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Reynolds Woodcock

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  1. 16 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    this is the actual shit TSA should be looking for.  whoever that was should be banned from air travel for the rest of their lives (along with people who stick their feet onto your armrest from the row behind)

    Along with the people who use the seat in front of them to pull their fat ass self out of their own seat 

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  2. 9 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    Her parents were millionaires and allowed her do pursue her passion with zero risk at an early age. Got her into meetings with labels. You seriously don't think money plays a part in life in general? She wasn't some starving artist playing shitty venues in shitty cities, living hand to mouth and risking it all to pursue her dream. She was manufactured at an early age to have a huge safety to not fail. And even if she didn't pan out, would have just pursued her next venture.

    This is the same concept as millionaires starting a business venture vs someone in low/middle class. Entirely different risk levels involved and the millionaires have the money to move it along most don't.

    I don't care about her music one way or the other. She's just a generic pop act with little substance and a huge following. Good for her. But to pretend she's some big underdog story? Lol./

    1. You have any receipts on the “millionaire” claim (as if that is even remotely determinative)? 

    2. You are arguing against yourself. Zero (0) people claimed Swift is a rags to riches story. But the total number of affluent white girls who have swung and missed in the music industry would exceed the grand weight total of the nasty ass women who allow you into their bed.

    I realize being a pair of fucking imbeciles is a long-running shtick for you and Helobious, but you could try a little harder.

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  3. 3 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    There is a kind of admirable nobility when the board tells you how completely stupid and pathetic your posts are on this subject, and yet you have the intestinal fortitude to double and triple down.
    Kudos my friend
    ……. but I like your concept that every living-through-their-kids sports obsessed parent who gets professional training for their kid means that the kid will be a superstar in that sport.   So that makes sense.

    Also that having a dad who is a fucking Merryl Lynch stock broker is some kind of golden ticket. Just hysterical levels of stupidity across all topics. 

  4. 17 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

    lol wut. This would be a non-story if the Niners chose to kick in OT, but the fact their coaching staff clearly made the wrong choice and their players weren’t well-informed about the  OT Rules shows a lack of preparation for by the coaching staff, which is a huge story because it may have swung the outcome of the Super Bowl. 

    It seems like there is a healthy and reasonable debate about whether it was or was not the right choice, particularly given the sudden death third possession. Math/simulations discussed at the below link. But logic certainly dictates that you don’t want to give Mahomes the ball with the advantage of knowing what he needs to do. 

    https://x.com/SethWalder/status/1757034362380362013?s=20

     

     


     

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  5. Excellent thread. Changes by the day, but best shot:

    2023: KOTFM, Zone of Interest, Past Lives, When Evil Lurks, Passages

    2022: Aftersun, Tar, Speak No Evil, Decision To Leave, X

    2021: Drive My Car, Licorice Pizza, Worst Person in the World, Memoria, Saint Maude (shout out Souvenir Pt II, Benedetta and Malignant)

    2020: The Empty Man, The Vast of Night, Possessor, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Mangrove 

    2019: Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood, Midsommar, Parasite, Marriage Story, Lighthouse (such a great year, shout out Souvenir, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, etc.)

    2018: First Reformed, Minding the Gap, Hereditary, Roma, Burning

    2017: Phantom Thread, Good Time, Get Out, Lady Bird, Florida Project

    2016: The Invitation, Everybody Wants Some, Train to Busan, Green Room, Arrival

    2015: Ex Machina, The Witch, Sicario, Mad Max, Hateful 8,

    2014: Under The Skin, Phoenix, Whiplash, Nightcrawler, Inherent Vice 

    2013: Wolf of Wall Street, Frances Ha, VHS, Inside Llewyn Davis, Before Midnight (Holy Motors would be 2 if it qualifies, I thought it was 2012)

  6. 8 minutes ago, Ten Bears said:

    I think Kris has stated that that didn't happen.

    It's real to me

    And I think the last time I looked it up, he said he didn't remember it being so harsh but that his wife did, or something like that. 

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  7. My top ten for 2023 was:

    1. KOTFM

    2. Past Lives

    3. The Zone of Interest

    4. Oppenheimer

    5. Anatomy of a Fall

    6. Passages

    7. The Killer

    8. When Evil Lurks*

    9. May December

    10. A Fire

    Of the remaining Best Pic noms, my order would probably be Poor Things, Maestro, Barbie, and The Holdovers. Have not seen American Fiction yet. 

    *As an aside, what a mediocre year for horror, as I usually have more than 1 in my top 10. Talk to Me, No One Will Save You and Skinamarink were in my Top 30, and Sick, Huersa, Birth/Rebirth, Perpetrator and Cobweb were all ok. Scream was fine. I thought Evil Dead Rise sucked, but maybe I'm just tired of the plot.

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  8. 12 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

    Swisher and Galloway discuss the Elon compensation package lawsuit today on their show. Highly recommended, you can find it around 15:40 on the above podcast.

    The gist of their points is really this: The board is supposed to be fiduciaries of Tesla, not Elon's rubber stamp machine. The issue isn't the compensation, but the fact that they basically were doing what Elon wanted and acted in his best interests, not Tesla's. And the result was losing this case.

    When you take that, combined with the fact that in getting support of over 70% of shareholders to support the deal, the board had to misrepresent their role in negotiations (IE they lied to shareholders), it really became easy for the court to strike down his compensation.

    Other people that understand this more than I do have noted that for the court to do this, and people can't readily find another case of them striking down CEO pay, they had to really find something bad - in the ruling, the court states:

    Basically, who brought this case, and the milestones used to set Musk's pay (which I have seen argued were not as unattainable as shareholders were lead to believe) don't mater - what matters is how tied together the board and Musk were and in this case - way too tight.

    One thing is for sure, this case is going to make a shit ton of money for law firms (thanks!), because this ruling is red fucking meat for the plaintiff’s bar. 

  9. 48 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    I certainly haven’t looked at the boards projections, but I clearly remember the reactions on CNBC. Do you know the details of which milestones were determined to have a reasonable probability of hitting versus those that did not and how the comp would look under those different scenarios? 

    I only know what the opinion said (one example is below, which is projection-related (not accounting related)).

    Spoiler

    The one-year projections underlying the operating plan forecasted $27.4B in revenue and $4.3B in EBITDA by late 2018, and thus predicted achievement of three milestones in 2018 alone. The longer three-year projections underlying that plan reflected that by 2019 and 2020, Tesla would achieve seven and eleven operational milestones, respectively. The Proxy did not disclose this. 

    . . . 

    After Tesla issued the Proxy, but before the stockholder vote, Ahuja presented the Board with a three-year operating plan (the “March 2018 Projections”) . . . The March 2018 Projections were more pessimistic than previous projections but still predicted achievement of one revenue and two adjusted EBITDA milestones by March 31, 2019, and further two revenue and four adjusted EBITDA milestones by the end of 2020.442 As discussed below, Tesla would issue a supplemental disclosure with this information, but not until after the stockholder vote.

     

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  10. 14 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    The vast majority approved a deal that everyone thought was based on unattainable milestones. Those milestones were achieved. Anyone holding shares over the timeframe the milestones were effected profited significantly. Someone that held 9 shares sued. What a world. 
     

     

    You've said this a few times, but it isn't really true (or at least not entirely true). Certainly the shareholders thought this to be the case, because that is what they were told in the proxy. And I'm just guessing the street thought so as well, although I certainly haven't kept up with that. But, management's own internal projections showed multiple of the milestones being achieved (which they were, on time), and from an accounting perspective the Board determined several of the milestones to be in the 70% band of probability.   

    All of that aside - and regardless of the "right" outcome - this case really came down to the entire fairness standard of judicial review (which to me (an M&A lawyer, not a litigator), seems to have been correctly applied). Once you are in that realm, it's tough to win, particularly with the bad facts Elon and the Board created.   

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  11. 18 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    This is 100% about getting an in with D-line recruits from the Atlanta area, which has a knack for producing some good ones. This guy is from there and recruited plenty of guys from there to WKU. And the NFL experience is an even bigger plus. Whole lot of stupid in this thread. I think it’s a great hire. 

    window fuck this GIF

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  12. 1 hour ago, Vito Andolini said:

    Steve Sarkisian really wants to up the level of recruiting they have seen on the interior DL.

    While Bo Davis was a terrific coach, he didn't exactly leave the cupboard full at his position. Perhaps it's the only position on the team right now that doesn't have an abundance of talent in the underclass ranks.

     

    Whoo boy, whoever this Steve Sarkisian guy is better not bring that line of thinking into the Surly recruiting forum. We were told not to question Bo Davis and his recruiting results.

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  13. 4 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Fraser was playing a 1920s lawyer who was there to rile up the rubes and browbeat someone who wasn’t smart. He wasn’t there to be subdued and subtle.
     

    There’s a moment in the courtroom scene right Fraser’s outburst where his expression just changes, he’s cool as ice and the whole place is erupting.   He played it perfectly— the lawyer is playing a a scenery-chewing character. 

    He was worse outside of the courtroom in the grand meeting scene. He and Leo were in different movies.

  14. 1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I will defend Fraser to the death, it was clear that his character was doing a character and he killed it. 

    It was clear that he was doing what Marty asked of him, which was a directorial mistake. KOTFM was my favorite movie of the year and a modern master piece, but the Fraser stuff is just tonally off and disjointing. 

    I was at the NBR awards the other night, and Marty started talking about the scene where the Osage gather in a circle to talk about the ongoing travesty. He said they needed some audience reaction shots, so he asked one of the loquacious Osage actors to rile the folks up. The resulting off the cuff monologue was so great Marty decided to leave it in, and, in my opinion, is one of the best scenes of the movie.

    What a picture

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