Jen, it is not the solar storm itself that is the issue (though that could be ugly in and of itself).  But if the Van Allen belts have been scrambled by  polarity reversal, the energy of a major storm would hit in concentrated strings and points as it was refracted moving through the twisted belt.  You could potentially have effects like a microwave beam hitting different areas that could cause huge problems, most importantly in upsetting the normal heat/cold flow patterns of air and water.  That level of major instability in the atmosphere would create some hellacious storms could be of magnitudes not known in human history.

Along with it you add in massive electronic destruction, radio interruption, etc. so that communications and emergency response becomes problematic…

Look at the effects of El Nino and La Nina on weather.  That is one current in one area of the Pacific that disrupts “normal” temperature change and flow.  Now instead of El Nino, substitute one area of super heated water in say the Bearing Straits…

Diamondbacks will throw the next two games to get paid for playing 5 games instead of paid for playing 3, you know that, Dzert.  Why do you think I called 3:2 DiamondBacks?

@balungaloaf:

why’d you do that to my eyes?  :-(

I think he wants to surpass Switch in Bad Karma. (though I refuse to let him, no bad karma for you!  Eat it and weep!!!)

@balungaloaf:

http://www.pidd.homestead.com/TourofDuty.html

this is the one i watched.  is this the one you watched also.  its from 1987-90   but was re-aired in 1996-98.   it was very good.

Yeah, thats it

Is the thing I tried to say…
I agree with you!

@Ender:

I know that journalists are trained to be objective, but I can recognize when one is being biased, I think. It’s easier to detect bias when it is in tension with your own, but I can also tell sometime that a reporter has a political agenda similar to mine. However, it doesn’t bother me, so I don’t notice it as much as a journalist who is pushing some contrary agenda.

But if a journalist reports a story neutrally, and you yourself are not neutral, I can see how you would see that journalist as being “against” you. It’s that “you’re either with us or against us” mindset that you see both on the right and the left.

Or think of it this way: your friend/girlfriend/wife) has had a fight with someone, and they want you to take their side. Instead, you take the middle ground, and suggest that maybe there is fault on both sides. Your friend feels betrayed because you are not backing them fully, you are pointing out their faults (the other side’s fault goes without saying, of course!), etc.

People do have a tendency to focus on their differences, rather than their common ground.

I’d have to agree with what Fr…Ender said. I am a reporter working at a small town newspaper. When I was in school - last year - we had discussions about this sort of thing a lot of the time.  Usually, if you know what sort of side/slant the medium is taking (ie: left or right) then you will have the mindset of, ‘well, this guy’s a right-wing nut job, and even though he makes a good point about X, and enlightened me on a topic, he’s still a right-wing nut job, sooooo I think I’m just going to disagree with him anyway.’  That is how some people think. They taught us to NOT think like that.  That’s how you become a cynic and life then turns blah because of our attitude.

lol

There’s more then one Bean book?

To be honest, though, I read a few of the Ender books and really only liked Ender’s Game.  Later Ender’s Shadow came out and that was pretty good.

Hegemony
Speaker for the Dead
etc

Really seemed too long winded.  Dunno.

Anyway, anyone read David Feintuch’s Midshipman’s Hope?  Great book, okay series!

@Commander:

@AJ:

Come on guys let’s stay on topic … French hating!
We’ve been without one of those threads for too long now :wink:

“Bunch of cheese eating, surrender monkeys!”

So says the the skirt-wearing, entrail-eating hill dweller.

But he also has a good one in another episode: “Noodle-armed choir boys.”

@trihero:

you seems to completely ignore my posts in the threads about Axis and Allies Revised. You may check by yourself in the threads you participate, maybe you should have read also some posts of mine.

You’re right Mr. Romulus, I’ll pay more attention to your posts.

If I receive negative feedback on my toughts about the game  I may learn where I am wrong.
If I receive negative feedback on my grammar (I am not born in an english speaking country, I am Italian) I may correct my writing abilities.
If I receive negative feedback on whatever I write I may then avoid that in the future.

That’s a good attitude…I’ll reward you with my criticism  :-o

Well I’m not going to smite anyone back. Not enough reason  :wink:

Thanks Trihero.

NY Jets ftw!

@Romulus:

@cyan:

does any even like Crank That by Soulja Boy??? that song is horrible.

Never heard of them… but If they are hossible than I am lucky to have avoided any contact!

I dont like it but everyone in my high school does. I think they call it secondary school in most places but we call it high school.

@Jermofoot:

How would a guy under a pile of cops hurt anyone? He wasn’t even on PCP.

I think CC covered this, should they sit on him for 10 minutes? 20? 2 hours?

@Jermofoot:

Actually, there has been much debate about not only the lethality of a taser, but also the excessive employment of them.  People have died from being tased, there are records showing that cops are more likely to use the taser since it is considered nonlethal.

I don’t know how the laws are inother places, but in AZ you can’t use “less than lethal” on someone unless it has been used on you.  In other words the cops here have all been tazed and pepper sprayed.  They know exactly what it does and how it works.

@Jermofoot:

Unfortunately, we can’t just silence what we don’t want to hear.  A discussion must include even the fringe arguments that are unlikely.

Yeah we can.  You may have freedom of speech, but I also have the freedom to tell you to be quiet if I don’t want to hear it in my house.  I can hold my hands over my ears, mI can turn off the TV/Radio.  And if you’re on my property I can tell you to shut up or leave.

@Jermofoot:

What could possibly be more to the story?  You can see everything from start to finish on the video.

Of course there’s more to the story, unless you were there, you don’t know what was happening outside of the camera view.

:-D

Newpaintbrush, now I am laughing too much to try to give a serious answer.
It is to fun the idea of you that can not applaud Frood and, being in another thread smites Switch and Jen!

What is the genius? Fantasy, intuition, keen eye and quickly execution!

After, I will go to another thread, out of GD, trying for a post of you for APPLAUDING you!

Please do not retaliate with your Rubber chicken!!!

:lol:

I think there’s software that lets you run windows apps on Macs, but I forget the name of it.

But I’d rather use TripleA on a Mac (or on anything).

I just came by to check out the latest riff raff…. it’s gone.

mmmmmm… naah, I don’t miss it.

Yea, I played most of my games there, actually.  It was simple, easy and convenient.

@JWW:

That is wonderful news! Congrats!

This will be the most important job you have ever had.

Yeah, I bet all his other kids feel just gr8 about that statement.

You can growl at me all you want… This was merely meant as a memorial for those who fell…