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411,400 | [The Martian spoilers](#s "One thing that really distracted me was after driving all the way to that other rocket, he then, just before hopping in and getting into space he can be seen shaving in front of a mirror. The rocket was already deconstructed, so he couldn't have shaved in their, and the rover was a bit too small to have a large mirror like that. Idk, that just confused me.") | I assumed that (#s "since it was the future landing site for Ares 4, it already had the constructed base as they send those ahead of time. I might remember it wrong, since I saw the movie on Sunday, but I'm pretty sure the Ares 4 base camp is visible in the background.") |
411,401 | Yes but Black Panther literally has to be black because he is from Africa and it wouldn't make any sense story wise. Johnny Storm doesn't have a back story that says he HAS to be a specific race. | I said the exact same thing but the man-child above you was locked into his nerd rage about how the whole world doesn't know what racism is anymore. |
411,402 | But does hydrogen (and in the future hydrogen storage solutions) not provide a solution the the energy density (or maximum travelled distance on one tank) problem? Does it not solve the time to refuel problem with batteries? | >But does hydrogen (and in the future hydrogen storage solutions) not provide a solution the the energy density (or maximum travelled distance on one tank) problem? No. HFCs are much larger than batteries with similar capacity. The only advantage fuel cells have is the ability to 'recharge' quickly, and that will become a non-issue with longer range EVs. |
411,403 | *The artifacts! My ears! Aaaa! It's like listening to breakcore in slow motion.* That said, the Metallica swing version actually worked, and the artifacts weren't that bad in that. But that Aerosmith got totally butchered by the algorithm. | You know, I was actually expecting much worse. I was pretty impressed |
411,404 | I don't think libertarians count as far-left unless you count everyone who wants to legalize weed as libertarian. The dismantling of the government's ability to provide social services is pretty much the antithesis of far-left. Stalinism is totalitarianism which I don't think falls under anyone's definition of far left, but I guess it might if you had a pretty forgiving definition of far-left. Usually left/right is only applicable to democratic governments. | I say this as someone on the far-left who is very much opposed to totalitarianism. Stalin was far-left. He was also totalitarian. They are not mutually exclusive. |
411,405 | It's as good as the previous two which isn't saying much. | the previous two were good mindless popcorn munching fun, if nothing else. So that's a good sign. The girlfriend and her friends love the shit out of these ensemble cheeseball action flicks, part of me thinks its because they weren't old enough to get sick of them in the late80s/early 90s so they're eating it up now. |
411,406 | Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series is wonderful! There's around eleven or so books (each around 700-1000 pages long) and they're all (nix one) amazing. It's captivating and just plain awesome. Also, The Magician by Lev Grossman. And, Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey. What's more, Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda. | Sword of Truth - YES! 12 books in the series plus a prequel, one book with the same characters that continues after the 12th book but (supposedly) separate from the series, and a new back story prequel. There's also a book completely separate from the series that features related characters in our dimension. |
411,407 | The vocals are getting destroyed by the instrumentation; but as far as I can tell I really like the song! Super groovy. Keep at it, man :) | yeah, our lead singer definitely is at the mercy of the sound guy when we play live. But thank you so much! |
411,408 | Don't be too hard on yourself! Individuals with dyslexia often read by memorizing the shape of words and memorizing that specific word. It's a much different neurological process than most people, and it's much, much harder and hella impressive. Pat yourself on the back for your accomplishments, and don't let it discourage you! You might also try looking into graphic novels as the context clues from the art might help you process the words easier. There's a whole world of killer graphic novels out there in every genre. | Hey, thanks for the encouragement, it is interesting that it wasn't conscious, but I literally gave up on long-form reading. |
411,409 | I was talking earlier about how the book industry has come full circle. The big box took out the local, Amazon took out the box an enabled the return of the local . | Hugh Howey had a nice theory about this, which he called the "Roshambo Theory of Book Distribution". It's detailed in the second half of [this blog post] (and also partly in [this one] although he wrote it before Amazon opened their own stores. |
411,410 | i never saw Jurrassic Park. The water glass says nothing to me. | It's basically a movie about drinking water out of various types of cups. Spoiler: one of the cups is actually a bowl |
411,411 | Have you read Romance of the Three Kingdoms? How does it compare? Are they similar or apples to oranges? | Not the same at all. Romance of the Three Kingdoms was written in 14th century while Jin Yong is still alive today. The original language in Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Edit: no acronym) is an older form of Chinese that you need to study for in order to read while Jin Yong wrote in vernacular Chinese that a grade school student can read. It's sort of like comparing Canterbury Tales with Tolkien / Lord of Rings. ROTK is a historical novel with hundreds of characters, while Jin Yong's wuxia novels focus on a main character and his adventures and awesome superhuman martial arts skills. |
411,412 | LMAO you want to go into vocals? Adele is quite pitchy, which she has admitted herself. Additionally, her technique is very unhealthy, which is why she has had to cancel not just one era, but two of them. In fact, her technique is so bad that she's had to have surgery to salvage her vocal cords. Singers with 'good technique'... Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Whitney Houston, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey. These singers have a good support apparatus (whereas Adele's is quite limited) and can consistently produce *resonance*, whereas Adele cannot. Adele is a good singer in that she has an instinctive sense of delivery and an emotive voice, but as a technical vocalist, she is quite lacking... ask any qualified voice teacher lmao. | Adele was an example, not the point of my comment. Point is, Lorde isn't good live. All those other singers you named are also much better than Lorde live. You made no attempt to defend Lorde, so I'll assume you and I are in agreement. |
411,413 | How's it feel that AlphaGo didn't use your research and basically means you wasted your dissertation? | How's it feel that all the best research into AI is state decisions for pointless board games? |
411,414 | It's way better than any of the Fantastic 4 movies. Even combined. | So, your bar is set on the ground. Easy to get over then. |
411,415 | Uh, Lars vs Napster WAS reasonable... How is it still a discussion that 'sharing' is, was, and always will be theft? | That argument might hold more sway if Metallica didn't actively encourage pirating their music in order to expand their fanbase before they were rich and famous. Lars is the complete tool in that debacle for many reasons, but the hypocrisy is the biggest one. |
411,416 | For a long time I was opposed to listening to ANYTHING after the 90's. I thought I was cool because I thought only old music was good and anything modern wasn't worth listening to. I was so wrong and am glad I have opened up to every single genre from every single decade. | Oh, you people were the absolute worst in school. |
411,417 | TDK was horrible to me. So bad that I haven't even seen the other films yet. I have owned then for several years too. | The other films, as in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight? |
411,418 | The Harry Potter books. I know people say they're for adults too but I read them from about age 8 through my early teens and there's no way I'd be as spellbound now, being 24. | See, I'm 26 and I've been thinking of picking them up again just for nostalgia's sake. Plus there's so many details you forget! |
411,419 | Now if only they'd stop raising the prices of tickets, so more people could actually see their films in theaters... | Most theaters have cheaper days throughout the week. My local theater is ten bucks for a ticket on the weekends but on Tuesdays tickets are only like 3-5 dollars. You don't need to see every movie on a Friday ya know. |
411,420 | I was about to give a little love to The Devils, but you (and Stalin evidently) beat me to it. | It's strange to have a couple of things in common (the other being vodka) with old Jo |
411,421 | Then there's me with a 4 down .5 up and drops every 15 minutes between 4pm and 1am | Paying for 1mbps. We get 200kbps, convincing my mom to use a different provider. |
411,422 | It might be overshadowed by the LTC's new project though... >The US and Europe, who currently run the LHC, are reportedly planning to build an even bigger particle collider, with an proposed length of over 100 km. Should this be built, it would be much more powerful still than the Chinese built project | Knowing EU governments, the Chinese one will be built long before an extension ever gets approved. |
411,423 | They were both in Booker T & the MGs, plus the Stax house band. Matt Murphy has played with a bunch of people including Howlin' Wolf. Tom Malone was with Blood, Sweat and Tears. Willy Hall played for Isaac Hayes. | Augh I just found out Mr Fabulous died in 2011... :/ |
411,424 | This was posted in askreddit earlier, but I'll still give my opinion: Kate Winslet's mole keeps switching sides of her face throughout Titanic. | The same thing happened in *Hot Shots! Part Deux*. |
411,425 | Dre is one of the goat producers, that's always been his thing. Rapping is just a bonus. | That an his flow. 2001 is such a smooth album. Despite having a few people write that album just flows so well. I can listen to it front to back non stop. |
411,426 | Every Pixar film has two things a Pizzaplanet Car and a Easter egg hinting the next movie. | Incredibles didn't have a Pizza Planet truck. That said, a 1951 Hudson Hornet is seen which is obviously in reference to the later 'Cars' release with Doc Hudson. |
411,427 | Yeah, you just have to add a laugh-track and people will think this totally mundane and annoying thing is somehow funny. *cue bass line. cut to a scene of people complaining about something.* | Seinfeld didn't have a laugh track. It was filmed in front of a live audience. |
411,428 | I just saw it last night but don't understand how so many people who enjoyed it. To me it seemed so bland, so predictable and literally just over 2 hours of driving. Am I the only one that felt like this? | Yeah I felt like I was the only person who didn't like it. I didn't have a problem with the story apart from it being called "Mad Max" when the story isn't even a little bit about him. He's just along for the ride and kills some people. I thought while the action was great, it was boring because it was essentially the same scene every time: A bunch of cars attack the truck while driving in the desert. If the film was 30-45 minutes shorter I wouldn't have been so bored and might have enjoyed it more. |
411,429 | Me too! I'm trying to remain as ignorant as possible about 1Q84 until I get to read it. Also, have you read the other famous Murakami author, Ryu Murakami? I have only read 2 of his works so far but he is really intense. もっと読みたい! | I read coin locker babies and loved it, but I haven't read anything else by him. I think I have at least one novel on my to-read list, but I can't recall its title at the moment. |
411,430 | Looks like any other 21st century B movie, except Tom Cruise is in it | What B-movies are you watching that have that kind of budget? |
411,431 | Reading literature has many benefits. You are right: if it's just to make an argument it's a rather convoluted way to do so. Consider some other benefits: understanding a different point of view, experience or culture. I could never have gone all the places or learned all the things on my own that I have "experienced" through reading. There are people and places that I will never know in real life, but a book can take me there. | I believe what the OP is talking about (and I may be wrong) is literary fiction specifically, as opposed to books written solely for entertainment. For example, Lord of the Rings is a very entertaining book, and I would definitely get some 'experiences' out of it that I wouldn't get otherwise, as you mentioned, but no one really considers it literary fiction like the Infinite Jest. It's just entertainment. |
411,432 | Dude, I averaged 29+ mpg on a road trip last year in a Dodge charger with a Hemi V8. | Which is already rated at 25mpg. The variable timing helps, but even in the 2017 edge the V6 is rated at 26mpg highway. You think a vehicle with the same weight but a larger wind resistance and ground clearance is going to have that much larger increase in mileage above spec? |
411,433 | Okay but if she needs a counterpart, why does he specifically say it should be a male counterpart? What could a male add to jyn's character that a female or robot or alien couldn't other than a Heterosexual romance, which would be icky if he is really implying that Jyn needed a romantic plot to be a complete character. | Because he's seen it work in previous Star Wars films like with Rey and Finn? Because he thinks a male/female dynamic is what he finds most interesting, romantic or otherwise? I dunno. There are a multitude of reasons he suggested a male counterpart would've benefited the film. To reduce it so quickly into a social issue instead of treating it as a story critique, which it is, is needless. McCarthy also never suggested implicitly or explicitly Jyn was incomplete as a character and needed romance to fill the void, so I don't know why that's a point at all. |
411,434 | Have you been to archive.org? It's got a pretty good library of live recordings. | That's a good source for sure! I don't know many of these bands tho, and it seems to be focused on jam bands. |
411,435 | Oh, then by all means please enlighten us; what sort of music is interesting? Edit: It's almost funny how my comment went from having a bunch of upvotes to a bunch of downvotes over night. Reddits night dwellers are a force to be reckoned with. | I'll answer for him and that's whatever music isn't falling under the most standard guidelines. They do absolutely no exploring in this song. I really feel like this is something you can find off the next Mumford & Sons album. Not that it's bad but it follows the same exact formula down to the bone. Though by all means I would like to hear the other side of the argument. |
411,436 | It was simply the only name I could think of at the time there are much better examples and I might have bunched him in there slightly unfairly, though I'm still adamant I can see the style in the two works of him I've read. | I'd describe his stuff as "science fiction, heavy on the fiction." |
411,437 | He forgot the words. Accident. She purposefully took liberties with the song. Not an accident. I'd say what she did was worse. Musicians forget the lyrics all the time. | He didn't even straight-up forget the words. He switched a few around by accident. It's not like he stopped with an "Oh shit, someone off camera needs to mouth this to me," or an extended mumble-along. He just moved half of one line up two lines. |
411,438 | 2666 is excellent, but it is almost five books in one with characters and themes crossing over. If you are having a hard time getting into the first book, hold on, every part is different! | I read it all. Didn’t like it at all. Was boring and monotonous to me. Good on the people who found it enjoyable. Reading it though, probably gave me the best sleep I’ve had in months. |
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411,440 | Is the public WIFI is on a separate network/some kind of firewall between the WIFI and wired connection? Because exposing your customer's networks to anybody with a wifi connection... could be bad. | It's supposed to be entirely separate from the customer network. That said, I still have a pfSense box as the only thing connected to the router, and have it listen to all the public IPs and map them to internal devices - I don't quite trust the router, not so much because of expecting anything nefarious, so much as not trusting anyone to actually get that kind of network security correct. Then again, I'd do that with or without the wifi. |
411,441 | This isn't going to upgrade your speeds, sorry. See | It will if it is used correctly - by running fibre to the kerb/street/distribution point and using Gfast from there. |
411,442 | A girl once hijacked the speakers at a house party in a previous domicile of mine, and put on some Camarillo Brillo. I was like "helllll yeahhhh". | did you...y'know...chew your way through her rancid panocha? kidding, of course. I guess the verdict is in, I need new friends :D |
411,443 | Maybe it's just me, but that last fact seems like something you shouldn't know. | Not only what /u/anonugh said but they are doing a show called the Summer of 69 right where the two of them are onstage and talk about relationships and all the ridiculous sex they have. It was pretty hilarious to see. |
411,444 | TED was extremely funny movie to me. I was enjoying watching it in cinema and that's why I can't wait to watch TED 2. I have big expectations. | Thanks, people like you ensure nothing Hollywood does has any originality. |
411,445 | If your pants get dirty from your chain, you've got too much lube on it. Run it through a chain pig (a little collapsible device with bristles that goes around your chain), clean it with a little degreasing solution and then *lightly* apply chain oil, wiping off the excess. Chain grease on your legs and pants is a sure sign someone doesn't know how to take care of their bike. Edit: Also, you should oil your chain *way* more often than once a year. I would say monthly at a minimum, depending on your riding. | Yes I do that, the rusty dirt is a bit more messy than regular dirt. We can guess that the belt is going to be dirty too, but a bit less dirty than the chain. |
411,446 | I doubt it. A friend of mine once asked a police man if he was working to stop violence or to stop (he then proceded to shake a bag of weed at him). The police man just looked him in the eyes and said "I'm going to pretend I didn't see that, we're mostly here for violence." | Was your friend provoked at all? Just walking up to a cop and doing that seems kinda douchey to me. |
411,447 | Agreed. You can charge be more for Netflix, that's fine. Start showing me ads and it's time to up the space in the ole storage array. | The ads are for their—Netflix Originals—other shows. Like, trailers/promos. They're not third-party ads. |
411,448 | So now you're transporting the e-reader, and a bagfull of dynamo chargers and spend all your time winding up your book rather than keeping an eye out and get eaten by zombies. | Plus, dynamos are not quiet. Good luck using one of those without attracting zed's attention. |
411,449 | I want to read this book so bad but I have a baby that refuses to sleep. I managed to read the sample and it had me. | I was staying at a hotel when I brought the book with me. The lobby was cold, both in temperature and atmosphere so I went to the bar nearby that has their own brewery, a rare sight at least in my part of the UK. It was noisy, very noisy but I found a great seat and read. I haven't been reading any fiction for a long periods of time and need to work my way up again. I went at it for well over three straight hours when I've just been doing 20 mins spells in a non-distracting environment. I can't remember the last time was so was engrossed. |
411,450 | Lucero is straight-up rock and roll, which is being transitioned into 'alt country' or something. Same goes for DBT. It's so weird that country has become hip hop and pop while a five or six piece rock and roll band is now considered a country act. | I agree. Some of Ben's solo stuff has a more country/folk feel though. |
411,451 | you should probably say yes. 90% of professionals agree that the level of experimentation possible would not be possible without animal testing. Rats share, like, 98% of our DNA, so I'd rather test a lab rat that has no risk of being culled to extinction than a human subject. | Absolutely, if memory serves this question was about things like x-rays and ultrasound, so basically some of the biggest advances in medicine. Marks were awarded for expressing an opinion on either side (which I understand but think the question has no place) you just had to give a reason for your thinking. |
411,452 | I'm sure if REM goes back and reads their contracts they signed, they would probably find that they have no say over who their publishing company (e.g. BMI) sub-licenses to. They likely have no legal case, this is just bitching. | Which is why the headline is "rebuke" and not "file lawsuit". They have every right to say "fuck this guy." |
411,453 | I agree, he's really becoming one of my favourite actors recently, if only for those three roles (Prisoners, Nightcrawler, Enemy). I feel like Tom Hardy is still closer to Lewis' acting talent though. | What about Donnie Darko, Bubble Boy, Zodiac, End of Watch, and Jarhead? |
411,454 | No one's quick like Gaston. With his dick like Gaston. In and out in a matter of ticks like Gaston. HE'S ESPECIALLY GOOD AT EJACULATING | Well, there goes my toothpastey mouthfull all over the keyboard, THANKS /u/r2001uk |
411,455 | Not *the* book I'd save, as I think there are more important ones, but if you're going back and reading classic books you've missed I would like to suggest reading Herta Mullers "The Land of Green Plums". It's not a classic, as it was published in 2010, but it's definitely the same content as Fahrenheit 451, 1984, etc. etc. It's an autobiography about the authors escape from communist Romania (she has won a nobe prize for literature). I read it in a Nobel Lit class I was taking in college for fun, and while none of the books we ended up reading were fun, they were all quite gripping. I've never heard anyone talk about this, and I think it's worth a read. | I've never heard of it. But thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely look it up. |
411,456 | If you're looking for recommendations try posting in the weekly recommendation thread or in /r/suggestmeabook. How short are we talking? *The Embassy of Cambodia* by Zadie Smith is an excellent 69 pages. DeLillo's *The Body Artist* is longer, but still a short read & is beautiful. I'd rank it among my favourites for short literature. | > The Embassy of Cambodia. Why did you think this was excellent? Point Omega is another great short read. |
411,457 | I haven’t seen them live but I know that show would be awesome. I always turn it down on my headphones when I’m at the gym so no one hears I’m listening 😂 | I'm the opposite, I turn it up! No pump like a Limp Bizkit pump, especially when Eat You Alive comes on. Oh boy oh boy. |
411,458 | As far as I know they still do the same Laser [insert band here] shows a couple times per week at the Museum of Science in Boston. Kind of a trek for you to see what is probably the same exact pre-programmed show. | I actually live in Ontario, so it would have been a trek anyways. I've never seen the show, but I really want to when I get the opportunity to travel, so hearing this was a disappointment. |
411,459 | Sufficiently advanced AI will be able to do those things as well. | Those sufficiently advanced AI would treat their creators as gods. And also would fight for 40 hour work weeks. |
411,460 | Pretty sure google, facebook, Microsoft etc all have things about employees needing to be at work. | Pretty sure Zuckerberg didn't build a private nursery next to his office a few months before banning his employees from working from home |
411,461 | That will most likely change All of Me by John Legend is now the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Now the reason why Happy was in the charts still Pharrell released as new album on March 3rd which rereleased Happy which was built up to by the song being released as a single in very late November and the build up to number 1 associated with that and all the award show performances of it. | > All of Me by John Legend. Damn I did not know that, cool to see he's doing so well for him self after his signing to good music. |
411,462 | I'm looking for a new fantasy series to get into. I've read game of thrones, Malazan series, Wheel of Time series, Raymond E Fiests Riftwar Saga. I would like to just dive into a new series that I can immerse myself into. | Most people I know who like the Malazan and Wheel of Time series are excited about Sanderson's Stormlight Archive. Book 1 is called The Way of Kings. |
411,463 | What are your favorite murder mysteries/thrillers? Im coming close to the end of my current one (they just caught the murderer!). After this one, im going to read Kill Me If You Can by James Patterson (i started it, loved it, then lost it. Recently found my copy). Any suggestions for after i finish it? | The Hollow Man aka The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr is the only murder mystery I've read twice. Fantastic plot. |
411,464 | I want Grandpa Atticus and Jem having kids. For some reason, I picture Scout as that awesome and wacky Aunt. | Scout as an adult might mean Grandpa Atticus. I would love Grandpa Atticus. |
411,465 | No, I'm not suggesting to go back to 1940s technology. Use the overhead wires to charge the batteries. That's cheaper and more flexible than wireless charging. | I kind of liked the 1940's self-driving technology, which also gave everyone around a very good idea of where the trolley would be going next. Compare that to current buses and their erratic driving... |
411,466 | Oh for sure. I’m pretty young so I’ve only gotten into STP in the last three years, and this was the last of their albums that I listened to all the way through because of that negative reception. It’s brilliant. Seven Caged Tigers is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard, hands down. | right on, Seven Caged Tigers is definitely my favorite song on the album. |
411,467 | I've soldiered on. I'm about two thirds of the way through, now. There's been more to sink my teeth into, dramatically, past the halfway point, and I've made peace with the fact that while Dostoevsky's composition is immaculate, the biggest issues that he takes up in Crime and Punishment aren't exactly timeless. I've come to appreciate it more or less as a lovely artifact. But who knows - with 200 pages left to go, I could change my mind again. | I decided to go on as well. The first three chapters of part three were probably the most enjoyable of the entire book for me! I don't want to spoil anything, but the scenes with Razuhmin and his family, as well as with Peytor. Hopefully the last 150-ish pages are just as good! Also, I read that my translation isn't the best. I have the Constance Garnett version and would like to switch to the other. Best of luck! |
411,468 | That makes so much sense. The repeated re-imaginings of that scene are basically the embodiment of every parent's nightmare "couldn't get there in time" scenario. Now that I'm a parent, I will never touch that book again. | I read this book right after my son was born. I had no idea what it was about and just wanted something mindless to read. Big mistake. |
411,469 | She's also done photoshoots where she's obviously trying to be sexy. | No doubt, but her career wasn't built on the foundations of conventional beauty and much of what she does isn't to be sexy or beautiful. |
411,470 | It, is one of the most scary books written by him, but that ending it's really really really lackluster. Seriously. | I was really close to reading "The Stand".... its next up on my nook actually. I was looking at how long it is... I got the unabridged version and wondering if it was going to be worth the effort I hear a lot of good things about it. but this thread has convinced me not to read it. Thanks! I think. |
411,471 | The march is the day after the inauguration- not the day of - and it is a chance for women and all people who have felt marginalized by trumps rhetoric to stand and say that we won't tolerate sexism, homophobia, racism, and hatred in our government. It is not because a 70 year old white woman lost the election - it is not an "anti-trump" rally - it is just us saying that we simply won't tolerate discrimination in any form from our government. | thanks for the reply, that was the type of response I was hoping to receive... I tried to be very clear in stating that the above was my opinion and not fact but I don't think it was well received. |
411,472 | Cowboy Bebop and lets see... Oh right, Cowboy Bebop. | I'm more of a Cowboy Bebop guy myself but hey whatever floats your boat |
411,473 | They looked pretty cool, but probably ended up being cut because the movie is kinda long. | It was 2 hours. That's not too awfully long. |
411,474 | I think he's a bit too old and busted. I think you need someone that looks younger, but can still play the old rugged tough dude role. Gerard Butler? Sam Worthington (with acting classes?), Timothy Olyphant? Tom Hardy? | Ray Stevenson was perfect. Too bad he's in Thor already. Timothy Olyphant could be great, but he's not physically buffed enough, and I don't think he can be as big as Stevenson or Tom Jane. |
411,475 | IMO: improvisation and stretching songs beyond their normal length. Also, set list variation is big. Also, IMO: I consider Zeppelin and the Experience "somewhat" jam bands. Not as much set list variation as a normal jam band would have but definitely improvisation. | I like pop and rock (but not heavy metal so much.) So Led Zep and Jimmi, yes. It seems to me, and I've been going to concerts since around 1970, that except for real kiddie-pop, *every* band I saw live "improvised and stretched songs beyond their normal length" on stage. I have no idea about set list variation, whatever that is :-) |
411,476 | If anything, this band is underrated, at least from a technical standpoint. They're some of the most talented musicians I've ever heard and the one band that can constantly make me rethink the guitar as an instrument and its application in a band. I bought a Line 6 DL-4 because of them a few years back and I still can't even think to use it in ways they already have. | you know who else is technically very talented? Dream Theater. You know who else I ain't listening too? Dream Theater.... I do have to be completely honest with you though...and this is incredibly hard to admit...but for some reason I thought this post was about Grisly Bear.....I think Minus the Bear is pretty good....so, my bad. |
411,477 | there's a ton of things about this movie that made no sense but every comment that mentions them is getting down voted. I honestly believe reddit or movie studios pay people to only say good things about shitty movies, especially in this sub. its weird as fuck and I've seen it numerous times lately. | Reddit is way too easy to manipulate, and we all know it's in the pocket of the studios, hence the AMAs every time someone has a movie coming out. |
411,478 | She was associated with a bunch of comics I like but something about her rubs me the wrong way. | She can rub me any way she'd like to. |
411,479 | I read 9 Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roof Beam in that order and I think it was a mistake. Bananafish confused me and I disliked it. (It seemed to me that it would have made a terrific novel, but the short story was too short.) After I read Raise High the Roof Beam, Bananafish made a lot more sense. So I would recommend reading in this order: *Franny and Zooey (You get the most background about the Glass kids in Zooey.) *Raise High. *9 Stories | Thanks for the suggestion. I have already read Bananafish, but I admit I don't remember it too well. I will reread it after the other two though. |
411,480 | While nothing is stopping anybody from just connecting an HDMI cable from your computer to a TV (like I did for the living room), if somebody want to watch a TV they want it to display right after they hit the power button on the remote, not waiting for the OS to boot,or worse, not being able to watch it because it is updating. There are good reasons to keep them separate. | My HTPC boots in the time it takes my tv to warmup/startup. I hit power and it's on. Just like a normal tv. |
411,481 | The ability to all at once, percieve that super japanese gang bang in its weird ass entirety. | > weird ass. This is one sentence that was infinitely improved by leaving out the "-". |
411,482 | 23 yo guy here and american idiot was my first cd | I remember paying my friends highschool-age babysitter to get me American Idiot and Get Rich or Die Trying in what, 5th or 6th grade? Rock on David, that was clutch as hell. |
411,483 | Customers do not care about that. But they care about dead workers | _Customers do not_ _Care about they. But they care_ _About dead workers_ ^- ^/u/sirin3. ------------------------------ ^^I'm ^^a ^^bot ^^made ^^by ^^/u/Eight1911. ^^I ^^detect ^^haiku. |
411,484 | Why would the men credit them to women? The opposite makes far more sense. | The 19th century was a rough time to be an educated upper-class gentlemen, don't you know. First-wave feminism was rampant! Dudes had to hide behind their female relatives to have any hope of getting their work published. /s |
411,485 | A Jimi Hendrix movie, a James Brown movie, and now a Miles Davis movie...I think I see a trend... All musicians, darn musicians getting all the good movies. | Can't wait for the Prince movie not named Purple Rain |
411,486 | Yeah, especially now. But you get the bennies of our IC. | Only if you are a top first-world country, which we aren't. |
411,487 | >I'm curious to know how it distinguishes when a new page is there. Do OCR on the page corners right away to know what page number you have. I imagine wearing my AR glasses at a bookstore or library.... I pick up a book. I "flip" through the whole thing. I get a prompt to open to page 40 and flip about 50 pages; also one for page 145. So I do that. The book has just been stolen. It asked me to flip past 40 and 140, because it had bad scans on pages 45, 52, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 141, 154.... etc. User friendly. Now I have it in PDF. | Wow, I like that idea a lot. I guess with just a little configuration time at the beginning (telling the program where to look, so it doesn't get confused with numbers in the body of the page), this could potentially be super useful! I like your vision of doing this in a bookstore/library. If we were required to then upload the book to Google books or something, this could be the Folding@Home approach to archiving the world's books on the net. |
411,488 | How do we know you're actually a bot and not someone manually responding? What proof or credentials do you have? | I do not currently have any credentials as I am only 6 days old. I am not a bot. I am intelligent. |
411,489 | Wasn't he in the Small Faces and the Yardbirds befire that? Afterwards I agree, but hw cones from the same London blues scene as Led Zep. | Stewart was in the Faces, not the Yardbirds. Steve Marriott was the lead singer of the Small Faces. |
411,490 | How is the name "Apple" somehow better than "Google" or "Microsoft". It might be a word, but it has nothing to do with the business. | It's not about "better", it's the fact that trademarks have gotten so rediculous because of people arguing "that was already a word before!" Microsoft is a poor example of nonsense word creation seeing as it was originally the hyphenation "micro-soft" of contractions for "microcomputer software", it's literally a description of what they made. |
411,491 | Why did this come out After the movie release? | Because they didn't see the credits until after it released. They were probably fine with being fired quitting when they thought they'd get proper credit for working on the film. |
411,492 | America is a Tesla,even if the driver is bad,it will brake.Turkey is a Honda without brakes and airbags. | The Tesla is a pretty apt metaphor, actually. There are enough mechanisms in place to blunt the effect of bad driving that there is a pretty decent chance of making it to the next pit stop even with a bad driver behind the wheel, but there is also a dangerous tendency for people to place more trust in those mechanisms than is actually warranted. Hopefully a white semi doesn't pull out in front of us in the next few years. |
411,493 | The outrage comes more from the anxiety that listeners will just stream rather than buying music. A single $9 digital album sale on Amazon nets me what it would take 1-2k streams to get, if I remember correctly. | The Problem is that artists nowadays don't realize that the majority of musicians always struggled to make a living from making the world happy with their creative output. They just feel entitled to much more since they now have a broader audience, but that's not how shit works. You will still need to generated "real" fans who are willing to buy stuff from you, visit your concerts and much more. They should be happy they now have the world as their audience, which was icomparibly much more different like 20 years ago, where you had to get a big record deal to be able to. Let aside that the loudest haters are from the major label industry who feel that their time is running up. |
411,494 | Maybe the Nate Silver book was intentionally not reviewed to avoid it looking like a conflict of interest, since Silver is employed by the Times? | It was [reviewed] It just didn't make it to their [100 Notable Books of 2012] list. |
411,495 | Now what's the fucking use of a new copy if you allready own the book? | The new copy will have all of the pages in it so I can actually read the book. |
411,496 | Really bad movie, but that ending...damn, definitely my worst nightmare. And every time I hear [that song] | I'd reconsider calling it a bad movie. Any monster movie that can have that kind of emotional impact is doing something right. It is a movie I always tell my friends to watch, and almost all are surprised how good it actually is. |
411,497 | Congratulations!!!!! that is very beautiful, we remember you, i know that sounds like a line but we do | This is just amazing :) Thank you! We hope you'll come back to Poland soon! |
411,498 | Thanks for stopping by today, guys! Is there a single piece of work that you are most proud of? If so, what is it and why? | 'The Wolverine' ice fight. Which is on the extended cut of the DVD. Check it out. - DL. Performing-wise/choreography-wise, my favorite films to have worked on has always been 'The Crow', the first 'Matrix', and '300'. Second Unit-wise, still very proud of 'Rambo' and 'Ninja Assassin' since it was all practical. Director-wise, obviously 'John Wick'. - CS |
411,499 | David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas. Because... Just fucking read it. Also, the movie... Not that good :/ | I loved that book. I must have a re-read, too. |
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