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409,200	Probably the only rap album I still know all the lyrics to. Shit it still sick.	It's the Method Man for short Mr. Meth. Movin on your left, aah!
409,201	It also reminded me of video game soundtracks, but in a good way!	This is the video game I am working on currently. :3 with
409,202	I know what that is every time I click, but I still do it for some reason..	Why wouldn't you click, knowing that's on the other side?
409,203	Which I'm sure will work perfectly with all the proprietary hardware.	Yea, you're right... it'll probably be like my Dell laptop, old-ass HP PC, Kindle Fire (1st Gen), my ASUS router, and...well, pretty much anything.
409,204	Which unfailingly leads me to recommend Jose Saramago's Blindness. Superb and haunting, in every way.	Great, another one to add to my list. I've only read Saramago's Death with Interruptions and really liked that, never knew where to go next.
409,205	Maybe not the majority, but if there was a 50 hour phone I bet more than 10% would consider it	There are phones like that, Chinese make tons of them. Nobody seems to care.
409,206	Just your regular bi-yearly dose of never to actually become reality 'future battery tech revolution' prediction.	Just your regular bi-yearly dose of battery charging. Coming soon to phones never!
409,207	this. If they made a new version of Moby Dick I would not be surprised if there was no whale. When they get too far away from what made the original story great they really need to just call the movie something else. We are waiting for a good version of "I am Legend" because of this too.	They are making a new version of Moby Dick. For some reason. Saw the preview the other day, I have no idea why it's being made.
409,208	You specifically said YouTube videos so I don't know of you will be interested in this but theses are good.	I believe they post on YouTube too or at least they did. They may have stopped
409,209	I probably should do that as well. Distraction and falling asleep is why I don't read more. For some reason audiobooks will still feel like 'cheating' (I have no idea why I think this) but at least I'll have the knowledge that I won't get if I simply don't read.	I laugh at the idea that it's cheating. I don't know what snob came up with that idea, but it's silly. I got through law school reading thousands of pages of the driest books ever written. I didn't get any more out of them for the pain and effort that I would have had I listened to them.
409,210	Matt has never been the greatest lyricist, but Muse is still one of my top favorite bands because of the music behind it. Let the lyrics blend in with the rest of the song. Understand the words for their message (obviously Muse is very political), but otherwise I just let them sink into the rest of the music and let it all compound into awesomeness.	Theres a difference between writing bland lyrics and writing fucking shithole lyrics. The term "has never been the greatest lyricist" applies to the first one, writing bland lyrics. While you have to be the one of the worst lyricist ever to be the second one, which what Matt is in this album. And this is coming from a Muse fan for 15 years, I'm terribly disappointed.
409,211	That's a fair point, hell listen to the real slim shady. No one under the age of 20-something is gonna know tom green, Fred durst, Christina aguilera, Carson Daly...	I'm 20. Definitely only know who two of those people are.
409,212	The name of the album is 'Various Positions'. Cohen consistently used 'singing' and 'music' as metaphors for sex throughout his whole career. Each stanza of Hallelujah is about a different type of orgasm (or perhaps the reasons why people chase after it) -- young fumbling excitement, determined lust, respite from sadness, true love, desperation.	Hallelujah is not a sexy song and it is not about sex. It's about everything. It's about life and being broken and finding the humility and strength to go on and love.
409,213	I haven't even read it and I know it's far from amazing so maybe I'll just skip it haha! Most of the mandatory books sucked in my opinion. :/ I'm 19 and only graduated two years ago so they were probably different!	were the same age. I graduated two years ago and those were our mandatory books. Gatsby in 11th grade, Romeo in 8th. The only ones I ever liked that we had to read were the count of Monte Cristo, Frankenstein and to kill a mocking bird. Now I feel old for some reason.
409,214	>Google, Microsoft and Facebook ... $3.6 million project. ... not to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, but... that's all they got? They're a bit hard up and can only pool 3.6 collectively? What, did they need to have some bake sales? Sell some magazine subscriptions?	They each agreed to commit 100K per year, which was a figure suggested by the Linux Foundation themselves. I think that's more than reasonable; they could have just as easily refused to give any funding assistance at all.
409,215	You sound more and more paranoid and unreasonable with every edit. You should really stop doing that.	"Every edit?" I edited once to correct myself for saying it had yet to be suggested, and once regarding the downvotes. Is this sort of petty b.s. really what you want your contribution to be?
409,216	Personally I would go. 5 > 8 > 11 > 23 > 39 > 2 >>> 33 > 31 > 30 > 9 > 10 > 12 > 22 > 20 > 39 > 40 > 1 > 3 > 28 > 4 > 6 > 35 > 7 > 13 >>>> 15 > 14 > 31 > 16 > 18 > 17 > 24 > 19 > 21 > 25 > the rest	Lol kinda like how to watch the Fast and Furious movies then.
409,217	[Mad World - Gary Jules] is another fine example of a great, perhaps even better, cover.	Original and two covers that completely made their song their own: [Bob Dylan - All Along the Watchtower] [Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower] [Dave Matthews Band - All Along the Watchtower] (edited to start where the song starts, but the bass solo by Stefan Lessard at the beginning is a bit of a tribute to Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner)
409,218	Still the dems. The do not call list is a joke. It means "there's a live person here". At least they would rather leave a vm. It's not going to pass, anyway, so why villainize people for it now? Oh, because we have Trump Distress Syndrome?	"not going to pass" just makes the republicans look worse. They have shitty ideas and they're ineffective, wasting everyone's time. Also if you genuinely think this is a good idea, and that the do not call list (and the penalties which make it work) is a bad idea, then you're probably too far gone to help. Then again, we all realized that already when you mentioned Trump for some stupid reason.
409,219	The books are written for children, so they're short and easy to read. I don't imagine it'll take you long to read them. Snicket's character is pretty much nothing more than a narrator. \*Disclaimer to mention I only read to book 10 or so.	The Netflix series dropped some hints that made me think he was more involved in the story than a narrator would be, but so far he's been serving only as a narrator too. Why did you drop it after book 10 though?
409,220	Ah, the old qc + x = utopia. QC has had 10 years and we don't even have a solid architecture for scalability yet. AI is long ways out. Also, qc is fantastic for simulating quantummech, se hard problems, etc. But like you've implied, not a jump for Moore's law. We will never go obsolete unless we choose to. Musk is great, but he isn't the all knowing genius that his cult seems to be.	I have similar feelings regarding qc. We've had the ideas for quantum gates since entanglement was discovered buy they're just not practical at this point. Still relegated to nuclear fusion areas of future tech.
409,221	(I'm upvoting you, not trolling you) Counter-honest question, Why didn't the NC legislators dedicate their time and energy to improving conditions in the third world or even the VA Hospitals in NC, rather than focusing on who is using what bathroom? There are a lot of good causes out there, and everyone has different priorities. The politicians who wrote and passed this bill feel that discriminating against trans people is more important than mental health for our war veterans, environmental health, NC's public education system, or the standard of living for the middle class, among other issues. That's why the focus on this bill.	> Why didn't the NC legislators dedicate their time and energy to improving conditions in the third world or even the VA Hospitals in NC, rather than focusing on who is using what bathroom? Because our constituents get worked up about things that are statistically inconsequential.
409,222	Is that right? The article says you do not need a password when using the key	Depends on the key. I have the latest Yubikeys that allow you to not use a password. But no one implements it that way that I've seen and I think Yubi recommends against it.
409,223	Die Buddenbrooks is an absolute gem,but yeah it is pretty long.	The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) from Thomas Mann is even longer and IMO way better.
409,224	>This is not for you. - -House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. >This book is dedicated to any man, woman, or critic. who will cut the edges of it.-- I have done the top. -The Torrent and the Night Before by Edwin Arlington Robinson.	House of Leaves is just: This is not for you. Which makes it even better in my opinion.
409,225	If you didn't like it I don't think it can be explained to you. I found it instantly very funny, a lot of which comes from the dialogue and the subverting of fantasy stereotypes.	I think it can be explained. If someone asked me why I liked The Goonies, I could explain. I could explain what makes it good in my mind. I'm just wondering if I did not understand it, or maybe it's not that good? I mean everyone in my inner circle who has watched it, does not recommend it.
409,226	McGuire=Great Peter Parker/Not so great Spiderman. Garfield=Great Spiderman/Not so great Peter Parker	They were going for the Ultimate Spiderman universe in ASM, so he was actually a pretty good Peter Parker, just not the classic one. I didn't really like McGuire that much in either role, but I don't think it was his fault, Raimi just wanted an emotional and whiny portrayal. McGuire could have done just fine.
409,227	The injury definitely played a factor, but I think he was also totally shaken up after his encounter with Han. Even uninjured I think he would have been jarred enough for Rey to stand a chance. Probably not Finn though.	Now I think on it, I am beginning to think Rey was a padawan of Luke whom he saved from Kylo's killing spree. She has similar clothes to a Padawan in the flashback sequence, obvious force powers and potential, and she seemingly unlocked fighting abilities she didn't realise she had before. I also think Kylo knows of Rey, but like Luke couldn't find her til she found him basically
409,228	What did you think of the tiny trumpet cover of Sandstorm?	Most important question in the thread right here. Tiny trumpet Darude man needs to make a duet with real Darude!
409,229	Oh yea. Ugh that's super lame. He is kind Of important to wolverines story when he goes to Japan.	No, he's not important to the story at all. The basis for The Wolverine is the first Wolverine mini-series by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, pre-dating the Winter Soldier.
409,230	I grew up on Marty Robbins, I was so happy to hear this in New Vegas.	my grandmother used to listen to oldies and i heard this as a child, loved it and found it on new vegas.
409,231	I wonder if you still have a copy of this?	The outline? It's in my google docs from a few years ago.
409,232	So it is just juice in a bag? You can't squeeze a bunch of fresh fruit and veggies and make juice. I'm so confused.	The very concept is really amazing in how stupid it is. I can only assume it was funded by people who's only experience with fruits and vegetables is when they go to the juice bar at their gym. It is a device that dispenses juice from bags. There's no added value. Cleaning, powering, and whatever other maintenance is required easily make it an overall loss. You could also just buy jugs of Naked Juice or whatever expensive juice product you want at BJs/Costco and avoid any stupid device or having to deal with getting juice out of bags.
409,233	The article only talks about wifi. This doesn't seem to involve your connection to the cell network..	Sorry, I was talking about the PrivacyX application for Android that the guy mentioned above.
409,234	Probably because Apple doesn't attempt to open source MacOS - they opensource its kernel and some libraries and other bits, but nothing remotely close to the whole OS	They have to, since OSX's kernel is based on the BSD kernel, which is itself FOSS.
409,235	Born in Austin, live close. I'm talking long term, not like the guy who asks how global warming is real because it's cold outside.	I'm not an analyst, and I'm only thinking about the next 2 years (before car production). I do have a wager that trump won't take the nomination, so I would also wager that a Republican White House is a real possibility, which would lead, though it would take a year, to higher gas prices long term. So, it's a total guess and I too would trust BBC before an Internet stranger, I just wanted to get some quick math out there without spending too much time on it. Mainly to make myself feel better for not preordering one (my wife told me no).
409,236	Daniel Johnston - Some Things Last a Long Time. Mew - Comforting Sounds. Bright Eyes - Nothing Gets Crossed Out. Frightened Rabbit - Backwards Walk. Probably a bunch more, my girlfriend tells me all my music is too sad.	"Nothing Gets Crossed Out" is one of my favorite Bright Eyes songs. "Like when I fell under the weight of a school boy crush, started carryin' her books and doin' lots of drugs."
409,237	You can have my sweater if she teaches me how to dance. I, for one, want to know whether the plan is to buy homes in the south for their parents, or from them ("buy our parents homes" or "buy our parents' homes").	YES!!! This has frustrated me to no end. I want to know if she will be buying for or from!!! Glad to see I am not the only one.
409,238	I don’t think this is a fair argument, despite its popularity. Apple is a behemoth company with a near monopolistic presence in the lives of many people. Simply “choosing another company” is easier said than done and sometimes not really an option. This is not a situation where the “free market” decides. It’s one where a company uses its tremendous leverage to force us further down the cattle chute.	This is the reason I never adopted Apple. They have designed the entire ecosystem to keep you captive. Once you're in it, it's very difficult to leave. Kind of like Google nowadays.
409,239	Importantly: > Several studies have shown that on-road emissions of NOx from diesel passenger cars, including vehicles made by manufacturers other than Volkswagen, substantially exceed the levels measured in the laboratory. So, it's likely that more companies doing this will be revealed before long.	VW sells more diesel cars in the US than anyone else. So studies that indicate that emissions from diesel cars are much worse than anticipated doesn't necessarily implicate other manufacturers. The only non-VW vehicle tested (BMW X5) showed to be compliant with the regulations. I'm not saying that this clears them of wrongdoing but nothing so far has implicated them. With how serious the financial implications are I could see BMW & Mercedes going for blood if they are wrongly accused.
409,240	Uh, actually if you listened to the Vergecast when he was on it, it was quite clear he was turning against Apple and becoming much more pro-Google/Android. He usually had a lot of critiques about Apple, and if you listen to his Tomorrow podcast with John Gruber, it's obvious that he's not an Apple fanboy.	fair enough - aint got a dog in the fight, just remember him being very pro apple all those years ago.
409,241	You may have misunderstood my comment, The people who would allow such events to influence where they send their children, much less how they vote, are cowards. Terrorism kills an extremely small amount of people in western nations. Right now in the US vending machines, falling down stairs, and lighting strikes kill far many more people than terrorists. And you say they won?? Then they have, if this influences how you vote because you fell for the terror that they are trying to create.	> The people who would allow such events to influence where they send their children, much less how they vote, are cowards. Total nonsense. Yes it PROBABLY won't happen to you, but for many they don't want to play the odds. I know tons of people that don't go to certain cities, certain events, because of such happenings. It's not trivial fears. Fear is absolutely legitimate and shouldn't be condemned.
409,242	That'd be hilarious, because then he can actually involve the police in a harassment suit!	Oh, I'd wait for the big buildup of tension between lawyers and suits before involving teh authoritaes.
409,243	Because Microsoft holds patents for FAT and FAT derivative filesystems. Have you heard that Microsoft earns more money from Android devices than from Windows Phones? That's where the money comes from. If you don't want to pay Microsoft for each phone you sell, you don't ship your phones with SD card support. Simple as that.	Agree. Also, that money goes straight to the anti-google campaign.
409,244	The other comments have mentioned the standard "blah blah blah technology click bait title", but the scale really is news to me. I ran an electrolysis experiment in high school that required a 120V outlet on the wall and was slow as hell. If the mentioned method is scalable, this could be a good way to produce hydrogen, right?	Then you did it wrong. It takes DC current to separate Hydrogen. If AC is used then the ever changing polarity mixes the gases. If you are saying you used a power converter, then you really were not using 120 AC from the wall.
409,245	> unhealthy fixation on superhero movies. Explain how it's unhealthy.	Perhaps unhealthy was the wrong word, what I meant was that this sub is disproportionately focused on a small subset of movies to the detriment of the general discussion.
409,246	There's a lot that's great about it but at the end of the day its YA anime, which just isn't my style	Very true. I'm reading Way of Kings right now...and enjoying it. But it's not really SPECIAL other than being pretty fun and solid fantasy. It's very competent.
409,247	I can't help but think $360,000 is really, really low. I know that the Beatles (or rather, the label) didn't have to do anything but sign a few forms, but still - think how much Spotify made from this whole thing.	I don't think Spotify has been profitable yet since it's incarnation
409,248	13 months from release is the general start date for marketing, such as initial character posters and teaser trailers. We're 11 months away now. Around 8 months is the general vicinity to release a first trailer. Look at how Star Wars: The Force Awakens has marketed. Identical marketing pattern so far.	Yes and I dislike it the same way. There were enough movies with much less exposure. Some flicks are just constantly IN YOUR FACE and I detest that. Spectre for example is released in October and I've just seen the first trailer this month. That's at least only 6 months in advance (unless there was a previous trailer which I missed). I think that is more than enough time to build "hype"...
409,249	Geeze, I must be the only person who enjoyed Lucy. I really liked seeing what happened as she became more godlike.	If they had tried to pass it off as a movie about what a person goes through as they obtain those powers (losing touch with humanity ala Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen) it would have been a lot more interesting to me than the bland action movie they made.
409,250	I will move to the first European country that makes those vehicles legal. This is the most important change of our lifetime IMO. Cities won't be so congested because more people will pick living outside - even quite far - if they can wake up at 5, get into the car and go back to sleep while still arriving at their workplace by 8 or 9. Combine that with cheap, electric vehicles and car pooling and we're looking at bright future ahead.	Hi, resident of an European city here. Public transport is a thing, it's usually pretty damn good in most large cities and you can sleep as much as you want. Living 3-4 hours away from your workplace in many cases would mean that you'd be living in another country. I've got 4 different countries within 4 hours from where I am. Average commute in the EU is 40-60 minutes in large cities and it's usually faster on public transport due to dedicated bus lanes, higher passenger density or underground trains.
409,251	I've heard of Motörhead and beck..........I'll just go set up my retirement account now....	Be sure to get a Roth account so they can't tax that shit when you retire.
409,252	There's something off about her performance in Mad Men as well.	At least on Mad Men I think her character is supposed to come off as cold and distant.
409,253	Who said anything about any time soon? When they believe it's ready go for it. I would move to a city where it was only autonomous cars allowed if it meant me and my kids being safe.	Those already exists. Except there aren't any autonomous cars on the market, so what it really is are towns where it's illegal to drive at all.
409,254	Peter Jackson originally wanted two movies. An Unexpected Journey and There And Back Again. I so wish we got that :( Could have been LOTR level good who knows.	Stupid question but then what happened? Why'd he go with a trilogy?
409,255	I read it when I was 18. I think it's the perfect time to read it. The book is a lot about age(s), and 18 is an important transition point in someone's life and I think it will give you a great insight into it. But also when you reread it another age, you will get something else from it and that will be an interesting comparison :)	Lol I actually did read it in the previous 4 months and really liked it
409,256	BRB. Going to sell my house to try to afford this thing.	> Unit Price: £5,743.815. if that's how much your house costs then I'd like to buy it and make your dream come true.
409,257	I think it’s reasonable to share with people “This is an awful racist book and you shouldn’t support the author by buying it.” If other people disagree on a given book they can obviously say so too. That’s how other people know they should or shouldn’t read the story. That’s you exercising your free speech in response to someone elses. Certainly no need to ban books, but that exchange of what is and isn’t acceptable is what makes society move forward.	That's a fine and reasonable response. Crying and hiding is not a valid response in my opinion.
409,258	What's worse are VGA-only monitors. No excuse for that when the computer and the panel in the monitor are both inherently digital.	Yup. VGA was literally designed to match the way the old electron guns in CRTs worked. Every since CRTs died, vga has been a pointless standard.
409,259	> “How in the hell can Kid Rock represent Detroit and wave that flag just generating millions and millions in ticket sales – a flag that represents genocide to most of Detroit?” Correct me if i'm wrong here but - shouldn't we only be concerned with what the flag means to Kid Rock? No one can help how others feel about things, and i'm not sure we should live our lives worrying about about those sorts of things? If you don't like Kid Rock, don't buy a ticket or an album? I know i wont.	Well, I mean, that's not how semiotics work, but whatever. Meanings shift, there are conceptual things we all see when we see a symbol. And you can be like, guys, I'm super into this swastika and mean it in this fluffy positive way, everyone else is like, uh, well, that's a nazi symbol now. Personally I will continue ignoring him and being amused that this was covered on entertainment weekly's awkwardly named website which sums up my feelings about kid rock: ew.
409,260	If I can get 200 more internet points I will be able to purchase the sword of Percevius Periwinkle, storm the OrangeRed castle, steal the ring of Perpetual Upvotes and rule all of Reddit Forever!! Just need a little more karma....	Sounds about right, I guess. Anyways, I tend to frequent the smaller, genre-specific subs — of which there are many — for more specified content and visit /r/music for pop- and mainstream rock-related discussion. Not sure why some subscribers fail to see that a sub with almost 3.3 million subscribers tends to favor the popular stuff and the more obscure stuff tends to fall by the wayside.
409,261	This is possibly one of the most beautiful but heartbreaking songs I recall.... So many memories :)	How is it heartbreaking when the lyrics are nonsense? Maybe I just don't get it.
409,262	Wow, this was exactly how I felt. I know a lot of people don't care for the later books as much, but I really liked 5-7. 2 & 3 are my faves tho.	As much as I want to know the story, reading the parts in Roland's time can be like pulling teeth for me. I have to make time to do it and read far fewer pages in a session. The parts with all of them? MARATHON sessions.
409,263	There was a Twinky easter egg and I missed it? When was that?	Can't find it now, I watched the version on the ellen youtube channel which isn'tthere now? But it was a billboard in a New York scene that read "that's a really big" and had a picture of a twinky
409,264	Yes, god forbid people want to see movies with familiar subject matter. Like all those idiots who go to see movies just because they're based on comic books.	It's low hanging fruit. You make a shitty comic book movie and people riot, you can spend hundreds of millions and maybe break even from global sales. While a Jesus movie can be extremely low budget and has a near guaranteed profit margin from a niche audience not even counting the average viewer
409,265	But at this point, most people have used computers by the age of 6 or 8, and most people never even upgraded to Vista and stuck with XP, at least until Windows 7.	Most, yes, but foxh8er was just saying 'the people entering high school today possibly never had access to an XP machine' which is true. If he had said 'most hadn't' or something along those lines I agree, but this is the generation where XP will start to never be touched. Another 5-10 years and most kids entering high school then likely never will touch it.
409,266	I don't get smart watches. They just do things my phone does better.	Except they're on your wrist and don't need to be taken out of your pocket. They're just a compliment to smartphones, not a replacement.
409,267	I think they gained popularity after one of their songs was in that trial bike video. That's where I heard of them at least.	I know the video you speak of. I took great enjoyment in the viewing of said video.
409,268	SSDs are way too small in capacity/price for anyone storing a large amount of data. And that's well before you leave the realm of consumer storage.	As someone who's about to buy 4x 5TB HDDs soon for a media server, this.
409,269	Great, informative post. "Hey guys, remember this 90s thing?" "Two thousand upvotes for you!" To hell with this subreddit.	I see you didn't come here for the nostalgia, then.
409,270	I prefer series over stand-alones, much in the same way I like tv shows over movies. Sure, sometimes you have to get through the fillers, but series give you a lot more time with the character.	But that's the issue with some readers (myself included) - we don't want to spend more time with the characters hanging out doing not much of anything, we want a STORY.
409,271	That's kind of the point of making the directors personally liable - no more running from fines now!	Yes, but that's only for this one specific situation. That loophole needs closing for every case. Personal liability for directors is what's needed, although I appreciate that having functioning businesses does require some limits or nobody would ever do it. So what we need is for those limits to only apply in reasonable situations - maybe like other laws where it's automatically wrong but there is a defence available.
409,272	Hank III. He does both metal and country. There are also a fair number of cow punk bands (cross over of country and punk) that you may like.	It's amazing how different he is in Assjack versus some of his country songs. I'm gonna explore some more of his stuff.
409,273	Eh I feel like the introduction of her character in Hancock is when the movie started going downhill. Though I guess that's the writing's fault.	the first half of hancock is my favourite superhero movie. the second half i wouldnt buy for $5.
409,274	That's why I don't listen to the radio. I miss out on most new songs, but that's largely a good thing. Eventually, if something is good enough, someone will show it to me and I can listen to it whenever, rather than all the time.	I just wait for the inevitable youtube parodies to tell me what songs are popular.
409,275	It's a matter of extremes. If Sprint execs stay in charge, I would hate it. If T-Mobile execs stay in charge, I would love it! Look at all this spectrum for activities!	Yes. My only concern is the resulting debt under the T-mobile exec scenario.
409,276	So what do they get out of it? Is there some fee that businesses pay them? Like if someone asks for pizza does pizza hut pay them 5% or whatever to order from them? Seems sketchy	I'm sure they simply add a couple bucks on top of your request, depending on how big the request is.
409,277	Can't really see logan as spiderman, dylan on the other hand feels like it works really well.	I'm a huge fan of Logan after watching The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Fury but unfortunately I do agree the Dylan would be a better Spidey. Not sure how scheduling would go with him being in the Maze Runner series though.
409,278	Maybe if you were a little more constructive with your criticisms	Hmm sure. The music is pretty tight up until the singer "sings". It's a combination of screaming and talking that doesn't work for a lot of people. The lyrics kind of suck. It's straight forward, its boring. There's not much poetry in this. Oh did the shooting happen this week or last month....oh i i think i saw you in my sleep darling i think i saw you in my sleep ho.....just really poor lyrics all around.....I guess I do typically like this "type of music" but I just can't get over how annoying the lead singer is in general.
409,279	Thank you! I'm the same way with ebooks. It's just not the same as holding the actual book in your hands. You get to feel and smell the paper--it's all part of the reading experience.	It's really tearing me up. I feel like we should be able to live sustainably, and digital media is so much more environment-friendly. But the idea of an entire library being contained in one little square of plastic that can run out of batteries is monstrous to me.
409,280	Or, and hear me out, we don't do that. I don't have facebook or use cortana. Not sure why future me will need an assistant that we have to worry about going all skynet.	Yes, I too am perfectly content with my landline and my pager and my bookshelf full of paper books.
409,281	The Razer phone looks better but still no good controls.	I don't see what the razer phone does better than any other flagship though, the specs are just about the same, I think the screen might be better but that's just going to be a performance hit anyway. And no headphone jack is a funny choice since razer sells headsets but maybe they are planning or have a USB c headset.
409,282	I agree with the Director snub. But the actor was very good. Not quite Denzel Washington good, but better than some who did get nods. (Better by far than fucking Jared Leto last year)	You agree the director shouldn't have been nominated? Or that it was a snub?
409,283	> First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. > Then they came for... etc. The slippery slope argument seemed to hold about 80 years ago... but of course this time we'll do it right. We're much too smart to repeat history like the countless generations before us!	that doesn't exactly hold water when the ones being "censored" are also the "they" in your quote.
409,284	I realize Comcast is the most hated company on reddit, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it makes sense to charge people less who use less data, if that's actually what Comcast is doing. If their 300GB data option costs considerably less than competitor's unlimited options, and their extra $30 unlimited option costs the same as competitor's unlimited options, I would praise Comcast for offering the choice to consumers for cheaper options that's tailored to their needs. On the other hand, if the 300GB data option costs about the same as competitor's unlimited option, and they hide that fact in the fine print, then that's some sneaky shit that they should get shit for.	That's not what Comcast is doing. Read the article. You can save, at most $5. And that's if you use a really tiny amount of data. This isn't in place to ease congestion or compete with anyone. It's to charge more money without directly saying "we're raising your bill"
409,285	Just my personal experience, but VLC is more about flexibility than performance. When I used Windows I found that Windows Media Player used 1/3 to 1/10 of the CPU of VLC for the same files; the difference was enough that on my laptop 2 generations back I could play full-screen video in WMP but not VLC. I think it has something to do with VLC relying on its software plugins rather than the capabilities of the underlying O.S. or hardware.	I haven't found anything in years that MPC+KLite can't play perfectly.
409,286	I was going to list them too, but his voice is an acquired taste. Love their early albums though.	You can get 10 Spot/Funeral at the Movies on one disc and it's the two best releases anyway.
409,287	What makes you think that a shutter can only be open for half the length of a frame? Unless what they are recording with is weird for some reason, it is 1/24 and 1/48. He didn't mention tracking shots or other motion, he mentioned portrait and head shots specifically where the motion blur is much much less important. And he mentioned depth of field, and unless they are shooting this video twice and changing the aperture in the opposite direction they would want to, that isn't going to change.	It is most common for a cinematic camera to run at a shutter angle of 180 degrees. What this means is that the shutter is open for half the time of the frame rate. For instance, if shot at 24fps the shutter will be 1/48th of a second. If shot at 48fps, the shutter will be open for 1/96th of a second. This is when the camera is set to a 180 degree shutter, which is most common. Now, that is not to say that the camera can't be set to a 360 degree shutter, but this is very unlikely unless done specifically with intent for effect. Or perhaps necessity.
409,288	Everyone has known about Page all this time but for some reason he gets a pass... fuck him though.	Who’s your favorite musician from the 60s? Chances are they did the same. The girl that Jimmy was involved with is said to have lost her virginity to David Bowie.
409,289	Why would you assume this? If that were true, Musk would say it. If you've driven a Tesla you know they don't have the capability to drive themselves in the way you describe. The car can't even find an onramp, can't see stoplights.	The semi is not the same as the car. I have no doubt the semi has much superior autopilot.
409,290	It's a useful finding, but note this first version only works on specially coated surfaces. This is a new scientific research finding, not a piece of technology ready to deploy.	> not a piece of technology ready to deploy. Ah, graphene.
409,291	Remember a few years ago the episode of Mythbusters where they defeated various types of fingerprint scanners with as little as a damp photocopy?	A damp photocopy of somebody's fingerprint. If someone has someone who is actively lifting their fingerprints to gain access to a system, they are likely the same sort of people to break passwords, encryption and physical security as well. No matter the security, if someone wants it bad enough, they'll get it. This isn't protection against the types with the knowhow to lift a clean fingerprint off something someone has touched. No more complicated than say plugging a butt set into someone's phone lines or splicing their cable.
409,292	dude... I heard an advertisement for the movie on the radio this morning, and the advertisement actually said that the movie was about "2 people in love who will fight to have it all" and that couples should go see it on valentines day. I felt like I was taking crazy pills.	> "2 people in love who will fight to have it all" Sounds like the blurb for War of the Roses.
409,293	While we're all reminiscing, "[Too Young]" was the first Phoenix song I really liked.	The only redeeming part of Shallow Hal, in my opinion.
409,294	I've picked this up a few times and can't get ever past the first 50 pages or so. Has anyone else that liked the book experienced this? I keep hearing it is so good, but I just can't get into it.	Just keep going. Stephenson builds. Big time. Anathem was the same way.
409,295	Couldn't agree more. Stopped using it back in March and finally deleted it for good at the beginning of this month. I don't miss it a single bit and if anything my quality of life has improved. Facebook was nothing but hate and negativity and it was just too much. I long for the day when it dies completely.	It’s amazing how refreshing it is to never have to think about what Matt From Your Old Job is up to on an hourly basis.
409,296	When I was in elementary school our principal would read us The Hobbit in our morning assembly before class started.	In 5th grade my teacher used to play the audio book in class. I think I was the only one who actually enjoyed it though
409,297	There isn't really a right mood because no matter what mood you're in, after you watch it you'll be cripplingly depressed.	Well, the way I worked it out is something like this. I'm having an average day. I'm not especially happy. I'm not especially sad. Bored movie time. Not in the mood for pixar or fight club or something. Just very neutral. I'm usually too down to want to watch it. And usually if I'm not down, I'm really happy cause im not down. XD
409,298	None of the first class stuff is rebooted. Beast has developed a serum that allows him to have his human form, he turns into beast when he gets angry. X walking is unknown as of yet, he is seen both walking and in a wheelchair.	so they have turned beast into a banner/hulk like character? interesting. The walking X might be mystique?
409,299	Wow this is cool !! So they have captured a packet of light, next stop, capture a light particle in movement !!	I don’t think that’s physically possible. Think about it. How do you see individual photons when photons are light?

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Probably the only rap album I still know all the lyrics to. Shit it still sick.

It's the Method Man for short Mr. Meth. Movin on your left, aah!

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It also reminded me of video game soundtracks, but in a good way!

This is the video game I am working on currently. :3 with

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I know what that is every time I click, but I still do it for some reason..

Why *wouldn't* you click, knowing that's on the other side?

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Which I'm sure will work perfectly with all the proprietary hardware.

Yea, you're right... it'll probably be like my Dell laptop, old-ass HP PC, Kindle Fire (1st Gen), my ASUS router, and...well, pretty much anything.

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Which unfailingly leads me to recommend Jose Saramago's Blindness. Superb and haunting, in every way.

Great, another one to add to my list. I've only read Saramago's *Death with Interruptions* and really liked that, never knew where to go next.

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Maybe not the majority, but if there was a 50 hour phone I bet more than 10% would consider it

There are phones like that, Chinese make tons of them. Nobody seems to care.

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Just your regular bi-yearly dose of never to actually become reality 'future battery tech revolution' prediction.

Just your regular bi-yearly dose of battery charging. Coming soon to phones never!

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this. If they made a new version of Moby Dick I would not be surprised if there was no whale. When they get too far away from what made the original story great they really need to just call the movie something else. We are waiting for a good version of "I am Legend" because of this too.

They are making a new version of Moby Dick. For some reason. Saw the preview the other day, I have no idea why it's being made.

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You specifically said YouTube videos so I don't know of you will be interested in this but theses are good.

I believe they post on YouTube too or at least they did. They may have stopped

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I probably should do that as well. Distraction and falling asleep is why I don't read more. For some reason audiobooks will still feel like 'cheating' (I have no idea why I think this) but at least I'll have the knowledge that I won't get if I simply don't read.

I laugh at the idea that it's cheating. I don't know what snob came up with that idea, but it's silly. I got through law school reading thousands of pages of the driest books ever written. I didn't get any more out of them for the pain and effort that I would have had I listened to them.

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Matt has never been the greatest lyricist, but Muse is still one of my top favorite bands because of the music behind it. Let the lyrics blend in with the rest of the song. Understand the words for their message (obviously Muse is very political), but otherwise I just let them sink into the rest of the music and let it all compound into awesomeness.

Theres a difference between writing bland lyrics and writing fucking shithole lyrics. The term "has never been the greatest lyricist" applies to the first one, writing bland lyrics. While you have to be the one of the worst lyricist ever to be the second one, which what Matt is in this album. And this is coming from a Muse fan for 15 years, I'm terribly disappointed.

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That's a fair point, hell listen to the real slim shady. No one under the age of 20-something is gonna know tom green, Fred durst, Christina aguilera, Carson Daly...

I'm 20. Definitely only know who two of those people are.

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The name of the album is 'Various Positions'. Cohen consistently used 'singing' and 'music' as metaphors for sex throughout his whole career. Each stanza of Hallelujah is about a different type of orgasm (or perhaps the reasons why people chase after it) -- young fumbling excitement, determined lust, respite from sadness, true love, desperation.

Hallelujah is not a sexy song and it is not about sex. It's about *everything*. It's about life and being broken and finding the humility and strength to go on and love.

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I haven't even read it and I know it's far from amazing so maybe I'll just skip it haha! Most of the mandatory books sucked in my opinion. :/ I'm 19 and only graduated two years ago so they were probably different!

were the same age. I graduated two years ago and those were our mandatory books. Gatsby in 11th grade, Romeo in 8th. The only ones I ever liked that we had to read were the count of Monte Cristo, Frankenstein and to kill a mocking bird. Now I feel old for some reason.

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>Google, Microsoft and Facebook ... $3.6 million project. ... not to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, but... that's all they got? They're a bit hard up and can only pool 3.6 collectively? What, did they need to have some bake sales? Sell some magazine subscriptions?

They each agreed to commit 100K per year, which was a figure suggested by the Linux Foundation themselves. I think that's more than reasonable; they could have just as easily refused to give any funding assistance at all.

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You sound more and more paranoid and unreasonable with every edit. You should really stop doing that.

"Every edit?" I edited once to correct myself for saying it had yet to be suggested, and once regarding the downvotes. Is this sort of petty b.s. really what you want your contribution to be?

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Personally I would go. 5 > 8 > 11 > 23 > 39 > 2 >>> 33 > 31 > 30 > 9 > 10 > 12 > 22 > 20 > 39 > 40 > 1 > 3 > 28 > 4 > 6 > 35 > 7 > 13 >>>> 15 > 14 > 31 > 16 > 18 > 17 > 24 > 19 > 21 > 25 > the rest

Lol kinda like how to watch the Fast and Furious movies then.

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[Mad World - Gary Jules] is another fine example of a great, perhaps even better, cover.

Original and two covers that completely made their song their own: [Bob Dylan - All Along the Watchtower] [Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower] [Dave Matthews Band - All Along the Watchtower] (edited to start where the song starts, but the bass solo by Stefan Lessard at the beginning is a bit of a tribute to Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner)

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Still the dems. The do not call list is a joke. It means "there's a live person here". At least they would rather leave a vm. It's not going to pass, anyway, so why villainize people for it now? Oh, because we have Trump Distress Syndrome?

"not going to pass" just makes the republicans look worse. They have shitty ideas *and* they're ineffective, wasting everyone's time. Also if you genuinely think this is a good idea, and that the do not call list (and the penalties which make it work) is a bad idea, then you're probably too far gone to help. Then again, we all realized that already when you mentioned Trump for some stupid reason.

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The books are written for children, so they're short and easy to read. I don't imagine it'll take you long to read them. Snicket's character is pretty much nothing more than a narrator. \*Disclaimer to mention I only read to book 10 or so.

The Netflix series dropped some hints that made me think he was more involved in the story than a narrator would be, but so far he's been serving only as a narrator too. Why did you drop it after book 10 though?

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Ah, the old qc + x = utopia. QC has had 10 years and we don't even have a solid architecture for scalability yet. AI is long ways out. Also, qc is fantastic for simulating quantummech, se hard problems, etc. But like you've implied, not a jump for Moore's law. We will never go obsolete unless we choose to. Musk is great, but he isn't the all knowing genius that his cult seems to be.

I have similar feelings regarding qc. We've had the ideas for quantum gates since entanglement was discovered buy they're just not practical at this point. Still relegated to nuclear fusion areas of future tech.

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(I'm upvoting you, not trolling you) Counter-honest question, Why didn't the NC legislators dedicate their time and energy to improving conditions in the third world or even the VA Hospitals in NC, rather than focusing on who is using what bathroom? There are a lot of good causes out there, and everyone has different priorities. The politicians who wrote and passed this bill feel that discriminating against trans people is more important than mental health for our war veterans, environmental health, NC's public education system, or the standard of living for the middle class, among other issues. That's why the focus on this bill.

> Why didn't the NC legislators dedicate their time and energy to improving conditions in the third world or even the VA Hospitals in NC, rather than focusing on who is using what bathroom? Because our constituents get worked up about things that are statistically inconsequential.

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Is that right? The article says you do not need a password when using the key

Depends on the key. I have the latest Yubikeys that allow you to not use a password. But no one implements it that way that I've seen and I think Yubi recommends against it.

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Die Buddenbrooks is an absolute gem,but yeah it is pretty long.

The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) from Thomas Mann is even longer and IMO way better.

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>This is not for you. - -*House of Leaves* by Mark Danielewski. >This book is dedicated to any man, woman, or critic. who will cut the edges of it.-- I have done the top. -*The Torrent and the Night Before* by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

House of Leaves is just: This is not for you. Which makes it even better in my opinion.

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If you didn't like it I don't think it can be explained to you. I found it instantly very funny, a lot of which comes from the dialogue and the subverting of fantasy stereotypes.

I think it can be explained. If someone asked me why I liked The Goonies, I could explain. I could explain what makes it good in my mind. I'm just wondering if I did not understand it, or maybe it's not that good? I mean everyone in my inner circle who has watched it, does not recommend it.

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McGuire=Great Peter Parker/Not so great Spiderman. Garfield=Great Spiderman/Not so great Peter Parker

They were going for the Ultimate Spiderman universe in ASM, so he was actually a pretty good Peter Parker, just not the classic one. I didn't really like McGuire that much in either role, but I don't think it was his fault, Raimi just wanted an emotional and whiny portrayal. McGuire could have done just fine.

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The injury definitely played a factor, but I think he was also totally shaken up after his encounter with Han. Even uninjured I think he would have been jarred enough for Rey to stand a chance. Probably not Finn though.

Now I think on it, I am beginning to think Rey was a padawan of Luke whom he saved from Kylo's killing spree. She has similar clothes to a Padawan in the flashback sequence, obvious force powers and potential, and she seemingly unlocked fighting abilities she didn't realise she had before. I also think Kylo knows of Rey, but like Luke couldn't find her til she found him basically

409,228

What did you think of the tiny trumpet cover of Sandstorm?

Most important question in the thread right here. Tiny trumpet Darude man needs to make a duet with real Darude!

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Oh yea. Ugh that's super lame. He is kind Of important to wolverines story when he goes to Japan.

No, he's not important to the story at all. The basis for The Wolverine is the first Wolverine mini-series by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, pre-dating the Winter Soldier.

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I grew up on Marty Robbins, I was so happy to hear this in New Vegas.

my grandmother used to listen to oldies and i heard this as a child, loved it and found it on new vegas.

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I wonder if you still have a copy of this?

The outline? It's in my google docs from a few years ago.

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So it is just juice in a bag? You can't squeeze a bunch of fresh fruit and veggies and make juice. I'm so confused.

The very concept is really amazing in how stupid it is. I can only assume it was funded by people who's only experience with fruits and vegetables is when they go to the juice bar at their gym. It is a device that dispenses juice from bags. There's no added value. Cleaning, powering, and whatever other maintenance is required easily make it an overall loss. You could also just buy jugs of Naked Juice or whatever expensive juice product you want at BJs/Costco and avoid any stupid device or having to deal with getting juice out of bags.

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The article only talks about wifi. This doesn't seem to involve your connection to the cell network..

Sorry, I was talking about the PrivacyX application for Android that the guy mentioned above.

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Probably because Apple doesn't attempt to open source MacOS - they opensource its kernel and some libraries and other bits, but nothing remotely close to the whole OS

They have to, since OSX's kernel is based on the BSD kernel, which is itself FOSS.

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Born in Austin, live close. I'm talking long term, not like the guy who asks how global warming is real because it's cold outside.

I'm not an analyst, and I'm only thinking about the next 2 years (before car production). I do have a wager that trump won't take the nomination, so I would also wager that a Republican White House is a real possibility, which would lead, though it would take a year, to higher gas prices long term. So, it's a total guess and I too would trust BBC before an Internet stranger, I just wanted to get some quick math out there without spending too much time on it. Mainly to make myself feel better for not preordering one (my wife told me no).

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Daniel Johnston - Some Things Last a Long Time. Mew - Comforting Sounds. Bright Eyes - Nothing Gets Crossed Out. Frightened Rabbit - Backwards Walk. Probably a bunch more, my girlfriend tells me all my music is too sad.

"Nothing Gets Crossed Out" is one of my favorite Bright Eyes songs. "Like when I fell under the weight of a school boy crush, started carryin' her books and doin' lots of drugs."

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You can have my sweater if she teaches me how to dance. I, for one, want to know whether the plan is to buy homes in the south *for* their parents, or *from* them ("buy our parents homes" or "buy our parents' homes").

YES!!! This has frustrated me to no end. I want to know if she will be buying for or from!!! Glad to see I am not the only one.

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I don’t think this is a fair argument, despite its popularity. Apple is a behemoth company with a near monopolistic presence in the lives of many people. Simply “choosing another company” is easier said than done and sometimes not really an option. This is not a situation where the “free market” decides. It’s one where a company uses its tremendous leverage to force us further down the cattle chute.

This is the reason I never adopted Apple. They have designed the entire ecosystem to keep you captive. Once you're in it, it's very difficult to leave. Kind of like Google nowadays.

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Importantly: > Several studies have shown that on-road emissions of NOx from diesel passenger cars, including vehicles made by manufacturers other than Volkswagen, substantially exceed the levels measured in the laboratory. So, it's likely that more companies doing this will be revealed before long.

VW sells more diesel cars in the US than anyone else. So studies that indicate that emissions from diesel cars are much worse than anticipated doesn't necessarily implicate other manufacturers. The only non-VW vehicle tested (BMW X5) showed to be compliant with the regulations. I'm not saying that this clears them of wrongdoing but nothing so far has implicated them. With how serious the financial implications are I could see BMW & Mercedes going for blood if they are wrongly accused.

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Uh, actually if you listened to the Vergecast when he was on it, it was quite clear he was turning against Apple and becoming much more pro-Google/Android. He usually had a lot of critiques about Apple, and if you listen to his Tomorrow podcast with John Gruber, it's obvious that he's not an Apple fanboy.

fair enough - aint got a dog in the fight, just remember him being very pro apple all those years ago.

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You may have misunderstood my comment, The people who would allow such events to influence where they send their children, much less how they vote, are **cowards.** Terrorism kills an extremely small amount of people in western nations. Right now in the US vending machines, falling down stairs, and lighting strikes kill far many more people than terrorists. And you say they won?? Then they have, if this influences how you vote because you fell for the *terror* that they are trying to create.

> The people who would allow such events to influence where they send their children, much less how they vote, are cowards. Total nonsense. Yes it PROBABLY won't happen to you, but for many they don't want to play the odds. I know tons of people that don't go to certain cities, certain events, because of such happenings. It's not trivial fears. Fear is absolutely legitimate and shouldn't be condemned.

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That'd be hilarious, because then he can actually involve the police in a harassment suit!

Oh, I'd wait for the big buildup of tension between lawyers and suits before involving teh authoritaes.

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Because Microsoft holds patents for FAT and FAT derivative filesystems. Have you heard that Microsoft earns more money from Android devices than from Windows Phones? That's where the money comes from. If you don't want to pay Microsoft for each phone you sell, you don't ship your phones with SD card support. Simple as that.

Agree. Also, that money goes straight to the anti-google campaign.

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The other comments have mentioned the standard "blah blah blah technology click bait title", but the scale really is news to me. I ran an electrolysis experiment in high school that required a 120V outlet on the wall and was slow as hell. If the mentioned method is scalable, this could be a good way to produce hydrogen, right?

Then you did it wrong. It takes DC current to separate Hydrogen. If AC is used then the ever changing polarity mixes the gases. If you are saying you used a power converter, then you really were not using 120 AC from the wall.

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> unhealthy fixation on superhero movies. Explain how it's unhealthy.

Perhaps unhealthy was the wrong word, what I meant was that this sub is disproportionately focused on a small subset of movies to the detriment of the general discussion.

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There's a lot that's great about it but at the end of the day its YA anime, which just isn't my style

Very true. I'm reading Way of Kings right now...and enjoying it. But it's not really SPECIAL other than being pretty fun and solid fantasy. It's very competent.

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I can't help but think $360,000 is really, really low. I know that the Beatles (or rather, the label) didn't have to do anything but sign a few forms, but still - think how much *Spotify* made from this whole thing.

I don't think Spotify has been profitable yet since it's incarnation

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13 months from release is the general start date for marketing, such as initial character posters and teaser trailers. We're 11 months away now. Around 8 months is the general vicinity to release a first trailer. Look at how Star Wars: The Force Awakens has marketed. Identical marketing pattern so far.

Yes and I dislike it the same way. There were enough movies with much less exposure. Some flicks are just constantly IN YOUR FACE and I detest that. Spectre for example is released in October and I've just seen the first trailer this month. That's at least only 6 months in advance (unless there was a previous trailer which I missed). I think that is more than enough time to build "hype"...

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Geeze, I must be the only person who enjoyed Lucy. I really liked seeing what happened as she became more godlike.

If they had tried to pass it off as a movie about what a person goes through as they obtain those powers (losing touch with humanity ala Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen) it would have been a lot more interesting to me than the bland action movie they made.

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I will move to the first European country that makes those vehicles legal. This is the most important change of our lifetime IMO. Cities won't be so congested because more people will pick living outside - even quite far - if they can wake up at 5, get into the car and go back to sleep while still arriving at their workplace by 8 or 9. Combine that with cheap, electric vehicles and car pooling and we're looking at bright future ahead.

Hi, resident of an European city here. Public transport is a thing, it's usually pretty damn good in most large cities and you can sleep as much as you want. Living 3-4 hours away from your workplace in many cases would mean that you'd be living in another country. I've got 4 different countries within 4 hours from where I am. Average commute in the EU is 40-60 minutes in large cities and it's usually faster on public transport due to dedicated bus lanes, higher passenger density or underground trains.

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I've heard of Motörhead and beck..........I'll just go set up my retirement account now....

Be sure to get a Roth account so they can't tax that shit when you retire.

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There's something off about her performance in Mad Men as well.

At least on Mad Men I think her character is supposed to come off as cold and distant.

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Who said anything about any time soon? When they believe it's ready go for it. I would move to a city where it was only autonomous cars allowed if it meant me and my kids being safe.

Those already exists. Except there aren't any autonomous cars on the market, so what it really is are towns where it's illegal to drive at all.

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Peter Jackson originally wanted two movies. An Unexpected Journey and There And Back Again. I so wish we got that :( Could have been LOTR level good who knows.

Stupid question but then what happened? Why'd he go with a trilogy?

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I read it when I was 18. I think it's the perfect time to read it. The book is a lot about age(s), and 18 is an important transition point in someone's life and I think it will give you a great insight into it. But also when you reread it another age, you will get something else from it and that will be an interesting comparison :)

Lol I actually did read it in the previous 4 months and really liked it

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BRB. Going to sell my house to try to afford this thing.

> Unit Price: £5,743.815. if that's how much your house costs then I'd like to buy it and make your dream come true.

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I think it’s reasonable to share with people “This is an awful racist book and you shouldn’t support the author by buying it.” If other people disagree on a given book they can obviously say so too. That’s how other people know they should or shouldn’t read the story. That’s you exercising your free speech in response to someone elses. Certainly no need to ban books, but that exchange of what is and isn’t acceptable is what makes society move forward.

That's a fine and reasonable response. Crying and hiding is not a valid response in my opinion.

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What's worse are VGA-only monitors. No excuse for that when the computer and the panel in the monitor are both inherently digital.

Yup. VGA was literally designed to match the way the old electron guns in CRTs worked. Every since CRTs died, vga has been a pointless standard.

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> “How in the hell can Kid Rock represent Detroit and wave that flag just generating millions and millions in ticket sales – a flag that represents genocide to most of Detroit?” Correct me if i'm wrong here but - shouldn't we only be concerned with what the flag means to Kid Rock? No one can help how others feel about things, and i'm not sure we should live our lives worrying about about those sorts of things? If you don't like Kid Rock, don't buy a ticket or an album? I know i wont.

Well, I mean, that's not how semiotics work, but whatever. Meanings shift, there are conceptual things we all see when we see a symbol. And you can be like, guys, I'm super into this swastika and mean it in this fluffy positive way, everyone else is like, uh, well, that's a nazi symbol now. Personally I will continue ignoring him and being amused that this was covered on entertainment weekly's awkwardly named website which sums up my feelings about kid rock: ew.

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If I can get 200 more internet points I will be able to purchase the sword of Percevius Periwinkle, storm the OrangeRed castle, steal the ring of Perpetual Upvotes and rule all of Reddit Forever!! Just need a little more karma....

Sounds about right, I guess. Anyways, I tend to frequent the smaller, genre-specific subs — of which there are many — for more specified content and visit /r/music for pop- and mainstream rock-related discussion. Not sure why some subscribers fail to see that a sub with almost 3.3 million subscribers tends to favor the popular stuff and the more obscure stuff tends to fall by the wayside.

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This is possibly one of the most beautiful but heartbreaking songs I recall.... So many memories :)

How is it heartbreaking when the lyrics are nonsense? Maybe I just don't get it.

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Wow, this was exactly how I felt. I know a lot of people don't care for the later books as much, but I really liked 5-7. 2 & 3 are my faves tho.

As much as I want to know the story, reading the parts in Roland's time can be like pulling teeth for me. I have to make time to do it and read far fewer pages in a session. The parts with all of them? MARATHON sessions.

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There was a Twinky easter egg and I missed it? When was that?

Can't find it now, I watched the version on the ellen youtube channel which isn'tthere now? But it was a billboard in a New York scene that read "that's a really big" and had a picture of a twinky

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Yes, god forbid people want to see movies with familiar subject matter. Like all those idiots who go to see movies just because they're based on comic books.

It's low hanging fruit. You make a shitty comic book movie and people riot, you can spend hundreds of millions and maybe break even from global sales. While a Jesus movie can be extremely low budget and has a near guaranteed profit margin from a niche audience not even counting the average viewer

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But at this point, most people have used computers by the age of 6 or 8, and most people never even upgraded to Vista and stuck with XP, at least until Windows 7.

Most, yes, but foxh8er was just saying 'the people entering high school today possibly never had access to an XP machine' which is true. If he had said 'most hadn't' or something along those lines I agree, but this is the generation where XP will start to never be touched. Another 5-10 years and most kids entering high school then likely never will touch it.

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I don't get smart watches. They just do things my phone does better.

Except they're on your wrist and don't need to be taken out of your pocket. They're just a compliment to smartphones, not a replacement.

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I think they gained popularity after one of their songs was in that trial bike video. That's where I heard of them at least.

I know the video you speak of. I took great enjoyment in the viewing of said video.

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SSDs are way too small in capacity/price for anyone storing a large amount of data. And that's well before you leave the realm of consumer storage.

As someone who's about to buy 4x 5TB HDDs soon for a media server, this.

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Great, informative post. "Hey guys, remember this 90s thing?" "Two thousand upvotes for you!" To hell with this subreddit.

I see you didn't come here for the nostalgia, then.

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I prefer series over stand-alones, much in the same way I like tv shows over movies. Sure, sometimes you have to get through the fillers, but series give you a lot more time with the character.

But that's the issue with some readers (myself included) - we don't want to spend more time with the characters hanging out doing not much of anything, we want a STORY.

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That's kind of the point of making the directors personally liable - no more running from fines now!

Yes, but that's only for this one specific situation. That loophole needs closing for *every* case. Personal liability for directors is what's needed, although I appreciate that having functioning businesses does require some limits or nobody would ever do it. So what we need is for those limits to only apply in reasonable situations - maybe like other laws where it's automatically wrong but there is a defence available.

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Hank III. He does both metal and country. There are also a fair number of cow punk bands (cross over of country and punk) that you may like.

It's amazing how different he is in Assjack versus some of his country songs. I'm gonna explore some more of his stuff.

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Eh I feel like the introduction of her character in Hancock is when the movie started going downhill. Though I guess that's the writing's fault.

the first half of hancock is my favourite superhero movie. the second half i wouldnt buy for $5.

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That's why I don't listen to the radio. I miss out on most new songs, but that's largely a good thing. Eventually, if something is good enough, someone will show it to me and I can listen to it whenever, rather than all the time.

I just wait for the inevitable youtube parodies to tell me what songs are popular.

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It's a matter of extremes. If Sprint execs stay in charge, I would *hate* it. If T-Mobile execs stay in charge, I would *love* it! Look at all this spectrum for activities!

Yes. My only concern is the resulting debt under the T-mobile exec scenario.

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So what do they get out of it? Is there some fee that businesses pay them? Like if someone asks for pizza does pizza hut pay them 5% or whatever to order from them? Seems sketchy

I'm sure they simply add a couple bucks on top of your request, depending on how big the request is.

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Can't really see logan as spiderman, dylan on the other hand feels like it works really well.

I'm a huge fan of Logan after watching The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Fury but unfortunately I do agree the Dylan would be a better Spidey. Not sure how scheduling would go with him being in the Maze Runner series though.

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Maybe if you were a little more constructive with your criticisms

Hmm sure. The music is pretty tight up until the singer "sings". It's a combination of screaming and talking that doesn't work for a lot of people. The lyrics kind of suck. It's straight forward, its boring. There's not much poetry in this. Oh did the shooting happen this week or last month....oh i i think i saw you in my sleep darling i think i saw you in my sleep ho.....just really poor lyrics all around.....I guess I do typically like this "type of music" but I just can't get over how annoying the lead singer is in general.

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Thank you! I'm the same way with ebooks. It's just not the same as holding the actual book in your hands. You get to feel and smell the paper--it's all part of the reading experience.

It's really tearing me up. I feel like we should be able to live sustainably, and digital media is so much more environment-friendly. But the idea of an entire library being contained in one little square of plastic that can run out of batteries is monstrous to me.

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Or, and hear me out, we don't do that. I don't have facebook or use cortana. Not sure why future me will need an assistant that we have to worry about going all skynet.

Yes, I too am perfectly content with my landline and my pager and my bookshelf full of paper books.

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The Razer phone looks better but still no good controls.

I don't see what the razer phone does better than any other flagship though, the specs are just about the same, I think the screen might be better but that's just going to be a performance hit anyway. And no headphone jack is a funny choice since razer sells headsets but maybe they are planning or have a USB c headset.

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I agree with the Director snub. But the actor was very good. Not quite Denzel Washington good, but better than some who did get nods. (Better by far than fucking Jared Leto last year)

You agree the director shouldn't have been nominated? Or that it was a snub?

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> First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. > Then they came for... etc. The slippery slope argument seemed to hold about 80 years ago... but of course *this time* we'll do it right. We're much too smart to repeat history like the countless generations before us!

that doesn't exactly hold water when the ones being "censored" are also the "they" in your quote.

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I realize Comcast is the most hated company on reddit, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it makes sense to charge people less who use less data, if that's actually what Comcast is doing. If their 300GB data option costs considerably less than competitor's unlimited options, and their extra $30 unlimited option costs the same as competitor's unlimited options, I would praise Comcast for offering the choice to consumers for cheaper options that's tailored to their needs. On the other hand, if the 300GB data option costs about the same as competitor's unlimited option, and they hide that fact in the fine print, then that's some sneaky shit that they should get shit for.

That's not what Comcast is doing. Read the article. You can save, at most $5. And that's if you use a really tiny amount of data. This isn't in place to ease congestion or compete with anyone. It's to charge more money without directly saying "we're raising your bill"

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Just my personal experience, but VLC is more about flexibility than performance. When I used Windows I found that Windows Media Player used 1/3 to 1/10 of the CPU of VLC for the same files; the difference was enough that on my laptop 2 generations back I could play full-screen video in WMP but not VLC. I think it has something to do with VLC relying on its software plugins rather than the capabilities of the underlying O.S. or hardware.

I haven't found anything in *years* that MPC+KLite can't play perfectly.

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I was going to list them too, but his voice is an acquired taste. Love their early albums though.

You can get 10 Spot/Funeral at the Movies on one disc and it's the two best releases anyway.

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What makes you think that a shutter can only be open for half the length of a frame? Unless what they are recording with is weird for some reason, it is 1/24 and 1/48. He didn't mention tracking shots or other motion, he mentioned portrait and head shots specifically where the motion blur is much much less important. And he mentioned depth of field, and unless they are shooting this video twice and changing the aperture in the opposite direction they would want to, that isn't going to change.

It is most common for a cinematic camera to run at a shutter angle of 180 degrees. What this means is that the shutter is open for half the time of the frame rate. For instance, if shot at 24fps the shutter will be 1/48th of a second. If shot at 48fps, the shutter will be open for 1/96th of a second. This is when the camera is set to a 180 degree shutter, which is most common. Now, that is not to say that the camera can't be set to a 360 degree shutter, but this is very unlikely unless done specifically with intent for effect. Or perhaps necessity.

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Everyone has known about Page all this time but for some reason he gets a pass... fuck him though.

Who’s your favorite musician from the 60s? Chances are they did the same. The girl that Jimmy was involved with is said to have lost her virginity to David Bowie.

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Why would you assume this? If that were true, Musk would say it. If you've driven a Tesla you know they don't have the capability to drive themselves in the way you describe. The car can't even find an onramp, can't see stoplights.

The semi is not the same as the car. I have no doubt the semi has much superior autopilot.

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It's a useful finding, but note this first version only works on specially coated surfaces. This is a new scientific research finding, not a piece of technology ready to deploy.

> not a piece of technology ready to deploy. Ah, graphene.

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Remember a few years ago the episode of Mythbusters where they defeated various types of fingerprint scanners with as little as a damp photocopy?

A damp photocopy of somebody's fingerprint. If someone has someone who is actively lifting their fingerprints to gain access to a system, they are likely the same sort of people to break passwords, encryption and physical security as well. No matter the security, if someone wants it bad enough, they'll get it. This isn't protection against the types with the knowhow to lift a clean fingerprint off something someone has touched. No more complicated than say plugging a butt set into someone's phone lines or splicing their cable.

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dude... I heard an advertisement for the movie on the radio this morning, and the advertisement actually said that the movie was about "2 people in love who will fight to have it all" and that couples should go see it on valentines day. I felt like I was taking crazy pills.

> "2 people in love who will fight to have it all" Sounds like the blurb for War of the Roses.

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While we're all reminiscing, "[Too Young]" was the first Phoenix song I really liked.

The only redeeming part of Shallow Hal, in my opinion.

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I've picked this up a few times and can't get ever past the first 50 pages or so. Has anyone else that liked the book experienced this? I keep hearing it is so good, but I just can't get into it.

Just keep going. Stephenson builds. Big time. Anathem was the same way.

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Couldn't agree more. Stopped using it back in March and finally deleted it for good at the beginning of this month. I don't miss it a single bit and if anything my quality of life has improved. Facebook was nothing but hate and negativity and it was just too much. I long for the day when it dies completely.

It’s amazing how refreshing it is to **never** have to think about what Matt From Your Old Job is up to on an hourly basis.

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When I was in elementary school our principal would read us The Hobbit in our morning assembly before class started.

In 5th grade my teacher used to play the audio book in class. I think I was the only one who actually enjoyed it though

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There isn't really a right mood because no matter what mood you're in, after you watch it you'll be cripplingly depressed.

Well, the way I worked it out is something like this. I'm having an average day. I'm not especially happy. I'm not especially sad. Bored movie time. Not in the mood for pixar or fight club or something. Just very neutral. I'm usually too down to want to watch it. And usually if I'm not down, I'm really happy cause im not down. XD

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None of the first class stuff is rebooted. Beast has developed a serum that allows him to have his human form, he turns into beast when he gets angry. X walking is unknown as of yet, he is seen both walking and in a wheelchair.

so they have turned beast into a banner/hulk like character? interesting. The walking X might be mystique?

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Wow this is cool !! So they have captured a packet of light, next stop, capture a light particle in movement !!

I don’t think that’s physically possible. Think about it. How do you see individual photons when photons are light?