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I think it's hilarious that people are even suggesting password managers that are web based. What possible advantage could a web based password manager have over one that runs completely offline?
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syncing. it is a massive pain to keep passes synched between devices, and if you do it by hand the temptation is to use simple passwords or not bother changing them. it's the lesser of two evils i guess- i'm still not comfortable with a cloud solution, i agree
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There are companies doing 6h workdays in Sweden now. Iirc Volvo is one of them, but they're just testing it atm.
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At sprint we are doing 4 days on, 3 days off. We love it. 9:30 am to 8:30 pm (usually) on the days we work. Sometimes I get 3 days off in a row. Or 2 days off, work the next day, then have another day off right after. It's great.
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407,402 |
Often the argument goes like this- "You don't believe in global warming?!" "Of course we know the earth is warming. We just aren't sure how much we have affected it ourselves as humans and what we would do about it effectively without hurting the poorest people in industrializing nations." It's a valid thought process.
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Okay that's cool, except I wasn't really talking about global warming and only brought it up to specifically point out that the book discusses a range of various other ways that humans are causing high rates of extinction. But it's cool to know that geologists are still critical of climate scientists.
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407,403 |
Two questions: 1. What is your favorite tattoo on your body? 2. What is your opinion on the prices of used Circa vinyl going for exorbitant prices on the internet? Would you ever consider doing something similar to the band Brand New and counter it by offering unlimited pressings of previously released albums?
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I've just recently started collecting vinyls. I've looked into a couple of Circa Survive's previous albums. o.o they are so expensive! I would love to know your answer to this one as well Anthony!
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407,404 |
I only made it halfway through The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. I'm sure I'll pick it back up at some point but I found it so boring.
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I've read the whole thing and I don't think it gets that much better at any point. I think it's a great idea for a novel, but it's too long, lacks some sort of a climax and vitality.
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407,405 |
The point I'm trying to get across, is that real talent in music is writing it. Anyone can imitate.
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Not the vast majority of 14-year-olds. Her level of skill is impressive regardless of whether or not she wrote it.
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407,406 |
I got stuck SO hard on the rats as someone not afraid of any kind of rodent. So I came uå with my own explanation to it.
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Yeah you definitely dug deep and found good connections. Very good! And it's not even random stuff connected together, it makes perfect sense. It all falls in line perfectly with the theme of the book.
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Because there is no category for American Male Novelists. Women are treated as a special case; men as the norm. Why not the other way around?
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You're right. We should at once remove all of the women's studies courses that would find a sub category for female authors quite useful.
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407,408 |
Well you can't (officially) use imessage on android. But you can use hangouts on iphone. So the choice is clear :)
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Yeah, Whatsapp. I don't know anyone who uses hangouts. Google didn't push it hard enough.
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I listen to audiobooks religiously every day. The narrator can and will make or break an audiobook. These books are in no order, but are all outstanding. Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Blood Song by Anthony Ryan. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne. The Riyria Revelations by Michael J Sullivan (he can be found in /r/fantasy) The Kingkiller Chronicles by Pat Rothfuss. If you've read all of these or don't like the recommendations I've got more.
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All new to me I will put them on my wish list
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407,410 |
Before Sunrise. Before Sunset. Before Sunrise is the perfect romantic movie. It's real, it's no frills and it's still got the romantic youthful ideas of love and freedom. It doesn't get better
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>Before Sunrise is the perfect romantic movie... It doesn't get better. Uh, *Before Sunset*
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407,411 |
In the Mood for Love, The Dreamers, or maybe Pink Flamingos by John Waters!
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Amelie. A whimsical, magical Paris that's never really existed. And has no super-villains.
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407,412 |
"I haven't read the book in question, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to be pedantic"
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Is it still being pedantic when I'm right? I haven't read the book, but I have read parts of the scene in question. Specifics aside, he was not re-elected twice.
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How often does one hear the argument, "I just want to turn my brain off". It's always been such a weird statement for me, since watching Michael Bay movies is actually more difficult than watching something like Pacific Rim or The Avengers. Michael Bay movies keep my brain active by being so flawed and dull I can't help but be thrown out of the suspension of disbelief at every turn.
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It's equivalent to saying, "Sometimes I just want to fuck a really ugly chick." It doesn't make any sense.
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Wow. I can only imagine the thrill that OP must be experiencing...very cool of Howard to do that for a fan! However (and please don't downvote this), but I find this song trite and a crappy soft-alt-rock, dime-a-dozen afternoon elevator muzak. I'm sorry but I just want to take a fucking nap listening to this thing. It's technically proficient, and sweet, sure, and he's got a nice voice, but man, I can't stand this type of music. Is it just me?
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Most of the unkown music people post on Reddit that is actually good (that I've heard) is not my kind of music. I think this is the first one I've liked actually.
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407,415 |
Thank god they saved the most pointless part of my body!
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Na, they took one of my testicles already. not like it got much use anyways?? HEYOOOOO-..awwww
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407,416 |
that dude is super talented but his hair makes me wanna die
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If he got rid of the back it’d be fine tbh
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407,417 |
Can they listen to your bathroom conversations? Can they listen to your phone conversations? I understand very well what private means. You seem to think that using the facilities at a private company means you should have no expectation of privacy.
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That is correct. Unless it's protected by law (such as the bathroom bit), you should not have any expectation of privacy in the premises of the company you work for. Edit: Clarification.
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407,418 |
I'm finishing **The Magicians, by Lev Grossman**; once that's done I'll start **Casting Shadows Everywhere, by Tim McBain and L.T. Vargus.**
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The Magicians series is a favorite of mine! You're really gonna love it. Just, uh, don't watch the TV show they made... it really sucks.
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407,419 |
I reject the premise. Indie bookstores will not die off. Some will close and better ones will take their place. Ebooks have has many drawbacks as benefits. Print books are here to stay because publishers and ereader makers are too greedy and manipulative to approach ebooks in a manner that would kill print books -- although I expect they genuinely believe they're killing print books.
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ebooks aren't the only problem though - many, many people buy their print books off of amazon, or go to b&n instead of a local shop.
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407,420 |
why would they record a call? The point is, the HW is there and SW can be updated at any time. Even if 2 days ago Alexa wasn't recording all the ambient noise, today it could. For the folks here to say it's impossible, it's a pure lack of imagination and understanding of how companies behave.
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The thing is Alexa physically can not record stuff until the word alexa is said. It has 2 seperate chips and the always on one can only listen for the word Alexa and a little more as a buffer for while the second chip starts up. That's the point of us "experts". That won't help you if the FBI court orders amazon to turn your echo into a bug, but nothing will stop a 3 letter agency from getting to you anyway. Ofc technically they could update the software and make the second chip always on too without telling anybody. That would just destroy their reputation for decades to come, but you can keep being paranoid. They didn't record a call that's the voicememo feature.
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407,421 |
It's sometimes impossible to distinguish legitimate fans of a product from its paid shills. That does honestly happen when someone really enjoys something.
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Been enjoying Fleet Foxes so God dam much the past 3 months.
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407,422 |
> All of these aspects actually make an ebook more valuable to me [than a physical book] Are you saying you would pay more for an ebook than a physical copy? If that's what you're saying then you're definitely in the minority.
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I usually go for absolutely lowest price, but I haven't bought a physical book in a while because I'm simply out of space. But if they were the same price, I would definitely buy the ebook.
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> If they are serious about this, it should be awesome. Ha, you are hilarious. They didn't listen to users when they fucked up 8? They will listen a bit now, if you are lucky.
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Well first, they did not fuck up 8, it's a very good OS, better than 7 with some minor drawbacks. Second, how do you call releasing windows 8.1 with boot to desktop option and now releasing windows 10 with the start screen almost entirely gone "not listening"? Also, this time they are actually making a forum or something for the beta testers to provide feedback and where MS software engineers will frequent. I don't think it was like this with previous versions.
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/u/Im_a_Parrot seems to be pointing out that Anakin's random personality shifts, unrelated to the actions going on, are not developments. For example, in Episode 1 he's a curious and adventurous kid not unlike Luke in episode 4. In Episode 2, he's more cautious than Obi-Wan, who jumps out of a space car to catch the assassin. Then later he's brash, impulsive, and malicious. There's never any explanation as to why these changes happen. They simply do. Yeah, the development into Vader is bad development. But there's lots of random "Now Anakin is like this" moments that are thrown in there because Lucas thought it would be cool. That's *not* development.
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I mean, isn't it pretty obvious that Anakin turns into who he is because he's A) not allowed to be in a relationship with Padme and B) witnesses his mother's death after being raped by sand people? I'm starting to feel like I'm being forced to defend these horrible movies now. There were causes for the changes, though. One more time for the sake of my own credibility, these movies were very bad.
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407,425 |
I thought dc to dc convertors used relatively similar electronics (IGBTs) with the addition of capacitors for the charge pump or to smooth out the voltage from a switched supply. AC-AC phase connections seem to be a bridge built out of insulated gate bipolar transistors between the phases. Incorporating DC sources doesn't seem like it would be much simpler because you'd still have to convert your output to match the grid voltage. The few remaining places with local DC grids seem to make them look like a bad idea.
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[Europe is moving in this direction] In the US, the power generated by Columbia river dams has been sent south to LA through a DC intertie, and has been in operation for decades. It has been proven to be less costly in materials and footprint, and gives large savings from inductive losses that would otherwise be incurred. Small local dc grids are already in use aboard ships with great success, and the pace of such installations is increasing.
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407,426 |
We do business class Comcast. For the price, its less speed but no cap. Was desiring more speed so was looking into Comcast residential, and found out about this 1tb cap. Even then I dunno what we currently use a month and if it would be worth it.
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Yeah, we have business service too. It is pretty great, actually. I wish it cost less and was faster, but when wouldn't that be the case.
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407,427 |
Makes me feel better about buying another Nexus 5 last week as a replacement for my broken N5, for sure.
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What happened to you broken N5 if I may ask?
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407,428 |
I agree wholeheartedly. This will be used against who? Other countries? There hasn't been a war between the US and another big country in ages. Terrorists? [You're better off spending money on electrical safety/healthcare/drinking water.]
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Who knows. This same technology could potentially be used later for space exploration. Need to move a ton of material to Mars? It would cost a lot to use rocket fuel to get these going fast enough to get to Mars in decent time. You could use something like this to accelerate something from low earth orbit to very high speeds.
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407,429 |
They've already stopped some of their overly generous customer service and return policies.
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Yep, if you bought something recently (like within the return window) and the price dropped they would credit you the difference. They don't do that any more, except for TVs. I bought a head unit for my car and 10 days later the price dropped $20. Part of me wants to return it, eat the restock fee, and with the cost of shipping it back I'd barely break even. But they'd be stuck with an open box unit. The other part of me is just too lazy to tear my dash apart again.
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407,430 |
The point at which war becomes drones fighting other drones in the sky, raining nuclear waste down on non-participants is the point at which war has become a parody of itself. We won't even be destroying the opponents of our various ideologies, just their toys and the people who happen to live near them.
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All real wars have been wars of technology and production since WWII. Since then, people have just been cheap, easy-to-produce pseudo-robots carrying the technology into battle and acting as the slower-than-we-would-like AI until we get the robots and the real AI ready. If your standard for war-as-parody is the point where the machines fight instead of the people, and where non-participant civilian casualties comprise a substantial percentage of the total casualty rate, then I would argue that we have been at that point for the better part of a century now.
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407,431 |
How would that be Revan...he existed 4000 years before this movie. Also, Revan's story resolves fine in Kotor.
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He's talking about TOR not KotOR, his story did resolve fine in KotOR but then he was brought back in TOR and it ruined everything.
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Just to be clear, none of these "if you like..." suggestions are true. Airheads is different and better than Encino Man and Encino Man is much better than Biodome, which is not worth watching unless you really like Pauly Shore.
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I have seen them all. Biodome is amusing if you take it for what it is, a Pauley Shore film with pauley as the co-star. If you expect more than that then you will be sorely disappointed.
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407,433 |
> Pop scientist, no. He's a popular scientist. I'm sorry, I do get your point, but your sentence is funny.
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You also didn't even quote me. There's a difference though.
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407,434 |
I've seen Cake play a really fun show, and I've seen Cake just looking cranky as fuck. John McCrea seems like a moody guy.
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I've seen them twice and they put on great shows both times. I'm honestly really surprised and very disappointed to hear that McCrea is a douche :(
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407,435 |
If I recall, there was one rabbit, ever. Don't remember which book it was in though. :p
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There was a handful throughout the series, maybe five or six, they were never more than one chapter characters though
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407,436 |
If you prefer older stuff I guess maybe. Robert Plant. Nick Drake. Neil Young. Newer: Bon Iver. Sufjan Stevens. Is what other people say... But I Dont really feel that list..
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huge Led Zep fan and heard they really influenced him , and I can see it, and i'll check the rest out!
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407,437 |
I have a feeling that Change (In the House of Flies) wont be on here. Deftones definitely deserve to be on here.
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Did you catch them when they toured last month? They were amazing!!
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407,438 |
Title typo aside, Jackie Chan truly had a massive impact on my childhood. In fact, I'm amazed no one has ever built and released a proper collection of all his work--finding properly subbed versions of his pre-90s movies is damn impossible, and it makes me sad. On the subject, what's your favorite obscure Chan movie? My vote goes to [Wheels on Meals]
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Love Wheels on Meals. Friend and I watched it last year for the first time. Did not expect that movie to escalate to the fights and settings that it did.
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407,439 |
Trainspotting has been a movie that's stuck with me over the years. I can't remember another movie that's gone from making me laugh to scaring the shit out of me so fast.
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That movie really has it all I can watch it over and over. So quotable.
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407,440 |
How.is this better than using carbon fiber? It looks like this stuff would need an extra component poured over or into it to be useful for walking on or used as a bulkhead.
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It's not ment to compete with carbon fibre, carbon fibres advantage is that it is extremely stiff/strong and light, it needs a resin to bind the strands together to homogenize it's strength. This material's strength is in heat transfer and energy absorption from what I can tell. They use the egg drop as an example.
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407,441 |
That is a fair point. But this is a site that reviews technology and docks people for making poor tradeoffs, and will go so far as to tell people not to buy or use products that sacrifice usability for marketing gimmicks. Quick navigation is something that is easy to do in a single page, topics are something they already do in a single page. This kind of pagination is done at the expense of the user to bloat metrics. They do this so that they can say people visit their page a lot more than people actually do. Its slimy, and they know it.
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You have a good point, and a lot of sites out there are guilty of this - just not this one...
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407,442 |
honestly, why not juat type in NUL or NULLL? plausible deniability
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IIRC One L is used for NULL in some things so could possibly still cause problems, and three is just silly.
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407,443 |
I would say UK and Finland. It's really hard to pass driving test - which filters out bad drivers to some extent.
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I really wish they did Finland level driving school in America. It gives confidence to the drivers and is much safer for everyone on the road.
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Titanium dioxide is [known to be mutagenic] any idea about the potential for pollution FROM these tiles?
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Dammit... why do does there always need to be a catch. For once it would be nice to have some sort of holy grail find that is actually gonna be safe/cheap/effective at same time.
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And the very ending........God....Damn....it.... They could have at least done a spinoff...
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For me, the ending was basically K.A saying "I'm done! Never ask me to write another one of those darn books again!" Although I believe over half were ghost written anyway.
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407,446 |
Have you ever seen Requiem for a Dream? It's horrifying, but it's not Texas Chainsaw Massacre horrifying. I think House of Leaves is sort of similar. You get a bit of psychological unease but nothing's going to jump out at you and say BOO.
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This is the most comforting thing I've read. I can handle requiem for a dream definitely, but I would never think to watch texas chainsaw massacre. Two totally different kinds of scary.
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407,447 |
I'm male and Jane Eyre is one of my favourite books.
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I am male and I hate Jane Eyre with a burning passion. Let's fight crime together!
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407,448 |
Untrue. Look at the old monopolies from pre-regulation days. Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Vanderbilt built empires by crushing competition and raising consumer prices. Anti-monopoly regulations tend to work. The problem we currently have is that companies have political influence and can lobby against those regulations.
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That's a total falsehood. You've gotten your history confused with a propagandist picture of what actually happened. Competition was hurt and consumers got higher prices from monopoly busting.
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407,449 |
Love the broken empire series, havent got around to the red queen yet but I intend to. Was there an inspiration for Jorg's character? And did you begin the story with the intention of how it concluded? Thanks, keep up the good work!
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Good to hear! There was a very clear inspiration from Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange, that was published in 1962 before even *I* was born! Jorg is (at the top level of listing core attributes) Alex DeLarge. I had no idea how chapter 1 (or page 1) would end when I started writing. I just followed Jorg across the page and it worked itself out. I had zero thoughts of book 2 or 3 when I finished Prince of Thorns. I put the book away and ignored it for several years.
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407,450 |
Someone mentioned the other day they think this is a conspiracy to encourage users to leave bluetooth enabled all the time so they can track you better using beacons in retail areas.
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> Someone mentioned the other day they think this is a conspiracy. And so it begins
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407,451 |
You don't know that! It's awkward for the band if they had an encore ready but the crowd quiets as soon as they walk off. Give it up! Keep on... you know, keep truckin
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I mean I'll clap and cheer or whatever, but I don't keep going on about it. I'm not sure I've been to a show, at least not in a long time, where the band didn't play an encore without even saying anything. If the PA music fires up I'll leave, if it doesn't I'll stay.
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407,452 |
Even katniss was dark skinned in the book, or like Native American or some shit.
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No, she had olive skin and black hair. Olive describes the undertone of your skin, not how dark it is. You can get light and dark olive skinned people. I have olive toned skin and dark, almost black, hair, but I would easily be considered white.
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407,453 |
I'd wager what defines it as a hoverboard is the fact that the platform you're standing on is above the blades. I generally don't stand on top of the blades of a helicopter.
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I don't see no blades or fans in back to the future. they coined and if it doesn't work like that than its not hoverboard. just ride able multi rotor craft. Personal sized HoverCraft.
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I met him before a show once, in fact I met the whole band. Tim seemed like a really down to earth, nice human being as well as the rest of the band. I showed him my RA tattoo and he was so stoked on it he had to show it off to the rest of the band. I could really tell how genuinely nice he as well as the rest of the band were.
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One of the guitarists was in GWAR. Somebody should fact check me on that though
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407,455 |
The money wasn't donated for a library. It was donated to the general fund. The money specifically allocated to the library went to the library.
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Indeed the minimum amount stipulated by the donor, however the argument is that sports teams receive too much funding at the expense of other programs. Justifying that by saying that sports teams generate revenue begs the question.
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407,456 |
So musically that one's a little bit of a departure. But it's not as though "a little bit of a departure" was new for them on Dookie. Refer to When I Come Around. In terms of lyric content, though, it'd fit in fine with Dookie. From there, can you tell me Geek Stink Breath wouldn't be at home on Dookie?
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Geek Stink Breath might fit on Dookie but songs like Brat not so much. Insomniac leans more to their Punk side instead of their Pop side like Dookie did. Both are great albums but thats the thing with Green Day; each album is different. (Yes even Uno Dos and Tre although not as well as the others)
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407,457 |
It's funny how zero out of ten items in the list are related with improved information retrieval. They are all user interaction improvements. And even in this, they are questionable improvements.
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It's because most people don't care about improved information retrieval and Google doesn't want to give away their trade secrets.
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It’s like a metaphorical drone net that keeps birds away. They should nickname it something like SkyNet... it’s catchy and harmless
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Well nothing wrong with that, but how can I download it and share it with everything with a processor?
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407,459 |
After my wedding in 2006, House of Leaves mysteriously appeared on top of the gift pile. Unwrapped and without a card or any indication of who gave it to us. I've asked everyone I can think of and they all deny gifting it. Stick with it. It's a really great piece of literature. When you've read the whole thing you'll wish there was more. Sadly, his other books don't hold up as well. Savor the moment.
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Wow haha that's pretty disturbing. I want to buy it too, but having flipped through it before, it does seem like a difficult book to read while commuting. Would you say it's a stay-at-home book?
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407,460 |
I really like John Carpenter's action films, like Escape from New York/L.A., Big Trouble in Little China, and They Live. I love his horror as well but I want more recommendations on his action films.
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Since you didn't explicitly mention it, have you seen [Assault on Precinct 13]
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407,461 |
Why do people bash them? Because they're popular and Bono. Are they good live? Depends. They play it fairly straight. It's a very slick production and you won't hear much deviation from the records. I'd say it's overpriced but what concert isn't these days.
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Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam is not overpriced. Ive been going to live shows since 1967, and they are at the top.
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407,462 |
Your channel is fantastic. One of the best film channels on YouTube.
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Thanks! There are several really great ones so that is quite the compliment. :)
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407,463 |
I wasn't trying to be cynical, but I guess it did come off that way. Yours is probably a better description.
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I just saw the book's teaching in action, right here in this thread.
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I hate to keep this going, but this playlist has no Seven Lions. This is a cocktease of a list.
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Seven Lions is a little too high energy for my study mixes. I dig that chill out electro/ambient...bonobo, emancipator, blackmill, lotus, some of PL's earlier shit, even some Thievery Corp. As long as it's got a smooth beat and minimal lyrics it's good for me
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407,465 |
You know most of those "old WASPy white people" were actually young and relevant when DSoTM came out. They didn't get their music second hand from a older generation and think they were cool for it, like you obviously do.
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I think you totally misunderstood my comment, but, whatever.
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I did it with one of my own stories, one called "Leaner." And another story we have published, one called "The Aquarium."
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I'll definitely check them out later. I can't help but wonder what Burroughs and Paul Bowles would think of this. I also wonder what Neuromancer would be like in this format. (Quoting from memory, so forgive errors) "The sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel." Way too long to do this with it though.
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Flexible? Ahhh, no. Researching a novel a few years back, I was reading through an Islamic site where people could ask questions relating to personal observance of Ramadan. One of the questions involved a guy who needed to use eye drops for some condition. He was very concerned that using eye drops might "violate the rules" governing Ramadan. Why? Well, because the application of eye drops causes liquid to drain into the throat, and he was concerned that this might break the fast. The advisor cleric went into excruciating detail on why it's okay, citing all kinds of verses in support of his decision. Probably a full page of gobbledygook justifying the use of frikken eye drops.
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But basically your story says that yes he was allowed them. From what I've been told by Muslims, you're allowed to break your fast if sticking to it will cause any health issues such as sick people, the elderly, pregnant women, people who have physical jobs in hot weather, etc. The idea is you make up for it in some other way such as donating to charity or adding extra days on afterwards.
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Sure it'd be nice, but I'd settle for full USB 2, rather than a gimped bus shared between three Ethernet and USB connections. If its the same chipset though, it'll be exactly the same. Also, I see no difference between a pi2 and those pictures. So not trusting this at all.
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And yet people still buy them like crazy despite there being better alternatives for the same price (Odroid C1+ for example, which has proper LAN and USB).
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407,469 |
I have music collection bigger than that. Yes, I need an SD card on top of that.
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How did you manage before 128gb+ was possible even with an sd card?
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You know [this] is the anime song Rockband really needs.
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If they kept the keyboard peripheral active I'd definitely argue that "Good, Or Don't Be" (which is composed similarly but has an acoustic sound) would make a good, quiet "in seclusion, reflective" epilogue to career mode akin to how Rock Band: The Beatles ended with "The End".
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407,471 |
I would choose to have my fight scenes be like Riki-Oh.
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send me a link for the fight that really defines it for you.
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407,472 |
>based on their lyrics. Can you tell me what part of "Wild World" got him banned?
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I think it was actually Peace Train. Its like what google's deep dream would produce if you applied it to folk songs instead of dogs.
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Use the spoiler tags, genius. What you did doesn't really help. thanks.
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Luckily my vision only focuses on any given line of text of a time and blocks out everything else in my light of sight. Oh wait, no it doesnt, I'm human and now I know a big spoiler to the new Star Trek, thanks a lot Gagege you fucktard.
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407,474 |
Can anyone give an ELI5 of what the implications of this are?
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Now that we know graphene *can* be a superconducter, we can start playing around with different methods of making it a superconducter. In the unlikely event one of these methods turns out to be cheap and easy it'd probably result in a huge leap forward for a wide range of technologies.
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Not really. It's marked as a liability in its balance sheet, after all, it's deferred revenue. Given that the deposits can be recalled at any time, Tesla needs to hold cash to fulfill that contractual obligation. It's not exactly working capital, even if it's cash on its balance sheet. There are potentially creative accounting ways of getting around it, but let's face it, $130M is pocket change in a capital intensive industry such as automobiles.
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All loans are marked as a liability on the balance sheet. There is no way tesla will just keep 130m in a bank account doing nothing.
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35, 50(+15), 84(+34), 75(-9), what comes next in this series? Is it 500, or is a more realistic prediction around 100?
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The 75 number was from a few months ago. It looks like they will hit 95+ this year. The sharp increase is because of the new model.
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407,477 |
Yes - but I'm not sure why that's relevant either way. It's *still* not plausible that [possible spoiler](/s "'god' is really a supercomputer that figured out how to reverse entropy").
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late reply, but, it seems more plausible than the idea of a christian god; basically for me it's the most plausible concept for a higher power.
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407,478 |
An OS which runs on a supercomputer simulating a quantum computer doesn't bring the quantum computer closer to reality. It's a bit like having a digital computer OS running on clockwork.
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From what I understand, it's more or less that they developed the OS but they have it working in a simulation enviroment, kind of like using a virtual machine to run Windows. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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407,479 |
I don't really understand the impact of that particular line to be honest. Halsey has been Gerald AKA G-Eazy's girl forever since fairly recently, it was MGK in his last diss that was saying he fucked Halsey, so why does Eminem saying G Eazy is fucking halsey mean something?
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I immediately took it as reference to G-Easy and Halsey getting back together right after MGK was publicly making some kind of move towards her. Even if he was just trying to talk himself up for being *Mr. Steal Your Girl* it was short lived.
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407,480 |
Naw, I mean Queens of the Stone Age alright. Have you *heard* Songs for the Deaf? No disrespect to Kyuss intended, but QotSA have some serious neck-wrecking force of their own. And unlike Kyuss, they're still active (come on, Kyuss plays Kyuss is just a retro show) and relevant.
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I went to the record release for Songs for the Deaf. It was (and continues to be) an incredible record. Rated R may be my favorite, though. I think this band can do no wrong.
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407,481 |
There is still the problem with the google car cutting off another car. This is more of a testament to the other developers car working correctly. The google car most likely would not have merged if it detected the car, but it didn't do it proceeded. Since the roll out of autonomous vehicles won't be all at once this scenario is something to work on because the car cut off might be a real person who can't react. I would say your basic assumption is correct. But only one car worked correctly in this scenario. It's google job now to find out what went wrong.
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> There is still the problem with the google car cutting off another car. There would be if that was what had happened, except that's not what happened. The Audi was *preparing* to move into the next lane, but the Lexus moved there *before* it had. So then the Audi realized it could not make the lane change as it had planned. Nothing was "cut off."
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407,482 |
I want to like nexus phones, but no removable battery or sd card is just so mind mindbogglingly backwards I can't wrap my head around it.
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No removable battery I can live with (Apple has been doing it since time immemorial, AKA 2007 :P). But you're right on the SD card front. An easy fix though, something to look forward to in future releases... hopefully.
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407,483 |
He might write weekly when football starts again. He's always been a football/basketball guy so not much for him to write about at the moment. I think we might get the weekly mailbag and betting articles, especially if his show continues to not do so well
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If the batshit insane NBA finals didn't wake him from his stupor nothing will. He's done.
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407,484 |
In addition to the first *The Force Awakens* trailer which was mentioned elsewhere, I thought the first *[Guardians of the Galaxy]* trailer was pretty perfect. **ooga chaka**
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Never saw that Guardians trailer somehow, it's excellent. Gives you a ton of info without spoiling anything really.
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407,485 |
I very much preferred Alright computer by the same authors.
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Eh, I also enjoyed *A Look Inside Refractory Colours* by the same author.
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407,486 |
Neat technology. But while preventing counterfeiting can be beneficial for the customer, I fear it will mostly end up being used as some kind of an anti-customer DRM.
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It's physical currency. How would DRM even come into play?
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407,487 |
Yes yes a thousand times yes. Mule doesn't get nearly enough love.
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Just saw them live last week. HOLY. SHIT. Been a long time fan, and all the youtube videos I've watched couldn't compare to seeing them live. They don't get nearly enough love, and you definitely have to see them live to truly appreciate the band.
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407,488 |
Let's reverse it: "Ends with *a man* giving a long passionate kiss to a 12-year old **girl**." Now it appears worse.
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Still doesn't hold a candle to Forrest Gump. Make a movie about a drug addicted HIV positive man having sex with a mentally retarded woman and see how well that goes. EDIT: To be fair, a lot about that movie is very, very dark despite it somehow coming off as a relatively feel-good flick. His mom has to bang a school administrator to get him into a normal school, jennys a drug addicted stripper due to heavily implied sexual abuse from her alcoholic father, they send mentally retarded guy to war, etc etc. Shit is DARK.
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407,489 |
Cool list, but calling albums such as Compton and Man on the Moon II "modern day classics" might be a sliiight overexaggeration though.
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Yeah Compton probably isn't a classic but I think MOTM 2 definitely is strictly for Kid Cudi's impact on the game today. IMO all modern rappers are just Kanye + Wayne + Cudi. I do agree with you though I used the term classic loosely. No bad albums here though, I think they're all at the very least 8/10s.
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407,490 |
You had me until Modern Baseball. Modern Baseball has as much in common with Texas Is The Reason as MCR has with Rites Of Spring.
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Yay! I included Modern Baseball as a sort of test/inside joke to see if people actually read the entire list. You did. :)
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407,491 |
Not sure why you got the down vote. To be honest hollywood will never, ever change its ways. This is why a lot of folks are going the indie/vod route to maintain control of the project. This is nothing new, actors have been dealing with this forever. The good ones find a way to get beyond type-cast or limiting their option based off ethnicity. Here are a couple examples. Martin Estevez changed his last name to Sheen (after the cardinal) Oscar Issac actually has a hispanic last name, he is from Guatemala. And guess what, these two fellows have been type-cast as Caucasian characters for most their careers.
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Every ethnicity has a habit of changing their names to more american ones. Caucasian is not a ethnicity btw.
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407,492 |
It is indeed. I might struggle a bit with the language at first but I'm definitely gonna give it an honest shot, thanks! :)
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English is my second language too and I just thought I should tell you that I have read the Iliad multiple times and really enjoyed it. If you have trouble, just take it a bit slow. Also I think there is a Penguin Classics prose translation of the Iliad, though I vastly preferred the poetry. The Penguin Classics translation is by Robert Graves. Could you check who is the translator for your copy? You may have the Everyman's Library edition
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407,493 |
Panorama City by Antoine Wilson. The main character has a lot of the characteristics that I associate with those two authors. One of my favorite books that i read last year.
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Just read the synopsis of it and I'm already intrigued. I'll check this out. Thanks!
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407,494 |
It's a long-running series in which he is the title character; I think just the number of episodes gives it away.
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I think you misunderstand the reference. Sean Bean is referred to as a human spoiler - he dies in many of his roles. So, it's a bit of a reversal to state that he _doesn't_ die. Also, it was a joke.
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407,495 |
I think that's why I like the movie so much, because it's so different from the book. Kubrick really made the film his own.
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Definitely. I guess I would have enjoyed the movie more if I hadn't read the book directly before watching it. One thing I really missed in the movie were the reasons for Jack to get crazy.
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407,496 |
I would be very surprised if there hasn't been a band named LG/BT, yet.
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Introducing the debut hit "Mind My Pronoun(s)" by up and coming "queer-band" LG/BT. You can get this song and more on their new album *"And Q, And I, And A, And More..."*, out now on bandcamp, iTunes, and all other digital platforms, and on limited vinyl pressings.
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407,497 |
I would pay money to see a sound edit replacing that DUUUUUUUUN with a long fart. I mean, that's the same sound most of us heard when we watched this trailer.
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After reading your comment, Epic Movie 2 writer somewhere said "Bingo!" and started taking notes giggling.
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407,498 |
Is this good? It's on my to-read list but I havent heard anything about it either way.
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It's very commercial. If that doesn't bother you, it's very well done. I'm 90 percent through and only found one plot hole so far.
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407,499 |
Jaron and the Long Road to Love. - I Pray For You. Roy Clark - Thank God and Greyhound.
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Pray For You's awesome! Jaron's got some real brutal songs about his exes. [Happy for You] [You'll See Baby]
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