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I thought it was basically a remake of the original with better graphics and diverse lead characters. Has anyone watched the original recently? Posted in the film thread when i showed it to the bairn. It's like watching a low rent stage play with some of the creaky blacked out money saving sets.

It just works

And would the adaptor reverse DRM if they chose to apply it? i know you don't think they will, but if the many experts who fear they will are right then nothing would get past the socket into the adaptor would it?

3. Love how defensive you've got over a sentence that included the word "midi-chlorian"

Luke was a slow witted mong. That's why it took him 6 years to get any good with the force. It's not Rey's fault she's better than him. Darth Vader was winning the biggest pod races in the Galaxy when he was 5 year old. No-one moaned about him being a Mary Sue. The racists just picked on Jar Jar Binks for his Afro Caribbean laid back demeanour in those films. Different Jedi have different midi-chlorian counts. "The force is strong in this one" can't apply to women among misogynists though. Leia had to be rescued and sit out the battles despite the force in her lineage and that's the way nerds like it.

Been looking at the specs coming out today about the upcoming LG V20. Ticks every one of my boxes, but worried on price as the V10 was $700 Hope it''s more reasonable. If it is I'll forego the dual SIM I wanted from a Oneplus 3 and go that way. http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/lg-v20-1328026/review

On the Clinton campaign efforts to suppress criticism. This follows a Krugman article where he thought (for some reason) it was brave to defend Clinton.... https://theintercept.com/2016/09/06/the-unrelenting-pundit-led-effort-to-delegitimize-all-negative-reporting-about-hillary-clinton/

Just did a speed test on giff gaff 4g and got 1.5mbps. Switched to 3g and got 4.5mbps Might be my phone though, the oneplus 1 came with issues using 4g bandwidth in UK.

Not sure how big a story the Clinton Foundation stuff has been, but I assume it's been pushed as strongly as Benghazi and her personal email server containing top secret messages. The Saudi regime donating $25m to a foundation supposedly there to win rights for women and HIV research hardly rings true and lots of damaging stories have appeared about the extent of the quid pro quo nature of these donations. The Clinton campaign haven't handled the accusations well either. Any critics have just been smeared as useful idiots for Putin who they've blamed for everything, going back to the other major embarrassment in the contest against Sanders where leaked Clinton Campaign emails show they sought to use friendly reporters to spread lies about him and question his faith. It's only served to reinforce what Trump has said from day 1 about "crooked Hilary". Shouting "The Russians are coming" does nothing to quell the very real criticism and only opens them up to further ridicule as McCarthyite scaremongerers.

538 still has Clinton 72% most likely to win based on a 4% popular lead. http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo

Donald Trump has a two-point edge over Hillary Clinton in the latest CNN/ORC national survey of likely voters out Tuesday, as the Democratic nominee's post-convention lead has largely evaporated. Among those likely to vote in two months, Trump took 45 percent to Clinton's 43 percent http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/poll-trump-clinton-who-is-winning-227751#ixzz4JTR5xVog

While i was interested in the ideas, it wasn't particularly well written either, very dry. Klein is much better on that score.

The book is more interested in workers having a stake in the companies success than running the company and making decisions. Rather than vast corporations piling up profits while paying minimum wage they should pay dividends to workers that encourage commitment and workplace satisfaction. They should go toward generous pensions rather then pension pots being cut and borrowed against which places the risk of investment on the worker but shares none of the reward. Workers should get all of this while also reducing their working hours. As robots replace people and the workforce train for more skilled jobs that are more keenly fought for, there are more people than jobs, so what jobs there are should be shared. 2 people working 20 hour shifts and each getting the pay they currently would for working 40 hours a week. These companies will succeed not because investors gamble on their growth which is the one measure of success for their leaders. Leading to boom and bust. Success will be that leaders are able to employ more people. That these companies just remain profitable whether they increase scale or not and that they are carbon neutral. It challenges leaders to move in this direction, not workers, who will only keep doing what they do and enjoy the rewards. The only incentive he offers leaders though is that the companies they're fluffng up to hit quarterly growth targets can't always sustain it and die. He appeals to their ambition to build a company on solid foundations rather than building vast personal wealth that the markets give them at the cost of their companies growing beyond the scale they're fit and ready for. I don't imagine many leaders have a preference to do that though. They're mostly in a race to get onto the stock market and cash in on what they have built when the company peaks before walking away from the board of directors with their reward as the company struggles to maintain the stock price.

Ruskoff presents a matrix of how he says business will have to develop from vampire squids sucking up everything in order to meet the growth demands of investors, to being more employee and customer focused businesses with social conscience. Googled but can't find the matrix, but the FT review is on the money... "He applauds the intergenerational vision of private companies such as Riso Gallo, the Italian rice producer, whose owners say they are only borrowing the company from their children. He is also a fan of not-for-profit organisations, local currencies and the possibilities of distributed finance via the blockchain. Imagine a world that moves from an extractive to a distributive model, in which Amazon is owned by its sellers, Uber is owned by its drivers, and Facebook is owned by the people who create its content. That world may be a better one, but Rushkoff provides frustratingly few clues about how we might travel there" Etsy and bitcoin are the most successful examples of the direction he argues for. Alternatives to eBay, Amazon and Uber which he's effusive about I looked up but they seemed to be abandoned already or have miniscule subscriber bases. I'm only just past the prologue in Klein's book, but her counter argument to how catastrophic the situation is, her "all is not lost" argument seems to be only that the situation is so catastrophic that the planet will no longer support capitalism. Once the climate finally kills capitalism then we'll have to come up with something else anyway, so let's have the global state of emergency sooner rather than later and start dismantling the society that pollutes and rebuild the green society now. As much as I agree with the sentiment of both, neither seem to offer any ideas to hang your hat on. Probably expecting too much for either to provide a roadmap to prosperity and longevity... but the lack of either is what's depressing about reading them.

Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate Hot on the heels of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus by Douglas Rushkoff. Pretty depressing pair. They both outline their own solutions to the economic bubbles that prove catastrophic for the poorest in society and the environmental devastation wrought by an economy predicated on growth. But when you look at the examples cited as being the future they've largely died off already even though the books were only published in the last year or two. We're fucked.

I'm a senior contributor at the pub. Other people call me an opinionated cunt.

.. And Anthropoid. Didn't enjoy much about it at all. Wobbly camera throughout made me sick. 2 blokes sitting on a chair chatting and the camera's being waved about like someone with parkinson's got the job, to such an extent their eyes are out of shot on close ups. Tries to build tension for the last half hour but their position is so hopeless and their fate is such a foregone conclusion that it all seems pointless.

Love and friendship. Whit Stillman Austen interpretation. Thought it was excellent. Very funny. No Mary Sue.

One criticism I never hear about male led action films. "It was shite, he was too competent".

If you can't find stock. Another well rated cheapy is this... http://www.johnlewis.com/motorola-moto-g4-smartphone-android-5-5-4g-lte-sim-free-16gb-black/p2789422?sku=236210307&s_kwcid=2dx92700012712526692&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclid=CKmHkP3w7c4CFYhicgodF5MBnQ&gclsrc=ds Bit steeper though.

If you can get a moto e from anywhere they're 4g phones that do a job for £90

£85.5m income this window. £64.4 income in the 10 windows before that combined.

there won't be many clubs who haven't broken their own transfer record in 11 years, like us.

Andrew taking a pasting for this rash decision. No wonder he wasn't keen to say what he'd got.

Remember lads... http://nufc-ashlies.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/the-transfer-rumour-mill-summed-up.html?view=classic Just check the BBC tomorrow morning. It'll tell you if he went anywhere.