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700 | The book is universally panned by anyone that isn't a deep red republican. What made you think it'd be good? | It came highly recommended from a Libertarian friend of mine. I'm not much for politics, but I guess I would consider myself a Libertarian (registered Independent)... It's not even the political undertones which I really dislike. It's that the characters she created to covey her message are so extremely unbelievable that it ruins the entire thing for me. |
701 | Convenient, WaPo. Meanwhile the rest of us have known for the better part of 20 years. Edit: typo | It's a great article that goes really, really in depth. Sure, it's an open secret, but this is some damn good journalism about it. |
702 | Oh god, I just realized they're all trying to bring him back with their respective health items. | My take on it is the items are symbolic of the life he gave to the characters. They are thanking him for that gift. |
703 | *Wake In Fright* is probably the most terrifying film about Australia I've ever seen. | must catch that actually, reading about it a while ago looks great. |
704 | Tremendous waste production for our landfills. Increased manufacturing, shipping costs. Another component or point of failure.... meh | "Those Nexcel oil cells, once they're used, come back to Nexcel for recycling where we split them apart, clean and re-use them a number of times. But also we take that used engine oil, we pass it through a re-refining process, and that allows us to use the oil a number of times," said Taylor. You have to ship it, but you have to ship the oil either way. Doesn't seem all that wasteful. |
705 | I wish them luck with that, but I'm pretty sure it's not going to be "just" anything. | I hate when people add the „just“. Rustles my jimmies. Besides, a sentence sounds much more eloquent without it. |
706 | Did you read about the script of the failed, not-filmed pilot they wrote a couple years ago? Jamie Alexander said the script had Wonder Woman crying and eating ice cream. I hope DC gives it to someone who has read a Wonder Woman comic, and gives her role as the one with the biggest balls in the JLA. | Are you talking about the one starring Adrianne Palicki (and created by David E. Kelley)? They actually did film the pilot, and it was awful to watch. |
707 | Ah yes, giving Apple credit for inventing noise canceling headphones. Makes perfect sense in the Apple reality distortion field. | Not what i intended my friend...I was pointing to the fact that Apple charges as much possible at any type of shitty device as long as its branded and is unison with other products design....so you can be part of the same family.. P. S Hate apple or Beats, love Audio technica....in terms of headphones |
708 | What games are you trying to play? Also unless I'm mistaken or there's something special about the Alienware M15X laptop parts are normally a pain in the ass to replace. | Nah the gpu is no problem to replace, I've already opened it up. I mainly play LoL and Skyrim. |
709 | so do you like it because of the camp value? or do you hate it?? | I think most of it is hack work, except for the real top tier. A lot of Dubsteps relies on gimmicks instead of substance or depth. While this could be true of anything, it applies to a higher degree in Dubstep. I record music as well so I'm not going to so easily impressed with cheap production tricks as rubes on the street. |
710 | definitely a LeWrongGeneration musing. Bono came of age in the turbulent 1960's and 70's when riots, protests, army massacres, serial killers were all the rage. The national discourse in the UK and America was simply Anger. Today in 2017 the vibe is totally different. Teens have other avenues (like social media) to vent, so they don't need to channel their pent-up emotions into music. This frees up pop, rock, hip-hop to explore a wide spectrum of themes, which is refreshing. | >This frees up pop, rock, hip-hop to explore a wide spectrum of themes, which is refreshing. I don't think any *new* themes are being explored, and by having "angry" theme'd music recede into non-existence, it's actually reducing the spectrum of new music diversity that young people have to express themselves. |
711 | They were just getting recognised when I started getting into indie music so I always had a soft spot for Editors and from what I remember their last album was a bit under rated I thought. Also I remember being at a Tiesto gig of all places and he played his remix of this song, safe to say I went mental haha. | I've been enjoying listening to them. Watched the video of their live shows recently and I like them a lot. |
712 | I just bought a collection of all the books. I haven't read any of them except Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and that was decades ago. I'm very excited! | They just keep getting better after the first one (until you reach the last, which is all just a convoluted religious allegory.) I hope you enjoy them! |
713 | Sometimes it makes sense to change the translation for a culture. In a direct translation somebody in Russian says their name is Ivan Ivanovitch. You take it at face value that their name is Ivan. In a proper translation, the Russian speaker says their name is John Doe. You understand then that they are giving an obviously fake name. With a good translation, it's not just the words that are translated, but the meaning. Yes you can piece together what some sayings mean, but others are completely lost, and you don't even realize you need to go look up what it means. | Or "torch" vs "flashlight". A younger reader might literally think a flaming torch. |
714 | > real people with real human thoughts. You do realize not *every* person is some Chaotic Neutral *i do whatever it takes* kind of person right? Plus even then Kaladin **does** have those thoughts. He nearly killed his King and has a hatred for Amoran so much that he is willing to break laws to get back at him. How many times is he expected to break the rules before he becomes “a well written character.” You also conveniently leave out the fact that Kaladin’s internal thoughts are much more realistic than most fantasy characters. The fact he has clinical Depression is a touch of realism that most authors don’t even think about. | The nicest guy on the planet still looks at porn and thinks about how much he wants to fuck, because it's ingrained in our evolution to do so. A well written character is flawed in a way that's *actually* a flaw to the audience, especially something they see in themselves. Stephen King writes fantastic characters, he lets their darker thoughts out and still views them as the hero, letting the audience know "Yeah, I know this same shit has been in your head too, it's okay." There's a lot of psychology that a writer like Sanderson completely and utterly ignores, because as a human being he flat-out doesn't understand it. |
715 | To this day Anthem Part 2 (which I know is from one of the something something qatsi movies) gives me a chill down my spine as I remember the big realisation scene from Truman Show. | > To this day Anthem Part 2 (which I know is from one of the something something qatsi movies) Here you go: |
716 | Just what we need. Even more nand shortages. It somewhat astounds me that with all these shortages lately that more companies aren't starting to produce. Why is samsung so pivotal to the nand production pipeline that one factory goes down and we get a significant chunk lost? | Nand and dram have become a strategic resource nations like China have built their own fabs which are going online in the coming months - years. This will have an effect on prices in the following years. if European nations had a clue they would do the same. |
717 | Wow, thank you for that!! Would you mind putting that into an Amazon review for the book? | Sure no problem, I'll just leave out the spoiler. Keep writing and I'll keep reading them. |
718 | Does anyone know what racist parts they are referring to? And I don't mean in general. I want to know a specific scene or dialogue. | There’s on scene mentioned in the opening part of the article. |
719 | loling at this exact comment being downvoted to oblivion in the original thread | Yep. This exact comment got like 300 downvotes. All that changed was how reddit felt about the girl. |
720 | Some of us have different points of views than those of our 5 year old selves. | Read my other msg, up to this day, based on the synopsis, clips etc I still don't like it. |
721 | Jonah Hill, with the exception of his really small cameos like Django and 40 Year Old Virgin. Also Id be up for watching This is the End. | TiTE is hilarious! And Jonah Hill makes fun of himself the whole time :P |
722 | It also had the opening action sequence unrelated to the plot, well before James Bond made it a cliche. | The opening sequence of Seven Samurai is directly related to the plot. The bandits appear over the hill discussing their plans to raid the village and Yohei overhears them. This is the entire reason the village knows to hire the Seven Samurai. |
723 | On a journey you most go the find the land of Hollywood.... | In The City of Fallen Angels where the ocean meets the sand |
724 | Woodstock 99. They literally burned things to the ground. We ended up driving through the perimeter fence when the authorities started coming with riot gear | Yeah, I remember highlights on TV. Looked pretty chaotic. Weird how Woodstock '99 isn't mentioned on TV nowadays. That was a big deal at the time. |
725 | "An invitation from who?" *look at each other* ... **FROM RIDLEY SCOTT** | this movie is **FAKE**: **THERE ARE NO NIGGERS IN OUTER SPACE.** |
726 | Yes a 4 digit pin must take less than an hour to brute force. Some of the longer shapes you can draw might be better but I doubt by much. After all they have fewer characters, straight, left, right, back. They can obviously just point the phone at you or a photograph of you for facial recognition. Passwords are restricted to 17 characters, so even if you could be bothered to type a decent passphrase each time, it's still pretty limited. Not sure it's worth the effort. | I'm using a tool to set the disk encryption password separately, but it's not an option for most users. This requires a rooted phone to begin with, and a long, unrecoverable and rarely used password is a disaster waiting to happen. So, maybe, it's time for Google to require some kind of hardware security module (to store the device encryption key and prevent bruteforcing) for certified phones. |
727 | Came here to say Jefferson Airplane. The start of Somebody to Love can knock the wind out of me. | Ever since Battlefield Vietnam they've been one of my favorite bands! |
728 | One of the most striking lines in it for me is the opening: "Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure." That's someone who couldn't care less that their mother is dead. | It's been a while since I've read it, but I understood it a bit differently. It's true that he didn't care that his mother had died, but what else was there to do? He rarely saw his mother in the first place, they had a fairly tepid relationship, and now she was dead. It makes no difference whether she died today, yesterday, or the day before-- she was dead. End of the line. His ambivalence wasn't out of malice or disdain for her, it was simply the result of the way things are. What else are you going to do? I agree that it's a really striking opening for a book, and one of my favorite opening lines. |
729 | TL;DW. **He gives it in A**. Says it's his favorite Daniel Radcliffe movie and he is Harry Potter fan. He says it's off-the-wall wacky strange but good. Chris also has contempt for all those who walked out of this movie at film festivals. He also did not want to spoil the soundtrack… So must be good and unique/strange. | Seen it: can confirm all those things to be true -- especially the soundtrack. |
730 | You’re right, it’s far better to read them yourself. | It was an amazing experience reading it. One of my favorite books. |
731 | This all goes back to the studios, not really MS. The studios refuse to provide their content to systems which don't protect content. For 1080p it was Protected Content Path. This is just an evolution of that. The studios demanded HDCP, they demanded BD+, etc. Don't get me wrong, it sucks. HDCP alone is bad enough for consumers. But it's not really MS. | If MS says no, you really think the studio will forego every windows user in the world? |
732 | Getting the energy from carbon-light or carbon-neutral sources could result in a net decline in atmospheric CO2, though. It just means investing in or incentivizing the practice. Which we almost certainly will not, because most governments abhor the use of money on environmental remediation. | That implies having a surplus of 100% clean energy. Using the solar power directly instead of burning coal is more efficient as far as CO2 reduction goes |
733 | Jean Paul Sartre - *Being and Nothingness* Martin Heidegger - *Being and Time* | "must read"... yea if you're in some continental grad school focusing on existentialism |
734 | By using USB they ensure the widest compatability between all laptops. | Not between OS ~~trough~~ though. USB graphic devices are a pain on Linux Distros. |
735 | The app Wehe claims that virtually all major cell companies throttle your internet and choose which sites get better bandwidth. These companies disagree, claiming they don’t choose which content, but have to throttle all content at times to manage the network. Wehe expects more conclusive evidence after collecting additional data from its users. | is the Wehe app factoring in the respective data plans? i have TMobile unlimited, but it’s only for standard speed video, everything else performs at max bandwidth. so basically, i’m agreeing to the throttled video speed to save $15 a month. that would explain the article’s point about tmobile throttling netflix to 1.77 Mbps when 6.62 Mbps bandwidth was available for other traffic. |
736 | [“Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is In Another Castle”] The Mountain Goats with Kaki King | that album with Kaki King was fantastic and gave me boners. |
737 | Half Life 2 is how you tell story in a game. You're always in control. The Last of Us is an amazing story, but it's executed poorly. It handles awkwardly and the non-combat is just walking between cutscenes, moving ladders and stuff. A great story is always amazing, but gameplay should always come first. | That's probably the reason TLOU won all of those awards. |
738 | > Oct 2, 79. Or it died out long ago. | Probably not until the late 90s when everyone started typing exclusively. |
739 | Maybe we should just agree on a few nice-sounding pen names and let everyone publish under those names based on the quality and content of their work. | That's pretty much what they used to do with a lot of pulp novels. |
740 | How common is it for authors to write back? I might send a letter off to some less-well-known (AKA the ebook was $3 and very few people have read it) authors and better known (you've heard of them) and I'd be a lot more likely to move forward with it if I knew they (or their publishers) would write back. | I'm not really certain since I haven't really done it much other than the above anecdote. I would assume it's likely in direct correlation to their fame -- if you're the only letter they get that month, it probably means a lot to them. If they get a zillion a day, it's difficult logistically to actually reply, even if you want to. |
741 | I find that you pretty quickly find a setup you like. (Mine is lead circuit, bridge pickup only on, strange off, tone and volume fully open because I set those on the amp. On the rare case I use the rhythm circuit, I have the tone rolled back a bit.) | I've got a super-strat Ibanez and I'm always looking for excuses to fiddle with the pickup selector. Having more options would be distracting for me, I still would love having a jaguar for the novelty tho. |
742 | Reading this again now. That portion was sad but I don't think it's anywhere close to the darkest thing I've read. The book does a good job of demonstrating the erosion of Polynesian/Hawaiian culture. I was bummed he skipped the Cook years. | No, not the darkest, but it did hit me pretty hard at the time (Michener's prose is obviously much better than my shitty summary), and everyone else was mentioning Cormac McCarthy already. ;) |
743 | Revolver is their most underrated album, it's probably the best but it never gets the recognition it deserves. | That album came out on the day they criminalized LSD. *Fun fact. |
744 | Yeah at first I thought he was depressed because he couldn't get a decent order of Buffalo Wings after the Beatles broke up. | Your comment made me laugh out loud at a hotel bar. Didn't read it that way at first. |
745 | Wait, so was the piece of rope, like, saying that he *was* a frayed knot, or was he saying "I'm afraid not"? And why does the bartender hate rope so much, anyway? I just don't get it. | He's a ropist. He doesn't know that no means no. |
746 | This is a fascinating book! Check out the section on athletics, it's basically got a full course on fitness as well as self defense section comprised of fairly thorough section on period wrestling and boxing. | Sorry for the horrible blurry photos for that section btw. |
747 | I think the first is just right as it is. A standalone movie that gives nothing but fond memories. | Oh I agree....but damn I'll love to see another one. |
748 | Saw them Friday with Death From Above 1979. EODM absolutely killed it. Jesse shook my hand, and I smiled from ear to ear for the whole set. | This is what I expect. To just be consumed with appreciation for some true performers/musicians and the produce of their labor. |
749 | Muse, after I realized that it took the singer like 8 seconds to get through each individual syllable. | I lost a lot of respect for them after Neutron Star Collision. Still love Showbiz though. |
750 | *The Farseer Trilogy*, by Robin Hobb: Follows a single character who is a kind of behind the scenes of the major events type. Lots of character growth though the magical system is minimal (mind reading/ a bit of telepathy). *The Stormlight Archive* by Brandon Sanderson: I'll start off by warning you that only two of the books are out, though they are both door-stoppers, so there is plenty to read. The character growth is done on two timelines, following "the present" and separate chapters detailing the character's backstory. The magical growth is more explosive than over time. | Thank you very much, I couldn't resist and started the Iron druid Chronicles so I'm hooked but once finished I'll read your suggestions, thanks again. |
751 | Above And Below - The Bravery. Trying Your Luck - The Strokes. Tighten Up - The Black Keys. World So Cold - Three Days Grace. Map Of The Problematique - Muse | The Black Keys are a fantastic band! If you haven't heard any of their older stuff, I urge you to check out some of their older albums like Magic Potion. |
752 | The sex scene in Atlas Shrugged was like something out of a bad softcore erotic novel. And I know a thing or two about bad softcore erotic novels. | There was a sex scene in Atlas shrugged? I know there was a (in)famous rape scene in FountainHead. But I don't recall anything from Atlas shrugged. Must have repressed it! |
753 | [spoiler -](#s "I really REALLY liked how they made Cap actually seem very human, and hell even his shield failed him a good number of times. I have read in a few reviews how people are hating how his shield is apparently magic, always returning to him, but there were tons of instances where it either got stuck, bounced away to be temporarily lost or was caught by a bad guy. Loved this movie.") | please, his shield did some stupid shit like sometimes bounce off metal and other times stick. |
754 | What jumps to my mind is Hemingway. They just seem so empty and submissive. | Have you read The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber? |
755 | Wow, that sounds way more complicated than paying someone $35 or whatever | No such thing as a $35 oil change here. Minimum you will find is about $50, and its for the cheapest bottom barrel oil they can buy. At least doing it yourself you xan put good synthetic in, and know what you are getting for oil and filter. |
756 | What if they got Ving Rhames to play captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean? That's more of a similar contrast. | You're fighting a losing battle, I'm too movie ignorant to know who that is. I wasn't aware Pirates of the Caribbean existed before the recent movies, so it wouldn't really matter to me who the captain was. I've also only ever seen the first one. I can see why some would be bothered with Depp playing Tonto, just saying that didn't really affect me. |
757 | He's not a terrible writer, he can keep me entertained chapter to chapter, his prose is engaging, and I'm rarely jarringly thrust out of the narrative. He's a fucking awful author. His stories don't lead to anything, theres never meaningful resolution, and he only seems to write to create more mysteries that you need to keep reading to find the answers too. He's LOST in author form. Don't you fucking sell me a book then in the afterword tell me that you knew it was boring, you son of a bitch. | Have you read Fevre Dream? The strongest stand alone book by GRRM if you ask me, really really good. He's incredible if you look at his work from just the pre-ASOIAF era imo, and I greatly enjoy the series itself. |
758 | I'm still depressed. All that free leach I had accrued! Gone forever. | Still depressed. On APL but not on Redacted because apparently you needed to be a torrent god on What to get in. I miss What. |
759 | Not so much creepy - he captures how strange and often malicious the adult world seems to children. | Heck I'm an adult and still think the world seems strange and often malicious. |
760 | A cover of the beetles for a fairly successful movie does not really scream indie music. | Downvoted for not knowing how to spell the band's name and failure to use proper capitalization. |
761 | Well it comes with Google Music (& Google Music comes with it) and it gets rid of ads across all of YouTube. I can't speak to how popular it is, but I haven't watched a single piece of YouTube Red content and it is definitely still worth the subscription for me. | I've got adblock so that's not much of an incentive to me |
762 | Was wondering if I'd give it a try. It's been a while since I've read fantasy. Grew a little bit tired of the cliches like "You're the chosen one, and of course you're village/family burns and you have to run in the start" But this series looks promising, just finished watching episode 4. | you'll find no cliches in the series. Any expectations you have on the way things will happen are usually completely wrong. |
763 | Well , a Tesla model S 85kwh battery pack weight 540KG. So a battery that could provide 1% of that would in theory weigh a bit over 5kg. An agricultural type drone could do that fairly easily. 1% would give about 4km in range. So I suppose that could be useful in dire situations. Seems a bit useless with current tech though. | Seems like that would be more useful in an emergency than for constant refueling on the go. Drone brings just enough charge to get you to a full charging station. |
764 | The first ps3's did have backwards compatibility. you should have bought one. | I didn't have the cash back then. Those things were like straight up $600 |
765 | Crime and Punishment. I read it while on a family vacation where I got a stomach virus. Couldnt leave my bed/bathroom. Read the whole thing between vomiting and...you know. It was the perfect distraction. Incredibly thought provoking and one of the tougher books I'd read. It has a special place in my heart for getting me through that week. | crime and punishment is a really special book for me too. The book itself is nauseating at some points. It really addresses so many points that people ignore with their prejudices. |
766 | Ah yeah man, Flea is barely scraping by and needs all the financial help he can get. | It's not like he's a member of one of the most prolific rock bands of all time or anything |
767 | The difference here is you have absolutely no proof that Kendrick is doing that. He's obviously making this song to get on the radio and because the trap wave is hot rn. The 'He's joking!!!!' narrative is so stupid. | You don't really have any proof that he made this song because he's trying to get on the radio. Do you believe that Kendrick said, "What's the most popular style of rap right now? Ok let's make a mediocre song in that style so I can get radio play. Radio play means something in age of youtube and music streaming services." You don't have any proof of what you're saying. People don't have proof that he made this as a song of mockery either, but they have analyzed this a lot more than you have. |
768 | takes place in America, pacific Northwest in the early 1930's. The main character gets married and her husband buys a chicken ranch in the middle of nowhere. She has to adjust to life on the chicken ranch and her crazy hick neighbors. I love it because the descriptions are amazing and you want to be there. I also love that she hates how amazing it is and just wants to live in the city and read books. It is very funny and not politically correct as it takes place in the 30's. I read it at least once a year. | Is it non-fiction? Perhaps Betty MacDonald's *The Egg and I*? |
769 | Did you ever consider that the submitter possibly did not know that it was submitted last week, and while doing an image search nothing popped up? Did you consider that maybe they just found something funny that they would like to share with other people in hopes that they would also find it funny? I find it very offensive that you would be so rude in a books subreddit, which generally has nice minded people. But then again it is the internet, so I should not have such high hopes for humanity. Also, AIDS is never funny, no matter what | It's false. It's a repost. A simple imgur post rarely promote discussion & are commonly nothing more than karma whoring. I don't want that in r/books. Even if your shit post did spur discussion, it'd be spreading disinformation. If you want funny karma, keep it in r/funny. Don't turn r/books into r/funny. u mad. |
770 | Stone Temple Pilots were a punchline in the 90’s. Payola radio band no one wanted. | Early 90's maybe, but definitely not by the late nineties. If I remember correctly Scott sang that amazing live version of "Plush" before '95. I think it was Headbanger's Ball? It's regarded one of his greatest vocal performances, and they really took off from there. |
771 | Yea, but they remade Red Dragon years later. Until then, most people just took silence as a loose sequel to man hunter | Most people who? I never heard anyone at the time talk about it as a sequel, loose or otherwise, they are unrelated film projects based on the same series of books, *Manhunter* is a stand alone film based on *Red Dragon*, a few years later another film is made about another in that book series, but is made as a stand alone film. Nobody watches *Die Hard* and thinks, "Yeah, this is a sequel to [*The Detective*]" |
772 | As the kid of a drunk, I really appreciate this comment. My dad has a drug problem and the fact that his drug of choice is socially acceptable does not change that he's got a problem and is slowly killing himself. People talk about alcohol like its special or different than other drugs. The only difference is that it's the one you can buy. legally and without a prescription. | Fetal alcohol syndrome is waay more common than people realize as well. |
773 | Don't worry, *Flow My Tears* comes together in the end. John Barnes, another sci-fi author, did something similar in more than one book. Have you read any of Kazuo Ishiguro's stranger stuff? | I'd say *Flow My Tears* **almost** comes together. I guess I'll just have to assume that the whole 'cuddle-sponge' ordeal is part of the KR-3 effects then, probably starting immediately after that night's broadcast since Alys was likely watching at the time. I haven't heard of either John Barnes or Kazu Ishiguro. I'll be sure to give them a try. |
774 | you are missing the point. Goldman Sachs was just an example. The point is the working class being divided against one another on racial, cultural and social issues only benefits the ruling class. For example, in the early days of the american colonies african slaves worked with european indentured servants and often they organized together, protested together, and ran away from their bosses together. they identified with each other more than the european indentured servant did with his european boss. the idea of whiteness was introduced into the colonial culture to pit the european indentured servants and the african slaves against eachother. who wins? the ruling class. | And this is Goldman Sachs' and Wall Street's fault how? Or you one of those idiots who think Soros is funding death squads too? Repeating the same post doesn't make it any more right... |
775 | Well I'm glad I didn't know of Sean Bean's contract term before watching the first season. | Well, I bet they were only signed on for one season at first. In this article it states they picked up the second season after the first episode of season one aired. |
776 | Kickass 1 is a hell of a good movie and made shit in the box office | Because Lionsgate has no idea how to run their business. They go all out on the promotion circuit on movies that *shouldn't* be given that much attention, yet they ignore the better moves that should. |
777 | I just moved and when I contacted Comcast to see what new deals they had (only isp option other than ATT), and that I wanted unlimited data, I got offered Extreme 250 (250/25) for $60 a month, no data cap, on a two year contract. Only reason I took it was due to Google fiber most likely not hitting my area north of Nashville for two years. When the tech came to do the hookup, he had never even heard of this being in the area. He called to confirm that what I was having installed was correct, and was told its an over-the-phone only deal, and that it isn't on the website for now. Speed test shows me hitting 300/30. | Fuck. I wish I got anywhere near that for $60. :/ |
778 | I agree, he has opened with some form of that song every time I have seen him and it's almost always my favorite part of the show. I'm pretty partial to the songs Buttmachine and How 'Bout Those Holes in the Moon as well. | Weasel Pot Pie and that song about bananas are both pretty great too. Also, sorry your post was undervoted. You're just ahead of your time. |
779 | Email doesn't need to be smart, new, and sexy, it just needs to be functional. Google, you already messed with this once when you went full canvas on everything, leave Gmail be. | I wouldn't mind a light face-lift in Gmail. Keep everything functionally the way it is and just update styling a bit. We'll have to see what they do with it. |
780 | I think Mike Patton is the closest thing our generation has to Frank Zappa. Incredibly talented, unafraid to push boundaries, not giving a fuck what John Q. Public thinks, and somehow being drug free yet incredibly trippy. I only wish he had as many albums as Zappa. | Hmm, somehow I never thought to make that comparison, but it fits pretty perfectly. Well, Patton is still alive and making albums; I wouldn't be surprised if he surpassed Zappa before he dies. |
781 | I thought you were way off, because Iron Man seemed much more recent than Thomas Jane's Punisher. And then I saw there was a Punisher: War Zone, that I'd never even heard of. Looks like I didn't miss much. | You didn't. There's a small but vocal group of people that really liked it. It's very campy and right up there with cinematic masterpieces like Batman and Robin. It's fairly violent but I just didn't care for the comical nature of the violence with the character. I definitely preferred Jane's take. |
782 | Queens of the Stone Age. Into The Hollow. Make It Wit Chu. The Bronze. Suture Up Your Future. Like Clockwork. The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret. Mexicola. First It Giveth. I Appear Missing. Turnin' on the Screw | Switch lost art with in the fade and suture up your future with the fun machine took a shit and died and you have my exact list I think. I could also just as well have chosen : Keep your eyes peeled. I sat by the ocean. Vampire of time and memory. If I had a tail. My God is the sun. Kaliopsia. Fairweather friends. Smooth sailing. I appear missing. ...like clockwork. |
783 | It's worth noting that for the past decade or so MS has been very good at coming up with concepts and really shitty when it comes to execution. For example, the windows everywhere thing turned to shit when they tried to put a tablet interface on desktops. I don't know how much work either of them did for each product, but something like the surface book is close to perfection for what it's supposed to be. Ballmer may have started a lot of good stuff, but I can't think of anything that was a home run while he was at the helm. | I agree with you, I also still believe their execution needs to be way better at the moment. Satya has been doing great, and they're certainly moving in the right direction. But my issue is with articles like these giving Nadella credit for everything regardless. |
784 | I hate "Sweet Child O' Mine," but "Escape," "Leper Messiah," "Polly," "Dumb" are great. "Escape" is so uplifting, while I found those two Nirvana songs to be so honest and heartfelt I'm always compelled to listen to them. | I do like Polly and Dumb. But as I just said to OP, when I'm listening to the whole album, I don't like the slow song in the middle of the album. Great songs though. |
785 | Well, the original language is preferable, but that's a standard that can be difficult to meet if you're not already proficient in that language. It's quite a feat to learn French, or German, or whatever just to read the literature in the original. Most modern translations are quite polished, I would imagine. I've studied Japanese for several years, and have tried to read some of the literature. It's difficult, but also very satisfying when you can say you've read (albeit *very* slowly) Mishima or Tanizaki in the original. It's fun to read literature and study at the same time. | Reading a clumsily translated work is no fete, and it's no mean feat to be able to sit at a foreign storyteller's feet. |
786 | I worked 911 10 years ago and cell phones were doing this - sure, the flip phones were just using triangulation, but the newer phones were better. What was a pain was finding an owner of a phone and their home address. | You could do surprisingly good turn by turn driving navigation on a flip phone just using triangulation, though. |
787 | El Quijote is a perfectly acceptable form of his name. The X is an antiquated spelling. Nowadays Spanish speakers use J in some words that used to have an X (e.g. Ejemplo vs exemplo, embajador vs embaxador, Quijote vs Quixote). The real academia decided in 1815 to change the usage. Some things kept the X like Mexico and Texas. | Yes, but the novels title is "Don Quixote", plus the introductory words |
788 | I got to see them twice in a row at Irish Fair in St. Paul MN FOR FREE in like... 2009 or something. The second night Nates off stage behind the gate by the bathrooms and we go over to get an autograph. Dude had an entire handle of Jameson in his pocket and we did a 4-5 pulls each and then he says "well time for the second set boys have a good night!" and disappears. George Schwindts hands are as big as softball gloves. Nice people, all of them. They stuck around and talked to people right in front of the stage after the show. | Haha the *bassist (I don't know shit, yall) hit on me hard. I guess he was hoping I was a groupie. |
789 | But isnt that all it is anyway? Its never new music thats thrown out at you, its just the same top 40 artists all the time; even without having channels that play full of music videos, we keep getting spoonfed what to listen to via commercials, ads on YT/other sites, music in movies, singers as judges on TV shows, etc etc. | It wasn't always this way. They used to have shows dedicated to different styles of music, which helped expand my taste in music growing up. There was punk shows, a show for unsigned bands, hip hop shows, metal shows - they certainly still had the countdown, but there was some variety (usually at weird hours). Ahh well. It's pretty hard to complain meaningfully when music is easier than ever to reach - it's just that you have to dig for it sometimes. Myspace was actually decent for music (still might be, I haven't been for a few years). |
790 | Well, for one it is about the end of the world and it also highlights the dangers and current limitations of space-travel. I would't call it terrifying, though. It's solid material for a thrilling story (although it has its flaws). | Moreover, it's about the slow count-down to the end of the world. You can hear the clock ticking in the background on every page. That's much scarier and more nerve-wracking than if everything just ended abruptly, and without warning. Neal has long been one of my few "automatic" authors. Anything he writes, I want to read. EDIT: missing |
791 | Middle of the night, no cameras, no witnesses. They knew it was the same guy as a stack of other break-ins in the area, since they were all done in a similar way, but didn't know "who" he was. They sweeped the store, found absolutely nothing useful, so theres nothing they could do to help. | Nothing useful? What a dropkick, books are always useful, he should a have swiped a couple. |
792 | I watched Goosebumps on whatever one of those Nick/Disney spin off cable channels is that still shows/ed on syndication. I thought it was perfectly fine still. Maybe you grew up? I mean, it was for like 10 year olds. | > Maybe you grew up? I mean, it was for like 10 year olds. I did grow up, did you (we are talking about nostalgia goggles)? Are there 10 year olds on Reddit? |
793 | Im saying its absurd that we need a woman to direct a woman in a movie. Any number of men could and have directed strong women in a film or television. And because I know its going to happen, Ridley Scott (Alien), James Cameron (Aliens, Terminator, Terminator 2), JJ Abrams (Alias), & Joss Whedon (Buffy the vampire slayer). | You realize you sound like you're arguing that they should hire a man, right? |
794 | That's a pretty strong assumption that she wants to do a solo acoustic album. You know why my albums were acoustic? Because I couldn't afford full production and mastering of a band. It costs money. Around 12k is the lowest I'd spend on a full red dirt production. 12-25 is absolutely reasonable AND expected for an album that's going to be worth a damn that gets radio play. If you want to make it, it costs real money. You can't put out an acoustic album and expect to get real recognition. And I already do my own production as is for demos - but I still know better than to do it myself when it really counts. | Except if you are shipping it off to radio 12k is WAY under budget to get promo folks involved. |
795 | There are quite a few authors on the recommended textbook list. Do you know if one or two of them are more highly regarded than the others? I used to love learning about history when I was in school but it's been about a decade since I got my bachelor's degree and I've forgotten a lot of the nuanced parts of American history. I'd love to relearn what I forgot. | I teach APUSH and here are some of the widely used books: *American Pageant* is probably the most widely used. I really recommend it though it's very dense. *Give Me Liberty!* isn't too terrible though somewhat biased in the same mode as Zinn. *America's History* I've not really read through it but it seems fairly neutral. AMSCO APUSH Review Book is much more concise but lacks pictures, documents, etc. AP United States History: An Essential Coursebook by Ethel Wood is pretty good for its size. |
796 | When in doubt, always MST3K: * Monster A-Go-Go. * Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. * The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies | Manos: The Hands of Fate. The Wild World of Batwoman |
797 | But skate punk is the worst form of punk. It's punk at its worst. | No, fuck off. It's the best form of punk. |
798 | They always sell it as good for consumers. Not being able to get a refund on defective merchandise or fraudulent charges sounds like a huge negative for me. The merchant gets low transaction costs and I get no recourse if I get fucked over, in addition to holding an incredibly volatile currency that I have to take a conversion hit on to move in and out. It's a lose-lose-lose for the consumer. | Bitcoin is able to support escrow transactions with arbitration, so transactions where you as a consumer are worried about being ripped off (ie not transactions with Microsoft) there *are* ways to receive refunds. Of course nobody really uses this right now, but the functionality is there. |
799 | According to OP, the ordinance will ban loudspeakers and amps that produce a sound which is clearly audible 50 feet from the property line, between 9pm-7am Sunday-Thursday, and 10pm-10am Friday-Saturday. The ordinance also allows a person to apply for a permit to exceed these limitations one per month (and up to three consecutive days per permit), provided at least 30 days notice is provided. I can hardly believe that a similar ordinance doesn't exist already in San Antonio. It seems extremely reasonable. | That's actually very reasonable. OP is being an inconsiderate and manipulative dick. |
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