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  1. 1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:

    I hope the media keeps laying it on him. Even The Fan, which is the flagship station, does not kiss his ass like they used to. Fuck Jerry and his whole family. It starts with them. We could have drafted Mahomes and not even he could fix this toxic team and environment. There is zero accountability on this team.

    Ya'll keep wishing-- I heard the same radio station today and it ended up with Jerry Jones apologizing and everyone playing kumbaya afterwards holding hands and loving each other. Puke!

  2. 1 hour ago, next2naus said:

    seems awesome till you look at your taxes, fortunately I go the estimated route so it's like a "pay'em as you earn it" model for me

    I make a third of what you will make this year and I cry about taxes so I can only imagine what you are going through.

    But your story here-- this is the reason I got into sales, for the potential and the dream to have the amazing year(s).

  3. 3 minutes ago, ZB'Tejas said:

    For sure. Last interview I did was a marathon only to have all Reqs pulled in mid March because Covid.

    I'm three conversations in with the new recruiting company. Need to hustle and bring all my Q4 deals in quick in case this progresses.

    That is a killer.

    I told my wife if I didn't get this job after the 90 day marathon, I'm sticking it out for H1FY21 because I don't have the energy or desire to do it again anytime soon. It's a full time job getting ready for those interviews. Research, putting together decks, practicing, etc. on top of having a job that requires 50-60 hours a week. I was logging late nights in the run up to the final orals-- up to 3-4am-- working up to the deadline and weekends.

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  4. 1 hour ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

    Good for you.

    Never understood the need for an exhaustive process like that.

    In hindsight I think a few steps were added due to the fact that everything is a zoom/virtual meeting. Which, by the way, is not a cake walk. Just because you don't have to fly to Chicago or NY for the in-person interview and can do it from your home office (which is awesome), the downside I found is that it is deceptively hard to be as magnetic and charismatic as it is in person. It's hard to really "shine" in these zoom meetings like you would face to face.

    I think that is also why they had me go to a local lunch with some of the VP's; just to get eyes on me and make sure I wear deodorant, brush my teeth, actually own pants, etc.

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  5. In February of 2020 I never would have thought I'd say this, but... I just changed jobs this month. I sell enterprise software so you can imagine how many great people who are better sales people than me are out on the street and applying to every req the second it opens, so it was probably the most grueling interview processes (e.g. 7 rounds, 3 panels, 2 preso's and 1 lunch) I've ever had.

    But whatever it takes to get to the $1mm W2 that our friend upthread was telling us about!

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  6. 10 hours ago, tantric superman said:

    Well, I do think he did stretch the ideas a bit.  I did like the way he created the fallen rock angels to explain both God's injustice as well as solve some of the practical engineering limitations of the time.  And the way he pushed the conflicts within his family and "adopted" family -- basically having him go almost insane.  

    I just don't know of any other attempts to take on a story from Genesis that works like this.   To me, it goes from the bullshit story  I read as a child that never really had to happen to one that really takes on a much more interesting version of a fully human and flawed individual who gets some help from God but hammers home the idea that God is never just and can't be trusted.  For some of us who aren't good Bible scholars, that's a cool way to try to make the story relevant beyond the first few pages of Genesis.

    But certainly accept the fact that I think my opinion is in the minority.  And may be because I'm not really a big fan of DA. So I may like this because to me it's both accessible and made me think.  It likely didn't make others think and that is a problem with the filmaking.

    Thanks for your thoughts here-- I think we are coming at this movie from different angles which is why we land on different POVs. While different (and wrong, lol just keeding!), yours is interesting.

  7. 14 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

    He kind of had source material that was constraining him just a bit. Everyone who saw Noah has a preexisting idea of what the story should be or should look like.  Unlike Black Swan or Pi (which is what I think you mean.)  He had complete freedom to make that his own.  In Noah, he had to try to make it his own as well as allow people to make the jump with him.  It wasn't perfect but I was surprised how well it worked.

    Okay fair enough, perhaps I'm just not, and still don't feel compelled to be, as charitable as you are for him with this treatment. I feel like the source material excuse is a cop-out; plenty of stylistic and creative choices could have been made to create an interesting film. Further, there aren't many, if any, results more beautiful than high art being able to challenge, stretch, confront, uplift or change a viewer/consumer's preexisting ideas, in this case of a story. A creative director of cinema like this guy probably chooses this source material for that very reason, actually, and I suppose it was just too ambitious. Bit off more than he could chew, as it were, and I guess there is no shame in that.

  8. 9 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

     

    Regardless--I'm not losing any sleep over this.  Anybody who has dealt with him knows that Stan Richards is a complete asshole.  And the fact that he is a complete asshole is reflected in the leak of his comments and how fast the long knives came out once it became public.

    Yes, so much this.

  9. 2 minutes ago, youdunnf'dup said:

    Lol hey man. How was I supposed to know Zeke was broken. We’ve finally started moving the ball and we were slowing down their overrated offense. The recipe was there, but we would beat ourselves even if we played OU so I should’ve known that.

    I was hearing on the radio a couple of weeks ago that there was some real fear that this fumbling thing was a form of the yips (e.g. Tiki Barber-itis) that can actually be existential as a threat for running backs if they don't get right with it immediately. Someone mentioned when he was a rookie they practiced with a ball that would squeak if you were holding it correctly (Zeke was asked and said they don't do that anymore or haven't for a while), but he needs two weeks of nothing but ball handling drills and fumbling drills or a psychiatrist. STAT.

  10. 1 minute ago, DougO said:

    Trade Ferrari Cooper and get a return. He's surely lost interest by now and will mail it in. Get a pick for him while he still has value.

    This team needs too much help.

    I could go with this-- as crappy as it sounds, this team needs to go full tank mode. It's worthless.

  11. 3 minutes ago, tantric superman said:

    Eh, this reminded me that I didn't add anything to the "Underrated Movies".  The fact that is was weird was great.  This kind of flick is a no win for the director unless he makes pablum.  I kind of wish the second half had the weird tone of the first half.  

    Completely disagree. I think you could have gone weird and made it awesome (e.g. Life of Pi, Black Swan, etc.) but what he did was half-baked cheese. Russell Crowe was actually fantastic as Noah and it was completely wasted. Like a pitcher going out and giving you 8 solid innings and your closer losing 2-1.

  12. 18 minutes ago, Zeus said:

    Hey that's how he was coarched and got away with his whole college career man.

    Red rocket is rattled

    Zeke quit

    Defense sucks shit through a straw

    New coach is just as pathetic as clapper

    Damn I didn't think the cowboys could get any worse. The most embarrassing part is they are still gonna make the playoffs with 6 wins

    Spot on.

  13. 3 hours ago, youdunnf'dup said:

    Famous last words, but I kind of agree. Arizona isn’t good. Neither are we but they have a lot of the same issues that we have. Even with Dalton we should be able to move the offense at will. That is, if we don’t get “primetime” Dalton of course. Because that was absolutely a thing for most of his career. 
     

    im sure well fuck it up, but if we can win tonight the next two are definitely winnable. But just because I feel unusually confident we’ll probably get our asses kicked 

    lolwut

  14. 3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I wonder how much activity in Minecraft ramped up starting back in March.  Microsoft got their money's worth -  I was talking with some parents, and it seems like everybody's kid was playing Minecraft this past spring/summer.

    TONS! Also Roblox, which is set to IPO soon at a valuation of around $4bn or $1 for every Obby or whatever they are called. Oof. (Only Dads of 4 to 9 year old's will get this joke).

  15. Just now, BradInATX said:

    Corporate welfare is yet another way to move money from the middle class to the upper class.

    Companies run razor-tight financials with almost no cash on hand to deal with an emergency, which pumps up stock prices for the rich. Shit happens, companies get in trouble because they did that, and the rest of the country bails them out. Stonks continue to rise. 

    These are the same people who tell the person making minimum wage that healthcare isn't important and that they should save up 6 months work of cash in case of an emergency.

    Yes!

    Cash management / Cash applications and how they play into the overall risk profile of an organization is shameful these days. CFO's, Finance, MBA curriculum, etc. have all failed us in the sense that the best practice these days is to essentially run as lean a ship with cash on hand as possible and in a black swan event (though I'd argue COVID-19 is not a true black swan event by definition), the government and tax payers will bail us out. It's awful.

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