Your land price data would imply that the purchase was a poor investment, not a good one. At current prices, the land is worth $7,750, but was purchased for an inflation-adjusted figure of $16,200.

Yea, but how about some of the fancier inns?

Odd, considering you have line of sight to a few million cell towers...

Snowden already revealed his true colours when he fled to China in order to sell the data before he went anywhere else. Why should we care about him now?

I can't believe that Pan Am is making any money with their shuttles barley full. Recently, I was the only one on board a flight from earth to the Space Station V and then again from the station to the Clavius Base on the Moon. Talk about a complete waste.

Hotels have, in general, terrible wi-fi. How is this going to work when you're sharing bandwidth? Won't speeds be impacted by how full/empty the hotel is?

"slave", lol. They're indentured servants ...

I cant believe Tap Tap died :( There used to be so many people in the online rooms. It all went to shit after they started charging iTunes level pricing for you to be able to tap to the song you already have purchased.

Do they still make soundboard apps? I remember having a ton of fun with iSamJackson in particular.

Remember when you couldn't put apps on an iPhone?

Confession: I STILL have Koi Pond on my phone...and even still launch it from time to time. It's very relaxing. I keep waiting for that retina screen resolution update...

Then how do you expect things to be "leaked accidentally" to the media?

Why not just make the line secure 100% percent of the time instead of having to change it between secure and non-secure?

Emoji are not hard to avoid if everyone you know is an adult.

This is really, really good stuff. Ridiculously interesting.

Thanks a ton man. Anything I write that ends up encouraging academic discussion is a complement to me.

I hope that the use of force wouldn't be necessary in this situation, though it's nice to know that there is the capability to keep the embassy staff relatively safe. I really enjoy these articles; one of your previous ones on the Ukraine ordeal helped a bit in a discussion with my one of my history professors. I…