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411,300 | Can someone explain to me what is the deal with this line and why people quote it all the time? | not sure why people are quoting it, but in the most recent american adaptation of godzilla, they try to lure godzilla into an open space by making a big pile of fish for him in the middle of a new york intersection. after they make the pile of fish matthew broadrick says that line. then godzilla comes and chomps all the fish up and they fire a bunch of missiles that mostly miss godzilla and it pisses him off and he runs away. maybe that it's just a stupid cheesy line and they are making fun of that godzilla movie is why it's quoted so much? |
411,301 | They might be getting something on the back end. With a movie this huge that'd be the smart thing to do. | They both got a percentage if the movie made more than a billion at the box office. Harrison Ford made 0.5%, I believe. |
411,302 | How hard is it for people to grab a burner phone with internet access, load a TOR app, drive 40 miles out of the city, go to a mcdonalds, do their stupid bullshit bomb threat, then dispose of the phone and go home? AAAAND now I'm on a watchlist. | The McDonald's parking lot has camera surveillance, most phones register with their original MAC-address in the wifi and are thus traceable back to the vendor. I also don't know if McDonald's blocks TOR traffic, it's not that hard to detect. |
411,303 | How many people actually talk to their UPS/FedEx delivery driver anyway? Most of the time the package is delivered when you aren't even home. Amazon Locker is more about having a secure way of leaving your package somewhere so it won't get stolen from in front of your house. | At my house? Zero. At my old job? Quite often actually. Usually its the same guy, hed develiver some boxes, stay and chat for a minute or two about whatever was going on that day, then go on his way. Took the elevator up with him a few times, super cool dude. |
411,304 | Dick's really interesting for like, an hour. then fuck, it gets tedious. | Couldn't agree more. His music is good, but it suffers because it's more or less parodic (parody-ic? I dunno the word) by nature. The music and singing gets down-right silly sometimes, and the fact that he plays covers of songs I already know (and hate) just turns me off after a couple songs. For my lounge music fix, I go for [Matt Dusk] personally. |
411,305 | The fights aren't as satisfying as the final fights in D9. There is some shaky cam bullcrap, but it's not bad enough to ruin the fights completely. The weaponry is definitely creative, and to me it was the biggest selling point of the movie; to see awesome sci-fi weapons. Blomkamp definitely prefers a utilitarian look to his tech, which is friggin awesome. | That's heartening to know. I still want to see the movie but I think I'll take the advice and go during a matinee. |
411,306 | How is the most progressive American president in history not only a slave-owner, but a slave-owner who drags his teenage concubine (who also happens to be his slave) for a jaunt across the Atlantic? Something about that just does not compute in my brain container? | I admired his presidency, not who we was as a person. As a person he was an awful, awful hypocrite that even overstepped his own invisible line on how much power the president should have when he purchased the Louisiana territory. |
411,307 | So, how does this compare with the old film "Robinson Crusoe on Mars?" Just kidding. The novel sounds intriguing. I'll take a look at it. | Is that the movie w/ the seaweed hotdogs? Because I think I've seen that one. |
411,308 | I just went to the library for the first time in decades. My mind is fried from constant phone use, post-partum depression and anxiety, and work burn out. I took my son with me and I picked out two novels and a cook book. Last night, I spent two hours reading before bed during the time that I’d usually just be staring at my phone refreshing Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit. I’ve missed reading! I missed getting lost in a different world. I missed loving and hating fictional characters. It was refreshing to feel someone else’s emotions instead of mine. I forgot how awesome libraries are - books for free! Amazing! I hope this a permanent change and I can make reading before bed a habit. | I often say libraries are a sign of a civilized society. |
411,309 | The Stranger doesn't really have an emotional storyline. It uses emotion to express a point of view, but not as a narratory tool. And yeah obviously it tells us more than that. Arbitrary frameworks for understanding are tools. Bit ironic someone claiming special knowledge of The Stranger doesn't get that. | Emotion, in *The Stranger*, isn't the *only* narratory tool, just as it's not in other works of fiction you'll permit as having emotional storylines. There are no emotionally-neutral storylines, and yet - as I said - this doesn't fit. You're saying it doesn't have to because it's already exempt on some criteria of your own imagining. My point stands. And if it tells us much more than I've suggested, what fresh insight or framework for understanding fiction do you suppose it offers? Flippant use of the word 'irony' is *actually* ironic, you'll note. |
411,310 | Is everyone using Dolby now? Also what did THX even do? | >what did THX even do? I've often wondered this. Did they create new hardware, or find better ways to utilize existing equipment, or both? |
411,311 | I'd eat your shit on a daily basis for that money. Give me a call if somebody is interested | If you had $100 million in the bank, I seriously doubt you would be eating anybody's shit for another $3.5. Unless you just like eating shit. |
411,312 | Yep, I read it there. Man that's a disturbing tale. | It really surprised me that someone could write something vivid enough to make people pass out, it's truthfully horrific |
411,313 | Where do you get Comcast so cheap? 3Mbps for $40 here in Seattle. | Scranton, Pa. Most of the time it's closer to 175 down with 16 bonded and locked channels. Normally it's more expensive but they have deals all the time. |
411,314 | Man, Radiohead is pretty bad. Their first album that had Creep and other actual songs were fine, but I saw some crap on VH1 from In Rainbows, and it was literally just the singer gyrating and breathily wheezing into the microphone over a simple drum beat, and maybe there was 1 chord being played too. I just couldn't believe that a band that everyone says is SO AMAZING could put out a song like that. | Huh it's almost as if music is subjective or something. |
411,315 | The one about the man and his daughter was the hardest for me to read. Sure, the other stories were horrific, but that one bit was so personally um, can't say it, spoilers. | Check out the novella/short story "story of my life" by Ted Chang. Made me cry. You can easily find it with a quick Google for the pdf. |
411,316 | This Present Darkness, by Frank Peretti. Demons wage ware against humanity. Cool story. Loved it when I was 14. Tried to read it again at 30 and... hoo, boy. | My uncle has earned some small success as an author by basically rewriting This Present Darkness. Exact same story but with a young female lead. I guess the Apocalypse fought in small town middle America fantasy never gets old. |
411,317 | See personally I hated them in the movie. Then again, I'm a person who was heavy into the show before I saw the movie. | I saw the movie first, but I liked both. Emmerich has been a long time critic of the show though, and was rumored to basically throw everything from the show out the window. Hopefully this flop will mean it's left untouched. |
411,318 | I paid 200 dollars to see a show, not to have bullshit like this shoved down my throat. Downvote me if you will, but try to understand my point of view. | You're a fucking idiot if you think Pink Floyd was apolitical. |
411,319 | So this way I can use it for gaming and entertainment as well since I don't think I am going to bring my console with me. But yeah one that would be reliable, and has a good battery life. | lenovo thinkpads are really tough and have good power and graphics |
411,320 | They literally just paid $250m just for the rights. I don't think money's an issue here. | So? That just means they have less money left now |
411,321 | In the United States public service without profit is under low-level yet consistent challenge. We even have (a small number of) for-profit fire departments (which occasionally let non-paying homes burn to the ground). | If a for-profit fire department didn't let a non-paying house burn to the ground, then what would be the point of paying |
411,322 | Fun fact: there is more microbes in your gut than you have living cells so really you are just a meat bag for the bacteria. I'm sure we'll figure out one day that it was us working for them all along. Much like the pan dimensional mice who've been experimenting on us all along | I got that Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy reference |
411,323 | >The Microsoft HoloLens was announced a few days ago, and I was curious to know if people would buy it and how much they'll pay for it. Personally, >I think it is a very cool idea and it could be used not only for recreation, >but also for education or medical purposes. >I also just want to hear you guys' opinions about it. -Microsoft valuation facility 314 (Mvf314) Is it just me or does OP sound semi bias on this matter? | Wow, now making random abbreviations of my name because I was curious? I never knew people on reddit could be THIS immature. |
411,324 | A Clockwork Orange. I wasted so much time learning that bullshit lingo. It failed to deliver on all fronts. | Same here! I printed out the list and everything.. But it was pretty amusing and interesting besides that |
411,325 | Just look around the thread. There are people arguing it here...right now. | I suppose a better way to phrase it would be "why are you upset people are arguing that, when they're clearly being downvoted" The top comment in this thread is the same as every other MoS thread, someone saying how we should all shut up about the leveling of Metropolis. |
411,326 | Has anyone said "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett yet or can I call "Good Omens firsties"? Seriously, though, so much fun. Just two authors obviously having a fucking blast together. | Reading this right now, one of the most entertaining books I've read in a while. |
411,327 | I recently switched my os to Linux after being a long time microsoft user. I decided to give Firefox a try instead of Chrome, and I was blown away by how awesome it is. I currently use Nightly. | I was a lonnnnnnng time Firefox user. Prior to that a lonnnnnng time Nutscrape user. I still prefer Chrome. It loads fast, renders fast, and isolates tabs so one slow loading tab doesn't hang my clicking around in another tab. Firefox *still* does that.t |
411,328 | It's probably [Ra] Cool hard-rock band with Arabian/Indian influences (though the singer basically wanted to make Metallica with Sting singing). ["Sky"] is probably my favorite song of theirs, but they've got good stuff on all their albums. | Holy crap, I haven't thought about that band in ages. I saw them back in 2004-ish on a billing Mastodon and Clutch. Mastodon opened, Ra was second, Clutch was the headliner. I think [Do You Call My Name] was on a Tiger Woods game at the exact same time. |
411,329 | I'd like to see how a new Gamera flik stacks up against this. | How *the* new Gamera flick stacks up, you mean. They're making one. |
411,330 | I prefer Now You See Me, Now You Don't with a young Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, and Harvey Keitel as Cookie the Henchman. | Pfft, it's all about The Strongest Man in the World. |
411,331 | If you didn't pay for the product, you are the product. As always, the "slippery slope" argument has no place in formal logic, and has great predictive power here in the real world. Expect ads to increase over time. | I got the free upgrade and my ads increased from 0 to 0. I have no idea WTF you all did to get ads. |
411,332 | Technology is way more reliable than any human for a larger percentage of the time. Planes do just fine on autopilot. Stoplights do great (can you imagine having people working stoplights?). It is pretty easy to extrapolate into the future and see that having people in control of objects that can easily go in excess of 100mph and weight tons, is not a smart move. Edit: Always have to screw up one word at least. | But there is still no commercial planes without pilots and I doubt there will ever be because people are generally scared of this concept. |
411,333 | Cause that article title will probably get more clicks is my guess. I agree the title was silly but I thought it was informative! | Without a doubt, I won't argue the content, the title was just misleading. That's click bait for ya |
411,334 | I was thinking the same thing. Now I am proud as hell that I can go back to a tattered copy of Ham on Rye and look back at what my 16 year old self highlighted, knowing that a corporation doesn't have access to this information. Amazon has made the world of reading very public when it was one of the last remaining private actions one could take part in. | I refuse to get an e-reader for the very reason that reading is such an intensely personal experience. I write notes in my books, underline passages, and after reading and flipping through every single page the book becomes real to me. I just don't think I'd get anywhere near the same experience with an e-reader. And the whole Amazon tracking just creeps me the fuck out. |
411,335 | Dude they released an album earlier this year and it was great | Fuck me, I was unaware of this. Brb listening. Edit: it's pretty good |
411,336 | It would depend on your use case. I keep my HP Chromebook (ARM-based) in my kitchen for recipes and Netflix while cooking, so viewing angles are essential for my needs. You'd be very hard pressed to find an x86 device with an IPS screen at that price. If you plan on using it as a portable browser, IPS is a huge win for the Pinebook over, say, the HP Stream, which has a horrible quality TN panel. So were I making that choice today, I'd easily choose the $90 option over the $250 option. And it's important to remember you're comparing once-per-year sale price of some models to the 365-day MSRP of another. | The point is that you can get an actual laptop at that price with patience. This thing isn't worth $10. |
411,337 | I divide my life like "before reading Murakami" and after. | Which Murakami book would you suggest reading first? I read Norwegian Wood a couple of years ago and found it frustrating more than anything (why was everyone so apathetic!?) but feel as though I missed something and should give his books a second chance. |
411,338 | If you don't care what anyone thinks what's the purpose of this post? | Good question and one I've answered at the bottom, it's a rant. Take what you will out of it...or don't. I don't have an agenda |
411,339 | In the game, the Animus is just like, a bed that you lay down on and then you go into your memories and shit. They're totally mixing it up for the film. | As the games have advanced though, the animus has gotten considerably more portable. It's not a bed anymore, it's become just basically a headset. |
411,340 | > That almost seems way to good to be true... That was my thought. I get that the RT branding is dead, but there's still (probably) going to be different installers for x86/x64/32-bit ARM and upcoming 64-bit ARM and there's going to be legacy compatibility problems, so there's still "versions" for practical purposes. | There are probably not going to be different installers. I'd wager that Microsoft is using .NET as a sort of universal compatibility thing. It's just a VM after all, so programs compiled for the .NET CLR will be just as portable as compiled Java programs. |
411,341 | Music is always a dick measuring contest for some reason. Like what ur gonna like, who cares | I don't think OP is shaming people for liking pop, though, just trying to articulate why negative feelings towards pop can often seem very aggressive. e: autocorrect |
411,342 | Dude, you did the same thing in all your posts. Your argument for why Aristotle was wrong consisted of a youtube video from some comedy show that mentioned one, maybe two things that Aristotle said. Both of which, I might add, sound like Aristotle was probably just messing with idiots when he said them. | Sure... my argument "consisted" solely of a video. And I'm glad you have such insight into Aristotle's mind..thanks for sharing. |
411,343 | I love Nirvana but Kurt isn't the guitar player people make him out to be. | People always remember things as better than they were. Especially after they've died, there's this "He was so amazing and taken before his time :(" shit that goes around. |
411,344 | It could be, but I'm not that proud that I've seen them a few times. | well, makes a bit sense if you're more a Claypool guy/girl. edit: forgot a word |
411,345 | How is this even possible? This song still gets played on the radio, and is in multiple movie soundtracks. Are you new to ska? 'Cause if so I have quite a few recommendations for you. | I live in a very rural part of sc, our radio has very little variety, but I'm relatively new to ska, I've been listening to RBF, less than jake for a number of years but haven't been about to branch out really, cuz I'm like the only one of my friends into ska and YouTube can be a mess. I would absolutely love some recommendations! |
411,346 | Basically all of the Blues Brother's first album, especially: B-Movie Box Car Blues. Rubber Biscuit. Soul Man. Hey Bartender | The Blues Brothers' "Soul Man" is not even close to being better than Sam and Dave's version, and, if he could, John Belushi would dig himself out of his grave and slap your face for even suggesting such a thing. |
411,347 | Oh shoot! Sorry man! Can't wait to hear your stuff. | haha it's all good brother. It was still awesome to meet you. I look forward to another show soon, and I'll def let you hear my songs soon, as you'll hear the songs I was inspired by. Keep on playing and inspiring little musicians like me! |
411,348 | Possibly because Tolkien looks like it should be pronounced 'tolkyen', with a transitive stress on the y nature of the i. Tolkein can be pronounced like 'tolken'. maybe also that ien is a fairly rarely structure in english too and lots of jewish names end in ein which might play a factor | But I have noticed that phenomenon with other words, too. How often I see a Wiener schnitzel misspelt "Weiner" - not to mention the shock they get when they misread a German sign as "Bienhaus" (bee house) and in fact it says "Beinhaus" (bone house). It is a complete mystery to me, and I call it the English ie/ei Dyslexia. |
411,349 | To think banning a subreddit will prevent or even delay any of that from happening is silly. Everything you just described is coming. Reddit trying to push it under the rug won't change that at all. The only way to address this tech is to deal with it head on. Closing our eyes and sticking our fingers in our ears and yelling, "lalala I can't hear you" isn't helping anyone. | It will stop reddit for being the hub of that community. |
411,350 | Lucas created a universe. JJ is not that type of creator. I think he obviously has taken a lot of cues from Spielberg as a director however. | The problem is, JJ Abram's film work consists of either Remakes (Star Trek), Sequels (Star Wars), or Tributes (Super 8, Cloverfield). Even though he's created some of the greatest (my opinion, man) modern Sci-Fi television series (LOST, Fringe), they're either controversially received, or changed direction once he left. My point is, we haven't really seen Abrams direct an original idea all the way through, whether it be TV or Film, and until we do, we won't really know his true potential. God, I wish he'd make a Cloverfield 2. |
411,351 | entirely. honestly, anyone who enjoys not sitting still needs to hear it. | Man, have you heard the remix of *Black History Month* from Annie's DJ Kicks album? It's fucking awesome. I tried to find a link to it with no luck. You should look for it though if you don't have it/haven't heard it. |
411,352 | I read it recently and pictured Conleth Hill, shaved and heavy like Lord Varys but more menacing. | Now I picture him like that and he looks good. On a side note, he is suppose to be the funniest guy on the Set of GOT. |
411,353 | err... wasn't "Houses of the Holy" released before "Physical Graffiti"? | Little known fact: Jimmy Page, when not worshiping the occult, spent his free time doing drugs and cruising around in his hover DeLorean with Doc Brown. |
411,354 | So what your saying is, she died because she LEFT rehab | Yeah, look at her last live performance *after* rehab. She's so fucked up...it's awful to watch. That was a person dying of alcohol poisoning on stage. |
411,355 | hey guys , im sure u guys know some other song that start with vocal and same genre. Can you help me find some of them ? :3 | Rise Against's early stuff, like the Revolutions Per Minute album, was fairly similar. |
411,356 | Based on my very limited understanding of AVP lore, Youngbloods should be able to do way better than the space marines would. They shouldve been fucking dominating the Aliens but then have the numbers game overcome them, not get jobbed out to like some single random drone aliens | If I remember correctly, the youngbloods where killed by the drone that became queen, weren't they? |
411,357 | That is the exact opposite mentality you should have. BECAUSE they are cheaply made, you should take BETTER care of them, or else you will have to be replacing them very quickly. | If you read them that often you should get better quality books.. |
411,358 | This is a cheap-seats answer. It's right, but it doesn't really address the question fully. The question is: why can't there be a horror story filled with smart people, like a story filled with nerds. Celebrated novelist Neil Stephenson talked about this, here's an excerpt that goes to the heart of it "we are all nerds now" | That's because my answer isn't really an answer at all, it's a justification. It's defending the status quo rather than proposing solutions to the problem. And I do this because I think horror is at it's best when the protagonists are disempowered. When you give the cast street smarts or accurate decision-making logic or genre-savvy prescience, that counts as empowerment in my book. The movie takes a step closer to being an action film when you do this. It's like the difference between Alien and Aliens. Both are good, but only one can be confidently called "horror". |
411,359 | I thought it was great when South Park did this homage... | When I first saw this scene I was like what the hell... This is they live... |
411,360 | Radiohead is fucking garbage, especially with their winy singer annoying singer. If they didn't exist, this world would only be better without having their trash around. They didn't do shit for the 90's but turn people into sad babies like their song creep. | Yikes. If you aren't a fan though, take comfort in the fact they didn't really spawn a whole raft of imitators, they kind of do their own thing. You could maybe blame Muse on them. |
411,361 | **Funny Games** (the original)...I'd challenge any parent to make it through that one without losing it. | I've seen the English version, the original is still in my queue. Have you seen both? Being done by the same director, and re-created scene-for-scene, line-for-line... do you prefer one over the other? |
411,362 | I thought that's what he meant by "really loved it" | I thought he was referring to the experience of getting a signed copy. |
411,363 | as soon as you pay it, it will disappear from the report. | >as soon as you pay it, it will disappear from the report. That's incorrect. I'm on the can right now but I can provide citations later. Sincerely, Richard Nixon |
411,364 | Bob Dylan- Self Portrait. Even Dylan himself dismisses it, but I think that's just Dylan trying to be cool, as usual. | Well he released it know it was garbage in an effort to shed the "hippie" fanbase he acquired but hated so much. But it's definitely got some great moments on it. Personally, I was a fan of Shot Of Love and Down In The Groove. |
411,365 | >Note: I have no explanation for The Tourist. I do... $ As the story goes, Depp wanted to make just three Pirates movies, but $40 million persuaded him to make a fourth. | From all of the interviews I've ever seen with him talking about Pirates, he always mentions how Sparrow is his favorite character. I think he genuinely just loves playing that role. So there is a big motivator there. I'm sure the $40 million is pretty sweet too. |
411,366 | I think it was a case of how little we knew at the time of Columbine. There had never really been a shooting like this before Columbine, and it occurred right at a time when everyone was gaining access to personal media devices. Now you really could have a website, and home movies, and audio recordings, not just a shitty manifesto scribbled in a notebook. So people were so shocked by Columbine that we poured over the trove of information Eric and Dylan left behind looking for answers, and not realizing that by revealing all of this we were providing a blueprint to those who might want to do the same thing but didn't know how yet. | Actually, there was an incident before Columbine, that people have said many school shootings afterwards were inspired by, and that was when Brenda Spencer shot up an elementary school in 1979. |
411,367 | Damn, bringing out the hate is not what this was for but I welcome it. | I do hate that you seem to be complaining about me, or more specifically people like my mother who absolutely needed help. I cannot even imagine where I would be if that help were not forthcoming. Most people make it off assistance. If you could do some reading up on the facts you would see that. It is awful getting welfare and most I know did everything to get off of it. |
411,368 | Beni I was backstage at edc two summers ago and waited for you to exit the portapotty to give you a shoutout. I either wanted to say "Im your biggest fan" or "You're my hero" but instead what came out was "Im your biggest hero" my bad on that one bruv | what you mean?? you are my biggest hero tho |
411,369 | Because it's just a different topic. You must be fun at parties. "Why can't we discuss the futures price of wheat?" Because we are talking about Shannon's college application, Astronaut. | I'm not trying to change the topic that much. And I'm acknowledging its a turn. I'm more asking, Shannon, what about the trades? Or taking over your Dad's flower shop? I think the cultural role of the dystonia could just as easily be filled by another accessible form. |
411,370 | Among my very favorites: Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment and The Idiot, Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, and the works of Dumas. | Someone else who has read The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea??? Amazing book, and from what I've read by far and away Mishima's best. |
411,371 | Uber is an app to quickly hail a cab nearby. The twist is anyone can sign up to be a cabby. | I believe the problem is that they are technically not actually taxis, which then got hit with some controversial taxation implications in France(?). |
411,372 | I hope I’m lucky enough to see Facebook and Twitter completely be demolished by the end of my life. | Tech companies are very volitile, they'll be gone long before then |
411,373 | The only redeeming quality to this book, in my opinion, is that the symbolism and literary conceits are frickin' *paint-by-number*. Making it a useful example or tool in teaching these concepts to students. That said, if someone is not a confirmed reader, making them read this book may turn them off of literature for life. I'm just really tired of meeting folks who "just love Gatsby!" It makes me think that someone forced you to read this book, and you don't have a single other book with which to compare it. :/ | Haha yeah I first read this back in my junior year of high school. Looking back, the symbols and their representations are pretty obvious. That, and its esteem in American literature, seems like a solid reason to teach it to high schoolers. Although, I picked it up again a while back after I saw the movie and I still couldn't get into it. |
411,374 | I like this too. He is actually announcing the nationwide curling championship here in canada. So I might watch curling for once if Ron burgundy is announcing it. | Just said to my roommates that curling is about to see a 5000% boost in ratings Dec. 1st haha |
411,375 | Do you think though that even without Yoko they would have stayed together to make many more albums? | I believe they would make at least one or two more, she was a bad influence in general. On the other hand, someone else might have abandoned the band.I don't know. |
411,376 | Yeah, those are straight up business transactions. Bruce is selling his name to the movie and negotiating the highest price he can. | I've always been told if I don't want to do something, to say no with a number. Make a demand so ridiculous that they have to say no, and if they don't, then I guess you get 3 mil for 4 days work... |
411,377 | My car from 2004 has a Bose Cassette deck. Heck, Lexus was still putting tape decks in cars in 2010! | I'm torn between complete & total disbelief and believing you because such a bold claim couldn't be made so confidently without there being something to it. What model? |
411,378 | Which is why I don't date women who love the book Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut because the book is illogical, completely random, and contains a protagonist that tries to get the reader to relate to his crazed mentality. (some books aren't for everyone) | I can't think of a single book that is for everyone. Some books just have a wider audience then others do. |
411,379 | I thought of it purely because it calls itself "the feel bad movie of the year" in the tralier | "The feel bad movie of Christmas" I believe it was. Awesome movie. |
411,380 | I've never had a better opportunity to post this song. [Robbie Fulks- Fuck This Town] | Switching through Sirius xm radio on a road trip one time and I stopped on this song. Outlaw country (CH 60) has been my go to station ever since. |
411,381 | I doubt you'll convince anyone with ad-hominem attacks. People will come to realize how pseudo-scientific these academics are as they see the absurdity of their arguments. Their arguments are logically unsound, people in tech forums like logic, so keeping things respectful seems the obvious answer. Once you start name-calling, people polarize into their political groups and won't budge. | rather disturbing race relations are at the point that its being discussed in /r/tech isnt it? |
411,382 | I'm forever at a coffee shop wondering what the teenage white girls picked to listen to, and the answer is sometimes Nick Cave | I'm not even a Nick Cave fan, but all the bitter RHCP fans coming out of the woodwork is pretty funny. |
411,383 | I think he did though. He was very, very Christian. | So was Tolkien, but that doesn't mean that it's a requirement that their books adhere to their entire faith. Either way, it comes back to the old debate: Is it more about what the author meant, or what the reader got from it? |
411,384 | Why does walking on the moon first matter most, but the *several other firsts* don't? Kinda weird. I'm willing to bet that if the tables were flipped and the US were the first to fly a man to space, a woman to space, first satellite, first to fly to the moon, and first to have a space station that you wouldn't give a shit if the Russians were first to land on the moon | They matter. However, I don't think you understand the challenges of space travel. Getting humans to land on another celestial body and then come back alive to talk about it is much much **MUCH** more impressive than any other feat the Russians accomplished. There's a reason why every first world country has at least a couple satellites up in space, but none have managed to recreate America's feat of putting a man on the moon and bringing him back alive. The reason is this: It's fucking hard. |
411,385 | I am drawn to books written by women. At least as much predisposed to read them as a man's writing, if not more. It probably varies. | Just for context, are you a man or a woman? I didn't know that Ayn Rand was a woman when I read Atlas Shrugged |
411,386 | I read that song was actually about a break up I thought . Double entendre I suppose | I completely misread that as Doobie entedre the first time through. |
411,387 | Imagine if the people could submit their own bills to their congressman or senator to be presented on the floor after being vetted. If only we lived in a democracy instead of a constitutional republic. | Well, hell, if we're gonna be tasking fantasy... Imagine if all bills had to fit on a standard letter-size sheet of paper, 10pt minimum font, understandable by someone with an 8th grade education... |
411,388 | Similarly the scarlet letter would make a great tv serial. It is mostly character drama and dialogue. A lot of the inner thoughts could be done through editing and camera work. | In a similar vein, Tom Clancy's whole Jack Ryan book series could be faithfully adapted; time period and everything into a series. I'll expand on this later, but I'm disappointed with the current JR series from Amazon for several reasons. |
411,389 | Interesting... I personally had high expectations originally (a friend hyped it up and I trust his opinion) then I saw the Olaf heavy advertising and my expectations dropped dramatically. Then as I was sitting in the theatre (cheap night at cheap theatre) I recognised Idina Menzel (sp?) And was blown away. Had I known she was singing in it I would have seen it much sooner. So my question is: was it widely expected to be a flop? | I went in expecting the worst/formulaic disney movie they have ever made. |
411,390 | Science doesn't fully hand an answer either way. Yes, people may be dispositioned towards certain actions but the mentally-well have the capacity to process situations and consequences of possible responses. | Many neuroscientists consider the illusory nature of free-will to be just as much scientific fact as evolution; how can human will influence the everlasting chain of cause and effect, without cause? It's as if people want to just give up good science, and attribute quantum randomness to something akin to a soul. Michio Kaku pushes quantum uncertainty as evidence of free-will; and yet can't make the same leap of faith to hidden variable theories. You know why? Because confirmation bias always sides with free-will. Sorry, but there is very little (if any) compelling theories on agency that work within the laws of physics; I seriously fucking hate people like Daniel Dennett who use bullshit metaphysical philosophy to skirt around good science. |
411,391 | The Eddings are one-trick ponies, to be sure, but they were the definers of generic, schlocky high fantasy. Also their dialogue is better than average. | I recall reading an interview with him somewhere in which he stated that he used those books as a way to explore certain themes and cliches in fantasy... |
411,392 | Well, I don’t know about the Spanish but Sir Francis Drake at least had sailed yonder during Shakespeare’s lifetime, had he not? So I guess it’s possible that he brought some back with him. | Yeah- there was enough cross atlantic 'trade' during shakespears life to make it plausible. |
411,393 | Might want to call in, pretty sure they went with automatic unlimited (no cost) with gigabit plans. Buddy at work has that since they installed it last year. | I did, they told me they don't do it and tried to convince me to go with them anyway since " I would have the fastest internet amongst my friends" even if our house download/upload well over a tb every month. They got very fast on my "everything they say is bullshit" list. Also right now I'm on 6gb mobile + unlimited 30mb web for 99$ with Videotron, so I will only change when a company I trust starts offering gigabit. |
411,394 | If I were them, at this point I'd be scared to release anything new. Their discography is spotless and I seriously wonder if a new album could live up to everyone's expectations. | At least Zack is *finally* releasing a solo album next year! |
411,395 | Not at all. Think about all of the times in previous lightsaber battles when they cross swords and they just "stop". That is completely unrealistic...you could just slide your blade down and chop a motherfucker's hand off. Well, now you can't... | You still can tho. The saber would slide down and just cut right through what is projecting the beam. |
411,396 | So it's video or audio? Like, will it be a movie or some kind of audio play? | Yes, it will be a radio play. It was originally a tv mini-series back in 1996 which was pretty decent. |
411,397 | Was he bad in Smallville, or are you talking about the show as a whole? Honest question -- never watched an episode of it, but I assume that if they gave it 10 seasons, it must have been doing something right. Maybe that's not the case. "The Fog" though, that was brutal. | *Twilight* got five movies, sometimes pretty people pouting is all you need. |
411,398 | Try letting them watch Daniel Tiger. Its a cartoon but it has the same characters as MRN. It is also based off MRN as far as i can tell, my niece loves it. | He has seen this and really likes it as well. It's very well done. I think netflix has it also. |
411,399 | You're equivocating. Owning a copy of a book and owning the copy*right* to a book are two completely different things and you know it. I echo /u/mindbleach's view 100%. Whenever I buy an ebook from Amazon the first thing I do is toss it into Calibre, which strips the DRM, and convert it into an epub. From that point onward it is *my* book and Amazon holds no power over it. If Amazon were to somehow create a magical DRM system that couldn't be broken I would simply stop buying stuff from them. | Amazon's magic DRM would need to memory wipe whoever reads the books because there's always the option of simply retyping the whole damn thing. |
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