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QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Aug 14, 2007 -> 11:48 AM) My guess is that people monitor them, but I'll wait for the geologist or someone else to confirm that. They are constantly monitored. But the issue is...no one really understands what it takes to trigger a supervolcanic erupiton, because no one has ever really seen one blow, and no one really wants to. It's clear you need several things; a gigantic magma body, which is under pressure and volatile rich, and a breakthrough to the surface. Yellowstone certainly appears to have an active magma body, but its current behavior is a little wierd. The hydrothermals in that park have been gushing away at a ridiculous rate for the past 100k years, to the point where it would have crystallized the whole body if it wasn't resupplied. There are also traditionally more smaller-scale eruptions in Yellowstone fairly commonly, while there really hasn't been one in the last 70k years. The system as a whole and the triggers are fairly well understood, but where exactly Yellowstone sits on its current cycle is not. But the good news on that one is it is heavily monitored...changes in ground level of a few inches are carefully checked. However, there are other places in the world, i.e. Indonesia, the Philippines, where there are also potential supervolcanoes which aren't monitored nearly as closely on the ground due to a lack of funds.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Aug 14, 2007 -> 11:38 AM) It sounds to me like the lineup may looking like this: If Joe is healthy, the rookies keep developing, and we somehow, someway find an upgrade over our .200 hitting SS, that's really not a bad lineup when it's together.

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Aug 14, 2007 -> 11:25 AM) The Toba Catastrophy Theory is just a theory and I don't buy it along with many others. That said, life sure is a marvel. Now what exactly do you mean, "my money is on Yellowstone" because I don't know what there is there that would be a good bet for a natural disaster. Yellowstone is what we consider a supervolcano. It sits over a hot spot, a long lived source of volcanism that has produced, within the past 25 million years or so, dozens of monstrous eruptions on the scale of Toba or larger. It has erupted 3 times at hte current site, about 2.0, 1.4, and 0.643 million years ago. The ash cloud from the most recent eruption basically covered the area from Mexico to Washington to Iowa. If it were to erupt on that scale again, it would kill billions. The Ash cloud would have the same effect as a nuclear war; kicking up enourmous amounts of dust and essentially spoiling the harvest for years. Yellowstone is not the only one of these in the world either. It is just the most famous, in part for the hydrothermals, in part because it's in the US and therefore is the best studied.

Carl Everett needs to costar in this film.

It all depends on the money. If you ask JD or ARow with both of them at $10 mil, probably JD. If you have to go higher than that on Dye, or you have to take him for more than 3 years, you have to say no to Dye. Of course, I think it'd be insane to offer Rowand the kind of money other teams will after this season.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 03:14 PM) Do Not Cheer on the Hurricanes! There are probably what, a few hundred thousand Miami alums who would disagree?

So, am I the only one who's hoping that TD 4 does actually become "Hurricane Dean"? YEAAAAAAAAAAAAARHHHHGGGGGG!!!!!!!

QUOTE(GoSox05 @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 02:44 PM) I believe in only one god and that god is the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Our Heaven has a stripper factory and a beer volcano.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 02:55 PM) Exactly. You're giving Rove way too much credit. They actually pretty much do run things by committee, I think. That's why it seems like it is so "exclusive" to so many people... they run a very tight ship, and most don't like that. Well, the best argument that Rove was in control over an awful lot of things is all of the statements and evidence we have of politicization of everything within the administration. And Mr. Rove was the guy in charge of that specific thing. The director of the faith based initiative program saying everything was being politicized, the statement about marketing the Iraq war that "you dont' introduce a new product in August", the use of the RNC email accounts for all sorts of official government business, the "how do we use this department to help the Republican party" briefings held at seemingly every cabinet department, the politicization of the Justice department and the attempts to use the control of the Attorneys to help win elections, and on and on and on.

QUOTE(briguy27 @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 02:37 PM) He'll be popular playing in silver and black next year He'll be playing for the Raiders?

I think part of the problem is we've spent a little bit too much time finding backups these last few months.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 08:19 AM) So? What does it say? Seriously, I could have wrote the same s***, if my inclanation was to set up a governmental entity for health care. It's NOT anything new, innovative, different, or anything that should set him apart as a leader of our country. Everyone blah blah blah blah blah... whatever. It's not anything that differentiates him from any other candidate. You know one thing that I find fairly amazing? It's that the media and others have managed to spend so much time wondering if Obama is all style and no substance...but have spent essentially no time asking the same question about the Republican candidates. I'll give you a beautiful example. Obama, as shown earlier, has pages and pages of policy reccommendations. Even some of the small scale stuff gets touched on. I'm looking through the "Fighting poverty" page, and he's spending time on increasing small business loans directed at minorities, expanding Pell grants, increasing support for ex-offender programs, etc. Quibble with the ideas all you want, at least they're there. On the contrary, stumble over to something like Rudy or Mitt's policy page. Rudy's entire policy page is that 12 point speech he gave a few months back. Obama has more details on Veterans Affairs than Rudy has on his entire policy page. Rudy's page doesnt' even mention health care at all. His health care plan, which he presented a week or two ago, was basically a tax cut for people who buy the most expensive insurance packages, and the slogan Socialized medicine sucks! Romney's issue page is better than the vacant page @ Rudy's, but it's still mostly just video, and doesn't include 1/10th of the detail Obama's does.

One down.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Aug 13, 2007 -> 08:07 AM) and who is responsible for congresses approval rating? The fact that the Dems caved completely on the Iraq war funding and gave Bush what he wanted. Congress's approval was quite a bit higher before that. Anyone who supports Bush's war in this government is seeing their ratings go through the floor.

C-section scars are hot.

QUOTE(RME JICO @ Aug 12, 2007 -> 07:13 PM) Might want to change the title to "Vick suspended for 1 year": http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=Amdu...o&type=lgns Link

QUOTE(Felix @ Aug 12, 2007 -> 01:19 PM) I'm definitely rooting for the Cardinals to win the NL Central. I don't know what it is, but the Brewers have just started to piss me off this season. Probably because I know some smug fans of theirs, but still.. It's just pissing me off that they won't put the Cubs away.

QUOTE(DBAH0 @ Aug 12, 2007 -> 07:02 PM) Well I'd guess on his stuff, the fact that not many knuckleballers have made it over the past 20 years, and his record this season in the minors. Just on Floyd, how did his curveball look in his start yesterday? From what I heard in Detroit it was really working for him. If he's missing his 1st pitch strikes as well, really sounds like the problem Jon Garland had 3-4 years ago. The Granny was on a curve ball. Hawk commented on this a couple times during the game...all Floyd really threw in a couple of his problem innings was fastballs. The first inning and the 4th, he mainly featured just the fastball. In the in-between innings, he was mixing it up quite a bit more, esp. getting in a few changeups. In the 4th, he was back to mostly fastball, and when he did throw the curve, it hung like nobody's business and flew 375 feet.

Someone finally printed a Romney price tag.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Aug 12, 2007 -> 02:03 PM) there's no mention of it anywhere... Hell, there's even no mention of it on Whitesox.com. That's probably part of the problem. If nothing else, the team needs to put out a press release or something just to try to get that noticed.

QUOTE(briguy27 @ Aug 12, 2007 -> 12:05 PM) Wow, what a story. Now we just need him to lead them on a winning streak taking them past the Cubs...

And the whole "Haw-Haw" part: Yes, the machines were Diebold.

Dammit Gavin, come on... We really could use this kid to grow up faster.

Caught some of the game today. The pairing was excellent. The best part is, each one of them seems to compliment each other; they both provide some bit of knowledge and experience that the other doesn't have. Damn I'd love to see this group together next year. Put DJ on the radio or something, but seriously, Steve Stone has been the best color man in baseball for years, and it shows.

Truly, we are a beacon to the world.