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good effort. though most of my friends hold ween's music peaked with the Mollusk, and I sort of agree, Quebec I think is their most interesting since then.
This brought me right back to them. I love ween. The solo in this song is probably some of deaner's best work. When I introduce people to Ween, I play a ridiculous song first like poopship destroyer, and then I say, 'They also have amazing songs like this:' and then I play either 'Transdermal Celebration' or 'Exactly Where I'm At'. This is also one of the coolest videos I've ever seen. I rank it up there with Paranoid Android.
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I lived in Indianapolis for a year and a half and loved every second of it. I lived downtown in Riley Towers on Alabama Street (funny thing because I'm FROM Alabama). I loved how everything downtown was arranged. There were plenty of museums, library, resteraunts, the mall. Then there was the stadium and ice skating and movies/opera, etc. It was a wonderful place. I would gladly move back if there was a job waiting for me :)
maybe at one o them "resteraunts" you speak of... ;)
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"has to shoehorn in some snide remark... Dave Grohl's like that manlet that loves to get in everyone's face because he has to compensate for being 5'5"." "Hypocritical much?"
It helps if you don't take my comment out of context. The problem is not with him making snide remarks in general, it's him making snide remarks about music he clearly doesn't understand. It doesn't make me a hypocrite to call him out on his ignorance because I'm not being ignorant.
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I love how they try to remove all doubt of his death by showing the shadow of his lifeless corpse. Something you'd never see the Disney of today do.
Or for that matter a lot of other media. If a character isn't shown dying, half the time they're not actually dead.
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BUT, Putin is way more rich. It's just not recorded. Some professionals put his worth at well over 200 billion.
Except for one thing: Bezos can actively trade his assets for money in countries where that actually matters. Putin has access to 200 billion dollars. . .which he can't liquidate in any way shape or form outside of Russia and *some* of its allies. (Note the emphasis on some) It reminds me of a quote from Archer: >Malory: "Now I know you've lost your mind. You want me to defect to Russia?" >Nikolai: "Just, you know, if the worst happens." >Malory: "That is the worst! Standing in the snow for beet rations in my Blahniks?" >Nikolai: "Come on! I'm head of KGB! I have my beets delivered."
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Fair enough. And based on your love of the first two you want to see another? Haven't the 2.5 mediocre to bad sequels they've already made dissuaded you?
Well, I actually quite liked 3 and 4. Not as good as the first two, but I don't think they are as awful as people say they are. I would have been content with just those films, but then they announced that they were making Prometheus. All the marketing before hand, the websites and trailers, it all looked so good. I was really open to the possibilty of expanding the Alien universe and was expecting something truly amazing. AVP didn't disappoint me, because I had no real expectations for it, but I feel that with Prometheus they promised us the moon and now I won't be satisfied with Alien as it is until we get it.
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Don't you need a file for calibre to make a listing? I mean, I'm used to Calibre and I like its UI, (and I'm pretty sure I could filter out physical book listings) so it's not a bad idea for my main catalogue to be there. I'll have to look into mobilising the data so I can take my list to the shop with me.
You can add a book to Calibre without a file. Click on the little arrow to the right of "Add Books", and you can "Add Empty Book" or "Add From ISBN". I don't know about mobilising your library's titles, though.
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I agree with everything except the "decent musicians" part. For their time and genre they were quite advanced. To this day their compositions and chord progressions amaze most musicians. Their vocals are incredible. As a unit, they were tighter than any others, having played together for thousands of hours before making it big.
> To this day their compositions and chord progressions amaze most musicians. That's songwriting though. Saying they're ONLY decent musicians sounds like a huge slam when you're discussing the Beatles, but I mean that for most people it's not the main draw. And you can always argue that So-and-so is better than each individual Beatle (and every drummer being better than Ringo). You're right about the vocal performances being better than most bands, though. I should've mentioned that.
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I thought I was the only one. I think it was just good timing in my life, but I still go back to it every so often.
>I thought I was the only one. Fuck outta here.
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I know it's a really brave thing to say but I think the Avenger's was perfectly cast. Mark Ruffalo being the surprising newcomer who ends up being the most interesting.
I think there's some roles like Black Widow and Cap that I could see being played by other people, and well too, but you're right that people like Iron Man and Hulk were cast perfectly.
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I have a copy with 500ish pages that I got for a dollar, and I don't want to read it cause it's the short version.
Aw man I'm nearly halfway through my copy and it's ~500 pages... Had no idea it was abridged. Damn. It is quite good though.
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Even for books written by famous people, there is still often a professional author getting paid to do a lot of the work. Maybe ghostwriting isn't as glamorous as writing your own stories, but you're still getting paid to write.
Honestly, I would love to be an editor. I'm working with both of my siblings who have recently decided to write about one thing or another and since I know their voices, I know what they're trying to say. Generating your own material is difficult, but honing someone else's material is pretty damn gratifying in my book (or someone else's haha).
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Imagine being the dope who's bank loans these startups their initial loan.
Yeah, those poor venture capital partners. They must cry themselves to sleep on mattresses of money.
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That's like saying it's okay black people are called niggers in Texas (not saying they are), but there's no problem, because they can just avoid going there. What you're suggesting is to ignore the issue or go around it. Not the best suggestion, if you ask me.
I didn't say the discussion of what is wrong with mainstream media and publishers shouldn't be had, i just said if you don't want to deal with their bullshit you don't have to anymore. Is there a more effective method of removing bigotry than disenfranchising its enablers? Also what you just wrote is pretty offensive.
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How does it manifest for you? I didn't know there were other kinds besides reading difficulty.
Difficulty in spelling and bad handwriting. If i want to write something longer than a paragraph i have to plan it out otherwise i will repeat myself and not make much sense. Time management, planning and organisation are all tough for me. I've got dyspraxia too aka clumsy child syndrome. Writing all this out makes me sound dumb.
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or I can find the files and send them to you
The thing is, though I appreciate the intention(thanks for that), I'm only looking for this particular song and it's pre Dark Side(killer album, I agree), though I do love the Floyd as a whole.
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Would prefer more time between films and have them Skyfall quality rather than less time and Quantum of Solace quality.
Quantum of Solace is soo underrated. It's one of the best bonds IMO, because its so different. But I look at it as a part 2 to Casino Royale. If you watch both back to back it makes both films even better. Its Bond on his revenge mission. The villian not really up to snuff. But the cinematography is amazing for the first time in a bond film and the action scenes drive the plot forward.
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Yeah, except it happened before Brood War. Vanilla's ending? Reign of Chaos was inspired by it. The Zerg threaten the Koprulu Sector, and members of the Terran and Protoss band together to stop it in defiance of the Confederation and the Conclave.
The zerg though were a very real, tangible, but not insurmountable, threat and they had personality that wasn't just "destroy and consume everything". I mean, that was more or less their goal, but there was infighting, scheming and what not. And with regards to the confederacy, it wasn't just defying them it was overthrowing them killing millions. Things were so much more gray than all of this hybrid stuff is. The hybrids have no real face, they just want to plunge the universe into darkness.
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He's just saying that's not what he meant in his original post, not that employers don't care about looks. No need to attack him.
I'm not attacking him, I thought he was glibly dismissing the other guy's concerns, which seemed naive.
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Touched her butt while she crowd surfed to this song at a show in Melbourne. The whole gig was incredible, but that was the icing on the cake.
Lol. I'd never crowdsurf as a female performer for that reason. How was it? Was [the ass fat]
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* Tanya Huff - Confederation of valor series. * Elizabeth Moon- Vatta's War. * Kristine Kathryn Rusch - The Retrieval Artist Series,The Diving Universe
Elizabeth Moon is amazing. First came across her when I randomly grabbed Speed of Dark. Similar in a way to flowers for algenon, but still so strong.
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I'd honestly prefer if Kanye went back to being ghostwritten for/heavily feature other artists on his albums. That's what he did on his first two albums and those are undisputed classics.
boom for real. yeah, kanye's a preparation-required artist. left to his own devices, he'll just fuck it up and rap about asshole bleach or some dumb shit.
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finishing book 2 of the series, it took me some time to really get into the series as a whole...my advice if you can't get into the work for some time: stick to it!! If someone could describe a part of the plot/experience without spoiling it to me and make me feel the way I feel when major plot points happened I'd flip the fuck out for not discovering them myself and I'm only at the very end of book 2..from what I hear, the best is yet to come :)
Thanks for the advice! All I have heard from friends is that there are loads of characters. And that it's high fantasy which is a given
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*The Man in the High Castle*. I thought the premise sounded really interesting, but it just didn't do it for me in the end. Although I have heard that it isn't PKD's best work and that I shouldn't give up on him.
I have been considering this novel since it was gaining popularity on Amazon's Prime for Streaming. I watched a few episodes and it seemed interesting. But still not sure.
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I honestly love their song Rockstar. I think it got less play than most of their other songs, so i didn't have the exposure to really hate it.
Really? I remember Rockstar getting the most play out of any of their songs.
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I loved STP. I too am glad this was a cool story, but it's pretty well known that Scott is a dick. Slash would rather work with Axle Rose again that Scott Weiland. That speaks volumes to me.
I try really hard not to pry into the private lives of celebrities I like because I don't want to find out they're actually assholes in real life. It just kind of steals some of the magic of the art they make for me.
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> Paint where you want to hit the target, paint with what? another laser? if you can't do it with 1 laser, how can you do it with 2?
It's the squeeze-the-trigger motion that disrupts the positioning of the laser beam. If you're aiming, your aiming laser will be spot-on. Gun optics track aiming laser (or could just do this with TV) and manipulate barrel optics when you pull the trigger. Or, you know, give it a remote trigger not mounted on the gun, for less-wobbly firing.
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Star Wars is very much a Fantasy genre story. Yes, the tech and civilization involved in the story have all the Science Fiction trappings, but the story is about a family of magic wielding individuals and their struggles with objective good and objective evil.
Sci Fi and fantasy are very interwoven genres. Star Wars certainly intentionally copies the standard fairy tale archetype including dark knights, farmhands saving princesses, and wizards... but it still classifies as Sci Fi too. Even Star Trek has what are essentially trickster gods (Q), there's smidgeons of fantasy there too. I'd say the Marvel Thor films are also a good example, being the inverse of Star Wars in that they're essentially fantasy themed sci-fi movies.
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I'd watch it if Bill Nighy plays Sad King Billy
Holy shit that would be amazing. Too bad it'll never happen.
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The original Oz books by L Frank Baum. Had most of the original set by the time I was 6. Also, Heinlein's juvenile stories. Had most of them by the time I was 13. Still have the Heinlein books to this day.
The main thing I still can't get over is that her shoes were SILVER, not red...
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I'm on episode 5 of Stranger Things, and I'm already getting depressed knowing that it'll be gone from my life after 3 more episodes.
Only until next year. Season 2 was confirmed with the same characters :)
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Pixel count is set. Any resolution that doesn't scale 4:1 will have the displayed image be blurry, which results in an incredibly annoying experience when there's any text on the monitor.
Also, working at HiDPI (as long as there's decent application support) is _amazingly_ better. I could lower my screen resolution to something like 1600x900 or even lower, but what the heck.
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Did you know Russia rates lowest out of all *second* and First works countries when it comes to freedom of political expression?
Second world referred to the USSR and it's Warsaw pact allies. First world was NATO at the time.
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You can't praise Dredd and Pacific Rim for this while deriding Transformers (FOR A START) for this same reason. Don't bother trying to justify your hypocrisy.
When did I even mention Transformers? What hypocrisy? Wtf are you talking about?
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SciFi/Fantasy has a wealth of addictive stories. Ready Player One is Dystopian so is that what you're specifically looking for?
No. Just a book as well written and addicting. I immediately tried to read The magicians & found it boring. I'm slowly making my way through the Dresden Files and mostly read fiction in the vain of Franzen, Vonnegut, Didion or nonfiction (like David Sedaris). I'm very diverse. Just looking for solid must reads.
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I absolutely love it, great job!! All I say is to add the song names so it's not random. I listen to music 24/7 and this might be the thing to replace pandora for me, thanks man.
Wow, great! We will definitely try to make accessing the song/artist info less painful soon. Thank you so much!
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Silmarillion, the Odyssey, the Bible (selected portions), Gilgamesh, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Wasteland, Flanders Field, Harry Potter, Between the World and Me, and Tenth of December.
The Wasteland and Between the World and Me are excellent choices!
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a university isn't going to associate themselves or base their study on wholesale ad blocking, what could you learn from that. it's already obvious that blocking all ads would drastically reduce bandwidth, with ABP they can prove it's useful to remove malicious and non compliant ads without nuking the entire ad economy
ABP sells your browsing history and cookies to Chinese marketing and others and uses trackers which is the entire opposite of what a ad blocker should do. ABP was bought by a firm, uBlock origin is still with the original developer.
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Try Audible. It's an Amazon company, and they offer a companion deal if you have a Kindle book of the same title. I often get the Audible version for $1.99 after I've bought the Kindle version. I also subscribe and get 2 books per month as part of a subscription. Then, they offer deals for $4.99 or $5.99 at least once or twice a month. Sometimes there's nothing in their offer that I want, but every once in a while I see a book I want there, and pick it up. With all of these deals, I guess I buy 5 or 6 audiobooks a month.
Thanks for the tip, 5-6 a month is right where I would like to be too!
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Only thing that could come from this that would be good is a Kanye Diss track on Taylor, God that's gonna be funny.
And she'll give him permission, then act like she never did and make it a big deal, again. She kinda sucks as a person.
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The song "Mantis" gets me so pumped. Definitely one of my favorite Umphrey's tracks.
The "what's done is done" section of "Spires" makes me bob my head and grin like a moron.
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I don't know, you could think of it another way. For a century now, filmmakers have perfected this art form of movies made at 24 frames per second. They've gotten really good at making beautiful images and stories specifically designed for this medium the way it is. A lot of critics see this move to a higher framerate as an unnecessary change. That said, I don't think there is any harm in experimenting with 48 fps. Maybe it will look really great. However, if you haven't watched movies at a higher framerate, than I wouldn't go disparaging those who have seen it and didn't like it: It looks VERY different from what you're used to.
I don't have a problem with people not being used to it. But some people actually claim that there is something inherently superior about 24 fps. There is not. It's just the speed we are used to.
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This design is not intended to be the motor itself. Rather it's an 8 inch by 2 feet high efficiency generator that can keep an electric car going after the batteries have been drained. It helps make the electric car more appealing by removing charge rates and distance from from the down side of owning an electric car. Hence it is merely an accessory to an electric car, which is only needed for trips that exceed the range of the battery.
But it also makes the electric car less appealing because you have to put gas in the tank.
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They don't. I have never understood why anyone likes Hemingway... just doesn't do it for me.
I just finished The Sun Also Rises and I'm thinking I'm not a Hemingway person either. I was interested in the events of the book, but really hated the style.
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Definitely agree on the improvement, especially in Season 5. Same for Allison Mack and Erica Durance. Not so much for Kristin Kreuk. :-)
I thinks she's gotten a lot better in Beauty in the Beast. But yeah, she was pretty terrible in Smallville, though Welling and Kreuk had pretty good chemistry (in my opinion).
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If movies like How to Train Your Dragon keep being made, no. 3D should never die. That movie used 3D perfectly. BUT, that doesn't seem to be the case. 3D went from a tool used to add atmosphere and depth to a film to a tool used to charge $3 extra on a movie ticket. It's just a way to artificially inflate the movie's gross.
Spot on. I read far too many articles about how 3D should end. I hadn't realised that it had to be only 3D or 2D films.
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Because they conveniently ignored him saying that because their argument that Nolan is a conservative and not a liberal falls apart.
So.... you have to be in favour of spying on everyone without a warrant to be a conservative then? What am I saying, this is reddit...
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When you say "follow the footnotes" what do you mean specifically? Should I be skipping ahead when it says stuff like "a topic more carefully considered in chapter ix" or searching for the mentioned articles (though some of them don't exist?)
I don't have my copy in front of me at the moment, but what I mean is literally follow their instructions. They'll tell you "see Appendix Blah" when you need to read Appendix Blah. Simply mentioning another section doesn't mean you need to go flipping around for it. I know the book as a whole object looks bizarre, but I promise you the narrative leads you through it as you go!
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Mind sharing the in car system? I do IT for local PD in the area and always looking for new things. Does the server have automatic WiFi download of the in car video?
I don't mind at all, I just didn't want to look like I was advertising for them. It's L-3 Communications and yes the cars connect via wifi in the back parking lot when the officers pull up. If they leave during an upload it just picks up were it left off when they return. The body cameras have to be placed in a dock inside the department. The car cameras are always recording, they just over write if nothing is going on. When a recording is initiated manually or by triggers is automatically adds the previous 30 seconds to the file.
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I feel like you commented this without even reading the comments
At first in the thread, it seemed like most of the comments were a bunch of "wrong generation" type laments, and tbh, I probably got more heated about it than I should've. But the comments kinda shifted after that, so yeah.
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Hah. I was considering posting Speaker for the Dead as the best book with Xenocide being the worst sequel.
well, it seems I stand corrected... to an extent. Honestly, I probably still won't read either unless by book list dries up (ha! it never will). I only say this because I have a friend that has an extremely similar taste in books and this was his opinion. He has yet to steer me wrong. But since there are people out there with different tastes then by all means. Again, since I haven't actually read them then I can't give a reason why I didn't like one over the other.
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I agree with you. In my opinion Tokyo Drift was much worse.
3 4 and 5 were all pretty bad, 6 was slightly better, but still too much bullshit physics.
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I'm gonna get fucking crucified for this but....when the hell does Expendables 3 get released. Yes it was a piece of shit, but it had Riggs fist fighting Rambo. If I could go back in time and tell myself that as a kid his damn head would explode.
It'll be out November 25th through redbox. Not sure about the regular release.
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This is excellent news! Just yesterday I was ripping on their 'emo' image they seem to have placed themselves in. Because of this post, I will give these three albums a chance!
'Emo' image? They were wearing eyeliner, dying their hair and letting their bangs grow in 1994. Emo wasn't even around then. Their black suit clothes and ties are an obvious rip of the Clash. I'm not sure if there is any emo going on there. Not that it matters or anything.
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You hit the nail on the head for me. Has John Carter written all over it.
I saw John Carter in theaters twice, and it was worth it both times. I hope this at least has that sense of fun that John Carter has. Because that was one hell of an underrated enjoyable movie.
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Just putting the pieces together from the info on Trask's website. Cloned limbs, mutant gene splicing, the sentinel program...
Still doesn't really have anything to do with En Sabah Nur. If there was something "found" out in the Egyptian desert that might be evidence. I think the Trask stuff points more at Mr. Sinister than Apocalypse.
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I don't want to give potential spoilers but the particular scene I'm talking about is in Star Wars: Legacy comics.
Could reply with a spoiler tag? I'd very much like to know.
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I've been meaning to hunt the books down ever since I started watching the show last season, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. The last time I got turned on to a series of books due to a TV show was the Dresden Files, so I'm glad to hear the Longmire books are good.
I love the Dresden Files books, but holy crap that show was a terrible adaption of the books. The opening was so bad I honestly couldn't watch the whole first episode.
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Just listened to 20 seconds of that song, man that shit sucks, felt like I was sitting in a church listening to the choir.
Why are you judging a song after only listening to the first 20 seconds?
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And too early for anyone to care next year. It's a shame because it's a KILLER album. Honestly, I think it might be their best work.
It's an amazing album! I've always loved Tribe even though they were before my time, but was afraid this was gonna be lame like a lot of late career rock albums. I am so happy that it's not that at all. It feels fresh, it feels relevant, and the music is so beautifully crafted. Great album.
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I think increasing emissions that clearly increase deaths should be punishable by prison time.
So put lots of Americans into prison for that? Because the average American car probably still pollutes more than those Diesel engines.
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Sounds like you found yourself the perfect setting. Also sounds like you're on the other side of the world from me. (I'm in Canada and it's hot and humid here.) A good indication that there's something universal about hunkering down with a good book.
Same continent, but complete opposites: I'm in Argentina, so we're kind of freezing, right now. But even though I read all year long, any place, any time, winter has that little something extra that makes everything feel super cozy... or maybe I'm just weird :)
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I first read "One Day" in 5th grade and to this day, the line "How can a man who is warm understand one who is cold?" sticks with me. Simple statement with true application.
There really is a lot there and through out the book. What really gets me is the level of detail: enthralling and pertinent. It is life stripped down unnecessarily I guess? That's incredible that you read it in 5th. I certainly wasn't ready for it then.
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The human body is fucking art. Nature has been painting it for 4.67 billion years and counting. I have never trusted any human on earth who does not like the female body specifically.
Sorry, but humans have only been around for like 350k years.
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i thought they already had. weird. was a customer of theirs once (to handle mail), but am currently with no-ip.com - can't remember why, but would surely have tried them first before going with someone else (who, incidentally, seem to be fine).
They had already just hardened up - existing account holders were grandfathered into free hostnames (I had set up 2, so got to keep them both) and for a time, new accounts could sign up for 1 free hostname (after a trial that involved handing over your CC details). For a number of months now, remaining free accounts would be deactivated if we didn't log into the Web UI every 30 days - after May 7th, there will be no legitimate way to use their service for free.
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That's what I thought too. So, earth has been evacuated and the remaining survivors live on the cylinder (Ark). When Coop asks about Murph and the doc tells him she'll be here in 2 weeks, where is she coming from? I can't figure that out.
She was on another Cooper Station (aka ark or O'Neil cylinder). They said so.
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How do you think it will change and what will be the causes/catalysts?
Tablets. Computers will be an appliance like the television, with entertainment and advertising directed at you through various established services. Think about how Amazon inserts ads into the kindle fire's lock screen. That will be the entirety of consumer level computing. Also, "cloud" everything. Less emphasis on unifying standards. The ability to flash a custom rom is eventually made very difficult or disabled in most devices. DRM, DRM, DRM, including web browsing DRM.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. The Over-Loaded Ark by Gerald Durrell. The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan. Seeing Further by Bill Bryson. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. The Hero of a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage. Also, most of these authors have other non-fic that are great as well (e.g. Pollan, Diamond, Durrell ,and Sagan)
Durrell and Sagan are amazing authors who write with such verve and wit but all at a level that anyone can enjoy.
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These books were formulaic to the extreme, but damned if that stopped six-year-old me from bringing stacks of them home from the library each week. I usually walked out holding a tower of *Hardy Boys* so tall I couldn't see over it, and I'd read about 2 of them a day. They very much influenced my vocabulary and knowledge of the world, even if that meant my automatic assumption that being bound and gagged is a very common thing. Actually, come to think of it, that may explain quite a lot about me...
I remember those days. I was huge into The Hardy Boys when I was young and I requested them from the county library system by the dozens. I remember being able to finish all of them within the allotted two week checkout period.
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I think this is the first time Alan Moore hasn't sounded like a crazy old magician to me.
read his interviews - they're awesome! He's certainly critical, high-minded, opinionated (and willing to take on dark subjects) but, especially in inteviews (which are very numerous) he's warm, generous, clever, funny, sweet.
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[Blues Traveler - Hook] First thing that came to my mind when I read this title.
Yeah, that was one of the three I was thinking of.
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Hip Hop: 1. SZA- Z (seriously people need to hear this shit) 2. Chance the Rapper- Acid Rap. 3. Isaiah Rashad- Cilvia Demo. 4. Earl Sweatshirt- Doris. 5. Majid Jordan- afterhours. EDIT: I forgot Janelle Monae's Electric Lady, so, um, 6.
SZA is kinda low key, which is weird because she signed with Top Dawg. But, you're right. People do need to hear that shit. Acid Rap too. You know what? I agree with you %100. Have an up-vote.
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Dude!? No splashtop business? $60 a year, unlimited computers, works around firewalls like teamviewer, works great on android and ios , no session limit or workstation limit (limit is on how many techs you have but not install locations)
Correct me if I'm wrong but I recently demo'd splashtop and it had one fatal flaw. The user of the remote computer is able to edit the splashtop client settings, even going so far as to 'log out' of the splashtop client, causing that computer to disappear from the splashtop dashboard.
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they could feasibly perform NOTM or NLDW acoustic easily. Just get bjork to actually sing for NOTM, most of NLDW would work on piano.
Yeah for sure. I think most of exmil could work too to be honest. This is all wishful thinking though I can't ever see them agreeing to something like that
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My personal issue with trainwreck is that she wasn't that Mich of a trainwreck. So when she cleaned up her act, it was sorta like "so what".
She likes to party and doesn't exercise. "Wow, what a trainwreck". The movie felt very old fashioned in its morals.
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> There’s also the issue, for Kyriacou, that people might try to charge their powerful Surface Laptop with an underpowered USB-C charger. If that happens and the laptop runs out of power, “they’re not going to blame the power charger at that point,” he says. “They’re going to look at us. The brand is at stake.” So have a message come up when you plug it in saying that the charger only supports so and so amps or whatever. Just direct the user's blame to where it belongs.
Even the Raspberry pi let's you know you're running on a low power charger and it's s $30 machine
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You're upset because comic books are now on the same list as other comics and storybooks?? Lol
> storybooks. I never understood this word. I guess it means 'fiction' but it seems akin to calling a cup a liquidcup or a plate a foodplate.
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My big one was Leviathan. I pronounced it Leh-vi-ay-than in front of some friends, as I had never heard it before. Got given some shit, I tell you what.
I had read detritus (dih-trahy-tuhs) and chimera (ki-meer-uh) many times but had no idea how they were pronounced until I said them wrong in front of some friends. Somewhat related... My pet peeve is when people know the word voilà (vwah-lah) from hearing it but don't have a clue how it's spelled. So they write something like... "walah", "wallah", or "wahlah",
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I have no internal debate, just sadness that the industry corrupted a talent like this.
I suppose my opposing thought is that by providing a view of her material, it perpetuates the corruption by encouraging the activity. Obviously this isn't realistically the case, it's more of a moral problem.
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None of the Indiana Jones movies were filmed or set in Indiana.
I suggested that because the guys (nick)name is Indiana, DUHHHHHHHH
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The first book is 52 pages? I haven't checked the site out because I own these already, however fairly certain it's larger than 52.
These are webpages, not book pages. There is one page for each chapter in the book.
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The tech companies there certainly are for it. They love to bask in how "progressive" they are. "Look, we fought off SOPA!". They fought off regulation that would have hurt them *and* the users. But the moment something benefits them, like H1-B visas, they're either quiet or lobbying for it.
They are wrong on H1-B visas, but you are wrong that SOPA would have hurt them. It's more likely to have helped them, as they, being the already established players in the field could afford to pay the costs. SOPA would have destroyed startups (crushing any competition for the big dogs). Maybe you could make the argument for long term damage, but even then, a clear market means they will continue to rake in or stomp out any competition, which just means they can corner the market, and charge a premium.
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Nope. I think they peaked as a punk band with Dude Ranch, and peaked as a pop band with Enema (I don't mean pop in a derogatory way, I fucking loved so much of that album)...but it's been downhill since. With Travis, you know they could hit Enema's peak again, but without Scott, you know the Cheshire Cat / Dude Ranch era is gone for good.
This guy nailed it. As for Tom, he's always been my least favorite. Isn't he working on some kind of app that monetizes touring for bands or something?
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European here, pretty sure our space agency is pretty good as well, just sayin'.
Yeah but how do you launch on time when you have the Italians involved!??? Haha jk
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I don't hate them, but I agree that they're severely overrated. Bee Gees, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Jefferson Airplane, Fleetwood Mac, the Stones... Pretty much anyone you pick is better than the Eagles. The Eagles (band (I'm watching you battery-throwing motherfuckers out there)) are objectively the worst popular band of the era. And I hate Hotel California.
Just because you say “objectively” doesn’t make it objective, but nice try
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Probably because this song was released in 2002. They most likely just share a sample from the same song.
I goofed up. I was thinking Pretty Lights' song Finally Moving, not Ghostwriter. I found the sample though. Pretty Lights samples Rappin 4 Tay's song Playaz Club.
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I wouldn't say she's the best, but her voice is definitely underrated. Unfortunately most people only judge her for her silly songs like "We Can't Stop" but if they listened to her backyard sessions or her live lounge performances, she's actually great. For example:
Agreed, she has a great voice. You can see it on Bangerz, and definitely on Dead Petz.
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I agree - but let's not go full Tumblr. It's not that big of a deal.
My own brother can't even say "I love you" to me without feeling un-manly about it, so I'm afraid I'll have to disagree with you.
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Amazon doesn't have a walled garden. The FireTV is just Android, you've always been able to just install whatever you want. That's how I have Kodi installed. Kodi is also why I couldn't use a a Roku...
> That's how I have Kodi installed. You can install Kodi on the FireTV box thing?
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I was disappointed by it. I thought that the editing was poor, that a proper sense of time was absent, and that it had several plot-holes and logical hic-ups. I enjoyed The Dark Knight a lot more.
The editing was equally as poor in Dark Knight. As I recall, it was one of the only problems people had with it.
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She was negligent when watching the kids, just as the scientists were when making dinosaurs. She received the correct punishment.
The correct punishment fo being lazy/bad at your job is to get water boarded by flying dinosaurs and then swallowed whole? I wasn't even sure why we were meant to not like this girl (because she was obsessed with her phone? so what?), she didn't have enough character development for us to dislike her.
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Ignoring the title a bit...[THIS ARTICLE] gives some interesting insights on Camus.
This was a very interesting read. Thank you for sharing it!
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Ah, in the sense that here was a book in which the men were categorically different from the beast?
no....more that it explored the fear regarding the idea that men aren't that different from beasts by featuring a being that shifts back and forth between beast and man. The idea isn't that disturbing to us...we embrace beings like that as heroes in movies/comics/etc. But to people whose sense of identity was partially based on the idea that a benign creator made you the way you were intended to be on day one, the idea of evolving from lower ("more savage") species must have been chilling. Not to mention the implication that humankind could possibly "go backwards".
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if god wanted to influence the culture wouldn't kanye be his vessel in doing that? hell isnt everyone being gods vessel a christian theme?
He'd probably send someone to dominate the top 40 for over a decade.
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Having just moved from a big house to a small apartment, I realized how much crap I carry around with me. From hundreds of printed (slowly decaying) photos to boxes full of (scannable) paperwork. I realized that I don't particularly trust digital storage because of a recent harddrive failure that was unrecoverable (I lost several months worth of photos). So, what's the best way to store photos, documents, scans, and anything else in terms of longevity (5-10 years+)? What's a good strategy in terms of backups and even file formats? (I already posted to [hn] but they're chronically terrible at answering questions unless it has quick traction).
You could invest in a RAID external storage array.
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Im in a renewable energies tech course and was wondering where about in ontario? you are and what are the job prospects in the wind field? im graduating in a few months and would love to get up there
I'm in southwestern ontario, where the majority of all new wind action is. This next year we will see approximately 300-500 new turbines go up. If you're in wind school, keep an eye on all the major manufacturers websites for careers. (Vestas, GE, Siemens) they will all be doing some hiring when the season starts, and there shouldn't be a shortage of jobs. On top of that, there are many turbine erection companies that are always looking for help too. Keep an eye out in newspapers and online, for new projects in the area that you would prefer, and usually the construction companies will have an ad of sorts. Good Luck!
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Temple of Doom, while by no means bad, is still the weakest in the **trilogy** Waynes World 2 (although I think it's better than the first) Alien 3 Directors Cut was awesome but the first two are a tough act to follow. The Dark Knight Rises (I also preferred this one) Anchorman 2. Star Trek 3. Matrix Reloaded isn't *that bad*
Agreed about Temple of Doom. Matrix Reloaded started to get pretty pretentious.
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Dude, just hearing the first bit of this first song, I may have found THAT album. The one that I'm stuck on for months, and finds its way into the depths of my soul. Damn I hope so, it's been a while since I've had one of those. Thanks for the suggestion, my friend.
No worries. I really hope you enjoy it. It's meant a lot to me. The whole album is great. If I had to choose, Son of Mine is probably my favourite. The last verse gets me every time. It appears to be about a depressed father killing himself and apologizing to his son, which is utterly devastating to me. The album also ends very strong in my opinion which I love. You usually leave an album remembering the last thing you heard usually. If you want a link to download the album let me know, I'm on a private torrent site that has this album up, that's how I downloaded it. I'm more of an iTunes guy than Spotify, but whatever works for you.
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You seem to have mistaken Slash for somebody with integrity.
At least Slash ignored Fergie like the rest of America.
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Would you care to share some of those book blogs? Thanks!
I'm a little addicted to Biblioklept. They have just nailed a certain literary culture. Flavorwire can be good at times, albeit I think they've had some strategy meetings where they've decided that Gawker is their competition.