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http://www.businessinsider.com/disney-world-star-wars-starship-luxury-resort-hotel-2017-4

I hadn't heard that re Vader. This is what I was thinking of: As for the reshoots focusing more on hope, I don't know. Trailers can be misleading, and maybe it was more about how the trailer was edited than what was in the movie pre-reshoot. But as far as Disney wanting to make the film lighter, here's the money quote from Edwards about his assumptions re Disney, and how they ended up changing the ending: That kind of stuff is why I am quick to write off the idea that Disney would veto it solely based on marketing/family-friendly type concerns. All indications are they're thinking at a higher level than that. Now, I think your other points are certainly valid. Disney might think it was simply bad storytelling to have her go to the dark side and swap roles with Kylo Ren. If they did veto it, I think it's for a better reason than being overly concerned with their marketable female star. I like where you're going with the theory. But one potential flaw is in the timeline, and how big of an age gap between Rey and Kylo Ren we're willing to believe.

The concerns about Disney marketing corporatism and general touchy-feelyness preventing the right story from being told need to be thrown on the scrap heap. Remember last year? The Rogue One reshoots? The internet collectively **** itself over what Disney was doing. "They're making it less gritty! It was too dark and the Disney execs are making them lighten it up! They're going to ruin the tone!" Then what happened? Turns out the reshoots added Vader going ham on the Rebels, and everyone dies in the end. And all the concerns were over nothing. Kathleen Kennedy is a legend. You couldn't ask for a better steward for the franchise. Whatever flaws any of these movies have or end up having, blame does not sit in Disney's lap.

I also like the self-pwnage of his asking "who made this"... when it has the attribution right there in the bottom left corner of the video the whole time.

This is my district. "poised" is far too optimistic. This is Chamber of Commerce republican territory, with a population that is affluent and well educated. Trump may have only squeaked by with a 1 point win, but that's because of his own flaws and troubles connecting with that demographic, not because we have a tight electorate overall. Don't forget Price won by 24 points. Ossoff seems a lock to make the runoff. From there I think it depends a lot on his opponent. A "check on T" opponent will be tough to beat. A down the line T supporter will be much easier for him. If Ossoff gets 40% in the runoff, he'll be the first D to break that barrier in 20 years. If he wins, he'll be the first D to do so in almost 40 years. Nothing is "poised" Sadly I was at work yesterday and not able to take advantage of this:

I can't watch at work. Has he said when we will get the missile parade?

True. This only looks upstream at obligations the employer has to meet to satisfy govt regs, not downstream effect on employees. As far as the govt is concerned, if you own and control multiple companies, they get combined for these purposes. They do the same thing to prevent big companies from cheating the system on a bunch of programs, like opening separate divisions that could qualify for SBA set-asides. http://www.trinet.com/documents/aca/trinet_aca_group_overview.pdf

Not unless she wants to give 51% ownership to someone else. IRS does the same sort of thing, looking for common ownership. There are loopholes, but it's not quite THAT easy. Or wasn't, when the feds were actually looking for rule-breakers. Now...<shrug>

That makes more sense. Thanks. I wonder if there aren't loopholes around this. Like, could she say that now instead of paying people $25/hour, because we have to comply with Obamacare we're cutting salaries across the board to $22/hour, but, anyone who chooses to forego health insurance through the company will get an additional $6,000 in compensation, because we don't want anyone to be "punished" with a less lucrative compensation package just because their spouse has a better plan than us or you found something cheaper on the Exchange. Basically structure something like that so you're pushing on to the employees most or all of the cost of having to offer health insurance that wasn't part of the compensation package before

50 full time employees seems like a lot for a hair salon, no? Perhaps there are other issues here.

It is a pretty interesting proposal they've put together. I forwarded to a friend of mine who works in healthcare policy and his summary take was: Although the premise is interesting, it doesn't REALLY do what it says... in the name of "flexibility" it seems to give states two pretty rigid options: 1) continue with ALL OF obamacare but with a 5% cut in the funding they currently get 2) take the same amount of money (ACA minus 5%) and create an alternative plan that HAS TO BE based on depositing the money into HSAs (which are governed by federal rules, and the plan changes those rules) and techincally there's a 3rd completely ridiculous option: 3) reject all federal money for health care and do it yourselves. LOL I assume option 3 also entails rejecting the medicaid expansion, but it is unclear if it even goes beyond that to reject any existing parts of Medicaid. (so far, the plan amounts to a 1-page fact sheet, so there are a few details left to be filled in) this is the phrasing in the 1-pager: Option 3 would return power to the States to design and regulate insurance markets that work for their specific populations, without any federal assistance. If "state flexibility" is for real, then option 2 should should actually have some state flexibility. the dirty secret is that the R's don't believe in state flexibility nearly as much as they believe in high-deductible health plans + HSAs. whatever your thoughts on their merits, it is ludicrous to argue there's more state flexibility in this option than there is in option 1 (keeping ACA)... there are some interesting pieces in Cassidy's proposal from 2016 (explainer here), and there's a world out there where states have real flexibility to find a middle ground between ACA plans and High deductible plans... this bill aint it.

Good call on it maybe being plural. It also looks to be a callback to Ep 7 crawl

Plus the barriers to entry are extremely high. I can't just start up Bliz Insurance Co to offer what I feel is a superior product. So you have a ton of demand, with only a few suppliers, and they're generally immune from market forces because there isn't really that much competition.

the GOP didn't change. It was the uninsured who changed. Back then they were just trying to be freeloaders. Now they're good independent Americans fighting for freedom from government overreach

I don't think this is a problem. It's a forward-looking cost control measure, where we're spending more now on additional people getting treatment, which pays off later because we caught their problem early or gave them prevantative care that's much cheaper than waiting for an emergency and paying for the huge surgery later.

...or True Romance

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^ A sequel that was any good anyway... Off the top of my head, longest wait for a good sequel to a successful movie I can think of is terminator. That was like 7-8 years

I really liked it. Not great for really young kids. I'd say about 5 is the cutoff, but that may be too young. My 8 year old was clutching my arm during a few scenes. There is nothing cutesy about this movie. The fight scenes are intense. The Sisters are genuinely creepy Love the style. The movie looks great and is really engaging. They really nailed the tone too. It's fantastical, melancholy and thoughtful, but still with a few laugh out loud moments. A best animated film nominee for sure, and will be a strong contender to win.

First Justice League trailer

That disclaimer below "soon" though...

Not sure what was going on with that brisket. My temp continued slowly dropping. Once it hit 158 I double wrapped in aluminum foil with Apple juice and put it back on for 2 hours until it hit 190. Turned out greatOn the Boston butt reheat, I pulled it all Saturday night and refrigerated, and after doing more research, I heated 6 oz coke and 6 oz apple juice on high in the crock pot for about 45 min, then reduced to low, added the meat, and mixed periodically over the next hour plus. Worked like a charm

Pulled pork yesterday turned out great. Brisket has been in since 930. At 1230 it was at 164 internal. Almost 3 hours later and the temp is 162. Either a long plateau/rendering phase or I had the probe placed poorly at 1230, because I've checked it in a few spots with 2 different thermometers now. It is a big cut - 7 lb flat