Samson's Flow
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16 minutes ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:
On Cinco de mayo I went to the bar bill for day drinking, wings and beef, delicious.
Also I just booked a trip to Russia for next month, gonna do Moscow and then st Petersburg. Then take a train to Helsinki for a few days ?
We'll be in Eastern Europe (Poland, Czech Repub, Germany) next month as well. Maybe you can convince some Russians to invade Poland and come say hello while you're over there. ?
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1 minute ago, darksabre said:
I'm going to have to re-watch this episode. Because I had no idea they were even going to Dragonstone if that's where they were when the attack happened.
Did they not even come from the north? Did they sail their army all the way around Westeros and come up to Dragonstone from the south?They came from the North. Dragonstone is on the way and would be a logical spot to stop to plan the upcoming attack. However, based on the map of Westeros i'm struggling to figure out where Euron was hiding that was close enough to be able to shoot and destroy the ships near Dragonstone. Looking at the screenshot, Dragonstone is by itself and the closest island (or that peninsula thing to the SW) is too far to be in range of those scorpion arrow things given the scale of the rest of the map.
I'm with you Dark, maybe I need to watch it again...
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8 minutes ago, darksabre said:
It's not anywhere close to King's Landing, especially if coming from the north. So that heavily fortified fort they encountered wasn't even King's Landing? It was just some random fort?
I think its even more confusing because after that sea battle, we are all immediately teleported to the gates of King's Landing with Dany/Tyrion/Greyworm etc. talking with Cersei's forces. There's no travel time anymore because the show runners are running out of time, so all the characters just magically jump from place to place based on plot needs.
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1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:
Danerys and her fleet went to Dragonstone. Waiting in the sea outside was Euron. When they got close Euron attacked. No one was in the castle, just Euron on the sea waiting.
...behind a big enough rock to hide 50+ ships. ?
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2 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Judging by the defenses I saw at King's landing, there is not a way to get through the gates. You would be destroyed. They need some cunning for sure.
The way that Dany is going from "breaker of chains" good leader to tilted "they killed my friend and dragon" mad queen, i'm fully expecting her to just take Drogon and attempt to blast through the wall. Which is a terrible idea.
My biggest annoyance continues to be that this all feels so rushed based on the artificial timeline of this being the last season. The great war with millions of undead took one ***** night, and now they have ~3 hours left of screentime to wrap up the battle of King's Landing and decide the throne. For contrast the Battle of Blackwater took like 6 episodes with the buildup, strategizing and battle.
I like finding things out, but this is feeling like a Dexter or Walking Dead type letdown as opposed to the brilliance of a Breaking Bad type ending.
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1 minute ago, darksabre said:
Apparently it's very easy to hide giant boats. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everyone is stupid. Which is not entertaining. At all.Especially since the show for the last 7 seasons has been all about careful planning and cleverness/politics being more important than brute strength. Now i'm expecting next week to be more Rambo-style charge in the front gates and fight everything entirely devoid of proper battle tactics.
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6 minutes ago, WildCard said:
How the hell, thousands of feet in the air, does she not see an entire enemy fleet around the corner?
There was a rock formation in the way... clearly.
/sarcasm
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Mine is going to be limited to MLB Ballparks, as when I was traveling for work in my younger years I had a mission to catch every ballpark.
NHL: Sabres (KeyBank Center), Chicago (United Center), Pittsburgh (PPG Paints Arena)
NFL: Buffalo (New Era Field), Cleveland (FirstEnergy Stadium)
NBA: Toronto (Air Canada Center - I liked the Raptors when I was a kid)
MLB: Toronto (Rogers Center), Pittsburgh (PNC Park), Cincinnati (Great American Ballpark), Cleveland (Progressive Field), Chicago (AL) (Guaranteed Rate Field), Chicago (NL) (Wrigley Field), St. Louis (Busch Stadium), Colorado (Coors Field), Seattle (Safeco Field), Arizona (Chase Field), San Francisco (AT&T Park)...
...countless AA and AAA ballparks in random small towns that I was stuck in for a week or so. The minor league parks were great to go to by yourself or with a co-worker because the beer was cheap and each half inning had crazy fan stunts and entertainment.
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I didn't think it was possible that Oliver would fall to us. I have a feeling he was thier trade up target too. He has Aaron Donald upside imo
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Gross. And we thought McLellan and Vignault was bad.
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1 hour ago, LTS said:
Just like moving between states, what prevents corporations from changing their structures to become non-US based entities and avoiding much of the tax concerns? I've always seen it as a balancing act. You have to find the right amount. Unfortunately, government seems unable to do so.
Oh no doubt, you can't make it so punitive that all the corporations move to Canada or somewhere in the Caribbean, but the policies have been trending very pro-corporation for as long as I can remember. There's a better balancing act available.
I'm a big proponent of simplifying the tax code to the point where its very easy to calculate everyone tax liabilities. The amount of industry or cause specific tax exemptions that exist in our code that only came about as a result of special interest lobbying make it very easy for the big corporations to end up with minimal taxation on huge revenues.
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18 hours ago, Weave said:
Here is a fun one on tax day. Twice as many coporations paying zero income taxes under the Trump tax plan
Some of the noteworthy names include Amazon, Netflix, Chevron, Eli Lilly, John Deere.
John Deere reported $2.15B in income and global profits of $2.37B this year and is claiming a $268M refund.
Amazon had $10.8B in US income and is claiming a $129M rebate.
IBM, $500M in US income, $8.7B in global profits, $342M refund.
If Trump and Trumpians were really worried about the deep state they'd be worried about corporate America pulling the government's strings, not some mid level bureaucrat.
As a financial professional, the second the new tax law was put into effect I knew this headline or something similar to it would be coming out post 4/15. What is most amazing to me is how Trump has managed to convince a large majority of people in the U.S. that he is working to help the middle and working class, when his actual fiscal/taxation policies are some of the most pro-corporation benefit that we have seen in a long time.
My personal slant is the amount of money the government could make in enforcing a real corporate tax policy without the million loopholes that currently exist would allow all sorts of reductions in personal income taxes and still come out ahead.
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Boy that Kadri cross check was something else. Saw it live on the broadcast and could not believe that level of intent and animosity.
People complained about Tom Wilson, but that was some Burtuzzi level *****
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After finally thawing out last week I noticed that a decent sized area of shingles had blown off my roof - probably from that crazy windstorm.
I love talking to contractors...
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Hopefully his defense partner is decent. By the looks of it he's playing with some guy named Brent Seabrook... whoever that is.
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2 hours ago, Samson's Flow said:
Awesome news! The more that the NWHL can expand the more opportunities for female athletes and increased league stability.
I think there were discussions of merging the Canadian women's league with the US NWHL a few months ago, maybe this is a similar alternative.
Seems I should have read the CWHL folding thread. Looks like the two threads are related in that one league folding means the other absorbs some of the teams and becomes "the" women's hockey league.
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Awesome news! The more that the NWHL can expand the more opportunities for female athletes and increased league stability.
I think there were discussions of merging the Canadian women's league with the US NWHL a few months ago, maybe this is a similar alternative.
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Must we?
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20 minutes ago, ... said:
It's just Twitter, but I'll just put this here:
The thing that gets coaches fired the fastest: losing the players.
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I voted that Phil would be here again next season. Not because that is what I want to happen, but because successful organizations have continuity and that may outweigh Phil's bad coaching.
5 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:Chris Taylor will be named Sabres head coach as soon as the Amerks end their season.
Although promoting Chris Taylor may be the best of both worlds (keeping continuity with a better performing coach). I'd be down with that.
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1 minute ago, Hoss said:
It’s the MAC so I wouldn’t be surprised if they competed in conference but you can still be terrible and compete in that conference.
There are many degrees of "terrible". I think UB will settle into the consistently top 3 in MAC but always underdog v. top programs version. Which isn't actually that terrible.
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Just now, New Guy said:
I'm mostly acting out of emotion here, who knows what caused it. It's just strange for him to get a five year extension, "resign," and join them all of a sudden
The silver lining for UB Athletics is they get the $1 million buyout from Alabama for Oats leaving while under contract. So that's something I guess...
https://heavy.com/sports/2019/03/buffalo-bulls-head-coach-salary-nate-oats/
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3 minutes ago, TrueBlueGED said:
What? I'm incredibly sad to see Oats go, but how is this a dick move?
Exactly. Good for him. Sad to see him go, but I think it would have been a foolish career move not to take a promotion while his star is brightest.
I don't think anyone here would say with a straight face that they wouldn't take a ~4x pay raise to go do the same role someplace else. (Oats @ UB would make $800k under new contract; Avery at Alabama who was prior coach made $3.062m per year)
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Despite my comment about still needing line help, I will mention that the WR's they got are in line with my preferred team building strategy of having a bunch of equal WR weapons rather than one stud guy. Allows you to pick on matchups and be more unpredictable as an offense.
Thinking about being similar to the Patriots and Rams (before Cooper Kupp went down) teams that have a bunch of quick guys that don't match your typical "prototype NFL WR".
Official Ralph Krueger named Sabres Head Coach
in The Aud Club
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Spelling the damn coaches name right
I'll go on record and say I'm cautiously optimistic. I like a lot of the "leader of men" stuff as well as the "puts players in a position to succeed". I'd much rather take a shot at a guy who could be a top coach (or fail miserably) as opposed to a safe retread.
Let's establish a culture of a successful organization and go from there.
I think about all the positivity coming from Bills camp, and a lot of that is confidence in the vision and 'process' Beane and McDermott preaches. We as a fan base are desperate to have confidence that the leaders in charge know what they're doing - and we'll see if Krueger can establish that faith here.