…the storage sites 4shared, VideoBB and VideoZer have all closed… UploadBox and x7.to are closing… Filesonic, Fileserve, FileJungle and UploadStation now forbid users from downloading any content they did not upload themselves…Holy crap!
Torrent sites have been pretty resilient over the years but these direct-download sites (most of which I’d never even heard of) are dying like flies!
Source: jrocknyc
This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find … themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely. … they mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated.
Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal.
Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? … Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?”
Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe … life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.
Source: meredithbklyn
ACTA in a Nutshell –
What is ACTA? ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. A new intellectual property enforcement treaty being negotiated by the United States, the European Community, Switzerland, and Japan, with Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada recently announcing that they will join in as well.
Why should you care about ACTA? Initial reports indicate that the treaty will have a very broad scope and will involve new tools targeting “Internet distribution and information technology.”
What is the goal of ACTA? Reportedly the goal is to create new legal standards of intellectual property enforcement, as well as increased international cooperation, an example of which would be an increase in information sharing between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies.
Essential ACTA Resources -
- Read more about ACTA here: ACTA Fact Sheet
- Read the authentic version of the ACTA text as of 15 April 2011, as finalized by participating countries here: ACTA Finalized Text
- Follow the history of the treaty’s formation here: ACTA history
- Read letters from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden wherein he challenges the constitutionality of ACTA: Letter 1 | Letter 2 | Read the Administration’s Response to Wyden’s First Letter here: Response
- Watch a short informative video on ACTA: ACTA Video
- Watch a lulzy video on ACTA: Lulzy Video
Say NO to ACTA. It is essential to spread awareness and get the word out on ACTA.
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Source: youranonnews
When I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch earth with my feet. I stand in the presence of Zeus himself, and take my fill of ambrosia.
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Up and down we go.: Dear Customer who stuck up for his little brother,
you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you. Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about 10-12 years old. The…
Source: sweetupndown
Google knows what’s up.
you know i immediately had to try this for myself.
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Source: rissaroni
Just because you were hurt by other people doesn’t give you special rights to act out and transfer the pain to other people and escape the consequences.
Life is not some accounting sheet. You can’t blow up at people and “-10” to the relationship, and then shower them with gifts and sweetness later to “+10” back.
No. Human relations do not work that way. The fucking planet does not revolve around you. The world does not bend itself over to fit how you think it should be.
Once you cross the line and break the trust that exists, no amount of sucking up and acting nice will suffice. No amount of hollow apologies will restore things to what they were before.
Because the damage, the anger and hurt people feel is real — doesn’t matter what your excuse is. Your excuses do not take away the reality that other people experience.
People are independent beings and have the right not to act according to what you want from them. Nobody owes you jack shit. And that means if you fuck up and push people away with your unreasonable behavior, you have no right to demand them to patch up with you and be nice or close to you again.
You have no right to force people to maintain some relationship and be nice to you when you have not lived up to your side of the bargain by behaving in a trustworthy way that makes them feel safe and valued.
You have no right to expect people to remain by your side if you have subjected them to verbal and emotional abuse.
You have no right to be butthurt and guilt-trip people when you have not even sincerely acknowledged your mistakes.
That is a consequence you have to live with.
