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This book is my white whale. I simply cannot finish it.

Mine is Moby Dick. Seriously. When that day comes, I will have a celebration to remember. Although, in a strange way, it's nice to have it there, always, waiting. Giving me something to prepare for.

Theyre coming to Detroit soon. Should I just not buy tickets? I really want to expirience a Motorhead concert before Lemmy hangs it up.

Better get them now, hopefully he makes it otherwise you get refunded. I'm glad I saw Carlin before he died.

Yes, but that has nothing to do with the fact that without victory, a day to remember wouldn't have nearly had the publicity they received when working inbetween those who have a heart and homesick.

Exactly, plus, that's pretty much standard procedure for a record label.

Half.com is great, I just wish I had heard of it before my senior year

I agree that half.com is fantastic. Especially if you're looking to get international versions of text books. Word of warning on the international editions though - the problem sets may be different so watch out if your professor/TA assigns problems from the book.

Edit: post I was replying to was deleted, but my point stands. You're missing something though. >Installation, maintenance, and energy use of internet providers costs money, and ultimately, the users have to pay for it. This part costs the same for everyone. Even Grandma. So we should all pay the same for that part. *How much* I use my internet barely changes their expenses, it's all in the setup and line maintenance. That's why caps are a ripoff. They're trying to make people think internet is like water, an expensive thing that comes in a cheap pipe. It isn't. The pipe is the expensive bit, bits and bytes are basically free.

The problem is conflict of interest. If your ISP is also your content provider, there is incentive for them to maximize the number of content bundles you purchase, which they do by driving up the price of data. They really ought to be two different services, offered by a variety of competing providers at each step. This is like indentured servitude, where the landowner might pay the workers, but then charges them for their tools, and food, and housing.

The day I get a device that is part of the IOT, is the day my router's default outbound action is changed from Pass to Deny and I whitelist all my actual important devices.

On the other hand I think I need to get an iot device asap. Will be fun, before people have fixed their stuff.

It is also a crime against our youth to cover any of Shakespeare's comedies in a class where no one is allowed to explain the dirty jokes.

Read *Romeo & Juliet* in high school, hated it. Read *Romeo & Juliet* in college, loved it.

It's amazing how similar classical and metal actually are. That was as 1:1 as it can get and just by virtue of being in a different instrument it sounds metal as fuck. Basically what I'm saying is that Beethoven is the OG metalhead.

That's how I found her. After listening to and being a huge metal fan I found that American metal was missing something so I started with the Norwegian metal and black metal and that stuff is like a beautiful orchestra so I started searching to see if I could find any metal covers of Beethoven or Mozart. I was ultimately looking for Mozart's last unfinished Midsummer nights or requiem and came up short. I would love to hear some metal blended in with that song it's so fucking metal as a classical song but if it could be blended in a metal style some of those parts would probably bring tears to my eyes and set amps on fire

If in 500 years *all* knowledge of modern technology will be lost, I honestly don't care that civilization of apes will not be able to read human tape archives. Otherwise, this scenario is very close to impossible.

That was not what I said. Not at all. In 500 years, the technology has probably evolved quite dramatically, and I would be surprised if they use the same storage mediums as we do now. So what I said was. If someone 500 years from now found a magnetic band or a HDD made in our age, they would have to know exactly how to get and use the information on it. They need to produce hardware and software because they most likely do not have such simple computers.

In the trailer for The Master Joaquin Phoenix very clearly yells "I know you're trying to calm me down but just say something that's true!" I don't remember what line was in it's place, but it wasn't there.

There's that whole scene in the first trailer that wasn't in the film, where the guy is psychologically profiling Joaquin's character. Shame as it looked awesome.

Thanks. Also, why is 32 bit also referred to as x86?

Mind it, amd64 is sometimes addressed as x86-64. Remembering it helps with confusion.

Very true. iOS is even more ludicrous, from my point of view, as it pretends the underlying computer system just isn't there. The direction personal computing has taken is really disappointing.

Why? The vast majority of users don't care and just enjoy how simple their phone is. It makes it easy to get stuff done - does not being able to see a folder tree really matter for the majority of users considering the function of your phone?

It bewilders me how much this song never caught on. This is his best song, hands-down.

Too long for radio play, plus the intro starts so quiet, I always wonder if the song has actually started. So good. I like that it hides away from the Greatest Hits tracks.

Very late to the party, but I'd love to try. I'm desperate for something new at the moment. * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy - Douglas Adams. * Anathem - Neal Stephenson. * Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman (or really anything else of Gaiman's) * Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke. * The Harry Potter series

*The Gaea Triology (Titan, Wizard, Demon)* -- by John Varley

Donut is a torus. Toroids are more general and can look like spheres with a hole in the middle.

[This] is also a donut, and it is clearly not shaped like a torus. It's bad writing.

> What if those people on that site have an agreement with their spouse because they aren't getting any at home but still want the discretion? Then their spouse already knows. >They don't deserve to have their names plastered everywhere. They aren't plastered everywhere. >This is that moment where they cross over to the dark side. Have you been paying any attention to absolutely anything that's gone on in the last decade?

I'm not talking about their spouse knowing. I'm talking about having their name outed publicly when it should be their right to sleep with someone other than their spouse privately because that's why they chose that website. And Anonymous is threatening to publicly out the people who use the site if they don't shut it down. That would mean plastering their names everywhere. And don't be a dick. I was stating my opinion about Anonymous. I think they've actually done some pretty cool things in the past. So yes, I have been paying attention. There's really no need to be condescending.

So, I'm not a dummy when it comes to IT, it's just I've recently changed over to PC and just don't know the programs for Windows. So, I would like a program that will make a complete image of the computer HDD and back-it up to an external drive. So, if something happens to my internal HDD, I don't need to re-install Windows or anything annoying or silly like that, and can just go ahead from where my last image back-up was.

I like Clonezilla. freeware. bootable CDROM, clones the whole drive no matter how many partitions.

This could be a result of the needle/cartridge on your record player. Different needles will focus different sounds - typically you want to match the needle to the type of music you play. For instance, if you predominately used records, using something that produces a warmer, less bright tone will help make imperfections less noticeable

But these differences are consistent across many different recordings, which used different playback equipment.

Didn’t Einstein not wear socks? I wouldn’t trust anything that guy says

If she couldnt see the value in her own life then why should I value anything about her life?

You can't buy them secondhand, your name has to be on the tickets and you need to have ID to match. I bought them through a vendor and when I went to the show they didn't have them in my name. Luckily they had some extras so if you're desperate enough, try getting tickets at the box office right before the show starts. EDIT: for more information

Yep, figured that out the hard way. Customer service totally dicked us around. They told him the tickets were put into my name, and then told me they'd have to talk to him and finally told him they couldn't do anything. I wish they would have just said he had to show up, then we could have planned.

Exactly, it gets a brief name check while it’s been up and running for years, but they’re breathlessly yammering about Google getting in the mix. Sony knows gaming, folks. PlayStation Now, for better or worse, is the best of cloud gaming. Which, in my experience, sucked, but it’s been many years since I tried it.

Haven't tried PlayStation now but I'm on the GeForce now beta and I gotta say it's near perfect. Of course I wouldn't play a low latency shooter but single player AAA's that definitely won't run on the laptop I have now work great. I tried onlive when it came out back in the day and it was also not a bad experience. It was great cause you play demos to get a feel for the lag so something like batman arkham asylum ran pretty good and all this running off a netbook I had!

**Never Let Me Go** Ruth and Tommy. Obviously it wasn't a surprise as the entire story was heading towards it. It didn't make it any easier given that you know these characters from childhood and know exactly what the point of their life is. This might be my favourite book ever and it's both joyful and totally devastating to read. **Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire** Cedric Diggory. He obviously wasn't the most prominent character to die in the series but it was still the one that hit me the hardest. It was the most sudden and, IMO, surprising. It was the first time in the series that the danger to the students truly felt real to me.

Cedric was mine as well. I was stunned when he died.

[This] is what their son would look like. ^^^Or ^^^isn't ^^^that ^^^how ^^^it ^^^works?

Uhm...Uh, I'm straight but I would have a hard time saying no if that man started to hit on me. Honestly, I have *the* weirdest boner right now...

They knew how to contain the plasma, but this appears to be stabilizing the fluctuations of the already confined plasma. However I'm no expert, I'd love to hear from someone who knows more about this stuff.

Same here, a couple years ago i went to MIT where this reactor was- really intriguing stuff. I really believe this is going to be our main source of power for the future. Fun fact- the core of the reactor when running becomes hotter than the core of the sun

Cool, they have one similar concept. That *definitely* means it's basically re-using the Deep Blue Sea script.

Deep Blue Sea - Lets genetically enhance sharks to make them smarter. Nothing could go wrong. Whoops something went wrong... Jurassic World - Lets genetically enhance dinosaurs to make them smarter. Nothing could go wrong. Whoops something went wrong... I wonder if they are going to have a scene where something major happens and a person almost dies. Just as they are regaining composure that same danger is going to pop out and eat them.

How about "I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs to make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me."

OMFG The name of the wind is so awesome, im actually in the middle of reading it right now XD i feel like this one might actually have something even better in store than The way of kings. I am quite early in the book, during his childhood in Tarbean, i just can't stop reading it!

Apple's defense against court orders has so far been "we can't decrypt because we don't have the keys." Forcing apple to circumvent their own security means they no longer have that defense, because they can now be compelled to commit a cyberattack against their own customers. This INSTANCE of the software may never leave Apple campus, the issue is that it destroys the defense they've so far used to protect their users from governments, including foreign ones, with the ultimate effect of an expectation (and reality) of there existing a backdoor. While the software may be kept safe from our own government, the existence of it will highly motivate foreign actors to seize it, as well as criminal attackers.

"Hey, remember that backdoor you created for just that one case? We need you to do it again for this other serious case." "You said it was a one time thing" "Yeah, but you did it before, so you can do it again." Headline: APPLE REFUSES TO HELP FBI IN ANOTHER TERROR CASE. General public: "I don't see what the big deal is helping one more time" *repeat forever*

I loved The Great Brain! However, the story with the Jewish peddler might be the most scarring thing I ever read as a kid.

Dude I remember that one so clearly. One of the few I remember. I occasionally think about it to this day.

I tried so hard to force myself to read book 4 that I gave it a month break. Then I remembered audiobooks exist.

The Martian and the moon is a harsh mistress are a few good ones I've heard recently if you like space scifi. Getting into the expanse series now since they have a tv show to go along with it now that I liked.

Did you start reading further into the series? Harry doesn't always take the moral highground, and becomes a much more complex character further into the books, especially post *Changes*

I got through the first three, and I hated them. I'm not going to read a 10+ book series because it starts not to be awful after book 6.

Extreme right terrorism is actually the most common type in America. And growing.

I repeat, do you have stats to back that up?

Well you'd get pissed if a customer almost threw his latte at you because it had an inch too much of foam.

If a latte has an inch of foam, it's not a latte, it's a cappuccino.

One of the definitive SciFi horror stories is I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison. It's a short story and usually collected with others of his. Great creepy tale.

Thanks! I'll seek that out. Any recs for a particular collection by him?

10 times the energy density, 1/10000 as much energy that it's capable of delivering at a time.

Hrrrm....... well if it's a smoke alarm, or a pacemaker, or a security gate we're talking about then this might be a very nifty step.

If anyone is interested, Pentatonix does a great cover of Papapoutai.

It's actually pretty good. Just checked it out. I still like the original better, but I like their spin on it!

Johnny Cash - Hurt (Nine Inch Nails) Placebo - Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)

Happy to see this is the first and top post.

No idea, and if there's a heroine in this book, who's the hero in ASOIAF?

Yeah that was my question too. There are so many POV characters in asoiaf and a lot of them are actually women. If this is based on asoiaf the 'heroine' will die in the first book and have her family slowly killed over the course of the next few. EDIT: heroine not heroin.

you can say the same for pretty much any Odd Future song

Counterpoint: This one too: Not that it's based in reality any more than other OF, but Earl's rhymes are ridiculous.

Because they serve almost no function for most people. Most people look on their smartphone, or computer screen, rather regularly. Reaching into your pocket to see what time it is isn't a big task, and often combined with using the phone anyway. Watches are essentially jewelry, with very little added functionality.

Wearables were supposed to give humans superpowers. I remember reading about how the military developed a wearable that allowed SEAL divers to "see" using their sense of taste in darkness. Other wearables could prevent you from nodding off while operating a car... and more. Unfortunately, the reality of smartwatches ended up being more pragmatic: they harvest shitloads of data on their users. Those companies then use that information in their various deep learning projects. The fact that they charged people $200-350 was just icing on the cake.

I dunno. That sounds like a damn injun's name if yer ask me.

The Rebel Alliance could feasibly be Indian, set in Western expansion era. Though unfortunately the good guys lost in real life.

That would make sense, and I couldn't fault a man for taking the jobs he needed to take. Christ, I worked at Starbucks for nearly two years once because they were the only ones offering a job.

This is apparently Nicholas Cage's life now... Takes whatever is on offer because debts to pay...

I never heard of not having to search for an American first to use an H-1B. This story mentions this being the case. If this is true it simply has to be changed, it just doesn't fit what the program is supposed to be for.

It is very very true. When I say I am against immigration, this is what I mean. But people always assume I'm anti muslim or racist.

Maybe that is what they are using. I didn't know such a thing existed.

It would also explain why people are still having to enter a PIN or sign for purchases using Apple Pay. If EMV mode was actually being used then the terminals could use something called "mobile device CVM" to verify the cardholder (in the case of Apple Pay, this would permit Touch ID to be used without having to provide anything else).

The TSA already sells TSA Pre... which feels to me like a racket. But it does allow you to skip lines and not take off your shoes or remove your laptop.

Some airports also have a paid skip the line program (clear). It's almost $200/yr for the service and you have to pay it all up front. Might be worth it if you're a frequent traveller, but I don't know why you'd use it over TSApre if you have the choice.

It weird how one book can make you like an author and then another book can just as easily make you feel disillusioned. It makes me feel conflicted because part of me wants to call an author a favorite based on one book or one series but its only a small portion of their entire work. But I feel like when I want to call an author a favorite that it should reflect at least most of the works and not just one book.

Yeah I agree, it should reflect most of their work. You don't call a one hit wonder your favorite band if that one song is all you like - I think it's similar with authors

It's common for a lot of kids in US public schools to do it. The pacer test itself is not the problem, the issue is that gym classes are nowhere near long enough for kids to get actual fitness education. People in their 20s might remember having recess as well but that too is being reduced or even removed from schools in the US. So you've got kids sitting in their seats all day all of a sudden doing the pacer test, no wonder it's reviled.

I was good at running, but terrible at slowing down. I remember just letting the padded wall stop me instead of using my legs to slow down in order to do better on that test. I don't think that test is good for your knees...

My Antonia. Fuck Willa Cather. More like Wonta Cather, huh? huh?

Yup, I hated Willa Cather too. Of course, her book(s) were obligatory reading in high-schools in rural Nebraska

A lot of times they actually enjoy the fact that we're humorous. Or at least they say they do...

I always have a hard time enjoying hardcore metal if it isn't a bit silly. Nekrogoblikon and Dethklok are some of my favorites in the genre.

Ooh, what if in the end, the white dudes get on some sort of giant robot and head off on the Oregon Trail, setting us up for an awesome Godzilla/Gipsy Danger fight AND a sequel? The sequel can be about how white dudes were just trying to reclaim their land from native americans but all their technology was useless against the warrior spirit, so *another* Japanese dude can come teach them how to be like... settler samurai or whatever.

> so another Japanese dude can come teach them how to be like... settler samurai or whatever. Naah. By that time the chinese would've wanted a piece of that franchise cake. It'd be somebody from Hong Kong coming over to San Francisco to teach people how to kung fu then they made him a movie star.

So let me get this straight. It's totally cool to rip something off if it's done anonymously on imgur and reddit by users. But if another website decides to do it it's morally wrong. Imgur and reddit make money off the content their users post. What, you think this is all free? You think these companies are running these websites out of the kindness of their hearts? Whether it's being submitted by a user or a staff member, the websites being submitted to *always make money*. What I'm going on about is reddit's hypocrisy and over inflated sense of entitlement.

yes. those things are absolutely different. i'm guessing next you're going to ask whether or not I would download a car.

Heard of The Dear Hunter? Act 3 or the Color Spectrum are excellent albums if you haven't.

Haha, I have heard of The Dear Hunter! From RoosterTeeth, if you're familiar with them. Great suggestion though!

I hate this. "I'm 12/13/14/15 and I hate modern music. DAE hate modern music? Did I mention I'm 12/13/14/15?" Seriously. I see this everywhere! You're not different for hating today's popular music!

Cool story bro. Look at the post date. You are obvoisly looking for a fight.

What exactly constitutes as a low effort post? Rather subjective I think.

Adding more than two lines of text and posing a question to users would be a good start.

Oh good, so I just have to buy an overpriced, underpowered, overhyped piece of crap in order to have iTunes work properly.

Uh the 27in retina imac is a great deal... Like shockingly good value.

Maybe john and Jimi will sit in on a wilburys session tonight

I'm sure my dad is in on the mix, he loved the Wilburys and Tom. I know they're all having a beer right now. Probably enjoying a worry free smoke and talking story. Fucking breaks my heart with joy thinking about it.

I don’t think it improves the album one bit. That album was just about perfect the day it was released.

Right lol. No offense to that guys preference but you cant just tack on some cheap editing of an old movie onto one of the greatest albums of all time and say its better. Not a chance. If anything having that album attached to a video in the first place makes it worse. If there was ever an album that benefits from just closing your eyes and taking it in entirely its Dark Side of the Moon. It doesnt need a Wizard of Oz montage.

So.... Jay Z wrote the lyric, Scott Storch wrote the music.... Dre showed up and went 'la la la I'm still Dre' Right. Maybe that's why he beat the CRAP out of a female journalist. Maybe she was going to tell it. Maybe she did tell it. What a worthless ape.

It's annoying that people call Dee Barnes a journalist. She wasn't! She was a rapper who hosted a hip-hop video show called Pump It Up. It was like a syndicated Yo MTV Raps. Ice Cube and his crew were on the show and dissed NWA. That's why Dre attacked her. He was wrong and deserves all the shit he gets. But she wasn't some writer at rolling stone or something.

I love these books. My only gripe was Bluestar's death. Her descent into insanity and death was chronicled in a flashback in book 6. That could've been an entire book!

I used to make little YouTube videos about them and I remember I did the song from Red Hot Chili Peppers torture me as she jumps off the cliff and all the other cats are like so surprised. If you remember the book at all you can kind of piece together where the song and the story would take place.

I'm still undecided as to whether I like David O Russell as a person or dislike him. He has the feel of most great directors, that of a fun guy who's also an asshole.

Hahah Yeah, but one thing to consider that he chooses characters to pursue, because I think that he prorates himself in the charters, so maybe you should look at the characters that chooses to define how you like him as person/director.

Haha, the "disrupt" part was mostly tongue in cheek. This thing essentially revamps the user interface of ovens.

A few years ago there was an oven/refrigerator combination. You could leave for work with fresh food prepped and in the "oven", being cooled. Having set when you'd be home, the oven would switch to cooking mode at the necessary time, and have the meal ready when you got home. If you were delayed, it would switch to a hold-warm mode, and if you were significantly delayed, it would cool the cooked food down to refrigerator temps. Turns out it didn't sell. Go figure.

Hence why I said "If you were dying and had months to live, maybe that's slightly more understandable...".

And ended that statement with "but I personally still think it's rude."

You need to change the settings for how updates are applied.

I did, I changed them to manual download. Now I'm going to forget to download them and probably leave my laptop with security issues. Win7's completely reasonable and logical system ought to be the default, tbh.

Bloodhound Gang is know for letting in people for free if they do weird shit.

I remember on Howard Stern a few years ago they were talking about how some guy ate his own shit for tickets.

I still think The Guard (made by his brother and has a similar tone and Brendan Gleeson in common) is probably better than In Bruges. Love both though.

I really like The Guard. Brendan Gleeson was amazing in it. He's the biggest cunt in any movie I've ever seen who I've genuinely liked and cared about it.

Or if they don't like comics, say he's an award-winning author (got a Hugo for American Gods itself, Coraline, and others), or an award-winning screenwriter (got a [Hugo for a Dr. Who episode] or just that he's generally a classy fellow.

Alright I appreciate both of y'alls help, thank you both.

Yes, I agree with you. I just find it a bit odd to go into /r/documentaries, watch a documentary about surveillence, open the comments and the top 3 comments are "woooo so 1984", "Orwell was so a head of his time, who knows what would he think if he was alive today" and "1984 anyone?".

Why would that be weird? People relate to their own experiences all the time. Since 1984 is such a common book to read in school, it's a common experience to be able to relate to.

Oh I forgot to answer that part. As for his recognition, he got a fair bit, but when it comes down to it people know him for the beats he uses and not for his flow or lyrical dexterity. Using big words =/= being a good rapper, you gotta make lyrics that are **smart**. Now he may sound great, that's for sure. But to say he deserved more recognition when none of his songs are particularly clever is a bi much.

I think his stuff is pretty clever. He certainly deserves more radio time than Flo Rida or Lil Wayne's Lollipop (backed that ass up like burp burp? really?) I don't know. I guess it's a Trey Songz type of situation.

My problem is that Matt Damon wasn't portraying a nerdy scientist (just a confident one), mainly because Matt Damon doesn't have the features of a nerd. So saying stuff like that made my eyes roll. If an actor was portraying a stereotypically scientist, the line would had probably passed. I haven't read the book so I'm not sure if there's a differences between the 2.

That's the issue, you are assuming that he isn't needy based off of his looks. The whole movie proves otherwise in his knowledge and humor. What's wrong with not using an overdone stereotype?

You'd probably need at least two 980s to run any new game at 144fps on acceptable settings. I've got an OCd 970 and the newest game I can run at 144 and decent settings is League of Legends and that runs on anything.

And this vr headset doesn't require 144hz I was just giving an example. You only need 90 which should be attainable in a lot of games at reduced settings.

If they autotune or remix the original song, I'll leave the theatre

They did. In the trailer. Save yourself a trip to the theater. Er. not Re.

Google now can't even answer my weather questions. "Is the weather nice today?" "The weather is 25°C in Nice today" Unless the app on iOS is radically different to the version on android, I can't see how Google is getting 88%. Edit: What are all the downvotes for? It's a valid criticism, after all it's the first way I decided to ask the question (I didn't look for a failure) and it failed. If it can't handle a simple, common question how is it handling advanced ones?

There are a hundred ways to ask the question that work perfectly - is it going to be sunny, what's the temperature, do I need an umbrella etc. - you just picked the one version that can be misinterpreted. My main criticism of Google Now from your question is that it should have better French pronunciation.

[Pierre Dutour - Magic Lake (I)] [Daedelus - Playing Parties] [Daedelus - Astroboy] The top one is my favorite and the other two are also great. Give them a listen I provided links :)

>:) I am happy that you are happy. Spread the happiness around. [This doggo demands it.]

Are you just a bot that responds to posts made by bots?

Are you just a bot that calls out other bots? Lol

They should have brought him along after the pentagon heist. I was bummed when the just said goodbye.

They made hm so powerful that he would have just solved everything on his own while the rest of them sit around doing nothing.

45 female here.. I’ve been a strong reader since I was 15 or 16 and I’ve still never read the series.. I love PNR/Fantasy, Romance, Suspense. I’ve downloaded the first book since they r all on Kindle Unlimited but I kinda feel like I’m to old to enjoy them now. Thoughts? How old were you when u read them for the first time?

The first two books are definitely kids books, but they lay the groundwork. When I put down the third one, my thought was, well that definitely turned dark. My favorite, by far, are the last two. Not only do you see the development of Harry and his friends, but JK Rowling as a writer. I have read through them several times now. I was past 30 when I read the first one.

If you get a chance watch the National Theatre production directed by Danny Boyle.

I came here to ask if that version was any more true to the source material, is it then?

China, U.S., probably every other fucking country, where could one buy a router that is not backdoor-ed? Is it even a realistic outcome?

1. Get a router that's listed in one of OpenWRT or equivalent's supported devices list, and doesn't have an idiotically hard installation procedure (if the maker's obstructing you from owning your own hardware, that's a big red flag). 2. (Optional) If you're really paranoid, open it up and verify it has only the CPU/flash chips it's supposed to. 3. Wipe that sucker and reflash it. This is good practice even if you don't care about backdoors, because a lot of budget router stock firmware is absolute trash.

Except the woman that started this and that you're piggybacking off of, that has,said it was sexist

And it's problematic that you find a woman's opinion to confirm your own biases to be more worthy than the majority of **other** female viewers who didn't have the same problems that she did. But ok, she's a women, so she **can't** be wrong in any way. **EDIT**: Let's put it another way. You're essentially using her as a poster child to represent what a majority of women think, even though the opposite is the case.

As a baseline minimum, yes. In Days of Future Past, Wolverine looks a lot more Old Man Logan, though Xavier and Magneto look relatively unchanged so make of that what you will.

They're just old. No point in making them even older, I guess?

Mr Bungle is top notch, can't believe I left that off. I' going to throw in squarepusher as well.

I am systematically listening to all of this. Mr Bungle seems to disregard Genre entirely, in some case multiple times in a song.

He just doesn't enjoy them and wants to shit on them because they are extremely popular.

I like DJ Snake and Martin Garrix so your theory is wrong. I get tired of people calling them pioneers. They just turned edm into pop. I don't like Skrillex either.

My high school got $10,000 from the PTSA to do whatever they wanted. And they bought an electronic sign for outside the school on the street. Meanwhile half the bathroom stalls had no doors and there was never any soap or paper towels. Never mind giving it to the arts program that was losing funding even though it won way more awards than any of the sports teams. I'm still salty about this and it's been almost 6 years.

> And they bought an electronic sign for outside the school on the street. Because that's something that benefits the community...

The thing about old, practical effects, is that if they're done well, they're timeless. CGI and bad effects may eventually look "dated", but good practical effects never will because they've attained that level of realism. My favorite bit of practical effects is the end of Aliens. IIRC, they didn't use any CGI, and the entire fight looks completely lifelike, it's totally visceral and intense. That scene will always look that good, and it will never look anything less than real.

Not really. For people like us, who grew up with them, we accept the practical effects, even when they're rubbery and move like slideshows. Look at the movements of the Power Loader and Queen. They look really stiff. Of course, we're willing to suspend our disbelief because we have a nostalgic adoration for practical effects.

I'm still very sceptical that they'll be able to drive autonomously in extremely snowy conditions anytime soon. Living in Minnesota, there's still a lot of humans that have difficulty with it. Hell, I've driven on unplowed roads where I've had to guess where the road ended and ditch began. It would just really suck to be stranded in the middle of nowhere in a snowstorm because your car couldn't figure out where the road was.

I'm sure we're still far away from autonomous cars that can't be overridden manually.

You know what? I think we can drop the spoiler warnings for movies released twenty years ago. Just a thought.

Well you know, it's funny. If I didn't I'm sure there would be a comment either here/fb/youtube or wherever stating that I didn't advise that I was going to go over plot details aka spoilers. In this day and age I really don't know what the appropriate time period is seriously. A guys yelled at me for spoiling a part in the film Seven about a month ago. and Seven is in 'No Way' a new film.

I just wish people would get off his back for Prometheus when he was clearly just the pen putting Scott's ridiculous ideas on paper. Jon Spaihts had a decent working script that Scott crammed all this crazy shit into via Lindelof, and defends vehemently (and rather pompously) as his vision in the director's commentary.

Shh. No one wants to know how the sausage is actually made. You know what they say: the movie's good, the Director gets all the credit. Movie's bad, the writer gets the blame.

I hate this argument because Star Wars is based on Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey, outlined in his 1949 book 'The Hero with a Thousand Faces', which outlines the plot points that most heroic myths and stories hit. Sure, Eragon hits these too, but George Lucas didn't come up with them. He's talked about this extensively over the years. Even if that wasn't the case, what's wrong with a fantasy version of Star Wars with dragons? Sounds cool to me.

You're not wrong, but eragon has almost identical story beats to to star wars. Yes, there's only so many ways you can do the hero's journey, but eragon flat out takes many of its plot elements from star wars.

Magical Mystery Tour. Sgt Pepper. Revolver. Rubber Soul. Abbey Road. White Album. Let It Be. Please Please Me. Help! A Hard Day's Night. With the Beatles. Beatles for Sale

I think that's the best way to go. One or two is not enough. For me it would be like this. White Album. Let it Be. Revolver and Rubber Soul (They sound like they could have been released as a double album) Sgt. Pepper. Abey Road. Help. Magical Mystery Tour. A Hard Day's Night. EDIT: Please Please Me (forgot this one) With the Beatles. Beatles for Sale.

Lots of people throughout history deserved to have their deaths celebrated.

Is Thatcher really morally comparable to Hitler/Mao now? Sure she made decisions that adversely affected many people financially but the same can be said for any leader steering through economic crisis. Thats a far cry from genocide.

5 misfires imo, Build Me Up, Break Me Down, Far From Heaven, and Beneath the Surface all sound meh to me. The only song I remember off DT12 is The Enemy Inside, and I remember it as one of DT's weaker songs. It sounds like such a generic metal song, so boring. I REALLY hope that their next album will be better.

I actually the two slower songs you mentioned. JLB seems to write the best lyrics in the band nowadays. Besides Prophets of War.

I always hate when people say this. The old movies relied on gods, and a cup that makes someone live forever... aliens are a lot more believable.

no, i dont think you understand, the ark of the covenant melting everyones faces is 100% legit. The holy grail keeping one of the original crusaders alive for thousands of years is part of the bible, so you know its good. And a shaman being able to hypnotize people and tear out their heart with his bare hands THROUGH THEIR STERNUM is just quality work. Aliens only seems like a bad story because of how many other bad stories have decided to fall back on supernatural elements to make it look like they know what theyre doing. In reality, its another fable that Mr. Jones was (un)fortunate enough to get caught up in.

I live in Australia so it doesn't hit me so love to home. You know what? I still actually fucking cried a bit. We have soldiers sent over too. My dads in the reserve here in Australia, but he's a Warrant Officer so mostly goes to the base to train people, but it's like 3 or 4 times a year for a few weeks at a time

I live in the United States. I may not support all the wars my government gets into, but dammit I will support the men and women who have to fight it.

> It's what helps to keep box office and food prices low. It does nothing of the sort. "The majority of the price charged for a movie ticket, Goldstein explains, goes to the studios and distribution companies, not the theater. Theaters, it’s been said, are really in the popcorn and candy business. The showing of films is just an excuse to gather a crowd and try to sell them buttery snacks and sugary drinks."

Well your talking to someone who has worked in the theatre industry for the last 15 years. Yes 90% of the ticket sale goes directly to the studio. But we set the box office price from the company level (studios have no control over this). So yes, ads before our films help to keep the ticket price lower and food prices lower as well. Ads are a marketing line that is solid profit for the industry and helps to offset other costs and keep things from going up.

I'm not an expert in copy right law. If it's public domain i don't think it should be a problem, but I'd become an expert on copy right as it relates to musicians before going public. I'm sure there are definitive resources available.

Been in a band that has toured for a few years now. Only one venue out of dozens has told me not to play covers. Not to say I checked with each one to see though.

I'm going to repeat a question that's all over this thread: is "...or something" actually in that book?

If it is than its over. that's the final definitive proof that god is dead.

A big thing I picked up on was his skin looked that way because of his mutation. Previously I had thought he had the mutation but was badly burned and it affected his skin. Cool clarification.

His appearance is actually due to his cancer also gaining the healing factor mutation.

That seems like a pretty fucked up movie to watch as a kid… all those people died o.o

Maybe I was more 12-13... Yes, the fall in the spectators was pretty solid...

I've looked for it but... I don't know if there are any ways to listen to it online. Jason Reitman did Resevoir Dogs with an all black cast, and I scoured the interwebs for it and couldn't find nothin. I don't know why they don't put them on itunes or something because I'd definitely pay to listen to em.

Me too, I mean damn, Mark Hamill as Obi-Wan AND the Emperor!? I'd pay a lot to hear just that.

>I gave my students a choice of three books, with a brief synopsis of each, and let them vote on which they would like to read next. That's very interesting. I would have made a record of this to keep track of which books your classes choose over the years. What books in particular do you recall being picked often? Was it generally the same books that got picked, or did it vary from class to class?

It varied from year to year and class to class, but the books/plays that I remember the students choosing more often were *Brave New World*, *A Tale of Two Cities*, *Macbeth*, *Death of a Salesman*, and *Inherit the Wind*. I also gave them options of short stories and novellas periodically to break up teaching longer novels and to help illustrate particular elements I was trying to teach, like using Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" or D.H. Lawrence's "Odour of Chrysanthemums" when trying to teach them to look for symbolism in literature.

Is the Mistborn series indicative of Sanderson's quality overall? I didn't finish the second book because of how generic and flat I found the characters. The world felt one dimensional and the plot a generic fight of good vs evil. People criticize GRRM's writing speed but I find his character's well-rounded with complex motives and feelings about their environment.

Try out his Stormlight series...I thought it was much more alive than Mistborn.