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I could never watch his shows because he always looked so sad, even when he was smiling and enjoying himself. I recognized those eyes, I see them in the mirror.

Exactly. Thank god I don't see them in my mirror any more.

I completely agree with you, though I will say that True Grit is by far one of the Great American Novels. That said, Portis' oeuvre is some of the greatest work in American literature. The Portis book the Coens should have made into film is The Dog of the South or Masters of Atlantis or, hell, even a remake of Norwood. Portis should be taught in schools and ranked with the greats like Twain, Hemingway, McCarthy and the like. The fact that he isn't is one of the most egregious cosmic injustices of all time. Gringos is a good book, too, though I rank it below Dog of the South and Masters of Atlantis, but above Norwood. Long live Charles Portis!!

The Dog of the South is a really strange, funny read.

> Instead they want me to purchase both separately at full price. Not always. There's MatchBook. "For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases now allow you to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99 or less." *Version*=1&*entries*=0

Damn, guess the Wheel of Time series doesn't qualify. Bought all of those in hardcover over the years, all off Amazon, and would love them on Kindle without paying over a hundred bucks for the whole set again.

Why? it's easily one of his worst if you look past the "herp derp great American novel" spiel

It was among a cluster that I'd read after really starting to get into literature :) Read that and Blood Meridian for the first time back to back just by luck! I didn't even know how highly regarded both of those were at the time... talk about a one-two punch!

right click on menubar -> select customize -> drag stop sign locking like ABP icon next to urlbar, which you can then use to enable or disable ads on a given site

I right clicked the area next to my tabs and selected customize. A window called "Customize Toolbar" opened. I don't see the Adblock icon in the "Customize Toolbar" window. I see Icons like Cut, Copy, Paste, Zoom In, and Zoom Out. Am I looking at the right place?

Such a killer Tenor Saxophone solo in this song, love me some Hall and Oates!

One on One is another one of theirs with some neat sax, but this is their best.

Are you saying you're currently in a college level composition class and this is what you have to do?

It's not as easy as it looks, I have to think of an antithesis for a story in given and make an argument out of that.

Thanks for the tips! Wondering of you have heard of Skarra Mucci? Has some good songs too. On the top of my head My Sound and Movie Star by him are really good

I haven't but will certainly check it out thanks! Try iba mahr - talk if dem want too, I can only find that on YouTube though

This design is not intended to be the motor itself. Rather it's an 8 inch by 2 feet high efficiency generator that can keep an electric car going after the batteries have been drained. It helps make the electric car more appealing by removing charge rates and distance from from the down side of owning an electric car. Hence it is merely an accessory to an electric car, which is only needed for trips that exceed the range of the battery.

Yea, what's amazing about this is the efficiency. Although they don't say what that is. I see a 42% efficient sentence, which is very high compared to normal cars that get more like 15. But what's the mpg? My guess is that running this on gas, and using regenerative braking to recapture energy, and without a lot of weight to the engine, this would be over 100 mpg.

I dropped AV years ago when I realized that the AV *created* more problems and irritations than it prevented. Then: slow computer, nagging software, false positives. Now: responsive computer (yes, it's the same one), no nagging, and strangely enough, *no viruses*. I still do a manual AV scan once in a while, but I've never found anything. And if I *do* have malware, it creates fewer problems for me than the AV software did.

If you're doing those manual virus scans from another machine or operating system (I had to use a Linux LiveCD to get rid of something particularly malicious off my girlfriend's computer), you should be good. However, doing a virus scan from the operating system you're scanning isn't always reliable as viruses have a tendency to change symbols or configuration of local anti-virus programs. Like I mentioned, my girlfriend and I had to do a virus scan on a known-infected computer and, using the local OS and anti-virus software, didn't find anything. It wasn't until I booted into a LiveCD and used ClamAV that we found and removed the virus.

The onus is on Warner Bros to reconcile the character with the comics, and not the last ten Batman movies where Batman either works alone, or reluctantly accepts assistance.

Actually BvS showed that more than any previous WB movie. Not only was he working with Alfred, but for the first time we saw that he had recruited and trained at least one Robin. He also talks to Alfred about others they've worked with throughout the years. And of course his entire character arc was reawakening the hope and optimism he once had, and now once again fighting for justice as a team.

Vonnegut is what Chuck Palahniuk wanted so bad to be but lacked both the classiness and literary flair.

Hey, I wouldn't discount Palahniuk, he has differentiated himself enough from everyone else that I think he's definitely come into his own, but yes, he takes twice as many pages to say the same thing that Vonnegut said in a paragraph.

No horror movie has ever won Best Picture either, unless you count Silence of the Lambs, which I think falls more into the crime-thriller genre.

That's true. The Exorcist is the only one I can even think of that has received a best pic nomination. Crazy.

Except they often are noticeable. The scenes in Goldeneye where this area blows up, like the scenes in The Two Towers where Isengard gets flooded, don't look all that great. They look like what they are: miniatures

>where Isengard gets flooded. And the scene where the water drains from the satellite dish in Goldeneye. Water doesn't scale down that well, and you can clearly tell it has been filmed in reverse. While I'm here, I never understood why they continued to use the [same rubbish blue glowing ball] to represent Earth from 70's Bond films all the way through to Goldeneye (I could be wrong, but I think they used it in a few other Brosnan Bond films). I'm pretty sure they could have come up with a more convincing effect by 1995. [edit: Posted the wrong video, put up the right video]

All these comments about this not being theft are missing the point. Culture grows by standing on the platform of the already done and looking forward. In a way, the current extension of copyright and intelectual property undermine this principle, and keep culture an elitist endeavour, since by definition, only people with money can access these works that belong to everyone. These "Estates" that are formed around the spoils of an author's death are many times just greedy lawyers and patent trolls that don't deserve to live off of the original works. Even family members, I would say that an author's grandchildren have the same right to the original work as any other person on Earth.

I think you're exaggerating the negative effects of the current laws. I don't agree with them and would love it if everything reverted to public domain much sooner after the author's death - but there are still several ways of accessing copyrighted works. The money issue is probably only prohibitive for a fairly small number of people.

Which often take up more than 40 minutes on their own, plus the actual travel time. And time to get through security. And extra time allocated to make sure that you don't miss the flight if you get stuck in line getting through security. It seems that for anything under ~350 miles, it's faster just to drive..

Plus I'd imagine the fuel consumption and travel costs to the passenger.

Money arises in human communities because certain things are scarce, and money works to (almost) solve the issue of obtaining scarce things without violence. In a world with replicators, obviously many things that were previously scarce, like food, become way less scarce and abundant, eliminating the need to trade those goods for money. However, even in the world of Star Trek, they still required energy to power their ship and all of its functions. They had better use of energy, but they were probably still paying for it somehow.

> They had better use of energy, but they were probably still paying for it somehow. I also get the impression that (in TNG at least) they had finally solved the 'centralized authority' problem, so they could use a mostly automatic resource allocation system without the problems associated with giving an authority complete control over something. Hence, only needing 'money' outside the federation, since within you could just make a resource requisition and get it if it was available. An allocation system like this, if tuned properly, could vastly reduce waste, further unlocking more energy. Of course, this is semi-debunked by all the episodes about corruption in starfleet, but then again a fictional show can only be so accurate.

Skip the N8000. It is more expensive for good reason, but not for the reasons you want. * You can use it as a Phone and Mobile Data Internet (Sim Card) * It has a Stylus so you can draw and write (I use my N8010 to jot down notes during meetings) For your usage requirements I recommend something like [this] €143.41 for non-fancy quad-core 2GB Ram. Some of my colleagues bought it and they say its very good. The size difference from my Samsung N8010 is minimal and screen is better considering mine is more than double the price!

Unfortunately I don't think that brand and model is available where I am. Also I am quite skeptical in having unknown brands even if their construction and OS is good. Support is usually less worldwide. There are also less users so if you do encounter issues it is harder to troubleshoot with lack of strong user base. There are also no available or much less custom ROMs. At least I experienced it with my current China brand phone. Excellent hardware and built. But the OS and support is crap. There are many bugs still not fixed.

That's awesome. During the winter, especially when it snows I'll grab a rifle, hike out into the forest and sit and read for hours.

Maybe ditch the rifle? Cool idea besides that. E: I was joking (being scared/jumpy + rifle...)

If possible, what about a timer that prevents a post from being downvoted for a certain amount of time? It's easy for one user in any subreddit to simply downvote everything on the new page they don't like, but for a post to succeed many individuals need to upvote it. With the sub having 11 million subscribers, you'll always have ones that want to use the downvote button to try to shape the sub - preventing this from happening for a while after something is posted would be a very beneficial change I think.

That would be amazing, wouldn't it? We don't have the ability to pull that off without admin assistance though.

I'm sorry but what musician? I don't see a link to anything.

lol that's because I had nothing but my memory to go by

You understand that a fax machine can become obsolete without fax machines as a technology becoming obsolete right?

You understand that your post was about technology and not hardware, right?

Actually Musk just said at the Model 3 launch that the Gigafactory will have the second largest footprint in the world and will produce more batteries than the rest of the world combined

The second largest footprint thing is correct as much as I know. But it's irrelevant. Other companies build multiple factories instead of one big one. "Batteries" is a poor measure. It's not a well-defined term. It can mean cells, packs, etc.

I don't want to sound stupid, but why exactly is this a historic feat if Blue Origins New sheppard has already relaunched its vehicle multiple times?

The Blue Origins Rocket is something capable of lifting a few people up into a suborbital (will fall back to Earth) trajectory that just breaks into the boundary of space (~100 km max height). The SpaceX Falcon lifts a payload of, in the case of todays launch, 6 tons, all the way up to a geostationary orbit (35,786 km), or larger payloads to the ISS (roughly 25 tons). The two aren't really comparable, but obviously Bezos has tried to make it seem that way (and to be fair, it's worked because you still get a mention of them in articles like this one.) [Here's a good picture demonstrating the difference in flight profile.]

gee thanks. On an unrelated note where do you live?

Don't worry about /u/stizzed- there are cats in your very neighborhood waiting to be fed to ATMs. Get going!

Thor's name is literally just Thor though. So there really isn't anything else to call him

Well his entire name is Thor Odinson, and [in the comics] he does go by a few aliases to keep his identity secret.

Her characters are romantic, yet compelling. I can comfortably picture the imagery she depicts. And her philosophy is interesting, if not a bit ham fisted at times.

It's very simplistic philosophy. The kind that was totally compelling to me in my early 20s, though I can't understand why now.

>Aviation Week was given exclusive access to view the Skunk Works experiment, dubbed “T4,” first hand. ...on condition that we say not one thing critical or skeptical, and that we do not question if this project is actually just a PR stunt disguised as science.

these guys have never been in the PR stunt business. they dont sell shit to the general public so there is no P in PR for them.

If anyone wants to have a great time, check out the comment history on /u/armstad. It writes the story of an angry, inadequate human being. Pretty much all of his/her comments are like this... written in a way that seeks to be seen as better than others, yet reeking of faux-intellectualism and self-esteem that is in no way deserved. /u/armstad ... if you ever feel particularly ready to have some introspection and find out why no one likes you, you should check it out as well. Just go through all of your comments and keep track of how often you're angry and abusive toward complete strangers.

If anyone wants to see a guy addicted to jacking off check out /u/Korberos. Good luck with nofap, lol

Yeah maybe they could do a Guns n' Roses/Velvet Revolver thing, and just start a new band with a new singer. I think VR's singer left awhile back, maybe the new STP could pick up him...

> Yeah maybe they could do a Guns n' Roses/Velvet Revolver thing, and just start a new band with a new singer. They've tried that twice already.... third times the charm?

That... is pretty incorrect. They do not have the ability to "see" encrypted data on their servers that they can't unlock. The way they would compromise user data is by being forced by the government to add a backdoor to imessage, IE send apple the information required to decrypt a message. Which is possible, and may have already happened, but it is very possible to have user data on your servers that you can't see.

While this is true, the only reasonable assumption is to assume that everything that is closed source has a back door.

They do but I think that will improve over time. The situation we have now, with people being able to see each others routers and ignoring them is silly. As we get better lower powered mobile networks it will seem ridiculous to have your own data pipe when you are swimming in an ocean of it.

As we get to want more and more bandwidth it will seem ridiculous to turn over your wireless bandwidth to packets passing through.

It would not require property acquisition, as the initial proposal had suggested that it could be built on steel pillars along the roadside or between lanes of traffic. That's a huge part of why it's so much less expensive.

> It would not require property acquisition, as the initial proposal had suggested that it could be built on steel pillars along the roadside or between lanes of traffic. I don't think that's even kind of possible - the highways aren't nearly straight enough. The kind of curves you don't even notice at 65mph are going to be really damn inconvenient at 760mph.

The sequel, feivel goes west, was my favorite as a kid.

I didn't even know about the first one...Fievel Goes West was my main eye jam...

*Can you take me higher!* *To a place with dirty sheets* *ber ner ner neener nerr!*

Can mmya mtake mee mhigher. mto ma mplace mwith mgolden mstreets

You could check out Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure. It was a travel documentary made for the BBC but was also released as a book with plenty of great photos. It's available to read for free on his official website.

This could be what I was looking for. I will go check this out immediately. Thank you!

>How about I photoshop your face into a KKK rally or dancing at a Brittany Spears concert and then sent this to your friends or employer? You would make no attempt to dispute it? How is this relevant? The faked videos were being posted to a subreddit that clearly marked them as fake. That is totally different than faking up images or videos and sending them to someone's friends or employer purporting to be real images.

How about don’t comment and downvote if you aren’t following the conversation.

well yeah, but only if you listen to shitty music. Now back to the topic at hand, *HOW* does that put that in the same standing as REM, who influenced Nirvana and Radiohead? It just doesn't. If it did, there wouldn't even be stories titles "Why this band should be in the hall of fame" bc it would just be glaringly obvious.

It is glaringly obvious because they’re in the rock n roll hall of fame. Derp derp.

There's nothing in his post about traits and all that jazz, that only came up when you asked to elaborate, but that ultimately wasn't the question. Going by the original post, "If you could have created an Indiana Jones movie before Raiders Of The Lost Ark, what setting would you have used and what treasure would he be looking for?" That's the question. The crux of his question is wanting to know what you would have liked to see as an Indy adventure. But you know what? This isn't important enough to even bother finishing thi

Yes that is the crux of his question. However, he specifies that he is not speaking of simply thr setting of the film, but production. My question was why he wanted to discuss it in the context of having been made before Raiders. Being able to invent the character seems to be the only logical reason, but he says thats not the case. Thus the confusion. But you decided to jump in with your snark without reading first, it's cool.

You probably can't hear them because this audio is just Adele's microphone. It's synced to the video, but is only her singing.

You are right. I saw the video with everything and you can hear them make angel sounds and also all the other instruments

I **really** want to see that box art. I will pay you money for it.

I wont pay but if he could find it I would view a picture of it.

I think it's because country music is a geo-specific genre, and outside of that area there are few country fans, and many people who dislike it. And reddit is not solely used by midwestern americans.

Did you forget about the south? That's where real country lives, anything above the Mason-Dixon Line is Yankee land as far as we know

My understanding (based on news speculation alone) is that Toyota is less interested in EV due to lack of consumer interst in the electric RAV4 and that Toyota is dedicating more attention towards Fuel Cells.

The RAV4 was a compliance vehicle, meaning they had to sell X number of zero-emissions vehicles as per California law. They sold enough cars and immediately stopped production after that. They are likely pursuing hydrogen now, because it will not be viable in the large scale, yet is a zero-emissions platform and it gives more carbon credits than EVs. They can run this on the scale of experimental cars for a long, long time. When the laws change to requiring large scale production of zero-emissions vehicles, they will probably switch to EVs.

Because he's produced 5+ critically acclaimed, massive selling, genre defying, creative, genius albums. Certainly more than many of the classic rock legends made.

Who is a classic rock legend that you don't feel is up to the caliber of Kanye.

Voices are so subjective. I always though her voice fit her athletic persona and the era's affection for brassy vocals.

Like you said, voices are subjective, sure, but wow she's bad.

As a child, my parents always had one newspaper clipping on the fridge no matter what: *Time spent with a child is more powerful than a locomotive.*

Hmm, i think this needs to be put to scientific scrutiny. Lets get some women and children and throw them in front of a locomotive. For science.

great song. is mac demarco big in the states?

His popularity has grown immensely here over the last couple of years.

>Back then it wasn't common knowledge how crappy of a company best buy is. But ever since then I have never bought anything there. And you shouldn't continue to, as they outright scam people. Just one example, the number of stores and techs pulling that bullshit far outweigh the ones that don't: And there are others:

I don't necessarily disagree with the point you're making, but those sources suck. The search results are just uninformed people, and the news report even admits that most PC repair shops would charge a similar diagnostics fee. It was just the first guy who fixed it for free, definitely sample bias. The Geek Squad person probably ran some automated software scanner, and never even bothered to open it up. The software scanner just sees "no harddrive" and the lazy GS tech files the report. Not really a scam, just shitty corporate policies.

Um, if we can consider it a music video, then [Rubber Johnny - Aphex Twin] takes the cake for me...

It's pretty much a Chris Cunningham solo-effort. Sure, he uses an AT track, but it was remixed by himself as well.

Back when blood sweat and tears was still a part of an animation. To this day I still appreciate the hard work that went into the classic movies and shorts.

>Back when blood sweat and tears was still a part of an animation. Oh yes, because it's *so* easy now.

Had you not seen The Town, Argo, or Gone Girl? His work from the past several years has been fantastic.

I knew they had tons of positive reviews, but I guess I was still fixated on the darker parts of his career. I'm not sure.

A is for Apple, B is for Bear, C is for Course

So...they just have to take another book and pull out characters and important other objects to create an alphabet book? This is a final project for an *AP English course?*

Come on. It was made to rival Facebook. You can't seriously think Google intended Google Plus to be a curiosity used only by Google employees, and a handful of tech enthusiasts and tech journalists?

google plus doesn't just have a handful of users. its communities are extremely popular. even before Google plus pleft beta they said it wasn't meant to rival Facebook, it wasn't their intention to rival Facebook. so to say Google plus is a failure simply because you or your friends don't use it is much like calling Ferrari a failure because you or your friends don't own one.

I did it in reverse order (movie first) and loved both. I generally never try to watch a movie after reading a book anymore. Too many disappointments. But if I do it the other way, all if well.

My ex really loved the movie and insisted. I usually avoid adaptations too, but Hunger Games was pretty good.

If you buy the books of a living author, you support them financially. Do you want to financially support someone who sexually assaulted someone else? No? Then don't buy their books.

I fear that's not as easy as you put it. Buying (new) books (something which I do not that often, actually) supports a whole lot of people who never sexually assaulted anyone. Moreover, my taxes pay wages to rapist cops and pedophile priests, but, guess what, I can't refuse to pay taxes because of it.

Do you get all your historical info from Wikipedia? Last place any Historian would reference.

I do when the person I'm arguing with is some smartass on the internet. You don't expect me to do original research for a reddit comment, do you?

I'm thinking not rated because that film would be illegal.

Depictions of those things and filming those actual things are two very different legalities. In all sincerity, minus the single, obviously taboo scene, this should fall firmly into R territory.

Lord of the Flies - William Golding. I really enjoyed reading it years ago in secondary school. It's probably time for another read :)

Secondary School? England? Or somewhere not America because no one would give Lord of Flies to a fifth grader. Though I suppose if they were precocious enough.

Nothing I’ve heard from him could I realistically consider groundbreaking. I don’t see it

Go listen to the entirety of TPaB and tell me that isn't groundbreaking.

Oh, come man. A bishop and the fucking king of Spain in a gay relationship, are you serious? What does it even has to do with the story?

Almost no side plots add to the stories in Dan Brown's novels.

Just do it. I know my daughter already loves to read but there is an intimacy by being read to that is immeasurable.

I think this is why I absolutely love Audio books now! The Stormlight Archive: Oathbringer is the first book I've gotten an audio version of and I think my love for it is because I remember being read to when I was a kid. It adds like a new dimension to the book when the narrator's add their own voice to each character.

After all these years Taran Wanderer is still the best coming of age story I've ever read.

Yes, yes! I threw out the name Taran to my husband when trying to come up with a name for our son because of that book. I was dismayed when he said it sounded too much like a girl's name. Taran is truly one of my favorite literary characters of all time because of his development. If they decided to make movies, I'd be excited but terrified that they'd muck it up at the same time.

As a Christian, I like this. Free will means nothing without the ability to choose between different options. We want people to choose Christ for themselves, not to just pay him lip service because that's "what you're supposed to do". Plus, spreading the word of Christ means nothing unless the people receiving it are informed and educated enough to know what they're listening to. Ironically, this move by the Satanists will result in better, more effective Christians.

How about getting all those religious customs out of the school. I send my kid to school to LEARN, not to have birthday parties and christmas parties and thanksgiving parties and easter parties. Why not have some satanic parties while theyre at it.. oh yea, birthdays are satanic parties.. thats right.

I don't know if it's called anything or not, but if your goal is to communicate with your drummer, can you write and can he/she read drum music? It's pretty basic. There is also always the default of just beatboxing it out. I play drums in a band, and if other band members want something specific, they just make sounds with their voices at me and spit a little and I figure it out. Like, maybe we'd call it "ba-tst--tst--chuck--a". It's possible this is entirely unhelpful. :P

It's not really a communication problem -- he knows what I mean -- just wondering if there's an actual term for that feel.

People have been talking about carbon capture for quite awhile, but the cost has discouraged anyone from going ahead. At $1.2 billion for a 110 MW plant, that works out to over $10,000 per kW and that only covers the handling of the flue gas. The cost of building the plant is probably less than $3,000 per kW, so the carbon capture is more than 3 times the cost of the plant

So basically it's far cheaper just to close the plant and replace it with wind and solar.

I am sure they will continue to be "debunked" when there are tens of thousands of kilometers of these in Europe. The problem with such debunkings is that they miss the fundamental problem with space.

There is plenty on free space on roofs, why would you put these on the ground where they will get abused by cars and trucks?

You seem to be actively avoiding the point. They are pushing the envelope and everyone else is playing catch-up.

If they can afford to push the envelope, they can afford to compensate their employees for extra hours worked.

No. It illustrates a respect between George Lucas and dad jokes.

I don't think you are right, but Damnit if I can't prove you wrong.

i was just seeing if he was disagreeing for disagreements sake or had an actual opinion. i think we can all agree being an actor isnt exactly serving a higher purpose. you help convey a message, sure. but you arent bettering the community that much. i personally dont care, you can hate him or like him. movies are purely opinion based

Personally I don't like him. Everything is too perfect, you know? I feel like everything that comes out is a perfect and measured response, it's like the seemingly well adjusted people in high school that gave you the willies. At least they give me the willies. Great actor though.

Hangover 2 cast was just padding their public images. Seeing how cockblocked Mel got after his rants, it's a bit understandable. Also, it just makes RDJ seem that much of a bigger man than any of the Hangover cast, with trying to help him publicly. Even if there was a bit of "owing it to him" on the back of it, not many people would've stood up. Tyson's rape is just so old news, that the general population don't really give a shit and neither does media anymore, but Mel... that was still hot.

That's how stupid the general population is regarding the nature of gossip and tabloids. They get bothered by Gibson saying bad words but forgive Charlie Sheen, a man with four legal altercations involving violence against women including *shooting one*.

False: Murray Rothbard and lots of others have argued this case.

Murray made me feel like a socialist for thinking we need government for the military and courts.

It's not a "bad habit" it's a literary technique. It makes more sense if you understand the themes of the book.

Eh ... Sandersons use of *in media res* is overdone and of putting - while proper use of it should grab a reader faster. Just because it's a literary technique doesn't mean it can't be misused as a bad habit

It was gory. But don't worry, the cinematography was so awful and poorly lit that you didn't notice.

That was the worst lit movie I've ever seen. Ever since I've seen that movie I always make a mental note to appreciate the lighting guy more.

The Horse and His Boy is definitely up there on my list.

That one is really cool :) Basically whenever C.S Lewis spends time on his world is absolutely enchanting to me :)

the only ones I don't agree with are no eating crunchy foods, and no arriving late.. I mean nachos are sold at the cinema people are going to buy them.. As for arriving late, people have the ability to book tickets in advance online, what if they get to the cinema late by accident. for instance, traffic can be a problem.

I agree, though there's a limit on lateness, 15 minutes at most. I don't care if there was traffic, if you cared enough to purchase your tickets in advance, then you should be able to get there on time. Whenever I go to movies I leave 20-25 minutes before the movie start time, despite living a 4 minute drive from the theater.

High intensity lasers superheat the air that they pass through, thus expanding it which results in a lower density. Really all there is to it

Then index of refraction is a function of density. So you have an additional source of quasi unsteady index of refraction fluctuations from the laser itself.

Ever read Salman Rushdie? I think you might like him. My favorite so far (of his and favorite book I've ever read) is Shalimar the Clown.

I think we have one of his books lying around the house. I'll look for it definitely!

[SSDs can lose data in as little as 7 days with no power]

Please read the PC-world article. That is referring to when the ssd is at the end of its life and stored in a sauna.

I've read Hawksong SO MANY TIMES!!! I thought I was the only one.

!!! It's kind of a guilty pleasure, and I really dislike all the books after it, but I just LOOOOVE that book.

Profesional? From the looks of it at least one of the angles was shot on an iPhone.

By a professional who knew exactly what and when to take. You can have pros running 8mm or betamax... iPhone's just another cam.

Opel ampera e in the eu. So they do sell it outside the US.

But the Ampera is not really available to buy. They only sold 2000 units in 2017. [Source (German)]

I stumbled upon this TechCrunch article, titled "Your washing machine should be smarter about washing clothes than you are " It presents a prototype showed off by Hoover Europe at IFA this week, which "offers some potentially compelling steps toward a day when our washing machines will work with us more than they do against us." This article got me thinking, and I would appreciate your input on this - how come in 2016, the whole area of washing machines is still so under-developed?

I am going to say the same reason ovens have not changed.

I really should have looked at the rules. Thanks for the comment.

No problem, I hope you find just what you're after!

Which is why they shouldn't be on the front page. I seriously doubt somebody would first hear of Tool from reddit. This subreddit should be used to introduce people to good music that they've never heard before, not artists most redditors know and love. Number one way to make /r/music better: Don't upvote anything you've heard before. Sort by new. If it's unfamiliar to you, give it a listen. If you like it, upvote it. It's the only way this place won't turn into a void of Tool, Led Zeppelin and Radiohead circlejerking.

That's what /r/Music gets for being a default sub. If you want new and interesting content, head over to /r/listentothis.

Only God Forgives has literally nothing to do with Blue Velvet

Seriously? It's pretty much an Oedipus/Freudian essay on celluloid in both cases.

Critics such as the Rolling Stone also gave Led Zeppelin really bad reviews (incoherent screaming over a bunch of noise... "a poor man's Cream") and gave Cream bad reviews (lame song writing with formulaic blues riffs). Getting bad reviews isn't necessarily a bad thing... especially if your fans don't give a shit about reviews.

the difference is the fans decide; zeppelin still sold albums in spite of the negative reviews. I always thought blind melon was horrible; then again I always loved sublime and they didnt blow up till after brads death; such irony

You mean finance.yahoo.com isn't a reliable source for scientific journalism?

It's not terrible. They backup their claims with source.

but dude, if you take shorter showers, people in Africa will have more water

Is that why my shower water starts to smell funny after 45 minutes?

Don't know why you're getting downvoted, 90% of the comments linked in /r/moviescirclejerk are people in /r/movies constantly jerking over them. I remember when the trailer for it came out a guy commented and got a shit load of upvotes saying "This has the potential to be better than 2001 and I guarantee it will be nominated for numerous Oscars, I guarantee it!", this is just off the fucking trailer.

The downvotes are proof of what i said, sometimes it feels like those 2 are the only directors people here know. It is like saying something negative about Zlatan in /r/soccer or saying that The Beatles and Queen aren't the greatest bands ever in /r/music.

My parents always read to me and my sister in the evening, when we started to learn it, we practiced by taking turns in reading out loud. It kind of developed from there to me being a massive reader if I have the time. They even had to install arule that we can't read at the dinner table. Plus there are books everywhere in their home and they go to the public library once a week to borrow new ones, and as a child I often went with them. So I wasn't really forced but more surrounded by it. If I have children, I guess I will try to get them to read especially out loud because it can be really helpful.

My dad used to read to us every night, even after we were old enough to read (usually things otherwise above our skill levels). I used to get in trouble for reading when I was supposed to be doing homework.

It's my suspicion that the scalpers are actually "bots" that carry out the orders for these tickets, and not the guys holding up signs outside the venue. Now apply this "bot" theory to the stock markets and we can imagine how things could go to hell in a hand basket rather quickly.

that's pretty much a fact. there is an industry to this.

I know. I dont know why this keeps getting passed over. Avatar has scenes directly lifted from fern gully.

I think this is why James Cameron doesn't acknowledge it. He can't say he didn't blatantly rip it off because....well, he did.

my view on music is, there are tons of people that can perform at an elite level in music, they can play perfect music in front of huge live audiences, but that doesn't mean you can make original music. I think this is one of the beautiful things about music. You may not be the best performer, have the best guitar skills or vocals, but you can still create original, unique music that only you could ever make, no one else.

That's why shows like American Idol are stupid. You're not finding America's next great talent, you're just finding people who are good at karaoke.

I don't think either of you have it quite right. One, it's not so much a horror film as a satire. Second, while it's about religious extremism, it's also about extremism on the side of the "War on Terror" obsessed cops, so Smith is criticizing both sides. I don't think it really works if you treat it as a straight horror film, but it's pretty good as a super black comedy.

At the very least, watch this film to see Michael Parks give a fucking fantastic sermon.

Yes! I got a beautiful copy of Jane Austen's [*Emma*] and I can't stop looking at it. Am now lusting over [this] copy of *Wuthering Heights*

I actually considered buying exactly this edition of Emma as a present but then I chose Pride & Prejudice in a similar design! Seems like Penguin books are just beautiful!

How do you know installing a 2nd port was as trivial a job as you make it sound? Seems like if it was that easy and obvious they would have done it.

Apple have $178 billion in cash reserves. If they had wanted to put in a second port, they could have found a way.

LMFAO, Lady Gaga, ^topic of this post,black eyed pees, anything on MTV, autotuning, reggaeton, music with rythm like reggaeton, the five million songs about 'booty', the other five million about 'clubbin', justin bieber, miley cyrus, the current state of music awards, clear channel radio. I rest my case.

Pop Music, for what it is by definition means the overwhelming majority of people find it good. Let the downvotes commence.

The Velvet Underground - Squeeze. It has no original members on the album, and it's so mediocre compared to the rest of their work, so everyone just pretends it never happened.

Has any other band ever released an album that features *zero* original members? I'm sure there must be at least one other case of this out there but I can't think of one

I credit a lot of Frozen's success to releasing Let It Go in all it's glory for everyone to enjoy on youtube, a nice change from the company that is usually quick with the copyright takedowns. I don't think I ever saw a commercial for the movie, but I probably watched/listened to that song 10+ times before seeing it. And now that I've admitted that, I'm gonna go drive my truck, eat a steak, and drink some beer...thank god it didn't have "princess" in the title

Can confirm, my friends and I had no intention of watching the movie until we happened upon the Let It Go video on youtube which blew me away and at which point I decided I had to see the rest of the movie.

Question: will there someday be a point when we go, "okay, we need to stop using CO² we are running out and killing the environment"?

We're past that point, but still no one listens. It has become worse than worst-case projections, and it's becoming even worse. On this please see: This is why I think, besides international agreements to actually stop releasing so much carbon, we may need to look into carbon dioxide removal (CDR).