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Google the book's title and torrent. You can find many books that you can just download.
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In a pinch, yup...or you could buy the books. You could get the Kindle version from Amazon, and use the Kindle application to read. :)
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408,601 |
not really a spoiler they said that in the trailer.
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I feel like this particular trailer is more spoilery than the one I saw in my local Scottish cinema.
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408,602 |
I used to hate that game working at Gamestop. Had a lady from China come in who couldn't understand English well that wanted a copy, and had to try explaining to her that while it said New! we only had used copies. Stupid naming scheme
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Lmao... I hope you posted that in /r/TalesFromRetail.
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408,603 |
It would get gross, pretty quick with all the dirt and bugs and all..
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Sticky layer is only supposed to be exposed after some sort of force cracks the outer layer.
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408,604 |
Every time I try to think of the possibilities, a heart rate monitor is just about the ONLY possibility I can think of. What else would they be useful for?
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I tend to wear my pebble only when I am at the gym, and that's because I can easily change songs with it while my phone sits in an armband.
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408,605 |
It definitely isn't that long, even the parts with very much cgi won't take 24hours to render 1 frame, that's just bullshit.
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Cars 2 was an average of 11.5 hours per frame with some frames taking 80-90 hours. [Source] Monsters U averaged 29 hours [Source] But you have to remember they are rendering thousands of frames at a time and they can render already finished work while they are still animating the rest. Of course if you wanted to say 'hey, what will this image look like finalized' you have a bit of a wait.
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408,606 |
Jackie Robinson became so famous *because* he was black, and good at baseball. Turing's sexuality has nothing to do with his accomplishments. It's an important part of his life, but if they ruin the story of him cracking the code and his actual technical accomplishments with a bunch of gay rave scenes and shitty, largely unverifiable stories, I will be upset.
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It depends on what they're trying to make a movie about. If they're trying to make it about cracking the enigma and the effort behind it, then yeah, Turing's sexuality doesn't have a whole lot to do with it. If they're making a movie about Alan Turing, though (which, judging by the tagline anyway, they are), that's a massively important part of his life.
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408,607 |
Man, this is one of those songs that can take me back to the a time and place so well. It was my freshman year of college, sometime during the fall and a friend gave me mix CD for my long drives back home on the weekends. This was like halfway through the disc and once I found it I couldn't stop listening to it. I still remember the crisp, cool air of campus and driving around the city with friends to this song. It's definitely going to be a song that I keep listening to and once I'm old and bitter, it'll be the one that reminds me of the most free, exploratory phases of my life.
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Lol I’m a senior in college and I remember doing this like 2 years ago. The song fits that vibe so well.
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408,608 |
He goes along with her plan because he is terrified about what she will do to their child if he crosses her. He has no evidence to prove that she did the whole thing. The book does a much better job showing the line of thinking for Nick in this regard. As for NPH and his character, you're right her going to see him is not part of her plan. Once she is robbed by those two at her cabin she has few options and no resources so she goes to a man she knows will blindly help her.
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There's also an implication in the book that Nick is seduced by what she says about how connected they are. Like, he's a huge narcissist and she really did go to the ends of the earth for him. It was to destroy him, but that's devotion.
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408,609 |
Out of curiosity, why didn't you like it? I thought the whole Stieg series was pretty engaging.
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Honestly it's crime/ murder mysteries in general. They are all such rehashes of one another that there is no originality. I did enjoy the tattoo scene though
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408,610 |
Ugh yeah, cherry-picked facts are polarizing. But hey enjoy the civil war you help to create. I don't think it's going to go as well for you as you think it will.
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"Both sides are the same or else I'm going to start a civil war!" Calm down. Feel free to cherry pick any facts that contradict the overall view.
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408,611 |
A little late but I will take a crack at a list. **Beginner** 1. *The Murder of Roger Ackroyd* - Agatha Christie. 2. *Rebecca* - Daphne du Maurier. 3. *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time* - Mark Haddon. **Veteran** 1. *The Maltese Falcon* - Daeschel Hammet. 2. *The Hound of the Baskervilles* - Arthur Conan Doyle. 3. *The Spy Who Came in from the Cold* - John Le Carre. **Expert** 1. *City of Glass* - Paul Auster. 2. *The Name of the Rose* - Umberto Eco. 3. *The Moonstone* - Wilkie Collins.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Name of the Rose? Have a well earned upvote, my good sir
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408,612 |
There is a USB symbol on the plug and it faces up when plugged in.
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Assuming the port you're plugging into is in the right direction. There are also USB hubs with vertical plugs, what's considered "up" on those?
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408,613 |
American psycho... The book is very hard to get Into but the movie is great. One of the only books produced as a movie that the author said the producer couldn't have done a better job at portraying the movie as he imagined it.
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it was he opposite for me, i couldnt get into the movie at all. was almost campy
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408,614 |
What classics did they play? Anything from This Is A Long Drive or Lonesome Crowded West?
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It was mostly M&A from what I remember. From those two albums? They definitely played Dramamine, Talking Shit, Shit Luck, Cockroach, Broke, Custom Concern...
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408,615 |
As a guy that's played covers of all of these bands, Gojira was easily the most difficult. Noodling and playing fast is easy, but the crazy time stuff that Gojira does is some of the most stressful music I've ever played. Plus they're massive live, and that's incredibly hard to live up to
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Even the simplest of their material, like Explosia or Esoteric Surgery (a favorite of mine) could be considered pretty technical. Mario Duplantier is a monster.
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408,616 |
Yes. Please make sure you watch the far superior Korean original and not the horrid Hollywood remake with Josh Brolin.
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I made the mistake of watching the remake first. It was awful compared to the Original.
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408,617 |
FF7 is shaping up to be the single greatest movie ever made. Just hope Lucas Black is a big part of it.
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He's already signed for FF8, and FF9. His role will be relatively significant since FF7 starts off from Tokyo Drift.
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408,618 |
Ulysses, had tough time to get to the last page. Also "The White Guard" by Mikhail Bulgakov is standing on my book shelf for 5 years. Every time I start reading it, can't make more than the half.
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I have tried (and failed) to read Ulysses 5 times. :(
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408,619 |
TIL San Fran doesn't have city wide fiber. Monopolies exists even in the heart of the de facto tech capital.
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I'm not sure why no else has mentioned it, but we have sonic gigabit internet available.
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408,620 |
I read Firestarter, Dead Zone, and a few other Stephen King books all around the same time and it was just a drag. Not even horror stories, just dark and dreary.
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I think the Dead Zone is one of Stephen King's best books. I did not consider it dreary and depressing. It hit me right in the feels but in a good way. The guy did something good with his gift. Anyway just be sure to stay away from Pet Sematary. That is sad and depressing.
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408,621 |
When people say ocean's 11. Is it assumed that it is the old one or the remake?
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I would generally say the remake as it is more recent and and viewed by more of the current generations.
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408,622 |
Currently reading **Looking for Alaska by John Green**. I didn't expect to like it this much. Last three books: * **Ghostwritten by David Mitchell** * **Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett** * **Dark Places by Gillian Flynn** I don't really plan ahead on my reading but the next one I'll be reading will be **Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh** because I got it as a gift. Most memorable book? I can't remember..
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John Green's a joy to read especially after reading heavier classics like 'War and Peace'.
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408,623 |
It's not politics they were right to delete it. Mental gymnastics on the part of anyone claiming it is political
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I think it's mental gymnastics to claim that civil rights aren't political. Privacy is inherently intertwined with civil rights. Civil rights are in inherently intertwined with political rights. To deny this fact is participating in mental gymnastics to the extreme that only seems to favor the interests of Google instead of the general public that's affected by them.
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408,624 |
As the most basic explanation of a thing you don't understand, I can see how that would be something people think. Conceptualizing the internet when you know absolutely nothing about it is not an easy task. Conceptualizing it as if it were water lines is much easier for the layperson.
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"series of tubes" is a good analogy. It's all the other batshit crazy he said in that speech that didn't make sense. The emphasis he put on "series of tubes" is what made him sound so silly and memorable. But yeah, he used the word "email" to mean like 3 different things.
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408,625 |
I think the writer was a poor british guy and just needed the money so the American publisher liked it but didn't want the soft ending so they cut it and he had to deal with it. I'm not sure but I think all the other countries in the world have always had the full book.
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You are pretty much spot on. The American editor also compiled a translation dictionary and added it to the end of the book. Burgess (the author) was pissed about both, but as you say he needed the money. The forward to the 1st unedited edition in the US contains a forward by the author and editor in which they talk about the changes. The author remembers it as a demand. The editor writes that he felt it was more a suggestion.
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408,626 |
Well they basically stole every major feature that Snapchat created. There’s a list somewhere by The Verge of how/when they watched Snapchat create awesome stuff, then blatantly ripped it off once they saw how successful it was.
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You dotn fucking steal features, you implement them because there is no fucking reason to not have good things that someone else has. That's how you lose users. If it's so successful, why is snapchat losing users to instagram with the same features? Maybe instagram does them better, or does something else in addition better? If you can improve your product then not doing it would be stupid. If people want it give it to them.
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408,627 |
I Am Legend is so good. I read it after having seen the film and was dumbfounded at how much better it was. I can understand maybe it wouldn't translate so well as a film, but it was so weird to me that they discarded so much of the excellent source material.
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Have you seen the Last Man on Earth? It is a black and white 50's film, which is a faithful adaptation of I Am Legend and so much better the the Will Smith film.
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408,628 |
Yeah, some of these are pretty bad. Seems like a lot are there just to make it to 100.
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and putting Akira at 25? I'm not saying it should be number one but at least in the top ten.
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408,629 |
I'd like to ask him why I wasn't in Super but three of my friends were. Seriously, though, yeah- but /r/movies isn't the place for AMAs. I would highly recommend investigating interest in /r/IAmA
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I have contacted IAmA, yes.. But I'm asking the folk who I think would be interested in chatting with him. ;)
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408,630 |
What part of Bristol did you live in? I expect litter and broken bottles and the like, but a hole in a car windscreen? The worst we have had on our street was when someone nicked our wing mirror cover.
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Horfield. To be fair, Bristol wasn't that bad: mainly litter, bottles, trolleys etc, as you say. I absolutely saw that sort of thing in London enough for it to become almost innocuous. Someone once broke into my car, super-glued the ignition, and stole my copy of Gears of War 2.
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408,631 |
Why don't you read it and decide for yourself? You've already got the book. :) I thought it was a good read, but flawed as a story and somewhat dated. Many characters aren't so much people as talking viewpoints. The women are mostly interchangeable. The book was influential with the 60s-70s counterculture and it shows. Definitely worth reading.
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Thanks :) and yeah, I wanted to read it this weekend, but forgot to bring it home :( So, yeah I'll read it as soon as I get it back, in the meantime I was just wanting some opinions :P
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408,632 |
Not if they are pushing against virtual particles, for example. A closed system isn't necessarily closed to everything.
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You can't "push" against virtual particles. That's impossible too. Edit: Also, in physics a system is either closed, or it's not. There's no in-between.
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408,633 |
* Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons. * This Heat - Deceit. * Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante. * Koenjihyakkei - Angher Shispa. * Residents - Commercial Album
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Well, I gotta give you a point for the SC3 album, that's definitely their best, but I have to say Disco Volante is my least favorite Bungle album.
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408,634 |
Charles Mingus is a master. I used to think his stuff was really weird but then I got really into jazz and now its one of my favorites.
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Sucks that his main reputation was for his temper. His interviews show him as an eloquent and nice person, his open letter to Miles Davis is endearing. Miles Davis was the asshole.
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408,635 |
I'm going to have to watch this now. Looks excellent.
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MEGA Spoilers for the movie, but this is a great fan-made music video for it.
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408,636 |
Don't think Michael Emerson would fit the part of Reed Richards honestly, even though I love Emerson.
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Me neither. I just want someone who can pull off a convincing super scientist he was the only one off the top of my head.
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408,637 |
Okay, maybe he should just close up shop and stop trying to donate so much of his time and money.
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Whatever. Just because someone gives a lot of money, that doesn't absolve them of their past. We fawn over the rich enough as it is.
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408,638 |
As a rule of thumb, normally things in this scenario are fiction, but it might not be. You could always do some googling.
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Thanks! I can't find anything about Walden, the guy who is missing. While I'm thinking it is likely fiction, Italked to a friend from back home who also read it and he thinks it possibly real and that Walden is maybe a psudonym, and that I should be searching for graffiti artist "tagger" names. Going to do some more digging.
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408,639 |
So far each villain has just been someone with a grudge against Tony (or Tony's dad in Whiplash's case).
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In Iron Man 3 it was more that he sold a super-soldier formula to the government despite knowing that it didn't work, and he needed Tony to fix it before people started blowing up in ways that couldn't be passed off as Mandarin attacks. He *did* have a grudge against Tony, but that wasn't his main motivation.
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408,640 |
You do realize these 'relationships' are just business/publicity schemes by Scientology's PR department, right? They probably held an audition for it.
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"All IM saying here is (pauses, looks more intense) Its basically just (looks confused, angry for one micro second) ...LOOK UH (claps both hands together... smiles really big) There is a little something I call CRUISE CONTROL (looks dead serious... stands up) Im not going to explain it. You will get a text message on your phone from time to time with a picture of of my face, you are to give it a kiss... KISS THE PHONE (JUMPS UP AND DOWN) OH MY GOD IM IN LOVE!!"
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408,641 |
How's that? Government employees are SUPPOSED to destroy their cellphones before they dispose of them. If they didn't sensitive data could be easily recovered. Prove to me that Hillary did this with the intention of hiding something, rather than because it was standard protocol.
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Not if they're subpoenaed by Congress. Standard protocol is to hand over cellphones to agencies responsible for oversight, not destroy them when Congress subpoenaed them.
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408,642 |
I certainly understood the language tricks better at 31 than at 7
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It's worth reading again. I think both times were magical.
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408,643 |
Kinda tough to swap her for the same character. My guess (prepared for down votes) is she plays the Hulks love interest on Planet Hulk. That's right people. Ragnarok is also Planet Hulk.
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I'm on the Ragnarok=Planet Hulk hype train too. I don't know why people are so sour on the idea. It seems obvious to me.
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408,644 |
I'm just a random but I can't help but feel that the days of manned fighters are numbered. An f35 is expensive as hell. An adversary like China could counter one f35 with dozens of disposable unmanned craft with all kinds of maneuverability advantages.
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That is the future. The short term future is based around missile intelligence, agility and range. Launch a drone B-52 with a hundred anti- missile missiles and it will glare in the sky and attract $millions to it and destroy it. Basically if the anti missile missiles are cheaper than the missiles being fired at it, the bank balance favours use of the B-52 mopping up facility. You see. Suddenly no stealth required. And then will come lasers. Game change all over again.
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408,645 |
> In theory you can produce hydrogen with electricity+water so it can be as environmental as electric cars. Electrolysis and compression requires *many* times more energy than what you'll get out from the fuel cell. Batteries, on the other hand, are around 98% efficient. The difference is immense, and this will always be the case. Even if the production method were magically 100% efficient (which again, nowhere even close) fuel cells are only ~60% efficient.
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Not to mention the safety issues that come with hydrogen.
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408,646 |
She's either one of the strongest force users to ever exist in the Star Wars universe, or Ren is a huge *bitch*.
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Ren, man - I dunno. He had so much promise at the beginning of the film. Then he just ends up being a massive pussy. And the Gollum guy, what the actual fuck? Who ever had that idea should not be allowed to write for another movie. If this is the worst film of the new trilogy, I'll be okay with that. But if it isn't - I might have to sell my DIS stock, because it won't be pretty. People are super hyped right now just because it's Star Wars... just like people were saying Phantem Menace was the best Star Wars film ever during it's opening weekend... and we all know how that turned out.
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408,647 |
BS vast majority of users don't read hundreds of pages a day. In comparison I unlock and lock my phone hundreds and works much better with less space.
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>I unlock and lock my phone hundreds. BS, because if you do, that works out to a button press once every 5 minutes for the entire day (assuming 8 hours of rest)
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408,648 |
That wasn't even the first time. The ship created a believable AI back when the Binars hijacked her and created Minuet. ... okay, damn. I am such a nerd, I knew the episode name.
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Fun fact, the Moriarity one was originally supposed to be a two-parter with that epsiode. The whole thing was to be explained by the Binars upgrade.
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408,649 |
I don't plan on ever using Google Wallet, why let Google have history of your purchases.
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I get your point, but companies already have a history of your purchases, unless you only pay in cash.
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408,650 |
Edit: (I've read that) The reason many people were frustrated with SuperFreakonomics was that they raised some doubts about climate change, and in doing so they misconstrued various experts' work. wikipedia might help: I would think there are better authors you could give your money to than Arianna Huffington. I say this not because her politics, but because of the way she runs the Huffington Post.
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Can I ask what objections you have on how Huffington Post is run? I've heard that any criticism of Obama is seriously frowned upon there.
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408,651 |
Should I get the oneplus 5 or the Samsung s8 for $424 with their current promotion?? What would you guys recommend?
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Beware that oneplus is a bunch of lying assholes. Don't expect proper software support after the 6 is out, don't believe them if they say Android 8 or whatever will be the next deal will come to it. Us 2 owners had to learn it the hard way.
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408,652 |
Reminds me of BASEketball, every single time. Love this tune :)
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Love this song too. It's my 4 o'clock Friday jam.
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408,653 |
Matthew Dear is electronic, so just because pitchfork covered him doesnt mean he is necessarily "hipster" or indie or anything. First and foremost is his techno work under his own name and others like Audion. A new-ish genre popped up with some of his work dubbed "micro-house", which is just a pretentious way of saying it was funky minimal. Really good minimal at that, so check him out and others like Move D, Magda, and Trentemoller if you dig that vibe.
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Yea I regret saying "hipster." if these people are actually making the music they want to and aren't pandering to a specific audience, then it shouldn't be critiqued because one group of people really like it. Like Scott pilgrim.
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408,654 |
I want them to combine best of both worlds - the point is that I want to be deceived and not notice I am.
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It's called suspension of disbelief...you should use it next time you experience anything art-related.
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408,655 |
I don't even need to click anything. I can see 60fps in an instant and I frequently annoy my friends by shouting it out (like an asshole). Like the interviews for The International were in 60fps for example. Don't see that too often. Btw, that's a terrible example. You should make the different particles different colors because when they are overlapping it doesn't provide much differentiation. Also, if you want to do it right, you should redo the particles with the proper motion blur for each speed (i.e. shutter angle) instead of replicating frames. 15fps has low temporal resolution, but when done properly it doesn't have the level of judder seen here.
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The particles don't overlap. They are just 3 videos placed side by side.
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408,656 |
The movie with John Hurt and the Eurythmics soundtrack was a great movie version of the book as well. It left some stuff out but really brought the vision of the book to life.
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Is it recommended to be watched after finishing the book?
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408,657 |
Agree on the current paradigm but rock is definitely making a solid comeback - look at bands like QOTSA, Nothing But Thieves and Royal Blood. They're doing incredibly well in the current environment.
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Seriously. There is a huge list of amazing rock bands rolling out right now. People just don't want to look for it. It's not even super hidden stuff. King Gizzard, Black Pistol Fire, Pond, Reignwolf, Kaleo, The Arcs ect. Just look a little. Edit: changed out Tame Impala for Reignwolf
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408,658 |
Here's what I do. First of all, Goodreads is a great tool, as long as you find people with similar taste. Follow them and see what they like, and read other reviews. If something looks interesting, just mark it "to-read". Do this long enough and you'll have anxiety inducing list you just know you'll never get through, like me. Another thing I do is look through reviews and blurbs of books I like - authors are regularly compared to others in these, and that has led me to a lot of my favorites. Read reviews with the authors you like, they'll usually drop some names, list some influences. Basically just read about reading, you'll have a respectable stack soon enough.
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My "To-read" list on Goodreads grows by ten books for every one that I read. Anxiety inducing is right.
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408,659 |
Wow, seriously? A 3 minute short with a million or so views and you got legitimate calls from industry folks? That awesome but seems pretty unheard of. Did you have a bigger body of work at that time or was this literally the only thing you had done?
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Not in features, no. I'd mostly done animation, documentaries and shorts. It seems Mama was kind of a similar thing though. They made a short that became a feature produced by a big horror name. Don't know how much previous experience those guys had though. But yeah, I'm still kind of amazed they let me do it. The first time I was on a film set it was as the director...
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408,660 |
Wtf? Its not meant to have a haply ending. Winston is a victim. A tortured soul who - like every other thought criminal - has been defeated by Obrien and the regime and is due to be executed in time.
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I never said happy ending. You did. I said I felt a bit of happiness for Winston because now he never has to fear what is next. He knows he really only has death next. He never has to fear someone outing him. He doesnt have to worry about anything anymore. He knows his days are numbered, and will continue them as they are. Yes he is a victim, yes thought criminals are torn down to the tiniest fragments of a human, and then put together again. But he in a queer sense of the word, is free
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408,661 |
Look, hooray for first sources and all, but to quote a good book by a bad author, you don't have to eat the whole turd to know it's not a crab cake. In that spirit: don't read "Enough" by Bill McKibben. It's neo-luddite bullshit with no sense of historical perspective whatsoever. It's the technological philosopher's equivalent of an art critic concluding everything was perfect when he was 12 and that it's all been downhill from there.
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> but to quote a good book by a bad author, you don't have to eat the whole turd to know it's not a crab cake. This is exquisite. What's the source, please?
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408,662 |
Anyone know which story line this will follow? Or they just going to make it up for the film based of character?
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No specific story line. Just his own origin story involving his cancer, Dr. Killbrew and his Weapon X crew ( Ajax+ others), Copycat, Weasel, Colossus, and some good R rated bang bang bang.
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408,663 |
some good rainy saturday morning jams, im chill as fuck now. The sound overall is clean, bass heavy as the genre probably should be. The song Too Much is my favourite, it reminds me of an Australian band called Cold Chisel except the vocals arent so harsh in your band.
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Awesome! We'll have to check them out. Thanks for listening!
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408,664 |
> Why would anyone go and buy the Pixel now? This could be the exact strategy. I suspect that with most first products, the Pixel is more expensive to make than Google realized. The Pixel 2 will have a smoother production line and fewer sources of parts. It'll probably sell for the same price. I suspect that Google believes they will realize more profit if people delay their Pixel purchase.
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I like this point of view, that makes perfect sense
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408,665 |
Yeah, either that or make the sarcasm slightly more obvious, I can't tell.
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It seems to have been deleted, the mystery is solved!
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408,666 |
Definitely not the far right. Perhaps just right of center if I had to guess, he is a through and through liberal. But arbitrarily placing someone on a political scale is difficult. He has a pro capitalist view which for a lot of people makes him far right. But he also knows the importance and need for things like socialized healthcare.
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At best, I'd place him on the Right. We can go back and forth on if it is "far" or not but to land anywhere on the Right is to be a vile human being as far as I am concerned so the end result is the same. And Peterson quoting Nietzsche in such a way as to suggest that he would find common ground with someone like him as a member of the Right is dead wrong.
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408,667 |
Hey there. I've removed this post as it doesn't really fit within the scope of /r/tech. As per the sidebar, links should be to high quality news articles about technology (specifically changes and innovations in technology). More general tech content is better suited to other subreddits.
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No problem. Thanks for the heads-up. I wasn't sure where else to put it, and this was the first place that came to mind. To /r/technology I go, then.
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408,668 |
Alright, I'll put it on my list! What genre would you classify this as? I'm not really very talented in the drawing/painting section I just wanted to try this for fun! Thanks for commenting!
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He's a rapper and he's mostly a joke, it's kinda hard to explain. If you listen to some of his songs you'll get it. Some of his songs are actually pretty legit, but others... hahaha not so much.
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408,669 |
Being a "badass" in the damn ghetto isn't something to be proud of.
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Regardless of how proud you are of something, that doesn't change the fact that it may be true.
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408,670 |
Someone else worth checking out if you dig Deadmau5's electro-house songs is [Feed Me] Dirty riffs and orgasmic drops with just a hint of wobble.
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Feed Me opened for Deadmau5 when he was in NYC a few weeks ago. I liked his set a lot.
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408,671 |
Strong Belwas is one of my favorite "inconsequential" characters. I just love him. Also, can you imagine how much more everyone would despise RamsAy if they showed that? I'm not entirely certain it is possible for there to be that much hate for one character though. Personally for me though it was that Jaqen H'ghar killed the guards at Harrenhal instead of Arya. Robbed her of some important growth early on in my opinion.
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But Jaqen DID kill the guards at Harrenhall. He owed Arya a debt and she called on him to kill 3 people.
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408,672 |
As an update, reports are saying that she is stable now.
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This is good news. It means she will probably fully recover. There were a flurry of reports saying she died earlier.
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408,673 |
Thank fuck. I can't believe people still buy this tired fantasy shlock
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I just read your history over last 30 comments or so. You, sir, are a dick. Lighten up.
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408,674 |
I feel like people just don't understand that Adam Sandler movies are SUPPOSED to be stupid. I always hear people say how dumb his movies are but that is the point. They are so dumb they are funny. That is intentional. You Don't Mess with the Zohan is incredibly stupid but it is so damn funny. Yes, he has done some straight up terrible movies, but he gets waaaay too much flack for what is perceived as a "stupid movie" when that is just his style. If Billy Madison came out today, people would say the same shit.
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Maybe its part nostalgia, but I feel like his earlier work was much more inspired. He was younger and (relatively) just starting out. His newer stuff just feels lazy to me.
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Man, I wish those active noise cancellers from Sony didn't make me dizzy...
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Make you dizzy? That's odd... Is it just the Sony brand?
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* It was co-written by the late, great Richard Pryor. Rest assured, he probably wrote every instance of racial slurs in that film. * The hero of the movie is black. Except for one exchange, the word is almost exclusively used by the white villains. What is there to protest?
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The one exchange you are probably referring to: "Sir? Sir. He specifically requested two niggerrrs. To tell a family secret, my grandmother was dutch." However, Bart also says: "Hold it. Next man that makes a move, the nigger gets it... I'll blow this niggers head all over this town"
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It's the default "Reminders" app that comes with iOS 6 and later.
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Yea, I have that, but I don't see anything in regards to setting a reminder with proximity to locations. There isn't anything related to GPS, maps, or locations.
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I also remember hearing or reading that they originally were trying to make it as a comedy and it wasn't working. They started trying to make it as a serious film and realised it was funnier that way.
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I think they were trying to write a farcical comedy, but it didn't feel very funny until they started using puppets.
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He did initially according to rumours, they were even thinking of writing him off from the movie because they were so pissed about it. Just rumours though. I would find you a link but I'm on mobile
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yeah I remember that. Probably a bargaining tactic, if they were true.
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The main problem I have with grammer Nazis...is whos rules exactly are they referring to? Its all just popular convention...there is no rulebook...its just word fashion.
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Driving on one side of the road or the other is "just popular convention". But when you're cresting a hill or rounding a blind curve, you're hoping that anyone approaching is holding to that popular convention. This commonality allows for safe and efficient travel. If you're going to violate this convention, you should be careful to make sure it's for a good worthwhile reason and in a way that isn't recklessly dangerous. Similarly, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and punctuation, as a function of being "popular convention", sets a common format whereby communication is best accomplished. If you're going to step outside this convention and commonality, please, for the sake of your own wish to be understood, make it worth the risk.
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Gorgeous video, and I love the song you chose from Amélie; Yann Tiersen is one of my favorite soundtrack artists. The white flower at the end is especially striking.
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Once I heard what song it was, I immediately went and played it on my piano. I had totally forgotten this song existed. Love Yann Tiersen.
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I seriously think the accelerating expansion of the universe is affecting our perception of time. That's my drunk theory for why it feels like time speeds up. Either that or I'm drunk and remember less of time.
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My theory is that as you age, a unit of time makes up a smaller and smaller portion of your life. Remember when you were a kid and summer felt like it lasted for ages? It's because those couple months made up a larger chunk of our life. Now a single year is about 3.5% of my life, where as when I was 5 it was 20%. Feel me? edit: I get it, I'm not the first person to say this. It was just what seemed logical to me.
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Probably because I've never seen / heard of those films / shows in my life...
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You've... you've never heard of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Or critically acclaimed Pan's Labyrinth? Or box-office smash hit Batman Returns? Not even MEN IN BLACK 2? I don't...what?
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408,684 |
If MS Teams works on Linux, I'm all fucking for it. Fucking Skype For Business works on Windows and Mac, but not Linux?! Wtf?
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teams.microsoft.com web client for the time being. Our devs use it and seem to enjoy it okay.
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I have no problem with having the exact same stories as /r/technology without the asshole mods.
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Either do I. In fact I think we should. Instead we also have stories they delete, plus better discussions. But if all meaningful discussion is already carried out, the whole purpose of a new subreddit is negated and loses its value.
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Yeah, the writers hit the nail on the head here. The 3.5mm jack works universally, doesn't require me to charge an extra thing, can't be used for DRM, let's me charger at the same time, and just fucking works.
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Couldn't they just change it to a 2.5mm plug if the 3.5mm was too big, like they claim?
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I don't think 1 and 3 are as bad as they've been hyped up to be. But Episode 2... That movie is one I've seen twice and have no desire to watch again. At least 1 has Darth Maul and 3 has the epic final fight.
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What? 1 was horrible (midi fucking chlorines/annoying kid, jar jar kill yourself immediately, even C3PO was fucking annoying - there was 0 redeeming quality about Ep-1 except MAYBE the opening sequence, and any scenes with Obi-Wan, , 2 was better in all respects, 3 was best of the prequel - duh. It's like they didn't even try in the first one.
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So I'd like to see some of this data. Not that I don't believe you, but I always thought library fines existed so that materials weren't just returned on time, but so that they were returned *at all*.
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If you don't bring a book back at all you don't get a fine, you get charged the replacement cost of the item. Even at libraries that have done away with overdue fines, you still get charged for the cost of lost items if you don't return them, and you lose your borrowing privileges until you've either returned the item or paid for it (or worked out an arrangement with the library).
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I would describe his writing as transparent, not mediocre. It's meant to be subservient to the story. I read Cormac McCarthy for the literary experience. I read someone like George RR Martin for the storytelling.
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I don't get it. I read his books and I just keep thinking "I like this story, but why don't you just write well?" There's no reason the writing can't be better.
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408,690 |
> they want to promote artists who align with their views. There's so many viewpoints that companies don't agree with. This is all stupid. Companies need to stop giving into these groups and stop acting like doing business with someone is an endorsement of everything that they've ever done in their entire life.
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>There's so many viewpoints that companies don't agree with. True, but some viewpoints reflect more poorly on the company--and thus can hurt their profits and prospects--more negatively than others.
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Logitech make relly good web cams and the driver support it good too
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I've been looking at some of the Logitechs and they looked nice, but I just wasn't sure.
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I have heard similar things, but I'm pretty certain this is a very simplistic view. The whole deal with non-profits is that they don't make a profit, which IKEA clearly does. Otherwise there wouldn't be any money to funnel to the owner, no?
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The point is non profits create their own tax heaven without having to move. A different company owns the trademark and leases it to the IKEA company, effectively funneling the money out of the non profit to make it look like no profit. They're also not the only ones doing something like this. Just saying they are doing it. Edit: here's an article that questions the company's intentions/moves through time:
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Sounds like a great idea until ~~ISIS~~ Comcast shoots down all the balloons.
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Watch out for Comcast to lobby Congress and the FCC on just that. Because you can bet these balloons will offer Project Fi coverage as well as wireless Fiber to homes without cable.
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upvote for mars volta, tool, wilco, pixies, shins, QOTSA, and radiohead bravo!!!
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I'm only including what's found in the thread.. I'm not even a quarter of the way through, and I couldn't be more pleased with the selections so far. Bravo, Reddit.
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There's worse than that. That isn't that bad, all things considered.
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Taglines are meant to be pithy, memorable, and give you a little excitement for the movie to come. It's so hard to boil down Interstellar to a simple one liner, but this doesn't say anything about the movie itself. It sounds unnecessarily clunky to my ears.
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Is this a joke? Buying video game companies, so that they can add more functionalities to ebooks? Who came up with this genius idea? Also, video games prices tend to drop quickly because not many people play old games. This isn't true for books, so the idea that mainstream, popular ebooks will be priced at 2 or 3 bucks any time soon is lunacy. Even in video games, AAA titles retain their full prices quite a few years after release (with regular sales at Steam and other retailers but still).
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Yeah. Those game sales are because that strategy makes them more money than keeping them always at full price. It's not like they're forced to sell them that cheap; they choose to because it makes business sense. Edit: and the video game industry certainly ain't hurting
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408,697 |
I don't think Yeezus sounds anything like Death Grips. I love both Yeezus and Death Grips for disclosure.
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On Sight, Black Skinhead, New Slaves, and I'm In It all sound inspired by Death Grips to me, albeit the first three moreso than I'm In It.
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Not in Prince's case. That's why it;s unique and the BBC done a documentry on it. The stuff in his vault is stronger than a lot of what he officially released. Seriously, I'm a big Prince fan and when you listen to bootlegs and leaked songs from his vault it really makes you question his sanity on terms of selecting what he releases and what he keeps to himself. His best work remains in his basement.
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Do you have any links to this stuff? I'm really intrigued now.
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I think audiobooks are really reasonably priced for what they are. Credit-based systems on sites like Scribd/Audible basically put a $10 cap on any book even if it's 60 hours long, and deals on credits or individual books make the average price cheaper. Hard to forget the days of $40+ sets of CDs and cassettes when audiobooks were really ridiculous for what they were.
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This is only if you subscribe to audible though, which I do. If not, and you're just making a one off purchase the prices are extortionate. I just checked Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire and it's £32.99! What's that in dollars? Nearly $40 for you Americans. That's anything but reasonable.
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