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407,700	Sounds like you are looking for a netbook. The EEEpc's and the HP Mini's are decent, but there are likely newer and cheaper ones that work just as well. Not sure what's up with your confused boyfriend. I've had very few issues with netbooks in my 17 years of being in IT. Maybe time for a boyfriend who doesn't lecture you about shit he is ignorant of?	Nah heh he is not lecturing, I was just hyperboling about his reactions. I think his main reason is I'm impatient is fuck (very very true) and netbooks are a bit slower. Also he said Matlab won't work well on it. I do have a lot of projects that I do in my grad program that involve really long simulations, etc. I'm not sure it will be good for that. Can it handle these things?
407,701	For some reason the rolling Stones never get played on the classic rock station where I live. Like seriously I don't think I've ever heard them on that station	You must not have a station owned by Clear Channel. I hear them many times a day!
407,702	yeah they should have emailed you about it too. I got an email from them but i dont even use evernote i just happened to have an account. oh well no big deal. i havent used the same password twice in like 5 years.	Actually I received an email from them WAY after you posted this... Reddit FTW
407,703	One theory that's pretty ridiculous is that Bruce Wayne is Batman. But that clearly isn't true. It's painfully obvious that Alfred is Batman.	That billionaire playboy? He's too busy socializing at cocktail parties and managing the affairs of the Wayne Foundation
407,704	The blind Japanese gardener, who becomes a mountain hermit right before [maybe during?] the outbreak. Him living in the woods and killing zombies with his gardening tools was the most memorable for me.	Isn't he the one the otaku boy encounters out in the wilderness?
407,705	That's just old though, not outdated. I think ventrilo is still being updated, and I know that teamspeak receives updates.	Yup. Consider how old the core operating systems are. Or the languages. A lot of the world runs on java, c, c++, perl, and objective c.
407,706	There is this one ebook about a dude who discovers the "source" code to basically the universe so he can change reality at will like a wizard. Funny read and very silly, interesting ideas. yea, that one.	Not sure if it's free anymore but I think you're talking about Off to be the Wizard by Scott Meyer
407,707	Not that I know either way but he could be a great artist and a bad live performer	I saw Frank at the New Orleans jazz fest a few years ago, and he was solid as hell. This guy is full of it.
407,708	I'm sure he'll be OK with a random Internet man saying that he disapproves of his opinion on RTJ. He'll be fine.	I'm sure that you could've been more creative than your taste sucks
407,709	This is one of those songs that I could never, ever hear again and be a happy man.	Well 99.99999999% of all songs probably fit into that same category. Can you actually think of a song that, when you're lying on your death bed, would make you exclaim, "If only I could hear that song one more time!!"
407,710	I adored This is why we broke up. I didn't realize he had a new one out again :D I'm excited!	This was the first book of his (post unfortunate events) that I read, I definitely need to check out his catalogue
407,711	Summary: Any USB device can tell the computer it's some other kind of device -- such as a keyboard or a network adapter -- and there are not security measures in place to prevent that.	This is ancient news though. There have been devices that exploit this for years, custom made usb pens that trick the pc into thinking it's a keyboard, so it autoloads and then installs malware. I remember reading about it in 2012.
407,712	How did that work out? Nothing against 30 Seconds to Mars, but QOTSA is my jam and they seem way more of a headliner.	That's what I thought too. QOTSA came out and played an amazing, balls out set. 30 Seconds lost me when Leto started calling everyone up on stage and waving a white flag around like he was Bono.
407,713	Problem is I actually had a 2001 Chevy Malibu that didn't even have a tape deck. So I couldn't even use one of those.	There are 2 ways around it then - either get a cheap AM/FM tuner that broadcasts your music over a weak frequency, or, if you live in a city without many dead stations to use it over, you get an antenna adapter that basically floods your radio's input with your music over-riding the antenna signal entirely. The second requires removing your deck from the dash temporarily, so its not very user friendly, but those old "in car speakerphones" all used to work that way back in the day.
407,714	Czarface - [Escape from Czarkham Asylum] L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - [Taken By the Night] Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - [Thuggin']	If you're looking for some rock-solid hip-hop CZARFACE is the shit. They don't reinvent the wheel, but they do what they do very, very well.
407,715	The need for a keyboard does not equals the need of a desktop. Just look at Microsoft's vision: The upcoming Windows 9 will merge all they 3 operating systems. In the future you will use a phone with the Metro UI, and when you plug it into a monitor it will display the classic Windows desktop UI. This setup works perfect for everything except if you need lots of computing power - but you can offlod the number crunching to the cloud for those tasks. E.g. 3D rendering programs already work this way. On the desktop you work with a low res sketch, and when you press render it sends the task to your 50 CPU render farm. (that runs usually Lunix btw)	Microsoft having a vision in no way implies that their vision is the right one
407,716	Original story? So taking characters with established back stories and cutting away the crap doesn't work is original now? Whatever. Edit: What I can't wrap my mind around is how Pymm is not central to a story or a team he helped found. Blows my mind how everyone is quick to cup Whedon's balls when he is butchering the source material right in front of us. Blatant disregard for all of it, no respect.	Original in that it's using the title Age of Ultron, but isn't an adaptation of the Age of Ultron comic story itself (which requires things they don't have the rights to and is pretty ridiculous and bombastic).
407,717	And . . . ? How does his not throwing them away make you feel?	There should be a rule that you can't post a picture of a book on r/books until after you've read it.
407,718	Can we stop just posting UW on reddit? More than one school is called UW, end the ambiguity. Edit: Phrasing.	Washington certainly isn't the largest. And it isn't substantially larger than others in North America that are typically referred to as "UW". UW\|Students (according to wikipedia) -: \| :- University of Warsaw\|51,700. University of Washington\|45,213. University of Wisconsin-Madison\|43,193. University of Waterloo\|35,360. University of Windsor\|10,349. University of Winipeg\|10,106.
407,719	42% from a proof of concept, first generation model is pretty baller. Esp since is weighs nothing compared to an 85 kWh battery pack. Get that number to 50% and yank 1000lbs of battery out and you could see 100mpg hybrids with some actual power to em.	You can also add in a smaller fast charging capacitor bank. Just to soak up extra power during periods of normal torque requirement to provide potentially massive boost in torque for short burst. You could put muscle cars to shame, for short burst, with a very small engine.
407,720	I am most interested in the Mars refinery for the return trip. How hard is it going to be to get the equipment in place to manufacture rocket propellant out of Martian soil and atmosphere? With solar panels as the only energy source? And they'll need a lot of fuel. Maybe far less to escape Mars' gravity than Earth's, but this is the BFR we're talking about. And which comes first, the refinery or humans on Mars? If it's humans first, they'll need a lander module and leave the BFR in Mars orbit. Which means designing a whole different lander system.	You don't use the soil, just the CO2 in the air. You bring along hydrogen, which is light, and the sabatier reaction gives you the rest. Since it's exothermic there's not much involved comparatively. Process yields CH4 and oxygen which can power rockets easy
407,721	Not exactly Medieval, but as a person interested in world history, 'Dracula: Untold' really made me want to see a serious movie done about Vlad's life and his wars with the Ottomans.	That movie was an abomination, please don't remind me of it
407,722	I want to look them up just to tell them to get back to their post.	Alternatively, if you are a fan of Boogie Nights, you could talk about their awesome bass.
407,723	Anecdotally, I have yet to receive a DOA Seagate drive or have one die on me yet	Well, if we're going by anecdote, I work in an enterprise environment with >1000 users, and we have a mix of Seagate and WD scattered around. I replace drives on a daily basis. 95% of failed drives are Seagate.
407,724	If you like Kitchen, there is also Socrates in Love for more japanese read. On the same tone you can also check out Anni Baobei's works - highly recommended. Her contemporary prose depicts the same sense of isolation and loss yet light-hearted and hopeful with deep appreciation for small simple things in life.	I'm not really bothered by it being specifically Japanese, I just happened to read Kitchen in high school and have loved it ever since, but those definitely sound up my alley! Thanks so much!
407,725	Come on guys, I can't be the only one posting this shit to my FB.	you are man. the newfags bailed on it and are doing a "dream" prank.
407,726	Just saw you guys for my 8th time in Orlando :) How come you guys never publish your lyrics? I hope I'm not too late, I've always wondered. When I'm singing along it's about 30% gibberish!	Steve: Because I forget my own lyrics all the time, so I can fuck up and no one will ever know.
407,727	This is a repost, and the guy is either a complete moron with no clue about protecting valuable data, or the story is fake. What kind of an idiot places a valuable piece of paper underneath someone's pillow and expects it to stay safe???	The kind of idiot who brags about his daughter practicing the ukelele and Japanese and has precious tousled hair in his late forties. That was awkward to read, and he probably doesn't know it.
407,728	also, mouse action on the window the cursor is over, not the window that has focus.	Oh, yes. OS X has this. Very helpful to be able to scroll through documentation without losing focus on your editor.
407,729	A. the song is shit, no surprise there. B. fuck you and your stupid shirt, you think you're so clever for knowing what a tribe called quest is you fucking middle class white faggot. C. the video is shit, it's "LOL RANDOM" bullshit	B. He watched Late Night with Jimmy Fallon once. Also, Jimmy Fallon sucks, TCQ is cool though.
407,730	Some high-school junior is gonna copy this shit word for word in their book report.	And if by doing so, something sticks in the back of their mind for the next 20 years and eventually they read it for realz and then get this message again. Then it all worked out.
407,731	Neither are essential but for my money, I'd read Catch 22. But this isn't really a which is best question is it? It's just a "which next?" question which makes it about as important as a "which breakfast cereal shall I eat" question. Read them both, in any order. There is more pleasure to be had out of 22, but reading isn't just about pleasure. Neither is essential and people's tastes differ. So no answer is "right" for you.	I only ask because it may be a decent amount of time until I read the next one. But since I have you here, what books would you say are "essential"?
407,732	What the hell does Pantera have to do with punk? Or American Idol? And by the way, punk's not dead. [It's just getting started]	Thanks for that. I totally forgot about Asian Man Records until now and glad to see that they're still going. The problem with punk is that too many new bands were trying to emulate the old bands and not adding any creativity to it. This band seems awesome so I'll definitely try out their album.
407,733	He actually wanted Mifune to play Obi-Wan at one point, but it fell through for one reason or another. Obviously Guinness was iconic in the role, but a Toshiro Mifune Obi-Wan would have been bad ass.	Too bad ass. Instead we had to wait til Episode I for Asians in space.
407,734	yeah, you got me. I used to read the wayside story series as a kid. I might have to go out and look for these books sometime.	I think they also have all the books available to read online, like in the link i posted it goes to the pdf of the full book
407,735	"Lemme tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick." -Mr. Brown	That's easy for you to say. You have a cool name.
407,736	You says explicitly in the 10th anniversary edition that it was exactly because he felt it violated the spirit of the strip. Saying it's because he "doesn't like people" is baseless and speculative. I've already had so many celebrities ruined for me. Don't ruin Watterson	Can't edit on my phone, but by "you" I mean "he"
407,737	I never felt that a reading guide was needed. Perhaps you could elaborate on what is it that you are not getting it?	I'm afraid I can't. It's been too long to remember any details, it's just the feeling I distinctly recall. Maybe it had to do with me not being as fluent in English back then, but maybe it's also the feeling of "Wait what? What's happening?" that /u/neverwhere9 is decribing in another comment in this thread, so I'm glad I'm not alone in that.
407,738	John Cheever: The Stories of John Cheever -- all of them have a sort of Gatsby / Mad Men type vibe..if you are interested in the pitfalls of corporate types who can't control their drinking this is a pretty good place to start	...and it has a lot more than that, so even if you aren't interested in drunk corporate types, still buy this book. It is essential.
407,739	Look at the top comment here. Shitting on GM's bailout and totally off topic.	People just take too personal these days. Criticizing something doesn't mean something is bad, it just means it can be improved. But when critiqued they counter attack with something unrelated, like GM, which, to be honest, I don't see as a true Tesla competitor.
407,740	Unless an app is open source, we can't really trust that it's doing what it says it's doing. Yes, perhaps there is provable encryption going on, but I have difficulty considering this "secure."	Secure against what? If a Mossad team is assigned to monitor you, no amount of provably secure open source solutions (are there any?) will not offer you any real security. For mass surveillance by NSA, simple proprietary end to end encrypting apps give you good enough security, especially if those are being implemented by respectable players like [Open Whisper Systems in this case] For any security researcher looking for backdoors or bugs, open source may help a bit, but the actual complexity of the software is the primary factor. I'd say reversing and inspecting the WhatsApp APK package for security should be way easier than assessing OpenSSL.
407,741	> Bump bump. I am confused. Did my comment give you a boner?	What can I say, online archives do it for me. ;)
407,742	Dance With The Devil- Immortal Technique. Maybe not what you had in mind but it is a beautifully constructed song that deserves a listen.	without a doubt, the darkest and most twisted hip-hop song ever recorded.
407,743	The harmless label is being peeled back a little on HGH. It is after all, a growth hormone. It causes everything to grow, including your internal organs. Google "bodybuilder HGH gut" and you'll see how harmless it is.	It is believed by many that hgh gut does not happen unless you mix it with insulin. Besides using therapeutic doses are very different than using it for bodybuilding purposes. But yes, harmless is maybe not the best word. There are however controllable risks.
407,744	Hey guys. I don't have a question I just wanted to say thank you for coming to Portland Maine. Living in a small state in the middle of nowhere I never thought I'd see you guys, Blaze or Kung Fu Vampire. It was a kick ass show and the mosh pit was worth losing my hat and I hope you guys come back soon so we can rock out again.	I saw them in Portland during The Green Book tour but missed the Mirror Mirror tour where the unveiled the wraith
407,745	She's a really nice lady, and actually a big fan of the series. EDIT: Tried to find her youtube panel, but it was deleted...	Yea I know. I'm just saying the fans made it happen not her. She deserves credit too obv
407,746	This movie contains one of the best revenge scenes also, the bad guy is locked up with a gorilla, who then proceeds to rape the bad guy. He's then shipped off in a container with the gorilla, never to be seen again. The dark implication here is that he gets raped to death by this gorilla. Although he did mess with the main characters considerably, this was a disproportionate punishment I would say.	He is seen again, alive after Louis and Billy Ray ask "whatever happened to Beeks". He is in the cage going on a boat apparently in love with the gorilla. The shipping guys argue a little over there being two gorillas in the cage instead of one.
407,747	[The Wheel of Time] by Robert Jordan. It's a very long series with some flaws, but it has some great characters (and character development) and an extremely detailed world. The main problems with it are that the female characters are generally not written very well, and that it gets infuriatingly long-winded and slow in some of the later books (mostly 8-11, then it picks up significantly in 12-14). But I think it's worth reading anyway. You should also look into all of the books by Brandon Sanderson (especially the Mistborn series). He co-wrote the last three books in The Wheel of Time series since Robert Jordan died several years before they could be finished, and to be honest he's a better writer in several ways.	Thanks for the suggestion! I'm going to college so I probably won't have time to read a long series like that, but I'll check it out
407,748	If drones are that essential for their operations, I can't fathom that they'll ever leave the harbor without ready-to-fly drones on board. Moreover, how many designs could they possibly need??	Ships can carry small drones and launch them with a small catapult. Here's a ground based one. This is research, so it may not ever become useful. If they could print everything, including the electronics, then it becomes very interesting.
407,749	The 70s/80s/90s stations are the worst about that. I don't listen to an exclusively 80s station to hear the top 40 hits from each year of the 80s. I can go to a grocery store for that. "Take On Me" is a great song, but I've heard it enough. Do some deep discovery for god's sake, there must still be stuff from those decades that hasn't been played to death.	iv been waiting for years for the call, all my friends make fun of me for being stuck in the 70's, and 80's but there is so much good music still to be found!!! my dream is host a radio show with these tunes but i dont see that happening .
407,750	He did just do one movie between Kill Bill and Inglorious Basterds. And I'm pretty sure Deathproof wasn't planned to be a block buster. And Kill Bill was a huge success, so I don't think that this is the way he thinks. Also he mentioned a couple times, that the next movie might be his last and I believe he rather wants to go out in style then do a "save" movie.	I didn't know he said that last bit. After hearing that, I have little doubt it'll be good stuff.
407,751	You came up with that from one sentence? You must be some kind of genius. You should come to reality, we could have a beer. It's fun, I promise.	Until reality takes away your beer and you start telling us that we need to just accept that that's how things are.
407,752	the last thing we need is the government controlling it now.	The government won't be controlling it. The classification as a utility will be modeled after how the mobile phone industry is handled now: pretty much hands off (no rate setting, for example) with only a couple of sections of the code (definitions of fair access and non-discriminatory, IIRC) applying and the rest not at all. So the government won't be taking anything over. There will just be mandated peering with wholesale prices and no prioritization of traffic, except in disaster situations.
407,753	I thought the Vader costume was terrible the helmet was coming off while he talked he was badass nonetheless	Vader was too clean. Compared to Ep 4 which had damage and less shine.
407,754	Hey reddit. I'm interested to hear your thoughts on VR - things that you're looking forward to, things that need to change before you buy in. I'm also interested in hearing your favourite VR headset so far. There are the main ones - Oculus and HTC Vive, but there are also tonnes of startups making their own.	It will be great for travel or for expensive products, before buying them. Gaming and pron will be huge too, but the VR travel is a completely new thing that might emerge. A 30 minute VR walk on a jungle path might be interesting, if the resolution is good enough.
407,755	The Great Gatsby was probably my favorite book during high school. The most recent movie is the worst piece of trash I have ever seen.	I don't think the recent adaptation did much of anything but permanently establish Gatsby as an aesthetically trendy prom theme for the next 10 years.
407,756	Well, back when this album was in it's heyday, Iron Maiden got tons of airplay. Number of the Beast also got a ton of airplay. That was pretty much their break out album in North America. Source: I grew up in the 80's.	I grew up through most of the 80s and all of the 90s, and listened to three hard rock/metal stations in the Chicagoland area the whole time. I never heard Maiden played once, ever, until well into the 2000s. In fact, I never even knew that metal outside of bands like Metallica even existed until I saw Run To The Hills playing late at night on VH1 in like 1997. It always felt to me like an entire branch of music that would be perfectly at home on stations like 103.5 The Blaze and 97.9 The Loop was, for some reason, intentionally suppressed.
407,757	B-Grade schlock fest starring Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, and Javier Bardem?	That would make it all the more entertaining. Who's Angelina Jolie playing? Haven't heard she was in it.
407,758	The only thing that would make it better is: - an actual picture of the Level 3 router sitting here. - the Verizon router sitting there. - the four cables running between them. - and someone using MSPaint to draw four more lines between them	Datacenters tend to have big signs that say "No Photography Allowed". While it isn't a big deal if you're showing off your new rack buildout, a pic of the Verizon and L3 routers would blow up.
407,759	The scene with the church basement dead body mural actually scared me (granted I was 14 ish). The sense of dread when Justin Long finds all these terribly rotted/posed bodies and that the thing that did this was going to come back really soon was what got me.	Personally, I really enjoyed that film. It's not often the monster in a horror movie uses a fucking battle axe.
407,760	I don't understand why fines would go to the police force. They should go towards funding programs in jails or cleaning streets or something.	Even worse is when officers are allowed to retain confiscated cash and vehicles. . .
407,761	This may be a shitty explanation, but I thought AppleDane meant it was a joke in the sense that if you went back to Italy before Columbus sailed to the New World, and you asked for something without tomatoes, you might get pasta dishes that have tomatoes today.	What kind of drip coffee are you drinking that has sugar already added in the brewing process?
407,762	Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy is a great starter book!	Oh wow I actually have that book in my house so that's perfect! Thank you so much for the recommendation
407,763	if(CheckForChildPorn(image)) { deletePicture(image); } //Sorry for any mistakes in the syntax, I'm not a programmer.	More likely would be: if image.CheckforChildPorn. { deletePicture } The exact functioning of the method CheckforChildPorn is a serious implementation issue of course. Hopefully it involves something like "AskSysopForTheirOpinion" somewhere in there.
407,764	I'm not sure if I could read the Harry Potter books after seeing all the movies. Unless I found out quickly the books are 10x more detailed.	The books are 100x more detailed. (Disclaimer: only seen up until the fourth film, then I gave up).
407,765	This is my work. I'd be happy to try to answer any questions.	If you're encasing it in bubble-wrap, how does the steam having anywhere to go.
407,766	Troll, has to be, or are you really such an ignorant pissy little whining bitch? I suppose you just brood all day and go to the mall in your skinny jeans and spend the allowance your parents give you at hot topic. Get a life.	this is ad-hominem. Address my contentions if you want an intellectual debate, or perhaps you are just content flinging feces like an ape. Do you how many different ways oil is used, and how much the economy depends on it? a hint: lots.
407,767	It's not exactly hard to have its satcom designed with rolling keys so that nothing short of some body physically boarding it could hack it (and that is what a self destruct is for) Military doesn't do what civilian government does.	Actually, that's a good point. What countermeasures would a ship like this have to repel boarders ? You could have a group of sky divers parachute down into nearby water and climb aboard. If they can access the hardware, it would be a lot easier to hack. Would make for a good movie at least.
407,768	When they dropped boss mode at DOTD it was fucking nuts	DOTD was crazy fun. I'm just getting through my withdrawals
407,769	They keep saying lasers, but that prototype video just looks like it's a hot wire...	Pshhh, you're just being pedantic, they're basically the same thing.
407,770	This is some amazing shit. Makes me want to see the entire trilogy again.	Unfortunately the last two movies never fulfilled the promise of the first.
407,771	What I've found is a lot of the time i've invested into DOTA2 has been turned around because if I have cosmetics that don't interest me I sell them on the market and in turn I use that money for DLC in other games or spend the money for cosmetics that I do like.	As I'm aware, Dota is a bit less toxic a trading market than TF2, but I understand what you mean.
407,772	Sure they "won" but against who? Marvel Studios bowed out for this one. What or who else would they be up against in this hypothetical battle? I guess Star Wars 7 would be the closest and that was huge yesterday.	Fox is later on today. They'll have Deadpool and X-Men Apocalypse. Legendary' s also later with Warcraft.
407,773	In all honesty, kind of all over the place. I think it depends on personal preference; from what I've seen Stephen King fans can't decide which ones are great and which aren't. Keep in mind these books were all written over the course of thirty years.	And it is certainly not as if he has ever stayed in one direction with anything so I can imagine the confusion tbh.
407,774	> a typical laptop now runs about 10 hours Wut?! Where are these mythical 10 hr long laptops?! I can barely get 3 hours from my supposedly 5 hour capable laptop.	Ultrabooks are rated for around that much. But as always YMMV
407,775	everyone bootleg Hannibal and 30 Rock! ^(the latter show finished but I can’t afford Hulu)	It's a $2 addition to your Spotify account if you already pay for it.
407,776	So what I gathered from this is that Marvel still can't make a good villain besides Loki?	It's just that they are too powerful when combined. Hopefully that will change in the next movie. I just want someone to challenge them and pose a real threat. This movie in particular had the potential for that but didn't live it up to my hype in my opinion. I still don't regret watching it, I was just expecting more :)
407,777	> the ones that aren't academically relevant. Is there such a thing?	Definitely, there's a ton of mass-market paperback novels published every year that are in no way notable. People might want to study them in the future, so it's important to preserve them for posterity, but right now they hold little to no academic value.
407,778	Thanks, many people say the Kindle Paperwhite is great. However reading at night with a device like the Paperwhite is the blue light which it uses. It should be bad for the body and I am hoping to find a device which doesn‘t use it.	Don’t worry about it. There is nothing harmful about the color temperature of the Kindle paperwhite.
407,779	they had no way of knowing they were making a bad decision, they bought something they thought was legitimate and someone defrauded them of their money .-. they were stolen from, it's not their fault and victim blaming in this case just isn't fair	I don't think the event organizers specifically did this with the intent to steal their money. I think they legitimately wanted to do the festival - but in reality they are a bunch of incompetent dumbasses who thought it would be easy. Basically, instead of planning the logistics and organizing it first, and then raising the money. They did it the opposite.
407,780	I am seeing them next week in TN plan on picking up the LP+7" but in the meantime listening to this on the roadtrip there.	Nooooooooo! Sorry, I just have a rule that I never listen to the band I'm going to see on the way to a show. It's like snacking before eating what will likely be one of the best meals of your life.
407,781	The War on Drugs \- Lost in the Dream \(the entire album\) The songs aren't about driving or trucking, but they've got that Middle America Seger/Petty vibe.	I've always heard War on Drugs compared to Bruce Springsteen, but yeah, good album.. Saw them live once was damn good. Wouldn't listen to it driving truck though... Too sleepy.
407,782	I don't know. Harry Potter got kids to read, and those series are excellent, they have a great storyline, and the characters even mature with the different books. But Twilight... bad prose, bad literature. I imagine it will just make people consume more of the same crap. Reading just for the sake of reading isn't really good and it's not going to make anybody better.	What's wrong with reading just for the sake of reading?
407,783	With the proliferation of countless American Idol clones on television, we live in an era where singing talent seems more important than substance, style, or any of the other elements that make up good music. The idea of giving people record contracts just because they have "big" voices doesn't lead to worthwhile creative output. A great instrument is impressive, but like any other it's only as good as what you do with it. A great voice with nothing to say can only impress for a short while.	Music has been saying the same things for thousands of years. Some people just do it better than the rest. You can have all the style and other elements that make music, if you have a vocal part without talent you end up with either a sound that's not great, or a sound that utilizes technology to fix it up (like autotune).
407,784	Every single hater I know who I've lent my reader to ends up buying their own. TBH at this point I think it's safe to say people who are against e-books are luddites. The only real downside to an ebook is no color and small screen size. If I could have a 10-12" color kindle for a reasonable price I would probably never buy a paper book again.	Yep, agreed. Once you use it, it is hard not to love. I am a HUGE print book fan. I have well over 1,500 hardcovers in my personal library, and will buy more over time, because I love them. But my Kindle is clearly a better product than a print book (or more accurately, hundreds of them).
407,785	Actually, anyone who likes Lovecraft, I would 150% recommend you go see Prometheus, right now.	You're so right ! This is basically At the Mountains of Madness in Space !
407,786	Not if the missing member is Ward. He sucks by himself but he pairs so god damn well with Ced's vocals and Omar's guitar parts.	how you gonna play one armed scissor without that dude yelling CUT AWAY CUT AWAY
407,787	I hate how people have to preface any description of birth of a nation with "aside from the racism". Can we really not look past a 100 year old example of black face to look at how something changed the world without first addressing racism. You wouldn't say "aside from the racism the slave trade had huge effects on the world economy" or "aside from the racism the holocaust was an important event". The racism debate has been on going for years it's practically ingrained the very mention of it you don't need a silly disclaimer to prove that you aren't racist.	Agreed. Just because we don't agree with a film's morals or prejudices, doesn't mean we can't love it for what it is. I'm sure a lot of black people loved Birth of a Nation for how great of a film it was, because either they recognized it was probably Griffith just depicting the mentality at the time, or they came to terms with how it was a sign of the times. And one director's response to Birth of a Nation made him [one of the only black silent film directors.]
407,788	I'VE BEEN FOUND OUT. Do you also get people thinking you're just really into nail art?	Lol, no. Does that really happen to you? I created the account specifically for the AMA. The other names just weren't appropriate.
407,789	[I can't wait to steal its rich, meaty insides.]	just bust it open and eat those rich, meaty insides. mmm
407,790	Because, once I had to leave the country whereas they were playing in this very nice small venue that I loved in the city where I was leaving .. And another time I had my ticket, I was in the right place at the right time and I was so looking forward to it and they cancelled.. And I was so happy to be into a band when they start and get to see them at the beginning of their carreer. And now, it's not the beginning anymore and I think I've missed something.	They still play Wake Up and most of Funeral at their concerts.
407,791	Fleet Foxes, I've never listened to them except for one song reccomended by a friend, what album do I start with?	They only have two albums and an ep. Listen to their first album first, but check it all out.
407,792	Agreed, I blame American Idol and the manufactured pop artists that come out of that school of thought. Most of them, including Drake, were actors who were taught how to be musicians by PR teams. Though good music can come out of a manufactured artist, it's nowhere near what can come out of a solid self-taught/raised musician.	> Drake, were actors who were taught how to be musicians by PR teams. Remember where I was making fun of you for being ignorant? Case in point. Drake rapped before he was an actor, he made very little money on the TV show and fell into obscurity after he left. After self-producing and recording 2 mixtapes, he started to get a little bit of a buzz until being picked up by Jas Prince who sent the tapes to Lil Wayne in 2008. He was self-producing and making his own shit for years before he ever got picked up, and that was pure chance, just like most artists.
407,793	With three Paradise Lost movies, I cannot understand why West of Memphis needs to exist.	Because it has Peter Jackson's name on it, and will basically usurp the Paradise Lost movies...which I will admit, that I need to see.
407,794	I will never understand why these guys are famous. These "songs" make me want to rip out my hair.	It's because he is regarded as one of these most amazing bass players of the 90s.they did the South Park theme even....why you people all so angry over a song lol
407,795	You guys are receiving this all wrong. I adore the bends; but if radiohead did what they did BACKWARDS, the sound would be much less experimental for them and would not be as highly acclaimed for most.	People are "receiving it all wrong" because your grasp on the English language is shaky at best. Really, really hope it isn't your first language.
407,796	He said the place was a cesspool and is clearly upset by this conversation that has nothing to do with him. It's pretty clear why that would be the case. Kinda like how you said everyone in there is an asshole. I don't get your confusion. Same high and mighty bullshit, "I'm an atheist and I steer clear of that place." Yeah right.	I'm an atheist also, and I also steer well clear. It's the militant atheism I can't stand. So am I religious now?
407,797	>Switching everything to photovoltaic wouldn't "circulate" carbon, but wouldn't get rid of it either. So over all, photovoltaic and this solar reactor system both generate 0 carbon, making them equal in emissions. The problem is that this is like the old statistics jokes. "A statistician is one who will tell you with your head in the oven and your feet in the freezer overall you are very comfortable." If we remove emissions entirely atmospheric CO2 will drop due to photosynthesis. This system is only very slightly better and if it supplants systems that are much better then it is worse.	>This system is only very slightly better and if it supplants systems that are much better then it is worse. What system is it supplanting that is much better? Photovoltaics make sense for providing grid power, but aren't very good for vehicles. Using a solar reactor to make gasoline to power vehicles will be replacing our current system of drilling for oil. I don't think that we need to find a "one size fits all" type of energy source, so this new one could be a valuable addition to our current list of viable "clean" energy sources.
407,798	I'll just leave this here... Will be making my own video this week.	ARGH. I will buy these like the consumer-whore bitch I am. :(
407,799	I loved that so much. The long, detailed versions of how the virus initially spread were great.	I'm currently half way through the unabridged audio book. I have been wondering which parts weren't in the original. Is it most of the new stuff in that first third of the book? The unabridged version really draws it out forever.

407,700

Sounds like you are looking for a netbook. The EEEpc's and the HP Mini's are decent, but there are likely newer and cheaper ones that work just as well. Not sure what's up with your confused boyfriend. I've had very few issues with netbooks in my 17 years of being in IT. Maybe time for a boyfriend who doesn't lecture you about shit he is ignorant of?

Nah heh he is not lecturing, I was just hyperboling about his reactions. I think his main reason is I'm impatient is fuck (very very true) and netbooks are a bit slower. Also he said Matlab won't work well on it. I do have a lot of projects that I do in my grad program that involve really long simulations, etc. I'm not sure it will be good for that. Can it handle these things?

407,701

For some reason the rolling Stones never get played on the classic rock station where I live. Like seriously I don't think I've ever heard them on that station

You must not have a station owned by Clear Channel. I hear them many times a day!

407,702

yeah they should have emailed you about it too. I got an email from them but i dont even use evernote i just happened to have an account. oh well no big deal. i havent used the same password twice in like 5 years.

Actually I received an email from them WAY after you posted this... Reddit FTW

407,703

One theory that's pretty ridiculous is that Bruce Wayne is Batman. But that clearly isn't true. It's painfully obvious that Alfred is Batman.

That billionaire playboy? He's too busy socializing at cocktail parties and managing the affairs of the Wayne Foundation

407,704

The blind Japanese gardener, who becomes a mountain hermit right before [maybe during?] the outbreak. Him living in the woods and killing zombies with his gardening tools was the most memorable for me.

Isn't he the one the otaku boy encounters out in the wilderness?

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That's just old though, not outdated. I think ventrilo is still being updated, and I know that teamspeak receives updates.

Yup. Consider how old the core operating systems are. Or the languages. A lot of the world runs on java, c, c++, perl, and objective c.

407,706

There is this one ebook about a dude who discovers the "source" code to basically the universe so he can change reality at will like a wizard. Funny read and very silly, interesting ideas. yea, that one.

Not sure if it's free anymore but I think you're talking about Off to be the Wizard by Scott Meyer

407,707

Not that I know either way but he could be a great artist and a bad live performer

I saw Frank at the New Orleans jazz fest a few years ago, and he was solid as hell. This guy is full of it.

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I'm sure he'll be OK with a random Internet man saying that he disapproves of his opinion on RTJ. He'll be fine.

I'm sure that you could've been more creative than your taste sucks

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This is one of those songs that I could never, ever hear again and be a happy man.

Well 99.99999999% of all songs probably fit into that same category. Can you actually think of a song that, when you're lying on your death bed, would make you exclaim, "If only I could hear that song one more time!!"

407,710

I adored This is why we broke up. I didn't realize he had a new one out again :D I'm excited!

This was the first book of his (post unfortunate events) that I read, I definitely need to check out his catalogue

407,711

*Summary:* Any USB device can tell the computer it's some other kind of device -- such as a keyboard or a network adapter -- and there are not security measures in place to prevent that.

This is ancient news though. There have been devices that exploit this for years, custom made usb pens that trick the pc into thinking it's a keyboard, so it autoloads and then installs malware. I remember reading about it in 2012.

407,712

How did that work out? Nothing against 30 Seconds to Mars, but QOTSA is my jam and they seem way more of a headliner.

That's what I thought too. QOTSA came out and played an amazing, balls out set. 30 Seconds lost me when Leto started calling everyone up on stage and waving a white flag around like he was Bono.

407,713

Problem is I actually had a 2001 Chevy Malibu that didn't even have a tape deck. So I couldn't even use one of those.

There are 2 ways around it then - either get a cheap AM/FM tuner that broadcasts your music over a weak frequency, or, if you live in a city without many dead stations to use it over, you get an antenna adapter that basically floods your radio's input with your music over-riding the antenna signal entirely. The second requires removing your deck from the dash temporarily, so its not very user friendly, but those old "in car speakerphones" all used to work that way back in the day.

407,714

Czarface - [Escape from Czarkham Asylum] L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - [Taken By the Night] Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - [Thuggin']

If you're looking for some rock-solid hip-hop CZARFACE is the shit. They don't reinvent the wheel, but they do what they do very, very well.

407,715

The need for a keyboard does not equals the need of a desktop. Just look at Microsoft's vision: The upcoming Windows 9 will merge all they 3 operating systems. In the future you will use a phone with the Metro UI, and when you plug it into a monitor it will display the classic Windows desktop UI. This setup works perfect for everything except if you need lots of computing power - but you can offlod the number crunching to the cloud for those tasks. E.g. 3D rendering programs already work this way. On the desktop you work with a low res sketch, and when you press render it sends the task to your 50 CPU render farm. (that runs usually Lunix btw)

Microsoft having a vision in no way implies that their vision is the right one

407,716

Original story? So taking characters with established back stories and cutting away the crap doesn't work is original now? Whatever. Edit: What I can't wrap my mind around is how Pymm is not central to a story or a team he helped found. Blows my mind how everyone is quick to cup Whedon's balls when he is butchering the source material right in front of us. Blatant disregard for all of it, no respect.

Original in that it's using the title *Age of Ultron*, but isn't an adaptation of the *Age of Ultron* comic story itself (which requires things they don't have the rights to and is pretty ridiculous and bombastic).

407,717

And . . . ? How does his not throwing them away make you *feel*?

There should be a rule that you can't post a picture of a book on r/books until after you've read it.

407,718

Can we stop just posting UW on reddit? More than one school is called UW, end the ambiguity. Edit: Phrasing.

Washington certainly isn't the largest. And it isn't substantially larger than others in North America that are typically referred to as "UW". UW|Students (according to wikipedia) -: | :- University of Warsaw|51,700. **University of Washington**|45,213. University of Wisconsin-Madison|43,193. University of Waterloo|35,360. University of Windsor|10,349. University of Winipeg|10,106.

407,719

42% from a proof of concept, first generation model is pretty baller. Esp since is weighs nothing compared to an 85 kWh battery pack. Get that number to 50% and yank 1000lbs of battery out and you could see 100mpg hybrids with some actual power to em.

You can also add in a smaller fast charging capacitor bank. Just to soak up extra power during periods of normal torque requirement to provide potentially massive boost in torque for short burst. You could put muscle cars to shame, for short burst, with a very small engine.

407,720

I am most interested in the Mars refinery for the return trip. How hard is it going to be to get the equipment in place to manufacture rocket propellant out of Martian soil and atmosphere? With solar panels as the only energy source? And they'll need a lot of fuel. Maybe far less to escape Mars' gravity than Earth's, but this is the BFR we're talking about. And which comes first, the refinery or humans on Mars? If it's humans first, they'll need a lander module and leave the BFR in Mars orbit. Which means designing a whole different lander system.

You don't use the soil, just the CO2 in the air. You bring along hydrogen, which is light, and the sabatier reaction gives you the rest. Since it's exothermic there's not much involved comparatively. Process yields CH4 and oxygen which can power rockets easy

407,721

Not exactly Medieval, but as a person interested in world history, 'Dracula: Untold' really made me want to see a serious movie done about Vlad's life and his wars with the Ottomans.

That movie was an abomination, please don't remind me of it

407,722

I want to look them up just to tell them to get back to their post.

Alternatively, if you are a fan of Boogie Nights, you could talk about their awesome bass.

407,723

Anecdotally, I have yet to receive a DOA Seagate drive or have one die on me yet

Well, if we're going by anecdote, I work in an enterprise environment with >1000 users, and we have a mix of Seagate and WD scattered around. I replace drives on a daily basis. 95% of failed drives are Seagate.

407,724

If you like Kitchen, there is also Socrates in Love for more japanese read. On the same tone you can also check out Anni Baobei's works - highly recommended. Her contemporary prose depicts the same sense of isolation and loss yet light-hearted and hopeful with deep appreciation for small simple things in life.

I'm not really bothered by it being specifically Japanese, I just happened to read Kitchen in high school and have loved it ever since, but those definitely sound up my alley! Thanks so much!

407,725

Come on guys, I can't be the only one posting this shit to my FB.

you are man. the newfags bailed on it and are doing a "dream" prank.

407,726

Just saw you guys for my 8th time in Orlando :) How come you guys never publish your lyrics? I hope I'm not too late, I've always wondered. When I'm singing along it's about 30% gibberish!

Steve: Because I forget my own lyrics all the time, so I can fuck up and no one will ever know.

407,727

This is a repost, and the guy is either a complete moron with no clue about protecting valuable data, or the story is fake. What kind of an idiot places a valuable piece of paper underneath someone's pillow and expects it to stay safe???

The kind of idiot who brags about his daughter practicing the ukelele and Japanese and has precious tousled hair in his late forties. That was awkward to read, and he probably doesn't know it.

407,728

also, mouse action on the window the cursor is over, not the window that has focus.

Oh, yes. OS X has this. Very helpful to be able to scroll through documentation without losing focus on your editor.

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A. the song is shit, no surprise there. B. fuck you and your stupid shirt, you think you're so clever for knowing what a tribe called quest is you fucking middle class white faggot. C. the video is shit, it's "LOL RANDOM" bullshit

B. He watched Late Night with Jimmy Fallon once. Also, Jimmy Fallon sucks, TCQ is cool though.

407,730

Some high-school junior is gonna copy this shit word for word in their book report.

And if by doing so, something sticks in the back of their mind for the next 20 years and eventually they read it for realz and then get this message again. Then it all worked out.

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Neither are essential but for my money, I'd read Catch 22. But this isn't really a which is best question is it? It's just a "which next?" question which makes it about as important as a "which breakfast cereal shall I eat" question. Read them both, in any order. There is more pleasure to be had out of 22, but reading isn't just about pleasure. Neither is essential and people's tastes differ. So no answer is "right" for you.

I only ask because it may be a decent amount of time until I read the next one. But since I have you here, what books would you say are "essential"?

407,732

What the hell does Pantera have to do with punk? Or American Idol? And by the way, punk's not dead. [It's just getting started]

Thanks for that. I totally forgot about Asian Man Records until now and glad to see that they're still going. The problem with punk is that too many new bands were trying to emulate the old bands and not adding any creativity to it. This band seems awesome so I'll definitely try out their album.

407,733

He actually wanted Mifune to play Obi-Wan at one point, but it fell through for one reason or another. Obviously Guinness was iconic in the role, but a Toshiro Mifune Obi-Wan would have been bad ass.

Too bad ass. Instead we had to wait til Episode I for Asians in space.

407,734

yeah, you got me. I used to read the wayside story series as a kid. I might have to go out and look for these books sometime.

I think they also have all the books available to read online, like in the link i posted it goes to the pdf of the full book

407,735

"Lemme tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick." -Mr. Brown

That's easy for you to say. You have a cool name.

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You says explicitly in the 10th anniversary edition that it was exactly because he felt it violated the spirit of the strip. Saying it's because he "doesn't like people" is baseless and speculative. I've already had so many celebrities ruined for me. Don't ruin Watterson

Can't edit on my phone, but by "you" I mean "he"

407,737

I never felt that a reading guide was needed. Perhaps you could elaborate on what is it that you are not *getting it*?

I'm afraid I can't. It's been too long to remember any details, it's just the feeling I distinctly recall. Maybe it had to do with me not being as fluent in English back then, but maybe it's also the feeling of "Wait what? What's happening?" that /u/neverwhere9 is decribing in another comment in this thread, so I'm glad I'm not alone in that.

407,738

John Cheever: The Stories of John Cheever -- all of them have a sort of Gatsby / Mad Men type vibe..if you are interested in the pitfalls of corporate types who can't control their drinking this is a pretty good place to start

...and it has a lot more than that, so even if you *aren't* interested in drunk corporate types, still buy this book. It is essential.

407,739

Look at the top comment here. Shitting on GM's bailout and totally off topic.

People just take too personal these days. Criticizing something doesn't mean something is bad, it just means it can be improved. But when critiqued they counter attack with something unrelated, like GM, which, to be honest, I don't see as a true Tesla competitor.

407,740

Unless an app is open source, we can't really trust that it's doing what it says it's doing. Yes, perhaps there is provable encryption going on, but I have difficulty considering this "secure."

Secure against what? If a Mossad team is assigned to monitor you, no amount of provably secure open source solutions (are there any?) will not offer you any real security. For mass surveillance by NSA, simple proprietary end to end encrypting apps give you good enough security, especially if those are being implemented by respectable players like [Open Whisper Systems in this case] For any security researcher looking for backdoors or bugs, open source may help a bit, but the actual complexity of the software is the primary factor. I'd say reversing and inspecting the WhatsApp APK package for security should be way easier than assessing OpenSSL.

407,741

> Bump bump. I am confused. Did my comment give you a boner?

What can I say, online archives do it for me. ;)

407,742

Dance With The Devil- Immortal Technique. Maybe not what you had in mind but it is a beautifully constructed song that deserves a listen.

without a doubt, the darkest and most twisted hip-hop song ever recorded.

407,743

The harmless label is being peeled back a little on HGH. It is after all, a growth hormone. It causes everything to grow, including your internal organs. Google "bodybuilder HGH gut" and you'll see how harmless it is.

It is believed by many that hgh gut does not happen unless you mix it with insulin. Besides using therapeutic doses are very different than using it for bodybuilding purposes. But yes, harmless is maybe not the best word. There are however controllable risks.

407,744

Hey guys. I don't have a question I just wanted to say thank you for coming to Portland Maine. Living in a small state in the middle of nowhere I never thought I'd see you guys, Blaze or Kung Fu Vampire. It was a kick ass show and the mosh pit was worth losing my hat and I hope you guys come back soon so we can rock out again.

I saw them in Portland during The Green Book tour but missed the Mirror Mirror tour where the unveiled the wraith

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She's a really nice lady, and actually a big fan of the series. EDIT: Tried to find her youtube panel, but it was deleted...

Yea I know. I'm just saying the fans made it happen not her. She deserves credit too obv

407,746

This movie contains one of the best revenge scenes also, the bad guy is locked up with a gorilla, who then proceeds to rape the bad guy. He's then shipped off in a container with the gorilla, never to be seen again. The dark implication here is that he gets raped to death by this gorilla. Although he did mess with the main characters considerably, this was a disproportionate punishment I would say.

He is seen again, alive after Louis and Billy Ray ask "whatever happened to Beeks". He is in the cage going on a boat apparently in love with the gorilla. The shipping guys argue a little over there being two gorillas in the cage instead of one.

407,747

[The Wheel of Time] by Robert Jordan. It's a very long series with some flaws, but it has some great characters (and character development) and an extremely detailed world. The main problems with it are that the female characters are generally not written very well, and that it gets infuriatingly long-winded and slow in some of the later books (mostly 8-11, then it picks up significantly in 12-14). But I think it's worth reading anyway. You should also look into all of the books by Brandon Sanderson (especially the Mistborn series). He co-wrote the last three books in The Wheel of Time series since Robert Jordan died several years before they could be finished, and to be honest he's a better writer in several ways.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm going to college so I probably won't have time to read a long series like that, but I'll check it out

407,748

If drones are that essential for their operations, I can't fathom that they'll ever leave the harbor without ready-to-fly drones on board. Moreover, how many designs could they possibly need??

Ships can carry small drones and launch them with a small catapult. Here's a ground based one. This is research, so it may not ever become useful. If they could print everything, including the electronics, then it becomes very interesting.

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The 70s/80s/90s stations are the worst about that. I don't listen to an exclusively 80s station to hear the top 40 hits from each year of the 80s. I can go to a grocery store for that. "Take On Me" is a great song, but I've heard it enough. Do some deep discovery for god's sake, there must still be stuff from those decades that hasn't been played to death.

iv been waiting for years for the call, all my friends make fun of me for being stuck in the 70's, and 80's but there is so much good music still to be found!!! my dream is host a radio show with these tunes but i dont see that happening .

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He did just do one movie between Kill Bill and Inglorious Basterds. And I'm pretty sure Deathproof wasn't planned to be a block buster. And Kill Bill was a huge success, so I don't think that this is the way he thinks. Also he mentioned a couple times, that the next movie might be his last and I believe he rather wants to go out in style then do a "save" movie.

I didn't know he said that last bit. After hearing that, I have little doubt it'll be good stuff.

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You came up with that from one sentence? You must be some kind of genius. You should come to reality, we could have a beer. It's fun, I promise.

Until reality takes away your beer and you start telling us that we need to just accept that that's how things are.

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the last thing we need is the government controlling it now.

The government won't be controlling it. The classification as a utility will be modeled after how the mobile phone industry is handled now: pretty much hands off (no rate setting, for example) with only a couple of sections of the code (definitions of fair access and non-discriminatory, IIRC) applying and the rest not at all. So the government won't be taking anything over. There will just be mandated peering with wholesale prices and no prioritization of traffic, except in disaster situations.

407,753

I thought the Vader costume was terrible the helmet was coming off while he talked he was badass nonetheless

Vader was too clean. Compared to Ep 4 which had damage and less shine.

407,754

Hey reddit. I'm interested to hear your thoughts on VR - things that you're looking forward to, things that need to change before you buy in. I'm also interested in hearing your favourite VR headset so far. There are the main ones - Oculus and HTC Vive, but there are also tonnes of startups making their own.

It will be great for travel or for expensive products, before buying them. Gaming and pron will be huge too, but the VR travel is a completely new thing that might emerge. A 30 minute VR walk on a jungle path might be interesting, if the resolution is good enough.

407,755

The Great Gatsby was probably my favorite book during high school. The most recent movie is the worst piece of trash I have ever seen.

I don't think the recent adaptation did much of anything but permanently establish *Gatsby* as an aesthetically trendy prom theme for the next 10 years.

407,756

Well, back when this album was in it's heyday, Iron Maiden got tons of airplay. Number of the Beast also got a ton of airplay. That was pretty much their break out album in North America. Source: I grew up in the 80's.

I grew up through most of the 80s and all of the 90s, and listened to three hard rock/metal stations in the Chicagoland area the whole time. I never heard Maiden played once, ever, until well into the 2000s. In fact, I never even knew that metal outside of bands like Metallica even existed until I saw Run To The Hills playing late at night on VH1 in like 1997. It always felt to me like an entire branch of music that would be perfectly at home on stations like 103.5 The Blaze and 97.9 The Loop was, for some reason, intentionally suppressed.

407,757

B-Grade schlock fest starring Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, and Javier Bardem?

That would make it all the more entertaining. Who's Angelina Jolie playing? Haven't heard she was in it.

407,758

The only thing that would make it better is: - an actual picture of the Level 3 router sitting here. - the Verizon router sitting there. - the four cables running between them. - and someone using MSPaint to draw four more lines between them

Datacenters tend to have big signs that say "No Photography Allowed". While it isn't a big deal if you're showing off your new rack buildout, a pic of the Verizon and L3 routers would blow up.

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The scene with the church basement dead body mural actually *scared* me (granted I was 14 ish). The sense of dread when Justin Long finds all these terribly rotted/posed bodies and that the thing that did this was going to come back really soon was what got me.

Personally, I really enjoyed that film. It's not often the monster in a horror movie uses a fucking battle axe.

407,760

I don't understand why fines would go to the police force. They should go towards funding programs in jails or cleaning streets or something.

Even worse is when officers are allowed to retain confiscated cash and vehicles. . .

407,761

This may be a shitty explanation, but I thought AppleDane meant it was a joke in the sense that if you went back to Italy before Columbus sailed to the New World, and you asked for something without tomatoes, you might get pasta dishes that have tomatoes today.

What kind of drip coffee are you drinking that has sugar already added in the brewing process?

407,762

Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy is a great starter book!

Oh wow I actually have that book in my house so that's perfect! Thank you so much for the recommendation

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if(CheckForChildPorn(image)) { deletePicture(image); } //Sorry for any mistakes in the syntax, I'm not a programmer.

More likely would be: if image.CheckforChildPorn. { deletePicture } The exact functioning of the method CheckforChildPorn is a serious implementation issue of course. Hopefully it involves something like "AskSysopForTheirOpinion" somewhere in there.

407,764

I'm not sure if I could read the Harry Potter books after seeing all the movies. Unless I found out quickly the books are 10x more detailed.

The books are 100x more detailed. (Disclaimer: only seen up until the fourth film, then I gave up).

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This is my work. I'd be happy to try to answer any questions.

If you're encasing it in bubble-wrap, how does the steam having anywhere to go.

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Troll, has to be, or are you really such an ignorant pissy little whining bitch? I suppose you just brood all day and go to the mall in your skinny jeans and spend the allowance your parents give you at hot topic. Get a life.

this is ad-hominem. Address my contentions if you want an intellectual debate, or perhaps you are just content flinging feces like an ape. Do you how many different ways oil is used, and how much the economy depends on it? a hint: lots.

407,767

It's not exactly hard to have its satcom designed with rolling keys so that nothing short of some body physically boarding it could hack it (and that is what a self destruct is for) Military doesn't do what civilian government does.

Actually, that's a good point. What countermeasures would a ship like this have to repel boarders ? You could have a group of sky divers parachute down into nearby water and climb aboard. If they can access the hardware, it would be a lot easier to hack. Would make for a good movie at least.

407,768

When they dropped boss mode at DOTD it was fucking nuts

DOTD was crazy fun. I'm just getting through my withdrawals

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They keep saying lasers, but that prototype video just looks like it's a hot wire...

Pshhh, you're just being pedantic, they're basically the same thing.

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This is some amazing shit. Makes me want to see the entire trilogy again.

Unfortunately the last two movies never fulfilled the promise of the first.

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What I've found is a lot of the time i've invested into DOTA2 has been turned around because if I have cosmetics that don't interest me I sell them on the market and in turn I use that money for DLC in other games or spend the money for cosmetics that I do like.

As I'm aware, Dota is a bit less toxic a trading market than TF2, but I understand what you mean.

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Sure they "won" but against who? Marvel Studios bowed out for this one. What or who else would they be up against in this hypothetical battle? I guess Star Wars 7 would be the closest and that was huge yesterday.

Fox is later on today. They'll have Deadpool and X-Men Apocalypse. Legendary' s also later with Warcraft.

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In all honesty, kind of all over the place. I think it depends on personal preference; from what I've seen Stephen King fans can't decide which ones are great and which aren't. Keep in mind these books were all written over the course of thirty years.

And it is certainly not as if he has ever stayed in one direction with anything so I can imagine the confusion tbh.

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> *a typical laptop now runs about 10 hours* Wut?! Where are these mythical 10 hr long laptops?! I can barely get 3 hours from my supposedly 5 hour capable laptop.

Ultrabooks are rated for around that much. But as always YMMV

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everyone bootleg Hannibal and 30 Rock! ^(the latter show finished but I can’t afford Hulu)

It's a $2 addition to your Spotify account if you already pay for it.

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So what I gathered from this is that Marvel still can't make a good villain besides Loki?

It's just that they are too powerful when combined. Hopefully that will change in the next movie. I just want someone to challenge them and pose a real threat. This movie in particular had the potential for that but didn't live it up to my hype in my opinion. I still don't regret watching it, I was just expecting more :)

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> the ones that aren't academically relevant. Is there such a thing?

Definitely, there's a ton of mass-market paperback novels published every year that are in no way notable. People might want to study them in the future, so it's important to preserve them for posterity, but right now they hold little to no academic value.

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Thanks, many people say the Kindle Paperwhite is great. However reading at night with a device like the Paperwhite is the blue light which it uses. It should be bad for the body and I am hoping to find a device which doesn‘t use it.

Don’t worry about it. There is nothing harmful about the color temperature of the Kindle paperwhite.

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they had no way of knowing they were making a bad decision, they bought something they thought was legitimate and someone *defrauded them of their money* .-. they were stolen from, it's not their fault and victim blaming in this case just isn't fair

I don't think the event organizers specifically did this with the intent to steal their money. I think they legitimately wanted to do the festival - but in reality they are a bunch of incompetent dumbasses who thought it would be easy. Basically, instead of planning the logistics and organizing it first, and then raising the money. They did it the opposite.

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I am seeing them next week in TN plan on picking up the LP+7" but in the meantime listening to this on the roadtrip there.

Nooooooooo! Sorry, I just have a rule that I never listen to the band I'm going to see on the way to a show. It's like snacking before eating what will likely be one of the best meals of your life.

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The War on Drugs \- Lost in the Dream $the entire album$ The songs aren't about driving or trucking, but they've got that Middle America Seger/Petty vibe.

I've always heard War on Drugs compared to Bruce Springsteen, but yeah, good album.. Saw them live once was damn good. Wouldn't listen to it driving truck though... Too sleepy.

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I don't know. Harry Potter got kids to read, and those series are excellent, they have a great storyline, and the characters even mature with the different books. But Twilight... bad prose, bad literature. I imagine it will just make people consume more of the same crap. Reading just for the sake of reading isn't really good and it's not going to make anybody better.

What's wrong with reading just for the sake of reading?

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With the proliferation of countless American Idol clones on television, we live in an era where singing talent seems more important than substance, style, or any of the other elements that make up good music. The idea of giving people record contracts just because they have "big" voices doesn't lead to worthwhile creative output. A great instrument is impressive, but like any other it's only as good as what you do with it. A great voice with nothing to say can only impress for a short while.

Music has been saying the same things for thousands of years. Some people just do it better than the rest. You can have all the style and other elements that make music, if you have a vocal part without talent you end up with either a sound that's not great, or a sound that utilizes technology to fix it up (like autotune).

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Every single hater I know who I've lent my reader to ends up buying their own. TBH at this point I think it's safe to say people who are against e-books are luddites. The only real downside to an ebook is no color and small screen size. If I could have a 10-12" color kindle for a reasonable price I would probably never buy a paper book again.

Yep, agreed. Once you use it, it is hard not to love. I am a HUGE print book fan. I have well over 1,500 hardcovers in my personal library, and will buy more over time, because I love them. But my Kindle is clearly a better product than a print book (or more accurately, hundreds of them).

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Actually, anyone who likes Lovecraft, I would 150% recommend you go see Prometheus, *right now*.

You're so right ! This is basically At the Mountains of Madness in Space !

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Not if the missing member is Ward. He sucks by himself but he pairs so god damn well with Ced's vocals and Omar's guitar parts.

how you gonna play one armed scissor without that dude yelling CUT AWAY CUT AWAY

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I hate how people have to preface any description of birth of a nation with "aside from the racism". Can we really not look past a 100 year old example of black face to look at how something changed the world without first addressing racism. You wouldn't say "aside from the racism the slave trade had huge effects on the world economy" or "aside from the racism the holocaust was an important event". The racism debate has been on going for years it's practically ingrained the very mention of it you don't need a silly disclaimer to prove that you aren't racist.

Agreed. Just because we don't agree with a film's morals or prejudices, doesn't mean we can't love it for what it is. I'm sure a lot of black people loved Birth of a Nation for how great of a film it was, because either they recognized it was probably Griffith just depicting the mentality at the time, or they came to terms with how it was a sign of the times. And one director's response to Birth of a Nation made him [one of the only black silent film directors.]

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I'VE BEEN FOUND OUT. Do you also get people thinking you're just really into nail art?

Lol, no. Does that really happen to you? I created the account specifically for the AMA. The other names just weren't appropriate.

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[I can't wait to steal its rich, meaty insides.]

just bust it open and eat those rich, meaty insides. mmm

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Because, once I had to leave the country whereas they were playing in this very nice small venue that I loved in the city where I was leaving .. And another time I had my ticket, I was in the right place at the right time and I was so looking forward to it and they cancelled.. And I was so happy to be into a band when they start and get to see them at the beginning of their carreer. And now, it's not the beginning anymore and I think I've missed something.

They still play Wake Up and most of Funeral at their concerts.

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Fleet Foxes, I've never listened to them except for one song reccomended by a friend, what album do I start with?

They only have two albums and an ep. Listen to their first album first, but check it all out.

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Agreed, I blame American Idol and the manufactured pop artists that come out of that school of thought. Most of them, including Drake, were actors who were taught how to be musicians by PR teams. Though good music can come out of a manufactured artist, it's nowhere near what can come out of a solid self-taught/raised musician.

> Drake, were actors who were taught how to be musicians by PR teams. Remember where I was making fun of you for being ignorant? Case in point. Drake rapped before he was an actor, he made very little money on the TV show and fell into obscurity after he left. After self-producing and recording 2 mixtapes, he started to get a little bit of a buzz until being picked up by Jas Prince who sent the tapes to Lil Wayne in 2008. He was self-producing and making his own shit for years before he ever got picked up, and that was pure chance, just like most artists.

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With three Paradise Lost movies, I cannot understand why West of Memphis needs to exist.

Because it has Peter Jackson's name on it, and will basically usurp the Paradise Lost movies...which I will admit, that I need to see.

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I will never understand why these guys are famous. These "songs" make me want to rip out my hair.

It's because he is regarded as one of these most amazing bass players of the 90s.they did the South Park theme even....why you people all so angry over a song lol

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You guys are receiving this all wrong. I adore the bends; but if radiohead did what they did BACKWARDS, the sound would be much less experimental for them and would not be as highly acclaimed for most.

People are "receiving it all wrong" because your grasp on the English language is shaky at best. Really, really hope it isn't your first language.

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He said the place was a cesspool and is clearly upset by this conversation that has nothing to do with him. It's pretty clear why that would be the case. Kinda like how you said everyone in there is an asshole. I don't get your confusion. Same high and mighty bullshit, "I'm an atheist and I steer clear of that place." Yeah right.

I'm an atheist also, and I also steer well clear. It's the militant atheism I can't stand. So am I religious now?

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>Switching everything to photovoltaic wouldn't "circulate" carbon, but wouldn't get rid of it either. So over all, photovoltaic and this solar reactor system both generate 0 carbon, making them equal in emissions. The problem is that this is like the old statistics jokes. "A statistician is one who will tell you with your head in the oven and your feet in the freezer overall you are very comfortable." If we remove emissions entirely atmospheric CO2 will drop due to photosynthesis. This system is only very slightly better and if it supplants systems that are much better then it is worse.

>This system is only very slightly better and if it supplants systems that are much better then it is worse. What system is it supplanting that is much better? Photovoltaics make sense for providing grid power, but aren't very good for vehicles. Using a solar reactor to make gasoline to power vehicles will be replacing our current system of drilling for oil. I don't think that we need to find a "one size fits all" type of energy source, so this new one could be a valuable addition to our current list of viable "clean" energy sources.

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I'll just leave this here... Will be making my own video this week.

ARGH. I will buy these like the consumer-whore bitch I am. :(

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I loved that so much. The long, detailed versions of how the virus initially spread were great.

I'm currently half way through the unabridged audio book. I have been wondering which parts weren't in the original. Is it most of the new stuff in that first third of the book? The unabridged version really draws it out forever.