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1,900 | **Dust of Dreams, by Steven Erikson** Im about 70% through and im not sure if I should go on to read the last book in the series **The Crippled God** or if I should read something else to cleanse the pallet. I've been thinking of possibly readint **Child of God, by Cormac McCarthy**, **The Crying Lot of 49, by Thomas Pynchon**, or **As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner** | Haven't read the others, but I can tell you "Lot 49" is fun :) |
1,901 | OP may not want to monetize it. Could just be a pet project and they want a good reason to keep it alive. | Exactly what [Pictir] is for me. Just the feeling that, I built something that people enjoy and use is a huge accomplishment for me. |
1,902 | Well, that’s what most people assume alone to mean. Obviously it’s not legal to have a semi drive without anyone- so the distinction is unnecessary. | Idk, I’ve seen this post elsewhere on Reddit with a shocking amount of people believing it was fully automated. |
1,903 | On an Island is just an amazing album. Gilmour's definitely still got it. | On an Island (single) solo proves it. IMHO Gimour is the greatest of all time. |
1,904 | girl on the train did a great job at making me hate all the main characters. | I'm about halfway through and I don't think there's a single character I like. But - I can't put it down. So, mission accomplished I suppose. The main character is an utter mess. |
1,905 | But a movie with possibly the worst production values ever does? | In what ways does the Blair Witch have "the worst prouction values ever" whatever that even means???? |
1,906 | On top of that the actual people known as Gypsies call themselves "Roma." "Gypsies" came about because many people thought that they were a nomadic "eGyptian" tribe. They apparently originated in The Indian Subcontinent and over successive generations interbreed with other populations. | That's pretty ironic, given that we call Native Americans "Indians" and all those motherfuckers that landed on Plymouth Rock get so superior about being "Americans". |
1,907 | God damn it. I'm on Verizon and was trying to choose between the Galaxy S6 and the Nexus 6. Neither one of them have an SD slot or a replaceable battery. Guess I'll stick with my current phone. I use my phone a LOT and a battery will usually last me 12-14 months before it won't hold enough charge to be useful. This recent trend towards planned obsolescence is infuriating. Maybe I'll look at the Galaxy Note 4 again. | If your phone isn't holding a useful charge (depending on your definition of useful) after a year, I have to question what you are doing. Normal batteries should last at least two years (700+) charge cycles before they retain only 80% of max. Are you using it in extreme temperatures? |
1,908 | Hi peter love your books. Just wondering how much content was cut from the nights dawn trilogy? When I was reading the handbook in went to a lot of details that weren't in the books. What was the sci-fi show that Lawrence newton obsessed with based off of. | Quite few storylines from Neutronium Alchemist were cut even before it went to my editor. If I'd carried them on Naked God would have been really too big. I can't remember which show it was, I wrote that book back in about 2000. Sorry! |
1,909 | I love Stephen King and enjoyed Misery. There is a claustrophobic quality to the book. It is limited in it's settings and most of it takes place in the protagonists head and a small home. The atmosphere is close and uncomfortably cloistered. King does an admirable job of creating a horrific tale out of the most ordinary of circumstances. One human against another. | I'm fine with a limited setting, so long as he does a good job in his story telling, thanks! |
1,910 | I’m just about finished now. Here’s what I said about it in another comment: >It is *long*. Too long. The Stand is long, but every single page (I like to think) is captivating and essential to the story. It almost feels (in a cynical way) that Owen King was struggling in his authorial endeavors so Mr. King slapped his name on the book next to Owen’s to improve sales. >That’s not to say it’s terrible by any means. It’s a very good book. But King has set quite a high bar, so... | Thank-you! Like I said, I'm not quite sure why I didn't like it, but it could be because it's not solely his own. I became excited again about his work when I read the Mr. Mercedes series, so I had high hopes for this one. |
1,911 | Apparently the story goes that Terminator being the good guy was supposed to be a twist. He was the villain in the first movie and if you go in to the second one without any knowledge, you wouldn't find out he is the good guy until he actually tracks down John Connor. However, because that fact was used in the marketing of the movie, nobody went in to without knowing what the plot of the movie was. | Agreed, I heard the same story, and when you watch T2 once more, you'll notice that James Cameron really believed he could pull it off |
1,912 | Right, hence why I said "read one way" if you read the book as literally saying all creatures were made in a week via incantation and the genealogy of Adam to Jesus is literally true and took exactly as long as their reading says. Kent Hovind is an actual person who actually has followers. Him and his are ignorant. | So what's your point? All Christian are morons and atheist are the superior human beings? Is that your contribution to the conversation? |
1,913 | I mean, I think he killed himself but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out I was wrong either. Both of those options seem likely. | Sorry mate this is clearly a "pick a side and stick to it" thread. We ain't got time for people who are open to changes of opinion if presented with new information. |
1,914 | I think he's pointing out that Bane wasn't the one that grew up in the prison and wasn't the one to escape, instead the girl was and Batman should have questioned why bane sounded like Sean Connery while the girl sounded Eurasian. But, I don't think this idea would make sense, because afaik not everyone was born and raised there/in that area, instead they were sent. Right? | Yep. That's exactly why he had the accent, since he was born and grew up somewhere else and was sent down after he acquired a certain accent unlike Talia. |
1,915 | ooh god, i can't wait to read his tweets. i am waiting for some dark stuff | After seeing Stephen King at a public appearance, I'm waiting for some hilarious stuff. |
1,916 | Very well said. Taking a film about a guy who gets transported to Mars sucks all the fun out of it. | I think you forgot a word. Here is my best guess: "Very well said. Taking a film about a guy who gets transported to Mars **seriously** sucks all the fun out of it." |
1,917 | Actually a lot of people on reddit would agree with that. | A lot of people in the world would agree with that. I read some study that found that people today read and write more than they did 20 years ago, but it's all through texts and online articles. |
1,918 | Hello! The Bible Project on YouTube can help you. I have this book, Learn The Bible In 24 Hours by Chuck Missler and it's helped me a lot with my understanding of the Bible. Here's an infographic you may enjoy: The book that I would also recommend is called Understanding The 66 Books of the Bible by David Jeremiah. God bless, I know you wanted secular texts, these are all exegesis approaches. | No, this is great! And I'm under no allusion that there aren't great resources by Christian authors on the subject (that'd be kind of silly!) |
1,919 | Why do you need anything over 720p on a 4.7 inch screen? Don't even try to tell me that you can see the difference. | >Why do you need anything over 720p on a 4.7 inch screen? Because it looks better. Why else? >Don't even try to tell me that you can see the difference. Don't even try to tell me that I *can't* see the difference. Of course I can see the fucking difference. It's night and day. Have you ever compared 1080p and 720p phones at that size? Because I have. I'm a professional video editor though, so my eyes are highly attuned to noticing things like this. But even my non-video friends can see the difference. I'm sorry that you can't. |
1,920 | I personally really enjoy Safety Dance and Funkytown, but if the guy is a Goth rocker, he is probably not going to appreciate the genius of Men Without Hats. Or Lipps Inc. | Are you fucking kidding me? Men Without Hats and Lipps Inc. is played all the time at goth clubs. You don't know of what you speak, son. |
1,921 | i know i might get downvoted for saying but i absolutely *loved* all three transformers movies and i think Michael Bay did a great job with the movies. I went into these moves knowing i wasn't going to get academy award winning acting or a complex storyline. I went in to watch giant robots beat the shit out of each and blow shit up. I hated the girl the third one though. She was fucking annoying. | Agreed. It's an updated movie from an 80's cartoon series about alien robots fighting each other. If anyone went in expecting American Beauty, they got what they deserved. It was pretty pictures and fighting. I didn't want anything more than that. |
1,922 | I'm a IT college major but do not have a lot of technical experience. I was wondering what are some good websites where I can learn everything tech related from basic hardware to programming. | That's sort of like saying "give me a website where I can learn all biology." You're talking about a colossal amount of information. |
1,923 | I am a big fan of Theatre. I liked reading. I saw two films and liked both. | *Theatre* is definitely one of his best. I'm not sure what you mean when you say "reading"? I don't recall anything of his titled that, but I also haven't gotten to his nonfiction. Which films? I saw the modern version of *The Painted Veil* and that's what got me hooked on his work. I liked that movie so much I read the book, and then loved the book, and here we are. |
1,924 | His name is James, JAMES CAMERON, The Bravest Pioneer! No budget too steep, No sea too deep! Who's that?! It's him! James Cameron! | James Cameron does not do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because he IS James Cameron. |
1,925 | The proper callsign for that plane is Air Force 1 (backup)... boring I know | It's more likely to be referred to by its tail designation. Special Air Mission (SAM) 28000 or 29000. |
1,926 | Not a movie but a TV series called The Expanse on SyFy. It's based on a book series and is delightfully hard, near-future sci fi. First episode is available online now, more coming starting in December. | So if it's any good that means Syfy will cancel it after one season. |
1,927 | Same here - Bipolar 1 (previously misdiagnoses schizo because of the prominence of psychosis), ADHD and OCD - honestly I find that I read almost exclusively when I'm on a downwards cycle because since everything feels so slow I'm able to focus. I also have extreme trouble reading anything I don't finding interesting in the first fifty pages - my recent reads have been Wittgenstein's Vienna, Killing Patton (pls don't kill me, I bought it for my father as a gag gift and he said it's worth reading if you pretend someone else wrote it), and rereading the Plague / Fall / Stranger. | > honestly I find that I read almost exclusively when I'm on a downwards cycle because since everything feels so slow I'm able to focus. ha! I laughed when I saw this because I do this too. I tell myself it's a silver lining. |
1,928 | Legend was worth watching for Hardy's dual performance as it carried a film in which nothing really happens. I felt the same away about Depp in Black Mass. Ironically, two films about real life gangsters. Each film felt as though it was just saying "this happened, then this happened and then this eventually happened". There was nothing to hold on to as an audience member. | Depp in Black Mass was a way more believable and accurate portrayal of Whitey Bulger than the absolutely dreadful interpretation of Ronnie Kray. Was just saying there hasn't been a good gangster movie for many years... Certainly not out of America at least. Or am I wrong? |
1,929 | Dunno how classic, but Steve Winwood's [Valerie] beget Eric Prydz' [Call on Me] NSFW. It's not actually a sample, Steve Winwood rerecorded the vocals. | I've never seen the video for Valeria. I have seen the video for Call on Me countless times... |
1,930 | If we could only drop them for Internet connectivity as well. That would make me so happy!! | This will be the last thing they hang onto tooth and nail, and continue to monetize, even after they lose their video racket. There are plenty of battles in progress where cable companies are grassroots fighting against municipal broadband efforts to preserve their last mile monopoly/duopoly. Here's a couple. |
1,931 | Antichrist. The general ambiance and setting of the whole movie is so creepy yet so beautiful. | This one is quite intense with some very concentrated, serious gore. Great movie but I don't know if it fits his criteria... |
1,932 | Jack White just does whatever the fuck he wants. He's very modern-rockstar in that he epitomizes the careless swagger of classic rockers, but also encourages the hermit-like off-kilter obsessions of the hipster 20-somethings. Totally rock. | Well jeez hi there Jack, didn't know you made a Reddit account |
1,933 | Okay, so everyone is posting classics and critically acclaimed books but for me it was Animorphs #2. I was 10 or 11 years old and we had to pick a book from the school library to read. Book one was signed out so I grabbed the second, probably because it had a cat on the front. I loved it, without a doubt it was that book and that series that started me reading for pleasure. I wouldn't call it my favourite book, but it introduced me to a pleasure I never really understood before and made me a reader. | ME TOO! Dude, the same story! Book #1 was out so I got Book #2! I was already reading a bit but that just made me read so much more. I was a bit younger though, 9. |
1,934 | I read *The Fountainhead* and really enjoyed it. It was a rare read that I could tell early on would be a book I'd like. I'm not hip to any of Ayn Rand's personality, philosophies, etc so none of that is a factor for me I guess. Apparently a lot of people dislike her and her works. | I started with Anthem as a teenager and was hooked. I read through We the Living, Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. I was blown away; never before had I read anything so eye-opening and powerful. To this day, I consider Ayn Rand my favorite author. I graduated with a Bachelor's degree and was rather disappointed that I never heard any mention of Ayn Rand throughout college and wondered why. So are her works really frowned upon? If so, why? |
1,935 | The music doesn't fit that lighthearted mood and I think it would've helped if it was more happy and fun. | Ugh! The music! Whoever was responsible for filling every goddamn scene with a soaring orchestral moodscape needs to go back to... Sound... Production... School. |
1,936 | I learned absolutely nothing about literature in school. Literally nothing. I think we did a little bit about Shakespeare that basically just consisted of us watching some terrible film on a big old tv. We had to write our own stories several times, and then at the end in the final exam, we had to do that again, so I was glad I did it a lot before. I also had a few books to read over summer holidays, we had to do that twice I think. It was never talked about again and nobody tested us on it. I got a B in English. | I've said for years (as a product of this in British schools and with two children having gone through the same thing) that Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, etc., should only be taught at A-level (college level) to dedicated students. Before that, most schools would have done a lot better to have taught *Harry Potter* to kids who'd already read and loved the books. |
1,937 | This is why Spotify is so great. Fire up a reading playlist and block those out | I can't pay attention to what I'm reading if music's playing. I'll be distracted by the lyrics, and if it doesn't have lyrics, even by the beats. Absolute silence for me. |
1,938 | > But why? Everything about racial tension was already perfectly written into the stories already. "Honkeymufa" and "whitebread itty bit white candlesticks" were PERFECT in the books. "Detta Walker" as a character likely won't even be in the movie. People still hung up the race issue clearly haven't paid much attention to the stories about the movie's development and casting since Elba/McConaughey were announced. It's such a minor thing compared to what else they are changing. | So many times. So many times I've said that they absolutely, positively can't have Detta Walker as a character in this, in the "I don't know anything about black people" way that King wrote her into the story. That would come off as incredibly racist, insensitive, and hamfisted regardless of its value to the written version of this story. I expect the same batch of standard replies to this that I've gotten every time. |
1,939 | Just out of curiosity, are you aware that in the US, you have no legal recourse when someone takes a picture of video of you in public? | Why do you ask? I didn't say anything about taking legal recourse so as a debate it's a non starter |
1,940 | Beasts of No Nation wasn't eligible for the Academy Award because there needed to be some time between theater and home releases. | It was eligible, the academy just aren't ready to accept movies on Netflix. |
1,941 | I checked out on this band after Kim Deal left...sorry | You checked out after a spastic relapse machine left? Where are your priorities, man? |
1,942 | "Pyramid Song" "Backdrifts" "You and whose army?" EDIT: also "Exit Music (From A Film)" | I don't think I could pick a favourite, but *Backdrifts* is up there for me, too. It's amazing on headphones, almost mimicking the sound of your own blood/pulse in your ears. That...sounds really weird when I read it out loud, maybe I'm not making sense. |
1,943 | easily my favorite mass appeal song of the 00's. Everything about it just works | Dave Chappelle ruined that song for me. I always hear his lyrics in my head. |
1,944 | Ya, just the type of music I like. Its more lyrical oriented rap, but not as hardcore as some other hip hop. I just get downvoted because people don't like the genre. | Hip hop is the only genre I listen to and there are over 50 albums that came out this year that I like more than These Things Happen. G Eazy is pretty bad. |
1,945 | Have you thought about making a favicon (the icon that goes in the tab/bookmarks) for the site? I have tubalr bookmarked and it's the only site that doesn't have a favicon in my bookmarks. | Really? There should be a favicon, maybe try removing it and adding it again? Thanks for bookmarking it :) |
1,946 | The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers. | Very enlightening read! I really loved it when I first read it 3 years ago. I'd like to pick it up again soon and discover all the things I probably missed. |
1,947 | It's been years since I was into metal. My musical tastes have evolved over the years, and now I'm into bands like Florence + the Machine, Explosions in the Sky, Ben Folds, Tom Waits, Portugal. The Man, and the like. Used to, I would listen to Black Sabbath. All the fucking time. Seeing that they've reunited, I can now say that I'm excited over 2012. Because not only are Black Sabbath reuniting, but so are Ministry. EDIT: Rick Rubin produced for Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, ZZ Top, Nine Inch Nails, Adele, The Mars Volta, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Danzig, Slayer, Metallica, System of a Down, Run-DMC, Weezer, etc. He's an excellent producer. Some of you are acting as if JR fucking Rotem was producing this | I would never tell anyone that i listened to Florence & the Machine. Meh. Everything else, right on. |
1,948 | That sounds awesome. But not your stuff getting stolen, that sucks. Im surprised Flaming Lips/Weezer fans would do that. The people I met at this show were some of the friendliest people I've ever met. | i was at pnc for this show as well, great show, first time seeing both bands |
1,949 | Amazing idea. What stands out to me is that it's hollow inside so running something like a fiber internet connection can be made much easier now instead of having to wait until other utilities need to make a change as well and then dig up the asphalt already laid. Since this is segmented, you can lift where it ends and continue to run anything you like within it and not damage the road. I think that's the biggest gain we can get from this. Edit: Why am I getting downvoted? I'm just stating why it would be a good thing. | You're getting downvoted because honestly, it's a stupid reason. We have an insanely good and efficient system for fiber internet. That is, we dig a trench, put a cable in it and then cover it up with that same dirt. We don't even need to disassemble roads or hire cranes to lift blocks of that road up, to slide cables through it. My house got connected a month ago, they didn't even dig trenches. They used [these] horizontal directional drills to put a pipe underground and then slide the cable through it. Just a small manhole is needed every few hundred feet. |
1,950 | Well, they responded to this memo as if it were a joke. | and for some reason everyone in here thinks he was serious |
1,951 | Thanks a ton! This will help a lot! Apparently the post just got moderated and I broke a rule so Ill probably repost this in one of his suggested subs. | Oh that's too bad. I think these are really the basics that will help you a lot, but I hope others can provide some good advice. Feel free to PM me if you ever want to talk about it. |
1,952 | KB2506928: A link in an .html file that you open in Outlook does not work in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. KB2545698: Text in some core fonts appears blurred in Internet Explorer 9 on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2. ... Yeah, I hate it when Microsoft fixes my font rendering. | Yeah, I wonder where the hell that list came from. Only about half the items on there have anything to do with Windows 10 or the telemetry upgrades. |
1,953 | Well, I mean, nowadays MDMA is used as a date rape drug as well. It's not good to be drugged with anything without your knowledge, even if it's a generally good-feeling drug. | Sad but true... PLUR has been taken advantage by the not so PLUR man.. |
1,954 | Have you heard Reel Big Fish's version? They do awesome covers in general. Edit: Lead singer of Zebrahead is doing the verses | Sounds alright. I like that emphasis on *I DON'T WANT NO WAR.* in the beginning from the op ivy version though. It's my favorite part to sing along with. There ain't nothing wrong with another unity song though. |
1,955 | Seeing as how the mods have removed the web link in question it's safe to assume that they aren't going to change a thing. They never updated their public sidebar rule about Humble Bundles and don't have a wiki dedicated to explaining how self-promotion works here. It's clear that they have no incentive nor motive to change anything right now. It's like this for all new defaults. The moderators are human but the response they gave to the guy showed how much they care. | New defaults? This has been a default for a long time. |
1,956 | Hey thanks! The website already shows the movies available on Netflix streaming. Didn't notice that? The recommendations page top right, the search result page top right and the movie page below the poster. You shouldn't need to go to netflix to see if it is available to stream. One place for movies. That is the idea! | Nice! I was more patient this time and looked around the pages to see what was in each one. One thing I really liked about the page was the little pop-up at the top that told me that each movie has a purpose, and finding that purpose is great reason to review it... or something like that! It was late last night and I was tired. It just goes to show that you, the makers of this website, really do enjoy and appreciate movies! More inspirational pop-ups please! |
1,957 | That's...unfortunate. She doesn't even have a second of "What the fuck is going on out there." Also, her mind was that quick to think of the life insurance? And I'm pretty sure Ben had told her that the farm was under massive debt, and Runner wasn't worth shit. | She is both on drugs and pregnant - add that to her obvious selfishness - and bam, you have someone that only thinks about herself and how SHE is going to survive. She didn't even care about the baby while she was pregnant - it was ALL about her, her feelings, her family, her future, her socks..... she talked about needing money to run away but would go on shopping sprees. I don't think it even OCCURRED to her that there was no money - she just assumed there was - like Runner always assumed. |
1,958 | Good. The only person who wants another Alien film is Blomkamp. Can't wait for Prometheus 2. | I want another Alien film (as do a lot of people over at /r/LV426) and personally, I couldn't care less about Prometheus 2. The first Prometheus was a disappointing mess. |
1,959 | Wait...wasn't Star Wars based on the Seven Samurai? Isn't the Magnificent Seven based on Seven Samurai? The connection to the west already existed before Star Wars was around =s | Seven Samurai is based on Lord of the Rings. |
1,960 | Good Omens. There was a chance we could have gotten it with Robin Williams and Robert Downey Jr at one point too, but it fell through I believe and now Williams is dead. | There is a 6 episode series being filmed literally as we speak. |
1,961 | My guess is they're forcing us to use the mobile app, which people have been deleting en masse due to the illegally recorded conversations used for 'marketing purposes'. | Yea I've been using the mobile webpage for the past 6 months and they've recently really started pushing for me to install the app |
1,962 | Have you read De Profundis? It's the letter Wilde wrote Lord Douglas (Bosie) during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol. | I haven't but it's on my list to read! My husband has a book of the complete works of Wilde somewhere and when I can find it I'm hoping it's in there. |
1,963 | Well there's a live pilot onboard, so you definitely can't call it a drone. | Ya, drone I guess isn't the right word either. Flying bike I guess. Or heli-bike or something. But not hoverbike. |
1,964 | [This] Hans Zimmer cover (from *The Last Samurai*). In fact, check out all her Hans Zimmer covers. They will either break your heart or send you off to sleep. | Also: Morcheeba - I am the Spring. Elbow - Lippy kids. Laura Marling - Night after night. Bic Runga - Drive. I could name hundreds. |
1,965 | Yeah, I know. I'm just at this moment listening to The Madcap Laughs. What a genius he was. It's really a shame he went so, crazy, I guess. | Try not to look at it that way. Its a positive. |
1,966 | I never thought a MIB movie could pull the heart strings so hard. If I wasn't in a theatre when I saw it, I would have bawled so hard | Right? I think they put an end to sequels with it, but it was very well done. |
1,967 | Assuming most people here are Americans, it makes sense. We aren't taught shit about personal finance. The most I learned in school about personal finance is how to basically write a check. | THIS!!!! And now I'm paying for it big time because I made lots of mistakes in my early 20's. Why don't they have classes on this in high school??????? |
1,968 | Yes. You'll download a Win10 ISO, and install it with your new key. | So, if I understand you correctly, this is a free version of Windows that can be downloaded and installed on a clean partition - not a forced upgrade? At this point, I'd only be interested in dual booting this to determine if it's worth keeping around. |
1,969 | You guys might be interested in watching the [commercial Amazon released about drone deliveries] in which there is clearly a marker to denote the landing zone. | Cue all the creative posts about people building permanent landing targets out of colored patio tiles, Lego bricks, paint on their roof, etc. |
1,970 | Dude it looks awesome and like I said im a fan of the genre. I am more likely to have a favorable experience as compared to critics who if you read the review and not the overall number seemed to enjoy it to the pacing issues is what they knocked it for. | You sound that guy that finds the good in every movie with a superhero and says he likes it. I'm with the other guy. Shit is shit. |
1,971 | Thank you for bringing this in to my life! That's wonderful. So clever. | IKR? When I first heard it I kinda hated myself for how much I actually liked it! lol |
1,972 | Or just a good plot and a satisfying ending but act holier than thou anyways. | >but act holier than thou anyways. Except I'm not. Not my fault the movie gets a lot of unwarranted hate. |
1,973 | I got my laptop (windows 7) and when i got it, it had way more than 100gb of disk space. Now, it only has 100gb and a Disk F came out of nowhere and has 185gb. What should i do because i only have 3gb left in C drive. | You can also change the targets of your libraries to the new F:/ drive. This will move all of your data onto F:/ To do this go to Right click on the folder (e.g. docs or music) select properties, then choose to move the folder to the other drive. |
1,974 | It's not necessarily even muscle mass. At least have someone with wider shoulders or something. Gal Gadot is a beautiful woman, but she looks like a runway model. They've pigeon-holed themselves into thinking audiences will only find petite women attractive. My ideal choice would have been Charlize Theron. She's proven she can transform into anything, she can act well and can be a badass. | Gal Gadot is 5'11, she's not "petite"... Also, Charlize is pretty much as skinny as Gal, what are you talking about? |
1,975 | If I had a dime for every time this is posted... | You would be making money in a very strange way |
1,976 | I have never seen a pregnant womans belly fold like a crepe before. | Have you ever seen a court summons for slander before? Watch your lips before you catch a Skootenbeeten! |
1,977 | Can someone explain the important of this announcement to me. What affect will this have on iOS, Android.etc.? | It will make development on iOS easier and faster. Also, coupled with the new Metal-API iOS will be able to produce significantly better 3D graphics than comparable (or even better) hardware on Android. |
1,978 | I didn't like that his story was added (the one armed orc). It felt like a lame attempt to give the story length when it wasn't needed. His lines are corny and everything about it just irritates me. If Jackson really needed length that badly, then a complete side story should have been done on some random army/group/person. They didn't have to screw with the main story and add ridiculous things like rock giants. | Well. There is talk of rock giants in the Hobbit. And they do "fight" each other and throw large rocks at each other. So that part was actually true to the book. The difference is that Bilbo and the dwarves were much closer to it in the movie. |
1,979 | At the rate people seem to drop and crack the screens on their phone it may be a wash between quality and longevity from a cost standpoint. Though at least in the US it seems like phones are more of a status symbol than anything else so not sure it will help out here but will be nicer for lower income areas. | Physical build quality is one thing. Software quality is another as well. |
1,980 | That's the most vague statement ever. On a music discussion site we can do better. | Okay, feel free to try making a less vague statement. |
1,981 | > "An attacker using a carefully crafted handshake can force the use of weak. keying material in OpenSSL SSL/TLS clients and servers." Let's say you're worried about apache traffic. Wouldn't disabling weak ciphers in Apache mitigate this vulnerability? | No, disabling weak ciphers doesn't help, because the attack causes an empty master secret to be used by both server and client. So the cipher agreed on by the server and client will still be used, but it will be fundamentally weakened so the MITM can read all the traffic. See response by /u/foolishrobot for the great research link that explains this all pretty well. |
1,982 | - Edgar Allan Poe: Collections of short stories. - Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray. Both are pretty dark, interesting and have a lot of motifs. Don't bother with The Great Gatsby. Its so boring to read. | Thanks for the recommendations! Just wondering, have you read Atonement? Heard the movie was good. Considering *The Picture of Dorian Gray*, sounds good |
1,983 | I really wish a coworker of mine hadn't spoiled the "twist" of the Prestiege. Is it still worth a watch? | What twist? If you think there's only *one twist*, it is very, very much worth watching. If you like any of Chris Nolan's movies, go find The Prestige! |
1,984 | I keep trying to find this when I walk past a Waterstones (UK). They never have it :( Online order it is I suppose.. | Check your local library, should have a searchable catalogue online. |
1,985 | Hey I know we are talking about police brutality but lemmie shift the conversation to get your opinion on this totally unrelated situation that is nothing like the situation we are talking about so I can continue to paint a straw man in my head. | I see you choose to totally ignore the actual question for the edit I put up later. Probably a good choice, I don’t think you had a answer anyway. |
1,986 | I just saw them perform tonight at a tiny club - maybe 40 people there. They are still going strong! | I've been there!...wait...Do you mean that you saw them perform at a club which is "tiny" or did you mean that you saw them perform at the club named, "A Tiny Club"? |
1,987 | Exactly what I was thinking! Hopefully my expectations won't be let down. | With the hype and controversy now surrounding this movie, it's going to be absolutely impossible not to be let down. What was initially just a dumb spoof comedy has become way bigger than itself, and people are going to expect more from it as a result. |
1,988 | Im fairly certain Lucas had full merchandizing rights to Star Wars. It was one of the big "steals" that he got in his contract. No one realized how valuable merchandizing for Star Wars would be. So if anyone is to blame, it isnt some evil "executives", but Lucus himself | Yup. The Star Wars movies are the biggest independent films of all time. They were funded mostly out of Lucas' own pocket, and loans that he took out himself, and he had unprecedented creative control over the whole process because of his legendary merchandising deal with Fox. Only Lucas made money from toys. |
1,989 | I think the problem is that with most chain theatres, there's no "usher" in the theatre to silence patrons. Instead, you either have to say something yourself, which takes you out of the movie because now you're all pissed off, or get up and go find an usher outside in the lobby, which *literally* takes you out of the movie. Bring back someone who stands in the theatre, watches the patrons, and if someone acts up - they get kicked out. Actually - scratch that. Release day 1 movies on home video/netflix/download so I can watch it at home on my big screen TV and good sound system, and not have to worry about these idiots. | We don't call them "ushers", where I'm at, they're "film crew members". But I'll still call them ushers |
1,990 | I agree, I won't deny that it's culturally relevant simply by virtue of the fact that it's so widely read. I just found it to to be too obtuse an allegory to be enjoyable as a novel. For me, at least, it was impossible to read as anything other than a big neon billboard screaming "BE AFRAID OF COMMUNISM!" It just didn't flow as a narrative piece in my opinion, mostly because of the weak characterization and the overly alarmist tone that detracts from the believability of the world. | Orwell was a communist, both 1984 and Animal Farm are basically Orwell saying that he thinks Stalinism is a perversion of communism. |
1,991 | I'm incredibly excited for this album. But whoever is doing their marketing just needs a giant gold star. This is how you do a grassroots marketing campaign and it will be studied for years to come. | Not exactly grassroots. These videos are sponsored in part by Intel after all. But I think I know what you mean. |
1,992 | >>People who are spooked by all the telemetry reported in Windows 10 - uploading of searches, Cortana voice searches, etc. >Because everything else you use online isn't already doing this... And this makes it ok? | No but it begs the question why are people are reacting to this one instance of it but are ok with all the others? It's not a specific reason to avoid Windows 10 *unless* you also avoid everything else with telemetry potentially containing personal information. |
1,993 | I think I'll prefer the darker tone DC will offer. Funnily enough, the best part of the MCU is the darkest part, Daredevil. | True I agree Daredevil was great nobody remembers the lighter tone movies that were just generic like Iron man 2 or Thor 2. |
1,994 | You need some Swayze folks: Point Break, Ghost, Road House and Dirty Dancing. Some classy pop shit right there! | Dirty Dancing is in my original list. But I agree with the addition of these other 3 movies too. |
1,995 | >If Khan didn't want to provoke the Klingons, WHY DID HE GO THERE TO HIDE? I thought the explanation in the film was that Kronos was the least likely place The Federation would go to look for him. Kahn didn't really care about the Klingons himself. | Becuase there are no unpopulated planets or distant space stations.. it was stupid move that just *happened* to play right into the other villains plans? Smells like lazy writing to me. |
1,996 | Saw the 70mm version and have yet to see the theatrical cut, but I loved it. The payoff was BEAUTIFUL, totally would watch it again in a row because of the last 90 minutes (plus the characters are just outright hilarious). My only problem was The Bounty Hunter's blow job story, I get why he said it but it was making my eyes roll a bit too hard, other than that it was fantastic! Go watch it if you haven't already!! | I didn't feel like they necessarily needed to show shots of the blowjob, up until that part I thought it was hilarious. But that shot,that's something Roger Ebert would've hated. |
1,997 | No see, it doesn't. And that's a statistical fact. Tons of these tiny little pebbles your just imagining in your head exist in our world, and yet the numbers show they have no affect on one another. Like I said, you are making a claim. Data exists regarding this claim. Sexualized songs are higher than ever, and there is no effect on rape. The data shows you are wrong. That's the end of it. When you make a measurable claim, you are expected to back it up. | The issue isn't about sexualized songs, its about songs that promote rape culture. The bulk majority of sexualized songs are very healthy in regards to view on women. most of them are actually being sung BY women in very empowered roles. It isn't about sex. Talking about sex doens't lead to an increase in rapes. Teaching people or promoting the idea that no doesn't always mean no might not either. But it isn't the kind of lesson I would ever teach a child because I think the idea that no doesn't always mean no is playing with fire. Please, you've made claims of having so much data to promote your arguments. I'd love to see it :) |
1,998 | Am I the only one who didn't enjoy His dark materials this much? Yeah, it's a good book (well, trilogy), but really boring at times. Maybe I will give it a second chance in a few years | They were entirely meh for me. Not good, not bad, just not that interesting. I would kind of equate it to a book version of a movie like The Thin Red Line. The prose were well done, the scenes were lovely to picture, but in the end I just didn't care what was happening. |
1,999 | "Note:enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended" That's what my page says | Yeah they suspended it but I've still gotten at least one or two letters since then warning me I'm using too much. Then again, I also live by a lot of 55+ Communities so my usage is probably well above the local average. |
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