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409,300	They actually have a tool called App Ops to individuality assign permissions to apps, but for some reasons they removed it.	For those interested AppOps is still available on the Xposed Framework's repository
409,301	this is the 1st ive ever heard GWTW ever being compared to todays movies. must mean something.	I've heard a few people mention it from time to time. It's mostly comparing how much money they made, not direct comparisons of themes or acting.
409,302	Band that you listed can be called Symphonic Metal or Power Metal. You might love Within Temptation, check out their latest album Hydra.	Ahhh, Symphonic metal. Thanks for the clarification! Will check them out now!
409,303	It used to be so common but you hardly hear of anyone doing it anymore. Why is that?	The term only applies to Apple products, which are in decline and are generally preferred by the type of user who isn't interested in such things. That being said it still happens all the time. Why don't we hear about it? Because it's easy and doesn't really garner any publicity.
409,304	You sound like a huge turd. "I don't wanna see no war movie about a guy that doesn't kill foreign people!"	Of course I'm a huge turd, I don't agree with you.
409,305	Thank you for replying! Do you have links so the rest of us that may not know can listen and learn?	i mean this is what i just googled, not sure if you've never really heard of Bjork Or PJ harvey, they've both been making music for 25 years+. there icons, 2 of the most important artists of the last 25 years.
409,306	Fantastic reference! (It's "what goes on in your head," tho. :) )	That makes significantly more sense. I probably should of checked the lyrics before hand.
409,307	Bend slightly at the knees, rock back, then forth forth, back again, forth again, back back and forth....and do your arms like this	Downvoted for a description of a dance. Somebody needs coffee and a smile.
409,308	How do they know that 'Bulli' was a person and not a village or something else?	Because place names are indicated by the determinative {ki}, which indicates that it's a location. This is not. Balli is also attested elsewhere in administrative texts.
409,309	It was either a dream, or your parents screwed up letting a 10 year old watch a film like that. I'm the same age as you, and I definitely need more info. Was the film new? Can you describe the people?	I don't think they screwed up that bad, since I turned out to be a regular human being. As far as I can remember I watched the movie, or parts of it, in our living room on vhs. I tend to remember a shot from the top of a hill overlooking the town. It was not a big town, a small village maybe. The soft-porn scene was in what I think a bar/restaurant/gathering of some sorts. Sorry.. Not much to go about...THE reason why this drives me crazy.
409,310	Source code! I didn't know it existed until I looked up the director for Moon	Didn't know that was the same director. Gonna have to check out sSurce code.
409,311	Outkast - Mamacita. Aquemini is the closest thing to a perfection I've ever heard but this one sing is fucking terrible and I skip it every time. Cosplay - They don't have any good songs. They're the fucking worst band in history and I can't comprehend how they are still around. Eminem - Lose Yourself. I find most of his stuff really cringey. I can appreciate his skill but most of the shit he raps about aims for the lowest common denominator. This song is legit though. Mom's spaghetti.	Eminem has a lot of serious material, if you haven't noticed, may be worth further looking into.
409,312	> My work bores me to tears. > > I would accept a citizens income in return for being left alone to read, write, draw, paint, watch films, make music, learning to cook and having a good afternoon wankathon. > From the Guardian comment section.	Most companies would work better if a large part of the workforce were off having a wankathon at home. It would make wages more competitive and attract talent that actually wants to work.
409,313	I wonder if they'll load the fight video from the drone up on to YouTube.	Delivery Drone™ - "Airlift contraband and live-stream the delivery" - Brought to you by WoooohrrrlStaaaahhhh!
409,314	Englisj is a foreign language to a lot of us. I sure had to take a moment figuring out wtf you were on about.	That doesn't detract from anything I've said. Plenty of people put slang into not only their actual speaking, but their typing as well. I mean whats your stance on people that thrown in random acronyms to their typing? Bet you've never once complained about them, you simply ask what it means and get a response. the person I responded to asked and I explained. I suppose by the downvotes I'm getting that this is what people talk about when they refer to the grammar nazis of reddit. Now I know to never respond and explains things ever again.
409,315	> state that the aircraft must stay in a visual line-of-sight of the operator, Well there goes the entire fucking point of drones.	Why does a drone have to go out of line of sight?
409,316	Honestly, the reason why they are being compared is the pacing of the films i feel. It has been awhile since i can remember a Sci-Fi that was actually good Sci-Fi and not just an action movie set in the future (Like the new Star Trek's, not that i dont enjoy them). It was a long drawn out movie with stunning visuals and a brilliant score. You can say that last sentence about Interstellar AND 2001.	> It has been awhile since i can remember a Sci-Fi that was actually good Sci-Fi and not just an action movie set in the future. This is the important part. This will be the kind of movie that will encourage people to learn about science and actually aspire to advance space travel.
409,317	Death is in my opinion the best character. A special mixture of awesomeness and sadness.	I love how clueless he was about human nature in Mort. And seriously, he named his horse Binky?!? Death is a great character. I like Granny Weatherwax, because she is no-nonsense in a world where most characters are pretty silly.
409,318	For someone who is an absolute beginner to reading poetry but is enjoying his first Frank O'Hara collection, what makes this "poetry" versus a nicely written sentence with odd line spacing?	I'm definitely not a poetry expert, but I feel like the difference between reading that as a sentence and reading it in lines makes you read it in a different way. It gives you a kind of cadence and rhythm to how you read and interpret it. A good example from that poem is "to trace the outline of your lips" and "with mine". You read it and you imagine tracing an outline with your finger tip and then get to the next line and there's deeper meaning there without saying "I wanna kiss you girl".
409,319	Remember how awesome Jurassic World's trailer looked? Don't get to hyped folks.	Maybe I'm the only one, but the ones for JW did not get me too excited.
409,320	This is a dilemma. I also love the book, and I've been looking forward to seeing it, but a lot of people are mirroring your sentiments, and I'm thinking maybe I should give it a pass.	I'd say put it off for a while and watch it when the book isn't so fresh, in the very least.
409,321	Not a book, but I did enjoy his essay Politics and the English Language. There's some good stuff in there. I would've said a book, but that's all I've read from him that wasn't the aforementioned.	I would say that's probably my favorite Orwell piece. I maintain that it should be required reading in schools everywhere.
409,322	Did you read it in native German, or a translation of it?	Translation - but it had the wonderful Walter Trier original German illustrations!
409,323	Yup. But seriously, what is reddit anyway? Just a place to collect links and discuss them. It's easily duplicated. Until somebody is able to offer something truly compelling, this merry go round will continue (then again what's so compelling about links and commenting? Nothing. See usenet)	Well it used to be a community as well, but lately the wrong crowd has started coming in and, ironically, complaining about reddit on reddit.
409,324	rapping about acid? hmmmm i don't recall LSD being a huge influence on his music. ALSO.... LSD aint gunna kill you fam. and its insulting to put in the same category as methadone and the drugs eminem used.	He mentioned it a lot in his early stuff (Kill You, I'm Shady, Just Don't Give a Fuck, etc.). The point is that he was doing anything and everything he got his hands on, which inevitably led to an addiction to sleeping meds and pain pills.
409,325	I don't dislike Him but only read Needful Things back when I was like 13. My Mom had about 2 dozen of his books and just picked it up (It just came out) so I read it too.	Honestly, I would read some of King's other works before jumping into the Dark Tower series. The series references a lot of his other novels, and you'll miss those references if you read Dark Tower first. And Wolves of the Calla, specifically, has some big spoilers for another novel. Dark Tower is amazing though, so I would still say you should read it, just maybe not as your introduction to King's books.
409,326	Come to think of it, I actually prefer JCVD to Birdman	I also think JCVD is the better film, but I don't think they're that similar.
409,327	I see Nolan being the next Deakins. Always overlooked for whatever reason. You can find flaws in Interstellar but the same can be said for every film nominated. Especially Birdman and Theory of Everything.	I know this might sound silly, but to be completely honest I have yet to find a flaw in The Grand Budapest Hotel. It's a film as close to perfection as any in 2014 got, in my opinion. Everything in that film just works.
409,328	Now much do you want to bet that OP's favorite rappers are from the 90s and/or logic/hopsin/lil dicky/tech n9ne	Also Immortal Technique, but only because he heard Dance With the Devil that one time
409,329	I thought it was more like weenie beenie than wind up.	And maybe a little Wattershed as well, it feels very Self Titled
409,330	People sign on to these HOA contracts when they buy the houses. Not saying HOAs aren't evil, but it's not like the people living in these places don't know the rules going in.	Yeah but it's silly if it's your dream house but you can't paint it the color you want because the neighborhood thinks it won't look good. Not to mention if you built the house yourself you could of just said fuck off if someone said wanna sign this HOA agreement.
409,331	I didn't realize he'd done anything after The Island of Dr. Moreau, but apparently he did:	Free money was pretty good, I'm from Québec and there are 3+ actors from here in this movie.
409,332	That's what it sounds like. I know companies have been working on that for years.	The apu doesn't produce enough thrust to taxi does it?
409,333	Heat. That sound of the guns echoing off the buildings.	Marines use a scene from that movie to illustrate proper retreat from fire
409,334	No I don't know how to "track match" and I endlessly Googled "How to identify songs from youtube videos". Seems like the song you said is a mashup or a remix in the video.	But now you have far more information to find the mashup or mix b/c you know the original track. Assuming the people that made that really odd video didn't do it themselves. Post a comment or try to email the owner of that channel.
409,335	I think there really is a deep philosophical discussion to be had about this. There's something about people not being present in this manner that seems to negatively affect those around them.	You're probably right but you just come off like such a little twat so I can't imagine anyone really wanting to engage with you
409,336	Good to consider taking a break instead of blowing through them quickly. Maybe read some classic science fiction short stories next? You can pick those up in between because the stories are short. Read as many as you want to. Books of short stories are the best.	Can you recommend some anthologies/collections? I've never read scifi short stories (unfortunately)!
409,337	Because lots of people think they're a very good band, therefore they are excited to see what new music they're going to bring out.	I get that but just personally, they don't appeal. :)
409,338	Apple fans buy things that "just work." They expect the device not to crash and to be simple to use. A smart speaker that misinterprets everything you say doesn't fit that description.	But will they be willing to replace their home devices yearly when they stop working around apple keynote time? ...actually a lot of them probably will. Edit: to be fair, the last few iPhones most family and friends with them find they no longer "just work." Between that and the news about the slowdowns being confirmed, a LOT of longtime apple users in the family came to me on Christmas asking for Android recommendations, especially after seeing me and my gfs pixel 2 XL and pixel XL.
409,339	I really don't understand what he wanted to say with that story.	When he's rich, he'll pay him in return for everything. What. The. Fuck.
409,340	then why didn't they release their album as one long track?	Because it isn't. But some bands have. Who are YOU to decide how they should package and distribute their art? You aren't entitled to anything.
409,341	Thank you for being the first person to give a realistic, straightforward answer.	Their first sentence makes sense. Second sentence compares it to petrol cars that cost as much or more. That doesn't fit into the market properly unless they've straight up invented a way to make cars cheaper (nevermind electric cars).
409,342	Sony isn't going to be swayed by a petition if it isn't swayed by losing tens of millions of dollars from burying a potentially profitable movie. Sorry to be blunt but this is just stupid	It was supposed to be satirical more than anything, but it would be nice if something happened. Plus if there is success in the petition(doubt it) Sony may fear consumer backlash even more.
409,343	Oh! That's why I am constantly waiting for my i7 with 8GB RAM with very little installed on it. Cause its so fast. Nothing like logging in an watching it draw icons one at a time. Then tell me my Epson drivers need yet another update. Hey what's another 10 minutes and three more clicks. Oh what's that? A Notification? Microsoft ad for Office 365? I've only told you "no" 50 times! Ah forget it, shut down. What's this "Please do not turn of your computer." More waiting as it download updates. Or is it uploading all that spy info it's gathered?	Do you use protection? It sounds very much like your computer has been hijacked. I'm not joking.
409,344	NerveGear is from an Anime called Sword Art Online. It is basically a "helmet" that you plug into your wall and play games on. I was wondering if it would be possible to make something like this where your body is in a coma (sort of) and you mind is in a virtual body of yourself. Full dive games basically. You do anything that you would in real life, with that added fantasy. So I was wondering if it is possible.	Thanks for the feedback guys. I learn a lot from people like you.
409,345	Question: In the panel efficiency chart, what is the typical technology you get when you go shopping for a solar panel (circa 2014)? Someone recently told me that solar efficiency is around 5% for affordable solar panels.	I don't know what affordable is really but 20% efficiency panels are now rather common.
409,346	I love the book, and I found it personally important, but if you are looking for the essential books, I don't think it qualifies as a primary text. It is almost impossible to get through an English literature degree without a work in understanding of Shakespeare.	Agreed. I took a course devoted to Woolf during my undergrad, and she remains the writer that impresses me the most, but I wouldn't put this title (a favorite) on the list we're generating here.
409,347	I always drop a little something on the person that checks me out, but I think people mostly think tips are for taking care of our asses in seats, not for taking the money and handing us our food.	Hell of a difference between waiting on hand and foot and just giving someone the food.
409,348	How would you call her "bikini"? I want to get that for my gf. Links much appreciated!	Bikinis are hard to link to because there are so many of them and a lot of them look nearly identical but are made by different companies. I can't see enough of hers to have any kind of guess who makes that. Victoria's Secret is one of my favorite places to buy swimsuits and I'm sure you can find one that would looks like that one!
409,349	I wonder how they did this list... it's not like there is a particularly reliable source for movie settings. Even IMDB has spotty data and lists multiple locations for most movies. Maybe just start at the top of the top rated films, and find the setting for each one, and stop when you have a film in each state?	It's not where they're filmed it's where they're set. That's an easy thing to find out and it's based on their site's user ratings, low precision as that is. That's a pretty reliable and readily available figure at the top of every IMDB page.
409,350	Honestly I just want Fincher to direct anything. A superhero movie, a horror, a Bond film, just anything. I really want to know how he'd handle these genres or certain franchises.	Excuse me, is "dark, gritty thriller" not enough for you, sir? (half joking because i love his movies)
409,351	I haven't read into it, but I'll have to check it out. Jack White can be pretty sensitive, but I think he came up with all of his own riffs while simply being inspired by these classics. Black Keys use the same exact riff and don't even try to bend it.	Yeah, that's pretty much it. Jack White's music is a pretty recognizable blend of alternative, blues and psychedlic rock. He operated within a niche that was pretty much his own for the period in which he was making White Stripes/Raconteurs records. A few years down the line, White has fallen out of the mainstream, there was a hole another group could occupy using a similar formula and the keys were the best fit. I'm by no means saying they're bad, but if you're dismissing Jack's complaint as just another of his whines while being a keys fan, there's probably at least a subconscious bias preventing you from seeing that they are heavily derivative of his work in the early to mid 2000's in particular.
409,352	That's really damned annoying and has made certain I'll never read it. I'm content for eBooks to exist and to even cost less so long as physical books exist along side and are published at the same time as their digital equivalent.	A lot of Lee Child fans have said the same about Second Son, the recent Reacher as a Teenager short story. Same argument applies to that, as applies to Mile 81. It wouldn't be released at all were it not availible as an e-book. The numbers wouldn't add up. Besides which, you can read it on a computer / cellphone.
409,353	Wow I'm glad I read this AMA I had no idea there had been changes despite frequenting Brandon's site. I have the hardcover and audiobook version of this work. I'm a little weirded out now that both have canonical inaccuracies. Time to go read the changes to see just how overwhelmed with panic I need to be!	Hm....ok well I prefer the changed version and now wish that my copies of it contained that version. I will be saddened ever time I look at my Sanderson shelf!
409,354	And you know what the real mind blower is? They fucking called it in "Day Old Blues". "Low and behold things are killing me. silly expectations of a dream. girls are gonna love the way i toss my hair. boys are gonna hate the way i sing" Like they knew they were gonna sell out. Aha Shake Heartbreak is the shit, everything after that: eh...	It's crazy how every one of their albums has a different tone, quality, and feel.
409,355	They look a lot more appealing than the posters I see in the US, but that's probably because I never saw movie posters from foreign countries.	Most of these are actually the same exact posters we got for these movies in America, except in Chinese with Chinese review quotes. The only one that's really different is the one for Need For Speed which is obviously trying to sell itself as a Fast and Furious with the guy from Breaking Bad, while the American posters are trying to sell it as a throwback to 70s/80s car films.
409,356	All of those crews are quite well paid since they work such ridiculous schedules. Saving somewhere in the neighbourhood of $1,500,000 per year per ship, if not more, is probably a big enough incentive. The real question is since these things are diesel, will the mechanic need to stay on board by himself, or will they just fly them out to the boat if something goes wrong?	I keep thinking that these huge cargo ships could probably be electrified, but I've never crunched the numbers. What kind of power could be harnessed from covering the top of a supertanker with solar panels?
409,357	Why should he/she? It's not like the James Bond novels are great works of historical accuracy summarizing what it was like in the Cold War, or give a lot of insight into a certain lifestyle or anything. The entire book is basically about an awesome dude and you read to see how he solves this next challenge. That's it. For a book like that, where the main character and his quest is the only focus, if you realize the main character you're supposed to root for is an asshole, why shouldn't you put it down?	because its a fucking trivial issue and if you get so butthurt about one line in a book, you are over sensitive. I guess he/she cant read many books written before 1965 without curling into a ball and crying about the language and unfairness.
409,358	>only to have their fragile beliefs shattered like Anglican Church window from an IRA molotov. Holy shit dude	>Anglican Church. >Holy Shit. You watch your mouth Mister
409,359	I broke the high E on my dads guitar when I was nine. I thought he was going to be super upset with me so I put it back until he noticed. When I told him it was me instead of being mad he bought me a guitar and found a teacher. So if she wants to play, encourage her.	He did that so one day, when you least expect it, he will also break the high E on your guitar.
409,360	I feel like its a classic absurdist morale similar to f.ex. Camus' "The Stranger". Life and people are complex and not inherently meaningful. I really enjoyed it, King truly excels in his short stories.	I really hope he has another collection of short stories to come out soon. All of the others have been fantastic, my favorite is Skeleton Crew. edit: changed The Skeleton Crew to Skeleton Crew
409,361	I never listened to music until highschool. But when I was 7, I played Hot Wheels Racing on the PS1. And the soundtrack included 'Fuel' by Metalica. And that was my first favorite song.	Wait, wait, wait. What do you mean you never listened to music until high school?
409,362	I would add Fight Club and Se7en. Fincher really knows how to pull out the best performances possible from his actors	Fincher knows how to make really fucking good movies.
409,363	I wish they let you permanently download digital library books. Isn't there an infinite amount? I don't get why they don't let you do that. Ridiculous	The library has to buy individual copies of audio books, just like physical books. As they are way more expensive than physical books, they can't afford a ton of them.
409,364	I saw her smack Michael Cera in the trailer so it's gotta be pretty realistic.	Michael Cera is nothing like himself in this movie, and that's sort of the joke. Go watch it, you'll all laugh your asses off.
409,365	I bought one, dead on arrival and they never responded to my emails so after about a month I just gave up. Maybe this has something to do with why they are struggling.	What blew my mind away was how antiquated the interface felt and hardly did what it stated it was supposed to. The next level up only added two features that I just didn't want so I didn't spend the money.
409,366	Spotify allows you to download full albums/playlists over WiFi/mobile. The $10 you pay a month is worth it by far, over having to hear a million ads on the radio.	Well you do have to keep paying each month to retain access to your downloads.
409,367	I don't listen to them often anymore, but every time I throw on Dirt, I think "why isn't this part of my usual rotation?" Love that album.	My favorite album of the 90s and I always say the exact same thing.
409,368	Not sure if that was funny. I thought it was stupid.	I like the part where the guy buys the Ouija board. Dude goes out of his way to get the most satanic, evil-looking one.
409,369	It still blows my mind that The Hurt Locker won best picture... what in the actual fuck were they thinking. How the fuck is that plotless mess better than Inglourious Basterds?	I thought "The Hurt Locker" was great. Would have preferred to see "A Serious Man" take Best Picture.
409,370	Looking at it most generously, TFA is a meditation on "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." But I don't think J.J. Abrams is that deep. Entertaining, but not without flaws that are going to gnaw at me for a while.	More like "the horrible and alienating prequels have forced Disney to make the first movie 'safe' just to remind people what franchise this even is to build up enough trust to move on to real new territory"
409,371	I mean, I believe she's becoming already iconic because of the tons of fanart I've already seen of her and the fact a lot of people recognize Margot because of Harley Quinn. It doesn't mean her performance as an actress and character is going to be the standout.	Gotcha, I missed the "I don't know about the performance" part of your post. I just hope the actual character is good enough to back it up, because she's really an awesome bit of casting.
409,372	i have a hard time telling just how viable this tech is for large scale use. maybe it will get cheaper over time but my guess is the inputs would take a long time to pay off and the maintenance could be a problem. still good to see it out in the world being tested though.	These sorts of technologies are fantastic for powering nearby things -- a plaza filled with them powering the lamps around it, an office floor filled with them helping out with the HVAC system, and so on. Where it falls apart is when you try to expand it over large areas; power transmission is incredibly lossy, especially if you have to gather a few milliwatts each from a couple thousand tiles spread over a square mile. This is one of the fundamental reasons those solar roadway projects are complete nonsense.
409,373	Right, 'cause in the event of collapse you wouldn't want to access any of that information anyway. Things like which plants are edible, how to milk a goat, the proper way to navigate the Straits of Georgia -- these can totally all be handled through verbal accounts. It's not about the dead-tree object, it's about the access to the information contained within the dead-tree object, and the barriers to access are a heck of a lot lower with a physical book than they are with a digital representation.	I would love for you to imagine a scenario for me, where humanity has lost every trace of electronics, but still has books lying around. Oh, and where people are still taught to read.
409,374	Do you know that for a fact? Or just assuming? Because Microsoft uses independent auditors, and I wouldn't have expected that either.	They might be "independent", they still get paid by Apple. Conflict of interest.
409,375	4 months from now: "Arrested Development movie is definitely happening. For sure. We think."	Ron Howard should put together a funny or die fake trailer..."on the next". And have him keep changing the release date. It would be awesome...and sad.
409,376	Read "Plot Overview" before! That should be good, and reading the other sections after you finish isn't a bad idea (it can't hurt) if you have the time.	Thanks so much! I feel bad asking so many questions haha, I really do appreciate it. If I don't have enough time which would be the most important to read?
409,377	So what I’m reading is that if you cut my eyeball out in order to access my vault you’ll need to do it within 16 hours.	Turns out this happens quite a bit in sci-fi. Demolition Man and Minority Report come to mind when they’re duping the biometric scanners
409,378	If you're actually going to wind up selling these on the internet, you can definitely put me down for any socialist, anarchist, etc. political stuff.	I'll take the opportunity here too, if you find anything related to railroads or the steel, iron and coal industries, or really any industrial technical stuff, I'll give it a good home.
409,379	Did you even read the books? She runs away from plenty of stuff, case and point Bonhart. You literally don't know what you're talking about.	Also, she ran from the Wild Hunt at least twice in the books (after leaving the mage conference, where she holed up with the... Farmers? And at the Tower of Swallows).
409,380	sigh Wonder Woman is set to open the same weekend as Transformers 5. The TF movies after the first one just aren't good. However, that hasn't stopped people from flocking to them, so regardless of WW's eventual quality, the movie will undoubtedly suffer losses in ticket sales IF it directly competes with Transformers. Wonder Woman can't really compete, and shouldn't, against a TF movie, regardless of how good WW is. If WW is a 9/10 movie and TF5 is a 3/10 movie, TF will still probably make WAY MORE MONEY so WW should be moved out of direct competition with it.	I get what he/you is trying to say but that doesn#t change the fact that there was no reason to call Transformers dumb,especially when there's not much to be expected from the WW movie.
409,381	Join! Why would people not be free to do the possible?	It's just a shitty title. I am sure there will be some people that will claim some religious nonsense about keeping their body whole, but most people will see reason for cybernetics where it makes sense.
409,382	Given me a high efficiency gamma ray rectenna and I'll give you a Star Trek world.	Unfortunately that is impossible. The frequency of gamma rays is so high it would necessitate a diode much much smaller than a single atom.
409,383	Mice aren't going anywhere. If you've ever tried to do serious gaming or do graphic work on a touchpad/screen you know how terrible an experience it is.	The serious artists I know use things like Cintiq tablets, not mice.
409,384	$130M in the car game doesn't go far at all, so let's not kid ourselves in thinking this is a large sum of money. By most accounts, introducing a new car model to market takes over one billion dollars.	How much of that is marketing though that's already been done?
409,385	More than 600 signed up, but how many actually showed up?	All I can find are articles talking about it GOING to happen, and nothing about it happening.
409,386	When it came to Lev Grossman, I read The Magicians and Magician King. I heard about Codex though in the end i disliked it i read it cover to cover. Best to get some insight even if its your favorite author.	That's disappointing. I haven't read Codex yet, but the description sounds good. I was very excited about The Magicians while I was reading it ... so good.
409,387	The way I'd put it is it has the best action of any film I've seen. I love the first two terminators, for example, but not on virtue of their action but the plot elements and things.	> The way I'd put it is it has the best action of any film I've seen. Thats a fair description.
409,388	Come now, there's no harm in admitting you shed tears over a book! This, A memory of light, fools errand and flowers for Algernon all got me right in the feels! :'(	I actually finished a memory of light then went straight on to farseer, so they were pretty close together for me. I feel like Assassin's Quest was actually a lot more emotionally engaging. At least the protagonist was.
409,389	I've been trying to figure out if they're real or fake since she did a naked shoot in treats. I still can't tell. If they're fake they are the best fakes I've seen. Edit: then again if they're real, they are the best reals I've ever seen so I guess she wins no matter what. Source: I have spent the last 10 years of my life looking at boobs of all shapes and sizes on the internet.	They arent fake. She had a ridiculous rack even as a freshman in high school. I went to school with her
409,390	Not everyone wants to listen to Rush. Their songs are so long, they become their own influence.	wow congrats you managed to find the farthest most opposite band. nicely done. that was very tough for you im sure. Did you also forget to read the part where I say I love The Ramones? They themselves said they sucked at playing. fuck off
409,391	Mads had a lot more screen time to work with of course, but I went into that tv series skeptical and came out of the first season thinking his portrayal was on par with Anthony Hopkins. It was nothing but smooth sailing for me the rest of the series. Too bad they didn't get a chance to do another season to cover Silence of The Lambs.	When he made that meal that proscribed how the birds had to be killed, I knew I was in the presence of a man who was truly insane.
409,392	> They are popcorn movies Aimed to solely entertain audiences. That would be negative in Dolan's eyes though.He isnt into blockbusters I'm sure	Yeah I know but he shouldn't be pretentious about it. Nothing wrong with blockbusters and nothing wrong with movies he wants to make.
409,393	Imagine if the book series didn't exist; now judge the quality. That's the "raw quality" that we judge all movies by.	If I were to imagine that the books didn't exist, I would naturally have to imagine the films not existing too. The films depend on the books, and the best moments of the films are very much derived from the books.
409,394	I am looking forward to the end of June. The popups, and messages will stop. Then we will have thread after thread of people whining that they have to pay to upgrade to Windows 10. At least if nothing else the theme of the threads will change. Looking forward to it so people can stop this OMG I have to keep 10 off my system. On that note. To the person that said Windows 10 "Snuck onto his laptop" When you install Windows 10 via the free upgrade you get 30 days to roll it back to Win7 or Win8 the way you had it (unless of course you did a disk cleanup and cleaned out your Windows.old folder.)	It's called the 'Anniversary Update', so it should be sometime in July is my guess, and not June.
409,395	The Water Diviner. Seriously, if this is what Russell Crowe has to offer as a director, I cannot WAIT to see what else he has in store for us. A story about a Australian man going all the way to post-WW1 Turkey to track down his dead sons and bury them home. An amazing film about the losses people have to cope with after a war.	I loved this one as well. Those flashback scenes killed me.
409,396	Well, then you're just being ignorant. Even if you do not like a genre you should be able to acknowledge ability within that genre.	Really hard to acknowledge something that sound the same as everything else
409,397	Good to know, thank you! I read the sample of the 2nd book and saw that it had 3 of the women back, I was instantly interested, but the more I read the more I felt it was just really government office-y setting and wasn't sure if I'd get what I want out of it	Yeah, the second one isn’t as fun as the third, but please power through!
409,398	I've talked with one of the Disney's Animation Studio's storyboard artists some time ago and he said that the process of creating a story and implementing songs, characters etc is a very dynamic process. Everything changes easily and new things are added or cut all the time. Songwriters and composers work closely with a script writer to decide the song's place in a story, and so on. Director's opinion matters, of course, too. No idea if that is how it works in other places, though.	There was a video of Brett McKenzie discussing his work on the Muppets which agrees with this.
409,399	Totally seconding this! This movie is so under appreciated but it's sooooooo good!	Baaaa! I loved the concept but after the first 45 mins it degrades into: People are more scary than monsters-theme, I HATE THAT. I want monsters.

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They actually have a tool called App Ops to individuality assign permissions to apps, but for some reasons they removed it.

For those interested AppOps is still available on the Xposed Framework's repository

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this is the 1st ive ever heard GWTW ever being compared to todays movies. must mean something.

I've heard a few people mention it from time to time. It's mostly comparing how much money they made, not direct comparisons of themes or acting.

409,302

Band that you listed can be called *Symphonic Metal* or *Power Metal*. You might love Within Temptation, check out their latest album *Hydra*.

Ahhh, Symphonic metal. Thanks for the clarification! Will check them out now!

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It used to be so common but you hardly hear of anyone doing it anymore. Why is that?

The term only applies to Apple products, which are in decline and are generally preferred by the type of user who isn't interested in such things. That being said it still happens all the time. Why don't we hear about it? Because it's easy and doesn't really garner any publicity.

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You sound like a huge turd. "I don't wanna see no war movie about a guy that *doesn't* kill foreign people!"

Of course I'm a huge turd, I don't agree with you.

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Thank you for replying! Do you have links so the rest of us that may not know can listen and learn?

i mean this is what i just googled, not sure if you've never really heard of Bjork Or PJ harvey, they've both been making music for 25 years+. there icons, 2 of the most important artists of the last 25 years.

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Fantastic reference! (It's "what goes on in your head," tho. :) )

That makes significantly more sense. I probably should of checked the lyrics before hand.

409,307

Bend slightly at the knees, rock back, then forth forth, back again, forth again, back back and forth....and do your arms like *this*

Downvoted for a description of a dance. Somebody needs coffee and a smile.

409,308

How do they know that 'Bulli' was a person and not a village or something else?

Because place names are indicated by the determinative {ki}, which indicates that it's a location. This is not. Balli is also attested elsewhere in administrative texts.

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It was either a dream, or your parents screwed up letting a 10 year old watch a film like that. I'm the same age as you, and I definitely need more info. Was the film new? Can you describe the people?

I don't think they screwed up that bad, since I turned out to be a regular human being. As far as I can remember I watched the movie, or parts of it, in our living room on vhs. I tend to remember a shot from the top of a hill overlooking the town. It was not a big town, a small village maybe. The soft-porn scene was in what I think a bar/restaurant/gathering of some sorts. Sorry.. Not much to go about...THE reason why this drives me crazy.

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Source code! I didn't know it existed until I looked up the director for Moon

Didn't know that was the same director. Gonna have to check out sSurce code.

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Outkast - Mamacita. Aquemini is the closest thing to a perfection I've ever heard but this one sing is fucking terrible and I skip it every time. Cosplay - They don't have any good songs. They're the fucking worst band in history and I can't comprehend how they are still around. Eminem - Lose Yourself. I find most of his stuff really cringey. I can appreciate his skill but most of the shit he raps about aims for the lowest common denominator. This song is legit though. Mom's spaghetti.

Eminem has a lot of serious material, if you haven't noticed, may be worth further looking into.

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> My work bores me to tears. > > I would accept a citizens income in return for being left alone to read, write, draw, paint, watch films, make music, learning to cook and having a good afternoon wankathon. > From the Guardian comment section.

Most companies would work better if a large part of the workforce were off having a wankathon at home. It would make wages more competitive and attract talent that actually wants to work.

409,313

I wonder if they'll load the fight video from the drone up on to YouTube.

Delivery Drone™ - "Airlift contraband and live-stream the delivery" - Brought to you by WoooohrrrlStaaaahhhh!

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Englisj is a foreign language to a lot of us. I sure had to take a moment figuring out wtf you were on about.

That doesn't detract from anything I've said. Plenty of people put slang into not only their actual speaking, but their typing as well. I mean whats your stance on people that thrown in random acronyms to their typing? Bet you've never once complained about them, you simply ask what it means and get a response. the person I responded to asked and I explained. I suppose by the downvotes I'm getting that this is what people talk about when they refer to the grammar nazis of reddit. Now I know to never respond and explains things ever again.

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> state that the aircraft must stay in a visual line-of-sight of the operator, Well there goes the entire fucking point of drones.

Why does a drone *have* to go out of line of sight?

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Honestly, the reason why they are being compared is the pacing of the films i feel. It has been awhile since i can remember a Sci-Fi that was actually *good* Sci-Fi and not just an action movie set in the future (Like the new Star Trek's, not that i dont enjoy them). It was a long drawn out movie with stunning visuals and a brilliant score. You can say that last sentence about Interstellar AND 2001.

> It has been awhile since i can remember a Sci-Fi that was actually good Sci-Fi and not just an action movie set in the future. This is the important part. This will be the kind of movie that will encourage people to learn about science and actually aspire to advance space travel.

409,317

Death is in my opinion the best character. A special mixture of awesomeness and sadness.

I love how clueless he was about human nature in Mort. And seriously, he named his horse Binky?!? Death is a great character. I like Granny Weatherwax, because she is no-nonsense in a world where most characters are pretty silly.

409,318

For someone who is an absolute beginner to reading poetry but is enjoying his first Frank O'Hara collection, what makes this "poetry" versus a nicely written sentence with odd line spacing?

I'm definitely not a poetry expert, but I feel like the difference between reading that as a sentence and reading it in lines makes you read it in a different way. It gives you a kind of cadence and rhythm to how you read and interpret it. A good example from that poem is "to trace the outline of your lips" and "with mine". You read it and you imagine tracing an outline with your finger tip and then get to the next line and there's deeper meaning there without saying "I wanna kiss you girl".

409,319

Remember how awesome Jurassic World's trailer looked? Don't get to hyped folks.

Maybe I'm the only one, but the ones for JW did not get me too excited.

409,320

This is a dilemma. I also love the book, and I've been looking forward to seeing it, but a lot of people are mirroring your sentiments, and I'm thinking maybe I should give it a pass.

I'd say put it off for a while and watch it when the book isn't so fresh, in the very least.

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Not a book, but I did enjoy his essay Politics and the English Language. There's some good stuff in there. I would've said a book, but that's all I've read from him that wasn't the aforementioned.

I would say that's probably my favorite Orwell piece. I maintain that it should be required reading in schools everywhere.

409,322

Did you read it in native German, or a translation of it?

Translation - but it had the wonderful Walter Trier *original German* illustrations!

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Yup. But seriously, what is reddit anyway? Just a place to collect links and discuss them. It's easily duplicated. Until somebody is able to offer something truly compelling, this merry go round will continue (then again what's so compelling about links and commenting? Nothing. See usenet)

Well it used to be a community as well, but lately the wrong crowd has started coming in and, ironically, complaining about reddit *on reddit*.

409,324

rapping about acid? hmmmm i don't recall LSD being a huge influence on his music. ALSO.... LSD aint gunna kill you fam. and its insulting to put in the same category as methadone and the drugs eminem used.

He mentioned it a lot in his early stuff (Kill You, I'm Shady, Just Don't Give a Fuck, etc.). The point is that he was doing anything and everything he got his hands on, which inevitably led to an addiction to sleeping meds and pain pills.

409,325

I don't dislike Him but only read Needful Things back when I was like 13. My Mom had about 2 dozen of his books and just picked it up (It just came out) so I read it too.

Honestly, I would read some of King's other works before jumping into the *Dark Tower* series. The series references a lot of his other novels, and you'll miss those references if you read Dark Tower first. And *Wolves of the Calla,* specifically, has some big spoilers for another novel. *Dark Tower* is amazing though, so I would still say you should read it, just maybe not as your introduction to King's books.

409,326

Come to think of it, I actually prefer JCVD to Birdman

I also think JCVD is the better film, but I don't think they're that similar.

409,327

I see Nolan being the next Deakins. Always overlooked for whatever reason. You can find flaws in Interstellar but the same can be said for every film nominated. Especially Birdman and Theory of Everything.

I know this might sound silly, but to be completely honest I have yet to find a flaw in *The Grand Budapest Hotel*. It's a film as close to perfection as any in 2014 got, in my opinion. Everything in that film just works.

409,328

Now much do you want to bet that OP's favorite rappers are from the 90s and/or logic/hopsin/lil dicky/tech n9ne

Also Immortal Technique, but only because he heard Dance With the Devil that one time

409,329

I thought it was more like weenie beenie than wind up.

And maybe a little Wattershed as well, it feels very Self Titled

409,330

People sign on to these HOA contracts when they buy the houses. Not saying HOAs aren't evil, but it's not like the people living in these places don't know the rules going in.

Yeah but it's silly if it's your dream house but you can't paint it the color you want because the neighborhood thinks it won't look good. Not to mention if you built the house yourself you could of just said fuck off if someone said wanna sign this HOA agreement.

409,331

I didn't realize he'd done anything after The Island of Dr. Moreau, but apparently he did:

Free money was pretty good, I'm from Québec and there are 3+ actors from here in this movie.

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That's what it sounds like. I know companies have been working on that for years.

The apu doesn't produce enough thrust to taxi does it?

409,333

Heat. That sound of the guns echoing off the buildings.

Marines use a scene from that movie to illustrate proper retreat from fire

409,334

No I don't know how to "track match" and I endlessly Googled "How to identify songs from youtube videos". Seems like the song you said is a mashup or a remix in the video.

But now you have far more information to find the mashup or mix b/c you know the original track. Assuming the people that made that really odd video didn't do it themselves. Post a comment or try to email the owner of that channel.

409,335

I think there really is a deep philosophical discussion to be had about this. There's something about people not being present in this manner that seems to negatively affect those around them.

You're probably right but you just come off like such a little twat so I can't imagine anyone really wanting to engage with you

409,336

Good to consider taking a break instead of blowing through them quickly. Maybe read some classic science fiction short stories next? You can pick those up in between because the stories are short. Read as many as you want to. Books of short stories are the best.

Can you recommend some anthologies/collections? I've never read scifi short stories (unfortunately)!

409,337

Because lots of people think they're a very good band, therefore they are excited to see what new music they're going to bring out.

I get that but just personally, they don't appeal. :)

409,338

Apple fans buy things that "just work." They expect the device not to crash and to be simple to use. A smart speaker that misinterprets everything you say doesn't fit that description.

But will they be willing to replace their home devices yearly when they stop working around apple keynote time? ...actually a lot of them probably will. Edit: to be fair, the last few iPhones most family and friends with them find they no longer "just work." Between that and the news about the slowdowns being confirmed, a LOT of longtime apple users in the family came to me on Christmas asking for Android recommendations, especially after seeing me and my gfs pixel 2 XL and pixel XL.

409,339

I really don't understand what he wanted to say with that story.

When he's rich, he'll pay him in return for everything. What. The. Fuck.

409,340

then why didn't they release their album as one long track?

Because it isn't. But some bands have. Who are YOU to decide how they should package and distribute their art? You aren't entitled to anything.

409,341

Thank you for being the first person to give a realistic, straightforward answer.

Their first sentence makes sense. Second sentence compares it to petrol cars that cost as much or more. That doesn't fit into the market properly unless they've straight up invented a way to make cars cheaper (nevermind electric cars).

409,342

Sony isn't going to be swayed by a petition if it isn't swayed by losing tens of millions of dollars from burying a potentially profitable movie. Sorry to be blunt but this is just stupid

It was supposed to be satirical more than anything, but it would be nice if something happened. Plus if there is success in the petition(doubt it) Sony may fear consumer backlash even more.

409,343

Oh! That's why I am constantly waiting for my i7 with 8GB RAM with very little installed on it. Cause its so fast. Nothing like logging in an watching it draw icons one at a time. Then tell me my Epson drivers need yet another update. Hey what's another 10 minutes and three more clicks. Oh what's that? A Notification? Microsoft ad for Office 365? I've only told you "no" 50 times! Ah forget it, shut down. What's this "Please do not turn of your computer." More waiting as it download updates. Or is it uploading all that spy info it's gathered?

Do you use protection? It sounds very much like your computer has been hijacked. I'm not joking.

409,344

NerveGear is from an Anime called Sword Art Online. It is basically a "helmet" that you plug into your wall and play games on. I was wondering if it would be possible to make something like this where your body is in a coma (sort of) and you mind is in a virtual body of yourself. Full dive games basically. You do anything that you would in real life, with that added fantasy. So I was wondering if it is possible.

Thanks for the feedback guys. I learn a lot from people like you.

409,345

Question: In the panel efficiency chart, what is the typical technology you get when you go shopping for a solar panel (circa 2014)? Someone recently told me that solar efficiency is around 5% for affordable solar panels.

I don't know what affordable is really but 20% efficiency panels are now rather common.

409,346

I love the book, and I found it personally important, but if you are looking for the essential books, I don't think it qualifies as a primary text. It is almost impossible to get through an English literature degree without a work in understanding of Shakespeare.

Agreed. I took a course devoted to Woolf during my undergrad, and she remains the writer that impresses me the most, but I wouldn't put this title (a favorite) on the list we're generating here.

409,347

I always drop a little something on the person that checks me out, but I think people mostly think tips are for taking care of our asses in seats, not for taking the money and handing us our food.

Hell of a difference between waiting on hand and foot and just giving someone the food.

409,348

How would you call her "bikini"? I want to get that for my gf. Links much appreciated!

Bikinis are hard to link to because there are so many of them and a lot of them look nearly identical but are made by different companies. I can't see enough of hers to have any kind of guess who makes that. Victoria's Secret is one of my favorite places to buy swimsuits and I'm sure you can find one that would looks like that one!

409,349

I wonder how they did this list... it's not like there is a particularly reliable source for movie settings. Even IMDB has spotty data and lists multiple locations for most movies. Maybe just start at the top of the top rated films, and find the setting for each one, and stop when you have a film in each state?

It's not where they're filmed it's where they're set. That's an easy thing to find out and it's based on their site's user ratings, low precision as that is. That's a pretty reliable and readily available figure at the top of every IMDB page.

409,350

Honestly I just want Fincher to direct anything. A superhero movie, a horror, a Bond film, just anything. I really want to know how he'd handle these genres or certain franchises.

Excuse me, is "dark, gritty thriller" not enough for you, sir? (half joking because i love his movies)

409,351

I haven't read into it, but I'll have to check it out. Jack White can be pretty sensitive, but I think he came up with all of his own riffs while simply being inspired by these classics. Black Keys use the same exact riff and don't even try to bend it.

Yeah, that's pretty much it. Jack White's music is a pretty recognizable blend of alternative, blues and psychedlic rock. He operated within a niche that was pretty much his own for the period in which he was making White Stripes/Raconteurs records. A few years down the line, White has fallen out of the mainstream, there was a hole another group could occupy using a similar formula and the keys were the best fit. I'm by no means saying they're bad, but if you're dismissing Jack's complaint as just another of his whines while being a keys fan, there's probably at least a subconscious bias preventing you from seeing that they are heavily derivative of his work in the early to mid 2000's in particular.

409,352

That's really damned annoying and has made certain I'll never read it. I'm content for eBooks to exist and to even cost less so long as physical books exist along side and are published at the same time as their digital equivalent.

A lot of Lee Child fans have said the same about *Second Son*, the recent Reacher as a Teenager short story. Same argument applies to that, as applies to Mile 81. It wouldn't be released **at all** were it not availible as an e-book. The numbers wouldn't add up. Besides which, you can read it on a computer / cellphone.

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Wow I'm glad I read this AMA I had no idea there had been changes despite frequenting Brandon's site. I have the hardcover and audiobook version of this work. I'm a little weirded out now that both have canonical inaccuracies. Time to go read the changes to see just how overwhelmed with panic I need to be!

Hm....ok well I prefer the changed version and now wish that my copies of it contained that version. I will be saddened ever time I look at my Sanderson shelf!

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And you know what the real mind blower is? They fucking called it in "Day Old Blues". "Low and behold things are killing me. silly expectations of a dream. girls are gonna love the way i toss my hair. boys are gonna hate the way i sing" Like they knew they were gonna sell out. Aha Shake Heartbreak is the shit, everything after that: eh...

It's crazy how every one of their albums has a different tone, quality, and feel.

409,355

They look a lot more appealing than the posters I see in the US, but that's probably because I never saw movie posters from foreign countries.

Most of these are actually the same exact posters we got for these movies in America, except in Chinese with Chinese review quotes. The only one that's really different is the one for Need For Speed which is obviously trying to sell itself as a Fast and Furious with the guy from Breaking Bad, while the American posters are trying to sell it as a throwback to 70s/80s car films.

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All of those crews are quite well paid since they work such ridiculous schedules. Saving somewhere in the neighbourhood of $1,500,000 per year per ship, if not more, is probably a big enough incentive. The real question is since these things are diesel, will the mechanic need to stay on board by himself, or will they just fly them out to the boat if something goes wrong?

I keep thinking that these huge cargo ships could probably be electrified, but I've never crunched the numbers. What kind of power could be harnessed from covering the top of a supertanker with solar panels?

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Why should he/she? It's not like the James Bond novels are great works of historical accuracy summarizing what it was like in the Cold War, or give a lot of insight into a certain lifestyle or anything. The entire book is basically about an awesome dude and you read to see how he solves this next challenge. That's it. For a book like that, where the main character and his quest is the only focus, if you realize the main character you're supposed to root for is an asshole, why shouldn't you put it down?

because its a fucking trivial issue and if you get so butthurt about one line in a book, you are over sensitive. I guess he/she cant read many books written before 1965 without curling into a ball and crying about the language and unfairness.

409,358

>only to have their fragile beliefs shattered like Anglican Church window from an IRA molotov. Holy shit dude

>Anglican Church. >Holy Shit. You watch your mouth Mister

409,359

I broke the high E on my dads guitar when I was nine. I thought he was going to be super upset with me so I put it back until he noticed. When I told him it was me instead of being mad he bought me a guitar and found a teacher. So if she wants to play, encourage her.

He did that so one day, when you least expect it, he will also break the high E on your guitar.

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I feel like its a classic absurdist morale similar to f.ex. Camus' "The Stranger". Life and people are complex and not inherently meaningful. I really enjoyed it, King truly excels in his short stories.

I really hope he has another collection of short stories to come out soon. All of the others have been fantastic, my favorite is Skeleton Crew. edit: changed The Skeleton Crew to Skeleton Crew

409,361

I never listened to music until highschool. But when I was 7, I played Hot Wheels Racing on the PS1. And the soundtrack included 'Fuel' by Metalica. And that was my first favorite song.

Wait, wait, wait. What do you mean you never listened to music until high school?

409,362

I would add Fight Club and Se7en. Fincher really knows how to pull out the best performances possible from his actors

Fincher knows how to make really fucking good movies.

409,363

I wish they let you permanently download digital library books. Isn't there an infinite amount? I don't get why they don't let you do that. Ridiculous

The library has to buy individual copies of audio books, just like physical books. As they are way more expensive than physical books, they can't afford a ton of them.

409,364

I saw her smack Michael Cera in the trailer so it's gotta be pretty realistic.

Michael Cera is nothing like himself in this movie, and that's sort of the joke. Go watch it, you'll all laugh your asses off.

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I bought one, dead on arrival and they never responded to my emails so after about a month I just gave up. Maybe this has something to do with why they are struggling.

What blew my mind away was how antiquated the interface felt and hardly did what it stated it was supposed to. The next level up only added two features that I just didn't want so I didn't spend the money.

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Spotify allows you to download full albums/playlists over WiFi/mobile. The $10 you pay a month is worth it by far, over having to hear a million ads on the radio.

Well you do have to keep paying each month to retain access to your downloads.

409,367

I don't listen to them often anymore, but every time I throw on Dirt, I think "why isn't this part of my usual rotation?" Love that album.

My favorite album of the 90s and I always say the exact same thing.

409,368

Not sure if that was funny. I thought it was stupid.

I like the part where the guy buys the Ouija board. Dude goes out of his way to get the most satanic, evil-looking one.

409,369

It still blows my mind that *The Hurt Locker* won best picture... what in the actual fuck were they thinking. How the fuck is that plotless mess better than *Inglourious Basterds*?

I thought "The Hurt Locker" was great. Would have preferred to see "A Serious Man" take Best Picture.

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Looking at it most generously, TFA is a meditation on "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." But I don't think J.J. Abrams is that deep. Entertaining, but not without flaws that are going to gnaw at me for a while.

More like "the horrible and alienating prequels have forced Disney to make the first movie 'safe' just to remind people what franchise this even is to build up enough trust to move on to real new territory"

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I mean, I believe she's becoming already iconic because of the tons of fanart I've already seen of her and the fact a lot of people recognize Margot because of Harley Quinn. It doesn't mean her performance as an actress and character is going to be the standout.

Gotcha, I missed the "I don't know about the performance" part of your post. I just hope the actual character is good enough to back it up, because she's really an awesome bit of casting.

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i have a hard time telling just how viable this tech is for large scale use. maybe it will get cheaper over time but my guess is the inputs would take a long time to pay off and the maintenance could be a problem. still good to see it out in the world being tested though.

These sorts of technologies are fantastic for powering nearby things -- a plaza filled with them powering the lamps around it, an office floor filled with them helping out with the HVAC system, and so on. Where it falls apart is when you try to expand it over large areas; power transmission is incredibly lossy, especially if you have to gather a few milliwatts each from a couple thousand tiles spread over a square mile. This is one of the fundamental reasons those solar roadway projects are complete nonsense.

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Right, 'cause in the event of collapse you wouldn't want to access any of that information anyway. Things like which plants are edible, how to milk a goat, the proper way to navigate the Straits of Georgia -- these can *totally* all be handled through verbal accounts. It's not about the dead-tree object, it's about the access to the information contained within the dead-tree object, and the barriers to access are a heck of a lot lower with a physical book than they are with a digital representation.

I would love for you to imagine a scenario for me, where humanity has lost every trace of electronics, but still has books lying around. Oh, and where people are still taught to read.

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Do you know that for a fact? Or just assuming? Because Microsoft uses independent auditors, and I wouldn't have expected that either.

They might be "independent", they still get paid by Apple. Conflict of interest.

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4 months from now: "Arrested Development movie is definitely happening. For sure. We think."

Ron Howard should put together a funny or die fake trailer..."on the next". And have him keep changing the release date. It would be awesome...and sad.

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Read "Plot Overview" before! That should be good, and reading the other sections after you finish isn't a bad idea (it can't hurt) if you have the time.

Thanks so much! I feel bad asking so many questions haha, I really do appreciate it. If I don't have enough time which would be the most important to read?

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So what I’m reading is that if you cut my eyeball out in order to access my vault you’ll need to do it within 16 hours.

Turns out this happens quite a bit in sci-fi. Demolition Man and Minority Report come to mind when they’re duping the biometric scanners

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If you're actually going to wind up selling these on the internet, you can definitely put me down for any socialist, anarchist, etc. political stuff.

I'll take the opportunity here too, if you find anything related to railroads or the steel, iron and coal industries, or really any industrial technical stuff, I'll give it a good home.

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Did you even read the books? She runs away from plenty of stuff, case and point Bonhart. You literally don't know what you're talking about.

Also, she ran from the Wild Hunt at least twice in the books (after leaving the mage conference, where she holed up with the... Farmers? And at the Tower of Swallows).

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*sigh* Wonder Woman is set to open the same weekend as Transformers 5. The TF movies after the first one just aren't good. However, that hasn't stopped people from flocking to them, so regardless of WW's eventual quality, the movie will undoubtedly suffer losses in ticket sales IF it directly competes with Transformers. Wonder Woman can't really compete, and shouldn't, against a TF movie, regardless of how good WW is. If WW is a 9/10 movie and TF5 is a 3/10 movie, TF will still probably make WAY MORE MONEY so WW should be moved out of direct competition with it.

I get what he/you is trying to say but that doesn#t change the fact that there was no reason to call Transformers dumb,especially when there's not much to be expected from the WW movie.

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Join! Why would people not be free to do the possible?

It's just a shitty title. I am sure there will be some people that will claim some religious nonsense about keeping their body whole, but most people will see reason for cybernetics where it makes sense.

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Given me a high efficiency gamma ray rectenna and I'll give you a Star Trek world.

Unfortunately that is impossible. The frequency of gamma rays is so high it would necessitate a diode much much smaller than a single atom.

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Mice aren't going anywhere. If you've ever tried to do serious gaming or do graphic work on a touchpad/screen you know how terrible an experience it is.

The serious artists I know use things like Cintiq tablets, not mice.

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$130M in the car game doesn't go far at all, so let's not kid ourselves in thinking this is a large sum of money. By most accounts, introducing a new car model to market takes over one billion dollars.

How much of that is marketing though that's already been done?

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More than 600 signed up, but how many actually showed up?

All I can find are articles talking about it GOING to happen, and nothing about it happening.

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When it came to Lev Grossman, I read The Magicians and Magician King. I heard about Codex though in the end i disliked it i read it cover to cover. Best to get some insight even if its your favorite author.

That's disappointing. I haven't read Codex yet, but the description sounds good. I was *very* excited about The Magicians while I was reading it ... so good.

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The way I'd put it is it has the best action of any film I've seen. I love the first two terminators, for example, but not on virtue of their action but the plot elements and things.

> The way I'd put it is it has the best action of any film I've seen. Thats a fair description.

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Come now, there's no harm in admitting you shed tears over a book! This, A memory of light, fools errand and flowers for Algernon all got me right in the feels! :'(

I actually finished a memory of light then went straight on to farseer, so they were pretty close together for me. I feel like Assassin's Quest was actually a lot more emotionally engaging. At least the protagonist was.

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I've been trying to figure out if they're real or fake since she did a naked shoot in treats. I still can't tell. If they're fake they are the best fakes I've seen. Edit: then again if they're real, they are the best reals I've ever seen so I guess she wins no matter what. Source: I have spent the last 10 years of my life looking at boobs of all shapes and sizes on the internet.

They arent fake. She had a ridiculous rack even as a freshman in high school. I went to school with her

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Not everyone wants to listen to Rush. Their songs are so long, they become their own influence.

wow congrats you managed to find the farthest most opposite band. nicely done. that was very tough for you im sure. Did you also forget to read the part where I say I love The Ramones? They themselves said they sucked at playing. fuck off

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Mads had a lot more screen time to work with of course, but I went into that tv series skeptical and came out of the first season thinking his portrayal was on par with Anthony Hopkins. It was nothing but smooth sailing for me the rest of the series. Too bad they didn't get a chance to do another season to cover Silence of The Lambs.

When he made that meal that proscribed how the birds had to be killed, I knew I was in the presence of a man who was truly insane.

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> They are popcorn movies Aimed to solely entertain audiences. That would be negative in Dolan's eyes though.He isnt into blockbusters I'm sure

Yeah I know but he shouldn't be pretentious about it. Nothing wrong with blockbusters and nothing wrong with movies he wants to make.

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Imagine if the book series didn't exist; now judge the quality. That's the "raw quality" that we judge all movies by.

If I were to imagine that the books didn't exist, I would naturally have to imagine the films not existing too. The films depend on the books, and the best moments of the films are very much derived from the books.

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I am looking forward to the end of June. The popups, and messages will stop. Then we will have thread after thread of people whining that they have to pay to upgrade to Windows 10. At least if nothing else the theme of the threads will change. Looking forward to it so people can stop this OMG I have to keep 10 off my system. On that note. To the person that said Windows 10 "Snuck onto his laptop" When you install Windows 10 via the free upgrade you get 30 days to roll it back to Win7 or Win8 the way you had it (unless of course you did a disk cleanup and cleaned out your Windows.old folder.)

It's called the 'Anniversary Update', so it should be sometime in July is my guess, and not June.

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**The Water Diviner.** Seriously, if this is what Russell Crowe has to offer as a director, I cannot WAIT to see what else he has in store for us. A story about a Australian man going all the way to post-WW1 Turkey to track down his dead sons and bury them home. An amazing film about the losses people have to cope with after a war.

I loved this one as well. Those flashback scenes killed me.

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Well, then you're just being ignorant. Even if you do not like a genre you should be able to acknowledge ability within that genre.

Really hard to acknowledge something that sound the same as everything else

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Good to know, thank you! I read the sample of the 2nd book and saw that it had 3 of the women back, I was instantly interested, but the more I read the more I felt it was just really government office-y setting and wasn't sure if I'd get what I want out of it

Yeah, the second one isn’t as fun as the third, but please power through!

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I've talked with one of the Disney's Animation Studio's storyboard artists some time ago and he said that the process of creating a story and implementing songs, characters etc is a very dynamic process. Everything changes easily and new things are added or cut all the time. Songwriters and composers work closely with a script writer to decide the song's place in a story, and so on. Director's opinion matters, of course, too. No idea if that is how it works in other places, though.

There was a video of Brett McKenzie discussing his work on the Muppets which agrees with this.

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Totally seconding this! This movie is so under appreciated but it's sooooooo good!

Baaaa! I loved the concept but after the first 45 mins it degrades into: People are more scary than monsters-theme, I HATE THAT. I want monsters.