Everything posted by Wu Ming
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Share Your Desktop
so how do you use your computer without having a taskbar at all?
- Poll of the Day: Would you rather? - (5/26/15)
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Game of Thrones: Season 6 thread
I was super stoked for this episode, but after watching, left disappointed. Basically none of the main plot threads have advanced much. Jon's still dead, Deanerys is still captured, etc, etc. It's especially disappointing given that there's only like 14 more episodes left total since they're gonna cut the next two seasons down in length.
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Batman Vs Superman
huh you'd rate the new star trek that highly? I loved the first scene of the first star trek movie, that was probably one of the best intros of any movie that I've seen. However, the plot for Into Darkness was pretty shit. Having Khan's blood bring people back from life and having a backpack teleportation device is crazy overpowered.
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The Race for the Democrat Nomination
I think it's the opposite. Hillary has done pretty well in the deep south. States like New Hampshire are gonna vote democrat anyways.
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Suggest RTS
chess is turn based
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Batman Vs Superman
Why? affleck is a pretty good actor
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Suggest RTS
I used to play Rise of Nations. It's a little outdated at this point, but it's a damn good RTS.
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House Of Cards
Maybe this is sexist but I enjoy watching Frank scheme a lot more than Claire scheme. He's much more multi-dimensional, he has all these mannerisms, he cajoles, he threatens, he does silly shit at times. I'm on episode 6 right now, and it's too much Claire for me. Also, I think the Russian president said it pretty well, Claire is a nobody without Frank, so it's been really annoying watching her destroy him as if it wouldn't reflect on her as well. Overall, I just hate the Frank-Claire marital problems arc, and the idea that people would be fine with her as her husbands VP pick is just flat out crazy. House of Cards's realism went out the window when Frank killed two people personally, but this is on a whole nother level.
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Why Bernie Sanders shouldn't be President.
Global warming is expected to cause problems over the next 100 years. China wants to hold those islands today. And they can move equipment off if the water starts rising too high. Much harder to do that with entire cities like New York. Finally, I don't care so much about polar bears either. But I do care about food production. People start running outta food combined with a rising or flat population, and you seeing the terrible shit happening.
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Why Bernie Sanders shouldn't be President.
Robert, take a good look at Marco Rubio. I think that you'll find a lot to like. He lacks experience and on social issues, he's pretty far right. Opposing gay marriage for one. He speaks eloquently but I don't think he's much better than the rest. Kasich is all round better in my opinion, too bad the party won't coalesce around him.
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The Race for the Democrat Nomination
the government only has so much money, why should the rich get to send their kids to colleges for free? It's basically a flat tax then.
- Any Aussies on the forum?
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Well...We're fucked.
anecdotes mean nothing
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Terror trial collapses after fears of deep embarrassment to security services
I find it difficult to justifying to your citizens that you are getting your troops killed for rich and beautiful history.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III Trailer
I'm not a big cod fan, but the teaser trailer before this was pretty amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfr053KdD6w
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US training troops and Armored vehicles being deployed to Ukraine
Because the US is a global hegemon and has the means via aircraft carriers and foreign military bases to project power into the backyards of those countries. It's as simple as that. The reverse is not true.
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US training troops and Armored vehicles being deployed to Ukraine
I guess one possible analogy is that Russia views Ukraine similar to how the US views Guatemala, as part of its sphere of influence.
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Reddit User Posts Live Update of Wife Cheating
The most suspicious part in my opinion was how he broke into his wife's phone with the password changed without her noticing. What does he think this is, CSI?
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Calling Computer Nerds!!
I think if you can't use windows well, it's probably a bad idea to switch to linux because there's even more incompatability problems. but that's just my personal opinion.
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Calling Computer Nerds!!
So how do I fix that? look and see if there's stuff from HP that you can uninstall under add/remove programs
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Movie, Frozen,
the plot was a little thin
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Movie, Frozen,
Actually, that just makes the movie even worse in my opinion.
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Movie, Frozen,
The plot seemed kind of thin. Elsa froze everything and the whole movie is just about convincing her to come back and unfreeze stuff. Also, it isn't clear how Elsa was able to finally bring her powers under control, which was the whole point of the movie.
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Have any of you read outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
This about sums up my opinion of him, from the horses mouth: I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research … for ways of augmenting story-telling. The reason I don’t do things their way is because their way has a cost: it makes their writing inaccessible. If you are someone who has as their goal ... to reach a lay audience ...you can't do it their way. He drastically oversimplifies issues just so he can spin a good yarn. Not a big fan.