Check out CloudFlare tunnels. I created a list of e-mails, and only the people who enter the confirmation code sent to those emails get into my home server.

Also the largest proven reserves in the entire world.

I think the subtext is, “it doesn’t matter, because they were Asians”.

That expectation was never true for the whole Japanese economy (and referred to large corporations, not the small companies that did most of the work on contract), and is even less true now.

My recommendation is actually the opposite of what you are asking for. Language Transfer is a series of audio files where you hear a teacher speaking to a student in a kind of Socratic dialogue.

Everything is completely free. You can find it on YouTube, SoundCloud, download MP3s, or use the simple but very effective app. I have been supporting it with monthly donations for about 5 years.

There are courses for French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Swahili, and for Spanish speakers wanting to learn English. British Sign Language and Japanese are coming. Some of these are introductory courses, others are more complete.

In addition to my native English,I have learned one language in school, and three more by immersion + lessons) self-study. I have to say that Language Transfer is the best system I have ever used.

The emphasis is on internalizing, and developing strategies for retrieving information in your brain, rather than wrote memorization. I found that I retained knowledge much better, and it has lasted longer.

I was married already when I met my now wife. My first wife lived overseas and we hadn’t been together for about 8 years.

Our two children lived with me, but we didn’t have a separation or legal custody agreement. Doing all of that internationally, getting all the documents professionally translated, court dates, etc. was extremely challenging.

So we waited several years until both kids were legally adults and we just had to deal with the divorce (which itself took almost 3 years) before making things official.

That said, my case is much less typical than a guy just lying about his domestic circumstances.

My mistake was only watching the final game live. Turned out to be a real snoozefest, with very, very few even mildly exciting moments.

How bad was it? Spain had 12 shots on net. Argentina had 0. Zero.

I think that any other game in the tournament would have been better to watch.

Well you should check out Kaos, a dark comedy on net6 featuring Jeff Goldblum as Zeus. Definitely flawed Gods there!

doctor Clean your teeth Hmmm. Something isn’t adding up for me. I think the joke works much better if it’s your dentist!

Brooks Moore, one of the senior technical managers for U.S. space programs, including Mercury and Apollo.

That makes me think of Peter Sellers’ in-movie scene at the beginning of The Party. I love this movie when I was a kid, but I suspect that an English comedian in brownface playing an Indian would not go over so well these days.

The VPN works because you can use the service in another country that doesn’t require digital ID.

No way to be sure? It is absolutely sure that they are harvesting every bit of data they can from you.

My wife was shocked when she googled herself and found information that could only have been obtained by reading all of her emails. I explained that Gmail and other mail services are not charities, and if you’re not paying for them with money, you are paying with something else.

It’s obviously to Lenovo’s benefit to have people believe that RAM prices will not drop, so that they will not wait out the current price surge.

The price will drop if supply exceeds demand, and if competition increases.

You are right. And the traditional text that I saw in Japanese temples was written from right to left, top to bottom.

There are claims and counterclaims. Both sides sound convincing, but that’s what prosecutors and defense attorneys are supposed to do.

I can’t believe I’m reading this. Obviously universal healthcare is not without flaws, and there are many variations on the theme. Some work better than others.

But for a developed, “rich” country not to provide it to their citizens is a crime. Of course, the people most affected by the lack of healthcare are they working poor, while middle class people are generally insulated by employer-provided insurance, and the rich naturally have the best health care on the planet.

I think that this is another case of the majority of Americans not being able to conceive what life outside the greatest country in the world^TM is like. Ask anyone from another country if they would prefer us-style healthcare, and you will get a resounding “NO!”

John Bigbooty, you are the weakest individual I ever know!

Bigbooté! Bigbooté!

What are you talking about? None of the Gospels were written by apostles. It’s very unlikely that any of them could read or write, before or after Jesus.

If Christians are people of the Book, why do they eat pork and shellfish, wear mixed fabrics, and why don’t they stone to death adulterers and children who disrespect their parents?

What’s that? The New Covenant, you say? Okay, then why, given the example of the Lamb and the Suffering Servant, do Christians fight in armies as opposed to turning the other cheek and loving their enemies? Why don’t they sell everything the own and give the money to the poor?

There’s always a justification for doing the opposite of what was explicitly commanded in the Bible. Before Constantine made Christianity the state religion, you could not be a Christian and serve in the Roman army. After Constantine, to serve in the Roman army you had to be a Christian. Hmmmm.

That sounds like a very Catholic interpretation (I grew up Catholic). Funny how we need to be told what to think, by people who have a vested interest in maintaining the existing power structures of the church, when the original teachings of Jesus were to illiterate farmers and fishermen.