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  1. On 3/30/2018 at 1:48 AM, blacklab said:

    Take the black longhorn and make him burnt orange and I think we may have something.

    As much as I love thujone's logo proposal, I don't think my employer would like it on my desktop too much

    Just an early preview. Needs a lot more work with fonts, sizing, placing, colors, exposure, etc..

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  2. On 3/30/2018 at 4:47 AM, Big Horn said:

    Germany have injury concerns with Neuer & Reus hurt, as well as striker concerns. Spain should be strong.  Brazil & Argentina should go far.  Chile & Columbia could make some trouble, and France & Belgium have the talent to go deep.  It’s going to be another great World Cup.  

    I dunno, Columbia struggled mightily with Dartmouth, who themselves got pummeled by Chile in the Ivy League Final Four semis. Although I could see them beating a team like Germany, if Klinsmann doesn't get Vettel back in time. Without him, the Germans clearly lack speed over the wings since Rosberg's retirement. For the Lions, much will depend on whether LeBron's recovery from Tommy John surgery will impact his goal production. Maybe Foles could come off the bench, although he's probably one of the weaker climbers in the peloton.

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  3. 2 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

    Timo Werner is 22. Gomez and Wagner are target men playing for a team that doesn’t play with true wingers. Unless they play Müller up front the goals won’t come easily against the elites. 

    Germany obviously is still a contender. They have the best midfielder in the world, they have gobs of creativity everywhere but they lack an elite #9. 

     

    Nonsense. Mario Götze was 22 years old when he scored the 2014 World Cup winner. Werner and Goretzka were 21 and 22, respectively, as 2017 Confed Cup's top scorers. Age has nothing to do with it. Besides, 22 is old enough. This isn't college.

    Germany doesn't play true wingers? Draxler, Sané, Brandt and Reus, among others, are wingers.

    Scoring won't come easy against the elites? No shit. That's why they're the elites, including Germany. The team doesn't rely on one or two scorers. 42 goals in the 2018 WC qualification campaign were scored by 21 different players. Not many teams are able to share the ball that way.

    A lack of scoring is not among the current concerns for the world's number one goal-scoring team of the last international tournaments.

  4. 18 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

    Don’t see anyway Germany can do it again. They don’t have the goal scorers without Reus and no real striker.

    LOL. Timo Werner, Lars Stindl, Sandro Wagner and Mario Gómez are real strikers.

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    And no goal scorer without... Reus?? He wasn't even on the 2014 world championship squad and played none of the 2018 WC qualifiers. Germany finished both campaigns as the record goal-scoring team. The 43 goals in 10 qualifiers set a new UEFA qualifying record. Same with the 2017 Confed Cup: 1. Germany (12), 2. Portugal (9)

    Besides, Thomas Müller has scored 10 goals in two World Cups (2010 /5, 2014 /5), more than L. Messi (5) and C. Ronaldo (3) combined.

    Goal scoring should be the least of our problems.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, Mikegundy'sMullet said:

    You did a little better than I did. Well done. Vertigo, Netzer did great with that big GIF. 

    Thanks. Your post popped up a tenth of a second before I submitted mine.

    Yeah, the GIF is quite big with 98 frames. I ended up reducing the colors to 64 and cutting out every second frame.

  6. They needed to stop the negative PR quickly and settled. Too bad their shady relationship to the Arizona governor came to light. Yesterday they fired the executive responsible for their autonomous vehicles program. And the company's revenue situation doesn't exactly smell like roses either...

    Uber's loss jumped 61 percent to $4.5 billion in 2017

    The company lost $4.5 billion last year, up from $2.8 billion in 2016...

    However, in the fourth quarter, which was CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's first full period at the helm, Uber's loss narrowed to $1.1 billion from $1.46 billion in the third quarter. Gross revenue during that period climbed about 14 percent to $11.1 billion from $9 billion.

  7. Last week's post from the other site...

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    Tempe PD lies on behalf of Uber... shocking. Not. Their head honchos most likely got paid a nice little bribe by the company to allow the tests on their roads. The same way private traffic cam operator Redflex bought themselves into Paradise Valley (and later Phoenix) by bribing then Chief of Police, John Wintersteen. Everything is for sale in Arizona.

    Turns out that wasn't too far off...

    "Arizona governor and Uber kept self-driving program secret, emails reveal"

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    Arizona’s Republican governor repeatedly encouraged Uber’s controversial experiment with autonomous cars in the state, enabling a secret testing program for self-driving vehicles with limited oversight from experts, according to hundreds of emails obtained by the Guardian.

    The previously unseen emails between Uber and the office of governor Doug Ducey reveal how Uber began quietly testing self-driving cars in Phoenix in August 2016 without informing the public.

    Uber offered workspace for Ducey’s staff in San Francisco, praised the governor lavishly, and promised to bring money and jobs to his state. Ducey, meanwhile, helped Uber deal with other officials in Arizona, issued decrees that were friendly to the company, tweeted out an advert at the company’s request, and even seems to have been open to wearing an Uber T-shirt at an official event.

    One of Ducey’s first acts as governor was to instruct officials not to pursue ride-share drivers over taxi licensing rules.

     

    Further juicy details on the corruption: theguardian.com.

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