ගංවතුර උවදුරට බදුන්වීම නොවේද?

කිතුල්ගල නගරය ගංවතුරට යටවීම පිළිබද තොරතුරු සැපයූවන් අතර පරිසර ක‍්‍රියාකාරිකයෙකු වන සෑම් ජයනන්ද ඉදිරියෙන් සිටී. කැළණි ගගට කිතුල්ගල දී ඔයවල් දෙකක් ගලාබසිනව. එකක් ගිරන්කිත්ත ඔය. මේකට මල්වතු ඔය කියලත් සමහරු කියනවා මේක කැළණි ගගට වැටෙන්නේ කිතුල්ගල නගරය මැදින් ගලාගෙන ගිහින්. අනෙක් එක තමයි මාකන්දාව. රක්ෂිතය මැදින් ගලාගෙන එන මාපනා ඔය. වැසිකාලයට කැළණි ගෙග් ජලය වැඩිවුනාම මේවායෙන් ගලා එන ජලය ගගට ගලායන්න විදියක් නැහැ. එතකොට වෙන්නේ විශේෂයෙන්ම ගිරන්කිත්ත ඔයේ ජලය හිරවෙලා කිතුල්ගල නගරය යටවීම. එවැනි අත්දැකීම් මේ ප‍්‍රදේශයේ හැමදෙනාටම තිබෙනවා. ඉතින් මෙතන බැම්මක් බැදල ජලාශයකුත් හැදුනහම ගංවතුර ප‍්‍රශ්නය තවත් වැඩිවෙනවා.

සෑම්

යටියන්තොට ප‍්‍රාදේශීය සභාවේ පොදුජන එක්සත් පෙරමුණේ මන්ත‍්‍රී විමල් අල්විස් පෙන්වා දුන්නේ ජලාශයේ සිට විදුලිබලාගරය දක්වා ජලය ගලා යෑමට ඉදිකෙරන කෘතිම ජල කාණුව ඉදිකිරීම නිසා සිදුවිය හැකි හානියයි.
‘‘ මේ ජලාශයේ ඉදල විදුලිබලාගාරය දක්වා වූ මීටර් හයසීයක් දිග කොන්ක‍්‍රිට් ඇල මාර්ගයක් හැදීමට නියමිතයි. ඇල මාර්ගය ඉදිකරන්නේ කොළඹ හැටන් මාර්ගය ආසන්නයෙන්මයි. ඇතැම් තැන්වල පාර අයිනෙන්මයි කැළණි ගග ගලන්නෙ. එවැනි තැන්වලදී ඇලමාර්ගය ඉදිකිරිමේදි එක්කෝ ගගට උඩින් තමයි ඉදිකරන්න වෙන්නෙ. නැත්නම් පාරට හානි වෙනව. යෝජිත ඇලමාර්ගය ගමන් කරන කොටසේ බහුලව විශාල් ගල් තිබෙනව. ඇල හදන්න මේවා කඩන්න ඕනේ. ඒකට වෙඩිදාන්න ඕනේ. මේ ප‍්‍රදේශය නාය යන ප‍්‍රදේශයක් විශාල වශයෙන් ගල්වෙඩි දානකොට මොකද වෙන්නේ කියලා හිතාගන්න පුළුවන්නේ. ඔහු පවසන්නේ වසරේ මාස අටක් පමණ කිතුල්ගල ප‍්‍රදේශයට වර්ෂාව ඇද හැලෙන බවය. ඒ නිසා නිතර දිය සීරාවක් පවතින ප‍්‍රදේශයක මෙවැනි ඉදිකිරීම් කිරීම කොහෙත්ම නුසුදුසු බවය. කැළණි ගගට රක්ෂිත නැත

කිතුල්ගල මිනි හයිඩ්‍රෝ ෆවර් ප‍්‍රයිවෙට් ලිමිටඞ් නමැති සමාගමෙන් මෙම විදුලිබලාගාරය ඉදිකරනු ලබන බව පැවසුවේ ඉංජිනේරු කළමනාකාර රන්නෙත් කරුණානායකය. ඔහුගේ ජංගම දුරකථන අංකයට අමතනු ලදුව ඔහු පවසා සිටියේ මෙම ඉදිකිරීමට අදාලව සියළු ආයතන වලින් නිසි අවසරය ලබාගෙන ඇති බවය. මෙහිදි රජයේ ආයතන විසින් ලබාදී ඇති අවසරය ගැන කුකුසක් ඇතිවේ. ඉන් එකක් වනුයේ ජාතික ගොඩනැගිලි පර්යේෂණ ආයතනයය. එම ආයතනය විසින්ම මෙම ප‍්‍රදේශයේ නාය යන බවට දැන්වීම් පුවරු පවා තබා තිබියදී මෙවැනි ඉදිකිරීමකට ඉඩ දුන්නේ කෙසේද යන්නය. එක අතකින් එය පුදුමයට කරුණක්ද නොවන්නේ මෙයට දින කීපයකට ඉහතදී වලපනේ ප‍්‍රදේශයේ නාය යෑමක් සිදුවුන ස්ථානයේද මහා පරිමාණයේ ගල් වලක් පවත්වාගෙන යාමට මෙම ආයතනය අවසර ලබාදී තිබිමය. එම ස්ථානයද නාය යෑමේ අවධානමට ලක්වෙන ප‍්‍රදේශයක් බවට ජාතික ගොඩනැගිලි පර්යේෂණ ආයතනය නම් කර තිබුණ බවද මාධ්‍යයේ පළ වී තිබුණේය. ඉදිකරන ජලාශයේ සිට බලාගාරය දක්වා ජලය ගෙනයන ජල මාර්ගය ඉදිකරනුයේ කැළණි ගග අසබඩින්ය. ඕනෑම ස්වාභාවික ජලමාර්ගයක් දෙපස ඇති භූමි ප‍්‍රමාණයෙන් නිශ්චිත කොටසක් රක්ෂිත ලෙස නම් කිරීමේ නීතියක් මෙරටේ පවතී. කැළණි ගග වැනි විශාල ගංගාවක එවැනි රක්ෂිතයක් තිබීම අනිවාර්ය නමුත් රන්නෙත් කරුණානායක පවසන විදියට නම් කැළණි ගෙග් රක්ෂිත ඉඩම් තිබී නැත. එයට හේතුව ගග අසබඩ ඉඩම් තම සමාගම විසින් මිලදීගෙන ඇති බව පැවසීමය. මේ වනවිටත් ගග අයිනේ ඇතැම් ඉඩම් කම්බි වැටවල් ඉදිකර වෙන්කරගෙන තිබේ. ඒවා පෞද්ගලික හිමිකරුවන්ගෙන් තම සමාගම මිලදීගත් ඒවා බව රන්නෙත් කරුණානායක අවධාරණය කළේය.

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මෙයද බරපතළ ප‍්‍රශ්නයක් වන්නේ රජයේ රක්ෂිත ඉඩම් වලට පෞද්ගලික හිමිකරුවන් ඔප්පු සාදා විකිණිම නිසාවෙනි. මේවා අනුමත කරන වාරිමාර්ග දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ, ප‍්‍රාදේශිය ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේ පරිසර අමාත්‍යාංශයේ නිළධාරීන් මේ ගැන සොයා නොබැලූවේද ? එසේ සොයා නොබැලීම ගැන අපට සිතන්නට ඇත්තේ සියළු දෙනා මුදලට යටවීම නිසාද ?
සගවන තොරතුරු විදුලි බලාගාර ව්‍යාපෘති කළමනාකාරවරයාගෙන් වැඩිදුරටත් විමසීමේදි සමාගම අධ්‍යක්ෂ මණ්ඩලයකින් පාලනය වන්නක් බව පැවසූමුත් අධ්‍යක්ෂවරුන් කව්ද ? ඔවුන්ගෙ නම් මොනවාද දුරකතන මොනවාද යන්න විමසුවිට එයට නිසි පිළිතුරු ලබා නොදුන්නේය. අවම වශයෙන් සමාගම් කාර්යාලයේ අංකයවත් ලබා නොදුන්නේය. මෙම සමාගමේ මව් සමාගම කුමක්දැයි විමසුවිට එයටද ඔහුගෙන් පිළිතුරක් නොවීය. ජලාශවේල්ල කොතරම් උසද යන ප‍්‍රශ්නයට ඔහු ලබාදුන්නේ අපූරු පිළිතුරකි. එනම් අදාල වේල්ල ඉදිකළවිට වේල්ලක් සමග මුහුදු මට්ටම මීටර් 48 ක් බවකි. වේල්ලෙ පාදම ඉදිකරන ස්ථානය මුහුදු මට්ටමේ සිට කොපමණ උසකින් පිහිටා ඇත්දැයි යනුවෙන් අසන ලද ප‍්‍රශ්නයට පිළිතුරු දීම ඔහු මග හැරියේ ඉතා සුක්ෂම අයුරින්ය. එලෙසම විදුලිබලාගාරයට ජලය ලබාගන්නා කෘතිම ඇලමාර්ගය (කොන්ක‍්‍රිට් කානුව) කොතරම් දිගද. එහි උස හා පළල ප‍්‍රමාණය පිළිිබදවත් ඔහුගෙන් නිශ්චිත පිළිතුරක් නැත. ඔහු වඩාත් අවධාරණය කළේ ව්‍යාපෘතියට සියළු ආයතනවලින් අවසර ලබාදී ඇති බවය.

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ කුඩා පරිමාණයේ පෞද්ගලික ජලවිදුලි බලාගාර ආශ‍්‍රීතව අප සතුව තිබෙන අත්දැකීම් අනුවනම් ඒවායේ ඉදිකිරීම් සිදුකරන විටදීත් ඉන් පසුවත් ඔවුන් කටයුතු කර ඇත්තේ ඔවුන්ම ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති ව්‍යාපෘති වාර්තාවට අනුව නොවේ. යටියන්තොට ප‍්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාශයේ බෙරන්නාව අමනාවල වී ඔය ආශ‍්‍රීතව ඉදිකළ එවන් විදුලිබලාගාරයක් ඉදිකිරීමේදි ගල්වෙඩි දැමීම හේතුවෙන් අවට නිවෙස්වල බිත්ති පුපුරා තිබු සිද්ධියක රාවය පුවත්පතේම පළවුයේ මීට වසර ගණනාවකට කලිනි.

කැළණි ගෙග් කිතුල්ගල ඉදිකිරීමට යන මෙම විදුලිබලාගාරය ඉදිකරනවාට ප‍්‍රදේශවාසින්ගෙන් මෙය ආරම්භ කළ 2012 වසරේ සිටම දැඩි විරෝධයක් එල්ල වී තිබේ. එනිසාම කෑගල්ල දිස්ත‍්‍රික් සංවර්ධන කමිටුවට මෙය නවතා දමන්නට නියෝග කිරීමට සිදුවිය. එකළ විරෝධතා දැක්වුවන් බිය කිරීමට කිතුල්ගල ගමේම අය පවසා ඇත්තේ සුදු වෑන් වලින් ඇවිත් ගෙනියන්න පුළුවන් යනුවෙන් යැයි සුප‍්‍රසිද්ධ කතාවක් ද කිතුල්ගල ප‍්‍රදේශයේ පවතී. අනෙක කොතරම් මහජන පීඩාගෙනදෙන ව්‍යාපෘතියක් වුව තමන් අතට සන්තෝසම් ලැබෙන්නේ නම් ඒවට උදව් උපකාර කරන පිරිස්ද ඕනෑම ගමක සිටිති. කිතුල්ගලට ද එය පොදුය. ඔවුන් කරනුයේ මුලදී මේවාට දැඩි විරෝධය දක්වා පසුව ව්‍යාපෘති හිමිකරුවන් සමග ඞීල් දැමීමය. එවන් අය පවසන්නේ මුහුදු මට්ටමේ සිට මීටර හතලිස් අට ඉක්මවා නොයන උසකින් ජලාශයේ බැම්ම බ`දින්නේ නම් එයට තමන් විරුද්ධ නැති බවයි. එවිට කිතුල්ගලට දැනටත් පවතින ගංවතුර හානිය නැතිවේද ? අශෝක පෙතියා විනාශවීම වැලකේද ? මාකන්දාව රක්ෂිතය විනාශවීම නවතීද ? නාය යෑම නවතීද ? යනුවෙන් කිතුල්ගල ජනයා අසති.

Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds Facts

In the tech industry, his name comes alongside those of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
Those guys changed the face of technology forever.
You already know about the asteroid 9793 Torvalds, named after him.
But what else?
Let’s see:

• Linus Torvalds was born on December 28, 1969, in Helsinki, Finland, and is now 49 years old.
• He wrote 100% of the first version of Linux, which represents around 1% of the present-day code.
• He almost named his project “FreaX” instead of “Linux”… So now, instead of a combination of the words “free,” “freak,” and “Unix,” we are enjoying a combination of the Trovald’s given name and “Unix.”
• In 1999, MIT proclaimed him one of the top innovators under 35.
• In 2001, Steve Jobs offered Torvalds a job at Apple, but he refused.
• In 2019, his net worth is estimated at around $150 million, with an annual salary of $10 million.
• He has a soft spot for scuba surfing. He is the creator of a platform called Scubaserfice that can create a scuba diving planner for you.
• Linus Torvalds created the version control system Git in 2005.
• Among other things, he has undergone military training and is a Second Lieutenant. 
• He is awesome!

Is there a simple privacy law that actually makes sense?

There is lot of copyright law violation in this Buddhist (Ceylon) country where one talks about upholding 5 precepts.

As a solution I try to promote Linux in this country.
Sometime back, I found only 32 users in this country and only 1% users worldwide.
I gave up except making blog post here. 
Funnily enough top visitors from US and Russia.
Ceylon comes third currently.

Only country that uses Linux exclusively including operating nuclear reactors is none other than North Korea!
Even the space station uses it-(Russian-US collaboration in style).

Below is cumulative results

United States	72889
Sri-Lanka	17882
Russia	5708
Germany	3853
France	3006
Poland	2019
Canada	1867
Sweden	1394
United Kingdom	1388
South Korea	1288

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Is there a simple privacy law that actually makes sense?

Gabriel Weinberg, CEO/Founder DuckDuckGo. Co-author Super Thinking, Traction.

Updated Nov 7

Yes! Despite all the protestations you hear from Big Tech, there is a simple privacy law that makes sense without destroying the tech industry. Let me explain, but first, for context if you’re unfamiliar, you should know that DuckDuckGo (my company) has a vision to raise the standard of trust online and so this topic is near and dear to our hearts. We’re vehemently opposed to tracking users and are the leading provider of privacy protection tools, including a private search engine alternative to Google (DuckDuckGo Private Search), a private mobile web browser alternative to Chrome (DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser for iOS/Android), and a plugin that makes your desktop searching and browsing more private (DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials for Safari/Firefox/Chrome).

As you probably know, many countries are right now taking up the greatly needed task of updating their privacy laws for this modern era. However, they are consistently missing one key component when doing so: an easy opt-out mechanism. Anyone who ever has been to a European website in the past year will know what I’m talking about. While Europe’s GDPR law does a lot of great things, it also has created pop-up hell, much like the cookie law that preceded it.

searchers proposed this compelling idea to help protect people’s privacy online: a web browser setting called Do Not Track. Once enabled, your browser would thereafter send a Do Not Track signal to the websites you visit, informing them that you do not give them permission to collect or share your personal information for behavioral advertising, price discrimination, or for any other purpose. If this setting was working, then all those hidden trackers that are watching you around the Internet would be cut off in one shot.

Unfortunately, the idea fell apart when the ad-tech industry balked at any meaningful self-regulation. Despite that, many web browsers actually did build the feature into their platforms, and, in the intervening years, hundreds of millions of people worldwide have turned the feature on. A Forrester research report found 25% of people using the Do Not Track setting, and a national survey we conducted found 23%.

Of course, unbeknownst to the vast majority of these people, this browser setting is doing next to nothing right now. It is currently left to each site individually do what they think is right. And, lo and behold, none of the big tech companies do anything with it, giving all these people a false sense of privacy. That, however, can change overnight with a law that mandates Do Not Track compliance.

It is extremely rare to have such an exciting legislative opportunity where the hardest work — coordinated mainstream technical implementation and widespread consumer adoption — is already done. That’s why we even took the time to draft model Do Not Track legislation earlier this year.

Here’s how it would work. The signal would work like it already does today – enabled by your web browser, operating system (for apps), or Internet router (for home devices). Once on, companies that receive the signal would have to respect it, and stop tracking you. The legislation would need to define the line of what is allowed and what is not allowed. We defined it like this in our proposal:

SSDs can lose data in as little as 7 days without power

I have my own problems.

I thought I can save my files digitally in pdf for life, longer than mine.

I have four IDE disks on my steps to be discarded after retrieving useful data, mostly 32 bit iso images.

With 64 bit computers coming in they have no shelf value.

I think I am going to use them as bricks (instead of iron files), if there is any need for repairs of my steps. 

I have a simple use of SSDs.

I use them to install the operating system.

My slave is always going to be spinning drive and I have large ntfs partitions for data.

I have my vital data stored in them.

Linux can be handy (not Windows) in this situations.

All my photos are stored on CDs or DVDs.

It very easy to retrieve them!

 

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SSDs can lose data in as little as 7 days without power
SSDs have a number of advantages over conventional hard drives. They draw less power, they’re an order of magnitude faster, and while they remain more expensive in absolute terms, the size of that gap has shrunk markedly over the past few years. There is one downside to SSDs, however — long-term data retention remains a significant issue.
A recent presentation by Alvin Cox of JEDEC demonstrates just how large the gulf is between enterprise and client drives. Temperatures while active and in storage are both listed. If a drive is stored at 25C or operated 40C, expected data retention for a client drive is 105 weeks, or nearly two years. Let the storage temperature creep up to 30C, or 86F, and the drive should still hold data for an entire year.
Enterprise SSDs, however, have entirely different characteristics. An enterprise drive stored at 25C and operated at 40C has a retention rate of just 20 weeks. In worst-case scenarios or high storage temps, the data on an enterprise drive can start to fail within seven days. 3D NAND, which uses an older manufacturing process, might rate better in such metrics, but JEDEC doesn’t include that information.   

These timelines aren’t likely to make much difference to consumers, who keep devices in daily use, but they do matter in the long-term and outside client usage scenarios. If you’re a serious computer enthusiast, you likely have a collection of drives that you removed from old systems when you built a new machine.  

Some people will carefully step through and ensure that each and every bit of data from the old installation was archived to local backup or cloud storage, but it’s much more common for people to copy the critical data and leave the rest of their information on the original disk. 

With a mechanical drive, that’s not a problem — you can take a drive out of rotation and typically assume it will spin back up two years later, provided you store it properly.
With SSDs, you can’t necessarily depend on more than 12-24 months of longevity — and if you bought into the SSD craze from 2008 – 2011, chances are you’ve now got at least one drive you’ll be retiring in the not-too-distant future. High-end consumers who might be tempted by enterprise-level NAND drives need to pay attention to the brief unpowered data retention times — in this case, buying an enterprise drive really might not be the best choice for a system that remains unpowered for any length of time.
Note that the temperature range for proper storage of SSDs is far smaller than for hard drives. A hard drive can typically be stored from -40 – 70C (-40 – 158F. Yes, -40C = -40F). In order to maintain proper data longevity, SSDs, in contrast, may need to be stored in climate-controlled environments. Granted, most people likely don’t stick a drive in a normal storage unit, but this data suggests that even a few days in a car in summer could meaningfully damage long-term data retention.

Enterprise awareness

Businesses and corporations need to be particularly aware of this limitation of enterprise flash. As a blog post at Kore Logic points out, there are serious legal ramifications for a company that fails to preserve business records that were stored on NAND flash. The IRS typically recommends that individuals and small businesses save tax data for at least seven years; large publicly traded companies have additional regulations to follow to satisfy laws like Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley.
Beyond SEC regulatory requirements, there’s always the chance that a major company could find itself needing to refer back to years-old documents in order to settle a legal case. Again, proper data preservation is vital to such efforts — and for now, spinning disks (or in some cases, tape backup) offer a longevity that SSDs simply can’t match.
SSDs are amazing — and properly deployed, absolutely worth the investment — but the data retention challenges are real. We recommend everyone engage in proper backup procedures and be aware of the limitations of your chosen medium. 

No single storage type is perfect — so don’t depend on just one way of backing up critical information.