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The Star Wars Prequels, particularly Episode I. For that I would do [this] For Episode II, [this] Its a start at least. And no 3D, that shits just a marketing ploy. At least when they slap it on old movies and re-release them.
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May not be perfect but it would be interesting to see and it certainly couldn't be worse. Oh and no CGI effects, eithers models costumes or sets.
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408,801 |
Unless you’re playing it through a stereo, or if you have pricey audiophile-quality cans, you’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference. Past a certain point of audio quality, the difference won’t be noticeable on Apple earbuds or their equivalent. Which is why, for everyday use while I’m away from the stereo, Spotify comes close.
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I am the snobby guy with pricey audiophile cans and I will tell you 100%, that in a blind test you will not tell the difference between 320kbps and lossless. How the music was recorded is what matters most. My lossless RHCP albums sound like asshole while most classic rock streamed from Spotify sounds fucking amazing.
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408,802 |
I thought that, but the delay seemed much much less during In The End than it did for Numb which is odd.
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Holding back the flow of tears takes at least an instant. They gotta sing not sob heh:')
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408,803 |
I'm a COWBOY...bang bang bangbangbangbang, shoot shoot shoot bullet bullet gun, zap zap zap pow zap pow! Still love how they use an actual persons motorboat sound for MetalBeards boat leaving.
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Its supposed to symbolize the human kid playing with them all along!
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408,804 |
I live in a country neighbouring Russia. We often hear how Russian (state-backed) media publishes negative articles on us, like how badly we treat Russian children (basically protecting them from abusive parents) and how European democracies are weak and decadent. I just wanted to ask what is your experience is on this? Do you notice this kind of propaganda, and are there neutral or positive news as well? I have nothing against Russians who I view as strong, intelligent and artistic people who would have a lot more to offer the world. Wishing all the best to you.
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What country are you from, if you don't mind me asking?
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408,805 |
I kind of wish she had gone into Mexico *with* him, maybe telling herself she was going to stop him, but in the end allowing Alejandro to carry out his revenge because she realizes he has to. Throughout the movie Emily Blunt is being confronted with a reality that is at odds with her ideals. I think having her sit out the climax means there's no culmination of that conflict. At the end, her ideals are still at war with reality, which is disappointing on a story level.
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I always felt that got resolved in the final scene. Alejandro confronting her in her home is kinda of like both their ideals confronting one another. He ultimately wins out because he's prepared to kill her. But she has a moment where she holds just a smidgen of power over him with her gun from the balcony. Then depending on how you look at it she either reaffirms her values and realizes she's better than them or breaks down and backs down realizing she's not up to snuff. I personally like to think it's the former. Overall I really don't have a problem with any charcter in the movie besides her godawful partner who was written in for no reason.
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408,806 |
I'm not going to get chipped. You have no control at all over the scanner side and even if only your employer can see the data, they can sell it. Other than medical records, there is basically no personal privacy rights in the US. Anything that can be entered into a computer or logged or photographed is only ever a small step from being public.
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The chip is just a RFID that sends an identifier, its the same as just having a card. There is no "personal data". As for tracking you, the cell phone you are using is being tracked to death by the wifi packets it puts out as you travel already ;)
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408,807 |
**Snowpiercer** Tilda Swinton is magnificent in her role. Totally believed her Margret Thatcher role. If you told me that Chris Evans would star in 2 of my top 5 favorite movies in 2014 (Cap 2, being the first) I would be hard-pressed to believe you. Excellent story and directing. The ensemble cast is perfect in this gritty movie. It's a shame it didn't have a bigger release. Everyone should see this film.
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I watched it last night...totally amazing movie. I didnt know where it was going and the ending was so great. The landscapes where so nice, and the cast delivered so good. But I think that John Hurts character needed more time, and maybe give us more lore of the world, like the statues of the seven. Still a 2 hour fun fest, despite the sillines of the plot.
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408,808 |
I love how the font Rush uses has changed from album to album but each (to Rush fans) is recognizable. You can show someone just the band name and I could tell you what album it is just by the font. Also the Starman is very iconic as Rush is concerned.
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Yeah the Starman is cool. My dad just gave me "Exit Stage Left" on vinyl - is that worth listening to? You sound like a Rush fan
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408,809 |
Along with many others. It's a blessing and a curse in a certain light. We get to enjoy those overlooked albums with a deeper and sweeter reverence had they become as popular/commercial as The Black Keys for instance, not that TBK is anything less because of that. Idk. There's two sides to every argument. So to others it's depressing that their underrated. Then again, they did make quadruple platinum on their first album, and their new album is at #9 on the UK Rock Chart, it was at #1 and has been moving around since then.
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The only album I haven't completely loved was Hot Cakes. One Way Ticket was an incredible follow up and we blasted the fuck out of that in college.
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408,810 |
I'm sorry I don't like Harry Potter that much? Edit: Thanks for the downvotes, I guess. Real mature.
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Wow, kind of ridiculous that you're being downvoted this much... I didn't like Harry Potter much either and I'm also very interested by this movie.
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408,811 |
I remember covering this song with my band in high school. About halfway through, our drummers mom came down and screamed "That's quite enough!" and stormed up the stairs. Good times.
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"drummers Mom and Dad, this is Chasey, Chasey this is my drummers Mom and Dad"
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408,812 |
Information *deserves* to be free. If you create any data you don't want to be free and available to the world, it is your responsibility to keep it that way. The celebrities should blame themselves for making that information to easily accessible and not protecting it, not the hacker for setting it free.
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You're acting like freedom of information is a moral end in itself. It's fucking not. It's there to protect people. It's there so people have access to information that affects them But it only goes so far. I'm sorry, but there *is* such a thing as private information. The "there's no such thing as intellectual property" argument has had it's time. Now that we see the full implications of it, no one wants it. And really, don't try to take the moral high ground here. You just want to jack off to Jennifer Lawrence's tits.
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408,813 |
Plot twist: the rogue Jedi is Mace Windu because literally no Jedi ever died from FALLING OFF SHIT. Edit: Palpatine was thrown into a reactor, which we see flare up...I feel like that counts more as incineration than rapid deceleration trauma. Just my $0.02.
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Isn't it sorta, you know, dramatic irony that Palpatine later *died from falling off shit*.... Lucas is a shitty writer.
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408,814 |
Thanks! (and yes, I can read IPA – we learnt that in school here in Germany to better learn second, third and fourth languages – usually english, french and latin)
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FYI sometimes you'll hear it pronounced tʃɒtʃki: accent depending. Glad to help.
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408,815 |
Also from Cleveland, the city needs to put up a Bone thugs plaque or build statues on E99 and St Clair.
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They are eligible for the Rock Hall in 2019.... The city will go crazy when/if that happens.
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408,816 |
I echo someone's Octavia Butler recommendation and follow it up with a Nnedi Okorafor recommendation -- maybe start with Akata Witch: It can be tough to find good genre fiction starring PoC just because there's a struggling sea change happening atm but it's there, and hopefully soon there will be LOTS more!
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Im hopeful as well! Thanks! Have you read akata witch? What did you think? It looks good.!
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408,817 |
This kind of shit is one of the reasons that the whole IOT movement is not getting any traction. If all those handy, cheap gadgets are sending data to some rogue chinese server I'm just gonna turn on my electric lights with my damn hands like a 20th century savage.
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> IOT movement is not getting any traction. On what planet is IOT not getting any traction? If that were the case, the DYN attack wouldn't have worked. Edit: Enh, fuck this thread, I'm out. I'm wrong, IOT is dead and gaining no traction. Nobody worry about this, people, it's going to fix itself because it's dying off. Sweet!
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408,818 |
I FUCKING LOVE GORILLAZ!!!! Anyway, since I only know the Gorillaz ones (both from The Fall)...uh...Blur's entire 13 album. It's dark, computery, scary, disturbing, and was Damon's band before Gorillaz. You'll love it.
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Thanks for the suggestion, not really what I'm looking for though kind of indie-rock ish, looking for more slow trance or mellow funk like Dark Star
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408,819 |
true. I mean, I use my phone. I work. I use reddit. I use the GPS. I have a car charger and a 10 ft charger in every room. It’s honestly kind of annoying haha. My phone is nearly always on low battery mode and it still just drains like a mofo.
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Always, regardless of brand, if any of your doohickeys start draining batteries like a mother, RMA that shit, man. All the best.
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408,820 |
I don't fully understand the logic in that statement. Care to clarify?
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Well, what I mean is, reading shouldn't just be for enjoyment, and you shouldn't read books just to be entertained. I have read quite a few books that were rather "boring" but I still read them because I found the knowledge too good to pass up. I just don't think that living your life for relaxation is the right choice, there's more to life than that
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408,821 |
I like snorting coke off of the asses of strippers.
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If you like snorting coke off of the asses of strippers, you will like Johnny Cash
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408,822 |
She killed one of them. She knocked it through a window onto some convenient spikes.
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I forgot about that. How contrived was that whole damn scene? Uneven bars? Check. Raptor-friendly walkway positioned just right? Check. Window opposite? Check. Fucking *spikes*?!?! ^I ^^can't ^^^even. Check.
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408,823 |
I actually love playing Minneapolis but for some reason our tours never get routed there! I don't know what's up with that. Some of these things are out of our control. I have family in Rochester so it's always fun playing Minnesota. -GS
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I was at a rochester show after the hope devision came out. I think the stage was like a quarter pipe in a skate park...it was an amazing show.
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408,824 |
Really, nature is the best fitness coach if you have the self-discipline to follow it. But many don't and that's why we have so many unfit people going around. If technology can give us the means to become more fit, why not go for it? I believe we should make the best use of technology in all areas of life. That way, we can take advantage of great ways to improve our fitness and wellbeing.
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I understand your point. I think the most important part is that you became fit and healthy.
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408,825 |
Except Call of the Wild. The dog lives in that one... Pretty much everyone else dies, but that dog's too badass to be killed.
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And White Fang. Although the main characters in those books are the dogs, rather than the humans.
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408,826 |
in 100 years when we look back at the genre that was rap, we're going to hear the popular/top 40 stuff. That's how rap will be judged. Also, the single largest group of rap listeners are top 40 listeners. they may not make up the majority by percentage, but they are the single largest group of the genre. with a lack of any other quantifiable metric, that's the best way to judge the genre. When you come up with another fair metric, let me know
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What? The Velvet Underground & Nico wasn't popular when it came out. Pink Moon wasn't popular when it came out. Illmatic wasn't popular when it came out. Pinkerton wasn't popular when it came out.
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408,827 |
I saw this at Powell's and I was about to buy it because it sounded amazing. Next time I'm there I'll get it. I bought *The Illustrated Man* and *Fahrenheit 451* so those may be next two.
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Within *The Illustrated Man* is in my opinion one of the most beautiful short stories ever written, *Kaleidoscope*. It is a story of how a handful of men each approach their coming deaths after their rocket ship explodes and they are scattered in all directions with only each others voices on Comms to keep them company. And it comes with a glorious ending.
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408,828 |
He's a dick who does good things. People are rarely good or bad, usually a mix of both.
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Is he really a dick though. He called a guy a pedo because he went on live tv and said Elon musk was using endangered children as a pr move.
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408,829 |
Almost the entirety of the 1990 total recall looks ridiculous. It's reached a sorty of cheesy critical mass though, and now instead of being bad it's kinda fun.
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1990 Total Recall never looked amazing. The openning credits were great and most of the stuff on Earth looked great. When they got to Mars is looked terrible.
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408,830 |
How does the GAO allow single sourcing? It seems the root cause of many procurement issues.
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The GAO is mostly "after the fact". They audit, they don't stop fuck ups they just report them. The traditional way procurement forces single source is to rewrite the requirements to exactly match the single vendors product.
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408,831 |
>I love being downvoted. I would probably say this in a silly attempt to save face, too.
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Not saving face. Just amused by it. I would just delete if it really were a big deal to me.
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408,832 |
Really, 99% of these minimalistic posters is just a worthless piece of shit.
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no man its totally original. its like hollywood sucks and I am better at making pictures than they are.
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408,833 |
I was in the middle of finals week when Adam Yauch died. I put everything on pause and cried while jamming to them for hours.
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I remember that day so clearly. May have crushed a couple brass monkeys in his honour.
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408,834 |
Hahaha, Teen Wolf 1 wasn't so bad, was it? Maybe I am having a bit of nostalgia though.
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It has that 80s charm that's lovable. And it's pretty easy to get a copy.
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408,835 |
*nigh. Unless you're of the equestrian variety. :) Regardless, I give them a year before apple sues ~~turn~~ them out of business.
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> apple sues turn out of business. It's funny, while you were correcting his spelling, you messed up your own. :P
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408,836 |
Much more cost effective to house a few security guys who just worry about that than a ship crew I'd imagine.
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If its truly autonomous, what could pirates possibly do to it? Unless you possess they enrcyption to access the system. They would have to cut their way into the engine room and perminantly disable it. Which means a huge cargo ship is dead in the water at a known location, and they have zero hostages while whatever navy is bearing down on them. I dont think pirating such a vessel would be an option.
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408,837 |
I didn't like Enemy. But, I liked the double. I haven't seen the double life of Veronique.
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Excellent... it's a good intro to Polish film making if you haven't involved yourself in it yet. Not sure if you will like it if you did not like Enemy as it shares similar roots.
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408,838 |
The problem is that all the "war is bad" songs are aimed squarely at the US (like this song). Where are the songs against Putin? Where are the songs against Al Qaeda/ISIS/radical islam? Where are the songs against the ChiComms/NK? Where are the songs against AIPAC/Israel/international jewry? This song is about the absolute bottom rungs, and actually calls our soldiers psycho killers. I mean come on man. The notion that recruits are "broken down and turned into weapons" is just a really negative way to portray the completely necessary process of turning them into soldiers. It's not going to be hand holding and poetry reading for christ's sake.
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How does this song have anything to do with the us? Muse are British, why can't they be talking about the British military.
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408,839 |
That's funny. I got a hotmail account because I was on the net (without any other active email account) in 1996, when Hotmail was the only web-enabled email available. It wasn't owned by Microsoft at the time, either. My hotmail account is because I was (and am) more technical than anyone else on my network at the time. Admittedly, I don't use that account for anything anymore. I pretty much gave it up once I got a gmail account. But I still have that hotmail address, and I still pull email from there for some services which I've been signed up to for just as long.
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Before Microsoft bought them, they were HoTMaiL. Because in 1996, HTML was the shit.
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408,840 |
What plotlines have been repeated? Which sexually disturbing circumstances have gotten worse since IT, which was written in 1986?
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I dunno, have you ever read the first couple of chapters of the dark tower?
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408,841 |
This makes sense. That's why I just refuse to watch the show; I love the books too much.
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I hope that he manages to satisfy you my good friend! If he'd not told the bastard TV Producers (I am one [not on Thrones] so feel well qualified to call them so) I'd have done the same.
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408,842 |
It's not [*The Phantom Tollbooth*] is it? There's also a whole subreddit for this: /r/whatsthatbook
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Nice....I checked the sidebar, but I didn't see that subreddit listed. Thanks!
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408,843 |
It seems that Les Cousins Dangereux is a fake film that appears in the TV series Arrested Development. I need to be able to find a movie to watch online in one way or another.
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Le Quai de Brumes (1938) This haunting pre-war drama, starring Jean Gabin as a deserter sheltering in Le Havre, was a key influence on Film Noir in 1940s Hollywood.
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408,844 |
As derivative as Avatar was, watching it in theaters was a fucking experience. That big ass aerial fight scene at the end still gives me chills. JW has like 5 minutes where I felt a twinge of excitement (the fight scene at the end).
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You sound jaded. That's a shame. I hope you can re learn how to enjoy things.
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408,845 |
I get where you're coming from, but you mustn't work with automation tech. I do not trust it completely, but I'll trust that any fool slamming the brakes at the wrong time won't surprise most other automated cars and they'll react in time.
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It just needs to be better than humans by 2.5% or more and then suddenly you are saving lives.
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408,846 |
At large companies like the one my engineering friend who desigs car dies works at, they use mostly Catia and NX (unigraphics). Both of which are ridiculously expensive for just the base software, and his company of course spends millions on extensions and custom plugins. Those two would be the best at any price. Solidworks and autocad are for significantly smaller projects. The average catia file he works with is easily 10GB.
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Those are the big ones I'm aware of, but I've never had the chance to try them.
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408,847 |
To play devil's advocate: How do you feel about used bookstores? If you pirate a book, the writer makes just as much money from you as they would have if you had bought the book from a used bookstore, or if you had checked it out from a library. Yet libraries and used bookstores are considered to be wonderful things, and piracy is considered to be a bad thing.
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Someone still pays for a used book. Someone still pays for a library book. Library books that are checked out also encourage other libraries to purchase the same book. Even when someone buys a used book at a bookstore, they're supporting a bookstore, a bookstore which may then acquire more copies of that book. What's more, the buyer is still putting value on the book. They're parting with their cash, even a small amount, to show that they *value* an author's work. Pirates don't give any value. Just a few seconds to swipe a book.
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408,848 |
If you are wearing fullsize, over-ear headphones in public you are probably more concerned with your music than making a fashion statement.
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Except for Beats by Dre, and Skull Candy... I wear full headphones because my coworkers are chatty as hell and ear buds hurt my ears after an 8 hour day.
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408,849 |
one word...Classics. They're the best when you can sit outside and knock out some pages.
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Which ones, specifically? I could use a few to add to my classics list.
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408,850 |
What's not to buy, exactly? Costco operates the same way. You don't need to be ruthless in order to be successful.
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Consumers want affordability. Employees want high wages, good work hours and good working conditions. Shareholders want maximum return. They're too profitable to make the claim that they put shareholders last. Shareholders are coming first, otherwise a lot of that profit would be redistributed to either lower prices for the consumer or raise wages for the workers. > You don't need to be ruthless in order to be successful. The ultimate goal of a business is to make as much money as possible. They'll do whatever needs doing to make that happen. It's what society incentivises.
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408,851 |
Sounds like you are looking for a netbook. The EEEpc's and the HP Mini's are decent, but there are likely newer and cheaper ones that work just as well. Not sure what's up with your confused boyfriend. I've had very few issues with netbooks in my 17 years of being in IT. Maybe time for a boyfriend who doesn't lecture you about shit he is ignorant of?
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Netbooks haven't been around for 17 years, and they're useless for the vast majority of people. Sounds like it would be suited to her, but I'm a computer tech in a retail store, and those things get returned like they're infected with the plague.
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408,852 |
And. Virtual machines, Ram drives, "Upper" memory for video cards like agp used to do & Development workloads that are memory intensive.
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Yes. Potentially there is no limit to the amount of memory people can utilize, unlike CPU power (it seems like for the time being h/w is outpacing s/w needs)
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408,853 |
> with brand new technologies. Which brand new technologies are those?
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The software in the cars, production all electric cars, the battery cells used in the cars. For the auto industry, these are all new.
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408,854 |
If terrorists are within the population, wouldn't this be solved with segregation? Say what you want about racism, but the modern world was thought for citizens who wouldn't attack their copatriots. Clearly, this is not the case. People with a bronze age mentality CANNOT coexist peacefully with people who were raised in 21st century morals. Register all immigrants (Muslim immigrants, of course) and monitor them. Of course, "that's racist Hitler yadda yadda". The problem can be solved, but nobody's willing to pay the political cost. Oh, it's too costly to monitor all those immigrants? Then you shouldn't have invited them in the first place.
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Are we going to register white men ages 18 to 35 too? I man statistically they go on the most shooting rampages.
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408,855 |
There's a $3 million market for [cat ear headphones] I stand a decent chance.
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Signed up for notifications. For both your product and cat earphones. (Gotta have something to take pics of your cat wearing earphones)
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408,856 |
None of the story? Okay what about the 'story' was so much better if the new one had NONE of it?
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As far as the remake goes I felt that it contained all the basic story elements of the original film (government experiment gone wrong) with better cinematography, but without any of the social commentary Romero liked to inject into his films. The original had more than just blood and violence to make viewers uncomfortable. Meanwhile, in my apparently downvotable opinion, the remake sort of stood as more of a contagion/zombie-ish that came out and was overshadowed by the glut of zombie movies. Bear in mind, I like zombie flicks, this one just didn't stand out for me.
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408,857 |
The Delorean had no reason to be on that street. There were no scenes filmed on those locations with the time machine in any of the 3 films. Unless they brought it with them everywhere (doubtful), I am betting he was lying just to strike up a conversation.
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Huh... I have to admit that I never thought of that. Good call.
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408,858 |
Was that movie good in comparison to the first? I really enjoyed the first and have yet to see the second.
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Haven't seen the second, but I wasn't really a huge fan of the first one. Haven't really heard good things about the second movie.
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408,859 |
I really hope it's better than Year of the Flood.
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I just listened to that one as an audiobook and really had trouble with it. Granted, some books just aren't made to be listened to, but I really enjoyed *Oryx and Crake* as an audiobook, so I thought this one would be fine. I'll give the last one a shot, but probably as a regular book rather than audio.
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408,860 |
How can you know about it completely, yet not have it be a racist thing?
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Because it signifys sort of a "rebel" mentality. Like badass or whatever. Canada has nothing to do with the south US so no one is flying it because they agree with the confederate states.
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408,861 |
This was the first ATDI song that got me to listen to all of Relationship of Command. Love Omar's guitar parts, and I truly appreciate their message behind the song.
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Same here. Totally blew my mind when I first heard it from a friend at work. I had never heard that "talk-singing" before.
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408,862 |
If you want to stick with Sci-Fi comedy, also Red Shirts and Agent to the Stars by Scalzi. Great Sci-Fi comedy is hard to find. I loved Ready Player One as well, but the 80s references are designed to appeal to guys my age. thepimpmeister turned you onto a lifelong love if you start the Discworld series. Should you not fall in love with the first books, shift forward to any of the Night's Watch. They all take place in the same world.
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Have you tried Tom Holt? Some of his books are a bit science fantasy, but then so is *The Hitchhikers Guide*. *Blonde Bombshell* is a lot of fun.
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408,863 |
you mean a dedicated rave car near the front with hundreds of people and no signs of places to live along the way is ridiculous to you?!
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BUT ITS ART HOUSE! Didn't you see the bookending of the fact that the back car and front cars both had no windows!!! Fuck realism! Fuck the fact that we chose a medium that relies on continuity and audience immersion to be effective! Fuck the fact that the audience shouldn't have to watch a movie twice to get your heavy handed symbolism!
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408,864 |
Hmm - from what you've recommended you might like *Emil and the Detectives* by Erich Kastner, *Ivanhoe* (about Robin Hood) by Walter Scott, *Dracula* by Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle's *Sherlock Holmes* series, *Heart of Darkness* or *Nostromo* by Joseph Conrad (a bit darker!), *A Farewell To Arms* by Hemingway...trying to think of some more modern ones too, hold on
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I'm not OP, but allow me to add some more... Firsr, also classics, but easy to read (a least in French and Spanish, I can't assure in English): *the Count of Montecristo* and *the Three Musketeers* by Alexander Dumas. *The Jungle Book* by Rudyard Kipling is pretty cool too. More modern novels, maybe you would enjoy *His Dark Materials* by Philipp Pullmann (i could reccomend a ton, but for the moment i think you have loads of info). Btw, of you don't mind the advice, i would start with the hobbit - i don't recall you saying you read it-, i believe it's a bit gentler way to get engaged with Tolkien universe, and as much enjoyable
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408,865 |
It's only terrible if you're comparing it to the original graphic novel.
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I think it's just a terrible film. It stuck to closely to the graphic novel which often doesn't work. Terrible script. Some poor acting. Many things that worked in the novel but don't work on film.
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408,866 |
Sure there are, but how common is it for the batteries to last 100,000 miles? I know a few people who have hybrids where the batteries have gone bad in less than 5 years. It is very environment dependent.
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With EVs being in their infancy (the Volt and LEAF only being in production since 2011), the number of 100,000 mile EVs is pretty slim. That being said, they do exist. Notably, this guy uses fast charge almost exclusively. As batteries get larger, the number of charges decreases which makes the battery last longer. Hybrids typically use nickle metal hydride batteries. That's a completely different type of battery. That being said, Consumer Reports tested a first-gen Prius with over 200,000 miles and said it retained its battery and efficiency.
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408,867 |
I never saw Anthony Hopkins as a villain in Silence of the Lambs. Did I watch it wrong?
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Buffalo Bill is the villain but Lector is an antagonist. The character and his acting are so good however that you end rooting for him in a weird way which makes it more confusing. In Hannibal it's even more confusing since he is villainous to all the protagonists except Clarice who knows along with the audience that Gary Oldman's wheelchair character is the real villain.
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408,868 |
he also did some serious work like, 'Turkish Delight' and 'Black Book', the guy also gave the world actors like [Rutger Hauer] and [Carice van Houten]
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Carice van Houten. Boobs so perfect they look like they could be carved from alabaster.
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408,869 |
I'd be down for some Mothra action. We talkin larvae or full grown? Do we get the twins, too? Make it happen.
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Arent Mothra, King Ghidorah and Rodan confirmed for future Godzilla sequels? & Japan is kicking off another season of Godzilla films starting next year. It's a good time to be a creature feature fan.
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408,870 |
Yeah, 1078 was kind of the "Gremlins 2" of the Blade Runner franchise.
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Well that's what happens when you introduce actual fucking Gremlins into the series. I'm glad they retconned that in 1080. But of course then they introduced the MCU in 1081 and that was just fucking insanity.
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408,871 |
shameless plug incoming!! /r/readalong is the place i try to do something like that. i get people wondering in and out, usually sticking for one or two books. i chop the books into 150-250 page sections, so people have time to read on their own, and a weekly discussion post where people can join in on their own schedule.
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Thank you for this! Not OP but I just subscribed!
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Well read? How's that? He comes across sounding nice, maybe polite, but well read?
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I guess what he's trying to convey is the idea that for someone to have the ability to put together such a well produced product he's had to of had some experience with literature. Being well read, to me would mean that he's pretty experienced with reading. But I believe being well read would mean that one is very practiced at understanding and explaining themselves or their ideas.
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408,873 |
The fact that you put Abrams and Bay in the same league is appalling.
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Oh no no no. Believe me, I'm not doing that. We all know Abrams is 100 times the filmmaker Bay could ever hope to be. I'm just making that comparison because they were both sort of mentored by Spielberg.
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408,874 |
Yes, I grew up in the ‘90s as teenager and loved Pavement and when I play it with friends that I grew up with they don’t remember this band. I guess commercially wise they would be considered a one hit wonder band. I saw them at Lollapalooza ‘95 in Camden, NJ.
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I saw them then also and when they played the Mann a few years ago. Both were great.
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408,875 |
I hope companies just pull out of the EU, we need to make the money they’ll lose by complying more than the money they’ll gain from the European market, either that or start new companies in America dedicated to the principles of liberalism that Europe seems so opposed to
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and lose out on 500 million relatively strong consumers? To "pull out" of the EU you'd have to actively block any and all connections from the EU, much like some newspapers have done in the US due to GDPR.
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408,876 |
Look at this hipster, feeling smugly superior to everyone else for not knowing what real hipsters are. (<-- read that to be condescending in a smugly superior way.)
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I didn't mean the condescending type of saddens me, I meant it actually makes me sad that people hate on what they don't like by labeling it hipster. It wasn't really directed at you just at the topic of people calling others hipsters for no reason.
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Doubt it. Why haven't they done it yet? The image it puts on Marvel is harmful. They want control of what the movie "Iron Man 3" is. They don't want to give the director the reigns to change what the movie "Iron Man 3" is to some people. They've purposely made this universe unified and pretty much the first cinematic universe.
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> Doubt it. Why haven't they done it yet? The image it puts on Marvel is harmful. Yup! They run the show, and they're all about "the universe." The DVD/Blu/VOD sales are going to be just fine. Deleted scenes? Sure. An entire alternate cut? Not a chance.
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408,878 |
I brought this up a month ago, but didn't have pictures to back it up.
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ah..so you did. Does that count as a re-post? :) edit: not likely -- my first post on reddit
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408,879 |
Looks almost exactly like the covers Jim Lee did back in the 90's for [X-Men #1]
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Yep! /u/BattleReadyPenguin made a post about it in /r/comicbookmovies. [Post here]
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408,880 |
> It's not something that has been done before, so by definition, it's creative. My dogs make new poops quite regularly. Since no dog has produced these poops before it is creative by definition.
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I'm not even going to try to explain to you why that's an idiotic comparison. Either you're already aware of that or you're literally too stupid to be convinced otherwise.
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408,881 |
Well, I believe Rocket Raccoon usually has a Cockney accent so I doubt Fillion would be cast. Personally, I'm hoping the David Tennant rumors were true.
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My fragile doctor who loving fangirl heart will explode if I get chris eccleston in Thor 2, Karen gillan in Gotg, AND David tennant. Seriously.
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408,882 |
Would you call Heinlein a major influence? What do you like about his books? I'm a big fan of both of you.
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The positive and aspirational view of the future. Plus the realistic science.
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408,883 |
I looks good and Chromey but I'm not going to download it yet because I want to give my addons enough time to update.
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All of my add-ons work, only the Full Themes do not.
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408,884 |
It's not an actual line, but it is very, very close to a lot of her lines. *"My cerebral capacity is at 22%, I can feel communication waves!"*
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*"My cerebral capacity is at 99%. I'm a Unix system, I know this!"*
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408,885 |
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Considering that LED bulbs are advertised as having a lifetime of like 10 years, are people really expecting companies to keep apps available and up-to-date for 10 years? And when the inevitable happens that the product line gets discontinued or depreciated, how on earth are you going to use your bulbs if there is no sort of open standard for controlling them? EDIT: For reference, the person I was replying to was at like -4 or something when I posted.
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According to a Linux kernel dev, these IKEA devices are probably the best IoT devices he has seen on the market so far. And they are based on open standards.
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408,886 |
Cars can already trigger the lights via induction loops which will switch the lights to green so long as there's nothing coming in the other direction. This already works well but they can't detect bikes. The fact that bikes aren't detected by traffic lights is one of the main excuses that asshole cyclists use to defend their willingness to risk their lives by running red lights.
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> The fact that bikes aren't detected by traffic lights is one of the main excuses that asshole cyclists use to defend their willingness to risk their lives by running red lights. So you're saying they should just wait at an unchanging red light for like 10 minutes? What the fuck?
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408,887 |
you've just described something more advanced than a Star Trek food replicator. i truly hope your lifetime is really that glorious, but it seems a bit far-fetched
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Star Trek nerd here, I'd say that if they can replicate 24th century directed energy weapons, they can probably replicate processors.
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408,888 |
The scarecrow picture used to scare the crap out of me even moreso than the actual story. I still remember that it was called 'Harold'. Gave me nightmares for months.
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Honestly, none of the stories are scary. If you didn't want to turn out the lights, it was the illustrations.
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408,889 |
The guy is sensitive though. Its hard to hit someone around like that after you got them to make music in the first place haha. His soundcloud: The first 3 songs are the worst i have ever heard
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So? Better from someone they know than from a stranger.
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408,890 |
It was also a great reference to the classic bond films, which pretty much all ended with bond getting the girl.
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The thing is, everywhere else Kingsman was trying to reference the old Bond cliches and then go completely against them, like when Valentine kills Galahad, not play up to them just in an extreme way. Personally I think it would have fit better if there had been some scene, either with the princess or perhaps with Roxy, where Eggsy approaches them having just saved the world expecting to 'get the girl' as well, but gets completely rebuffed and embarrassed.
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408,891 |
Stephen is definitely an interesting character. When he dropped his cane and addressed Django, I half-expected he was going to say that he had been planning to do what Django had done his whole life. I would not say that Stephen was "jealous" though. Stephen has lived his whole life under a strict system, and when Django rides up, completely above the system, Stephen's world is rocked. He isnt jealous of Django, but he hates him because he is breaking the rules. Stephen didn't betray Django and Broomhilda. By exposing their plan, he was just doing his duty, and punishing Django for being an exception. He was never on their team to begin with.
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Well yah that is kind of what i meant, Stephen sees this black man basically acting as a white man, which clearly stirs some of Stephens emotions and jealousy could be one of them. You have this man who has a served this family for his whole life, and all of the sudden this black man shows up out of no where, not having to follow the rules like all the other slaves have to, im sure some jealous emotions were triggered.
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Imo r/hhh has *much* better taste in music on average than r/music
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Is that because you are more attached to the hip hop genre? That would be obvious if true.
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If it makes you feel better, it would really take a lot of concerted effort to truly destroy reddit. They would have to centralize moderation and remove the ability to create new subs. As it stands now, if you don't like the direction that a sub is going, you can create or find a new one and move there. Shit like what is happening on /r/Technology happens more than you probably realize. This is just one of the biggest examples of such.
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> it would really take a lot of concerted effort to truly destroy reddit. Not really. All that would need to happen is for the relatively small number of key redditors to leave.
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408,894 |
I would suggest that a real journalist wouldn't assume that Apple would give up this facility. If they removed the connector it's quite possible they have a new way of doing the same thing.
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It was to prevent unauthorized repair shops from recovering data. As in, Apple is throwing a hissy fit that you aren't paying them for it.
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~~Heh, I finally get to [dust this one off]~~ Sorry gals and guys, stupid joke. Hope we can still be cool :D
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Too bad it isn't what happened. You know...the fact that I didn't say "YOUR wife isn't that bad". Harry Potter based? Talk about LAME
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I hear you! I will keep in mind that the movie is a loose adaptation, but I'm curious to see where the book and movie intersect. And I will avoid the sequels! :)
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I don't think it can get much loser as for translation, the only real similarities are names and a general war context. You should enjoy the book, but it is not all action, so dont skip the slower parts, those are really critical to understanding the world Heinlein was creating.
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408,897 |
I think it failed as a plot point because we rarely use staples even now. That machine had a quick-acting staple gun, like it is part of every procedure. For them to heal muscle, they would have to repair the muscle fibers, connective tissues, fatty layer and skin. OK, perhaps in the future, that technology exists, but if it did exist, wouldn't they be beyond closing an abdomen wound with a staple gun? I think they were just not thinking.
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"they were just not thinking." You know how many people had to approve that sequence for it to be in the movie? Probably at least ten, and they didn't just say "oops" and pass it along to the cgi guys. Why do you think Ebert and other critics don't care about stuff like this? You're trying to tell me what the machine does, when you don't know. I don't mean to sound as dickish as I do here.
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408,898 |
Please do not mention Net Neutrality and the Fairness Doctrine together like they are at all the same. Equating the two is deliberate misinformation - basically propaganda.
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Though they are not directly related, I would say the impact they could potentially have on society is the same. We are seeing the long term impact of the end of the fairness doctrine now. What happens when net neutrality's end game happens and the consumer is paying for website bundles like we pay for tv channels?
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Watch [*My Beautiful Laundrette*] it is a 1985 movie starring a 28 year old Daniel Day-Lewis as a punk who has a homosexual [relationship] with Omar (the lead of the film), a Pakistani man and former schoolmate of Johnny who refits a run-down laundrette in London to turn it into a profitable business. It's a good flick ([100% on RT] but as a bisexual man, watching young Daniel [lick his boyfriend's neck] while smiling wickedly during a seemingly platonic hug in front of people they are hiding their relationship from gives me funny pants feelings and is an added bonus.
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Don't forget the classic [Stars and Bars] for which he was inexplicably snubbed for an Oscar...
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