This Again. Always wanted to try some of the stuff these guys did. I see beautiful woodland being ripped out wholesale around here and lament the loss. I keep saying that developers have never met a forest they didn't want to pave.
Autobiography of World War Two Luftwaffe pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel, the most highly decorated German serviceman of WW2, and the only one to be awarded the Third Reich’s most prestigious medal which was specially created for Rudel by Hitler himself, the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.Shot down over 24 times, Hans Rudel is credited with destroying over 500 tanks, 2,000 ground targets, the Russian battleship Marat, two cruisers and a destroyer, and was so successful against Russian forces that Joseph Stalin put up a 100,000 rouble ransom on his head. His flying record of over 2,500 combat missions remains unmatched by any pilot since.Until his death in 1982 Hans Rudel remained a loyal supporter of Adolf Hitler, and National Socialism. Hans Rudel remained a complex character, but arguably one of WW2’s most heroic figures. This is a new edition of this classic war epic which includes new maps, photographs, and footnotes, with an introduction by British air ace Group Captain Douglas Bader. (www.amazon.com/Stuka-Pilot-Hans-Ulrich-Rudel/dp/1908476877) I found this in a junk shop a .99c 1960's reprint an autobiography with the author who knows less English grammer than me! ..lol..easy simple fast read, it would make a great film, but then you loose the truly Nazi feel about this book, as hes so Nazi brainwashed, Russian or American back in WW2 it would have been a pleasure to put one in him Compelling reading I give a 9/10 ...and thats high!
They didn't have enough colorful pictures lol. However, they're articles on CBD oil, cloning, and topping/LST were a pretty good read. Good magazine to have in your bathroom collection lol.
Finished... Waiting on.... Lee Child John Sandford Ace Atkins J. Evanovich D. Capri C. Coulter....and about a dozen more.
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. I've already deleted my Social Media accounts but this is a good read that makes me glad I did it
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex From Goodreads: The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built. In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project. A visionary intelligence officer, William Godel, realized that the key to winning the war in Vietnam was not outgunning the enemy, but using new information technology to understand their motives and anticipate their movements. This idea--using computers to spy on people and groups perceived as a threat, both at home and abroad--drove ARPA to develop the internet in the 1960s, and continues to be at the heart of the modern internet we all know and use today. As Levine shows, surveillance wasn't something that suddenly appeared on the internet; it was woven into the fabric of the technology. But this isn't just a story about the NSA or other domestic programs run by the government. As the book spins forward in time, Levine examines the private surveillance business that powers tech-industry giants like Google, Facebook, and Amazon, revealing how these companies spy on their users for profit, all while doing double duty as military and intelligence contractors. Levine shows that the military and Silicon Valley are effectively inseparable: a military-digital complex that permeates everything connected to the internet, even coopting and weaponizing the antigovernment privacy movement that sprang up in the wake of Edward Snowden. With deep research, skilled storytelling, and provocative arguments, Surveillance Valley will change the way you think about the news--and the device on which you read it.
My 2nd Stevenson book the first was Seveneves. From the Back Cover When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operative Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must swear herself to secrecy in return for the rather large sum of money. Tristan needs Mel to translate some very old documents, which, if authentic, are earth-shattering. They prove that magic actually existed and was practiced for centuries. But the arrival of the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment weakened its power and endangered its practitioners. Magic stopped working altogether in 1851, at the time of the Great Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace—the world’s fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the modern world “jams” the “frequencies” used by magic, and it’s up to Tristan to find out why. And so the Department of Diachronic Operatives—D.O.D.O.—gets cracking on its real mission: to develop a device that can bring magic back, and send Diachronic Operatives back in time to keep it alive . . . and meddle with a little history at the same time. But while Tristan and his expanding operation master the science and build the technology, they overlook the mercurial—and treacherous—nature of the human heart. Written thru the eyes of Melisande Stokes is new! even tediuos, putting up with all the bitchiness and irrelvent comments one can expect from a naive 20yo middleclass bimbo ...lol the story is held together with the odd funny comment but in truth is boring as hell ....so far lol It will do really well in Russia ...lol www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-D-D-Novel-ebook/dp/B01M0HPHR6