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2,900 | holy shit thats fucked up, cant believe i've never heard of it before. and what a cop out, the woman looking after her "I was on drugs i dont know what happened, I take responsibility" How can you take responsibility if you don't know what you did, or even ACCEPT the horrific torture you put an innocent young girl through, and they freed her for it? W T F. No justice in this world | She took responsibility because she knew she was responsible for her actions despite the drugs. In the same way a drunk driver is responsible for killing someone even though they don't remember it. Or her attorney knew they'd be lenient if she showed sorrow and took responsibility, without actually having to take responsibility (blaming it on the drugs). Both? Don't know how she could live with herself afterward, though.., |
2,901 | I want Glass to succeed, however, how the hell is throwing a complex power-hungry instruction set at it going to help at all? Intel has nothing that is competitive in the sub 2-watt area. ARM is the way to go. If this turns out to be Intel fabbing an ARM chip, it helps. Personally, I will continue betting on snow-pigs flying in hell. | Don't underestimate the power of unlimited resources and state of the art fabs. If Intel has taught us anything, it's that they can innovate their hardware so much that they can outperform in spite of their instruction set. They were late to the mobile game, but the stakes are too high for them not to catch up. |
2,902 | Another example. Guardians of the Galaxy. "He's known as Starlord." "Who calls him that?" "Himself mostly." | Word of mouth is what sold me on *Dredd* and *Guardians of the Galaxy*. In both cases I saw people online (Reddit, Facebook, Imgur, etc.) flipping their shit over the movies. I eventually saw them and really enjoyed them. *Dredd* was mainly /r/movies talking about how awesome it was. *Guardians of the Galaxy*, well... I shit you not, it was all the .gifs of silly shit on Imgur after the movie came out. |
2,903 | Yeah, I don't understand it either. Money wise, it sorta makes sense, but beyond that... there's nowhere near as many costs for an ebook, you'd think that would transfer to how many copies a library could have. | Actually, ebooks cost surprisingly similar amounts to paper books. Turns out shipping and paper isn't that big a cost, it's more royalties, formatting and a bunch of other things. If you are inclined to argue, Google... There's a comprehensive explanation that shocked me. |
2,904 | I'm a fan who's read damn near everything he's written and no, he won't. Why is it so hard for King readers to just admit they have a guilty pleasure and not try to build it up into being something it isn't. It's fun to go see a "Transformers" flick or the latest Marvel movie, that doesn't make them "Citizen Kain." King writes entertaining genre stories, enjoy it for what it is. | John Grisham is a guilty pleasure. Harlan coben, Clive cussler, Danielle steel, people like that. If you think Stephen king is on the same level as any of these authors you see on a mass market paperback rack at Walmart or a drug store, you're delusional. |
2,905 | You couldn’t use the internet before 2015? News to me. | Net Neutrality is NOT a law, nor a regulation. It's a concept. What happened in 2015 is that the FCC gained the power to *enforce* the concept of Net Neutrality. Please learn the facts. |
2,906 | US for sure but in Europe (at least where I'm living), very few people know Canadian music outside of Celine Dion, Justin Bieber and Leonard Cohen. The Tea Party is huge in Australia though, or at least they used to be. | > The Tea Party is huge in Australia though, or at least they used to be. Gotta say, that's pretty surprising. Though good for them! Speaking of, I haven't listened to them in ages. I've always liked [this] song. |
2,907 | I love those books... I started a month and a half ago and have just finished book 5 | Be warned...you have a rough month ahead of you. I promise it will get great again at book ten or so. Wonderful series aside from that middle chunk. |
2,908 | Hoverboards. There has been one using maglev, but it's expensive as fuck, primitive and requires a magnetizable surface. And no, douchebagboards are not hoverboards. They have wheels. They don't hover. | My friend's dad is a retired electrical engineer who now reverse engineers and consults for legal cases. He told me that he expects the class action cases around "hoverboards" to pick up this year as the electronics in them are complete Chinese trash. |
2,909 | That's so great to hear! I loved the movies, but it's pretty common the books are always better than the movie. Have you read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner), or Dexter? | Try Manhunter or Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris |
2,910 | The article says it's not planned obsolescence, then explains that phones become obsolete in 2 years because of OS updates that are specifically planned to coincide with new phones, then ends with a suggestion to just buy a new phone if you don't want to deal with it. That's pretty much the definition of the phrase. The only explanation I can think of is that the author is confusing planned obsolescence with the conspiracy theory that there's a setting that companies use to remotely toggle to throttle phone performance when a new model comes out. | > The only explanation I can think of is that the author. Is paid. I read it; this is the only way to explain the contradictory statements. And if the author is not paid, then dumb as fuck! |
2,911 | The similarity for Hide and Seek and this song is because both heavily use a dense vocoder for the some (if not all) of the vocal harmonies. | Jup, that was the term I was searching for. Thank you! |
2,912 | The short answer is no. The carriers are the ones that handle the warranty. Consumers don't have easy access to the manufacturers for warranty issues. | So there is absolutely no possible way to pay for an insurance to have a warranty outside the carriers? :/ |
2,913 | You'd be better off just reading erotic short stories alongside strong novels. | Oh I definitely agree. Literotica.com has really good kinky stories.... And some creepy ones just avoid those and it's all good. |
2,914 | We went to see Schindler's List with a high school class when I was 13. That was the very first time, for most of us (Dutch kids fresh in Highschool) to see how horrible the holocaust was. That shut even the biggest jokers in class up for an evening. | Man, I feel bad now. I saw it with my school when I was 13 too but I left frustrated and giving out about how dumb Bruno was. I knew a lot about the holocaust, so while all that was horrible, I was already familiar with it. But yeah, Bruno being dumb is what stood out to me. Haven't seen it since then. Must give it another watch sometime. |
2,915 | I don't know why people are down voting you, when you're correct. Except that performers can play at bars, regardless of their age. I thought it was cool for them to play at such a small venue. | That isn't true, theres a video on youtube where the lead singer is underage and has to sing outside while his band plays inside, real dumb. |
2,916 | I think I agree with you. Jeff Daniels's character especially. | He's exactly who I was thinking of my whole post, he was definitely a huge part in making this movie good. |
2,917 | Looks like their packages is here: >Internet : Package & Pricing Guide. >Speed Levels & Details. >3x3 - 3 Mbps (download & upload) - $19.95* >*Only available with the purchase of additional services. >--------------------------------------------- >25x25 - 25 Mbps (download & upload) - $35.95. >--------------------------------------------- >80x80 - 80 Mbps (download & upload) - $54.95. >--------------------------------------------- >1000x1000 - 1,000 Mbps or 1 Gbps (download & upload) >- $69.95 - With purchase of all three LUS Fiber services. >- $89.95 - With purchase of two LUS Fiber services. >- $109.95 - With purchase of LUS Fiber Internet service only. | They should really stop claiming "fastest internet in the world". Nuro in Japan offers 2Gbps download, 1gpbs upload for around $40 per month ($16 per month for apartments). They also offer a 10gpbps (with 2.5 gbps upload) service in Tokyo for $80 per month. |
2,918 | I don't understand the criticism. A single plate would be problematic. This allows protection and flexibility. They don't use armor on female characters, and it's a problem. They use armor, and it's a problem. What is it you people want? | [Yeah, real problematic...] Do you think boobs are solid objects that don't get pressed against the body when wearing tight clothing or something? Boob armour is shit that was invented by fantasy artists to appeal to men. It serves no other purpose. If you need any more proof then just look at other pictures of this girl. She barely has boobs, so why do you think her shitty boob plates are so big and pronounced? And what the hell do you mean flexibility? What part of your chest moves independently from another part of your chest? |
2,919 | Heinlein's *Starship Trooper* is an awesome book. The movie is such a load of crap, totally unwatchable with very little in common with the book story. Though not having been made into a **movie**, Butcher's *Dresden Files* are great books. On the other hand, the T.V. series they tried (and failed) to make was awful. | I feel like *Starship Troopers* is less an adaptation and more a scathing satire of the original source material. |
2,920 | Perhaps. maybe using the term Feminine was too strong. But I don't think it's hard to argue that these guys were all far less Masculine then the average rock frontman of the day. Corgan is/was quite pretty feminine however. the guy wore Skirts on tours and look at any interviews of him from 90-93. Look at his Body Language | Corgan can definitely be that way. But there are also plenty of bands with feminine frontmen without female bassists. Tool comes to mind. As does [insert basically any hair band from the 80s]. Queen, obviously. I just don't think there's a whole lot of rhyme or reason to it. I don't think bands go out of their way to purposely pursue a female bassist to mask femininity somewhere else in the lineup. Seems a silly way to put a group together. |
2,921 | Have not heard this song in forever. IT support is a really slow job when everyone you support has the day off. | Holiday season in Belgium. Two months of trying to find stuff to work on because our users are gone... |
2,922 | Saturnz Barz > Andromeda > Ascension > Hallelujah Money > We Got the Power | I think my favorite was either Hallelujah Money or Saturnz Barz |
2,923 | I've always felt Corey Hart's 'I wear my sunglasses at night' is the opposite. I love the beat, and Corey's voice in the verses. But then all of a sudden a guitar comes in and his voice changes to some forced edgy rock voice. | I was thinking this this week! Wasn't sure if I was alone or not! Very upbeat doesn't suit the song at all |
2,924 | Well damn. Now my goal to watch every single film ever created is ruined | by the time you finished watching all movies made up to this day. 300 years of movies will have been made |
2,925 | [Nujabes' music, particularly his Modal Soul and Metaphorical Music albums] | Giving this a listen, it's fantastic stuff so far! Impossible to find though, not on Xbox Music or Google Music. Any (legal) recommendations on where to download? |
2,926 | I flung Tess against the wall when I finished it. Fucking heartbreaking. | I cannot decide if life was just so hard then, or if Hardy is a bastard. Either way I am not in a rush to read any more... |
2,927 | What's the difference between a drone piloted by a human in Langley and one which was told "bomb these coordinates" and takes off using AI to do so. Both have the effect of not risking lives of the people attacking and thus imo increasing the use of force. | You can already say "bomb these coordinates", I'm worried about a world where the computer is not just aiming and shooting, but handling target acquisition and giving kill orders itself. |
2,928 | Join the dark side! I set up dual boot Arch Linux + Win 10, and after a few months I've found that the only time I ever touch the Windows partition at all is to play a couple of games that don't run on Linux. It's great to actually have control over your system for a change. | If your CPU and Motherboard support IOMMU, look into GPU passthrough (**advanced** users only). You can run Windows from a virtual machine on linux with near-zero difference in performance compared to just running them on a native Windows partition. |
2,929 | The tanker-baseball bat scene in Pacific Rim. Actually, the whole fight is superb. | When Gipsy Danger drops in to save Striker Eureka with the karate pose, 'Okay! This is for real, Mako!' |
2,930 | > Which sucks because, let's face it, no one wants to hear Maroon 5. Speak for yourself! [Not Coming Home] from Songs About Jane is one of my favorite songs. | I actually don't mind Maroon 5 at all (just trying to be cool on Reddit / my college roommate indoctrinated me with his hatred) and I'll give this song a listen when I'm off work! |
2,931 | Been hearing this since like 2010 so i call bullshit 😒 | They'll do it. It's just gonna suck and everyone will forget about this band. |
2,932 | Shameless /r/theflophouse plug. If you like We Hate Movies you'll probably dig The Flop House. | Oh good lord, I can't keep up with all these new subscriptions |
2,933 | I love this! Verizon: *Can't do this as technically we are not X* Judge: True, they are not. Everyone: Fuck. Judge: … Oh btw, you're allowed to have them be X. FCC: Cool, cool… Hey Verizon! Verizon: Yeah? FCC: Well, you're X now. Verizon: Fuck me… | Verizon: Your honor, we are obviously not a telecommunication service! Judge: FCC, what do you have to backup your claim? FCC: Well, Verizon has submitted official paperwork that they are under Title II when they were (and are) building their network. I'd say they agree with us. |
2,934 | This done in a 24 style format could be amazing. | *Deep breath* Yeah but then the whole season would be shows full of twists and turns depicting what each and every main character was doing every single minute and how that plays into the whole scheme of things, which in the end doesn't amount to anything because of the plot twist/cliff hanger at the last show. Sigh. |
2,935 | So far it looks like it takes six instant run off rounds and Mad Max beats Room 11 to 9. | Truth be Told I would be perfectly happy with either of my Top 4, its been that good a year. And even though I am pretty familiar with the Shorting of the Housing Market, I could probably play devils Advocate and make a case for The Big Short. |
2,936 | I won't pretend like I know what's going on in their heads but since the track did seem to be politically motivated maybe they were more focused on how it would look releasing a song right before Donald Trump takes office rather than which song off the new album would be a good one to give the public a little taste after 6 years. But I do agree with you Clementine isn't my cup of tea, but he started growing on me the 2nd listen. | Yeah it's very clear that the guy has talent, and that song had the potential to be good, but as it is...no. |
2,937 | Yup. Don't buy it if you don't like it. It's a good feature not a bad one. | I'd argue its a pretty terrible feature if it becomes a single point of failure for the entire device. |
2,938 | I would legitimately be very excited for this if they weren't trying so hard to roll out usage based billing/data caps. | Yeah it would depend seriously on whether or not they impose limits on it. Currently if you have the Extreme 505 or Gigabit Pro, even in the markets where they have the caps, you don't have a data cap. But these are both fiber connections, so who's to say what they will do with a cable-based 1Gbps service tier. |
2,939 | I'm not knowledgeable in the area either, but I recall reading that there are no known home uses as of yet. Although my guess would be that as the technology gets more explored we will find uses for it in computer graphics. | More than graphics, for any physics based simulation, including light ray rendering. |
2,940 | Autopilot has been used in the industry since speed-maintaining systems. At this point, autopilot should absolutely not connote any ideas of autonomous driving. | No, it should, that's what autopilot is. Marketing guys took the term and applied it cruise control. They problem is people calling it autopilot, when it's not full autopilot. |
2,941 | The only reason it's a little scary to the FCC is because while anyone can bid, normally only Verizon and AT&T are actually willing to bid the billions needed for the FCC to meet its budget intake mandate set by Congress. Oligopoly is a scary market mechanic. | I don't think Verizon will be the only one. I think T Mobile will participate now as part of their new business plan. |
2,942 | Nah, Torvalds is notorious for his bad temper and for regularly insulting and humiliating programmers in list servs with little provocation. He's been called out for it before, but it never led to any change or anything. He doesn't just occasionally snap, he snaps all the goddamn time. | He should write fiction instead of code. That was beautiful. |
2,943 | Right, that was the whole point. So the big money involved could be - processors, banks, and venture. | Or potential buyers? The big startup dream is acquisition and big buckets if cash.... Duh, just noticed you said venture... I think this might be the biggest driver. |
2,944 | Not sure if this is a joke or a really dumb question | actually i had that question too i would think this sub reddit would be all about discovering new music not classic rock that is played on the radio like all the time |
2,945 | Also Return of the King. When the Eye of Sauron and Barad Dur falls. The music during that scene and the overwhelming sense of accomplishment. Powerful, powerful scene. | Man, LOTR is full of these scenes. The march of the Ents, the Charge of the Rohirrim, Sams speech to Frodo in Oshiliath... |
2,946 | I've got a problem with moderators imposing a taste on what is good or bad in a subreddit (call me an old school mod). The amount of shit we would take anytime a user gets his gorillaz tune removed would be enormous. We can, however, make a "recommendation" or something like that, on the sidebar. "Please avoid the most popular song of the most popular artists" ? That way, we give a direction, without actually removing the songs. If only people would downvote the stuff they don't wanna see... (I know, I know) | As long as you make sure it's not One Direction, we're good. |
2,947 | Slow clap. Well yes in a way you are worthless. - You have an extreme sense of entitlement and lack responsability. - Your looks fade. - Child birthing is non existent or dangerous. What have you got left to offer? Please don't tell me sex because girls in their 20s are giving it away like business cards. A 40 year old woman 20~30 years ago was already in a marriage for 15~20years in a nuclear family. With feminism, you have reduced yourselves to nothing more than a piece of ass. And a 40 year old piece of ass with worth less that 20 year old piece of ass. | I love how your value of worth for women is "can this person give me sex? " "is she able to have a child? " and then call women entitled. It's like you've never actually met or talked to a woman over her twenties. |
2,948 | How likely are you to make that much without college? | You can do it right now. Will the job be absolutely terrible and dangerous? Yes, but you can go make 100k right now with a high school education. |
2,949 | "It would move cargo and passengers through tubes on a cushion of air, at almost supersonic speeds in a near-vacuum." Either a cushion of air, or a near-vacuum. You can't have it both ways. | IIRC Elon's original plans involved air compressors inside the pods. |
2,950 | Best portrayal of AR and VR in fiction so far would go to Vernon Vinge's Rainbow's End. That is what our very near future will be like. | Just a slight correction for those curious enough to look for this - it's *Rainbows End* (no apostrophe) by Verno**r** Vinge (not Vernon). Phenomenal book for sure. |
2,951 | "Pan Tadeusz" isn't a part of the Trilogy, "Pan Wołodyjowski" is. | Right. Sorry, Michał Wołodyjowski. My mistake--I'm a recent immigrant to Poland, so I still make these errors. |
2,952 | Sometimes I think Will Ferrell, I don't think his routine or the movies have gotten funnier over the years and has had to go back to the well at times with Ron Burgandy in a terrible sequel and Mugatu in Zoolander 2 not good either | Honestly his last comedies I really liked are Megamind and The Other Guys |
2,953 | Most Listener forms are asexual, but several forms are different, including slaveform. Horneaters and Herdazians are not, as a rule, though there are higher instances of asexuality among them. | I was actually wondering about how Parshmen would reproduce if they are only in slaveform? I thought one had to be in mateform in order to reproduce? Also, could Horneaters and Herdazians change forms as well? |
2,954 | The tail lights are atrocious, way too much going on; the headlight lines extending all the way to the cab looks bad to me, and the rear quarterpanels look like the car has really squared up, weird hips. Looks are a personal opinion and my personal opinion is that it looks bad. | Cool. Lots of people share your opinion. My opinion is that it looks good. OPINIONS. |
2,955 | Seth McFarlane is transphobic, regardless of his other socially liberal stances. He's never advocated transgender equality - and he doesn't get why he is considered transphobic. They usually end up being the butt of a joke when he's run out of material. There's no parody or satire to be found yet. | Is there an actual instance of him voicing confusion over being considered as such? |
2,956 | I saw Green Day on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony and I wondered...has they always been gay and I just now noticed? | Why I downvoted your ugly ass: - called people "gay" as an insult without any explanation. - grammar that makes me want to punch a baby. - talked shit about Green Day |
2,957 | It's worth it. It's not a movie you can watch passively, it's something you have to really pay attention to. I'm still impressed with the quality of the visual effects, especially when you think it came out years before Star Wars. | Kubrick was a masterful storyteller. On thing that he did in many of his movies was give scenes time to develop. If you watch many modern movies and TV shows, the scene changes perspective very frequently, often in less than 10 seconds. I've read that this is because peoples' attention span is so short. In some of his movies such as "2001" and "Eyes Wide Shut", Kubrick will hold a scene for several minutes. This may seem strange or slow paced but I see it as respect for the story and the audience. |
2,958 | A lot of people miss a point about that movie, because it's meant to be to the viewer what the dancers were to the clubgoers - voyeurs. Zynder was saying we're hypocritical for hating the bad guys in the film when we are doing the same thing, ogling at the violence/sexiness of the girls. It's a bit like Inglorious Basterds, where Tarantino sent up his fans by showing the Nazis loving Zoller for slaughtering 300 Americans in a film. He's saying the audience are hypocritical for wanting violence on the people who are enjoying a morally questionable violent film, when they themselves are enjoying a morally questionable violent film. | I totally agree, I think the movie had very important themes. But I don't think it communicated them as well as it could. It feels like it pulled some punches, ironically. Or at other times like it almost lost interest in its own themes. |
2,959 | Did every 90's action film have a scene where one of the villains gets frozen in liquid nitrogen? | It's that whole Schwarzenegger-Stallone rivalry. And it's not only the freezing thing that's similar. Notice that Phoenix even uses a spear against Spartan, like the T-1000 against the Terminator in T2. The metal setting they fight in is also similar. |
2,960 | Dredd. Couldn't get enough of that underrated film. So much badassery | Agree. As a balls-out action movie it is totally under-rated. |
2,961 | Bwahaha. Lady Gaga. Literally just makes nonsensical pop songs with no meaning. Actually I couldn't care less about U2, but they'll have a much larger legacy in music than Lady Gaga ever will. And no, your argument is still nonsense. If enough people want to buy Demi Lovato and U2 tickets that bundling them will boost album sales that much, then they aren't irrelevant. People aren't buying tickets to see irrelevant artists. Get it? | Lady Gaga is a pretty iconic person in music though? Hear about her a lot more than U2 here in the states... |
2,962 | Because all country is about drinking beer and bad breakups. | u/big_hungry_joe never implied that it was... You, however, *absolutely* implied that all hip-hop was about being ghetto and trashy (read: about being a negative black stereotype). Such is the top of controversial. |
2,963 | Why don't we just get rid of texting and calling altogether and replace it with an internet-based cross-platform service like iMessage & FaceTime audio. This would ensure that features can be quickly implemented instead of relying on carriers to support each feature individually. EDIT: yes I understand this isn't feasible right now, since data is expensive and WiFi isn't everywhere. I'm talking about a long-term plan that includes affordable data that is virtually global. EDIT #2: iMessage and FaceTime audio are *not* cross platform, thus my call to action asks for a solution that is | I would urge everyone to try out **telegram** which is far superior to whatsapp imo (and has a desktop application and webinterface). |
2,964 | True dat. The only thing its good for is "Not letting the bad guys win". Which in this case becomes an Amensalism | Yeah, Jim uses it specifically because he gets money through Patreon. He wants his videos to be ad free, but when companies file a copyright claim they can monetize the video for themselves. Jim came up with the copyright deadlock strategy because he wanted his videos ad free period. It wasn't just a way to get back at those companies for taking monetization away from him. |
2,965 | This is actually insane. Imagine what the next step would be if they could do the same thing with moving situations and allow the computer to predict dynamic movement of things | That’s not too far fetched at all. A lot of the times papers like this will separate different parts of the problem and focus on only one area. Predicting motion of things over time probabilistically is very much established. I’d not be surprised if what you’re suggesting is demonstrated soon, or would be an active part of a system using these models. That being said, it’s often a thing to not predict things explicitly, but to optimise for your goal. If your goal is to play a game your model may account for movement of occluded objects internally but not expose this. |
2,966 | Really, it isn't a terrible movie. It just isn't all that accurate of an adaptation. The movie is enjoyable if taken on its own merit. Not great, but amusing. | Which is kind of in line with the whole concept of THGTTG. Every version of it, the radio show, the tv series, the books the movie, all deviate from one another in some way. |
2,967 | I think it was on an episode of the simpsons | No, I'm pretty sure it was an episode of IASIP |
2,968 | So this article starts off with. >no porting required. Then a few sentences later: >Google is not opening the floodgates and loading a full Play Store with every Chromebook; instead, it is manually bringing over certain apps. ???? [**That's fucking porting.**] I thought Ars was supposed to be one of the good tech news sites, not one of the sites that use misleading clickbait titles like this. Wait, that's not just misleading: it's a downright lie. | Their full articles are pretty good. When it comes to parroting otherwise bland press releases it seems like they put in less effort. |
2,969 | Probably will find out more about him in the next two movies. He is named Lor San Tekka, and not much is known about him other than being affiliated with Leia and the Resistance. [Source] | They really should've used an actual character from the originals. |
2,970 | Rdio died and the only decent music streaming service left in my country is Apple Music yet I would pay premium if spotify enters my country. | Spotify UI is garbage compared to Rdio. Believe it or not, Apple Music has been the best replacement. |
2,971 | Man, hard to believe that LotR was 15 years ago... | Even crazier to think that even though it was released 15 years ago, they started filming it in 1999! |
2,972 | I reread The Outsiders annually because it was the book that got me into reading as a tween and I have fond memories associated with it. It's probably a book that, were I to read it for the first time now, I'd probably just find it cheesy or juvenile but it entered my life at just the right point, thus it's a nostalgic favorite. | I read that book in Grade 9 when I was 14. I should give it a reread one day. |
2,973 | just use fake accounts? I can make a facebook for Snerp Snerpson and no one would be able to track it to my real name unless I link the two somewhere. | Facebook will. If you log on regularly to both accounts from the same PC they'll know. If you log in from the same PC on two different wifis they could work it out. Only way to be safe would be to have no connection whatsoever, and that's not easy. Because that's the power that they have when they control all the data. |
2,974 | It only has bits of extreme violence in it, but any opportunity I get to watch *The Silence of the Lambs*, I take it! Are you looking to hook up with this girl? Cause if you are, horror movies are always the way to go, because you can comfort her when she gets "scared". Good luck! | Haha, no I don't want to hook up, we're just friends, but we still might watch Silence of the Lambs, because that is a sweet movie. |
2,975 | I loved the scope and the historic feel (it is supposed to be based off Asimov's take of the concepts expreseds in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which I was reading at the same time and could notice the crossover). However due to the nature of the story (grand timescale) characters don't stick around long and it was hard to attach yourself to the story. I enjoyed them but their not something I will be running back to re-read. | I've only read the first book and I definitely agree with you, I really didn't like the fact that it kept skipping forward ahead in time, you really didn't get to know the characters that well. Maybe I need to read the whole series to get a better understanding or even just to get the bigger picture. |
2,976 | I have a disturbing feeling Hollywood is going to PG-13 the fuck out of this. | And it will be the least of its issues. |
2,977 | Who I once saw getting a blowjob from some random skank in public. | Yeah, a friend worked at the hotel he stayed at during his time in Pittsburgh. He said the room always had girls coming and going, until Hilary was in town. That's how they knew she was in town, because his room would be quiet and spotless. |
2,978 | Is that war criminal George W. Bush you are talking about? Since when is being passionate about racial equality the same as being an asshole? It made it clear that Kanye isn't particularly smart or has any situational awareness, not that he's an asshole. Next! | I don't know if i agree that it made it clear that Kanye wasn't particularly smart or had any situational awareness. |
2,979 | More like 5-10 years if Musk-time is anything to go by. | Which is still amazingly close. I didn't think we'd see such a thing in my lifetime. (Cue joke about me not making it another 5-10 years.) |
2,980 | Primer is a movie about time travel. Looper is a movie with time travel in it. Looper was pretty good, though, I enjoyed it, but there aren't many movies that can match Primer, time-travel-wise. | Good point, that's probably a more accurate description. Overall, I prefer *Looper*. I agree that as far as films actually about time travel, not many hold a candle to *Primer*, but narratively speaking, *Looper* is a much better story. |
2,981 | How can you rate it if you haven't finished it? | I watched around 75% of the movie, I can tell it doesn't deserve to be 98% |
2,982 | He isn't wrong. But its not like we want to kill people anyway. | >But its not like we want to kill people anyway. We dont *want t0*, we just *don't care* |
2,983 | Just saw them at Lollapalooza. Gotta grab the album now, dang. | Get the deluxe one it has the boxer cover on it. |
2,984 | Our AI overlords are going to be a bit racist. | "UNABLE TO DETERMINE IMMIGRANT HUMANS FROM CITIZEN HUMANS. SECONDARY PROTOCOL: DESTROY ALL HUMANS. BNP-TRON 9000 ACTIVATED." |
2,985 | Sorry but I still blame Columbus just as much as, say, Sandler for Pixels. You can justify Sandler in the same regard; he knew it was crap, but hey, he's getting money from it, so why not do it? Both facilitated the production of a garbage movie; both are to blame. | I've heard that when there's a great performance, it's a great actor. If there's a great ensemble, it's great direction. By that logic CC deserves no small part of the credit for Pixels. |
2,986 | Not a lot of empathy here for the theatre worker, I see. Everything you're saying is true, no idea where anyone would get the notion that your job is mainly to uphold the sanctity of the movie-going experience at all costs or some such patronizing bullshit. The job is to keep things running as smoothly as possible and not get yelled at by customers/managers. | Yep, not exactly the response I expected. Anyway, I hope you guys feel cool sitting there in Ultron when you KNOW there's no after credits scene and you're making a lot of people's lives more difficult, theater workers and guests, just so you can look at the credits of people you will never meet or congratulate. |
2,987 | I also found it excruciatingly boring. It was just not compelling at all. I usually prefer dialogue heavy plots but it was just incredibly dull. | I can't take anyone seriously when they say they didn't like a movie because it was "boring". My friend who thinks The Avengers is the best movie ever made calls almost every renowned film of the last 40 years "boring". |
2,988 | Try Clive Barker, Dean Koontz, look up best horror books. Assuming that's what you like since you listed 3 horror writers. | Yeah I mainly like horror, fantasy(forgot to mention I love Brandon Sanderson!), and sci-fi. I will definitely check out those authors thank you! |
2,989 | I agree that their new stuff isn't as good as the Blue/Pinkerton. But if "is as good as or better than Blue/Pinkerton" was my requirement for enjoying bands, I wouldn't listen to very much music at all. | Are you Serious? you are trying to say that these Blue/Pinkerton albums are better than music put out by most bands? You can be a Weezer fan all you want, but their whiny sound (at times catchy) is not even comparable to many bands. I would much rather listen to Queens of the Stone Age's debut album any day over any weezer song. They play their instruments better and made better songs on their first album than weezer ever will. |
2,990 | There's also a character called Ricky Parker in an episode (Prey) of Endeavour . He's not in it for very long, he goes missing. There's a tiger in it as well. | Well I heard about this story in the stuff you should know podcast- true stories of cannibalism. Aparently they were then found just a couple of days after eating him, ironically by a ship named The Montezuma, who was an Aztec king who famously ate people. |
2,991 | I think what makes [this cover] the best is the kid crying in the background. | I was surprised to see that cover featured prominently in Pitchfork's worst album covers list. |
2,992 | That’s a good question. I think we are at a crossroads and it’s not clear how we are going to get truthful information. People finally are realizing that the legacy media isn’t trustworthy and social media never was. I don’t think we have a good alternative yet. We may have to resort to people getting first party information, learning a little about a subject, and forming their own opinions. I think that’s a bit more work than most are willing to put in but maybe I’m just pessimistic. | But that's just it. Outside the editorial section on the NY Times, you won't find conclusions like "X made a horrible statement Y" or "Something horrible horrible" in articles. At worst you'll read "X made a statement shocking the crowd". Editorial sections are nothing new in their "slant" and "bias", they've always been a cesspool of idiocy no matter how far back in time you go. |
2,993 | People appear to read it because others have read it and a) didn't like it b) liked it. But both groups spoke their mind. I personally read it because I heard of McCarthy when he said something to the tune of "short stories are useless" As a short story writer I was curious how good this guy was and picked up The Road. I am in camp a) | Interesting. I can guess why he doesn't like them - short stories are very structured, and structure is his weak point (example of highly structured narrative is Goodfellas). He is a fantastic writer for tone, language, theme and mood, but his techniques would not work so well in short stories. Saying they are useless seems churlish, though - I can't play sport for shit but I'm not about to say it's useless |
2,994 | I want to know why Valak is shown as a nun? Does anyone know the backstory of this demon? I'm too scared to google it 😵 | "he took on a blasphemous form to make lorraine question her faith" lorraine says that in the movie |
2,995 | Agreed. Not a post-grunge fan but I've always thought Seether was a very, very big step ahead of the rest of them. | That album is brutal emotionally. I could talk all day about it, I have before. |
2,996 | Nevermind the gloss. These keyboards were probably the best keyboards Logitech ever made. Back when most keyboards were $15, these were $150. People buying them were considered *insane*, but trust me, they were worth every penny. They were the super-keyboards before people even knew support-keyboards *existed*. Totally ahead of the curve. Besides a physical keyboard, they were also a statement in itself. I just want Logitech to get back to making awesome stuff like this again. | Still just a chiclet keyboard with some fancy built in volume control gibberish, no? Look into a good mechanical keyboard (if you're not already a convert) - its made numerous flashy keyboards I had purchased over the years seem like such a waste in comparison. |
2,997 | The problem is ambition. If you're going to touch the holocaust, the movie better be good. This is not a subject you touch lightly. If you're going to touch the holocaust and children, the movie better be DAMN good. If you're going to touch the holocaust and children...and comedy...then the movie needs to be the greatest damned movie in the history of damned film. Lewis seems to know that. I think he tried to make it that good - an amazing act of ambition. I think that's wonderful - God bless those attempting the impossible. And I'm sure what he produced was fine, even good. But it just wasn't good enough. | > If you're going to touch the holocaust and children...and comedy...then the movie needs to be the greatest damned movie in the history of damned film. I don't know... "Life is Beautiful" is a very good movie... Granted, not the greatest damned movie in the history of damned film, but pretty good nonetheless. |
2,998 | I know they've been making it very hard for small businesses. You can't get Small Business Server anymore. Moving to the cloud is going to cost us 4x as much. Fuck the cloud. Starting to look into alternatives (Linux) | Small businesses are to blame. So many I've seen in and around the home of Microsoft are too cheap. Paying for Windows Pro licensing as a small business? You are funny! "Why should I buy Windows when Win10 is a free upgrade for us all?" - Literally the words from small businesses. |
2,999 | Too expensive and there's hell to pay when you toss them out with the garbage. | Its expensive, sure, but not *too* expensive. No more than a console or whatever, if it keeps the $500 price point. You get kids these days with expensive tablets. Its not exactly too hands on, though it does have touch control apparently. |
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