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yeah, all the older ones I know and like, Paul Simon or maybe even David Byrne are along the lines of what I'm looking for. A quick review of some Alabama shakes and Shannon & the Clams: cool style & sound. Pretty fun songs, but it doesn't really have the complex chords/harmonies I'm looking for.
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Yeah, sorry I overlooked your complexity requirement. I'm not at all astute on musical analysis. You need to talk to my musician nephew who was so obsessed with Pet Sounds that he laboriously transcribed every note, every chord, etc. in his spare time over a period of several weeks a few years ago. Does Lindsey Buckingham or Paula Cole maybe conform to your requirements?
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6,001 |
Im pretty sure banning books for PC reasons is [not] a new thing. Why does the long history of right leaning PC actions get a pass from the PC judgment?
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What does the "right" have anything to do with this? When you start banning American classics like Huck Fin over the premise of PC it turns into damn witch hunt. Whats next? Burning books?
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Hey Buddy! As rough as life got for you, I am very glad you made it through and kept pushing. Penelope and Momma are beautiful and it's great to see you happy. Do you feel that going back to your roots soundwise that it was easier to write than the change in sound of renacer and pull the thorns from your heart?
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Thank you very much. I think it was easier to write the heavier stuff because there are no rules. With this type of verse chorus stuff there are a lot of rules. Things need to be really impactful because there is so much repetition.
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6,003 |
This looks good, but I cant imagine how many Hollywood remakes this will get.
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hopefully none. unless our hero winds up in jail or the morgue during his travels
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6,004 |
Currently using Visual Studio 2013 ultimate, and I also get VS 2015 ultimate for free, but want some outside thoughts on it. [GO!]
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I'm enjoying 2015 so far. It offers many nice improvements over 2013, but nothing absolutely groundbreaking or required. They've made many improvements to the C++ compiler. It's still not as compliant as clang, but much improved over 2013. Codelens and the diagnostic tools are also quite useful. A minor fix that I appreciate is that the top menu is no longer in all caps. One oddity is that the installer is cluttered with many third party tools that are enabled by default, while C++ language support is not.
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That verse and Em's verse on Dead Wrong are my two favorites.
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There's several different levels to devil worshipping, horses heads, human sacrifices, cannibalism, candles and exorcism. Animals, having sex with em, camels mammals and rabbits, but I ain't into that, I kicked the habit.
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Metal is alright, like cookies, it is a sometimes sound for me. In saying that Nightwish are my favourite, so bands along that style get my interest. Also - Phil Anselmo is a legend!
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Well if you're into BabyMetal: [Blood Stain Child] & maybe [Maximum the Hormone] Honourable Mention: [Neurotech] Other, Symphonic-esque stuff... fuck, I have loads of this... [Therion] [Sonata Arctica] [Xerath] [Epica] [Kamelot] [In Legend] *Not Symphonic but pretty powerful... evokes the same feelings.
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Thanks for your reply. I was asking just because I've never been in a Tesla and the word "autopilot" suggested the system would take care of stopping/avoiding things.
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Autopilot in a plane doesn't do that either (it may do these days I suppose). It just maintains speed and altitude. The basic autopilot in the Tesla does a much harder job than a basic autopilot in a plane, because there's a lot more traffic a lot closer in to deal with. I agree the name could be a bit misleading to those who don't pay any attention to several pretty clear explanations. But I don't really want those people driving on the same roads as me.
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I went to a Billy Joel concert in the mid-90s, and even back then he explained to the audience that as he'd gotten older he'd gotten less able to hit the high notes of his older songs.
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I actually looked it up and the original is in C major. It would have been surprising for that kid to be able to transpose the whole song to a new key in his head on stage at a huge concert.
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Linux needs a normal desktop environment that doesn't suck. KDE was designed by a bunch of CS majors with ADHD. Gnome is so cancerous I had to lob off my hand after touching my mouse. MATE\Cinnamon is outdated and lacks features. Xfce\LXDE is barely passable if you spend a day editing text files. The only one I get along with is XMONAD but you get tired of it after a while
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Couldn't agree more. The lack of a "standard" desktop also means less tight integration between applications and the desktop. People can hate windows all they want, but the windows/shell API is really good in my opionion. How would you implement something like the jump lists or custom shell actions in an application if you don't even know which desktop you're running on half of the time?
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You are, of course, not referring to the Thrawn Trilogy. Cause if you are, you're wrong.
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Even the Thrawn trilogy, which was good, has bad stuff in it. Luuke? Really?
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There was just so much bad science. This statement is coming from a history major. Just want that to sink in. History major.
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I think you are missing the point. There are legitimate reasons to dislike the film, but I don't feel its scientific merits (or demerits) are one of them. Many examples of mainstream and niche science fiction are equally careless when it comes to telling a story. And yes, the "half a billion miles" bit is clearly just figurative considering the film states "3 x 10^14 miles (or is it km?) from Earth" near the beginning.
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Yes. His script for Interstellar was absolute genius before Christopher came in.
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Is there a spot I can read the original script?
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I wish that was a gif. Edit I'm saving this to,print on photo paper and have framed. I like it that much.
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It's from the shining. I think the bear is giving him a beej. In the book they go more in depth, but do you really watch the mummy 3 times a month? I think that's...well I don't know. Do people see you watching the mummy 3 times a month? How do they react?
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Did you miss [these?] You should under no circumstances, miss these. **NSFW** Edit. Fucked up syntax
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That, my friends, is a merkin. Also recently seen in Mildred Pierce, sported by Evan Rachel Wood. Nobody would have guessed 20 years ago that merkin maker would be a viable profession. (Merkinologist? Merkerdasher?)
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The link to the download from the above site is super slow. Other mirrors:
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If anyone downloads it, try using his official website first. I'm sure he gets some sort of royalties (pun not intended, of course) if you go there. At the very least, it gets traffic to his website.
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>But you should be aware of the reasons people dislike it. Why?
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So you can have an intelligent discussion about it. They didn't mean that while watching you need to acknowledge things others don't like.
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Musk has a long history of not making deadlines. Even if you ended up being right, they'd probably launch it and end up with an unserviceable issue
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He most definitely would launch with an unserviceable issue.... And then he would release another one 6 months later and rinse and repeat until he perfects the formula.
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The z-pinch was the hottest place in the known universe.
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It said on that page that other places, including the Large Hadron Collider, have produced higher temperatures.
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If you can afford this card, you can definitely afford cloud storage. And that's going to be more reliable than a card.
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I'd worry about the safety of my documents in cloud storage. It may be paranoid but it works for me. The 512 chips will be too slow for the price anyway. 3 more years and they'll have lightning fast tb SD cards. I'll stick with my passports and 8 more TB media on hard drives until then.
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i have wanted to see redemption a long time, but i wonder if it will be worth my time, i have heard it's not the standard jason statham movie
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Sorry for the late reply. Work and all that. But anyways, Redemption is a really good movie. And you could definitely say it's not one of his standard movies. It's more sad than action filled. There is plenty of action scenes but the tone is completely different than most of his other movies. Again, that's just my opinion. Highly recommend it.
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Every service offers offline ability . I highly doubt they will remove that . We are talking about the UNIQUE ability to keep your own music files on their server and access them as part of the streaming library.
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That's good. I'm not well versed on streaming music services.
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yeah S.c.i.e.n.c.e. is like the gap between their punk 15 year old genius selves and them growing into a full on musical behemoth. I still hold Make Yourself as the GOAT imo, even though you can tell it was engineered the most out of all their albums, every song is single-worthy. I wish their newer stuff sounded more like "The Warmth" from that album.
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I love SCIENCE and Make Yourself because there is that clear change in it but they're both amazing albums on their own. The Warmth is one of my favourite tracks too. Welp, time to play Incubus for the next couple of hours.
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I also don't remember phones ever locking up or spontaneously rebooting 10 years ago. Still prefer modern smartphones though.
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They used to from time to time but the difference was it took a second or two at most.
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I suggested as a comment on your post instead! You had already mentioned Le Guin, so I thought I'd specify there instead of as a new comment. Usually on these threads you get hundreds of comments that have the same suggestions, so I thought I'd consolidate. Lathe of Heaven is great and definitely worth reading!
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Upvoting purely because info organization and class of the above poster. Will check out the book too.
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I wonder if you could "S.W.A.T." someone, by sending them copious amounts of child pornography through disposable email accounts. Gmail does, after all, keep every letter even if you delete it.
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Article says he was 'sending' the images. This implies he was presumably aware of the content. Receiving emails you never open or put in Spam wouldn't imply that level of engagement.
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your statement above was already false, Layne did write a few songs for Alice, Jerry may have been the main one but Layne definitely wrote quite a few. And on a purely technical term, Layne is definiley a better vocalist than Kurt ever was. Kurt simply couldn't reach the same notes Layne could. That's not to say the man wasn't talented, he very clearly was.
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And if you want to get really technical, Nirvana did a lot of covers. Kurt sang them amazingly well, but he didn't write them. Jfc Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam and Where Did You Sleep Last Night are incredible.
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Many people don't know this but his Rainman character is actually his real personality.
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The Graduate gave us our first glimpse of it. You can totally see Raymond in his performance.
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He supplied 3 things: 1. His name. 2. His email. 3. His FULL BILLING ADDRESS. You are fucking dense.
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His billing address was Address B or maybe C, not Address A. The social engineer provided Address A. If his billing address was Address A, his bank would be sending information to a hotel he doesn't live at. The social engineer provided his name, email address, & a fake address not associated with or given to Amazon at any time. It was not an address that Amazon had on file. It just had the same zip code as his billing address. Providing a zip code should not be enough to steal personal information.
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Banning the book won't do anything even if they manged to remove every copy in existence (Even the digital scans that freely available online) it wouldn't make a difference everything in the book was already freely available information in the New York Public Library. It's already out there. There are also other books in circulation that have the same concept as the Anarchist Cook Book.
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Banning it wouldnt really remove the info from circulation either. All of it was stolen by Powell from public domain US Military manuals that are still freely available from the government.
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6,030 |
ELI5: What has the "alternative facts" remark have to do with Nineteen Eighty Four book?
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The main method of controlling thought by the totalitarian regime, explained in the book, is by changing language. If we think in words, then removing or changing words' meaning, using euphemisms or words that have double meaning, can (theoretically) change the way we think. "Alternative facts", as seen through the liberal lenses, is an attempt to introduce such weasel words to the public audience. If you look through a conservative lens, however, this is just a mockery, a satire of the liberals' own word butchering. Let's take words like Islamophobia, mansplaining and PTSD - these are all made-up words or euphemisms for other words, made by the liberal machine.
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Nah, he's just from the divinity gallery of the weakest gods available.
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No, I mean in the MCU. Thor is an alien, not a god. These aliens visited earth a long time ago and we got legends about them, they use technology that we think of as magic, and they live for thousands of years. But they aren't gods. Hell, without magical weapons, they aren't all that much stronger than regular humans.
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Very good summation. The overwhelming feeling of loneliness and isolation, physically and emotionally, is what makes HoL such a powerful read for me. I am in the (small) group of fans that wishes it would be made into a film. It can be done. I have ideas.
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I would love to see a movie, but of course like all things like this, I would want it to be "done right," which means, my way, haha.
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I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but this song is just missing something for me. I think I need more in general. It's very short, and shallow in substance. I wish I could describe it better.
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I think it makes more sense with the context of the movie. Here's what I wrote earlier: >It’s Ally’s first time performing on stage for a big crowd like that, she’s incredibly nervous and it was unrehearsed (spontaneous) for her. > >Like her verse was written the previous day, and she probably had to remember the lyrics and transition. She had the chorus for a while. ​ >It’s because in the movie, Ally has to push herself onto the stage and the verses/chorus are sorta written at different times.
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Slaughterhouse Five. I enjoyed it but I guess expectations were too high.
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I felt the same way when I read it in high school. I considered myself a fan of Vonnegut, but I always liked Cat's Cradle and Galapagos better. Then I read it again after college and I was absolutely blown away. Not only is it Vonnegut's best, it's one of the best books I've ever read. Give it another shot some day.
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From current to least recent... 1. Endymion - Dan Simmons/Payback - Margaret Atwood. 2. The Evolutionary Void - Peter F Hamilton. 3. Quantico - Greg Bear. 4. The Drawing of the Three (DTII) - Stephen King. 5. The Gunslinger (DTI) - Stephen King. Pretty light stuff, but I rip through these books pretty quickly. I have about 40 books on the shelves waiting to be read.
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Nice. I liked the first couple of the Dark Tower installments, although it's been a while since I read them. I'm thinking of re-reading them plus the newer books. Some of my most recent reads (I don't really have any favorites either): 1. The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (still working on this) 2. The Torrents of Spring - Hemingway. 3. Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky. 4. The Bohr Maker - Linda Nagata. 5. Eternity Road - Jack McDevitt.
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OHHH so when he went and saw abe it was still January. Thank you, it was bugging me so much
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Definitely confusing because it was January in Florida. I'm used to perpetual snow, and he was just excitedly riding his bike. Made it really difficult to remember that it was January.
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6,037 |
Hi, I just want to know the subreddit in which new and interesting tech innovations or developments, gadgets are posted. Thank you.
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>The goal of /r/tech is to provide a space dedicated to the intelligent discussion of innovations and changes to technology in our ever changing world. So you are in the right place. But you can check all the sister subreddits on the sidebar and [here]
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Mike Patton is from another world the way he sings and vocalizes. He did the scary scream sounds that the zombies make in ‘I am Legend’
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I wasn’t a big fan of Tomahawk. They opened for Tool on the Lateralus tour and I’d never heard their music, only that it was the singer from FNM so I was excited. The set was terrible. He nearly got booed off stage, to the point of saying “fuck you too [city we were in]!” Then Tool came out and with the first notes of Sober made it all better.
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6,039 |
Michael Jordan in Space Jam, or does this not count?
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Really? He's incredibly stiff, with people and with the tunes. His delivery is awkward.
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1. Under the Skin. 2. Room. 3. Mad Mad: Fury Road. 4. The Master. 5. Ex Machina. No particular order, just what came to mind.
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Glad to see Under The Skin on here. I don't usually rematch movies but I keep going back to it. I dismiss it nearly every time I watch it for being too desolate, but then I get more out of it each time and it has haunted me more than maybe any other movie. American Psycho has a similar relationship with me.
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6,041 |
I am very quick to say "this person needs an editor" but I have never thought that about Stephen King. His worst books would not be improved by being shorter. They would be improved by not having been published at all.
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I love this comment. I am a HUGE King fan and agree completely.
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6,042 |
A book I was reading the other day said a character had gray eyes. I've never seen gray eyes in my life.
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Gray eyes are real, although a lot of the time it's just a really light/dim shade of blue or green.
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I'm pretty sure the reason he did it was because the Weinstein's basically forced him to do it. Probably was a trade-off deal for him to be able to direct Good Will Hunting.
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They probably did the same thing to him on Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season. He really seemed to phone that one in
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Uma Thurman isn't anywhere on the Mia list, and Bruce Willis isn't anywhere on the Butch list. Hmm...
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That shocked me too. I thought Uma Thurman was absolutely perfect for that role, and she wasn't even a consideration. I can't imagine anyone else as Mia.
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No, we're talking about his music, not him, not me, the music. It's absolutely *terrible*. Very, very bad. Wholly and utterly uninspired. Terrible lyrics, terrible songwriting, terrible video -- everything. Any mainstream artist, sell out pop machine hacks that they are, are a *thousand* times better than this guy.
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I was talking about you, not him, not me. You. And your mother.
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6,046 |
2 megabits is 250 kilobytes, maybe you've gotten those two units muddled up? ISPs normaly sell speeds in bps (bits per second), but most software will measure speed in B/s (bytes per second).
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My ISP says that I can get up to 16 megabits/second which translates to 2 megabytes/second download. I however get on 250Kilobytes/second download. But I think I just have the units muddled up.
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swipe down from the top, was dark blue is now blinding white with no option to change :-/
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On the bright side, my understanding is that they built the hooks for theming into Oreo. It seems as though they didn't make it configurable in the initial release (time constraints?), but my very strong inclination would be that it will be accessible in 8.1. It also apparently makes it possible for third party theme engines like Substratum to operate without root.
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I wonder if they found technical problems or couldn't make it economical compared to just buying a new phone every now and again.
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They probably found a lot of problems with it. Dropping it could break modules ~~or bend pins~~, it's more likely to fry if something gets Wet, harder to make a case for something that could have cameras in different spots, and probably would cause people to buy phones less often. Also then they would have to worry about some modules not selling as well. I also bet it cost them a lot more to make than a normal phone. I would also expect it was probably harder to get android and apps working smoothly on it.
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Eh, Down Under was OK. I dunno if it deserves that much praise. I did like that he didn't just paper over the treatment of ATSI people though, and it was pretty funny.
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You know the town he goes to find out about that? Bingara? That's my home town. Knew all the people he talked to.
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You could attribute ability to facilitate collaborations as a reason why he'd be credited with hit songs with big rappers, which is largely how his hit singles were created. Prior to entering the music biz he was more of a radio personality, a different trade from what a musician is. A lot of actual musicians may not know the terminology of major and minor keys, I'm just taking a jab at a guy who throws that MAJOR 🔑 nonsense around
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I'll dive head first into this shit storm. If I sit there and be like "Damn this is good producing". I'm not enjoying the track. It's like enjoying the edits in a movie, when it's done right, you never notice.
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In terms of entertainment it's fine, but doing any respectable amount of work with a tablet is just a painful experience every time.
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thats the thing most people use their computer devices for entertainment and very little work, and whatever little work that needs to be done a tablet should be good enough. People like me are slowly being in the minority, I don't even have a tablet.
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suck. suck. suck. suck. suck. suck. suck. suck. suck. suck. Brilliant. suck. suck. Edit: Dammit. Just saw the Shining. It had to really deviate from the book to be a great movie tho. Love me some Kubrick
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Nothing like making entire characters totally obsolete, but leaving their actions in tact right up to the moment where you totally disregard their usefulness at all and kill them off.
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Far from it. There are plenty of people that had no problems transitioning (myself included), though it does seem like it's 50/50 whether or not that will be the case for a given person.
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I know, I'm sure the vast majority had no issues whatsoever. I was frustrated by the echo chamber going on in here; from scanning through the comments, you'd think that everybody in the whole world was getting auto-upgraded.
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6,054 |
Let's put it this way. There is a firing squad about to kill 300 innocent people, and you can stop them. But, if you don't stop them, they'll give you a candy bar. It's not a waste of life if you enjoy the candy bar right? You have to realize that past a certain point that line of reasoning is incredibly stupid.
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You're taking this way out of context. I knew someone would. I think you can assume reasonably that that's not something I would do.
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6,055 |
This type of design was first meant to be used in Firefox 4: But it had been in development for years before that. The idea being that nothing above the tab should change when you switch tabs. It should be like flicking though files in a filing cabinet.
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That looks a lot more like the current firefox design than the one shown in the article above. What about this, other than the tools button, has anything to do with this new thing?
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This movie doesn't have spoilers. Its one of those spoiler-free spoiler movies since whatever you say about the movie, it won't make sense unless you've seen it. But yeah I totally agree. When I reached the end of the article, I thought that was one long poorly, written introduction.
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>whatever you say about the movie, it won't make sense unless you've seen it. And even after you've seen it it still probably won't make sense.
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After I got over the creepiness of the story that was Mein Teil, I started to love that song. It's probably my second/third fav next to Adios and Waidmanns Heil.
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Oh boy Adios is my all-time favorite, even my mom likes it haha.
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If you're studying the last two, you might like Business Adventures by Brooks. A little dated, but gives some BTDT stories that are insightful. I'm currently working my way through books that have been banned for one reason or another. Some classics, some more modern. A good mix of genres that can give the variety it seems you're seeking.
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I am definitely after variety. Thank you for your reply!
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>If you liked Harry Potter, try The Magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman. *Where* exactly did OP make these statements that you so vehemently oppose?
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He didnt. This all started with "kind of misses the point." It was my opinion that some small issue could be raised. I raised it. Then I kept getting called out, insulted, and misrepresented. Oh well.
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This series was one of my childhood favorites and I am so sad they didn't do a great job with the film. This movie and the Golden Compass deserve to be remade haha
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Golden compass deserves a remake, but I'm not sure we could do Ender's Game justice at a reasonable budget yet.
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If other judges have previously ruled in an opposite way, don't that open up an avenue for the losing party to appeal the case?
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yup, until it gets bumped up the hierarchy. This varies per country, but usually finishes at the supreme court. 'Lower' judges can't contradict 'higher level' judges, but they can usually ignore judges at their own level.
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the only thing that embarrasses me about reading *Lolita* is how long it's taking... though once i caught myself throwing it into my pack and upon reflection decided it was perhaps a poor choice for reading on a park bench during a break from bike ride. [the cover art didn't help]
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Just don't read it on a bench facing a playground.
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And where is your proof that she didn't write it?
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More importantly, why does it matter? Everyone knows that writers and producers play a big role in music.
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Edit: I'm quoting Gallagher. ITT: people who didn't read the article. >interesting. Interesting?! That’s a word that’s crept in to music: ‘Yeah, man. Have you heard the new Skrillex record?’ ‘No.’ ‘Yeah, man. It’s really interesting.’ I don’t want interesting! Rock ‘n’ roll’s not about that. To me, it’s about fucking utter gobshites just being fucking headcases. Well, not headcases. But what I want, genuinely, is somebody with a fucking drug habit, who’s not Pete Doherty. Do you know what I mean?
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> ! Rock ‘n’ roll’s not about that. to be fair, radiohead haven't been a rock band in well over a decade.
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Not according to the article. > That doesn’t count the time it takes to actually transfer the data onto Snowmobile–which Amazon estimates will take less than 10 days...
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100PB in 10 days is, what, about a terabit per second? That's a lot of sustained throughput for storage systems.
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*Foucault's Pendulum* by Umberto Eco is about a group of intellectuals who make up a conspiracy theory to troll conspiracy theorists. However they eventually become the target of a real conspiracy that is based on that same conspiracy theory they invented.
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Would you recommend giving it a read? I don't have a lot of spare time, these days, but that sounds fun.
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Since I want to become a film critic, this comment means a lot. Thank you!
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If you want to be respected as a film critic, for sure don't reveal key plot elements before the movie is even out, no matter how many people ask you to. People always ask magicians what their secrets are, too, but telling them doesn't actually enhance the experience.
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Have you read any other Green books? I was not a fan of The Fault in Our Stars but I really enjoyed Paper Towns.
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I have not yet. I finished FIOS two days ago and stand by my original assessment. Now I am reading Uncle Toms Cabin
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This is really cool! A few of my friends and I rap. Not typical garbage=) Here is the link.
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Took a moment to listen to this, i think it might be worth your's as well.
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IF it really could make most items you could need AND it wasn't to expensive. Then it could become real common. But low resolution plastic objects aren't really the majority of things we need in our daily lives.
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Pretty much. I thought about getting one for making stuff thatd help with everyday stuff around my apartment, but then I saw everything already exists for cheap anyways.
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I feel like Ashton Kutcher is a bit too good-looking and cool to play Jobs convincingly. Maybe Demetri Martin would have been a better, more nerdy choice.
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No way, could you picture Demetri going on a rage tirade?
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ELI5- how is "moral capitalist" an oxymoron. Are you implying capitalist are immoral?
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Capitalism is neither moral or immoral, its only concerned with making profits.
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I think it's a drone cam, personally. You can do alot with drones these days, and they are a LOT cheaper than using mechanical rigging. Software will correct the majority of stability issues. the only other options that might make this seamless would be the camera was carried from the outset on the drone by a person and then it "took flight" in the bedroom. I spotted another potential, and probably more likely transition scene. When it pans from the girl on the bed to Bond, that panning shot would be a perfect transition splice shot. You could easily have a drone hovering in the room rotate 90 degrees right and pick up and start tracking bond.
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Its james bond - they wouldn't need to go with a cheaper option... : >When 007 goes out the window, a camera on a Technocrane follows Craig as he runs across the roof. “There was a gigantic support scaffolding the length of the block and three stories high to accommodate the track for the Technocrane,” says van Hoytema.
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Stephen Colbert interviewed Phil Klay just a day or two ago. He was one of the Colbert Report's final guests.
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Colbert bump. The final one is the strongest. Just like the final pelvic thrust during sex.
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The jump was real though, and it really was high. Must be the shaky cam
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Where did you see this out of curiosity? T'challa scraping down the side of the building with his claws and Cap falling 10 stories and landing on his shield wasn't real man.
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If you haven't read Joe Hill yet, give Heart-Shaped Box a try. It is fairly short, like 200 pages, and it jumps right into the horror and never lets up.
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I really enjoyed Horns. Not scary really but great storytelling.
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I've gotten in to the habit of actually checking where the last page of the story is. Risky in case I actually see a spoiler, but it's nice to know where the book ends.
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Yeah, I don't think I've ever started a book before checking where the last page is.
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It took me way too long before I realized this wasn't a comedy.
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Funny if this turns Steve Carells career into a more serious lane. Years ago, no one expected McConaughey to be Oscar winner Mathew McConaughey.
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radio frequencies would make more sense to hear than to see, but being able to see sound would be pretty bizarre as well
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The frequencies of the magnetic spectrum that the human eye can detect are called *light*. Radiowaves, IR and UV are parts of the same spectrum, whereas *sound* is basically just pulsating air.
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6,080 |
please please please make a song that is better then anything deadmau5 has made. it's so easy, right?
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Look up deadrat6, markus schoschows side project. If I had he time to learn to make music, making Joel's music would be a piece of cake. Markus makes a complete cool out of him with deadrat6 and its hilarious. I never said I personally could make his music but it isn't hard for other djs and producers to do it. I have no respect for him as a person, how he treats his fellow djs, and how highly he thinks of himself. Listen to some real house, not mau5s bullshit.
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It's not necessarily the violence. It's just a pretty heavy movie for some 10-11 year olds purely in terms of story. Not sure how many kids are going to be drawn into a three hour fantasy epic.
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And while I want to go on a rant about how kids need to watch better stuff then Minions and see more quality stuff like this, I guess I have to (begrudgingly) agree with you.
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Seems like we found the last person on earth who still refers to the YouTube description/dooblydoo as "the side bar".
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actually im referring to the list of videos on the side....arranged in a bar configuration.....
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I think the answer here is that you should watch more of Guillermo del Toro's older movies if you haven't done so already, especially The Devil's Backbone and Cronos.
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I've just looked at the trailer for them, I liked the look of The Devils Backbone I'll give it a go!
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I wouldn't, and I think a vast majority of people are like me. If I were to pirate something, there is a zero percent chance that I would then go spend money on something that I already had. I may go buy other stuff from the author, but I wouldn't spend my money duplicating something that I already had. That said, I don't pirate books. But if I did, that's how it would be.
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I really try not to pirate anything if I can avoid it, but I can say that there are several occasions where I pirated a book and later legitimately bought it. I treated the pirated copy of it as a "trial version" of the full work; if I enjoyed it, I would have felt bad for "stealing" it if I didn't pay for it for real. If I disliked it, though, then I hadn't lost anything.
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They still were helping stop the Chitauri. Saying "useless" implies they did nothing. and "everything they did could've been someone else, no problem"? - well, no, because what happened, happened: Hawkeye disabled Loki's ship, and Black Widow switched off the portal. End of the day, everything everyone did led to the most important move: Iron Man destroying the Chitauri mothership. So, kill one Chitauri, or kill a hundred? You were equally useful, more or less.
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Destroying the transport is not an accomplishment, those things explode constantly in the fight sequences. They threw Hawkeye a scene basically. Same with the portal. She jams the staff into the machine, that could've been any character they introduced as well. Like I said, they were replaceable and didn't do anything unique or powerful. Especially with Ultron they're going to be more useless. The world's greatest assassin is gonna be pretty bad against an army of iron man drones and their metal Lord. Arrows also have a pretty poor record against metal and robots as well.
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I dont read very much Marvel, especially not x men. I always hear it's confusing as fuck with all the time/universe/reality shenanigans. But I've always kind of ignored that part about evolution. Also I feel like there's been books on the Z-Tier mutants? People with pretty pointless powers. I know they show up here and there. I read a few issues of the miniseries Worst X-Man Ever and IIRC the dudes power was he could blow himself up, but he would die. I never finished it so I don't know how it ended up.
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>IIRC the dudes power was he could blow himself up, but he would die. LIke I'm not calling you wrong but how do you even discover a power like that.
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Please dear god keep it running. I can't imagine the damage that would happen to the rest of the internet if all the 4chan people were suddenly turned loose.
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4chan isn't the same as it use to be, it merely follows the flow of the Internet much like any other website community these days. Rather than dictating it like it use to.
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We can thank Netflix for setting the precedent by giving in to Comcast's extortion.
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Well Netflix would have had their service slowed down and made the quality of their product much worse, that could have resulted in lots of people leaving because it's easier to swap on demand service than to change ISPs since most people are contracted to them or have no other choice. Netflix held out for quiet a while and it's not really fair to expect them to hold out forever since it shouldn't be their job, they were forced to in the end.
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Can't believe people are actually defending Saddam. This man was a bonafide POS. He deserved to die. And quite frankly, was let off easy.
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That is an incredibly ignorant thing to say, especially when we know know for fact it made everything worse.
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Came to say this. I'm currently on The 3rd book in the Dark Tower series and cannot put it down! Definitely give it a shot!
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Agree! The first book for me was hard to understand get through, the rest? Well I'm hooked near the end of wizard and glass :)
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Uhh, they've said that they used drum machines on only two tracks and hired the best studio musicians. The robot voices are the equivalent of a synthesizer in a full band. It's gonna be a disco record. It's still dance music, but It's mostly live instrumentation.
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None of this means it's not electronic music. Just because it's not done solely in cubase or fruityloops doesn't mean anything.
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His appearance has changed, yes, the man is 53 years old.
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It may be that he's letting his age show to be more convincing for the role. Remember that guys like Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Keanu are all roughly the same age as Jim Carrey. I don't think any of them look quite like this. In real life, maybe they do. But Hollywood is generally such a youth oriented place. Everyone is desperately trying to look 10 or 15 years younger. So if someone just let their actual age show, this is what you might get.
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Have you even read the article? Stop getting offended.
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I'm not offended, it's just my opinion. Article mentions how nobody would ever treat Kanye like that as if to say it's because he's a man and not because he'd never let that happen. I'm catching a lot of downvotes, but nobody is telling me why I'm wrong. Seems like you, 23 people who read my comment and possibly 19 who read yours are actually offended.
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i think the conversation with the therapist when she hands him 2 pills and jerks back in her chair giving this observant power stance of sorts KILLS ME. also in that very same scene her accent breaks like a 14 year olds voice with overacting which also made me cringe. the only other pick with an almost perfect movie is when jack slams leos broken arm with the shoe the first strike the heel of the boot clearly misses the arm (second looks real) what fake punch are you referring to? (basically im asking you to give me any small reason to watch that film again.. so good)
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Alec Baldwin calls the guy that fucked up setting up the cameras a goddamn son of a bitch or something and then punches him in the face
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6,095 |
'Thinking Fast and Slow' - Daniel Khaneman. It is a lay person summary of his Nobel prize winning work. Not a stereotypical self help book but will definitely help you be a better/ more insightful/ less wrong person. Also '59 seconds' by Richard wiseman. Evidence based self help.
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Absolutely agree about 'Thinking.' If you have some idea about how your own decision making processes work, they become much more useful.
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If you don't accept that criteria, well, you're wrong. I know you'll think that arrogant, but tough — the truth hurts. When people cower off and say that it's all 'just a preference' (or 'all subjective'), they're basically saying that they're perfect just the way they are, nothing they do is ever indicative of a moral or intellectual failing, and there's no reason to ever make a potentially inconvenient or uncomfortable attempt at self-reflection or self-improvement.
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That's....not how it works. This is a super simple concept that's gone way over your head.
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>TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. I love this little snippet so much. I haven't read this book yet but someone else mentioned this quote a while back on Reddit. It stuck with me.
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You can watch the movie on Netflix! It gets the gist of things
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Books that have multiple well fleshed out characters and witty dialogue/banter. I don't want to story to be completely focused on one character.
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Have you read Vonnegut? Very, very witty and creates deeply flawed, slightly exaggerated but still very human characters. **Cat's Cradle** is good for a colourful cast! Else give **The Lies of Locke Lamora** a try - the main protagonists are constantly bantering. Entertaining read, set in a pseudo-venice, but don't look for any really new ideas. Light fiction with lots of wit and banter.
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This isn't really a wrong answer... Flash didn't "die", but the decline of Flash started with Apple's foresight to see that it wasn't needed. In tech circles, Flash was well known to be buggy and insecure, and the "Hacking Team" breach that made known the myriad of zero-day vulnerabilities in Flash was basically the nail in the coffin.
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just to add, when I was learning web design back in like 2004, it was already highly advised to not use Flash for anything unless a client really wanted it, or unless there was no alternative, like for video. Once HTML5 came out, only the ignorant kept going on about Flash. Anyone close to the web knew it was going to die someday, they just weren't sure how, or when. Apple was definitely a major catalyst, but it's been on it's death bed for over a decade.
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