Tangent: Would the opposite of a semi-nice demi-godity be a gaudy deity nemesis?

Re: Nebraska's travel costs... Can't be any worse than Penn State trying to get from Happy Valley to Minnesota or Iowa.

Sorry, but...

The bottom line is that the Big Ten is expanding for monetary reasons. Adding at least one team gives them a championship game. Adding Rutgers "gives" you NYC, while Mizzou gives you KC and StL. Nebraska brings a lot of eyes to the TV. they may not be a true "National" team, like a Notre Dame, but they're closer, at least when you look at the TV numbers and how they travel, than most people would expect.

At the end of the day, just remember: Its all about the money.

There have been reports (more like rumors considering how much remains unconfirmed or thought to be wrong) originating from WHB 810 AM, a sports radio network out of Kansas City, that Notre Dame, Mizzou, Nebraska, and Rutgers have all been offered invitations.

I believe this is the actual report: http://www.810whb.com/article/3530


One thing on Rutgers - you don't necessarily have to have people watching to have them bring in the NYC market. All you have to do is convince the cable companies that they should pick up the Big Ten network (I think I heard that currently only one of the big 3 cable providers offer the network).

Specualtion has also included UConn, despite the fact that their football program was 1-AA only ten years ago (or whatever). Plus Connecticut doesn't add too much population wise. However, I don't think the presence of ESPN can be overlooked. Its kind of scary how much impact they have on sports. Seeing the league up close could help convince them to promote the league more than it would've done otherwise. Suddenly, a league they used to think was slow and plodding doesn't seem quite that way when they see a well played conference game in their off time. I call it the Hartford Whalers effect :-)

No sign of the morning coming, we've been left on our own, like a rainbow in the dark.

An excerpt from the 2 May blog entry:

1 upper level game (A)
2 lower level games (B and C)
all games share a market
top 50% of game A stays in A, top 25% of B and C go to A
all new players start in either B or C

Do the answers to these questions change if you exchange the word "Bear" for the word "Worm"?

Was his mom sleeping well too?

Or should we ask Delonte West?

Explore Your World!

Join the BadFish and you will be cured!

quebec zulu jul

The jul is an acronym for Juliet Uniform Lima, which can be abbreviated as jul.

At least one member has a lot of schooling left before he can be considered anything close to a history professor (assuming he follows through on that pipe-dream), and more importantly, a lot of learning left before he can be considered to have anything approaching a sound grasp of history.

Your point is well taken though, iXenomorph. Great thoughts from great minds... found here? Who'd have thought!

qzjul, you do bring up some wonderful points, especially the Lend-Lease program's significance - something I was definitely taking for granted.



Would you rather us speculate on Big Ten expansion?

Actually I guess the joke (a bad one I admit) would've been funnier if you had spelled "Come" a little differently...

But I definitely made it better by explaining it!

No comment.

The expansionist Japanese and their Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere weren't as interested in Soviet territories as they were in the resource rich British and American colonial possessions. With Britain and Japan not fighting against a Nazi Europe, they would be free to throw all resources into the Pacific. The Japanese would fall hard and fast long before they'd get around to their ongoing disputes with the Russians.


Russia versus Germany would be interesting... How would it get to that point? For G v R to be possible you probably have to have them taking Poland, which is when the Brits first declared war... Maybe keep it as a cold war with Germany never attacking France and the Low Countries? Or before that even, stop short of attacking Norway, giving PM Chamberlain a chance to keep his job, maybe?


Ultimately it would come down to Germany's industrial and technological might versus the mass of humanity Mother Russia would be able to throw against her enemies. Big advantage to Germany, as long as they consolidate their power and always play to their strengths. However, one question that could swing things back to the Soviets: How much land is Germany try to hold? Occupying all of European Russia in addition to their continental conquests is a helluva lot to protect. The Soviet's scorched earth campaign wouldn't exactly make things easy for the Germans. Insurgencies would be constantly popping up throughout all their territory (especially if UK, USA, and maybe France are fighting a Cold War with them and supplying the insurgents). Germany has a big advantage when it comes to winning the battles, but it dwindles to a near stalemate when it comes to holding their winnings.

Had all this played out in this manner, German scientists would have beaten the Americans to the Atomic Bomb. America's Normandy would have been the assault of mainland Japan, making the bomb much less necessary.


One thing that makes this discussion somewhat moot though is that Germany still had colonial aspirations. They still would have come in conflict sooner or later with the UK, though it wouldn't be nearly on so grand a scale.

To clarify, its easy to incorporate a catch-all as the last clause that would empower teachers and administrators to use their own judgement.

Dress codes are established as an easy way to prevent disorderly conduct, whether it comes from differing political views (as in this case and the case at my school where they had someone turn their Che Guevara T-Shirt inside out), sexual tension (length of shorts, no bare mid-riffs, et al), or whatever. I guarantee the dress code was written in such a way to give teachers and administrators the wiggle room they need to counteract whatever the next great fad is if it becomes disruptive to the learning environment.

Therefore, if there were indeed threats being made, and those threats were in direct response to their garments of choice, it would be against the dress code.

An aside dealing with wearing the American flag:

Flags are worn on many American Military uniforms, though most are patches and are sewn or velcroed on the shoulder. Some are not even the traditional coloration (ie: subdued grays or browns), though those are rarely worn outside of combat theaters.

Put it together and what have you got?

Dibbity Dobbity Doo!

Dibsy? Dibby? Dibster? Dibstatic? Dibsterino?

Why not have robot players too? It would eliminate the competitive imbalance the smaller markets face.

This wouldn't be an issue if they wore school uniforms.

But this post still lives on... It can only be because it has joined the ranks of the undead.

ZOMBIE THREAD!

Fixed your typo :-)

1) The Sting
2) Bubba Ho-Tep
3) Ocean's Eleven [The Original Version]
4) The Great Escape
5) Spirited Away
6) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7) The Empire Strikes Back
8) Amalie
9) Big Fish
10 Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai


The bottom half of the list is subject to change according to my whims, though the top 6 or 7 remain quite consistant.

Giving people one server intended for people to pay for any number of different style upgrades would make for some interesting new strats on that server while financing development on all the free servers. This could be applied to stuff way beyond merely paying for land...

This discussion isn't endless, it gets rounded up to the nearest whole discussion.

Totally out of uniform... They're not wearing reflective belts!

Do we know yet that country names won't be kept every reset? Could they have completely started the server over, considering it just a Beta reset? Maybe I'm missing a post somewhere...


EDIT: That's what I get for posting before checking out the blog...

"When each round ends, players will be given an option to recreate a country with the same country name and to keep their game rank, but only if they restart within the first seven days of the new reset. They can also create a new country and start at the bottom if they wish."

What if I blow below a .08?

Grey = English Nobility
Gray = American Indentured Servants

I was going to make a joke about logging into echelon entertainment, but I don't even remember the domain for sure much less the address.