" The Telegraph called the show "inconsistent but ludicrously addictive.
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Kevin Brady is attempting the ludicrously hard version this year.
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Is this a ludicrously specific request for virtual reality hardware?
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Of course, Pixar has always been ludicrously good at that.
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Am I the one being ludicrously punk'd by the world?
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In such a situation, the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.
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The right's conception of that Democratic left remains ludicrously expansive.
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That price tag gets you an almost ludicrously powerful Pixelbook, though.
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Another example is the service sector, which is ludicrously over-regulated.
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But their ludicrously high payroll make solving those problems almost impossible.
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Certain segments of the app economy remain vibrant — ludicrously profitable, even.
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And inevitably, you hear conversations—sometimes whispered, more often ludicrously loud.
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It was ludicrously expensive and preposterously underpowered, but who gave a crap?
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It was ludicrously expensive and preposterously underpowered, but who gave a crap?
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It manages to be ludicrously over-elaborate and boring all at once.
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You can only study art or cinema at ludicrously expensive private institutions.
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That is a failing she appeared to repeat, rather ludicrously, during the debate.
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You mess with ludicrously rich kids with well-connected parents, you get sued.
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I end up travelling back a ludicrously long way from Edinburgh to London.
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But it's not just me — this bottle of whisky is ludicrously oversized, right?
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What's that falling all around Post and his ludicrously comfy-looking fur coat?
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Unfortunately, the movie's political underbelly feels as incoherent as its ludicrously violent conclusion.
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Amy describes her lush neighborhood as a "ludicrously perfect patch" of the world.
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Sometimes it gives us misogynistic trolls and ludicrously fabricated news stories about pizzerias.
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I just want to lose myself in something either intriguing or ludicrously romantic.
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At once it feels ludicrously impossible and urgently important to keep our children safe.
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IN ONE LUDICROUSLY well-paid profession, January is a month for big-money moves.
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The black, round-faced watch is large, but not ludicrously so, and rather handsome.
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Instead of negotiating favorable terms, Weil said, the lenders become "ludicrously aggressive" on collections.
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The ludicrously sincere ballad "I'll Be," by Edwin McCain, is playing in the background.
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His campaign blasted out Biden's "white kids" comment accusing him, somewhat ludicrously, of racism.
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These are ludicrously precise experiences, with carefully designed levels and gorgeous Quake-esque visuals.
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The whole cassette's a winner but our personal favorite is the ludicrously lush "Witness".
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In a setting where the stakes are ludicrously deadly, it's even more potentially chilling.
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Some meditators swear by gamifying, but to me, it seems ludicrously wrongheaded and self-defeating.
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Without an understanding of why Asian investors include this provision, this demand seems ludicrously overreaching.
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If you're thinking that filming this would be ludicrously expensive, well, so did Hollywood producers.
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Its ludicrously long "epilogue" (which spans two parts and multiple hours) makes as much clear.
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It's so ludicrously serious there's almost something charming about the film's hyperventilating, page-turning fervor.
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VICE: So who are these guys riding around with ludicrously big sirens on their bikes?
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There's an easy way to cut taxes in Washington, and there is a ludicrously hard way.
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Apple is even more ludicrously profitable than Google, earning $45.7 billion for its 2016 fiscal year.
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Corruption made it a ludicrously expensive venture, costing twice the international average per kilometre of track.
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My car gets average mileage but the tank is ludicrously small, so I'm constantly filling it.
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I looked at the message, which seemed to call for a ludicrously large amount of weed.
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Props also have to go to Toshiyuki Sudo, for the ludicrously jazzy Everybody Votes Channel music.
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The ludicrously energetic instructor turned on a booming reggaeton mix and launched into a 2- A .
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Which all sounds, well, typically Danny Brown: left-field, audacious, ludicrously ambitious, and almost certainly excellent.
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A few of his television ads ludicrously link Northam to the Central American gang MS-13.
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Chris Hemsworth wielding a ludicrously big hammer with arms the size of cows and yelling a lot?
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But in the world of comics, superheroes are now — and have always been — a ludicrously truculent lot.
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And worst of all, at barely six inches the stand is ludicrously short and non-adjustable. Pass.
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But despite the flawless logic above, I still want this ludicrously expensive bells-and-whistles cutting station.
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The price at the time seemed ludicrously high: That much money for a company with 13 employees?
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The Predator 17 model that Acer sent me retails for $2,599.99, and it's a ludicrously powerful machine.
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A few weeks after I met him, he would lay out a ludicrously ambitious vision for Facebook.
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Model S on Nürburgring next week To be sure, Tesla makes, dare I say, ludicrously fast cars.
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He occasionally said things that even he seemed surprised by or that seemed ludicrously out of character.
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She ludicrously claimed that her account had been hacked, but also apologized for her "dumb" and "hateful" postings.
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This year has been so ludicrously stacked that it's no surprise this seems to have passed everyone by.
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And with prices for the S8 currently hovering around $650 (or less), Samsung's Android isn't ludicrously expensive either.
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Two years ago a Fox News commentator described it, ludicrously, as a "no-go zone" for non-Muslims.
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One reviewer wrote that "it makes racism appear not only ugly and stupid but ludicrously out of date".
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Yet it seems to have bought ludicrously expensive boats, and a chunk went on high-speed patrol craft.
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ONLY a few years ago, economists derided offshore wind as a ludicrously expensive way of cutting carbon emissions.
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Almost all of them serve aesthetic or gastronomic ends, though to a nonexpert they can seem ludicrously fussy.
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Such a measure would be both ludicrously easy to circumvent for criminals and disproportionately stressful for the average traveller.
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Asian as a category felt ludicrously monolithic and abstract, and Asian American plainly didn't apply because I wasn't American.
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Ludicrously, the letter exhorts investigators to provide the accused with deferential treatment because of her many achievements and awards.
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We already know that the Tesla Model S, especially in its most powerful, 22017D iteration, can get ludicrously fast.
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Would Real Madrid – a team often characterised as being populated by vain and ludicrously talented mercenaries – be so feted?
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Aside from the predictable jump scares, which I will admit were pretty effective, Ward Escape Omega is ludicrously bloody.
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And while the projector isn't as ludicrously expensive as a decent projector was in the past, it's hardly cheap.
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Hey is best known for its ludicrously viral game Stolen, which was shut down and later reborn as Famous.
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Deutsche Bank, the country's biggest bank, left it ludicrously late to adapt to the financial crisis of 241-219.
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Even a ludicrously unconvincing gang of "alt-right" teen-agers deliver talking points: it's like Twitter, the TV show.
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If you live in a city like New York or San Francisco, that probably means paying ludicrously high rent.
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In a previous column, I've argued that such high rates discourage corporate executives from paying themselves ludicrously large sums.
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Ludicrously, the UAE declared that anyone publishing expressions of support for Qatar can be jailed for up to 15 years.
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We're living through a veritable renaissance of ludicrously fast cars that none of us will ever drive, let alone afford.
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But yeah, NASA uses a ludicrously complex set of procedures to make this the multilayer, air-proof suits it uses.
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Well, you could buy a Yubikey or a SecurID token, which is insanely, ludicrously, non-starter inconvenient for most people.
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Design, sourcing, miniaturization and manufacturing is all ludicrously complicated, and often isn't core to the functionality of a fitness tracker.
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I will grant that D'Souza's 1991 book "Illiberal Education" is a less ludicrously clownish book than his most recent productions.
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Soon the price would seem ludicrously low: A mere billion dollars for the fastest-growing social network in the world?
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No other manufacturer would even think to do that — it is a ludicrously over-engineered solution to a simple problem.
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No other manufacturer would even think to do that — it is a ludicrously over-engineered solution to a simple problem.
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That said, the movie's ludicrously drawn-out finale sapped the good will out of some of my fellow audience members.
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For centuries, we have regarded the brain as a kind of machine: a ludicrously convoluted one, but a machine nonetheless.
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Neutron stars are stellar corpses—the remnants supernovae—and they cram a huge amount of mass into a ludicrously small sphere.
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But his ludicrously short timetable was rejected by MPs (previous EU treaties have taken weeks or even months to be ratified).
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Expect resellers to grab as much inventory as possible, and flip the consoles for ludicrously inflated prices on eBay and Craigslist.
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Whatever happens in China, Faraday Future finally appears ready to pursue production of its expensive, but ludicrously fast EV in California.
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The movie seems to have so much to say about the United States' meddling in foreign affairs to continually ludicrously effects.
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Here's a fun $983 million tower of staircases that invites visitors to clamber—but only under ludicrously strict conditions and control.
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But for Trump's campaign, this is so ludicrously petty that it deserves special attention, even in an already absurd election season.
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Williams topped her male counterparts when she wore this ludicrously opulent Audemars Piguet Diamond Outrage to the Met Gala in 2017.
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The arrival of Johnny Depp as a ludicrously dressed gangster with an entourage of weirdos does nothing to reverse that position.
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Mashing limp romance and artless satire into a ludicrously contrived plot, "The Clapper" lurches from one mirthlessly eccentric scene to another.
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The Neanderthal teammate (Alex Breaux) is a ludicrously overcompensating closet case, and Monica (Jeena Yi) is a by-the-numbers frenemy.
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Untuckit, it seems, was an idea so ludicrously obvious that no high-paid marketing genius had bothered to think of it.
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Qualcomm just announced its X16 modem, which taps into that spectrum to achieve the ludicrously fast speed of 1Gbps (gigabits per second).
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Similar to last year, there are places outside of the US where it's not ludicrously pricey to pick up a new iPhone.
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David Brent (of "The Office") is a ludicrously bad manager who thinks that he's god's gift to entertainment as well as business.
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A circuit that simple would be ludicrously dangerous; it would be like having a gun pointed at every cell in the body.
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Aside from the theoretical problems (the liability will exist whether or not the returns are achieved), the return assumptions are ludicrously high.
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Beauty standards, sexuality, dangerous behavior, ludicrously broad stereotypes and just plain bad judgment were all shaken, stirred, and exploited for maximum effect.
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On Sunday evening, he continued his assault, ludicrously claiming that the paper "will be out of business soon after" he leaves office.
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So while Dana Schutz is white and Emmett Till is black, the emphasis on racial essentialism here feels ludicrously, infuriatingly off topic.
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"We are pretty squeaky clean," a Republican state representative, Larry Rhoden, ludicrously maintained as the G.O.P. machine snuffed out the democratic process.
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Essentially, AlphaZero acquired 1,400 years of human chess knowledge—and then some—on its own, and in a ludicrously short amount of time.
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Half a century ago, astronomers observed their first pulsar: a dead, distant, ludicrously dense star that emitted pulses of radiation with remarkable regularity.
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Note those ludicrously large Imperial uniforms in the video still, with Jyn almost looking like Dark Helmet from the Mel Brooks parody Spaceballs.
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Las Vegas has made the Cubs the favorites to win this World Series, something that hasn't happened for a ludicrously long 108 years.
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According to a press release from manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric, this ludicrously fast elevator moves at a top speed of 1,230 meters per minute.
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Some airlines believe that they can maintain the differentiation between the front, middle and back by making first class even more ludicrously posh.
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Ludicrously, the IOC maintained the "hypocritical and ultimately forlorn" pretence of amateurism until 19680—even as Soviet athletes were amateurs in name only.
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" He even waggles his ludicrously long dino-tongue at the princess and mews, "You know what they say about little girls don't you?
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But even that figure is ludicrously large in terms of its impact on deficits and outstanding Treasury debt, as the CRFB points out.
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Should we have to pay for a ludicrously priced $6 latte for the privilege of tending to our basic human needs, so be it.
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Economists keep complaining that Chinese aren't consuming enough, but that's because they are spending their whole lives saving up to buy ludicrously expensive housing.
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Much can and will be said about the dire social consequences about what is in it and the ludicrously optimistic economic assumptions it embodies.
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She started her Etsy shop three months ago, and in large part, it is dedicated to the ludicrously popular K-Pop boy band BTS.
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But they can be glad they're not Dr. Rick Dagless, MD, star of a ludicrously awful TV series from (fictional) horror author Garth Marenghi.
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But they can be glad they're not Dr. Rick Dagless, MD, star of a ludicrously awful TV series from (fictional) horror author Garth Marenghi.
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" All this is an expression of the author's conviction, announced in Book 1, that "our ludicrously inconsequential lives … had a part in this world.
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"San Francisco is ludicrously tech-forward," said Dan Shapiro, the chief executive of a start-up, called Glowforge, that makes a laser cutting device.
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Thanks to the ludicrously named Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, victims of alleged sexual harassment by members of Congress receive secret taxpayer-funded settlements.
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And François Ozon's ludicrously trashy thriller L'Amant Double also mixes a deadly cocktail of desire and dread, set within a massively messed-up family.
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In frustration, players turned to a widely circulated hack for Fight Money and color unlocks that exploited proxies and Capcom's ludicrously weak server security.
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Nestled up in her ludicrously lavish life, Lara could preserve vestiges of an old value system instilled while growing up in a working-class family.
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Dahir Semenov, the inventor behind Dahir Insaat, has an apparently long history of ludicrously futuristic ideas, ranging from underground delivery systems to a flying monorail.
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The Defenders started out as one of the more ludicrously cosmic super-groups ever to battle oversized crustaceans in the pages of a Marvel comic.
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Reporters at the game, including SI's Chris Burke and ESPN's Sarah Barshop sent out photos of rather ludicrously priced lemonades, both alcoholic and non alcoholic.
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They will try to prevent union participating in politics – through ludicrously mistitled "paycheck protection" measures – but advocate no restrictions whatsoever on powerful corporations or billionaires.
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The generals' estimates of the death toll may be ludicrously understated, but at least they open the way for a discussion about the real numbers.
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The affair between Guess and Gill was ludicrously unethical—but it may not have been the sole reason Gill and his co-accused were acquitted.
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The authors take liberties similar to cartoonist Box Brown's in his clever Andre the Giant book, but draw heavily on Weegee's ludicrously boastful 1961 autobiography.
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The last goal seems almost ludicrously unattainable: China's men's team languishes at No. 73 in the world rankings, behind juggernauts like Curaçao and Cape Verde.
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Such a tactic, with all the economic and administrative woe it would entail, would be a ludicrously large hammer to use on such a small nut.
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Even though this is an entry level McLaren (the on-the-road cost of the model I drove was $244,370), the 570S is still ludicrously quick.
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Martin also let rip at "ludicrously gloomy" remainers, who had insisted that the U.K. economy would sink into recession in the wake of the Brexit vote.
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A big group like theirs, handing out gifts of cash to local Bedouins and camping in ostentatious luxury, was ludicrously easy pickings for a Shiite militia.
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At the end of last season and the beginning of this one, Daenerys and her forces appeared ludicrously overpowered in comparison to Jaime and Cersei Lannister.
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Think of the bright elastic throats of anole lizards, the Fabergé abdomens of peacock spiders and the curling, iridescent, ludicrously long feathers of birds-of-paradise.
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DIVIDE ME BY ZERO By Lara Vapnyar There are a handful of novelists who excel in describing, often from ludicrously comic heights, the Russian-American experience.
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Over the past few years, the world has gotten to know some pretty cool electric vehicles: ludicrously quick Teslas, solar-powered planes, sport bikes with Italian styling.
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Just 13, Nasukawa already carries the weight of expectation from his country, having already compiled a ludicrously impressive résumé in the kickboxing world for someone his age.
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But I suspect the main reason the Juicero is so ludicrously over-engineered was less to do with gouging customers than it was about impressing Wall Street.
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It's so ludicrously big that I could rehash the different ways to measure it over and over again until my flight out of Las Vegas on Saturday.
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The A53R III uses a full-frame, 42.4-megapixel sensor, and borrows heavily from the A9, Sony's ludicrously fast professional flagship that was announced earlier this year.
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And, with Apple moving to Retina displays across most of the Mac line, the Thunderbolt Display was left to languish on shelves at a ludicrously high price.
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Far from having the compelling legal basis that would be needed to justify its sweeping implications, the Medicaid expansion holding in Sebelius is a ludicrously incoherent mess.
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But he has already promised, ludicrously, to "end crime" in six months, perhaps by executing as many as 100,000 criminals and throwing their bodies in Manila Bay.
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" Some in Giuliani's fan club -- in which this author once claimed association -- have ludicrously attempted to spin his kooky Trump defense appearance as "method in the madness.
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Samoa Joe and Braun Strowman both needed the ludicrously named Great Balls of Fire last summer to really coalesce as credible upper mid-card guys, for instance.
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This was largely possible thanks to the ludicrously high budget he and his studio requested from Paramount (about $1.6 million per 10 minute short, adjusted for inflation).
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Starting the day ludicrously early seems to be a badge of honor for CEOs like Apple's Tim Cook, who gets out of bed at 3:45 a.m.
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And so the stars eat ludicrously hot wings, sit with a therapist they've never met, engage some aw-shucks huckster to connect them to the other side.
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If the machine learning-powered text adventure AI Dungeon 2 is anything to go by, they'll be open-ended, ludicrously silly, and bags of fun to play.
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They're spread all across the US and most of them are implausibly rich: Richie (Bill Hader) is a popular standup comic; Bill (James McAvoy) is a bestselling novelist; Eddie (James Ransone) is a New York financier; Ben (Jay Ryan) is a ludicrously handsome, ludicrously upscale architect; Beverly (Jessica Chastain) is a wealthy fashion designer who breaks away from an abusive marriage to fly to Derry when Mike summons everyone home.
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And as Kincaid and Bryce lurch ludicrously and painfully toward their ultimate goal — the courtroom — they encounter more and more opponents who are out, quite literally, for blood.
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There was a lot of that irrationality on Friday which of course was a direct result of the ludicrously overoptimistic mark-up in prices going into the vote.
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Like a lot of comic book characters who debuted in the '90s, Domino is a perfect mix of a simple, high concept layered with a ludicrously complicated backstory.
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But Congress has set a levy of just $22006 for this type of employee per year; an annual sum of only $1053m, ludicrously short of the amount needed.
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Trump is the man who dubbed him "Lyin' Ted," who attacked his wife, and who ludicrously suggested that his father had something to do with the JFK assassination.
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In a city that is 79% black, Mr Luckett was variously assailed as "a white honky" and, ludicrously—given his lifetime membership of the NAACP—as a racist.
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Indeed, his proposed budget would further starve already underfunded domestic programs — necessitating still more deferred maintenance — to fund a defense build-up and a ludicrously expensive border wall.
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The Pixel 2 was already ridiculously (or ludicrously, if you like) overpowered for Chromebook, and there's really nothing wrong with it, so it's doubtful there'll be an update.
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So they were the perfect band to see on Friday night at Coachella, because last night was the most ludicrously washed I've ever felt in my entire life.
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Ludicrously, resorting to a tactic that seemed more appropriate to the school playground than the situation in which I found myself, I tried to heave him off me.
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Recent racial comedies, like Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's "An Octoroon" and Bruce Norris's "Clybourne Park," have been built on ludicrously bad behavior, and let the results speak for themselves.
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I got to ride the 2500W and 250W versions on a recent chilly Friday in lower Manhattan, and found them both to be deceptively light and ludicrously speedy.
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Just in case while you're on your yacht in Bali with your other ludicrously rich buddies, you take off your Meca-10 P2P and a hilarious watch mixup ensues.
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When asked about the fires, he ludicrously accused environmental NGOs of starting the fires themselves in retaliation for funding cuts and in order to make his government look bad.
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Tonight, we ride in hell (Image: Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo)Swagtron, the ludicrously named company that previously went by the equally ludicrous name Swagway, has some new gear for 2017.
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The person who helped change that was Wesley Williams, a pioneering black firefighter who comes across in Goldberg's telling as a real-life superhero, ludicrously overqualified for the job.
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Kittlaus began with a broad and oft-uttered question regarding what the weather was like today, but then quickly evolved his demands of Viv into ludicrously complex pointed inquiries.
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A cut hundred and eighty pounds in his prime and standing six foot four, Lincoln is suspected to have suffered from Marfan syndrome because of his ludicrously long limbs.
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Rather than heeding complaints that the Fight Money grind is too tough or the Survival Mode color unlocks are ludicrously difficult, they're saying git gud or pay up, bucko.
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And yes, I'm ludicrously aware that actually caring this much about Twitter and the way I'm portrayed on the platform makes me come across as a complete and utter wanker.
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His ludicrously quick attempts to deliver on campaign promises from the moment he stepped inside the White House seems at odds with the four-year term he has been handed.
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Unless you're the type to import ludicrously expensive, name-brand weed from America, it's likely you don't care too much about what design is on the packaging it comes in.
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And here it is, the trailer for my most-anticipated release of the season: a new installment of New Yokio, the impossibly sarcastic and ludicrously ritzy anime from Ezra Koenig.
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Ophelia and Lianna's story is so ludicrously centered around their paternal figure that Lianna betrays Ophelia on the off chance that some dude might bring him back from the dead.
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Some maintain, ludicrously, that "Trump's unquestioning support means trouble for Israel," as if an overabundance of U.S. support and deference during the Obama years were the problem that needs correcting.
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Some things are simple: What if all you really wanted to do was commute to work with a ludicrously fast bicycle, setting Strava records for all the world to see?
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Already Mr Trump had echoed the Alt-Right's views on Muslims, immigration, trade and, indeed, Vladimir Putin, whom Alt-Righters ludicrously admire for his supposed pursuit of Russia's national interest.
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Voters cannot judge whether he has any idea what he's talking about without an outline of his plan, yet Mr. Trump ludicrously insists he must not tip off the enemy.
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If nothing else this again puts the lie to regime propaganda that has ludicrously depicted the al-Assads and indeed, all Syrians, as faithful and loving stewards of the past.
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The use of ludicrously weak passwords is just one of the many embarrassing revelations in the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) report on the security of Department of Defense's weapons systems.
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Mr. Browne, for those not up on their sartoriana, is the American designer who made a generation of men insecure about their ankles, thanks to suit trousers hemmed ludicrously high.
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But it's also a ludicrously low salary for someone of Judge's production, given how much money Major League Baseball earns from tickets, concessions, advertisements, clothing, television rights and digital rights.
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But something that he said stood out, not just because it went so ludicrously far, even by Trumpian standards, but because it so perfectly captured his distinctive madness and meanness.
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Sometimes — such as when he ludicrously argued that civilians in Aleppo had simply covered themselves in dust to look like bombing victims for photographers — my abhorrence infected our working relationship.
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Worse, it posed a new tax on the working class: the ludicrously named "individual shared responsibility payment," a $695 penalty for the crime of being unable to afford private insurance.
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The boom of sneaker culture has a lot to do with the way it rides the line between aspirational and accessible, and these were ludicrously priced things sitting on black velvet.
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It seems nowhere near tackling the multiple exchange rates (ranging from one peso to the dollar for official imports to 25 for most wages and prices) that ludicrously distort the economy.
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Each year, Valve hosts the Dota 2 International in Seattle, where the best Dota 2 teams from around the world come to compete for glory and a ludicrously high prize pool.
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Mr Trump is to public service what professional wrestling, which he loves, is to sport: entertaining and ludicrously implausible, a suspension of disbelief for escapists, a crude deception for the gullible.
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Everything that happens in the game happens on that one tiny phone screen; brightly-colored and occasionally ludicrously holiday-themed fish swim peacefully around a big coral reef in the center.
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The government has endorsed a similar contract for the planned Hinkley Point C nuclear-power station, but at what now looks like a ludicrously expensive £92.50 per MWh for 35 years.
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Leicester had very little choice but to play counterattacks; its resources were ludicrously small, compared to the riches of its competitors in England like Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal.
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Speedrunner Darbian improved upon his previous Super Mario Bros world record run of 4:57:627 from October 18, 2015 by shaving a ludicrously quick 367 milliseconds off his previous time.
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He thought the dick scene in Bruno, in which a ludicrously long pecker swings around like a pinwheel, broke the mold in a way no other film has before or since.
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Cartoon by Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby The unvarnished look of "Heaven Knows What," which makes most other films about homeless characters seem ludicrously contrived, can obscure the brothers' sophisticated approach.
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It helps explain why Trump can rant on about border walls, taking Iraq's oil, banning Muslims, and deporting all the undocumented immigrants, despite every policy expert deeming those ideas ludicrously impracticable.
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There's also shades of Forrest Gump (in which Forrest also stumbles across the DNC break-in), with the girls being ludicrously present or even responsible for every major development in the scandal.
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I get lost on the way as I decide to catch the tram (taxis are ludicrously expensive and slower than the excellent public transport), and arrive at the office at 1 p.m.
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There were the piers and beaches, the outdoor dancing stages and the music halls, ludicrously extravagant Moorish and Indian follies where entertainers from Laurel and Hardy to Frank Sinatra delighted the crowds.
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His affection for Kellyanne Conway hinges on her superhuman power not to break into laughter or spontaneously combust when she puts the most ludicrously adulatory spin on his most transparently execrable deeds.
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I don't think I've seen Garbrandt check a single low kick, but I've seen numerous instances of them breaking his balance by everyone from Marcus Brimage to the ludicrously clumsy striker, Augusto Mendes.
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In comedy, particularly in classic, multi-camera sitcoms, a situation escalates more ludicrously; a car crashes into the kitchen and a character decides to become a fugitive before all is forgiven without consequence.
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He had a European Cup, four major international tournaments and stints at Camp Nou and the Santiago Bernabeu under his belt; then, ludicrously, Robert Prosinečki signed a one-year deal at Fratton Park.
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When asked about the fires, he ludicrously responded by accusing environmental NGOs of setting the fires themselves so as to make his government look bad, in retaliation for his cuts in their funding.
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" Even the year's successes sometimes felt underwhelming, like Magic Leap, a ludicrously well-funded AR startup whose pitch was basically "we have recruited the greatest minds in modern culture to literally rewrite reality.
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Certainly debate gaffes can come to dominate the political conversation: in a 1976 debate, then-president Gerald Ford once famously (and ludicrously) proclaimed that Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia were free of Soviet influence.
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The firm had previously flagged it would launch a series of class actions against the country's largest banks and wealth manager AMP Ltd for giving customers "ludicrously low" or negative returns without justification.
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" But NSA employees had broad discretion to vacuum up Americans' info without warrants, and NSA's definition of terrorist suspect was so ludicrously broad that it includes "someone searching the web for suspicious stuff.
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The Republican-led EMSC launched an investigation that was, by all reports, ludicrously one-sided, focused on the perceived shortcomings and costs of wind and solar, with almost no testimony about their benefits.
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Last May, the Atlanta Hawks tapped Travis Schlenk—a man who spent the previous five seasons offering insight as assistant general manager for the ludicrously successful Golden State Warriors—to completely renovate their roster.
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It is untenable to attack Trump for advancing a ludicrously skeletal alternative to the Affordable Care Act, when the Republican Party has no alternative of its own, and Trump's competitors offer little more clarity.
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That principle was dented whenever he ran for higher office—most famously when, in 2008, he made a naked appeal to the base by picking the ludicrously unqualified Sarah Palin as his running-mate.
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There's inevitably a hint of shameless money-grab to any film adaptation of a ludicrously popular video game franchise, especially one that specifically appeals to people who must uncover every secret in the mythos.
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You drink whole jars of pickle juice in a fugue state; you acquire carpal tunnel syndrome, take up snoring, and, at your most loathsome, become so ludicrously horny you lose whole afternoons to TubeGalore.
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The European project it joined in 1973 had obvious flaws: ludicrously expensive farm and fisheries policies, a budget designed to cost Britain more than any other country, no single market and only nine members.
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Below that, arranged like the dots on the five face of a die, were the F-1 engines on which the success of the whole moon-project rested: exquisitely engineered, cunningly contrived, ludicrously powerful.
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Powell doesn't want to "just be a player you can throw in," as great a luxury as that is for a team to have (let alone on a ludicrously cheap deal for next season).
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The It mythos is ludicrously complex, as evidenced by the pages upon pages author Stephen King dedicated to explaining it in the original novel, and Muschietti's part one doesn't begin to cover its nuances.
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Putting aside EIA's ludicrously pessimistic prediction (it has a long history of lowballing clean energy tech projections), you can see that analysts are incredibly bullish — and getting more bullish every year — about EV growth.
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The movie is adapted from the 2009 novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, who hit commercial pay dirt with a catchy title and the fusion of two ludicrously opposed, nominally irreconcilable cultural touchstones: Austen and zombies.
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Then, earlier this week, the Essential Phone was discounted down to a shocking $224, a ludicrously cheap price so low that we've only seen it briefly during Amazon's most recent Prime day back in July.
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They make cheery, ludicrously Panglossian pitches: Give us $87.5 million for a new soccer stadium, and it will be the defining accomplishment of our generation, as well as something that will heal Charlotte's racial divisions.
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The hard way is to cut rates while also limiting some deductions; the ludicrously hard way is to do all that while also taxing something that was not taxed before, to help offset the cuts.
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San Francisco has a ludicrously great experimental film history, but since we were going to be essentially stealing material, we felt more guilty about stealing from Bruce Conner, George Kuchar, or other great experimental filmmakers.
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All of which led Colbert to coyly ask Reeves what he thought happened when we die — a ludicrously weighty question for the average talk-show exchange, but a perfect one for the bodhisattva of showbiz.
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These ludicrously high valuations have a butterfly effect, as other VC's benchmark with each other, basing valuations on the figures set by other companies with similar profiles, rather than realistic predictions of revenue and growth.
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The full details of the almost ludicrously complex trail of clues can be found on the GameDetective Wiki, where the community had been working together to compile and solve the various pieces of the puzzle.
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" The first Gears of War followed Marcus Fenix and his ludicrously chunky friends as they fought against the Locust — a race of beefcake aliens who live underground and are obsessed with luminous goo called "emulsion.
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While most still think of the National Rifle Association (NRA) as the chief culprit in blocking any reform of the nation's ludicrously lax gun laws, a key change has occurred over the past few years.
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The series started in 2001, essentially died in 2003, and came roaring back to life at the start of Mr. Obama's first term and is ludicrously yet thankfully on the verge of an eighth installment.
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And while looking around today it may seem ludicrously optimistic to expect any amount of outreach and re-branding could sway these voters' minds when it came to the GOP, it was not always so.
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Last year, Menery posted a video on Instagram in which he crank-called the club pretending to be Bill Gates (who is a member), ludicrously demanding a tee time in the midst of the tournament.
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Whatever epithet you choose, you have to admit that Flappy Bird was a work of art: a game so ludicrously simple and perversely difficult that it operated less as entertainment and more as spiritual provocation.
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Your superlative ways seemed impermeable in the worlds of Ligue 1 and Serie A, but surely the hype-destroying EPL—with its tabloids and ludicrously high expectations—would finally dismantle your 34-year-old self, right?
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But the administration also says that any deal must include funding for a border wall—an immediate non-starter for Democrats (and probably repellent to budget-hawk Republicans too: the wall is a ludicrously expensive showpiece).
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Some were ludicrously overproduced—fancy motion graphic title sequences would have me leaning towards the screen wondering what would follow, only to sit back confused as they'd cut to low resolution footage of a soccer game.
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"The assertion that NBC tried to kill the Weinstein story while Ronan Farrow was at NBC News, or even more ludicrously, after he left NBC News, is an outright lie," the network said in a statement.
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After pitting himself against tight-fisted centre-backs like Ciro Ferrara, Alessandro Costacurta and Paolo Maldini, it's no surprise that Premier League defences marshalled by Phil Babb and Neil 'Razor' Ruddock seemed ludicrously generous to him.
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What you won't find at our firm is ludicrously expensive office space, cute events that have nothing to do with legal counsel, or armies of staff that don't deliver real value to the end-service for clients.
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That being said, eye-tracking that isn't being used to support a ludicrously high-res display probably isn't that much of a system seller and it's a little odd that they would ship such an iterative product.
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And if the only way to get that kind of advantage is to get ludicrously lucky, or sink hours upon hours to grind your way toward it, then Battlefront II likely won't have a long-term lifespan.
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And for many people, it's the only place where ludicrously opulent décor is attainable, where you can go all out on mother-of-pearl doorknobs or Versailles-worthy brocade chaises without losing your savings or your dignity.
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Executives working for multinational firms have been arrested, and ludicrously high fines imposed on spurious grounds (Acacia Mining, a British firm, was told to pay $190bn—more than three years of Tanzania's GDP—for allegedly undervaluing gold exports).
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Ives also branched out into other genres to spread its evangelical message—in 1844 they published the ludicrously titled strategy game The Game of Pope and Pagan or Siege of the Stronghold of Satan by the Christian Army.
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Tom Holland is a born showman and a flawless Peter Parker; the cast is talented, funny, and diverse; it's a view of New York we've ludicrously never seen and Vulture (Michael Keaton) was the best villain since Loki.
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While cartoony and ludicrously gory contemporaries like Gears of War feature chainsaw rifles cleaving enemies in two, Battlefield 1 uses a guttural, primal scream to indicate you're charging at the enemy with the tip of a rifle spear.
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Having set the bar for the Tories ludicrously high, on that election night Labour's talking heads repeated and repeated the claim that the opposition had fallen short and that their own side had avoided its worst-case scenario.
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As inhabitants of a ludicrously well-defended empire, one that gobbles billions yearly for its stratospheric defense budgets, it's preposterous to imagine that dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of economic or situational migrants would pose a serious threat.
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And even if a knock-off gadget or article of clothing is ludicrously cheap, it is hard to imagine a customer buying one after another as they break instead of a longer-lasting one from a reputable source.
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On the eve of what was ludicrously called Operation Iraqi Freedom, I was a teenager in Boise, Idaho, protesting in front of the state Capitol with the Idaho Green Party, a scattering of mostly Gen X neo-hippies.
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Many of the country's diplomats are in a funk, as my Times colleague Mark Landler just recounted, and the ludicrously large number of unfilled positions throughout the administration partly reflects the limited appeal of such a gloomy club.
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The "series of lawsuits" flagged by Slater & Gordon Ltd would first target the pension arm of Commonwealth Bank of Australia and wealth manager AMP Ltd for giving customers "ludicrously low" or negative returns without justification, the firm said.
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But as time goes on, the Gear System is going to prove an essential repeat-play attraction for those who care not for razor-sharp balance, happier instead to take their ludicrously powered Swamp Thing into the online battleground.
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His seminal work with fellow Norwegian Prins Thomas was followed by a ludicrously luscious solo record in 2008 (Where You Go I Go Too) and a year after that, Hans-Peter dropped Real Life is No Cool with Christabelle.
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Since 300, he's preferred staging action sequences as if they were slow-motion, large-canvas works—like paintings of battle scenes that move at one-fourth speed—which gives them a ludicrously grandiose feel that's both ridiculous and stirring.
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The UK's most popular parenting website is known for all manner of ludicrously weird forum posts, from chickpea recipes to classics such as The Perfect Cube of Poo and A Plate Has Fallen Down the Back of the Loo.
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Ludicrously excluded over the years from the discussion, which plays out just about every other week on social media nowadays, his tenure in hip-hop runs at least as long as those of perennial candidates Jay-Z and Nas.
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I called CNN a loser last night in large part due to the moderation: Hosts Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, and Don Lemon kept interrupting substantive debates in a vain effort to enforce the ludicrously short one-minute time limit.
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The first casualties of this bigoted, cowardly, self-defeating policy were detained early Saturday at American airports just hours after the executive order, ludicrously titled "Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States," went into effect.
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Thousands of containers of festive food and toys are on their way, say authorities, and while supermarket shelves appear fuller, prices are ludicrously high for people earning just tens of dollars a month at the black market exchange rate.
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McQuarrie's attempt to understand the point-of-view of every character in his movie, bad guy or otherwise, is commendable — a good approach for any screenwriter or director, even when the stakes are as ludicrously high as they are in Fallout.
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The Italian problem, with its ludicrously high debts, may have preceded Mrs Merkel's accession in 2005 but it has only got worse on her watch and that 2 trillion euro nightmare just keeps threatening to blow up the whole project.
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Weld created a template for both campaigning and governance that would be followed by every savvy Massachusetts Republican thereafter: Paul Cellucci, Mitt Romney, and ludicrously popular current Governor Charlie Baker, who began his career as a wunderkind bureaucrat in Weld's administration.
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"Quick Fix," for example—whose video premieres on Noisey above—is a ludicrously grooving country-funk tune that sounds like it was prepared in a lab of stoned scientists who wing all of their measurements, but end up pretty close anyway.
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Another ludicrously expensive production is the sci-fi show See, featuring Aquaman's Jason Momoa, which The Wall Street Journal reported back in July costs $15 million per episode, making it more expensive than the final season of GoT, as well.
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To ludicrously suggest that James Comey, head of the premier law enforcement agency in the world, was incapable of directly confronting a bully of a president or sharing this information with the deputy attorney general, to whom he reports, defies credulity.
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S. wage and price inflation are rising briskly, putting intense downward pressure on financial markets," Edwards said in the note, adding that "the post-mortem will identify President Trump's ludicrously timed fiscal stimulus as a key trigger for the collapse.
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Anyone with half a brain is obviously aware of how ludicrously, maddeningly exciting this song is; how sexually charged and lusty it is, how, just like "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough," it actually sounds exactly like the mood it's trying to convey.
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That is especially true because the Trump campaign made such a hash of things in the aftermath Tuesday morning when they denied there was anything wrong but added -- ludicrously -- that if there were anything wrong, the blame should lie with Hillary Clinton!
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The crew of ludicrously hip 20-somethings have no idea how to bury a body, evade a cop, or lay low—and, as they force themselves to keep up old habits (namely, eating brunch), trying to live a normal life becomes increasingly difficult.
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Unfortunately, finding the ideal straw hat isn't that simple, especially since most versions tend fall into one of two camps: a stiff panama hat that's basically a glorified straw fedora, or a ludicrously floppy option that's really only suitable at the Kentucky Derby.
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Taking our lead from the rest of the world, we too are going to ignore all of Saturday's football and hand our awards to players who made an impression on Super Sunday, a name that for once didn't feel ludicrously over the top.
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Barr—who has been tweeting for months about the 4chan-born Qanon theory that ludicrously alleges Democratic leadership are members of a Satanic pedophilia cartel—sent out a racist tweet smearing Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, resulting in the show's abrupt cancellation by ABC.
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He's the driving force behind the movie, but he doesn't ever try to put on a ludicrously serious tone, even during the movie's more somber moments — he understands that he's playing a CGI yellow mouse capable of shooting electricity out of his rosy cheeks.
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Back in 2009, when the industry lost a collective $9.4bn, following a collapse in demand caused by the global financial crisis, the argument made sense—particularly in relation to older cabin crew, some of whom joined the company on ludicrously generous contracts before privatisation.
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Despite those last two wins against well-known names, Ray remains on the periphery outside the top 15 in the UFC lightweight rankings, a fact which is more emblematic of what is a ludicrously talent-rich division, rather than a sign of Ray's shortcomings.
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Trump ludicrously proposes that the morning of his inauguration — several hours before he officially takes the oath of office — America will magically become safer (presumably because the name Trump will strike fear in the hearts of every would-be criminal, immigrant, or terrorist at dawn).
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Johnson, ludicrously long off the tee, is ranked 23th on the tour around the greens, which is the short answer for why he has eight top-five finishes, but no victories, in 21 starts since his second-place finish at last year's United States Open.
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We're going to get better products for ludicrously low prices, and big brands across a range of categories — the Nests and Netgears of the world — are going to find it harder than ever to get us to shell out big money for their wares.
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And it would be no surprise, with the Premier League trophy currently, ludicrously, the property of Leicester City, if the likes of David Moyes, Sean Dyche and Tony Pulis found themselves brushing up on their track-and-field history as the new season looms.
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"The assertion that NBC News tried to kill the Weinstein story while Ronan Farrow was at NBC News, or even more ludicrously, after he left NBC News, is an outright lie," an NBC News representative told Business Insider in a statement in September 2018.
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He plays a soap opera actor who claims to have done extensive research to prepare for his part as Dr. Dirk Johanson in the ludicrously over-the-top show "Doctors, Nurses and Patients," but is unable to pronounce even the simplest medical term correctly.
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We're going to get better products for ludicrously low prices, and big brands across a range of categories — the Nests and Netgears of the world — are going to find it harder than ever to get us to shell out big money for their wares.
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Committed Couples Can Stop Worrying About STIsThe US has ludicrously high rates of STIs compared to countries like the Netherland, France, Sweden, and Germany—a fact often attributed to differences in sex education, affordable health care, and the level of sex positivity that exists in the culture.
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So we're just supposed to believe the president if he says, falsely, that his inauguration crowd was the biggest ever; if he claims, ludicrously, that millions of votes were cast illegally for his opponent; if he insists, with no evidence, that his predecessor tapped his phones.
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Combining ludicrously short fights with the bizarre Yamma pit—a regular cage with a mat that sloped up toward the fence—the younger wrestlers in the heavyweight tournament quickly got takedowns, held their men on the slope for a couple of minutes, and won their bouts by decision.
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The teacher-turned-fascist from The 100 (Michael Beach) is the embittered father of B-plot villain Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), a capable underwater pirate whose vendetta against Aquaman leads to a ludicrously expensive-looking yet admittedly impressive extended chase-and-fight scene in an Italian seaside town.
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Let's face it: After last year's pathetic performance of the broader hedge fund industry, where all indications are that the industry again lost money, it's going to be a tad tricky for most of them to justify charging anything let alone the ludicrously high "two and twenty" average fee structure.
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It also can't hurt that the shift to the further future lets players tool around in ludicrously speedy spaceships, fire outlandish laser cannons, and battle humanoid robots, giving Infinity Ward space to make the kind of linear roller-coaster of a game it became famous for on a new scale.
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Maybe it seems like splitting already ludicrously fine hairs, but in biomedicine, the share of black scientists who receive major research grants from the National Institutes of Health (1.4 percent) is about twice as high as the share of black mathematicians on the tenured faculty of top United States math departments.
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The most famous example might be Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," in which the writer blithely suggested the problem of the poor might best be solved by eating babies, a wackadoodle idea that was meant to show how ludicrously awful cultural attitudes toward the poor in his time had become.
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Instead of worrying about giving the most authentic driving experience possible, returning Forza Horizon developer Playground Games puts players behind the wheel of a plethora of vehicles and gives them free rein to drive, drift, and explore both the cities and countryside of Britain in dozens of ludicrously fast and expensive cars.
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But this would have been a dead end for him even if he hadn't rendered the comparison so ludicrously, because if Assad were anything like Hitler, it would raise the question of why Trump's response was to cause a bit of damage to one of his airfields with a few dozen cruise missiles.
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In 1519, nineteen-year-old Charles was elected Holy Roman Emperor, and in an effort to maintain a balance of power in Europe, Henry (29 years old), and Francis (23 years old) agreed to meet in a neutral location to pledge their friendship and brotherhood, as only young, ludicrously rich men knew how.
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Alas, I can tell you from painful experience, most online booking sites are terrible at this sort of thing; they theoretically offer "multi-city" bookings, but their search algorithms either roll over and die before returning any results, or they offer you ludicrously overpriced bookings with byzantine routings only a mileage runner could love.
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A dual-screen phone with a hinge and a large, folding displayPrice$1,980LikeMaking a device with a 7.3-inch screen that still fits in a pocket, ludicrously good battery life, blazing performance, tons of storageDon't LikeIt's heavy, it's thick, it's expensive, it doesn't have water resistance, and that "cover screen" is just too small.
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The idea that "a feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life" sets a ludicrously low bar to join a social movement, though the slogan is suited to the era of extreme self-regard we're currently in: It requires that a feminist only speak for herself to get her membership card.
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UnREAL's second season might have been a mess, but it provided cheap thrills in its own right, too—sudsy twists buoyed by Appleby and Zimmer's stellar performances, two of the most notable dramatic performances on TV right now—and the finale's ludicrously shocking conclusion suggests that Shapiro and her team aren't changing course anytime soon.
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Brunei's cruel, inhuman and degrading penalties are not a relic of history, like the sodomy laws that stayed on the books of American states well into the 20th century, but the whim of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, 72, who has ruled the Lilliputian nation since 1967 and ranks among the most ludicrously wealthy people on earth.
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It would be impossible for him to travel at will from Hawaii (which had been seized by the Americans) to Tahiti (colonized by the French), or to Samoa (which until 1914 was German) or to Tonga (which was run for the local monarch by the British), without having both permission and, more ludicrously, a passport.
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But the sensible among you would reject that hypothesis, knowing that there would be no way that the president would be sitting up in his ludicrously opulent mansion, restless at midnight, so steamed about his popularity that he would pull out his phone and throw out a half-considered complaint tweet to his millions of followers.
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Striker is the only position where the French aren't ludicrously deep, and Benzema, who scored 24 league goals for Real Madrid this year (a career high in spite of missing 11 games), would have been crucial to Les Blues' campaign to win a third straight major tournament on home soil, after Euro '84 and the '98 World Cup.
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In SLAP-STICK, traces of that exhibition are found in the ludicrously slender, multicolored ladder reaching up into the ceiling, the pile of broken black umbrellas huddled in a corner, a dark cloud with a lightning bolt lingering in the rear of the gallery, and a mat covered in tails-up pennies in front of a gaudy, broken mirror.
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Democrats sense a tantalising thicket of embarrassment: that the president paid ludicrously low amounts of tax (as the few leaked excerpts suggest); that he is not worth as much as he claims; the possibility of bank, insurance and tax fraud (as his former consigliere Michael Cohen claimed under oath in his testimony to Congress) and large, undisclosed entanglements with Saudi and Russian companies.
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So while it's easy to laugh it off when NAMBLA is portrayed, ludicrously, as a thriving organization that teams up with Antifa and members of the Hollywood elite, it is in many ways a troubling escalation of the kind of rhetoric the right has been peddling for years—and one that can't so easily be dismissed as just another dumb, cheap stunt.
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In a throng of ludicrously eager pilgrims, I saw "Cats," which opened on Broadway in 21980 and was the purring toast of the town, with the orchestra seats that everyone agitated for, never mind that it was a tribute mostly to how much money could be lavished on furry costumes and how many fake whiskers could be painted on a human face.
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Among other restrictions compared to the Steam version of the game, the Windows Store version doesn't support the use of multiple graphics cards (which are used in high-end PCs to run games at ludicrously high resolutions), always has V-Sync enabled (which helps eliminate an annoying visual artifact known as screen tearing but also introduces input lag), and doesn't support the use of third-party mods.
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Last, but not least, Acer also announced US release dates for two of its computers that it announced last year at IFA 2017: the fanless 2-in-1 Switch 7 Black Edition, which will be available later this month starting at $1,699, and the ludicrously over-the-top Acer Predator Orion 9000 desktop tower (you know, the one with wheels), available in February starting at $1,999.
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Spicer can charitably be accused of having enough shame not to poison the idealism of college students, or of having a rapid change of heart, because his first official comments as President Donald Trump's spokesman were in that second category: ludicrously false, ministry-of-propaganda style lies meant to discredit the national media, and convince Trump's supporters that he's more popular than he really is.
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For Catholic believers, Father Monroe's struggle may have powerful resonance, but most in the audience are likely to find the whole issue faintly academic, if not banal; the Catholic Church's strictures on the priesthood (no women, no marriage), homosexuality, abortion and other matters — which even many Catholics consider ludicrously out of step with today's world — have been fodder for debate in the popular media for years.
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If you know Mr. Sudeikis, 41, from his decade as a writer and performer on "Saturday Night Live," you may see him as synonymous with the boisterous, ludicrously self-absorbed characters he played there; or in films like "Horrible Bosses" or "We're the Millers"; or on Fox's "Son of Zorn," providing the voice of a cartoon barbarian living in a flesh-and-blood world.
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He wrote just one female character, Kundry, and a singing chorus of sirens, the Flower Maidens, who appear only in Act II. Kundry, traumatically divided between carnal and spiritual forces, and the Flower Maidens are femmes fatales who try to lure Parsifal (and by implication other knights) from the path of virtue; Wagner's knights, though they're stirring and needy in other ways, are conceived as ludicrously chaste.
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With a record of 220-220-2185, Khalidov's rise to prominence has been as gradual as it has been impressive, especially considering how he started with a record of 3-3 following his first six fights, but Khalidov headlining ACB 54: Supersonic—the promotion's biggest event so far in both publicity and size with its fight card ludicrously consisting of 25 fights—was a big risk for ACB, KSW and Khalidov himself.
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Elections officials and experts say Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's claims of a "rigged" presidential election are ludicrously off base, given the use of a decentralized system in which ballots are counted by thousands of Democratic and Republican officials across the country.
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And while it's almost ludicrously complex, updating hundreds of older regulations, it basically puts a couple of key restrictions in place for coal companies seeking permits to expand or start new mines in the future: This sounds basic, but the rule-making process involved numerous debates over best how to define "hydrologic balance," how exactly to monitor waterways, how to deal with the variety of coal industry practices out there, and so on.
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The special counsel went after Flynn over an interview that never should have been held, except that at the time acting attorney general Sally YatesSally Caroline YatesSally Yates: Moral fiber of US being 'shredded by unapologetic racism' Trump: 'Impossible for me to know' extent of Flynn investigation Mueller didn't want Comey memos released out of fear Trump, others would change stories MORE, who was part of the resistance, ludicrously invoked the Logan Act to have him interrogated.
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Rajon Rondo was traded to the Dallas Mavericks for a first-round pick, Jae Crowder, Jameer Nelson, and Brandan Wright (who was then dealt to the Phoenix Suns for two second-round picks—one which recently turned into Semi Ojeleye); Jeff Green was ludicrously swapped for a first-round pick from the Memphis Grizzlies; and Isaiah Thomas and Jonas Jerebko were scooped up in a three-team trade where the Celtics actually surrendered a first-round pick.
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He also hit out at "stupid advice" given to web users — such as telling them they should be reading the full length email header in order to determine whether an email is genuine or not; or asking them to remember "the equivalent of a 600 digit number every month" because of password requirements to create a unique, multi-character, multi-string password for every service they use and change them all frequently — as ludicrously unfit for the average web user.
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Throw in the omnipresent pressures of Brexit — to cut costs and engineer all sorts of complex feats within ludicrously tiny timescales, such as conjuring an automagical technology-powered non-hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (as has been suggested as one possible solution for that particular Brexit conundrum) — and it's not hard to see why ministers might be in an unseemly haste to feed public sector data-sets to any technologist who claims they can engineer a solution.
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Read more Box-office preview: Michael Bay's Benghazi movie '13 Hours' could be politically divisive Despite the well-conveyed sense of danger that seems to lurk down every street (some of Bay's best work comes in multiple scenes of vehicles becoming trapped by would-be enemies), suspicious characters seen photographing the Yank facilities and the well-known proliferation of competing gangster and/or radical Islamist factions, official American naivete about such matters prevails from the outset; the CIA, led locally by a hard-headed, by-the-book chief (David Costabile), loftily proclaims that, "There is no real threat here," while Ambassador Stevens (Matt Letscher) arrives to make a ludicrously optimistic speech about future prospects.
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