Roman K

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Javelins

Just saw a political cartoon that made me actually laugh pretty hard.

http://i.imgur.com/z1tOe5V.png

Here’s a rought translation of the cartoon.
[Glasses] Our plan for national defence is to buy Javelin missiles. Javelin missiles increase our national security and raise the people’s morale!
[Redsshirt] Ok, super! Next - how are you planning to reform the integration policies?
[Glasses] …
[Glasses] Javelin.

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Star Trek

To be perfectly honest - I have never seen an episode of any of the Star Trek series or any of the movies made.

While bored at work - it’s summer, nothing happens, I found that our IT guys, have a directory full of different movies. One of those is Star Trek - Into Darkness. I can’t say if it is any good, since I’m watching it right now.

We’ll see if it is any good…

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MH17

This is my first big post and it makes me sad, that I have to write on a tragic topic like this. Here we go…

If you use the internet at all and tend to read the news online, you are aware of the Malaysian Airlines’ plane (MH17), that was downed in Eastern-Ukraine. As someone, who lives in Estonia - a country that has been under constant threat from Russia since ages ago, this makes me concerned about the future.

Since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, I’ve been keeping my eye on the news and social media, where prominent figures across the world have voiced their thoughts on the matter. When things escalated during the protests in Kiev, the people turned their eyes to Ukraine in hopes for the conflict to resolve peacefully sooner rather than later. It didn’t and the conflict spread to Eastern-Ukraine. With Ukraine and it’s people in mind, the eyes turned to Russia, who most...

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Subtle? Indeed!

I’ve been trying to set up a minimalist blog for years and I’ve tried them all. I’ve tried wordpress, blogger, hosting myself and even just keeping small updates on my Twitter account, but none of these options have stuck as a habit. Is svbtle.com (I keep writing sybtle, don’t know why…) the answer that I’ve been looking for?

I found out about svbtle.com from reddit.com/r/minimalsim, where people post everything minimalist and automatically get shunned for those things not being what minimalism is all about. But I didn’t let that discourage me and went on to explore what svbtle.com has to offer.

Right away, the front page presented me the design of a minimalist website I enjoy so much - nothing excessive, just text and simple links. I looked around the website and checked out some blogs that had been created and I decided that this service may be the answer I was looking for. Over the...

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