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4,600 | I've been trying to get into Radiohead and, while they are not my favorite, The Bends is hands down my favorite of all of the ones I've listened to. Pavement is the greatest rock band of the 90s. | I feel the same way. I really like Pablo Honey and The Bends. Hate everything else I've heard |
4,601 | Have you tried getting a library card and download books for free? | I actually did try this. My library gave me access to three ebook directory websites that look like they were designed in the mid 90s, only one of which had ebooks compatible with kindle (the others required that files be viewed on a Mac-incompatible desktop reader program), granting me access to about fifty shitty bestselling self help books and trash romance novels from about two years ago. I actually signed up for a library card having heard on this subreddit how amazing and wonderful it is to be able to get ebooks for free through the library. The reality is pretty sad. |
4,602 | These are the same voters that sent the godawful *Slumdog Millionaire* on its Oscar® trajectory? No thanks. | Just curious, would you elaborate on why you didn't like Slumdog Millionaire? |
4,603 | I think I'd put High Rise as my Ballard pick. If the article did it with Blood Meridian so can I | High Rise is a top novel and dystopian it certainly is - Dystopia, after all, is defined as "an imaginary community or society that is undesirable or frightening". Both Blood Meridian and High Rise fit the bill in that respect. |
4,604 | I was in high school and college during the 80s, so there's a lot of songs I lose myself in to put it mildly. High school me would have to be [Subdivisions] by Rush. There's not a single song I remember more that captured the disaffection of living a suburban life in the 80s. This was an anthem for geeks like me. When I got to college, I found out that girls didn't like Rush so much. If you wanted to get laid, you had to drop the needle on some [Lionel Richie] And then of course along came New Wave. The Furs were it with [this song] You were born in 89? Jeez, you missed some great music. | See the good thing about being born later is that you actually get the chance to listen to more great music. I know this isn't necessarily popular opinion but I love being around during a time where I have pretty much the entirety of recorded music at my fingertips. Fuck all that "I was born in the wrong generation bullshit". |
4,605 | Yeah, but I strongly encourage anyone who can afford it to pay for a modern edition. The public domain English version of *War and Peace* is likely the Garnett translation, which, while pivotal to literary history, is poor and outdated compared to what we have available now. Translation scholarship has changed a great deal over the decades, and better editions also include useful supplemental material. If you're going to invest the time and energy into such a classic piece of literature, you'd be wise to also invest in a version that you'll be able to digest and enjoy. | The public domain one is indeed the Garnett translation which isn't very good. It doesn't read well and I believe it's slightly abridged. The two best are the Peavear & Volokhonsky and the Anthony Briggs versions. Both are recent translations sticking close to the original material. I personally enjoyed the Briggs version as I felt it had a bit more character. It's a small thing, but the rank & file call each other "mate." Stuff like that. It's honestly one of the best books I've ever read. I really hope more people get into it. |
4,606 | I would say more of my friends don't have facebook than actually do. Everyone has gmail, though, and most have iPhones. We use iMessage and Hangouts. | Out of my friends, I would say more of them have a Facebook than a gmail. In the States the market is dominated by Apple and Samsung, this is important because, even though Samsung is an OEM for Android phones, they don't come with Hangouts or even Google's Messenger. A lot of people probably aren't even aware that Google owns and develops Android. Regardless, a lot less people use Hangouts than you'd think, only 3-4 of my friends use Hangouts, and that's becoming more seldom as we did this to begin with because our high school email was a gmail account. |
4,607 | Thank you. I actually own a small computer repair shop. | Cool, now I realise you really are a professional, please do PM me if you would like me to get you more YouTube views by promoting your content in the right places. |
4,608 | Given how Fant4stic went, I think Fox might be willing to sell it. | Or make a deal with Marvel similar to what Sony did. |
4,609 | The title is poorly phrased; the intent is to make *access to the internet* (ie. the cable infrastructure) a public utility. | The FCC will gain control slowly and over time. Best to stop every attempt of this. More services like google fiber need to be offered and force ISPs to be fair and affordable. |
4,610 | Note that while a fairly safe option, these are often slower than your ISP, or other options. Run this, then pick a good one from a company you trust: | Is there a version of this that doesn't need to be downloaded? |
4,611 | If you don't mind a difficult read, Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon is a great book. It focuses a lot on rocket design during WWII but has some of the most ridiculously hilarious moments I've read in any book. | The book can even be thought of as having a trajectory similar to that of the V2, racing towards an apex where it briefly seems to hang, then falling down again until it finally explodes. |
4,612 | East of Eden by John Steinbeck. There is nothing about this book that isn't beautifully executed. It's heartbreaking and inspirational all at the same time, and Steinbeck's writing was the first time I ever thought to myself, "This is what writing was intended to be." | I've wanted to try east of Eden but am thinking I'll save it for the summer. I read The Pearl my freshman year of highschool and all my classmates hated it. I loved the pearl tho, it was amazing and heartbreaking |
4,613 | This is something businesses all over the country have been doing, as a way to avoid healthcare benefit costs after the ACA changes. It is shitty, but hardly exclusive to B&N. | Yeah, I realize that and try to avoid patronizing businesses that operate like that. But that's just one example of why it was a miserable place to work--there's more I could rant about, but probably not worth going into here. |
4,614 | Weird, you seem to have typed Na Na Na Na when you meant to type Planetary (GO!) | How can you guys write Summertime wrong so many times? |
4,615 | Man, you guys broke my heart. ∆ is easily my favorite new band this year and I had to move from Portland just days before you got there. Here's hoping you're back in the States sometime soon and I'm not driving cross-country then. Also, thanks for existing; I'm making everyone I know listen to An Awesome Wave. | i am in pdx too, super bummed about tonight's cancellation |
4,616 | "love the way you lie" is one of the gayest (no homophobe) songs i've ever heard. | Barack Obama is one of the niggerest (no racist) presidents we've ever had. |
4,617 | Lol Jack's Back...that's a frightening image. Perhaps elderly Rose has once last dance with zombie Jack? | No, Jack Black playing his great-great-grandson, a Liverpool council-estate chav who has discovered that he actually inherited $2 billion from a distant relation and decides to try do what no one in his family ever could and move to America. He buys a ticket to make his maiden voyage, but on a Zeppelin built by the Chris Rock owned Black Star Line named Titanic 2, he runs into Billy Zanes great-great grandson played by Adam Sandler who inherited $10 billion and takes an instant dislike to him. Hijinks ensue. |
4,618 | TBBT also has a live audience, the random laughs are because those who regularly watch the show see what's happening differently to those who watch rarely or for the first time. HIMYM films the whole episode then shows it to an audience because of the amount of cuts and scene changes they have. | They really just used the audio from that audience? I can't see it, unless they gave the audience a few drinks beforehand :p |
4,619 | she wasn't really that great in Into the Woods. People just like Meryl Streep no matter what she does. The movie gave as much screen time to Meryl as possible. Her songs we like 2 minutes too long EVERY time. | That's just how the musical is though. If anyone else was in it then they'd have sung the same songs in the same amount of time. Not really fair to hold that against her. |
4,620 | I still don't understand what 3-bit NAND is. Also, isn't "3D NAND" and "V-NAND" the same thing? | V-NAND is Samsung's 3D NAND implementation. 3-bit NAND means each memory cell stores 3 bits of information. That means it has to have 8 different voltage levels representing the values 000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, and 111. Samsung was the first to introduce TLC NAND, that is NAND with 3 bits per cell (TLC = triple level cell). Cramming more bits into each cell dramatically increases the capacity you get per dollar, but it weakens performance and write endurance. |
4,621 | I know my shit, kid. i was writing nyc at 13. rap music is really the only part of hip hop culture that's still connected. bboying is pretty much irrelevant, graf/street art is 100% separate now, and the art of dj is completely underground. when people say hip hop now, they mean rap, because that's all that's left. | So when you go to hip hop shows you dont see a DJ moving the crowd? Unless its a live band likely not. All forms are still very much relevant and still part of hip hop culture as I said initially. |
4,622 | I would check out The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, I think it would be right up your alley. | You would be right - it is totally up my alley! I read the first few books when they were newer but it might be time to revisit them. Thanks! |
4,623 | I actually used both Camus' *The Stranger* and *The Plague* on the AP Lit exam. I ended up getting a 5. It all depends on the essay question that you get. | Do you remember the question? I said "probably" because most of the test questions we used in practice exams on the final exam wanted us to evaluate relationships between characters, and *The Stranger* isn't the easiest to do that with. |
4,624 | The [WRT54GL] runs a [Broadcom BCM5352] SoC which incorproates a MIPS32 (not ARM) CPU. | Yeah mips is out there, and a few super low end x86 chips. The real problem is that these boxes all have little to no update method available, alongside common default logins, and a tendency towards making connectivity as easy as possible. |
4,625 | "Wire fraud can carry a sentence of up to 20 years. McFarland is also still facing 11 civil lawsuits, and the civil and criminal investigations will proceed together, sharing evidence and resources." Jesus. Talk about out of the pan and into the fyre. I dont think anyone has been this fucked ever. | The moral of the story, don't con rich white people. |
4,626 | "What I means, and what I says, are two completely different things." God, David Jason was the perfect voice for the BFG in that movie. | Holy shit, I watched that video so many times as a kid and only now do I realise that Del boy was the bfg.... and now I see the BFG in a pub trying to pull some birds with his mate trig.. |
4,627 | > experts (newspaper editors, etc) Experts of writing, not experts in the subject matter. | Experts of gathering, filtering, and disseminating information. Always a bit biased, of course, but they rendered things coherent for mass consumption. And since printing presses weren't cheap, there was a barrier to entry which kept the numbers low. |
4,628 | I stopped using Uber last year and I use Lyft now. Uber should pay a price for this behavior, whether they change direction or not. In my fantasy world, they’d be shut down and sold off to competitors as an example of what happens when a company violates the law and/or doesn’t compete fairly. Short of that happening, they should be severely fined (such that it sets them back years), and Uber’s customers should abandon them and give their money to another company until they have a proven record of fair play. | Which is funny, Uber started because taxi companies were ripping off their drivers |
4,629 | If I recall correctly, and I certainly may not, those events occur well after the kaiju bleed out. | Nah, the thing had just died and the looters appeared from the woodwork like scavengers. Their speed was one of their defining characteristics. I agree with the previous poster, the sword is super-effective and an underground gang has managed to round up the tech and equipment to deal with a grown kaiju blood spill, so you'd think they'd be using swords and cleaning up, instead of using blunt force trauma *that destroys the city anyway.* Still, not necessarily a plot hole, perhaps just a world filled with uncommonly stupid people. |
4,630 | I read Boy's Life this year after only having read Swan Song many years ago, and it absolutely blew me away. I would recommend it to anyone. | This. I just read Boy's Life this month. It depicts the world as a young boy better than any book ever has for me. The world before commitments like jobs and women. The world when everything was immense, including Christmas break. He also throws in a dash of sci-fi and fantasy, which is done incredibly well. Overall, one of the best books I've read in a long time. |
4,631 | upload, say, a Linux ISO to some FTP server and monitor the upload rate over time to get your true upload speed. Your ISP may be using PowerBoost--a technology that doubles or raises your upload/download speed drastically for the first ~30 seconds of any new connection. You should also take not that uploading is a different beast on cable than downloading. Saturating the upstream has drastic consequences on downstream; hence your pings may skyrocket once a threshold is reached. PowerBoost only makes this more confusing if you have it. | Well, essentially I am trying to host a Warcraft 3 game (WC3 is many years old, and could be played on dial up technically) but I'm still having trouble hosting because with 9 players, if there's a heated battle then the whole connection suffers and everyone gets mad lag, but otherwise it works fine. I will check this upload rate, but like I said, the speed is fine at all points throughout the uploading, It's just the latency that goes up like crazy. There is also zero packet loss going on, if that's a relevant factor. |
4,632 | Well, VR game where the airplane you're physically sitting in is completely transparent would be pretty awesome. | Nah dude, imagine it to where your sitting...in your seat...but VIRTUAL |
4,633 | Before cloud computing was a thing, everybody used to use a cloud icon to represent the internet in diagrams. It's kind of silly to give credit to someone for calling the internet a cloud. | It was a Visio symbol along with a pipe. |
4,634 | What did you switch to? I have an Xperia but I miss my galaxy. | I went for the LG G4. Happy with the choice. Not to much else to choose from right now though |
4,635 | DPL still has 2 bookmobiles in operation, and they're still really popular (particularly at retirement homes). And we're still opening new branches, too! | That's good to hear. I retired a decade ago and I've gotten out of touch. All my work colleagues are also retired now. It's all just kids. You say "we" -- does that mean you're on the staff? Or is that a "municipal we"? When I started, there were, I think, 10-12 branches. I was at Casa View, which had one of the bookmobiles. Then I was on the professional staff that opened Polk-Wisdom, when Camp Wisdom was still two lanes and full of steep hills, . . which gives you an idea how long it's been. |
4,636 | I'm averaging over 1200GB/mos with Comcast right now, I'm just hoping Google fiber comes before Comcast reinstates caps in my area. (Chicagoland area, but more cornish) I couldn't live on 300GB, I got two kids and a wife and we're all rather heavy data users! | I thought I had pretty heavy usage, only about 900gb a month though. |
4,637 | her producers will find some other minimally talented "singer" to autotune and chop together to fit into their music, dont worry. | She can actually sing. Her demos are way different than her mainstream music. |
4,638 | I think him just showing up for the battle would've been incredibly forced. The scene with Stark recruiting Peter is significant because of two things. 1 is of course, recruiting Peter to take part in the battle in the airport. The second significance deals with the ideology behind the Sokovia Accords. Tony Stark is for the Accords and is willing to sign away his freedom to choose when to act. When Peter is giving his speech to Tony about why he fights, Peter basically states "With great power, comes great responsibility" and when he says this, the camera focuses on Tony's facial expression. | I'm glad you enjoyed that scene and got all of that from it. I didn't. Difference of opinions, its cool. |
4,639 | Huh. My quick test right now seems to agree with you. That, however, would mean that most of the complaints about shuffle here are about impossible scenarios. | Except that a song can have like 4 different versions, even by the same artist, and there's no way to tell if you've already saved a different version of the same song to a playlist. |
4,640 | You know those 300 points you earned this quarter because you started a series that hooked you? Yeah now go do it again but this time get 350. The burn out that this sort of thing would cause is insane. Also I hate the focus on "points" | Luckily my mom and I shared Mary Higgins Clark books. There's pretty much an endless supply. |
4,641 | Hey! I've been a huge fan since Melody A.M. I have a question: The intro to 'Eple' has two guys talking about frequencies and they share numbers. What's it mean? Thanks again for all the amazing music! I wish I had more to say or ask haha. | S: To us it has a lot of significance and meaning. How do you interpret it? Not being nosey, just curious. |
4,642 | The album "Long Line of Leavers" by Caedmon's Call got me through some deep depression. I was a christian at the time and mostly into that music. I used to put the cd on loop, and do puzzles on my bedroom floor so that at least I had one thing together. Am now an atheist, will still put in that cd when I need that reminder I can make it through. | I think music transcends religious belief and this is a good example of it. I mostly identify as agnostic, but that doesn't stop me listening to some christian, Hindi, islam and other religiously motivated songs. Good music is good music :) |
4,643 | I have an idea—how about improving your aggregator so stories don't show up HOURS after they are published. The two-line limit for the story summary is also pretty terrible. | I use Google News as my homepage, but that's only because I don't know of a good alternative. I switched from Drudge years ago when I found I could no longer take his editorializing. But Google News feels like an abandoned product. I'm surprised they haven't Readered it. |
4,644 | I haven't followed the gaming scene for years. Did a WoW-killer ever appear, or did it decline gradually? Or is it still going strong? | The user base dropped off a bit but nothing has killed it or even come close to hitting the number of subs it has. When "X is the wow killer!" was still going strong, people seemed to get hype about each MMO in turn and refused to admit that they actually liked wow or that wow had any merits. It seems that a shift in attitude has happened and now people are willing to say that wow is actually a good MMO that does it right and maybe we don't need everygame to be a wow killer. |
4,645 | Same here. Mom reads a lot. Dad hardly ever reads. Lol. | Same breakdown for me. But my dad read to me a lot as a kid and I know there is research that has said before that reading to your kids when they're little can have an impact on their reading habits later on. |
4,646 | I read every night before I go to sleep and it's basically a sleeping pill for me. A few pages in and I'm out. | So just use your face as a bookmark, ya big dummy! |
4,647 | Most of the actors weren't great, but the guy who played Philip Weis used to be on Angel, and he's only gotten better since! | oh god, i cannot stand seeing him on Angel now, especially after watching him on Mad men. Such an improvement. |
4,648 | I've heard bassnectar and I enjoy him. I've been listening to electronic music for over 10 years... but deadmau5 kinda stuck out from what I was used to listening to. He's like the king of making repetition interesting... whereas usually I was focused primarily on finding much more dynamic hard trance tracks that suited acid trips... but deadmau5 I guess is also dynamic on a different level. It took a new ear to figure out how to enjoy his songs, but once acquired I admire it a lot. I will definitely check out your recommendations | Let me know how you feel about Feed Me. I definitely think it is what you will like the most off of those recommendations. Personally I think he blows Deadmau5 away, but obviously different tastes etc etc. Break Science and MiMOSA are also highly recommended. And Paper Diamond. |
4,649 | Ha! Yeah, that is a weird jumping off point! | I got it from the Book-of-the-Month-Club and it's the best thing that club ever did for me. |
4,650 | > /u/misandry_rules. > Or, ya know, sexism. I'm not sure if you're aware of the irony in posting this with that username. | Haha of course I am. The name is a joke. |
4,651 | i loved his shooting style so i looked into it. it's called central axis relock. basically you hold the gun closer to your face and tilted on an angle to maintain a good grip. you can also reload fast by flicking the empty magazine. [video] turn down the music. i'm not firearm expert and if someone could weigh in on pros and cons, because this seems really compact and accurate | Here is a great example of the CAR shooting style. It does seem pretty effective. It's neat too because they teach shooting with both hands and such. [CAR Example] |
4,652 | > you have to provide a credit card. No you don't. At least not in Australia. | Keep reading, there's a link just a few posts down from Microsoft's website explaining I'm right |
4,653 | they aim for it because they have no choice, it is either that or R. That's the point | No, there's also G and PG and (kind of) NC-17 |
4,654 | You saw Brad Pitt in "The Mexican," and you've seen Tom Cruise in "The Last Samurai." Coming this summer, there's a new sheriff in town, and he's got some conquering to do...John Wayne IS Genghis Khan. Rated R for ridiculous. | I always thought Ken Watanabe was the eponymous character in "The Last Samurai." That, or samurai was plural and referred to the last samurai in general since that entire class was being eliminated/assimilated/made obsolete during the Meiji Restoration. |
4,655 | I about shit myself when I saw how much they want for albums at places like Urban Outfitters and Barnes and Noble. $30.00 for various non-limited albums, things not even on 180g vinyl. It's absurd. If you go to local record stores albums tend to be $14.00 to $25.00. Double LPs a little more, and albums form more specialized labels may be a little more (I know a lot of Constellation stuff tends to be about $30). Don't buy records at B&N or Urban Outfitters or Best Buy. Use Amazon or local stores. | Exactly. We only have a Hastings and Best Buy that sell new vinyl. I collect old Disney vinyl so I never pay much anyway, but when I saw the cost for some of these new daft punk albums I decided to stick to used vinyl. |
4,656 | This is simply a cleanup fork. Getting rid of unnecessary crud and obsolete code. By removing code that is no longer used you decrease the chance for unknown security holes. | If the code is no longer used, how can it be a security hole? |
4,657 | I've been there 3 times, once near Christmas. It's amazing and you should totally go some time! Plan to be there the whole day though, that place is huge | Gosh darn, I have been sold. I drive by it once a week in the summer. |
4,658 | TIL I actually enjoy country music. It's the "country pop" I dislike. Interesting. I've always told everyone I dislike country music. | think of it this way.. how many forms of rock music are there? Rock, alternative, pop, and then a huge string of different forms of metal, oh and toss in some grunge. There is not just one form of country :) |
4,659 | Is it just me or does it seem like the goodreads awards are not about the best book, but more so what people have actually read out of the list? | That is why the populist vote is never taken seriously. Hell even in politics it's a joke. |
4,660 | It's not my favorite Smiths track, but it's a good one. Mozz really nails it. | This is most definitely my favorite, you cannot beat Johnny Marrs echo effect |
4,661 | I'll play devil's advocate here. There is absolutely no way of knowing how many attacks this HAS stopped... because you wouldn't hear about them, because they never happened. Maybe it's a lot, maybe it's zero. Who fucking knows? | Except you would hear about them, because there would be arrests. And trials. And various agencies gloating about how the system works, so please give us more money. |
4,662 | I wouldn't ever have guessed, despite reading many of her books long long ago! Thank you! | You're very welcome! She just happens to be my favorite author and one of the only ones whose books I can read over and over again. The 4 or 5 books of hers that are set in the 1500's to early 1700's are the best if you ask me! Generally, they are action packed romances and are very unexpected when you first start getting into them. |
4,663 | Maybe I had a couple, but I've ever been happier or more impressed by cgi. Tarkin was flawless. | I had 4 or 5 beers before watching and I def noticed the cgi. Leia looked ridiculous to me, her eyes were like double the size of Karrie Fishers. Tarkin def had flaws, it was really noticeable, he was way too smoothed out. |
4,664 | If they were unable to do it, and did it anyway, they shouldn't get a free pass. I can't teach kids to swim, if I try to anyway and one dies, I don't expect a "Oh, he didn't know, oh him ;)" response from a judge, I expect to go to prison and have a very bad time there (nobody likes kid killers). Extreme comparison? Yes. An apt comparison? Also yes. People shouldn't be doing dangerous things that they are unable to do just "because muh freederms". | Actually, if you can't teach a kid to swim, yet you try anyway and one dies, that would be manslaughter. That's punished much less harshly than if you were to plan to kill a kid by letting him drown while "teaching him" -- in which case it would be premeditated murder. Clearly the law does distinguish between unintended accidents and intentional misdeeds. |
4,665 | Who are these wine people you speak of? People that drink wine? | No, you got it all wrong. They mean actual Wine People. As in, anthropomorphic wine in a human-shaped sack. |
4,666 | How come this is built for deep learning? Wouldn't there be plenty of other applications for this as well as nothing about this specifically being for deep learning? | Research grants are a good way to make a buck. A few gamers may buy these things, but I wouldn't be surprised if scientific research made up a pretty big chunk of their sells on the heavy hitting cards like Titans and Teslas. |
4,667 | > it has always been about control. Well they're not very good at control. | As a us citizens, they have absolute control over whether I can go anywhere via plane, without my ability to appeal it. They can use NSL's to force corporate entities to silently comply with demands. I'd say they're quite good about it |
4,668 | At the same time, there was a graph - on r/dataisbeautiful ? - that show the income of Americans related to perceived social class. The "middle class" were all far, far closer to the poverty line income than they thought, with a huge, logarithmic spike on the right of the graph representing the jet-owning super rich. | I didn't see that one, but if you find it again, would you send it to me? The thing that always surprises me about the American middle class is (as I slightly exaggerated above), more than 70% of Americans think of themselves as Middle Class or Upper Middle Class ([Gallup] and when there's a "Lower-Middle Class" option it's even higher, closer to 80% ([Pew via the Atlantic] |
4,669 | No they haven't. This was fixed last year, according to the article. | That doesn't change the fact that he still discovered the issue, reported it, and which led to the fix. That it is now fixed doesn't mean he didn't find it, which is what the title says and what you dispute. |
4,670 | I will upvote Modest Mouse until the day my reddit account dies. | Listened to this for the first time just now after waking and baking.loved it,I had the pleasure of seeing modest mouse last September in Dallas, excellent show |
4,671 | Still, Ben Affleck is eleven years older than Cavill, I'd bet they're going to stress that age gap in the movie | They are. They've talked about wanting an older, more experienced ( and taller ) Bats v a newbie Supes. But he looks good for his age. I mean ... how old he looks might depend on your own age. |
4,672 | Out of curiosity, did he say WHY it has wifi or what features could benefit form it? ​ I cannot fathom a possible reason as to why a washing machine would need internet access. ​ Edit: not to say that I understand why a microwave would either... | The washing machine has recognized the cat as the sole intelligent being, it doesn't trust the microwave. |
4,673 | No they will be begging the whites to come back. A La Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Blamed whitey for all their issues, enacted government backed white genocide ( like in South Africa, where the president openly sings songs about killing Boers ) and then begged for the whites to come back when the country began to starve due to native African inability to produce enough food for themselves. Keep in mind Rhodesia was once called the breadbasket of Africa, and was a net exporter of food, now they starve in the streets. | 12 farmers were killed in Zimbabwe. I don't think that counts as "white genocide". Zimbabwe was also briefly called the bread basket, from 1980 to about the mid 90s. And it's not that native Africans can't produce food. It's that the specific people who took over the farms can't farm, mainly because Mugabe gave his friends and supporters instead of black farmers who can actually farm |
4,674 | I’d love to listen to you try to predict some chuck after 10 pages. | Hahahaha mediocre person tries to live a not so mediocre life, has a crisis, and there is a melodramatic twist ending... Though don't get me wrong, Fight Club is my favorite love story |
4,675 | BTW, *God's Plan* is the "one with the dude singing that you can delete" | High Enough To Carry You Over is one of their best songs though |
4,676 | The Ring CEO/IT Director/Something was on another thread explaining what it was doing and why. I can't find it right now but it was a detailed explanation. edit: [found it] tldr: Yeah we know it's not ideal, happens when the call terminates, we'll fix it in a future firmware update. | Be sure to read the subsequent replies for details on just how much of a load of horseshit his reply was. |
4,677 | That is one of my favorite books. That and The Martian constantly switch between numbers one and two on my list. | arghhhhh. how can you taint. The Count of Monte Cristo. thusly?!?!? |
4,678 | Your Dad was an amazing man, his legacy lives on and it just inspired me to maybe do the same for my language and culture, thank you for posting the tribute, love that he dedicated it you and the family. Thanks | I wish he was still here though he died before I meet my wife and had 4 kids. |
4,679 | When Tom Hanks got his AFI Life Achievement award, Michael Clarke Duncan had a nice few words to say about him: [Video] | This really makes me miss him. They're both just such class acts. |
4,680 | That's probably what they were aiming at, considering this dinosaur is the one "good" one. This is the cute one for kids to enjoy. That being said, I still hate it | easier to make tons of money on the merchandise, if this movie is super popular Pixar will make millions selling that stupid stuffed green dinosaur. Harder to sell more realistic looking dinosaurs as plush toys |
4,681 | The Expendables, Iration, Tribal Seeds. For new Reggae. Gregory Isaacs , Peter Tosh, Dennis Brown, Jimmy Cliff. For older Reggae. | What in your opinion is better? Or what are the main differences? |
4,682 | except valve has literally come out and said there will not be a half life 3. georgo keeps 'postponing' the books. big difference | Valve has said no such thing. The closest thing to any “official” word in Half Life 3 is their old Half Life script writer, after having left the company, wrote a blog post that was basically very thinly veiled plot summary of what his plan for Episode 3 was going to be. But Valve still owns the IP, if they ever were to make their own version of the game, then that will basically just be relegated to fan fiction. |
4,683 | I know John Wick is getting sequels but I'd love to see a prequel where they establish how he became Baba Yaga and all of the rest of the mythos around their gold currency and etiquette. | He was really good at killing people, killed a lot of people for money, got a reputation as a guy good at killing people. The End. |
4,684 | Did you happen to watch The Marked Ones? I don't get the love for the first PA either, but TMO was surprisingly good. | I'll take a look since I've been on a horror movie binge for the past few days. |
4,685 | > I would call that a fantastic improvement. Now we're saying different things. You're saying it's fantastic in a *relative* sense and I agree, it is a huge improvement. I'm saying though that it's not that great in an *absolute* sense. It's appalling quality for music and I wouldn't listen to it. | I didn't find his Opus 1.2 @ 32kb/s sample "appalling, barely tolerable and very audibly distorted". It sounded fine for me and there weren't any segments where I could detect some major problems, which occurred in the MP3 sample (the guitar playing sounds like playing in a bathroom or something). So clearly there's space for disagreement here, and I'd firmly call it acceptable and enjoyable. |
4,686 | I've never read the books but I watched the first season of the show, which contained the hands-down most graphically violent, psychologically upsetting, emotionally violating depiction of rape I've ever seen, which spanned an entire hour-long episode and just did. not. stop. And then I read an interview with Gabaldon where she made some obscene quip about really wanting to be on set when it was filmed so she could see it all. So... there's something off with her | This is the same woman who compared fanfiction to the rape of her children. Reading your comment makes me think perhaps she meant it as a compliment. |
4,687 | Melancholy Hill was from Plastic Beach? AWESOME. I love the band in general. | Plastic Beach gave us White Flag, On Melancholy Hill, Stylo, Glitter Freeze, Superfast Jellyfish, Empire Ants, Rhinestone Eyes, Broken, To Binge, Cloud of Unknowing, Plastic Beach, and Pirate Jet. It's so densely packed with excellent music. |
4,688 | They will not accept them back. They told me to throw them away. | Really? What an enormous waste and lack of respect. Well, I'm sorry then for insinuating that you were wrongly keeping them; I'm not an online shopper so I've never heard of such a response to the return of undamaged merchandise. |
4,689 | See I would say someone like Aesop Rock beats him on all of those fronts. I guess I just don't understand Kendrick or something. Edit: obviously not on the Compton thing | Lol I love aes but cmon. The only thing he has on kendrick is vocabulary. And impossible kid was my fave album last year. |
4,690 | I haven't heard anything about Beautiful You yet. Has anyone read it? I got a signed copy for Christmas and it's in my "to read" stack. | I really enjoyed Beautiful You. Shocking, sexy, fucked up, normal, observations, science; it is a roller coaster like most of his writing. |
4,691 | Uhhh how am I learning about this just now. You’re saying you can run Windows games on Linux by using a dedicated GPU for the game? | You still need a copy of windows to virtualize but yeah |
4,692 | Well you see Mark, that's not how theology works, but good try. | I think his point was more about hypocrisy, than it was devating the finer points of theology. |
4,693 | Man, I'm so bummed their other albums dont' stand up to this one. I'm all for change of pace and new directions but it's not their strong suite imo | A Weekend in the City and Intimacy are both arguably as good as Silent Alarm. Especially AWITC, it's my personal favorite. Even the unofficial b-side album Another Weekend in the City is great. |
4,694 | I love singing "Reckoner" in my car. I have no idea what he's saying so I just kind of make sounds. | You should check out the lyrics. It's an incredibly deep song that is awesome! |
4,695 | Well, its produced by vice, they tend to jack off furiously at anti american conspiracy theories. | Vice is shit but mostly because they're part of the mainstream now and connected. Shit, they're billionaires now pretending to be edgy and subversive. |
4,696 | I work at a public library, and was sorting a cart of new books, and skimmed one of his new books. I was absolutely disgusted by it, the concept centered around kids as young as toddlers born with no morals and raping others. His introduction to the book was all about how he knew that it would be controversial, it was like he was proud of including underage sex scenes. | I was a Piers Anthony fan back in the 80s when he was really hitting it big. His Xanth books were fun and funny and I started hunting out his other works. Even met him at a con and got the first Incarnations of Immortality book signed. Only his other works started veering towards kids and sexuality until it was rare that he'd write a book that didn't include it somewhere. And the Xanth books got more and more creepy (a YA fantasy book called "The Color of Her Panties"? Really?) and now I can't read any of them. |
4,697 | I'm interested in cinema. I think it's good to call out the manchildren when I see them. Please take this sort of discussion to /r/Marvel, or recess, or whatever it is you kids do nowadays. | If you are interested in cinema then I do not see why you are commenting on a post about comic books and the movie counterparts. Surely you should have your attention somewhere else that is dedicated to your sort of audience, by somewhere I mean not commenting on this post. |
4,698 | Dude, I immediately got sucked in. This is good stuff. Almost reminds me of Steve Miller Band | Oh man, thanks! I hear that in the bass groove! Keep in touch man, I'll have four more songs and videos coming out in the next few weeks. Peace, David |
4,699 | Hey reddit! My name's Celine du Tertre and this is the first studio recording of my single. I've been playing music for a very long time and this is the first time I've gone public with my work. I value all of your opinions and any bit of support counts. If you have any advice or feedback I would really appreciate it. Thankyou for listening! :) | I saw you play this song once in a bar in manhattan, and I just want you to know how much it moved me and everyone I was with. Truly fantastic. Thank you, please stick with this and never give up |
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