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Just saw that. I'd like to know what the issue on appeal was. There were so many arguments they made I can't remember them all.

QUOTE (Deadpool @ Jun 30, 2016 -> 08:03 AM) Hopefully the FO can avoid all the stupid contracts, but I get the feeling Gar is going to have an itchy trigger finger. All indications are they're not doing anything this year. They're setting up tons of cap room for the next two years. I think the biggest thing they'll do is resign Moore. For once, they're being smart and I applaud them. Next year is a lost year, they recognize it. Grab a lottery pick, get tons of cap space, try to grab a couple max guys. All this when, hopefully, Lebron starts his downfall. Also, with Jo getting 18 million, Lopez at 11-13 for the next few years looks like a steal. I love that trade even more now.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 04:28 PM) Kinda like Obamacare... Topical, from yesterday: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kateashford/20...s/#2866f6702dbe Support Obamacare they said, things would be better they said.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 03:32 PM) Perhaps this work place is not really interested in having interns if they don't want to deal with people with zero professional workplace experience? Or maybe they are interested in having interns that are more focused on the company/work and not on the fairness of not being able to wear tennis shoes over dress shoes? Maybe the managers immediately knew these interns were worthless and not there for the right reasons? I'm not sure why these people need to be treated with puppy gloves.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 03:16 PM) They are interns man, how did a manager not say to them once "hey you know what, I hear what you are saying but we have our dress code because we are client facing and feel it's important to always be business professional [or whatever reason]. For the rest of the summer I want you to focus on x, y, and z. If you really feel passionate about this, come up with a 5 minute presentation on why we should change and be ready to present in front of me and a few colleagues, if we deem it good enough we may move it up the corporate ladder. But this work should be done only after x, y and z are completed or unaffected." Sounds like a terrible company from top to bottom, elitist, entitled managers who agreed to take on interns but didnt put in the effort to help lead them to success and decided to take the lazy way out by just firing them, hurting their company image for future interns. Why does the employer need to waste time/energy/money explaining something so basic? It's a place of work, not a dorm room.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 02:57 PM) What company brings on interns without expecting to have to manage them and make sure they are focused on the right work and expect them to understand corporate culture immediately? I didn't realize appropriate dress in an office was such a difficult concept. That's some basic common sense stuff there. If they're focusing on the unfairness of the dress code, I doubt they're really coming up with fresh ideas to make the company better.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 02:49 PM) The petition was most certainly the wrong call. They obviously made a mistake but I definitely think the company probably should have explained to them why it was inappropriate rather than firing them. They are f***ing kids FFS. They're 20-22. They're not kids.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 02:23 PM) Why would a company fire interns instead of coaching them? Didn't this company go into an intern program realizing that they would need to provide coaching to college students in most likely their first corporate job instead of firing them when they did something they didn't like? If interns weren't getting their work done, or we're focusing on the wrong work, shouldn't management be providing that feedback? Shouldn't they have been course corrected before being fired? Or do we just expect 20 year olds to be absolutely perfect corporate employees the moment they step out of the classroom and into some random office? What 20-22 year old moron doesn't know that you don't go complaining to your boss about basic rules spelled out in an employee handbook (answer: an entitled one!)? How is it any different from complaining about the hours (Sally comes in at 8:30 instead of 8:00, why can't I do that?) or the pay or vacation time or whatever? It's an internship. You don't get a say in how the employer runs the business. It's one thing to complain about working conditions. It's quite another to complain about the dress code.

Oh, also, obligatory stereotyping that all millennials are spoiled entitled brats and employer/employee relations are now back to where it was 25 years ago.

Maybe they were all let go because they were focusing on what they could/could not wear to work and not on the actual work itself? If you're truly there to gain experience, why are you spending ANY energy complaining about the dress code, going so far as to draft a petition and get it signed?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 12:44 PM) And that's literally exactly what I mean about how it's going to be hard work to deal with what we've unleashed, because either people will think it's ok and will cheer them on as "not being politically correct", or they'll deny it is a problem. No, a small, small racist minority WHO WERE ALREADY RACIST will think it's now ok, and the same small, small racist minority will deny it's a problem. Everyone else understands reality.

Also, I love how you guys always get to take the "uptick" in s***ty things that people do as evidence of how s***ty people are generally. Yet when the other side tries to do it, with say, Muslims killing non-Muslims because of their religious beliefs, you yell at people for unfairly stereotyping them. Can you just be consistent? Please?

OMG! Hundreds of examples of people doing awful things! Out of billions of people! THESE THINGS DIDN'T HAPPEN TWO WEEKS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesus Christ.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 12:29 PM) You might not be aware of this, but a guy who launched his campaign by calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists, retweeted neo-nazi 'statistics' about black people, and wants to ban an entire religion from coming to this country is actually the presidential nominee for a major political party. In the same world in which ISIS, one of the worst terrorist organizations in the world, literally had to put out a press release telling its members to attack white people and not minorities because they don't want people claiming that they committed hate crimes. A f***ing terrorist organization is concerned with our PC culture. We may have some more videotaped/recorded instances of terrible people doing terrible things, but that doesn't mean that as a society, as a culture, as a world, we're worse off than 25 years ago. I don't think Trump's rise to popularity changes any of that. Nor does Brexit. Hell, the polls showed that "racist" considerations (which aren't even racist, God forbid citizens have an opinion on who can enter their own borders) were not even a factor for the vast, vast majority of people voting to Leave. That's the narrative that the media wanted to sell and that's the same narrative these "OMG EVERYONE'S RACIST NOW" are promoting.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 29, 2016 -> 12:16 PM) One thing the English-speaking world is going to have to face up to this year is that we've stepped backwards 25+ years in terms of making it suddenly ok to yell obviously racist things on the street to whomever you want to hate. =Stealing quote My eyes can't roll far enough.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 04:56 PM) The tactic is the same, and that's what's been called childish. It was also groups of people working together deliberately, not individuals. Was it childish when Republicans pulled a similar stunt in 2008? Where was the indignation back then? No you're ignoring the people doing it. Congressman. It's f***ing embarassing. Its beneath you to equate professional politicians performing a sit in on the floor of Congress over the fact that Republicans wouldn't hold a vote with blacks having sit ins at places they weren't welcome or where it was illegal for them to be because of some terrible racial beliefs. And yes it was childish in 2008. I didn't feel the need to point that out then 1) because I'm not sure I knew about it and 2) people weren't supporting them as if what they were doing was honorable.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 04:35 PM) Were labor and civil rights activists acting childish when they conducted sit-ins? Apples to oranges. Civil right protests vs the majority party refusing to vote on a bill they have no obligation to vote on. Individuals v. Lawmakers. The comparison fails.

So I rented Deadpool over the weekend. I despise comic book movies and other than Batman and the first Iron Man movie i've been able avoid the rest of them. But everyone said how good this one was so I gave it a shot. Gotta say, hugely entertaining. Mostly because it was raunchy and Ryan Reynolds was perfect for the part. He basically played his Van Wilder character but with sweet fighting moves. Would definitely watch the sequel. A- Also caught Lucy on tv over the weekend (the one with ScarJo). Really wanted to like it, had some cool action scenes, but the story was too empty. C-

It's absolutely childish to sit on the floor and pout when you don't get what you want. When my 4 year old does that in a store, he gets punished. I don't commend him for taking a stand.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 12:28 PM) In the valley there is definitely the "concept" based software companies that would push the platform idea, but there are also companies that have pressure from mui VC's that need to make money or attack the much more lucrative enterprise space. There are companies that would put out that box if only to capture the ENT market before anyone else does. But can you envision a company saying one or the other? No. If anything making a product AND a platform makes your company more valuable. That whole storyline had some funny bits (slamming his chin on the desk), but ultimately it was too unbelievable.

Only 13-15 episodes left. http://io9.gizmodo.com/game-of-thrones-sho...15-e-1782731578 Boo.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jun 27, 2016 -> 10:31 AM) I like how Danesh's video chat thing is going to save Pied Piper. For all the s*** that he gets, Danesh finally wins for once. I thought the finale was kinda lame. Same for the season overall. Just seemed to be treading water with lots of obstacles that magically got resolved. A lot of hilarious moments here and there, but just meh otherwise. I mean, it never, ever made sense to me that a CEO would want to make a box instead of the platform given the excitement around pied piper and the incredible uniqueness of the compression technology. In silicon valley culture that uniqueness is worth way, way, way more than some box to sell. Even the VC lady could see how they would be valued differently. Also, they need to drop the whole Houli/Gavin Belsen side of the show. That was such a waste/bore this season. Alternatively, I think its a great move to bring Big Head back. He's a great source of comedy.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Jun 28, 2016 -> 01:56 AM) If you're actively trying to look for timeline fallacies and nitpicks, you've lost the plot. It's entertainment. It's not meant to be anything else. It's not really looking for it, it was right there. It was made more noticeable by the fact that about 10-15 minutes of show passed between the time that we saw him in Dorne and then again sailing with Dany. Something like Arya's return to Westeros, which also went without out explanation, was less noticeable simply because we had an episode gap in which it was believable that she was able to travel that far. My issue with it is very, very, very minor. More of a "that's kinda weird" response versus an actual complaint/criticism of the show.

The smart play would be to tank and grab one of the big names in the 2017 draft. Apparently it's expected to be loaded one with franchise players all around.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ Jun 27, 2016 -> 03:48 PM) The Bulls have never netted a big time free agent. What makes anyone think they will suddenly entice one to sign next year? Ben Wallace was pretty big. Pau was pretty big. Other than the Lakers with Shaq and Miami/Cleveland with Lebron, when is the last legit, hall of fame caliber superstar that was traded/acquired? Chris Paul I suppose. Anyone else? It's extremely rare.