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500 | Correction: How dare this car require I buy an "add-on" air conditioner, that I have to keep strapped to the roof in order to use. | your car has an air conditioner though. a wireless one... you choose not to use the new tech and instead buy an air conditioner dongle to use your old one. ok this anaology got off the rails. use bluetooth. |
501 | Well the last movie in 2015 grossed: > [worldwide total of $1.515 billion, against its $190 million budget.[6] Worldwide, it is the sixth highest-grossing film of all time,[93] the third highest-grossing film of 2015,[94]] So a lot of people do. | clearly, I boggles my mind the crap people can sit through. |
502 | Google is super slow no matter what browser I use and most of the time I can't even connect to google. It's only google - any other search engine or website is working just fine. | I'm still having consistent problems with all their services, and have for over a day now. Drive, GMail, Maps, Search, everything is just slow as molasses or often doesn't load at all. Not sure what's going on. |
503 | This movie is well made but the message is terrible. Spike Lee pisses and moans the entire movie about a wall of Italians in a Italian restaurant owned by an Italian, slacks off while at work, and then finally, after destroying the Italian restaurant, has the nerve to demand to be paid. Yuck. The movie is relevant to today though, it seems minority groups are constantly going around demanding more representation of their group from other people or institutions. | Dude thank you, you said in a couple concise sentences what took me a rambling paragraph to express. It doesn't help that I''m slightly wasted, but nice job nonetheless. |
504 | [YUMI] is pretty amazing - basically a bootloader from which you can boot into loads of different tools and utilities (like HBCD) | Quick question about YUMI, I noticed in it's Tool list down at the bottom under "Other OS/Tools" it lists "Hiren's Boot CD 15.X HBCD\menu.lst", is this just Hiren's boot menu or does it include all the tools that come with Hiren's? I really liked some of the tools included in Hiren's since I use them myself, but if YUMI comes with Hiren's + it's own list, I may give YUMI a spin first. |
505 | Better than my backup. My grandad left it for me. Its from 1934. | Mine is from a 1984, but not our's. It is one from an alternate reality. |
506 | And yet we were told five minutes later that they would be dismantling the jaegers and building more walls because reasons. | I believe there was a line saying it was about budget reasons. |
507 | This came as a shock to me. I had no idea he was poorly. he will be missed | Poorly? Like, financially? Edit: Well, that honest question definitely deserved downvotes didn't it guys? |
508 | Can we please stop using the phrase "...is killing..." for non-living things? It bears the assumption that the thing in question is bad. | It's been a common expression for decades or more so I wouldn't count on it. |
509 | Funny that he says the CGI was good, since several other critics have panned it. | I haven't heard anyone say it's bad quality CGI, just that there's too much. |
510 | I finished the first book of the three, and then my daughter was born. I'll have to pick that one up again; it's hilarious. As a skeptic, I love books like this for some reason. | There's a lot more fun in store for you then. I recommend Foucault's Pendulum as well. |
511 | Top Gun in the Star Wars universe. A homo-erotic adventure about a group of pilots playing space volleyball and fighting the Empire. | Throw in a few wookies and you'll draw the furry crowd. |
512 | If you want a never ending hard sci-fi story, following a bunch of characters, with reverberations that go on forever, try the Kim Stanley Robinson Mars trilogy. It's definitely cross-over territory with Seveneves. And about twice as long. | Oh yeah, the Mars mission was never discussed! The Mars trilogy has been recommended to me before. I've been wasting my time with stupid stuff like being an adult and working that I'm only now getting back to my reading habits. |
513 | Thanks for sharing, I like hearing a strong lady speak out about what's on her mind! I hope to feel as confident as you to record music as well. How did you get started? Was it hard to find confidence (my biggest barrier)? Edit: apparently r/music downvotes people for wanting to ask genuine advice. What is up with this sub? | It honestly took my friend’s and family’s encouragement and really allowing them to be my support system! I sang in choirs in school but never did a lot of solo stuff. Also overcoming everything I had up to this point made me realize I have the ability to do what I want to make myself happy. You’ve got the confidence in there somewhere just let it out! |
514 | The Silmarillion. Too huge of a cast, too long of a time period to cover. You could maybe have some major immortal characters move from segment to segment. The tone shifts quite a few times. You have these huge epic battles between nigh-immortal god-like characters, then smaller love stories. As long as Peter Jackson didn't replace Glordindel, again, with Arwen. ;) That said, it's literally unfilmable - the Tolkien's put a lock on any adaptation and at least most of the living ones will never let it happen. | The Silmarillion isn't one continuous story either, but a collection of shorter stories. But I do agree, it would still be impossible, even if they just focused on something like the story of Turin it would be hard to make it good, perhaps impossible. |
515 | No way! Really? That is probably going to rock. But what about the fact that the series isn't finished? | They are doing a book a season, so Martin has some buffer. Also last month he only had five chapters left in A Dance with Dragons. The hope is he'll finish in December so they can announce a publish date in Jan. Either way, Dragons looks like it will be out next year. |
516 | Not to mention people turning to cannibals because of limited resources (and internal fighting). | First the dead tried to eat you, and that sucked. But you got used to it -and you managed to flee to the only place that promised safety. Now the living are out to eat you too...and you have nowhere left to run. |
517 | They might not have been so poor if they had good american manufacturing jobs. | And they might have good manufacturing jobs if union parasites hadn't eaten their hosts and tax crazed governments hadn't driven all the jobs overseas. |
518 | I enjoyed his "I Am The Messenger" a lot more. But I enjoyed both. | I did, too - considerably more than *The Book Thief*. |
519 | I'm 100% sure there are people that would be honored to get the flu directly from their favorite wierdo. | Just like all the folks in Palahniuk's "Rant" who claim to have gotten rabies from Rant Casey. |
520 | When we meet Aliens it's likely that they're going to be far more advanced than us and they're not going to wonder this kind of thing. | I dont know, who says we won't be the aliens who go some far away planet and make them look stupid. |
521 | What laws are you breaking (Ohio specifically), you take photos of people speeding and made and posted them online? It's public streets, and outside, so I feel it's within the law. We have the same issue, 25mph zone with multiple schools around. Maybe just posting a "smile speedster, you're on camera" signs down the streets is a better deterant? | > Maybe just posting a "smile speedster, you're on camera" Many people don't read signs while behind the wheel. |
522 | Wow. Pretending Yeezus was anything more than a let down is simply fans lying to themselves. Doris was a much better album all around than Yeezus. Saying Earl has never made anything as good as Blood on the leaves, just shows that you're either ignorant to his music, or you just don't like him. Which is fine there are many bands that my friends and family love that I don't care for. | I've listened to hundreds of albums from this year, and Yeezus was my favorite. I've met the guys from OF, have seen them in concert a few times, and have heard most of their discographies. I'd still say that "Doris" wasn't great for reasons of my own. We can differing, respectable opinions, but calling someone ignorant for having a different opinion like this is a pretty shitty thing to do. |
523 | I saw this and didn't realize it was a music thing. I was about to tease your grammar. | It's still one band, which makes it a collective noun, which in turn takes a singular verb. Ugh. |
524 | The concern isn't owners being able to kill (etc) their devices (I use Cerberus and ADM myself). It's the penetration of governments into your phone (NSA anyone?) and the possibility of turning off all devices in a certain radius. Handy for suppressing recordings of unlawful police actions against lawful assembly, no? Paranoia? Before you get too downvotty, remember that Turkey, Syria, Egypt, etc have all tried blocking Twitter, Google, and Facebook to suppress/contain dissent. Imagine if they could simply remote-lock all unauthorized devices? They'd cream themselves. It's a legitimate concern, given how ubiquitous our phones are. Who even carries an actual camera these days? | >Imagine if they could simply remote-lock all unauthorized devices? They'd cream themselves. But they can't... There are plenty of remote locking mechanisms. The most popular smartphone has it built in, android has android device manager. Then there is also prey. There is lots of remote locking software and it has yet to be abused, even by the most oppressive countries which are prepared to block free speech. All of the remote locks have been at the discretion of users and nobody else. |
525 | Perhaps Old Doc Brown is constantly on these adventures because he sees Young Doc Brown experiencing a different life than he had? Maybe the whole trilogy Old Doc Brown is trying so hard to get himself (Young Doc Brown) on the right path to becoming a scientist until he finally learns to let go and realises at the end "your future is what you make it. So make it a good one." And that is the last advise he gives to his younger self... i don't know | But if old doc is mcfly then why not let mcfly continue on his destiny uninterrupted until the day he bangs his head and creates time travel himself naturally? I mean the old doc (by this articles theory) is only speeding up the discovery of time travel by himself by a few years. Mcfly can still do all the shit he wants, he just has to wait a few more years to get it. |
526 | I can't stop listening to this album. It's been on repeat for a couple weeks now. | Happy cakeday! Same with me. Every song is great except for The Weight of Living Part II which I think I'm just tired of hearing from FIFA. |
527 | It's not "a film from the UK" it was filmed in Ireland, around Co. Galway and Co. Wicklow. | Sorry, it's my mistake. [Here's the comment I left on the other comment] |
528 | I love Haroun and the Sea of Stories. the Shah of Blah! | a million votes for Haroun and when you're done Rushdie just came out with a sort-of-sequel called Luka and the Fire of Life. by far my two favorite books EVER. then move on to Satanic Verses, more dense but still fantastic. |
529 | Had you read *The Shining* previously? *Doctor Sleep* is on my list to read soon... | Nope but I did see the movie. It worked though, I didn't feel like I was missing information. |
530 | Start reading Dark Tower II. Just skip Gunslinger and dive into II. Or if you want some crack you can read The Talisman. I love IT, Salem's Lot, and many others, but some feel a bit "dated" or "vintage" compared to where he ends up later, and his later work (to me) is more hit or miss than his older stuff... but you kind of have to be introduced to him and that vintage style or just power through until you get the big payoffs. | Do not skip The Gunslinger. That's silly and some incredible important plot points and themes lay the foundation for the entire series. That being said, I don't think you should delve straight into The Dark Tower series... read some other books first before tackling this. |
531 | > A) it is not a public wi-fi but is limited to Comcast subscribers. Confirmation? Perhaps they are actually serving the customers of 5 ISPs like they already do with hotspots nationwide: Bright House Networks, Cox Communications, Optimum, Time Warner Cable, Comcast | Them providing service to other ISP customers is not public. You must be paying to use it. If they wish to use my power to provide free service to the general public I can get behind that idea. |
532 | Death Gate Cycle. It was my introduction into Fantasy, and really the first time I can remember reading for fun rather than as homework. | The Deathgate series is wonderful. I have my hardback copies in pride of place in my bookcase. |
533 | Not modern feminism. Modern "feminism" is a cancer and all about superiority over men. This film, unlike feminism, is about equality. The women have a mission, and they need Max and Nux's help to complete it. They would not be able to survive without those two helping along the way (even helping get their truck out of the mud! what traditional gentlemen!), nor would the men be able to survive without their help. It's a true, equal partnership. The gross culture of "Feminism" doesn't deserve to attach itself to such an outstanding film. EDIT: Keep mounting that trusty steed, White Knights. | Try not to base all of your perceptions of feminism off of the Internet. |
534 | I really liked Winter's Bone. Lawrence is great in it. | So good that it could have won best film deservedly. That was an interesting year because THE SOCIAL NETWORK also came out, so there were two vastly different modern American stories and subcultures nominated. |
535 | Probably Limp Bizkit. I hated every song of theirs that I ever heard. There was nothing redeeming. And their cover of Behind Blue Eyes was almost blasphemy. | So Limp Bizkit's a bit weird in that their instrumental work was always pretty decent, but goddamn, Fred Durst just ruined everything he put his voice to. Take away his verses and N 2 Gether Now becomes a pretty slick Method Man song. Find another vocalist and Re-Arranged has the potential to be pretty sweet, and the same goes for Break Stuff's riffs which, while not really complex or original, did their job well. I cannot believe I'm seriously half-defending Limp Bizkit on the internet, but I think there was a reason that I loved them in middle school, and I'm pretty sure the instrumental work was that reason. Fuck Fred Durst, man. |
536 | Sure, but a human only uses around 2.5 kWh a day (2150 calories), which is only about 22 lbs (10 kg) of batteries. Humans also spend the majority of their energy on just keeping warm, and muscles are only ~22% efficient. Once we fix the algorithms and design humanoid robots won't need large batteries. | Thanks for your replay, but I am surprised about those numbers. Why then all current electric robots have so short range? Some of boston dynamic stuff runs on gasoline for that reason, unless I am mistaken. |
537 | I was looking forward to this one for YEARS. It was such a disappointment for me. I just felt like to little happened. How is he ever going to wrap it all up in one more book? | Same here, I was massively disappointed in the second book. I almost stopped reading it in the second half. |
538 | How do you even get chosen for a major playlist? Does Spotify just discover your music on their own, or is there a process you have to go through? | Like anything in the industry, it's all about if the right person hears your song at the right time and enjoys what they hear. |
539 | This logic is so retarded. Every single reviewer that exists - pretty much - has given a good score to a shit film. Roger Ebert gave: - *The Happening* 3/4. - *Knowing* 4/4 (!!!!!!!!!) - *Speed 2: Cruise Control* 3/4. - *2012* 3.5/4. - *Lara Croft Tomb Raider The Cradle of Life* 3/4. So is Roger Ebert a big old shitter who you should ignore? FUCK OFF WITH THAT LOGIC. | Actually, I just ignore critics as a whole. They are just some person that gets paid for their opinion. I rather listen to "word of mouth" than a critic. |
540 | he was dying for the last 6 years of his life. this video was recorded a couple months before his death. | acually american 4 came out in 2002 while the album unearthed came out right when he died in 2003 |
541 | And I really have to thank them for it, because I recently found a book on the Archive that was published in the 30s, and the only other place I could find it was Amazon for over $200. I had been looking for it for a while, but I think a lot of the existing copies were destroyed during WW2 since it was originally published in Germany. | Just because it's "on" Amazon doesn't mean you can buy it. I self-published the manual for an app I write (because...why not?). Even though I can personally lay my hands on every copy that's been sold, there are still resellers who claim they can provide a used copy :-) |
542 | 100 books for me next year as well, but I plan to read much much more nonfiction, hopefully at least around 25-30 nonfiction books. | I've successfully read about five nonfiction books from start to finish that weren't for school or work, and listened to a few more as audiobooks. My goal is to have goals like yours. |
543 | The Magician King by Lev Grossman. Absolutely brutal, but you should have expected it after the way the first one went down. | ive been curious about these. i guess ill have to check them out...? would i like it if im not into fantasy a whole lot? |
544 | Scalping is usually done by third parties to make more money on tickets, not the artist. In Kid Rock's case, he could make more money selling beer, since he owns his own brewery. Personally, I'm not a fan of his beer, but I dislike most Pils in general (though I brew one that I like - more of a malty-wheaty flavor than hop overload or adding contents I dislike the flavor of like rice or corn). | Actually, I thought the really interesting thing about this story was Kid Rock admitting that scalping by artists was really widespread in the music industry. But yeah, I can't imagine his beer being anything but a gimmick. |
545 | They're smart, educated, and want to learn. They know email and youtube, but not much else. There's a bit of frustration that they're being left behind. They hear and see all these tech references that they don't understand. One 80 year old just completed a class at her local Apple store. What should they learn so that they feel more comfortable with the tech world that surrounds them? Coding? How to make a web site? Edit: they play games, especially loved Angry Birds | I would suggest they're not missing out on anything except when it comes to the new TV settops/sticks as part of the greater Apple/Google ecosystem or Roku. So they might be interested in a 4th gen Apple TV, Android TV (Nexus Player, Nvdia Shield, or Mi Box), Roku 2/3/4, or a Chromecast for Youtube. See /r/AndroidTV. |
546 | It lost me half way through. It just dragged on way longer than it should have | Yeah, King has a tendency to ramble when a book gets over 900 pages. Didn’t happen in It though, which was refreshing. |
547 | i'm so glad my cinema does £20 membership per month. can watch whatever | Same, £17.40 and I can see as many films a month as I want. US ticket pricing is ridiculous, you'd think they'd jump on a concept like this. |
548 | Books of essays are good (Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem), Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning is great. If you like Lewis, The Screwtape Letters was (were?) fun. I guess it depends on what you fancy. | Lewis isn't necessarily a favored author, though I have enjoyed what I've read from him. Any other good stuff from religion(s)? |
549 | The president and basically every right wing media personality called for players that kneel to be fired or realeased. So there is that. As for fixing the issues. Why would you ask a football player to fix police brutality issues. As citizens they are calling on the people in power to make changes. Which is being proactive. That’s the way democracy works. | Yeah see that’s not what I consider being proactive, it’s literally doing nothing to address the issue. Blaming others and blaming racism for self inflicted wounds is absolutely not going to fix the problems that black Americans face. |
550 | At almost 2 grand, I doubt that this is "the electric skateboard of the future". It is, at best, the electric skateboard of a few rich kids for the next few years. | Even worse, it doesn't really solve any problems. It's inferior in just about every measure to electric scooters which are cheaper and have longer ranges. A $1500 premium (over a comparable scooter) and half the range is quite a price to pay for not having handlebars. |
551 | I've read all 3 in the last year, and I honestly have no idea why I wasted so much time. So many hundreds of pages of nothing happen, and then when something does happen, they gloss over it and explain more of it in wrap ups afterwords. | by the end of part I i wanted the airlocks to fail and everyone to die. that usually means the book is not redeemable for me. but yeah, it was page after page of martian landscape descriptions. and all the 'hard science' was akin to magic, because everything just worked but how or why was never explained. i don't know how you made it through all 3 books. |
552 | This is something I've wanted for a long time... I used to do this via squid proxying, but local caching makes sense too. Like the author of the article, I'd love to see this become more like no-script or AdBlock, where you get a breakdown of what is in the cache and what pages are loading what items from the cache, as well as the ability to select any asset on any page and say "cache this". | The current foundation was meant as a means of finding out how many people would be interested in this kind of utility. I must say that I'm quite overwhelmed by the level of demand. You and the author of the article both touch on quite a few things that are being looked into: direct user feedback, more fine-grained settings, and support for importing additional resource bundles. DISCLAIMER: I'm the author of Decentraleyes. |
553 | Every nation in the world does not review / put ratings on books...in fact that is pretty rare. I've never heard of it before. | Neither does New Zealand. It has an office that will investigate the case for reviewing or rating a book if an appeal is launched against it. Every nation does review books if an appeal is launched against it, it's usually covered under obscenity or indecent publication laws. In New Zealand it is removed from the judicial system and handled through an independent classification board under the Department of Internal Affairs. |
554 | That was one of my issues with TDKR. They should have kept Chicago as Gotham instead of the sudden change to NYC. | IIRC, New York was only used for the skyline shots. The rest was shot in Pittsburgh. |
555 | Really??? Life is Beautiful is my favorite film ever. I think it perfectly personifies the hollywood ideal that a movie should make you both laugh and cry. It gets me every time. 8 1/2 was decent but didn't hit me on an emotional level at all. And don't forget Cinema Paradiso (with the greatest final scene of any film ever)! | **Benigni** deserves all the love he gets. All of his movies are gems and I'm thrilled that he is recognized by American audiences. With that said, I think **8 1/2** is a more mature and challenging film. For me it's one of the greatest movies ever made. Not only is it interesting on an intellectual level, it's totally entertaining, giving the actors roles of a life time. It's so daring for **Fellini** the way he bares his soul to the world and does it in a totally entertaining way. It was the **Pulp Fiction** of it's time setting a standard for all other films the world over to live up to and is still very relevant today. Edit; spelling |
556 | I'm not upgrading until we get storage crystals. Every sci-fi writer up until the '70's can't be wrong. | I decided to google storage crystals after reading your comment, turns out it's actually a thing. |
557 | What is the hardest part of making music in your opinion? | I would say the hardest part is learning to balance the lifestyle of being on the road, and overcoming the uphill battle while maintaining the creativity in your art. |
558 | Keeping on topic of the S6, not the S5, the base model S6 is 32GB. All of those things you listed, music, pictures, video, can also easily be synced to free cloud services (google music, dropbox, mega) which just further eliminates the need for externally attached storage of any kind. I don't see removing an SD card slot as a money grab, I see it as SD cards are quickly becoming antiquated in favor of larger, faster, more reliable internal flash storage. | Why do people just assume cloud service for media is practical (or even desirable) for everyone? |
559 | No need to create a fake movie, just an edited one. That was probably the version before the reshoots, Valencia/The Cellar, to get a feel for the reaction to the core film. If they'd shown the Cloverfield version then those at the screening would've been shouting from the rooftops about it, unless they were under an NDA. Also I'm guessing the $5 million budget is everything before the reshoots, so who knows what the actual budget is. I'm pretty sure JJ just saw how neatly the original film fit into the Cloverfield universe and jumped on the opportunity. Nothing wrong with it, especially as this seems *much* more interesting than another shaky cam sequel from another perspective. | Yeah, but you can't answer this question: why? Why go through that much effort to create a misconception about a movie? If he wouldn't do it for Star Trek or Star Wars, which had much bigger secrets to hide, I doubt he'd do it for a lower-value franchise like Cloverfield. |
560 | #Indianhistorymatters!!!! It's a god damn young adult fantasy world. I feel this is a new low for political correctness | You missed a / or a \, I can never remember which. |
561 | Dylan was genuinely instrumental to the fucking *Civil Rights* movement. not many other people can say that. | there were a shit load of people involved in the civil rights movement, your argument is invalid, bob dylan is a rude shit eating plagiarist, paris hilton is equal to or greater than bob dylan. |
562 | Deprecating OpenGL in favor of their proprietary DirectX API worked for Microsoft. | But Apple also said fuck you to Vulkan which was what the entire rest of the industry and every single silicon vendor agreed to and are currently implementing on every OS and platform. Shit ARM chips are coming out now with native Vulkan support. |
563 | Furious 7 had a ton of practical stunts. The bus scene, the cars parachuting, the chases, etc. | I'm sure there were practical elements to all the stunts in that movie but I wasn't aware that stuff like the parachuting cars was considered a practical stunt, It was a series of elements spliced together through heavy editing and copious use of CGI wasn't it ? is it actually seen as a good example of a "practical stunt" ? |
564 | Am I straight if I'm also attracted to transgenders? Simply the notion of having another dick in bed 🤤 | Does it really matter? Do what you think is right. |
565 | I’m confused as to why America seems to be the only country in the world that routinely deals with this problem. | Look up terrorism in france. Full auto AKs are banned, guess what the terrorists used a few years ago to massacre people? |
566 | In my experience, there's roughly the same amount of twenty something girls that listen to Jonas Brothers as the amount of twenty something guys that play Pokemon. | Really? I'm a 23 year old girl and I don't know anyone. Not a single person. That ever listened to Jonas Brothers. I knew a few secret Beiber fans, and a few other silly pop stars, but never Jonas. But then again, I know a lot more guys that reminisce about Pokemon than actually still play it. So if the point is that the number is pretty low for both, I accept that |
567 | The problem I have with this movie is that it's all gimmick. You only hear how it's an "All Female Ghostbusters!". Then they pick four women who probably mathematically are hilarious on a spreadsheet somewhere. McCarthy is going to do her fatty fall down bit. Kristen Wigg will make some goofy faces. The not black SNL chick will be wierd. And the black SNL chick will be tough and loud. That's all they need then they'll start the fucking Twitter hypetrain before anything is even shot. If this movie is good i will be astounded. | Don't forget, the black SNL chick will forget all her lines and stumble over her delivery. This movie is going to have more takes than Kubrik's entire catalog. Lady can't remember her lines for shit. |
568 | The last few have kind of been the samey. Sunlandic Twins has some Hissing Fauna flair to it (i guess technically, its the other way around).I do see what you're saying though, he's changed a lot throughout his career. | Yeah, they more go through phases of three or four albums rather than change every album. |
569 | Wait, wait, wait... So both ends of the argument are circlejerky? Even though one opinion was DOMINATED on reddit and the other, let's say.... wasn't? | You're just the opposite circlejerk. Go into any Mad Max thread and there are comments exactly like yours. AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN'T LIKE MAD MAX??? NO PLOT! JUST A CAR CHASE! MAX DOESN'T TALK! You think you're a special snowflake because you don't like something that's popular. If you just said "I don't like it" it would be different. But you phrase it in the most circlejerk manner, hoping other people who think they're special snowflakes will pat you on the back and agree about not liking something popular. |
570 | Finally someone who actually enjoyed Artpop. So many addictve toe-tappin' tunes on that record. The song Artpop will probably remain the most played song on my iPod for eternity | Yes! Another Artpop fan! It's one of my favourite Gaga albums. I respect that people have different tastes, but the hate is Artpop is so weird to me. It's my go-to dance album in the shower haha |
571 | I disagree, however I had low expectations going in, so maybe I was just pleased it was better than I thought it would be. | I thought the movie was full of cheap characterizations of fraternity and college life in general, the three people I left with felt the same but we seem to agree. |
572 | It almost sounds like the top tech companies foster toxic work environments... | As someone who works for a dysfunctional tech company, it can be the most toxic work environment I've ever been in, depending on where you are. I've worked in restaurants full of coked up assholes all fucking one another and getting jealous, starting fights, vandalizing cars, etc. Handling that is easier than dealing with the amount of snobbery, subterfuge, and bullshit that is corporate politics. Happy I ended up on a remote team with no politics and people who act like adults. |
573 | Careful what you say. I know WinterMute has a Reddit account. To your point, Neuromancer was a standout novel back when it was published. Naturally, any book that is set in a projected near future is going to suffer as technology catches up and diverges from the author's forecast. I re-read it recently and the story didn't have the punch I remember from the first time around. The ending, in particular, seems like a bit of a cop out to me now. Overall though, it's still a worthwhile investment in time. | I don't recall the tech concepts being that outdated and obvious. If you want outdated and obvious read Gibson's *Pattern Recognition* (which I enjoyed regardless of the use of Hotmail and Netscape). |
574 | West side rare and used books on upper west side is awesome | That looks absolutely perfect, will definitely give it a visit! Thank you. |
575 | Wow. Where do you live to have such a low speed and for what cost? | less then 1Mbit in australia as the insulation on the copper line is shit and no one will fix it so when it rains the internet stops working completely too |
576 | Hmm, I only started reading the first book, but Jon Snow's for one if I remember correctly. Isn't he supposed to be like 14 in the book? | I have no idea, that's why i was asking haha. I'd like to know. |
577 | Are people not pissed about this? I see people approaching this with mild contempt at most. | There’s nothing really to get worked up about. They changed the name of an award. Her legacy and books will continue. |
578 | Yeah Anarchy was my favorite too. Showing the rich people sitting around bidding on hunts of poor people, how the street gang wasn't out to kill but instead delivering the people and making money from the rich. How the old guy willingly sells himself to be purged by the wealthy so his family can have money. Election Year took the NFFA guys off the deep end a bit, especially at the end when the main guy turns into a crazed blathering maniac. And the teenage girl who go apeshit over a candy bar and becomes a total psycho. Still an interesting series though. | Candy bar girl was my least favorite part of that movie. The level of aggression she responds with is so over the top and over-acted. |
579 | Roughly leads to the total being a little under at the end because there's always that one person, and then awkwardness to work out who pays the gap. | I guess I've been lucky. We've always been over. My "that guy" is the guy with only a $50 who needs change for that $20-$30 meal total. |
580 | Do you know if 'The World's End' is the third part of their blood and ice cream trilogy or is Paul the third part? If it's The World's End then I don't really care about Paul that much then. | Worlds End is the final part. I still think Paul will be good, I mean Simon Pegg and Nick Frost can making anything alright and I think it has more going for it than just them. But I really can't wait for World's End, that is going to be amazing. To my knowledge they still haven't revealed what its about at all just that it is "sci fi". Personally I suspect a monster/disaster movie. |
581 | The whole song is the same four chords. And since it ends on A instead of Am like mary jane, not actually the same. | Actually the verse progression is Am-G-D-A. The chorus is the same, but instead goes Am-G-D-A-C-D-A.. So truthfully the song uses 5 chords.. |
582 | someone mentioned to choose another edition and add that, but that doesn't seem neat enough. what they could do is add another field in the 'review' section where you can add another date, and another, and another, so you can fill them in as you read more of them. and on the stats page they can use different color dots to show that you are rereading books. GR has so much room for possibilities but because their back end database is such a mess i think nothing new will happen anytime soon. | Real opportunity there; bummer it's not likely to go anywhere. I would also love to be able to re-rate and create new reviews for books. They change as you age, and I want to know if Harry Potter will still be good when I'm 80 or if Hemingway is only good after I'm 50 or something. |
583 | Did you like The Whistler? It sounds good, but I haven't asked anyone about it. | It's not one of his best. If you think it sounds good then it's worth a read, but I wouldn't recommend it to people looking for Grisham books. |
584 | It's been a while since I've read it, but from what I remember, it was a good mystery with unique characters and some unexpected turns. I think the main message was to give people a better idea of the perspective of someone with autism, and the complexity of human nature in general. | It did dive quite deep into Chris' mind. So far as to include the random equations he came up with :D |
585 | But isn't that REALLY prevalent in general? From politicians, to movie actors? They all want to project an image of relatability and, you know, Jenny-from-the-Blockness. | Those people don't write songs about every time someone has ever slighted them. That's what makes her so annoying. |
586 | I've argued with the mods about it. It's stupid. We have the downvote button for people trying to nakedly hawk their self-published goods. | The rule is in place to stop people from using referral tags. We have caught numerous people in the past trying to make a quick buck off of unsuspecting people in /r/Books by giving out Amazon Referral links to popular books. We don't think that's cool, so we set up the rule. But usually, if there isn't a referral tag and it's someone being helpful, we let it slide. If you have any more things you want cleared up or "to argue about," please message the mods. |
587 | In hindsight is clear that the terrorists won, they have instilled fear in society. | That was their goal. OBL admitted as much in one of his tapes. |
588 | Rumor has it that Christopher Lloyd is supposed to be somewhere in every BTTF movie, but I can't confirm this myself. | I really have to rewatch those films with a keener eye then. |
589 | What are you supposed to do if you really didn't like Avatar, just keep your mouth shut? | No. I'm open to hearing constructive criticisms, but that is rarely what I see directed against Avatar. All the Pocahontas/Ferngully/Dances With Smurfs rhetoric is smug nonsense, and dismissing it as empty spectacle is unfair. Sure, Avatar does fall short in some ways, but it also soars as few films do. |
590 | I just posted this comment three days ago: > There's a general bias against music women like, it's not considered "cool". Taylor Swift (for example) can only be a "guilty pleasure" at best. It was downvoted, of course. Now here we are... | Absolutely true. If it makes you feel any better, I would've upped it. |
591 | to clarify: I was mentioned the iPhone 8 because I believe intel only pivoted based on the rumors of the iPhones AR focus | Intel would never shift an entire group focus based on a rumor, much less a rumor of a third party. |
592 | I've seen lots of people around me carrying smartphone powerbanks with them all the time charging 2-4 times a day... do we really need these fancy gadgets. My smartphone lasts a day (approx 16 - 18hrs) with calls, watching videos, listening to music & browsing the web all in a single charge... how many of you do actually use powerbanks? | Different person, different phone, different use case. I only get two hours screen time out of my phone with how I use it. When I'm constantly plugged in, that is fine. When I don't have an outlet nearby, I need to find an alternative. A battery pack fills that need for me. . It's also nice to have in your bag in case of emergencies. |
593 | Look into my eyes and it's easy to see 1 and 1 makes 2, 2 and 1 makes 3 it's was destinyyyy | Once every hundred thousand years or so when the sun doth shine, and the moon doth glow, and the grass doth grooohoooo |
594 | To be there's supposed to be a separation between the world the writer is creating and the writer themselves. I've never heard of another instance of an author writing themselves into their own work. Quentin Tarantino often plays a minor or background character in his own movies, but he doesn't come in as himself, and he definitely doesn't come in as himself in the act of making the movie. That feels more like a comedy gag to me than a dramatic flair. | I meant that another author wrote him in. I mean, it's a little Doctor Who-y but not insane. Maybe even kinda funny. Of course, I like Fforde a lot, so I kinda like off the wall stuff. |
595 | How many employees are being impacted? I'd be taking the severance. No way would I want to move to California, and especially not to the craziness in San Francisco. | Seriously. I wouldn't work there for triple my pay. Since they *steadfastly refuse* to build more housing, you get to pay $4000 or more for a one-bedroom apartment. Yeah, my wife and kid would just *love* that. |
596 | I'd never heard of Carmike until one went up in my town a couple of years ago, replacing the old Muvico. Are they new on the scene or just not widely distributed? | They have been around since the 80s. They are mainly focused on being big megaplexs in small markets, usually within towns of only 200,000 or less. |
597 | This should be comforting. You can now dream of attaining financial success in life, while audiophiles will never be able to afford rent because their new grados and portable amp took precedence! | New grados and a headphone amp aren't gonna set you back that far, relatively speaking. Audiophile tier is spending that same amount for grados and a new amp on 3 or 4 esoteric cables and raving about a blanket being lifted off your mains. |
598 | The only thing is - I'm not sure if I would trust anyone selling a massive amount of GPUs because of the wear and tear on those. They'll have been running forever at 100%, so there's got to be some damage to them. | Mining GPUs are undervolted and run at lower temperatures than they would for gaming. They also typically undergo fewer massive temperature fluctuations than what a gaming GPU would see. The fans would probably need replaced, but the hardware itself is probably fine. |
599 | Yes! That song. But Beck wrote it and has a full version | Beck wrote all of the music from that film btw |
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