Oppress-Crackatron3000: Why Macs Suck When it Comes to Getting Your Money's Worth, a Response to Daisy/Anarchei.
I’ll try and keep it simple and start off with a tl;dr right now
Macs suck because with the money you use to buy a mac, you could build your own computer for about 2/3 to 1/2 of the price with the same exact specs and run a hackintosh.
Let’s delve into the specifics by taking the Mac Pro, the…
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‘I don’t know at all, Tarrou, I promise you, I don’t know. When I first took up this profession, I did so in a sense abstractly, because I needed to, because it was a career like any other, one of those that young people consider for themselves. And, perhaps, also because it was especially hard for someone like myself, a working-man’s son. And then I had to see people die. Do you know that there are people who refuse to die? Have you ever heard a woman cry out “Never!” at the moment of death? I have. And I realized then that I could not get used to it. I was young and my disgust thought that it was directed against the very order of the world. Since then I have become more modest. Quite simply I am still not used to seeing people die. I don’t know anything more than that. But, after all…’
Rieux paused and sat down again. His mouth felt dry.
‘After all?’ Tarrou said softly.
‘After all…,’ the doctor continued, hesitating again and looking closely at Tarrou. ‘And this is something that a man like yourself might understand; since the order of the world is governed by death, perhaps it is better for God that we should not believe in Him and struggle with all our strength against death, without raising our eyes to heaven and to His silence.’
‘Yes,’ Tarrou agreed, ‘I can understand. But your victories will always be temporary, that’s all.’
A cloud seemed to pass over Rieux’s face.
‘Always, I know that. But that is not a reason to give up the struggle.’
‘No, it’s not a reason. But in that case I can imagine what this plague must mean to you.’
‘Yes,’ said Rieux. ‘An endless defeat.’
the plague - albert camus
Via Famous Monsters of Filmland
For the back story on the Time magazine cover that inspired this bit of genius (anyone know who created it?), go here.
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mewithoutYou: On existence.
“It’s strange, if that were true, could I tell you that? It’s part of that same idea— coming to unpack a little bit that we’ve come to identify as and say “well maybe the answers that I’ve accepted regarding the question ‘Who am I?’ are not absolutely trustworthy,” so that…
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The offending tweet was made by a schoolfriend, not the kid whose account it’s on. (see the next two tweets). But look at the class of Stephen Fry’s answer.
(via Reddit)
The nice man that Stephen Fry is, as usual. Somehow people just don’t understand that being nice is that best response to this sort of thing sometimes
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AETHER
Photographic collaboration by Nicholas Alan Cope & Dustin Edward Arnold
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Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?
And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?
Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?
The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.
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