Sure about that?
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Called it.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
No, wasn't certain about it... and obviously was wrong about it. I hate shoot outs.
Congratulations America
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When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Oh well, watching this tonight here in Amsterdam we already came to the conclusion that no matter who would win tonight Germany was certain to win the World Cup.
Congratulations America
I have no doubts on that count, I want Germany to win. Not that it matters much, because the Argentineans have even less of a chance against them than Holland would have had.
Congratulations America
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
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Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
I didn't expect I'd be this involved, but there I am watching the losers' final and still excited as hell. Brazil - the Netherlands halftime 0-2.
Congratulations America
It's like they don't even want to score anymore..
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
And this ladies and gentlemen shows the truth of my claim from the beginning of the tournament that referees would do what they could to make the host win, and how this Brazilian side was so crappy that even that could not save them.
Congratulations America
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/...el-successful/Goldman Sachs’s World Cup Predictions Model: Successful?
Goldman Sachs’s World Cup predictions, outsmarted to some extent by an octopus, have been caught out by reality. A complicated model that predicted Brazil to win the tournament after facing down the Netherlands now looks wanting after both teams were knocked out.
As you may remember, the bank’s economists crunched data on 14,000 past matches to arrive at a 67-page report that confidently calculated the outcomes of all matches, published May 30.
It changed 50% of the teams after the first stage after it became clear reality wasn’t quite matching the historical dataset.
Looking at those original, pre-tournament predictions, only 37.6% of the group stage matches ended the way Goldman Sachs’s original model forecast. That is, it correctly calculated one of three possible outcomes—win, lose or draw—just over a third of the time, hardly better than predicting it at random. From those calculated correctly, they managed to foresee the scoreline 17% of the time, meaning three occasions: Argentina-Bosnia, South Korea-Russia and Algeria-Russia.
When the bank updated its predictions at the end of the group stages, it got the result of the match—win, lose or draw—right 60% of the time. But it failed to correctly guess the results of both semi-finals at that stage, and hence ended up predicting the wrong teams for the final.
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"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
Exciting game.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Rule it out? I'm predicting it.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Geeze, look out! Flying keeper!
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Innit. Knee to the head. Thought that was only allowed in Muay-Thai.
We lost half of the audience in Amsterdam. Seems that people can't bear watching a game in which they aren't really siding with either side.
Congratulations America