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Swing came around in the mid-'30s and then persisted into the mid-'40s, dropping off heavily after WWII. When it comes to the '20s you're likely thinking of trad jazz.
Just keep eletctro swing hidden from the general populous as long as possible. Until after WWIII sounds good.
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The moon is twice the size of asia. We mine asia.
The moon has less surface area than Asia, and surface area matters little when talking about mining. And all the people focusing on the tidal forces line are missing the point of my comment, which is quite clearly stated. So, I can't help but assume you are being disingenuous and arguing in bad faith.
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Wow, at first I thought it was very active. I see where you are coming from. This music is just so boring. How couldn't I see it at first?!
The beat simply feels abrasive and a little too dubstep-y for my tastes, the lyrics seem to cover the same ground that I've heard in numerous rap songs before, and the video itself doesn't seem imaginative to me in the slightest. Sorry I don't agree with you guys but "boredom" was the most apt description of my feelings while listening to/watching this video.
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> It's a great *unintentional* advertising strategy. You make is sound like they are trying to sell more copies. They aren't.
What makes you say that? Why wouldn't the book publisher want to sell more copies?
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Foreign propaganda isn’t subject to national free speech laws. Further, Reddit legally can and does ban any submissions that don’t follow their terms and conditions. I didn’t realize letting chinese [propaganda] is supported by them.
I did not realise that American propaganda is also allowed on reddit. One pro-chinese post can only butthurt so many pro-Americans...
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Charlotte's Web!! I think this was the first book to ever make me cry!!
It is, among other things, a book about how important editors are to the process of writing.
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How do you like the Paperwhite? I have an old eInk right now and I love it, but that Paperwhite has a built-in light, and it looks so crystal clear from the advertisements. I'm considering it, but I don't have a reason to buy it quite yet.
I'm loving it. The built in backlight is awesome- I usually keep it pretty low, so in bright light it looks and behaves like paper but if I move somewhere darker it comes into play; no glare, not too bright, nice even light on the page. It is crystal clear. I haven't used any other e-ink products to know if it's *clearer* than others, though. I like the touch screen, no buttons, it's lightness, and it's size. I'm rarely without it now.
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He has both, and he doesn't have to make shitty films to get either.
OK, I'm confused. Since when do Marvel and the Star Wars franchise churn out "shitty films"?
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The thing about Boondock Saints is that when everyone first saw it, they thought it was a parody (or at least that's what I did). The problem is, the writer didn't, he thought he'd made the action flick of the century, and thus why BS2 was so very very bad. If you go back and watch it, you suddenly realize that it was a parody, but only because the actors treated it as such. They played up everything, made it bigger than life, because they knew every single scene was so ridiculous that you either had to laugh or you'd cry for shame of willingly watching this.
I can't comment on the writer's intention because I am not that much a movie buff, but I understand exactly what you are saying. When I watched BS the first time though, it was an absolute blast because (in my experience at least) I had never seen anything like. As far as pure ridiculousness goes though, I really think the only "over the top" scene was the shootout with [their father](/spoiler). Everything else (okay, minus the toilet drop/jump) was at least somewhat plausible..... right?
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These are good points but I feel they are criticisms for a book or a tv show, not a movie. The characters could make less mistakes or be nicer or less arrogant. There could be far more exposition about how safeguards are avoided, circumvented, or improved. It could make for an interesting TV show. But it's not trying to be the perfect cyberpunk/ hacker series; Ex Machina is trying to tell a story steeped in symbolism about consciousness and gods, and I think it does a good job. All that exposition and carefulness would fill up the movie, detract from its goal, and would be better suited for a good TV show.
I don't think that it invalidates what the movie is trying to do any more than complaints about the ever-running train in Snowpiercer render the film pointless. Finding plot contrivances is just one form of criticism, not the whole of it. But, it *is* a part though. I can recognize what the film was trying to say while feeling that it took a bit of a contrived path to get there. This doesn't invalidate the message (although some contrivances can, not these ones) but it *is* thee nonetheless.
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Well I think after VL cold cocked Garcia because Garcia slept with Vargas' wife it may have put a damper on the respect for each other's literary achievements.
There was respect, in the special edition of 100 years of solitude realesed for its 40th anniversary Vargas Llosa wrote a special prologue. However Vargas Llosa didn't forgive him personally for that incident.
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I'm visiting Paris from Scotland at the end of March, will definitely pop in. All the best
Right on. I'd rather not assume, but if you're the whisky-sipping type, make a sign. I'll share my Oban with you.
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If you don't want Facebook to invade your privacy **stop putting private shit onto Facebook**. That said, this does have some important implications with regard to proving that a technology or platform is responsible for any harm caused by its use. Sounds like it could go either way at the moment (meaning consumers have protection/recourse or that Facebook is deemed not liable for this kind of thing).
It's not that simple. If everyone else is putting pictures of you on facebook, they still identify your face and keep a record of it.
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"'Tis youth and folly, makes young men marry, so here, my love, I'll no longer stay." A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce.
I would choose, "He cared little that he was in mortal sin..."
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I don't see how it was elitist? I didn't mean it to be. I'm not sure else how to put it. I feel trying to view something as colorful as music in black and white is shallow when compared to what it could be. It wasn't a dig, nor was it me trying to put her down. Probably more of a failing on the part of my weak grammar. Again, didn't mean shallow as in petty or shitty, more so shallow as in unexplored/unexamined. That's it, unexplored may be a bit less hostile word.
I played sax for years, always wanted to play violin. I understand your argument i do. But hes clearly right. There is no tonal difference. Which means both can be played equally well if the subjects in the exact same mood. That being said. Id kill for a strata.
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I don't know how I never gave Foo Fighters a chance before, but I head about Dave's Sound City documentary and started digging into Foo Fighters and now I can quit listening. Watched their Wembley Stadium show and they are absolutely incredible rockers. God, Dave Grohl is the MAN!!!
Out of all the concerts I've seen, Foo Fighters was the best. (Although Coheed was more fun due to being in the middle of the mosh pit)
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Amazing cover by Rev Biz, for those that have not heard it:
Holy shit this is awesome I have always wondered if Burzum would stand up to a more modern and well balanced recording, knowing that Varg records is as he intends it to be. Thanks for the link.
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Why do I get the feeling that $5 million is not nearly enough to lay down a new fiber-optic infrastructure? Does anybody else feel the same way or does anyone think otherwise and can explain to me their reasoning? I mean, I'm glad and all for updated internet infrastructures and what have you, but it seems that money is going to be extremely tight with what I think is a relatively small budget to be working with and it would hurt deeply to see this kind of technological advancement going to waste (or rather- not coming to fruition).
They're most likely not laying new fiber, but rather using existing dark fiber. Sprint, WorldCom, AT&T, etc, all built a shitload of fiber in the 90s, and use very little of it.
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Is there a reason why I should let them use my connection to lower their costs? They are after all a profit-seeking enterprise and I have to pay for the privilege of letting them use my upstream bandwidth. I'm not sure why I should pay in increased usage costs to let Hastings' bank balance get bigger. For a free subscription or a contribution to my internet bill it might be more acceptable.
Netflix are already seen as heroes of this fight, or the good guys anyways, how amazing would it be if the P2P version of Netflix is a opt in service, and if you allow them to use your connection, they reduce your bill, or even free Netflix if you supply enough content from your connection. /dreaming
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The original just don't give a fuck from the EP was produced by Mr. Porter and I think it's better than the LP version.
What I'm saying is that some of those tracks made the album to be mixed and mastered by Dre, so I thought it's a pretty good example of his talent at it (a before and after).
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Oh it's much worse than that. Texas banned Thomas Jefferson from school history books due to his views on religion and liberty.
That is false, however it is a commonly made claim by hysterical uneducated people who are not in possession of facts. Please read the specific curricula in question before making such claims in the future.
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This list is just sadistic. Most people know these endings, but it just ruins the movies for people that don't.
yeah, but talk about spoiler alerts. the title of the page, and the title of each paragraph
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Interesting, but was quite bothered by the presentation. In addition to the ending scallycap94 was referring too, I wish the narrator would explain to us like a teacher rather than speak in a monotone voice to try to give it a sense of ponderousness. It's OK...we know that you had this all written and thought out already, just show us.
He wants you to reflect on the significance and come to your own conclusion on your own. He guides you and gives you a little help but he wants you to reflect on how each picture is different and what that means for the overall film.
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No... there are still 2 of them. The one that died most recently wasn't with the group during their success.
What the hell are you talking about? Yauch was on every album of theirs.
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Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun", "Latro in the Mist" and "Wizard Knight" series are full of mysteries, he drops hints about what's going on all over the place and people still mostly miss them. Almost everyone who read Gene Wolfe said that every time they reread his books, they noticed something they missed on previous readings. As a Wolfe fan I can certainly recommend his fantasy and sf works if you're willing to learn and play detective while reading, the man is really something special, and as an additional teaser here's what Neil Gaiman says about Wolfe:
I agree with the recommendation of The Book of the New Sun. The Book of Long Sun and The Book of the Short Sun are also worth reading.
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I LOVED this movie. The ending was perfect. Mary Elizabeth Winstead was badass yet believable. She played vulnerable but strong really well.
Everything except the flaming whiskey bottle into the alien's mouth. That was too unreal.
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We must have the same PC. Exactly the same numbers. Why is the HDD so low by comparison to the others?
Because if it's not an SSD, then it's a mechanical device. That's going to be slower than a solid state, purely electronic device (which, if you think about it, everything else on that list is).
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> I really don't understand why people upvote a comment that [is] in my opinion not funny and contribute [sic] nothing to the discussion. You actually have trouble understanding why people might not check what your opinion is first? I won't sugarcoat it for you: the reason people don't upvote you is that you're a moron. You can't use verbs (the tricky ones like 'is'), can't make subjects and verbs agree, can't understand why someone might vote according to their own opinion rather than to yours, and can't seem to notice when a reply like "what the fuck is 'Google'" is actually supporting you and joining in on laughing at the guy who is too lazy to use it.
Thank you for sugarcoating it. I guess I was in retard mode and do not realize a sarcastic tone. Would you mind enlighten me the part where I can't make subjects and verbs agree?
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I don't really care about diversity, frankly.... I mean, sure, I'm all for it if that's what naturally occurs (I think varying POV's are something to strive for, sure.) - but I am absolutely opposed to any kind of legislated or legal push for it. (ex. affirmative action or the like)
When such an extremely small slice of the population runs every major studio, there's no way hiring is based on merit.
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Hi everyone at tech! I’m not sure whether this is the most appropriate place to ask but I’ve always wondered what the purpose of the image transcription bots are? I’ve always seen them in certain subreddits, particularly oldpeoplefacebook. I supposed that it was supposed to help people with reading difficulties or even colourblindness but wouldn’t you just be able to read the image. Sorry if I sound really dumb and inconsiderate. Thanks for any contributions and answers. ☺️
If you check their signature you'll notice that they are not bots, they are human volunteers
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Lights go from green to yellow in order for cars to YIELD. Why would a light ever go red->yellow->green? Story is bullshit.
The light the motor bike went yellow and he was saying his was goin to green.
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Holy shit, that was *him*? I didn't even recognize him in *Inception*.
Yup. Same thing that kept me from believing he was Picard's clone was the same thing that made me realize who it was in Inception...his lips.
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>no tracks that you want to skip. that applies on most albums that i actually enjoy listening to tbh.
Okay... Maybe I should've said that albums with tracks that are almost equally as good as each other.
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Were you at the Chicago show by chance? It was my fifth and best experience watching them perform. Coheed emits a certain energy when they play that you only get from the likes of Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin. Those first three albums are just legendary, man.
I was :) My second time seeing them was the Chicago show and it was probably the best show I've ever been to. Coheed isn't my go to genre but damn if they aren't talented. The story is great as well. IKSoSE:3 Encore was one of the best experiences in my life.
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Holy shit, I wouldn't even be mad if that was the twist ending of the 3rd
I would be. Kote is a bit of a pedantic dick and it would be way out of character for him to be so flippant about a deadline he had already declared.
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I haven't ever read John Green books, but do you seriously know teenagers who talk like the following quote when the dude was playing video games? "Sadly, the bridge is already under insurgent control due to questionable strategizing by my bereft cohort." The only time I've ever heard a teenager talk like that is as a joke to sound pretentious. Even the most intelligent people I know don't really talk like that. It sounds so incredibly fake.
Lots of teenagers in my experience try to sound pretentious as a joke, or as a mask to hid under which is exactly what Gus does. I'd argue it's kind of the point. edit: redundant comment was redundant
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Someone calling themselves professorbc should have a better grasp of what reality was like (and still is, anywhere that's not a developed country).
That doesn't justify the way he chooses to describe male and female bodies in lengthy rape scenes.
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I think that's one of the reasons why the books became so popular. Having a standart teenage hero without a lot of defining character traits makes it a whole lot easier for the intended audience to identify with him on some level.
This is fairly standard in these types of stories -- as a strength. The lead is the "everyperson" style character. Surrounding characters tend to have much stronger attributes. Harry constantly makes choices and acts, so I would say the criticism that "things happen to him" isn't accurate. Yes, they do, but he reacts, and sometimes badly and in error.
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It's from South Park Season 17 Episode 02 "Informative Murder Porn", and the implication is that Cable Companies are sadists.
Sadist that get off on the easily solvable problems of their customers, just to be clear.
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I thought the stormtroopers in IV+ are all regular people, not clones?
that is right, clone troopers, although obiedient, age rather quickly and their mind and bodies deteriorated over time.
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It's controlling tiny systems at high speeds. It's the same kind of control system we would need to have a ultra fast, tiny civilian drone. Exactly how or why we would have a tiny, bullet-fast drone I'm not sure. But this kind of tech is applicable to other tiny flying robots, at lower speeds. What about a network of micro drones that gather real time imaging data, flying below clouds?
The major benefit of tiny drones would be that they are more difficult to shoot down and can be deployed in an area much faster than larger drones that would require runways. I don't think the micro drones need to be as fast as bullets. You could create a drone delivery shell that could be used in existing large caliber weapons. When you need the drones, shoot the shell where you need them. It opens and the drones disperse and start sending you intel.
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**The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien**. I first read it at about age eleven, and it was my constant companion through my teens. It's shaped a lot of my interests, and informed my personal ethics.
Same here, it's been a pretty constant part of my life since seventh grade.
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My god man, this is reddit, are you trying to have someone kill you?
I know im about to lose a ton of karma but fuck it i cant stand her. She is a terrible actress that takes me out of every scene she is in, the only famous actress worse than her is kristen stewart. If these people want to see a good actress check out natlie portman in the professional, and she was like 10 at the time. Also check out eva green in penny dreadful. What she did in episode 7 possession was some of the best work on television in the last decade.
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That's the downside of perfectly capturing the zeitgeist of a particular time. Coming off the 90s the collective cultural struggle was ennui, which is feeling shitty because you have nothing to feel shitty about. That doesn't play very well when there are actual things to feel shitty about.
I don't think that's what American Beauty is about at all. He feels shitty because he is living a life he doesn't want to lead. He may be conventionally successful, but he is realizing that doesn't make him happy.
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I thought that large high resolution screens like at Movie theaters use 16 bit per color channel to prevent color banding
10 bit is the most used deep-color scheme, 12 bit is sometimes used too. 16bit exists, but I haven't heard about it being used anywhere for real video applications. Keep in mind: 10bit color depth offers 2bits per sample extra, which is 8 bits per pixel of extra color range. That's 256x more colors than standard 24bit colors. Simply put, that means that where you do see banding in standard 8bit color depth images where the two bands differ just "1" in each sample value, you have 256 shades of extra colors between two visible bands when using 10bit. That pretty much hides it I think. Color banding is not really visible at that 10b, let alone at 12bit color depth.
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How about $10 for every year you've been a member
Let's assume 15 year average for membership, at 80,000,000 members. That's $1,200,000,000. Which would put them into bankruptcy immediately most likely. Shutting down every company that's had data stolen seems pretty extreme.
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What you've learned about life and becoming a celebrity, what advice would you give a young Kevin Pollak?(serious)
Celebrity? Surely you jest. There's a reason I titled my one and only book "How I Slept My Way to the Middle". You've heard it's lonely at the top... I'm here to tell you it's fan-fuckin'-tastic in the middle. The advice I would give to a younger version of myself, were I to travel through time, would be to appreciate the longevity afforded those who embrace the middle.
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You choose HG Wells of all people to compare to Shakespeare?
Yeah I was thinking the same thing when I wrote it, but Shakespeare is famous really for revolutionizing the writing scene, while wells really was the dominant writer for a good decade or two in more recent times. There's a reason "the time machine" is a great work of writing in civ 5
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Is there anyone else that has as big a list of prestigious films in their Imdb page?
Maybe not prestigious but Tom Hanks probably tops him in the beloved category.
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A lot of companies have been looking into ARM powered servers to improve power efficiency including AMD. I know apple has been moving away from the server market but their current proficiency in making low power high performance chips would definitely be able to carve a place for them in the server market.
> A lot of companies have been looking into ARM powered servers to improve power efficiency including AMD. Sure they have.
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You might have heard it in "2001: A Space Odyssey" but it's a classical piece.
Thank you! It was killing me that I couldn't remember!
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Except camus wasn't an existentialist. He was an absurdist.
He didn't consider himself one, but I find his literature filled with existentialism philosophy.
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Mark Hoppus > Tom DeLonge. +44 > Angels and Airwaves
I preferred +44 to A&A but neither was as good as Boxcar Racer
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Imagine being obsessed with a city, and then putting all sorts of facts and stories about that city into one big cluster of a concept album.
If you would have said state instead of city I would have thought Illinois by Sufjan Stevens.
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Definitely Nabokov's Lolita. It's haunting, but so beautiful. I had to repeatedly stop reading for a few days to digest it and think through all the conflicting, complicated emotions I was having while reading it. But ultimately I would say it's at least in my top 5 favorites, if not top 3. It's just so, so good.
Came in here to post exactly this. Glad to see I'm not alone. There's actually an annotated version I've seen around that I might pick up if I ever decide to reread the book. Nabokov's writing is so manically beautiful and filled with such brilliance that it would exceedingly difficult to process it - dense allusions, fancy wordplay and all - in just one read-through.
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Just checking, there are some people who actually believe it's a self-help book.
That's the best review about a bad book I have ever seen "So bad, it feels like a self-help book"
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The only reason you're sorry Zuck is that you got caught
And even caught he keeps denying it. The press was reporting on this years ago, his customers kept complaining. Even Obama pulled him aside to let him know that something weird was going on in Facebook. Just yesterday I read an article where the freaking UN was talking about Facebook role in the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar; still denying it. This guy is absolutely beyond out of reach. He doesn’t care.
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Why do you have two adapters? Why not just one? And, I mean, stuff gets removed from phones gradually when it's no longer useful. It's hard to get a modern phone with an IR transceiver, it's hard to get a modern phone with an FM radio receiver. If you need a specialty component, don't be surprised when you have a limited selection of phones. People had the same complaints when the iMac removed the CD drive. That's the life cycle, and life goes on.
So now I have one adaptor with two connectors on it? More shit to shove in my pocket and get tangled and bunch up and be uncomfortable. There's no consumer friendly reason to kill the 3.5mm jack.
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>Also in comparison with other media, you can listen almost any song on YouTube, there are many sites where you can watch even full movies. But why are books are so inaccessible? You do realize that authors have to make a living... right? Most of those "free movies" that you find on the web are unauthorized rips and get taken down all the time. Two wrongs don't make a right. But yeah, that's how digital goods work. You can't buy them used because they don't get used. There are limitations to sharing them or else you could share them with the whole world. Again, authors have to make a living.
The effects of piracy on artistic industries is usually far overstated.
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>ALL batteries will perform poorly in cold weather, regardless of whether they are lithium or lead-acid.
Even if the current capacity of each cell dropped to 10%, the number of cells required to give enough total energy makes it trivial to over provision the by enough to compensate.
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Of all the mind blowing films to come out in that period of time and you come up with Everest? Christ.
Don't underestimate survival stories and their penchant for reaching people. It might not be amazing as a movie but as a true story it's pretty gripping.
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Because there are no notable actors, the director is largely unproven (yes, Moon was cool but about as far from a blockbuster that you could get), the writer is a nobody, videogame movies have historically been shit, and overall the Warcraft story is shaky. Sometimes it can be good, sometimes it can be cheesy teenage boy crap. I have 0 expectations for this movie to be good, but I'll be happy if I'm wrong.
The Arthas story from warcraft III is excellent. Sort of disappointed that they didn't make that one. Although it might work best as a game story.
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Self proclaimed net worth and refuses to let anyone see his massive debt. Debt so bad. US banks won’t loan to him
Not really what they do with money is what's important. Just that before he took his position as president, with just his real estate and general assets he broke a decent bit over the billion dollar point. Supposedly that amount has declined since he took office but I don't really have a way to fact check that. Don't know why you guys are down voting. I hate the dude, but if your gonna make a statement at least fact check your stuff.
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Hard Eight is a great movie but is not anywhere near as compelling as his others.
It was small and intimate but I actually thought that aided to its appeal. It had an intenseness and focus which I thought was very compelling.
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Instead of instantly down voting you, I will respond with a few questions... Is this a serious question or are you trolling? If serious: Have you heard nickleback before? If yes, how do you not understand?
I'm serious. I grew up on Nickleback, my parents love them and I've always at least liked them. I mean there are many other bands/artists I prefer to listen to over them, but I don't hate them. They're pretty decent to listen to when running. I just didn't know if people hated them because of something they did or said, or if they really hated the music. edit: more stuff came to mind.
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>China has 170 million cameras monitoring the population. >For 2017, the number of smartphone users in China is estimated to reach 663.37 million. Hard to call yourself big brother if you have less cameras than the general population. If cameras is your measure then the government is Winston and all the people with cell phones are Big Brother. Always Watching.
Your cameras are controlled by you though. That's the difference between sousveillance and surveillance. At least if *I* have a camera, I can record police brutality, animal cruelty, etc.
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i find it interesting that there are good things out there solely for e-readers that I may be missing out on. The idea of reading a book on my computer sounds really unappealing.
You're right, it's not as nice as a real book. But i always have my phone with me so i find I've been reading a lot more. Plus there is an explosion of self publishing going on. I would recommend you try it, kindle is free and every book has a free sample of a few chapters.
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I feel like it was too based around the pictures. The concept was cool at first, but then it started to feel like the author was incorporating characters for the sake of using the photos.
If you read the epilogue, the creating characters to use the photos was the entire point of the book
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Mobipocket reader. It's not intrusive and it gets the job done. Stay away from Calibre, it will try to take over your entire computer.
I can't think of anything Calibre has done that I haven't specifically asked it to do. It's the least obtrusive software on my computer.
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wow.. that sounds *so different* than anything else they've put out... they really seem to have grown in the 3 years since they've been riding on the strength of an intro.
really? i honestly thought it sounded like a lot of the same... which is just fine by me (see beach house)
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That was really interesting to read, as I could parse the clauses even when scrolling the words into a blur.
It was far from grammatically correct. Glad it worked out for you, though!
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Well, that was a whole lot of nothing new. But at least we know Wonder Woman isn't against flying coach.
... and she'll end up saving that flight from some disaster.
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I loved both 1Q84 and 11/22/63 so sounds like we have similar taste in books.. what's the rest of your top 5 look like?
It’s hard to really settle on a true top five, but these are deff contenders: Those two. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb. Kafka on the Shore by Murakami. The Art of Fielding. Battle Royale. A Man Called Ove
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Putting it on AT&T lets them expand to other countries later. AT&T's GSM band is common in the rest of the world. Verizon is CDMA and isn't used like anywhere else. But the issue is Amazon's services aren't readily available outside the US because of licensing issues with movie/TV/music studios. Does anyone live an Amazon-centric lifestyle? You'd be surprised how easy it is to do so when you have a Prime membership. They give you so much stuff that it becomes second nature. And this phone comes with a free 1 year subscription to Prime. The only thing about this for me is I'd need my Google services. I can't make do without Hangouts, G+, Gmail, etc.
They could have, you know, given it GSM WITHOUT locking it into AT&T, and giving it an acceptable price, like the Kindle Fire. If Oppo can do that, why not AMazon, especially considering they will make a ton of money from the bundled adware that pushes you to use their store. The business model they chose for this phone is retarded. This will be a disaster just like the Facebook Phone.
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Think of the DLC: "Sorry, you have run out of volume adjustments today. To adjust the volume now, please purchase TV tokens"
DLC? bah, micro-transact that bitch. Samsung might as well go full retard at this point.
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Oh man, doing those dirt bike trials for hours and hours and hearing this song on repeat while you're in the stadium.
I completely forgot about the trials stuff. That was a lot of fun.
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I honestly believe Godzilla is an improvement over Monsters in many ways and I expect good things from Edwards as he grows as a director. I enjoy the hell out of Godzilla and have seen it three times now. I think it will be looked upon fondly later on in the future. Gareth Edwards seems to be the most promising director you listed here imo.
It's funny I actually think Edwards is possibly the only 'small to big' director in my opinion who has done it well and right, and seems like he hasn't blown his head off. That still being said I LOVED Monsters, and really enjoyed his take on Godzilla. can't wait for SW:Rogue one. Man what a career. Monsters-Godzilla-SW:Rogue One.
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Solar roads seems like a good idea at first until you realize that any solar panel you can drive on, today at least, is going to be supper inefficient. Add in pollution, rubber wear from tires, weather, etc... and it's nowhere near economical. You could maybe do it with a system that recovers energy when vehicles travel over it.
> You could maybe do it with a system that recovers energy when vehicles travel over it. What does this refer to? If you mean that the weight or movement of the car is used in some way as a source of energy, wouldn't that only work in situations where the car is actually trying to dump energy, such as slowing down for a stop sign? There's no such thing as a free lunch, so there is no "free" energy to be recovered when the car is just trying to get down the road.
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And deal with the drunks that are louder than the annoying kids in the early showings.
Never had to deal with drunk people in the cinema....EVER
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Just wanted what the Pinocchio song arrangement sounded like, so excited now
That was a great surprise for the audio. The creepy rendition is crazy good considering the source for the song is rather joyful. And the Spader "i've got no strings on me" was just full of malice. I really want video now :C
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Like someone else replied, Google don't need no checkbox to be spying on your emails. But yeah, curious how this is explained as not being invading one's privacy.
How can a machine system with no human interaction invade your privacy? Actual people do not read your information. If you wrote your secrets in a book, is the paper invading your privacy too?
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I loved this book! There are more in the series but I haven't gotten to them yet. Did you read any of the rest? Are they worth reading?
I did read the others. The people of Sparks was good, but I did not like the prophet of yonder.
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I wish countries were half as hard on facebook as it seems like europe is on google. Some of this is bordering absurd to me. Google including their own software on their own operating system. I would be rather frustrated if I had to find a way to install google Play every time I factory reset or got a new phone.
Facebook just asks people for data and then gives it away at varying levels of malicious. They're breaking new ground in privacy issues, but they're not stifling competition or behaving like a monopoly.
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Sure, but there's plenty of clunky exposition as well, especially near the beginning and in the Han/Leia scenes.
I love Star Wars as much as the next guy but it has *never* been the model for the subtle deployment of exposition. For every scene of visual exposition in the original (the opening shot, for instance) there is a scene in which all of the characters just tell each other what's going on.
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well that guy takes care of himself. the george martin is very chubby and a has a love for sitting and eating. he may not last very long it must be difficult for him to stand up.
Do you know who BB King is? I saw him 6 years ago and he couldn't play his guitar except maybe for one solo, let alone stand up at all for the performance. Thank God Buddy Guy opened or I would have been pissed about paying for that concert (now Buddy actually takes care of himself). The point he was making was that BB is in horrible health but old as balls. Which is a horrible way of hoping George stays alive that long.
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Not true. It was made in 1966 for Ringo to sing on the Revolver album. The idea for the film came afterwards and didn't appear until 1968.
Also, The Beatles didn't even have that much to do with the film anyway. They didn't write it or even do their voices. Any of the songs on the soundtrack could have gone anywhere in their discography.
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A series not widely read among regular sf folks. In part because its Christian component is so much at the forefront, far more even than Narnia. For me, it's a mixed experience. *Out of the Silent Planet* has some great scenes, but it's too short and underdeveloped-- more novella than novel-- to make much of an impression. *That Hideous Strength* is loved by many, but I found it obvious, repetitive and heavy-handed. Which leaves the middle novel, *Perelandra*, which I find stunning-- beautiful, thoughtful, terrifying, exhilarating. One of my favorite 20th-c British novels.
I agree with that description perfectly. Very rare to have the middle of a trilogy be the perfect one.
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* Technofix. * The Fix-My-Tech Store. * The Beep-Boop Shop. * The Broken Technology Repair Store. * Technolojesus-you-don't-know-how-to-fix-this-yourself? * Tick Tock Tech Shop. * Technology Error Correction House (TECH) * Technology Hospital. * Will I get something for one of these names? * Techanic. * Technologna. * The We-Fix-Your-Stuff-Somewhat-Inexpensively Store. * From Broke Tech-to-Dope Tech in 3 Business Days or Less Store. * Digital Hospital. * Techno-Center (may require you to play EDM in the lobby, but...) * Technology Repair Business
When this one wins, do i need to use every name listed?
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It's all in OPs head. The music has been the same the whole time. Lol.
Lol right? I think some of the concepts have gotten more 'out there', but overall their stuff feels to me like they're trying to branch out a little more. To be fair, Muggs added a super-heavy trap influence to the latest album.
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Living in Indiana has developed a strong hatred of Mellencamp over the years. By no means is he that bad, but he's every 5 songs on the radio. Every. Five. Songs. There's only so much Mellencamp someone can take. All that said, he seems like a pretty good dude so it's mostly just that I hate hearing his overplayed songs, rather than hate the dude himself.
My uncle used to play guitar with him in Mitchell, Indiana and my mom still gets pissed off when she tells the story of when he kicked her out of her own birthday party so they could practice. Pretty sure my mom made a bigger deal out of it than it was though.
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I kind of hate standard bildungsroman novels--sorry, must have read too many in English class or something--so I'll go a little weird with this one: *Sunshine* by Robin McKinley.
I confused this with *Sunshine* by Norma Klein. Since I have never once ever met anyone who has read that book, I started to get excited. Then I realized my mistake.
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I get these same sort of videos when doing a search for my hometown. Same lame computer voice and pictures, but from local car dealers and realtors. They are so pervasive, it really makes it a pain to sort through. Does anyone know if Youtube considers this spam, and would it be worth the effort to report them?
I always report them but I'm sceptical of it actually doing anything.
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I do not agree with you, but thank you for a well reasoned critical argument. I think everyone has a "classic" they don't enjoy. For me it's huckleberry finn. That was the only book I had to use cliff notes for because I just couldn't stand to read it.
I can understand that. Huck Finn uses a lot of colloquialisms, and can be hard to understand. But Shakespeare is harder to understand.
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I was wondering about IPv6 adoption and it's implications towards privacy. As IPv4 address space is exhausted getting a new IP address is nearly impossible. I can imagine that being easier with more addresses available.
Privacy isn't a problem. Just because you are using IPV6 doesn't mean you have to have it functional anywhere outside of the local subnet.
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Speaking of the Kennedy assassination, isn't it heavily implied in Replay that [spoilers] (#s 'the US govt was responsible for the Kennedy assassination, since at one point they prevent Lee Harvey Oswald from killing him, which results in Kennedy immediately being killed by someone else? This combined with the timeline in which they are held prisoner by the govt, forced to predict the future, which they can no longer predict due to the fact that the timeline has changed... gives me the impression that Mr. Grimwood does not think highly of the US govt')
Do you blame him? Can't say they've really given us much reason to have high hopes.
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This article states that it would need 800 million (which it barely passed as it's being rushed out of theaters for other movies) to break even and 1 billion to be considered a success. First off, you need to educate yourself before saying "LMAO" to someone's response. Second off - come on let's be realistic. This movie made less domestically than deadpool an R rated niche movie. This is the biggest ship DC has in the fleet and it hasn't even passed the AVERAGE global box office of marvel.
Don't care much about box office as long as it's making money. MCU films make shit tons but they fucking suck, Age of Ultron was garbage and so was Ant Man Thor 2 and IM2/3. For some of us DCEU represents comic book movies we can actually enjoy as good films. I'm very excited to see it come to fruition because I'm done with MCU same old family friendly shit, I don't like it anymore.
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Out of the goodness of their hearts, I'm sure.
Do you work out of the goodness of your own heart? Or do expect to be compensated?
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I know you didn't just talk shit on Mortal Kombat...
The music was da shit, but that fighting game turned movie is second to [The M. Bison Movie]
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I have a white friend who uses the tan emojis when he messages me... (I’m Hispanic) not sure how I feel about it but definitely noticed.
You shouldn't feel bothered by the skin colour of an emoji someone chooses to use.
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Depends on how the structure of his contract was written out, I'd say half of 'How did this get made' was shit deals and shit contracts. For instance that Whoopie Goldberg undercover dinosaur cop movie was basically forced on her because she owed them one more movie in her contract. I think Channing Tatum said something similar about the second G.I. Joe and Jupiter Ascending during his AMA. He was fucked, it's like ripping a band aid off filming a shit movie. Just hurry up and get it done so it doesn't hurt as much.
Yeah but if #3 loses money, the studio won't even want to make #4. I'm sure they've got an option to put it into production but there's no way the studio agreed to making 2 more this far in advance