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409,700 |
I like [Jimi's] version of All Along the Watch Tower better than [Dylan's]
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Apparently Dylan liked it better, too. If you hear him play it live, it's usually closer to Hendrix's cover than to the original. From Wikipedia: "He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day."
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409,701 |
Awesome film, you don't need to be a fan of classical music to love it, be sure to watch Director's Cut
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Disagree on the Director's Cut. Having Salieri demand Constanze's sacrifice was gauche and crude and takes away considerably from the complexity of his character.
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409,702 |
I was unreasonably annoyed by continuity errors in the first movie regarding which unnamed tributes were alive/dead, and that they only used 20 of them for the cornucopia scene. I get that these characters were more or less extras, but I feel like these should have been basic details in getting the "games" part right.
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I just replied to the guy you’re replying to right now with my comment after I just finished the book a few moments ago, so you might be interested in reading that. I don’t know if I want to watch the movies after I finish each book, or to complete all the books then marathon all the movies. I’m thinking the latter so I can separate the two differing storylines. I never noticed the inaccuracies you mentioned when I first watched the movies but I feel like that will for sure mess the schema I got going on after finishing the first book; I don’t want to be mixing up movie and book details to the point I confuse myself
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409,703 |
I just finished Halting State last night, I was blown away, the only other Stross book I've read was The Jennifer Morgue which I didn't like at all. But I haven't been taken by surprise by a book like I was by Halting State since I read Spook Country.
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I loved Jennifer Morgue and the Atrocity Archives. But then I used to love H.p. lovecraft and I'm a civil servent so that might have something to do with it.
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409,704 |
So you’re not a resident of this country/have never even been here, but you’re an expert on how we should handle our own immigration departments? Sweet, got it. Out of curiosity where do you live so I can pretend like I know everything about what your leadership should be doing differently?
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Are you an expert in your own immigration departments? Do you even handle illegal aliens? ps. not a resident, been to the U.S. multiple times. And I don't think your leadership should be doing anything differently because they are on the right track. I'm from Hong Kong, we have overwhelming Chinese immigrants as well as illegal ones from south east asia. Our gov makes it even more easy for them then locals for: state housing, higher education, social benefits etc. I'm speaking here because I envy your immigration policy which puts their own people first.
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409,705 |
Adversity in a free world is normal, there are books that can be great hits even with piracy, it's just a part of life authors have to cope with. There Will be less authors true but the strong formulas Will remain so is natural selection.
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We’re all pretty stoked to see Darwin do his thing on you.
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409,706 |
What evidence? These few instances of bad practice was quickly fixed with free market backlash not the heavy hand of the fed. Do you think Google should be suppressing the free speech of say info wars? Or Breitbart? Antiwar.com? (Non mainstream sights) Because I'm more worried about Google than my Verizon not working.
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What you're seeing right now, millions of Americans up in arms, that is the market backlash! The markets don't want this, the ISPs do, how is that not obvious?
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409,707 |
Have you read a Strange New World? In that book, sex is embrassed by everyone. People are "shared" to provoke a sortve hive mentality, instead of couples, married and otherwise. Children are taught mentally and physically about sexual desires at a very young age. While I see where this could cause a lot of problems, I think its time us as a human race stopped shoving sex into the shadows. We've come a long way. Maybe just not take it as far as Aldous Huxley envisioned.
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The novel is called "Brave New World." The title comes from Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Prospero has caused a storm that's forced some travelers to his island. His daughter Miranda looks on other humans besides her father and Caliban for the first time since she was an infant and exclaims: >O wonder! >How many goodly creatures are. >there here! >How beauteous mankind is! O. >brave new world. >That has such people in't! The title uses the phrase somewhat ironically, as the Savage looks on humans outside the Reservation for the first time and is driven to suicide by what he sees.
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409,708 |
Just because you're ignorant it doesn't mean she wasn't famous. Even the most ignorant people in the world are bound to have heard "zombie" and "linger" at the very least.
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Just went and listened to both of them, and I hadn't heard Zombie but had heard Linger. Linger gets played a lot on a radio station I like. But I didn't get into 90's style music until recently, so I hadn't ever realized what band or song that was I was listening to. They seem pretty good. Guess they gained a person who is aware of them today.
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409,709 |
I'll have to go back and give it a lesson again. Same with Bullets. Three Cheers was always my favourite, I still listen to that one quite often.
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*Three Cheers* was great, too (Pelissier did that one as well, nudge, wink). "Thank You for the Venom" and "Hang 'Em High" are still my jams.
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409,710 |
> But that classic, heavily guitar based rock is pretty much gone. [Hey, hey now!] [What's that smell?]
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Shit didn’t these guys play some shows with Fu Manchu? I’d see that
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409,711 |
I thought that too, but I was questioning it the entire performance. A pre-recorded track would've been perfect, and her mouth matched up with lyrics every single time.
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She had a pre-recorded backing track but was then singing live over that. You would need a pre-recorded track in that situation as you need to breath.
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409,712 |
I would love for Ryan Reynolds to get another shot at a classic depiction of Deadpool. Hopefully Fox is realizing that the comics are really good source material and you don't need to fuck up characters.
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He would honestly do great at it if it's...actually Deadpool.
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409,713 |
The title seems to imply he built his own full cell tower/receiver not just mounted a well placed external antenna.
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How is a full cell/tower different than a well placed "external" antenna? Obviously they look different, but how is the technology different?
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409,714 |
Are you serious? What's next? How to check email. Edit: never mind... Looking at your post history you are a spammer. Few posts every so often.... What are you leading up to?
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I just tell the method. Why do you think me as a spammer?
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409,715 |
Serious question: What's wrong with people buying and selling tickets? Doesn't that pretty much happen everywhere else? Some guy wants to spend $15,000 to see the dead, and some guy wants $15,000 more than seeing the show, What's the issue here?
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Same thing that's wrong with all predatory capitalism, its not illegal just a dick move. Like selling food and water for a huge mark up in a disaster zone.
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409,716 |
They're famous for being one of the most successful bands of all time. They're infamous for their lead singer ad libbing lyrics from his heroes like an idiot
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You misunderstood his use of the word famous. He wasn't saying "plagiarism is why they became famous" he was saying "they are well known for plagiarism". Something that could not be true unless they were a famous, successful band (otherwise no one would be talking about them).
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409,717 |
I expect it is used more than once, just rotated daily (or whatever) like ApplePay is. This seems like quite a bit of protection to me.
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> I expect it is used more than once, just rotated daily (or whatever) like ApplePay is. According to the video on [this site] it generates a number good for only a single transaction.
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409,718 |
In the future do you plan to have 'sponsored' or paid playlist placement?
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Perhaps - if we could integrate it in a way which our users were happy with. We'd prefer to make our users happy than make money though so...only if our users are happy :)
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409,719 |
I always thought that it was "the Texas sun makes my back burn". I'm an idiot.
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I think you are right, and the YouTube track is wrong.
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409,720 |
You stilll ruined the fucking movie pal. Why can't you just you know...shut the fuck up like normal people
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This man speaks the truth. A spoiler is an annoyance that hangs over you throughout the movie. Just because in the final stages the spoiler is shown to be false doesn't magically make that annoyance from earlier go away. Whether true or not, a spoiler is the biggest dick moves you can pull in regards to watching movies. I simply cannot understand why anyone - especially if they *want* you to see the movie - would tell you a spoiler.
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409,721 |
Why would them force you into a specific editor? I teach two courses in which students code a lot, and I always suggest a set of editors but encourage them to try and choose whatever works for them. Even while I'm a super fan of vim.
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> I'm a super fan of vim. Vim is hot. It's the super fans that make it cool.
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409,722 |
Can I ask what the scene is? I've seen the movie but I can't remember an edge of my seat scene. (#s Or maybe the last scene??)
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Sure! It's the part where Detective Loki (Gyllenhaal) is driving to the hospital. Slick roads, blood getting in his eyes - I really felt like he wasn't going to make it. The cinematography in that scene is beyond masterful.
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409,723 |
I have an image of each character and setting in my mind while reading the story. If I watch a movie adaptation later, I'm sometimes put off that the movie doesn't match the images I remember. It seems that a lot of books I've read have been adapted to film.
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This is exactly how I feel, I couldn't watch the movie adaption of Gatsby (among others) because I had grown so familiar with the imagined appearance of the characters in my own head.
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409,724 |
Whenever I consider the fact the Salinger was in his early thirties (late 20's maybe) while writing this book, I'm amazed that he can still reach back to that part of the youth experience. I think a lot of us go through that but at some point you grow beyond it and can't understand a lot of the insecurities and angst from that time. Salinger was channeling it like he was still experiencing it himself.
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His writing slays me. But when I watched the documentary "Salinger, I realized--and was disappointed by--how deeply flawed he really was. I had always chalked his reclusiveness up to the notion that he was an eccentric hermit who was too creatively sensitive to live amongst regular people. But here's what I learned from the documentary: He was really just an asshole.
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409,725 |
Clearly not since I pointed out an oft-repeated comment on this sub. I feel your insult was the exact opposite of what you actually meant to say.
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I was actually making fun of reddit comments for being more of the same by "insulting" you for being new. And yeah, it's clearly not working. I'll just delete it.
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409,726 |
I've never seen a poem I wouldn't enjoy more with music.
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Then you don't really like poetry so much. It's cool. I don't either. But if you think poetry is always better off with music that just means you prefer songwriting to poetry.
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409,727 |
Del is my favorite rapper of all time. Another great song by him.
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Yeah, and I think his voice is pretty much the perfect "rap voice" if that makes any sense.
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409,728 |
These people are only liberal and compassionate as long as it helps them feel good about themselves. They might love the theory of affordable housing, for instance, but would be frothing at the mouth if you proposed putting it anywhere near them. To wit, Palo Alto is ground zero for the Bay Area's affordability crisis. Umpteen jobs, no place to house anybody--it's all someone else's responsibility. I read Stevens' tweets and he's right about everything he said.
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"Just live in this closet sized apartment. The issue isn't space, it's space management!"
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409,729 |
Except that they're planning on bringing Wally into the show.
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Are they? I haven't seen anything about that and there hasn't been a mention of Wally at all in the show. Besides, why does it matter if there's one Wally on TV and one in film? Superman Returns came out while Smallville was still on air. Plus there's gonna be 2 different Quicksilvers for X-men and Avengers.
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409,730 |
Doesn't he have a disease that has a simple cure, yet he refuses treatment because of his religious beliefs?
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He does have some kind of health issue, and as a Jehovah's Witness (seriously) he will not get blood transfusions or donated organs. There may also be other medical restrictions that he follows. At one point some years ago he was kind of hobbling around with a cane but he does seem to be better now. Someone please correct me if I have mischaracterized either Prince or the JWs. P.S. Prince is the shit regardless of how batshit he is.
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409,731 |
Know the author of Stronger Than Time? I can’t quite seem to find it.
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I think its Patricia C. Wrede. It's based on Sleeping Beauty. But the prince messed up.
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409,732 |
Sorry, but screw you for undermining my attempt to do a good deed for someone.
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I'm not undermining anything, it's got nothing to do with me. Next time, maybe you give to a library. Also, if you're going to tell someone to fuck off, don't be sorry about it, just tell them to fuck off.
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409,733 |
Are they also talking shit about his band? with the little " this music video for 'The Moth & The Flame' actually not even cheesy for once"
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yeah...the wording on that could have been much much better, like, they could have just NOT written *actually not even cheesy for once.*
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409,734 |
That is correct. And Eddie's son Wolfgang has taken over bass duties. So it's 3 Van Halens and one Lee Roth. Pretty accurate name.
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I'm not really a Van Halen fan, but even still I don't want to think about that.
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409,735 |
Insurance rates will not magically go up for manually operated cars since it's calculated based on risk and risk will not go up just because autonomous cars are available. It's just another Reddit circlejerk fantasy.
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Statistically with more autonomous cars around, manually operated cars will be less likely to be involved in accidents than they currently do. Autonomous cars will have dirty cheap insurance compared to what people pay now.
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409,736 |
But they were fighting in the metaverse and the nuke was in reality.
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I think there was the implication that he didn't know if it would work. It was untested; If you remember when he wrote SnowScan on the life raft with Fisheye and friends, he was working with something he couldn't see. I'm a programmer, so to me that'd be a little scary. That's what I got out of it at least. Concerning Y.T.'s Mom, I think the Feds just let her go when they got Y.T. I don't know why she didn't freak out that Y.T. was gone so long, or why they'd let her go. I'd call that a plot hole, particularly since Enzio was worried, at the end, about Y.T.'s relationship with her mother. None of that is really explained though.
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409,737 |
When I was 10 we had a guy come to our school and tell us the Earth was going to be dead in 20 years. I am 37 and it is still here. Things like this have made me skeptical about the time table. I have heard everything from we have 10 years to 100 years and frankly, I don't know what to believe. I am all for cleaning up the planet, but don't give me an inaccurate timetable to scare me into helping you.
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We should have thousands of years, climate change doesn't happen over night (it can but not with what we pump into the atmosphere, a big enough volcano, giant space rock, and others could). We can and should reverse what we have done so far to earth, if we use as much energy as we have over the past 100-200 years for the same amount of time or less, we should be able to fix it in 100-200 years. But that should not keep us from leaving, sending out a colony to lets say mars so they can live, and if humans on earth fuck it up, then they can return in the future to fix it again.
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409,738 |
Pretty much every major holy shit moment was better in the books. The only give and take aspect is the characters.
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The books are also full of tons of unnecessary descriptions and passages that don't advance the plot, and sometimes don't even touch on some of the main characters.
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409,739 |
There's great free software called Calibre that converts ePub to mobi.
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Yeah, but that adds another step. Simple is good sometimes.
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409,740 |
no. bad news! synths are awesome. id hate for the Killers to take the Post-Grunge route. blech
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I'm of the opinion that Sam's Town is their peak, so a nudge back in that direction is A-OK with me. But yeah.. synths are awesome.
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409,741 |
I find the album with the best overall consistency is actually Undertow. Every track is oozing with attitude and a feeling of frustration with the world, and musically, its probably their most "metal". Aenima probably has some of their best individual tracks, like Stinkfist, Forty Six and 2, Aenima, and "H." But Lateralus is the go-to album for diversity, showing a lot more of their range as musicians. You really cant go wrong with any of those. Just DO NOT start with 10,000 days or Opiate. Not that you couldnt possibly enjoy them, but many agree with my opinion that these are their "least best of".
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That's interesting- as a die hard Tool fan I started with 10,000 Days. But that might've been easier for me because I first started listening to A Perfect Circle before Tool. I feel like The Pot, Vicarious, Jambi, and Rosetta Stoned are great "gateway" tracks to Tool, plus you get the emotional side from the title tracks and Intension.
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409,742 |
to be was a noun before it was a verb?
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I guess you're referring to the 'are' in "You're"? I admit I didn't notice it myself previously (and had to read the sentence twice to spot it!), but the 'are' there is just an auxiliary verb to make the present continuous form of 'critique' - 'are critiquing'. I hope that would make it an exceptional case. :)
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409,743 |
He doesn't *have to*, but it would be foolish to think that the show won't influence his writing.
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The person I replied to said "Martin has to go along with the events in the show." That assertion is what I was replying to. I wouldn't be surprised if it influences his writing, but GRRM doesn't have to base his books off the TV show, which is what that person I was replying to was suggesting.
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409,744 |
Me and my friend used to share a Spotify account but only one of us could be listening at a time and if you logged in to the account when the other was listening, you could actually select the music to play on their device. Scatman was the go-to whenever we would notice the other person listening. Throughout the day of listening to music I knew at some point I'm going to hear Ska-badabadabadoo...
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Hahaha I do the same with a friend but it's electric 6 gay bar, that guitar tune at the beginning is an instant for fucks sakeee
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409,745 |
The lack of the one button menu in the top corner. The (now fixed) lack of a "view all history" button (i may have just not noticed that it has been there all the time but i had to go to the history by using the favourites menu). Another thing the new ui lacks is the access of subcategories of menu categories. Once i got used to it most of it was not a problem, but i still hate the fact that there is no option to place the menu in the top left corner. It is actually not that bad of a ui bit the old one was much simpler in my opinion. Thats why i called a fuckup
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This brings back the old menu, and also gives you the addon bar. The difference between firefox and chrome is that firefox has always given you the option to completely ignore their design standards and make your own chaotic mess of a toolbar. Until they remove the ability to do this via extensions or otherwise, I'm not gonna complain. I don't think australis is that bad, even though I would like to be able to move the menu somewhere else (although that might screw with the customize dialog they made.)
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409,746 |
* Animal Collective. * Neutral Milk Hotel. * Modest Mouse. * Thelonious Monk. Although, Dan Deacon has been blowing my mind lately. Not only his albums, but his live shows as well. Actually his live show transcends words.
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Dan Deacon is a fucking genius, Wham City is such a good song. Spiderman of the Rings is an amazing album.
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409,747 |
Read this collection a few years ago and it was amazing. Can't wait to read it as the author intended.
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Have you read his other collections? I quite like Fitzgerald as a novelist but have found his stories quite mediocre. I think the collection I read was called 'the diamond as big as the ritz', maybe it wasn't his best, however.
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409,748 |
Can someone please explain to me how this feature is useful? It makes sense on phones with their limited screen space, but I can't think of a single reason why I would need more desktop space.
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I don't know how you're even able to work without them. Unless you're running a couple of Windows, and even then, it gets too cluttered. I have a terminal and IDE on one, Firefox on another with related windows, file management on a third, etc. But Ubuntu has so many more features like windows spread and searching for applications, it's an entirely different workflow than on Windows.
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409,749 |
It is kind of humorous that so many people are complaining that the band hasn't reverted to its old sound when an overwhelming majority of people who now know and appreciate the band never would have discovered them had they not taken a different direction under the production of Danger Mouse. I'm not saying that it's an invalid opinion, but you can't expect the band to bite the hand that feeds either.
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Exactly. If you asked people who they were before Brothers not very many would know (at least around here.) After Brothers came out they became pretty huge.
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409,750 |
Nope. By posting his dislike he's in the majority. Unspoken, but definitely more people dislike than like twilight
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I read all the twilight books for the purpose of autopsy. I don't hate them, because hate is too close to love. I have a mild simmering apathy for the series. My niece was thirteen and loved the books. Her father and I laughed about this fact. Then one day she realized that everything about the characters, plot, and the books was awful. Her tastes have matured slightly.
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409,751 |
"Quirky, life-affirming mentor and sex object: almost always a woman. Apply liberally to indie cinema." Problematic? Very.
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Take "quirky" out and you've described every male character in a romance story for women. How is that problematic?
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409,752 |
I never really found House of Leaves to be a horror novel (with the exception of the first few hundred pages), but I found it to be a really interesting study on the nature of interpretation, more specifically on the interpretation on something that may not have any meaning, and the horrors of finding something that's pointless. I say House of Leaves is much more of a satire on interpretation (hence the "dissertation" from Zampano) rather than a horror novel. Nonetheless, props to Danielewski.
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That's actually the best way to look at it. As a sattire or parody.
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409,753 |
> I don't think people went to these websites, read these stories, and decided that Trump was their man because they got fooled. That's exactly what they did. People may have a slight or large bias towards something and sensationalized bullshit like this feeds into that.
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The main reason I went with trump over clinton other than her being one of the worst human beings in the entire world, is because of how much smear tactics were going on in ALL of the news/media and how incredibly biased they were. They would just lie about things said, use misinformation on others, and constantly try to dig up dirt on the guy to make him look worse than clinton which we know now is basically impossible due to her being one of the least likable humanoids.
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409,754 |
I use the same method as him. It's not a three part process... I can drag files directly to my Android phone by plugging it in. No syncing, no account, no credit card, no sign up, no bullshit. PowerAMP adds the files to your library automatically. On PC, I create playlists in VLC. I can open any playlist immediately. If I want to listen to an album with iTunes, it has to load up every album I have and it takes long because there are so many files. PRO TIP: Create playlist files in VLC. The files will open up to the first song and start playing immediately. VLC loads up in a fraction of the time of iTunes.
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> If I want to listen to an album with iTunes, it has to load up every album I have and it takes long because there are so many files. What do you mean? Are you talking about just opening up iTunes to play some music? If so, how many freaking songs do you have that's making it take more than a few seconds to open and play?
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409,755 |
I don't know much about crypto currencies but could they somehow incorporate one of those @home things (like SETI or folding) so you'd mine coins but also put your computing power to good use?
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That would seem to be the obvious thing, the workloads they're doing right now are basically busy-work as I understand it, having the thing doing protein folding or something in place of the busy-work would be a win IMO.
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409,756 |
Man of Steel is not completely horrible. I still really love his first flight scene.
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I disagree and think Man of Steel gets better with every subsequent viewing
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409,757 |
The difference between reading a comedy and a porn is that laughter is a natural emotion. Sex, naturally, happens in a relationship, not used as a tool for self-gratification.
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> Sex, naturally, happens in a relationship, not used as a tool for self-gratification. wut
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409,758 |
You know that there is a tremendous tradition of religious philosophers, right? They weren't stupid, and found plenty of convincing reasons to believe in what they believed in. I don't agree with their conclusions (or sometimes their premises), but that doesn't make them silly or blind or whatever.
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Their convincing reasons were usually "Look at the sun! Thats crazy! Must be God." "Look at how the universe interacts! That doesnt happen by chance! Must be God."
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409,759 |
Gaming will change entirely once we have sophisticated AI. I imagine we'll see more open worlds where the players construct everything via generative design and AI assistants. The goals will change from tasks AI are good at to those AI can't tackle as easy, but can assist on. Those which require emotional and creative input.
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AI-generated worlds, optimized based on learned aspects from actually playing the game, has the potential to be incredible.
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409,760 |
Cops are the modern day slavers. And they are also the ones that are so against decriminalizing nonviolent offenses
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Cops are mostly enforcers. They'd be like the mercenaries you send over to Africa to acquire more slaves for plantation owners. The slavers are everyone (apart from cops) who are more than happy to pay cops via tax dollars to lock more people up. Everyone who supports "tougher on crime" city councillors. Etc, etc.
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409,761 |
>one should pay due attention to the fact that he rails against the compiler, not the person who wrote it. Right, it's your book that sucks, not the writer. Please. This type of tantrum throwing is simply counterproductive. Someone can be both critical and mature at the same time. The fact that you think shaming and insulting people raises productivity is pretty telling.
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I don't usually step into these, I'm a writer of simple programs for my own use and amusement and not a real coder, but I do a lot of meat space things that involve making and building things that are very mentally and physically challenging. If someone contacted me who has wasted a lot of my time and energy because their poorly constructed tools required me to keep rebuilding something or I had to change my blueprints/work schedule repeatedly because they failed to deliver their materials or equipment on time I'm not going to be all nice and politically correct about it, once your time is spent you can't get it back and people who waste it are the assholes.
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409,762 |
Yeah, that's true now that you mention it. I'm in the states...I can understand Damon 99% of the time otherwise though haha
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Yeah I can hardly understand him in this either, but for some reason maybe that's what makes me love it so much.
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409,763 |
The solar cells are still toxic at the end of the day....so good job! We can now have more cheep toxic goods on the market! Dumbass.
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>common food additive. >toxic. Please, explain how we haven't all dropped dead yet.
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409,764 |
Route optimisation (the traveling salesman problem) has been a thing for ages. They're not the first in game by a long shot - we have been doing this where I work for at least the last 5 years, and we were late to the party. Plus what they're describing as their 'bee algorithm' is a fairly standard methodology. I'm not convinced they've invented anything here.
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The article doesn't claim the algorithm is new, just that it is the basis for this new company's algorithms. Also the article claims UPS and Fedex already have their own route optimization tools, but that DHL does not (what???) and this startup is initially talking to DHL. For me the breaking news here would be that DHL is still planning out all its delivery routes by hand.
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409,765 |
Robert Kazinsky and Duncan Jones just had a really good Warcraft panel at PAX East. Hear's the VOD [(between 5:43:40 and 6:44:50)] ) edit- The PAX twitch channel edited the panel into a [hightlight] so you don't have to go through the whole broadcast and pick the precise minute
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How can anyone not believe in this movie after seeing this panel?
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409,766 |
>Sure thing racist whiteboiii. Now see that shit right there is uncalled for. If someone called you "black boy" itd be a whole fucking thing all over social media and the news. Not cool and very ignorant. Don't be part of the problem. Be a part of the solution.
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I don't think it would, because people call black people and boys black all the time. They do it on the news you ignorant man. In fact they refer to people by color quite frequently, it's only now that whiteness is being associated with negativity that white people are freaking out.
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409,767 |
That doesn't matter. Twitter is popular enough that it will be around for a long time. Worst case, it will just be sold and someone else will take it over... Remember, MySpace still exists.
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The brand exists, but it is hardly accurate to say that MySpace; anything near the incarnation it was; exists.
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409,768 |
Is there a reason you're straying away from a hip hop influenced sound?
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that's funny, i don't feel that we are. most of the rhythms/drum programming on the new album are definitely hip-hop inspired, maybe even more so than shrines. -cr
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409,769 |
Add everything to your cart in the app that you want, then open Amazon smile in your browser and your items will be there, waiting for you to check out!
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This is exactly what I do - add to cart on mobile, but checkout through Smile on my laptop.
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409,770 |
Perhaps: But did you pay attention to *which* materials are not allowed in?
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Honestly making sure these guys have access to high literature would be really low on my list of give-a-fucks. [Actual original Guardian article] One of the Censor's reasons = shouldn't help them learn English, which I can understand
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409,771 |
Why do people keep saying this? The extended cut didn't do anything but make a boring movie 30 minutes longer. All the primary issues with the movie aren't fixed by the extended cut.
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Thank you for eating that bullet for the rest of us, because I wasn't about to watch it.
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409,772 |
I am the artist in this video. Visit my flickr page:
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This is a weird question, but do you hit up any music festivals? I would pay to have my face painted crazy for Bonnaroo. Honestly you could rent a booth there and charge people for crazy face painting. If you choose to do this please let me be the first customer, that is all.
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409,773 |
how could you hate Tarantino Movies? have you seen them?
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One of my friends doesn't like them either, what he doesn't like about them is that he thinks Tarantino tries too hard to play everything as a trope and doesn't have great plotlines. It's hard to bring one Tarantino movie down to a single sentence. Example, 'Toy Story is a workplace buddy movie about two opposites who learn to work with each other'.
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409,774 |
this is exactly what's wrong with modern country. Hootie does a cover of a fairly new song and everybody loves it, but you never hear the original version, or anything else by Old Crow Medicine Show which is a much better band than Darius Rucker. It's all about whatever face they can show, and not about actual talent.
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I've heard the original. I think Rucker is a much better singer. I guess it comes down to opinion though. I do like the Old Crow Medicine Show's style more, but the voice just isn't there for me. Just to be clear, by and large I despise the new twangy crap, but I think Darius' version is respectable.
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409,775 |
> when you can get light hanging in midair let me know. [Timely]
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Any idea what happens if you put an object (read: my hand) between the projector and the intended image?
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409,776 |
Would there a way for me to preorder with paypal? Didn't see the option on the site, would love to preorder!
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I think you can via the Indiegogo campaign, but not the site: Sorry I guess my site doesn't take paypal...
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409,777 |
Yeah but can you name a single Alice in Chains song where there weren't harmonized vocals?
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Don't Follow, Nutshell, Dirt, Junkhead, King of The Kats, Fear the Voices. Also Black Gives Way To Blue. It's rare, but it happened
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409,778 |
There is no such thing as a random number generator.
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Actually, if you point a flashlight at a camera you can ostensibly get true quantum randomness. Aside from that, pseudorandom number generators are still useful.
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409,779 |
My senior year in high school (2007) was when I really began reading more. I asked my English teacher for reading suggestions and he suggested this. I absolutely loved it but I think if I read it now I'd definitely more fully understand the messages being discussed here.
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I would definitely recommend you read it again! I just can't believe it took me this long to discover this book. Better late than never though!
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409,780 |
You have a lot of gall to say this since the only posts I can even find from you in here are gushing over Radiohead and Porno for Pyros. I wouldn't be surprised if YOU were a Creed fan, frankly. Also music is entirely subjective and what sounds great to some doesn't to others.
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No no no butt munch. I said that OK Computer was a great album. But am not really a fan of their later albums. Porno for Pyros, well you got me there. And I can assure you i dont listen to creed. So do me a favour and go fill your mouth with shit.
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409,781 |
You mean like.... John Carter? Which Pixar did? Yep, that was epic.
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Close. Andrew Stanton made the film. He is best known for working for Pixar, however, for John Carter he worked for Walt Disney Motion Pictures. Pixar didn't really have anything to do with it.
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409,782 |
FWIW, a movie franchise about pirates that actually turns a profit is a once-in-a-century phenomenon. Sure, this is getting kind of ridiculous, but if you compare the number of pirate movies to the number of Westerns, it doesn't look so bad. Kids love pirates. They're right up there with dinosaurs, sharks, and talking animals.
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I know plenty of things that turn a profit. That is what I was saying they make them because they know they will make money. They need to make movies based on "Will this be a good movie? Will it be worth someones 2 hours of life to see this." not "How can we get this to make the most money?" Like they did with ironman 3 they included tons of good things in the trailer Extremis, the mandarin hell even his new armor. Then they completely botched everything up making Extremis all wrong, the mandarin (IRON MANS BEST VILLAN) into a literal joke. Seriously?
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409,783 |
Soooo ... those tapes would allow a full backup of a human?
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Only the DNA, so, no. Without the memories it won't be the same person.
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409,784 |
I left World of Warcraft back in 2007 with the intention of never looking back. I hadn't played for close to 7 years when I logged back in to free-play to re-affirm why I left in the first place. I'd call that "looking back".
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Right, but while a lot of people will say "I left, and never looked back," you never hear people say, "I left, but then I was uncertain, and I looked back." Sure, people reconsider all the time, but they never refer to it as "looking back."
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409,785 |
A little girl says fuck it to typical courtly life for a woman and just does her, like the only Lady Knight a generation before her. Her parents are super receptive to this and support her efforts. She grows up training to be a knight in a (literally) all male training school and gets tough as hell, while still maintaining her compassion and her version of femininity. It's actually a series, rather than a single book. The first two are arguably the best though. They made me feel like anything was possible and that nothing was wrong with being girly and also wanting to kick ass (which I'd previously felt pretty weird about). edit: grammrawr.
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I don't know what it is but i kinda want to read it now.
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409,786 |
I’ve been wanting to do this too. Any more recommendations on Netflix?
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There’s a telenovela set in a Spanish boarding school, lots of intrigue and subplots. It’s in Spain Spanish, which is different from Mexican Spanish.
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409,787 |
That's the least pressing change made from the original work. To be fair, the casting role of Tom Cruise was probably done because he's about the same height as the character from the novel.
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I know, my comment was tongue in cheek. Love the height joke, made me lol. It looks like the jackets, their connected weapons and Rita's axe are intact but nothing else. What a shame.
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409,788 |
SPOILERS, lots of spoilers everywhere. Please, stop sending this type of threads where you show the final scenes, thanks.
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How would you know any of these are final scenes unless you've seen the movie? That's like watching a trailer and knowing that they spoil certain parts because you've already seen it. No context = no spoilers.
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409,789 |
*Grapes of Wrath*. Everything else is speculative fiction to some degree or another. Go for the "one of those things that is not like the others." Change it up a bit for the contrast.
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Good point, it looks pretty interesting. I've been really into the classics lately.
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409,790 |
my place of employment blocks this link (among many others), but i cannot wait to listen to this. but! do they have as catchy titles to songs as Minus the Bear has?
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No... But there is an outtakes track on their last EP which is titled "That Was a Bunch of Shit" that's pretty fun to listen to.
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409,791 |
I expect this to be too slow to be done in real time. Maybe a thing that builds it before you play or as a tool devs use.
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It will improve over time, if it does get implemented it might become real-time within 10 years.
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409,792 |
Hi Mr. Goodkind, I was wondering how do you look at the situations in America happening currently? Such as the elections; from a standpoint of truth and reason. It seems to be increasingly difficult to seek the truth in our world with the many sources, agenda's, and TV persona's. How do you go about establishing the reality of the people behind the curtain in these regards so you can be true to your ideals? I find it increasingly difficult to distinguish between the truth, and what people are trying to make me believe by fear or misplaced hope. Thank you Mr. Goodkind for your novels and your thoughts.
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I think you're right. The internet has given us an endless stream from which we can reach in and pull out information, but the currents are strong and there is simply so much material passing along that stream, having the timing and putting in the effort to get the best bits is exhausting. The internet has certainly provided us with access to information but now that we have this infinite access, sifting through it all could easily become an entire life's preoccupation. I oscillate between being transfixed on current events and then being utterly numb and disinterested to them. The night of the election, for example, I was sound asleep as the (surprising) votes began to roll in.
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409,793 |
War Horses was great but I could never connect with the horse.. If they did it like The Englais Patient but put in more battles and more equine misadventure it would have been more watchable but that's not why you go to the cinema.. Tobey Magiure after doing the seabiscuit could have been the actor and kristen dunst would have played the lady instead of the watson girl because there would obviously be more chemistry after the spiderman films. War Horses is great all the same.. Every film would be better if you could choose favourite actors to replace the other parts that weren't as good but that's life. In the first war you couldn't choose your enemies either.. It's a great film all the same
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I did not see War Horse yet because I really don't care about horses and I heard that this movie is more about the horse than the war
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409,794 |
I love how reddit teaches multi-billion dollar companies how to do their business
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I love how Reddit assumes that just because you're not a multi-billion dollar company, your ideas are meaningless.
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409,795 |
I was just curious. I've seen a lot of people really irritated by "Tool fans" and maybe I _am_ one of the annoying ones and just can't tell. lol. To me though, I think that people are just people. Every band has a few idiot fans and I've never noticed Tool as having more idiot fans than others. Maybe they do throw out weird, cryptic messages in their music but it's kind of their thing.
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It feels to me like people who have heard that Tool fans are assholes are way more annoying than the fans themselves. As soon as you identify yourself as a Tool fan, the shit starts. It doesn't really matter if you were being annoying or not.
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409,796 |
How do we know that these are waves from something so far away? As I (in a very limited way) understand this experiment, the lasers basically detect stretches and compressions in the Earth itself. Couldn't that be caused by the moon, or any other body exerting a gravitational pull on the Earth?
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I think the important part is they have very seperate research centres (LIGO has two in the USA and Virgo has one in Italy). Each detecting the gravitational waves. From the difference in the times the events are detected at each research centre they can make an approximate calculation of the distance to the event. They can tell the type of event they are measuring due to the actual measurements themselves, the original event that was detected was two black holes circling and subsequently colliding with each other. This turns up as a pretty distinct reading which was mathmatically predicted for that type of event. I'm no expert, that's for sure. Just been following majority of the press releases.
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409,797 |
I was seriously disappointed in Interstellar. I was super stoked to see it then he throws a causality flaw that you could drive a truck through. Great visuals and soundtrack but the story just fell apart 2/3rds of the way through and it never really recoverd.
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Just watched it last night. What was the casualty flaw? Edit: my phone is trained for insurance.
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409,798 |
I'm a huge Tarantino fan but I really didn't like this one.
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It's obviously totally fine that you don't like it, but have you tried watching it ONE more time? I ask because my brother didn't really like it the first time and after watching it again he said it's his favorite of last year. Just a little though.
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409,799 |
Well I haven't watches the show yet :D since it is going on for several seasons now I actually think it won't follow the book, since this is only between 200-300 pages long :P. But it is on my “things to watch“ list :)
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The show just takes the basic premise of the book. It's one of my least favorite of PKD's book, but I think the show is great.
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