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That's slander/libel. Defamation can be true statements that are used to hurt someone.
Uh... slander and libel are the two forms of defamation. Thanks for playing!
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No kidding, when that part comes in I just say "nah nah nah nah nah"
To be honest when he performs it he probably just does the same thing
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No, it's worth nothing because it's not backed by shit. It's actually worth minus-dollars. Since you actually has to spend real money to buy this monopoly coin bullshit.
And then you can sell it again for real money. If you can buy a thing in exchange for real money, and then sell it again for real money, how is that different from something that has value?
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Lots of people have demonstrated the ability to do the vertical takeoff/landing thing for about a decade or so, but nobody has done it yet with an actual manned craft that goes to space an comes back. It'll be great to see them pull this off, but it's not all that unexpected that it could work at this point.
They don't intend to land the crew capsule by VTOL AFAIK, rather they early rocket stages land themselves instead of being lost in the ocean.
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Nice going there, NSA. The trust in our technology is now going down the shitter.
I will personally never buy US made computer tech again.
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Every one i've ever known to read this book, regardless of age, race, creed, and intellect, has loved it. It's an absolute beauty, and i hope you gain the same satisfaction from it as i did. Enjoy.
I did completely. I was absolutely entranced to find out what happened next and felt pretty much every emotion there is. It's become one of my new favourite novels and I'm now planning on reading The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp in the hope that they capture the same level of beautiful and poignant writing!
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Did you read his follow up to SLofC, Getting Stoned with Savages? If not, I recommend it!
Yes! That book made me re-think my desire to try kava.
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Apple collect almost no data and the little they do collect (for predictive searches and things) can be turned off easily. Unless they're lying, anyway, but people with apps like Little Snitch would presumably have spotted it by now if they were.
Interesting - best reason to buy a mac that I have seen. If only iTunes didn't force me away from Apple 😉
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I don't know why Vimeo isn't more widely used. In a lot of ways, it is better than YouTube.
It has a limit to how many minutes or megabytes of video you can upload for free.
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I picked up Chesapeake from a teacher's bookshelf in 9th grade when I finished an assignment early. She got so excited when I asked to borrow it that she let me keep it. I really enjoyed how he brings the reader through hundreds of years in a single area, and gives you a feel for the history of a place.
That's cool of her to let you keep it. I totally agree, it gives you a lot of perspective seeing how much a single place evolves over time and how it's affected by what's going on around it
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You are talking about [The 120 Days of Sodom] (see top comment). For anyone curious, there was also a [film] made about it.
I doubt that's the book--Sade's sadists were 18th century French aristocrats, not modern teenagers from an estate and he didn't really do plots. I'm even more curious about the title of the Italian novel now, though.
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I feel like I've found the opposite of this. Last night I found a seller on Amazon that had multiple books (from novels to "Oh The Places You'll Go") for no less than $600 each. I'm still baffled.
They may have forgotten to add the decimal point. They meant to list it at $6.00.
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Best quote - "You know, Peter Buck was kind of an asshole"
Except that's not the complete quote: "The thing we take from R.E.M. is this: You don't ever see a 'Behind The Music' where Michael Stipe says, 'You know, Peter Buck was an asshole.'" It's a comment on the longevity of the band, and how they're generally friends and good to one another; at least publicly. I think he meant to contrast R.E.M.'s longevity to the norm, and praise them. Not call Peter Buck an asshole. How appropriate that a gross misuse of a quote exists in THIS thread.
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I live in Cleveland and I demand you tell me the name of the rape book store.
This is the only pic I have of what the outside of the store looked like. maybe that can help. [Outside]
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In one word: None. I am not embarrassed whatsoever for any book I've read. I read a lot and all over the spectrum, both highbrow literature and what others may perceive as trash. I've read from the classics to ya dystopian, via thrillers and biographies, as well as -ahum- 'mommy porn', and that infamous 1925 autobiographical German book. I read because I love to read, be it Orwell, Bradbury, Cussler, Dan Brown, Shakespeare, Eco, or, or , etc, etc... Currently reading; Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson (and, for the record, loved Origin too). By reading, I learn.
This whole comment is GOLD. 100% I agree that you should read for fun and enjoy what you read, and who cares what other people think about those books. By also, how great is Leonardo da Vinci?? That book is SO well done, it's insane!
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Wow, okay, I'm gonna bury my head in the sand and pretend like I was never here. Some people don't read the article, I can't even read the title apparently.
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I thought Stallone turned BHC down to star in Cobra?
My understanding is that Stallone's rewrite was too intense and when he left the project he used parts of his BHC version in Cobra.
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People look at me weird when i tell them i almost never listen to music in the car. Audio books>music whilst driving
Honestly almost makes me wish I had longer commute to work still. Used to drive 45+min and was listening to one per week on average
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fb2k is what I would recommend. Doesn't have Gracenote support but has FreeDB support and Discogs, IIRC. FreeDB plugin also requires some tweaking.
I'll give that a go but a search of the freedb database doesn't turn up the album I got :/
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Politics aside, it's not a great movie. It's an awful fucking movie that's only made to showcase Merryl Streep acting. The story is weak, the supporting cast and characters are non-existent, the whole thing felt like a 2 hour ego-trip Oscar bait for Streep, who is also way over the top throughout the ordeal.
Here's my take on it as a [British person.]
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"The books is badly written." Well you are clearly a good judge of that.
A misspelling? that's what you're holding on to? have you tried to read the book in question at least?
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For the prices we're paying nowadays i would rather prefer long movies like LOTR or TDK than splitting.
Yeah. Cinema tickets cost around £10 minimum where I'm at. That's like $15.50, and that's if you go during an empty screening during a weekday.
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I think the distinction is that she's talking about a scenario in which streaming songs/albums could support a band. Royalties from Spotify (and other similar services) are so low that it's nigh on impossible to support yourself by streaming.
mhmm thanks for adding that for who didn't read the article. This is all true. But, I think that model is impossible and idealistic. That is, if you= the company= is planning to make a profit off of it. And without a company spearheading it and obtaining licenses from labels, how does—or how could— such a model exist. She's naive. A sweet girl probably, but naive.
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I disagree - the book is certainly pretentious in places and shouldn't be considered philosophy in the most rigid or academic sense of the word, but it raises interesting questions and definitely enters the realm of philosophy in general. I found it an enjoyable read.
But if your definition of philosophy is 'raises interesting questions and definitely enters the realm of philosophy in general' then pretty much any book would serve as a good introduction to philosophy. The OP might as well pick up Twilight. They'd be just as versed in philosophy after reading that book as they would after reading Zen. The OP asked for a nice introduction to philosophy, ideally narrative. Zen doesn't fit that at all. It presents some dude's 'philosophy on life' but that's in no way an introduction to philosophy which is a subject he, as the book demonstrated, knew nothing about. Sophie's world, by contrast, is both a narrative and written by someone that's actually familiar with philosophy.
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Next time you're lazing in the sun, just do it with a book :)
I must have totally brainfarted, because that is actually how I spend most of my reading time :-S Though a lot of it is non-reading too, but still, it's hardly the worst use of the time Chronos has bestowed upon me.
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It's available on iOS also. Most futuristic-feeling app i've ever used.
That's exactly what I thought when I first saw word lens in action. A friend showed it to me and I thought it was some kind of trick.
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Not the most popular opinion, but I think Better Call Saul is better than Breaking Bad.
i cant stop watching better call saul and i got bored with breaking bad somewhere in the middle. i did finish it all and loved the ending though
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Hey Felicia! Since Halloween is coming up soon, what is your favorite scary movie?
Megan (sigh). I hate scary movies :/ I never watch them. I accidentally watched A Nightmare on Elm Street when I was like 8 years old and I was scarred for life. I never wear horizontal stripes because of that movie, so I can’t say I have a favorite because they’re all quite scarring. I mean I literally cant think of a scary movie I’ve seen. I think when I was 7 I went and saw Aliens and that traumatized me. That’s why I try not to get to full at meals, because I don’t want anything bursting forth. This is a terrible question to ask me. I’m sorry.
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You say "yet", so I guess Twilight doesn't count, eh?
Yeah, I mean books you see recommended over and over. Not a flavour of the month thing.
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Everything about it felt rushed. ZERO character development. It was like they only filmed Act 3. They totally missed out on Reynolds learning to be an RIPD officer, building the characters, and building the world. It's very 2 dimensional, where as compared to MIB, you could tell there was a world filled with stories beyond the plot of the movie. It really bothered me that the first case he works on is directly related to his personal life.
Exactly, if I had to use one word to describe the movie it would be rushed. There is no motivation given as to why anyone really does anything. I actually watched through the whole "recruitment" a few times because I just did not understand where the whole "dirty cop" thing came from.
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It's a ringer silence switch, to make the phone part of the phone not ring. It's not a "everything" silence switch. The alarm clock (but not the calendar, etc) still goes off. Aka, the thing that you use after a long night of not wanting phone calls to wake you up. It's a very specific override for a very specific purpose.
Does the phone say "ringer silent" or just "silent"? (Honest curiosity, I don't know.) If the former, I'll allow it, but if the latter, it's definitely misleading. I've always understood the silent mode to be used for situations in which the phone must be absolutely silent (like this one), and my (dumb) phone behaves that way.
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Stephen King's *Insomnia* was the first gigantic, "grownup" book I ever read, and even though I really liked it, it took a long time to get through. I think Stephen King will come to be recognized as an important writer of the 20th and 21st centuries.
I certainly hope he does. I've actually only read It by him, yea nice introduction to the guy, his second longest book, and although it took me like a month to finish it's still one of my favorite books I've ever read. Well worth it.
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I sort of envy you getting to read it for the first time.
Funny thing, I forgot I ordered the hardcover online and just happened to randomly find the paperback in the clearance section at a local bookstore. Got it for 88 cents! Now I really better like it. =)
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Without any spoilers, i think thats a very intentional style in House of Leaves. You felt confused, frustrated, irritated at the book? That's the point. No other book I have read has caused such a physical reaction in me. The way it's written means that reading it is just as much as an experience as the plot itself. That being said, it seems to be a very polarizing book. People seem to either love it or hate it.
I don't read nearly often enough. However, based on a recommendation from a friend, I insisted on picking it up and finishing it. It got boring and frustrating, but I really had to know how it ended and tied in together and didn't leave me disappointed.
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The buses don't directly burn poop; they burn [methane] produced by poop and other waste. Adding a restroom to a short distance commuter bus would take up space and weight (lowering fuel efficiency and requiring more gas) while providing no real way to convert it into a meaningful amount of biogas. It would be like trying to install heavy solar panels to the top of your electric car.
This same sort of misunderstanding is going to lead to something very unpleasant happening on board.
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I would DEF recommend Sonatine and Hana Bi. But I see everyone here recommending Zatoichi. You should def see it to see his filmography collection but I too got the Sonatine/Zatoichi dvd combo and honestly only watched Zat once. There are some good points to it but I was really turned off by its long running time and cgi (theres ALOT of cgi gore and its awful looking lol)
I have some bias towards the Zatoichi character because one of my favorite characters in the manga One Piece has his design based very heavily on Shintaro Katsu as Zatoichi. Takeshi's Zatoichi would be the first film featuring the character I'm seeing, and I honestly wasn't expecting much of it so your analysis isn't surprising. I'm sure I'll dig it for what it is
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Watched it a while ago, and I second your sentiments. Btw Alan Tudyk is a hell of an actor that's criminally underrated. In fact I cant remember hating any movie he's been in. Also watching Dodge Ball right now.
Tyler Labine is also criminally underrated. He seems to have this horrible track of joining shows that get cancelled almost immediately, but everything I watch him in, he immediately makes better. His role in Reaper was so entertaining, Sock is still one of my favorite television characters ever. Even his minor stint in Zack and Miri instantly made my day. Tyler and Alan together is a hillbilly bromance made in heaven.
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lol. >Unless a dog passed by or muddy feet walked through, snow is white. There's a scientific reason that snow is white. Light is scattered and bounces off the ice crystals in the snow. The reflected light includes all the colors, which, together, look white.
Next time you get some fresh snow, put a sheet of white paper on it and compare.
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Edith Piaf--aka the Sparrow. Don't know if he fought in France during WWII-- Bing Crosbey, Jimmy Dorsey, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Patti Page. This might be a [good reference] or starting point.
Thanks. He actually fought in the Pacific on a destroyer. I know he like Sinatra. I might just go and make a separate Frank CD now that I think about it.
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maybe this line of credit will magically let them post popular shows as they air >_>
The only reason Hulu did that was because they're co-owned by Disney, 21st Century Fox, and Comcast, with a small share owned by Warner Brothers.
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Hi there, and thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts/experiences. I'm currently working on a story that I consider a bit unconventional in the way it goes about its narrative. Although it does have central characters, the story is more about an entire society, and it spans many years. Therefore, I'm worried that readers would not feel invested in continuing the story if they do not feel overly attached to a character or two. In short, I'm worried that the story will "jump around" too much in its setting and focus--at least, relative to conventional narratives. Are my fears justified? I can think of similar "classic" novels that take a similar approach, but I'm no master writer.
This is hard for me to answer without actually reading your work. I guess I would just remind you that people are storytelling animals. We love to be told a story, and we will grow bored if you simply start giving us information. If we can relate to your society as if it was a character in and of itself, you might have us hooked. More likely, though, we would like to develop relationships with the central characters you're talking about. Then again, I also firmly believe that a novel that doesn't take at least some kind of risk isn't worth writing.
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Well that was just because people didn't want to deal with the difficulty for what was often mediocre gear. The Strath speed run was always a roadblock for me.
Man, the Strath run was amazing. One of my favoritest things ever.
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That's in town, surrounded by asphalt and concrete. Go out to the desert in the middle of the night any time of year. It gets **cold.**
Also done many a summer night camping in Joshua Tree National Park (a little over 1,200 square miles of uninhabited, save for campers I suppose, land); average summer low is 75 degrees Fahrenheit, great shorts weather.
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...unless you want to do anything else on it other than passive consumption of media and run programs of your own choosing (rather than just what you can find in an app store).
Of course, but that's not what was being contended. What was being contended was that a desktop OS was necessary for PC gaming. Ellipsis.
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if you get a machine that supports direct hardware access with VMs(most new intel and AMD CPUs support such a feature), then a VM essentially has direct access to your hardware, so graphically intensive stuff is no longer a problem.
On the hardware end, sure, the problem is the software has to support DirectX calls. Maybe it's improved since the last time I tried it (which was only a year or two ago), but the kind of VMs that allow for hardware virtualization generally don't have proper DirectX support, while DosBox doesn't do hardware virtualization.
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I think Treefingers is nothing. Completely unnecessary and inconsequential. Just an absolute waste of space and time. I also have to add the song Kid A. Horrible sounding song, retarded lyrics, and Thom fucking with his voice (the band's greatest asset).
Its supposed to be creepy and desolate. Easily one of the best songs on the album.
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I mean I LOOOOOVES me some G 'n R, but Axl is asking for it. Internet, please oblige him.
Yeah. They're one of my favorites. But he's still a pretentious dick.
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>why are Japanese people in Japan all speaking English to each other? That's the wrong question. There are Japanese Americans in America speaking English to each other, and given that these people came from Japan (like your movie), perhaps you'd do the right thing and cast Japanese Americans. Overall, the writer seemed like an asshole. He's basically telling you he could give less than two shits about the plot and story, which then begs the question why he's the person casting for the project.
Japanese aren't all speaking English to each other either. Wow, that was a bold reach by the writer.
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Are you thinking of the Bruce Coville's *Book of Ghost Tales*, *Book of Alien Tales*, *Book of Magic Tales*., etc? They were compilations of different authors and stories, according to genre. In fact, the Alien tales book was where I first encountered "To Serve Man," the classic D. Knight scifi story.
I'm thinking you might be right. I don't have much time to look into it tonight, but that's setting off some distant memory bells...
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Lol. Bah, there's too much diversity in my Iron Mans!
And a Hispanic spiderman and Asian hulk baaaaaah !! I'm completely kidding comic books were doomed and they're looking to branch out to other audiences, but then they're blaming their audiences for poor sales.
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How can they even talk about banning encryption? Do they not realize they rely on it literally everyday? In ways that most people don't even realize. Hell even down to your car keys.
>Do they not realize they rely on it literally everyday? Yes.
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I really fucking hated it in The Hurt Locker. That totally ruined the movie for me. The film should have been going for Lione-like tension with intense still shots instead of that fucking shakycam.
I think it has its place, but when it's the majority of the film, like these two instances, it becomes far too overbearing. Trying to induce excitement through the use of one cinematographic style, when a static camera can be hundreds of times more psychologically thrilling.
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Carousel - Blink 182, off of Buddha [video] Idk if it's the best, but it's definitely the one that gives me the biggest "aww, yeah" feeling.
Mark is a beast at that bass, *christ*. Have you ever seen 'em live?
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Agreed. I am personally tired of seeing Radcliffe in the same old boring roles (boy wizard, haunted widowed Victorian lawyer, modern day justice seeking demon, flatulent multi tool corpse therapist, disturbed man obsessed with horses, Rural Russian morphine addicted Doctor ).
Lol I commented above explaining my error, it's my perception and more so his acting style. I wish the guy no ill will
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Perhaps as a human that could/should be rehabilitated. There are always cases where the rule of law and sentencing guidelines produce ridiculous outcomes. There is no reason why the US needs to be so cynical about prisoners except that corporate prisons make money on that cynicism. It is pretty disgusting, really.
We also flat out kill people who run from the police. We are pretty tightly wound around here if you think about it. Always stressing
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It's honestly unfathomably pathetic. Such a juggernaut of a company that hasn't managed to put together a worthwhile product since what, Chrome?
They have many worthwhile products that have come to market since Chrome. The problem is the amount of half-baked things that have come out and never been programmed to potential. For example hangouts. Android has interactive notifications. So when I receive a text message, I can reply directly from the notification instead of leaving my active app. This is strangely in the default AOSP Messenger, but not in Hangouts or the Google Messenger from the play store. Why? It's super convenient. Why would I switch SMS to Hangouts when the most useful thing they implemented in Android is not in it? But as for good products since Chrome: ChromeCast, Android, ChromeBooks, are just a few of many.
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Alice in Chains is very good! Even if metal/heavy rock isn't your thing, the songs are crafted very well making them very enjoyable to listen to. They also have an Acoustic EP and Unplugged Session which are both great as well.
Curious: Do you know if their new singer is any good? They're coming to a local venue this May and I'm wondering if it's worth going.
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That was bad ass! Dave looks like he is having a blast. Krist looks like a businessman hah. And Pat still looks out of place. Great to see em all on a stage again.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't krist has been a politician the past decade?
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ubi isn't communism (and neither is taxation), the means of production are still controlled by private capital.
I didn't say Taxation is.. I said paying people with a massive redistribution system out of the government by taxing only a few super rich is.. or some bastardization of it.
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Like - why Hitman ? Why not *Clu Clu Land* or *Ice Climbers* ? Why do they keep trying to adapt *this* franchise ?
Guns? Unstoppable badass? Extreme violence? I'm just throwing it out here but some people have previously paid for tickets to movies featuring these things. Ice Climbers may be looking for that sweet sweet Frozen money though.
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This worked awesome the first time with my 3 year old. Now she covers her ears, says "no", tries to get out of bed, etc. I think she's wised up to this book...
My girl gets reaaaally angry when we've read this book, especially when an action is suggested. > Now let your arms become heavy. > No! I don't want my arms to be heavy, I want them to be normal! Great that it works for a lot of kids, but we don't read it anymore.
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I'm younger than you think. Besides, what sells is catchy repetitive beats now days. I think for the most part what's been done in music has been done. A rapper cant do anything now and not sound like just another rapper. Hell most rock bands have* succumb to poppy sounds and vocalizors. True talent is having your own sound in the music that you do. While our music taste is completely subjective to its opinions of what's good and what's bad, actual uniqueness is not.
> A rapper cant do anything now and not sound like just another rapper. I definitely disagree. I feel like you don't really listen to much rap if you think this is true. Listen to something like Tyler's last album and it sounds way different than 4:44 which sounds way different than DAMN which sounds way different than Culture. Those are all mainstream albums from last year which sound nothing like one another. If you go slightly below mainstream with stuff like Brockhampton or Denzel Curry you see even more variation. You really think a song like Get Right Witcha sounds at all like Smile or See You Again? You really just seem like you don't know about the genre you're talking about.
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reading the comments in threads like this one I wonder why reddit hates gossip magazines
Because tabloids always get the story wrong! Reddit has all the answers! With no reference or resource, pure intuition.
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[Bands In Town] is pretty decent. Every week or so it'll send you a list of nearby shows for bands you've selected. It can also be synced up to your last.fm or pandora account, so every time you listen to a band, it adds them to the list of shows to watch out for... it basically requires no effort on your part.
I use this also. Sign up on the bands official website and they email you with updates (albums, tours, and such)
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I once borrowed some marked up books from a friend and found that I loved the books even more! It was like she was there reading the story with me. It can be fun to have a disembodied reading partner like that, but only if it doesn't get in the way of your enjoyment of the story.
Yussss! I'm the same. I love it when I come across a book that has highlighter and/or notes all through it. It usually makes me appreciate how much said book was loved/enjoyed by the previous owner.
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Probably *The Place of Dead Roads*. His later novels are crazy, but if you can hang on they make for a great ride. The entire *Cities of the Red Night* trilogy is definitely my favorite bit of Burroughs' bibliography. Their just this kaleidoscope of fantasy, alternate history, magic realism, occultism, stream of consciousness... you name it. Definitely not for everyone, but they certainly satisfy a particular urge I have as a reader to seek out the odd and experimental. No other writer I know comes close to these books.
I agree. He is a surprisingly prolific writer, but a lot of what he was writing was not making it into print until his later career. I think we almost get a more full picture of what he was doing in those later novels because it appears that most of his writing was getting to print.
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Last I read it was a cave in Utah that had a highway built over it which resulted in some spooky sounds which influenced the story.
I will dead ass go there this week if you give me the name and location of he cave
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If Bruno Mars ever gets tired of being Bruno Mars he has a great career waiting in a Prince tribute band.
Hell just do what Adam Lambert is doing right now and replace Prince. Though that might be a bit harder to do seeing as prince was basically a solo act with different backup bands.
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When the bad guy goes on a monologue in the third act and spills out the entire plan. Usually while the hero is in custody. In my reading, I encounter this with every Clive Cussler/Dirk Pitt book.
Loved the flip in *Watchmen*. "'Do it?' Dan, I'm not a republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it 35 minutes ago." -Ozymandias
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Have you used it? It's pretty great. Customizable controls based on what you're using. Touchscreen dashboards can do a lot more than button dashboards. And let's face it, how many drivers have the buttons memorized so they can do things without looking? Also, the touchscreen can be controlled by buttons that are on the steering wheel. It's pretty cool.
> And let's face it, how many drivers have the buttons memorized so they can do things without looking? The thing is a I can take a very quick look and then move my finger. It's pretty obvious where I'm more likely to hit the wrong button when I want to turn on seat heating. Also the display is at the top, so I always have my eyes closer to the road when using it.
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It has absolutely nothing to do with being "hard core", and you're putting words into my mouth. I think people who play Mario Party once a year at parties are gamers too. However, mobile free-to-play "games" are not games at all, and so these people cannot be gamers. Would you call someone who goes to Atlantic City every weekend and plays the slot machines a "gamer"? And then you started arguing about something else entirely. Nobody's "construct[ing] an identity" around being a gamer. I was specifically using the term in the same way that you might call someone who reads for pleasure a "reader".
why aren't mobile games games? How is Angry birds any less legitimate of a game than the majority of NES games? >Would you call someone who goes to Atlantic City every weekend and plays the slot machines a "gamer"? No but I'd call them a gambler even though they aren't playing poker or betting on sports.
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Curios to know what kind of pizza you enjoy eating?
I've been on a Hawaiian kick lately (Ham & Pineapple). I also enjoy one of my own creation that I call Pizza Portobello. It's portobello mushroom, roasted red peppers, red onions, and fresh garlic on a plain cheese pizza.
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How about they fix their fucking broken as shit copyright system and massive abuse of community guidelines before releasing unnecessary features?
It's almost like YouTube is a large company with many employees, not all of which work directly with their copyright system. Do you want the janitors to stop their unimportant cleaning and get down to the copyright headquarters to help fix it too?
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Thank you! Now if only they will kill that entire ghost town of a "social"network I can stop maintaining business pages there that hardly anyone ever views.
Facebook now has over 1.15 billion users. Twitter now has over 550 million registered users and 215 million monthly active users. Google+ now has over 1 billion enabled accounts and 359 million active monthly users. YouTube has over one billion monthly active users. 359 million active users is hardly a ghost Town, don't be naive.
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Or just a female OO agent that isn't james bond. Perhaps one that begins her career by killing james bond as one of her necessary confirmed kills to achieve OO status?
ooooh, or reverse on her majesty's secret service the whole thing, where Bond's wife doesn't get killed but he does, so she takes up the mantle and slaughters all the bad dudes.
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What gives you that idea? He talked about the faulty logic in the science fairly well.
I think the talk about faulty science was not done well at all. I hold this opinion because it does not consider the tropes of the genre of science fiction. Faulty science *is and has always been* a part of science fiction. At the same time, the example the OP uses doesn't apply because the potatoes were grown *inside the hab* at the time the calculations were done. The OP didn't read the source text closely enough and so I'm pointing that out.
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I call it like it is. MacBooks and iOS devices are status symbols first, personal computers second.
I program and develop mobile apps just fine on the MacBook. No status symbol attached. I also develop on a surface pro3.
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I can be, if you want me to be... I don't think trip hop means what you think it means. Edit: if you just want to downvote me rather than having a discussion, then you can have some blue arrows in return.
I didn't downvote you. I've been listening to the artists I've mentioned for years and have always heard them described as trip hop. I don't think "hip hop" describes them well enough. Maybe I'm wrong, honestly, I don't really care and I think it's kind of a dick move to correct someone on a music genre just so you can feel special. I've found more than a few reliable sites referencing the above as trip hop. What would you call them?
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I actually had to leave about 15 minutes into the film because I was getting ill from the shaky camera. It was really bad to the point of me feeling like I was going to be physically sick. Luckily the theatre gave me a refund. Does this happen to anyone else?
My girlfriend couldn't watch Where the Wild Things Are because of the excessive shaky cam action. I think she asked them if they were okay with her watching something else while I watched WtWTA. Hunger Games annoyed her, but she stayed and it eventually calmed down.
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JK Rowling was *nobody* before her first book took off, and the only reason it took off is because *people (of all ages) loved reading it*. That's about as far away from the concept of "famous for being famous" as you can get. Of course, everything that's popular will attract additional attention because of its popularity. That's what popularity *is*.
> JK Rowling was nobody before her first book took off, and the only reason it took off is because people (of all ages) loved reading it. I don't deny that. Avatar was massively popular too, despite being absolute crap. (I'm not saying HP is crap.) And I said the "famous for being famous" concept only applies to a certain extent. There are better books/series out there that never became massively famous to the extent that HP is.
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Yeah I'm OK with the fact that I couldn't get tickets now.
Yeah. Pretty sure you're not alone finding that particular silver lining.
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The plot twist in DKR was that it was the same plot as the first two movies. A crazy guy in a mask tries to foment chaos; the shadow dudes want to force gotham to destroy itself; the person you thought was the leader/villain wasn't... etc. I was so disappointed the whole time. Fucking Heath God-Damn Ledger.
the only plot twist in the Dark knight was Jim Gordon supposedly being dead other than that I knew that the joker was the main villain, Harvey dent went crazy and did exactly what the Joker wanted there was no surprise there.
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Stop and Shop has had this for years. It's a big pain in the ass
As a S&S shopper, I actually like using it. This way, I can bag my groceries along the way and I don't need to take them out when I get to checkout - saving time and making checkout quicker. Not sure why you don't like it, but it is also optional. Would be interested in hearing what your issues are.
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Music has been saying the same things for thousands of years. Some people just do it better than the rest. You can have all the style and other elements that make music, if you have a vocal part without talent you end up with either a sound that's not great, or a sound that utilizes technology to fix it up (like autotune).
I would disagree with that pretty strongly. To borrow a quote, "All my favorite singers couldn't sing". That's not to say bad singing can't ruin a song, but the idea that singers with big, technically perfect voices inherently make for good listening is just wrong. Michael Buble is a better singer than Jeff Mangum, but I know which one I'd rather listen to and which voice, all else being equal, conveys more genuine feeling.
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Don't click these articles if you don't like them. Easier to simply ask for recs and then delete the post than cycle through '30+ a day'. Some people drive me crazy, I tell ya.
This isn't an article, it's a post. And I'm not recommending OP cycle through 30, I'm recommending he search and look for one or two.
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How is it limited? We've had aptX for years and it works very very well for as close to lossless transition as it gets for stereo audio!
>as close to lossless as it gets for stereo audio. Ummm... We could actually transmit lossless audio, instead of adding another layer of lossy compression?
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Pretty sure that's not a [tautology] my friend. Every duck is a bird, but, even if no bird other than a duck existed, the two words would not mean the same thing. She still has an argument and it *could* be the case that every story written is the Hero's Journey.
Then tautology isn't the right word. If I insist every human being is selfish, then the term itself effectively has no more meaning than *All uncles are male*. If the opposite can never be true, then she hasn't added anything to the discourse.
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On occasion, nine inch nails. It's not very complicated, but seems to grasp emotion well.
Though the piano solo in Just Like You Imagined is FANTASTIC.
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Well if users dont use OneDrive and use Dropbox it benefits them?
I had dropbox first. Pretty sure I have a one drive account from my school, but I've never used it.
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Walk the Moon. Saw them 6 years ago in a music festival and they were the opening act (#2 or 3 or out 9 acts). Then fast forward to last year and they have the #4 single on Billboard. I thought they were just kinda a generic but catchy indie pop rock band. They're still fairly generic, but it just kinda had me thinking, why them? Why now? IDK why Anna Sun didn't blow up but Shut Up and Dance did.
Shut Up and Dance is one of the few Top 40 songs I don't hate to death.
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Fucking *now* will Reddit stop Downvoting me into oblivion when I advocate using uBlock Origin, Ghostry, and Script Block?
Everyone on reddit recommends ublock origin and ghostry. Script blocking breaks user experience for most sites cos scripts are how webdevs make things look interesting. Regardless, you getting downvotes is unrelated to that. Like in this comment, you have the "holier than thou" attitude, unnecessary cursing, claiming that only you know better, claiming you know better while saying the exact same thing as everyone else, obsessing over downvotes etc
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This guy is Sungha Jung, obviously from the title. I've been watching his videos since he was a small small child. Even then he was quite the prodigy. Fun to see him growing up. I can't wait until he gets into the spotlight... he's absolutely phenomenal.
He's already had tours I think, and played with really good other guitar players.
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you can access the canadian netflix by using a VPN or other program. I have a thing called Hotspot Shield that lets me set my location to whatever region I want.
I have an add on like that for Firefox and I'm clueless on how it works.
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Yup it'll be 6 times next month. The funnest and most unpredictable band out there. Yourself? EDIT: Your list is pretty damn good too. Totally forgot about Moving Pictures. Did you see Rush's Time Machine Tour?
Yeah I saw them at Jones Beach, it was absolutely awesome. Im about to see Umphrey's for my eighth and ninth time this week in NYC. You on The Bort by any chance?
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That's code for "I don't have social skills and I resent people who do"
That insult would more appropriately describe my other trolling tactic of connecting to bars in the immediate vicinity through the app and playing Tom Jones on repeat. I don't get to see the reactions, but it's worth it.
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He dissapears for a while and then comes back with stuff like this it's great
I think it's partially because of his mental health issues. He wrote that long letter on those courtyard Marriott postit's a while back.
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... unless you use an alternate one like Google's 8.8.8.8. In fact, you could open your very own DNS right now, and sell "Google.kanye" to the highest bidder. All a DNS server does is answer "Who owns this human-readable address?" with "Here's their IP number." This is the big one, and if it fucks up, we'll replace it.
I heard somewhere that he's doing a track with action bronson
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Man, I hope everything works out for him! The man is just a beautiful person! I was lucky enough to have seen him live 3 times, the last time being at FYF Fest in LA this past August. The love he shows to the crowd and his fans is unbelievable! Check out "Charles Bradley: Soul of America" for his story.
Oh shit! I definitely will. It's on YouTube, apparently. [Here's the sauce] for those who wanna dip.
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Nothing to apologize for. Book and movie are equally good.
That's Aronofsky for ya', the guy is a writing/directing genius. I love his stuff. I still must read Selby's **Last Exit to Brooklyn**, I have it, it's with my "Brookyln" section, I heard it was amazing.
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Because it's limited in time, my guess. I can offer my product for free for a period of time, to test it.
Yes, you can offer your product for free, but you still have to pay for the goods to produce that product. Apple is saying they want to offer their product for free, without paying for the goods to produce it.