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Just because the law is stupid doesn't mean its smart to break the law. Hell thats a character trait that most employers wouldn't want in an employee - and its probably correct of the employer to think so. Why would people want to hire someone who doesn't follow rules? The entire reason why bosses hire employees is to delegate work - and if an applicant has a history of doing whatever he wants without considering consequences that is a reason to not hire. The system isn't rigged in THAT sense. Sure downvote this. Any comment not praising drug use is irrelevant right guys?
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Didn't George W. Bush admit to use drugs? And Americans gave him the highest job in the land!
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409,401 |
The list you linked to literally includes a film from 100 years ago. You're taking issue that you can list a dozen films about slavery in the past 100 years?
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There's more than 20 in the last 20 years. We literally get one every year on average, that's my point.
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409,402 |
Yea, but in movies. She was way more well known for being a actress than a singer.
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Sorta like Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly - they were VERY popular in movies, but it was there singing/dancing that got them there. The "movies" they were in were just vehicles to showcase those talents. "Temple began her film career in 1932 at the age of three and, in 1934, found international fame in Bright Eyes, a feature film **designed specifically for her talents**" Her talents were singing and dancing - the movies she was in simply showcased those talents. Source: "Shirley Temple". biography.com.
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409,403 |
Amazing band. Saw them last year at Jodrell Bank, in Cheshire (a huge radio telescope in the UK). Now, they really know how to put on a show. There were videos projected onto the dish. Truly awesome, in all senses. And there was the space bubble too, of course!
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Had no idea they played there, can see Jodrell Bank from my especially nondescript town.
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409,404 |
maybe both? the majority in this sub say they hate him, but they can't stop talking about him.
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This sub is basically 2 types of people. 1. "you're dumb my opinion is more right bc I follow the critics opinion" 2. "you're dumb my opinion is more right bc I don't follow the critical opinion'
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409,405 |
I really want to buy a nest thermostat, but I am too worried that it is going to go the way of revolv at this point to drop the $250 on one.
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Check with your power utility for a rebate program. Some give you as much as $100 back for buying a smart or wifi thermostat.
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409,406 |
The entire time I was reading "Glory," I kept waiting for the glory, page after page. The glory never came, and I begrudgingly had to give old Nabokov a nod when I reached the final page. Overall it was a good read, but I felt like I had been inconsequentially riding around Europe on trains for a few weeks.
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In fact, that's one of his novels I *haven't* read! Though it looks to me like half of a half-hearted praise at best, your comment makes me want to read it (especially if it has trains, which are a topic rendered brilliantly in several of his other novels)! How would you say it compares to other works by Nabokov?
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409,407 |
Fo all we know, the record label could have been in on it and it's just a publicity stunt. A pretty successful one too, seeing as there are something like 3-4 stories about NLDW on the /r/music frontpage, there's a multiple hour wait to download the album and /mu/ is absolutley turgid with DG posts. Edit: Also, it was already scheduled for release on the 23rd. Why would the label suddenly decide to push the release back a year, especially with the great critical reception the previous two albums had?
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This is true as well. It's been uncharacteristic of Epic since they basically let the band do what the hell they want on The Money Store to suddenly say "hey, let's not do this."
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409,408 |
Isn’t everyone allowed to use Facebook? I don’t understand why anyone thinks this is a big deal. Are people trying to reintroduce Thoughtcrime into the American vernacular?
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My theory is that all of this has been planned to justify a massive censorship overhaul on freedom of speech.
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409,409 |
I have a top-tier video card (r9 390x) and it can barely maintain 60fps in the most demanding games... what the hell kind of hardware do you have that can handle 120+fps?
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R9 290x too. granted I mostly play CSGO so easy 300 fps on 1080p lol. What games are you playing where you can't get 60fps? Sometimes I will forego some graphical settings to get 120 or somewhere between 60 and 120 in more demanding games like GTA
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409,410 |
I saw them do this live in Chicago. It was great. They are absolutely fantastic live.
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Absolutely, I always liked them but seeing them live made them my favorite
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409,411 |
I think the important question is this: Does this technology get us any closer to producing a working lightsaber?
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Does standing on your toes bring you closer to the moon?
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409,412 |
Isn't 3D NAND stuff old chitchat by now? Intel is about to release Optane SSDs this year for enterprises and by next year for consumers. And Micron is gonna try it's hands at.. well.. monopoly duh!
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This article is about speeding up phase-change memory, nothing to do with NAND. Possibly the kind of stuff that might eventually compete with Optane in the future. Nothing really practical yet, this is just fundamental research.
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409,413 |
No problem, I didn't know about them until recently either, but then again I have hardly used the city/County libraries since I was a kid.
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Oh my god, you've *gotta* use your library! My SO is a librarian, so I'm biased, but libraries have all sorts of cool stuff these days. My favorite thing is the Overdrive app that you can check out ebooks on, from the library. It's cool because if you finish a book late at night and want something else, you can get online and get it right then. Which is really awesome if you're reading a series and you're desperate for the next installment!
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409,414 |
It is even worse than that, i think youtube buffers their own content. Ads load up instantly but if the video i want to watch loads at a snail pace, i know damn well what is going on.
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Adblock is a great extension for blocking those ads.
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409,415 |
Ok, you almost got me there, then you said bing was good and I no longer trust anything you say.
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Why? Fun fact: Bing is the superior search engine for porn.
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409,416 |
*Native Son* by Richard Wright. In the book, Bigger gets convicted of a crime he didn't commit, and ends up in that situation due to the endemic poverty and criminalization of black people in Chicago in the 1920s. If the same thing happened today, the story would be different. Bigger would never have been tried; the cops would just fucking shoot him.
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I went around crying for days while I was reading that.
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409,417 |
You pretty much said it in your post, they're updating their movies for a modern audience. It's also a good way to retell the same story but give it a unique or different aspect. Plus what's wrong with it? If they're making money (which Disney always seem to do) then it's a good decision. I personally don't care about any reboots, sequels or prequels because I still have the original film to watch if they turn out crap.
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I agree with you here. I also think it's a successful attempt in keeping the '90s kids' generation interested. They grew up watching a lot of those films.
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409,418 |
It got good reviews, much better sales than most debuting authors, and I'm pretty sure she didn't want this to be 'discovered'. It reads like you're implying that she deliberately leaked her identity, but she was actually not pleased at all about it coming out.
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I personally think that her agent arranged the leak without her knowledge.
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409,419 |
**Here's why you're an idiot:** the 'government' possesses nuclear weapons and other WMDs, thinking that guns are somehow "countermeasures" or an insurance from "government tyranny" is purely delusional. Thinking that all you need to combat "the government" is guns is no different than bringing a knife to a gunfight.
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Yup. They’re going to detonate a nuclear weapon and use other WMD to take out all of the people in the US who refuse to give up their guns, and inherit a beautiful nation of buzzing green ice. Holy fuck. Wake up.
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409,420 |
I think it's my third or fourth favorite of his, behind Adaptation and Matchstick Men and maybe Raising Arizona. I don't understand why Con Air or The Rock are where they are on this. Is it just a "so bad it's good" kind of thing? What's the argument for why these are good movies beyond their shoot-em-up entertainment value?
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I'd say its because they work so well for their genre (90s action films). I love The Rock, as it gives us a good set of action bits, with decent characters and just enough cheese to stand with the rest of the 90s. The same goes for Con Air. It holds my attention so well, and not in the "I can't believe I'm watching this" sort of way. But I do agree that Matchstick Men is one of his best performances.
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409,421 |
For me it's gotta be Whiplash and The Wolf of Wall Street only films I've gone back to thrice. Brilliant films. I never loved Mad Max: Fury Road as much as /r/movies seems to. Inception was good I love Leo but I still prefer The Wolf of Wall Street. Marty is a great director. Love Jonah. and the story was interesting too. Whiplash was just awe inspiring, I'm a band student and I loved that movie so much. Not much else to say. J.K Simmons has been praised enough for that role, Miles did well too.
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I don't get the love for Wolf Of Wall Street. Best part about it was Leo. I was disappointed by it on a number of levels. First of all Scorsese has always found new ways of telling his stories but Wolf was told the exact same way as Casino. Also the characters are all assholes getting wasted and making money on wall street. You can't really root for anybody. Plus it was too long. Easily my least favourite Leo Scorsese colab.
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409,422 |
To be fair, IF you are paying for the content rather than the mode of delivery (each of which having pros and cons on their own), why shouldn't it be priced the same either way? Either way the question should be "Is paying this much money worth the content I get to enjoy". And to be honest, in comparison with other media authors are not the ones ripping of their user base.
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Because with one choice you are being given a physical object which is inherently more valuable than it's respective digital data. A format that doesn't require any production materials should return those savings to the consumer. It shouldn't be free; the price should make sense for both the author and publisher to make a profit. But pricing it identically to a physical copy is audacious.
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409,423 |
>I've only seen ten movies from 2015 so far myself, while only two of them were good, the most interesting ones are yet to be seen. Did you by any chance get to see The Assassin yet? I saw it yesterday and it's probably one of my favorites of the year so far.
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Yes. The only good movie so far from 2015, together with Tsai Ming-liang's short No No Sleep (2015) for me. It felt really different from Hou Hsiao-hsien's other films in a way, but I liked it. Very mesmerizing imagery and lovely pace. But as I said, I've only seen ten movies from this year, which just shows how much there is still left to see.
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409,424 |
Whenever I read this one I imagine a huge beam of light coming out of a character's face and shooting into the others. I don't know why, and I can't shake it.
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This is indeed the correct way to beam at others
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409,425 |
Sometimes the 3D conversion are done pretty well. The opening shot of Avatar is actually converted from 2D. I saw J. J. Abrams' last movie in IMAX 3D and it looked better than a lot of "real 3D" films I've seen. The thing about conversion is that you can make 3D look stronger than a camera can capture, and if you're shooting a lot on greenscreen, all the CGI is going to be "real 3D" anyways.
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> all the CGI is going to be "real 3D" anyways. True enough...
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409,426 |
Well he should have compromised his vision with an intro that doesn't suck...
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You phrase that if it is objective truth rather than your own opinion. That's fine, if inaccurate. Declaring that it sucks doesn't mean it sucks though. Many millions of people have enjoyed the intro enough to finish the book. I'm not trying to pick a fight here. The thread title is what it is and I'm not going to try to convince you to read a book that you don't like. But neither do you get to say that my favorite series sucks just because you didn't get past the intro.
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409,427 |
“Rocket Queen” -Guns N Roses. Closing out Appetite for destruction
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Similarity, "Coma" from Use Your Illusion I. Might be the best Guns N Roses song up to this point? A ten minute rock masterpiece.
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409,428 |
For years now, anytime I am going through something difficult in life or struggling to understand what is going on, I re (re-read) Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Each time I find something new in it, a new insight, to help me.
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Siddhartha is such a masterful work. I've read it several times as well and it meant something different to me each time.
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409,429 |
Infinite Jest--It had some great parts, but it was watered down by so much thoughtless crap i wanted to strangle the author by the end of it.
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You may not have enjoyed it, but I have to say there is not a single thoughtless line in that entire book.
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409,430 |
Yay more batteries that claim 3200mah and only have 600mah...
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ATL isn't some dodgy unknown factory. They're a major battery manufacturer... e.g. used in iPhones.
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409,431 |
He's Russian but he has the right to bear arms.
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But I thought that, in Russia, you have the right to arm bears
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409,432 |
It's news to me and I've seen most of his work lol.
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oh, you're not being sarcastic. Have you met other people? Did you know that people walked out of Drive and asked for refunds because a 90 minute movie with car chases, gunfire, and a head stomping was not stimulating enough for them? Can you imagine if Drive had a 10 minute scene consisting of a single shot of a house burning down while Mel Brooks runs back and forth across the bottom of the frame? EDIT: I still upvoted you because, hey, contribution, y'know?
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409,433 |
I know Russian, Spanish and English. I can say that it's actually worth to study a different language just to read literature in original version. The song of Ice and Fire has just rediculously terrible translation in Spanish, for example. And Lev Tolstoi does not soud right in English.
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What version have you read of Song of Ice and Fire? I've read the saga both in Spanish and English and, man, Martin is kind of clumsy in English (especially in Feast and Dance), the translation feels better.
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409,434 |
According to the director's commentary, the same thing happened when they were conducting pre-release test screenings. People were told that they were going to see a Brad "Legends of the Fall" Pitt and Morgan "Driving Miss Daisy" Freeman movie. The film did not test well.
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seems like all fincher's early stuff tested badly.. thank fuck people realized at some point that he's a genius
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409,435 |
Whilst that is true, Not everyone lives even within a few hours of a decent sized airport in North America. The trains would be able to service the out of the way places and open up a whole new world of possibilities to people who otherwise would need to jump through hoops to travel anywhere. Thereby linking up those airports with easier access.
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Airports are far easier to set up in remote places than trains. That's why large portions of Alaska are traveled by small plane, rather than by freight train.
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409,436 |
I wish you were still required to provide the patent office with a working prototype to get a patent.
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The patent office receives about half a million patent applications a year. As an examiner, I really, really don't want to deal with prototypes.
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409,437 |
What do you mean they're abused? I just posted saying that people should buy the international versions because it's the same content for so much cheaper. That's what I did for most of my time in college. Should I not have done that...?
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Oh no by all means do so, its your right to. The reason i stated that was because international editions are sold at cost to countries outside the U.S. in an effort to aid education in third world countries. Therefore they make no profit off these. However, instead of being used for education, what most of them do in those countries is buy them and flip for huge profit to be sold back to students in the US. Its a hustle that forces the publishers to markup ones sold in the US and rape the average student. So it really exacerbates the problem.
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409,438 |
No offense to her, but if she hates when people talk to her about TKAM why would she allow this to be published? It's not going to make it any better. Why not wait for a posthumous publication?
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If you read the article, there is doubts about her being mentally with it enough to have consented. Apparently she is blind, deaf, in a wheelchair, has visits from friends restricted and was talking to herself throughout her sister's funeral. The sister, who died three months ago, was also her lawyer. Now her new lawyer has "rediscovered" the manuscript and it is being published.
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409,439 |
I'm gonna play devil's advocate and say that I can't listen to Cake, the flat vocals are super off-putting to me personally, and its made super frustrating by the fact that the instrumental is so good. I think a lot of good melodies go to waste just because the singer isn't trying. I've heard every single one of their albums multiple times, but I just can't get past that, so I stopped. :-(
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I can understand that...I hear so many bands and I just cant get past their singers voices.
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409,440 |
It's all coffee and sweet tea for me these days. Those energy drinks upset my old man stomach. That's okay, though. I make up for my mature caffeine choices by clinging to my fondness for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Hopefully you find this balance acceptable.
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Try the Monster Rehab (Tea + Lemonade). Basically and Arnold Palmer. The Rockstar version of the same drink just doesn't taste as good. I find they're much more agreeable to my stomach than the carbonated variety.
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409,441 |
Put the trailers together. When she is in the car with him, its a flashback. When shes doing her dance thing its a flashback. We know Batman saves her from water so if shes wet, shes in the present. We havw inly one picture of Joker and Harley when she is in her red shirt, and it seems she is ending the movie in that outfit. I may be wrong but I think most of joker is the flashback and the movie will cut to show him trying to get harley a few times
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There are quite a few seems of him threatening one of the guards for her location also he's at the end. I'd say he's in 30 minutes total
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409,442 |
But you can do that with Google Now on the phone itself. Unless they removed that feature to sell more watches...
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But it's still harder to pull out the phone and unlock it, so it's more dangerous and takes longer, and it's still illegal. My argument wasn't that it's better because I can send a text with my voice. It's better because using my voice is the only thing I have to do.
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409,443 |
Funny enough I bought Harry Potter as soon as it came out on a whim and loved it. I still have it, a first print first edition hardback copy. Plan to get JK to sign it someday so the value goes through the roof. Gotta say I hated the movie adaptations though.
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This, so much. I know people who have only watched the movies (and somehow enjoyed them???!?!?) and I constantly tell them they need to read the books.
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409,444 |
I'm a fan of Bradbury's *Usher II*. If you like Poe, read it. It's one of the stories in *The Martian Chronicles*. As for Poe, *Murder in the Rue Morgue* is a great murder mystery.
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:-( "Usher II" shows up in only some editions of *The Martian Chronicles*.
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409,445 |
Pioneers? (no snark intended, I'm just middle-aged and unsure as to what the pioneer part is)
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Well they have been playing gravelly-voiced, proggy hardcore since 93...
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409,446 |
Sounds like something you make playing with fruity loops for a little bit.
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It will sound like that until you go get yourself a copy of said program and make an attempt, and then you get to enjoy some humility. Fun stuff.
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409,447 |
In comes the Reddit way of censorship, downvote views that don't match yours and avoid an argument in which both sides are equally represented.
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I know, it must suck for some people to point out a known fact.
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409,448 |
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem is pretty great imo. ​ That said, most of my favorite science-fi stories are in the form of short stories. Ray Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles" and "The Illustrated Man" are both classics. Harlan Ellison's "Shatterday" is another good one. Any collection of short stories by Asimov or Clarke are good choices too. ​ I think the form of the short story allows writers to explore a theme or concept without having to build a 300 page long narrative around it, and this helps them focus on higher concepts without having to worry too much about fully realizing characters or subplots, or settings, or whatever.
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> Solaris by Stanislaw Lem is pretty great imo. I'll get to that one eventually! But I kind of hate Ray Bradbury. I know he's a product of his time, but I don't think we should be grading on that much of a curve.
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409,449 |
Doesn't that still make them terrorists rather than torturers? The definition of torture is to inflict severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain. I don't think any of those categories fit what the Basterds were doing. They were intending to mark the Nazis so they could not hide from their pasts.
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UN Convention Against Torture, Part 1, Article 1: According to this, cutting swastikas on their heads could be considered war crimes: At this point, you are splitting hairs about the technical definition of their activities. Raines openly admitted that he was going against orders and he would willingly take the punishment for his actions, so he knew that what he was doing wasn't sanctioned, but he was still willing to do it. Not only that, but in Judiasm, desecrating dead bodies is strictly forbidden, but they are scalping dead soldiers. I can't find a specific referecence, but that's not kosher with the military in general.
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409,450 |
The reason social media websites don't ban the accounts is because they provide a vector to gain information about the members and locations of the terrorist organisations. All you do by banning their accounts is hide the problem and make it harder to gather intel against them.
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>All you do by banning their accounts is hide the problem and make it harder to gather intel against them. Sounds like you literally just made that out of thin air. ISIS and others like it use social media to recruit. That is where they do the overwhelming majority of their communication. You cut that off, you just about cripple their communication and recruitment.
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409,451 |
Very valid points. However, these days there are many accessories for tablets that counteract these flaws. Still, these are less convenient than having the keyboard/ports built in. Thanks for reading! -John
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Why would I buy additional addons for a device that's lacking, to make it behave like the device I want, that's of comparable price anyway? Tablets have their place, but a laptop/general purpose portable computer replacement is not it.
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409,452 |
What I want to know is where is the link so I can go buy this book?
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But we should probably let OP give us a link directly, if it makes him more cash!
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409,453 |
Will Farrell in *Land of the Lost*. I was a big fan of the show back in the 1970s, and upon rewatching it in adulthood was impressed with the depth of the mythology (despite the cheesy kid stuff). I always thought the show was ripe for a darker, more adult "reimagining". And then the buffoon Farrell shows up in what can best be described as a spoof of the old show. Ugh. Pass.
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A serious, dark, adult Land of the Lost would be horrible.
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409,454 |
Why 8GB? Why not faster memory bus? 8GB seems pointless.
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Memory is cheaper to implement than a faster memory bus. Its like the budget laptops that come with 8GB of RAM and a 1TB HDD instead of a decent GPU, graphics and build quality.
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409,455 |
Honestly the movie sucks anyway. It got rid of the religious themes so I had no idea what else the catholic could’ve been angry about anyways. This show is gonna be a hit mark my words
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They also cut the freaking ending! The trailer contained it but not the movie? WTF?!? I walked out of the theatre when it got to that! (Because tho movie was over but still!)
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409,456 |
Or will they? Abbas considered a classic is it not. I'd class kings of Leon close to the cult.
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Comparing Abba to Kings of Leon from a 'classics potential' standpoint would be like comparing The Lord of the Rings with Angels & Demons. Everyone's read it (and seen it), but only one will be remembered. I honestly can't recall a single Kings of Leon song from the top of my head.
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409,457 |
Hell yes. And then the follow-up with Mustapha Mond: >"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy." >"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." >"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence. >"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.
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God damn. I only half absorbed this amazing book when we read it in high school. Time to dust off the pages...
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409,458 |
Wasn't that already in the works? Anyway, as long as the Java version doesn't get killed off then they're OK.
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This would be the dangerous "extend" phase, assuming that's still Microsoft's MO. Ultimately the Java would be killed off if they ever "extinguish".
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409,459 |
I liked the old plan of having three movies with two TV seasons connecting them. I feel like there's a bit too much wacky Stephen King stuff in the source material to really have a seven season series that would stay true to the books without scaring away a lot of TV audiences. They never really clarified how it would break down, but I saw it as: Movie 1: The Gunslinger. Season 1: The Drawing of the Three/The Wastelands. Movie 2: Wizard and Glass. Season 2: Wolves of the Calla/Song of Susannah. Movie 3: The Dark Tower.
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I like that breakdown, I think it would have worked.
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Se7ven, The Game, Fight Club... those were Fincher at his best. Panic Room was pretty good, but it wasn't as complicated as the previous three so I was a little disappointed. I did think that it was fun that Dwight Yoakam had his face covered for most of the film. With Zodiac, I understand that the true story involved many years between incidents and so the movie had to give that sense of time passing, but it made the film feel like it took forever for the storyline to evolve. And, BB was good but it was so far from being an intense psychological thriller that I was left disappointed.
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I'm hoping he had his fun playing around and does another spiralling, pseudo-noir for his fans again. I still enjoyed Zodiac and The Game though. I *really* enjoyed parts of Benjamin Button but the great didn't make up for the bad.
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409,461 |
What is the advantage there? Why the change? As it is people get various insurance policies that they wish, you get to pick the insurance that covers you, price, how much coverage, etc ..... now the car company does? What the wat wat?
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Because the car company controls how the car drives, there isn't a human driver. Why would the human be responsible for Chevys software error? The advantage is not having insurance companies to deal with. Your car crashes, your dealership replaces it. I don't see how you're confused by cutting out a middleman.
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409,462 |
Why can't I just have text media paid for by static non-targeted ads like we accept in print media for a long, long time? No, this is not user's faults. This is advertisers being greedy and using the digital world to turn their ads into massive annoyances to gain attention and it backfiring.
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Targeted ads are more effective. Content providers wouldn't charge higher rates for them if advertisers wouldn't pay, advertisers wouldn't pay if the results weren't better.
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409,463 |
I'd love to have one to print RPG miniatures, but it's way too expensive to justify the price.
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Have you seen how expensive the actual [figurines for table top RPGs can get?]
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409,464 |
Uh... Right... ... Yea! Fuck those guys for trying something! Am I right? Stupid people and their ideas for things!
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If I shit on a plate because maybe that's how we get faster than light travel, will you still be as enthusiastic? Both of these situations have prior research showing they won't work, it's a bad idea, it'll never pay off, it's a waste of time and energy...
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409,465 |
But isn't that what myth is all about? A retelling done over and over again? In different voices, from different eyes, through different mediums? I think that is exactly what is necessary to keep myths alive.
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I think a myth is a tale invented to explain a phenomenon that's either social or natural or both ie creation myth, first people myth, but I am likely wrong here as I haven't checked lately lol... I think youre absolutely right when we relied on the oral tradition to keep our tales alive but not so much now when there are other forms of passing along knowledge. It was just my personal opinion. Im a huge Stephen Fry fan except for his novels..I still feel The Liar was just a rewriting of The Magus!
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409,466 |
You're assuming the laser works with just the core of the station.
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It does, there is a book set after Episode 6 (one of many) where a Hutt works with a bunch of leftover Imperials to build a slimmed down Death Star. They describe it as looking like a lightsaber. If they didn't use shitty parts to make it, there is plenty of evidence that it would have worked.
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409,467 |
Chris and Dom need to stop letting Matt Bellamy wanking himself off over everything Muse put out, and bring back when they had decent bits in Muse songs. That's what's missing from their new stuff, and it's a right old shame.
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but without matt muse wouldn't exist. pretty sure he writes 90% of the music.
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409,468 |
This sounds super interesting. Is it mostly played straight because it sounds like it could be satirical at times? Does the king have some sort of supernatural control over radiation or does he just control the nuclear deposits? In other words, is there magic in this world or not?
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He does have powers like mind control, healing, hurting people with his mind and the like, as do some of the chimeras (the mutants.) It's not satirical but sometimes the violence is over the top in a fun way, very tongue in cheek.
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409,469 |
i agree that that's what happened in this sketch, but most of the other ones i love - which other ones have you seen that you felt dragged on?
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Yeah you know, looking through a bunch of them I'm realizing I haven't seen as many as I thought. Somehow the ones that I've seen are clearly not the popular ones.
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Apparently so, but ill be damned of I can remember who that is.
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At the restaurant that Travolta and Thurman go to in the movie, Buscemi is their waiter. And he is dressed like Buddy Holly.
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The Smithsonian. They have all of that and more. Also, do you have a local RenFair? What about a Medieval Times?
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We live in Georgia so we have been to renFairs, medieval times, and Disney/Universal, and DragonCon a lot.
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[No] The image I used previously is from [The Infinity Gauntlet] From the early 90s. Either Infinity or the Infinity Gauntlet or some amalgamation of the two story lines will likely end up as the big story for Thanos in the Marvel films.
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I was referring to the recent crossover event. I guess I didn't really say that.
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The thing I love about Superman is I didn't even need to click the link to know which song it was; mention THPS and that's the first thing everyone thinks of.
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The reason that I always think of Superman when someone says THPS is that it was the only song that played on the demo I had. I played the demo for months before I actually got the game. I hated that song by the end of it. Now I nostalgia a little bit when I hear it.
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I forgot about The Perks of Being a Wallflower and John Green, I guess I was focusing on sci-fi. :P. Anyway, those are some fantastic choices, happy reading!
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Ah, thanks! I've tried to get Ender's Game in the mix, but the school wasn't too keen on it... If you're looking for sci-fi, Delirium has a pretty cool sci-fi-the-government-is-removing-parts-of-our-humanity idea. I'm not sure if you'd call Brave New World YA, but it's an absolutely amazing read. 1984, too!
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I ADORE Murakami! That said, I spend almost as much time reading about what the book meant as I do reading the actual book. ;-) Love that he questions the constricts of our brains in its ability to interpret that which is only of "this" world. He is magical and surreal and bizarre. I've not yet read "Hard-Boiled," but consider it now added to my queue. Might I recommend "Kafka on the Shore" to you? It's truly one of his best works.
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Thanks, a lot of people have been recommending *Kafka on the Shore* in this thread so maybe that will be my next one
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And when they say "now you can play with this" what they actually mean is "a handful of industry specialists are in the early stages of developing this". Who titles this shit?
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They clearly meant "you can touch it" (which of to say "you" in a general sense), not that you personally can go to a store and get one.
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lol the beatles are the very definition of sell out pop garbage.
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Maybe in the beginning, but when they were doing massive amounts of drugs and being investigated by the FBI, I feel like they kinda stopped that.
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Stopped watching after season 2, but they always had good music.
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It was the first place I heard it. Very memorable scene, large in part due to the song.. But definitely the visuals too
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ha, I have read those too. I think this is the first time I have stumbled across someone who has read them too outside of amazon reviews. Really creative and imaginative stuff. Varley got sooo hung up on all the reproductive possibilities the centaurs had ...
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Loved it, even read one of his other works, the Ophiuchi Hotline.
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I think they will certainly fail. Even if their computers are faster, and more efficient, software is so important. If I can't get all the software I can get on other computers on to it, then I don't care how fast it is. You know? it's like, oh good, so I can run HP text editing suite, and web browser. If on the other hand, they can build it in such a way that it is compatible with linux stuff, and/or android stuff, then they might be on to something. History shows how important the software is.
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Did you actually read the article? This is targeted initially at servers. A company like Google/Twitter will be quite happy to re-write parts of it's stack if it can save a couple orders of magnitude off its power bill for their server farms. From servers, mobile is the next obvious jump -- if people can get a phone that lasts 10-100x as long per charge, store more, and is faster, they can forgive a lack of software if the core, important features are there. Certainly enough to jump start the market. Desktops are definitely trickier, but if you can get a good visualization/emulation software package, it could be enough to make the transition palatable.
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It was not even short sighted he just happened to make thee wrong decision. It was only a bad call because the game was a success. Taking the lump sum is better if it does not take off. But we would not be having this discussion about a game that did not take off. Pretty sure no one gives a shit if the rights to the mirrors edge plot were paid for in royalties or with a lump sum.
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> Taking the lump sum is better if it does not take off. What many people fail to realize when negotiating is that... a negotiation is a negotiation. The contract presented in front of you isn’t do or die, talk about it and amend it. I’m sure he could have had them change it to be a lump sum until a certain gross, then he’d receive royalties. And they’d be willing because his IP is their world. They’d only have to pay more if they were quite successful, which is an optimistic problem. He could have had his cake and eat it too
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I find him extremely overrated. Rap is not real music....... smh this sub has gone to shit
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You sound like a stereotypical grandpa in the 50s hearing Elvis or rock for the first time
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I honestly didn't realize it was Rated R. The gore was minimal, and the only "nudity" that I saw was a woman's ass.
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So many final deaths though. Not like the other recent flicks where everybody lives or is getting rescued off camera. None of that jumping out before the car explodes GI Joe horseshit on Fury Road. It's a rare thing in cinema today outside the torture porn stuff.
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My favorite depends on what day it is. Always in a different mood for a different album
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Yeah I agree with you there. Favorite Worst Nightmare is fantastic for those sad dreary ass days
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409,485 |
Jurassic Park? The movie is one of my favorites but I don't know that the movie was better than the book. Alcoholic Muldoon riding around with a rocket launcher and killing raptors, the kids trying to evade the T-Rex on the river, infiltrating the raptor's hive, the book was pretty awesome
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I would agree the book was awesome, but I much prefer the film in terms of outright execution.
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409,486 |
the rap grammys arent even televised and its the most popular genre out. there's zero respect
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While I believe it should be televised, if you mean it's the most popular genre overall, you're not even close. Most popular left out? Then I agree
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409,487 |
I only have one question from the series finale: Did Ari take over AOL Time Warner? In the trailers, it seems like he just took over Dana Gordon's studio job.
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[Spoilers](#s "John Ellis has put Ari as Studio Head, along with Dana, for one year just as a grooming period to take over for Ellis")
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It's funny. My reaction to the Asian guy was also an immediate "yep, that sure is a Black Ranger". I wasn't entirely sure about the casting, but they sure do have the look down.
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what is the black ranger vibe? borderline villian type of hero?
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The CGI actually looks pretty good. The movie's biggest problems were elsewhere.
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For me it looked like Uncanny Valley stuff. Put me off.
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Quiet Company from Austin. While they've won tons of local acclaim and awards I feel they never broke it huge. They tour the nation and even went to Europe recently but even here in the hometown the radio play just isn't there. Maybe they're a bigger deal in other states. In any case, they rock and Taylor (lead singer) is a hell of a songwriter. Here's a song:
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Hey 101x and 98.9 still play us from time to time.
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I've supported all sorts of law firms and they all use WordPerfect. Supposedly, it does a number of things faster or more efficiently for the legal industry. At least that's what all of the legal secretaries told me. As far as I could tell, lawyers don't actually type anything.
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It most definitely does! It's great for formatting pleadings in particular. I love it and wish I could just use it forever. :(
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409,492 |
Well he certainly lived up to the dick part of his username. It's nice to correct people, but you don't have to be a dick about it.
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I don't see how he was being a dick.
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409,493 |
It was definitely a callback to Elfangor ramming the Blade Ship, though I wouldn't think it implied that they survived.
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Well, we can't know that's what Katherine and/or Michael had in mind when they wrote the scene, which is why I ask. From a Watsonian perspective, sure it's a repeat of something that worked before, but we need to ask to get a Doylist one.
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>In addition, many people do have the funds to travel, but never do because they just never think of the opportunity or of going out of their comfort zone. Or because they have jobs and obligations and can't just go to China for a week on a whim.
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Who said anything about a whim? Plan it out 7 months in advance, or 2 years is need be.
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I found that for all of the chats I've ever had there was no information shown. I know the article says that Messenger defaults to sharing your location, but I just don't see how this can be the case - some of the people I was chatting with are not in any way security or privacy conscious to the extent that they would check settings like this. Perhaps something has changed in the app defaults recently?
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Or perhaps these people actually did change the setting. Facebook has made it 'easier' to change your privacy stuff, I remember getting some popup-like message about something privacy-related, could be that everyone gets the choice the first time they do something location-based.
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A step in the right direction but Trump said in the first 100 days that he plans to make it so people cannot become lobbyists for five years after leaving a government job. Whether or not it'll go through or is just pandering is unknown, since it clearly affects both sides.
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How many times has he promised things and then never followed through? You guys are in for a rude awakening if you think he's going to "drain the swamp".
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409,497 |
James Franco would be terrible to lose, but hopefully he is cooler than that.
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James Franco is probably on of the smartest motherfucker in hollywood. The first time i saw an interview with him at Howard Stern. It was like 1h30m of pure epicness. I already liked the actor, but i felt in love with the man ! This guy is awesome.
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409,498 |
Wait.... when did they change it? I watched this movie years ago when I was a kid, and I remember it being called Rocket Boys!
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The movie has definitely always been called October Sky, at least the one starring Jake Gyllenhal. I think there might be a book that the movie is based on called Rocket Boys.
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409,499 |
Can you recommend a reading app? Which did you use?
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i use Moon Reader + the amount of features can be overwhelming at first, but it is the best thing i have found.
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