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2,300 | I love the Abhorsen series, although I wish there was another book. :( Please Garth Nix, please. Edit: Evidently there's a fourth book coming out in 2013. | Well it was originally scheduled for 2011 i think so you might not want to rely on that date. |
2,301 | My Kindle puts them all together into one awkardly long book. So the entirety of the Hunger Games is in there as one "book" and the entirety of A Song of Ice and Fire is also in there as one "book." Really fun looking at the "estimated time left in book" for that one. | I'm 97% of the way through A Song of Ice and Fire (books 1 to 4) on my Kindle. It only took me nearly five years to do it, too! |
2,302 | I never got why TV stations are against this. Areo is expanding their customer reach in ways they couldn't before. If I was a channel, I'd just require that the viewers be required to watch ads and Areo reports on the number of viewers. | And they are, it's essentially a remotely located antenna, you get the same stream you would whether you use aero or had a properly situated antenna at your house. |
2,303 | Right, and now David Lee Roth is near the top of the list? Hmmm... | He's got some insanely high, non-human sounding screams on songs like "Running with the Devil" that boost his recorded range. |
2,304 | The Mrs. Pollifax series by Dorothy Gillman. Excellent series about an elder woman who becomes a spy for the CIA as a mid-end life crisis. This grandma kicks butt! Suspenseful, engaging, funny, and excellent writing. Gillman is probably my favorite writer. | I've read and enjoyed a book or two out of this series - a modern day Miss Marple! Thanks for reminding me about this series. |
2,305 | I really liked Homegoing. I had a lot of trouble with the characters (like I did with GoT) but that seemed more like a personal problem exacerbated by the writing style than a failure of the literature itself. [Here's a good review of it] | ah i see, could you elaborate on what about the writing style that made you have trouble with the characters? it has a lot of great reviews on goodreads too! but i did notice someone saying that because of the style the book is written, they weren't able to develop as much connections to the characters (or something along those lines) |
2,306 | Then you probably should stay away from McCarthy. Personally, I like what he does; it makes it a really smooth read, and it seems like the way he punctuates makes you focus more on the story and emotions of his books, instead of the mechanics of it. | I'm in the middle of The Road right now. I agree, but only for short conversations. A few times so far I've had to go back and work out who said what because it's a little ambiguous, and it totally pulls me out. |
2,307 | Spotify (and Pandora and Last.fm and similar services) is not available worldwide. And mobile data aren't that cheap everywhere. Greetings from the excessively expensive Czech Republic. | Solidarity brofist from Australia. No Pandora, no Spotify, our incumbent telco charges $2/MB for some mobile plans. |
2,308 | That's a fair take. A lot of their songs take a particular tone and don't stray too heavily from it (e.g. Elephant or Feels Like We Only Go Backwards). If that's not your jam, no worries. Plenty of prog rock and other shit that goes all over the place in a single song, but sometimes it's what I need. One of my favorite Tame Impala songs, The Bold Arrow of Time, does a little more in one track. Try it out, hope you dig it. | Now that's a pretty sweet track, a lot darker sounding, love the guitar fuzz tone. I've only got Currents and Lonerism (which I do like). I must try check out that album then. |
2,309 | I will ask the guys about it, they never wanna tab stuff out because they are lazy, but maybe! | Your wonderful! Thank you, thank you, thank you, even just asking, thank you! |
2,310 | Goddammit. The kinect was the thing the Xbone had that was actually innovative. If they put more resources into making games that use the technology, then there would be a better reason to buy the thing. | In the meantime, we would have to deal with the games that don't make good use of the technology and just plain suck. |
2,311 | Thank you for proving me right and proving you wrong. I am glad you got over yourself. You do realize that is the thing I linked to right? That says AT&T will give a few places 22mbps u-verse dsl(which is not a network upgrade, it still uses POTS copper wiring as it is DSL) and the rest will be told to get wireless data. | > You do realize that is the thing I linked to right? I do. Which is why I'm baffled that you say anything about Chicago or Chicago suburbs. We've never talked about Chicago and there is no mention of Chicago in the link. It says people in "outlying areas" will go to 4G LTE. But AT&T just announced potential fiber for cities, not outlying areas. So again, in summary: This doesn't show AT&T promising fiber and not giving it. It doesn't show AT&T saying they're abandoning wireline service for cities. So I have no idea how you think how this proves you're right. |
2,312 | This subreddit's going to be ruined if we don't stop the inevitable flood of Facebook screencaps. | Especially when I first saw it as a [4chan screencap] |
2,313 | I'm wondering why 10,000 people work in car washes even before automatic cars. My local gas station has a completely automated drive-through it system. Are all these people drying the cars with shammies? How the hell do 10,000 people work at car washes? This number seems made up. | First Automated car washes sucks. The place in California. You drive your car thru latest and greatest automated car wash. When the car comes out workers will open all the door, clean door jamb area, kick board, clean under the fender wells. Clean the rims. While inspector will walk around the car point out what machine missed and worker will work on that area. If they can't get it, you car will go back in to machine. More people they hire, more cars they can process. |
2,314 | Who hates their battery life so much that they would use always-on ambient display? | I have the LG G6, which is basically a pixle with a bigger display, and the always on display has no real impact on battery life. Maybe 1% more a day. |
2,315 | I watched Lion King when I was 8. Lots of character development, for obvious reasons based on its source material. It was my favourite animation title when walking out the cinema and it still is. | I guarantee you weren't looking for symbolism, plot holes, and character development when you were a kid. And hey, some films are better than others in some areas. |
2,316 | All of Dark Side of the Moon on a single track? Is it a live bootleg? | No, it's the "regular" album, but I hate having it split up on random play, so long ago I edited it into a single track. Good catch though. |
2,317 | You can scan photos for things that are legal but embarrassing, dick pics, kinky sex, gay sex, etc. Using the technology to stop dangerous criminal activity like child pornography and human trafficking is good, but we can't pretend that is all that can be done, and safeguards need to be in place to ensure proper privacy. | I don't think they are scanning the content of photo's, but merely matching to a table of cryptographic hashes. File is identifier, hash added to database, red flag raised when it sees the hash again. I doubt any image recognition is happening here. |
2,318 | No, of course you can have an opinion. I think that cyancynic's point still stands, though--it's much easier to criticize than to go out into the world and actually do something. | and the point still stands.people are allowed to make those opinions. "Yeah wrll YOURE.not.DOIN anything man how can u judge! xDD" like not being.able to say how food tastes because youre not a chef. You're quite the wanker mate "xDD shes got a record deal but not you!!" fkn hilarious mate |
2,319 | I'm not a science guy, I'm not that intellectual, but I like interesting topics. Please don't recommend Goedel, Escher and Bach. I'm not smart enough to get it. | "Technology" is a vast subject. I think you're going to need to narrow it down a lot if you want one single book. |
2,320 | If you think this shit passes as "good music", then that's your problem. | that's not the point. He is making music, creating something from nothing, and all you're doing is casting judgement. It's not supposed to be 'a masterpiece' otherwise he would've spend more than two days working on it and wouldn't have used someone else's instrumental. The fact you feel the need to put it down is a reflection of your character and NEWSFLASH: you are a shitty character. |
2,321 | Not that many games support it anyway; In fact the XBoxOne does not currently have many games at all anyway. | It's a chicken and an egg thing. The more games that support it and the more successful they are, the more games will support it. It helps that, at the moment, everybody who has an Xbox One has a Kinect, but what does this move mean going forward to that end? And what does it say to developers and publishers who have put resources into Kinect games? I mean, besides "go fuck yourselves." |
2,322 | Fake News vs Alternative Facts. What a time to be alive... | That's what really is going on, anyone who doesn't believe it is blind. |
2,323 | I have an amazing ratatat story. Maybe when I'm not drunk on my phone I'll tell it. Maybe... | Tell it now. Drunk and on phone is even better. |
2,324 | Are you a game of thrones or Harry Potter fan? I'm huge of both-and I feel like this book was a Harry Potter story, with a game of thrones caliber story telling/writing. Have you read the game of thrones books? They're definitely thick to get through with all the fancy wording, but that's also some of the fun of it. I feel like GoT prepped me for this book | I love GoT! It wasn't the density of the book, rather the standstill plot and infuriating main character. Honestly I think it is because it was so hyped up that it couldn't live up to the expectations. I get the whole wizarding school comparison to Harry Potter, except for the lack of character development. Game of Thrones didn't introduce a single throw away character, and it seemed like every other character, except the protagonist, in Name of the Wind existed purely for his aid. I didn't hate it, I just don't get the insane hype. |
2,325 | How does your anthropology degree play into your writing? Are any of your books inspired by things you have learned about? | I had the best anthropology department supervisors. They were upfront with us that a degree in anthropology doesn't open a lot of great career doors. To prepare us, they geared the coursework so we got an understanding of anthropology, a focus on writing skills, and improved deductive reasoning. My degree plays into all aspects of my writing. I have a lot of good story ideas floating around from some volunteer archaeology work I did as a senior, and I have a nearly completed novel that has to do with Navajo archaeology. Thanks for the question! |
2,326 | The US isn't struggling with chip and PIN. It isn't even trying chip and PIN. The US is going to go to chip and sign. Putting in EMV takes some time and money. The US isn't particularly struggling with it, no more than any other country did when in the adoption phase. The US just lagged a long time because strong consumer protection laws meant the consumers didn't have reason to be upset with magstripes and the fraud was manageable. Well that's over now, it's clear the fraud isn't manageable anymore so the companies in the US are taking action. It's a natural process. | Chip and sign. Lol. What is this, 1985? I don't get why the us payment system is such a ridiculous primitive thing. We had chip and pin since like 1990. |
2,327 | This is why I can't say I hate GMOs. Yes, Monsanto is super shady and crushing small farmers, but GMOs are vital to ending famines in countries stricken by poverty and have poor soil fertility. If GMOs help rural, impoverished people gain access to food, it's not something we can afford to fight at this time. | GMOs are greatly misunderstood. I hope to learn more about them in my studies. Thank you for bringing that up! |
2,328 | Like when the priest tied himself to the Tesla tree? | And The Bikura, the labyrinths, the Tree of Pain, etc. |
2,329 | Finally! Someone who loves that book as I do! I find myself wyoming quite a bit. This year I am loving the f'd up You by Kepnes. Don't let the "romance" category blind you. It is a f'd up psychological story. | I thought it was amazing! Very hard to believe that it is his first novel! |
2,330 | Freedom of expression doesn't protect against censoring by private companies. It protects against government action. You should feel fine about this. | So we should be OK with companies censoring any creative works that have certain political viewpoints and not others? Who decides? I don't like it, Nazis should be shut down in open debate (whether that be verbal or musical or whatever) not just censored. It feels authoritarian. |
2,331 | Huh? The Palpatine/Anakin discussion of "Darth Plagueis The Wise" is one of the greatest scenes in all of Star Wars. | Wow, you must have a low opinion of Star Wars. |
2,332 | Because I figure anything going through customs hits the NSA factories that install their hardware bugs. I need to make a trip to Canada for some routers soon. | Well, MikroTik is based out of Latvia. There is no way these things are going to customs and then the NSA and then to the resellers or customers in that fast of a turn around time. |
2,333 | This. That's like saying we gotta ban encryption cause it can store child pornography ahaha! | The difference is encryption can hold childporn the blockchain has child porn that isn't encrypted. |
2,334 | Get one! New record players convert to mp3's, so you can listen to it through the record player and put it on your computer. Winwin. | I need to find a cheap record player online or something. And I'm not worried about converting on mp3. The vinyl on Amazon comes with an mp3 download. |
2,335 | The EU is large enough to dictate both things at once. It will simultaneously work in the best interest of ordinary people and micro-manage things that we might not consider necessary to micro-manage. Overall, I am in favor of the EU (I live in Sweden). I think they're a net positive, despite lots of questionable decisions and large overhead. | I completely agree with you actually, I was mostly trying to be funny. I'm sure there might be some kind of benefit to having a common standard of cucumbers. Probably to make trade easier and more standardized within the EU. Though in the past I have a feeling it was much more about things like that, and not many things that had an obvious and tangible benefit to ordinary citizens. So in that sense it has gotten better, even if it wasn't necessarily bad to begin with. |
2,336 | Theoretically, processing can move to the cloud and computers will become purely interface. If a server can render a game and download the graphics to you in real time then your computer is a display and input device. It can be more portable, lighter, cheaper, longer battery life and so on. | I've mostly seen the cloud rendering used for using inexpensive imaging devices to generate 3D printer files. So it wasn't a latency issue since you're not expecting realtime feedback. Worked pretty well. Depending on file sizes that's less relevant to high bandwidth. |
2,337 | That's why he's referred to as "Prince's Dad". No one would care if the title was "New song by John Nelson". | I hope that the music is good, but honestly it's probably just mediocre. They are just using the name to generate buzz, as any good businessman would. Listening to the re-release of Purple Rain, the Father's Song was actually disappointing (after the first verse) to me, when in the movie I really enjoyed it. I find it difficult to support somebody in death, who didn't do much to support his own blood when he was alive. I'll buy Prince music all the time, I won't buy his fathers. |
2,338 | As someone who loves to read fantasy, and loves the series you listed, I want to branch out. I don't know about much else that's available and Im tired of google searching and really only coming across the same authors and series over and over again. Could you please provide some examples of great fantasy that has not yet really penetrated the public consciousness? What are some you recommend? Thanks in advance! | *Malazan Book of the Fallen. *Mistborn. *The Dresden Files. I use Goodreads to find new authors. This is also awesome |
2,339 | Sparta. I saw them live at Coachella in 2004, and their sound can only be described as a wall of sloppy noise. Not only that, but halfway through their set they went on an incoherent diatribe about how the Bush presidency sucked (yeah, can't argue with them there, but don't do that shit on stage). It's no surprise that they never had a huge following to begin with and faded into relative obscurity shortly thereafter. | If I remember correctly they were the least interesting half of At The Drive In who formed after they split. The others formed The Mars Volta - who are fantastic. |
2,340 | Im sorry but I can't agree with that statement, because it leaves no room for mistakes, plenty of people have done terrible things they regret, that doesn't mean their a terrible person, their intentions are also what's important. | People who do multiple terrible things over the course of their life are terrible people. Intentions become irrelevant at some point. There could be reasons why they are terrible people, but they are still terrible people. |
2,341 | > Biffy Clyro and it's a song called "Many Of Horror" Listening to it now, great song. Grabbing the album as well. Thanks! | If you like Many of Horror I would also HIGHLY recommend the album Opposites. It's just one of those records that I can completely lose myself in and love every song of. |
2,342 | They do get weirder as it goes. The 2nd one is pretty decent still. Read his books Fear Nothing and Seize the Night, in that order. The main character is similar to Odd Thomas in his quirkiness, but these were written before Odd Thomas. I've always wondered why we're still waiting for the final 3rd book of this installment and he keeps pumping out Odd Thomas books because I always liked the Christoper Snow character. | well should you ever need a new book series to read look up badge of honor by web griffin it's not supernatural but the main character is similar to odd Thomas in that his life is plagued with misfortune |
2,343 | every time I have seen him in public with his phone out, it looks exactly like my S3. I had an S3 for ages. Its not a secure phone, and no further carrier updates. | Hmmm maybe we will soon see a highly optimized Oreo update for the S3... if the president uses it, might as well make it relevant again! |
2,344 | I thought House of Leaves was half a good book and half a bad book. The parts about the movie and the house I really enjoyed but the parts about that fucking tattoo artist I wanted to throw the book away. | interesting idea, but I felt like it interruppero the flow of the actual story. The footnotes became infuriating, and I've read Infinite Jest so I know about infuriating footnotes. |
2,345 | One thing to take away here: Gary Oldman is amazing | Gary Oldman is a chameleon, that man could be anybody he wants. In fact, I'm not too sure my reflection in the mirror isn't just Gary Oldman holding up a frame and looking at me! |
2,346 | I liked the riff from Disengage the Simulator more: | I love that riff too, but I like it better Foreign Objects style |
2,347 | Dinosaurs was a TV show. Dinosaur was also made by Disney, but it sucked. | It's on Netflix. Been watching through it. *I'm da baby, gotta love me...* |
2,348 | Every-time Neil Blomkamp uses it. Chappie wasn't a great movie either, but the slow motion is amazing. | The 'explosive rounds AK-47 vs. droid/Kruger' scenes in Elysium were pretty much slow motion porn. I loved those scenes. |
2,349 | That’s my favorite thing about the album is that he has so many slick lines throughout the entire album. It’s worth repeating since you’ve missed a lot of the lines | I’m on my third listen and each time I hit a new “god damn, Slim!” moment. He just sneaks so much in. |
2,350 | Distributors are assholes? What the fuck are you talking about. Distributors make money when the most people possible buy tickets to see their movies. Are you honestly suggesting they are withholding films, despite the fact that it would exponentially better for their bottom line to have a hit movie in thousands of theaters nationwide? Is it possible maybe that you just have no idea what your talking about. That wasn't actually a question. | The Oscars are the whole reason some of these films even make money. |
2,351 | The problem, in my opinion anyway, is that there's no reward for solving the maze. | What's the reward for solving any maze? You beat the maze. You escaped. That's been the reward for solving any given maze since time immemorial. We're not mice in a lab experiment, we don't necessarily need a knot of cheese at the center of it or an electrode wired to our hypothalamus when we press the button at the center. We solve puzzles because we find solutions naturally desirable. Sometimes, the solution is reward enough. But of course, in the case of the Labyrinth, escaping also meant not getting slaughtered by the Minotaur - which might just be the case in *House of Leaves*, too. |
2,352 | Interesting. It looks like they just chose a center focal point, and then blur/blend the outside 10% of the image whenever there is a camera shake. | They literally tell you how it's done on the page the link goes to. |
2,353 | LOL, you must be the infamous "idea guy". Idea and presentation are a big deal, but if your code sucks, it's not going to work very well and it's not going to be such a success. Not to mention all the issues with future expandability, porting to other platforms, etc. Shitty Code == Shitty App | I'm guessing you're not an experienced developer. Code quality has nothing to do with a products success. You ever see the windows kernel code? Total garbage. |
2,354 | And eventually we'll have domestic robofactories to also not employ Americans. But for this first step, the Chinese are going to do it in China, and I'm confused by why that's confusing. | I'm just wondering what will make it so profitable to continue outsourcing to China when robotic factories could cost about the same in any country. |
2,355 | I started reading Prince of Thorns and only got a couple chapters in. It kind of felt like he wrote an Edgelord world that was being edgy just for the sake of being edgy. Do the characters actually get expanded on that it's worth the initial trek of feeling like it's basically a world of angst? The writing quality itself is great, but so far the characters haven't impressed me. | Yeah, the characters are fine. Jorg is the way that he is for reasons that are explained, but it should be noted that he is largely modeled after Alex from A Clockwork Orange. Also it's only fair for me to mention that edgy is definitely a positive for me. |
2,356 | In my humble opinion Keane's rendition of this song is my favorite, and I enjoy it more than the original. I tried to find a youtube link without video, but no luck. Just press play and minimize it. | The bassist seems to think that he is performing "Ice Ice Baby." |
2,357 | The dragon-babysitter series after the liveship traders had a terrible final book . I loved the first two books, and when the third came out I was so excited. It was such garbage I can't even remember the series name. | Rain wilds chronicles? I just started reading that series yesterday, however afaik there are 4 books, which may be why you think the 3rd is a bad ending? |
2,358 | Just looked up the soundtrack, and I think I'm gonna go buy that game. | I had a burned CD in my car that was just songs from that game at one point. |
2,359 | Why did we send out the Voyager probes when we'd have better tech in 30 years? Edit: so that I don't have to keep explaining my point, here it is: >...we don't know how technology will advance in the future, so if we have the chance to do something - like sending an interstellar probe - we should take that chance. | Because they were the first ones... Okay you got me lets send out new solar system probes to the same galaxy every few years when we make slight advancements. I mean we have been doing this space thing for so long. |
2,360 | Also, don't forget, there's only one comparatively limited range of sexual activities that can even potentially result in pregnancy. Apart from more common methods, Vin and Elend might just be engaging in sex that doesn't involve vaginal penetration. | That is very true indeed, and a good point that I can accept! |
2,361 | 2001 is most DEFINITELY the definitive sci if movie. In fact, I'd say it's the definition of sci fi. ;) | I don't know. It's the definitive space sci-fi movie, but science fiction in general is a broad category. Blade Runner, for example, has to be a contender. |
2,362 | The Redwall series by Brian Jacques, and the Deptford Mice series by Robin Jarvis. They were very dark books to read at the age I did, I had my first ever nightmare I remembered about Jupiter the cat coming to get me. | The Redwall series is amazing series. Also love the Harry Dresden by Jim Butcher. And if someone was interest in the more silly aspect, gotta go to the Disc World series by Terry Pratchet. :) |
2,363 | I'm just really worried Carrie Fisher will be a joke. As far as I can tell she's really worked hard to try to turn her life around. She lost some weight, got off the drugs, and some other third thing I'm sure she did. Yes, she's still overweight and will never look as good as she did in Jedi, but who cares! She's a good person and Leia was a good character. I'm just worried she'll be the joke of the movie. like "haha she used to be hot lawls" | That's going on already, but frankly who cares about mouth breathing knuckle draggers like that? As for jokes, well, we survived Jar jar. |
2,364 | After watching the [video] with [Ursula and Sabina Eriksson] running into traffic, I'm not limiting this to just identical twins. | Those 48 minutes just got away from me. Good video. Thank you for sharing. |
2,365 | They're not spending lots of time optimizing for file size on pc. Comparing to other consoles would be a better example | I should have mentioned that they're the exact same size on consoles... |
2,366 | Posting Yes, Genesis, King Crimson or Pink Floyd tracks is cheating! | [Soft Machine - Slightly All The Time] fits the bill then. The transition at 8:00 might be my favorite of just about any song. Along with [this] from Hatfield & The North - Son of "There's No Place Like Homerton". |
2,367 | >Weird Al is the best possible long term replacement. Especially because he's on the CBB podcast semi-frequently, and is for sure one of the funniest guests. Honestly, I didn't get get the Kid Cudi choice. It kind of made me want to watch CBB less. But now that it's Weird Al, they're pulling me right back in. | I'm wondering if CBB will keep Weird Al for longer than a season or if maybe they will do a new band leader a season now. On Weird Al's twitter he mentions being the new band leader for Season 5 specifically. Obviously I could be reading into it too much but I honestly wouldn't mind someone new a season. |
2,368 | > 1,378 WAV files. For goodness sake, why do this? Why not use FLAC or some other lossless audio codec? I am an FFmpeg developer, and there was 0 reason to upload these as WAV. | you can be the first to reencode it all as flac. |
2,369 | What's the best feedback a fan can give you about a book? Especially a sequel? | A few readers have told me that Warm Bodies wasn't just a book they enjoyed but that it actually helped them in some way, got them through a hard time, inspired them when they really needed it, that sort of thing. I can't imagine any response more gratifying than that. Those are essentially the reasons I wrote the book—to inspire ME, to get ME through a hard time—and it's always amazing to me to hear that it had the same effect for someone else. That's what storytelling is all about for me. |
2,370 | Not surpsing, they offer new artists an easy in for sharing their music, they offer things that itunes and pandora can't and its all easier to use. This is a wide awakening for the other music services that they need to step up and start offering comparative services or they are going to get stomped out. | Agreed. If you pay a subscription and follow a band they actually get paid... real... money! |
2,371 | The Hunger Games is not the epitome of great narrative. It's a good narrative, with a good plot and good characters. In all honesty, it's nothing phenomenal. Did I enjoy it? Yes. I had a great time reading it, though there are some problems with the book that annoyed me. I would recommend you keep reading, considering that Collins builds an interesting world, and does a good job with the action sequences in my mind. I also found Katniss to be an interesting character, and a fun lead to follow. However, when it comes to books about forced child violence and dystopia, I think that Ender's Game and Battle Royale do a better job. | Thank you for the recommendations and input. I would agree that the concept is intriguing and it certainly sucks you into its world; albeit a superficial world. |
2,372 | They had the streets dressed with garbage and two building burned out since last week: They had LADOT signs saying Laurel Canyon would be closed, and STILL you thought it was real?!? | Most LA citizens are so ineffective and unaware they could have been filming King Kong 2: Kong Fights Space Wizards and people would have still thought it was real. |
2,373 | But copyright does the exact opposite. It stiffles creation. The copyright is far too long, and serves the people no purpose. What movie needed decades before it got profitable? And why can't I tell my interpitation of childhood movies? Copyright makes it easier for the big companies owning copyrights and trademarks, but they ruin it for individuals. How can I ensure my movie isn't too influenced by a movie I have seen before? I would like no copyright, if you tell me a story, I should be allowed to tell it, and distribute it, and change it. How can someone claim ownership over my thoughts and memories? | >if **YOU** tell me a story, I should be allowed to tell it, and distribute it, and change it. ...because the story aren't yours to begin with? >How can someone claim ownership over my thoughts and memories? You're right they can't, and they have never done that. What they claim ownership of is the work they created in which you've watched, or lack of a better word, consumed. You don't own that work because, well, what have you done to help create it? |
2,374 | It was just a staple of Capt America sort of like how Uncle Ben and Batman's parents are always dead in the Spiderman and Batman comics. Those characters deaths are central to the character they are tied too. | like the Red Wedding from Game of Thrones. Had to happen otherwise lateral movement. |
2,375 | So, those who it didn't work for have only themselves to blame? There are no legitimate criticisms beyond the "abjectly minor" ones? Get a grip dude. This kind of nonsense is only going to result in a more spiteful backlash against the film and its fans. | My comment wasn't an attack on either you or those who didn't like the film for legitimate reasons. I was explaining that some people don't want to like the film no matter what, like those who hate JJ Abrams and his work, or weren't a fan of the Disney buy or to begging with. But hey man, be a dick on the Internet, I'm sure it's great for you. |
2,376 | Not that it matters much, Niantic is apparently owned by Google so even with just your email address they could get full access to your account if they really wanted. I don't think they would, I'm just saying. | Just cause a company owns another company doesn't mean they operate as one and are free to share private information between each other |
2,377 | When Takayanagi bought Doya's manuscript, from the book Nowaki by Natsume Soseki. I realize NO ONE knows what I'm talking about. Takayanagi and Doya were both struggling and both represented the other in curiosity and expression. Doya's desires laid in sharing his world with others and Takayanagi wanted understanding in his surroundings. | I did have no idea what you were talking about but I learned something because of it. It's better than just seeing "Harry Potter? Me too" I do love HP but I learned nothing from those posts. |
2,378 | That it's about 20% exquisite technical and 80% building mood. | Thanks for your feedback, btw. And building mood is very important, indeed. You are implying i'm doing it exactly the opposite way, I assume? :P |
2,379 | If you don't mind, how do you rack up that much per month? | Streaming you can rack up that very quickly. Their numbers are complete BS because that is only if your streaming low quality hd video like highly compressed 720p. If your streaming higher quality 1080p or 4k you can use that easily. If your streaming netflix at 1080p you actually would only get about 300 hours per month for a terabyte, if your watching 4k you would get under 150 hours before you hit 1tb. |
2,380 | The Star Wars one was a 'trailer' but it is my understanding that this is more of a 'teaser' | The Star Wars one is labelled as a teaser on the official SW YouTube channel. "Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2" Not that they in any way need to, but I'm sure we'll see a proper trailer with concrete plot points towards the end of summer. |
2,381 | Maybe women are a minority in the industry, but we're a majority of society. If movies are "really" about society, then it's a little ridiculous that men see society as mainly male, or at least led by men. | Movies aren't about society though. Some movies are, but I fail to see how lord of the rings, a movie based on a book written over 50 years ago in a fantastical universe, reflects society. (That movie/book will of course fail the Bechdel test though). |
2,382 | nature shots were too grim and bleak, its as if Winter in Alberta is the last place on Earth you want to be | Are you kidding? That's the stuff my winter dreams are made of. |
2,383 | uhhh first off, "being" on MTV does not mean that the music itself is trash. Recently, Atmosphere and Aesop Rock have been on MTV promoting their new albums, and along the way plugging MTV's "new" pro-Hip-Hop mentality. You seem to forget that without MTV's "YO! MTV Rap", the various groups that you listed, and probably a boat load of groups that you couldn't, would have never made it to anyone's ears. Music doesn't cease to be music the moment it enters television or radio waves--instead if it is full of substance, meaning, message, and thought, than no medium, even MTV, can take that away from true hip hop. | On one hand, I appreciate your pragmatism and lack of pretense. However, MTV has seen a real decline in quality of music starting in about 1995. This decline hit bottom in around 1998. I don't know what MTV has done after that. I only watched on occasion after 95, and swore off it entirely in 1998. |
2,384 | lol i've got a growing list of both movies and tv shows that i regularly add to on my notes app on my phone... i probably will never get around to watching them, but its a good, easy-to-remember place to put recommendations or random movies i might never have heard of, but stumbled across somehow | Yeah man, my Notes is full of scribbles! It's a bit like a bottomless drawer though, I'm sure there are some I'll never read. |
2,385 | No, don't fret about it. Anything that's important to remember is plenty memorable on its own. Plus you don't want people spoiling things for you. To put it briefly, Ender's Game focuses on Ender. Ender's Shadow focuses on some *other* people and things, and also gives you a lot of information on what's going on in the background that concerns Ender. | Appreciate the response! I wound up staying up basically all night, but I'm almost finished the first book now. Lol. |
2,386 | Why would you want to watch movies on a dinky phone screen? | And movies in 360 degrees sound cool and all until you realize your view may be focused on the wrong thing when the action hits and you could miss it. Just like the article mentions, you might be looking at the people running from the monster instead of the monster itself. Sure, you could back it up and replay it to see what you missed, but that would totally kill the immersion. |
2,387 | Wasn't him. Some tracks were submitted by a guy named Eddie Casio. Snippets of 4 of them have leaked, ALL have fake lead vocals. I'm a huge fan, and am not buying the album. Fan sites are going crazy, the location of the "AAOW"'s and "WHOO"'s have been identified from his original tracks. Please spread this, we need you, internets! :( | my point still stands. It's a terrible song. . . . |
2,388 | I was gonna gonna say Sparrow by Simon and Garfunkel. Sounds of Silence is also an excellent choice. | "Two Socks At Play" by John Barry also a good choice... :-) |
2,389 | > So Get Hers When The Killing Started. don't even bring TV Tropes into this, playoffs are starting and GTA V is downloading I DON'T HAVE THE TIME FOR THIS | Is it a documented trope though? I can't seem to find it. |
2,390 | Adebisi was the greatest, also Christopher Meloni as Keller, J.K. Simmons as Schillinger...I'm going to watch some Oz now | I use to watch that show back in the day and then got rid of cable and forgot about it. Did they every "wrap" it up or anything or was it just canceled? Shit, I guess I could just go look it up. |
2,391 | It's not a hard drive, you misguided imbecile. Only a halfwit would refuse to learn one simple new term in favour of lazily re-using a word they already know. Did you refuse to learn the term "DVD Drive"? Or "server"? Why not call those hard drives too? Because they're not hard drives. Idiot. | Boy, I really hope this pisses you off for a while. This is hilarious. |
2,392 | They’re not asking about 4K blue ray. They’re asking about casual family games. | I’m aware of that. I’m simply pointing out that the Xbox One S also serves as an entertainment machine, which could make spending several hundred dollars on a gaming machine easier to swallow. Families bought PS2s and PS3s in droves in major part to their built in DVD and Blu Ray features. And that wasn’t the only part of my comment anyways. |
2,393 | The ACLU is one of the greatest groups of American heroes. ACLU, FFRF, and the EFF are the 3 main groups I donate to. | The EFF can be pretty dodgy though. Their lead on the TPP was a social activist with zero qualifications, who admitted that the EFF had been offered a seat to participate in the negotiations, despite saying it was only corporations that were invited. Their reporting on the TPP, TTIP, and TISA were pretty gutter press full stop. EDIT: People unhappy that some aspects of the EFF aren't hunky dory. |
2,394 | > But the same program will be more secure if open source instead of closed. But isn't that a fallacy, as you will never have 2 identical projects like that, with one open source and one closed source. You have to offset the "more eyes" of open source projects with the potentially more focused, more tightly project managed full time employees of a closed source professional software company. If heart-bleed has shown anything it's that some in the open source movement have become complacent about how much extra security simply being open source really adds. | That is incomplete. Some open source have been poorly done and reviewed for sure. But imagine a closed source suffering the same treatment. It would not have ended better. Your point about potential tradeoffs in the quality of the code might be valid, but as you say it is not something certain: so the mental experiment of confronting the two identical programs is not too flawed |
2,395 | This song will forever remind me of my sister. Pearl Jam was her all time favorite band. She passed away from metastatic melanoma when I was 19. A few years after she died, I watched the movie 50/50 with Joseph Gordon Levitt and Seth Rogen. This is the closing song to that movie. I'm not sure why they chose it, but considering the subject matter of the movie— the placement of the song really got to me. Now, I can't listen to this song without crying. It's a bittersweet feeling every time. EDIT: Sorry for sharing my story? | I fell in love with Anna Kendrick in this scene. |
2,396 | This was a pretty good movie, but was I the only person to notice all the Sony product placement? Anyone? No? Ok... | Sony owns the rights to make Spider Man movies, hence, free marketing. |
2,397 | "Books aren't just things we read words in. They're also tools to adjust our senses. I suppose it's similar to mental tuning. The feel of paper and the momentary stimulation you get from turning a page is more important, in my opinion, than pure efficiency." | What? My experience is less "tuned" because I don't turn a page? If you read from a physical book then gone on you. But don't give me this thy I'm less 'tuned' or my reading has less "spirit" because it's electronically. It's nonsense. |
2,398 | Can anyone recommend another band like these dudes? I've been listening to Brand News Deja Entendu and The Devil and God Are Raging inside me nonstop for the last few days, but I haven't found the great lyricism and sound out of anyone else. | The Republic of Wolves, Thrice, Balance and Composure, Tigers Jaw, La Dispute, mewithoutYou, and O'Brother. Give them all listens man, most of those bands have either played with or are influenced by Brand New. |
2,399 | I love how everyone's losing their minds over a highschool English class interpretation of metaphor. | This, it's not even that interesting of a theory, or relevant. |
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