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409,100	They had to change it from Spooks in the US because Spooks is a racial slur against black people in the US	Yeah, with the movie that presented kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't moment. Either people get offended by the original title or confused by the American title.
409,101	This article got me thinking about something I've never really had any reason to consider. According to the article, one of the selling points of this hydrant is a fifty-year warranty. But, is a fifty-year warranty from an upstart company even worth anything to prospective customers? I mean, what if the company doesn't survive? Isn't your warranty useless at that point?	The number is also wrong. When you check their website, it says "fifteen", not "fifty".
409,102	Having duly noted that this is complex, and way cool... Did anyone else note that the visual effects of the terrain, especially of the mountain climb sequences, really resembled variable distance terrain rendering in many games? What causes that effect?	I noticed that too. Their run-down lists a generation step as part of the process, so I'm guessing that this is what we're noticing: > Finally, we generate the novel smoothed, time-lapse video by rendering, stitching, and blending appropriately selected source frames for each output frame. We present a number of results for challenging videos that cannot be processed using traditional techniques. Note the "stitching" and "blending", I think that give it that that textured look.
409,103	FUTURE WAR!!! lol. I cannot believe we have been teased about it in 5 movies but never really seen it. DARK AND GRITTY FUTURE WAR!!!!1!1!!	I thought the one before Genesis (which I didn't see) was just that. No?
409,104	Well unless the stores are all closed, I'll be buying a Stairway to Heaven... again.	with a word you can get what you came for.
409,105	Ben Stiller’s production company Red Hour produced Submarine, and Stiller had a split second cameo in the film as well. Figured The Watch was Ayoade repaying the favor.	That makes complete sense now. That is a really good combo. I'd bet Red Hour is a great production company for filmmakers like Ayoade. Less bullshit and it's run by a guy who understands the plight of a comedic writer with dark tendencies.
409,106	Feels like you are the one not wanting to understand. You don't murder someone by mistake, the definition is that it is a premeditated.	I think what he's saying is there are situations where one can be sympathetic with a murderer wheras sympathising with a rapist is highly unlikely. For example a guy shoots someone maybe the guy he shot killed his wife, or shot his dog. Murder has a lot more grey area to explore than rape.
409,107	Eh, I feel a deep sadness when I finish a book. Like a melancholic bittersweetness that I'd been able to come along with the journey but it's come to an end now.	Awww... That shows a deep love of your books rather than the love 'em and leave 'em approach I have...I envy you!
409,108	i'm willing to bet he just makes the music he likes to make and it happens to be a popular form of music. (the same reason dr. luke gives for making the music he makes) it's also funny because if you had any idea how many people are literally right at this second trying to write a #1 hit, you'd realize how brilliant the men and women behind these songs are.	It sounds like the difference is that Mr. Martin stopped treating it like art, started using a formula that worked, and never stopped. [How many of these songs are his] I wonder?
409,109	...because that is the literal "stand" that they are making. By confronting and standing up to Flagg, sacrificing themselves by giving themselves physically but not morally to him, it showed God that humanity was still willing to give the middle finger to Evil and is thus worth saving. It would lose impact if they stayed in Boulder. They had to be willing to risk physical destruction for the sake of the Good that they believed mankind still had.	I've heard of this interpretation so many times, it still never fails to bore the shit out of me. No offense to you, it's just the idea of a "God" that plays games with its creations is so magnificently self-involved and narcissistic and overplayed in every single fairy tale that it's become quite useless by now. Probably the most simplistic view and portrayal of "good" and "evil" possible.
409,110	Not to mention, The Strokes guitar partnership is some of the best.	The problem is that you can't compare VU to a contemporary band. You have to look at them from different angles. The Velvet Underground did something amazing for music that couldn't be called pop and wasn't intended for a full orchestra. The Strokes have them to thank (indirectly if not directly) for that. It'd be like saying Niels Bohr is better than Ernest Rutherford, but without Rutherford's work, Bohr's would not have been as far-reaching or might not have existed at all.
409,111	People are just mad that this movie isn't as bad as they thought it was gonna be, and they wanted to hate on it.	Oh believe me I know that's what's happened and I couldn't be happier that it's good
409,112	Hahahaha, you want to borrow a few layers of skin my poor incensed flower? Because I think mine is several times thicker than yours.	How does you saying something blindingly illogical and ignorant imply that I have thin skin? Your comment was in no way directed at me.
409,113	This is why game of thrones opted for TV and the hobbit was split up in 3 parts. There is too much story to tell in 2.5 hours.	The Hobbit was split up because they wanted to make more money. If they had followed the real plot of the book they could have. crammed it into one movie easily. But they had to add all that bullshit about the orcs and shit so they would have an excuse to charge you three times for the same movie.
409,114	See the 1960s Boeing 2707 for history on this. The Sonic Cruiser is another example of Boeing's attempt to speed up space travel.	Reading linked articles, I wonder if you could refit a b1b to carry passengers instead of bombs. Although get 48hrs of maintenance for every hour of flight seem uneconomical for passenger travel. And interestingly between the a and b versions the top speed dropped to Mach 1.25
409,115	Except Kevin James does get this kind of hate, so that point really doesn't hold up.	dude, they're just going to ignore you. They want to be victims. Just call then cunts so they can be satisfied.
409,116	> it will start to become prohibitively expensive not to own a SDC. Yeah about that... not gonna happen. See my other post here:	You make a very good point. I think what I should have also mentioned is that cars will become a specialization and not the default, raising their price. It's like buying a new (built in 2016) 8 inch floppy drive reader. That's expensive. So not just for manufacturing SDCs, but if non-SDC insurance is a specialization, I can see insurance companies charging more for it because it's a weird case that has to be specifically asked for. It also depends on what we mean by cost prohibitive. There's a lot of people who would like to own a car today but don't. If insurance rates and maintenance costs get lower then people who cannot buy now will.
409,117	I like to think they'll compensate by making her say "myeow" in between words.	Also, her goal in the film is to get a cheeseburger.
409,118	Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I first read it when I was 15, I'm 24 now and I still go back and read it again.	I don't know. I liked the first four a lot, but the last three just seemed to fall apart. I suppose I always loved that he said: I don't plan, I just let it flow. It seemed so artistic and cool, but in the end it showed. The plot, villains and mythology all just seemed to just peter out to me.
409,119	It's not so much the voice for me, but the lyrics. Hobbits and Vikings and whatnot.	And every other word is baby. Fuck Plant, ruiner of awesome music
409,120	bu how much air pollution does it generate sucking energy from the grid?	> Climeworks just proved the cynics wrong. On Oct. 11, at a geothermal power plant in Iceland, the startup inaugurated the first system that does direct air capture and verifiably achieves negative carbon emissions. None.
409,121	Not so much in Gangs of New York, he was miscast there. It's no secret that he uses Leo primarily because it guarantees him sufficient funding, I'd just like to see him work with other leading men while he's still making movies.	I disagree that he was miscast. I think the issue was that he had so much screen time with Cameron Diaz that it was impossible for him to pull out the right performance. Although, I still think he did a really good job.
409,122	For me, the more I read Nietzsche the easier it became to comprehend. He definitely has a style that takes some getting used to. I do have a background in philosophy though which helps a lot. Keep at it, is a very important work.	I have a problem, not with the content, but Nietzsche's ego. He so easily condemns other schools of thought but sometimes fails to acknowledge the dichotomy of his own paradigm. But he was going crazy as he wrote the last few of his books. Also, as it has been quite some time, I don't have specific examples to cite.
409,123	I am intriguied by the screwtape letters. Something bill watterson inspired me to read	I think everyone who's read it liked it, that I know. So there has to be something good there.
409,124	Are you from Australia or New Zealand? Or is this just a coincidence?	haha neither. US. But Foreign Horror is great though! That's where the best horror films are coming from for the past decade or so!
409,125	I am no longer a bookworm. I am a stone-faced mercenary of literary destruction.	looking at my last sentence I think I should have said literary critic. never mind.
409,126	I honestly thought that made perfect sense for him to go to Vancouver. A large part of Rocky Balboa was not only that he felt like he was living in Rocky's shadow, but realizing that he was doing it to himself by actively riding his father's coattails. Leaving town to properly become his own person felt like a natural next step to me.	It's been awhile since I've seen it, but I recall them ending the movie on good terms. Plus wasn't one of the morals of that film "fuck what other people think, do what you want for yourself?" Seems like running away to a different country, just a few years after reconciling with your dad, is out of character. Honestly though, he wasn't in the movie for plot reasons. They need Rocky sad and isolated.
409,127	If that isn't foreshadowing how Ultron will die, then I don't know what is. Tony prob won't be the one to strike the final blow because it isn't a team movie if the character with the greatest link to the antagonist is the one who takes him down (I.e. Hulk, not Thor, took down Loki). Cap also has a good chance of getting a bullet in Cap 3 so this is kinda his last chance to shine. My prediction: SW uses her power to influence probability to make it possible for Cap to lift Thor's hammer, catches Ultron off guard, big splosion, corny one-liner that some how loops back to "strings."	"I hate to spool your party!" "Time to put Pinnochio back in the box!" "Knot this time!" I feel bad writing these...
409,128	> and it avoids many problems with running Windows, like this one. Does it? Is there something in Linux that would stop Lenovo adding identical behavior to laptop they supply with Linux installed? I don't think OS is problem in this case. It is modifications made by Lenovo that are the problem.	We're talking about installing your own OS. Obviously the manufacturer could do whatever they wanted regardless of OS, especially if there's malware in firmware or hardware. If you were of a mind to install Linux you wouldn't have had this particular problem though.
409,129	I'm always bemused when box office stats like this become serious (at least serious in the movie industry) news. Of course the sequel is going to make more money than the one that came before it. This is because. 1. Ticket prices keep on increasing. 2. 3D drives up the price of tickets. 3. Movies keep on getting distributed to more places around the world. Would it be too much to ask for Hollywood to measure the success of movies by a "butts in seats" number instead of a box-office number?	3D prices, at least in Denmark, is the same as 2D movies. It comes down to a preference to everyone going to the movies :)
409,130	I would marry Florence just so my ears could be graced with that voice everyday. I am very much looking forward to this album, and hopefully seeing a tour shortly.	I always tell people I want to marry Florence for the exact same reason.
409,131	Looks like he wanted to follow in the footsteps of every other famous music person and die alone in his home at a young age.	Well he missed the golden age of 27 by a year.
409,132	Not to be a downer but I was really disappointed by Dracula:Dead and Loving It. Granted part of that was a Mel Brooks/Leslie Nielsen movie being mediocre is mind boggling.	I think that's the kicker. In the mid nineties when Brooks and Nielsen were still on the top of their games. They come together to make what could only be assumed to be comedy gold and at best it's mediocre with a few good laughs thrown in.
409,133	I sure don't have an IMAX setup, but I did connect my consoles when I created my own [home theater] I like it.	This is the coolest thing I've seen all day. If you don't mind me asking, how much did it cost you?
409,134	Literally never seen my favorite group on /r/music, this is awesome. Thank you for spreading the word.	I feel like they kind of fell off the face of the earth after their first album...but they haven't.
409,135	> Also, I am deeply fucking suspicious of their criteria for scoring. I poked around and apparently it's an automated system based entirely on sentence length and rarity of vocabulary. Which made me doubly frustrated that Infinite Jest wasn't ranked.	That sounds quite a bit like how they grade essays on the GRE. The prep books say you should focus more on length of argument and vocabulary than anything else.
409,136	These are lovely, and you chose some great books, but aren't you worried about the smell of the leather masking the natural scent of the books?	The scent of leather does fade after a while. Given time, the two should combine into a pleasing blend of scents... :)
409,137	Video? Dude. Lawrence of Arabia was shot in 70 millimeter (I know, I saw it in the theater with a 70mm print)	I saw LoA in 70mm at a Lowes theater. I saw a lot of regular movies there too. They have a motorized curtain that opens when the movie starts. Nothing cooler than watching that curtain open past the normal masking to reveal the curved cinearama screen. P.S. I also saw 2001 A Space Odyssey in 70mm. Quentin Tarantio shot the Hateful 8 in 70mm. I would love to see that presentation!
409,138	> But faking a fingerprint AND a pin code is. That's actually easier than faking a card and a pin code, especially since biometrics cannot be changed (and copies of it are left everywhere), whereas a physical authentication token (a card) can be canceled and replaced with a single call.	No it's not. Cards are easily copied. And you can loose or have a card stolen. It's quite a bit harder to do that with a hand (I think hand prints are better than fingerprints).
409,139	Bet you didn't think you'd make a stranger spend 200 bucks today!	Wow. You won't be disappointed! They're great! Enjoy some gold too!
409,140	Yah I got a shitty surprise when I recently upgraded my graphics card. (Gtx 650 to 960). A whole row of display ports, and no vga. Problem was my monitors are vga only. I had to buy an adapter online.	Cool story bro. Sorry to hear you're being dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age.
409,141	Thanks. It's kinda embarrassing being a Bright Eyes or Dashboard fan now, after they both took a shit in recent albums, but they both started out great. Brand New, however, is still doing pretty damn well.	Oh man yeah. I loved bright eyes old stuff like easy.lucky.free and lover I don't have to love. Same goes for dashboard confessional, but I liked quite a few of their albums. Like Swiss army romance and places you have come to fear the most and a cple others. I am very bummed that this will be Brand New's last album, but also really look forward to it. Awesome to meet another fan!
409,142	Really? I thought that song was a one hit wonder right off the bat.	Ya I did too, but my mom especially was set on the fact that he would become a huge star, but not me, I knew
409,143	I'm still not understanding. What are you saying? Of course your inbox is replies, that's what the purpose is...	Thats all it is though. Replies to threads like this. No roleplays.
409,144	Watch 2, skim 3, watch 4, pretend 5 never happened, enjoy 6	Watch 2, Make popcorn during 3, Watch 4, 5 what?, 6.. sideburns WTF? /her hair... really. What were they thinking?
409,145	Yes, propaganda does have to be from the government. That is LITERALLY what it means.	prop·a·gan·da. ˌpräpəˈɡandə/ noun. 1. derogatory. information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. Nope.
409,146	My suggestion is that you plan this out sooner next year.	We like spontaneity. Do you have a horror movie suggestion?
409,147	To my surprise, that is a really popular choice	I think the fluid action along with what I recall to be pretty crazy music really does strike a chord with a lot of people.
409,148	Would he be put up for Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor?	Depends on what A24 decides to campaign for. My guess is Best Actor, because he's been the main promotional star of the movie and first name on the poster.
409,149	Or, hear me out, customers “regulate” the “market” with their “money”. A business manufactures products in a way that people agree with and are rewarded with loyal customers which places said business at a competitive edge against other business in the market. Nah, your right, this sounds foolish. It’s best that the ever efficient government steps in to dictate how people operate their business. This has always worked out oh so well in the past. /s because government regulations have caused the shitty state of the world today. Edit: My mistake for going against the socialist nanny state ideals of Reddit.	Lmao the reduction in regulations is what has caused all of this madness. You’re either a troll or a moron to think less regulation is better.
409,150	I think you're both right but they do them in very different ways. I'm an aspiring writer and while I watch films and TV to shut off the same as I do when I read I find I'm still deconstructing plot and trying to figure out what's going to happen next in the story, what clues the writer has given, how he's given them, why the lighting is a certain way in a scene etc etc. With tv and film I find I can sit back more and analyse things a bit more. With books I become a bit more absorbed into the world of what I'm seeing and it's harder to distance myself like in TV and film.	Huh, I find it works exactly the opposite for me. Interesting!
409,151	"How can you pick MGMT or Sufjan Stevens as the best album of the decade when you had albums like" "Favourite Worst Nightmare by the Arctic Monkeys" that one is easy. same goes for the strokes and im not much of a radiohead fan and i dont know the other ones. its very simple, they're called "tastes", and they differ from person to person.	>its very simple, its called "tastes", and they differ from person to person. Yes, some people seem to have decent taste and others don't.
409,152	Oh, same here! House of Blues Anaheim with Jonathan Coulton opening, should be somewhere between awesome and incredible	Let's meet up bro, that's the same show I am going to
409,153	I love The Art of Fielding- by any chance, did you happen to read that total tongue-lashing it took in The Atlantic?	No I did not. Do you have a link to the article?
409,154	I'm in the market to get a tablet. I wanted to get one before i head off to college. I wanted to get one thats fairly big, has a decent amount of memory and an SD card slot. What would be the best choice for a tablet?	I wouldn't recommend using a tablet as your main thing. However, an ultra-book is a good middle ground between lightweight laptop and tablet.
409,155	I think it helps that they're based in and heavily influential with the same city that houses a mercenary guild of magical shapeshifting assassin-monks.	But the Iron Bank is not presented as a magic force. Just "shadowy". No clear pic of how they enforce loan repayment or what their overall game is.
409,156	I love how that next year Kanye played "Runaway" and many people, myself included, thought he was a bigger jackass since it seemed like a response to the previous year's incident. It felt like egg on my face when My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy* came out, definitely one of the best and most favorite things I've heard. Edit: Fixed the title of MBDTF	It's funny how whenever Kanye is mentioned you can tell a lot of people hate him so people always like to say how amazing an album MBDTF is just to make people like him. Of course the album was hands down amazing though.
409,157	Keith should be a saint, He's performed the miracle of defying death.	It really is amazing isnt it? Recall him falling out of the coconut tree and almost breaking his neck? Unreal
409,158	Visited Devils Tower recently. Man seeing it in person it really is something special	Awesome, I would love to make a trip there sometime
409,159	because politicians love them that way, and abuse the shit out of voter fraud to make sure the vote goes the direction they want.	Please say vote fraud and not voter fraud because there is extremely scant evidence that any voters engage in fraud and repeating its is repeating bullshit that is used to prevent people from voting.
409,160	It was pretty cool with 3D and the floating islands. But the story itself was so hammy you could make bacon from it.	Hammy films can still be memorable. I really like Avatar, but I have to agree that it's had no cultural impact, just a technological one. Even I can't remember any specific lines. Makes me wonder about the viability of four more.
409,161	Fight Club is definitely better as a book. And I say that with Fight Club being one of my favorite movies of all time.	Interestingly apparently the author himself would disagree with you there. Not saying you're right or wrong for thinking that way, just think that's interesting.
409,162	How many autonomous car? Like a few thousand only? 1 death per few thousand is not that safe compared to human drivers. And the majority of human accidents is the driver's fault, so if you are a safe driver you are a lot more safe than the average.	Read the article dude. It clearly states an above-average ratio for the autopilot accidents. Also, not autonomous, drivers (should) still be in control of the car.
409,163	To be fair, most of that could be attributed to Ruffalo and Whedon. neither were involved in previous Hulk films. You just never really know how much impact writing and portrayal make. I know for one, Whedon is a massive comic book guy, and Ruffalo is an amazing actor.	> Ruffalo is an amazing actor. Agreed but I stand by Norton as the best Banner we have had since Bill Bixby.
409,164	Seriously? Here in europe if you dont have whatsapp no one will send you anything. My grandma's dont send sms amymore and almost all work related things go with emails or whatsapp. I would almost be a social outcast if i didnt use whatsapp. They have a massive monopoly here. If not whatsapp what so you use?	Americans generally use SMS, Facebook Messenger, and iMessage for that sort of communication. Some Snapchat thrown in. WhatsApp is about as common as BlackBerry Messenger, not at all in the States.
409,165	Somewhat higher (8.1 and 7.8), though that follows the general trend of audiences having lower standards than professional critics.	That's what I thought. The critics have constructed quite an echo chamber that hasn't quite translated to the general public's enjoyment of these films.
409,166	Wasn't it all obvious? JGL will be the new dark night fighting crime as Robin.	The last scene pretty much confirms JGL will takeover. Whether he is successful in becoming the "new batman" and for how long is unknown and is up to our own interpretation as of now.
409,167	Its a grey area for sure because of pirates but that mentality is terrible for the internet. Never would have learned about hosting if not for my tinkering with Apache on a non-business connection nearly 15yrs ago. Learning is a hands on thing.	I think this is the best thing about google fibre. Unlimited data, gigabit, not a shitty company all take a back seat. AFAIK they don't care if you are hosting your own server. Imagine if everyone had google fiber and anyone could setup any service anytime they wanted. A reasonable machine with a gigabit connection could provide a decent backend for an app or data service. Once it gets bit, upgrade to a google apps cloud service.
409,168	How do they even fight? Like, can't superman smash him at light speed in a fraction of a second? How does Batman even fight him without Kryptonite? I like Batman better myself, but I just don't understand	Same could be said about Iron man Vs Hulk, yet nobody has mentioned that. An incredibly powerful being Vs a guy in a suit. I think they will pull it off pretty well, If they do it right.
409,169	Well, there was another girl at first but they changed it in post production. I agree that she did a wonderful job and I think you are under selling the talent that goes into voice work.	Really? What a waste of money and effort. Real voice work, I respect. Reading a script in a monotone is not "voice work".
409,170	Yea, when I did some undergrad research on semiconductors my advisor joked that currently the best way to produce graphene was a graduate student with a block of graphite and some scotch tape	I think that a European team found a new way of producing it recently, but they want to keep working on improving their methods.
409,171	the only reason I care that much was because it was my comment.	So, just to make sure I have this straight, who's comment was it?
409,172	I would have followed you; my brother; my captain; my king.	I was watching that yesterday with my girlfriend and I just noticed something for the first time. Aragorn takes Boromir's vambraces and wears them from then on out in remembrance. That's pretty awesome.
409,173	Nah it goes beyond just "a ton of features in stuff". Dre is probably the most important figure in west coast hip-hop history. He helped craft gangsta rap and get it to the mainstream with Straight Outta Compton. He set the tone for many west coast hip-hop albums with the g-funk style of The Chronic. His co-sign helped bring The Game, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem to a mainstream audience. Not to mention Warren G, Nate Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, and every other Death Row artist. His Beats headphones and Apple Music deal made him rap's first billionaire. His mixing and producing skills are untouchable.	I agree with you, but J Dilla and Premier are on par with Dre considering production.
409,174	The Confederacy Of Dunces. A friend lent it to me and after reading the back it seemed like an author similar in style to Vonnegut. Love Vonnegut. One of the most painful reading experiences of my life. Why this book gets lauded is beyond me. I have tried to read it like 4-5 different times and can't get further than like a third of the way through. For any fans of the book here, care to elaborate on what you like about it?	Yeah, CoD. Didn't laugh once. Ignacio's is a dickhead, fine, but a boring dickhead.
409,175	The battle music from Hollow Bastion, [Scherzo di Notte] is one of my favorite tracks. It varies from game to game, I think I like the KHII version the most.	Honestly the whole Kingdom Hearts soundtrack is amazing. I'm finally playing the second. I liked the remade Hollow Bastion.
409,176	1-5 is hers. I don't know if he was her boyfriend, but I think they just collaborated. Regardless of his tracks you have to admire her for experimenting with eclectic artists, who had no successful discography of their own and allowing them to put their name on something she puts hers on.	It's not her boyfriend, her boyfriend is a dude called James. I think his IG is ActuallyJames.
409,177	Good luck with them! I hope I didn't sound too harsh, but I work in a book store and we regularly see people who assume that just because something is old, it must be worth something. And they don't always believe us when we say they're not.	"Hey, I've got these boxes of National Geographics from the 50s! What'll you give me for them?!"
409,178	I tried to contribute $10 with the "getting my feet wet" option, but the confirmation screen said that I was contributing $100. Has this happened anyone else? Edit: I'm serious, this is the final screen.	If you're dumb enough to give people with the connections to make this without your donations then you had it coming
409,179	Nice tattoo, man. Fellow Norwegian here, with a Sigur Ròs tattoo proudly covering my upper right arm. Where did you get it done?	Great! For me it stood between Sigur Rós and EITS... I got mine at Odins Merke in Lillestrøm. So how is yours?
409,180	Chicago, IL USA. I'll put my choices: * Best - Empty Bottle. * Worst - The Metro.	I've been to worse places than The Metro, but the sight-lines there are pretty bad. - House of Blues - I know it's corporate as hell and the bouncers are total assholes, but the sound is always damn good and I like the layout. Don't drink there, though. Sets you back $100 a person. - Quenchers - Divey, DIY-type place, but the back room is perfect for small shows and the beer list is out of this world.
409,181	The guy is a lunatic. You couldn't pay me to use something he is affiliated with.	Have you seen the video he made reminding everyone McAfee the company hasn't been his in fifteen years? This guy knows how to party. The guy had the resources to build his own reality, with blackjack, and hookers, and actually did it.
409,182	Jesus tap dancing christ I hate shakey camera work. It turned a great action movie into something unwatchable. I mean you couldnt even read the text messages people got because apparently it needed some excitement in those scenes.	I think they wasted all the budget on Matt Damon and ran out of money to buy tripods or steadycams
409,183	Can you elaborate on what part of, say, [Ubuntu here] looks dated compared to Windows 8? There's different designs, as Windows 8 uses a flat design. [Here's something closer to a flat theme] [Here's a dark theme] [Or transparency, if you prefer] Lots of customization available. [Conky] provides Rainmeter-like desktop customization ([another example] Really an OS only looks as good as you're willing to make it. For example, [here's what my Windows 7 desktop looks like] It's customized well beyond the default with things like multiple desktops and Rainmeter.	Actually that first screenshot looks really bad. I use Ubuntu myself and nearly switched to something else when I saw how bad the current version looks, and its functionality is even worse (In my opinion, I was used to the old gnome before it became some clunky crap. Luckily I was able to install another desktop environment but still.)
409,184	I looked up "forever and always", thinking I had missed another book in the series...	Aside from the three books after it? Gathering Blue, Messenger, and the finale Son?
409,185	Are you telling me that none of the affected hospitals and companies paid for support? That is extremely risky. Why do corporations keep thinking they can cut IT budgets without any repercussions?	Management needs to be given good reason to spend money. IT security is preventative, so it's difficult to show exactly how it will benefit the company in the long run. Finally, IT people are also notoriously bad at justifying increased expenditure.
409,186	Is it irrelevant though? I think a feature to see the most popular tracks in your area automatically could be pretty cool and a lot of people have asked to be able to upload custom playlist pictures.	Then it should at the very minimum be a user controlled option. I couldn't give a shit about those features, so why can't I turn them off so that Spotify does not need to fire up the GPS or whatever?
409,187	To be fair most classics were also critically acclaimed. Look back at 1952 best seller list. Old Man and the Sea, East of Eden, and Catcher in the rye were all top 10 books that year.	Perhaps, but for every classic that was acclaimed in its own time there are plenty of classics that were not acclaimed in their time AND books acclaimed in their time that no one (other than maybe scholars) reads anymore: ~immer/books1900s
409,188	$60,000 is fucking nothing. I make triple that and I'm barely middle class.	A 'barely middle class' person does not make $180,000! You make the same as higher end management in various companies and you're acting as though you're about/less than average? You have to be trolling.
409,189	what "tax bubble" and how can there simultaneously be an "education bubble" and millions of undereducated citizens. what "automotive bubble" why am I discussing economics with /r/books communists smdh	I'm so confused how you think privatizing libraries is a communist idea. Also Krugman may not be a Friedman style supply slider but he most definitely is a mainstream economist. I read his textbook on free trade in an economics class. He is 100% in support of markets, with pretty orthodox Keynesian ideas.
409,190	I think that's how you interpreted it. If you read again, there's nothing there to say he means that.	"Lauren Cohan to play", indicating it'll happen in the near future and hadn't happened yet. Like, 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.
409,191	The only time I use the word is in discussion of the word itself or in relation to a direct quote. Both are perfectly reasonable and non racist.	Even in discussion I don't see why it should be used. Again I'm not saying someone can or can't I'm just asking why.
409,192	I'd have to say The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. Non fiction. Physics. Cosmology. Literally changed the way I think about the universe.	Just started to read this because of your comment. I think this is the best physics book I have ever read, I just can't put it down. thank you good sir!
409,193	ITT people naming movies that had little to no hype surrounding it when it came out	Like which ones? Most of these picks had been insanely hyped. Especially if you're using /r/movies as a barometer.
409,194	Went to a Green Day concert about a week before their video debuted on mtv. I'm old	>I'm old. Kinda unnecessary to add that comment. We got that from the first sentence.
409,195	Star Wars. It took a few decades, but Anakin finally brought balance to the Force.	Vader himself eventually realizes the error of his ways and sides with his son in his final moments, killing the Emperor.
409,196	Maybe you could add a little more anger to your comments on their free service.	Well I'm surprised at the reaction to this comment. Yes they use your browsing / mapping to gain data, earn money on ads etc. You can however avoid this if you choose and there is still no charge, therefore, it is free.
409,197	I gave him one more album. Encore had its moments.	Songs like "Ass like that" and "Puke" are definitely not his style or legitimate to his previously released music. I understand artists change and grow up, but anything past Eminem Show sounds like he is trying to stay relevant (which he achieved). You tell 1999 Eminem that he could use a Mary J Blige single on MMLP to ensure sales are good, he would have told you to suck a dick.
409,198	> I don't like Yes, Crimson King or Genesis. Learn to.	Indeed. Just try not to smile when it kicks in in Firth of Fifth or they go super quiet in 21st Century Schizoid Man.
409,199	Now that you point it out, I have to agree. Elysium is a cyberpunk title. * post-industrial dystopia. * extraordinary cultural ferment. * Hackers,AI,MegaCorporations. Ive got thrown off at first by the grittiness and the mexican cartel style action in the movie, but now I see the Cyberpunk under all that.	I have to commend you that you changed your mind after starkimus' comment in a civil way. Happens too rarely on the internet :) I agree with starkimus that "high tech, low life" is probably the main theme of cyberpunk. A "noir" style is also something I associate with cyberpunk, so I see why you would see rain, neon and detectives as cyberpunky.

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They had to change it from Spooks in the US because Spooks is a racial slur against black people in the US

Yeah, with the movie that presented kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't moment. Either people get offended by the original title or confused by the American title.

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This article got me thinking about something I've never really had any reason to consider. According to the article, one of the selling points of this hydrant is a fifty-year warranty. But, is a fifty-year warranty from an upstart company even worth anything to prospective customers? I mean, what if the company doesn't survive? Isn't your warranty useless at that point?

The number is also wrong. When you check their website, it says "fifteen", not "fifty".

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Having duly noted that this is complex, and way cool... Did anyone else note that the visual effects of the terrain, especially of the mountain climb sequences, really resembled variable distance terrain rendering in many games? What causes that effect?

I noticed that too. Their run-down lists a generation step as part of the process, so I'm guessing that this is what we're noticing: > Finally, we generate the novel smoothed, time-lapse video by rendering, stitching, and blending appropriately selected source frames for each output frame. We present a number of results for challenging videos that cannot be processed using traditional techniques. Note the "stitching" and "blending", I think that give it that that textured look.

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FUTURE WAR!!! lol. I cannot believe we have been teased about it in 5 movies but never really seen it. DARK AND GRITTY FUTURE WAR!!!!1!1!!

I thought the one before Genesis (which I didn't see) was just that. No?

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Well unless the stores are all closed, I'll be buying a Stairway to Heaven... again.

with a word you can get what you came for.

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Ben Stiller’s production company Red Hour produced Submarine, and Stiller had a split second cameo in the film as well. Figured The Watch was Ayoade repaying the favor.

That makes complete sense now. That is a really good combo. I'd bet Red Hour is a great production company for filmmakers like Ayoade. Less bullshit and it's run by a guy who understands the plight of a comedic writer with dark tendencies.

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Feels like you are the one not wanting to understand. You don't murder someone by mistake, the definition is that it is a premeditated.

I think what he's saying is there are situations where one can be sympathetic with a murderer wheras sympathising with a rapist is highly unlikely. For example a guy shoots someone maybe the guy he shot killed his wife, or shot his dog. Murder has a lot more grey area to explore than rape.

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Eh, I feel a deep sadness when I finish a book. Like a melancholic bittersweetness that I'd been able to come along with the journey but it's come to an end now.

Awww... That shows a deep love of your books rather than the love 'em and leave 'em approach I have...I envy you!

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i'm willing to bet he just makes the music he likes to make and it happens to be a popular form of music. (the same reason dr. luke gives for making the music he makes) it's also funny because if you had any idea how many people are literally right at this second trying to write a #1 hit, you'd realize how brilliant the men and women behind these songs are.

It sounds like the difference is that Mr. Martin stopped treating it like art, started using a formula that worked, and never stopped. [How many of these songs are his] I wonder?

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...because that is the literal "stand" that they are making. By confronting and standing up to Flagg, sacrificing themselves by giving themselves physically but not morally to him, it showed God that humanity was still willing to give the middle finger to Evil and is thus worth saving. It would lose impact if they stayed in Boulder. They had to be willing to risk physical destruction for the sake of the Good that they believed mankind still had.

I've heard of this interpretation so many times, it still never fails to bore the shit out of me. No offense to you, it's just the idea of a "God" that plays games with its creations is so magnificently self-involved and narcissistic and overplayed in every single fairy tale that it's become quite useless by now. Probably the most simplistic view and portrayal of "good" and "evil" possible.

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Not to mention, The Strokes guitar partnership is some of the best.

The problem is that you can't compare VU to a contemporary band. You have to look at them from different angles. The Velvet Underground did something amazing for music that couldn't be called pop and wasn't intended for a full orchestra. The Strokes have them to thank (indirectly if not directly) for that. It'd be like saying Niels Bohr is better than Ernest Rutherford, but without Rutherford's work, Bohr's would not have been as far-reaching or might not have existed at all.

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People are just mad that this movie isn't as bad as they thought it was gonna be, and they wanted to hate on it.

Oh believe me I know that's what's happened and I couldn't be happier that it's good

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Hahahaha, you want to borrow a few layers of skin my poor incensed flower? Because I think mine is several times thicker than yours.

How does you saying something blindingly illogical and ignorant imply that I have thin skin? Your comment was in no way directed at me.

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This is why game of thrones opted for TV and the hobbit was split up in 3 parts. There is too much story to tell in 2.5 hours.

The Hobbit was split up because they wanted to make more money. If they had followed the real plot of the book they could have. crammed it into one movie easily. But they had to add all that bullshit about the orcs and shit so they would have an excuse to charge you three times for the same movie.

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See the 1960s Boeing 2707 for history on this. The Sonic Cruiser is another example of Boeing's attempt to speed up space travel.

Reading linked articles, I wonder if you could refit a b1b to carry passengers instead of bombs. Although get 48hrs of maintenance for every hour of flight seem uneconomical for passenger travel. And interestingly between the a and b versions the top speed dropped to Mach 1.25

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Except Kevin James does get this kind of hate, so that point really doesn't hold up.

dude, they're just going to ignore you. They want to be victims. Just call then cunts so they can be satisfied.

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> it will start to become prohibitively expensive not to own a SDC. Yeah about that... not gonna happen. See my other post here:

You make a very good point. I think what I should have also mentioned is that cars will become a specialization and not the default, raising their price. It's like buying a new (built in 2016) 8 inch floppy drive reader. That's expensive. So not just for manufacturing SDCs, but if non-SDC insurance is a specialization, I can see insurance companies charging more for it because it's a weird case that has to be specifically asked for. It also depends on what we mean by cost prohibitive. There's a lot of people who would like to own a car today but don't. If insurance rates and maintenance costs get lower then people who cannot buy now will.

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I like to think they'll compensate by making her say "myeow" in between words.

Also, her goal in the film is to get a cheeseburger.

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Stephen King's Dark Tower series. I first read it when I was 15, I'm 24 now and I still go back and read it again.

I don't know. I liked the first four a lot, but the last three just seemed to fall apart. I suppose I always loved that he said: I don't plan, I just let it flow. It seemed so artistic and cool, but in the end it showed. The plot, villains and mythology all just seemed to just peter out to me.

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It's not so much the voice for me, but the lyrics. Hobbits and Vikings and whatnot.

And every other word is baby. Fuck Plant, ruiner of awesome music

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bu how much air pollution does it generate sucking energy from the grid?

> Climeworks just proved the cynics wrong. On Oct. 11, at a **geothermal power plant in Iceland**, the startup inaugurated the first system that does direct air capture and verifiably achieves negative carbon emissions. None.

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Not so much in Gangs of New York, he was miscast there. It's no secret that he uses Leo primarily because it guarantees him sufficient funding, I'd just like to see him work with other leading men while he's still making movies.

I disagree that he was miscast. I think the issue was that he had so much screen time with Cameron Diaz that it was impossible for him to pull out the right performance. Although, I still think he did a really good job.

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For me, the more I read Nietzsche the easier it became to comprehend. He definitely has a style that takes some getting used to. I do have a background in philosophy though which helps a lot. Keep at it, is a very important work.

I have a problem, not with the content, but Nietzsche's ego. He so easily condemns other schools of thought but sometimes fails to acknowledge the dichotomy of his own paradigm. But he was going crazy as he wrote the last few of his books. Also, as it has been quite some time, I don't have specific examples to cite.

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I am intriguied by the screwtape letters. Something bill watterson inspired me to read

I think everyone who's read it liked it, that I know. So there has to be something good there.

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Are you from Australia or New Zealand? Or is this just a coincidence?

haha neither. US. But Foreign Horror is great though! That's where the best horror films are coming from for the past decade or so!

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I am no longer a bookworm. I am a stone-faced mercenary of literary destruction.

looking at my last sentence I think I should have said literary critic. never mind.

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I honestly thought that made perfect sense for him to go to Vancouver. A large part of Rocky Balboa was not only that he felt like he was living in Rocky's shadow, but realizing that he was doing it to himself by actively riding his father's coattails. Leaving town to properly become his own person felt like a natural next step to me.

It's been awhile since I've seen it, but I recall them ending the movie on good terms. Plus wasn't one of the morals of that film "fuck what other people think, do what you want for yourself?" Seems like running away to a different country, just a few years after reconciling with your dad, is out of character. Honestly though, he wasn't in the movie for plot reasons. They need Rocky sad and isolated.

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If that isn't foreshadowing how Ultron will die, then I don't know what is. Tony prob won't be the one to strike the final blow because it isn't a team movie if the character with the greatest link to the antagonist is the one who takes him down (I.e. Hulk, not Thor, took down Loki). Cap also has a good chance of getting a bullet in Cap 3 so this is kinda his last chance to shine. My prediction: SW uses her power to influence probability to make it possible for Cap to lift Thor's hammer, catches Ultron off guard, big splosion, corny one-liner that some how loops back to "strings."

"I hate to *spool* your party!" "Time to put Pinnochio back in the box!" "*Knot* this time!" I feel bad writing these...

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> and it avoids many problems with running Windows, like this one. Does it? Is there something in Linux that would stop Lenovo adding identical behavior to laptop they supply with Linux installed? I don't think OS is problem in this case. It is modifications made by Lenovo that are the problem.

We're talking about installing your own OS. Obviously the manufacturer could do whatever they wanted regardless of OS, especially if there's malware in firmware or hardware. If you were of a mind to install Linux you wouldn't have had this particular problem though.

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I'm always bemused when box office stats like this become serious (at least serious in the movie industry) news. *Of course* the sequel is going to make more money than the one that came before it. This is because. 1. Ticket prices keep on increasing. 2. 3D drives up the price of tickets. 3. Movies keep on getting distributed to more places around the world. Would it be too much to ask for Hollywood to measure the success of movies by a "butts in seats" number instead of a box-office number?

3D prices, at least in Denmark, is the same as 2D movies. It comes down to a preference to everyone going to the movies :)

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I would marry Florence just so my ears could be graced with that voice everyday. I am very much looking forward to this album, and hopefully seeing a tour shortly.

I always tell people I want to marry Florence for the exact same reason.

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Looks like he wanted to follow in the footsteps of every other famous music person and die alone in his home at a young age.

Well he missed the golden age of 27 by a year.

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Not to be a downer but I was really disappointed by Dracula:Dead and Loving It. Granted part of that was a Mel Brooks/Leslie Nielsen movie being mediocre is mind boggling.

I think that's the kicker. In the mid nineties when Brooks and Nielsen were still on the top of their games. They come together to make what could only be assumed to be comedy gold and at best it's mediocre with a few good laughs thrown in.

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I sure don't have an IMAX setup, but I did connect my consoles when I created my own [home theater] I like it.

This is the coolest thing I've seen all day. If you don't mind me asking, how much did it cost you?

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Literally never seen my favorite group on /r/music, this is awesome. Thank you for spreading the word.

I feel like they kind of fell off the face of the earth after their first album...but they haven't.

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> Also, I am deeply fucking suspicious of their criteria for scoring. I poked around and apparently it's an automated system based entirely on sentence length and rarity of vocabulary. Which made me doubly frustrated that Infinite Jest wasn't ranked.

That sounds quite a bit like how they grade essays on the GRE. The prep books say you should focus more on length of argument and vocabulary than anything else.

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These are lovely, and you chose some great books, but aren't you worried about the smell of the leather masking the natural scent of the books?

The scent of leather does fade after a while. Given time, the two should combine into a pleasing blend of scents... :)

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Video? Dude. Lawrence of Arabia was shot in 70 millimeter (I know, I saw it in the theater with a 70mm print)

I saw LoA in 70mm at a Lowes theater. I saw a lot of regular movies there too. They have a motorized curtain that opens when the movie starts. Nothing cooler than watching that curtain open past the normal masking to reveal the curved cinearama screen. P.S. I also saw 2001 A Space Odyssey in 70mm. Quentin Tarantio shot the Hateful 8 in 70mm. I would love to see that presentation!

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> But faking a fingerprint AND a pin code is. That's actually easier than faking a card and a pin code, especially since biometrics cannot be changed (and copies of it are left everywhere), whereas a physical authentication token (a card) can be canceled and replaced with a single call.

No it's not. Cards are easily copied. And you can loose or have a card stolen. It's quite a bit harder to do that with a hand (I think hand prints are better than fingerprints).

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Bet you didn't think you'd make a stranger spend 200 bucks today!

Wow. You won't be disappointed! They're great! Enjoy some gold too!

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Yah I got a shitty surprise when I recently upgraded my graphics card. (Gtx 650 to 960). A whole row of display ports, and no vga. Problem was my monitors are vga only. I had to buy an adapter online.

Cool story bro. Sorry to hear you're being dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age.

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Thanks. It's kinda embarrassing being a Bright Eyes or Dashboard fan now, after they both took a shit in recent albums, but they both started out great. Brand New, however, is still doing pretty damn well.

Oh man yeah. I loved bright eyes old stuff like easy.lucky.free and lover I don't have to love. Same goes for dashboard confessional, but I liked quite a few of their albums. Like Swiss army romance and places you have come to fear the most and a cple others. I am very bummed that this will be Brand New's last album, but also really look forward to it. Awesome to meet another fan!

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Really? I thought that song was a one hit wonder right off the bat.

Ya I did too, but my mom especially was set on the fact that he would become a huge star, but not me, I knew

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I'm still not understanding. What are you saying? Of course your inbox is replies, that's what the purpose is...

Thats all it is though. Replies to threads like this. No roleplays.

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Watch 2, skim 3, watch 4, pretend 5 never happened, enjoy 6

Watch 2, Make popcorn during 3, Watch 4, 5 what?, 6.. sideburns WTF? /her hair... really. What were they thinking?

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Yes, propaganda does have to be from the government. That is LITERALLY what it means.

prop·a·gan·da. ˌpräpəˈɡandə/ noun. 1. derogatory. information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. Nope.

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My suggestion is that you plan this out sooner next year.

We like spontaneity. Do you have a horror movie suggestion?

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To my surprise, that is a really popular choice

I think the fluid action along with what I recall to be pretty crazy music really does strike a chord with a lot of people.

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Would he be put up for Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor?

Depends on what A24 decides to campaign for. My guess is Best Actor, because he's been the main promotional star of the movie and first name on the poster.

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Or, hear me out, customers “regulate” the “market” with their “money”. A business manufactures products in a way that people agree with and are rewarded with loyal customers which places said business at a competitive edge against other business in the market. Nah, your right, this sounds foolish. It’s best that the ever efficient government steps in to dictate how people operate their business. This has always worked out oh so well in the past. /s because government regulations have caused the shitty state of the world today. Edit: My mistake for going against the socialist nanny state ideals of Reddit.

Lmao the reduction in regulations is what has caused all of this madness. You’re either a troll or a moron to think less regulation is better.

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I think you're both right but they do them in very different ways. I'm an aspiring writer and while I watch films and TV to shut off the same as I do when I read I find I'm still deconstructing plot and trying to figure out what's going to happen next in the story, what clues the writer has given, how he's given them, why the lighting is a certain way in a scene etc etc. With tv and film I find I can sit back more and analyse things a bit more. With books I become a bit more absorbed into the world of what I'm seeing and it's harder to distance myself like in TV and film.

Huh, I find it works exactly the opposite for me. Interesting!

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"How can you pick MGMT or Sufjan Stevens as the best album of the decade when you had albums like" "Favourite Worst Nightmare by the Arctic Monkeys" that one is easy. same goes for the strokes and im not much of a radiohead fan and i dont know the other ones. its very simple, they're called "tastes", and they differ from person to person.

>its very simple, its called "tastes", and they differ from person to person. Yes, some people seem to have decent taste and others don't.

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Oh, same here! House of Blues Anaheim with Jonathan Coulton opening, should be somewhere between awesome and incredible

Let's meet up bro, that's the same show I am going to

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I love The Art of Fielding- by any chance, did you happen to read that total tongue-lashing it took in The Atlantic?

No I did not. Do you have a link to the article?

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I'm in the market to get a tablet. I wanted to get one before i head off to college. I wanted to get one thats fairly big, has a decent amount of memory and an SD card slot. What would be the best choice for a tablet?

I wouldn't recommend using a tablet as your main thing. However, an ultra-book is a good middle ground between lightweight laptop and tablet.

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I think it helps that they're based in and heavily influential with the same city that houses a mercenary guild of magical shapeshifting assassin-monks.

But the Iron Bank is not presented as a magic force. Just "shadowy". No clear pic of how they enforce loan repayment or what their overall game is.

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I love how that next year Kanye played "Runaway" and many people, myself included, thought he was a bigger jackass since it seemed like a response to the previous year's incident. It felt like egg on my face when My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy* came out, definitely one of the best and most favorite things I've heard. Edit: Fixed the title of MBDTF

It's funny how whenever Kanye is mentioned you can tell a lot of people hate him so people always like to say how amazing an album MBDTF is just to make people like him. Of course the album was hands down amazing though.

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Keith should be a saint, He's performed the miracle of defying death.

It really is amazing isnt it? Recall him falling out of the coconut tree and almost breaking his neck? Unreal

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Visited Devils Tower recently. Man seeing it in person it really is something special

Awesome, I would love to make a trip there sometime

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because politicians love them that way, and abuse the shit out of voter fraud to make sure the vote goes the direction they want.

Please say vote fraud and not voter fraud because there is extremely scant evidence that any voters engage in fraud and repeating its is repeating bullshit that is used to prevent people from voting.

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It was pretty cool with 3D and the floating islands. But the story itself was so hammy you could make bacon from it.

Hammy films can still be memorable. I really like Avatar, but I have to agree that it's had no cultural impact, just a technological one. Even I can't remember any specific lines. Makes me wonder about the viability of four more.

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Fight Club is definitely better as a book. And I say that with Fight Club being one of my favorite movies of all time.

Interestingly apparently the author himself would disagree with you there. Not saying you're right or wrong for thinking that way, just think that's interesting.

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How many autonomous car? Like a few thousand only? 1 death per few thousand is not that safe compared to human drivers. And the majority of human accidents is the driver's fault, so if you are a safe driver you are a lot more safe than the average.

Read the article dude. It clearly states an above-average ratio for the autopilot accidents. Also, not autonomous, drivers (should) still be in control of the car.

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To be fair, most of that could be attributed to Ruffalo and Whedon. neither were involved in previous Hulk films. You just never really know how much impact writing and portrayal make. I know for one, Whedon is a massive comic book guy, and Ruffalo is an amazing actor.

> Ruffalo is an amazing actor. Agreed but I stand by Norton as the best Banner we have had since Bill Bixby.

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Seriously? Here in europe if you dont have whatsapp no one will send you anything. My grandma's dont send sms amymore and almost all work related things go with emails or whatsapp. I would almost be a social outcast if i didnt use whatsapp. They have a massive monopoly here. If not whatsapp what so you use?

Americans generally use SMS, Facebook Messenger, and iMessage for that sort of communication. Some Snapchat thrown in. WhatsApp is about as common as BlackBerry Messenger, not at all in the States.

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Somewhat higher (8.1 and 7.8), though that follows the general trend of audiences having lower standards than professional critics.

That's what I thought. The critics have constructed quite an echo chamber that hasn't quite translated to the general public's enjoyment of these films.

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Wasn't it all obvious? JGL will be the new dark night fighting crime as Robin.

The last scene pretty much confirms JGL will takeover. Whether he is successful in becoming the "new batman" and for how long is unknown and is up to our own interpretation as of now.

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Its a grey area for sure because of pirates but that mentality is terrible for the internet. Never would have learned about hosting if not for my tinkering with Apache *on a non-business connection* nearly 15yrs ago. Learning is a hands on thing.

I think this is the best thing about google fibre. Unlimited data, gigabit, not a shitty company all take a back seat. AFAIK they don't care if you are hosting your own server. Imagine if everyone had google fiber and anyone could setup any service anytime they wanted. A reasonable machine with a gigabit connection could provide a decent backend for an app or data service. Once it gets bit, upgrade to a google apps cloud service.

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How do they even fight? Like, can't superman smash him at light speed in a fraction of a second? How does Batman even fight him without Kryptonite? I like Batman better myself, but I just don't understand

Same could be said about Iron man Vs Hulk, yet nobody has mentioned that. An incredibly powerful being Vs a guy in a suit. I think they will pull it off pretty well, If they do it right.

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Well, there was another girl at first but they changed it in post production. I agree that she did a wonderful job and I think you are under selling the talent that goes into voice work.

Really? What a waste of money and effort. Real voice work, I respect. Reading a script in a monotone is not "voice work".

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Yea, when I did some undergrad research on semiconductors my advisor joked that currently the best way to produce graphene was a graduate student with a block of graphite and some scotch tape

I think that a European team found a new way of producing it recently, but they want to keep working on improving their methods.

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the only reason I care that much was because it was my comment.

So, just to make sure I have this straight, who's comment was it?

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I would have followed you; my brother; my captain; my *king*.

I was watching that yesterday with my girlfriend and I just noticed something for the first time. Aragorn takes Boromir's vambraces and wears them from then on out in remembrance. That's pretty awesome.

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Nah it goes beyond just "a ton of features in stuff". Dre is probably the most important figure in west coast hip-hop history. He helped craft gangsta rap and get it to the mainstream with Straight Outta Compton. He set the tone for many west coast hip-hop albums with the g-funk style of The Chronic. His co-sign helped bring The Game, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and Eminem to a mainstream audience. Not to mention Warren G, Nate Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound, and every other Death Row artist. His Beats headphones and Apple Music deal made him rap's first billionaire. His mixing and producing skills are untouchable.

I agree with you, but J Dilla and Premier are on par with Dre considering production.

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The Confederacy Of Dunces. A friend lent it to me and after reading the back it seemed like an author similar in style to Vonnegut. Love Vonnegut. One of the most painful reading experiences of my life. Why this book gets lauded is beyond me. I have tried to read it like 4-5 different times and can't get further than like a third of the way through. For any fans of the book here, care to elaborate on what you like about it?

Yeah, CoD. Didn't laugh once. Ignacio's is a dickhead, fine, but a boring dickhead.

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The battle music from Hollow Bastion, [Scherzo di Notte] is one of my favorite tracks. It varies from game to game, I think I like the KHII version the most.

Honestly the whole Kingdom Hearts soundtrack is amazing. I'm finally playing the second. I liked the remade Hollow Bastion.

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1-5 is hers. I don't know if he was her boyfriend, but I think they just collaborated. Regardless of his tracks you have to admire her for experimenting with eclectic artists, who had no successful discography of their own and allowing them to put their name on something she puts hers on.

It's not her boyfriend, her boyfriend is a dude called James. I think his IG is ActuallyJames.

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Good luck with them! I hope I didn't sound too harsh, but I work in a book store and we regularly see people who assume that just because something is old, it must be worth something. And they don't always believe us when we say they're not.

"Hey, I've got these boxes of National Geographics from the 50s! What'll you give me for them?!"

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I tried to contribute $10 with the "getting my feet wet" option, but the confirmation screen said that I was contributing $100. Has this happened anyone else? Edit: I'm serious, this is the final screen.

If you're dumb enough to give people with the connections to make this without your donations then you had it coming

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Nice tattoo, man. Fellow Norwegian here, with a Sigur Ròs tattoo proudly covering my upper right arm. Where did you get it done?

Great! For me it stood between Sigur Rós and EITS... I got mine at Odins Merke in Lillestrøm. So how is yours?

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Chicago, IL USA. I'll put my choices: * Best - Empty Bottle. * Worst - The Metro.

I've been to worse places than The Metro, but the sight-lines there are pretty bad. - House of Blues - I know it's corporate as hell and the bouncers are total assholes, but the sound is always damn good and I like the layout. Don't drink there, though. Sets you back $100 a person. - Quenchers - Divey, DIY-type place, but the back room is perfect for small shows and the beer list is out of this world.

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The guy is a lunatic. You couldn't pay me to use something he is affiliated with.

Have you seen the video he made reminding everyone McAfee the company hasn't been his in fifteen years? This guy knows how to party. The guy had the resources to build his own reality, with blackjack, and hookers, and actually did it.

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Jesus tap dancing christ I hate shakey camera work. It turned a great action movie into something unwatchable. I mean you couldnt even read the text messages people got because apparently it needed some excitement in those scenes.

I think they wasted all the budget on Matt Damon and ran out of money to buy tripods or steadycams

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Can you elaborate on what part of, say, [Ubuntu here] looks dated compared to Windows 8? There's different designs, as Windows 8 uses a flat design. [Here's something closer to a flat theme] [Here's a dark theme] [Or transparency, if you prefer] Lots of customization available. [Conky] provides Rainmeter-like desktop customization ([another example] Really **an OS only looks as good as you're willing to make it**. For example, [here's what my Windows 7 desktop looks like] It's customized well beyond the default with things like multiple desktops and Rainmeter.

Actually that first screenshot looks really bad. I use Ubuntu myself and nearly switched to something else when I saw how bad the current version looks, and its functionality is even worse (In my opinion, I was used to the old gnome before it became some clunky crap. Luckily I was able to install another desktop environment but still.)

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I looked up "forever and always", thinking I had missed another book in the series...

Aside from the three books after it? Gathering Blue, Messenger, and the finale Son?

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Are you telling me that none of the affected hospitals and companies paid for support? That is extremely risky. Why do corporations keep thinking they can cut IT budgets without any repercussions?

Management needs to be given good reason to spend money. IT security is preventative, so it's difficult to show exactly how it will benefit the company in the long run. Finally, IT people are also notoriously bad at justifying increased expenditure.

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Is it irrelevant though? I think a feature to see the most popular tracks in your area automatically could be pretty cool and a lot of people have asked to be able to upload custom playlist pictures.

Then it should at the very minimum be a user controlled option. I couldn't give a shit about those features, so why can't I turn them off so that Spotify does not need to fire up the GPS or whatever?

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To be fair most classics were also critically acclaimed. Look back at 1952 best seller list. Old Man and the Sea, East of Eden, and Catcher in the rye were all top 10 books that year.

Perhaps, but for every classic that was acclaimed in its own time there are plenty of classics that *were not* acclaimed in their time AND books acclaimed in their time that no one (other than maybe scholars) reads anymore: ~immer/books1900s

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$60,000 is fucking nothing. I make triple that and I'm barely middle class.

A 'barely middle class' person does not make $180,000! You make the same as higher end management in various companies and you're acting as though you're about/less than average? You have to be trolling.

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what "tax bubble" and how can there simultaneously be an "education bubble" and millions of undereducated citizens. what "automotive bubble" why am I discussing economics with /r/books communists smdh

I'm so confused how you think privatizing libraries is a communist idea. Also Krugman may not be a Friedman style supply slider but he most definitely is a mainstream economist. I read his textbook on free trade in an economics class. He is 100% in support of markets, with pretty orthodox Keynesian ideas.

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I think that's how you interpreted it. If you read again, there's nothing there to say he means that.

"Lauren Cohan *to* play", indicating it'll happen in the near future and hadn't happened yet. Like, 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.

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The only time I use the word is in discussion of the word itself or in relation to a direct quote. Both are perfectly reasonable and non racist.

Even in discussion I don't see why it should be used. Again I'm not saying someone can or can't I'm just asking why.

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I'd have to say The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. Non fiction. Physics. Cosmology. Literally changed the way I think about the universe.

Just started to read this because of your comment. I think this is the best physics book I have ever read, I just can't put it down. thank you good sir!

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ITT people naming movies that had little to no hype surrounding it when it came out

Like which ones? Most of these picks had been insanely hyped. Especially if you're using /r/movies as a barometer.

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Went to a Green Day concert about a week before their video debuted on mtv. I'm old

>I'm old. Kinda unnecessary to add that comment. We got that from the first sentence.

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Star Wars. It took a few decades, but Anakin finally brought balance to the Force.

Vader himself eventually realizes the error of his ways and sides with his son in his final moments, killing the Emperor.

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Maybe you could add a little more anger to your comments on their free service.

Well I'm surprised at the reaction to this comment. Yes they use your browsing / mapping to gain data, earn money on ads etc. You can however avoid this if you choose and there is still no charge, therefore, it is free.

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I gave him one more album. Encore had its moments.

Songs like "Ass like that" and "Puke" are definitely not his style or legitimate to his previously released music. I understand artists change and grow up, but anything past Eminem Show sounds like he is trying to stay relevant (which he achieved). You tell 1999 Eminem that he could use a Mary J Blige single on MMLP to ensure sales are good, he would have told you to suck a dick.

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> I don't like Yes, Crimson King or Genesis. Learn to.

Indeed. Just try not to smile when it kicks in in Firth of Fifth or they go super quiet in 21st Century Schizoid Man.

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Now that you point it out, I have to agree. Elysium is a cyberpunk title. * post-industrial dystopia. * extraordinary cultural ferment. * Hackers,AI,MegaCorporations. Ive got thrown off at first by the grittiness and the mexican cartel style action in the movie, but now I see the Cyberpunk under all that.

I have to commend you that you changed your mind after starkimus' comment in a civil way. Happens too rarely on the internet :) I agree with starkimus that "high tech, low life" is probably the main theme of cyberpunk. A "noir" style is also something I associate with cyberpunk, so I see why you would see rain, neon and detectives as cyberpunky.