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3,900 | Until EV cars become cheaper & more mainstream, I agree with the wealthier statement. Also its kind of a no brainier that EV households use a lot more electricity, especially at night. Is this info really supposed to surprise anyone? | Does it even matter if EV owners use more power at night? It's off peak hours... |
3,901 | definitely not humbert humbert.i would love to be friends with everyone in infinite jest | Really, though? Everyone? Even Bobby C.? Yeesh. And that repulsive fuck Randy Lenz? I get it, though; some of those characters would make amazing friends. |
3,902 | Technically the one you posted *is* the edited one, heh. | would you care to explain and if you are correct i will delete my post |
3,903 | Or like the trailer for Nightcrawler where he repeats his little saying so many times that you expect it to be like a catchphrase. In the trailer it is used to show how more and more unhinged he is getting but then he only says it once in the entire movie. | He says the line multiple times in the movie, and the trailer captures the uneasiness of the movie quite well. |
3,904 | Ah yea idk why I assumed you meant Tyrese. And just in case you were wondering... Vin Diesel - Dom Toretto. Jordanna Brewster - Mia Toretto. Michelle Rodriguez - Letty Ortiz. Ludacris - Tej Parker. And then theres Jesse Vince and Leon but I dont know their real names | One characters name I will never forget: Sung Kang plays Han Seoul-Oh. (Yes, really.) |
3,905 | I disagree on Prometheus. As a huge fan of the Alien movies, I found it highly enjoyable. | Dear, singularity2030, we are informing you that you are expelled out of Alien movies fan club due to a comment above. Please avoid naming yourself an Alien fan from now on, or we would have to take legal action against you. Yours truly, The One True Alien Movie Fan Club. |
3,906 | You could try Boxer...it's a phenomenal album that I personally think overshadows their newer stuff. | I've already been through their whole catalog. I disagree that those older albums are better - though they do have some great, unmissable gems, they seem less cohesive or at least less appealing to me than High Violet or Trouble Will Find Me. |
3,907 | Well it certainly doesn't cure AIDS. I'll let you do the math on that one. | That's because no one have told the homeopaths yet. They can make it into a cure for something. |
3,908 | It makes sense they don't. As a very casual comic-book reader even I had to google that to find out what it was. The average audience member would be even more confused. Also I think WB tries to shy away from titles that could easily be misinterpreted to be titles of non-superhero films. Which is why I doubt we'll ever see "The World's Greatest Detective" as the title of a batman film or "Man of tomorrow" as a superman film. Oh and I know "Man of Steel" and "The Dark Knight" are exceptions but both those titles are familiar enough to the public I think and don't have the optimistic feel that "World's Finest" has. Remember this is DC. Everything must be dark, dark, dark. | This is poor logic and sorry you don't know basic comic book lore. I guess The Hobbit shouldn't call their movie the Desolation of Smaug because I don't know who Smaug is. EDIT: better example - Guess we shouldn't call our X-men movie "Days of Future Past" You wanna know why it will work? Because the second you release a trailer for the new movie and throw a giant title at the end of "THE WORLD'S FINEST" even your mother will know that's the new batman superman movie. The World's Finest is by far the best title, even if they call it Man of Steel: The World's Finest. Knock it off with the shitty Knight puns. |
3,909 | Check out his acoustic versions on youtube. It'll blow your mind how much the production squanders his talent. | It's funny that you say that. He's said that the first EP (Take Me to Church) was almost entirely recorded in his attic and that he's tried to replicate that basic approach on the album. |
3,910 | But what if the asteroid was made of $100 bills? | Interesting question, I'll see what the math says. According to wikipedia, a 100 USD bill weighs approx. 1 g. This leads to a value of 100,000 USD/kg, or about 4x the value of palladium, as seen in my other reaction. This means that it would still cost more more money to collect less, even on a Falcon Heavy mission, with an optimised spacecraft. It would become viable sooner than resource mining, but for the coming decades, still not worth it. |
3,911 | I felt the worst part of that film was either Freeman's character or Freeman himself. I can only handle one A-list Hollywood juggernaut per movie, after that it breaks my concentration. | To me, it was Freeman. I think a lesser known actor would have been better. |
3,912 | Any plastic laptop. This is one place where MacBooks are incredibly superior to the average computer. I have literally NEVER seen an aluminum MacBook have its hinges fail, and I have seen every other kind of problem on the planet. | I can't speak for the unibody macbooks, but those pre-unibody ones broke at the drop of a hat. I had one of the santa rosa macbooks and the hinges failed twice (which is to say the hinges failed, and then the replacements failed). Replaced it with a thinkpad with the weird single swivel-hinge screen and somehow that one hinge lasted longer and through more abuse than the two sets of two hinges on the macbook. |
3,913 | Sure it can be both, but it's pretty clearly more a work of art than a puzzle. Obviously it can be art and a puzzle, the post is an example of it for christs sake. The difference is this is an original puzzle and that is quite clearly a very artistic representation of it. Like I said if their goal was to make it more of the actual puzzle they could have made it out of plastic and sold it for $25. Honestly, if someone buys it their first thought isn't going to be "Oh wow now I get to solve it!". It's probably going to be how they can make it the center piece of their 3rd den. | And they could make this puzzle from OP smaller and plastic and less than $150. Regardless of being art or not, it is clearly a very expensive puzzle if one wanted to buy it and play with it. |
3,914 | I think Veritasium explains it best: The super watered down version is that due to "super-positions", Qbits can be in two states at the same time. This makes it possible for n Qbits to represent the same amount of information that 2^n conventional bits can represent. So, 4 Qbits can represent the equivalent of 16 conventional bits. Also, you can't communicate via entanglement due to the [No-communication Theorem] So the parts where /u/Jabronez was talking about superluminal communication was bullshit. | They're not in the same place at the same time, basically there's three photons, they entangle them in pairs, so P1 and P2 are entangled, and P2 and P3 are entangled, but P1 and P3 are NOT entangled, directly anyway, they read the spin of photon 1 (is it spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise?) and the very instant they read that data, the entangled photons change their spin to match the read one's spin, scientist's aren't sure how they communicate their spin state, but it's never failed. |
3,915 | Yeah that's not how it works... Essentially what you're suggesting is that Comcast and Verion and AT&T should give Netflix hundreds of Gbps of bandwidth for free just because they use a lot of bandwidth?? | Comcast and co. Are being paid by their subscribers to access the internet. If enough traffic to Netflix is being generated then yes, the subscribers expect more lanes to be opened to Netflix by peering with Netflix's ISP, or participating in the local caching program. |
3,916 | Add in a little Seven Dust, Oprah, Dillenger Escape Plan, Roni Size, E-town... And still you rise. Kudos to you. | Hey thank you. This is good list, thank you. |
3,917 | The only reason for a widescreen tablet is if it's purely a video device. We deal with it on phones because it's a better shape for holding the thing up to your ear. | I agree. In fact for a phone I've often thought a little skinnier and taller might be nice. |
3,918 | the acting was good, but this movie had no plot... just a string of random anecdotes. | Sounds like the drunken/high ramblings of some jackass journalist :P |
3,919 | (This is copied and pasted from a past comment, but I doubt that it has changed): I took a look, the top 25 posts of all time have zero (well, maybe one, a book recommendation thread) topics about an actual book. They're mostly pictures of bookshelves, comics, and two about how much people hate the "film edition" book covers (#1 and 4). It's a little ridiculous. A moderator needs to come in so that we, as a community, can clearly define what this subreddit is. If we just complain about it, no change will come about. We need someone who can actually do something to come in and start a discussion. Otherwise, in a week this will go back to what it currently is. | I kind of like the way /gaming has it. It's everything. From discussion to a game to a nostalgic collection, to news about upcoming games; it's got what plants crave. I love that in the same subreddit I can find a picture of old school pulp fiction covers *and* a discussion about controversial books. I say for a such a macro subreddit like this--live and let live so long as it revolves around what we love...books. |
3,920 | You have to build a habit basically. Try to set of a goal of reading every day, start small - like a chapter or a certain number of pages. Whatever seems doable for you. Stick to it and in time it will become natural to you. | An easy way to build that habit is by replacing a current habit. I decided that any time that I had an urge to go on Facebook then I would read instead. It has been wildly successful. |
3,921 | > Then don't buy a smartwatch or wireless headphones until they reach the point that you accept them? the headphone jack seems to be on the way out, apple took it out and other phone makers have been following suit. | It's the other way around, actually. Other manufacturers removed it first and Apple followed their lead. |
3,922 | That's a good idea. Is there anything that can do that for the Mac? | Keka for Mac will take care of all your ZIP/RAR needs |
3,923 | Saw them at Shaky Knees last year. Just an absolutely incredible show live. I recommend everyone see them if given the chance, one of my favorites right now. Brittany fucking destroys live performances. | I was there too. My friend had planned to skip the Shakes show. I made him stay for one song and he was hooked and stayed until the end. |
3,924 | I came here to say the exact same thing. People that bring kids 0-6 to a PG13 or higher movie bother me. Because it seems to me they do nothing to control, quiet, or coral their kids. It's almost like they are so numb to it, they think everyone else is to. | "What am I up to? Not much. Just being an inconsiderate shitbag." |
3,925 | Psst, I am Canadian and currently living in Canada! "Whaaat. You mean Canada isn't perfect!" Crazy man, I know. | Whaaat!? Next your going to tell me unicorns don't exist. Have an upvote. |
3,926 | All appeal aside (you're definitely right about that), it's the illustrations in Pride of Baghdad and Black Hole that make the books closer to an Avengers serial than a text novel. I'm in no way trying to argue that comic books and regular books should be kept separate in the literal marketplace. But the fact that there are specialty shops for comics indicates that there are good reasons to distinguish between the two in terms of charting what's popular. The NYT listing is a loss to the industry. | That's a weird way of grouping things, though. You're grouping them by their form of media than by their subject matter. If I only knew someone really enjoyed Persepolis, I'm not going to suggest that they also watch Rick and Morty. Just because the medium is the same doesn't mean they should be considered similar. |
3,927 | I just ctrl+f'd Oberhofer in hopes someone mentioned them. I'm very glad to see you did, allow me to also suggest [Away Frm U] Basically everything they do is a summer essential, they put on a killer show too. | Yes!! This is track is awesome as well. I'm still regretting not going to their show near me last April. |
3,928 | Unfortunately, they have gone back to the 90s in their support of IPv6 (Amazon cloud does not support IPv6). They used to support streaming over IPv6 < but no longer... | Video streams are served via Open Connect, it isn't on Amazon, they still support IPv6. |
3,929 | I seriously don't understand how this album went from a troll post or a forced meme on /mu/ to being something people genuinely enjoy. I guess enough people fell for and actually took it seriously. | shits been popular since before 4chan was a fuckin thing. |
3,930 | >Conspiracy theorists call it planned obsolescence. >That’s a myth. While slowdowns happen, they take place for a far less nefarious reason. That reason is a software upgrade. Software upgrades are planned obsolescence. | 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. |
3,931 | *The Loved Ones* is a pretty great indie Australian horror. Kind of like a psychedelic Saw/Hostage but actually good. | [This movie had one the greatest moments of catharsis I can remember] (#s "when he escapes. Had me jumping out of my seat") |
3,932 | "I get paid by the word, you say?" - Stephen King | Reading The Stand made me feel like I was on a death march. |
3,933 | Jim Carey is going to teach you how to spell ["beautiful."] | Haha, he actually taught me when I was younger. The problem is I misspelled Beauitful once and now my phone automatically screws it up for me each time. |
3,934 | It's quite amazing. Now we just need some pat the bunny and everything will be right in the world. | I always bring up Pat the Bunny lyrics on askreddit threads when it's relevant, but no one ever sees my comments :( |
3,935 | Gourd damn that's incredible, thanks for showing me them! i really like Elemental. | I think you'll like [Pathfinder] as well. You should also visit /r/PowerMetal sometime :) |
3,936 | So it got only 7 hours and he might have either not charged it enough or just showed it off too much. Don't get me wrong, I'd love for the battery to last days. But if Apple says it lasts a day or two, then on a day when you show it off to absolutely everyone you see you can be certain it won't make it through the day. You gotta be real here. Until you start fussing with it less, the battery won't make a day. And he complains it asks for a passcodes when it's not on a wrist. Seems reasonable considering it's supposed to be on your wrist. | I had exactly the same experience with the Moto 360's battery. On my first few days I thought battery life was terrible, but once the interface became habitual to operate and I no longer spent time playing with it unnecessary, I started getting almost two full days to a charge. |
3,937 | The trailer for the movie *Take Shelter* did this. [Take Shelter spoilers](#s "The trailer shows a killer flock of birds, zombie-like figures attacking a car in the rain, and the contents of a room floating upward as if gravity has been turned off. All of these moments are dream sequences. It paints the movie as a sort of a supernatural thriller, when in reality its an uncomfortable look at mental illness and the toll it takes on a family.") Its still an excellent movie, just pretty different from what the trailers suggest. | That's interesting, definitely would give a false impression about the movie. I saw it blind, loved it. |
3,938 | My favorite of his is *Cryptonomicon*, and the only one(s) I never finished was the last half of *The System of The World.* *Snow Crash* is a lot of fun, and probably the lightest of Stephenson's. I'd suggest if you like it, you follow up with *Diamond Age*. It's set in the same world, a few decades later. | Will do, thanks for the tip. I also read Cryptonomicon, and as a fan of maths and a computer engineer, I was really interested in a lot of stuff from it. |
3,939 | See, I felt the same way until I realized - I think it's supposed to be that way. Like it's the main characters weird awkwardness creeping in. Like how the other character are always laughing, have you noticed that? Almost every convo, every spoken sentence is tagged with either the speaker or someone else laughing. It's not meant to be realistic, it's supposed to alienate you the way Eleanor is alienated. She's so unreliable that looking back it's hard to tell if she read even the most mundane conversation correctly in its tone. I really, really love that book. | This is well put and I agree completely. The Haunting of Hill House is definitely one of my favorite books in the way that Jackson plays with perspective and unreliability. Eleanor is a truly disturbed, paranoid character and watching her destruction is one of the most sinister and dread-inducing experiences a book has ever given me. Number one, though, has to be The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. That one fucked me up. |
3,940 | You weren't promised it. You were given the beginnings but no contract. A single story of even a series does not a promise make. Bleach was on television for like 12 years and viewers got no real ending. I wanted more of the Bloodborne series by Northernlion but it took like 2 years and a lot of money to get it back. Content creators, artists especially owe an audience nothing aside from what they have already paid for: The finished product that you purchased. It sucks if someone kills off a series but as someone who waited like 15 years for more Reboot sometimes stuff is best left abandoned once the will is gone. | Basically what you’re saying is that because you were let down by a show/series not concluding that the rest of us are supposed to feel that pain. The difference between the series that you bring up and ASOIAF is that tv series need many people to create and finish. All GRRM needs is to WRITE THE FUCKING BOOK |
3,941 | I read Lem because of Andréi Tarkovski's Solaris and Philip K Dick because of Blade Runner. | I had heard of Tarkovsky's Solaris in context with 2001 (which I loved) which is probably what piqued my interest in the book. Never got around to watching it though. I did watch *Stalker* awhile ago and it was right up my alley. |
3,942 | Not enough AMD powered options when it comes to laptops. I've held off on buying a new laptop for this reason alone. | May I ask why? Intel are pretty comfortably superior right now. |
3,943 | I'm about 100 pages in, and so far I like it. The chapters are very short and it changes pov every chapter between the two main characters, but it's still easy to follow. | I just finished this. I enjoyed how the chapters change to the characters. The jumping in the timeline get a little confusing but not enough that it interrupts the story. |
3,944 | Is that a Macho Man Randy Savage tattoo? (somebody reply "Oh Yeah!") | Oh no. It's the NO TO RI O US |
3,945 | Yeah he is even signing a bunch of albums. Also he is selling Vinyls (*note that these also can be signed*) | Oh great! We just need Boy George, Pet Shop Boys, Debbie Gibson to tour together! :) Thanks for the information Camorune! |
3,946 | That's strange. Ego death has always been a very peaceful experience for me, I haven't heard of that happening before. Congrats to your friend for overcoming it though, I've been through some scary times on acid and I can see how one might end up going through something like that. | To be honest, I don't really know what "ego death" is. He said it was like the boundaries between himself and everyone else had broken down, and he called it that. The traumatic part was that he had no idea who he was anymore. He would experience derealization every so often (triggers included finely checked shirts and Venetian blinds, don't ask me why), and that would cause anxiety attacks. It was *rough*, but he made it through. |
3,947 | You seem to not understand the difference between profit and revenue. If they are investing 100% of revenue into company expansion, that does indeed mean they are not currently turning a profit. Maybe the *could* turn a profit, maybe they couldn't. The whole point is that none of us know because reddit's financial data isn't public. Your claim that reddit could be profitable is totally unsupported, whereas the article's claim is supported by the link ABrownCoat already provided. | Correct, you don't understand profit vs revenue. Profit is money that can be taken out of the company as profit after all other expenses. If they take 100% of their profits and reinvest it into the company for expansion, that doesn't mean the company is not profitable. It is still profitable and that profit is still profit. They are choosing to use the profit to fund attempts at expansion. If they cut all those attempts and fired the pointless employees, they would be back at their normal profitable state. |
3,948 | I think Eric Roberts is a good actor and he's in a million movies, most of which are really bad, and his roles are all like less than 5 minutes of screen time. Its almost like directors call him and say. Hey Eric....wanna be in my movie. it's only a day's worth of work, and he says yes every time without knowing what the movie is about. | Eric dont give a fuck, that's the thing about Eric. |
3,949 | All I know is that The Suburbs was absolutely amazing. | The suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth. |
3,950 | The bible was the first thing printed with the printing press wasn't it? | Because in 1454 the Church ruled the Western World and Johannes Gensfleisch was looking to make a buck. |
3,951 | Thank you! The whole bloody affair has existed for bloody years but never been seen out side of festivals and special screenings. WTF is he waiting for? | AFAIK the only print was struck for Cannes. It's pretty beat up and Frenchily subtitled, but the movie is much better when seen contiguously. |
3,952 | Curious to hear people's thoughts on this (I realize it isn't a new story by any means) I'm already concerned about using their built in VPN, but is Opera worth using at all any longer? Alternatives to the browser would be appreciated as well. Edit: For clarity's sake I'm not saying that a US based browser is "safer" than a Chinese one, I'm specifically curious about the transition of Opera's ownership from a Norwegian company to a Chinese company and how this affects privacy concerns. | I was a Opera user for a long time, decided to keep using it when they moved from the Presto engine. The chinese acquisition was really the tipping point for me, as at the same time Vivaldi was finally reaching a usable state and it does most of what I care about. But at the end of the day, if you are worried about safety you should go with Firefox, if anything just to support a browser that exists to offer an option that doesn't depend on any corporation interests that might not coincide with your ideas of privacy and freedom of the internet. |
3,953 | I mean they're 4 years old. What did you expect? 100 novels? | i guess it cant really be considered an accomplishment when books geared towards kids that age have like 4 words on every other page |
3,954 | While an interesting supposition, it is exactly that, a supposition. Without evidence it's a guess at best. It has been a trend in tech companies to reduce the off-site and remote workforce. A couple of other examples have been cited. I'm not saying this isn't possible. I'm just concerned that we don't have the hard facts to support that claim. | Another trend in the tech industry: colluding to keep wages down. So something like a secret lay off campaign dos not seem very far fetched to me. |
3,955 | Those posters combined with a February release date make me think there is no chance that this is going to be good. | Despite what the article says, I'm pretty sure the release date was moved to April 8th a while ago. Edit: Oops, looking at the posters it looks like they switched the release date BACK to February 26th, lol. |
3,956 | Oh, you're right, thanks. I was being fast and sloppy and missed that line in the code. Still works in two lines though: function leftpad (str, len, ch) { ch = typeof ch == 'undefined' ? ' ' : ch; return ch.repeat(len - String(str).length) + String(str); } | Oh Man, do you know how many websites when down because of your bug? ;-) Nice fix, BTW. |
3,957 | What's your weird obsession with protecting her 'honour' at every step...? | Are you serious? As fas as I can remember I have never posted a comment about her the whole time I have been on this site. |
3,958 | That's one of those movies I watched over and over as a kid, it's a classic of our generation. Like the Sandlot. Have you seen Super 8? It gave me "The Goonies" vibe the whole time. | Abrams and Spielberg were deliberately going for the Goonies and E.T feel when they made it. They did well too, it definitely brought back feelings of nostalgia even the first time I watched it. |
3,959 | > Woah that last thing is so ~~sad~~ Lulzy to do. | Im not speaking English as a native language so im not sure what you mean? Im just truly shocked people would do stuff like this. |
3,960 | I'd start with the Dark elf trilogy then continue to Icewind Dale, gives you Drizzt's origin beforehand instead of jumping back afterwards | I'd recommend the opposite! Icewind Dale trilogy does an incredible job establishing Drizzt and the rest of the party. Adds a lot of emotional weight to his backstory. But really both reading orders are great. Love those first six books. |
3,961 | Upvoted for being one of my favorite artists out there. Saw this dude live last year and the show was amazing. | I saw him a couple of years ago touring with Rakeem and Ghostface. He was the highlight of the show by far. It's not that the 2 legendary MC's phoned it in, it's just that he was that good. |
3,962 | Nono the Snyder one was preachy too, just look at how everybody has taken his word as a gospel. | His video style is similar to his criticisms of Snyder. Moments emphasized over a scene... I disagreed with him. |
3,963 | Welp, I'm the first one here and unless the Lumineers or someone from RS gets on here, I might just be your most valued critic as that is the song that defines and in some ways led to me falling in love... Honestly, I think you have a very lovely voice. You just need a little more confidence and to try and sing a bit more from your diaphragm, which is were the power behind the notes comes from. Just try and get a little more feeling in, let loose a little, and I think you've got something :) | Thanks for the feedback! A friend requested I cover this song and it's not really my style of singing at all. Since the guitar is so soft it makes the vocals a huge focus and I honestly don't have the skill to pull off a mostly vocal-oriented song. |
3,964 | In the future, it might be worthwhile to add more response options. For example, there's a distinct difference between reading 25 books in a year and reading 100, wouldn't you say? Unfortunately, my 100 will be lumped in with the 25+ responses. More specificity is better. | Oh wow. Frankly, I thought reading 2 books/month would be a lot. 100 is just on another level! I didn't consider that to be in the realm of possibilities. |
3,965 | I go to movies because I want the movies I lie to be successful. My pitiful 15 buck actually helps. And your does too! | I don't mind paying for a good movie, and I do go to see movies I really want to see on cinemas (like The Hobbit). But for most movies I'd rather pay 20 bucks for the blu-ray, than around 45-50 bucks (2x15 for wife and me + snacks) to see an mediocre movie in a cinema. And at home I'm not forced to pay extra to watch some lame CGI 3D effects. |
3,966 | I can't have anything to do with The Great Gatsby. My stomach clenches and I get spine shivers when people praise it. | It's a mixed bag for me. The prose is beyond gorgeous, but I couldn't care less about the characters or plot. |
3,967 | "Pillars of Earth," by Ken Follet is a good historical fiction read | I second this, he is a fantastic writter. Also the follow up "World Without End" is very good. |
3,968 | I was very impressed with C# back when I tried it, but the accompanying XAML was the worst. As others said, seeing C# outside the Microsoft ecosystem would be promising. | You can use C# in all sorts of other things even within the microsoft ecosystem. I didn't find XAML that bad when I tried it but I like the idea of a mark up based gui and never use the wysiwyg editors. C# is outside of the microsoft ecosystem already. Popular game engine Unity can use C# for scripting. I wanted to also list Xamarin but microsoft bought them last year. |
3,969 | And if he's a viable candidate in 2020, I'm sure he'll bitch about it then, too... | The way Democrats have responded to his election he's currently got 2020 locked in. |
3,970 | I, also, love Spawn. Would like a remake though. Or maybe a Medieval Spawn movie. I would, also, like a The Maxx animated movie but Im old, I guess. | Honestly, if they were to do a Spawn movie, I'd love a Sam & Twitch one. There was a suggestion, I think from McFarlane but not certain, of having a dark detective story following them, with Spawn in the background. |
3,971 | Eventually people will start feeling "when is it enough, I've never even heard of this guy, oh god another cat woman etc etc". I don't think they'll be able to crank out everyone but there definitely are a few others that will work. | "I've never even heard of this guy" applies to every single movie that isn't part of a series. |
3,972 | Slowing down from 15km/s to 0 with barely any atmosphere in 7 minutes is why curiosity was a big deal. But yeah, spacex is really pushing the boat out with the whole reusability thing. | Musk wants a manned mission to mars. They are a private company that has probably already put some research into a vertical rocket landing on mars. It won't be a sky crane and a rover, but a whole rocket with people on it. |
3,973 | Actually that quote is from Eugene Debs: Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind then that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. | It was referenced in the book. The main character was actually named in honor of Debs. That just happened to be where i heard the quote first. |
3,974 | Yavin 4 has Naga Sadow's tomb on it. says that an apprentice was possessed by his spirit. Pretty interesting. | The Extended Universe is no longer canon. They may cherry pick aspects that they like, but don't assume anything is true unless it was mentioned in the films or the Clone Wars show. |
3,975 | That's just not even close to true. DiCaprio was notable at a young age for his great performances in *This Boys Life*, *What's Eating Gilbert Grape*, *The Basketball Diaries*, *Romeo + Juliet* and *Marvin's Room*. | No one is questioning whether he was a critical darling at various points in his early career, or whether he had acting chops at the time. The question asked was why did *the internet* (i.e., mostly young middle class men in their teens and early twenties during this time period) hate Leo. |
3,976 | I haven't read that one,im gonna have to check it out | The audiobook is narrated by Kate Mulgrew and she does a *fantastic* job. I read his book The Fireman, too, only because she narrated it. I really didn't enjoy that one, but her narration kept me going. |
3,977 | if the harry potter books weren't catered to kids, the biggest baddest mother fucker, the dark lord, wouldn't have been a garbage antagonist at the last book. Would've fucking skewered harry potter, put him on a stake to show everyone what happens when you fuck around. Then gone off to fuck up all the muggles. the end. | and you claim Rowling has subpar writing? with that plot proposal.. |
3,978 | Can it be considered a MITM attack if the intended recipient of the traffic is the MITM? | The end recipient is the person you are sending shit to, apple is the one carrying shit from one point to the other, and the two devices encrypt it in between them. It is fair to call apple the middle. |
3,979 | Doesn't matter who else is in it, if Kiedis and Flea are there... they can call it the Red Hot Chili Peppers. | It's kinda the same way with AC/DC, all you really need is Brian Johnson (or Bon Scott if he were alive) and Angus Young. |
3,980 | He's too expensive is the thing. There's almost no TV show that could touch him. He's even said this, he's struggled to get Bad Boys 3 off the ground because his own salary is too high. He could take pay cuts but SAG gets weird about that. He's in a very strange position right now. Smith at the head of a good HBO show could be really interesting, but Smith would be the most expensive part of that production by far. | True. But he's Will Smith after all - SAG can't really stop him from taking a chance or two. It's really down to him, and his agents, forfeiting the cash themselves - and judging by his demands on recent films, I think it really boils down to that. Take actors like Fassbender or Hardy, for instance. They're still not Will in terms of how much cash they can pull in - but they're both well known to work for scale if they believe in a project. |
3,981 | Jared Leto seems like a really great guy. I enjoyed him in Dallas Buyers Club and I now want to see more of this guy! | Requiem for a Dream is a nice easy way to start. |
3,982 | Yet it's perfectly OK to jump to those exact same conclusions when someone suggests that teachers are failing their students? Conversation in thread about school funding: >"Students are failing and it's the teachers fault, we need to reform schools." >"That is not true! Teachers can't do everything. It's the parents who are failing their children and not taking part in their children's educations." Comments in this thread: >"Where are this kids parents? Why aren't they taking part in their children's educations?" >"Why are you even questioning this? You don't know their situations!" I mean honestly, do you not see a problem with this line of thinking? | I think the big difference is that your first quote is referring to a broad population, and your second quote is about a single family. |
3,983 | How about The General? It's a silent film, but it is hilarious. And OK for someone of any age! | I'm gonna add Sherlock Jr. there too, which is probably a lot more accessible (due to the length). Obviously Chaplin should be one of the films he has to watch as well. Probably a lot of the films during the Hayes Code era should apply, save for a select few (I don't think he's ready for Some Like It Hot), but this could be a great way to introduce him to classic film noirs. Also Miyazaki's filmography is the essential thing to show a kid. This also goes for Pixar and Disney films assuming he hasn't seen them. |
3,984 | If it's 1914 and in French call me..... there's a beer in it for you and ten grand in it for me. | Nope, if it were do you think I would have cut the pages? |
3,985 | > Paranoid. With your attitude, people can't even worry about anything. You might as well just become a perfect slave. | With your attitude, you may as well burn your cash and go back to the barter system. Your kind hold society back from progressing. |
3,986 | I tried it, and it says it blanked the password, even when I booted back off the cd it says blank for password. The system will not let administrator login though. | .... Do you understand the difference between network and local accounts, though? Are you sure you're logging in as the local account? When you're logging in, make sure that 'Log on to:' is set to the local computer, not the domain. Also - did you check, through that tool, to see if the Administrator account had been *disabled*? The tool can re-enable the account. |
3,987 | Most libraries have online catalogs for checking on specific books. Most libraries have interlibrary loan (WorldCat will have almost every piece of media that one could think to look for). A lot of libraries have ebook rentals, as well. Most books have Amazon or Google previews. Each of your problems, solved, legally. I agree about the meal, but even if you remove that material (solving the issue about giving it back), you still have value in the chef's labor: similarly, even without material in pirated copies of books, you still have value in the writer's work. | I checked my libraries website, and they do indeed offer ebook rentals, as well as an extensive collection of physical copies including some of the more obscure titles that I didn't think they would have. So that's definitely a good resource for me and I do have to say thanks for getting me to look at that. However, a lot of the obscure stuff isn't in the ebook library, so I'll still end up downloading those, however, I'll check the ebook library beforehand. |
3,988 | I really enjoyed the Into The Wild movie. If you've seen it too, did the movie leave a lot out from the book? | I don't remember seeing the movie. The book is not long though. It is more about the journey than the end. It is based on the interviews of all the people he met on the way. |
3,989 | Do they let you do that? How good is the quality of the printing? | I honestly don't know, lol. I am sure they have a rule against "copyrighted works" |
3,990 | i thought t was dope. you know you hit gold when a combination of goosebumps and tears of(?) have free reign | I thought it sucked personally, shit really hit the fan when they had LMFAO play Party rock anthem. I mean really, It's been playing EVERYWHERE for the past year and a half. It's not like we wanna hear it again for the 1 Millionth time during the super bowl. |
3,991 | What constitutes a one hit wonder though? I feel like this wouldn't be a good example of one, since the rest of the album was pretty good, even if it didn't play on the radio. | That's how a lot of "one hit wonder" bands are though. I know quite of few of them that actually have very good entire albums. Those bands are still technically one hit wonders. It's an unfair label for many bands, but it has nothing to do with the quality of their music. It only pertains to the fact that none of their other songs ever reached the same level of popularity. |
3,992 | No "Girl Who Leaped Through Time"? Or "Summer Wars"? :( | >Girl Who Leaped Through Time. GWLTT is the very definition of an appreciated movie. Then again, so is Wolf Children. |
3,993 | Short of being Joss Whedon or Kevin Feige there is literally no way you could know that. Im not saying youre wrong, I'm saying at this point you have the same assumptions we do | Except joss whedon said it and there is no evidence to the contrary. |
3,994 | I feel like it is well known in children's writing that many series are handled that way | Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series were done that way. Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene were just pen names. |
3,995 | The single port seems a ridiculous decision. I have an Air currently and find the two USB ports quite restrictive.. moving down to one and needing to charge in that port too is bafflingly stupid. I was extremely excited for a new Air / MacBook and literally had my credit card in hand as they unveiled it.. but needless to say as the details became apparent, the card went back in the wallet! It's so frustrating as with a little more thought that could have been a KILLER product. | Once the battery dies, you will literally not be able to use USB devices. WTF. |
3,996 | There were rumors that Fox were starting to make moves after the reaction to the footage but it looks like they might try for a PG-13 rating | PG-13 makes me think of Iron Man III the Christmas Special |
3,997 | How can I tell if my ISP is stripping my encryption? | There's a footnote at the bottom of the article that says. > If you have netcat (nc) installed, you can test your connection for STARTTLS downgrades using [the commands shown here] |
3,998 | I would recommend *Boogie Nights*. Both films are three-hour character examinations that follow an ensemble cast that goes from a series of major highs to their own individual desperate lows. | I will watch this. I remember seeing the cover in Blockbuster and never really caring about it because I thought it was some sort of goofy comedy, but looking into it and knowing it's by the same director excites me. Thank you for the recommendation. |
3,999 | I don't think it's meant to be "enjoyed", except in the way that some people enjoy cold showers. It's meant to make you rethink what you are witnessing, IMHO. Brilliant book, deeply thought-provoking, masterfully written. I love it but I don't like it. | I don't know what Orwell's intentions were, but I find the book to be very *fun* reading, to the point that it might now be my most often reread book of all time. I find the world building of the party and the rest of the world to incredibly captivating, characters are all interesting, with O'Brien especially being probably my favorite antagonist in literature, and writing is just overall great. I do appreciate the deeper message, but that's not why I read it. |
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