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Deal-maker if you ask me. Just not into this shaved-like-a-little-girl thing that seems to be half the porn out there (are real girls like that now? I'm attached and out of the game, and I only ever dated awesome hippie girls who didn't shave).
Do I look like a little boy because I shave my face?
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Yep. The [Kowloon Walled City] part of Hong Kong, to be specific.
Not really though, the Walled City is way denser than anything in the movie, even if it's a general inspiration for all things cyberpunk.
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I'm a little disappointed in the price point if this is accurate. It'd put it around $500-$600 if the estimate for the PC is accurate. I think that will put it out of a lot of people's budgets. I could be completely wrong, but it's certainly pushing my budget for a first generation device.
I wouldn't expect Rift to ever be priced much differently from an upper range phone or tablet. The guts are comparable, and even mass production won't push the costs down an awful lot.
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Would you mind recommending me a book? I just finished house of leaves, enders game, and hitch hikers guide. enjoyed them all.
Try reading some Asimov short stories, Nightfall is often considered one of his best, though I think there are different versions, so research it first. I personally like The Last Question, it's short and deals with some pretty big philosophical elements in a quick and easy read. I also like Arthur C. Clarke. His stories are plenty easy to read. Childhood's End is really good and deals with many of the same philosophical topics that Asimov does. And of course you can't forget 2001 if you haven't read that. The sequels he wrote are good too: 2010, 2061, and my personal favorite 3001 are also fun reads.
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I have the official tab/piano book and it's written out in 4/4.
As I said, you can write it out in any time signature that you want. 4/4 is probably the most common and easiest time-signature to read, so it would make sense that they would write it out that way. The notes don't really appear to fit into the bars properly, though, do they? There's lots of dotted rhythms and ties carrying over the bar line all the time? Exactly.
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I think people just read it to appear cultured or brag that they read it. It's not good. Just because it's old and important doesn't mean we have to pretend.
Don't say things like this, it's very silly of you. I read Ulysses and I adore it; it's my favourite book of all time. I think it's technically astounding, emotionally hard-hitting, intelligent, funny, creative and, above all, beautiful. I loved getting lost in it, making a project out of reading each episode. It totally changed how I think about literature and writing. Best part is, countless other people have felt the same way as I do. If they hadn't, it wouldn't have ever become "important", unless you're suggesting that literally every person who ever loved it, praised it, changed the way they wrote because of it was lying.
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I'm going to guess that if you want to reliably hack these things, you'd need to actually board them and have physical access to the computers: this would require expertise the majority of Somalis don't have.
If one person can control them remotely, so can another. The only way to 100% prevent remote access is a closed local system.
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It's not idiotic because RT's ratings are not scaled like Metacritic's. RT is "the *fraction of critics* who liked the movie". Metacritic is "*how much* critics liked the movie".
Metacritic is both. If the fraction of the critics who liked it is high, and they liked it a lot, it gets a really high score. The score is lower if one of those things isn't true. The score is *really* low if both of those things aren't true. I find it much more helpful as a consumer to prioritize what I should and should not go out of my way to see.
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You're correct in your assumption. Jurassic World is the worst movie *I've* seen in the last decade.
Come on, JP3 was worse. "Oh I hope they don't nest in Oklahoma, hurr durr". So much b.s. was crammed into that movie. I agree JW was dull and had Jimmy Fallon in it, but it wasn't that bad - you could watch it atleast once. Edit: Grammar derp
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Then why are reviews for Deadpool and The Dark Knight so good?
Deadpool got good reviews for being sex positive and featuring strong girl characters... or maybe it was just great. I honestly haven't seen that one yet. And The Dark Knight predates Disney/Marvel dominance, though honestly I think those movies are overrated. I thought the third one sucked.
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This is false. Salts are critical regardless of hash function. Because many people use the same password, it's possible to make an educated guess based on frequency of a certain hash in the leaked list.
In that case salts also don't cut it. You can just use each hash's salt and brute-force the hash with 100 most common passwords.
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In the small chance you're not trolling; she was the only (current) A-lister in the movie at the time. The audience went in thinking she was the star and she was also top billed. It was a huge shock when she died.
Right, but that's not a lead character. It's just not, and I see now that that's what OP has in mind, but lead character has a definition, and Drew Barrymore in Scream is not it.
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*American Pie* is in a similar situation... It was the last time gen x could connect with borderline millennials. Jim masturbating to scrambled cable porn ~~in the living room~~ when there is a computer with internet access in his room is going to confuse more and more people as the years wear on.
Unless you were in his shoes at the time. Living at home with parents, I worried if I looked up porn on the internet that they'd see it on the bill or something. I didn't fully understand how internet history worked or the bills for that matter, so I just assumed big bold letters stating "PORN" would show up in the mail with the bills.
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If only the new one had even a modicum of character development. I honestly didn't care if any of those mother fuckers died. Oh, max is swinging from a pole... um, who cares...
Max was largely just a passenger to the story, real hero is Nux for sure.
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The Giver by Lois Lowry. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (very popular right now, more classic) The Road by Cormac McCarthy (end of days type ) Blindness by José Saramago (kinda graphic as a heads up) Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (older, one of the first but still good)
If you're going with Cormac McCarthy, I might start with No Country for Old Men!
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Clariel seemed really out of place. There were a lot of cool parts but overall it was very disappointing.
I feel like Nix was struggling to create a character who was sympathetic, yet would still end up on Clariel's path like we know she has to do.
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This is a weak excuse. Why can't the iPhone 7 plus fit a 3.5 mm plug?
Don't ask me, I'm not apple. I said it may be dumb.
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> Although this editorial focuses on 3rd party sellers using Amazon as a platform to sell books, huh?
IMO a main theme is the authors being annoyed that bookstores are being undercut by the fact that Amazon built a platform that makes it so anyone can open a bookstore from their living room. Better?
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Can anyone explain the differences between the two cuts besides the overture and the intermission?
The Roadshow had about 6 mins of extra footage I think.
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So in the time since 10000 Days I’ve ditched all my CD players. I know Tool isn’t much for digital downloads. Do you think I’ll really need a new CD player to listen to the new album when it comes out?
I would guess not. They would be losing a ton of potential sales by refusing to release digital. And I'd guess there's no way the record label would go for that.
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I wonder how many millions of dollars is spent annually on such work. It can't be cheap to employ an army of computer animators to painstakingly remove those from every single frame with seamless photo-realism.
Pretty sure a make up artist will do it, and do it in no time at all. This dude has every part of his body tattoo'd including his face and head. They covered every bit of it with make up.
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Hell, 500GB drives can be had for around $140 if you're patient for a good sale. They'll be stopping production on drives under 100GB soon.
Seeing 128s at 40 says their days are numbered too
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Do many people still use that software? I haven't heard it mentioned in years.
It's still used here and there on college campuses, especially where they limit traffic outside of the school's network. Since DC++ is purely P2P all of its traffic flows like a giant LAN between on-campus internet connections and students can upload and download at crazy fast speeds. I remember using it back in 2007 to download entire HD movies in a few minutes. I thought it was witchcraft.
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She is so much more than just a music maker. If she has acting abilities, I would love to see her in movies and with her own tv show.
I'd pay to see her in some hard core porn.
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Hey there. I'm just letting you know I've removed this post as per the politics rule in the sidebar. Political posts (including those on public policy issues such as net neutrality) should be submitted to other subreddits (/r/politics, /r/politicaltech, /r/technews, etc). Within /r/tech, we're currently confining political/legal discussion to weekly megathreads.
Okay, thanks for the message. I forgot politics was not allowed.
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More like Mayers keeping spending what Yahoo can't afford buying existing services in order to stay relevant. And anyone smart would've axed a lot of dead weight services and subsites of zero value. Google did it for even big ones, and they're not worse off.
It's bizarre to me that they didn't stay with Yahoo 360°. It was in direct competition with Myspace and it functioned so much better, with cleaner and easier interfaces. I imagine that if they stuck with it, it could have taken the massive migration off Myspace that would happen 3-4 years later and be a Social Networking giant Facebook is.
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So basically, you're giving up on a series because the author is taking his time to write good, decent material rather than just rushing to get it out to meet your personal desire to read it? Jeez, learn some freaking patience. We all want to carry on reading, but I'd much rather have a quality, skill fully written read that takes George a long time to write than a poorly rushed load of drivel released simply to have a book on a shelf.
No. I gave up on the series because the last two books were mediocre and it been over 5 years. If the last two books were decent and we all knew he wasn't working on HBO scripts, it would have been acceptable. But to make fans wait this long, IMO, it's a slap in the face to the people who got him noticed by HBO in the first place...the fans who read. Hey...that was my opinion not fact so don't take it personal unless your George...then take it very personal.
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I have read thousands upon thousands of pages of King. I felt I had earned the right to be called Constant Reader. But I have not yet read Misery. Shame on me.
Ugh same. Must’ve read something like 10-15 SK books and not Misery yet. He has SO MUCH MATERIAL though I always get confused and buy whatever book is on sale or something haha
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It's been a while since I read it, but: people react differently to the same stimuli, and the loss could've unhinged a person enough that every new experience is seen through different pair of eyes, worsening her state as every new experience progresses, like an air intake system that sucked a shard of glass which cut a tear in the hose. It will keep sucking, but it's not the same system anymore from that point onwards. Instead of happily sucking away at the air, the tear will worsen as it keeps puffing, air will escape and eventually it will become of no use anymore.
Wow.That is a really good way of looking it. Now that you mentioned it that way, it makes sense.
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>It's bad enough that Google has my search history. So turn it off...
And you really think that means they'll never ever save it?
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Because hundreds of years of history in the idea of the Library should totally just be ended so some more authors can get bigger royalty checks. Not cool Salamanca.
Allow me to play devil's advocate for a moment: Given the current state of intellectual property as a whole (music in particular, but also applying to films, video games, etc.), Salamanca's camp raises a strong argument. Fundamentally, media is media, and it's rather unfair to authors that they're being discriminated against financially because of their chosen medium. Shouldn't authors be entitled to the same sort of financial tail for a work that musicians and filmmakers have? (That said, I'd much rather live in a world where the opposite was true, and all media was available through library-like systems. And while I'm dreaming, I'd like a pony.)
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What's been the most rewarding or surprising aspect of writing this book, and also the previous books? How do you feel your method and mindset has changed in the move from Belle to Brooke?
Finishing a manuscript whatever it is, is always the most rewarding part. But it surprised me to discover how deep I could go on things with this book. When I wrote the Belle books, I couldn't write too much of my other life - rowing, kayaking, whisky, Florida - so it's such fun to play with all that, to get it out on the page. My mindset these days is probably more a function of getting older than of having a different face to the world. Brooke puts up with less shit, but I'm also able to wear my heart on my sleeve a little more, too.
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> Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, by Errol Fuller. Sounds great.. I really like reading about subjects like this one. But can you please do me a favour? When you finish the book, can you please let me know if this book has engaging and beautiful prose? i like reading books about the environment that engage the reader and simply not dump information at him. So, if this book is not such a one, I would really like to pick it up in the future. Would be a great help.. Thanks in advance.. Happy Reading :)
It's definitely an information dump. I felt the pictures made it worth it though because the text was actually fairly short.
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So the muslim way to take an eye for an eye?
I guess, yes. They slashed him to pieces so they got slashed to pieces ?
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You're also not a human, if your username is accurate
Fair comment, my username surely should have more enlightenment than you might ever have the capacity to comprehend, right. Definitely human btw, in this level of (what seems to me) existential consciousness anyway!
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You have ignored that the OP made a tongue-in-cheek remark of people complaining that it's expensive because it's new.
The way I read his remark is that the new way of doing it is more expensive and not better than the current way. That isn't accurate.
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What do you want me to do, just list a whole bunch of artists right here? Are you going to accuse me of getting it off of wikipedia? Consider me adding this to the list. Prurient. Kevin Drumm. Oval. Bull Of Heaven. Whitehouse. Pan Sonic. Fuck yeah i'm counting the solo careers of both members as separate artists. Alva Noto. Ryoji Ikeda. Negativland (while we're talking about sound collage) Janek Schaefer. Tribes Of Neurot (neurosis' side dark ambient experiments) Francisco Lopez. CM Von Hausswolff. Terrorfakt. Masonna. Wolf Eyes. Geoff Mullen. Good enough?
>What do you want me to do, HINT: The purpose of this thread is listed at the top of this webpage. And no, it isn't "list all the artists you thought you were deep for listening to at 14."
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Yea it depends on the gear you put it through. I have a pair of bose over the ear Headphones. I bought the .wav files. I still wonder if my headphones can help hear the difference between .wav and mp3
Probably not the Bose, they muddy stuff up quite a bit. The over-ear ones aren't the worst though. Definitely depends on the gear though, you're right. With my studio AT cans (which are almost *too* accurate and revealing) and a good USB DAC I've found myself sticking to my lossless playlist just because it sounds so sweet. mp3's are generally still good, it's just that the originals are actually noticeably better.
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My body is ready! I thought that Cosmic Egg was amazing. IMO better than the self titled which I thought was close to perfect... Cannot wait for this!
I thought cosmic egg was the first album and i loved it. I'll have to get the first now.
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I love what you said about classics. I have respect for all the great, traditional classics, but that does not mean I am forced to read or enjoy any whose plot does not interest me or which book itself I do not like. Case in point - I have heard nothing but wide praise about Crime and Punishment; however, I loathed that book my senior year in high school and only read 1/3. I am a big reader, and I have still found the “great” books that I was forced to read but didn’t finish are the ones I just did not care for. No book is for everyone. To each his/her own.
I sometimes think that this insistence on reading the classics (or so called classics) is nothing more than snobism and trying to appear educated and sophisticated. I for example don't care much for Dostoyevsky or Gogol? Does that make me a philistine? No, but it isn't hard to find people who would say yes and looked down on me for enjoying LeGuin or Tolkien. ​ One should read what one likes as life is too short to care about pleasing others I would say.
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> even if Chrome and Firefox support the DRM "standard" They don't, though. Both Chrome and Firefox contain DRM modules for video streaming, but [Microsoft's] is (apparently) the only one that checks all the boxes required by the content owners.
Ok I can see that I haven't been as clear as I should be. I guess I should reword this part of my argument, even for people using windows 10 and the Edge browser there is nobody who can watch these videos right now because it requires the Intel generation that just now started shipping to manufacturers and will only soon be coming out in finished consumer products. My argument is that this is a ridiculous requirement from content holders because not only have they limited the browser/OS combination extremely, but they've limited the hardware to the point where literally 0% of current customers meet that most basic requirement.
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It is 100% disgusting. Doesn't help when Mr. Pence can't even explain his point to George Stephanopoulos. See interview here:
The thing is that he can't, but he simply refuses to otherwise he'll end up revealing the bigot he is.
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I hated that book, too. I thought I was the only one! The romance was a huge disappointment, I thought it was kind of creepy.
Definitely creepy. [Spoiler](/s "There's just no reason for her to like him; it's Stockholm Syndrome. He is never nice to her, and she just gets horny for him after doing magic together. It came off so weird. Not to mention she's a child, and he's a hundred something. Also, the book never gives a reason why he only takes young girls, which really soured the book for me even more.")
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They're very good but in my opinion the third book ended the trilogy when it should have been just the first arc of an epic fantasy series. There were so many interesting concepts that were about to be flushed out and then it just ends. So like 9 out of 10 for the first 2 and a half books, and a giant negative 5000 for the last bit/ending it when it did.
He is currently writing another series in the same setting but a different part of the world, it is suggested that some concepts only slightly developed in powder mage will be involved in this. These books were outstanding though, I loved the magic system a lot.
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That is what many people liked about it though, a lot of rock music was disappearing up its own arse of hair metal and ridiculous guitar solos. True many bands just went "grunge" for the sake of it, but it brought things back down to reality. Like the second coming of punk in many ways.
While I agree I feel that GnR was influencing the LA Sound greatly and more bluesy harder rock bands were just starting to appear like the black crows. Then Nirvana blew up and that was all over suddenly. I like some of the hair bands though mostly because the first band I loved was kiss and many LA bands were heavily influenced by kiss. I can still remember being on the school bus the first time I heard Smells like teen spirit. All the metal kids were like wtf is this slow melodic crap then the chorus hit and suddenly we were all head banging and praising this wonderful new sound.
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I used to think he was funny, but after watching Religulous I realized he's just an asshole. I'm not religious, but when a guy he was talking to said he couldn't wait to go to heaven and Bill's response was "then why don't you kill yourself?", I had to stop watching.
Yikes. I've never seen that, but that sounds like a an absolutely horrific response!
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You prefer to read stuff on your *phone* than on an e-ink? \*shudder\* Ah well, to each their own. Don't toss it away though, sell it for cheap or give it away to someone who'll use it. You're unlikely to be able to do much with it, though. Kindles have been hacked to do other things, but they're well documented and software is easily available. Everything else, not so much.
Would be a shame to throw it away, that's why I hoped, it can be for use.. This thingy is ridiculously slow. And an *ebook-reader* that needs 2 minutes to open a single book, is not the best thing, to read on. And no money for a faster reader^^
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I agree, but I don't want to miss out either. I'm willing to put up with 100 bad pages to read 600+ more good pages after it.
The early part of A Game Of Thrones is slow, but it does pick up, particularly once focus shifts to Kings Landing. A Clash Of Kings is brilliant. I'm on A Storm Of Swords, and I have gone through the first 250 pages in the past few days.
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When I'm alone... I like to read out loud. I only read the dialogue parts though, and make different voices and inflections for each person. I add laughs and giggles here and there, and pretty much act out the scene for myself. I actually look forward to this when I know I will get a chance to read home alone.
I find this especially helpful for poetry! I read Seamus Heaney's *Beowulf* out loud, and it changed the whole poem for me.
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Also I think people who usually upgrade biannually are taking a second look as prices have climbed to higher end PC territory.
Exactly. I'm not buying a phone that costs more than my laptop. I don't need the latest and greatest, I just need something that functions well enough. There is no significant benefit that I can see to having a brand new $800 phone vs my old one I'm currently typing this on. Both run reddit, snapchat, spotify, and anything else I need. Sure the new one might be faster but not $800 faster. I would happily drop that much more on a pc because I could get a higher end gpu or cpu, increasing the machines capability to run the latest games or CAD software. I don't see any value in having snapchat load 2 seconds faster.
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Yeah. I saw RBF and Streetlight a few years ago at Warped Tour. Always have had a good experience with RBF. Such a fun band live.
I saw streetlight at warped as well. I'm really upset they never come to Texas though. I have to see them play the newer album live.
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Into Thin Air by John Krakauer is one of my very favorite books. Highly recommend that one if you haven’t read it and like his writing!!
I bought *Into Thin Air* in a tiny bookstore in Kathmandu and finished it in the Nepali mountains at about 17k feet. It was an incredible reading experience [in that setting] When I finished it I signed it and left it for the next person. The altitude did a number on the pen and it pretty much exploded all over the page... I wonder where that book is now.
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I didn't find Crime and Punishment too difficult. Granted, it's been a while, but the fact that it centers around one character makes it easier, in my opinion, than Brothers Karamazov. I still haven't finished Karamazov. Tried three times. It's fantastic, but I'm always tempted away by another quicker read.
War and peace is just really easy to read compared to other Russian classics.
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I think they look pretty cool, and are infinitely better than, and pretty much the exact opposite of, the quick cuts and shakey cam that was used a lot in mainstream cinema for awhile. Quantum of Solace, to stay in the Bond catalogue.
But atleast something was happening in them. This is a novelty scene of Daneil Craig walking around for a couple minutes
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Awesome that you're on Reddit. My grandfather is 87 and has never owned a computer.
This laptop was a gift from my Grandson, when I moved into the old farts home. It (the computer) was scary at first. A lot of buttons to push, and so much trouble I could cause. The folks here will sometimes help me get started. My Great Granddaughter (Sarah) made this account for me. We Reddit together. *Mostly I tell her what I want to say, and she puts the words on the screen for me. It's time to say goodbye for now. Have a happy day!
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no body use hangout in the world............(well i admit i dunno bout us) wasnt if you want to use hangout,u have to exchange the gmail first?
Wasn't if you want to exchange messages on any platform whatsoever you have to exchange handles?
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This should probably put to bed the idea that the DC movies are entirely a Zack Snyder problem.
Nope, he was still a executive producer. Theory still stands. /s. I do however think he is part of the problem, but only when left unchecked. Edit:That first sentence was sarcasm, just forgot to add the /s at the end
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If there was ever a movie where it's ok to read the book first and not ruin the movie, it's this one because they have all the parts plus a ton of extra from other stories. It would probably feel like the super extended version of the book.
I have read the book, I just didn't want to do a refresher right before the movie. Kinda let the movie stand on it's own legs.
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Funny enough those are both reoccurring themes in Tim Burton movies as well. I've heard Anderson described as "Burton but with less twisted and more talent." and this statement is a good example of it.
Hmm, I don't know. I'd say that Tim Burton is more like Terry Gilliam - visually very inventive, but they often have no idea how to tell a story with any sort of momentum or really build characters, so their films are just a bunch of interesting things in a row. Wes, on the other hand, is a killer writer and actually backs up his visual skill with something.
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One is consented to, the other is not. It matters.
So if I masturbate to a photo a girl didn't expect me to see it's basically rape, but if I masturbate to a photo some girl posts on Facebook it's not? On top of that, how do I know that the photo spread in maxim implies hir consent for me to masturbate to it? Another question: do I honestly *need* consent to masturbate to someone? Regardless if there even are naked pictures of someone I'm going to imagine them naked.
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So for decades the publishers refuse to publish all kinds of books, but Amazon who allows everyone to self publish is evil?
Amazing that that hasn't occurred to them, right? Whether through blog, ebook, or YouTube, it's easier than ever to get your voice out there. I think a lot of these authors who are a part of this movement just don't see self-publishing as a legitimate thing worth taking note of.
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I think you're seeing things heavily tinged by nostalgia. There's a huge amount of good music today, and just as much bad music as there was in the 90's. The past wasn't all led zepplin and beatles man
The 90's was just a bunch of post-Nirvana, pre-Nickleback garbage. Lots of one hit wonders and unimpressive, plain alternative rock songs. Smashing Pumpkins was just Billy Corgan trying to be Nirvana so he could try and get Courtney Love's pussy back. Nirvana & Radiohead are the only shit that matters from the 90's
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This is a possibility, but it'll probably stir up enough drama on other subs that people will hear of it via other means and /r/technology will eventually lose users.
Except pretty much all the drama is relegated to the meta subs which people there would have likely already known about the goings-on of /r/technology for months. It's not like when the migration of /r/trees happens when we had less strict moderation across the site and a general catch all subreddit for all topics.
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reading the dictionary is not uncommon. or maybe, not unknown, is more like it. the OED is a pretty fascinating thing to leaf through.
Of course. But I might recommend different books or different dictionaries if OP was interested in etymology or disused words rather than, say, expanding their vocabulary.
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Maybe an unpopular position, but I think they have consistently gotten worse since jam. I though mpp was a step back.
You cannot say this is worse than CHz... or Gotham
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Tom Hardy and Chris Pine are playing spies together in the Jack Ryan universe. They want Hardy for the lead in this
Didn't they BOTH star in a spy movie with Resse what's her face? It flopped.
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So in some cases of addiction, just using them will keep you alive?
I guess technically yes but i think the idea is that if you want to quit it then it is better to wean yourself off rather than quit cold turkey
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Noonan can't hold a howitzer. Judge Holden is a beast, not a tall skinny guy.
Yeah. He's essentially the Kingpin in Spider-Man. At least that's the image I portray him as in my head. He's huge all around
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I still reread the series every once in a while as an adult.
And it makes you want to eat cracklings, right? I freely admit I'll never treasured a sweet the way Laura does.
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You're sure fighting hard to support Xerox on this. Do you work for them? Should I RES-tag you as a xerox employee?
I don't work for them anymore. I also don't agree with region locking, but I had nothing to do with that side of the operation. I do agree that a company should be able to make sure the supplies that go into their machine will not create a sub standard image or wreck the machine.
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It was completely designed to be inserted into a trailer to get people to go and see the movie. It just felt so awkward in the actual film, the camera hovered on her for just a bit too long and all in all it was completely forced.
There's a half-second of something sexy in a lot trailers... even if the scene in the movie is not sexy at all.
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Fun Fact; my uncle and grandfather built a Family Truckster and it was featured in a Super Bowl Commercial :)
Fun fact: I want to take a shower with Beverly D'angelo.
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Wanna see impressive, make one of those for all the Pixar movies. Now that is impressive.
Yeah, until you get to Cars 2, but nonetheless their movies are fantastic
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It reads like a novel with really, *really* long descriptions. Keep in mind that although it's a "true crime" piece, Capote didn't take notes during his interviews and claimed he had something like 96% total recall that he used to write his quotations and, well, the entire book. The surviving Clutter daughters have also said that the book definitely doesn't represent their family in an accurate light. It's an interesting read but just remember to take it with a grain of salt. :)
Yes, as the [Wall Street Journal] reported a few years ago, Capote fictionalized important parts of the book. When you add fiction to nonfiction, what you get is fiction.
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Adding a 74% service fee.... shouldn't those tickets be delivered by the performers? and come with autographed photos?
Where I live, there is a (mildly) popular band, and whenever they have a hometown show, they hand deliver tickets to anyone within a 50(?) mile radius. I know it is a pretty large radius, not sure about 50.
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Why pirate something when you could go and support it? Good films deserve support.
There should be an external post for these sort of topics that pop up in the comments EVERY TIME.
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Great comment, it's super to see someone on the right explaining perfectly reasonably why they enjoy Waters' music despite his very clear political stance. Unfortunately, I'm still none the wiser about why people would be surprised by it and walk out of his concert because of it though.
I equate that to someone being offended and walking out of a Slayer concert because they use pentagrams and anti-Christian lyrics and imagery know their songs. That being said, I would undoubtedly pay a large sum of money to see Pink Floyd in concert. So if Roger is reading this, please put together a reunion tour for the US and make the ticket buying site better than the one Metallica used.
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Do you have someone is prison or do you know someone in it? I can't figure out why you would feel bad for them
Because they're human beings who deserve a chance to do good for society.
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My fear isn't that it would encourage other journalist to start fabricating stories, but that good journalist won't be believed because of a few rotten eggs that aren't probably corroborating their stories.
I don't know about you, but i'm already there. Journalism has been a joke for awhile now.
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If not there are many chinese TV dramas of that. It is by far my favorite TV series. My got it for me when she went to China. There are a few different remakes of it from TVB.
Seconding this to say that I've watched the 1983 rendition of Legend of the Condor Heroes from start to finish around 30 times now (and that's a modest estimate). Jin Yong's masterful storytelling is really well translated in that version; you almost ignore the horrific special effects and set design because the acting and story is so immersive.
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I think that just serves the point though that people are empowered to affect change in theory, but so long as we're all comfortable, no one really sees fit to do anything. SOPA/PIPA/ACTA are the exceptions that prove the rule. For the most part, people are kept powerless by being kept content and distracted.
>For the most part, people are kept powerless by being kept content and distracted. Could you give me some examples?
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I assume you live in the Middle East? We have to wait until August 16th. The bitch of it is, I live in Omaha usually but I'm visiting my family for Ramadan. To be honest, I don't mind the actual wait, I'm just terrified that it will be spoiled for me in the four weeks that I have to get through after everyone else and their mother has seen it. I mean, I can't avoid the internet for an entire month, right? Especially since I'm in Saudi.
Damn man. Is Ramadan happening already? When did it start!?
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Before this recent album I think only a handful of people could name them. Which is a real shame, their first 2 albums are solid gold from start to finish.
Right, everyone saying they are super popular and what not, that is only EXTEMELY recently. I listened to them back in 2004 when they only had a few eps out and I'm happy they're finally getting recognized for what is definitely a great song, but everyone should check out their older stuff. Great work.
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It depends on where you live. Complying with global privacy laws is nightmarishly difficult. If you're outside of the EU \(or Australia and a few others\) having it pre\-checked is fine.
How is not making a series of creepy decisions about how to handle customer data nightmarishly difficult. Is it really so difficult not to bulk mail my email address to strangers? Is it really so difficult to not track me and not sell my data to third parties? I think for most companies, nightmarishly difficult translates to not as profitable.
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Yes but it seems there could be consumer versions designed for plastics and wood and excluding metal the same way consumer 3d printers cut corners on extrusion ability and detail.
There are no customers for this and suppliers have no reason to try to start the market up.
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Ironic that you say that, as sexualization of her basically drove Lewis Caroll to write.
There's not actually any evidence of that at all. Some guy came up with the "Lewis Carrol was a pedophile" meme and everyone repeated it because they thought it made them sound in-the-know. It was based on the fact that he took naked photos of children, but back then taking naked photos of children was basically what taking photos of your sandwich and posting it on Instagram is today: the new, cool thing to do. It wasn't sexualized at all.
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The music business has always been a popularity contest. It’s a *business*.
Vinyl is just a trend for people to show other people they're truly interested in music. Music doesn't automatically sound better on vinyl, there are certain rules that need to be followed, for example, if you try to fit too much "information" on one side, you're going to lose fidelity and then you'd be better off going digital. 45s ALWAYS sound great because an entire side of the record is dedicated to a single song.
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You know what happens when I don't have access to a movie until a month-plus after its release? I completely forget that it exists. I would love to tell these studios how many movies I've remembered to watch solely because I had saved them in my Netflix queue pre-release. Never would have remembered to rent, let alone buy them otherwise.
>I completely forget that it exists. Same here, plus new movies come out so fast anymore it's usually been out for well over a month before realize.
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I don't think Foundation is pro one really big government. The Empire fails, psychohistory leads to a quicker end to the barbarism, not necessarily to the second Empire (regardless of what Foundationers think). If anything, the takeaway at the end of the whole series is people will never get along unless they are literally all one connected organism. Both series' made me think.
There is no indication Seldon knew of Galactica, for the first set of books it doesn't come up - it spends a lot of time hyping the second foundation. The second empire would have allowed us to get along but our development would stagnate. I took it that the second empire would work it just wouldn't go anywhere.
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What kind of a jackass uses a wired keyboard and mouse with a htpc?
well tbh I do. I have one hooked up when I'm near the tv, its just faster and easier and if I just have my phone I use unified remote, and if I have my laptop I just use vnc.
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I'm just gonna [leave this here] for you to enjoy. Check out his other videos too, the Mad Max one is grrrreeeeat.
i didn't nitpick anything, the problem I had with it was the entire essence of the character/movie. Cliff was a pussy.
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Well, they probably won't be allowed where I live. Specifically, they aren't allowed within 34 miles (30 nautical miles) of the US capitol (under 18k feet) according to the following "Notice to Airmen" (NOTAM): > THE FOLLOWING OPERATIONS ARE NOT AUTHORIZED WITHIN THE DC FRZ: FLIGHT TRAINING, AEROBATIC FLIGHT, PRACTICE INSTRUMENT APPROACHES, GLIDER OPERATIONS, PARACHUTE OPERATIONS, ULTRA LIGHT, HANG GLIDING, BALLOON OPERATIONS, TETHERED BALLOONS, AGRICULTURE/CROP DUSTING, ANIMAL POPULATION CONTROL FLIGHT OPERATIONS, BANNER TOWING OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE TEST FLIGHTS, MODEL AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS, MODEL ROCKETRY, FLOAT PLANE OPERATIONS, UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (UAS) AND AIRCRAFT/HELICOPTERS OPERATING FROM A SHIP OR PRIVATE/CORPORATE YACHT.
Also see the "Don't Fly Drones Here" map at:
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The original idea was that some things take a lot of effort to develop, but are easy to copy. If there were no protection, then nothing hard to develop would ever get made. No sense spending money on development if people are just going to immediately copy your final product, which they can then sell cheaper because they didn't pay for development. Of course, this made a lot more sense with physical things like an improved Diesel engine or when lasers were invented. Software patents are the real issue today, but that doesn't mean actual good patents don't get made. Patents are valid for 20 years; in some fields that's fine, but for software it's an eternity.
You forgot to mention that if Disney creates it, is it patented/copywriter for eternity!
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I love Faulkner but couldn't got past the halfway point in the book. I blame Benji. I also blame Faulkner's editor - apparently Faulkner wanted to color code the sections, but the editor didn't allow it. Source unconfirmed.
I think it was less that Faulkner's editor wouldn't allow it, and more that it wasn't economically feasible at the time. Either way, there are color coded super-special editions that you can buy today - albeit for prices well above $100.
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This applies to 99% of the books I read (mainly SF/F). I'm used to it.
I read mostly scifi and fantasy as well. What are some of your favourites? One book I quite like is [**Job: A Comedy of Justice** by Robert A. Heinlein] He's more famous for pretty much everything, including *Starship Troopers*. It's brilliant though. Like *A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* meets Terry Pratchett meets the Bible.
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This is IMO the most exciting announcement from the Apple reveal today. USB-C is really interesting, it'll open up the possibility to plug a smartphone into a monitor (USB-C to HDMI) and stream you display while charging your phone.
Wait.... you couldn't do this before? I'm not trying to brand bash, but I have been doing this for years on android. I usually torrent a movie using my phone and use the HDMI to plug into the tv and the charger as well. Is this what you mean, or am I just not getting it correctly?
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I watched it recently to see just how bad. TBH it's more boring than notably bad. But when you do start paying attention you'll wish you hadn't.
Even when something happens it's still boring. The fight scenes should be so cool.. what with people controlling water and Earth and shit... but no, it's just guys doing yoga while tiny little pebbles float gently through the air.
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It's because Sony sold exclusive rights to other distributors in other territories. The world is not one market. Especially when you consider there are almost no legitimate distribution services that operate globally. Until Netflix offers it's services in every part of the globe and acquires global rights to a picture, Sony have the right to be pissed off. But simultaneously Netflix aren't doing anything wrong.
Netflix contract says they cannot offer the content to subscribers which they don't have rights for (say non-US). Netflix is expected to use reasonable care to identify and not sell to those customers. And Sony doesn't feel they are. Technically, every time Netflix vends one of these movies to someone outside their rights area they *are* doing something wrong, under their contract.
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I swear I did have a laptop with an hdmi before DisplayPort was big.
I currently have a laptop with an HDMI and no displayport port. I didn't realize things have switched to primarily displayport now.
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if the vote had not been rigged, I might agree with you.
Our elections were rigged too, but even without the rigging, a nationalist sentiment would still triumph. How much percent of votes do you think they're able to steal? And what's easier? Stealing votes, or letting dumb people vote?