When I first moved to eastern Europe I couldn't make friends at all. After a few months I started to get really discouraged and somewhat depressed and stopped trying to engage people. As soon as that happened, my social life did a 180.
King is my favorite writer. While none of his novels make it in my top 20, I generally enjoy most of what he writes in some fashion or another. Some of them are stinkers but they are like a finding a burnt potato chip -- the carbon taste is there but it's still a fried slice of salty goodness. I very much enjoy listening to him speak and I respect the candid look into his life that he has given the public.
I recommend to anyone who has a love for good books and especially if you have literary aspirations to give King's On Writing a chance. It's a mix between an autobiography and a lesson in the craft of writing. I recommend the audio version. While I have no plans to write stories in the future, the book is fascinating. His voice takes getting used to but I wouldn't trade it for anything. I'd rather he read any of his novels than Frank Miller.
I haven't read anything from Joe Hill yet but I look forward to checking out his work as well.
The thought exercises are fascinating. Say he has a completely trustworthy friend somewhere that the FBI is unaware of. Could he have that person spend a little, back up that copy again, and effectively keep that FBI from ever getting that money?
Also, surely a backup exists. What is an effective way to backup the wallet so that it can survive decades of prison time? Particularly if a trustworthy friend does not exist?
Considering the number of Russians I know from Kazakhstan, it doesn't surprise me that it's a Russian site. However, it's interesting that its mail.ru and not Yandex. And why VK in Belarus and not Yandex? I realize that VK is enormous and at least in the top 5 most visited sites in Russia.
This should be its own post. He allegedly requests an undercover agent to torture and kill someone who worked for him. Must be the first murder detailed in the first complaint.
I don't know why people are hating the search links on the right. It's a neat idea. There were many times in school when I had to write a simple paper where something like Wikipedia sources were acceptable. If it was something I knew about before hand, I would write a good chunk from memory and then back check it against Wikipedia and other sources online. This might have been a great tool for that initial run.
It does make scanning those emails much more efficient. Also, some emails I promote to my main tab...Humble Bundle for example. I bet tools to let marketers know that I did that would be valuable to them.
If the Venezuelan government really wanted to be nasty, they could arrange for Snowden to be assassinated in a manner that implicates the US government.
How fast would we have to orbit if Jupiter were that close?
EDIT: Is Io closer to Jupiter than the moon is to Earth (I believe I answered this myself, I think the we would be closer in this picture by ~100,000km)? What would be the tidal effects of the depicted picture? Would we be tidally locked? I assume volcanic activity and earthquakes would at least increase and I imagine be catastrophic (if it would hypothetically replace the moon with all orbital mechanics updated to sustain a stable orbit).
"AdBlock is not to be confused with Adblock Plus. The developer of AdBlock for Chrome claims to have been inspired by AdBlock Plus, which is a community supported development effort, but otherwise the two efforts are unrelated."[1]
I'm 41 and life is not peachy for me now either, my friend. I bet if we took a look at each other's lives we wouldn't mind trading for a bit. Make a change, if you can. Some of us don't have that luxury.
It's only a matter of time until this data is used for political means (see the recent IRS story). All it will take is someone coming into power that threatens the agency or its valued partners in any way. Then out comes the embarrassing tweets or tax evasion evidence pulled from Amazon. This will only become more easy as the young people of today become the Senators and Presidential candidates of tomorrow.
When I do this it's because I'm irritated that it's hanging and I hope that my clicks will queue up and punish the insolent program. Kind of like sentencing it to 2,000,000,000 cycles of hard labor.
Yeah, didn't know that. Actually, what I especially found interesting was the dead-easy way of paying via your phone bill. I don't see that much here in the States.
A social network I used in eastern Europe would allow you to see people who viewed your profile if you paid a small transaction via SMS/phonebill. The functionality would last a month, I think. I thought that this was genius from a "how do we make money" standpoint, and all of my friends used it. Could you imagine the revenue possibilities for Facebook?
I don't know...this sounds apocryphal. I've seen the occasional AOL email address but I've haven't seen anyone claim they use AOL for internet in years.
I agree, at first I thought it was a service that taught you how to roll sushi. It wasn't until I read other bits of information spread out on your page that I started to figure it out.
One problem I have had with my various PCs over the years is the file and shortcut clutter that accumulates on my desktop, a fault purely my own. Windows took this annoying habit of mine and made it a core feature of Windows 8.
I knew Harper Lee was alive from listening to the excellent audiobook On Writing, authored and narrated by Stephen King. He stated his astonishment that To Kill a Mockingbird was the only novel she ever wrote, but in a manner that never conveyed her gender (that I recall, anyway).
I even read the book years before without realizing that the author was a woman. It's the only assigned reading I have ever had that I couldn't put down.