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1,800 | Not clicking because it's Chris Stuckman. Horrible reviewer even by youtube standards. | How is that? I realize he can be a fanboy when it comes to Marvel but I find his opinions on more independent movies mostly on point and insightful. |
1,801 | I agree that Rachel didn't really try to stop Borne, but I think it might be something different. Perhaps it is her recognizing that this is the outcome of what Borne is and he isn't fighting Mord for a "bad" reason, he is doing it because he has a plan to fix it. I hadn't considered yet how strange it is to consider Rachel's insistence on humanity while raising Borne, when maybe she can't be considered human herself. And thinking like that it makes me wonder how it happened that both worlds were ending at the same time. Did the downfall of one influence the other? How connected were the worlds? Damn! Now I have more questions! | Ha. Like I said; the end is really just a beginning of a very interesting set of possibilities. |
1,802 | I have loved rereading series since I was a kid. It is like visiting an old friend. I also listen to music while I read, and I can remember what album I was listening to with that book years later after the first chapter or two. Deathstalker. Belgariad. Sword of Truth. ASoIaF. Kingkiller. Mazalan Empire. Black Company. Dune. Wheel of Time. His Dark Materials. Harry Potter. All of the Ender's Game books. | I was wondering when I would see Ender's Game. I love that series. |
1,803 | Oh wow, he became a redneck. I honestly wasn't expecting that. Also if you think about Tenacious D whenever he mentions the "D" it makes his lame tweets hilarious: >If she gets on the treadmill right in front of you, she running for the D. | If she likes to go muddin, watches football, and believes that Texas>anything, marry her, then proceed to deliver the D multiple times a day |
1,804 | I thought he was only the last of his line? | Maybe not the last in the world but seemingly the last we would see. |
1,805 | In hiding in the middle of Central Park, not wearing any kind of disguise? | Dude he is Gandalf, he can do whatever the hell he wants. |
1,806 | I find it really suspicious that this managed to get 18 upvotes and 0 downvotes. Do we really have that many 'Internet of Things' and 'Cloud Computing' enthusiasts here? | 18 upvotes costs about 18 cents on the grey market. |
1,807 | Christopher Nolan and Michael Caine... In all seriousness though, Pacino and Scorcese. Baffling how they haven't collaborated on something together. I'd love another Scorcese crime movie, but with Pacino as the lead. There were rumors of them making The Irishman together, but so far they seem to be just that - rumors. | I thought he was finally doing The Irishman after Silence, but I might be wrong about that. |
1,808 | We saw them perform their Broadway show. Teller scolded a kid who was trying to cut in line of the people taking pictures with him. His voice really surprised me. It wasn't what I expected. He was also incredibly patient with my son, who wanted to show him a magic trick. | He has a very smooth and honestly kind of comforting voice. He would make a good social worker/psychologist/therapist world some kind. |
1,809 | Interesting. Hiring friends, whether good or bad at a specific position, will create many small groups inside a work environment, which is bad for synergy imho. | Just FYI, these people just referred friends to different departments, not within. Facebook even has an online platform where Facebook employees can refer people to other positions within Facebook. These type of applications where a referral link was used are always reviewed first by the hiring manager in the department that us hiring. I think the ethical ramifications of referrals is diluted when referring someone to a different department. |
1,810 | What dialogue in space would you have missed when watching the imax version? | The scenes in space to he wanted nearly unintelligible. Problem is, I was in VIP IMAX and they cranked that shit to 11. The bass was a problem. And the scene I mentioned above, for some reason. |
1,811 | how did you know when the album really was finished? | when i listened to every song + knew i gave it everything i could. |
1,812 | Target 60; Finished book #39 last night. That puts me about 10 books ahead of the pace I need to maintain, to hit my target by the end of the year. Books read: | Are there any of these that you'd highly recommend? |
1,813 | You ever think that people just think their music was mediocre to begin with and has fallen off since the first album? They make objectively watered down, shitty pop music. There's no accounting for your taste, but every time someone doesn't like something, it isn't because they're trying to be "cool". Sometimes people are just better at judging music than you. | Dude seriously go fuck yourself...Get off your high horse. You're not better at judging music than anyone. It's all subjective. Your favorite band to someone else is nails on a chalk board. It doesn't mean the music isn't good and you're wrong it just means you like different things. Same with anything. I like chocolate ice cream but just because I like chocolate doesn't mean vanilla is crap. *Edit: This is coming from someone who doesn't like Mumford and sons too. But I'm not gonna turn my nose up at people for liking it. |
1,814 | Of 1 Million burglaries, you will become the victim of a violent crime in 260,000 of them. That's a 26% chance of experiencing violence. And roughly zero percent chance with a hacked webcam. On top of that, the issues you are describing are moot because the bank uses HTTPS, which to my knowledge would not be breakable. You would need something like a keylogger or something. | So, in your mind, someone emptying your bank account (which will be perfectly possible since I'd have your credentials to log in with), isn't an issue because there's no chance of them also killing you in the process? |
1,815 | I think the full story on Sobel is that he did his damndest to make those men prepared for the shit they were about to go into it. He was an ass but he was a necessary and essential ass whose actions probably saved lives. Some men need to be hated and within the business of war those men had an vital job to do. Sobel to Winters was the perfect one-two punch that made Easy Company such a competent and great band of soldiers. | I read the book years ago, and I remember that one of the men, many years later, said that "Captain Sobel *made* Easy Company." They hated him at the time and often referred to him as a Jew bastard, but they realized later without his training they would not have been the same elite unit. |
1,816 | forget rotten tomatoes. i find metacritic to be the most accurate ranking system for the overall quality of a movie, even if i don't always instantly fall in love with the movie itself. with that said, if there are movies or films that have over an 80 on there and you find yourself positively loathing a lot of them, odds are you are watching movies for entirely different reasons than most are watched and made and no review/commentary/ critique on plot, quality of production, acting nor characters will ever quite sink in with you. period. | There was a video on YouTube that mentioned specifically about this for a book release. According to the video, the result of the top does not matter. |
1,817 | Apple is something the common man can get behind. And like you said, its a lot of work finding and picking out a watch that is what you want. Apple takes that choice away and many people like it that way. I personally think its a scam, but I can see the appeal. | If by "common man" you mean "braindead moron who can't spend 30 minutes to figure out if spending 1k bucks on a certain products is wise", then yes. |
1,818 | If your front row and don't have to hold it 3 feet above your head sure. Upload it youtube as you had a great perspective. But if its anywhere else and your using a iPhone it's going to look like shit and you are going to annoy everyone behind you. | If I'm far away, I just snap a couple of pictures and that's it. I'm usually really close to the stage, so hell yeah I'm gonna record and get some killer shots of it. |
1,819 | According to the Book of Bokonon, a wrang-wrang is "a person who steers people away from a line of speculation by reducing that line, with the example of the wrang-wrang's own life, to an absurdity." [36] For example, the narrator of the book is steered away from Nihilism when his Nihilist house sitter kills his cat and leaves his apartment in disrepair. The house sitter, in this scenario, is a wrang-wrang. | I see. What did he mean by "Line of Speculation" |
1,820 | Honestly asking as IANAL, will that protect the company from defects causing chemical burns, or just if "my son went too fast into a wall, broke his nose, and now looks like a pug, it's your fault" ? | It depends on the state, and on the cause of the injury. |
1,821 | I could see that, but some viewers will always be aware that the original actor never did that part and the only "Acting" in the performance is done by the sound and film techs who edit the footage together. | I can see it getting very hazy, imagine a kid in 2188, watching a movie with Elvis and Taylor Swift in it, they aren't going to know or care about the time gap. Just like now how we get kings mixed up, even though there are centuries difference. |
1,822 | Is it a good? I mean obviously you would think so since you recommended it. I saw your recommendation the other night, went to Hastings and bought it today. | Yeah, I think so. As /u/Aytenlol mentioned, the "gimmick" may not work for everybody but for me the story was built up in such a way that once the layout of the book began to change it makes sense why. It's a very sort of uncanny, creeping horror—not about stuff jumping out but instead about things that should be normal becoming abnormal. I found it to be the sort of book where you read it and are scared, but then you think about it later and it's even more frightening. For what it's worth, it's the only book I can think of I've ever had a nightmare about. |
1,823 | It's not even his fans that think that. Very rarely does anyone even try to diss him. The dude is so lyrically adept it's outrageous, like savant Level Lyricist. Everyone with a career in rap knows this, and don't touch him. Also the first guy I ever heard rap orange with door hinge. | I would say he is the the most lyrically gifted. That dude can do things with words that I don't even know the words to call it what it is. "Something is afoot, its my dick." "The only hall of fame ill be inducted to is the alcohol of fame" are two that really stand out to me. Savant Level is the perfect way to describe it. |
1,824 | Man With the Dogs by The Dead Kennedys. And how do you not like Thunderstruck? | Had to ask the same question. What could one possibly not like about one of the greatest song intros of all time? |
1,825 | I was always partial to ["The Girl And The Robot,"] which features vocals by Robyn. | Also with Robyn, "Do It Again" is great (can't link it now, sorry). It makes me feel like dancing until my feet hurt. |
1,826 | I don't think he entered his dream though. You saw the papers flying around in the air after Flash left, so maybe he woke up Bruce, then Bruce got knocked out again when Flash flashed (heh) out of the Batcave? Fucking speedforce | I realized that too. He couldn't just be sleeping while decrypting files to have papers fly up. |
1,827 | I mean, I'm a hard core supernatural (the tv show) fan so I'm ALL ABOUT god v. devil / good v. evil crap so this actually sounds right up my alley! | Yeah I suppose you should like it then. I'm more into the gritty realist approach, which is how the book starts. |
1,828 | It's their final tour for the foreseeable future, and they're not going through their home state (they're from Ruston, Louisiana). That's some bullshit. Edit: for the down votes, [proof] | Saw them earlier this year. It was incredible. **PSA: If you are capable of attending one of these shows, I implore you to do so.** |
1,829 | The Harry Potter series. I must have read each of the books over 50 times each, if not closer to 100 each. I grew up reading them, and I still love them now. I pick up on more adult themes in the books now I'm older, but for me, it's a book I enjoy, regardless of the age it was intended for. | God, the HP series. I grew up reading them as well; every time a new book came out, I read the old ones again. BRB, need to go read them again. |
1,830 | H.265 is precisely why this group exists - to create a freely usable codec. Also the HEVC Advance group has announced [onerous royalties] for H.265. It is definitely not a free codec. This codec will be built on a combination of technologies from Daala, VP10*, Thor and contributions from others in the new alliance. The aim will be to use the best technologies to make an uber codec. And with Intel on board we're talking hardware support. With three large browser makers on board, we're talking broad adoption on the web. It's a pretty exciting thing. ^(*VP10 and Theora actually have common roots.) | H265 and x265 are not the same thing. H265 is paid, x265 is a free tool to encode into the h265 format (just like the dynamic between h264 and x264). |
1,831 | The longer this most likely disappointing adaptation is held off from entering the world the better. | Did you see the live action short some guys produced? If it had been them, it could have been rather cool... |
1,832 | Well, let's be practical. Living in an incredibly rural area means you are far removed from *many* of the things that are commonplace in modern society. There is simply no way you can adequately provide all the bells and whistles to a town that is 4 hours away from the nearest city and has a population of 1000 people. So that, IMO, is a much bigger discussion than just libraries. And as you noted, you actually *do* still have a library, even in one of the most extreme cases possible. | > let's be practical. Living in an incredibly rural area means you are far removed from many of the things that are commonplace in modern society. While true, that does not seem to gel with what you said earlier. > There is no place in America without easily accessible libraries. |
1,833 | It's such a wonderful movie, it certainly does have it's depressing moments, but it's overall a heartwarming movie. I think We Need To Talk About Kevin one of the saddest movies I've seen recently, mainly because of the constant pain Eva goes through as a result of her son's actions. It's not boo-hoo sad, more you feel sorry for her sad. It also stars Ezra Miller as Kevin. | Saw that one at the Scottsdale Film Festival a couple of years ago. Criminally underrated. Loved it, even though it continues to haunt me. |
1,834 | I just give out my single copy... I have a very hard time rereading a book. | Yeah but my copy is so fucked up . Usually beer soaked and has sat in mt jeep for atleast a week hahaha |
1,835 | Good recommendation, but I killed those all off years ago. Though you did remind me that I think he has two more out I should go read. | Yeah, supposedly he lives on an island in France and writes Disc World novels all day. |
1,836 | I'd actually like to hear your thoughts on Gamora and Nebula here. I feel like Nebula really doesn't do a lot and that Gamora contributed the least out of the 5 Guardians. *2 days old? Eh, that's old enough that no-one will notice my airing of opinions:, I'll say that Nebula had enough presence to have *potential* down the line, but I still think Gamora did nowhere near what y'all thought she did! I'm not normally the type to agree with "The Mary Sue" 100% of the time (so I'm kinda weirded out that I fell so in line so beat-for-beat), but I think [this] review captured most of my irks with Gamora and Quill. | I disagree. Gamora had the most important role in the final battle. Without her, nothing works. |
1,837 | The first book was the least interested I was in the series - which is uncommon praise for a series of that size. I was particularly bothered by the power escalation in the first book. I can't remember how many levels of bad ass getting curbstomped by badder asser he went through. "There is always a bigger fish in the sea" pervades the series, but it becomes, if not less prevalent, at least less jarring as the cast and mythos open up. | On rereads, you'll find that a lot of those bigger fish are foreshadowed. On the initial read, everything does seem to "just happen", but after you're grounded in the entire cast, you can see mentions of them everywhere. |
1,838 | If you're a movie junkie, then I'm sure you've seen it, but I'd say [Adaptation.] fits the bill. Nicolas Cage does a fantastic job as twins with two very different extreme personalities. Chris Cooper did an interview with 60 Minutes (I think) and he said he used Asperger's Syndrome to understand and develop his character. | It was one of his last good performances before he went off the [reservation] |
1,839 | What are you talking about? It was nominated for Best Picture! | i might be getting confused i remember it being slated |
1,840 | He should win this year for Sicario. They're were a ton of shots in that were so good looking you could frame them and hang them on the wall as art. It makes you wonder how amazing looking the Blade Runner sequel is going to look... | Good looking and good cinematography aren't the same. You can make a beautiful movie, but I'd it fails to tell the story visually, then it's not really great cinematography. That said, Sicario was both, and almost certainly should have won. |
1,841 | The God Delusion, Richard Dawkin. I will not explain what it is about. Fantastic books though. Downvotes away. | This book completely changed my perspective of life. Amazing read. |
1,842 | Arwen barely gets a speaking role in the books, so she has little change of being a well-developed character. | Yeah that's true, I suppose that's why I never really cared for Aragon ending up with her, he's *so* fleshed out, and she's really little more than a name, I didn't care about her at all and what should of been such a huge sacrifice with her forfeiting her immortality and all, it was just a bit like, "Well, whatever". |
1,843 | Do you think that foreign (slave basically) workers are buying their own Prada dresses back off of the factory? The demand for the work in question is not driven by the workers or their families or communities but by developed rich nations and their citizens. Out of sight out of mind is the unintended attitude of the majority of developed nation citizens, if the cost of products goes down relative to our economies there would be an increase in demand not a decrease. Edit: forgot to say, so in answer to your question, the rich consumers from powerful economies set the demand for the kind of work (currently) threatened by technology. | Many rich consumers also work in menial tasks that robots could easily do better. In addition they live in the society which is hell-bent on cutting cost. |
1,844 | I told my girlfriend I was really pissed off at Facebook and Cambridge Analytical. When she asked me why I gave some half-assed answer about privacy and I realized I really didn't know what I was talking about. I then asked a friend who works in Silicon Valley what he thinks. He told me "it's all blown out of proportion. Facebook, Google, Amazon -- they're all selling your data. If you're mad at Facebook, you should be mad at everyone." So, Reddit -- what exactly, in explicit terms, did Facebook do? What is data mining? Why do people care? And why is the census that Facebook dropped the ball with Cambridge Analytical? Thanks! | I have a limited understanding of the details, but the way it appears to me is that while Google, Microsoft, and Facebook all _colllect_ your data, Facebook seems to be the only one selling that data directly. Google seems to be keeping the data to itself and sells access to your eyeballs by way of targeted advertising. I have no idea if that's the truth, but if it is, it's a major distinction. |
1,845 | Although to be fair, I don't think that many people who are in favor of removing monuments to the confederacy ever claimed that it was about smearing the character of the average Confederate soldier. That feels like a straw man that was created by people looking for a valid (dare I say politically correct?) reason to be outraged about it. | The guy directly below you is a direct reposte to this horseshit. Of course the people wanting to remove the statues are hostile to the ancestors of the people who want to preserve them and don't much care about the sensitivities or fairness of it. You can go all in with saying you feel blacks' continuing resentment outweighs theirs, but call your spade a spade and don't pretend that ripping down the statues in their honor isn't insulting the memory of the southern soldiers. It's a prima facie instance of it. |
1,846 | It was a practical joke by some Finns. From the article: > Update, 8:12 pm: Against all odds, this story has gotten even stranger, and Strong Scene now denies any official involvement with H&M. More: | It's actually an awesome, absurd response to a fashion chain treating the metal image like a commodity. Think you can make up cool looking metal logos to co-opt our look without actually representing any part of the scene? Think again: we'll reverse-engineer bands from those logos. And the bands sound like the most obscure, non-commercial parts of metal. It's a great prank that will play best to people who actually love metal. |
1,847 | I called it that for a while and my girlfriend got really mad at me. Now I can't make racist jokes.... | So you could before? Blannie was the joke that finally tipped the scales? |
1,848 | God I'm so glad someone else hates Avatar. I refused to see it. People would not fucking shut up about how great it was and I was like "nope. Fuck that shit." | So you hate it but haven't seen it, sound logic. |
1,849 | Barenaked Ladies are a good one, preferably a greatest hits because it weeds out their sadder songs. Carly Rae Jepsen is a good one, bubblegum and peppy attitude and it's pretty damn good. Paul Simon - Graceland is one of my little guy's favorites. Weezer's Blue Album | BNL actually has a kid's album called Snack Time. It's pretty good, those guys are super talented and really overlooked in terms of artistry. I'm also biased because Stunt was the first album that really stuck with me, I guess I had decent taste in kindergarten. Big ups for Graceland too that album is nothing short of perfect. |
1,850 | You'd also have to carry around a keyboard and mouse. I don't know about you, but I'm not about to add a keyboard and mouse to my daily carry. | Unless they make it so it connects to your phone, or a remote. |
1,851 | Interesting: I finished *Consider Phlebas*, but really, really didn't enjoy the experience. (I kept thinking "so many people liked this -- it *has* to get better," while reading it, but spoiler: it did not.) But if the other books by the same author are that different, maybe I will give *Player of Games* a try. | I feel the same as you about Consider Phlebas and I really liked Player of Games, should definitely give it a read. Consider Phlebas was my first Banks book and I was really disappointed. |
1,852 | Apparently they have some of the best SSDs on the market, and probably in a different business division of Samsung. I mean it's not like the ssd will start streaming ads | Samsung is a HUGE company that I believe started in shipping. The comuter components and tvs are probably separated but exist within the same technology branch of the company. |
1,853 | >Non-sexual, but... I'm going to have to clear my browser cache now. Me before watching: Hah, how bad can it be? Me after watching:............................damn | The verses kind of sound like the intro to "Jessie's Girl". If "Jessie's Girl" made me want to jump into a vat of bleach. |
1,854 | Ratings don't exactly indicate a show's popularity, since a lot of people watch shows on Netflix or via downloads. Community had poor ratings as well, and that isn't an unpopular show by any stretch | It wasn't a top 10 downloaded show last season. |
1,855 | I've been to hundreds of concerts, and Counting Crows is hands down the best show I've ever been to. Sounds like you caught them at a bad time, man. | Agreed. I have seen Counting crows at venues all over the world and have never seen a bad set. The band is also super friendly with fans. I've always enjoyed hearing bands that perform their songs different live. |
1,856 | Just wanted to point out that this new super metal is extremely flammable. | Yep, just like the other things we already make out of magnesium. |
1,857 | One of the biggest problems with AMP is that it never leaves Google.com on mobile. This is a finger to the face of URL etiquette. | That's a legitimate point, if the article had mentioned that maybe I would have agreed with the author. Just really badly written article imo. |
1,858 | Plus she can actually sing. I am not a fan whatsoever, but she is infinitely more talented than most of the pop stars out there. At least a couple of her tunes are just damn good pop songs. I respect. | can u please name me some of those good tunes, because really i dont see it. seems to me like a waste of talent. |
1,859 | i saw what is probably more or less the same set, in brooklyn, earlier that week. i thought it was fantastic ... but it was *definitely* experimental: turntablist-style remixing of modern music that shadow *explicitly* said he expected nobody in the audience had ever heard. but it worked really well; i think it's the best shadow show i've seen in a decade. | Yeah, I dunno. Like I listened to the linked set on Soundcloud that someone posted and it sounded really good, for a club or a show. But either the large sound system ruins it or it wasn't the exact same set, I don't know (and I'm not sure if that's the one you heard in Brooklyn). Don't get me wrong, I was stilled thrilled to get to see Shadow live. But his stuff since Private Press has been getting less and less approachable, at least to me. |
1,860 | Yeah, but 'wasn't necessarily' still lets it slide into the theme (if only barely). | Could just be a Leonardo DiCaprio plays with lot's of money marathon. |
1,861 | In the Chinese historical epic Romance of the Three Kingdom, the ultimate result is all three kingdoms are destroyed and all major characters that are in anyway considered protagonists dies. Although the story takes place over 100 years so that's sort of expected. Based on that,I'm assuming GRRM is gonna give us a 80% casualty rate, let one of the stark win and say "that's the end, it's conflict and that's what happens." | That's not at all what happens. Wei is the legal successor to the Han, and the Jin are the legal successor to the Wei. Only Shu and Wu are destroyed. |
1,862 | You were picturing a Jetfire that is nothing but a fart joke? | So a character farting once makes them a fart joke? |
1,863 | Fuck them, I'll make all the Spice Girls mixtapes I want. | the Spice Girls are still played on any radio stations? wow |
1,864 | no love for Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik? That album was one a handful around that time that completely opened my eyes to a type of hip hop that, until then, I never I knew existed. Tribe and Digable Planets were also among the groups that changed music for me forever. | Southernplayalistic is a classic and Git Up, Git Out is prolly one of the greatest hip hop tracks of all time. but ATLiens and Aquemini are on another level imo, creativity just bursts out of their pores |
1,865 | Time Enough for Love or Stranger in a Strange Land. Even if they do make them, they won't be right. | I can just imagine them filming the scene with the twins and Lazarus ... or the scenes between Lazarus and Maureen. |
1,866 | I work in a public school in St. Louis. Our first graduating class walks this month. One of the traditions we are starting (like at many schools) is giving awards to outstanding seniors from individual departments. Our English department is trying to choose a book to give an outstanding senior. They are looking for something "English-y" and relatively contemporary. I wish I knew what that meant, but I'm hoping for some suggestions from this well-read group. | Perhaps [The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016] It's an anthology compiled by a committee of high school students with the help of a guest editor (Rachel Kushner this time around). Could be worth looking at? |
1,867 | I know this is an older comment, but [you may be interested in this] | Didn't know that, thanks. I'm still not convinced they're long for this world though. You can get some short term profit gain by cutting your workforce (which I know from people who work there that they've done heavily), but I'm not so sure they can continue to run their stores efficiently that way. It'll be interesting to see. |
1,868 | >...Marvell may on appeal reduce the damages award by 80 percent, "if the case even stands to begin with." [reuters article] | ...says *Brean Capital analyst Mike Burton, who rates Marvell a "buy."* I don't think Burton has the credentials nor the expertise to prognosticate what a federal appellate court will do. It also sounds like Burton's own credibility is on the line, as he has rated Marvel as a 'buy' despite what looks like an upcoming $1.54 billion loss. The appellate court is going to give a lot of discretion to a lot of what happened in district court, such as the judge's determination that Marvel's behavior was egregious and the jury's determination that Marvel infringed. |
1,869 | Movies have a purpose. The director/writer is telling a story, and that they did. It's an incredible comparison to the caste system in many countries and gap between common and super rich. Koreans and asians in general tend to be a bit dramatic in their story telling, ending was for sure a bit much. The movie made us think and look at a mirror as to how we treat people of lower classes. It served its purpose and was entertaining. | I mean I guess it could be called entertaining since it was kinda pretty to look at. However the social commentary was just absurd and way to far over the top, it was like being spoon feed 1984 or SoylentGreen out of a baby bottle. |
1,870 | *The Catcher in the Rye* is one. Read it two times the year before it was assigned in 11th grade, and read it that time, too. Years later, after reading *Nine Stories* I went back, and I couldn't even get out of his dormitory with that little whining shit. And while it didn't deteriorate exactly, the first time I read *Ulysses,* I flew through it in less than two weeks. A few years later I read it again and set it down twice... I think I took over a year to read it that time. I still liked it, but it just didn't do it for me that time. Still want to read it again, though. | What I came on to say. *Catcher* and *The Bell Jar*. I could attribute it to youth, but I read both of them for the first time relatively late (late teens, early 20s) and thought they were stupendous. I went back in my later 20s, & I thought the kids were just spoiled, self absorbed, immature children :/ Now that Im nearing 30, I should give them one more go & see how I feel about them, haha. |
1,871 | > Neither do I, nor do most Europeans though. Take a look at the average English weather and our average house sizes in comparison the Americans'. If we have space to air dry our clothes, so do they. The millions of people I'm referring to have no houses at all, and no yards at all. New York City and Chicago and other cities are full of people with no outside place that belongs to them for hanging clothes. | Also, If you live in the northern part of the US, putting your clothes outside during the -30F weather isnt the greatest idea. Not to mention, its much less time consuming to just take the laundry and move it 2 feet rather than taking the time to hang everything up. |
1,872 | Yes biometrics should be treated as user names, not passwords. | That's only if you really need that kind of security, if you just want it to stop some friends from reading your texts or whatever it works just fine. But sure if you need at minimum password level security biometrics isn't the way to go. |
1,873 | Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt. Edit: The song is one thing. The music video adds an entirely new level. | First thing that popped into my mind, not sure I have ever heard a song that had so much pain in the way it was sung. |
1,874 | Exactly what local markets are being threatened by the import of solar powered LED lights? | The important bit is the "free" part. It drives local producers out of the market, because even in Africa you can't produce cheaper than free. If you are really interested in the topic, look up the terrible consequenses that free donated ckoths has had in most of Africa. But most people are not really interested. |
1,875 | Yeah! I have this! Reminds me of early electronic/krautrock. Sound of Silver was a good listen! | I'm listening to Manuel Gottsching's "E2-E4" right now. I just discovered it today. If you haven't heard THAT yet, go find it on Grooveshark or something. Youtube doesn't have the whole thing uninterrupted, unfortunately. |
1,876 | Everyone except hosers loves Strange Brew. You're not a hoser, are you, eh? | This movie was shot in 3B - three beers - and it looks good, eh? |
1,877 | It's also a fault of the laws and regulations. Clear laws that impose hefty penalties for abuse of copyright claims can at least keep this plague at bay. | The law goes where the money goes. Ask them how much they want to enact this new law. I'm sure it's available for purchase. |
1,878 | Pillars of the Earth. All about monks building a gothic church in the 1100s. It is one of my favorite books and is often found on top book lists. | Yeah, I didn't come here to say this but this is spot on. I recommend this book to people and the first question is always "well what is it about?" I always find myself stumbling through the response because it really *is* a boring sounding topic... "some dude builds a church and it takes a really long time..." haha but I always have to back track and reiterate just how good the book is. Superbly well done and really sucks you in to the time and setting. Just awesome. Tom Builder FTW! |
1,879 | The military has plenty of intelligence agencies. There's the [Defense Intelligence Agency] (DOD). NSA is also a DOD agency, IIRC. The Army has the [United States Army Intelligence and Security Command] and [National Ground Intelligence Center] [Here's a list of US intelligence agencies.] Notice that the DEA is listed as having an [intelligence office] | The military != the army though and same goes for the DoD. You can only count intelligence agencies directly under the army or the dea. |
1,880 | Don't forget the 16 core processors, 64GB ram and dual SLI GPUs!!! | Yes please? Who needs their phone to last longer than a typical waking day anyway? Plug it in and charge it at night... I would take ANY gains over gains in battery life beyond 16 hours. |
1,881 | Sounds like a great idea, except that medical persons on call may actually need to receive phone alerts while they are in the concert hall. | Medical persons on call should not be attending orchestra performances while on call. That's heinously irresponsible of them. |
1,882 | Since Gorilla Glass 3 & 4 stand near 7-8 on the Mohs scale of hardness and most of the materials we react with in our environment less than that, aren't screen protectors basically a scam? Nothing lower than 7-8 on the Mohs scale would scratch a screen. | No they have saved many of my devices. I dropped my phone on gravel screen down and someone stepped on it. Gouged up the protector and only has a super tiny nick in the screen. The matte variety i choose to use cuts down on the appearance of finger prints. not a scam. Just a personal preference. |
1,883 | What did the Wright brothers achieve with their first flight? It barely went 100m and couldn't carry any passengers. A horse would be more practical. | People don't seem to understand what I'm trying to say. I actually love aviation and the emergence of new technology in this field. Something that is feasible doesn't mean it is viable.You have a power source that is highly dependent by its surface area and the fact that the sun is shining, paired with a propulsion system that will never have the punch of a conventional jet engine and is limited in the hight it can travel (propeller). Even with solar cells that work at 100% efficiency (20-25% today) the energy density required to make such technology economically viable (1 to 1 to today's standards) is simply not there. |
1,884 | > ...Judeo-Christian values have inarguably led to the freest, most economically advanced nations that the world has ever seen. ...the fact that you actually typed this out, hit reply, and others saw it and upvoted it is beyond astonishing. Just absolute disregard and disrespect for the struggles carried out for that freedom, and tacit support for the awfulness leading to that economic advancement. | You may think that, but I’m actually taking into account all of the struggles for freedom carries out across the world, not just the ones in the United States. Yes, there has been subjugation, slavery, and any number of other cruelties. But overall, it has been the countries who abide by Judeo-Christian ethics who have found the most success, especially the United States. The most freedom to forge your own path, while knowing that your rights are protected by law from tyrants and wicked men. Is it perfect? Of course not. Do men take advantage of the system? Obviously. But if you’re talking about freedom to choose your life, it is the best system in the world, today, and as far back as you can find. |
1,885 | The spoiled rich girl part is undeniable. Had her dad not paid to make her famous, none of us would have to suffer through her terrible music, and the alt right would not have their poster child | > and the alt right would not have their poster child. You say this as she had some say in the matter, that is her fault they suddenly wanted to troll the world using her image.. ffs.. Her PR team handled that soo badly, we are talking about Streisand levels of idiocy but if you keep spewing shit like that: you are then doing alt right a service and spreading THEIR message. |
1,886 | Haha! But you can also read a book about how not to get hit by a car! The circle of LiIiIife! | Who...how...how do you fit that into a whole book? Page 1. Look left. Page 2. Look right. Page 3. Cross street with caution, checking in both directions as a) traffic can come from both directions and b) even if it's not supposed to. People are bad drivers. |
1,887 | I don't wanna be "that guy", but fuck if I'm not tired of new battery technologies being developed bi-monthly while I'm still sitting here trying to get through a full day. | I will be "that other guy". As of now, batteries suck more than anythihg else in electronics, being the bottleneck in most scenarios. They suck so much that a ridiculous quantity of money is spent to research better ones, because they will pay it back many, many times. That means that thousands of different ideas are experimented every year, only a dozen or so get somewhere and usually they all have some drawback that was initally unnoticed or undereatimated. |
1,888 | I couldn't give a fuck about some shitty celebrity yet there's 2 posts on the front page of this sub talking about it. Mostly I'm laughing at the ridiculous idea that this is somehow a victory for women of social or economic disadvantage that don't have the luxury of expensive lawyers. > You are probably the kind of person who thinks they are smart because they enjoy Kubrick movies. Jokes on you. Kubrick is boring and you're not as good at being condescending as you think. Come back with a better argument. | You are to stupid to understand that a lot of social change comes from the top down. It gets more attention. You lowbrow. |
1,889 | Loved Phrazes for the Young by Julian Casablancas. Considering the quality of The Strokes' album before it, I expected it to be dire. | Upvoted but I just wanted to say I like First Impressions of Earth. Yeah there were some duds on there but overall a pretty good album. |
1,890 | This is a ceramic matrix composite material, not a "new" metal. | Looks like it is a metal matrix composite with ceramic (nano)particulate reinforcement. Not a cmc. You're right, it's not a "new metal", but it might be a new composite (assuming it hasn't been done before) |
1,891 | What is a Genre you are interested in? Ever listen to much Reggae? Try [Fortunate Youth] [Passafire] [Stephen Marley] [Iration] [Tribal Seeds] [The Expendables] [The Supervillains] | Yeah there is a bit of reggae I like. I'll take a look. Thank you. |
1,892 | Fantastic Four was my first and favorite comic. The Thing has always had a special place in my heart for his humor and touch of darkness. He was orange in the original comic. He joked about it. This is a departure and I hope not a sign the movie is going to not pay proper homage to the original. Fuck Disney if they do this. | Too bad it's not Disney, but Fox. If Kevin Fiege had his hands on the FF franchise, we wouldn't be getting the pile of shit Fox is serving us. |
1,893 | isn't that pretty much what the Chrome Remote Desktop app uses? | Chrome on Windows desktop doesn't leverage the built-in RDP system and instead rolls its own thats awkward (people can see your desktop on the monitor attached as you are using it remotely). |
1,894 | > evidence. I'm not sure you're using that word correctly. | I'm using it in the Bayesian sense. A world where at least 1 Google PR employee frequents /r/technology is more likely to display this consistent 3-post a day pattern reported by /u/baskandpurr than a world with 0 Google PR employees there. Thus, the existence of that pattern increases the likelihood of there being at least 1 Google PR employee there (i.e. acts as Bayesian evidence). See [here] for an introduction to Bayes' rule. Note that I did not say it was strong evidence, nor that it made that conclusion probable. It just makes it more probable than before hearing that evidence. |
1,895 | Hes an attractive guy! Im a dude too, and dont swing that way, but I could see why someone would develop a crush. | People forget that he's been doing great movies for a while. Time To Kill and Frailty were awesome. He had a resurgence with True Blood and some other stuff in the past couple of years, but he's always been doing good work. |
1,896 | Is there any chance that your relative would be interested in doing an AMA? | To be quite honest, my relative is quite busy and I know some newspaper approached him to talk about the issue and he directed someone whose job is doing communication. If a lot of people show interest for this, I will definitely consider asking him to do an AMA. |
1,897 | Sure, because political agendas and lobbying has never had any impact on the location of any project in the history of the United States. | Now that you are talking about locations, lets say we had the resources and technology to build something similar on the Moon, what impact would it have on view and image quality we get from it there? |
1,898 | why not just put it on your own private property, then they wont be able to say anything. It seems like people are getting in trouble for putting it on the easements. | I think if they attached it to their house it wouldn't be an issue but therein lies the problem. How are people going to see it if is attached to your house? These are supposed to be sitting out farther closer to the curb. That way people will be more willing to peruse the books at leisure instead of feeling strange being so close to someones house. I'd imagine if you had people that were enjoying it then it wouldn't be an issue to move it closer. However it would discourage new people to come and join in. |
1,899 | what Mariah Carey did, on one occasion, with no contact, compares to what Weinstein did? nope | Multiple occasions. "The draft lawsuit also makes allegations of sexual harassment, claiming Carey performed “sexual acts with the intent that they be viewed by Anello.” |
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