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2,800 | It's in one of his TV series rather than one of his films but it has to be [David Lynch in Twin Peaks] | Gordon Cole is such an amazing character. So funny. Love Twin Peaks! |
2,801 | did anyone here watch it? im thinking about going tonight. | Just got back from seeing it. I loved it. It's better than Elysium and every bit as good as District 9. |
2,802 | > if you aren't drinking the Kool-aid. Can you elaborate on the kool-aid you are referring to? | Generally the stories play better to a US TEA Party Republican, Libertarian or someone who has already read her works and agrees with her Objectivist philosophy. The heroes and villains line up with their personal values. It also appeals to young people (primarily American men) who want to believe that they can achieve their goals entirely by their own hand. On my re-read I found the plot clunky, and the characters were flat. Like beyond archetype flat. I get that it's a 1000 page morality play, and Galt is supposedly a "constant" man, but with a more critical eye I was unimpressed compared to when I read it in my 20's. |
2,803 | They want your fucking business without paying the exorbitant service fee to the payment processor. | And privacy from card companies and banks who would collect and sell transaction data to marketers. |
2,804 | It's almost like Apple needs to stop sticking the "Pro" moniker on stuff that isn't mean for "Pro"ffessional use! These fashionistas that need the thinnest, lightest, shiniest thing available need just need a MacBook. The geeks who need want Apple OS and need real power should have the MacBook **Pro**. Why Apple fucked up this simple product branding is beyond me. | And at this point it isn't even the shitty "prosumer" grade anymore. It's just pure crap dressed up as something expensive. |
2,805 | Instead of the traditional rock hand sign they do the "fox god sign" which is basically the rock sign but the tips of the middle and ring finger and the thumb is pressed together sorta like when you make hand puppets of a giraffe to a kid or something. ^^Why ^^am ^^I ^^even ^^trying ^^so ^^hard ^^to ^^explain ^^this. | IIRC the reason they did that was because the girls couldn't do the rock hand sign properly for a while, so it eventually just became their thing. It's in an interview somewhere on Youtube. |
2,806 | It's awesome that that actually exists. Now I want a re-release but made out of a material that won't kill the reader if they rip the book by accident. | Asbestos won't kill you, the effects of long term exposure will. |
2,807 | why the losses would be significant? I thought that high voltge electricity transportation had very little losses (hence the change from DC to AC back in the Edison days) | Actually, DC is more efficient than AC at long distance transmission. [HVDC] losses are around 3.5% for 1000km. Plus loss in conversion from AC/DC and back again. So, no, it's not so efficient to transport electricity over long distances. |
2,808 | I see this being about as successful as the Ubuntu phone. | Less judging by purism's sketchy as fuck claims on the security of their laptops. |
2,809 | I hate it so much, I don't understand how a big company like Spotify can't manage to fix these simple but highly annoying issues. | How about when you have a huge playlist with many different artists and it plays like 4 songs in a row by the same artist. |
2,810 | Ok so I am switching internet providers and will be running at 15 mbps. I have to purchase a new router because my old provider forced us to use the one they provided. I ive in a two story house and will be running around 5-7 devices on it. Right now im looking at the Linksys E2500 Advanced Simultaneous Dual-band Wireless N router, the NetGear N600 WIRELESS DUAL BAND ROUTER, and the Belkin N600 db n+. Any suggestions on which is best? Ill be running and xbox, several laptops, and a roku off of it. | I'm still using a WRT-54G with DD-WRT fw, have it setup in client mode connecting to a d-link about 100ft away across a field. No issues downloading at a steady 25mbit, or playing games with no lag/pl. I've never had to reboot it and it hasn't restarted or died on me yet. You don't need a $100 router unless you're going to be transferring large amounts of data between your devices often and/or have dozens people connecting to your router. Personally I'd get the cheapest one I could find that had a large enough cache to fit DD-WRT on it and go from there. |
2,811 | My apartment building's smoke detectors are ridiculously over-sensitive. They go off all the time. My GF makes jokes about "Oh, So-and-so is cooking!". **However**, were I to hear my neighbour's alarm go off for more than 15 seconds (which is the average time it takes to turn them off), damned right I'd investigate it. Alarms are for more than you. They're also for your neighbours. | My usual rule of thumb is about 3-4 rounds of Code-3 before reacting. |
2,812 | That is Shady, not Eminem. Shady doesn't give a fuck, Eminem respects talent | I hate how this is an excuse for everything Em says. |
2,813 | Yeah, I've only been listening for a month or two but it's already one of my faves, it seems like almost every programme the author will say something along the lines of 'that's a really insightful and interesting question which no one has asked me before' or 'you clearly understand exactly what I was trying to convey in this book' | I've met the host of KCRW's Bookworm a couple of times, and his passion for books and literature just shines through. I say this for anyone who tries listening to his show for the first time and is put off by his voice. Give him a chance; he's a very insightful and passionate reader. |
2,814 | I cannot wait to read more... it is so freaking good. My question is; is Hamilton really a time traveler? | He started **The Chronicle of the Fallers**, a new trilogy, following the events of the void, the first one was really good, can't wait for the new one! |
2,815 | I've always liked this song. Clazziquai Project: Tell Yourself. Not entirely similar, but a good song nonetheless. | God damn Mucho Punk is a great album. Bought it sort of blind while I was in Korea (Hadn't heard the album, but knew of Alex from an M-flo song) and listened to it nonstop for weeks. |
2,816 | Hi buddy! New listener here. Congrats on the album, it turned out great! Was wondering if there’s any chance you’d do warped tour or riot fest or tour with brand new this year. I would love to see you guys multiple times and I’m trying to save money on shows. | Thanks I appreciate that. There are chances we'd do Warped Tour and Riot Fest but there is no chance we will ever tour with Brand New. I would google Brand New and check out some of the most recent news items in regards to them. Thanks. |
2,817 | Wheres the catchy name for this security vulnerability? Come on guys, we need suggestions! | Since it deals with privilege escalation, let me look up some Death Cab for Cutie lyrics. I'll get back to you. |
2,818 | > unproven tech. How do you prove it if you can't get it approved to fly over open desert? | The FAA has approved several drone test sites in order to develop a regulatory framework for them. Work on this is underway, they aren't just sitting around doing nothing. |
2,819 | Lately it has been The Used "In Love and Death" | I didn't stop listening to that album for months when it first came out. |
2,820 | >How Greenpeace is trying to save face by pretending to be the leader behind going green. >implying tech companies weren't already pushed and pushing themselves to go green. | greenpeace has been useless for years, and its about to die out. This is clickbait. |
2,821 | Someone still has to fuel the truck,change trailers, get the truck in the dock, do paperwork, murder prostitutes. There is a lot more to the job than pointing the skinny end forward. (Truck driver writing this as I sit in my truck) | This. You'll probably still have a 'driver', but the big advantage will probably being able to keep the truck moving while you sleep. |
2,822 | The Autumn series by David Moody. Currently on the third book. I love how his writing describes the walking corpses and how they start off as just dead people who get up again and are walking around slowly decaying without a purpose but begin to evolve as time goes on. Not your typical flesh eating zombies. | I read the first book a couple years back and never got around to reading the sequels. Just started reading the first one a couple days ago again and am almost finished with it, excited to read the rest of the series! |
2,823 | Yeah really, have you read the plot synopsis for this movie? Fucking. Ridiculous. | I have not, and I feel ashamed that I want to see it. Perhaps some reading is in order, I reserve the right to edit this comment at a later date... |
2,824 | Hmm, well my guess is this. A lot of the so called 'greats' of rap music, e.g. Tupac and biggie, it seems to me like they make music more for men. Drake appeals to 50% more of the population because he makes songs for women, unlike a lot of other (better) rappers. (most) Women would rather listen to Drake singing about the girl thats the one for him, rather than Tupac rapping about guns. Just my two cents. | 2Pac : "I see no changes. All I see is racist faces. Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races we under. I wonder what it takes to make this one better place let's erase the wasted." Drake : "hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah, fuckin' right, fuckin' right, all right" |
2,825 | Bet you'd be OK with Exxon adding lead into their gas. | Care to explain? That makes no sense to me. |
2,826 | Nice waste of money. Many interesing space-related proyects could use that money to make things far more interesing that look for roswell greys using radio signals... | SETI uses the same telescopes and equipment all other organizations use. This will benefit *everything,* it'll just also give SETI extra time using them. |
2,827 | Virtuality has a pretty nice beat to it. Its just that the lyrics are so hopelessly dated. | They are, but if you think of it with a 1996 point of view, it's not so bad. |
2,828 | because they're paying by the hour to talk to you. | I take your point, but the cost to them is small and the pain in my head from listening to them is large. But I definitely use that tactic with other, less frustrating telephone idiots. Good call! |
2,829 | I really hope the patent isn't as vague as the title suggests. What makes the delivery trucks special? | The patent is [publicly accessible] It appears that Google is patenting a system for individually lockable compartments on automated delivery trucks, not the all-encompassing idea of self-driving delivery trucks. |
2,830 | A band of some Reddit lurkers! On tour in the southeast right now! www.dieselanddixie.com -[fun crazy southern rock blues] Edit- here is a YouTube of us live at sxsw: Edit - if you live in the southern states (merica) Check out our tour schedule. Www.bandsintown.com/dieselanddixie. | Great stuff ! I'll keep an eye out for you in Houston. |
2,831 | How about ANY phone camera with manual control? AFAIK no phone camera allows for manual control. Why not? I would use my phone's camera if I could control the thing. Doesn't make sense to me that they don't open up the API to dev's for real camera applications. Best as I can tell they're purposefully retarding the devices capabilities to ensure the sales of standalone cameras. | LG G4, Galaxy S6, HTC M9 all have manual camera control. Can't change f-stop though, I think it's a hardware limitation. G4 and M9 both can shoot RAW. S6 with latest update can shoot RAW with some apps (not officially supported by Samsung yet.) |
2,832 | >and oh god does she preach. 50 pages of an uninterrupted speech, I hear. Haven't read it, myself. | It honestly felt completely insane to me. I read Atlas Shrugged with little-to-no idea of what to expect; I enjoyed the story, didn't necessarily agree with Rand's extreme anti-philanthropy and portrayal of 'weakness' although the themes of striving for your own excellence and yada yada were interesting. Then I arrive at the infamous John Galt speech. Got through about five pages of it thinking 'wow, this is an extremely long dry speech, what is going on here?' Flip forward to see exactly how long this is going on, and my jaw drops. I wonder how many people that read the book actually made it through that self-serving regurgitation of her doctrine. I know I didn't. |
2,833 | Not true, portraying native american was italian american bread and butter. Remember the single tear dude? Italian. | So you're saying that movies should always cast Italians as Native Americans in movies only about Native Americans? |
2,834 | MS closed it before the virus was ever leaked. If people bothered updating their machines it wouldnt have been a big deal. | No shit. And that talking point was completely brushed under the rug. Companies store data on shit rigs with little support for it. NHS was using windows xp. Microsoft had to issue an update for it even though it has been an unsupported os for awhile. Companies take IT and security so piss poor. They dont spend any money until its too late. Until they spend to protect data it wont matter. They only spend after the hackers have hit. |
2,835 | as someone who lives near avalanche zones, no, an avalanche is **specifically** snow. If it's not snow it's called a landslide/rockslide/mudslide etc. | as someone who was just making a joke that most people understood despite me using the wrong terminology, IDGAF |
2,836 | Do NOT start with IT. Holy god, so dense and complicated and flawed. I'd imagine that book has chased away many a new Big Steve reader. The Stand I can see. It's also dense and complicated and flawed, but so good and involving that it shouts down all the stuff that would make it too hard to deal with. | I tried to read It in 8th grade. It was my first adult novel, i believe. Got about halfway through before it became too much and I moved on to The Stand, which I devoured. Never made it back to It, but The Stand will always be very dear to me. |
2,837 | Two points. The first is the opening sentence of the article: > Despite the fact that women have helped shape science fiction from the beginning, female-penned novels are often mysteriously absent from the “Best-of” lists. The second is that whereas women read books by men and women in equal proportion, men often avoid (consciously or otherwise) novels written by women.* A list like this provides a useful starting point for for men who haven't tried SF written by women, giving them a chance to experience all the great books they may have missed. \* *There's no study I can cite on this bias in readership, but it's been noted as a general trend in ad-hoc straw polls by literary magazine editors linked from /r/books.* | I didn't even think people played attention to the author unless its someone famous |
2,838 | As someone with experience working behind the till, this was likely because you had a foreign debit/credit card. | Could be. It was either a Visa or Mastercard, so I don't know if the country of origin is a real factor. |
2,839 | Restrepo is a fantastic documentary. But its a documentary and not a movie. OP asked for the best war movie of all time so Restrepo doesn't qualify. If it was best Movie or Documentary than yes, Restrepo would be at the top. | I understand the sentiment, but excluding documentaries as "movies" just doesn't sit well. In my personal opinion, Restrepo provided the same amount of entertainment as a major blockbuster. I just don't see why an event has to be dramatized to qualify in this thread. By definition a movie is, "a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a theater or on television; a motion picture." |
2,840 | It was one of the first books I remember being fully immersed in for school. Writing book reports had simply been a chore. But by the time they arrived at Auschwitz, I couldn't stop reading. Probably the most effort I've put into any sort of book report, too. | That was the only reading assignment for school that I read ahead of time. I finished it in one sitting (not that it's long, but we had like 5 days). |
2,841 | I don't know - this may be a learning tool. Just the feedback alone may become a powerful tool to learning other cues, and in the end, not needing the device. | if it's effective enough, it might also be able to be identified by the public as something akin to a hearing aid. |
2,842 | I will tell you what is the worst. The Da Vinci Code. | People say that, but they tend to be people who haven't read James Patterson. |
2,843 | No it's not. DC movie and DC tv are separate universes. Also the reason why we have two Barry Allens | Then I´ll refrain to see any other DC movie in the future. |
2,844 | The Neptunes + Baauer in a 2013 track. Let's make it happen. | Hope this is on N*E*R*D*'s next album, that would be sweet |
2,845 | Don't. Install [Rambox] an open source program that does exactly the same thing. But you're sure it won't be used to spy on you, because the code can be inspected. Supporting free software (as in GNU licensed open source software) helps everyone - other users, future developers,... | Like anyone is actually going to inspect the code. It will spy on you regardless. |
2,846 | Midnight Tides (book 5) is one of the best fantasy novels standalone. | Is this the one where Karsa is introduced, I was so angry that no characters from the previous books were in it but then I fell in love towards the end |
2,847 | Idk about you but Stevie Nicks deserves to have already been inducted. I say this as a Radiohead and Rage Against the Machine fan | She's in there under Fleetwood Mac though. Radiohead should get the title. |
2,848 | Well, we're already cooling reactor vessels with [liquid sodium] lithium shouldn't pose much extra challenge. Its abundance may be a problem, but by the time fusion reactors become commercially viable, we'll have huge stockpiles of abandoned lithium batteries that have been replaced with unobtainium batteries. | **Sodium-cooled fast reactor** The sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) is a Generation IV reactor project to design an advanced fast neutron reactor. It builds on two closely related existing projects, the LMFBR and the Integral Fast Reactor, with the objective of producing a fast-spectrum, sodium-cooled reactor. The reactors are intended for use in nuclear power plants to produce nuclear power from nuclear fuel. *** ^[ [^PM] ^| [^Exclude ^me] ^| [^Exclude ^from ^subreddit] ^| [^FAQ ^/ ^Information] ^| [^Source] ^] ^Downvote ^to ^remove ^| ^v0.24 |
2,849 | Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad. You couldn't be more wrong. Strange considering your user name. | It's not a bad opinion because no one has yet to name anything he's done that has transcended hip-hop. |
2,850 | That's one thing I appreciate about the iPhone. I literally have *nothing* installed from my carrier. All they're able to push me is updates to my network settings, which are useful. Android phones are utter garbage unless you root them and install a custom ROM. And apparently totally insecure as well. | What? iPhones can do over-the-air OS updates and almost certainly have backdoor access for Apple/government use. |
2,851 | I try to make it the first song I listen to at every new year. | I tend to make it the first song I listen to every time I get drunk! |
2,852 | It pains me when people rag on Hudsucker. The dialogue! The costumes! The absurdity! The music! ...how can you watch [this scene] and not fall hopelessly in love with this movie, seriously. ...sorry, I get worked up about inconsequential shit a lot | Definitely an underrated classic, although I have a really hard time getting people to watch it. "It's a fictional story about a guy who pretends to be the CEO of a company and then invents the hula hoop." Not exactly an easy sell. |
2,853 | Patrick O'Brian. I run through the series every summer. Literature, history, and dry wit. | I've read those damn things so many times, that when I'm listening to the audio books, I can recite along with Patrick Tull. |
2,854 | > Someone born in the early 80's or even late 80's grew up in a very different world than i did. A high school senior thinks the same of a high school freshman. | Sure but does a high school senior think they same as someone in grade 1? We are not talking about a few years. The people born in the early and late 80's grow up as the internet grew. They where teenagers during 9-11. They experience two major world events that younger "millennials" never experienced. Someone born in the mid to late 90's grew up in a completely different world then people born in the 80's. |
2,855 | Hi Amy! I've been a huge fan of yours and Evanescence for almost over a decade now. My favorite album is the self-titled and my favorite track is End Of The Dream (it's my username!) and I was wondering why you guys have never played it live? I'm dying to hear it! Also, will we really have to *wait forever for Your Love?* | It's a super hard song to sing live. I know that probably doesn't stop her, but it's tough. |
2,856 | I never got around to that one. I'll give it a shot. | It's the only album they've put out that I didn't like. But as far as what changed...Trent, the world, us? |
2,857 | Another pretty well-known one: while they were recording Shine On, which is about Syd Barrett, Syd walked into the studio and it was the first time the band had seen him in almost six years. He hung out for a few minutes, left, and they never saw him again. | Most of the band didn't recognize him till after he left. He went from looking like [this] - to looking like [this] when he showed up at the studio. If you ever saw [The Wall] movie - [the shaving scene] was inspired by his appearance. |
2,858 | Englishman who just finished it here. It has some very interesting points and facts I never knew before. It is quite long and written in a perfectly competent but fairly dry way so can drag at times (you will probably never wish to read about a strike ever again). It has a bias and a focus but that is the point of it, to give a different view on the well known history. For a people's history it does however seem to ignore some people and focus on some more than others (lots on black and women's rights but bugger all on gay ones for example) though he does admit that in the later edition and gives suggested reading on those areas. | I would agree with this. Going into it, I wasn't sure if it would be a straight up history book, but upon reading, it seems to tell the American history through the eyes of the Indians, Women, blacks, and those who tried to unionize. I some times wish he had a little more information on various presidents, and as ali says, it can drag on, with multiple pages of just examples of different strikes. Still, I think you should read it for a new prespective on our government. |
2,859 | Just because you add 'In my opinion' before you say something doesn't actually make it an opinion, that's a false equivalency. An opinion doesn't dictate the factual state of something, it dictates how you feel about that state. You could say "the sky is a nice shade of blue" and that would be an opinion, but if you say 'the sky if orange' that's just a false statement, regardless of what you say before it. And for those who will without a doubt claim that this is the 'No True Scottsman' Fallacy, it's not. For it to be that fallacy I would need to be changing the definition of an opinion, which I haven't. | your description is also not of an opinion. Liking and Disliking things are tastes, even though that's how "opinion" is colloquially understood these days. try "The President should grant Africans the right to dance," or "I believe the sky's blue shade today is due to abnormally low pollutant levels." |
2,860 | Wasn't a huge part of the movie at the time Denzel playing a bad guy against type? The director is black and some of the criminals are kind of sympathetic - they spare Ethan's character when he is revealed to be the guy who stopped a rape, and the super bad criminals are the caucasian Russians IIRC. More recently, HBO can release a whole season of a TV show based in New York with only caucasians which I thought was pretty funny (first season of Girls...they inserted Donald Glover into the first episodes of the next season). | Thank you. Someone who saw the film for what it is.. instead of trying to surmise how oversensitive people would behave toward it in today's culture... which is just such a boring and stifling perspective. |
2,861 | This is pretty obvious self-promotion so the link's been removed. Our rules are linked in the sidebar if you want to find out more. | Hey, I'm just really curious. Why did my other post on this subreddit fly through perfectly fine but suddenly when I link that exact post my links get removed? I'm not sure what has changed. Edit: Not saying that you need to remove the linked post. It's a bit late for that now since it's been there as long as it has. But I would love an answer considering that post was as popular as it was so it's not like it flew under your radar. |
2,862 | It's not about understanding the stories at face value. It's the inconsistency in his execution of the stories. They are often a mess. He'll do these ridiculous tone shifts throughout the movie that cause it to turn into something else. Tone shifts 'can' be fine, but in the way he does it, it's as if he completely neglects earlier events and development in the movie. It's like a kid who wants to put all this cool stuff in, but has no idea how to transition between them in a logical manner. On top of that, he's stubborn and bad at capturing the essence of known characters. | It's been a while since I've seen a director struggle as much with tone and pacing as Snyder. This includes Michael Bay. |
2,863 | I have personally enjoyed at least one of the books and completely agree that it has an enjoyable uniqueness and style that worked great. I wish I could remember where I put the books and if there was any more to read .... I thoroughly enjoyed the personality of one of the black company wizards called croaker or one eye. | The wizards are One Eye, Goblin and Silent, so you're probably thinking of One Eye. He was always one of my favorite characters too. |
2,864 | Right! That is the thing that disturbed me the most about this. The childs own mother basically pimped it out. How could anybody who is supposed to have a "strong maternal bond" with someone do that?! It's disgusting and horrific in itself.. But for a parent to put this kind of trauma on their own child just sickens me to the core! | Because the maternal bond isn't always as strong as people make out. Women can go through mild to severe depression leading to hatred of their child early on and it happens a lot, to varying degrees. To this extent it's unusual but if someone is playing on that depression and feeding it for their own gain I can see it spiralling. |
2,865 | I mean, is there an excuse for not using cloudflare or something similar when cloudflare in particular is free? | Pretty sure they fall under the enterprise package and would most definitely not be free. |
2,866 | I am not. The MIT Technology Review publishes interesting articles (I also encourage everyone to check out the actual magazine). It's unfortunate they've chosen to follow this awful titles trend but I never editorialize submissions (as prescribed by the reddiquette) and I expect people here to be able to go past that. I hope my posting history in this sub demonstrates that I don't shitpost. | > ed·i·to·ri·al·ize. > /ˌediˈtôrēəˌlīz/ > *verb* > (of a newspaper, editor, or broadcasting organization) make comments or express opinions rather than just report the news. I would say that changing the title would be the exact opposite of editorializing. |
2,867 | It's still unclear whether this service will be included in Prime. | Their current music streaming service is included with Prime. |
2,868 | I'm fairly certain I have a legit windows 7. But I don't know where the key is and for some reason those keygrabbers that are supposed to find your key don't work. Am I just shit out of luck or is there any way for me to get windows 10 free? | If you're fairly certain but not positive, keep trying for those key grabbers. I use "Belarc" and it works great anywhere. |
2,869 | If I were 10 years old and the year was 1999 this would be something I would definitely rent on VHS from my local Blockbuster. | Instead i'll be 24 and seeing it in theatres! Edit: 25 before it comes out, probably. |
2,870 | Exactly, was about to say what you wrote in your last sentence. In Carpenter's biography of Tolkien it is stated that he pretty much trashed Lewis' Narnia series. Unfortunately it has been a while since I read it, but I strongly suggest to everyone interested in Tolkien (and how he came about writing his works) to grab a copy of this biography (simply a good read). edit: wanted to add that for me (since i am interested in Germanic languages in particular) the description of Tolkien's upbringing and love for language (etymology in particular - he worked on the letter W,S? in the OxfordED if i remember correctly) was really inspiring. ah, found something for W: | What was his problem with the Narnia books from your recollection? I've always heard he didn't like that Lewis had populated it with creatures from so many different mythologies. Can you elaborate> |
2,871 | As someone who is currently in the market for a mid - high end graphics card, but has no idea what you are talking about, what should I do with my money? I am open to opinions. Video rendering, running many simultaneous applications, multiple monitors, adobe products, and of course gaming. | Depending on your budget, go 970, it is worth every penny. But if budget is a concern go 960. There is such a massive jump between the 900 series and the 700 series that it's best to go with the 900s. It may be a little more expensive ($40 between the 970 and 770) but trust me, in my eyes you will be losing money if you go 700. |
2,872 | I find myself leaning towards the computer science major, with an IT minor, but I'm not in love with coding, like ill do it if I have to, but I don't go home and code for fun, Will I like majoring in Computer Science and is it worth my time? Edit: Thanks for all the responses :) | If you don't program for fun, I would stay away because everybody else in CS does program for fun. It'll be hard to compete in your classes and in the job market if you aren't learning/doing stuff on your own. |
2,873 | I know this is late but here's one of my recommendations for Purity ring. | Man you're not wrong about it being late, but thanks for the recommendation, I never actually got into the band as much as I hoped I might but this has really peaked my interest! |
2,874 | They're usually known as an "Exit Bag" You can buy kits online. Painless, not messy and remarkably cheap. | > cheap. At these prices you can't afford NOT to! |
2,875 | Enjoy that it sounds awesome no matter how many times you've listened. | I've listened through this song so many times in so many different situations. It's just as good every time. Still gives me chills like the first time I heard it! |
2,876 | Pretty solid list. Soon as I read straight through playability Kendrick's Good Kid M.A.A.D City came to mind. | Never really got into him, but i love the trend of remaking 90s rnb songs into rap songs |
2,877 | It's how almost every one of his novels end. | Its like he has a six sided die he rolls to pick his endings. Three sides say "Aliens" two say "" Deus Ex Machina" and the final one is "Nah still aliens" |
2,878 | Why don't you read books twice? Not even ones you really, really love? | Not sure how to explain it, but it's like a mental block. I'll remember everything in the book, even if I pick it up years later; so as I'm reading it, the mind is racing ahead already and not paying attention. It's not good. It's the same thing with movies. Of course I have tried, no luck. I am slightly envious of anyone who can read their favorites twice. |
2,879 | One of the few up sides to having a poor memory. Obviously it doesn't work that way for the really memorable books, but it's nice for books in a series. I never used the library as much as I should have; I'd just buy books because I knew I could read through every few years and it would (practically) be the first time. I do the same for movies. Great for being able to rewatch stuff, but I can never remember any quotes. | Same here :) - just seem to remember the main theme and forget 80% of the book... |
2,880 | Yes, I agree. I’ll never understand why companies HAVE to change things every few years. In this case, it’s simple email, what more can you do? | The perks of having a Gmail account is that you're getting some of those benefits. If it truly is simple email with nothing else to add, then Gmail is not the service for you. You'd be better off subscribing to barebones services which are more privacy focused. |
2,881 | Exodus? I thought Dorsey pushed them out. | Well, Dorsey is spinning it that they left. I'd venture to say Dorsey set a vision of what he was going to do and it was either "you are on board or you can leave." I think those folks probably didn't buy into the vision an hence are leaving. It's kinda semantics of pushing them out, firing them, and them resigning. Ultimately the result is the same. New leadership is coming in. |
2,882 | > This excessively intelligent surveillance is just another reason to shop online. Privacy concerns aren't well addressed online either. | Monitoring your actual body and verbal/physical behaviours is far more invasive than tracking your browsing habits. And at least I can block third party scripts online to quarantine that behaviour to the site in question. |
2,883 | Reddit is hypercritical for sure, she was the saintly girl next door then everyone saw her naked and realised she had lots of dirty dirty sex and decided not to like her anymore. However she is probably the most overrated actress around at the moment. RLM put it as "She looks like a little girl wearing her mothers clothes pretending to be a grown up" which suits her in my opinion. | I'd really recommend watching Silver Linings Playbook - it's the movie that convinced me that she was good actress who just consistently got bad roles. |
2,884 | Axl Rose in his prime was an incredible vocalist, but unfortunately he hasn't aged particularly well. Certainly not as well as Brian Johnson, who has basically sounded the same for 35 years. In that respect, no, they aren't of the same caliber. I say this as a fan of both AC/DC and GNR. Axl is probably capable of doing a passable job, but it just won't be as good. | Johnson's voice has been pretty thin for a few years now. I'd say he aged well for a long time but finally hit his wall. His technique had to have been pretty hard to sustain--pure belting. Rose isn't exactly who I would have seen replacing him though. Even if his voice were heyday-perfect it'd just be a weird aesthetic all the way around. He's not a convincing blues guy. |
2,885 | I love this song but I always wondered why the video was a king carrying around a lawn chair. | He feels like a king admiring the silence. He brings the lawn chair everywhere to be comfortable and doing it everywhere. |
2,886 | I think they should have used puns: "Hey! Stranger! When is a door not a door? When it's ajar!" "I don't get it" BLAM! | lol that would've made for an interesting couple of scenes. Edit: It would also have the added benefit of killing anyone without a sense of humor, win-win. |
2,887 | But what about liability? When that car crashes and it is at fault, which human is going to pay for the other car? Edit: If it's the insurance company of the driver then get ready to pay a lot for the teenager driving car vs the Tesla 9000 which is never at fault. If it's the car company, then cars will cost too much to make. If it's Louisiana, no one has insurance anyway so no problem there. And who gets the ticket? And the points? Is there even a ticket? What if someone dies as a result? Do I go to jail for crappy programming? | Last I heard, several car companies had already announced that their rough plan was to be liable for what the car did while it was self-driving. As far as the cost, the big question is if Tesla can convince the insurance company to insure them for less than a teenager. And I'm betting that the answer will be that they can, at least after the first year or so. Then again, I could be wrong, maybe the insurance companies won't want to touch it. |
2,888 | That's a fucking great point. In any other fantasy book, Quentyn would be the archetypal protagonist. He's a less-favored son of nobility, he's diminutive in stature, he's not very handsome or skilled, but he's got heart and he believes in himself. In another book, Quentyn would have wooed Dany with his bravery, controlled a dragon through sheer force of will and plot armor, and saved his family, and ultimately the world. In ASOIAF, he gets burned by a dragon he was stupid enough to approach and spends 3 days dying in agony. | Its a cool story line but I'd hardly say it's unique. Both Gawyn and Demandred in Wheel of Time follow similar arcs, just off the top of my head. Edit: And Eomer is a similar character as well, and Feyd Rautha Harkonnen |
2,889 | Bitcoin was never going to be relevant in the real world. A handful of people owning over 60% of all Bitcoins that will ever be created? They could crash the market every damn day for 100s of years for the fun of it. | Yeah, it'd be almost as bad as if, say, 1% of people controlled half of the wealth. Can you imagine? How would the world even function? |
2,890 | I would like to thank Google for all of the clueless twats calling the help desk because they think they are being "hacked" because the page they visited yesterday now has an "unsafe" warning. | You may want to extend that thank-you to site operators that have ignored their security the past few years. This was announced by Google, Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla way in advance. |
2,891 | I thought the Temeraire series started off okay, but I ended up abandoning the series after the third book. The major draw for me was the world building, but I found the characters to be a bit lacking. There's a bit of angst in the series that I was never a fan of. Personally, if you do pick up the series, I would suggest stopping after the third book. I have heard from others that Temmiare gets worse after that. | Spoilers aside, what aspects made the books after the third go downhill? |
2,892 | There is a HUGE difference between being a hater and just not liking a certain genre. | Yes. It's perfectly acceptable to not like a genre of music. It's a douchebag move to hate in or rip on other people who do enjoy that genre |
2,893 | Good thing the only way to go to prison is by seriously hurting someone! /s. Is it easier to convince yourself that everyone in prison deserves it than to deal with the idea that maybe the legal system isn’t perfect and some people should be there and others haven’t done enough harm to warrant losing their freedom? | Ok, show me a victimless crime that you go to prison for. |
2,894 | I, a fellow fanfiction addict, would say to just keep reading what you are interested in and don't feel guilty about it. If it's fanfiction or a novel, read what you want to read. (Unless it's for school, then read what you have to first, then read what you want to) | I'm not saying OP needs to feel guilty, but I really disagree with your suggestion that all reading is equally valuable. If I could give one piece of advice to my past self when I was 17, it would be: "read more widely". I read too narrowly - I didn't stray far enough from my comfort zone. It was only at university that my taste broadened and I experienced the real power of literature. I want others to experience that earlier than I did. |
2,895 | Rush. Still to this day is one of my Top 5 Films. | Yes, *Rush* is much more than a racing film. I love *Beautiful Mind*. Russell Crowe's performance was as close to flawless as humanly possible. |
2,896 | I sure do. I drink scotch with no chaser or ice. Right now I'm drinking a glass of Auchentoshan 12yrs. Delicious! | I suggest you check out La Fogata Mescal. Reminds me a lot of Auchentoshan 12. |
2,897 | who, ghostface? action is influenced by ghost, he's an OG | I worked at Olive Garden so that makes me an OG too bruv |
2,898 | Good to know. What do you mean by 'bloatware'?. And is there anything specific to the RAM? Or is it still like desktop or laptop RAM? | It needs to be DDR3 laptop ram. You can search by category at newegg.com and they usually have pretty good prices. Keep in mind that if you want 8GBs of RAM you're probably going to have to buy 2 4GB sticks. Not just add 4GB's because the laptop probably currently has 2 2GB sticks. |
2,899 | "Funk-Rock?" What happened? The once groundbreaking and original band that was the Chili Peppers have become the masters of easy listening pop that "can't stop" hitting the top 40 charts it seems. Thanks for the first 6 albums. -Signed: Old cranky fan since 1989 but under 40 years old. | This same thing has been said by every single generation about basically every long-running band in history. Bands change. Get over it. Find new bands that fit to your tastes now, don't expect one of your favourite bands in your teens to stick to the exact same thing in your 30s. |
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