Good Citizen posted:

Is this some kind of reverse Konami code that causes you to lose all 4 lives?

zoux posted:

Trabisnikof posted:

But remember this is in the context of the proposed "solution" being accelerating this process.

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

Just put Biden in different poses on everything

MacheteZombie posted:

Rand Paul campaign comic?

SedanChair posted:

The used tire shop I was just in had Obama on a zero dollar bill. The universe is mysterious, man.

ReidRansom posted:

Even if this wasn't intended to be a poetic metaphor for gay sex, I'm going to take it as one.

comes along bort posted:

Yeah that's just what the White House needs; a giant mosquito breeding pond out back.

Joementum posted:

Bonus quote of the night, "She's very polite. She took the information that I gave her. You know, she thanked me, and she told me it's great that people get involved in politics. She was polite and she was very receptive to it. I get that she's not the candidate but, you know, there's always pillow talk." ~ Laura Condon, the director of New Hampshire's Voice for Vaccine Choice, on meeting Rand Paul's wife, Kelley.

Azuth0667 posted:

Because I make poor business decisions.

Azuth0667 posted:

avatar size please.

Stultus Maximus posted:

USPol April: It involves the SCOTUS

A Winner is Jew posted:

Ralepozozaxe posted:

This looks like one of those "Pre-Arsoning" pictures.

VanSandman posted:

SOUTH Carolina is the really bad one.
Remember - up to and including the Civil War, if some state was starting poo poo with the Federal Government, that state was South Carolina.

drakegrim posted:

haven't you ever heard of black privilege? the ability to say and do anything one wants because of their color.

Example: Im pissed that a 19 your old man got shoot, so i'm going to loot this Wig store and aint poo poo nobody can do about it cause im black

az posted:

They also didn't understand why the west, this was in 2008, was so crazy about Ahmadinejad. They considered him nothing but a party clown barking at old mean america for attention.

Putin It In Mah rear end posted:

Pretty sure Nintendo Kid is just worried about a starch-heavy diet reducing his gains.

Reiterpallasch posted:

try grilling or broiling half-head wedges and tossing with just olive oil, salt, and pepper. So good.)

gradenko_2000 posted:

How much money did the US pump into Europe via the Marshall Plan versus how much was (badly) invested into Iraq (through private contractors that pissed it all away)? Could the country have turned out better if the Army Corps of Engineers kickstarted them into the 21st century through brute force, or were insurgents always going to blow it all up even if the money was actually being spent wisely?

haveblue posted:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1989_geomagnetic_storm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859


The sun operates on a scale that utterly dwarfs the combined accomplishments of all human history. We've been lucky so far because it emits CMEs and flares more or less at random and the Earth is a very small target.

Venusian Weasel posted:

A solar storm like the Carrington Event is estimated as a 500-year storm, not a 100-year storm.

Here's the problem: when the Sun erupts it sends a massive wave of charged particles at Earth. Those hit the magnetosphere which deflects a lot of the particles back into space or towards the poles. The magnetic field of the flare material interacts with Earth and compresses the leading edge of the magnetosphere closer to Earth, which gives the magnetosphere less time to redirect stuff out of the way. More charged particles make it into the atmosphere. If you get enough making it through, they begin putting an electrical load on large systems, like power grids, which is how why they shut down.

The Carrington storm did some crazy poo poo. The storm put so much electical load on telegraph lines that operators could turn off their generators and send messages through on the solar load alone. In some cases, there was enough energy to set telegraph stations on fire (sparks caught the ticker tapes on fire, which spread to the stations) and St. Elmo's fire was reported on a number of lines during the peak of the storm.

A modern repeat would gently caress up our transmission infrastructure pretty badly, just because it would require hard shutdowns of generation plants, and in places where we can't isolate the grid from generation the induced current will flow back in and mess with the generation hardware. That said most consumer electronics will be okay as long as they're unplugged, aside from the loss of satellite-based services and intense radio interference.

It's not one of those things that will render all electronics permanently useless.

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

Jeb shrugged

Munkeymon posted:

We don't shield high voltage long range power lines because it'd be so thick and heavy that you couldn't suspend them and the shielding on the ones in your back yard or whatever is nowhere near thick enough to make any difference in this case.

SubponticatePoster posted:

Fixed.

Do solar chargers work off the borealis? So if it was bright at night you could use one of those little portable jobbies to juice up batteries?

ReidRansom posted:

Mattress Mack is a far better businessman than Donald Trump.

Fried Chicken posted:

The grand irony being that this would be a leg up for us, because China has been doing a ton of R&D on thorium burners while we haven't

hobbesmaster posted:

"Additionally, any trade deal would need to pass two tests for Clinton to support it, the campaign said: (1) Protect U.S. workers and raise wages, and (2) strengthen national security."

If she believes that the agreement does that then she's for it and there is no contradiction. I suspect that she honestly believes that it does enough considering as secretary of state she likely was involved in its authoring.

That is a terrible article:
"When running for president in 2007 and 2008, she spoke strongly against potential agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. Her positions on Colombia and South Korea changed, however, when she became secretary of state under President Obama, who ironically ran to Clinton's left in 2008 on trade."

In general if I'm against a particular agreement, I will become for it if I'm the one writing the next draft of it

GlyphGryph posted:

Since when does freedom of speech imply an obligation to provide a platform? That's dumb and stupid. I mean, if these people can find someone willing to display the ad, or want to display it on property they own, fine. Why should they be allowed to display it on public property if the public or their representatives would find it offensive?

OAquinas posted:

Romney 3.0

This is the liquid metal version, right?

Unzip and Attack posted:

Funny...all I hear is the sound of a wet fart.

Devor posted:

As a 51-year old, Michelle's "life-clock" crystal in the palm of her hand should have begun blinking long ago. What is she hiding?

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

I cannot wait to see this effect on Bill

Hibajubwa posted:

Bonus quote: