Brain Injury Gives Man A Second Chance To Be Kind : NPR

Brain Injury Gives Man A Second Chance To Be Kind : NPR

Feeling taxed yet?

In 1913, the year income tax began here (yes, it didn't always exist), the IRS tax code ran 27 pages.

For 2011, it was 5,300 pages.  That's four times the epic War and Peace, by Tolstoy.

Iran says could hit U.S. if it came under attack: paper | Reuters

Iran says could hit U.S. if it came under attack: paper | Reuters

U.S. officials debate virulence of Iran-backed Hezbollah's threat | Reuters

U.S. officials debate virulence of Iran-backed Hezbollah's threat | Reuters

Public suicide by pharmacist in Greek capital steps from Parliament

Athens: Suicide Man Leaves Behind Shocking Note

Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society

In a sharp political -and for some even “shocking” - tone the man who committed suicide just a couple of meters away from the Greek Parliament in the heart of Athens on Wednesday morning explained the motives for his desperate act. In a hand-written note, retired pharmacist D.X., 77, spoke of loss of dignity due to harsh austerity and wished that some day the youth of the country would take the arms and hang those politicians who brought the country and its people to this stage. He had left a similar not to his daughter.

Daily Proto Thema exclusively published the shattering hand-note of D. Ch.:

“The occupation government of Tsolakoglou* literally annihilated any possibility for my survival that was depended on a decent pension which only I personally paid for 35 years (without any state support).

Because my age does not give me the possibility for a dynamic reaction (without meaning that if a Greek would grab the kalashnikov, I wouldn’t be the second one [to grab one], I see no other solution than the decent end before I start searching in the garbage for food.

I believe that one day the youth without future will take the arms and hang upside down at Syntagma Square the national traitors as the Italians did with Mussolini in 1945 Piazza Poreto in Milan)”

Not selling code for $60k "chump change"

Here's a market I didn't know existed: stunning what software security is worth on the open market.

Yet another reason to teach your children the premier language of the 21th century, not Spanish, not Chinese ---- software coding.

From Forbes....