I had a long flight so I took along Reamde.
I’d read it twice before, but damned if it didn’t hook me up again. I got to the first airport around 10 am and didn’t get home until 3 am. Saved my sanity.
For the uninitiated, Reamde involves the kidnapped niece of a billionaire game maker; the game is really fun and also a money laundering operation. There are terrorists, Right Wing militias, undercover spies, demented science fiction authors, and a bear skin rug.
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I’ve been telling people to read ‘Cryptonomicon’ for decades.
It tells two interwoven stories. Back in WW2 the grandfather is involved in proactive missions to keep the Nazis from learning the Allies had broken their codes, and in the late 1990’s the grandson is trying to start an online bank
Sounds like the ‘advanced tech’ they used on Star Trek Voyager.
Volunteer firefighter protects other people’s houses because they like living in a town with houses.
No. Look at the Cold War, especially the Cuban Crisis. There were a lot of voices on both sides openly calling for a first strike, and the cooler heads prevailed.
India and Pakistan are both nuclear armed and neither has pulled the trigger.
As for Putin, think of it this way. The people who told Vlad that the Ukraine invasion would be a walk in the park are the ones who would actually pull the trigger. Those folks were robbing the army blind to pay for dachas and harems; do you think they’ll risk their Paris apartments and yachts to keep an old man happy?
‘An’ is used before any vowel. An opposite, an electrician, an icehouse, an apple.
I had to double check. Thought that it was a ‘coroner’ wagon.
Upvote for anyone, anywhere who uses ‘bloviate.’
I am a piece of crap, but I’m the greatest crap in the universe!
I haven’t a clue
No. It’s like ‘Clue.’ Need the room, the suspect, and the weapon or it doesn’t count.
Back before VCRs were a thing, movies like ‘Deep Throat’ were only available in theaters. The local theaters ran ads for XXX movies on the same pages as the general stuff.
Because classified ads used to pay for the paper.
Heck, ‘The Advertiser’ used to be a popular name for newspapers.
I thought ‘tankie’ came from a video game. Turns out it’s been around since the USSR decided to roll into Hungary.
Think about it. The billionaires and the wannabes are all part of the same system.
Just because someone is angry with the symptoms doesn’t mean they don’t undertand the underlying disease.
“It isn’t the big Hitler in Berlin that makes life a pain, it’s the million little Hitlers in France that make life stink.”
It’s not the billionaires who make your life hell, it’s the bosses who are doing everything to become billionaires.
He just casually invented cryptocurrency as a plot device.