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408,400	Also: sharks have been around for longer than trees	But books have been around longer than either. Fascinating to think about.
408,401	I disagree about the animation, it was great seeing the Batman animated TV show animation back again	Dude.... Go buy/watch Batman TAS then rewatch Killing Joke. This is gonna sound wankish but I been rewatch TAS with my wife and the animation in TAS shits all over Killing Joke. That's why I'm cranky. Something produced in 1992 is superior to something produced last year....
408,402	If you throttle it's not unlimited. That's why it has limited appeal.	> If you throttle it's not unlimited. Depends on what you're considering "unlimited". Even T-Mobile's non-"unlimited" plans are unlimited in the sense that you can use as much data as you want (barring some fine print stating that they have the right to restrict data access after some dozens of gigabytes, but that's pretty standard even for non-wireless ISPs, let alone cell phone carriers). They're not unlimited in terms of high-speed data, but you still get to use as much data as you want even if it's slowed down after a certain number of gigabytes. It's like eating at a buffet. Sure, you could theoretically sit there for [four hours] but the staff probably stopped bringing you drinks three hours ago.
408,403	Adore is one of the best albums evermade... Also a pumpkins fan	Huh. I'm the only person I know who liked Adore.
408,404	Interesting... I'm not sure how this lines up. A lot of content producers have moved to Vessel because of the subscription model, and then release on YouTube as a secondary location once the initial buzz is gone on Vessel. This announcement doesn't seem to do anything to head that off, but instead appears to tie up specific content producers with contract work for syndicated-style offerings. Wouldn't it make more sense to provide an "early release" mechanism with a subscription model, and keep the rest the same? Do we really want YouTube (de/re/e)volving into a la carte TV?	That's a fair point. This could wind up encouraging more people to go to Vessel and avoid YouTube all together. YouTube could have become the pre-eminent source of streaming media a few years ago, but it still feels like they can't figure out the streaming space that well.
408,405	> Guy got MITM'd. Probably not. More likely he isn't using secure smtp. A major ISP in my area [lacks proper security on their smtp servers] Even the authentication.	Way to disagree for the sake of it. It was public wifi on a plane. At the very most you need NPCAP and wireshark to steal every single bit of traffic that goes through it, nothing more. Any attack that intercepts traffic is by definition a MITM.
408,406	Dale. Congrats on getting engaged. Any plans for some babies, and if yes how will that affect your grueling tour schedule? Also. I really appreciate your on stage presence. You make me smile. Next time you’re in Atlanta let’s have some drinks!	Thank you I guess. Yes we are going to get married at the end of next year. She wants at least a baby so she's the boss I guess. Babies in the future. Yes it is something that worries me a bit that is why I don't have any kids I have never really had room for kids with all the touring. Yes it will be a big adjustment I think I wouldn't entertain the thought if I didn't think she was the right person to do this and capable of raising a kid or two on her own basically. We will cross that bridge when we get there but yeah it is going to be hard make no mistake about that.
408,407	Technically it's all part of the MCU, doesn't mean those characters would show up in Avengers 3.	i know but people are complaining about quality in this thread
408,408	1979 Smashing Pumpkins. I wasnt around in the 70s not until the mid 90s but it gives this nostalgic vibe	1979 and Tonight, Tonight were the first that came to my mind
408,409	Right on, I've a similar story from college days. Never heard of them before I bought a copy of their self-titled album out of a used bin, solely because there was a track called 'House of Tom Bombadil'. Can't remember that song at all, but 'When You Come Back Down' is an excellent track that still plays at our house on the regular.	Yeah! Wonderful song. Their music makes me feel many feels
408,410	giga-watt-hour. They are just normal SI units. If you want to blame someone, blame James Watt for keeping the unit of electrical energy in the first derivative form.	Seems fine to me. Watts aren't too small to be meaningful. 5 Watts is around what you'll want for your phone to charge.
408,411	I work in a library. When i check out one of my favorite books to a patron I always ask if they have read it before. If they say no, I feel something akin to envy because I know how much they are going to enjoy that book. The joy of reading a great book can never be relived.	A few years ago, I donated all my books to my local library since I was reading on my Kindle most of the time anyway. There are some small things that I miss about physical books, but the only significant thing that I miss is the joy of recommending and lending my favorite books to my friends. Fortunately, one of my favorite books survived the transition due to it being borrowed at the time: The Pillars of the Earth. And since it's the only physical book I have when my friends ask to borrow a book, it's probably been circulated more times than most of the books in a library.
408,412	If I were to pick up Silmarillion, LotR, and Hobbit which order would you suggest they be read?	I’m just a casual reader but I would say Hobbit, LotR then Silmarillion. Silmarillion is notoriously a difficult read and you wouldn’t want to get bogged down and turned off by the whole experience IMO. I enjoyed reading the books in order other than that though
408,413	WWI doesn't have a straight forward enemy like the Nazis. That's why you barely see it.	It has one global enemy; war. Just see the kubrick movie (and I don't mean dr strangelove)
408,414	Guns Germs and Steel. Puts everyone on an equal footing. Takes race out of the equation with regards to differences in human technological development.	Also by Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee. A good read about evolution and evolution dynamics. A great tidbit: The reasoning behind destructive behavior as a method to advance a species. Can't say I agreed with everything that Diamond states, but it kept me thinking nonetheless.
408,415	>As if human literature has actually been around for eons. I mean, 4700 years aren't eons but they still make "the 18th century" feel recent.	Not even the point I was making, but sure, when you're talking about geological timelines. To me, when talking about lit (and any associated bahaviour surrounding the topic), I don't consider something published three centuries ago as remotely relatively "recent", as it should be relevant to humans alive both then and now. Maybe you and all your friends around you are immortals, but I'm part of the 7 billion+ human population that weren't around to be able to claim Gulliver's Travels as anything other than a "classic".
408,416	You're in the niche that doesn't use their game console to play games, then.	I decided I only needed one console, and the PS3 offered the services I wanted for free. I simply buy games for the PS3 instead of the 360, doesn't mean I don't play games.
408,417	The Moto Z did it first though... And they did get away with it.	What's funny is how this seems lost on people. It's obviously more fun to believe that Apple started "audio cancer" or something.
408,418	I've always enjoyed Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Not off the radar enough to be full hipster, but not really well known. Enjoy!	Came here to suggest this one, could not recommend enough! It has a really cool [back story] as well.
408,419	Why the fuck can't they just give their services normal names?	The sector is full of nonsense names, like "Cognos TM1"
408,420	There is nothing wrong with how spotify works, there is just one thing they should tweak: Instead of having all the money paid inn by users shared among all the played songs, have all the money one user paid inn (-overhead) get paid out to all the people who he has listened to. That means if I only listened to Portugal. The man one whole month they would get all the 10$ I paid inn (- overhead ofc). This would benefit all the small bands/artists that Tidal wan't to help out.	^this. maybe even 80/20 or 70/30. $7 to your month's listens then $3 for them to do whatever the f it is they wanna do with it.
408,421	The lossless wasn't that good of a selling point seeing as how not many people can hear the difference between it and 320kbps, which is commonly offered among streaming subscriptions.	NO one can. True ABX tests never demonstrate the ability to differentiate lossless from 320 in a modern codec beyond pure random selection.
408,422	From the fucking article? That's what I said, that it said unusable, not bricked. As a hardware technician I realize there's a difference.	Maybe next time *READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE* instead of getting all butt-hurt. >So, it appears that if you attempt to forcefeed a Xerox printer not-from-around-here ink, it will potentially *brick the device*. At that point, you're forced to ask for a Xerox rep to drop by and unlock your purchased printer for you.
408,423	But a BIOS/UEFI updated provided by the manufacture. If you wrote your own update, or pulled down a third-party, open source distro, that might be breaking a ToS but tbh I wouldn't know offhand. Edit: I don't even think you could find open-source BIOS..but you get the point	Why would you want to use your own BIOS? Genuine question.
408,424	My mom is horrible with books. She has said herself many times she doesn't read anything without pictures. But she knows how important reading is, and she always encouraged us to read and learn! Result: three bookworm children. She's super proud because she feels like she did a good job raising kids to be "better" than her. I tell her she's silly :)	Sounds like she did a pretty damn good job to me! And you can tell her a random person on the internet said so :)
408,425	I'm on apple music solely because of the price. In Canada Apple music offers student pricing at 4.99$ per month. Spotify's cheapest plan is 9.99$ per month. I do like spotify better, but not enough to pay an extra 5$ per month.	Spotify has a student plan for $5 a month as well
408,426	I just came out of it, and all i can say is, is that the flick is spectacular. IMO, it's the best film Marvel has ever made. Chris Pratt is incredibly likeable, so is the rest of the cast. Everyone needs to see this movie. It is so incredibly awesome. I am Groot.	> it's the best comic book film ever made. FTFY
408,427	> I don't understand why someone would downvote but not comment; can anyone answer? Because some people are jerks. Don't sweat it.	Haha, I realise why, I was trying to stem crackduck's downvotes; particularly because he asked a reasonable question.
408,428	> single thread. That defeats the point of adding 2 cores.	It shows whether this is actually a new generation or if just stuck 2 more cores of the last generation in.
408,429	Guitar hero introduced me to this one. That game had it's uses.	I thank guitar hero for my introduction to dragon force
408,430	Titanium is not particularly strong, just strong for how light it is (its often said titanium is "as strong as steel and as light as aluminum".) There are plenty of steels out there much stronger than titanium, so making a new steel that is stronger than titanium but lighter than usual is not a huge total breakthrough.	It gets clicks and it seems that that is all that matters.
408,431	Lol I was calling the dude out for not reading what I quoted. He forgot the /s though I guess. p.s. You're dense you brick of lead /s	I am that guy. I read that. It was a joke that referenced that part of Andy's comment.
408,432	Couldn't exchanges set up a hash blacklist for this stuff? > Oh, this version of CryptoLocker is giving out this hash for people to pay. We will not allow this user to cash out.	No, because you can tumble the coins into unknown addresses. It would be impossible to find where the money comes from.
408,433	it looks exactly as bad as you'd expect. i hate when they remake great/bad movies. point break is a trashy classic. stupid to try to make it something it's not.	That's a new and refreshing take on the topic. Can you elaborate? I envy your position.
408,434	I tried tons before I settled on Safe In Cloud. I'm not willing to pay a monthly fee and 1Password is obnoxiously expensive where I need both Mac and PC applications.	>I'm not willing to pay anything at all for peace of mind and easy access to my passwords so I don't actually have to remember them all.
408,435	Is "Look Who's Back" the name of the book? You haven't given an author either......	That is indeed the name of the [book] I have the movie in my Netflix queue, but actually wasn't aware it was a book until this thread (so sorry OP, I can't add much to the discussion). The author is Timur Vermes.
408,436	Virginia Woolf didn't believe that the working class should be educated, or indeed had the mental capacity to be educated. Cicero was cunning and politically manipulative. Enid Blyton was terribly racist in her children's books. Byron committed incest.	I'm not sure Enid Blyton was especially racist for the time though.
408,437	Eh, it's all for game balance. I'd rather have a better game than a perfectly correct map. The Duluth one is the funniest though because they really could just put Minneapolis there and it would be fine. They can't sub out Chicago for Gary, Boston for Portland, or Las Vegas for the Lake Mead Recreational Area, but Duluth for Minneapolis would be reasonable.	Yeah, even if you wanted to save space you could put St. Paul.
408,438	We gotta get out of here man. We gotta fucking run!	If anyone is gonna fuck my cousin, it might as well be me.
408,439	The Last Battle didn't really get me as much as I thought it would, but Rand's epiphany on Dragonmount at the end of The Gathering Storm broke me for weeks.	Oh man I didn't even think of that one! yeah that one was amazing! There were so many amazing moments in that series. Oh OH OH and lest we EVER forget the name Verin. her final scene.. mother of god..
408,440	Harder to imagine who'd win, a greedy set of companies or some happy security agencies who look forward to being able to monitor where any device is	I think this is one of those situations where the public interest and the security agencies interests overlap.
408,441	It's a giant monster movie. Nobody would want to see it if you don't get to see the giant monster itself. The movie wasn't meant to be a mystery. It was meant to be Godzilla: The Victim's Perspective.	But it didn't have to be! There are lots of disasters that could affect a big city like that!
408,442	I was going to point out the Canadian History for Dummies and say that he probably isn't Canadian :D	Does Canada have a citizenship test? May have emigrated to Canada if they do.
408,443	Sergei Eisenstein, Boris Barnet, Murnau, D.W. Griffith of course. also should probably check early soviet filmmaking. those guys were breaking some serious ground	I think Eisenstein's development of montage did more to further cinema's vocabulary more than any other innovation in film history. It allowed another layer of meaning in cinema - one which would distinguish it from the filmed theatre that dominated film-making in the first couple of decades.
408,444	Aha, not really "shown up" since we haven't really compared what books we've been reading. I don't think reading an Animorphs or YA book is the same as, say, reading David Copperfield. And that is really impressive for a full-time job! Woo for being a student...	Heh don't worry, I was mostly being facetious. It's actually nice to know somebody reads as much as I do.
408,445	And its sequel got Jessica Chastain and Emily Blunt. Also Nick Frost. Beautiful people in these films	> Charlize Theron. > Jessica Chastain. > Emily Blunt. > Nick Frost. > Beautiful people in these films. One of these things is not like the others.
408,446	Unexpected answers. Thanks for the reading list. EDIT: Great - [The Long Watch] is available to read in html format online. I'm sure I must have read it (coz Heinlein), but I don't recognise the title, so now I can refresh my memory. EDIT 2: Voice went shaky, eyes stingy, but no leakage.	Two short stories, two novels. I suppose as reading lists go it has advantages in brevity, so I'm glad to help! See, now I'm curious. I can't find any reply by you on this list. Have any books made you bawl your eyes out yet?
408,447	Definitely Vetinari. His subtlety and ruthlessness are an inspiration to us all. CMOT dibbler is a definite number two. I admire his entreprenurial spirit. Also, he had his moment in the sun in the first two books, so most people won't pick him, but Rincewind was an awesome character. His complete lack of stereotypical heroic fantasy characteristics was a breath of fresh air. Favorite moment: when faced with an enemy, Rincewind makes an impressive gesture and utters a magical sounding incantation. While his enemy is nervously looking around for the magic, Rincewind runs up and kicks him in the groin. Now that's what I call magic!	lol classic I do love Rincewind. I'll always remember his one line "...they're not the cream Cohen, they're the cheese!"
408,448	Thank you! When I first read the title of this post I was hoping Ebert couldn't watch the next movie because The Grey was such shit that he just had to take a break and reflect on the current state of the film industry.	Glad some people have some sense. But opinions going against the grain apparently aren't allowed here. Love the grey or prepare to be down voted lol.
408,449	Whoa. Okay, I love this question, but I can't answer it now (gotta get going), so I will come back to it—and I'm putting this reply here so I can find it again!	Here's a token reminder to come back to the question :)
408,450	To be honest, you're probably right. I haven't listened to much of they're stuff past their first two albums and it was because of their second album that I stopped paying attention to them. They're first album is incredible though, imo. I too just saw them live in Anaheim and they were amazing (because they played the entirety of the old album and a couple of b-sides from their first album.)	I like that album but can't stand them live. If I had a dollar for every time I left a show before they went on id have like eight bucks
408,451	> they watched Snapchat create awesome stuff, then blatantly ripped it off once they saw how successful it was. Welcome to business.	So that makes it ok? Who would you rather be working for?
408,452	It won't. That's why proper forensic / evidential processes exist. Tools are used that are verified to not have the ability to tamper with source and those sources have a chain of custody that allows provenance and integrity to demonstrated and proven. Source: used to be in digital forensics, now more closely aligned to the digital archival side.	>Tools are used that are verified to not have the ability to tamper with source. I'd imagine those tools you are referring to are only available to the police. If someone makes an audio recording with a cellphone, there will be no way to confirm the source hasn't been tampered with.
408,453	Have their been any major advancements in the last few years? My current GPS is a Garmin nuvi 265. I don't have a data plan for my phone, so I won't be relying on phone based GPS.	check out the free app WAZE for iOs or Android - might change your mind.
408,454	It's a classic and prescribed reading material in South African schools as well.	Be a trash IEB school lol. Matric Shakespeare we get Coriolanus, I mean what the fuck.
408,455	Did you watch the trailer? there was some chick that kept popping up...Best guess would be her.	Hadn't done when I posted but I read the book a few years ago. Looks like it's going to be flashbacks then.
408,456	That's what I'm thinking. I can't really hear her voice very well to tell one way or another. It's live and it's not very good quality.	You're not dreaming. [Here's Katie Melua with Queen sans FM]
408,457	Saw you in London earlier in the year. So good!!! Any chance of a re-issue of "An Orchestrated Rise to Fall" and "One Day I'll Be On Time" on CD too? They're so hard to get hold of!	I dont own the CD rights for "One Day" (tigerstyle does) but yes for Orchestrtated..
408,458	There are dozens of bands that I will find one song that I like but not an ENTIRE ALBUM I like. That last times that happened to me was maybe Daft Punk's Discovery, Beck's Sea Change, and Doves's Lost Souls. One problem is I absolutely love the way two inch magnetic tapes sound and to my ears all digital pro tools setups can get extremely harsh and abrasive if they aren't handled with a little finesse. I also prefer music where melody and chords are much more prominent than beats. I also don't like the way lead vocals cut through all the other sounds these days. I admit to getting old!	Have you heard Flower boy by Tyler, the Creator?
408,459	They did (RT). However, there's always a crossover between the two (touch-enabled laptops, Surface Pro, etc.).	It's not exactly spot on. RT was used on ARM tablets while full Windows 8 was used on any device that was x86 based. Initially Windows Tablets ran mainly RT, but people wanted legacy so they got x86 tablets which are pretty nifty.
408,460	Is it weird that I get mad when I see them on the front page? Almost selfish. I want everyone to stay underground all for myself.	I got like that when I heard Dr. Dog's 'Black Hole' on the radio. Now people 'loooove' Dr. Dog and they don't realize half the references to old songs/themes.
408,461	Nice article and not to mention the trailer makes me want to go see this movie at the theaters soonest...That said, I don't think that Ridley Scott Blade Runner is the quintessential SCI-FI film as it is subtly implied in this article...There are so many great films in the genre that came before and after Blade Runnner. Just a thought...	but in the eyes of the masses Alien and Blade Runner are looked upon as providing that counter point to decades of sci-fi conventions and constructs. i dint mind giving that too him.
408,462	I enjoyed this. Any fans of jazz and Radiohead should check out [The Bad Plus] hey somebody had to mention it.	Good call, they're a great group...I saw them live too which was definitely worth it.
408,463	What's interesting is that movies can be financed through product placement	Because of piracy that will probably become more and more common in the future.
408,464	Yeah but after the bear attack the movie didn't follow the true story at all, he never even had a son. I'm gonna assume movie version died.	I get that. He never killed Hardy's character in real life either. Either way, that's why I love film so much. Interpretation set up like that is great.
408,465	I've read the Mistborn trilogy, way of kings, elantris etc. Just don't think he'd be a good fit, Joe Abercrombie would be much better tbh.	Hi! I've noticed that you might be interested in Joe Abercrombie. He will be doing an AMA here in /r/books on October 29th. [Here's a full list of our upcoming AMAs] I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/books) if you have any questions or concerns.
408,466	Imagine a Greek phalanx against them. As long as they didn't get flanked they would be completely unstoppable.	Roman legions were essentially a more tactically advanced better equipped successor to the Phalanx. Also, both relied on having men to rush forward to replace those that died, it's a limited supply up against a virtually unlimited number of zombies, and they'd have to ensure their dead men were stabbed in the head which would add to the distraction
408,467	[Dr. Who] would like to have a word with you... all ~~13~~ 15 of him, 827 episodes over 35 seasons, starting in 1963. AND COUNTING... Not counting the novels, audio plays, animated series, parodies or - if you're brave - fan fiction. Plus, literally millions of fans, of whom - Whovian? Heh! - "rabid" would be charitable... but understated.	TIL Dr Who is older than Star Trek, and has more episodes, and is still going strong. Impressive, most impressive.
408,468	See, I thought the opposite of Way of Kings. He made some very interesting characters, but then he didn't fucking do anything with them for 1000 pages. Like, we don't need another fucking play-by-play chapter of Kaladin carrying a fucking bridge. Get to a point, any point, please? That book was about 5% interesting plot events, 95% filler.	I think we are on the same page! All of the filler made the characters get boring for me. The bridge carrying is one of the best parts of the series, but somehow Kaladin gets boring to follow because it’s 1000 pages of play-by-play.
408,469	When someone becomes famous, their history catches up to them.	In this case, that is a good thing though. Fighting the good fight.
408,470	all this hipster talk is childish and stupid. Let people like what they like you fucking assholes.	Occupy, please don't cry... life is much harder than being called a "hipster." Pal - No one cares what you like, that is why you are a hipster for proudly pronouncing your "indie" taste in coffee houses
408,471	Prometheus rocked my fucking world. no joke. I was pretty shocked to see all the hate for it on the internet. [like that surgery scene? Pure fucking terror. my buddy and I both agreed that's going to become an iconic scene in movie history. And how about that shot of her carrying that axe through the room with the video of the little girl playing violin? haunting as fuck](/spoiler)	Yeah during many of the scenes in that movie I found myself gripping the arms of my seat, terrified.
408,472	I love them! I can get an extra book or two in a month in through audiobooks. I take the train everyday and I don't always like reading while in motion. Besides, it's the only way I can read books written by celebrities who's voices I know well, I'll just imagine Tiny Fey's voice so why not just let her read Bossypants to me?	Kristen Bell did the audio for the Veronica Mars book and thats like half the reason I'm listening to it.
408,473	The original iPods had regular spinning HDs I believe. That's probably why the phones aren't as big - they use SSD, right? I miss being able to sync all my sweet mp3s	> That's probably why the phones aren't as big - they use SSD, right? Well, flash storage. More like an SD card or USB flash drive than an actual SSD, but the distinction is pretty fluid. Anyway, putting eg. 32GB of flash in a phone really shouldn't cost much at all. The cost savings of 16GB or 8GB are really tiny, but the price difference the consumer sees is very big.
408,474	Dodgeball. Stepbrothers. Anchorman. The 40 Year Old Virgin. Edit: Black Dynamite, I can't believe I didn't mention this one the first time. And I'm taking about the movie here, not the animated series.	I watched Dodgeball with my dad when it came out on DVD, neither of us having any positive expectations. I have never in 24 years see that man laugh harder. I think both of us were in tears at some points. White Goodman is still my favorite Ben Stiller character, more than Zoolander.
408,475	I've been trying to find a new book to get into, and haven't had the greatest success lately. Some books I've really loved: LotR trilogy, Hitchhiker's Guide set, Steinbeck, Anne of Green Gables, Jayber Crow, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Portrait of Dorian Gray. I don't tend to like modern/contemporary literature like Garrison Keillor or Walker Percy. Any recommendations would be awesome!	You might like Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke. If you're looking for a classic, Anna Karenina might be a good fit for you.
408,476	- Mephistopheles, the Devil's sidekick from 'Dr Faustus'. - The charismatic Lovelace for Richardson's 'Clarissa'. - Medea, from the titular play by Euripides and Ovid's 'Metamorphesis'. - Satan, in both the Bible and Paradise lost. - Blifil from 'Tom Jones'. - Dolores Umbridge. - Shylock, from 'The Merchant of Venice'.	Haha you felt the need to cite Satan, but not Dolores Umbridge? Got a good chuckle.
408,477	These have existed since wifi was developed, the wireless part is called an access point and the main part is called a router. Ubiquiti makes both and is great for home use because of the low prices, they are very solid	Almost any decent wifi router will operate in "bridge" mode as a pure access point.
408,478	* Silverstein. * One OK Rock. * Burning Down Alaska. * Bullet for my Valentine. * Oasis. * Hawthorne Heights. * Sum 41. * Blink-182. * Lights. * Hollywood Undead. Gladly accepting any and all suggestions. Edit: I'd be thankful if you can include to who = whom. Eg: Hollywood undead = Linkin Park, That way, I won't think that Sum 41 = Queen or something. Mainly asking this because of some huge variations between some artists.	Brand New, Modern Baseball, Four Year Strong, Taking Back Sunday.
408,479	I'm currently playing the piano solo of this song (not when I'm typing, of course). EDIT - u/corporatony wasn't happy with the formatting of this comment. Happy now?	Wow. You must be talented to type and play the piano at the same time.
408,480	Looks like it deals with human emotions and you may have to think. That and no explosions or comic book characters. That is why.	Yeah Stewart's not reading peoples minds or saving the future in that trailer. It's making me very uncomfortable.
408,481	Epoch is the better album released today, and it's not even close. I've been a Bon Iver fan for a long time, but this lacked any semblance of cohesiveness.	Oh man, I'm so torn about which one to listen to so I'm alternating.
408,482	>Hodor. >Karma please! I don't even mind. I love Hodor.	Jesus, this guy has fried his brain stems so much smoking pot that he's changed his name to Snoop Lion? And you all think it's funny? This guy needs help and your laughing at him!
408,483	Actually math is not black and white, there are some areas which lack formalized rules and necessitate clarifying equations by changing them to make them black and white. That said ambiguous math problems are far from the norm compared to damn near every paper you will write in school.	That is true and a reason why a good accountant is better than most accounting software because the human element can make creatively legal accounting decisions that a computer wouldn't normally consider.
408,484	I want some scifi like Annihilation that isn't Annihilation because my library doesn't have it.	What part of Annihilation are you interested in? Off the top of my head, I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid might do it.
408,485	HDMI ARC is terrible. It only does audio formats which can be carried on S/PDIF. Dolby Digital/DTS are dead. Now is the time for discrete 7.1 and it doesn't carry it.	ARC on my Samsung UEJS8500 does every format I've been able to throw at it, up to TrueHD/DTS-MA.
408,486	Funny thing about that, violence can lead to death, rape on it's own carries a low risk of this. The risk of death is the greatest indicator of the danger and thus what should be considered worse. Rape is abhorrent as is violence. But suggesting rape is more serious than destructive physical violence against another is false.	Check the instance of suicide among rape victims and tell me again that there’s a “low risk” of death resulting from rape..
408,487	Is the album any good? I've never heard of them before.	It's YES's 1972 album "Fragile" and yes it is very, very good. They are a progressive rock band like Genesis, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, and Kansas.
408,488	I think his best performance will always be Good Will Hunting. Maybe it's because he wrote the character or that he was able to emulate the stereotypical southie	No Matt Damon's best performance will always be [when he played himself on Entourage.]
408,489	That downside can be easily overcome with another machine that sprays the concrete with a visually appealing texture or outright attaches the bulk of siding (maybe trim work would still be done by hand).	yeah it may not be totally rational but there is still an undeniably enormous market for brick residences, particularly in middle class and upper middle class areas of developed countries. I think in terms of cost, malleability, and efficiency concrete is a preferable material, but those often aren't the most important metrics when constructing residential properties.
408,490	Maybe privately fund a library and do all of those things and more with it?	Who's doing that in cities across the country? If charity worked, it would have already. Not to mention, what is the recourse when a private citizen who privately funds his library decides to kick people out or ban books that conflict with his ideology? Why would I ever trust a private individual for something like that over a slow-moving and publicly-accountable bureaucracy? edit-sorry about that second paragraph edit--thought I'd have it done before anybody commented
408,491	reddit: what's new online! The Pixies : Gigantic (1988)	Reddit is just links to cool shit you may not have found otherwise. A 21 year old is likely to have never heard of them... consider it a history lesson.
408,492	Surely more than one author can be absurdist. Otherwise that just seems like lexiconical squatting. So to be more helpful, I am including the first line of the wikipedia entry here: "Absurdist fiction is a genre of [fictional] [narrative] (traditionally, [literary fiction] most often in the form of a [novel] [play] [poem] or [film] that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent [purpose in life] most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value."	I was giving an example of what absurdism is. I didn't say only one author could be an absurdist.
408,493	Yeah the Heroes of Olympus and the Kane Chronicles are turning out to be pretty horrible comparatively.	Heroes of Olympus seemed alright, though it was really obvious the whole time. That got pretty annoying. I can't read the Kane Chronicles.
408,494	OK, but don't forget that such installations take time, money and resources to build. Maybe they could be be spent better that on electrolysis?	No - that's the point - renewables have the drawback that their supply is intermittent and there's no good way to store electricity. In a few choice locations you can pump water up a hill with reasonable efficiency. It might be possible to store energy in a giant flywheel reasonably efficiently (especially for short times), but the capital costs and risks if anything goes wrong are huge. Otherwise, you're limited to electrolysis with ~30% efficiency.
408,495	Except they weren't allowed to go supersonic above/near land. So that didn't happen.	The plane was absurdly loud even when not supersonic. It's basically as loud as a jet fighter. And if you ever heard one of those, you realize they are many times louder than a normal passenger jet.
408,496	Catcher in the rye. I was my Dad when he was younger, then he gave it to me	I like the handed down books in the family. I have a copy of Ender's Game I got from an uncle that has now passed. It even has his name written on the inside of the cover.
408,497	To me it has too much background needed. I don't like when a story isn't a story. I hate when nothing being talked about is actually happening. Everything is a metaphors in Inferno and I think that weakens it.	Dante makes a lot of references to the politics and pop culture that were contemporary at the time. The way my professor explained it, it would be similar to a modern author poking fun at Kim Kardashian and Mitt Romney. Good for a smart cultural commentary at the time, but the references tend to be lost on us.
408,498	I think its also they are what's left of 90's alt rock. Believe it or not that schtick was big with my generation, so I can see why people like it. Other than that, mehh I heard all of it I wanted to hear back then.	I feel so sad that Creed and Nickelback apparently carry the name of 90s alt rock. The first 6 years or so of the decade only was the best in rock since the 70s...
408,499	I saw them sandwiched between Valient Thor and Motorhead. I was in my happy place for a week.	Me too! That was my first Clutch show & I've seen em 3 more times since.

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Also: sharks have been around for longer than trees

But books have been around longer than either. Fascinating to think about.

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I disagree about the animation, it was great seeing the Batman animated TV show animation back again

Dude.... Go buy/watch Batman TAS then rewatch Killing Joke. This is gonna sound wankish but I been rewatch TAS with my wife and the animation in TAS *shits* all over Killing Joke. That's why I'm cranky. Something produced in 1992 is superior to something produced last year....

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If you throttle it's not unlimited. That's why it has limited appeal.

> If you throttle it's not unlimited. Depends on what you're considering "unlimited". Even T-Mobile's non-"unlimited" plans are unlimited in the sense that you can use as much data as you want (barring some fine print stating that they have the right to restrict data access after some dozens of gigabytes, but that's pretty standard even for non-wireless ISPs, let alone cell phone carriers). They're not unlimited in terms of *high-speed* data, but you still get to use as much data as you want even if it's slowed down after a certain number of gigabytes. It's like eating at a buffet. Sure, you could theoretically sit there for [four hours] but the staff probably stopped bringing you drinks three hours ago.

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Adore is one of the best albums evermade... Also a pumpkins fan

Huh. I'm the only person I know who liked Adore.

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Interesting... I'm not sure how this lines up. A lot of content producers have moved to Vessel because of the subscription model, and then release on YouTube as a secondary location once the initial buzz is gone on Vessel. This announcement doesn't seem to do anything to head that off, but instead appears to tie up specific content producers with contract work for syndicated-style offerings. Wouldn't it make more sense to provide an "early release" mechanism with a subscription model, and keep the rest the same? Do we really want YouTube (de/re/e)volving into a la carte TV?

That's a fair point. This could wind up encouraging more people to go to Vessel and avoid YouTube all together. YouTube could have become the pre-eminent source of streaming media a few years ago, but it still feels like they can't figure out the streaming space that well.

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> Guy got MITM'd. Probably not. More likely he isn't using secure smtp. A major ISP in my area [lacks proper security on their smtp servers] Even the authentication.

Way to disagree for the sake of it. It was public wifi on a plane. At the very most you need NPCAP and wireshark to steal every single bit of traffic that goes through it, nothing more. Any attack that intercepts traffic is by definition a MITM.

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Dale. Congrats on getting engaged. Any plans for some babies, and if yes how will that affect your grueling tour schedule? Also. I really appreciate your on stage presence. You make me smile. Next time you’re in Atlanta let’s have some drinks!

Thank you I guess. Yes we are going to get married at the end of next year. She wants at least a baby so she's the boss I guess. Babies in the future. Yes it is something that worries me a bit that is why I don't have any kids I have never really had room for kids with all the touring. Yes it will be a big adjustment I think I wouldn't entertain the thought if I didn't think she was the right person to do this and capable of raising a kid or two on her own basically. We will cross that bridge when we get there but yeah it is going to be hard make no mistake about that.

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Technically it's all part of the MCU, doesn't mean those characters would show up in Avengers 3.

i know but people are complaining about quality in this thread

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1979 Smashing Pumpkins. I wasnt around in the 70s not until the mid 90s but it gives this nostalgic vibe

1979 and Tonight, Tonight were the first that came to my mind

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Right on, I've a similar story from college days. Never heard of them before I bought a copy of their self-titled album out of a used bin, solely because there was a track called 'House of Tom Bombadil'. Can't remember that song at all, but 'When You Come Back Down' is an excellent track that still plays at our house on the regular.

Yeah! Wonderful song. Their music makes me feel many feels

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giga-watt-hour. They are just normal SI units. If you want to blame someone, blame James Watt for keeping the unit of electrical energy in the first derivative form.

Seems fine to me. Watts aren't too small to be meaningful. 5 Watts is around what you'll want for your phone to charge.

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I work in a library. When i check out one of my favorite books to a patron I always ask if they have read it before. If they say no, I feel something akin to envy because I know how much they are going to enjoy that book. The joy of reading a great book can never be relived.

A few years ago, I donated all my books to my local library since I was reading on my Kindle most of the time anyway. There are some small things that I miss about physical books, but the only significant thing that I miss is the joy of recommending and lending my favorite books to my friends. Fortunately, one of my favorite books survived the transition due to it being borrowed at the time: *The Pillars of the Earth*. And since it's the only physical book I have when my friends ask to borrow a book, it's probably been circulated more times than most of the books in a library.

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If I were to pick up Silmarillion, LotR, and Hobbit which order would you suggest they be read?

I’m just a casual reader but I would say Hobbit, LotR then Silmarillion. Silmarillion is notoriously a difficult read and you wouldn’t want to get bogged down and turned off by the whole experience IMO. I enjoyed reading the books in order other than that though

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WWI doesn't have a straight forward enemy like the Nazis. That's why you barely see it.

It has one global enemy; war. Just see the kubrick movie (and I don't mean dr strangelove)

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Guns Germs and Steel. Puts everyone on an equal footing. Takes race out of the equation with regards to differences in human technological development.

Also by Jared Diamond, The Third Chimpanzee. A good read about evolution and evolution dynamics. A great tidbit: The reasoning behind destructive behavior as a method to advance a species. Can't say I agreed with everything that Diamond states, but it kept me thinking nonetheless.

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>As if human literature has actually been around for eons. I mean, 4700 years aren't eons but they still make "the 18th century" feel recent.

Not even the point I was making, but sure, when you're talking about geological timelines. To me, **when talking about lit** (and any associated bahaviour surrounding the topic), I don't consider something published three centuries ago as *remotely relatively* "recent", as it should be *relevant* to humans alive both then and now. Maybe you and all your friends around you are immortals, but I'm part of the 7 billion+ human population that weren't around to be able to claim Gulliver's Travels as anything other than a "classic".

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You're in the niche that doesn't use their game console to play games, then.

I decided I only needed one console, and the PS3 offered the services I wanted for free. I simply buy games for the PS3 instead of the 360, doesn't mean I don't play games.

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The Moto Z did it first though... And they did get away with it.

What's funny is how this seems lost on people. It's obviously more fun to believe that Apple started "audio cancer" or something.

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I've always enjoyed Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. Not off the radar enough to be full hipster, but not really well known. Enjoy!

Came here to suggest this one, could not recommend enough! It has a really cool [back story] as well.

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Why the fuck can't they just give their services normal names?

The sector is full of nonsense names, like "Cognos TM1"

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There is nothing wrong with how spotify works, there is just one thing they should tweak: Instead of having all the money paid inn by users shared among all the played songs, have all the money one user paid inn (-overhead) get paid out to all the people who he has listened to. That means if I only listened to Portugal. The man one whole month they would get all the 10$ I paid inn (- overhead ofc). This would benefit all the small bands/artists that Tidal wan't to help out.

^this. maybe even 80/20 or 70/30. $7 to your month's listens then $3 for them to do whatever the f it is they wanna do with it.

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The lossless wasn't that good of a selling point seeing as how not many people can hear the difference between it and 320kbps, which is commonly offered among streaming subscriptions.

NO one can. True ABX tests never demonstrate the ability to differentiate lossless from 320 in a modern codec beyond pure random selection.

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From the fucking article? That's what I said, that it said *unusable*, not *bricked*. As a hardware technician I realize there's a difference.

Maybe next time ***READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE*** instead of getting all butt-hurt. >So, it appears that if you attempt to forcefeed a Xerox printer not-from-around-here ink, it will potentially ***brick the device***. At that point, you're forced to ask for a Xerox rep to drop by and unlock your purchased printer for you.

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But a BIOS/UEFI updated provided by the manufacture. If you wrote your own update, or pulled down a third-party, open source distro, that might be breaking a ToS but tbh I wouldn't know offhand. Edit: I don't even think you could find open-source BIOS..but you get the point

Why would you want to use your own BIOS? Genuine question.

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My mom is horrible with books. She has said herself many times she doesn't read anything without pictures. But she knows how important reading is, and she always encouraged us to read and learn! Result: three bookworm children. She's super proud because she feels like she did a good job raising kids to be "better" than her. I tell her she's silly :)

Sounds like she did a pretty damn good job to me! And you can tell her a random person on the internet said so :)

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I'm on apple music solely because of the price. In Canada Apple music offers student pricing at 4.99$ per month. Spotify's cheapest plan is 9.99$ per month. I do like spotify better, but not enough to pay an extra 5$ per month.

Spotify has a student plan for $5 a month as well

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I just came out of it, and all i can say is, is that the flick is spectacular. IMO, it's the best film Marvel has ever made. Chris Pratt is incredibly likeable, so is the rest of the cast. Everyone needs to see this movie. It is so incredibly awesome. **I am Groot.**

> it's the best comic book film ever made. FTFY

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> I don't understand why someone would downvote but not comment; can anyone answer? Because some people are jerks. Don't sweat it.

Haha, I realise why, I was trying to stem crackduck's downvotes; particularly because he asked a reasonable question.

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> single thread. That defeats the point of adding 2 cores.

It shows whether this is actually a new generation or if just stuck 2 more cores of the last generation in.

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Guitar hero introduced me to this one. That game had it's uses.

I thank guitar hero for my introduction to dragon force

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Titanium is not particularly strong, just strong for how light it is (its often said titanium is "as strong as steel and as light as aluminum".) There are plenty of steels out there much stronger than titanium, so making a new steel that is stronger than titanium but lighter than usual is not a huge total breakthrough.

It gets clicks and it seems that that is all that matters.

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Lol I was calling the dude out for not reading what I quoted. He forgot the /s though I guess. p.s. *You're* dense you brick of lead /s

I *am* that guy. I read that. It was a joke that referenced that part of Andy's comment.

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Couldn't exchanges set up a hash blacklist for this stuff? > Oh, this version of CryptoLocker is giving out this hash for people to pay. We will not allow this user to cash out.

No, because you can tumble the coins into unknown addresses. It would be impossible to find where the money comes from.

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it looks exactly as bad as you'd expect. i hate when they remake great/bad movies. point break is a trashy classic. stupid to try to make it something it's not.

That's a new and refreshing take on the topic. Can you elaborate? I envy your position.

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I tried tons before I settled on Safe In Cloud. I'm not willing to pay a monthly fee and 1Password is obnoxiously expensive where I need both Mac and PC applications.

>I'm not willing to pay anything at all for peace of mind and easy access to my passwords so I don't actually have to remember them all.

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Is "Look Who's Back" the name of the book? You haven't given an author either......

That is indeed the name of the [book] I have the movie in my Netflix queue, but actually wasn't aware it was a book until this thread (so sorry OP, I can't add much to the discussion). The author is Timur Vermes.

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Virginia Woolf didn't believe that the working class should be educated, or indeed had the mental capacity to be educated. Cicero was cunning and politically manipulative. Enid Blyton was terribly racist in her children's books. Byron committed incest.

I'm not sure Enid Blyton was especially racist for the time though.

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Eh, it's all for game balance. I'd rather have a better game than a perfectly correct map. The Duluth one is the funniest though because they really could just put Minneapolis there and it would be fine. They can't sub out Chicago for Gary, Boston for Portland, or Las Vegas for the Lake Mead Recreational Area, but Duluth for Minneapolis would be reasonable.

Yeah, even if you wanted to save space you could put St. Paul.

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We gotta get out of here man. We gotta fucking run!

If anyone is gonna fuck my cousin, it might as well be me.

408,439

The Last Battle didn't really get me as much as I thought it would, but Rand's epiphany on Dragonmount at the end of *The Gathering Storm* broke me for weeks.

Oh man I didn't even think of that one! yeah that one was amazing! There were so many amazing moments in that series. Oh OH OH and lest we EVER forget the name Verin. her final scene.. mother of god..

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Harder to imagine who'd win, a greedy set of companies or some happy security agencies who look forward to being able to monitor where any device is

I think this is one of those situations where the public interest and the security agencies interests overlap.

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It's a giant monster movie. Nobody would want to see it if *you don't get to see the giant monster itself.* The movie wasn't meant to be a mystery. It was meant to be Godzilla: The Victim's Perspective.

But it didn't have to be! There are lots of disasters that could affect a big city like that!

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I was going to point out the Canadian History for Dummies and say that he probably isn't Canadian :D

Does Canada have a citizenship test? May have emigrated to Canada if they do.

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Sergei Eisenstein, Boris Barnet, Murnau, D.W. Griffith of course. also should probably check early soviet filmmaking. those guys were breaking some serious ground

I think Eisenstein's development of montage did more to further cinema's vocabulary more than any other innovation in film history. It allowed another layer of meaning in cinema - one which would distinguish it from the filmed theatre that dominated film-making in the first couple of decades.

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Aha, not really "shown up" since we haven't really compared what books we've been reading. I don't think reading an Animorphs or YA book is the same as, say, reading David Copperfield. And that is really impressive for a full-time job! Woo for being a student...

Heh don't worry, I was mostly being facetious. It's actually nice to know somebody reads as much as I do.

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And its sequel got Jessica Chastain and Emily Blunt. Also Nick Frost. Beautiful people in these films

> Charlize Theron. > Jessica Chastain. > Emily Blunt. > Nick Frost. > Beautiful people in these films. One of these things is not like the others.

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Unexpected answers. Thanks for the reading list. EDIT: Great - [The Long Watch] is available to read in html format online. I'm sure I must have read it (coz Heinlein), but I don't recognise the title, so now I can refresh my memory. EDIT 2: Voice went shaky, eyes stingy, but no leakage.

Two short stories, two novels. I suppose as reading lists go it has advantages in brevity, so I'm glad to help! See, now I'm curious. I can't find any reply by you on this list. Have any books made you bawl your eyes out yet?

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Definitely Vetinari. His subtlety and ruthlessness are an inspiration to us all. CMOT dibbler is a definite number two. I admire his entreprenurial spirit. Also, he had his moment in the sun in the first two books, so most people won't pick him, but Rincewind was an awesome character. His complete lack of stereotypical heroic fantasy characteristics was a breath of fresh air. Favorite moment: when faced with an enemy, Rincewind makes an impressive gesture and utters a magical sounding incantation. While his enemy is nervously looking around for the magic, Rincewind runs up and kicks him in the groin. Now that's what I call magic!

lol classic I do love Rincewind. I'll always remember his one line "...they're not the cream Cohen, they're the cheese!"

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Thank you! When I first read the title of this post I was hoping Ebert couldn't watch the next movie because The Grey was such shit that he just had to take a break and reflect on the current state of the film industry.

Glad some people have some sense. But opinions going against the grain apparently aren't allowed here. Love the grey or prepare to be down voted lol.

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Whoa. Okay, I love this question, but I can't answer it now (gotta get going), so I will come back to it—and I'm putting this reply here so I can find it again!

Here's a token reminder to come back to the question :)

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To be honest, you're probably right. I haven't listened to much of they're stuff past their first two albums and it was because of their second album that I stopped paying attention to them. They're first album is incredible though, imo. I too just saw them live in Anaheim and they were amazing (because they played the entirety of the old album and a couple of b-sides from their first album.)

I like that album but can't stand them live. If I had a dollar for every time I left a show before they went on id have like eight bucks

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> they watched Snapchat create awesome stuff, then blatantly ripped it off once they saw how successful it was. Welcome to business.

So that makes it ok? Who would you rather be working for?

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It won't. That's why proper forensic / evidential processes exist. Tools are used that are verified to not have the ability to tamper with source and those sources have a chain of custody that allows provenance and integrity to demonstrated and proven. Source: used to be in digital forensics, now more closely aligned to the digital archival side.

>Tools are used that are verified to not have the ability to tamper with source. I'd imagine those tools you are referring to are only available to the police. If someone makes an audio recording with a cellphone, there will be no way to confirm the source hasn't been tampered with.

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Have their been any major advancements in the last few years? My current GPS is a Garmin nuvi 265. I don't have a data plan for my phone, so I won't be relying on phone based GPS.

check out the free app WAZE for iOs or Android - might change your mind.

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It's a classic and prescribed reading material in South African schools as well.

Be a trash IEB school lol. Matric Shakespeare we get Coriolanus, I mean what the fuck.

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Did you watch the trailer? there was some chick that kept popping up...Best guess would be her.

Hadn't done when I posted but I read the book a few years ago. Looks like it's going to be flashbacks then.

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That's what I'm thinking. I can't really hear her voice very well to tell one way or another. It's live and it's not very good quality.

You're not dreaming. [Here's Katie Melua with Queen sans FM]

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Saw you in London earlier in the year. So good!!! Any chance of a re-issue of "An Orchestrated Rise to Fall" and "One Day I'll Be On Time" on CD too? They're so hard to get hold of!

I dont own the CD rights for "One Day" (tigerstyle does) but yes for Orchestrtated..

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There are dozens of bands that I will find one song that I like but not an ENTIRE ALBUM I like. That last times that happened to me was maybe Daft Punk's Discovery, Beck's Sea Change, and Doves's Lost Souls. One problem is I absolutely love the way two inch magnetic tapes sound and to my ears all digital pro tools setups can get extremely harsh and abrasive if they aren't handled with a little finesse. I also prefer music where melody and chords are much more prominent than beats. I also don't like the way lead vocals cut through all the other sounds these days. I admit to getting old!

Have you heard Flower boy by Tyler, the Creator?

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They did (RT). However, there's always a crossover between the two (touch-enabled laptops, Surface Pro, etc.).

It's not exactly spot on. RT was used on ARM tablets while full Windows 8 was used on any device that was x86 based. Initially Windows Tablets ran mainly RT, but people wanted legacy so they got x86 tablets which are pretty nifty.

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Is it weird that I get mad when I see them on the front page? Almost selfish. I want everyone to stay underground all for myself.

I got like that when I heard Dr. Dog's 'Black Hole' on the radio. Now people 'loooove' Dr. Dog and they don't realize half the references to old songs/themes.

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Nice article and not to mention the trailer makes me want to go see this movie at the theaters soonest...That said, I don't think that Ridley Scott Blade Runner is the quintessential SCI-FI film as it is subtly implied in this article...There are so many great films in the genre that came before and after Blade Runnner. Just a thought...

but in the eyes of the masses Alien and Blade Runner are looked upon as providing that counter point to decades of sci-fi conventions and constructs. i dint mind giving that too him.

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I enjoyed this. Any fans of jazz and Radiohead should check out [The Bad Plus] hey somebody had to mention it.

Good call, they're a great group...I saw them live too which was definitely worth it.

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What's interesting is that movies can be financed through product placement

Because of piracy that will probably become more and more common in the future.

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Yeah but after the bear attack the movie didn't follow the true story at all, he never even had a son. I'm gonna assume movie version died.

I get that. He never killed Hardy's character in real life either. Either way, that's why I love film so much. Interpretation set up like that is great.

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I've read the Mistborn trilogy, way of kings, elantris etc. Just don't think he'd be a good fit, Joe Abercrombie would be much better tbh.

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Imagine a Greek phalanx against them. As long as they didn't get flanked they would be completely unstoppable.

Roman legions were essentially a more tactically advanced better equipped successor to the Phalanx. Also, both relied on having men to rush forward to replace those that died, it's a limited supply up against a virtually unlimited number of zombies, and they'd have to ensure their dead men were stabbed in the head which would add to the distraction

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[Dr. Who] would like to have a word with you... all ~~13~~ 15 of him, 827 episodes over 35 seasons, starting in *1963*. **AND COUNTING**... *Not* counting the novels, audio plays, animated series, parodies or - if you're *brave* - fan fiction. Plus, *literally* millions of fans, of whom - Whovian? Heh! - "rabid" would be *charitable*... but understated.

TIL *Dr Who* is older than *Star Trek*, and has more episodes, and is still going strong. Impressive, most impressive.

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See, I thought the opposite of Way of Kings. He made some very interesting characters, but then he *didn't fucking do anything with them* for 1000 pages. Like, we don't need another fucking play-by-play chapter of Kaladin carrying a fucking bridge. Get to a point, any point, please? That book was about 5% interesting plot events, 95% filler.

I think we are on the same page! All of the filler made the characters get boring for me. The bridge carrying is one of the best parts of the series, but somehow Kaladin gets boring to follow because it’s 1000 pages of play-by-play.

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When someone becomes famous, their history catches up to them.

In this case, that is a good thing though. Fighting the good fight.

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all this hipster talk is childish and stupid. Let people like what they like you fucking assholes.

Occupy, please don't cry... life is much harder than being called a "hipster." Pal - No one cares what you like, that is why you are a hipster for proudly pronouncing your "indie" taste in coffee houses

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Prometheus rocked my fucking world. no joke. I was pretty shocked to see all the hate for it on the internet. [like that surgery scene? Pure fucking terror. my buddy and I both agreed that's going to become an iconic scene in movie history. And how about that shot of her carrying that axe through the room with the video of the little girl playing violin? haunting as fuck](/spoiler)

Yeah during many of the scenes in that movie I found myself gripping the arms of my seat, terrified.

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I love them! I can get an extra book or two in a month in through audiobooks. I take the train everyday and I don't always like reading while in motion. Besides, it's the only way I can read books written by celebrities who's voices I know well, I'll just imagine Tiny Fey's voice so why not just let her read Bossypants to me?

Kristen Bell did the audio for the Veronica Mars book and thats like half the reason I'm listening to it.

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The original iPods had regular spinning HDs I believe. That's probably why the phones aren't as big - they use SSD, right? I miss being able to sync all my sweet mp3s

> That's probably why the phones aren't as big - they use SSD, right? Well, flash storage. More like an SD card or USB flash drive than an actual SSD, but the distinction is pretty fluid. Anyway, putting eg. 32GB of flash in a phone really shouldn't cost much at all. The cost savings of 16GB or 8GB are really tiny, but the price difference the consumer sees is very big.

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Dodgeball. Stepbrothers. Anchorman. The 40 Year Old Virgin. Edit: Black Dynamite, I can't believe I didn't mention this one the first time. And I'm taking about the movie here, not the animated series.

I watched Dodgeball with my dad when it came out on DVD, neither of us having any positive expectations. I have never in 24 years see that man laugh harder. I think both of us were in tears at some points. White Goodman is still my favorite Ben Stiller character, more than Zoolander.

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I've been trying to find a new book to get into, and haven't had the greatest success lately. Some books I've really loved: LotR trilogy, Hitchhiker's Guide set, Steinbeck, Anne of Green Gables, Jayber Crow, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Portrait of Dorian Gray. I don't tend to like modern/contemporary literature like Garrison Keillor or Walker Percy. Any recommendations would be awesome!

You might like *Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell* by Susanna Clarke. If you're looking for a classic, *Anna Karenina* might be a good fit for you.

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- Mephistopheles, the Devil's sidekick from 'Dr Faustus'. - The charismatic Lovelace for Richardson's 'Clarissa'. - Medea, from the titular play by Euripides and Ovid's 'Metamorphesis'. - Satan, in both the Bible and Paradise lost. - Blifil from 'Tom Jones'. - Dolores Umbridge. - Shylock, from 'The Merchant of Venice'.

Haha you felt the need to cite Satan, but not Dolores Umbridge? Got a good chuckle.

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These have existed since wifi was developed, the wireless part is called an access point and the main part is called a router. Ubiquiti makes both and is great for home use because of the low prices, they are very solid

Almost any decent wifi router will operate in "bridge" mode as a pure access point.

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* Silverstein. * One OK Rock. * Burning Down Alaska. * Bullet for my Valentine. * Oasis. * Hawthorne Heights. * Sum 41. * Blink-182. * Lights. * Hollywood Undead. Gladly accepting any and all suggestions. Edit: I'd be thankful if you can include to who = whom. Eg: Hollywood undead = Linkin Park, That way, I won't think that Sum 41 = Queen or something. Mainly asking this because of some huge variations between some artists.

Brand New, Modern Baseball, Four Year Strong, Taking Back Sunday.

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I'm currently playing the piano solo of this song (not when I'm typing, of course). EDIT - u/corporatony wasn't happy with the formatting of this comment. Happy now?

Wow. You must be talented to type and play the piano at the same time.

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Looks like it deals with human emotions and you may have to think. That and no explosions or comic book characters. That is why.

Yeah Stewart's not reading peoples minds or saving the future in that trailer. It's making me *very* uncomfortable.

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Epoch is the better album released today, and it's not even close. I've been a Bon Iver fan for a long time, but this lacked any semblance of cohesiveness.

Oh man, I'm so torn about which one to listen to so I'm alternating.

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>Hodor. >Karma please! I don't even mind. I love Hodor.

Jesus, this guy has fried his brain stems so much smoking pot that he's changed his name to Snoop Lion? And you all think it's funny? This guy needs help and your laughing at him!

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Actually math is not black and white, there are some areas which lack formalized rules and necessitate clarifying equations by changing them to make them black and white. That said ambiguous math problems are far from the norm compared to damn near every paper you will write in school.

That is true and a reason why a good accountant is better than most accounting software because the human element can make creatively legal accounting decisions that a computer wouldn't normally consider.

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I want some scifi like *Annihilation* that isn't *Annihilation* because my library doesn't have it.

What part of Annihilation are you interested in? Off the top of my head, *I'm Thinking of Ending Things* by Iain Reid might do it.

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HDMI ARC is terrible. It only does audio formats which can be carried on S/PDIF. Dolby Digital/DTS are dead. Now is the time for discrete 7.1 and it doesn't carry it.

ARC on my Samsung UEJS8500 does every format I've been able to throw at it, up to TrueHD/DTS-MA.

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Funny thing about that, violence can lead to death, rape on it's own carries a low risk of this. The risk of death is the greatest indicator of the danger and thus what should be considered worse. Rape is abhorrent as is violence. But suggesting rape is more serious than destructive physical violence against another is false.

Check the instance of suicide among rape victims and tell me again that there’s a “low risk” of death resulting from rape..

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Is the album any good? I've never heard of them before.

It's YES's 1972 album "Fragile" and yes it is very, very good. They are a progressive rock band like Genesis, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, and Kansas.

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I think his best performance will always be Good Will Hunting. Maybe it's because he wrote the character or that he was able to emulate the stereotypical southie

No Matt Damon's best performance will always be [when he played himself on Entourage.]

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That downside can be easily overcome with another machine that sprays the concrete with a visually appealing texture or outright attaches the bulk of siding (maybe trim work would still be done by hand).

yeah it may not be totally rational but there is still an undeniably enormous market for brick residences, particularly in middle class and upper middle class areas of developed countries. I think in terms of cost, malleability, and efficiency concrete is a preferable material, but those often aren't the most important metrics when constructing residential properties.

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Maybe privately fund a library and do all of those things and more with it?

Who's doing that in cities across the country? If charity worked, it would have already. Not to mention, what is the recourse when a private citizen who privately funds his library decides to kick people out or ban books that conflict with his ideology? Why would I ever trust a private individual for something like that over a slow-moving and publicly-accountable bureaucracy? edit-sorry about that second paragraph edit--thought I'd have it done before anybody commented

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reddit: what's new online! The Pixies : Gigantic (1988)

Reddit is just links to cool shit you may not have found otherwise. A 21 year old is likely to have never heard of them... consider it a history lesson.

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Surely more than one author can be absurdist. Otherwise that just seems like lexiconical squatting. So to be more helpful, I am including the first line of the wikipedia entry here: "**Absurdist fiction** is a genre of [fictional] [narrative] (traditionally, [literary fiction] most often in the form of a [novel] [play] [poem] or [film] that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent [purpose in life] most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value."

I was giving an example of what absurdism is. I didn't say only one author could be an absurdist.

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Yeah the Heroes of Olympus and the Kane Chronicles are turning out to be pretty horrible comparatively.

Heroes of Olympus seemed alright, though it was really obvious the whole time. That got pretty annoying. I can't read the Kane Chronicles.

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OK, but don't forget that such installations take time, money and resources to build. Maybe they could be be spent better that on electrolysis?

No - that's the point - renewables have the drawback that their supply is intermittent and **there's no good way to store electricity**. In a few choice locations you can pump water up a hill with reasonable efficiency. It might be possible to store energy in a giant flywheel reasonably efficiently (especially for short times), but the capital costs and risks if anything goes wrong are huge. Otherwise, you're limited to electrolysis with ~30% efficiency.

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Except they weren't allowed to go supersonic above/near land. So that didn't happen.

The plane was absurdly loud even when not supersonic. It's basically as loud as a jet fighter. And if you ever heard one of those, you realize they are many times louder than a normal passenger jet.

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Catcher in the rye. I was my Dad when he was younger, then he gave it to me

I like the handed down books in the family. I have a copy of Ender's Game I got from an uncle that has now passed. It even has his name written on the inside of the cover.

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To me it has too much background needed. I don't like when a story isn't a story. I hate when nothing being talked about is actually happening. Everything is a metaphors in Inferno and I think that weakens it.

Dante makes a lot of references to the politics and pop culture that were contemporary at the time. The way my professor explained it, it would be similar to a modern author poking fun at Kim Kardashian and Mitt Romney. Good for a smart cultural commentary at the time, but the references tend to be lost on us.

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I think its also they are what's left of 90's alt rock. Believe it or not that schtick was big with my generation, so I can see why people like it. Other than that, mehh I heard all of it I wanted to hear back then.

I feel so sad that Creed and Nickelback apparently carry the name of 90s alt rock. The first 6 years or so of the decade only was the best in rock since the 70s...

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I saw them sandwiched between Valient Thor and Motorhead. I was in my happy place for a week.

Me too! That was my first Clutch show & I've seen em 3 more times since.