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5,100 | Yeah and imagine being the kid who pushed her, gruesome. | Damn idk why but I didn't even think of that. Lifelong guilt. |
5,101 | You might have already had a much broader understanding of science than me before you read the book. Thanks for the recommendation! | I have an intensely broad understanding of science and I thought the book was brilliant. I'm not sure why Bryson's humanizing of science causes BrainFever to come off so snooty in his/her comment. If you want snooty, don't read Bryson. If you want great entertainment based on tons of research, do. |
5,102 | Your mean *carriers* hates SD cards. Each byte read from an SD card is a byte not purchased from your data plan. | No, Google who makes and maintains the Android OS regardless of carrier, clearly hates SD cards. Every time I do a major Android update, it breaks some app of mine that was using SD cards. The camera app I told to store photos on the SD card periodically "forgets" that and switches back to placing them on the on-board flash, prompting me to get lots of "failed to update app" errors because there wasn't enough on-board space to download app updates. I had to switch to Doubletwist for my music because Google's music app stopped allowing me to store my music on the SD card. |
5,103 | People talking, texting, laughing obnoxiously, walking in and out during the movie, chomping on popcorn. Sure I'd prefer a theater if I had the entire thing to myself, but I'll settle for my 60 inch and surround sound if I get to enjoy a film in peace. | Movies are an outing. Home is not. People like going out. |
5,104 | I very nearly walked out of Transformers: age of extinction. What a god awful piece of shit. The never ending and boring as hell battle scenes really made it unbearable. | Agreed. I didn't mind the first 3 Transformers movies. They weren't good, but they were watchable, at least. Age of Extinction elevated the franchise to a whole new level of bad I didn't know even existed. |
5,105 | Desktop GPU's have had 1 Tflop since a long time. For example the AMD 5970's (ancient!) had almost 5 Tflop theoretically. Although this was limited by memory bandwidth for most tasks I remember solving many (parallelizable) computing problems problems at around 1 Tflop back then. The main difference i guess is that this new processor can run x86 code natively and with much less restrictions on how to make the problem parallel? | The main difference probably is marketing wants a new hook. So they pretended this is new. |
5,106 | Yeah I thought it was like war became his personal demon, he went a little insane there for a bit, being a passive father and war obsessed. I don't think it was necessarily glorifying war, but showing the baggage that comes with modern warfare. | Absolutely. The scene with him sitting at the table and freaking out at lawn mower and everyday sounds was hard to watch. |
5,107 | Also read about 800 pages or so of Atlas Shrugged before I threw it against the wall. I basically liked none of it. | She was able to put me on the edge of my seat and enjoy some sequences / language occasionally but my god was it ever contrived |
5,108 | Should check out Glen Danzig if you haven't. He looked scary until you realized he was like 3 feet tall. | I'm giggling at the thought of Danzig not being able to reach high to get something in a cupboard |
5,109 | SH5 and Cat's Cradle are my favorites, so I also wondered if Player Piano would be a letdown, but it wasn't. It's more straightforward than his other novels, which I kind of welcomed. The subject matter is also getting more relevant with each passing day, and this was a book written over 50 years ago. I would put it in the middle-of-the-pack as for as Vonnegut goes. Not his best but still quite good. | Out of curiosity, what's your least favorite? I've read SH5, CC, Jailbird, Slapstick, Mother Night, half of Hocus Pocus, Rosewater, and Breakfast. I think it's pretty clear which one is my least favorite, given that I didn't finish it. I do plan to get around to it again but since I've started working 9-5 I haven't had as much time to read. |
5,110 | The tech for this and for the oculus and Vive just aren't there yet. Not sure why they're racing to market when consumers aren't going to be willing to drop $1000. | Have you tried a Rift or a Vive? What are you basing this on? Rift's preorders are sold out, so there's objectively a market for it. |
5,111 | I’ve always wondered who took polls. I’ve never participated in a poll about people like me but for some reason they know what I’m up to (not really) | I work in polling now, and trust me, there's a lot of math involved. But mostly, a lot of math weighing your results to match the population, or a lot of swearing when your data source turns out to be shit. Also, I can't take market research surveys anymore because now I work for a firm that does them, and it's the first screener question they ask :( |
5,112 | We didn't need to fly either. We were perfectly fine before flight. | Get off the internet! You don't need internet, we were perfectly fine before the internet. |
5,113 | > When a new version of Android comes out, I think I should be able to just upgrade and you just can't do that with most android devices. That isn't an android thing, thats a manufacturer thing. So go with the manufacturer that will let you do as you please. The Nexus line is a great example. You also have Sony stepping up and releasing AOSP builds for their phones, and OnePlus (which I'm not a fan of, but many are). tl;dr, buy whats right for you. Your statement doesn't imply any real reason for iOS as opposed to a Nexus. | Google doesn't support the Nexuses forever. The Galaxy Nexus, which was the Nexus that predates the Nexus 4 can't be updated to 4.4. So yeah, it's an Android thing as well as a manufacturer thing. |
5,114 | this. and also why didn't anyone think of asking lex author anything about the capitol blowing up?> | He left his assistant to avoid suspicion. Loved the Grandma's Peach Tea diss Lex left the senator |
5,115 | I'm soooo ready for this. It's probably my most anticipated movie of the year. | and i still have no idea what it's really about |
5,116 | Well, for me I never use my monthly allowance of texts and calls, but I do use my monthly allowance of data and often need to buy a top up pack. So using internet based services would be a waste of money. | how would that be a waste of money? You just said you rarely use up your minutes and texts, but you do use data... It would seem as though you're wasting your money on what you're not using |
5,117 | Oh, okay good. By time I used the fancy college one I knew to put stuff back. The big one I went to as a kid, I'd get lost in but it was mainly kids section I didn't understand the drop areas or putting it back. | i get them impression from you that if you did mess up a few times and inconvenience the library that youve done enough good since then to make up for it. |
5,118 | Sinister is just an overhyped mediocre series of horror clichés punctuated by decent found footage scares. I never understood the critical love it gets. | It has 64% on Rotten Tomatoes, which I think is appropriate. Sure, it's not a Best Picture-quality film, but as far as the horror/found footage genre goes, I think it's good at what it does. |
5,119 | So after watching this movie "Why Him" which features James Franco as a modern day millionaire tech freak that has a always listening smart home device/assistant called "Jessica" that records everything said in everyroom etc... I'm interested in finding a way to have this inside of my house as sort of a personal electronic diary. Having the ability to have transcripts and audio recordings of everything ever said in particular rooms would be incredible. Does anyone know how they would even attempt this? | If you don't try to build everything from scratch, it's almost trivial. All you need is a microphone connected to a Raspberry Pi, run a [VAD] algorithm, pipe it through the [Google's Speech API] and log the result to an SD card. It would cost $1.44 per hour of speech - which is a lot of speech. The harder thing is what to do with the results. If you just want a transcript of what you say in your house, then it's that simple. If you want to do more than that with the results, that's where it gets harder. This is what Alexa, Google Home, etc. are trying to do right now. |
5,120 | There's only so much you can do as an actor when the writer and director is George Lucas. His vision for star wars was raw material potential that was made best when it was refined, forged and shaped by others. | Lucas is the most interesting combination of genius and moron I'll ever know of. |
5,121 | Thanks, I guess... I had always been too shy to do anything but lurk in this sub, but I've been playing tabletop RPGs recently and I guess that pushed me to think over Don Quixote, the lawful good fighter with no (real) foes to fight. | Just to be clear, I laughed because I thought it was a brilliant title. |
5,122 | You don't have to open any app for Apple Pay. In fact, *you don't even need to unlock the device*. Just hold the phone up to the NFC reader while you rest your thumb on Touch ID. That's all. Apple Watch takes this a step further — you won't even need to take your phone out of your pocket, just hold up the watch double-click a button. The whole QR code scanning thing is going to look extremely frustrating in comparison. In fact, at first glance it sounds *worse* than swiping a credit card. Maybe the retailer saves a few cents from each transaction, but you're going to have a hard time convincing customers to use it. | Yep, we have had QR code scanning for quite a while over here with a couple of different service providers, a few students in my old class even did a study on it - no one uses it because its such a hassle. |
5,123 | It’s nothing compared to god damn Tumblrcon. Though I guess they rented a hotel space so technically better? 🤔 | There've been a number of con disasters - the collapse of Rogue con in the UK also comes to mind - but Fyre Festival's touch of genius was adding the element of stranding people on an island with inadequate food and shelter. If you're in a city at least you can bail and go find an Airbnb (which some of tumblrcon's invited guests did iirc) |
5,124 | I thought the twist was less outlandish than Gone Girl's but Gillian Flynn is a much better writer and has a sharper wit. | Why are people comparing it to Gone Girl at all? |
5,125 | Wow, this track is ten years old. WTF. I was ten then, (twenty now for those who are mathematically challenged ;) ). I kinda wish I could have been a little older to have experienced the whole emo thing. I formed an interest in the subculture when I was 13, but that was 2005-2006 and I think it died out by 2007 to form scene (which I hated). TBS, The Used, Fall Out Boy, All American Rejects, From First To Last, Funeral For a Friend, Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romance...what were some other really good post hardcore angsty bands? lol | Saves the Day, especially their first album, although they are superior to almost all the bands you listed. If you like angst though listen to their albums Can't Slow Down and Sound the Alarm. Their sound always evolves and their albums get better and better. :) |
5,126 | Huh, I've never been able to put how I feel about it into words before, but you nailed it. Sandersons magic systems are nothing at all like magic in, say, D&D or The Elder Scrolls, they seem so solidly defined that seeing characters talk about what they can do is just so matter-of-fact. Of course burning metal in your stomach lets you propel yourself off of metal surfaces, why wouldn't it? That's just how it is here. | I don't think that there could be a physics law that only apply to certain people, though... That can only be called magic. |
5,127 | She made a shitload of money. Pretty sure it was a good idea. | yyeahhh.... i'm glad people judge "good" music by how much money it makes... I'd rather keep my intregrity than make shit pop music. Any real musician would say the same. |
5,128 | I'm confused, is this post saying its 50th is today? I could have sworn it's June 1st | They were talking about this on the Beatles station on Sirius today! Apparently, Sgt. Pepper was pirated before its June 1st release date by the offshore pirate radio stations and they began playing it. So to kind of stop the bleeding so to speak, it was released in the UK on the 26th and then it was released in the US on June 1st. |
5,129 | > If you play hockey at UNH it's like playing football at LSU or Alabama. More like Ole Miss or something. UNH is good, but lets not pretend you're BU or BC over here. | Works fine for me, I was only trying to illustrate how important the sport is to the culture of the school, like those places. Jesus, crucify me |
5,130 | No, I'm saying that regardless of your taste in music your lower than average IQ makes you a chore to listen to. | oh wow I thought you saying that St. Vincent was bad would be the stupidest thing you would say today but nope, believing that "IQ" means anything is a whole other level of unbelievable stupidity. |
5,131 | wanderinggrammarian has it a great suggestion - Kavalier and Clay is *lush* prose. If you want some modernist, lyrical, eloquent prose (though not exactly contemporary), Faulkner's [*Light in August*] is brilliant. | Yes I heard Faulkner is excellent. I will definitely try wanderinggrammarian's suggestion as well as yours! Thank you for your help! |
5,132 | > He said that the only reason he hiked the price is to make extra profit off insurance companies. Oh boy I wonder who pays that cost | Rofl, daraprim is only used by ~2,000 people a year. No one's premiums are going up a cent from something that negligible. |
5,133 | Check out Out of Sight too, he has a pretty similar role in it. | LOVE that movie. One of the best Elmore Leonard adaptations by far. First movie where I knew Clooney could truly act. Lopez did well too as did all the cameos. It's a little disappointing that Lopez hasn't worked with directors of Soderbergh's caliber in her career. It seems like she does well when a good director is giving her direction but other than that a lot of her projects were terrible big budget rom-coms. |
5,134 | > I woke up in a puddle of her urine. After we both broke into laughter we changed our clothes. Just changed clothes without showering first? That's gotta be true love. | Right? Or kicking her out first and finding a girl who didn't pee in your bed to get pizza with? |
5,135 | The same success everyone else has seen: Measurable, but completely insufficient, thrust. Edit: in all seriousness though, has anyone tried this with an EM source other than microwaves? Something like x-ray tubes or nuclear emissions? | If it's real, it's perfectly sufficient for deep space missions. Not launches, obviously. |
5,136 | It's ACDC, I have no idea why the Crunchroll dub tried to hide the names. Steely Dan was even called "Dan the Steel" | Huh, maybe to avoid Copyright issues? I kind of like it better anyways, you still get the references but it feels natural still. |
5,137 | For me Windows 10 boots up so. damn. slowly. it's not even funny. I have this problem on both my desktop and laptop. | Is this because of the hardware? It seems weird for it to have such a stark downgrade in boot time. |
5,138 | Yeah...I totally get where you're coming from. I've seen way too many bar fights instigated by druken idiots, however, it wasn't another drunk person that killed Jaco. It was an on duty bouncer, fair to assume he was sober. While I understand that discretion is key (you have to be forceful with some idiots or they'll just keep doing whatever they were doing), you can't punch somebody's eye out of its socket... Edit: a word | I don't think you could, but like I said I'd still expect it and not be a dumbass just in case. |
5,139 | If you read about Megan Trainor's story, she was originally passed up as an artist due to her image and they wanted her just to write. She really did have to fight and get viral attention to break through. Good for her. | Just cause you're fat doesn't give you an automatic right to be an entertainer. You need talent. She's a gifted writer. |
5,140 | I assume this would be magnetically sensitive memory, hence probably no good for portable applications. | Am I wrong thinking that induction is strongly connected to the distance to a magnetic source, following a logarithmic curve, and having material to induce energy into? I am guessing a nano-structure wire, need a serious mix of a strong magnet and being close to it, for it to be effected. |
5,141 | If seeing an ad for an artist you don't care for gets on your nerves then you have some issues man. Edit: redditors clearly relate to this guys level of autism. | It gets on my nerves that he obviously uses this service to show a lot of ads for himself. I have to use this service because the old one was bought and now I have to use a Jay-Z personalized ad frontpage? No thanks. |
5,142 | We don't *really* have C++ 14 until we get a mainstream compiler that supports the standard. I imagine it should make its way into g++ fast enough, but anyone have a guess for when we could expect it to hit, say, MSVC? | Offical docs as of now: > Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2013 goes even further beyond C++11 to implement some key C++14 library features: > "Transparent operator functors" less<>, greater<>, plus<>, multiplies<>, and so on. > make_unique<T>(args...) and make_unique<T>(n) > cbegin/cend, rbegin/rend, and crbegin/crend non-member functions. |
5,143 | Sure, he was "sick", according to the only witnesses, who ate him. | Right? Why would anyone eat sickly meat? animals don't even do that. |
5,144 | Kung Pow Enter the Fist! Oh god how wrong i was to dismiss it. | Definitely saw it when I was younger and was like this is really stupid and really cheesy. Took a few years and a rewatch to realize that was the kind of parody/humor they were going for. |
5,145 | I cant do anything other than look out the window the whole time. There are billowing clouds and craggy mountains, shiny rivers and lakes. there are colors in the sunset and sunrise you never see at sea level. You’re traveling at hundreds of miles an hour through the sky. On top of all that after landing you enter a bustling futuristic metropolis with moving sidewalks, localized rail systems, stunning architecture, and sometimes you might even see a person pull up their suitcase handle, sit on their suitcase, and then drive their suitcase like it’s a scooter. The whole experience is amazing enough to make virtual reality feel like gluing a scientific calculator to your face. | Try sitting on a 19 hour flight from Melbourne to Dubai and not using the entertainment. |
5,146 | I think that most people read for the plot. The closer to a movie script a book is, the better it sells, see: Patterson, King, The Martian, etc.. I don't think many people read to be challenged or stimulated intellectually. There's nothing wrong with this of course, but I think that is the main reason so many adults buy children's novels. | I feel like that might be true for the average, casual consumer, but not necessarily for most avid readers. I can't stand books that play out like movies, mostly because movies tend to have very predictable plots. The masses can almost never be trusted to have good taste xD. Or maybe the average person is just stimulated too easily... Depending on what you mean by 'children's books', I feel like they're stimulating, just differently. I buy children's books, but mostly because they can be inspiring in their own way. :3 |
5,147 | Or stop giving high powered opiates to retired heroin addicts. It is always going to end in an "accidental overdose" it's not like Tom just didn't read the labels or thought the shit was m and ms. This is what happens. | Addicts are going to get drugs no matter what. It’s better that it’s regulated and not laced with lethal chemicals. |
5,148 | Yes I did. I also saw Max staring John Cusack about Hitler in the 1920s. It was a good movie. Hitler was a good artist he even applied to Bauhouse but was rejected and later closed it down when he came to power. I guess some people don't take criticism well. | It is a good movie, thank you for reminding me about it. Does anyone still make films like this? |
5,149 | I seriously doubt that he didn't know. We are just making up excuses because we don't want our heroes to be knowingly associating with Limbaugh. | Peter Gabriel (until his personal licensing company is operational) uses [EMI] It licenses music in blocks to purchasers like radio stations. Whatever network Limbaugh is on probably has a deal with EMI to provide licensed music. |
5,150 | Is it a flat 30% increase, or it is a 30% increase of the 20% efficiency we have? The first would be 50% total, the second would be 26%. | Considering this team's usually throw the biggest number possible for bigger impact I'm almost almost sure it's 30% in relation to 6 or 12 or whatever the real percentile solar cells really have now. I've seen too many of this stories too actually give them credit. I'm on my phone though so I haven't read the whole article. I'm sorry if this guys are actually being unique. But my experience after 10 years of this kind of news popping up every month or so made me quite a skeptic. |
5,151 | That where the red fern grows, island of the blue dolphin, call of the wild, and (just because it was ridiculous) bunicula. | Island of the blue dolphin straight broke my spirit. I couldn't imagine anything that sad could happen. Never read red fern though and from what I've heard it's probably worse. |
5,152 | Bill Murray still won't talk to chevy chase for something he did back in 1980 | From what I've heard, no one seems to want to talk to Chevy Chase, so that's not too surprising. |
5,153 | The brand recognition helps, definitely, but people support the government's approach to terrorism because it's their rights and safety that are threatened. In this case, the US government is threatening the rights and safety of the public so the public support the ones opposing it: Apple. It has a lot less to do with who and more to do with why. | >it has a lot less to do with who. I disagree I think there are very few companies that can actually fight like Apple could. |
5,154 | Hey guys, Iam looking for intense, suspenseful books. I can only come up wieh movie examples of story telling structure, maybe that will help? * Prisoners. * Se7en. * The Departed. * Gone Baby Gone. * Gone Girl. * I Saw The Devil. etc etc. basically: dark, gritty almost bleak, suspenful and exciting. Thanks so much in advance! | Have you checked out Dennis Lehane's mysteries? One of them was the basis for "Gone Baby Gone," but that's like the fourth or fifth book into the series. |
5,155 | No I know who said it, I meant, what did the phrase mean? Is it a sport phrase or something? | Hypoglycemia. He is experiencing the effects of hypoglycemia due to over exerting himself using the GiAnt-Man Mode. He needs orange juice to replace his glucose :D |
5,156 | Isn't HP working on a new form of memory as well, using mem-resistors? I'm glad they are working out some new technologies for infinitely writable storage; it would be a shame to lose the whole history of the internet for future generations just because we relied on short-lasting magnetic and optical disks. | Nothing's quite infinitely-writable. Heating and cooling due to each component's activation will always cause mechanical stress and component deformation. |
5,157 | The average person has more than sufficient credit to be approved for a credit card. Credit cards offer significant protections by law that are extremely helpful in cases like these. | As I've already stated multiple times in the thread, I have personally been denied card multiple times making around 28k or so at the time (average nationwide is about 36k) with a pretty average credit score of 700. My roommate has a score of around 800 and he still needs a cosigner for his card and they won't give him loans. |
5,158 | What do you mean "HD clarity"? HD refers to pixels, and this is a high resolution, high pixel density screen. Where it's lagging is color gamut. | What I mean is that it does not look as crisp as 720p or 1080p resolution on LCD creens. "with the newly-developed SMI technology, both the orientation and depth of the film can be controlled. In other words, almost any color can be generated with one pixel." Maybe there's a contrast issue though still, I don't know. |
5,159 | Agreed. I didn't even really begin to comprehend it until around page 200. | Same. It makes a world of difference once the timeline gets cleared up. Then around page 400 or 450 things really started clicking for me and *then* I was blown away. |
5,160 | Now if only Chrome didn't suck ass at playing HTML5 video. It's slow for me (on my i7 with add-on graphics) and tends to lock up and crash Chrome. | Yeah, I'm honestly in the same boat. Flash performs better on my system than the HTML5 player. *On my system* it takes a full second+ a reload of the page to exit/enter fullscreen, and the spacebebar is bound to the last action used. That last point might seem confusing, but basically it works like this: If I'm watching a playlist, and hit the next arrow, it will obviously skip to the next video. But then, if I hit the space bar it will trigger the player to skip to the next video in the playlist instead of pausing! It may just be a bug on my system configuration, but it's still irritating. |
5,161 | Considering how bad the last pilot they tried was... I'm not holding my breath. | Wasn't that a fox attempt? If I remember correctly it was only the prologue. It was horrible. |
5,162 | Don't know if it pissed me off the most, but it was certainly annoying to see them take Iron Man's arch-nemesis, cast a fantastic actor to play him, and then throw all of that away to give us a villain who is almost exactly the same as the villains from the previous Iron Man movies. | As someone who isn't much interested in comic books, I loved that twist. A shame that Killian wasn't interesting enough to match it. |
5,163 | I just don't see Marvel turning the current movie Tony/Iron man into an asshole. His current persona is a cash cow. | He's already an asshole though. He just happens to be a good guy. |
5,164 | That's a lot different than "sandboxing is mandatory" and explains why the docs look like that. It also means tons of useful apps literally cannot exist on the app store because of the limitations of that sandbox model. | He said "for apps from the Mac AppStore". You made the error, not him. As to your latter sentence, you are very correct, tons of useful apps literally cannot exist on the app store because of the limitations of that sandbox model. This isn't one of them, but there are very many it affects and Apple/Mac developers have made it quite clear to Apple that this is one of the things driving them out of the app store. |
5,165 | So many fans will die before it comes out. | Honestly, I think the biggest concern is that *he* is going to die before the series is finished, given his age and weight. |
5,166 | This might be an unpopular opinion but if this movie is anything like the previous one fuck it. That last movie was an overly CGI'd piece of shit. It was obviously made to pander to overseas audiences so it has a simple plot and lots of action | Yeah. Because "overseas audiences" are renowned for their overseaification by dumbing down plot and adding explosions. I mean sophisticated and subtle are quasi synonyms for your part of the sea! |
5,167 | Eh, in Leo's case it was a make-up Oscar for all the times he was deserving but snubbed. | I'd hate to star in movies like The Wolf of Wall Street, Catch Me If You Can, etc. but only get a major world-renowned award for something like the Revenant. |
5,168 | As a memphian and a frequenter of stax this comment saddens me. Can we not refrain from upvoting this, and just enjoy the music. | You have no idea where this is from, do you? There's a special called "Talking Funny" and it consists of Louis CK, Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and Ricky Gervais just talking about stand up comedy and their origins. And Louis CK recalls a comedian who was just bombing on stage with a guitar, but a single joke that had no context which stuck with him was "Sitting on a cock cause I'm gaaay." Then they proceeded to have a whole conversation on why it was and wasn't funny, and Louis CK concluded that it's simplicity and ridiculousness made it the one great joke the guy told. |
5,169 | What's really sad about this is that were all of those to work together flawlessly (rather than haphazardly), their ecosystem is better imho because it isn't a walled garden like Apple | That's one if the main benefits of a walled garden, though. It's why that approach is attractive to consumers. |
5,170 | I'm actually a bit disappointed with the plot preview. I don't feel really excited to pick up the book. I hope that it is actually different than how it is described. If JK didn't write it I don't think I would bother picking it up. | Same. But knowing how she writes, I probably won't be able to put it down. |
5,171 | Keep it cool. It is going to wear out eventually but heat kills them faster. If you want it to last a long time, keep it in the box. | yea I know the lifespans aren't perfected yet, they last like what maybe a year or two before they goto read-only mode? Right now just trying to keep the OS & programs on it, not really much else, I am keeping my data on a NAS device |
5,172 | I wonder if he is somehow related to Thaddeus Ross, since he's also in the movie. | They're not. Kinda funny that there's two different Ross's though |
5,173 | no - dont need - i did answer the headline | Maybe read next time before ranting, the article isn't about which is better....it's about how the conjuring made more money than Warcraft on Friday |
5,174 | Choice for what exactly? Not sure how footnotes are going to change his facism that much. I think you could still learn plenty of useful hate. | Not for anything in particular. I just want to read what he wrote. But if there is really no difference to the original version, I might as well get the new one. |
5,175 | I loved that movie and thought he did well in it. Though, I also liked One Hour Photo which was Robin Williams foray into a psychological thriller and it got creamed by the critics. | One Hour Photo was great. Those pictures of his place he kept made me look at everyday house hold items differently. |
5,176 | No, that is actually the point. Censorship is the action of censoring something, not hoping and wishing. If you were right, then you are guilty of censorship as well because if you could stop them from voicing their opinion, ''You totally would''... Of course, you are not censoring anyone, just simply voicing your opinion as well. | I didn't say anything about stopping them from voicing their opinion? Condemning something is very different to making a petition to censoring it. These thousands of people didn't sign the petition to condemn the idea, they did it to try and make enough of a fuss about it to make Kanye change his mind, not just "hoping and wishing" he did so. |
5,177 | People like to complain that the tech isn't ready but it doesn't have to be perfect: it has to be better than the average driver. I consider myself above average but if it can drive 5k miles without almost getting into several accidents it's better than I. | That would be the common sense approach. But remember that most people aren't going to think that way. They already see themselves as a perfect driver, and will continue to do so until Google is as well. |
5,178 | That's like my parents saying, "to me Nirvana isn't rock and roll. Rock and Roll is the Beatles, Beach Boys." It's anachronistic. Bro country is definitely kind of lame pop, but it's still country. You just don't like it. That's ok, but it doesn't change the reality that it is what sells. People have been arguing about pop music for years. I unabashedly love Florida Georgia Line and Sturgill. It's possible to think both fit under the umbrella. I hope Sturgill gains popularity, but having worked in radio and music on various sides I don't see pop country giving way soon. | You're getting downvoted but you're right. Bunch of snobs in here thinking pop-country isn't "true country." Same as the dubstep debate of 2010. Yeah, I hate radio country too. But those downvoting just makes themselves as bad if they think "This is country, and that is not." Is the hyperbole necessary? Is it not enough to acknowledge it's bad or incredibly polished and boring? Because even if it's bad I'm pretty sure the actual people in the South listening to it know it's country more than the chinstrokers deriding it mixing their Rory Erickson and Sturgill Simpson in with Modest Mouse. It's like these kids are re-discovering the existence indie rock and rebelling against pop all over again, lol. |
5,179 | Good band, but I feel like the members' credit gets shrouded by a weird-ass Anthony Green. | I feel exactly the same. Very talented bunch. Anthony Green is my least favorite part of this band. Probably seen them live about a dozen times. lol |
5,180 | **The Disappearing Spoon, by Sam Kean** I first started listening to this book around July but was put off when the author said something I know was false. I'm picking it up again since I own it and figure that I will learn some good things and it isn't the last science book I'm going to read. **The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick** This is the second book I've read by PKD I didn't expect to get sucked in to the story the way I have. **The Poisoned Pilgrim, by Oliver Pötzsch** I've been powering though The Hangman's Daughter series since I found it on Kindle Unlimited. edit: fixing a formatting mistake | I just saw a trailer for a TV show based on **The Man In The High Castle**. It's an Amazon production and it looked pretty sweet. I might have to check out the book now. |
5,181 | I've never seen someone who was morally opposed to not being an asshole. | I'm morally opposed to censorship, that includes being pressured to self-censor myself. |
5,182 | Speaking of Peter Gabriel, [Mercy Street] about the poet Anne Sexton, is a pretty sad song. | Mercy Street is one of my favorites of his. |
5,183 | Im super impressed at the design they must have used on the flat field to make the perspective pretty undistorted. | I agree that the effective way they corrected for the camera perspective is very impressive. I think even if done normally the result would still be impressive, but the perspective correction takes it to another level. |
5,184 | Hint for the people who are asking themselves: "Why don't we build these everywhere"? This process is well known as carbon capture and requires a shit ton of energy. It literally turns CO2 into coal. How much energy? About 50% more than is created by burning the same amount of coal. | I presume these would survive off the grid, which means they could be placed in high-sun areas without worrying about attaching them to anything. Just set-and-forget, for the most part? |
5,185 | I only played an hour of the presequel. Haven't discovered crappiness yet...care to expand on your critique? | its not crap it just isnt BL2 which was hilarious and incredible in every way so it gets shit on by people who cant separate the two. |
5,186 | I'm not surprised these exist at all. What I think I will end up doing is going out of my way to find a car with an 8-track deck for him when he's old enough to drive. yeah, that's 12 years from now. that'll show him, if he really pisses me off :) | "Cool you put a NES in my car, wheres the TV?" |
5,187 | Every time I order no-name batteries, their capacity sucks. I'm normally all about the frugality, but I'll stick to Energizer, Duracell, and AmazonBasics for my batteries. | Hearing aid batteries I ordered from ebay were decent brand. Father told capacity was very similar to any other brands he had bought. |
5,188 | That isn't consistent with the reason they all have to the "kicker" at the same time. | Well given that the person who was previously dreaming the level above is now awake, how do you propose someone goes back up to that level? It is probably a special case when one person gets stuck in a level below a dream that has since ended, they automatically get sent to whatever the top dream is, or reality. It seems pretty clear to me that you can't re-enter a dream that is no longer being dreamt. |
5,189 | Lol. That's been known for years. It's been part of the certification process for a while. If you want play certification you have to make only devices getting the play store or you can just make devices that don't have it. It's one or the other not both. | And? They got fined because that's not ok. Having "been that way for years" changes nothing. They have no place telling OEMs that it's playstore or nothing. |
5,190 | You do us a great service. We shall upvote you to the heavens! | Edit: I had to make it a pair. Slow night. |
5,191 | Alone. The Universe represents and almost endless number amount of opportunity. If we are the best it could do that would be incredibly sad. | It would raise so many philosophical questions if we were alone. It would make me feel like being alone in a dark forest, with nothing but forest for thousands of miles. |
5,192 | Paolini is a great author for how young he was when he started, but I think the hate comes from the fact that it didnt seem like he had a great end goal for the novels. Eragon and Eldest were good, but the final book, and to some extent the third as well, were basically big deus ex machinas. I think he had break out success with the first book and was prepared for the pressure that came with finishing them. The magic system became too much of a crutch by the end and the conflict didnt seem that engaging. Hopefully the new book shows he's matured a bit as a writer and the characters aren't so one dimensional. At least that's my opinion. | That was certainly my big issue with it being that his end plan was super weak. I loved the first three books enough to devour the fourth in three days when it came out, and was utterly disappointed. There was something fundamentally wrong in that the climax was only a little over halfway through that book, from what I remember. You shouldn’t need an additional 100-200 pages just to resolve everything after the excitement is over, and I didn’t even consider it a satisfying end when I read it. |
5,193 | 8mm 2. I watched it with my friends as teenagers in 06 and still to this day I refer it as the worst film I ever saw. Nothing related with the source materials but the title, bad writing and terrible ending. | They made a sequel? !? Also, that is a terrible name for a movie. It is just a string of numbers and letters. |
5,194 | I think they do dis-service when they use the term "vacuum tubes", because it's obviously not accurate. They are still planning on "near zero pressure". Which is exactly what was in the original design. Getting a perfect vacuum is incredibly difficult, but getting "low pressure close to vacuum" is relatively simple. The press calling it a vacuum-tube-train is spreading bad information. But I guess it makes for a good headline. | If you know how to make a perfect vacuum we could write a fun paper on thin film formation :P |
5,195 | 90% of non-metered parking spots on the street in Boston are for Residents only. They do this all the time. [Here's an example]@42.3771258,-71.0639874,3a,75y,48.92h,79.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxaMGn9YaG0UjFExie1k7zw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) on google maps with a doggo thrown in in for good luck. This is Charlestown just outside Boston proper and it is 8am to 8pm to keep people from using Charlestown for free parking during the day. | It’s admittedly not super relevant, but Charlestown is part of “Boston proper”, as it’s within Boston city limits Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville - those are just outside of Boston proper. |
5,196 | "I'm not saying that was OK." -- Guy meming about how that was OK. This has nothing to do with security. We are *stealing children.* We're not even tracking whose children they are. Fuck you for pretending there any way to defend this. | Bruh I agreed with you on something, just take it ok? |
5,197 | I'm hoping the success of American Gods leads to another go at doing a TV show of Neverwhere. | Maybe, but first we're getting Good Omens with a screenplay by Gaiman himself. |
5,198 | Not so much a life changer though. I was thinking more of mental perception and how we think. Like deductive thinking, compartmentalizing, perceiving other cultures/things/groups. The ones on that thread are very good but I dunno if it would change how I think. | In the way your talking, the book that most fits this is the first collection of Lovecraft I read, predominantly The Outsider, Rats in the Walls, etc. Paired with allot of the letters Lovecraft wrote. I read these when I was young and first started forming my own opinions and I was falling into a depression over my doubts in religion and meaning. And in a strange way this pulled me out of it, helped with my understanding of the world and love of its mysteries. Though I did end up completely falling from religion, it strangely helped guide me in a much more mentally healthy direction. Which in itself is particularly funny if you know anything of Lovecraft. |
5,199 | Ya I've always thought Jemaine was more of the comedian (shown by his career after FotC), and Bret was the mind behind the music itself. And then they come together like chocolate and peanut butter | >And then they come together like chocolate and peanut butter. |
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