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100% agree. She had a device that she truly believed in but she needed more funding to make it work. So she faked a test here and there to get to the next stage fully believing that eventually the device would work as intended and all would be well. The issue is that she kept growing and it kept failing. At some point she had to realize the device was FAR from being the working product she promised and that she would have to fake it for the long haul. Thats the fraud. Her choices were to admit it didn't work and funding slows and progress slows OR lie and try to chase her tail. She chose to lie.

I think a lot of tech start ups use this same plan to continue to get funding. the issue is that when Uber isn't working like they claim it should someone is just late to their function. When her product didn't work, people were put in danger

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It would have been interesting if Nathan had used the term vaporware as part of the questioning of development and motives.

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Bill Murray wouldn't film scenes with him in Caddyshack they hated each other so much and everyone loves Bill Murray.


Apparently Murray was a dick and kind of a mess during the shooting for Groundhog's Day. Him and Ramis were good friends before making the movie, and that ended after. The groundhog didn't even like Murray during the shoot-it bit him multiple times.

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Bill Murray has a long list of former costars who hate him including Richard Dreyfuss, Carol Kane, Harold Ramos, and Chevy Chase.

Chevy is just a douche but Dreyfuss and Ramis were Bill issues. Murray has a long list of those

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I think Elizabeth Holmes knew what she was doing all along and she still does. I think Billy is 100% being used for his family money and connections. She saw in him exactly what he is - narcissist who will go to any lengths to be in the spotlight and be the hero - and she’s letting him play that part so that she will have access to his money. I think she is a 100% predator.

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I waffled badly during the movie but eventually ended up here.

Billy is a douche of exceptionally high order though. The fact that he has power of attorney while she is in prison is the part that leaves some doubt.

However there can be no reasonable doubt that she understands the issues that she pretends not to understand (about the fraud Theranos perpetrated.). Who's on first is ultimately not a credible defense for misrepresenting your company's ability to perform diagnostic tests. In reading the Bad Blood book it was also eminently obvious she deliberately and vigorously perpetuated the fraud and concealed the technical malfeasance.

There were moments of high stress where I think Elizabeth shows the effects of deception in specific physical ways. Her face becomes locked in a not quite smile. Her nose and her cheeks also flush, sometimes intensely (resembling the cirrhotic red nose of an alcoholic). In a bizarre way her facial features resemble something like the intense whites and reds with a fixed artificial smile that you see portrayed in a Ringling Brothers Circus Clown, Howdy Doody, or even Ronald McDonald. I stared pretty intensely at those features during the long pauses in Nathan's conversations with her. There has to be some sort of literature about the mixture of excitement, joy, fear, and delight exemplified by clowns but portrayed by a Elizabeth involuntarily.

That facial expression was not natural but she sure paints an exceptional picture with it. Men and women alike fell victim to her charm in a way that doesn't make sense until you clock that she may be one of the most gifted liars and charmers to ever walk the Earth. The convincing nature with which she claims she will not financially benefit is exponentially better than the best George Costanza ever mustered.

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you can do 8 conference games and 2 P4 OOC games like Alabama and a few others were trying to make happen without a mathematical penalty on the conference.

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This is my preferred outcome

It avoids the uneven number of home vs road SEC games and allows more interesting out of conference big name games.

The idea of the SEC and Big 10 doing two game series based on the prior couple of years conference standings is very cool. With two ooc games mandated you can do that at the start of the year and keep your other rivalry games against Clemson, FSU, Ga Tech or what have you

I am very interested in seeing Dune. Eventually I want to see the Doomsday movie but it isn't important to me that it is in IMAX or even in the theater. Doomsday will be a jammed movie with CGI more than scenery and the plot has already undermined some of the better character arcs from the earlier Avengers movies.

Anyway, to answer the OP. Probably not. The big value for Dune is what they gobble up in the Christmas and New Year range. If they move it I think they lose more than they gain.

I'm also very curious whether Doomsday will have the appeal that Spiderman has had. It feels like the Russo brothers are doing an Expendables rip off with Tony Stark as the big baddie

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Because you think your Brand means something and it doesn’t. Thats what you were trying to say. Own it frick boy. You’re a trash liberal city with a school full of dot heads.

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That escalated quickly

The Internet is an angry place

It did not exceed my expectations

It exceeded my preference for expectorations.

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putting my money on the darkhorse! Joey Freshwater! Another loss, or two, with all that money being put in will something to see! BOT, Boosters, and the fricking Governor putting hard stress on a dude that doesn't do well with stress, is going to be must-see TV!

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Now that would be catastrophically stupid. Saban went.500 his first year at Alabama. Kirby went 8-5 at Georgia.

I like the idea of this provided the SEC vs B10 games are scheduled in the first three weeks of the season. There are too many SEC teams with rivalry week and other out of conference rivals otherwise (Florida vs FSU and occasionally Miami, Georgia vs Ga Tech, USC vs Clemson, Kentucky vs Louisville, Missouri vs Kansas).

Overall I'd rather the SEC do an eight game conference schedule, the Big 10 game (should be a home and away series on consecutive years), and one other major conference opponent annually. That would give you a minimum of 10 power opponent games annually which matches the present SEC requirement (and would improve the B10 requirements if they stayed with 9 conference games and added the SEC ooc game).

Then you can have two filler teams and a two bye weeks for a 14 week schedule. The consequence of NIL has been a thinner depth and 9 SEC games without another bye is compounding the injury depth problem.

If you have a 14 week season the two byes could be staggered (NFL style) to have byes between the 4th and 12th weeks (staggered with the intention of having at least three premium matchups per week and allowing the two teams on bye to be rested for a big game on the week they return). Ideally, to make it fair, the two teams on the same bye week would face each other on their return game.

I saw it and Street Fighter after work today

Street Fighter was mediocre at best. Even by the low standards of the genre.

Clayface was enjoyable if you want a body horror comic themed movie. I would give it a positive ranking even if it isn't a masterpiece. Maybe a 7 out of 10.

I could see it having a niche group of fans who really love it