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407,900 |
The world may never know. Reddit doesnt seem to have to many fans in the dubstep area. =/
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Reddit doesn't seem to have too many Cymosh fans yet, but never fear! I will remain strong.
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407,901 |
These fall more closely into the "historical fiction" category: *Possession* A.S. Byatt. *The Mists of Avalon* Bradley. As for me, I think I have to check out this Cornnwell fellow. Some favs: *Good Omens* by Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman. *When You Are Engulfed in Flames* by Sedaris, David. And here are some good recent non-fiction reads I've enjoyed over the last couple years: *The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir* Kilmer-Purcell, Josh. *The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon* Grann, David. *Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse* Carter, Paul. *Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle* Everett, Daniel L.
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The Archer's Tale Series are good, and the Saxon stories are good too.
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407,902 |
" The losses were so horrendous we made 3 more movies!"
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"The losses were so great we decided to make another 3 movies to our failed concept when we could have just made one!"
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407,903 |
I loathed Seveneves. Almost as bad as Reamde. Anathem, on the other hand, is almost flawless.
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I tried reading Reamde, I just could not do it. One of the few books ever that I never managed to read (another one of the few is "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown). Anathem was great, I have yet to get Seveneves and now I'm in doubt.
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407,904 |
No, but the best horse carriage innovations got ported over just fine.
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Doesn't really apply. This isn't about the chassis, this is about the engine. A better comparison would be: does anybody remember the best breed of carriage-pulling horses?
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407,905 |
and they kick the list off with bryan adams. i didnt even know that dude was still alive, let alone rod stewart
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TIL Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart are the same person.
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407,906 |
No, Many if the people in this clip were guests from the last week(ish). Best guess is it was something that they were working on for the episode but had to expand due to Daft Punk dropping out.
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Or you know it's all a work to promote the MTV awards where Colbert will make a appearance
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407,907 |
"Most people" being people born after '89 and into Marvel movies?
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To be honest, that's where I knew him from, I never saw The Larry Sanders show, but also I'm not from USA
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407,908 |
Christ Stapleton was in a group called The Steeldrivers that played a lot of country-inflected bluegrass, made up of session musicians, FYI.
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Oh yea! Check out The Jompson Brothers, too -- Stapleton's (sadly) short-lived post-Steeldrivers rock venture.
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407,909 |
Specs: iMac 700Mhz (Sunflower) 256Mb Ram. 60GB HD - internal.
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Talk to me .. power Pc G4 Mac 600 Mhz/ 896 mb ram
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407,910 |
I don't get the impression that he's a *pretentious* director. Overrated seems to be more of the way you're describing him, and that may very well be, but that isn't the same thing as being pretentious.
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Yeah, I actually agree. Didn't come to that realization until after posting it though. I feel like a pretentious director is one that builds themself up as greater than they actually are. When it's an overrated director, other people build the director up as greater than they actually are. (What determines a pretentious director or an overrated director is just based on opinion, of course). Edit: Sometimes, I wish reddit only had an upvote button.
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407,911 |
i feel like johnny is many times under appreciated for the shit he did. the guitar work in william it was really nothing is actually insane. all those complex interlocking parts played with such virtuosity. incredible.
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Yeah he's insane. I recently learned how to play the first part of What Difference Does It Make? and I have new found respect for the man. How he came up with that riff is beyond me
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407,912 |
My high school made it an optional course, with a similar focus. I agree, it was the most useful class I took in high school. It was the first class which promoted real discussion, addressed controversial topics, and required critical thinking.
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We had a similar thing, but it was a seminar class. Probably my favorite part of my public education.
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407,913 |
Nice going. Don't get discouraged by the people on here who seem to read a book every two days. I'm going for 26 books this year to prepare myself to read 52 next year myself and it amazes me how fast some people can read. Even if I spend the entire day reading with minimal distractions I don't think I could read more than about 600 pages a day.
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What the hell man, 600 pages a day. That's an insane amount. I read a book every three days or so, meaning I probably average slightly over a hundred pages a day. That's 1 - 2 hours of reading daily. Not all that much considering you can win that amount by not watching tv.
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407,914 |
has anyone seen the original movies mentioned in the article who wants to talk about what those are about. I will watch them but don't have time right now
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The Magnificent Seven were a group of US Olympic gymnasts who took home the gold in 1996. John Sturges was their coach and is best remembered for motivating injured Kerri Strug by repeatedly saying, "You can do it!" If the internet was the internet back then, it would have been a highly comical and popular meme. The hottest one was Dominique Moceanu, who I probably jerked off to a hundred times during the team competition. I never saw the earlier film they were based on.
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407,915 |
They also did an amazing job of making the lightsabers feel so powerful. I actually dug the super choreographed lightsaber battles from the prequels but since no one was as trained it made total sense that they'd be swinging them wildly.
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Yeah, and the difference between Luke's old saber and Kylo's was fantastic. The excess energy shooting off and the constant crackle of energy vs the smooth blade and near-silent hum, mm.
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407,916 |
This. That scene was very awkward to watch with a lady friend.
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Why? The movie was very popular at the time among both sexes.
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407,917 |
Two facts will always keep lighter-than-air bulk cargo carriers from being practical. First the need for ballast once the payload is off means they cannot deliver to an unprepared station limiting their utility over traditional transport. Second, regardless, they will always be at the mercy of the weather to a far greater extent than any other bulk mode. These were always the problem, and these will always be the problems you just can't engineer around with these craft.
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They could be used as drone motherships. You fill them with cargo and drones, then they fly across the country, and the drones fly the cargo to the ground and return to their mothership for recharging. Then they almost never need to land, only carrying the drones between cities.
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407,918 |
So what you're saying is a massive coal plan fuckup would be way harder to clean up than a massive nuclear plan fuckup? Care to elaborate on that one?
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No, he's saying that coal plants, when operating properly, release radioactive isotopes. One nuclear fuckup is easier to clean than all the properly-operating coal plants in the world are to clean constantly.
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407,919 |
That video is taken from this channel: Many such songs. I've been subscribed for ages, they are amazing.
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yea same here! But I can't find a way to buy a cd from them =/
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407,920 |
Does he have to choose fiction? This list seems to just be a generic 101 classic novels, but it has no connection at all to finishing high school, being college-bound, entering the real world and broadening your horizons. I would probably consider: *Lies My Teacher Told Me* *Guns, Germs & Steel* *Letters to a Young Contrarian* *Omnivore's Dilemma* *Shame of the Nation* *The God Delusion* For fiction? I don't know. I guess *1984* or some Shakespeare. Or Vonnegut. I don't think I'd be the same person today if I hadn't read Vonnegut in high school.
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I agree with *Guns, Germs & Steel* from an educational standpoint, and the *Omnivore's Dilemma* is great for laying the basis for healthy eating habits. And *1984* is basically a requirement, as it will be repeatedly referenced during your son's lifetime (and it's a great book!).
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407,921 |
The song also taught me to do my homework that was due on Monday before Sunday night.
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Hi, forgot to include that I need your age as well in the assingment. So if you could reply with that that would be great.
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407,922 |
But that isn't all that literary fiction is. Plenty of non-naturalic, non-real world writing is shelved in literary fiction: Kafka, Murakami, David Mitchell, all the Southern Gothic and Gothic writers, Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, etc.
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Looks like I used and where I should have used or. Sorry.
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407,923 |
Actors tweet set photos as part of the media promotions plan. They're far from spontaneous.
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it does indeed look like that. they are being tweeted on his account, yet he's not the one taking the pics. I'm just assuming it's another advertising medium.
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407,924 |
The beaglebone black has terrible support and terrible video output. The hoops I had to jump through just to get a 1wire device read was mindboggling.
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Support for a BeagleBone? I agree that it is lacking, and the learning curve is steep, but the documentation is plentiful enough that I haven't encountered any insurmountable obstacles. I've had to buy a couple books, and do a lot of reading, but I'm happy with what I've learned.
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407,925 |
The entire comment was meant to be more snide than serious, you'd have to be blind to miss that **The Social Network** was about the autistic spectrum as well but I mentioned it. The user is one of those 'trolls' I keep hearing about, or so I think.
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Oh yes, be sure to avoid the trolls on /r/movies. They're everywhere. They like to complain that certain films are liked (e.g. Interstellar (2014), True Detective (2014), The Moon (1994), etc.)
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407,926 |
Michael Fassbender looks spot on for this roll, only thing is leaves me wondering what Benedict Cumberbatch role is.
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Benedict Cumberbatch is playing a Baptist Preacher and a former owner of Solomon Northup named William Ford. According to the actual book, Ford was a good owner.
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407,927 |
That's fine, except in the very first scene of the movie he's demonstrated to be powerful enough and disciplined enough in the force to stop and hold a blaster shot in mid-air while performing an interrogation.
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In that scene he looked even above Vader level. Stopping a bullet with force was so badass.
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407,928 |
Here in Ohio, we don't get the beach reading too often (Lake Eerie) but we do get a longer "fuzzy socks and blanket" season!! Maybe I need to visit my uncle in Clearwater soon, and try that beach reading!!
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i lived in NY near Erie so i know the feeling lol. Clearwater is great
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407,929 |
What kind of philosophy are you interested in? What aspects of war are you interested in? I can really only recommend non-fiction books because I rarely pick up fiction these days. Would you find a book on how developments in warfare technologies have influenced fundamental aspects of society interesting?
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I would say personal or social philosophy. I am most interested in WWII or even a Fictional or Non-fictional Modern war. And im not sure. That sounds interesting, what do you have in mind?
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407,930 |
Thank you, listening to the Blind Faith album now. I had only heard him in Cream, and that was a long time ago. John Bonham could do no wrong in my eyes. For some reason, I was put off by the Who as a young man and never gave them a chance past the obligatory greatest hits cassette as a teenager and the Tommy album. I now have research to do regarding Cobham, it appears!
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He was sort of the rock drum king during the psychedelic era, and I really am not sure if drums were critical for that. An old roommate turned me onto Cobham. To me jazz was horns mostly. Cobham expanded that to drums too. For Moon, it's more his technique and sound that separated him. His drums had a sound that no one else really had. I guess his kits were extremely tight and it gives his drums a unique sound.
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407,931 |
It, which I finished at 3am alone in the house, when everything was so eerily quiet. I was scared to turn off the light. The other one was The Long Walk. Technically a story and not a book, but still freaks me out just by thinking about it.
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It is the only Stephen King book that gave me nightmares. I will never reread.
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407,932 |
Why are you turning this into a political debate? Trump is nothing like R Kelly
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He said it boggles his mind that people still love this man. They've both committed horrible acts against women. There very much is a connection.
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407,933 |
I asked because, while I'm using and liking Visual Studio Code, I only started using it long after it was bought, so had no reference. As for Minecraft, I don't see it anymore at the top of the most streamed game on Twitch, which is just one metric, but it made me wonder what happened there.
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VS Code was not acquired by Microsoft? I'm pretty sure it's a project they started from scratch. As for Mojang, yeah, I think it's hard to argue whether it's better of or worse off. I think reasonably one can say they didn't screw it up though. I think LinkedIn and Hotmail fall into this category as well.
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407,934 |
Makes absolutely no difference to me, maybe they will come down in price after this and I can a better tv than everyone overreacting here over a software bug. Paranoid consumers lose, smart consumers gain.
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It is not a bug that the TV is equipped with firmware capable of playing ads in the middle of the stream. That would have to be a deliberate engineering decision and would have involved a lot of R&D to accomplish. The bug is that they got caught doing it.
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407,935 |
Whats the point if in 100 years we can make something that goes 1 percent faster
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Why did we send out the Voyager probes when we'd have better tech in 30 years? Edit: so that I don't have to keep explaining my point, here it is: >...we don't know how technology will advance in the future, so if we have the chance to do something - like sending an interstellar probe - we should take that chance.
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407,936 |
Who's your favorite artist at the moment and do you have a favorite song?
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Focused on myself right this second. But some good music has dropped lately.
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407,937 |
You know, I had the exact opposite experience. I knew him for a few his supporting roles in Judd Apatow movies and then watched forgetting Sarah Marshall and loved him. Then I saw How I Met Your Mother and was blown away that this guy who I thought was great played such a bland character.
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His character in how I met your mother was one of the few I liked
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407,938 |
I don't think the Emperor really considered the death star at risk. It was fully armed and operational, after all, and supported by a full fleet.
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Didn't it also have an orbital shield or something. And that's why there was a ground team attack? I haven't watched the original episode three in years. Yeah I get that the Emperor wouldn't have had a big concern over his likely victory (isn't the main battleship taken out by a crashing rebel fighter that then plummets into the Death Star as Lando blows up the inner power system, or something), but he had some strategic sense I'd have to think. Luring an enemy into a trap with their potential to massively outnumber you is foolish. But a chance at a complete and clear victory is another matter.
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407,939 |
Good thing everyone has white skin on which to project.
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You're being down voted possibly because some people think you're being racist. I suspect however that it probably is indeed easier to see a projection on lighter skin. I'll experiment with the boardroom projector tomorrow and one of my pasty white-assed colleagues.
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407,940 |
This was Blood Rites #6, where he's wandering the porn shoot editorializing on all the hot scantily clad strong female characters. (That last part was sarcastic.)
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I think that was about where I called it quits on that series too. It started fairly well but kind of went to neckbeard hell after a while.
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407,941 |
The PW has an e-ink screen. Yes it's a screen but it is remarkably like reading a printed page. I love mine.
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That sounds great. Didn't actually think it's that close to paper
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407,942 |
Uh, what? the high end Core i7 costs over $1000... Core i7 4960X price: $1,049.99
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Yeah, that's a commercial grade processor and largely a waste of money for an individual. The gains you get out of it are negligible for gaming, only really worthwhile if saving a small amount of time rendering 3d graphics will save you big money professionally.
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407,943 |
Man, that must give a lot of significance to the song. How did you feel when you heard the song?
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I didn't feel anything at the time. That came later.
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407,944 |
Is there any source that identifies the objects in the basement linking them to each monster?
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It's been a while since I've seen the movie so it's not in my head that clearly anymore but a lot of the objects were simply from other movies but changed slightly. The copper sphere one of the boys picks up for instance is a reference to the puzzle cube from hell raiser that summons the cenobites. In the original evil dead the deadites are summoned because the kids play an audio recording that reads from the book of the dead. If I remember right Cabin in the woods had a similar item except an old roll of film instead of audio. I recognized quite a lot of the objects at the time but I can't recall them all anymore.
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407,945 |
They're actually employing a pretty brilliant business strategy, IMO. While all the other automakers spend their R&D on electric technology, Mazda will instead invest in improving engine technology. When they eventually do come out with a hybrid, they can just half-ass the electrical component and still get better mileage than others.
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Or run generator in a still electric powertrain like the Volt but better.
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407,946 |
Very nice. I'm sure you also know of Catch 22. [1234, 1234] really cheered me up when I was in high school.
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Owch, I prefer the Streetlight version haha. Catch 22 sort of mailed it in on that album IMHO, which was why Tom left the band in the first place.
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407,947 |
Thanks friend-o. DL'd in a jiff and I'm already seeding.
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Ya no problem, it is pretty light weight too, which I tend to prefer.
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407,948 |
Egh. I wonder if this is a big deal with Android devices...
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Android uses mksh instead of Bash. Of course you can probably download and install some kind of software based on Bash if you want to.
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407,949 |
Happy friggin birthday! Any birthday with books is a good birthday indeed :) I look at my bookshelf and smile and think of all the places I've been to in my head.
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That's amazing, my bookshelf is still small, but it's growing.
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407,950 |
ok that video sucked... but the related [video] blew my mind!
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Awesome, but you do realize those kids aren't actually doing anything, right?
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407,951 |
Wire is fucking awesome. Pink Flag is exactly what I want in a punk album.
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Three Girl Rhumba and Lowdown have always been favorites of mine. Pink Flag is a great album!
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407,952 |
I don't think I could read two or three books in a day, day after day. I feel like my brain would get too tired to continue. After a few weeks though I'd strengthen up and gain more stamina, but still. Also I'm pretty sure it's dark in solitary, so they would have to give you a shitty little lamp for you to read with. I'd rather just sit in a cell and read. Actually I'd rather sit outside on a nice day under a tree not in prison and read a book.
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I've seen some prison documentaries...inside is brutal. For one, solitary isn't dark...it's a regular cell, except that prisoners are kept inside them for 23 hours a day. And for two, I'd rather be stuck in a room, than be in general population and have to keep an eye out for people with shanks. I've never gotten in a fight in my life, so even if there was no shank, if someone came after me, I wouldn't know how to defend myself...except to try and curl in a ball and protect everything, lol. But that doesn't work.
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407,953 |
tin foil hat? its been happening since i was a wee lad and microsoft was still king... look at how theyve been fucking over uber across the continent too..
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> look at how theyve been fucking over uber across the continent too.. Yes, all those damned regulations keeping people safe and properly insured.
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407,954 |
Great questions! But I had a thought. If these are the things you are thinking when you leave a film that spectacular, then; 1) You are a nerd and; 2) You missed the point. Who cares? If you are worrying about gas rations on a fictional planet and whether or not the government is involved in xenobiology on a mining station far away from Earth, I suspect you are what some might call a 'dud' and others would call 'spaz.' I would call you a tool for taking the time to start such an inane conversation. Suspend your disbelief or stay home and play WoW. Great movie though. EDIT: NERD!
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Your mom calls me "god". (while I sex her repeatedly each night due to your father's penchant for cuckoldry)
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407,955 |
I hope that's not true. The 6th installment was utter shit. That endless runways scene tho
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This is a series where they drift through the middle of a city while dragging a 10 ton bank vault behind a single car and you're complaining about the 'endless runway' scene?
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407,956 |
Great job, thank you for doing this. I was a huge Kinks fan when I was younger, and saw them in concert twice. Great shows both. The tours were supporting two albums I loved back in the day- *Give the People What They Want" and *State of Confusion*. I've not listened to either album in decades, so I have no idea whether they hold up, but compared to a lot of the shite that was coming out in the '80s, songs like "Around the Dial" and "Destroyer" were a godsend.
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Being a fan of early Kinks (especially "Village Green..." and "Something Else", I happened upon the "State of confusion" vinyl in a thrift store. While I found some of the songs terribly dated (growing up in the nineties I've always had an inherited contempt for that heavy, wet eighties sound) and I didn't like Ray's rocky vocals, the two dance-themed songs are complete gems IMHO. The carefree "Come Dancing" and the heartshatteringly melancholic "Don't forget to dance" both have a lasting charm to me.
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407,957 |
I remember the first time i heard Californication, it blew my mind tbh. I borrowed a few CDs off a friend and one was Californication. I had preconceived notions about the RHCP and didnt think i would like them. Then one day i finally put it on and from the first Cord to the last song i was amazed.
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Yeah I don't see how Californication is an example of their mediocrity. It's my favorite RHCP album by far. And Stadium Arcadium, especially the second disc, had a ton of awesome songs that actually rocked.
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407,958 |
Electro's 'theme' I guess you could call it was so spooky, real nice play on him as a person and his powers. I also loved the part where they're fighting towards the end and he's bouncing around all the power nodes, and they all sound like those videos you see of people making music with Tesla coils.
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Found it amusing that the classic Spider-Man theme tune was peters ring tone and electro playing itsy bitsy spider on the nodes.
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407,959 |
Within 5 minutes of installing W8, I needed to search for a name in an image. Win+Escape and the image is gone. And be damned if I could spell it from memory. "Where's the dam desktop" "OK 'e-c-h-i" Win+Escape. E-s-b. Wait, what was it again? Where's the damn desktop? Esche. ... Repeat five times.... ***"OH FOR FUCKS SAKE"*** The start screen is designed with touch, not users, in mind.
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Interesting. Well, it's too late now, but if you still use Windows 8 you can use Win+F to bring up the search on the right side, with whatever you were doing still visible.
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407,960 |
Most electricity generation creates greenhouse gases, antibiotics have now created resistant bacteria that may well overwhelm our untested immune systems... Is there even *one* case of "My Friend Totoro" resistance?
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> may well overwhelm. Potential outbreak or proven cure? Overuse in no way diminishes the usefulness of it. Hell, it proves it.
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407,961 |
No, he said that he didn't know there was an original.
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I get what your getting at we all know what he means and what he means is he didn't know the scarface with Pacino was a remake
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407,962 |
That's awesome. But I'm disappointed that it doesn't have the Henry Sugar book in it; that one was always my favorite.
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This was my thought upon seeing it. When I was a kid I stared at a candle flame for what seemed like forever after reading The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.
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407,963 |
Dude, they were straight forward blockbuster b-plots. No better than the banal family scenes in Godzilla. Completely unnecessary and done to death. > She went from having everything in order to somehow finding control in the chaos and even saving a life doing it! I mean, how ridiculous is that! Good lord I have *never* seen that done before in a movie. I don't care about character development if it's through scenes and interactions that have been done to death before.
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The family scene/development was nowhere near as bad as the Godzilla film lol.
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407,964 |
The comments go downhill pretty fast after that. Something about SJW conspiracies while using an excessive amount of parentheses.
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I still don't know what that is about. Why parentheses? As a lover of sloppy equations and writing, I love excessive parentheses. [At least I still have brackets {and braces <?>}]
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407,965 |
I find posts like this so bizarre when you consider Apple went into China and moved all their China customer data to state run servers including encryption keys. But the issue is what Google might do? Really? "Campaign targets Apple over privacy betrayal for Chinese iCloud users"
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Its cause google used to insist they would never do these things.
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407,966 |
Babadook. No jump scares but still one of the scariest movies I've ever seen
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I don't get that at all... It was such a shitty fucking movie. If you want to watch something that really is scary, try. The Visit.
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407,967 |
Here's to hoping for as many hockey references as possible
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I was on stitches when they lost the ball in clerks. I've had that same "You only brought one ball?!" conversation with friends on way too many occasions.
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407,968 |
The tall african "jobu" worshipper is named Cerano, and he is the same guy that is in the Allstate commercials.
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Yes Cerano! That was his name. Were there other players on the team?
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407,969 |
Remember that that page is user edited, and mostly false. The Force Awakens for example was listed getting a 4K master until its release, which was in 2K. All of the movies above have a 2K master, and will be upscaled to 4K, not re-rendered. But they'll also get HDR and a boost in bitrate, which is great.
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Thanks. Where did you get your info? Haha. I'm trying to get to the source so I don't have to keep asking people. Trade/industry magazines or blogs?
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407,970 |
I haven't seen PR yet, but I cannot stand this shaky camera blurry fight scene style. It makes me so mad. Why bother choreographing a scene at all if your going to cover it up with super zoomed in/shaky camera work?!?
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Because Michael Bay is awful. That and he was probably trying to copy 70s Kung fu movies that did this stuff but it looks terrible.
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407,971 |
This is crazy, for you to talk about all your musical knowledge then go an call this punk rock, but not Ska.. I'm sorry, all credibility lost with me on that one, I don't care how many times you brag about meeting Tom.
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Tomas has said a number of times that they're Punk Rock, so I'm not really sure why you're so upset. Edit: I'll try to track down an interview.
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407,972 |
I liked it a lot, if you're in to fantasy you will like it similar in a way to Jonathon Strange and Mr. Norrell but not as good(still good I just really love Strange and Norrell
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interesting, I have read Jonathan Strange and M. Norrell last year and enjoyed it. Keeping it on my to read list then :)
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407,973 |
Eliot is fantastic. Just thought I'd agree with more than an upvote. She got me hooked on the Victorian domestic novel.
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It was a set text for my uni victorian lit. module and I was absolutely blown away. The sheer skill of it, it's a work of sublime genius. One of those 'I didn't know something could be THIS good' works of art.
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407,974 |
Don't sweat it, the only people who enjoyed that movie or think it has good characterization are idiots. I saw it with a group of five people, and the only two who thought that it wasn't complete garbage were the two who didn't go to college. Some people just don't have the knowledge or film know-how to be able to see what good characterization is, ignorance is bliss I guess. I wish I could have enjoyed Godzilla much more than I did.
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I really don't think you can say that. Godzilla was an enjoyable movie, and I don't think ANYONE should have gone into a giant monster movie expecting anything other than great CGI. I think that's what spoils it for a lot of people. They go in with high hopes, and come out disappointed.
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407,975 |
Idk, I agree it was the best but Spotlight was pretty damn close, wouldn't say "easily".
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Spotlight was #2 for me. But I suppose you're right. It was a great year for film imo. One of the best is recent memory.
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407,976 |
[Zoom in on her eyes] for a cool detail.
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ok that is cool and not something i noticed when i have watched it
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407,977 |
Sure...I'm up for it...do we do it as PMs or a subreddit or what? Not a simile or a metaphor, but my all time favorite life quote is "The way I figure it heaven and hell are right here on Earth, heaven in living in your hopes, and hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses." --Bonanza Jellybean
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Awesome! What book/section would you want and how long do you think it would take you to read it? As for the structure.... I don't know? We could keep it all in this thread. Just have to sort by "new" when we come back to it. Edit, I created a subreddit. /r/CRAFT_Club
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407,978 |
> supposedly the next windows os will incorporate IoT easily also. No need for *supposedly*. If you have Galileo board you can install the preview. Microsoft also confirmed it will be 100% free.
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My bad, didn't want to say it was set in stone b/c I only had a chance to skim material on the next os.
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407,979 |
I really love the works of Erik Larson. Edit - Fixed link
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Read Devil in the White City in high school and I absolutely loved that book!
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407,980 |
You know what's funny to me about this? The large X spot will be seen as primitive in a few years. I don't get how the design team doesn't learn this lesson. Remember the first hybrid cars? They had an awful design that no one liked and they purposefully made them look different. Now, shockingly enough, people want their hybrids to just look like normal cars. No need to make something so obvious. If there is a charging spot on my nightstand I'll know where it is. I can see when my phone is charging. The next wave will just have it built in. I think this is such a typical decision that people will not want in their furniture very soon after the first adopters.
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If am at a friends house or if I'm fumbling in the dark the "x" could be pretty handy.
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407,981 |
To begin with, I respect that this is your opinion but I have to ask. Could you explain why you feel this way? If you consider all these artists garbage, then who do you like to listen to?
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I dislike most music because it has some or all of these elements, to some extent: * Short, repetitive phrasing. * Simplistic, *thin* texture, lack of 'layers' of sound. * Predictable verse-chorus based structure. * Small scope or a lack of overarching 'theme' - no *direction* I can't really say I know much of the music from all those artists well enough to get into the intricate details or anything super specific, I'm pretty much just familiar with it enough to know that I don't like it. The [music I listen to] doesn't necessarily avoid *all* of those, but it does so enough to be listenable.
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407,982 |
Not asking for recommendations, asking about slumps and ideas to get out.
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Which is why I also directed you to the FAQ.
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407,983 |
Some similar but still different experience for me. I am 40 years old. And since about two years ago I only really listened to Queen, Bob Marley and AC/DC. Then I discovered the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Eric Clapton, the Kinks and a bunch of rappers. Oh boy did I miss out all my life. But I must say Bob Dylan needed quite some time to grow on me.
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I’m similar, opening up myself to a whole world of music I never gave a shot before from the 60s, 70s and 80s.
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407,984 |
He needs SOMETHING, I hope maybe it's just rest.
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It's fish dicks (or fishsticks). All we can do now is wait and see which one he's obsessing over.
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407,985 |
Good. And I say that as a Java developer. Java browser plugins might have been necessary ten years ago, but html 5 and javascript have the front end covered nowadays.
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The versatility of HTML 5 continues to surprise me everyday. I just recently discovered that you can have native VNC type client in a browser with no plugins.
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407,986 |
Meh. If it's the camera I carry most of the time, I want to to be of the best possible quality. I don't get your defeatism. And yes, I have a proper camera too.
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Modern image compression is built with shitty cameras in mind. The kind of details you lose first are the details the camera can't capture. The compression doesn't degrade the image quality, rather it changes the distortion so it matches the format. You shouldn't worry about using high quality compression unless you really want to keep the original analog noise and ADC artifacts.
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407,987 |
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I got three-quarters of the way through it when it first came out and have never picked it up again even though I really want to know how it ends.
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Don't feel too bad, the ending to that novel was one of the most underwhelming I've ever read, I wish I could get that week of my life back.
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407,988 |
For real, the movie really wasn't that good imo. I left the theater throughly disappointed.
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Its the 3rd best star wars movie. It blew away all the prequals and was better than ROTJ imo. I can only see someone being disappointed if they had unattainable expectations. The fact that it was similar to the original was literally the worst thing about the movie and it had enough differences to make it its own
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407,989 |
Kylo Ren does not have anything other than a mi-re-ti motif, which is hardly used at all.
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I don't know solfège (give me the alphabet any day), so I don't know enough to say whether "mi-re-ti" is partially accurate. But Ren has a short theme of about 5 notes (often paired up with a repeat of those notes, but holding on the penultimate one, making 9 notes total). You can see a transcription [at the bottom of this article] And it is used *all the time*. The first time we hear it is when we see Ren's ship landing on Jakku near the start. After that, it pops up pretty much whenever Ren is being particularly evil or interesting.
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407,990 |
The tragedy with episodes 1 to 3 is that they were actually produced and people paid to see them making them successful at the box office despite being really awful films. I'll never understand the hype about star wars. None of the mythology makes sense in the originals and they definitely didn't clear anything up in the prequels. Horrible films.
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The mythology doesn't make sense to you, but it makes perfect sense to me. However, it takes some contemplation. People enjoy contemplating it, because the answers are all there, and it's rewarding when you figure it all out. The magic of Star Wars has always been that it engages your imagination and makes you an active participant. If you are just frustrated and think it makes no sense, then I could prove you wrong, but that would be no fun for either of us. If you don't like movies that you have to think about to understand, then that's just your preference. A lot of people like that, and there is a place for that.
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407,991 |
Thumbs up and down makes sense if it is from a single user. But IMDB makes more sense to me. Honestly, my taste is much closer to IMDB than RT. So I use it instead. RT often has really slow and artsy movies at 100%. Movies I often hate. IMDB rates a bit more on entertainment and story. So yes, IMDB is much better for me personally. I love a good story.
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It's just that you don't understand statistics. The reason why this "makes sense" is stats 101 material.
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407,992 |
Commando. The entire movie is ridiculous, but oh so entertaining.
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the end fight is glorious a great gear up scene followed by a ridiculous one man army display.
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407,993 |
Yeah so? I get you wouldn't necessarily advertise that fact but it's not illegal or wrong or something.
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I never said it was illegal. I was talking about not advertising it. It can make you a target if people know you have valuable assets
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407,994 |
Thats fine, dont compare the genre's then because they arent speaking the same languages. Im not saying rap is bad, but that the stats are padded by fake words.
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How can a word be fake? The difference between a random collection of sounds, say "wug" for example, and a word, "dog" in this example, is that "dog" has a meaning that is understood among people. So then, a word is nothing more than certain sounds put into a certain order that convey some idea between people. The size, race, religion, ethnicity, gender, culture, or even language of the group doesn't matter.
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407,995 |
I remember hearing this for the first time when I was 14 and just falling in love with TMBG. I spent ages trying to understand the meaning of this song. The bridge just connects with me for some reason. The somber "when I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge...." Something about that and the rest of the lyrics just worked for me... Years later I saw the fantastic clip. I hate that these guys have dated a fair bit, but they are too talented to be held back. Love you TMBG!
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The portion about the DuPont pavillion at the 1964 World Fair struck something with me. I used to spend summers working for DuPont in Canada... and so the visual painted by that lyric is perhaps a little richer.
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407,996 |
> win 10 is beta sw touted as a final product imo. But isn't pretty much every version of Linux the same? The days of a finished project shipping and being ignored are gone. Even most video games are considering "living software" now and can be expected to be patched and updated.
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That notion is mostly mythical. Ever since developers gained the ability to patch over the web, of course it became commonplace. The product is "shipped and done" when you'd be willing to burn it to a disc and put it on sale in a box, even though you probably won't. That gets a major version number and off you go. Linux is as solid or as unstable or as outdated or as current as you make it. People developing for *nix, like anyone else, will eventually arrive at, "okay, this is done enough for people to use it," but they label it accordingly and don't generally charge $120 for it.
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407,997 |
How was the BBC special? This book is one of my favorites, but I forgot about the BBC radio show....
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I thought the radio series was wonderful. Definitely worth a listen.
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407,998 |
The second Godzilla's tail lit up the whole energy in the theater dialed up to 11. This is a movie that delivers.
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I was getting nervous that he wouldn't have the atomic breath, glad I was wrong. I got so excited when I saw it.
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407,999 |
> For now. So you think we're going to become a dictatorship within the next 2.5 years? Otherwise there will always be other people around who know better.
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I didn't say that. I said our Predident is dangerously stupid and incompetent. If you don't think that's a huge problem, I can't help you.
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