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IT'S NOT ABOUT IT BEING EASY, IT'S ABOUT DOING SOMETHING DIFFICULT AND MAKING IT *LOOK* EASY BECAUSE YOU'RE DOING IT SO WELL!
I know, I get it. I clearly took it too far, poorly thought it out, I was going along the lines of not playing it well correlating to me not being played. Yeah, too far.
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I still think he is a better director and writer than an actor.
'I need u like Ben Affleck needs acting school. He was terrible in that film. I need u like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part. He's way better than Ben Affleck' Also ties in nicely with the mention of Cuba Gooding a bit further up.
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The Eternian characters, costumes, make-up and sets were all pretty good considering the source material. A movie set in Eternia could have been entertaining. And then they moved it to 1980s Earth and shat all over that potential.
But it had Tom Paris and Monica and Dolph Lundgren!
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It was in the morning? I wasn't paying attention. I didn't know a time was mentioned.
An exact time - down to the minute - was mentioned.
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I think it's great that they are cracking down on fake reviews. This is an actual problem when shopping for products as a consumer. But with books?? The only place where I think it actually is not an issue is with book reviews IMO. It becomes dangerous when book publisher X is selling a crappy book and sees negative reviews and amazon $ees the need to fix the "bogus reviews". There should be an easy way to verify product reviews are coming from legit costumers. Seems like an easy system could be implemented...
Uh isn't there a verified purchaser tag on reviews? Any time you review a product after buying it on Amazon you get one of these.
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France won't extradite, but they would be willing to file charges on behalf of the US. The US isn't thrilled with that idea because there's already been a trial and conviction, plus he probably wouldn't face any punishment for fleeing. So from the US perspective the issue is really a rich powerful man skipping bail and making a joke out of the legal system while trying to us international politics to evade all punishment. The courts just can't allow a precedent like that.
>The courts just can't allow a precedent like that. Well, isn't it what technically happened. Look who has been living free for 40 years and who's being made a fool every time this case is brought to attention. After a decade they could have thought, well, let's try to sue him in France, better put him in a french jail than having him run errand free without paying for the consequences of his action while we keep track of every country he visits hoping to catch him using our diplomatic strings even though he will already be out of said country by the time it fails. It's more important than the Californian justice system's (most likely not) immaculate record and esteemed pride.
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It's a limp Bisquick joke, Fred durst said "agreeance" at some point and everyone made fun of him.
I'll have to add that to my list of Fred Durst facts.
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page 441: >‘I like them,’ she said. ‘Wilem is a stone in deep water. Simmon is like a boy splashing in a brook.’ > Hope that helps. Now I think I may have to read the rest of that book again, now that you've made me pick it back up.
Thanks! It's one of the few books that I can reread more than once a year. Just a few months until the next one, too!
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Dom Deluise directing the gay dancers in BS. " Sounds like steam escaping "
what are you people doing here?!? this is a closed set! Screw you! I'm working for Mel Brooks!
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The key isn't storage it's a chip that claims to be a "keyboard" which then generates a string of "random" characters when you press the button on the device. Your computer accepts the keystrokes as if you had typed them on a second keyboard you just plugged in. EDIT: I have a Yubi key and this is how it works
No this is wrong. This is not like a Google Authenticator TOTP app that generates a 6-digit code that changes every 30s, and this just acts like a keyboard types them in for you. This is NOT that. This is a device that performs mutual certificate authentication with the website (I'm not sure exactly what crypto primitives, ie. RSA 2048 or ECDSA 256) so that the auth will fail if the website is not legitimate, ie. during a phishing attempt. Phishers are starting to fake the 2FA page these days, and victims just put in their 6 digit codes into these forms too. The key will be able to tell the domain is fake and not work.
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I think he's not refering to shifting an expense as if it was just moving a number. What he means is that with AWS he can buy "space" as he goes (operating expense), instead of having to spend $10k on a new physical server (capital expenditure).
Yes, exactly, they're both expenses on the ledger, but management seems to find operating expenses much easier to swallow than capital expenses, even if the operating expenses are more expensive long term. It's the difference between buying and renting/leasing a car.
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Should we post interesting new music that would get good discussion going....naaaaaah lets post this song that literally everyone knows and will upvote because of nostalgia
What? A song I don't know in /r/music? Here, have a downvote.
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None of them. People in the future are not ~~morons~~ gargantuan morons. Edit: Alright, fine, but you don't see *us* confusing the Epic of Gilgamesh for an actual religion.
There have always been morons, so why would there not be morons in the future?
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To me it would have to be No Country For Old Men, maybe I watched it when I was too young but I hated it more than any other movie I had seen before, but now I actually enjoy it and like it, I can even recommend it, I think it's a matter of age.
That is hilarious! I knew that I once had it in mind but couldn't remember the other movie that I did not enjoy very much the first time but fell in love with it the second watch, and No Country For Old Men was it!
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Helping the internet correct their grammar one comment at a time.
And their probably really appreciative to. I would of done it if i thought of it, cause its important stuff, and your doing good things.
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It was the fact that they were a top 40 band that they can command and sustain that large audience.
I was just confused because your post seemed (to me, at least) to imply current Top 40. Yes, relatively few musicians command $70/ticket, I can agree with that. But regardless, are most musicians supposed to? Are they supposed to be becoming millionaires? I think $15/ticket would still get them a good enough income even if it doesn't make them rich. Regular musicians putting food on the table has always been a struggle, even pre-Internet age.
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They probably had something in the agreement that gave a waiver for reselling. But I expect most people don't speak lawyer and didn't really think at first. All this is pretty dangerous stuff. It can be used for good but it can also trigger issues that are completely unforeseen for now even for specialists. For example some people in the 1000 genomes project were IDed just using their genetic information which suggests full anonymization is difficult. And these things are not even the problem with 23andme. They were just totally arrogant and considered themselves above the regulations for medical tests despite wanting to sell things as medical tests.
You hardly need to speak legalese to understand that. But yeah, obviously this was a hare brained scheme. You can't just sell medical screening tests all willy nilly. Not only is it illegal, it's unethical. Giving health information like that to an average consumer with no expert to interpret the data or advise them is dangerous.
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Roar! Why does reddit still think Radiohead is a "now" band. they formed in 85. Creep was released in 92. This song was popular enough that Beavis and Butthead did a bit on it. Pablo Honey in 93. For fucks sake, as a band they are older than a majority of you yellow shitting tit monkeys.
They released two incredible albums after that, reinvented their style in 2000, and have released consistently great material right up until last year. Maybe that's why people still talk about them..
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I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. A fingerprint uniquely identifies a person, like a username. This is useful for security applications, because it's like an ID badge, except you can't lose it.
I am asking why should we prefer identification methods that can be used to connect a virtual identity to an actual person, thus removing the possibility of anonymity from the system. May I remind you that most Western countries have a copy of your fingerprint, and since it's impractical to change it, using it as an identification method in some system would mean that the authorities can connect your virtual identity to your actual person, which is not that comforting. Usernames are much better because no such connection can be made involuntarily and they can be easily changed. Also I haven't heard that forgetting usernames was a huge problem for people, their entropy need not be that high.
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You were the one who responded to my post? An opinion based post on what I chose? If you didn't like it oh I don't know make your own?
What happened was the following: 1. You made a recommendation post. 2. I commented, surprised as to your choices. 3. You explained your position. 4. I explained my position. I don't know why you're trying to make this into some kind of attack, but you seem pretty defensive about someone just having an opinion opposite to your own - even when they specifically point out that they don't care that you have a different one. And I did make my own. I already mentioned that in one of these replies, actually. Thanks for paying attention.
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A dealer on abebooks has a copy for sale for $7.99 with free shipping, so it's not especially valuable, but it's a great book to read.
I was checking AbeBooks and could find my "exact" copy. But it's possible I just have another version or something. I posted it on tumblr too with pictures.
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He's just such a unique guy. I didn't mind in From Dusk Till Dawn, because he was in it from the beginning (and I didn't know him as a director, really, when I first watched it). But in Django it just really took me out of it, knowing that he had created the whole movie in the first place. It would be like seeing George R.R. Martin in a speaking role in Game of Thrones.
I don't know, I like Tarantino's cameos. The whole Jimmy part of Pulp Fiction and subsequent diner scene is my favorite part of the movie.
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If the biggest designer at Apple is now Jony Ive, they kind of have a problem.
The battery life isn't bad, the phone is just so superior you can't stop using it.
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I'd love to see you guys! Unfortunately, I'm stationed at Naval Station Great Lakes up by Chicago. Is there anywhere you post where you'll be playing, so I can keep an eye open? I love the sound, and when I heard grunge : I'll be honest, I thought "like Nirvana? No way." I'll be honest, I hear one of your songs off Burning Angel - and when I was done spanking it, I was like "holy shit, that was a sweet song in the background." It was the first time I ever looked at the credits of a porno.
tats hilarious. just found the song, it was the last track off "reset" from 2004; called Polyunsatiated. this might be incredibly boring for you, or it might pass 30 minutes for ya. its a tour video a buddy did for us about 9 years. the password is eyn. Jeff
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I've read three of the Dune books! Will definitely try Snow Crash out if its anything at all like RPO.
Give God Emperor of Dune a go. I wasn't the biggest fan but everyone else I've talked to about it loved it.
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*Infinite Jest*. From my journal, around the 700-page mark: "Will I be glad to finish this novel? Yes. Will I be glad to have read it? Possibly. Do I regret ever starting it? You bet." But I finished it, and now I know what all the fuss is about. And if you ask me what I think of the damn' thing, I'll be happy to tell you. At great length.
Haha I've seen that book at the bookstore many times and every time the sheer size of it just intimidates me and I walk away haha
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Sexy Beast - clever heist movie + ben kingsley at his apex. `Good to see Sneakers on here, though. ``My voice is my... _passport?_ verify ... _me_?''
That vault heist is Sexy Beast should have been on the list. Not only is it successful, it's completely original. Fantastic film.
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Crazy thing is Deborah Harkness is an incredibly talented historian, very important in her field. I very much recommend *John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature* and *The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution*
I'm not surprised, as the best bits of the book were the historical information and the research bits. You could tell she had done her research there.
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Does using your fathers rectum as a waste receptacle make me gay?
If you want to fuck a guy in the ass, that’s gay. If you are, you should be ashamed of yourself. If you aren’t careful, I’ll eviscerate you and then fuck your small intestine.
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19 is just a fan theory. The book says countless. And that still doesn't change who Roland is.
Roland is a powerful Knight, in an ancient order of gunslingers. He's powerful, proud, and regal. And as the adventure goes on, he gets more and more worn down.
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I disagree, at least with the Phantom Menace review which is the only one I've seen all the way through. He blows up a lot of insignificant things like they're central plot points. It's very similar to a CinemaSins video, though I will say it's not **as** nitpicky and he doesn't just make shit up to make a joke.
"Very similar" as in they are both trying to find flaws? RLM goes into infinitely more detail than CinemaSins.
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> I wasn't interested in The Count of Monte Cristo. ಠ You'd better be now or go read it again.
Interested, certainly. I read the first chapter or two when I was twelve and moved on to something else, but I've kept it on my shelf and I will most certainly get around to it.
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He's amazing. I'd forgotten about him. There's sort of a Marvel Universe feel to his characters--maybe he doesn't get much respect because of that?
Yeah at face value it seems like he's doing too many things at once, and it's usually about halfway through that everything starts coming together. I definitely see the marvel universe like comparison for his chracters, just with a lot darker underlying issues driving them.
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I always try to reduce my potential points of failure. Cable always trumps cable and adapter in my book.
You can get a straight cable from HDMI to DVI, so I really don't see why you couldn't get one for DP to HDMI. Might cost an arm and leg though.
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It has its similarities in design, but it's inherently different both in OS and specs. I wouldn't dare call this a clone just because the design is similar.
i didn't call it a clone, i just said it looks a lot like an iphone 7+ it's uncanny
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95% of the movies are within the blue band, however, the band has been smoothed a bit to avoid a bad looking graph.
> however, the band has been smoothed a bit to avoid a bad looking graph. Truth in Data Visualization
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I like it, and I think you have a good voice. But there's something about it that sounds a lil whiny. Maybe that's just me.
Yeah, some parts of that are a bit strenuous on my vocal range. I'm more suited to an acoustic guitar with a nice mid range.
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> The budget approach to the two Asus-built Nexus 7s certainly attracted price-conscious consumers, but they didn’t serve as great showcases for Android. Umm, what? Weren't the N7s considered two of the best tablets for their respective times? Even with the terrible NAND controller, the 2012 N7 was still a great tablet. Where is the writer getting this from?
I've got the 2013 N7 and it really is brilliant. Last year when it was released it compared favourably to pretty much every android device.
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While this is true, think about applications where this might fit. Old apartments and multi-unit dwellings not wired for fiber. the Fiber infrastructure may exist locally, but everyone in the dwelling is missing out on it. Installing a G.Fast node in the comm room of the apartment would allow all the residents to tap into near fibre speeds with the existing analog lines. As i mentioned in another comment, this is fantastic news for towns with older buildings who wish to roll out municipal fiber. More potential customers means a higher likely hood of project approval and a quicker ROI.
Yeah, I guess that's where this new technology would benefit the most from. I don't see ANY practical use for this outside of MDU's. While this question will probably get a few facepalms. I do have to ask, would it be more cost effective just to wire up some Ethernet cable (cat 5/6) to each room? It'd allow for some future proofing, or so I think. Or is just using a single pair twist better off, due to the possibility of an older buildings infrastructure?
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Gotcha - here in the US, the lease just covers the cars. Taxes are usually rolled in with a lease here but sometimes they are sneaky and try to leave it out to make the lease look better.
BMW and Mercedes have maintenance packages that you can add to a lease. Those are two of that I know of that are advertised by the car makers themselves. A lot of dealerships have prepaid maintenance packages that you can add to a lease but those are usually specific to that particular dealership. So it's not uncommon for maintenance to be part of the lease payment.
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You are right. another idea: small identifiable objects on the road (card board, glass bottle, rocks, plastic bag...). It's quite easy for a human to identify it and manage a decision (you will react differently if it's a card board or if it's a glass bottle).
> you will react differently if it's a card board or if it's a glass bottle. So will the computer
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DVDs didn't exist when the film had its 20th anniversary in 1991.
Thanks for making it technical. 40th anniversary in that case ya bum.
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They announced it months ago, they turned it on for everyone a few days ago.
There was also a few videos (game trailers?) that were at 60 fps on youtube a few months ago.
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Some of us have to ride to work in trashy old vehicles because reckless drivers keep smashing every car we put an MP3 player in.
Wouldn't the same apply to cars with normal radios in them?
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Yes, but it's not the same saturation, which is OP's (and Spielberg's) point. One or two westerns once every few years is not the same as the MAJORITY of television + dozens of films a year. Westerns HAVE changed - both in terms of amount produced, and in terms of the actual genre conventions. Indeed, the superhero films of today differ in terms of genre conventions when contrast to the superhero films of the last century. Superhero films are more popular now than they were 50 years ago. It's very likely we'll see things change. To say they won't is to ignore history.
I agree they will die down eventually. I was specifically referring to OP saying when will the "bubble burst" The bubble will not burst
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Your standup set in between when you're pontificating on other things that youre misinformed about? Elton John didn't write the lyrics for most of his songs, Bernie did. End of discussion, bubs. It's like you're trying sooioi hard to work around your original point instead of just saying, "oh, yeah, you're right." Exhausting, people such as yourself are. No worries though, hope you have a good day and I hope you catch Elton on his last tour. I'd like to see him too.
End of discussion? Reread this, I never once said he was a songwriter, just his songs had good lyrics. I made it a point not to call him a song writer because I was open about not knowing. I'm pontificating misinformation? Get the fuck over yourself, and learn how to correctly use the word "pontificate"
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Look up the backgrounds of the FCC leadership and you'll find the joint is run by a stooge. Tom Wheeler's background is in cable and telecom trade groups, an ISP and a satellite service.
Thanks Obama! (And your predecessors.) We need a president who doesn't appoint stooges for these positions. (And few enough congressman on the take so that the appointment doesn't get blocked.)
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My old boss used to refer to *Lifetime* as the *Man-hater channel*
It's known in my house hold as Psycho Lady Network. And my mother gets so offended.
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Idk, Marvel doesn't have the best track record with decent villains.
Pretty much every recurring villain is pretty good though. And by that I mean Loki, since he's the only one.
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I think it's pretty cool and funny in itself that the Ghostbusters are all women and Thor is their secretary, but the trailer showed a lot of crap derivative jokes. Also, I thought trapping ghosts was one of the coolest parts of Ghostbusters and now they just shoot them.
No, it was stupid to begin with. I'm glad to see a violent backlash. Enough with the gender swapping nonsense
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Touchscreen watches work perfectly fine as long as the UI is well thought out. AndroidWear is more about swiping in different directions and tapping the center or at least large area on the screen and it works great. It also has better voice commands and I can do things like send a text without touching it at all.
But why? With a phone I only have to use one hand to text or I can use my voice - with a smartwatch it takes two hands unless using voice
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-Not a movie exactly but the HBO series Band of Brothers and to a lesser extent the follow up The Pacific. -Generation Kill, also an HBO mini series. -Come and See. -Full Metal Jacket. -Jarhead. -All Quiet on the Western Front
Which All Quiet? The original or the remake with Richard Thomas and Ernest Borgnaine?
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Well she's wrong, I award her no points, and may God have mercy on her soul.
Can't say I understand the hype either, but to each their own I guess!
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expansion pack recently came out that is closer to that era.
Not at all really, the newest expansion pack takes place during the Boshin War. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was actually a general during the course of the main game. I just tend to read a lot of history every time a new Total War game comes out so I can understand the context.
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wondering if those plug in cords/power pictured are taxpayer subsidized or funded, i.e. is that free fuel?
Those who are built by private inidviduals, companies are partially taxpayer subsidized to build. Charger who belong to public buildings etc are funded by the taxpayers. Not sure about prices for using them.
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From the insane productivity the machines have given us. If we can automate the process of growing, harvesting, and distributing food powered by something renewable like solar the price will quickly fall to almost 0 as our robots become better in every way. It's sort of like asking where does the money from our military come from if our military doesn't make money directly? It comes from the productivity in other areas, then the taxes from that pay for the public benefit. It's just that process over and over and over again until it becomes so efficient in the necessary areas of life that the price will be basically nothing. We're far off from that in my opinion, but that's the idea.
Why would I invest in buying farm robots if what they produce is worthless?
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IIRC the book ends when a ship arrives at the island and the girl goes down the path to meet it. But I haven't also read it for years.
Ah I think you're right, but in any case it's her decision.
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Speaking technically too, the blu ray transfer is the cleanest, clearest one that I've ever seen.
You need to see the Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now Blu-Ray. Both are brilliant and awesome packages too.
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You mean the album he recorded on an iPad while on tour, and then released for free? How dare he.
Jesus, a couple of folks in here are just spoiled rotten. I didn't like Hallelujah Money or most of The Fall either (Revolving Doors and some others were pretty dope though), but to legit hold a grudge against an artist for having a couple of off efforts is insane.
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The real downsides are the cost, and the inability to use one in bed/on lap in laptop mode. A thing re Surface RT, when that was still around : had a very interesting adobe digital signature "bug" (you couldnt sign documents with your identity/CA issued cert).
Surface Pro 3. It's right in the name - it's not targeted at general consumers. They're welcome to buy it, but Microsoft's marketing touts its alleged productivity features. If I were a businessperson who traveled a lot, a Surface Pro would be my first choice.
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I feel like George R.R. Martin's,"A Song of Ice and Fire," series may be regarded as classics, once he finishes them, due to the fact that they don't just look at the fun side of the Fantasy genre, as LOTR does, for example, but also shows a side of rape, pure evil, bitterness, and a world without hope.
But all in very bad prose. Sorry, but I can't see it being treated as a classic.
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I'm glad that *Around the World in 80 Days* eventually turned a profit, I thought it was a great movie.
I absolutely loved that movie! I used to watch it all the time!
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Teamviewer, never used it, but I hear its good. Reverse VNC also works, if the users are fairly competent
I've used them all. The point with LogMeIn is to assist incompetent users, not competent ones.
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There's not one house or techno track on the whole album?
Techno would be a stretch but you could call it house. Nu disco, electro, bass, whatever it is is difficult to categorize. It Ed Banger.
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As opposed to the supercreative names we give kids like Sarah or Ryan or Jessica?
I'd rather give my kid a boring name and not treat them as a fashion accessory tbh.
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Entirely [correct] From the survey methodology: >501 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 501 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 312 who had no landline telephone
Right, so cells are included along with landlines. And the demographic info collected from all calls is used to ensure a representative sample, produce breakdowns, etc.
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It totally makes sense. I support physical libraries and print books but the efficiencies of a digital model for libraries are obvious and make it way more accessible for smaller 'braries. Seamless inventory management, new/rare books available instantaneously, no damage/loss/aging. I went from using my local library 0 times per year to checking out 5-10 books/month when I got a Kindle.
I prefer physical books myself. They just seem more magical in my hands than a tablet, but I guess part of the reason I don't like reading on tablets is because it hurts my eyes. However, in this growing age and decreasing accessibility, mobile makes* a lot* of sense. At the end of the day, I would rather be able to read than not at all, and I would rather modern kids had a way to access them at their convenience than not at all. Reading is important.
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I completely disagree. *Go Set a Watchman* wasn't a mere first draft. Harpee Lee must have edited it countless times before submitting it to her publisher. No author submits a work for publishing that he/she doesn't believe is a "gem." Again: why are people downvoting me? You shouldn't downvote something just because you disagree with it. *To Kill a Mockingbird* was just a sequel that was made to get the book published. In no way is it a "gem" compared to *Go Set a Watchman.* I doubt there are substantial literary flaws between the two. It's more that Lee's publisher knew one book would sell while another wouldn't. And a book doesn't need to be a "gem" to sell.
You're getting downvotes because (as stated in the article) Harper Lee never brought it too her publisher. It was found after her sister, Alice, had died and was brought by a third-party to the publishing company.
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Fun Fact: [Big Yellow Joint] from Arrested Development is highly influenced by this song.
That is great. Now I will always think of big yellow joint every time I hear Arlo Guthrie. What a show.
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I like the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. Just rather sad that it's so hard to find all the books.
This is the only correct answer. Hard to find? They're a set sold by Norton. My local bigbox bookstore has all of them.
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Transit, The Wonder Years, Set Your Goals, Four Year Strong, Latin For Truth, Daggermouth, Piebald, Stretch Arm Strong, and Title Fight don't normally write songs about girls. Can I still listen to them? Also, I take it I can't listen to The Beatles?
No you can't listen to any of those bands. You should listen to real music instead.
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Whether or not he's a good director isn't the argument at hand, though. We're comparing/contrasting him to Michael Bay, and he's a better director with far better intentions.
>. We're comparing/contrasting him to Michael Bay. that's exactly what I'm doing and I'm arguing their both bad directors but snyder is worse because he doesn't understand his own weaknesses. It doesn't even matter now, my post caused the tides to change anyway so my job is done.
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Schroepfer’s the CTO. Can anyone tell me, other than for the sake of symbolically busting Facebook's balls, why he's not ideally suited to field these questions? He's certainly no lackey, and completely immersed in data policy, privacy, and high level implementation.
My assumption is that if he says something wrong, the company can still avoid accountability and appeal any punishment.
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So... do you want to call him out on his charitable giving, or do you want to respect his right to keep his giving a secret?
Neither, I was just explaining you can agree with what someone does, but still dislike them for being a self-righteous dick. Doing the right thing doesn't mean you aren't insufferable.
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I felt like Allegiant was rushed. Like Victoria Roth had a deadline that she procrastinated and then was like "shit! okay uhh ya I guess i'll just kill her" Maybe I was just really bitter about what happened, but I remember after I finished it I just thought "seriously? thats how youre gonna wrap this up?". I was in love with the first 2 and then allegient made me angry so I have bittersweet feelings. I kind of want to reread them now though because its been awhile and I forget a lot of what happened
I've heard a lot of people say that before I got to the last book so that's what I was expecting but personally I enjoyed it. But maybe that was because the death and the experiment threw me off.
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It’s easy, twitter could disable bots entirely there’s no reason to be a bot on a social platform. They’re shooting themselves in the foot deliberately and now their paying for it. Also reddit has more bots than twitter because reddit is less strict on the bot creation process, so if you see bot estimates from twitter it’s at least double that on reddit. Why do they not disable bots completely? Because they can use the bot count to push user numbers, when finding advertisers the more users/bots you have the more valuable your social platform is. It shows really how much they care about you and it’s 0.
There are lots of reasons to have bots on social platforms. If you've ever seen data presented about communities on reddit, twitter etc, all that data has been gathered by bots, not by hand. Those people who have pulled all of trump's tweets to look for posting patterns etc used a bot. As for blocking them? That's pretty hard, or even next to impossible. They use the same api that 3rd party app developers make use of, and even if they blocked the api, you could still make a bot that interacts directly with the site in a browser.
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So at this point, the USB-C port is basically just the One True Connector. The only stuff it doesn't seem to do is desktop-level power delivery, analog signals, inter-computer data, and 16x PCI-E bandwidth.
> inter-computer data. Thunderbolt supports networking as of version 2.
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The jerk to hero trope is familiar. (see Iron Man) But I was surprisingly drawn into his origin more than most heroes. That desperation of losing what he thought of as his entire identity was compelling. My one complaint about the movie was that his training felt too compact. I expected a few more fails before he even got a spark of magic to work.
Got the same idea about the training. But it's kinda explained with him being a prodigy and the mountain thing had worked well as a sparkmaker, I guess.
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Did you like how The Social network looked? Winters bone? Same camera.... Well new camera, same look/company
That's all fine and good. People who know a lot more about film photography than I do (Chris Nolan comes to mind) argue that large-format film is the way to go for a mind-boggling visual experience, and I tend to agree. But that's beside the point. The real problem is that everyone on that set is sitting around watching dailies with 3d glasses, trying to get the 3d effect right. "Oh, lets do that take again, Gandalf's staff isn't popping enough" or some silly business. That's time that is taken away from focusing on acting, lighting, set direction, etc. and the movie will suffer for it.
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I just rewatched the end and didn't see anything aside from Robert Redford's character telling Natalia that the world would know everything about her?
the part about leaking shields files means that the world knows the superhero's identity and the avengers initiative(some where not even that secret Cap and Iron man are clearly not secret)
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Tell that to /u/mysticalchimp and /u/rhn94, who are still quite convinced.
I'm glad someone one reddit comments said it. must be true.... there are more micrometeorites than space debris. Also don't be a petty child
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*Black Lamb, Grey Falcon* by Rebecca West. It’s basically her memoirs of traveling through the Balkans right before WWII, hearing the folk tales and histories of the regions she visits and setting them down with commentary. She has a remarkable talent for the written word. It may not sound terribly interesting to some, but her thoughts are often insightful in a way I can’t help but find relevant to modern times. It’s a relatable lens through which to view an often alien landscape. On the long side, but I found my patience rewarded and I couldn’t recommend it more highly.
I snapped up a used copy of this at a thrift store in Indiana. Haven't gotten around to it yet, but I am looking forward to it ;)
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Wow, people pirating on BitTorrent have terrible taste in movies.
Or they feel that watching those films would be a waste of money, but are curious to see them anyway.
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Sheets doesn't hold up when you're abusing its functionality and performance to the limits, something that my friends in finance seem to really enjoy doing to Excel.
It's also really lacking when it comes to data exploration and visualisation. Sheets is targeting the 75% of users who don't use the more advanced features of Excel and they're doing it well, but Excel still has its place in any company.
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Katy Perry's "By the Grace of God" is the only non-single from PRISM that I can actually listen to without sighing. The album is just insanely mediocre.
Google Play just gave it away for free. The three singles are pretty good at least.
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Saw them in Chicago at the House of Blues! They put on a hell of a show!
Saw them a couple weeks ago in LA. It was probably one of my favorite concerts that I've been to!!!
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I'm a ~~Geologist~~ Biologist, and I'm lost, and that there skeleton freaks me out, and I'm scared of the dark, and -- Oh look a terrifying snake creature just popped out of that black goo let me touch it.
Yep Prometheus went full retard the moment the "virus" or whatever got disturbed. I guess it projects a dumbass aura around it. That's what really makes it deadly. If not for that people would react sensibly to fucking alien shit we don't understand and either quarantine/kill it.
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I named my son after me, however my middle name is Edward. So instead of making his middle name Edward also, I changed it to Ezekiel after one of my favorite literary characters Easy Rawlins from the Walter Mosley books. My mom always called my son Easy or Lil' Easy, but now she's passed away and no one has called him that for years. He's 11 going on 12 right now and I guess when he is 17/18 I will introduce him to Easy Rawlings so he can truly know why he's got that name
That's awesome. And that name is not only a nod to literature you enjoy, it can also be a way to keep your mom alive through her legacy. Thanks for sharing.
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What's the matter Henrey? You don't talk, you don't eat?
Cornuto contento, it means he's happy the way he is
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They could do a doorknob and it would be a billion dollar, critically acclaimed movie.
Yeah I know but that's not the point. What would you *like* to *see*...
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I wouldn't say they're pointless scenes. It's the original, complete, meant to be full movie. What is in theaters now is what he had to cut to appease WB cause they were worried people weren't going to see a 3 hour superhero movie.
No, he did it because he thought that. And they are pointless.
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What would be the best book by Kerouac to start with?
I started by reading The Dharma Bums, and that only happened by chance. I was a huge Lost fan in '08, and saw a book spine in the library that had the word "Dharma" on it. Now I wonder what my life would be like if I hadn't watched Lost.
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You let it happen. Just like the Germans in the 1940's.
And where might you be from, so that we have an equal opportunity at trashing one's culture?
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Why on earth would you want to leave comments on youtube? For your sanity - just say no to reading them at all.
Some of the channels I follow are small. I would like to give encouragement or suggestions if possible. As it stands, I can't do that at all because I refuse to participate in the google+ experiment that obviously failed.
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It's like looking at a family photo, that's how ingrained those faces are into my childhood.
Well technically it is. You have a father and his children, and his son-in-law; with two close family friends.
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I love Brett Dennen, Paolo Nutini, Violent Femmes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, They Might Be Giants, Ween, Lily Allen, Pink, Kennedy, The Libertines, Modest Mouse, Matt Costa, Alanis Morrisette, The New Bohemians, I could go on and on. sending good thoughts for your mom!
I feel bad that I didn't actually list any titles of songs. I love them all!
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He gave the whole thing from memory? With a gaping bulletwound? Damn. He WAS a bull moose.
Yup. He looked at the bullet wound, realized he wasn't coughing up blood and gave the speech anyways. Bully for TR.
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> Literally, audiences have changed so drastically that they couldn't handle that type of an ending these days. ಠ_ಠ
She'd get on the plane. I don't mean "handle" like their minds would be blown, and they couldn't eat sleep and respond to light or anything. Just saying it wouldn't make it past the first test group. We're way too used to the standard plot points with standard conflict and happy resolution. Sorry for the hyperbole.
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If David O Russell is still able to find work, I don't get why Mel Gibson can't. To be perfectly honest, it's pretty uncanny how similar these guys are.
Anti-Semitism is a direct route to banishment in Hollywood (or anywhere for that matter). This guy is definitely an asshole, but he didn't make public statements about a specific group of people.
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>1) les 2) Victor 3) jaco pastorius 4/5) flea and **Robert DeLeo** ftfy.
I've never been a big fan of stone temple pilots, so I can't say I'm took familiar with deleo. Some might scoff at me, but as a bassist I've always felt people forget or don't appreciate what McCartney brought to the Beatles especially on magical mystery tour and sgt. Peppers.