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My Kindle Paperwhite is a few years old. It has the ink screen and is touch screen. It does have a backlight but it's adjustable and it's very different than the light from an iPad, for example.

I bought myself one for last Christmas, has touchscreen and adjustable indirect lighting (basicly LEDs inside the frame light up the ink/page only) Best self-gift I have bought to date.

I don't mind individual videos playing when you open their specific page, but playlists that automatically redirect to the next video are bullshit, and those promotional videos on channel pages are double bullshit.

I actually like playlists moving on to the next video. That's the entire point of creating a playlist. That being said, if turning auto-play off doesn't work, I can see how it'd get annoying.

I have a kindle paperwhite and I love it. The battery lasts a good long while even reading several hours a day, and the screen is perfect in bright sunlight and in the dark with the backlit screen. I generally have it on the lowest light setting and that's plenty bright for any level of sunlight or darkness. It's also pretty durable. I bought a cheapo $10 case when I got it and both the kindle and case are in perfect condition several years later, and I keep it thrown in my purse (with a million other things) I've dropped it, sat on it, etc...

I have a kindle paperwhite too I've had the same experience. It does great in sunlight! (And in any other situation) You can turn the brightness up and down to make it easier to read. I also had a kindle keyboard and it was tougher without the backlight. I was initially worries like you about the elements, but I bought a secondhand cover off of eBay that protects it fine. It's the one with the cover with the sleep function.

Why the fuck would you have a fridge in your garage? That's something you see in American movies, not something that people actually do.

If you live in the country it takes a long time to get to the store. More storage is a leg up. Also, beer.

Yeah, to Socialists are outraged, but I'm outraged about what this means for *legal* residents.

If Americans dealt with ILLEGALS instead of coining them dreamers or cute puppies, there would be more outrage at this suggested action. You really do reap what you sow. Ridiculous

My school had Stephen King in the library (as most high schools and some middle schools probably do)... I remember reading "It" and it had a lot of sexual imagery and cursing. "It" and other Stephen King books weren't great pieces of literature but it was one of the books that got me into reading and allowed me to discover many other books.

But the sex was not the primary focus of the novel; It wasn't a porno. But yeah, this is where that "line" thing becomes problematic.

Just finished First Lord's Fury. I seriously need to learn more about Alera. Have you heard anything recently about him continuing the series?!

Nope. He might in the future, but unless it gets licensed for an RPG (I think it'd make a great Savage Worlds setting), not happening anytime soon. He's still working on his steampunk trilogy and there's no release date on that. That trilogy's coming first before anymore Alera. And if there is more Alera, he was talking about doing it at least a hundred years in the future focusing on Octavian's grandkids.

Yeah I get that. I enjoy comedy musicians (My favourite band is Ninja Sex Party) yet I understand that it won't be big. I feel bad because in Professional Rapper he says he doesn't care about money he just wants respect, to be one of the greats yet honestly I don't feel it'll be the case you've got it right in saying he generally is more considered to be a novelty/niche/gimmick. I do enjoy serious rappers as well but sometimes I just like music that makes me laugh too. To each their own.

It's kind of ironic that he is probably rich as fuck, yet doesn't quite yet have the respect he wants.

I'm prepared to be loathed for my opinion, but I feel the exact opposite. It took me forever to get a quarter of the way through the book. It just didn't enthral me like it seems to do to everyone else. :(

I adore Kurt Vonnegut, especially Slaughterhouse Five, but I should hope no one would hate anyone over their opinion of a novel.

No shit, this is just the song I felt like posting because I heard it on the radio in Thailand and it took me back to my youth. "I Hope You Die" is prob. my favorite all time Bloodhound Gang song.

I Hope You Die is the one I put on the most. The intro is great.

I had a cheap one and thought it was fine until I got a Zojirushi on sale. This thing makes it so much better, and does perfect sushi rice. Plus it beeps twinkle twinkle little star when it's finished!

Did you get the [induction version] I adore it, the rice is so incredibly good and stays perfectly edible for days! Ours got wet and fried a circuit board recently and going back to the $10 old one was such a step back in time. Crusty rice on the bottom, soggy rice on top, stayed fresh for minutes at a time and then became completely inedible. I was so happy when it got back from repair!

The reason theyre so good is because they do a shit ton of drugs

Why are the best lyricists heroin addicts? Do you think the drugs bring it out of them or the type of personality that makes them great lyricists lead them to drugs?

I have an 8 year old son. Until recently his reading was mostly nonfiction: reference books about dinosaurs or whatever. But suddenly he's into series, and, interestingly, two series featuring girls. Clementine and Amelia Bedelia. Funny because he's at an age where all his friends are boys.

That is interesting...I have a 4 year old son...and we have been reading The Hobbit to him (a bit abridged for some of the parts) also reading the Wizard of Oz. And when we asked him which one he likes more...he said Oz...because it has a girl in it...not sure if he likes it cause she is a girl or if she’s a human (and not a hobbit)...but was interesting to hear him say that. And like your son....mine reads loads of non-fiction. Also. Not OP here.

>I couldn't stomach it for longer than 20 minutes. If you wish to try, my recommendation is not to eat anything before or during watching. If you wish to try, my recommendation is to read the original novel by Strugatsky brothers. Seriously, it's on an absolutely diferrent level. It has this grim dark feeling, but without all the vulgar shit (literally).

Alas, of all movie adaptations of their books there is only one that doesn't suck: Tarkovsky's "Stalker". And it doesn't have anything to do with the book except for the setting. So, go read the novel, but don't watch the movie :)

Could also describe the Bible, which the review on my copy of 100 Years of Solitude indicates is the only book to top it in terms of value to the human race. I am inclined to agree with the review. I have read 100YoS more times than any other book in my life. It is directionless because it is a circle, que no? It loops in on itself. Maybe I feel it so deeply because we latins are a well narrated but depressing and directionless people. I am stunned that someone actually hated this book though. Edit: I don't really think that my entire cultural group is depressing and directionless, just me lol

For absolutely no good reason I once searched the one and two star reviews for 100 Years on goodreads. I was baffled that anyone could hate the book also. It's one of my most read as well. I am from the US but was fortunate enough to spend a year living in Colombia Marquezs home country and really could feel some of the influence in the surroundings.

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>He. I'm willing to bet it's a she. Edit: [Yep] I win.

Yeah, I'm female (proof but I skip the bowl and poop directly in the vent. It's all about efficiency in Fort Literate.

Big time. The Rain Wild Chronicles seem to be fairly promising. Have you read them?

Actually no. I really disliked the Tawny Man series and I haven't been back since. But maybe I'll cave eventually.

While reading I kept thinking 'what the fuck am I actually reading'...

The way he just throws out that his Dad told him about a night where he walked round with a knife because he planned to murder someone made my eyebrows raise. You know, as ya do, son.

I was going to post this one. I will forever remember my embarrassment when I was in the tattoo chair and the original came on and I remarked it was a great cover. The artist was like '...cover?'

You weren't getting a tattoo saying "Heartbeats - by José Gonsalez" were you?

There are 30+ books all in the world written by Sir Terry Prachette. They are Sartre and fantastic. The color of magic and the light fantastic are where I would start.

That's a big number, do they have any order? Or I can pick the second and then read the 17th?

>You have a "side" in this fight and you're rushing to the defense of that side with no evidence or knowledge of the actual situation. The anti-Trump crowd can be as blind as the pro-Trump crowd. Fuck off with your lazy both sides shit. You're also making a pretty huge assumption about OP there.

How? He has literally not presented any evidence and wasn't there. He just made something up and it fits your narrative so you side with it.

It's probably because even though they try to not act like Hayley is a solo artist, it really is all about Hayley.

Normally don't like to agree with sentiments like this, but in the case of Paramore it's painfully clear that she's the only real standout talent in the group. I can't really think of a time when any of the others in the group really stood out in one of their songs but it's typically just decent backing of a really powerful front woman.

[Stalker] is heady sci-fi and one of my favorites. Might not be up your alley, but it is non-WS and in color! The intro is B&W, though...

I would really love to watch this movie. My film nerd friends have recommended it to me. Unfortunately it's not on Blu Ray which really sucks. I'll probably have to put my HD snobbery aside and watch the damn DVD since there seems to be no plans for HD release.

Yes they did enter election machines. What is unknown is what they changed. "Russians penetrated U.S. voter systems, top U.S. official says" My experirence has been /r/politics is filled with Trump supporters but suspect most are actually Russia trolls. 99% of the positive Trump posts on Reddit probably come from Russia trolls. Most Trump supporters are old, racist, white guys that do not know how to use a computer. So not realistic the postiive posts would be real.

Which "top us official"? Or is it like everything else and just a big pile of unscourced fake news? Anonymous sources say my farts smell like rainbows. That doesn't make it true.

Pain and Gain is absolute dogshit. Every character is so fucking "in your face" and the comedy is borderline offensive to the intellect. "More like raisonettes." "Chocolate covered raisonettes." Wow, so fucking funny. His testicles, they're saying they're small and shriveled. And "chocolate covered" because he's black. Ha ha ha. And. >It's easily Bay's best film. Wow. What a fucking shining endorsement. Maybe I should check out the new season of The Simpsons, too. I heard it was better than their last 10 as well.

> Pain and Gain is absolute dogshit. Every character is so fucking "in your face" and the comedy is borderline offensive to the intellect. "More like raisonettes." "Chocolate covered raisonettes." Wow, so fucking funny. His testicles, they're saying they're small and shriveled. And "chocolate covered" because he's black. Ha ha ha. Have you ever looked into what the real life people were like? The depictions in the movie weren't that far off.

Kinda cool. The head bobbing arm swinging black and white around 30 seconds in made me lose interest.

Funny you should say that, he doesn't like that bit of filming when it is in colour later on either. They have been making tunes for years for fun, this is their first attempt at making a video.

That actually is a good point. It explains why this is so over-rated to the T, thanks. I'm actually going to coin this as TheStreisandEffect when I converse about it.

Well actually since 99% of redditors are moaning and bitching about every aspect of this video I don't think this is overrated.

Yup the Cabooze! You didn't see me? I was the guy in the crowd. Also: Let's go Wild!

Heeeyyy, go Wild. Also I played the Cabooze once (indoors, not outdoors). Good times.

The dumbest part of that is how MS *pioneered* architecture-independent programs with .NET and the CLR. All this "universal Windows platform" guff is just an extension of what they were doing fifteen years ago. If Microsoft wants to make a difference in the cell phone market, they should release a phone people can install their own OS on, like they actually own the damn thing.

> The dumbest part of that is how MS pioneered architecture-independent programs with .NET and the CLR. *Excuse me*? You cannot be serious. I love .NET and I work in a Microsoft shop, but I feel like I need to introduce you to my good friends Smalltalk and Java. The former predates .NET by a full 22 years.

I have a feeling Ultron may have been in some way a pawn of Thanos. Not directly *ordered* around by him, but acting in the way he did because he has knowledge *of* Thanos. It would be a bit of a retcon sure, but would make him an interesting tragic figure.

Ultron spoke of the end of the planet coming, that's why he wanted to replace humanity with robots

The tech preview of it still suck huge. So I wouldn't count on it.

Running a duel boot of windows 10 and windows 8.1, I have to say, the store may still suck but it sucks *slightly less* than it did in 8.

no, you couldnt say the same thing about the US. the very minimal censorship in the USA is absolutely dwarfed by the systematic censorship in china.

Besides, a lot of the US censorship is done by the papers themselves, as they seek to push ideological agendas, and not by the government.

Buddy Holly? He had a huge influence on Lennon and McCartney so if we consider The Beatles to be of significance then we must consider Buddy Holly to be of utmost importance.

Especially considering he died when he was 24 years old! He was only famous for like 2 years!

I should. I could argue more with my sister, who *adores* Salinger and his novels. I'm on a Sinclair Lewis streak right now though.

Nice, just keep Salinger in mind for later then! They're all short but enjoyable reads.

I'm a female drummer and every once in awhile, someone will have a strange reaction. I was at a Guitar Center (albeit in a smaller town) and one of the employees came up to me after seeing me browse some of the drumming books and holding sticks. "So...have you just started playing drums?" I told him I've been playing for about three years. "Do you...do you just play the snare drum or the whole kit?"

"so have you started working at guitar center, or are you just focusing on the condescension for now?"

They aren't crazy, their little niche gives them comfort and ultimately doesn't hurt other people. In the end we're all just distracting ourselves from our inevitable demise, so fuck it, dress up like a tiger and have sex.

I get you point but I mean this is a kids movie.

To be fair, the publication doesn't sound like it has been banned, but rather that the retailer chose not to carry it out of PR concerns. The resulting inaccessibility is the same as it would be with a ban, but it is due to voluntary action and therefore completely acceptable. I would hope other retailers would choose to carry it, but it would be unjust for it to be forced.

Well, some families of the victims asked Amazon themselves not to sell the book, as I understand. I question their motives. I'd be inclined to believe they're just acting from a place of emotion, except it's not that often that you hear families of victims are trying to ban a convicted murderer's book. Usually such controversy only occurs when the convicted criminal stands to make a monetary profit off his book, but that isn't even the case here since he relinquished his rights to publication. It really has a bad taste of "His side of the story must never come out".

So, um it looks like you can upload pictures in addition to just text, I would advise not uploading anything lewd, as they will try to use it as a bad excuse to throw out public comments outright.

But my picture of the grinch wearing a mask holding a gun really communicates my point, worth 1000 words, you know?

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! This has been a dream of mine since I started learning my letters. My mom still has a yearbook from my kindergarten year where we were asked our biggest life goal and mine was to write the next Great American Novel....now a senior in college studying to be an educator...still waiting for my inspiration....but anyways good on you. Couldn't be more jealous! Hope this book takes off (and if I wasn't a bloody broke college student I would buy yours..sorry!)

Thanks, and let me just encourage you to never give up that dream. Keep working at it. I let a lot of years slip by, and then around 2009, I buckled down to make it happen, and here I am.

what about the freezer? half+ of my on-hand food is in that compartment

For a freezer the temperature difference of this technique is too small. It barely works in fridges for now.

That's really the only one I enjoy (or, as a disclaimer, have listened to extensively). I listened to Californication a bit, but it just seemed so generic. I couldn't really get into it. It wasn't captivating like other music is.

I would say they hit their peak at "Mother's Milk" or "Uplift Mofo Party Plan".

To be honest, I'd be perfectly happy if I ended up in the Netherlands, perhaps moreso.

As you should. I'm from Italy and as several others of my countrymen chose to live in the Netherlands, no regrets :)

Try Lyft. Service is as good or better in my experience, company not nearly as shit. App's not as good, admittedly.

Yeah! But they are not yet in my city unfortunately.

gorhill actually recommends not installing both uBlock Origin and uMatrix if you're using uBO in medium mode. If you still need a separate javascript blocker I recommend [ScriptSafe]

Thanks, didn't know that! Do you have a source on uMatrix/uBlock Origin? I found this comment [here] where he says he doesn't use both but not much reasoning behind it. Pros of ScriptSafe vs uMatrix?

Palanhiuk is must-read. Lullaby is his best book if you don't mind stepping into some of his less popular work.

Palahniuk is definitely must read stuff, but I don't think Lullaby is his "best".

Can we fucking just nuke the next Gathering? What a complete waste of oxygen these dumbfuck Juggalo trash are.

Sounds like Tila is planning to nuke them via the court. The promoters probably have a site/event insurance policy and Tila was jammer that, then the promoters may have difficulty getting coverage, which = no more event.

I am a bit late for this, but seeing as you are a PhD candidate I need to know something. How can you make such a mistake calling the "city in speech" an "ideal state"? Such a claim shows that you fataly miss understood the argument. Can you source exactly where he called it an "ideal state"?

It’s not Plato’s terminology, but it’s standard in the field. Plato seems to be giving an ideal theory of justice by imagining, by his reckoning, what the most just city would be like. The city in speech isn’t an account of an actual city; it’s an account of a city that is accordance with the principles of justice. > Such a claim shows that you fataly miss understood the argument. Thankfully I’m still alive.

Yea I immediately thought “Jeff Bezos is making his arch rival’s favorite book series into a tv show.” Anyone else notice the jab at Elon in the Alexa Super Bowl commercials regarding Mars?

Mm, yeah, let me know when Blue Origin gets to space.

I love that 10cc song! As soon as I heard that opening "ahhhh" backing vocal before the opening text even faded onto the screen, a huge smile crept across my face and I knew this movie was going to be special. And then Star Lord danced to Redbone and I was right.

Lol me too! I was singing along (very low voice) in the cinema. Its weird because i was trying so hard to remember the song before i heard it there.

That was part of it but I had such high expectations for it because of the reviews I just did not really enjoy it, also I did not find it scary at all aside from one of the jump scares.

That's fair. I prefer Insidious myself but I think Annabelle is pretty underrated.

I wonder how much one bullet costs and how much tech it contains. And what it looks like.

In terms of tech, it's rather simple. The added cost is that manufacturing them becomes cumbersome and expensive when you have to integrate the electronics into a bullet.

As much as I am for open hardware, people act like this is something that we didn't expect: yes, your hardware has closed source code running on it, on a lower level than everything else, and yes, as it needs to be the safety net when everything else fails, it runs on the battery that your hardware has, so even powering the PC off won't turn it off. That's why I want open hardware, but there's no actual news here.

why does my CPU need to run its own webserver again? What possible benefit does this provide me, the consumer?

That human would probably get paid less than a driver, though, so it's still going to change the job scene.

You can only pay the guard so low before it becomes more lucrative to steal the merchandize or take bribes.

I wish they'd make a symbiote saga movie already. By far one of my favorite story lines, if done right it could be amazing.

They will. Marvel knows how important and loved that story is by fans, and it was crapped on by Sony. IMO Tom needs to get a little bit older first, before it can really be impactful though.

Witness the great flaw of *Infinite Jest*: the opening 150ish pages are the worst part of the book, and you can't fault anyone for bailing before they reach the deeper parts of the story. I'm in the obnoxious "*Infinite Jest* is f-ing great" camp, yet I acknowledge how the book has a glaring, alienating structural problem.

Thanks. I bailed on it early thinking the rest would be more of the same. May revisit.

well he is a damn liar, X3 is definitely part of this film

Idk why they insist on trying to redo everything or wipe shit clean. But I guess it easier then trying to explain how Xavier is alive again and how Magneto got his powers back.

FWIW, I feel that driverless cars are way more exciting and industrially promising tech than wearable consumer electronics. However, the regulatory and consumer perception hurdles are much higher. Driverless cars will come one day simply because they save so much labor. The same is not true of Glass; Glass never actually had any real functionality and was rushed to market waaaay before it stood any chance of success.

Glass had never actually made it to the market yet, the Explorer program was (technically still is) a private testing program. So by definition it can't be rushed to market.

I saw them at an outside ampitheatre that is in this town with a noise ordinance, so they couldn't really turn it up. Similar artists? Hmmmm...Wilco, M. Ward, Band of Horses, Monsters of Folk (Jim James is in this band as is M. Ward), Avett Brothers, Fleet Foxes, moe., etc, etc...

Yeah I think these guys and the bands you mentioned kind of bridge the gap between Hip music and Jam bands. Have you heard of Umphrey's McGee?

I haven't encountered any of these issues with my Nexus 7. It's way faster and smoother than my iPod touch, though the touch is a year old so I don't expect it to be perfect. I have never noticed it stutter. Never encountered any wifi issues either. Sounds to me like an apple fanboy.

Also, I've had mine for about five months now - longer than op.

Thanks. It's by no means a consolation prize, is it?

To some, it is. To others, it's not. A huge part of this is the fact that Oscars are rarely awarded for first timers or for a single exquisite performance. They tend to be awarded to people who are "due", in the "Oh you should have got an oscar for that film, but someone else got one because they were due from getting snubbed on another occassion, so we're gonna give it to you for your latest film" sense.

Yes & Styx. Yes sounded good except the lead singer couldn't sing an A (middle of his range, probably break point), and Styx shredded. The keyboard player is way better than DeYoung was, but Tommy Shaw almost ruined the show my yelling out "ALL RIGHT ST. LOUIS!!!" in every fucking song he sang (3 times during Blue Collar Man). That really grinds my gears.

I wonder if he did that so he could remember what town he was in. Bugs me, too, when bands do it, especially repeatedly.

does Jorg Ancrath counts as anti hero? Edit: actually, no, I like Inquisitor Glokta slightly more.

I think Jorg is actually the perfect example. You just know that tall thorny little shit can't be trusted and he does a lot of horrible things, but goddammit he manages to get things right in the end.

2018 will be the year of Linux on the ~~desktop~~ phone for sure!

Erm... >Android's kernel is based on one of the Linux kernel's long-term support (LTS) branches. As of 2017, Android devices mainly use versions 3.18 or 4.4 of the Linux kernel.[147] The actual kernel depends on the individual device.[148]

Google also forces location data for all apps when you turn it on - you can't choose which apps use it. It's very obvious most people would leave it on for Maps and disable it for everything else, and this is unavoidable by default. On top of that the "enhanced location" part of Maps uses a ton of battery with the GPS radio. There's no optimization based on highways vs neighborhoods, lengths of roads vs anticipated exits, etc. I'd love to see some of those changes, but lets face it - they're pointless for Google's business model, which is to collect data and advertise.

Not being able to give selective permission is really frustrating. I put CM on my phone and can choose what apps can access what data now, but it sucks that you can't get the feature out of the box.

I couldn't even imagine my cable provider bringing 10 gbps, let alone how much they'd charge for it.

Comcast started offering Gigabit in my area. Nobody else offers it here yet. $699/month.

What difference does it make if Creed is "part of the Rocky series?" It was made 30 years after the first one with his character in a supporting role and he's absolutely fantastic in it. He's fantastic in the first rocky movie which he wrote. Fantastic in the Rambo movies. Etc. he's made some crappy movies, but he's responsible for 3 fantastic series of movies, not just 3 movies. I don't think he falls into this category at all

He was capable of more than cheesy, genre action films. As far as what he was capable of, most of what he did do is junk.

You're looking at 3rd party sites. Presale goes on sale Thursday and general probably Friday. Here's the page showing the price range I mentioned.

Weird I thought I was on the Red Rocks site. Thanks a lot this is great news.

Mine too! I have it taped next to my monitor!

I used snail mucus to attach it to my monitor.

Do you have to mix the video with the audio? If not, you could just do it the old-fashioned way with a TV, a piano and a click track. Then send the director and/or editor the audio track and let him drop it in.

Yeah that's what I was thinking but there has to be a better way than that. There'll be quite a lot of coordination between the music and the video.

great value? no, no - it's not great value at all. or maybe it's poe's law about internet?

The state of the Internet in Australia basically looks like Poe's law in action to anyone not used to it. That actually is considered good value here, in large part because ADSL is the best connection a lot of people have access to so speeds are shit regardless of ISP.

If you like this, you should check out Steve Earle's son, Justin Townes Earle. He is much better than his father in my opinion.

Justin is nowhere near as good of a song writer as his dad. I'm not saying he's bad. I think he's great. But he's not Steve Earle.

Are the ones written by Sanderson good? I'm a huge fan of Sanderson, but so far, I feel like Sanderson and Jordan's writing styles are too different to make them work, I dunno.

Yes, Jordan left massively extensive notes, almost to the point in which the stories are still in some ways written by him.

This is basically going to kill the diesel engine as a viable option in passenger cars. Good job guys... in one fell swoop, you've succeeded in killing off an entire line of engines because of corporate greed and incompetence!

Doubt it will kill them entirely. But investing in Tesla right now probably isn't such a bad idea :p

>It's just ridiculous that the number one music sub on reddit can only collectively post the same videos and bands over and over again. but all the big subs are shit. there is a tipping point beyond which it seems like the quality decreases for every new subscription.

/r/hiphopheads has grown exponentially since it started and while you might see the occasional old song posted, most of the subreddit is comprised of new songs, or news. I've never visited /r/hhh on different days and seen the same stuff on the front page. /r/music tends to be the opposite.

Honestly, I think I liked GotG more than the first Avengers movie. Same with Cap: TWS. These are arguably the best two Marvel movies thus far. Hopefully that means they will continue to get better. My expectations for Avengers 2 are extremely high at this point.

I mean it's a Joss Whedon film so your expectations should be high anyway

In order of quality: 1: Die Hard - incomparable. 2: Die Hard with a Vengeance - a lot more fun than you'd expect from a 2nd sequel. 3: Die Hard 2 - boring bad guys but an ok sequel. 4: Die Hard 4 - not as bad as people say, IMHO. But of course, make up your own mind :)

I agree with this list, my problem with DH4 was the scene with the fighter jet and mack truck - just too out of control, way too much CGI there. Other than that, it doesn't really feel like a Die Hard movie, which makes sense, because it wasn't originally intended to be. It seems more like it could have been any random guy and didnt have to be John McClane.

Once again showing that duct tape can be used to fix anything.

I personally used masking tape (so i could see the lights partially) but yes, if you want total blackout then duct/gaffa tape would work much better

You like that? How about this: I'll give it away to whomever you like, 123not-it. I'll even cover the shipping. I should mention, it's a book club edition, published same year as the first edition.

As someone who loves Dune but only has it as an ebook which with terrible formatting, I'd love to have a quality copy.

I don't think I'll ever be able to express how perfect the atmosphere on this album is or all of the feelings it evokes

This is one of my favorite albums to listen to front to back.

I'm curious as to how hes going to make a German victory palleteable to a modern American audience.

True...but there are 3 things Americans never get tired of. Movies about gangsters, Nazis, and vampires/zombies. Holy shit! I just thought of the next blockbuster!?! Zombie Nazis that secretly work with Vampire Gangsters to sell stolen art on the black market! Staring Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, that German dude, the token "kid from Brooklyn" played by a no name actor, and some how Michael Kaine. Time to. A k up the dump truck full of money!!!!

I think you're talking about Dr. Dre Presents The Aftermath. He dropped a single called "Been There, Done That" that was suppose to represent a new direction for him as a rapper. It was pretty much universally panned and ridiculed. After that it was back to "hitting them corners in them low low's"

Fun fact about Still D.R.E. - [It was ghost written by Jay-Z]

Joey Badass feat. Capital Steez - Survival Tactics. most people here seem to think he made that beat himself, lel

oh word lol? i actually went to high school with them so i guess thats why it sounds familiar.

Well this rocks. Reminds of Zepperella's cover of When the Levee Breaks. Cool act

Hell's Belles' Adrian Conner and Zeperella's Clementine have a band together, Beaux Cheveux, they just released their debut album Ro Sham Bo

So they want to take CO2 from the air, combine with H2 from water electrolysis, and come out with fuel. So basically the reverse of burning the fuel. I don't think we've broken the laws of thermodynamics yet... so best-case scenario, we're burning renewable energy to make more gasoline, etc.? I can't imagine that's terribly efficient.

You're never going to replace all the world's cars with electric *in time.* Eventually, sure, but not *in time.* Put thorium reactors in the loop here, and yeah you can scale this up, and get carbon neutral fuel.

It's kind of both. While Dalinar is being sincere here, there's more to his character arc later that would cause you to understand these words in a context that suggests there's some unhealthy repression going on. The tension between the two states makes him an interesting character!

I have read all three books, but I never thought of this quote in the way you mention. This is a good take on it.

It did strike me as a little bizarre to see a black guy leading a posse of white guys back in the 1800s. But I dunno, maybe stuff like that really happened back then? I'm no historian.

It was rare, but there were definitely free black Cowboys, and white Cowboys often had slaves who did ranch work in places like Texas.

That fact that it's in NYC adds to it as well, for some reason.

I was really disappointed by the taste of the people of NY. It was mostly chart. Worse still 9/10 people had to check their MP3 players first.

Says the article with 37 tracking cookies attached to it, facebook and google included.

That's not google and Facebook tracking the article, it's the publisher using tracking pixels to identify you and serve you advertising

Calvino 's book has nothing to do with cloud atlas. Do you want something similar in writing technique or in content?

"There wasn't really a single Eureka moment. For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. That said, three important sources spring to mind. First, *If on a Winter's Night a Traveler*, by Italo Calvino -- an experimental novel in which a sequence of narratives is interrupted but never picked up again -- made a big impression on me when I was an undergraduate. I wondered what a novel might look like if a mirror were placed at the end of a book like Calvino's so that the stories would be resolved in reverse." David Mitchell, [in this interview.]

Yah, leave Nolan alone! He's obviously hated on, and it's unfair! He's only #2? Bullshit.

A director having a hatebase is pretty absurd, honestly. I mean, being a fan of someone makes sense. But hating them to the point you insist on trying to change other people's opinions? That's a little crazy to me.

Because it isn't an option for most people. And Linux users seem to rub off a bit of hubris onto people. I agree that it is the superior OS, but it lacks the support that Windows and even OS X have. Most distros' UIs are also downright terrible. They feel dated and require a heavy use of the terminal where they shouldn't. I don't care if the terminal is faster. In fact, I don't care if using a mouse makes me stupider than using the terminal, sometimes, I don't want to think about how to use a computer—technology is supposed to make my life easier. This is that hubris I was talking about.

Have you used linux lately? Ubuntu looks like something out of the future. Linux mint offers users a windows 7 type look a mac osx type look, and an xp type look and an older osx type look as well. THe distro's with shit UI's are the ones built to run on super old computers or built for a specific purpose. I don't understand what you mean about support either. Microsoft and especially Apple hide any official support behind a paywall, and most linux users are more then happy to help and for the most part know what they are talking about.

But to be fair, Valve is in a unique position where they're the only ones selling digital games PC in the platform that they do. Books, movies, and musi have competition.

That's also not entirely true. GOG has been growing like clockwork. They don't hold a candle to Valve, but they are still becoming extremely popular.

lol I do say that all the time and no one gets it.

"Cool story Hansel" is one of my go to quotes. Applicable in a surprisingly high amount of circumstances.

They didn't host malware nor are they malicious. Users of the service were, and its not easy to determine who is and isn't. They also aren't able to redirect you to different sites as they don't resolve hosts. It's as if you have no fucking clue what DDNS is.

But he's an "infosec guy", so we should definitely take his word for it!

Violent, yes, but how is "The Hunger Games" sexually explicit?

That's what I was wondering... I didn't notice anything, unless someone didn't like Finnick being an escort.

So lets say they clamp down on people skirting the location restrictions. Do you think that the people will all of a sudden wait for their content to come available? Nope, they will pirate. I'm not "upset" with you, it just seems silly to spend all this time and money on people skirting the location restrictions when it will be bad for both netflix and the content creators. We don't know what's in the contract, and if it was a direct breach of contract then you know Sony would be up in arms immediately. This is just posturing the same way that comcast and netflix were posturing around the peering agreements.

> they will pirate. In effect, that's what they are doing when the skirt region locks. The rights holder in that region isn't being paid for the view.

I understand Matrix changed the game a bit, but did Dirty Harry have that much of an effect on culture and the way cinema was influenced?

I believe it did, especially in terms of violence. And it's arguable that Dirty Harry set the stage for the action hero, i.e. John McClane

Yep. I cried like a baby when Freddie Mercury died. Same reasons that you described. *internet hug*

Man I'm sorry, I was just a wee child when I listened to Freddie for the first time, and even then, Queen's music is so epic that I still think about him and feel awful that he is not alive. I can't imagine what it was like for people that were massive Queen fans (like my mother) when he died. Especially when there's much they can do for AIDs these days. It's so sad when a great artist dies.

Obama covered all his shit up by courting and hand feeding the press. Trump just doesn't give a fuck because what he is doing isn't wrong and he doesn't have to put extra effort in covering his tracks. He just leaves his shit hanging out there.

Agree... and true to his entertainer persona, he is wrecking their ability to understand and adapt. He calls them out then ignores then, its reality TV in... reality.