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4,000 | As a Twitch streamer, I've very aware of this. People charge back donations all the time, sometimes weeks and months later. Thankfully this hasn't happened to me, but it has to some good friends. It sucks even more when you've spent the money that's been donated and you're left with your dick in your hand. However, I don't think this problem is Paypal's alone. Other services have the same policies, I think. | No, it's a problem pretty unique to paypal. Other services definitely are more fair to both sides of a transaction. |
4,001 | Wright and Tarantino's commentary for Hot Fuzz is one of the best I have ever heard. I think once or twice on Reddit I've seen a compiled list of all the movies they name-check for people to check out. | If you can find that link, I'd love to see the list! |
4,002 | As in original intellectual property. About 14 out of the top 15 movies any given year are most likely a sequel, reboot, or remake, or an adaptation of a book/tv series/comic. This is a list of original movies. | Inside Out isn't a new concept. It's great that people are finding it and it's getting all kinds of praise and there's a new audience for it though. I even was able to talk to William Ragsdale about it recently since his character popularized it 26 years ago. |
4,003 | I got really excited but 10$ free shipping is only for USA :( | damn, may still be able to get some good deals but would only make sense if you bought a reasonable amount. Good luck though in your search |
4,004 | I want to do this when I'm done doing a law degree, how do you live and fund the record after you'd quit your job? Did you just have a lot saved up? And what are your plans going forward? Awesome music dude, it is really fucking admirable to see someone take such a big step and it's honestly inspirational. | I have several side hustles, such as graphic design, DJing, promoting clubs, and doing web design for small businesses. Essentially I'm a musician and a freelancer full-time! |
4,005 | That's your biggest issue with Tyrion? You can grow a beard but you can't make a handsome dude ugly. And when given the chance to make the handsome dude disfigured in battle, you just put a little scar on him. :( | …Or when they apply soot as contouring on faces (cheekbones, under chin…). Glamour dirt. Happens across blockbuster productions. The makeup in the trailer for THE BOOK THEIF made me laugh. Totally at odds with what happened to the character, and the conditions she lived in. (I'm not advocating that book. Some people like it. It's passable.) |
4,006 | Only because you guys elected a bunch of fuckbags. Elect assfaces to power and shit starts not getting done, funnily enough. Over here in NZ we have a national fibre network which has been nothing but a success. I live in a small town and I just got a free upgrade from 200/200 to 1000/500. | Haha too true. Those speeds sound amazing. Did Kim Dotcom have something to do with your network? |
4,007 | It was the biggest real number they could think of | They added the .1 so people would think it was a real number. 17 is too round to believe. |
4,008 | So you mean like the rest of Ender's series? I powered through Children of the Mind, but I was already so burnt from Xenocide that 3 years later I have yet to start the Shadow series. | I enjoyed the Shadow Series way more than the Xenocide series. But I do prefer Bean to Ender. |
4,009 | Probably Transgender Dysphoria Blues by Against Me. I just keep finding new things to love about it. | Yes yes yes! I'm a huge Against Me! fan, though "Reinventing Axl Rose" was my favorite album by them, I seen this as a great comeback add-on album to their discog for this year! |
4,010 | Yes. He also said: "He can maybe get one good line in a song, and the rest is gibberish." If he actually meant that, he must either not have listened to/read many of Dylan lyrics, or he had a serious problem with reading comprehension. Sure, you might call parts of songs like Tombstone Blues and Desolation Row gibberish, at least at a first glance. But any English-speaker should be able to get the meaning of the lyrics to songs like Hurricane, Masters of War and Pawn in their Game. Those are as straightforward as can be. | > he had a serious problem with reading comprehension. The person above you has a good point. You on the other hand have no idea what you are talking about. |
4,011 | I am announcing that I will announce something but this isn't the announcement itself | Reading the actual tweet; it looks more like 'further announcement' that will devolve more specific information. But snark away |
4,012 | Yepp, but the question was which tech prediction failed to pan out in 2015. VR did. | Gear VR released in 2015 and looks to be doing well, but yea, 2016 is going to be the big year. |
4,013 | The job you really want if you are a normal guy is a maintenance technician, someone needs to maintain the machines that replaced the workers. If you have the brains for a college education get into mechanical or electronic engineering and become an automation engineer. You can't replace the people who are designing the replacements. | Automating maintenance will happen eventually just like everything else. You can consider automation to come in stages, with certain things not being viable right now due to hardware and software issues. If you want the safest job, your best bet is to become an AI researcher, as the people who are automating through software are likely to be the last to be automated. The hardware side will be automated before that will, perhaps much sooner than imagined, as we are already seeing software helping with the majority of engineering problems, including computer hardware. I guess any form of researcher should be included in this last to be automated part though. |
4,014 | And we were done done done with all the fuck fuck fuckin around | So pleased with ourselves for using so many verbs and nouns. |
4,015 | - Experimental. Animal Collective - & Battles - - I cannot listen to their CD all the way through, but some of their music is exceptional. Lightning Bolt - The Sound Of Animals Fighting - | Yacht - Discovery - Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - - I don't know if they really belong in this category, but I associate them with Animal Collective for some reason. |
4,016 | Except for people every day around the world saying dumb one liners in their language in response to a variety of situations. | Not in that type of danger. Never. You're bending over backwards to defend bad writing, because you liked the movie. |
4,017 | I just don't find Honest Trailers to be very funny. Doesn't matter what movie they cover. It would be better if it was the length of an actual trailer and not 5 minutes long. | The original ones they did were significantly funnier, maybe because they targeted box office and critical bombs. But since they started churning them out puppy-mill style for every movie that comes out, some of the creativity and humor has been lost. |
4,018 | This looks pretty bad. Especially how Human Torch is black and his sister is white. | How is that relevant? He or she could be adopted or they could be half sisters. Heimdall was white in the comics and Elba nailed that role. The Mandarin was portrayed as Middle Eastern by an Indian actor. |
4,019 | Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabo Marquez. Every sentence is beautiful. One of those books that I'm savoring. I find it hard to read because it makes me want to write so badly! | I'm reading this as well! Although I'm only about 60 pages in it's easily one of the most well written books I've ever come across. How far through it are you and what do you think of it so far? |
4,020 | > “Who was or is Robert Zimmerman, called Bob Dylan?” Is he a Jew? Good questions! | It was a rhetorical question. This website is retarded and therefore the review is worthless. |
4,021 | Blame HDMI and it's patent holders. Displayport is awesome and should have been the defacto standard YEARS ago. | This. A million times this. VGA should've been dead a long time ago. That I can still buy a laptop with VGA but not DP or HDMI is pants on head. |
4,022 | I remember seeing it as a kid and being annoyed that they never explained what he was supposed to be compensating for. At the time, I thought that was bad writing. | I think kids are meant to think he's compensating for his height, at least that's what i thought when i first saw it |
4,023 | Can you please point me to reliable instructions for creating an OSx virtual? I've tried a couple and they never seem to work as described. | There's a chance it is your hardware. I ran into this issue a while back, as I was/am running an AMD processor. I eventually found a tutorial that worked fine, but I couldn't get it to connect to my network and never got back to figuring it out. Anyways, yeah. Just make sure your hardware meets the requirements. |
4,024 | >Elitist groups will find a way to prevent it from getting out to those they feel are undeserving. lolno. It's about keeping the site high quality. All you need to do to have an account is be invited by a friend and seed your shit or take an interview to prove you know a bit about digital audio. That said, it's not like it won't get reuploaded to every music blog on the internet a minute after he uploads it to what.cd. | Cool. Nice to see my perception is skewed. That being said I would fail miserably at the interview as my idea of digital audio is making fart noises with my hands. |
4,025 | i'm confused as to why you didn't enjoy it... as you appear to write at no greater level. | I'm on my phone. It just seemed to be a kind of generic storyline, not very intricate in details, but hey maybe that's what the author was going for. I really enjoyed Brave New World and 1984 but this story just didn't do it for me, sorry. I think I read Blood Meridian back in high school. |
4,026 | They'd be able to make the other components inside bigger... | Bigger/stronger components require more energy consumption, so you'd still have to have similarly sized components either way. |
4,027 | Still plowing through the Iron Druid Chronicles. I think they're all great so far! This week I'll be reading **Hunted, by Kevin Hearne**. | I love these books. I've read 3 or 4 of them, and really need to pick the rest up soon. Such fun reads! |
4,028 | These are previously untranslated stories. You didn't read these ones. | Except they're not. Every last one listed I've read before. |
4,029 | Tool. I don't get it. I just don't. It sounds like bland rock music yet people go around shouting about how its the greatest music ever. | (not being a douche) do you play an instrument? They have a great, very unique writing sense. Edit: upvote for solid opinion |
4,030 | A simple breakdown of how this works. Very generic. Production company spends $100 million to make a film. Distribution company A pays $50 million for distribution rights in north America. Distribution company B pays $25 million for distribution rights in Europe. distribution company C pays $25 million for distribution rights in China. In this case it looks like lionsgate have made enough in foreign distribution sales that they only need to make ten million + advertising costs to make a profit on the film. On my phone so writing more in depth is a pain. | So typically there is only ONE Distribution company per country and MULTIPLE production companies per movie (before every movie I've ever seen there are always like 5 ads for production companies), right? Do production companies typically get a slice of box office revenue? (Curious how they make money back) |
4,031 | I love the news coming out about this! Does anyone know what type of story this is supposed to be? Is it a monster movie with Newt encountering dangerous creatures? An Indiana Jones-type thing? A comedy focusing on his career struggles? For some reason, I'm imagining the studio executives begging JK Rowling to re-write the script to be more like *Jurassic World*, with Newt training Quintapeds and fighting a super-smart Basilisk. | All your suggestions sound hideous. Why the fuck would anyone want anything as cheesy as Indiana Jones is a comedy depicting his career struggles? That would be way out of tone and ridiculous. This isn't some cheeseball children's film. David Heyman described it as blackly humorous. Mainly a drama, with elements of romance and a ton of darkness, but a lot of heart. |
4,032 | Anything with Will Ferrell (at least comedy roles - *maybe* if he tries a drama role) | Will ferrell is an alcoholic who loses his job and wife, so he decides to sell all of his belongings in a yard sale. |
4,033 | This is something that had to be made in two films, were in the first it looks like Bond is winning but in the end the realization hits.. hes been the fool for most of the time. In the second film he starts to use the brain more to catch the villian. I really just wanna see a full cinema when they realize Bond have just lost and the credit is rolling. | They could do a good two parter. Have Stephen Hawkings not even appear in the first movie. The whole first movie, Bond is fighting against [The Dragon] Then at the end, The Dragon is dead, Bond thinks he's won and then the computerized voice speaks to him again laughing as Bond realizes he hasn't stopped anything. I also like the idea of Bond never realizing he's fighting a severely crippled man until the very end, when he defeats all the villains mooks and confronts the villain in his lair. |
4,034 | The baby was the ploy so that he would stay. After seeing Nick on Sharon she decided to return back to Nick, hence her manipulating Desi's security cameras and then eventually killing him. She returned home loving because she desires a perfect relationship and used the media to manipulate it. She assumes that eventually Nick will fall back in love with her. It's so fucked up. | Also her money got stolen and had to change her plans. |
4,035 | >what does the service actually do? >Duck DNS is a free service which will point a DNS (sub domains of duckdns.org) to an IP of your choice. Oooh! :3. Thanks | basically what no-ip and dyndns do, except they don't appear to have an automatic expiration for free domains that you have to manually update, which is nice. hope they don't add that later... |
4,036 | In this case you also need people with millions of dollars to be gullible as fuck | No, you just need to convince people with millions of dollars that consumers are gullible as fuck. |
4,037 | I thought Labyrinth was scary, but mostly (as an 11-year-old girl) I thought Bowie was *the* definition of sexy. I was really embarrassed by that when I watched it again as an adult. Those purple pants were comically tight. | Bowie *is* the definition of sexy, and I'm a straight guy. |
4,038 | There's good overload and bad overload. The space battle in Return of the Jedi was an absolute overload BUT you were never lost even as the film cut between half dozen Rebel pilots. The space battle in Revenge of the Sith was an overload but it was just a bunch of shit on a screen. You could not even keep track of just Anakin and Obi-Wan. | That's because they were the only actual characters there. Everyone else was faceless clones or droids. |
4,039 | Okay, so I am not really someone who understands the intricacies of code or any sort of programming, which is why I came here to ask this question. If Apple admits that they could in fact create a backdoor for the iphone but don't want to do it, then what prevents non apple employees who are experts in code to create one themselves? Further discussion regarding why the backdoor would be so hard to keep isolated after use would also be helpful. By the way, I am against the backdoor being created, I just would like a better understanding, so hopefully I came to the right sub for this discussion. | Whether you can make an image that only works on that phone or not, making an image for that phone will just lead to law enforcement around the world asking you to make another image for the phone they want unlocked. |
4,040 | My first love in grunge was Soundgarden, but AiC wasn't long after. I still really don't listen to Nirvana or Pearl Jam or any of the other acts from that era and scene. The AiC unplugged album was all consuming for me in high school once I found a mp3 of it though, it was the whole UK version in one file(yay for vague titles on early kazaa), so I was basically forced to listen to it like a vinyl or cassette for years, that and Superunknown still are my desert island choices. | Superunknown is one of my desert island albums too. It's just so *dark* and every track is so goddamn good. |
4,041 | I wasn't really referring to this but April fools day jokes in general especially fake news | But it's a real joke, like the ones on every other 365/364 days out of the year |
4,042 | > Have him realize the most damaging evils can't be punched out of existence, like illiteracy, poverty, rasicm etc... and show how he deals with that. Golden Age Superman did that a lot, like half his enemies were crooked buisnessmen | So I've learned from the recent comments, I had no idea! |
4,043 | Completely agree. Shans writes a good set up, writes an even better follow up, gets bored and then tosses like half the shit out of the window, replaces it with entirely new stuff and ramfucks the story back into a mildly working condition. "The Lake of Souls" was *very* obviously him getting tired of writing the Vampire story and wanting to do some post-apocalypse/magic shit. He did the exact same thing in the Demonata series too. His inability to follow a straight storyline can make the stories really cool and multi-faceted to a point but then he expands too far and the story is stretched paper thin. | If someone had told me how the demonata series was going to finish, I never would have believed them. I think Shan had a 'where do I go from from here' issue and decided the solution was, [fuck it,] (#s "reset the whole universe then") |
4,044 | It almost sounds like the top tech companies foster toxic work environments... | You set yourself up for that when your only goal is to grow asap. |
4,045 | Um, doubtful. Have you read its whitepaper? Is it pre-mined or mined. Is there a finite supply or infinite? Is it proof-of-work or proof-of-stake? I reckon its very much different than Bitcoin, and I also reckon it will ultimately end up hurting the Africans its supposed to help while making Akon and the Senegalese government wealthy in the process. | There is no whitepaper, it's just fluff for now. From the gist of it, I don't think it will necessarily be anything but bitcoin on a fresh chain. |
4,046 | Amnesiac before In Rainbows? That seems a bit of a stretch. | In Rainbows is better than Kid A, let alone Amnesiac. |
4,047 | That could be said of almost any book. Stories (and movies) are just variations on common themes. | True, but this was just like the hunger games. Post-Apocalyptic society they are competing for food/supplies. I remembered it the other day whilst discussing the book, but for the life of me can't remember it now. |
4,048 | This was all covered in the movie. The phone lines were out after a power outage. The power outage is why none of the alarm clocks went off and everybody woke up late and rushed to get to the airport, forgetting about Kevin. They contact the police after landing in France, and they sent out a cop to knock on the door. Kevin is scared, and hides under the bed. The cop determines there's nobody home and tells dispatch to tell the McCallisters to re-count their kids. I'm guessing there were no other family members in the area or they were all away. I can't remember if that particular point is addressed in the movie. | They attempted to call several neighbors to check on him, but the neighbors were all on vacation as well. There's a scene where Peter (the dad) leaves a message on the answering machine of one of the neighbor's houses while it's being robbed by the Wet Bandits. Marv overhears part of the message where Peter says that they're in Paris, which is why they decide to rob the McCalister house despite being scared away the previous evening. |
4,049 | I started reading Crytonomicon, stopped right after the Turing part. I've read all of Dan browns books, all Michael Crichton, Clive cussler and a lot of Lee Child. Is Crytonomicon worth giving another shot? | > I started reading Crytonomicon, stopped right after the Turing part. I got to the part where he waxes verbose about the guy shaving in present day...I want to say Manila? And how his face is a semi-permeable membrane to the world and wanted to pitch the book across the room. It veers very close to the line of becoming pretentious twaddle a few times but overall I liked it. |
4,050 | The Microsoft HoloLens was announced a few days ago, and I was curious to know if people would buy it and how much they'll pay for it. Personally, I think it is a very cool idea and it could be used not only for recreation, but also for education or medical purposes. I also just want to hear you guys' opinions about it. -Mvf314 | I think a lot of people misunderstand what this is for. I could see this being used by our engineering department. We already use a 3D printer for prototyping, so taking the CAD and design part of manufacturing and putting it virtually into 3D space is pretty compelling. Especially when you can design something virtually, and then use a 3D printer to turn it into a real object. |
4,051 | Levin is Tolstoy's author insert character - a lot of his plotline is autobiographical (though extensively whitewashed, with his wife reworked to be more permissive of course). I found that out midway through the book and it changed a lot of the way I viewed his chapters. | That's one of the things I was reading about today, how interesting! It totally makes sense though, he's one of the characters that seems to be the most in depth so far to me. The book definitely seems to be in his head fairly often. |
4,052 | Wow. I had no clue who Nina Simone was until I saw this. That was bloody incredible. That solo was unbelievable. It took me a minute to catch on to the voice, but the more I listened, the better she sounded. That was great! | If you're just getting into Nina Simone... oh man. There are days when I put on a Nina record because I can't be bothered with anything else. There are good days -- perfectly bright, warm, spontaneous and social days -- that Nina turns into introspective ones. There are bad days -- lousy, fleabitten, puddlesoaked days -- that Nina puts into perspective. Your old life is over. Now you live the rest of your life with Nina Simone. |
4,053 | Money? Cisco has reached the point where they can't or don't want to become a market leader through actually trying, instead they just pick something (probably by throwing a dart at a board), figure out who the leader is and buy it. e.g. Tandberg for videoconferencing, Sourcefire for IDS technology, Scientific Atlanta and NDS for TV/broadcast stuff | >reached the point [...] figure out who the leader is and buy it. Cisco has literally been doing this since the 1990s. So they "reached the point" long, long ago. My first realization of this was when they appropriated CatOS and the original Catalyst 5000 platform. But they'd been going after market leaders since even before then (this would have been mid-1990s, IIRC). |
4,054 | Have an upvote for knowing about Shad. Ive seen him perform in a small club, pretty good shit. | I'd kill to watch him live. Shad is the best thing out of Canada since Pamela's Double D's. |
4,055 | The disks are rare, doesn't mean the data on it is. | True music appreciation comes from said data, not the memorabilia. |
4,056 | The broadcasters will get the company unless it pays up, the man himself is protected. | Good to know.. that sucks for the company getting sued |
4,057 | Glad someone sees where I'm coming from. I knew I was in the minority but didn't think I was going to get down voted for my opinion. | Honestly has anyone ever said that an actor or actress did their best work on a Woody Allen film??? Probably not and it's simply because he is not trying to get an interesting and unique performance but using them as a vehicle for his narcissism and creepy agenda. He is a hack, plain and simple. |
4,058 | I really don't like the duration of rentals from streaming services. For any popular movies, you only get 24 hours. I'm only 25, but I still remember renting videos from stores and getting a couple days to watch and re-watch whatever I rented. I think if you spend $6-$9 on a rental, you should get at least 2-3 days with it. | Would you say that stops you from "renting" movies or you just deal with it despite not liking it? |
4,059 | In fact, they make no money on the movie. The studios get all of that. The ones near here ask that you not bring food in, as that is their only profit. They have reasonably priced food (unlike regular theaters) so we oblige and have dinner before the show. | The one I like the most has a faux fifties diner concession stand. |
4,060 | ???????! Question to all: Is Lolita worth the read if I know the whole story AND the literary device he’s using? | Obviously, my answer is skewed, but I would suggest reading until the end of Part One. If you still want to, go for it. If not, you have a decent enough body of experience with it. |
4,061 | I've gotta say I enjoy Cash's version slightly better, but to each his own! :) | I agree, the subject matter is too dark for the poppy sound that sting gives it in my opinon. Cash's version evokes more of an emotional response from me. I can feel the pain and sorrow in his voice. |
4,062 | I linked *Sails of Charon* in my comment. '77 or '78, IIRC :) | Ahaha, nicely done. I assumed Hurricane, and, um, Winds of Change.... |
4,063 | Except this is wrong. No one follows the rules. Defoe takes a contract and breaks it and the head of the Continental admits that it was "just" but still interferes and helps Wick exact revenge for what was a justified slaying under their own rules. | No, people do follow the rules. The minority that doesn't gets killed. William defoe only got a free pass because he never was in the building when he took the shot nor was he actually aiming for him. |
4,064 | This is probably the more likely scenario. In the future people won't use computers locally anymore. Instead you sit down in front of any terminal, computer, laptop or tablet and just sign in to your online profile and all your files and your desktop appears no matter where you are. Not saying I like this, but it seems like we are heading in that direction when you look at smart phones and Windows 8. | Yeah I would LOVE for microsoft to upload my Windows image to a virtual cloud PC allowing me to access it anywhere. I mean I can kinda do this with RDP |
4,065 | Drug addicts and always wear yellow and tracksuits... Hm... /r/fantheories | i always thought the adidas suits were a not to his first role in korn's thoughtless video |
4,066 | Now lukemia is a first world problem. The first world ain't what it used to be. | Here I made a [grapical representation] that you may better see the humor. |
4,067 | Can I ask why the resistance to Windows 10? I've been using it since the preview builds and love it more than 7. It combines the best of 7 and 8.1 into a faster OS. | Because 7 does exactly what I need it to do. |
4,068 | To be fair, magiclore-wise harry potter is a hot mess. It is hard to pull strong magic-related fan theories when the magic has little consistent rhyme or reason. Starwar's magic lore isn't great itself, it at least it has some degree of limit | I have to admit, you have a point there. Magic in Harry Potter *is* rather vague and abstract in terms of solid laws and rules, when compared to the stricter magic systems of other fantasy series, such as Tamora Pierce's Tortall universe, Tolkien's Middle-Earth, Le Guin's Earthsea, etc. |
4,069 | They did. It was definitely necessary for filming. the aliens had been *written* to be unfilmable, and successfully so. | Wait so, she deliberately designed her aliens to be hard to adapt to the screen? |
4,070 | Said points out that a lot of Orientalists never even visited the East, and that some of those who did had their expectations overturned. | Said is one of the most overrated academics of the 20th century. He's the Ayn Rand of the left. |
4,071 | Most people using their computers for work do so primarily with text, programmers/writers were just an example. Even web browsing is text heavy. Widescreen is pointless unless you do nothing but watch movies and play games. As for rotating, I would agree in theory. But unless you have a monitor at least 1200px tall, it's simply not worth it because then you don't have adequate width. You're back at square one. | As someone who does a lot of work with data, I disagree - when I am working with records thousands of characters long, or pulling down queries with hundreds of fields, wide is better. Height in nice, but I'd rather see the whole line than word wrap. |
4,072 | Someone figure out a kickstarter and just share the album. I guarantee five million people would give at least a buck if you got enough publicity. | Who was the last person to sell 5 million copies |
4,073 | This thread is blowing my mind a little bit right now. Only 1080p, doesn't that look like poop if you are sitting closer to the screen in cinemas? Why go digital in the first place, isn't that a big downgrade for the consumer in terms of resolution? And 200 Mbit/s, what the shit. I thought Blu-Rays are archive quality picture in perfection. Do you really see a massive difference/tons of artifacts between your masters and a Blu-Ray? | YES!!! Blu rays look like dog shit. I'll take a 2K (1080P) 10-bit uncompressed 422 master over a 4k whatever anyday. Uncompressed / "master" quality stuff is gorgeous. |
4,074 | I just don't get the binge mentality - have to read it *all* this year. I've been reading King books since '88 and haven't yet read them all. Certainly I've had ample time to do so. I enjoy that I've always had a book of his to look forward to for basically my entire adult life. | Well, a reading project is not necessary, but sometimes, particularly for people who read a lot, it can add some spice to your reading. Having said that, reading ALL of King's work is a long reading project. |
4,075 | 2006- First there's no way in hell FW should have been nominated for best actor even if he technically qualified by the rules - that performance was the very definition of a supporting role. Then Leo should have been nominated for the departed and won. Though I don't really agree with the premise that he has been continually been snubbed and needs an Oscar post haste. 2006 was really the only time I was like srslywtf. | When I first watched that movie after hearing all the praise for Whittaker, I was shocked at how clearly he was a supporting role in that film. There's just almost no way to justify his leading role awards. |
4,076 | If I were on the space station, I would not want a bunch of nanometer-size powdered aluminum floating about | Wouldn't be hard to make a sealed containment pod for the printer with negative pressure to keep everything inside |
4,077 | Who the hell is Vardis Fisher?!? God dammit, Idaho is pathetic. At least our rival states don't have very many famous authors, either. | Well, he's the author of the book that became the movie where [this gif] comes from. So there's that. |
4,078 | One does not simply 'watch' a movie about College........you Experience College! | I am next year.. I need to have an idea of what I'm going in for. I can't pick a major yet so until I do I want to just be distracted by the kind of life I'll have. |
4,079 | I knew something clicked when I read about that, so then who was Richard Parker (tiger)? | It was himself! The hardest part of the whole experience was tame the beast, since he couldn't be killed or drowned. When he finally reached land he didn't have to face that part of him anymore, so he ran away. But even still, Pi missed him because in many ways he was a part of him. |
4,080 | Criminals count on people like you for them to be successful. | And they will be there regardless. There are far too many methods to logically think this is high risk, this is paranoia. Do you sit in a lead walled secure facility on a remote isoand with no internet connectivity? There are risks we take so our lives can be enjoyable, this is one of those tiny insignificant risks. |
4,081 | Less and less competition in storage. Prices have been stagnated (at best) for years now in the disk market. WD and Seagate should be forced to split up their assets. We have an effective monopoly with those two owning the bulk of the drive market. If prices moved like they had in the past, I should be buying 4TB drives for $100 or so. Best you can do on crap desktop drives is $130-140 on sale. | On the consumer side demand for spinning disks is down as SSD becomes the norm. On the enterprise side, you're not going to be running consumer grade hardware. Totally different price ranges. |
4,082 | What ways did you find it better than the first? Did it have more action? was it faster moving? no spoilers if possible ^.^ | There was a lot more action, in fact most of the book was action which was a nice change from the first. However, it also make me appreciate the first since it gave so much back story and lead up into the second. I also couldn't anticipate what would happen which I always enjoy in a book. So if you enjoyed the first, read the second asap! You will not be disappointed. Kaladin is just so bad ass! |
4,083 | > Also, The Fappening. Ok, why the downvote, of course it was a factor. You don't spend millions on a marketing campaign that's gonna be totally eclipsed. Even now they'll have to deal with giggling idiots detracting from the movie. | Because it was a really shitty thing that people need to drop? |
4,084 | [A-Ha — Take On Me] ^Edit: This video just turned 30 this year. Amazing. | US here, I can honestly say this is the first time I have ever seen "not available in your country." |
4,085 | Don't do to this sequel what you did to your last, Will. And what I mean by that is not care. | You're kidding right? The guy was Ron Burgundy on a TV advert and on at least one chat show, he released a book and was pretty much Ron Burgundy everywhere for the build up to the film. I think he liked the character so much that he didn't try to make a good story due to being to focused on being Ron Burgundy, but I definitely don't think he didn't care. |
4,086 | Why? I was being honest. Am I missing something? | coen brothers adapted mccarthy's book to a movie, i believe it was nominated for an oscar. edit: what i meant to say is that it won four oscars |
4,087 | That's been true for years. I only read the 5 star reviews after seeing what the 3 star and 1 star reviews have to say. | I only look at the 1 star reviews. I want to know the problems with something, I don't need sunshine blown up my ass. |
4,088 | I couldn't agree more with your comment. I grew up on Frank's music, and Dweezil certainly did justice to the legacy. | The "You Can't Fit On Stage Anymore" lineup was the real deal. I feel lucky to have been able to see those shows. |
4,089 | I noticed in just about every machine I upgraded to Win10 that one driver or another would just not work right. But then after doing a subsequent clean install, everything was fine. Try that next time. | That's the plan. I've never had much confidence in in-place Windows upgrades anyway, and this hasn't done anything to change that. BTW. Is it possible to do a fresh install using the free Windows 10 update from 7/8.1? |
4,090 | Wow. Kind of forgot there was no gunfight, the only M:I movie I haven't seen is the second, but I haven't heard pleasant things about that. Tom Cruise is a great actor, forget what anyone else says. | If you want to see the 2nd one, just to kind of complete the series, its on Netflix. I agree Tom Cruise is a great actor with a great work ethic and dedication. And this is coming from someone who honestly hated Tom Cruise, not too long ago |
4,091 | None of those were too weird to not like until 1984. | I know, call me crazy. Terrible character development, contrived plot and dialogue, and subpar prose. Just how I see it, not saying that it's a bad book. That was just my impression of it. It's a powerful idea that I think has lost a bit of force taken out of its cold war context. |
4,092 | Or maybe, fingers crossed, they'll plan a trip up to the PNW in that time... | I would love it but considering they were just here probably not... |
4,093 | Ida, Boyhood, Hugo, France's Ha, Grand Budapest Hotel, The Hunt, Midnight in Paris, Inside Llewyn Davis, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Take Shelter. | I can't believe how far down I had to come to find Beasts. |
4,094 | I am continually amazing at how well r/askhistorians is run. I wish more political sub where managed by similar mod techniques. | As long as it fits in their worldview, you are ok. If not, then you are cast off their ship |
4,095 | I'm reading it right now. Only reason I haven't quit is because I'm 90+% of the way through. This review sums it up. | That review was more accurate than I thought it would be. |
4,096 | Two bands I always listen to on repeat. Not sure if I would put Play Crack the Sky on that list - maybe Degausser or Me vs Maradona vs Elvis. | I love the layered, intertwined vocals and the way it ends very simply and gracefully, personally. |
4,097 | Not quite the same. Imaginary light sabers are play. What they've called fiction lag is where your personality in non-play situations is influenced. | Isn't life itself but a ... game !? Ok, just kidding ;) |
4,098 | Pretty much every Brandon Sanderson book. I started his first Reckoners book last night. I also finished his first Reckoners book last night. | "I have seen Steelheart bleed." Awesome, awesome opening. I had to wait for the books to come out, though, since I got Steelheart as a new release. I envy you. |
4,099 | IIRC you can see through clothing with a simple IR filter because cotton is transparent to IR. Your eyes are faintly sensitive to IR so theoretically you can see it yourself with a bright enough light source, so you could plausibly make "x ray goggles" (not glasses, they need to exclude all other light) - but it's easier to use a camera (most camera sensors react strongly to IR and contain a filter to remove it - which can often be replaced with an IR-only filter). | That doesn't sound right... but I don't know enough about cotton to dispute it. |
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