Similar to the V2 rockets in the final stages of World War II.

Thanks for pointing this out - I assumed that since the word is basically the same it must mean the same. It could be an archaism in Russian, like "duma" - current in Bulgarian, archaic in Russian. If not then it is funny how the word sailed across the Black Sea. :-)

Just for your amusement, non-Slavic speakers:
Zelenchukskaya means "of vegetables".

You should have linked to a certain song performed by Rick Astley.

> Schnell!

It doesn't look like this is the case with TSA.

This means that people in Uganda do have access to cheap books. Just not honest people...

Actually, ProtonMail sucks a lot. It's "security" is based on two passwords: one for login, one for decrypting the mailbox.
1. Both of the passwords were sent to their server upon registration. I have no guarantees that they were not stored in clear text.
2. I have no guarantees that the mailbox is even encrypted.
3. Even if the mailbox is encrypted and they haven't stored its password, a totalitarian government may force them to install a man-in-the-middle and have my messages the moment I access them (i.e. send the password).
4. No PKI. No interoperability with PGP/MIME or S/MIME. Totally proprietary. If I send an e-mail message to a non-ProtonMail address I must somehow communicate a password for it as well. How? Not ProtonMail's problem.

In short, ProtonMail provides something that is not an end-to-end e-mail encryption and thus not useful at all. You can do much better by using even GMail (via SMTP and IMAP/POP3) with ThunderBird and Enigmail (a PGP/MIME extension). Google will only ever see the encrypted messages. Only using a desktop client guarantees that your private key will never be sent to a man-in-the-middle (e.g. GMail, ProtonMail).

There are laws against this. For example, in my country (an EU member), you are not allowed to pay in cash for anything above 2564.1 euros. Otherwise you are presumed to be laundering money. The limit was higher until recently. And it will only go down, despite inflation...

Super-highway? Wasn't this Bill Gates' vision of a Microsoft-controlled alternative to the Internet? I haven't heard of it since playing Space Quest 6.
So go ahead. But get away from the Internet.

Ok, here you are. I once edited the following article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It mentions some Bulgarian cities with either very old names or with obvious typos:
Ruschuk - stopped being called this way over a century ago.
Philippopolis - this is the name from Antiquity! It stopped being called this way by the people who live in it at least 10 centuries ago.
Gor Orvakhovitsa - two obvious typos.
Stara Zagoran - one obvious typo.

The source is a badly scanned article from 1958, written by a non-Bulgarian, in English.

Me, being a Bulgarian (and my IP address proves that) decided to fix these. References? Wikipedia itself. The wrong names already point to the Wikipedia articles with the correct names.
Got reverted 10 hours later. The names are wrong to this very day.

> If you met him on the street, you'd never guess that he once injected himself with a 3.5 million-year-old strain of bacteria...

  Well, I wouldn't guess this for anybody.

My hoverboard is full of eels.

I don't think Hari Seldon is too worried for his job.

There are EU taxes as well. And they are not confined to the Eurozone. Some countries receive more than they contribute (e.g. Bulgaria), others - the opposite (e.g. Germany, the UK, etc.). So these transfer payments do happen, EU-wide.

> How about checking out the bare survival conditions of a lot of Greek citizens?

Well, fuck you.

Average net wage in (FYI: the two countries are neighbours and members of the EU; one is not in the Eurozone):
Greece: 1004 euro
Bulgaria: 356 euro
(the discrepancy in pensions is even bigger)

Have you noticed the 2.82x louder whining coming from Bulgaria? Have you noticed its national debt? No?

Once again: fuck you.