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This came out in 2007. Why is current music such a rarity in this subreddit?
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good music is good music. Sometimes people stumble onto it later and want to share it with others. Even if it is old, people will still appreciate it if it's a good song
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410,501 |
I still don't understand how this is going to have lower build costs than a high speed train. Can someone explain it?
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I imagine they can just be built under ground in high density areas thanks to elons boring company, thus saving costs incurred by extremely expensive right of way. Just my guess though. To be fair I don't see why the same can't be done for high speed rail
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410,502 |
Bullshit reasoning. The royalty rate they have set up to pay after the trial period is 1% above Spotify's rate. They weren't doing anyone a favor by not paying music makers and songwriters for three months.
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I never said it was a good reason, nor did i say i agree with their plan. Im simply answering his question of "Why would anyone assume apple would NOT pay artists?" Because they negotiated a deal where they weren't going to pay artists for the first 3 months.
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410,503 |
Whitby is such a cool and weird little town. I went there a few years ago on a Gothic Lit field study for that reason. I love how now there’s actually a huge modern Goth stronghold there.
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I'm not sure I know what a Goth Stronghold is but I can't help imagining Whitby bring overun by The Cure fans
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410,504 |
It's not the lyrics? It's the actions taken by the human attached to the mouth the lyrics are coming out of. This isn't even censorship.. you're taking a huge leap here.
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Jay Z is an admitted crack dealer, Snoop Dogg was accused of murder, Eminem has been charged with assault. You going to ban all of them too? Tupac beat a man with a bat and was also convicted for rape. When are his songs going to get pulled down?
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410,505 |
it's grammatically correct, but the object is at the beginning, which is uncommon in English. Better: "The technologies *that* chip makers hope can keep Moore's Law alive". Best: " Chip makers hope these technologies can keep Moore's Law alive".
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The title makes complete sense after understanding what OP meant. It took your comment to make that clear.
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410,506 |
A [wireless mesh] using 2.4 GHz. Low-bandwidth and high latency, but often used for controlling lighting in larger venues. Rather crude from my perspective, I'd much prefer wireless [DMX512] gear sending [Artnet] control signal.
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I was rather referring to the fact that Zigbee and Wifi are two completely different types of wireless LAN and therefore whoever wrote the marketing copy and/or the article is likely full of shit.
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410,507 |
that physical books cannot be updated is a good thing, not a bad thing...just wait until kindle updates your library with a free copy of the newest title by (insert hated author here) - or what about when the copyright changes and your ebook version is deleted from your library? These are my concerns regarding ebooks, but I do think the true value of ebooks and their financial future is in textbooks/learning materials, cause the other thing no one else is pointing out is that authors can't make a living off purely digital content (as the majority of todays musicians have learned as well)
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So what if I get a free book? Delete it if you don't want it. If they make it difficult, or well. My kindle can hold one than enough books. If someone else gets the copy right, and it gets deleted, the hopefully I have read it. But I can see where you are coming from with that one. I've found textbooks work just as well on a tablet. You can still flip through pages, jump to a page, look up a specific term without going to and searching through the appendix. Seems fine to me. And lol at the musician comment. Sure.
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410,508 |
Viva la Gloria is actually a pretty good song on 21st century breakdown. I don't know anything else on the CD.
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was gonna say this, Viva la Gloria (little girl) really sounded like them getting back to their Warning album days. They may never be punk again like Dookie, but I personally always loved Warning the most, and they can still get that vibe and sound, so I'm happy to just get singles.
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410,509 |
Would it change your opinion on that if you knew that this book was him spilling his guts out to a psychiatrist the entire time? Note all the times he calls himself a madman. It puts a new spin on it.
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I realized that the first time I read it. Thanks for trying to help, though :)
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410,510 |
My point stands then. They're merging their OSs and you complain for the lack of unification. Makes no sense. As far as we know, they might be taking ChromeOS features and integrating them into Android, leaving just one OS once they stop selling chromebooks in favor of "android desktop" laptops. What you're complaning about is the same thing you want. Again, doesn't make any sense.
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It's only unification if they take all the users with them, this looks like fragmentation. For example, Apple has a mobile OS, desktop OS, watch OS. Although they share features its quite clear which belongs in which domain. This combines a mobile OS and a sort of browser OS into something that might be a desktop OS. As an app developer, I can decide to develop for mobile with iOS or desktop with OSX. Different interfaces, usage scenarios, capabilities. What would I be aiming at by developing for Andromeda? Is it browser, mobile or desktop?
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410,511 |
They are more concerned with migrating their win32 apps that form their software monopoly in the desktop over to apps that work on mobile. Since their desktop and mobile market are both a sinking ship. Security is just a pretense.
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Neither is pretense or end goal. Company of size of Microsoft can have multiple goals. Their corporate customers very much so care about security and it's a selling point.
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410,512 |
It means Tesla is really a battery company. When GM, Ford, etc. jump into the electric vehicle market they will likely have to buy batteries from Tesla.
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Actually the reality is that Tesla is car/software company who is getting a crap ton of help from Panasonic to manufacture all the batteries. Tesla basically made the gigafactory to allow Panasonic to set up shop right in its backyard so that their supply lines and cost would be greatly reduced. Ask anyone in the electronic cigarette scene, there's only like 4 or 5 manufacturers of 18650 batteries. Even Tesla's newer battery units have a heavy heavy influence from Panasonic in the design and manufacturing.
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410,513 |
Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science by Gilbert M. Masters, hands down! All the equations in there made me so happy!
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Im thinking of switching my major to Environmental Engineering, thank you for posting this.
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410,514 |
Storm Front is book 1. The whole Winter Knight thing doesn't come into play until book 14.
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Ah, thanks. After finishing skin game I jumped around and read my favs and the order of things just kind of blended together after that :D
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410,515 |
I keep seeing headlines about improvements in fusion power. Generally, are these incremental to each other, or applied in competing technologies?
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tl;dr - a mixture. There are some fundamental challenges to all fusion concepts, most notably materials and fuel handling, and some particular challenges to various concepts - lasers vs. magnets.
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410,516 |
Did you listen to it after you saw the movie? I don't think one would be able to divorce the imagery and emotions of that moment in the film from the pure audio once that connection is made in your mind.
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Yeah, I saw the movie first. The imagery is still there, but it's kind of vague. I'm sure it probably makes a difference though.
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410,517 |
You know it's okay to like something popular right? That is a stunning sweep under the rug of some great films.
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>You know it's okay to like something popular right? Yeah because it's impossible for me to dislike Avatar because it's a bad film. I suppose since I hate things on the basis of popularity I should cancel my Winter Soldier preorder, better get a refund on Titanfall, stop drinking Coke... >That is a stunning sweep under the rug of some great films. There's only one Avatar movie.
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410,518 |
How do you suggest we prevent it without trampling the 2nd amendment? Some liberties require the sacrifice of some security.
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I think it's probably worth examining whether the reasons we originally enshrined the 2nd amendment in our Bill of Rights still hold up to scrutiny today. I'm not in favor of banning firearms completely, but it's clear that the 2nd amendment is getting in the way of implementing the controls that other countries have seen be very effective in reducing gun violence.
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410,519 |
How is there will be blood not a good answer to this? They didn't say no country but for some reason you ranted about it...
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No country was mentioned by another commenter, I was referring to the thread in general. And yes TWBB is a good answer obviously but I'm just annoyed cause I think Jesse James is every bit as good of a film (better imo) and deserves more recognition
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410,520 |
I read Maus I back in high school six years ago. Is the second book worth picking up?
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I just started it. But it's the continuation of the story so if you want to find out what happened to all the characters, then yes.
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410,521 |
George RR Martin. Having him take time away from writing to go on a field trip around the moon would give the fandom an aneurysm.
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He doesn't qualify. The project timeline says the artists have to produce an artwork in the 2020's! :P
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410,522 |
Having a back light really wasn't important for me, so I went with the basic model and would highly recommend it. Very light and compact, great battery life and the e-ink is very easy on the eyes. Heard great things from the Paperwhite, too. You can't really go wrong with either, though, but I'd stay away from the Fire.
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I thought the same thing when I bought my basic kindle. I really like it, but sometimes I miss the features of touch screens, like looking up words.
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410,523 |
"I close with the hope that the title proves prophetic."
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for a man with no mouth, he can talk shit pretty good
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410,524 |
I didn't say that protecting the data port would be trivial. > most people. Ahh, but you said "It benefits **no-one** except the vendors" and I gave you a use-case where removing the headphone jack improves the ability of vendors to manufacture a device meeting a criteria that some people value. You're moving the goalposts.
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I admire the way you're making your argument and I'm not sure why you were downvoted for making a valid point in a logically sound way. Edit: I also have to mention that I get a slight chub any time someone points out a valid logical fallacy, and because of that I sincerely wish I could upvote you twice
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410,525 |
Really really like this song. Wasn't impressed by anything else they've ever done though.
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Yeah, I looked em up after hearing this song like a year ago. Too much screaming and not enough like this.
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410,526 |
Well, yeah, when you charge 17.50 a fucking ticket, of course it's gonna make a shit ton of money. Doesn't mean it's the highest number of ticket sales. However, I liked it, i think they did a good job and the amount and kind of humor was just right :-) It was entertaining. Definitely could have done without the army subplot, that was just silly. But I don't think I'm going to ever go see another movie in the theater again, even non 3D was like 14.50.
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I'm at the point where I'd rather just buy the movie at retailer for about 10 bucks instead of going and seeing it at the theatre.
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410,527 |
I wonder which barely relevant comedian they'll suddenly shove into the starring role this time around? Cars 3, starring Gallagher! It's not a car movie, or a spy movie, but instead we've turned it into a summer camp for cars, because even Pixar seems to be running out of ideas.
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John Mulaney should make a cameo as an insecure Prius.
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410,528 |
yeah it was kind of all over the news everywhere
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I mean not only that but the op of this chain literally wrote RIP Delores
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410,529 |
So it's a tablet with some wheels on it. Seems kind of pointless. I am more interested in something that can take the trash out and fold laundry. Maybe even take the dishes out of the dishwasher.
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> Maybe even take the dishes out of the dishwasher. A convenience machine for your convenience machine.
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410,530 |
Idea. Maybe I'll ask my family to sell my books with my memoir in it when I die.
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The one that was in there was more the wife putting a few thoughts together about him, but if you really put together an actual memoir, that would be pretty cool.
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410,531 |
I have a monitor with a 21:9 cinewide ratio and often get letterboxing on ALL 4 SIDES with Netflix. I've asked them about it many times but they don't do anything :/
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I was wondering what would happen with a 21:9. If this was some automatic cropping you would think it would display properly on a 21:9. Thanks for the info.
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410,532 |
Where did you get a 1tb ssd for $200? All the ones I see are about $350
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Crucial's website. They're out of stock right now though.
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410,533 |
I like her, but her character in Interstellar is extremely irritating. I loved the movie, but her character's actions and dialogue were definitely the worst part of it.
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that's what i meant to say: "her character" ^^^no ^^^i ^^^didn't!
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410,534 |
Regular Show is an adult cartoon written for kids. Adventure Time is a kids' cartoon written for adults.
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I mean come on, how can kids appreciate all those late 90s reference to begin with. It's pretty much tailor made for adults or older audience.
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410,535 |
Why would they explode? Or did you mean explosive popularity?
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I guess pretty much anything can explode if you grind it up fine enough and mix in some oxygen...but thats kind of off topic
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410,536 |
Good thing they didnt find Beiber on the side of the road, they would of just been pissed on.
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Hi, I'm here to offer tips on English style and usage (and some common misspellings). My database indicates that. > would of. should probably be. > would've (would have) Have a great day!
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410,537 |
Ahhhh, that song was so sick until he started singing.
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Harsh vocals are something you just get used to after a while of listening to them. I used to hate them, then I listened to [this] and most things I listened to after that did not compare to the harshness of this haha. I actually love harsh vocals now, and I mostly prefer them when listening to metal
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410,538 |
Nah, it's hipster fashion. Can't like something that's popular! REM didn't hit it "big" until Document, and Green was their real breakout. Automatic is their best album IMO also. Dude doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Agree, Auto is not a hip album to like because it was everywhere but I discovered them with Automatic and loved it so much, went backwards from there and loved nearly all there work right up until Monster came out, which I waited in line at the record store to get and was sorely disapointed. Still went to see them live on that tour which sucked too, the opening band Grant Lee Buffalo was WAY better.
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410,539 |
I thought Thrice released their Anthology album as a "finale" to their musical career? Anyway I Definitely gotta look into this, thanks!
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They did announce it that they were breaking up. But even on their farewell tour, Dustin would say "we will see you all soon" at the end of the shows. They went on hiatus for about two years (I think?) and they announced earlier this year that they'd be making a return. A couple months ago they announced that a new studio album is in the works. I can barely contain my excitement. Thrice is one of my all-time favorite bands. It makes me happy to know they're coming back because I have never been to any of their live shows, and I was out of town for their farewell tour.
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410,540 |
Word. I'm sure all these TV companies, laptops etc that have "netflix ready" on the box has to pay them something for it.
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I would've thought Netflix had to pay for that.
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410,541 |
It's a TERRIBLE idea to go cashless. Each credit card or debit card transaction costs the vendor a percentage to process. That percentage is paid to the bank processing the merchant's transaction. Put another way: Cashless transactions are like a tax paid to the banks for each transaction. I do understand it is not a tax, hence why I said "like" a tax. If we go cashless we should have a method wherein customers and vendors are not paying a third party to process payments. It's a drag on our economy that should be avoided. It currently costs vendors billions in fees to the banking industry to provide customers the convenience of credit card payments.
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If your bank charges you, most don't, we have had cashless transactions in New Zealand since I was a child and we never get charged for transactions, I don't even have monthly account fees because I turned off the paper statements that they would otherwise mail out to me. I don't know why we keep having this debate, many countries have gone cashless for the majority of their transactions and nothing bad happened, time for America to join the future with everyone else.
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410,542 |
Can we really say the Batman Trilogy was amazing? The second one was great, but the first one was just OK, and the third one sucked.
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Judging by the downvotes/upvotes you are getting it seems there is no agreement.
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410,543 |
I couldn't make it through it. Despite being based on a true story, the people in it were just so stupid that I couldn't handle it. Was it worth watching all the way through?
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Yeah. Knowing that, not only was it all real, but that it had happened numerous times, makes you question your faith in humanity. People will do horrible things if the voice of authority convinces them that it's the right thing to do.
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410,544 |
I've always wondered how Apple gets away with forcing you to use their apps. It's exactly what Microsoft was sued for in the 90s with Internet Explorer.
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Simple: 85% of people worldwide and 60% of people in the US don't use Apple products.
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410,545 |
I've always loved Sam Vimes. I'm really interested in trying to get a glowing tattoo of the Summoning Dark to mimic his scar. Something about the way Terry wrote those chapters about his internal struggle with the Summoning Dark, the idea of dealing with this comment nstsnt internal struggle and enforcing self-control to keep on the right side was always very powerful to me growing up. Ditto for Granny Weatherwax and her feelings about her sister.
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"Who watches the watchmen" "I do" "And who watches you" "I do that, as well"
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410,546 |
2 Fast 2 Furious and Tokyo Drift. I only saw them for the first time like last month and I've seen them at least once per week since. Is that bad
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Hey uh real quick... what would be a better engine for my Skyline, a Gallo 12 or 24?
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410,547 |
Just prior to Harry Potter the previous "harry potter" was called The Belgariad and The Malloreon. Belgarath the sorcerer and Polgara the sorceress were also stand alone books in the same universe.
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Those books really got me into the fantasy genre, ended up reading all of Eddings' books back to back.
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410,548 |
Try to google the beats like da da das and dums... I did this once and finally figured out that song that was in my head called: shave and a haircut two bits. Or if you know any of the lyrics just google them.
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Yeah, the trick with the lyrics I already knew, but in this case I don't know the lyrics. Thanks anyway.
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410,549 |
i thought it was mildly amusing until it got to "pudgy loser with a soulless corporate job." i'm sorry not all of us can be musicians who starve for our art, but some of us prefer to have all of our utility bills paid in full and on time. so we put on a suit and tie and do the nine-to-five, and most of us hate every minute of it. so if a guy finds solace from his crushingly depressing work life by learning a new skill, lay the fuck off.
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actually you could be a starving musician.. it really isn't hard. you just have to make noise.
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410,550 |
"Remember how I said I would kill you last? I lied." Best line of the movie.
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I loved how that dude from "The Warriors" was hanging there nodding saying, "yeah, you did say that!" "I lied" and then he let's him drop. I loved that.
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410,551 |
This is my favorite map when it comes to colors. Worldwide it uses OSM data, has an android app with offline maps. Really good. But it lacks some Google features of course.
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If they'd get license to integrate with Android Auto like Waze does I'd probably use it exclusively (for navigation at least).
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410,552 |
Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead has a minute and a half of silence before the "hidden track"
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I think the hidden track closes it off better. It kinda feels like a post-credits scene.
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410,553 |
Would this only apply to companies based out of the EU or working in the EU?
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GDPR compliance applies to any company that does business in the EU or has customers that live in the EU, regardless of where the company itself is located.
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410,554 |
Your edit made me think of this. Anti-semetics claim the holocaust didn't happen and that Hilter didn't have a plan to exterminate all Jewish people. Those same anti-semetics wish they could exterminate all the Jewish people.
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Some "opinions" and "conspiracies" have real life dangers. These include Dylan Roofe, the attacks on Jewish Community Centers, children dying from not being vaccinated, etc. This is a gray area on where this lies. I'm not going to judge that. But reading is what caused people to make opinion into action. Not all speech is protected, for example inciting a riot, verbal harassment, and the like. I just don't want to entertain people with these views that they have a justifiable position they hold, when those ideas can become dangerous.
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410,555 |
Fit not an angle into an angel, lest you wander into danger, as you're holding your wooden peg. For every piece is no puzzle, and it's no reason to muzzle. the girl you once knew as Peg-gy. It is the oldest of fights, as we indulge in delights, to also do keep 'bout our wits. For as wise men will say, go not stray of your way, just 'cause you see that it fits.
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C'mon.... 4 points in 8 hours? I dig ya, Dandybot.
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410,556 |
I enjoyed it visually. The major problem was not having a solo Batman movie first. Marvel built their shared universe in like 5 movies, DC just gave Snyder 2. The movie felt rushed, cluttered, convoluted, and too jump-cutty. I still enjoyed it, visually it was great. I just think Snyder was given an impossible task
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And what he did of it astounds me. Visually one of the most spectacular superhero films out there. My one problem was that Luthor was overdone. And the reference to the Infnite Crisis/Injustice storyline was brilliant. That and the ending. It was then that I really began to look forward to JL. Whatever Snyder and team have in store seems big, and seems like it's gonna be a real threat.
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410,557 |
> But seriously, are you trying to say hundreds of engineers and executives haven't thought about every possible angle for the last half decade for this project? Not at all. I'm *curious* as to how they are go to deal with this issue is all. >Heck they could even automate it to alerting the local PD. Local PD around here would not be interested. Unless... you want to pay for them to monitor it that is.
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> Unless... you want to pay for them to monitor it that is. If only there were some way for a multibillion-dollar corporation to afford hiring a private security company. Oh, well!
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410,558 |
It will be fun to watch the smug Model S owners fight for the chargers in front of the office.
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_Will be_? I almost had to fight today and a few weeks ago.
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410,559 |
It's because "ethnic" markets don't have significant buying power. 70% of the American population is white, on top of that, Black and Latin Americans which make up the next biggest portion of the population are disproportionately poor. It's easier to nail a hit with a big cash return if you play the easy game and go for the majority of people who have cash, on top of that, people aren't going to boycott you for having a shitbag white character. I'm very suspect of this stat from time that 75% of the movie going audience was non-white.
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That's really not a good way of looking at it. While Latinos and blacks tend to have less income in total, they tend to spend a higher percentage of their income. If the ethnic market wasn't lucrative, than Tyler Perry wouldn't have a job, Empire wouldn't have been the biggest hit since the inception of online streaming services, and major retailers wouldn't bother to advertise in Spanish.
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410,560 |
And I'm sure in the background johnny cash and dolly parton will be playing because you're hipster like that. He doesn't care what you as an individual like. He's talking about the general thoughts of redditors.
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There are no "general thoughts" of Redditors. We're not some collective intelligence.
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410,561 |
Best character in the movie "TODAY WE DANCE! WITH SWORDS!!!"
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"..Lunesta?" "Because I send my enemies into eternal rest" "ah! a sleep perchance to dream! well WELCOME...Lunesta"
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410,562 |
I'm interested in researching more into tech companies that are starting out in the Canadian market through Toronto. Would be very appreciative to receive some advice or feedback on new businesses.
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What industry and technology sector are you looking at though? Also do you want to know more about established companies or startups?
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410,563 |
It seems that way - just wanted to make people aware that there IS a way to opt out and that they could continue using AVG with this opt out if they wish to.
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Sure, technically. They're probably better off switching to a less bloated and scummy product though, existence of that switch notwithstanding.
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410,564 |
Some might say that this movie resembles closer to A New Hope than it should have (I can totally see why someone might say that), but I thought that it opened enough new doors while closing some old ones too in preparation for episode VIII.
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Yeah. Especially the newest super weapon. That annoyed me. All of the other stuff I could've dealt with, but that was too much.
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410,565 |
They didn't get kicked out because they're a danger to national security, they got kicked out because they had the wrong visa and it seemed like they were going to get paid for working here. Saying that you're a performer and saying that you'll be performing at a paid event is pretty much a red flag, unless you have the permit to work in the US.
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This is all just absurd. I get the questionable legality, I just don't think this would have been an issue 6 months ago. And why where they arrested and put in jail?
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410,566 |
That's not true. There was thousands of years of history before capitalist societies arose. Capitalists need a government that will enforce their property claims.
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Right - capitalism requires *freedom* and greed. Every system before capitalism were ones where the ones in power did not allow the ordinary people freedom to private property rights. We've solved the freedom issue, and greed was always human nature. Problem is - you can't move on from capitalism unless you solve one of the two. I'm assuming people generally agree that freedom is a good thing. That leaves greed. Which goes back to my original argument - human nature is a lot harder to solve, than human *enforcement*.
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410,567 |
How do you feel about The Rentals? (I'm personally a huge fan)
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I like Matt Sharp, I like That Dog, but I don't really like The Rentals...
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410,568 |
Always happy to see your comments. As usual you save me time in posting one myself. Cheers!
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Hey J! Thanks, now if only I could muster this same productive focus on my own goddamn writing, heh.
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410,569 |
Yahoo Finance was the one service they had which was ahead of Google in terms of popularity. Now it's been redone to fit the latest design "trends" and is utterly unusable.
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Mayer was a design specialist at Google, as I recall, and what I read about meetings involving her was that she would pay no attention whatsoever to product functionality, but close attention to aesthetics and colors. How you just described that Finance change fits perfectly with this impression of her.
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410,570 |
I can't imagine the film without ADR. It's so intrinsic to the essence of that movie! Same with old kung-fu flicks. There's just an added layer of historical subtext that elevates watching malformed classics. It's sort of like old recorded music. I'm all for sound restoration and transfers from mono to stereo, but that inherent poor sound quality, that crackling fuzz resonates. My point is, I wouldn't touch the ADR.... I respect the off-kilterness too goddamn much.
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very interesting point. i think for me, some of the technical inadequacies of that age are fine and even endearing, but when the actors start talking and there is no way in hell that is the voice of the same human being, i get extremely distracted.
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410,571 |
I thought I was watching a crappy Youtube ad for god knows what for the first 30 seconds
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[Like this Bud Light ad? "Are You Up for Whatever?®"]
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410,572 |
Yeah, gotta agree there. If they are not the best band in the century... they are close.
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Gotta disagree with you on that one, but to each their own. What would you consider to be the best band of last century?
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410,573 |
It irks me that it has Top 4, and not Top 5. I thought everyone went to 5!
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ikr? but you can make your own custom collage I think
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410,574 |
Can you tell me that their AV equipment and presentation of the film aren't on par with your ticket price? I live in a smaller town as well and our theaters are crap.
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For the price it is very decent. I visited a friend in a neighboring state (who lives in a town very similar to the one I go to the theater at) and his theater was sooo crappy. Flat floors, old Chinese buffet booths for seats, and a *literal* white sheet as the screen - and it had obviously been up there for years because it was all droopy! It's not an imax theater by any means, but you definitely get more than $3.90 worth of comfort and quality there.
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410,575 |
I don't know what you really expected from Die Antwoord. Most of their appeal comes from how bizarre their music is.
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Crazy bizareness is basically exactly what I was expecting, but I'm saying their lack of musicianship was so bad it was impossible to ignore, especially when relative to all the other great music I heard at the festival that weekend. Their crazy/bizareness is portrayed infinitely better in music videos as opposed to live performances imo.
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410,576 |
I just started It by Stephen King, and Derry Maine is described very much like the monster in the story, so that it feels like a monster itself.
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Totally agree. I don't want to write any kind of spoilers but Derry is totally an extension of IT.
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410,577 |
But it doesnt resemble either one of those things, its just straight up authoritarian
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Google "state-capitalism" and then apply it to every "communist" country you've ever heard about it.
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410,578 |
Wait. The S5 is use-in-the-shower waterproof? I got one for Christmas and I had no idea.
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I mean, so far. Is there a difference between drowning it and leaving it in the shower? Because I have done both. It goes through a lot of abuse.
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410,579 |
Google+ is pretty good if you give it a chance. While a risky choice the integration with other Google apps really makes my phone all the more useful that does not kill my battery as quickly as the Facebook app does.
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My problem with G+ is that a bunch of random people I had never met added me to their circles for no apparent reason and I had no option to avoid, decline, or otherwise block them. While I realize logically that simply adding me to a circle does nothing except let them see public updates (which I don't make) and I'm reasonably confident that they were actually just mass-spamming the service in an attempt to get lots of people to follow them back, the whole idea of strangers watching me with nothing I can do about it, makes me so deeply and inexplicably uncomfortable that I simply don't use the service at all as a result.
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410,580 |
Single problems are either not demanding enough to need parallelization or if demanding, generally parallelizable. Parallelism is the only scaling we have now. Not ideal but it's just fine. I've never yet ran into a problem that proved unscalable, too complex to solve sequentially, and just gave up and concluded it impossible. Maybe such things happen rationally, but they sure must be rare.
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> I've never yet ran into a problem that proved unscalable, too complex to solve sequentially, and just gave up and concluded it impossible. Maybe such things happen rationally, but they sure must be rare. Anything IO bound, and plenty of cryptographic algorithms (by design) come to mind. I think you must have simply not considered the case of work being IO bound because it's pretty common.
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410,581 |
The film needed a tangible villain for the audience to follow. It's simply how plot works.
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Maybe for a comic book movie. In a complex movie the villain or plot could have been him dealing with his PTSD. Hurt Locker didn't have a single villain but the bombs themselves and his own psychology.
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410,582 |
I like her stand up, but her sketch acting isn't great.
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Yeah, she's pretty funny IMO, just not great in a live sketch setting
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410,583 |
Waltz With Bashir was great. Do you happen to know any other films that use rotoscoping?
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Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, both made by Richard Linklater, aren't foreign language films but both fantastic films. Waking Life, especially, will break your brain. It's so cool, the intentionally changed the artists doing the rotoscoping every few days so that the art style is constantly changing. It's got some mind-blowing parts as well, lots of interesting philosophy, and lucid dreams.
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410,584 |
Dash is one of the reasons, and Xizor, that I would want to see this one made.
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SOTE is the only reason I came in here. The comic book, the game, Dash, the story was all perfect. Back in the 90s, early 2000s I secretly wished Lucas and Pixar would collaborate on a Shadows movie with the original cast. Would of been epic.
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410,585 |
If he wasn't zapped by that force lightning for 30 seconds before being thrown out the window, I'd be more inclined to agree he survived.
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Luke got the same zap zapping and still survived, though slightly crispier. Windu was even more formidable in his heyday.
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410,586 |
The Baghavad Gita is a section *of* the Mahabarata, to be fair. Expanded, yes, but it's like saying The Children of Hurin isn't in the Silmarillion.
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Ya but in India and Hindu culture the two are different.
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410,587 |
I used to hate Pearl Jam. It took me a long long time to get into them. I've kinda over played their albums now and am a little meh on the whole thing, but I actually really enjoy, Eddie Vedder's solo stuff.
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Exact same story here. Hated Ed's voice for a real long time. Then I heard No Code and was hooked. Now I've over played their albums and don't really enjoy their new stuff as much. Amazing band though.
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410,588 |
If you can fit my entire arm in the condoms you get for free then I don't think size of the condom actually matters.
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>If you can fit my entire arm in the condoms you get for free then I don't think size of the condom actually matters. Your arm has bones. Your dick doesn't. . A condom that is too small will make it hard to sustain an erection (and will be prone to breakage). A condom that is too big will slip off. . [Here is some info on it] courtesy of /r/BigDickProblems.
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410,589 |
I didn't like the characters enough to care about the plot, and the story seemed to change genres every hundred pages (it went from an apocalypse horror to a high fantasy to a superpowered fighting anime to a political conspiracy thriller to a Shakespearian romance, drastically shifting gears every hundred pages). After NOS4A2 became my favorite horror novel of the new millennium, I expected more from Hill than this disjointed, unrelatable book.
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I liked it but it had one too many nods to "The Stand," I thought.
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410,590 |
It isn't vacuum, to start with. And even so, I'm curious what you think would happen in the even that the tube starts filling with air.
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it's 99.9% vacuum. It might just as well be vacuum.
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410,591 |
what in the hell is this? I'm reading the summary, but my eyes can't handle the influx of awesome, and I keep having to stop. Will it damage my ears?
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It is full of awsome. It may cause your brain to explode.
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410,592 |
I guess im an old fashioned person, behind the times because most of these covers looked crap to me
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I think as a society, we need to re-define the use of the word "crap". While I can see these designs not being everyone's cup of tea, nothing about them can be remotely described as crap. While we're on the topic of your opinion though, I am honestly interested to see an example of a book cover design that is the opposite of "crap" in your opinion.
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410,593 |
That is nothing to do with conspiracy. As pointed out by other redditors, that kind of encryption does not work well in that kind of implementation, UNLESS you trust cloudflare. I don't, considering how they block TOR users.
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They don't block tor they just require you to do a captcha first and they are looking at [ways to help legitimate tor users]
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410,594 |
Yeah was completely misled about that movie. Didn't enjoy it because I went in with the wrong expectation.
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Same here, me and my brother saw it in theaters and eventually walked out because the trailers misrepresented it
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410,595 |
While it would be cool, the problems stated in the article really do bring it down somewhat. Namely, it doesn't really work for intra-city mobility, as there's just no space for it. Unless we go all Futurama-esque and have them all over the place in the air. Also, is it just me or does the guy they're interviewing sound over the top? Sure he's excited about his work, but saying that his invention will, for certain, change practically everything about the world is an incredible claim. Especially when they haven't even built a working prototype yet.
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Reminds me of the segway hype before we knew what it was. It was going to revolutionize transportation, and change the very easy cites were designed. Then it turns out to be a gimmicky scooter with a tendency to injure people.
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410,596 |
Thank you! God damn that was a weird piece for Rothfuss to include. I feel like indicating Kvothe's maturation can be done without him fucking every girl he sees after he leaves Felurian as well.
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That's the point of the story. Kvothe is the ultimate unreliable narrator. Most of what he tells in the books should be taken with a bucketful of salt. He describes himself as this brilliant wizard, musician and fighter, so why not a peerless lover as well.
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410,597 |
Unfortunately they can still try and it may not be worth it for the defendants to fight it.
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If MS never took down WINE in all the years since its been around, I doubt we'll see any issues here.
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410,598 |
Just goes to show how important execution is over originality.
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Or how gullible or ignorant (I wish I had a milder word) their buyers are. Ahh, marketing. You fiendish little prick.
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410,599 |
If this is the only DnB you know of you're doing it wrong. Go down the Drum and Bass rabbit hole and find out.
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Agreed. I love this album, but is very much gateway dnb which can lead interested minds deeper into the wonderful world of drum and bass
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