I haven't seen this ad before. I have seen the coal miner ad. Where they were told to go to the Romney rally during a work day, unpaid. And that it was mandatory. Kinda leads me to believe they will be told to vote for him as well.

Many authors spend years just trying to get their name out there, so for awhile...it's in their interest to have their work shared if it's not selling like hot cakes on day one.

Once they become more established and known, then the sharing will have more of an impact on their income.


Basically, starting out...without a name they are going to be lucky if people even consider reading their stuff. Lots of guys go a decade before they get to where they can make a living off their work. It's quicker now to pass your work around, but there also a lot more competition with the digital age. A fairly active self-published author whose been tracking his progression on his blog for years says that a writer's best effort for advertisement is writing more books. So that the chance of you being featured on Amazon or some other digital offering is higher, and that you have the ability to offer one of your older books for greatly reduced prices or even free to pick up new readers who may go on to buy your products. It's one of those scenarios that you're kinda damned if you do, damned if you don't on both sides of the equation. Customer can't buy every authors books nor read them all, so free might be what it takes to get your foot in the door with them. However authors can't make a living giving away all their stuff to get noticed, but they may never get enough of a notice to make a living off of their work without giving it away at some point to pick up reviews and word of mouth.


An author, their feelings on the issue is going to vary greatly depending on their success. If they've been at it for years, they might be happy to pick up the extra eye balls from someone spreading their work around. Where as someone like King probably takes a much dimmer view on it. But there's been an up swing in complaints from publishers about libraries and how much they pay for digital stuff, so all that complaining kinda becomes white noise after awhile despite how valid their complaints may be...because every industry seems to be complaining about "lost sales" with some astronomical number to attach to it.

Looks like they pulled a baby mouse out of his nose.

Newer, fresh tar will melt pretty easy until it gets some grit and dirt in it.

Will get soft around 95-100 degrees in direct sunlight. Really annoying in the summer when they are filling cracks and it sticks to your car tire when you stop or slow down and then your car pulls it up in a big strip and wraps around your wheel.

It's worse if they use the wrong mixture of tar....lot of people think you can use roof tar to fill cracks in your driveway. Don't do that. Roof tar melts really easy and is meant to so it'll flow and fill in places where water might leak in....much lower melting temp. They often pump it from the ground to the roof....

Old truck and trailer tires used to have rings that would blow off and decapitate people if they were not properly inflated is what I was told for years when I was working around dump trucks and trailers.

Even the newer style tires can blow apart with so much force that it'll dent doors and break windows on cars if they are driving down the road next to them.

Why I really don't like driving next to trucks. Especially near the front tires, because if they blow you got a truck that's going to be veering into you.

*dead

I needed to learn how to properly hip thrust, I forget almost every day.

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Confession: I have the biggest crush on Cobie Smulders.


AKA Robin Sparkles.

Is this like a screen test or something they did outside of the show?

Spelled twisted wrong mint, was wondering what swisted was.

Looks like they took a page from the Linux desktops to try to make things as non-obvious as possible for someone coming from a Windows environment.

Good business plan.

I'd only approve if she was showing us how to build our own hidden doorway with book shelf release latch.

Because, hidden doorway > most hardcover books.

Cat my parents had when I was growing up chewed on ear lobes when it was a kitten. It was hard not to laugh from the tickling feeling, and she'd stop if you laughed.

Didn't he return to the screen in the Expendables?

Article I read said the guy who ran into his sister was underinsured, not uninsured.

And another said Maryland law says that if you are even partly at fault for the accident, you don't get any money from lawsuits because of it. You have to be 0% at fault to get money. It was kind of unclear, but apparently Maryland law is odd in that way. It seemed like they couldn't sue Progressive under this law until they proved that she was 0% at fault, so instead they had to sue the other driver to prove she wasn't at fault and that he was. Then use that ruling to make Progressive pay out, something like that.

And that's where Progressive was supposed to defending the guy who killed his sister, but again this was unclear because it sounded like they named both the guy and Progressive in the lawsuit. Progressive said they didn't defend the guy, but his own insurance company did....and perhaps Progressive was just on that side because they were named in the lawsuit with him.

Was kind of confusing to me, admittedly I didn't spend a whole lot of time trying to figure it out. Underinsured drivers are bullshit.....paying to be protected from the liability they cause shouldn't even be up for debate in this discussion. She paid for a service and they should be providing that service to her estate.

Kind of disturbing to watch. Doesn't look like her legs should be apart of her once she gets really still and they start moving around and sitting on her head.