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Comment Re:Pen name? (Score -1, Troll) 148

He's not dead, either. He just finally realized he had no fucking clue how to end the series and tell a coherent story and needed a way out.

His wife hatched the whole "I have an incurable disease and am going to die soon" plot to boost book sales. She then got Sanderson to finish the series for a song and kept the rights.

As best I can guess, she had her husband lobotomized -- seemingly sometime around book 5 -- and keeps him around as a pool boy.

Comment Trace the Transfers? (Score 4, Interesting) 131

So shouldnt' they be able to trace the transfers to the destination accounts? And continue doing so until the money is withdrawn?

Hell, even in places like Kazakhstan they don't have pallet loads of $100 bills waiting around for people to withdraw millions in cash. And you don't really walk into a bank ANYWHERE in the world and pull out millions in cash from a newly opened account without tons of ID, paperwork, being on cameras, access to large armored trucks, etc.

I'm familiar with the concept of mules and blinds, but for a scheme so sophisticated it sounds suspicious to use low level mules to pull out millions in cash. Multiple points of failure/discovery.

How the hell do they get the actual money OUT?

Comment Re:Your rights don't include infecting my kid or m (Score 1) 297

And? Medical exemptions are not some sham to provide an "out" to the religious and personal exemption crowd. From the article:

"For kindergartners that year, Mississippi approved just 17 medical exemptions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Neighboring Arkansas, which had about 3,100 fewer kindergarten students than Mississippi that year, recorded 24 medical exemptions."

This strikes me as honestly kids who might seriously have a condition that makes certain vaccinations dangerous. I mean 17 out of 45,000+ is a damn small number.

Comment Not for me... (Score 1) 6

Interesting. I enter "Mars, Ho!" and the top 5 responses are:

1. Mr. Mars Ho, the CEO of the Austar Group...
2. Mars Ho Facebook
3. Donny Interviews 30 Seconds to Mars - Ho Ho Show 2013...
4. Mars, Ho! - NASA Science

And the images related to it -- of which your book cover is the 2nd.

The 10th entry on the page is "Mars, Ho! by mcgrew (Hardcover) - Lulu"

That was searching from the search box on Firefox -- after switching it back to Google a few days ago.

Not sure what you're getting or why.

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