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412,000 | Then they can think it's a cool thing. I've listened to Metallica forever, and spent literally hundreds of dollars on shows, merchandise, etc. As one of their consumers, I am entitled to comment on the quality of their work. Again, I feel like they don't care about their fans and have just released a steaming pile of dogshit. | i think that whole Napster ordeal clarified Metallica's position on its fans. |
412,001 | That's an interesting concept though, you have to admit. And could happen. | Definitely an interesting concept, and one I thought was totally predicting the future until I gave it some adult thought. We could have the same life now if we wanted but we don't. I don't think health and fitness is ever going to fully phase itself out of human life. |
412,002 | > Criticizing other people's drug use is pretty douchey when you make EDM. This is pretty much exactly the blatant misunderstanding that Madonna had and why she deserved to be called out. She was basically going "so all you electronic music kids do MDMA these days, right? Nudge nudge! Wink wink! I get it! I'm hip!" Lots of people who like that music don't do drugs, and don't need artists telling them that they do. Which was his point. | Congratulations, you found an echo chamber on the internet to pretend that the other people listening to EDM aren't high. You don't have a single fact to stick next to anything, you don't have life experiences around drug users to even tell who's high and who isn't, you don't have shit. I'm so sick of lil girls like you who don't know shit about drugs having any sort of position on them, shut the fuck up. P.S. Before you tell me about how you knew a drug user, stop typing because your opinion means literally nothing to me. Maybe if you're tired of people lumping you in with drug users, you might want to figure out if it's true or not. |
412,003 | > only an asshole to people to scared to do what he does. They're scared because their not crazy like he was. | Yes it's exaggerated and he takes it too far, it's a movie. But how many kids are too afraid to even play hooky. |
412,004 | Waiting Line - Zero7. Part of the process - Morcheeba. Glory Box - Portishead | [Zero 7 - Waiting Line] [Morcheeba - Part of the process] [Portishead - Glory box] |
412,005 | I found apple music had a slightly better selection, but it's basically unusable (deletes playlists) | I love apple devices and I recently converted my wife to the Apple life but I have NO FUCKING CLUE what they are doing with Apple Music. It's fucking terrible. The interface is fuckall wacky. No way I leave Spotify for that (sadly) but if Prime Music has a good app and all the most popular stuff from the mid90s on - SOLD |
412,006 | That's kind of what I was thinking with the level beyond Limbo. Ariadne's deepest darkest fears manifest there. | I'm picturing Inception plus The Cell. Directed by Nolan with Pfister shooting that kind of scenery? I would mail money to them right now for that film. |
412,007 | I'm sorry but that "teaser trailer" is total BS. Shitty flute music and some statistics (who knows if that crap is real anyway) and vague references. | That was the point. It's a teaser to gain interest....for something I made in 30 minutes, it helped me raise the money I needed for production. The ACTUAL trailer will be finished soon. |
412,008 | ....take a couple more pictures for me could ya? I'm curious what the underside looks like, particularly if there's a hole or holes for sticking something in to prop it up. Although if it's anything like a modern dulcimer, they sat on a chair with it resting on their legs, and the far end of it was propped up with a stick. And the pins too. Unless they're all identical. Actually just take a really close up shot of a pin and a pin hole please. This is intriguing as fuck. Who the fuck downvoted you again? | I dont give a fuck about downvotes. Fuckers can kiss my ass. Lol. Give me 5 for the pics. |
412,009 | Mainly I think that the critics seem to favour both very old movies and "arty", weird movies both more than audiences and more than the movies actually merit. Older and weirder seems to count as "better". I don't think this is particularly surprising, though. In the unlikely even that you actually give a shit, I responded in more detail to /r/someawed. | >and more than the movies actually merit. Most of these movies actually have merit though. |
412,010 | Project Ara is obviously gonna be a disappointment even when it comes out. Anyone who thinks otherwise is in denial or doesn't understand how technology works. You can't just modularize a phone like that without seriously impacting performance. It's gonna suck and everyone will keep buying disposable phones because they'll perform better. If modular laptops haven't seen any success yet, why would modular smaller devices? | > You can't just modularize a phone like that without seriously impacting performance. Gosh, it's too bad phones released in the last few years don't have an over-abundance of performance. We need all eight cores of both processors and 4k displays sucking up battery life. Oh, wait, that's backwards. There's an excess of performance. A performance hit of 25% is absolutely worthwhile. |
412,011 | Knut Hamsuns 'Mysteries' is brilliant as well. thanks for sharing! | Thank you! I've only ever read *Hunger*, but I really should check more of his work out. I kind of vowed never to read Knut again, because *Hunger* messed me up so bad. I've never had a book impact me emotionally and mentally in the way that *Hunger* did. It really got under my skin. |
412,012 | syndrome of a down fuckin suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks, fuck this band, this shit aint metal! dont pollute reddit with this garbage. | It has a damn good message behind it. Take time to take in some of the lyrics and metaphors before you judge something so harshly just because its not, what you would consider, metal. If you dont like it, please be respectful, provide some insight of why that is and make a productive discussion. |
412,013 | I'd agree that The Skin I Live in isn't but I've seen it listed on "best of horror" lists before so I thought I'd include it. I completely disagree about Under the Skin, though. It's certainly a scifi horror. Kind of artsy, but still horror. I honestly don't see how you can say that films like Martyrs or A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night aren't horror, though. | Okay, when I say that, I mean horror plays the backseat to another genre. Under the Skin -Science fiction w/ horror elements. It's actually dramatic before it's horror even. so Scfi/drama/horror. Martyrs, Antichrist and A girl walks are all DRAMATIC films that, I concede, are very horror heavy, but they don't play that genre. Fear is the primary emotion of horror and it isn't at the heart of these films. |
412,014 | I havent heard of the living end in forever.... i cant watch it anyway because i live in the states. lol | Awwwww... booooo! :P. The Living End are going great. They featured on a Hunters and Collectors Tribute album not too long ago. |
412,015 | The entire His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. I first read them when I was in elementary school. The last book in the series, Th Amber Spyglass is my absolute favorite. The entire series is incredibly rich and complex, and very, very thought-provoking. | The ending of *The Amber Spyglass* still breaks my heart. The first time I read it I was absolutely crushed. I need to reread the series, actually, I've been meaning to for a while now... |
412,016 | Steel Panther is a parody band, Ghost is a very theatrical and light hearted doom metal band with 0 relation to black metal. | Hard rock far more than doom metal really. Especially the last album. |
412,017 | As I understood it, the torture and re-education of people like Winston, are more like the end goals than the means of reaching it. If I remember correctly, at a certain point it is said explicitely that compared to other elite and powerful group through history, the Inner party does not really have much luxuries. But at the same time they get to have this absolute power on their fellow man, the power to unmake and remake him from scratch. Personally, this is also what I find most horrifying of the society described in the book. | I love this perspective. It also ties in perfectly with the first comment. As total power over people is their end, they can be patient and wait for a moment where they can get full control of them. |
412,018 | Oh I'd love to tell them that. They get so irrationally angry over it, and the best part is that they know that they're wrong and would be laughed at by the Japanese otaku for saying something so stupid (and racist). | Why do you assume that all of /r/anime is overly irrational? Please don't generalize an entire community. You're not going to make too many friends by doing that. You understand that there is an aesthetic difference between Japanese animation and American animation so why go out of your way to bite at a linguistic terms which isn't even set in stone. It seems a little petty. |
412,019 | Steve Albini (Guitar/Vox) and Bob Weston (Bass) play Travis Bean aluminum body guitars through homemade amplifiers. | Aluminum neck. Bodies were often Koa or mahogany IIRC, but never aluminum. |
412,020 | you do realize that is a shitty opinion. looking forward to the new material. | You do realize your opinion is no more valuable than mine, so I guess your shitty too |
412,021 | Source on him being done? I fucking need the next book... | i think there's one interview with him saying some variant of ["I haven't had the time to make it short"] or something. Fans interpret this to mean that it's all finished and just needs edit. |
412,022 | That's Shonen Jump for ya. Every Teen boys fantasy, and teen girls yaoi. | Everyone comes out okay because....friendship! It's like bad science fiction, "and the reason everything turned out okay is future technology" |
412,023 | Yepp, but the question was which tech prediction failed to pan out in 2015. VR did. | No one predicted VR in 2015. All of the big players said they were releasing in 2016 (Or maybe VERY late 2015 so close that it doesn't matter) |
412,024 | The Stand by Stephen King is fabulous. As is the Passage series - the Passage blends different time periods - it starts immediately per-apocalypse, then moves into 100 years in the future and occasionally jumps to the actual apocalypse and immediate period after. The Stand has some paranormal elements and the Passage is essentially a vampire book. They're not straight apocalypse. | Aha! Have been wanting to read a Stephen King for so long but I had no idea where to start. Now I know. Thanks, both suggestions sound good. Edit: made a stupid mistake because my app was doing something funky. Fixed. |
412,025 | haha i wasn't trolling. i just realized that it was a dvd when i found the slip stuck inside a the fold of the sleeves (some sort of packaging malfunction?) | Maybe. Have you listened to their two previous albums? What do you think of them? |
412,026 | pro chops and timing? You're talking out of your poop chute. You have a metronome handy? You ever listen to the original piece? Who are you comparing her to that made you state that she has 'pro chops'? | I'm comparing her to other 14 year old guitar players. |
412,027 | Any facts to back up that he is talentless? Other than your PERSONAL opinion. And no, you're not important. You don't represent 99% of the population. SMH. | Sure I do. Right here: If you have ears and eyes, the facts speak for themselves. |
412,028 | As someone who listens to Tool occasionally, but hasn't followed band news, could you give me a quick sum-up of the lawsuit? | This is totally biased, but... Guy that ~~did art for Tool once~~ *worked with Tool*: "Hey Tool, you used my art on that thing. Give me an outlandish amount of money." Tool and their ~~lawyers~~ *insurance company*: "No, that didn't happen." Tool's ~~lawyers~~ *insurance company*: "Hey Tool, actually, we're going to sue you, too." Tool: "U wot m8" --- Edited for correctness |
412,029 | The last airbender... thank God my friend that worked at a theater at the time got me in for free. | i was stuck watching this abomination on a trans-atlantic flight. ugh. |
412,030 | From Belarc: . The full product key is not stored on this computer. However, the characters shown uniquely identify your product key. Does not give you the key | You might have an OEM activated version where Windows reads some info out of the BIOS for activation. I know that was an option for Win7 installs, but I don't know how that works in regards to a product key. You might be SOL unless you can find the sticker on the machine. Worst case you could try finding a support number for Microsoft and seeing what they can do (if your Windows copy is actually legit) - you can't be the only person with this problem. |
412,031 | Is there a word for this? Bonware? As opposed to malware. | It's like a mugger holding you up at gunpoint and stuffing money in your pocket |
412,032 | The year one occurs in Frankenstein too. I've always wondered why | Someone in the book sub is bound to know. |
412,033 | So...you only read books written in English since 1500 unless you know the language? Do you know Greek, Latin, french, Italian, Russian, old and middle English, and fifteen other languages? Or do you just miss a lot of classics? | Well I suppose I miss out on a lot of classics. But reading for me is as much about the language as it is about the plot. Sure I'm missing out on the Latin classics, but so is everyone else who doesn't read Latin. You're not going to get the beauty of the author's original words from a modern English translation. And it's not like there isn't enough English literature to keep me occupied... |
412,034 | I think that may have worked for the better. Sometimes I wonder if Jimmy was never kicked would Adore sound a lot closer to Machina. | At the time I wasn't a big fan of Adore but it certainly worked out well for Jimmy getting clean |
412,035 | Durulo's "Want you to want me" is the male version of "girls just want to have fun". And that's a good thing. I'm not saying lyric wise- although some could make that connection- but the hook and beat is exactly like the "Girls..." Beat. Even the chord progression is similar for a bit. I really enjoy his new album- it almost sounds like he's actually trying to produce a creative and expressive R&B album which hasn't been common place in today's Top 40 (I'm looking at you "somebody by Natalie La Rose-- such a shitty fucking, phoned in piece of shit song- an embarrassment to listen to). | That song sounds like it should be a prince song. |
412,036 | Buckethead is definitely my favorite guitarist. This song is just one of the many amazing songs in his catalogue. | Same here. I feel like he's way ahead of our time. |
412,037 | I agree with you there. Director's hands were tied by that PG rating. The only saving grace for the film was that Collins and him wrote the screenplay together, thus getting the mass majority of the story correct. Some changes and only 1 continuity error (Thresh just *knowing* about Katniss and Rue), but I think all of that can be forgiven. The second film might see a change in director, though. There will be more people expecting more out of it, and it'll be released in November, which is holiday time, which means more money to be had for good film. | I hate when they try to release emotional movies like this during the holidays. It just doesn't fit. The Road was released right around Thanksgiving if I remember correctly. |
412,038 | I mean the main thing here is that as uber takes more $$, the driver's get less $$. overall this means that fares will go up to sustain drivers, or fares will remain cheap to average and driver/car quality will decrease. uber's growth is kind of been artificial because they were just undercutting taxi companies and paying drivers well. once they're done with all that they'll need to find new ways to keep business. | Sure, Uber can make their service worse and push away new drivers, but that wasn't the point being made. You can't just make a duplicate of a service and expect to unseat the entrenched one, something too many people sadly believe. |
412,039 | Thank you!! I have never been able to figure out why people like this book. To me (and of course this is a matter of taste), it’s so intentionally stupid that it’s boring. No disrespect to those who love Douglas Adams, but I just don’t get it. But I also dislike Dr. Who and Terry Pratchett, so maybe I’m just a terrible person. | I imagine you'll feel similarly about Monty Python and Blackadder as well. You just don't like British humor. British humor is a lot like coffee liquor. You either really love it or really hate it. |
412,040 | >Wow, I bought my current vehicle new at 0% interest for 5 years with ~$300 a month payments. A new Model 3, after subsidies, with the same interest rate, will only be $475 a month, with drastically lower operating cost (pennies) and pretty cheap annual maintenance (cheaper than my current car anyway!) >I can hardly wait for 2017/2018. Er.... 300 vs 475 is quite a bit more. | Yes, but that depends how much money you spent on gas. Let's say you drive 40,000 km per year. This is my average. That's 3333 km per month. With my average consumption of 8L per 100 km, I need 266L of gas each month. In Quebec the price of gas is $1.15/L ($CAD) right now, but was higher just not long ago, upwards of $1.40/L. But let's use current rate. I spend $305 per month on gas. Even if I could save have of that (conservative), it would pretty much break even. |
412,041 | Ya I followed him from Engadget to the Verge and tried to follow him to Bloomberg, but I couldn't get over that websites layout. The Verge definitely took a shit when he left. Got too political for my tastes. I want my tech news without the drama. | The layout in the terminal is pretty sweet. Don't know anyone who actually uses .net for anything. |
412,042 | > similar to instagram, but it's all books. I'm not sure what that means. All l've ever seen of Instagram are young women showing off their "outfits." | Maybe you're just not following the right people on Instagram. There are multiple active communities on instagram. The book-lovers crowd colloquially refers to it as bookstagram. EDIT: words. EDIT: Instagram is photos instead of text updates like FB and Twitter. That's what I meant by "like instagram." Litsy is primarily pictures with captions/reviews attached to them. |
412,043 | ad revenue. The windows store is packed with ads, and MS wants as many eyes as they can to see them. | TIL. I don't think I've ever opened the store, and I've been using Windows 8/10 ever since it came out. |
412,044 | The protagonist of Diary of a Wimpy kid is a selfish douche and learning that is an important facet of life. | Haven't read this series but I bet my kids have! |
412,045 | This might seem like a silly question but I just wanted to be sure. I was planning on getting a laptop, but literally all of the ones I can find have Windows 8 preinstalled. Now, I'm able to get a Windows 7 install disc just fine, but a few sources seem to be saying that 8 can't be uninstalled or something. I'm not sure on the specifics, I think maybe the problem is with computers that already had 7 and then had 8 installed over it. I don't really know a lot about this, and I've got a friend who can help me with it, but I just wanted to be sure. | If you request windows 7 to be installed by the store you're buying from usually they will do it for you. Just say "I want this laptop, but I need windows 7 instead of 8 installed." As to your actual question hardware isn't tied to the OS (usually), so you can install any OS on any system. |
412,046 | [This] was my intriduction to The Cranberries when I was a young pup of seven. | You just made my heart feel a little lighter. I remember renting that movie when I was a kid. :) |
412,047 | You can fill the tank faster than with a battery. But otherwise not really any. I totally welcome the attempt at hydrogen cars, but I don't really believe in the concept. The main drawbacks is that the tanks will effectively be small firebombs, with invisible flames. And the energy production process has an obligatory energy waste, that is huge compared to simply tapping the electricity into batteries. And that goes with saying that the hardware for electrolysis and distribution, is *at least* as complex and problematic as batteries. We will need a significant revolution in electrolysis technology before it makes logical sense to use hydrogen. Whereas batteries simply need to evolve exactly as they have done the last 10 years. | Yeah I think it's much easier to improve the charging speed of batteries than to solve all the drawbacks of hydrogen *and* install a distribution network. Hydrogen is pretty cool but it's fighting an uphill battle. Electric cars are a proven success. |
412,048 | **Sources:** * [Google buys drone maker Titan Aerospace]( * [The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM & muc more]( * [Dropbox acquires cloud photos startup Loom and document collaboration service Hackpad]( * [beta.mapy.cz]( * [Google’s future phone: The modular Project Ara]( * [Facebook to Notify Users when Friends are Nearby]( **Edit:** Good addition by /u/onyxsmurf: * [Twitter Acquires Gnip, Bringing a Valuable Data Service In-House] **Edit #2:** Thanks for the gold! I've really enjoyed pulling these together for the last few weeks, and all of the awesome comments I've received are more than enough incentive to keep making them. | How do you usually determine which tech news is selected for the weekly lineup? |
412,049 | Two things, one already mentioned and another someone better versed in Middle Earth geography can confirm. One, there are several elves still around when the Arkenstone was discovered that would have identified it as a Silmaril. Two, the Silmaril that was thrown into the earth was nowhere near the lonely mountain so, while not impossible, it highly improbable that it ended up in the heart of the mountain of Erebor. | The second could be explained by the massive geological upheaval that occurs at the end of the silmarillion. |
412,050 | I'm on mobile but I didn't see anything about Scientology. Sounds interesting tho. Mind if I ask what it said? | The link doesn't, this user is just stating the fact. |
412,051 | > "I'm not worried... I'm with you." One of the most underrated lines in the entire series. | Dumbledore's humble crypticism in the Half-Blood Prince made his death resonate with me for so long. I really almost couldn't read the chapter about his funeral. I was torn the fuck up inside. |
412,052 | I wouldn't call Elayne *bitchy* (most of the time), but she is full of herself (in Tanchico she has trouble wearing the face veil because she literally walks around with her nose in the air because she's a snob). | I don't think of her that way. I read the books first. Just the tone of voice they used in the audio books, the inflections they used when speaking her lines, made her sound that way. |
412,053 | Today is probably the last day to check it out in IMAX, as The Hobbit comes out tomorrow night. | Avoid the IMAX version unless you don't mind a little hearing loss, or bring earplugs if you do go there. |
412,054 | You really are completely clueless aren't you? You cannot comprehend in the slightest that somebody else may have a different idea or different wants and interests in you. Unbelievable. Have an average life goodbye. | Talk about clueless. Your entire argument boils down to "because I want it that way". You will be like one of those morons who drive around in a giant pickup truck with huge wheels getting 12mpg. People will laugh at you behind your back. |
412,055 | From what I can understand a few hundred grand would bring back the show. This is to fund the now FOR PROFIT Reading Rainbow that Burton now owns. | A few hundred grand would bring back maybe 1 or 2 episodes. Production costs are expensive, there's at least 10 to 20 people working on a given episode of a show like reading rainbow. |
412,056 | If it's done right, I think everybody will buy it eventually. We are moving towards smaller and more powerful computers but the screen size sets a minimum size the device can be. If I can conjure up a 30" screen holographically, I can keep my device palm-sized. I could eliminate my need for an in-dash gps, the arrows guiding to my location being superimposed on reality, street labels floating over side streets as I drive by. Yes. I would buy it. If the price is right and the technology was ready, I would buy it. | Here's the thing- you can conjure up a 360 degree wraparound virtual display if you want... it's definitely what I'm looking for! :) |
412,057 | read Tom Sawyer. it's much better. I thought Huckleberry Finn was actually kind of boring. | I chose Huckleberry Finn over Tom Sawyer mainly because of my current English course. We're going over The Catcher in the Rye and History Boys, transition to adulthood and maturity are the main focuses I suppose. Anyway, our teacher has been saying that Huckleberry Finn is in a similar vein and has been urging us to read it. I picked it: * A) Because I thought it would be a good idea to read around the subject. * B) Because the coming-of-age aspect of it appealed to be, being a teenager "on the cusp of adulthood." * and C) Because I've never read any Mark Twain and many people have told me I should. So yeah, Huck Finn it is. |
412,058 | There are several reasons this could happen. Most likely they printed a certain number of books and the ecopies were outselling them. They already had em printed, why not instinctive them to buy hard copies? Especially if they already made the money they spent on printing, it's just supply and demand. | I think the biggest reason is that publishers have set an artificially high arbitrary price for ebooks, having nothing to do with the actual cost of production, while the cost of the physical copy has something to do with reality. There's no such thing as 'supply' in the supply and demand equation when it comes to digital goods. There are virtually no delivery or manufacturing costs beyond the proofing of the book that they presumably already do for the dead tree version. |
412,059 | It also had better disappointment at being jerked around for two hours for nothing, but super shaky cam. | What was disappointing about the ending? What would you wanted to have seen instead? I honestly found the ending of Pacific Rim way more disappointing: (#s "Yet another movie where the hero sacrifices himself for everyone, only to face no real consequences and lives happily ever after.") |
412,060 | Am i allowed to like those movies as well? Well, fuck you all then.. | You're misunderstanding me. You can like whatever you want, no one should care. When you make statements that go beyond opinions, then you can't get up in arms when someone disagrees. Not everything is an opinion. |
412,061 | 7 is quite honestly antiquated; it's not optimized for ssd's, old AHCI drivers, benches and renders literally everything slower than 8.1 besides opengl, average boot time is 3 times that of 8.1 which is only 12 seconds, 8.1 does a security scan on a file copy in the time 7 does only the file copy. 8.1 and 10 run faster on the same minimum requirements as 7. Essentially you're missing a huge improvement in performance and security. And the new settings UI in 10 is glorious. So much easier to access literally everything. | The file transfer window and task manager are also much better in 8 onwards. |
412,062 | We can thank Netflix for setting the precedent by giving in to Comcast's extortion. | Blame Comcast for extorting them. I mean yeah it sucks that Netflix didn't decide to risk their entire business model for the sake of being a hero for the entire internet but it also wasn't exactly their responsibility to do that |
412,063 | It's pretty easy to tell, it's usually a tennis ball sized flat surface near the keypad/screen. Some readers will have a built-in wireless reader even if there's no logos/markings stating it. If it looks like a flat surface with no use, it's a chip reader. | I know its easy to tell by the logo, but its sometimes not active on some for some reason. Only happened like twice in the 10 times i used it so far. it didnt happen too often so i might've just been unlucky lol |
412,064 | >With that in mind, some thoughts about ‘The Hurt Locker’, Kathryn Bigelow’s deep focus minimalist action film, in which Jeremy Renner’s bomb disposal technician wears a suit that makes him look like an alien, strides up to mortar shells, and hopes he’s cutting the right wire, in Baghdad, in 2004. Wow, that paragraph hurt my brain. | Remove all dependent clauses and it'll be a million times easier to read... wait... no... it just gets worse. Damn this blogger to hell! Anyway, +1 for *Hurt Locker*, the most soul crushing film I've seen since *Raise the Red Lantern*. |
412,065 | Was it weird that they played their set so differently from their recorded stuff? I've never had the chance to see them but I've heard their shows are waaaay different from their recordings. | Not going to lie, I didn't fall in love with this band until I saw them. They had a real passion that was amazing to watch. |
412,066 | it would be a great rickroll to put this title on the never gonna give you up video. Maybe next year. Remind me in 363 days: Rick roll | I'm pretty sure there's a novelty account that sets reminders.. Anybody? |
412,067 | > they reflect the time they were written in and not our time. I have to disagree most emphatically. We read *The Illiad* and other classics because what they have to say about human nature and fundamental issues is eternal. The whole point of a liberal education is to expand the mind beyond the provincialism of time and place. There's a saying: "Everywhere I go in my mind, I meet Plato on his way back." | This is why I said *less* relevant. Overall thematically they can still tell us about the human condition, but often they also had specific things to say about the world they were written in, things that no longer exist. Part of why it was originally relevant is no longer there, thus less relevant not irrelevant. |
412,068 | I mean, just upon reading “steak and mango” my mind immediately goes to “sure okay”. I’m usually pretty good at guessing if things will go together due to being a curious fat kid back in my day. The issue is, “why”. There are things that I’d just much rather have on the pizza instead. You do you, though. | > The issue is, “why”. There are things that I’d just much rather have on the pizza instead. Drunken university days is why :) There was a great local pizza place and these just happened to be on the menu so I tried it and loved it. |
412,069 | Woudn't it be better to have fuel to get up there and a parachute and a gps device to go down? | A powered landing is more controlled. Less chance of damaging the rocket. |
412,070 | Never saw NIN live, hope I get to see reznor before he retires completely. | Saw NIN three times, the first was with Prick and Bowie at the Skydome, Toronto. What a mindfuck, though it helped I was on 'shrooms ... |
412,071 | Well...obviously. "Reality has a liberal bias." I'm only half kidding. But just think about how ridiculous it would be to study Genghis Khan without looking in depth at the millions that suffered and died under him? | And reverse your analogy, what if the Golden Horde wrote history textbooks about 20th century America? Do you not think they'd be endlessly perplexed by the billions the US spends developing smart weapons specifically designed *to avoid killing enemy civilians*. Imagine trying to explain to Genghis Khan the rules of engagements that the standard US marine fights under in Afghanistan? It'd be as mysterious to him as Stonehenge is to us. Judged by the standards of any other empire in history, the most salient detail of the American empire would be just how non-bloodthirsty it really is. |
412,072 | As a romanian: whaaaaaat? Our president is pretty bad but I wouldn't call him the antichrist. | Catholic here, join the club. Protestants have been calling the pope the antichrist for decades. Though the Left Behind series still makes it a point to mention that Catholics are not part of the raptured group. |
412,073 | bro, that was like 85 percent of pac's body of work | Shhhhhh he probably has only heard "Changes" and "Dear Mama" and thinks 2Pac is a lyrical messiah. And this is coming from a huge 2Pac fan. My favorite though is when people cite Biggie when they talk about rappers who don't talk about bitches, guns, drugs etc. |
412,074 | It just means you agree with Nazis about who some of the "others" are. Different clothes, same sense of style. | So agreeing with any position taken by a Nazi, make you a Nazi? I've got some bad news for everyone... |
412,075 | Crazy! This band was the headliner at the first show I ever attended when I was in the 8th grade. I feel like there were only like 50 people, but there was still crowd surfing and moshing. It was the best time ever. How weird that they are reuniting on TV of all places. Have they become somehow huge since I stopped paying too much attention? | I think this performance is just to promote some sort of re-release of "Your Own Special Sweetheart" and according to [wikipedia] "the band will not play any concerts outside of the Late Night appearance.". I have great memories of seeing them back in the day too. They are still one of my all time favorites. I'm sure you know of Burning Airlines right? It was J. Robbins band after Jawbox. Also amazing. |
412,076 | I agree wih with this statement. As a member of MADD (even though I'm a male) i don't think uncensored versions of anything should be released. It's a shame that today's youth has to be predisposed to such idiotic behavior . What is the point in cursing and behaving like a bunch of animals? I never understood it and i never will but nothing will stop me from sheltering our youth from this behavior. | Fuck that...if you don't like it don't listen to it. Don't try to push your ideals onto other people dude, just let em' figure shit out for themselves. |
412,077 | My advice when it comes to self published authors is to be a bit adventurous. Just pick a book that looks interesting. In your free month you can afford to take a risk on a book and/or an author that you are unfamiliar with. Maybe try out some Kindle Singles. I would personally recommend Pines by Blake Crouch (first of a trilogy). That one really kept me guessing about what was going on. You might also want to check out /r/UnlimitedBestOf. It is a subreddit where people recommend the books they enjoyed that are in the Unlimited program right now. | What genre would you say *Pines* is in? Thanks btw for mentioning /r/UnlimitedBestOF! |
412,078 | I don't know if that's always the case in articles like this, but if you check out www.boxofficemojo.com you can see the top box office earners with inflation accounted for to get a fair comparison. | Any place where "overseas" is broken down to countries? I'd much like to see how this one fared in Scandinavia. |
412,079 | The difference is this won't suck as bad as Audioslave. | I don't know. I really like me some Cornell. |
412,080 | I jokingly asked my teen-aged barista if her parents named her Trinity after The Matrix. she said yes. I felt old. | Can't wait 13 years when the same thing is true but for Trailer Park Boys |
412,081 | [**Here is the link to the article**.] Congratulations once again for being Subreddit of the day. | Now please don't fuck it up. I am one of the refugees from r/technology. |
412,082 | Prince is a musical genius. A freak... but a musical genius. | Good call. Not just talented - plays most of the instruments on his albums - but he's composed hits for a lot of other artists. |
412,083 | You don't have to pretend that he didn't sound horrible to be happy for him. What the fuck is with this fake admiration? | It wasn't that bad. If you're trying to compare him to Dave Grohl, then no shit he sounds worse. Almost everyone does. |
412,084 | That is wrong and dangerously ignorant. "the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same." Nowhere does the definition talk about phrases. And if they wanted to sue him for using that phrase it would have to be trademarked, which it isn't. So they have no legal way to sue him for usage of that phrase, and he hasn't tried to do any of the things outlined in the specific definition of copyright. | No Copyright IS automatic, but he is not infringing on Copyright, you and the other poster are correct in that it should be a Trademark issue; "Attempting to deceive audience that what you are selling is the same as the Other guy." Issues do arise in the fact that the phrase was published by them, then he can't use that phrase as it is covered by copyright, like Musical beats/phrases that are sampled/reproduced, are ALSO supposed to be licensed, but are actually stolen all the time. |
412,085 | Seems like a hell of a lot of overhead just for a small reduction in latency. I mean I could move my mouse in any of 360 different directions in the next frame, you're telling me they would render all 360 and pick the right one when I actually move it? | >Even with compression, researchers observed a 1.5-4.5X increase increase in the data rate. |
412,086 | Oh don't get me wrong, Richmond has had it's fair share of crews and violent try-hards. It's definitely chilled out mainly because I think they all grew up and realized stabbing kids for smoking bud didn't pay the bills. Guerrilla Crew, WWC, and Militia Crew were some of the more violent ones. Guerrilla is all old, but they still occasionally come out and head bash. WWC all broke edge and got arrested for one of the biggest pot busts in Richmond within the last decade(ironic), and Militia just seemed to kind of..stop. Thankfully though..hated nothing more than wanting to see a good band with having worry about getting spin kicked in the fuckin' face. | Wait y'all have hardcore dancing crews? That's just fucking horrible! |
412,087 | Whats a u.n. array? A google search sent me into spanish results pages.. O.o. Platter drives are on planned obsolescence. They have to make em bigger and bigger to keep their price points decent. I don't even think you can BUY smaller than 250GB these days. 2 TB platter drives are sub 100 bucks now. Do they have ssd substitutions for the old style hotspot server based hotswap drives or are they fundamentally incompatible with raid on a lower level? | Meant to write raid. Autocomplete sucks. There is absolutely no point today to make anything smaller then 500 gigabytes. All the fabs got upgraded after the floods in Thailand. You can still get the smaller SAS drives, but SAS is hella expensive (its a high speed server drive after all) Traditional Raid is not suggested on SSDs. The new normal in media is why I think there is such a push to SANs and the push for filesystems like BTRFS or ZFS. |
412,088 | Did you know that is Grohl harmonizing with Cobain? Their voices complement each other quite nicely. | Only live. It was all kurt for the albums. Edit: nope im wrong |
412,089 | *1Q84* by Haruki Murakami. I finished it because I was already 600+ pages in when I finally gave up on liking it, and I felt like I had invested too much time to just quit. 300+ pages later, I wished I had just gone ahead and quit. | I liked the first book. The second was not that good, the third was just horrible. I just can't stop a book even if it's really bad, because I hope it's getting better in the end. It's never getting better. So much wasted time. |
412,090 | > she fanned a huge waft of new book smell in her face. Ahh, that's quite sweet... > quickly snap the spine open and break it. | OK, if that's her own book... Fine. I get that. I even sort of like the idea, even as a committed Kindle reader nowadays. But if you borrow the book or intend to lend the book, you be fucking careful with that shit. Edit: that's a lie. If I lend someone a book it's because I want them to enjoy it. If they trash it, so what? I'll buy another fucking book. |
412,091 | My point is that it's not subjective to the victims. It's their reality; it's something that is actually happening, right now. And yes, evidence does bear out that great cruelty is something we're all equally capable of. The solution isn't to shrug our shoulders when it happens in different cultures or to go with the current if it happens in ours, but to point out evil when we see it and name it for what it is. | Yes, it's happening to them and you think it's wrong but that's because of your (and your society's) belief that murder and whatnot is wrong. I think the other people that you were responding to are trying to say that nothing can be objectively right or wrong; instead your society decides what is right. In this example, you might think that murder is wrong because you think that the sanctity of life or respecting others dignity is important, but a different society might hold different values and beliefs to be the most important. |
412,092 | I agree with both your points. Just found it amusing how his son wasn't able to get a good grade for an essay on a book his father wrote. Must've been pretty embarrassing for him if the teacher knew his relation to the author. | English literature isn’t only about understanding the arguments presented in a book though, in an essay much of it is being able to present those ideas with a formal and concise structure. Also maybe the kid’s spelling is atrocious. |
412,093 | I didn't ask the government to build the road, I don't have a contract with the government for road use and it's not my road. Therefore saying that because roads have cars, I shouldn't get internet access that I pay for just doesn't really work. I don't get a monthly bill from the government that I have to pay otherwise they take the roads away. | No, you get property tax bills and income tax bills - they don't come monthly. And when you don't pay them, they don't take the roads away, you get sued and put in prison for tax evasion. So, theres that. |
412,094 | Some fanfictions are just completely awful. I don’t even touch wattpad or fanfiction.net because i know they’ll just be shit tier. Tumblr and Archive of Our Own are the best sites, in my opinion. Good writers do exist on there, you just have to be willing to sift through the bs lol. | Yeah. [Fanfiction.net] sounds familiar, pretty sure thats where he read all of his stuff. |
412,095 | Ugh even worse they rebranded "Don't be evil" as "do the Right Thing™️". Lathering it in corporate bullshit means they'll totally be evil if it's not specifically written here | Do the right thing is a clause couched in moral relativism. It's really easy to warp the perception of what the 'right' thing is. |
412,096 | I believe that the way that works is that the "victim" could be liable (criminally and/or civilly depending on the jurisdiction) for his words. It's not protected speech. Fighting words doctrine is not available as a defense for Kanye, though. | that's fucking bullshit. you should not be punished for someone else's lack of willpower. |
412,097 | >There may be a need for petabyte harddrives but probably not for general public. Says who? When I was a kid I couldn't imagine why someone would need over 100 megabytes of storage on their home PCs, let alone a gigabyte. | Yeah I mean when were all storing our 8K movies with 24.4 surround sound with our lossless audio, music, etc, we might need that. |
412,098 | Women have been writing stories from a mans viewpoint for over a hundred years. | And yet you don't seem to understand the power component and why that isn't the same. |
412,099 | Remember that he do have the big STARK tower in the center of New York, back from The Avengers. So Jarvis would still be there :) | Totally forgot about that one : ) yeah of course JARVIS would be just chilling back at Stark Tower. And should I believe that that's the only buildings he owns. |
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