Kaj Leo Holm Johannesen:
– Vissi ráðgevararnir hjá landsstýrismanninum siga, at heimildin er í lagi, hvat skal landsstýrismaðurin so gera? spurdi løgmaður.
– Hann má ganga út frá, at tað er í lagi. Ella skal hann gera sum Høgni Hoydal og siga, at »eg veit betur«?


Jóannes Jacobsen (comment):
Landsstýrisfólk og løgmaður vilja ikki "ganga út frá, at tað er í lagi", tá til dømis Havstovan, Búskaparráðið, Landsverk, Landsbankin og Gjaldstovan gera metingar og tilmæli. Tá er standardsvarið frá landsstýrismonnum og løgmanni til sínar ráðgevar, at "eg veit betur". Hví var øðrvísi hesuferð?

The National Security Archive commentary reports that Shoup asked USAF/SAC Commander Thomas Power "...what would happen if Beijing was not fighting; was there an option to leave Chinese targets out of the attack plan?"
Power was reported to have said that he hoped no one would think of that "because it would really screw up the plan"—that is, the plan was supposed to be executed as a whole. Apparently Shoup then observed that "any plan that kills millions of Chinese when it isn't even their war is not a good plan. This is not the American way."

Keeler is proud of his mathematical references in Futurama, and he is philosophical about the many years he spent as a mathematician before becoming a comedy writer: "Everything that happens to us has some effect on us, and I do suppose that the time I spent in grad school made me a better writer. I certainly don't regret it.

"For example, I chose Bender's serial number to be 1,729 and I think that reference alone completely justifies my doctorate.

"I don't know if my thesis advisor sees it that way though."

Dear Mister Cranston.

I wanted to write you this email – so I am contacting you through Jeremy Barber – I take it we are both represented by UTA . Great agency.

I’ve just finished a marathon of watching "BREAKING BAD" – from episode one of the First Season – to the last eight episodes of the Sixth Season. (I downloaded the last season on AMAZON) A total of two weeks (addictive) viewing.

I have never watched anything like it. Brilliant!

Your performance as Walter White was the best acting I have seen – ever.

I know there is so much smoke blowing and sickening bullshit in this business, and I’ve sort of lost belief in anything really.

But this work of yours is spectacular – absolutely stunning. What is extraordinary, is the sheer power of everyone in the entire production. What was it? Five or six years in the making? How the producers (yourself being one of them), the writers, directors, cinematographers…. every department – casting etc. managed to keep the discipline and control from beginning to the end is (that over used word) awesome.

From what started as a black comedy, descended into a labyrinth of blood, destruction and hell. It was like a great Jacobean, Shakespearian or Greek Tragedy.

If you ever get a chance to – would you pass on my admiration to everyone – Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Aaron Paul, Betsy Brandt, R.J. Mitte, Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Steven Michael Quezada – everyone – everyone gave master classes of performance … The list is endless.

Thank you. That kind of work/artistry is rare, and when, once in a while, it occurs, as in this epic work, it restores confidence.

You and all the cast are the best actors I’ve ever seen.

That may sound like a good lung full of smoke blowing. But it is not. It’s almost midnight out here in Malibu, and I felt compelled to write this email.

Congratulations and my deepest respect. You are truly a great, great actor.

Best regards

Tony Hopkins.

Bastardosupremo - 3 weeks ago

I deny the holocaust and Im a Justin Beiber fan.

"Future UK" has been floated as an idea by John Lanchester in the London Review of Books and "Former UK" by the Spectator columnist Charles Moore. Snappier perhaps, but as both writers have pointed out, the abbreviation - fUK - is somewhat unfortunate.

Yo is the latest craze - an app that does just one thing, send a ‘Yo’ message to people on the app. This innocent and fairly meaningless message is supposed to mean different things depending on when and to whom you send it, but the app is interesting because of how a useless app can become viral in a few days.

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.