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410,300 |
For a second, I briefly thought this was a live-action FLCL movie. I was so excited, then so, so disappointed.
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He's to old to play Naota, but Juno would make an excellent Haruko!
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410,301 |
Actually, it is music. Not only by definition, but because Outkast consists of two highly creative individuals. Perhaps, like many ignorant people, you are butthurt that this is rap music. Just remember, you sound exactly like the people in the 1930s that thought jazz rotted your brain.
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Actually, by definition it isn't music. " vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion."
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410,302 |
What issue do you want them to fix? Ticket gouging? So what price should tickets be and at what point are they gouging?
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The fact that they basically have a monopoly on concert tickets is bad enough. Add in the fact that they use 3rd party companies (that they own) to buy out and resell their tickets at much higher prices is absolutely absurd.
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410,303 |
I've never seen Metric live but the Black Keys are phenomenal. If you go check them out there's no way you'd be disappointed.
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I'm pretty sure they will both be playing at the same time at a music festival and I've heard great things about both bands
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410,304 |
IMO, Paul Blart has just the right amount of cheesiness and stupidity to still be entertaining. It's basically a super corny version of Die Hard.
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I liked the first one, but there is no way a second one can be anything except terrible. Almost makes me wish I didn't like the first one. Y u do dis, Hollywood?
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410,305 |
Muse definitely isn't part of the /r/music circlejerk. A band that dramatically changes styles while enjoying international success that isn't Radiohead will get downvoted. Something like Oasis who keeps stagnant album to album is welcome on the front page though!
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>A band that dramatically changes styles. LOL you must be thinking of a different band
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410,306 |
They bothered me because I always thought they concentrated more on flashy light saber waving than actually trying to kill each other. Fighting isn't about waving a sword near someone; it's about trying to stick the pointy end into the other person. Like, even if a particular thrust hadn't been blocked, it wouldn't have hit, so why bother? It looked too choreographed. I always liked what Bob Anderson who did the original series had done. They always looked like they were trying to kill each other. Not make something look spectacular. Which - to be clear - is very difficult, and takes careful choreography. But it looks more natural in the end.
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Yep, it's not natural. It looks like a dance where the two parties are acting from memory...because that's what it actually is. The scene where Luke pounds Vader into submission with his lightsaber in Jedi just feels so much more emotional and *real*.
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410,307 |
Wow...I'm really glad they didn't drag their heels on this one. RIP, Daniel.
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If you subscribe to the idea of heartless bean counters running Disney, for them it was basically free PR. If they refused to show the movie to Daniel before he died, the news would be how heartless Disney is and then rumors would start that the movie must be so bad, they don't want to risk showing it to even a dying fan early. There was no upside for Disney if they stonewalled the idea until they guy passed away. On the flip side, now you have a feel-good story that parallels a fan favorite offshoot movie (Fanboys), generates good press and they get a quote from the dying super fan that he was blown away at how good the movie is.
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410,308 |
Can someone explain what srs finds objectionable about this? Usually I at least can figure out their reasoning...this one leaves me pretty mystified.
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The poster is framing his girlfriend as "crazy" for liking a song. The reason this incites anger is expressed well in this comic:
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410,309 |
Anyone on a pedestal eventually looks like a hypocrite precisely because everybody is a hypocrite. It takes time to notice peoples hypocrisies, but they are always there.
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You dug a little too deep there I think. Just a bit.
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410,310 |
Strange I can't seem to put my finger on that dude's name... Quite underdeveloped character imo
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Chad. I want to say I think it was Chad.
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410,311 |
Can confirm: I used to work at Isaac Newton Square in Reston where the monkey house was (after it was torn down)
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This caught my eye because I do work for one of the schools back in that area. There's a lot of very nondescript office buildings so I can see how a rumor about a sealed off building could get started. But really they're all perfectly innocent and it's stuff like private offices where they just don't want people wandering in off the street. I woulda been 8 when the actual events took place. Now it makes sense why everyone was so fascinated by it.
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410,312 |
> Foxconn workers have a significantly lower suicide rate as a group than the greater chinese population. Yup, just blame Apple's own greed on the media. Well they live in the factory, so when you're watched all day and they make sure that you can't kill yourself, that makes sense. Also the Chinese gov't isn't exactly a trust worthy source. It's not just that, in the 80's Apple's own American employees would kill themselves from forced 70-100 hour work weeks.
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It would be equally accurate to highlight a cocaine epidemic or mass shooting epidemic at Foxconn, as both of those also have better than average rates at Foxconn when compared to the general population. Using a metric where \*Foxconn is exceeding national averages\* to highlight health concerns is an absurd and logically unsound argument. I agree with your greed and work condition statements. I take serious issue with misrepresenting statistics to falsely further your claims. It does nothing but weaken what you are saying.
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410,313 |
I can’t think of any books that would be wildly popular around these parts, but one issue I’ve found with smaller bookstores is that in the YA section, they only have the newest book in a series, never the first. It’s frustrating when it looks like a series id like, but it’s book 4. I know having the most recent book in a series is probably good business wise (and sometimes there’s just not enough shelf space for the whole series), but book one in the series would help gauge customer interest in the rest of the series.
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When I stock a new (to the store) series, I’ll usually get in just the first two or three and if it does alright I’ll get the full set. I used to work at Waldenbooks/Borders Express and it always drove me nuts when we only had Books 1, 2, and 8 from a series. Thank you!
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410,314 |
True, they are still themselves but the fact that they should not drive a car in that state shows how much their judgment is impaired. They are not altered states through physical means acquired outside of the body to produce artificial pleasures greater than normal.
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Well, the laws on inebriation while driving could be debated for hours... alcohol is MUCH more impairing than thc, etc. etc. Also, state law is a really shitty reference point for perspective norms, many would call van gogh a genius even though he was a regular absinthe drinker... and as for external chemicals, any effects of drugs work by blocking or allowing more of what is already there, MDMA/thc/etc. itself doesn't make a person high, it's *affect* does. So we're still left with people who still like what they like, regardless of their varying levels of emotion, exaggeration and/or inebriation. In short, nobody becomes a totally different person when they're high, and if they do, you probably don't know them that well.
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410,315 |
It does though. What impact does this have on everyday life? Nothing. What impact could it have in the future? It could change everything.
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Well if he said nothing we wouldn't be having this conversation but he didn't which is why he is getting downvoted.
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410,316 |
He's wrong. He doesn't even seem to understand what the Phoenix Force is. Xavier putting a mental block on Jean is not some symbolism for man controlling woman.
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this seems a trend with you all over this thread. The origin of the PF is different in the movie than the comic. What Ratner made is a repressed psyche, so in the context of that and future films that is what it is. Fucking deal with it.
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410,317 |
Most people already have a go to app first thing in the morning. It's called Facebook.
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Havent had that app on any device for about two years, and will visit the website maybe once a week. I am more a news junkie anyway.
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410,318 |
It's a movie showing what the world would go through if James Franco ever became a scientist, that's all.
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He's doing a PhD at Yale. I reckon he could have a pretty good crack at being a scientist.
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410,319 |
Same here. I figured it would be easier to write and record on my own than to wrangle up another band. Nope. I mean, I've stuck with it and the feeling of completely writing, recording, mixing and mastering your own record is a hugely fulfilling endeavor, it is, as you say, VERY time intensive. The fastest I've ever out out an album was when I was unemployed for about 6 months and worked on it for about 8-10hrs a day, about 5 days a week, and it still took 6 months to write and record 12 songs. Now that I'm gainfully employed, my output has crawled to a glacier's pace. Ps. Good stuff you got there by the way!
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I hear you, dude. I was about to throw the towel in, actually, but I wanted to see how this song would be received. I haven't showed it to **anyone** yet. I'm glad folks like it. I can't wait to finally finish it. But yeah - very time intensive. Give it another try, though!
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410,320 |
None of those shots were static that I saw. They were all moving.
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I think he means static as in not moving to the sides.
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410,321 |
I wouldn't say atrocious. The first 50 minutes at least are really solid Star Trek.
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Mmmm.... a "cold fusion bomb" that freezes a volcano? Kirk losing the Enterprise only to regain it 20 minutes later? Carol Marcus underwear scene, while nice, for no reason? The most predictable twist ever? You're right that the first 50 minutes hold it together better than the rest. But the movie is basically a car held together with duct tape. The engine's running and goes off, but the longer its on the road, the more it falls apart.
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410,322 |
Huh... interesting. That was one of my worst reads ever. Suppose I could give it another shot.
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The thesis of Heart of Darkness is, essentially, "We call the people we subjugate 'savages' but our souls are just as violent when you strip away all the etiquette and institutions we have created to cover up that darkness." Don't know if that piece of information will help you on the next read, especially if you already picked that up and just didn't like the style, but it might help.
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410,323 |
I wish I read it before the movie was announced. Now I see Idris when I close my eyes..damnit
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In my head when reading the books I see Viggo Mortensen
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410,324 |
But what's up with the aliens in 10 Cloverfield lane?
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As someone who knows more about the movie than you, I'm telling you those aliens came from Canada.
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410,325 |
There's a reason Donald Trump had a star despite being a C-list reality show host. It's also the same reason that the Hollywood Walk of Fame defended him so adamantly when that dude destroyed his star - because he paid them. Simple.
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C-List? In it's prime the apprentice was huge
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410,326 |
His name is Judah Ben-Hur so Ben-Hur is his last name.
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I know, but Ben means "son of," and I think Bint means "daughter of."
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410,327 |
Why? What in the original series implies that Vader betrayed innocent children and murdered them? He could have just sided with Palpatine for power and because he believed Palpatine could restore order in the galaxy and bring greater times and then it was a moral slippery slope over the years. Greatest emotional impact is not always the best. Melodrama needs to make sense and not come out of nowhere.
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>What in the original series implies that Vader betrayed innocent children and murdered them? Maybe the lines: "A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father. Now the Jedi are all but extinct." So yeah, it's fairly clear that Darth Vader was actively complicit in the destruction of the Jedi, which would include any young ones.
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410,328 |
[The Invitation] which had a limited release + VOD. One of those suspense thrillers where the less you know going in, the better.
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Thanks, looks good, definitely going to give it a watch
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410,329 |
I've been learning about various cloud platform technology for my job in IT. I'm not strictly technical though, and I'm far from a cloud developer. Can someone explain or provide background for how GPU workloads are delivered over cloud? I read the article, I can see that it's cutting edge and expensive to deliver relative to other workloads, but I can't wrap my head around how it is actually being done.
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I'm no expert but afaik: GPU workloads in the cloud aren't real-time applications, they are usually hashing operations, deep learning, or something highly parallelized/designed for cuda cores. The hardware is probably a high core xeon with enough PCIe lanes for 8 GPUs and a compatible MoBo. The VMs could be set up with something similar to unRAID, which can attach GPUs to each instance. The networking shouldn't be too hard, as long as it's a single hardware machine handling the workload. If you have a specific question I'm sure someone here could answer it better than I.(/buttonwut)
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410,330 |
That's messed up. I pissed myself at least twice that I know of as a kid and my dad won't even talk to me let alone make fun of me for it.
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He just enjoys taking the piss. Nothing mean about it.
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410,331 |
Doesn't make the movie any better. Just adds another layer. I just thought it was disappointing and forgettable, but better than Quantum of Solace, of course.
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Flavors, it was pretty good. I prefered it to Casino Royale by a long shot. But only because it took Bond back to the Bond I liked. Granted Casino Royale was more of the Bond from the book....
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410,332 |
Dude, he was in We Brought A Zoo & Eurotrip. Stuck On You is gold compared to that.
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His performance in Eurotrip was oscar worthy! Anything by the Farrelly brothers is automatically the worst movie on the list.
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410,333 |
>cognitive dissonance. Those words don't mean what you think they mean.
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Go on then, explain to be how thinking that Hilary and Obama are somehow on the side if privacy is anything but.
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410,334 |
I'm... going to go ahead and box up my iPod for a couple days. Turn on the record player after work tonight and whip out one of Mr. Bradbury's books.
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What's the difference between an iPod and a record player? Either way, you're at home listening to music...
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410,335 |
I was already an enthusiastic reader at the time, but I devoured Goosebumps and Fear Street, eventually moving on to grownup stuff like Stephen King and Michael Crichton to satisfy my morbid curiosity. As a grownup I discovered that some parents don't want their kids reading those sorts of things, which was appalling to me because reading is good no matter what! A responsible parent answers questions and explains concepts rather than censors. Glad your cousin was able to get into the books :)
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Additional funfact: though R.L. Stein is mostly known as a kids' horror writer, he also has written for such nonthreatening pieces of Nickelodeon TV as Eureka's Castle.
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410,336 |
There are many services like this available but most usually require the conference organiser to provide this service.
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Can you give me examples of such service? or a conference that provides this service?
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410,337 |
My daughter drew this several years ago to illustrate that word. I think that's still one of my highest rated posts. Original post:
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This is what I thought of instantly, when the word was posted. Best regards.
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410,338 |
I grabbed it, did you? I just read the first chapter. We'll see how this goes!
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I did, it's good so far. Haven't finished it yet, but happy I picked it up. I was going to order the other books, but I guess after the 1st they go back up to $4.99. Even for Prime. Oh well, can't complain for a free book a month before release.
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410,339 |
Captain America Civil War takes its name and basic idea from the worst event Marvel has ever done and it turned out wonderfully. I've never been happier about something throwing out the source material
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Why do you think that? (genuine question, interested in knowing why you consider this the worst event on Marvel)
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410,340 |
If you listen to radio, then... yes, they will. About 5 times every hour.
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Change the radio station dude. You realize there is more than one right?
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410,341 |
I mean, I wouldn't mind if a newspaper asked me to use 20% of my GPU (or even up to 50%) while I'm reading an article. In fact, I would prefer it over viewing an advert. edit: Hey downvoters, man up and actually give a counter-argument.
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Oyster Pearl uses an extremely small portion of your processing power as an alternative to ads.
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410,342 |
I just highjacking this comment. I don't understand what is so funny about this?? Someone please explain it?
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they took the selfie and he was just barely in it on the left. couple minutes later Ellen was doing her pizza delivery bit, and Jared Leto's seat was a good 3-4 sections to the left of where they took the selfie
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410,343 |
Holy shit! Dude that's crazy. I can't even imagine the euphoria after you got off stage. You're probably going to be glowing for a month.
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"Hey you remember that guy who got on stage and played the drums for the foo fighters? Yeeeeah that was me.. You should blow me right now".
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410,344 |
Where did you get that number? I don't doubt that whoever holds the rights to the publication is making some dough, but how much of it is really going to help her? A good nursing home, as /u/Bigthickjuicy indicated above, can be very expensive. My bet is that her recent copyright lawsuit may have been expensive and resulted in her getting less income than she originally thought she would have.
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Harper Lee’s permanent Christmas. Brian Warner | Celebrity Net Worth | 6 January 2014. She has only written one book. But, luckily for all concerned, it was the right book. “To Kill A Mockingbird sells between 750,000 and 1m copies every year. So how much money has this put into Harper Lee’s pockets? According to legal papers filed against former book agent Sam Pinkus, in the first six months of 2009 alone Harper Lee earned $1,688,064.68 in royalties. That’s $9,249 per day”. I doubt she has much to worry about moneywise. Even though she lost "some", royalties money is still coming.
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410,345 |
You may have felt that was bad script, but in reality, that is exactly what a good leader would say, to a child. Make them feel a part of, especially if you can't make them feel safe.
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In reality, a child would probably shit all over himself in fear. Doesn't make it good cinema.
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410,346 |
Met him at a concert in Richmond, VA. Super nice guy
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I met him at a concert 4 years ago and thought he was kind of a dick
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410,347 |
Man I could really use a ice cold Coca Cola.
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Boy, those Ralph Lauren (TM) polos are super fetching.
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410,348 |
It's awesome. Some of it is confusing, but that's true of ALL of Lynch's films. For some weird reason, this amazing sci-fi epic is the only movie he's made that is held to a different standard (i.e, people demand that THIS one must make sense 100% of the time).
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I knew he directed it, but is it really in his dream-style? That would be amazing.
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410,349 |
The Tournament of Books on The Morning News. Think of it as college basketball (you get to fill out brackets but for books!) meets literature.
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This one is interesting. I've been surprised with how often they end up picking the one I would have picked.
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410,350 |
Neither does the late party paying fines. The library has money to buy new copies of the book. The fees only add extra money to the library, which could also be done by performing services to save the library labor costs.
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What services could you do that would save money? The only way I can think of is if you make that person do what your paying another person to do, and call off the other person. Either way screw doing work, Ill pay the money. Though I'm not even sure why this is an issue, as you should have enough time to finish the book. If you don't then come in and check it out again.
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410,351 |
You know, in thinking about the casting, the casting of Kylo Ren was terrible. I mean, Episode 1 wasn't great, but they got a badass martial arts guy to be the villain. In this one, they hired the tall skinny giant pussy looking guy from HBO's "Girls". They really could have found someone else.
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you're missing the point. He's is SUPPOSED to be baby faced. It's a metaphor for his character and why he wears the mask
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410,352 |
I hope this picture of a [baby platypus having its belly rubbed] cheers you up!
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Nice! Thank you. I'm putting this on my fridge! I should add I just have a double sinus infection, so other than feeling like my face is rotting from the inside out, things are... Ok. I'm not, depressed. Rereading that even I was like "whew, sucks to be that guy". Thank you again Simon, your drawring has made me feel better!
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410,353 |
Is OpenDNS' revenue all from the pages they show when a domain can't be found? Do they have any other streams?
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No, they stopped doing that. They make money providing a security service to Enterprise customers.
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410,354 |
Wow. The Rat 7 is the only mouse I can even use any more. :(
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I felt the same way, but honestly that mouse kind of falls apart after a while. I recently replaced my rat with a Logitech G602, completely satisfied.
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410,355 |
The Director's Cut is more logical but also takes away from the sort of ambient mystery that was so alluring about the original cut. Also the Director's Cut makes some surprising soundtrack changes. Many people's preference depends on which version they saw first.
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TIL I might be in the minority for preferring the Director's Cut. I saw the theatrical release first (on VHS... oh the memories) and snagged the DC a few years afterwards. I liked the added scenes and the novel pages. It definitely explains things at length but I didn't think it was a cheap reveal, it actually took a few viewings to fully comprehend.
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410,356 |
I use Deluge its lightweight, works for linux too!
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How is Deluge lightweight? Buzzword more than anything else.
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410,357 |
I believe that this is a very underrated movie that people often forget. Thanks for bringing it to light in this thread.
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My mind keeps trying to relegate it into the 'another child star movie' pile, which is my own prejudice to get over, because it was a fantastic movie.
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410,358 |
I can't believe there isn't a single post on here addressing a style of music outside of pop. Basically everything has been about rock bands, a couple rap posts, that's it. I don't know why, but I was kind of hoping for someone who loves Luigi Nono's "Fragmente Stille - An Diotima" or thought that spectralism was bullshit.
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I mentioned some bullshit about extreme metal. I didn't get any responses. /foreveralone... in r/music at least
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410,359 |
Maybe TIME was also thinking of Her. As for Lucy, it is a mindless sf action flick but i like how absurd it was, the pace was fast and the film is short enough to be entertaining. It def aint Leon but it had it's moments, like when the bad guys are taking out their machine guns from the car trunk in the middle of the street in broad daylight a few meters from the cops.
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I didn't see it, but Time's article basically said the opposite of "mindless"
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410,360 |
...So we're just going to go ahead and ignore Python, C++, Javascript, Ruby, Perl and PHP? This is leaving out languages which run on JVM. You seriously picked out Vala before any of those? Even if these languages aren't built for iOS, it sure as hell would make developers' lives easier if you took something they may already be familiar with and adapted it to iOS.
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> Python. Waaaaaay too slow (though I love it). Dynamically typed. A million other reasons. > C++ Already supported. > Javascript, Ruby, PHP. Hahaha. You're funny! > Perl. I would set you on fire if I could.
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410,361 |
Please, both Russians and the US had the end goal of landing on the moon. The russians had 4 failed attempts to put astronauts on the moon before they gave up. Pretending like the Russians didn't care about putting someone on the moon is revisionist history. The Russians didnt have the infrastructure to build the massive engines like the US had. Everyone involved had stepping on the moon as the end goal. It ended with the moon because that's when the Russians threw in the towel. The US accomplished a greater technological feat than anything the Russians were able to do at that time.
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The goal was **Mars** [Wernher von Braun really had designed the Saturn V rocket to get us to Mars]
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410,362 |
remember: merch sales are how the bands get paid. ticket sales dont usually go to the band. alcohol sales dont go to the band. even record sales end up being a pretty paltry sum in the end. the only thing that really goes to the band is merch sales. so they're donating 5% of the money *out of pocket*. im not a fan of the band, but thats pretty awesome of them.
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According to the chart that has been going around, and was posted higher up in this thread, the band gets $50,000 per gig.
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410,363 |
Not all of us want to live like frat douches with ethernet cables running across our living room floors.
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That's what a [cable duct] is for. Honestly. You don't even notice it.
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410,364 |
The Republican Congress passed this. Surely your opinion on them doing it is the same? I eagerly await a response.
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Yep, regardless of democrat or republican stay the fuck out of our business. What would you expect me to say? Oh no, since it was written by the republicans I'm okay with it now? wtf.
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410,365 |
To be fair, Winston Groom's book was awful. How they made such a great film out of that book is just mind-boggling.
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Also- he probably should have paid the movie producers for improving his book.
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410,366 |
1. Lady Vengeance - Meeting at the school, then cake afterwards as if nothing happened. 2. Dead Man's Shoes - The spiked tea section. 3. 22 Bullets - Jean Reno interrupts the drinking session.
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The cake scene in Lady Vengeance isn't about pretending nothing happened it's meant to be about the fact that for the parents can now starting living normally again and are starting to get over get over there children's deaths. At least this is what I think I haven't seen the movie for a few months so correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure this is what Chan-wook Park was going for in this scene.
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410,367 |
World War Z had a very strange writing style that turned me off (yes, I acknowledge that I'm in the minority).
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You're not- many people hated the writing style. I am with you, it wasn't for me.
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410,368 |
Perhaps *Star Wars* was so successful because the people watching it in '77 were more familiar with those original films than we are now. It's like *Force* remixing *Star Wars*.
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Star Wars was so successful because it was the first film to execute on such a massive level in almost every category, FX, sound, score, world building... about the only thing it didn't raise to the next level was storytelling, mainly because there is no next level to get to. Making a film is about taking conventions that work and executing in interesting or mesmerizing way.
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410,369 |
I hope I'm not posting out of bounds by asking this here. Higher internet speeds, to most people, simply mean better Skype, Netflix and Youtube. Indeed, video was a direct consequence of DSL, and HD Video a direct consequence of better broadband. What services do you believe will emerge with even higher download/upload speeds ?
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None. Until the cable oligopoly is broken not enough people will have access to higher speeds.
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410,370 |
You can have it if you got a half decent phone that they don't superglue the battery into. Even my Galaxy S3 with extended battery had a 4-10 day battery life. Now running an LG g3. I want a thin phone? I can use the stock battery. I want a better battery life? $10 and I got an extended battery (6,800mah, over double the 3,000mah of an iphone 6 plus). I also have a micro SD card slot. If I want to add 200GB of storage I easily can.
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I don't consider a phone that old to be half decent. And I'm SD storage is just too slow. Maybe if I tended to fill my phone up with movies or something. But I don't.
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410,371 |
I just control+F'd Dragon Tattoo. Nothin. Was there not a big following for this movie because it was an American version of a Swedish Movie based on a book?
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Yup. It's actually a trilogy. Very big here in Sweden. Swedish: American:
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410,372 |
Or maybe not everyone sees every single thread on reddit... Good job jumping to unwarranted conclusions, good luck with that.
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it was very warranted considering the thread in question was front paged before, and Reddit posters are pretty much notorious for not being original and overusing catch phrases and memes until they become part of their standard lexicon
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410,373 |
Check out The Hit from 1984 where he plays a rookie hit man alongside John Hurt, it also makes a nice double bill with The Liability 2012 where he plays the John Hurt role to a rookie Jack O'Connell (although it's not as great a film).
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I heard of the Hit and was going to try to watch it but I couldn't find it anywhere. Sucks.
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410,374 |
Yeah it's gonna be pretty fucking hard to beat out the imagery of Vader and Palpatine, and in terms of what they did on-screen Vader is *brutal* and Palpatine is *sinister*. Those two in the original trilogy really set a new high bar for Lawful Evil villains.
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Having Kylo's greatest fear be that he may never live up to Vader's legacy is one of the smartest creative decisions in the film in my opinion.
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410,375 |
I kinda like that they left the mythos up to us, very open-ended.
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eh, am I the only one to see the sarcasm in this (as in: since they did not make any sequels, it *is* open ended)
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410,376 |
I read all of the New Testament when I was a practicing Christian, and started out reading the Old Testament. I made it as far as Leviticus and was so disgusted that I couldn't properly finish. I did skim through the rest of it, though, so that might still count.
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Eh, with how much most people read, and considering you read most of it, I'd count it.
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410,377 |
Quote from the movie, "God Bless America", in which Frank Murdoch is trying to explain to a coworker why those talent shows are awful and that there's little (if any) talent involved: They have good pitch... they're relatively clean, they're non-threatening to little girls and old ladies, they have the ability to stand in line with a stadium full of other desperate and confused people, but I assure you they are talent-free.
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Yeah yeah yeah..what do you listen to mr discerning audience member?
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what store have you been in, dude? I haven't been to a place where there isn't the remastered version sitting right beside the new DVDs.
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this was when it was in cinemas you nitwit. They released a dvd boxset with the original IN IT. Don't you read ANYTHING in the media?
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I disagree; I am Native and really wish Sandler would take the bloody hint.
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I disagree; I'm Pennsylvanian and really wish Adam Sandler would pay me in trident layers to watch his movies
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>If we make it another fifty years without them being able to fuck up the internet, they'll all be dead and more knowledgeable people will take their places. I used to believe this years ago but then I saw these people have spawnlings and political friends who will takeover after their death. It's never going away.
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> It's never going away. Yup. "But but but it's only old people that aren't interested in tech!" Replace "tech" with whatever thing someone is interested in and there's plenty of non-old people that aren't interested in understanding that. Go ask your average college kid if they know how to change their oil and see how interested they are in even learning.
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410,381 |
"The US split from England years ago but I'm still going to call Americans 'British.'"
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Well I just thought that for example, Heavy Metal is a type of Metal so wouldn't Pop Punk be a type of punk? No need to be rude. I don't think what I said was really such profoundly weird assumption to make.
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As a huge fan of Dave Grohl this is one of the most unimpressive videos I have seen of him. Its a pretty strait forward cover, at low quality and the shows audio was poorly engineered. If you have not wasted your time watching this yet, don't, there are plenty of epic Dave Grohl videos out there and this is not one of them.
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I like how you can tell that the sound engineering is bad from a phone mic at a random spot in the audience.
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They could have actually shot the scene looking down on a real gun firing at a firing range. And I doubt it would have been that huge of a deal to CGI the mouth of the casing. I seem to remember seeing fucking dinosaurs on the silver screen 6 years earlier.
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Most of those dinosaurs were animatronics. The ones that were CG weren't for closeups, but mainly used for distant shots. It also doesn't involve very much tracking. To replace such a minor detail on a shot you'd have to manually track the ejected casing frame by frame, replacing the crimped tip with a normal one, PLUS adding in the background that is now "uncovered". To do something like this for 1999 would've been crazy, especially for a 1 second shot on a detail that nobody would notice until they were skipping through the DVD frame-by-frame.
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Agreed. Hemsey isn't actually a composer, he's more of a digital arranger. Which is fine. Two Steps From Hell are similar. Murphy's work on 28 Days Later and Sunshine murders pretty much all other film scores of the past fifteen years.
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Sunshine has the best film score I think I've ever heard.
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Bizarre, I was going to comment that Mother Night is great but probably his most normal uneccentric book! Also one of my favourites though, with possibly my favourite opening line ever - "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be" Would you PM me why you found it odd?
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It may not be fair for me to call it odd, since my experience of it's oddness is less based on the book than on my own expectations. Basically what you said -- it's so "normal" by Vonnegut standards but still completely his voice. When I read Cat's Cradle, I'd already read Slaughter House Five and Breakfast of Champions so I was familiar with Vonnegut's particular kind of eccentricity. But I still found it really surprising and strange in a way I hadn't anticipated at all. Mother Night was the opposite -- I wasn't expecting something quite so straightforward and still so witty and wry in Vonnegut's way.
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This guy is a fucking legend and the fact that this isn't higher is goddamn criminal. The album is pretty great, but I'm still forming my opinions on it. At first listen, it seems to be a pretty worthy follow-up to Voodoo.
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>the fact that this isn't higher is goddamn criminal. pretty sure 18-35 white dudes arent d'angelo's target demo
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410,387 |
Doesn't really protect them from conversion fees, does it? Though I guess those can just be marked up in the price and passed on to the customer.
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Cost of doing business. Still lower than the fee that credit card companies take.
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410,388 |
That doesn't make it any less grating to read for 800 goddamn pages.
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While I get where you're coming from, the broken man in 'present day' telling the story dispells any of my concerns that Kvothe will be a Mary Sue. He's clearly fallen, and fallen hard, everything else in the story is just leading into a disaster. He's not perfect, and I'd be willing to bet his perfection, past and present, will end up biting him in the ass in the next book.
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Thats the drug where the real money is. Very high profit margin. Much easier to conceal than most drugs while driving. Some people are even bold and send it through the mail because it is hard to detect. Demand for it will always be high, and it is pretty rare to find the real thing in 2015.
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Yeah that's my problem. I've always wanted to try it, but I don't trust anybody I know to have actual LSD, and I'm not really into buying drugs over the internet.
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"They replaced this item 5 times and each time it broke within 5 minutes. But they were cool about it so I should probably rate the item 5 stars"
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There was no context when I replied, and there are plenty of legitimate situations where asking a user to adjust their review is fair. Plenty of complete morons leave bad reviews for entirely unrelated things.
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Are you in the US? The app only works for US based websites, and it needs to be a purchase from a supported vendor. Also it could just be that there weren't price changes in the things you bought. I've already gotten some money back using the site, so it does work.
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Oh, I didn't realize that things only showed up in "purchases" if the price changed. I had purchased and received at least 5 things from amazon since I linked the accounts and I thought that meant they should show up in the "purchases" page.
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I'm with you. Most of my family is Mormon and I was raised that way. Have not been for a LONG time. When I was younger I was part of the baptism for the dead. It was....odd...and unsettling to say the least.
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I thought it was a strange cerenomy, too but....eh. It's not the kool aid drinking cult movement that other people make it out to be. Baptisms for the dead within the ideology of Mormonism makes sense. That is if you believe the doctrine to be your personal truth, it's not a far fetched idea to bring salvation to the dead. **JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER RELIGION**. As a probably less biased individual with no religious ties growing up, I can honestly say all religions are weird as hell.
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I find it a bit strange that a book series about empathizing and attempting to understand things that are alien is written by a man who hates gay people and gives money to organizations that also hate gay people.
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You're implying that being gay is a foreign concept? You sicken me.
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Betterprivacy or Ghostery (which is amazing) both allow you to do the same thing with firefox. Edit: I think I misunderstood what this was about.
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How can a browser extension protect against a header that's being injected by the carrier upstream?
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I'd like to know what high brow fare manages to entertain you given your rather lofty requirements.
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It's not about it being high-brow. If you take away it's special effects there isn't much left. Spielberg's other movies like Jaws, Poltergeist and E.T. are still great and engaging regardless of their special effects
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410,396 |
What kind of specialist would perform that, or can you buy it somewhere?
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I had it done at my primary Physicians office. It’s called a cytochrome test.
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410,397 |
Who knows, China loved Warcraft so a sequel seems likely as that market just keeps growing.
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Uh no. The movie was still a bomb and even less people would go see it
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410,398 |
Right? It's such a large scale inconvenience for Facebook users to not be able see what brunch their friends are having, that it has become breaking news on BBC.
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2 billion users and loads of businesses, organisations and events rely on it heavily. I mean it's fun to shit on Facebook but they are kind of a big deal. Edit: oh and shit loads of other websites use Facebook for authentication. That was/is also fucked.
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Some places do have designated charging stations, others don't. The beauty of electricity is that it is so malleable that you don't need expensive specialized stations to charge. A simple adapter of the right kind will get you going. Specialized stations are good, as they can provide more energy than an outlet intended for powering something smaller, but given an overnight stay, even a small trickle of power adds up.
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I didn't know that you could literally plug an electric vehicle into any old outlet. My other question would then become practically how did they do it. Walking around with a long extension cord at a restaurant looking for an outlet has to raise some eyebrows, and I can't imagine any manager having an incentive to let you run that cord back to your car. Someone could trip over it and sue.
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