The actors.
tetris11
joined 2 years ago
Same reason I liked Beowulf. No, sister, Angelina Jolie's performance was not the main draw for me.
That scene where the fallen king lies briefly on the beach next to his maddened engoldened son, before the sea washes him away.
And the CGI is still amazing
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
I was genuinely impressed by this movie
Check out Pandorum if you haven't already. I think about that movie a lot.
Isn't this just a pay-to-win exercise now, given the fame and the reknown of the Booker prize?
The optimist in me wants to believe that this prize will maintain its integrity and promote books by their merit alone.
The realist in me thinks that publishers will dump large sums of money at the judges of this prize in order to promote their latest flag product
All this article has established is marketable demographics that future publishers can prey upon
It was my first job in a hostile city. My apartment was trash so I learned to sleep under my desk instead of going back there. My parents were getting divorced and it ended up forcing me to pick sides. I cut off communication from both of them due to the pressure, and decided to do something positive in my life. I joined a gym. It cured all my social anxiety, my stammer was gone, I could look people in the eye, and I was getting a lot of attention from girls. This made me more angry than happy as I realised that these same girls did not care to talk to me before I got fit. I isolated myself at work too as I tried to distract myself in my work from my unstable life, but one girl would not let up and would actively touch me and try to get me to react to her. It was harassment, but I never reported her. I endured it for a year or two, then she left, and afterwards I left the country.
Its a thought experiment involving a room where people write letters and shove them under the door of the Chinese kid's dorm room. He doesn't understand what's in the letters so he just forwards the mail randomly to his Russian and Indian neighbours who sometimes react angrily or happily depending on the content. Over time the Chinese kid learns which symbols make the Russian happy and which symbols make the Indian kid happy, and so forwards the mail correspondingly until he starts dating and gets a girlfriend that tells him that people really shouldn't be shoving mail under his door, and he shouldn't be forwarding mail he doesnt understand for free.
is it still like that?
Yes and no -- there are now non-free repos (so you can install firefox for example), and even non-free binary repos too.
What a British thing to ask. Very apt sir, very apt.
``Your Leg May Really Be Broken, But That Is Not Really Your Leg''
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