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3,800 | Where are you from? Shakespeare isn't American, and many of his works are considered "classics". | Norway. I know of shakespeare, of course. We've just never read any of it in school.... that I can remember at least. We focus more on Ibsen here. |
3,801 | I agree, I love Meddle.However, Pink Floyd did not like this album themselves, as they think that the album lacks direction. | In terms of a unifying concept it doesn't have it together the way Dark Side, WYWH, and Animals do, but like most of the people here I'm not bothered by that since the music on the album is so damn good. |
3,802 | Tim Buckley: Song to the Siren. Never knew I could have a favourite song out of all the great songs there are, but this is it. | I really love the live version he did on the Monkees tv show. |
3,803 | Speaker for the Dead hands down. I'm still not able to understand how an author so prejudice could write a book with such a beautiful lesson. | Definitely a toss up between that and Ender's Game for me. The second one was more philosophical, and had a different impact on me, but I really could relate to Ender in the first book, a well as Bean in Ender's Shadow. |
3,804 | It resulted in services like spotify for the music industry, and netflix for the movie industry. I believe those are improvements on what we had before. | I thought we have? It called Kindle Unlimited. Although not ALL content is available at one time. But pretty much like Netflix at least? |
3,805 | Beautiful song, I first heard it in the ending of In Bruges and couldn't get enough of it. | Yeah it's great. A very emotional song, gives me goosebumps every time. |
3,806 | "available to them" I doubt it will be affordable and we can of course expect very low upload speeds as well as caps. | Cox has a better customer satisfaction record than Comcast or TWC, for example. They're typically in the top three in satisfaction for the regions in which they provide service. I've been a relatively happy Cox customer for the past decade or so. At least they're upgrading their network and looking towards improving services for their residential customers. That's more than I can say about the other big name ISPs. That being said, I'm not so naive as to think they won't take advantage of net neutrality being in jeopardy or overturned/defeated. |
3,807 | i think it's a decent track, but i agree that lacking damon albarn doesn't help it. | I love the back music but I can't stand auto tuned people I've never heard of / don't care about. |
3,808 | So... The punchline is buttsex and he had a ring pop up his butthole...? Finally, a movie made for 13 year olds that 13 year olds aren't allowed to get into... | It pains me to read this every single time there's a DP thread posted. Deadpool was originally a fucking assassin. Hell, he still is, although he has become more noble recently, he cuts people's heads off with swords, he burns them alive with flamethrowers, he beats them to a pulp......this character, while funny, is an absolute psycho and not meant for children |
3,809 | The Picture of Dorian Gray; first 30 pages were excellent and very engaging for me, but then it got really boring. | Funny, I thought the beggining kind of dull (that and the infodump in the middle. Especially the infodump in the middle), but otherwise I found it quite gripping. |
3,810 | Ok so I just got my laptop fixed after my hard drive crashed and now when i try using the scroll bars on my mousepad, they dont work. Also i used to just hit both mouse buttons to open a new tab and that doesnt work anymore. In an unrelated note, all of my head bars, idk what to call them, look really different. Any help would be appreciated | For the virtual buttons to work, you need to install the drivers for your touchpad. This will enable edge-scrolling, corner actions, etc. You most likely have a Synaptics or Alps touchpad, as these are the most common. As far as "head bars" if you mean browser toolbars, the shop you took them to probably didn't re-install them with the OS because they're mostly useless junk, and cause untold problems. There are only a few I'd trust, but I wouldn't use them because they bog everything down. Just create bookmarks to sites or pages you frequent, and use your browser's built-in search bar to find things. |
3,811 | In my opinion, if you aren't using correct punctuation, then you aren't writing properly. | God forbid an author attempt to be a stylist with something of a unique voice.. |
3,812 | Not at all relevant but the new Power Trip is awesome. I'm more of a hardcore fan than a metal fan, but I do love some thrash. | Crossover thrash is fantastic. Power Trip and Iron Reagan both put out solid records this year, though I preferred Iron Reagan's album. |
3,813 | John's doing fine. He likely makes enough from RHCP royalties alone to pay for all of Nicole's shit. | For how long? Its not like the albums or products he did with them are still selling like when they first came out. |
3,814 | Like so many other great things, I discovered this song on [Beavis and Butthead] | It's the only thing that comes to mind when I hear this song. "YEAH YEAH YEAH! There's always people sayin' 'Hey Beavis! You gotta lotta problems!" ["This dude's under a lot of stress".] |
3,815 | I read that one as an adult and wished I had come across it when I was a child. A great picture book! | It's a sad book and left me with a sense of emptiness as a child! I was a strange and sensitive child though... |
3,816 | I also have to agree with you. I believe I sat down and read the whole thing in about 3 and a half hours (if memory serves), since it was so compelling to me at that age. Every other book I'd read in English up to that point was either just boring or Shakespeare (or both :P). | Shakespeare didn't write books. He wrote plays and poetry. There lies the rub. |
3,817 | It looks more like a poster that focuses on things that look like robots. Also which was designed first? If china's was, then it looks like he got an upgrade on the US poster. | IMO this seems to be what happened. They figured that chinese people are into robots/spaceship/technology for some reason. In the left the rebel ships are bigger, the little BB8 is not front and center,C3PO and R2 are bigger, and they made space in the left for more spaceships by making Finn smaller. |
3,818 | Be aware of what you say, do and how you act. Stop, reflect, think and question (!!!) how society acts and what effects it has on people, in this case on women. | Oh, please, that's so childish. If I don't like women who exhibit traits A, B or C, why shouldn't I say it? I sure am fine when women go out and talk about how they like tall, strong men with bigger penises. It's in their whole right to do so. Hell, even when they go further than that and complain about men who don't fit in those categories! |
3,819 | What are you doing with the information you are gaining from Frank's account? | Nothing. No information gained and I wouldn't retain it in any case. I do send out a lot of noise though. Send lots of scammers fake credit card numbers, emails, phone numbers, gift cards, etc. I spent two hours back and forth with a scammer in China that was promising a shipment of cars for a $500,000 money order. I kept demanding garbage trucks and would send photoshopped money order screenshots. He'd get pissed off and then come back a few minutes later like nothing happened. I sent him the Tank Man photo as well, he said he recognized it. |
3,820 | Is there really a time where an NSFW link/comment/image would ever be appropriate in a discussion about technology? | Who knows? The porn industry has been known to be at or close to the cutting edge of new tech for distribution and merchandise. |
3,821 | I had no idea he had collections of short stories. I will definitely be reading these. | Yea they are pretty good and I don't even like short stories usually. I like how they are all sorted by category, his horror and sci fi ones are particularly good in my opinion. Be careful though because some of them will leave you yearning for more information. There is no more and there never will be. |
3,822 | Tucker & Dale vs. Evil is hilarious! I didn't think Sunshine was all that great and I love my Sci-Fi movies. <3 | I've tried to watch Tucker & Dale vs. Evil twice and didn't get past the first 20 minutes. What other movie would you compare the humour to? |
3,823 | I called 720p before opening the article. I was right. With these specs is apple even trying to lead the industry anymore? Look at the new Moto G, off contract for $180. Other than LTE, do any real advantages exist? | They're hugely different. The processors on the Moto G is kinda shoddy now, it's slower than the 2 year old Nexus 4. The camera on the iPhone destroys the Moto G of course also. The iPhone 6 and the Moto G don't compare. |
3,824 | so instead they want pissed off people who have just spent $15 on a movie they would never have seen if marketed properly? Seems like a great way to get bad reviews. | it won't get bad reviews for "tricking" people into thinking its not a musical (you keep forgetting its only one trailer, by they way). you don't give any credit to the audience to look it up themselves and learn that its source material is a musical. you also assume that the majority of people seeing this won't be kids with their parents. think of all the movies that got shit reviews and still made bank, even the ones that had trailers that didn't accurately depict the movie. also, wait till the next trailers are released and you can get pissed for another reason. |
3,825 | That's the way I understood it too but honestly, either way It's confusing. Look at it this way: If the meaning is: "They were big in the 60's but will they survive the next decade?" then their current age (back then) shouldn't have had to play a factor. If the meaning is: "They're almost 30 (back then) but will they actually survive through their 70's" which is something random to say. It's like saying, this guys are getting old, but will they get really old? | >"They're almost 30 (back then) but will they actually survive through their 70's" which is something random to say. It's like saying, this guys are getting old, but will they get really old? I think they mean the decade the 70s. Like "Will these hard partying musicians survive the next decade?" |
3,826 | It is completely due to your comment that I saw their names are *Wax* and *Wayne.* Wow. | Best part: Scadrial has no moon, or tides, so they'll never understand the pun |
3,827 | Fiber to the home matters because that's the only way you are likely to see symmetric speeds > 100M. | That'd be nice. But DOCSIS 3.1 matters too because many will actually have it available soon, unlike fiber. |
3,828 | Clue: The movie. I am hard pressed to find a movie that makes me laugh as much, consistently throughout. | That is a great movie. Tim Curry is cool and Lesley Ann Warren is just gorgeous in it |
3,829 | Of course the article just had to slip in something about diversity. Listen, the tech industry, and Silicon Valley in specific, have great diversity in their work force. The thing is, the diversity comes from Arabic people and Indians. Anyone that has stepped foot in Silicon Valley can tell you there is no shortage. It's just that, it's not the ethnicity they want. They want more black people and Hispanics. | So what you're saying is, they want actual diversity? |
3,830 | I've considered getting Netflix (Canadian), but everyone I talk to cancelled it after a few months because they'd basically watched everything they wanted to watch. | yah I got the one month and there really is not point after the one month. |
3,831 | I really enjoyed the CentralAnime fan sub, but it wasn't super easy to find. Apparently the original anime has been licensed recently along with the books - hopefully they release it subbed, as well. | I think the anime will only be released subbed. A dub would be pretty expensive. |
3,832 | I don't know who Truman Capote is, but I was referring to how in middle of his sentences his voice would suddenly drop to a low belch. I know I'm just repeating myself, but it's the only way I can think to describe it ha. I would have much preferred a higher voice, but I didn't hate it. | I hear ya on the "belch". On 'Capote', Krang has a kind of twang to his voice that's a *bit* like ... take [Ziro the Hutt ]( See what I mean? Tone/pitch of voice + accent ( to a lesser extent. ) It's just hard not to imagine him sounding like 'Brad Garrett'. |
3,833 | Who could have possibly foreseen that an internet-enabled microphone that, by its very nature, has to be on all the time, could lead to bugs with terrifying privacy implications! | Opposed to the internet-enabled microphones that we have been carrying around with us everywhere we go for the last decade? |
3,834 | Read them all, but keep in mind that the other books don't resemble Consider Phlebas at all. It's sort of the odd one out. | I read that but haven't read any other Culture books yet. Can you elaborate? |
3,835 | This article will pop up and nothing will happen to drive this reactor past the stage at which it is at. Free energy is not favorable for capitalism | Except this type of free energy is favorable for capitalism due to upfront cost. The problem is it's just unfavorable for the existing biggest energy providers. |
3,836 | "Skill in grammar" is worthless. Grammar is a fashion, a style, it is not anything that can be incredibly correct or incorrect. | Yes, unfortunately this is what or generation believes (though it's far from true). Which is why the English language is deteriorating. |
3,837 | Privacy services that are based in the US are always quite suspicious to me. Their addon also only works with Chrome so I don't see how they're really commited to privacy. | > Their addon also only works with Chrome. How does it make the service less private? |
3,838 | If you're looking to get festive with your family, I've got the perfect place for you. New York's hottest club is Heyyyyyy! Built from the bucket list of a dying pervert, this Battery Park bitch parade is now managed by overweight game show host Fat Sajak. This place has everything: tweakers, skeevies, Spud Webb, a child, and a Russian guy who runs on the treadmill in a Cosby sweater. So come on down this weekend — the bouncer is a bulldog who looks like Wilford Brimley and the password is "diabeetus." | If you've got a pulse or had one in the past, I've got the party for you: New York's hottest club is Spilt! Boasting the most texturally-diverse bar surfaces this side of the Hudson, Spilt! is a guaranteed*, wet-sock-filled party for people who aren't averse to parties or shaving occasionally. (No guarantees). This place has everything: drinkers, eaters, snorters, Spud Webb, smokers... and that's just the women! So come on down this weekend -- knock quietly because mom is sleeping upstairs and she has school in the morning and it's a test day. She'll kill me if she has to repeat the 8th grade again. |
3,839 | I don't think it has much to do with capitalism. All countries are hopeless corrupt. It boils down to the 2-party system we have here and the lack of any other option. | I'm not so cynical to view the world that way. It's definitely corruption and capitalism. |
3,840 | Ever since I lost backwards compatibility on my 3DS, I missed having Petit Computer. I'm glad that the new version is definitely coming here. | How did you lose backwards compatibility? The 3DS runs DSiWare... |
3,841 | All three have more than two albums that have gone platinum or higher, so yeah, they'll probably be remembered | Oh.. so every band that has gone platinum will be remembered in forty years? Usher, Lady Gaga, JUSTIN BIEBER have all gone platinum... |
3,842 | Stephen King has a book called 'Insomnia' and the last passage was very sad for me. I liked this book a lot, very strange, and tied in with the Dark Tower. | I loved this book. The ending is my favorite king ending, I think. It doesn't get enough love, IMO. |
3,843 | I bet it will be cheap too! Yup, cheap and fast with a massive 5 Gigabyte cap. | With streaming 4K video you should hit that mark even faster now! |
3,844 | Gotta give this song an up-vote every time I see it on here. The joy I got from noticing the balls hanging between Fleetwood's legs can never be replicated. | Apparently they we're inspired by the flusher in a pub toilet that he stole and would walk around hanging in front of him. And yet somehow a silly dick joke just adds to the ethereal imagery and symbolism in one of the most iconic album covers in history |
3,845 | Well, self driving cars won’t ever be 100% adopted. Just think of all the motorcycle riders. Or weekend adventurers who go off road/on forest service roads etc. Car collectors. People who don’t want to be tracked by ANOTHER data tracking device/company. The seatbelt comparison is hilarious though. Not related at all to self driving cars but my brother also would use this “logic” | Self driving cars are better at driving beside people than people are. There is a guy that keeps a roadcam on for his Tesla while he is driving, and he uploads it all to youtube. There are several times where the Tesla was able to predict that a sudden slowdown would happen long before anyone else knew what was going on. |
3,846 | IN normal ovens I've never seen it, but I must admit that I didn't look for it. But I do have termometers to put in the meat that you can buy for 10$ on amazon... In the microwave ovens my first microwave ever (bought 1988!) had it. You just put the food in, selected a setting for the food weight, stick the termometer in it, set the desired temperature and it would heat it for you. It's not rocket science... | The ovens that can do it generally have a large headphone jack like port inside the oven. A temperature probe plugs into it and then gets shoved in the meat and you set your "done" temperature and the oven shuts off when it reaches that temp. Sounds basically exactly like your microwave version. They are actually super common in ovens but many don't come with the probe accessory part so it appears less common than the feature actually is. |
3,847 | It talks only about running Office. I'm not talking just about office. If you think I'm missing something, please point it out. To my eye, it sounds like tablets users are going to end up with a glorified Windows RT. Sure it'll run Office, but will it run other legacy programs too? To me it does not sound like it necessarily will. | I'm 90% certain that it actually just means that tablets will not be able to have the start menu, and will be restricted to the new start screen. |
3,848 | Those two things are the same thing kinda but Seinfeld never showed the sad stuff in life | Well I mean.. George is a pretty sad guy! |
3,849 | >But most of my friends find them too American. That's weird... I can't get into most of the American "Celtic" punk bands (Dropkick Murphys) because I just can't take an American accent seriously in Celtic music, but this is precisely why I'm a huge fan of Flogging Molly: the lead singer is as Irish as you can be. | i think it's amazing music. they've combined my 2 favorite types of music. folk and punk. |
3,850 | > I gave up playing physical instruments because it was too easy. Fuck man, you must be the next Beethoven! Physical instruments were really hard for him...all he could do was play the fucking piano. If only he had your abilities! | Actually I'm pretty sure if Beethoven was alive today he would use computers as well... |
3,851 | Haha, honestly I think that would have been better just for being so silly | Yes! Would have been much better advertising IMO and probably wouldn't have had the same level of outrage |
3,852 | All you know about me is what I've sold you... | I wish Tool made more self-aware songs like that. And to top it off, the following song was an intermission. |
3,853 | > From what I've read, this was a decision made in order to have more strong female roles in the story. Good move. Why? | At the beginning of the 90s, strong realistic female characters was severely lacking in cinema, so doing these kinds of adjustments was very healthy for the diversity of how women were portrayed in film. |
3,854 | He may/may not be a textbook protagonist but there's no question that the story was about him.. I mean, the title even indicates it's about him. Who else would the old man be? | Josh Brolin is actually supposed to be an old man, as well. They miscast him. But I agree, the movie is about tommy. |
3,855 | Docker seems to be on the cusp of massive popularity. Instead of hundreds of incompatible systems for packaging up apps for deployment, there is a Docker image. I don't have to figure out Heroku buildpacks or building an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) or building a Debian package. I just build a Docker image and now my app can be deployed on AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, my own machine, and dozens of other easily and reliably. | Yeah that's definitely the dream. It's already huge with developers. It's EXTREMELY common already that if you look at some open source project you're interested in trying out, they already offer a docker image. It just needs to make the leap to real production/devops use in the mainstream. Basically I see docker today being where Vmware was in the 90s. Back then we got constant pushback on initiatives to virtualize. Now nobody can imagine not doing it. |
3,856 | nice. who the fuck is rupert sanders and why is he directing the adaptation of one of the greatest sci-fi anime? | He's a director and the studio hired him to direct it. |
3,857 | Movie and acting was good but I echo many complaints on that if you remove the nostalgia chars, this is a reboot. Sith with face covered, interrogation scene, planet killer, small fleet take out said planet killer, etc. My question and major issue, how is Rey able to use the force so well? It took Luke til Jedi with Yoda/obi wan training to use it. Also with her, she's a scavenger yet can expertly pilot the falcon and seemingly "matrix" to effectively Saber fighy | I am guessing here but i feel like she was part of the children (youngling) that were being trained by Luke but had just forgotten it all because she was so young. Luke only had a good grasp on the force after meeting yoda and having a few days training so the a years training when a child is 4-5 could mean she had more training than Luke did in Empire when he faced Vader. |
3,858 | Not only did the courts kill net neutrality, but the mods killed the front page Link/discussion about it. What. The. Fuck. | Agreed, this mass removing of posts under a very important topic is really screwed the hell up. |
3,859 | Awesome stuff. I'm loving Wolf and this makes me want to check put the first two. | They are both really good honestly. I mean, everybody loves Goblin (because of Yonkers), but i honestly love Bastard. Especially the title song on the album, "Bastard". It really spells out his mental issues and everything, and it's oddly a beautiful song. |
3,860 | They're going to fuck up the movie. I can feel it. | The author wrote and directed the movie. It was actually pretty awesome |
3,861 | Or you could just use Lyft, which provides a picture of the car and the driver. Never understood why Uber doesn't do the same. | Uber does give you a picture of the driver on the app. |
3,862 | The two guys who were the conceptual creators of Facebook. It was their idea and Zuckerberg stole it. They got a shitload of money in a lawsuit. | Nah, man, their idea was Match.com for Harvard guys! /s |
3,863 | Death Cab for Cutie - Meet Me On the Equinox. Recorded for Twilight, and just did not work. A boring song from them, which is a shame, as I was very excited for a new track for them at the time too. Album song wise for them though, Talking Bird is my least favorite. | I absolutely love that track, but *only* for the drumming. The drum patterns on that song are so amazing, so out there for a standard indie rock band that I can't even begin to describe it. DCFC has always had great, atypical drums (Cath...) but it's raised to 11 on this one. Other than that, pretty standard stuff, yes. |
3,864 | I have a kindle, how do I go to page 95? | menu? I think that is what I do with my kobo |
3,865 | I don't see why it would. Could you explain further? | Good coding is partly how well organized it is and whether or not people who come after you are able to follow your logic. Some people may be good coders, but their code is messy, scattered, and unorganized. If somebody takes the time to practice good penmanship and make organized notebooks, that same impetus may carry over to create well organized and functional code as well. |
3,866 | >"transgenderism" >"mental illness" >"spreads like a disease" Yeah, I don't believe you. | Dude you better be carful or you might catch the gay. |
3,867 | Truth. The movie was shit. But I did dig the overall concept of the soundtrack, although I also agree that the results were a bit hit or miss. More hit than miss tho. Orbital FTW. | That album was on rotation in parties at that time, it was way better than the film. |
3,868 | It's not quite so grand, but I will put forth my secret spot, too. Inside the main branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, if you go into the stacks, there is a shared wall with window nooks overlooking dinosaur hall of the natural history museum. I loved that place! | I used to spend days researching nothing in particular there. The librarians at first were cold and unhelpful, probably because they thought I was going to steal the rare books I requested, I was a mohawked punk rock kid back then. After a while we became good friends and they would bring me rare books that were off limits. I would sometimes just pull microfilm of old newspapers and read for hours. I now live in DC and when I get the chance I go to the Library of Congress, they have more publications, but it's less intimate than the Carnegie Library. |
3,869 | In the commentary, the actors joke about this being the one scene where Fincher just gets to show off. Seeing as it is essentially cinemaphile porn, I'm inclined to agree. | Agreed. This was probably my favorite little scene from the entire film simply because of all that makes this great: the cinematograpy, the music, the editing...it's great! |
3,870 | sure gonna give them a try. Will share my experience with you. Cheers | Let me know... umphreys is more rock probably a good starting point. Or listen to Moe. - Recreational Chemistry. Or moe. - plane crash... start there idk |
3,871 | I learned on a really cheap ($50) Japanese 80's Fender knockoff. Bought at a garage sale. Here's the one Jenny recommended. | Thanks for the link. I will try this bass and see what happen :) |
3,872 | Sounds like the sub wants to be either r/hardware, or a place for marketing the latest "innovation." | Well No, Hardware is very specific to well physical hardware. it would not cover say X companies OS or later in electronic standard or format.. etc. Hardware has a very narrow definition unlike Tech. |
3,873 | What did you like/ get out of this book? I looked it up and it sounds interesting but some of it just sounds..bitter and resentful? | Most of the bitter/resentment is pretty humorous, it's definitely very sardonic. Basically it just caused me to reevaluate everything I've always thought about love/marriage. Very well written and interesting! |
3,874 | Why would him being away from his daughter have anything to do with him being scientologist. This does not make any sense | It does make sense if you know anything about how Scientology operates. |
3,875 | Oh really? My life is leading up to 15foot spider which was irrelevant to the rest of my life. Sweet metaphor man | My 15ft spider was stepped on by an 846 ft giant that just kept on walking. Never saw him again. |
3,876 | "Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me. "Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?" This just perfectly captures all the moments they never had together. A bit of hope mixed with regret and despair. So great | People who hate this book just haven't met their "Brett" yet. |
3,877 | It was a tie for me between Gyllenhaal and Keaton. The Keats has to win now. If not, I'm rioting. | that Golden Globe is the only acting award Keaton has ever won. Some small stuff from various film festivals and smaller publications, but no major awards - and actually very few nominations. But I've always been a fan of his, so I'm glad for him. |
3,878 | I seen them at Family values with stp and linkin park around that time. Still one of the best shows i've seen. | My first concert was in DC for this tour. Stained and deadsey played too. I remember it being awesome. |
3,879 | Sometimes i am just not in the mood for a particular book/film/w.e. I was starting watching Citizen Kane 2 times and couldn't get past 10mins mark and obv one day just watched it in cinema and absolutely loved it. | Yeah I think I'll try all the ideas in this thread, otherwise I might just come back to it in a few books time |
3,880 | King still hasn't provided *any proof* that he actually paid Maine taxes. Just sayin'. | Got any reason to doubt it? Besides the bloviations of an anti-tax extremist? |
3,881 | It's like both things are somehow happening at the same time. | One feeds the other. The people who care will grab power, and the people who don't will look the other way. |
3,882 | Honestly that wasn't well explained in the movie, to almost all of us it looked no different from the stuff he had in Iron Man 3. | they were all the same drone. In IM3 he had dozens of different suits. Looked totally different to me. Honestly all of IM3 was, or should be, explanation enough but apparently people found that confusing as well. |
3,883 | YES! I miss their old shows so much! It's so different seeing them now. | I think it's like anyone who hits it big...they are playing to larger venues, and the shows have changed out of necessity. I'm just glad that more people are exposed to their music...we need more bands like the Avetts...bands that promote goodness. |
3,884 | I'm British and I didn't really like it. Well, I did, but it wasn't as good as everyone makes it out to be. I await deportation. | Let me guess, you're in London and you want to be deported to New York? |
3,885 | I think the craziest thing is both political sides look at this and double down in their own positions. They can't both be right, but it shows the power of Cognitive Dissonance | Same with 1984. Hillary said in her book that if 1984 taught us anything, it's to trust our leaders more. I actually became angry upon reading her interpretation. |
3,886 | I can't watch the theatrical releases now that I've seen the Extended Editions (which I prefer) because I feel like I'm missing things when I watch the theatrical. | Agreed for the most part. I think there might be a little more of the Aragorn vs Arwen love story that I think could have been left on the floor. |
3,887 | I am going to respectfully disagree and call this 'not funny'. | I'm with you. Seems like a nice guy, and I still enjoyed the clip for his contagious enthusiasm, but yeah the observations missed the mark for me. Mostly because I've always seen creep as a love song, in the sense of when you meet someone you are mad about they are so perfect in your eyes you just fail in comparison. It's not so much 'making yourself feel bad' but more emphasising how perfect the other person is. Self deprecating compliments. |
3,888 | I personally like to think about what I want to be taken away from the place, or how I want the person to be perceived and then find synonyms or the word/personality trait, in a different language. Most times i come up with some thing really cool! :) | Yes, I agree! For me, the names I pick are category-like. The amazons all have Greek names, knights have European, which helps solidify them as a group. Always a method to the madness! |
3,889 | If you're adding Nefarious to the movie then they are seriously missing out if they're not adding Lawrence | Man, I'm gonna be so pissed if we never get to hear "Bass Odyssey" |
3,890 | What Pixar movie is so obscure that no one on Reddit would know what you were talking about? | that's why I used pixar, they are known enough to be able to make a point, my favorite movies are not pixar, but pixar makes a quality movie. |
3,891 | We don't have analytics from the clicks on the sidebar, but I'm guessing that those links see much less traffic than you might expect. Frequent posts on /r/books about what's going on in the subreddit would drive a lot more people there. Getting a post from /r/bookclub onto the frontpage would do the most (about 500 upvotes in 6 hours). | I found the subreddit a few months ago because of the link in the sidebar. I can't speak for everyone, but I'm sure many others did as well. |
3,892 | How the fuck is THIS the worst subreddit when there's /r/TrayvonMartin , Whiterights, Sexyabortions and spacedicks? worst subreddit... GET A GRIP. | I think they meant "worst sub-reddit that anybody ever bothers to really use." |
3,893 | Gee maybe they should make it reliable enough for the general public *prior* to enacting laws making them mandatory. | like the article says there are many ways to make a smart gun. the laws dont enact until a smart gun is actually sold. its up to the manufacturers to get it right. the technology wont happen without legislation to spur the development. |
3,894 | Congratulations for being the only person to have objectively correct insight into the value of all artwork I guess? | Given how much of this thread seems to be people claiming that reviews can be "objective," I wouldn't be surprised if they actually believe that. (Even though I do agree with them on Gatsby to some degree) |
3,895 | There was a ton of sexualization of Emma Watson and her character, which started when she was a teenager (pretty sure the tabloids did a “count down to 16” for instance), which was definitely weird. | Oh yeah, that was creepy as fuck, and given that it was carried by the same tabloids who like to stoke fear of paedophiles to outright bloodlust, wildly hypocritical. |
3,896 | But that pedestrian may not necessarily be at fault under current law. This scenario also assumes the computer must make an active decision to kill someone and can not just stop safely. I think the liability of a computer making an active decision to kill would be different than a human driver making a mistake. But until it's challenged in court we won't know. I also think how this liability plays out in this scenario is going to determine how successful autonomous driving as a technology is going to be. | If you run into a moving car (the only scenario where a driverless car hits a pedestrian), then you are at fault. The beauty of driverless cars are that they are perfect defensive drivers - they won't put themselves into situations where they would ever be "forced" to kill. A human driver with perfect defensive discipline and lightning quick reactions/zero distractions would be similarly safe. |
3,897 | “Yet suppose further. Suppose that all worlds, all universes, met at a single nexus, a single pylon, a Tower. And within it, a stairway, perhaps rising to the Godhead itself. Would you dare climb to the top, gunslinger? Could it be that somewhere above all of endless reality, there exists a room?...' You dare not. And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.” -The Dark Tower I during the palaver between Roland Deschain and Walter o' Dim. When you first find out the nature of the Dark Tower and Roland's goal. | "Kill if you will, but command me nothing!" the gunslinger roared. "You have forgotten the faces of those who made you! Now either kill us or be silent and listen to me, Roland of Gilead, son of Steven, gunslinger, and lord of ancient lands! I have not come across all the miles and all the years to listen to your childish prating! Do you understand? Now you will listen to ME!" Absolutely my favorite quote from the series. Not title related at all but I had to brush the dust off of my copy of Dark Tower IV: Wizard and the Glass. |
3,898 | >Moreover, the poor, highly fertile countries that once churned out immigrants by the boatload are now experiencing birthrate declines of their own. From 1960 to 2009, Mexico’s fertility rate tumbled from 7.3 live births per woman to 2.4, India’s dropped from six to 2.5, and Brazil’s fell from 6.15 to 1.9. Even in sub-Saharan Africa, where the average birthrate remains a relatively blistering 4.66, fertility is projected to fall below replacement level by the 2070s. This change in developing countries will affect not only the U.S. population, of course, but eventually the world’s. What are you referring too? | **highly fertile countries that once churned out immigrants by the boatload** And then they go and list a whopping THREE (edit: sorry, FOUR) countries that experienced a declining birthrate, with many many dozens to go. I'm sorry, but three (edit: oops, four! Humongous difference) out of ~100 does not a trend make. I'm not making the claim that the birth rate will never, ever, go down. I'm arguing against the notion that poor economies cause declining birth rates, when historically the opposite has shown to be true: Wealthy countries see birth rates drop first. And your link agrees with my assessment. |
3,899 | I'm pretty positive there is no R rated "cut" of Independence Day. | *shrugs* All I know was that the VHS box said "rated R" on it, and it was independence day. And every time I saw a rated R movie after that, I would always remember it as my first. Now, I could have been wrong my whole life, but I have enough memories referencing this to be pretty sure that the argument and such DID happen. |
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