Sun Set To 'Flip Upside Down' Within Weeks

[Oceander]

That is why state regulators such as the states energy commissions needs to keeps an eye in things such as the California ISO. They also need to report to Congress energy commission and Department of Homeland Security about their plans to tackle this problem. Its going to cost a lot of money buts better than zapping us back to the 19th century and causing panic.

Well, we could with equal certitude say something like "I approve of personal choice in health care - but there's always the temptation to skimp and cut corners on health insurance, and health insurance isn't so very expensive if you get it at the beginning, when you're young and healthy; waiting until you're old or sick is a whole other kettle of cod.  So the federal and state governments need to keep eyes on these things and take steps to make sure that people do it the correct way and buy insurance when they're young and healthy. ...."  I.e., Obamacare.

[SPQR]

Well, we could with equal certitude say something like "I approve of personal choice in health care - but there's always the temptation to skimp and cut corners on health insurance, and health insurance isn't so very expensive if you get it at the beginning, when you're young and healthy; waiting until you're old or sick is a whole other kettle of cod.  So the federal and state governments need to keep eyes on these things and take steps to make sure that people do it the correct way and buy insurance when they're young and healthy. ...."  I.e., Obamacare.

That is why they have Inspector General's offices  in government to issue report waste and fraud.An Inspector general leads an organization charged with examining the actions of a government agency, military organization, or military contractor as a general auditor of their operations to ensure they are operating in compliance with generally established policies of the government, to audit the effectiveness of security procedures, or to discover the possibility of misconduct, waste, fraud, theft, or certain types of criminal activity by individuals or groups related to the agency's operation, usually involving some misuse of the organization's funds or credit. In the United States, there are numerous offices of inspector general at the federal, state, and local levels.

[Oceander]

That is why they have Inspector General's offices  in government to issue reports to report waste and fraud

And that's why we have Obamacare - to prevent people from being free riders by not buying insurance and taking advantage of the hospitals and the emergency rooms when they get sick, or stiffing the hospitals and the doctors by running up the bills and then declaring bankruptcy.

[SPQR]

And that's why we have Obamacare - to prevent people from being free riders by not buying insurance and taking advantage of the hospitals and the emergency rooms when they get sick, or stiffing the hospitals and the doctors by running up the bills and then declaring bankruptcy.

I do not know if Obamacare has an IG but most parts of government have IGs. If it does it would be part of HHS IG.

U.S. offices of inspector general[edit]
Presidentially appointed inspectors general
Agency for International Development (AID-OIG)[20]
Agriculture, Department of (USDA-OIG)[21] inline
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA-OIG)
Commerce, Department of (DOC-OIG)[22]
Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS-OIG)[23]
Office of the Inspector General, Department of Defense (DOD-OIG)[24]
Education, Department of (ED-OIG)[25]
Energy, Department of (DOE-OIG)[26]
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA-OIG)[27]
Export-Import Bank of the United States (EIB-OIG)[28]
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC-OIG)[29]
General Services Administration (GSA-OIG)[30]
Health and Human Services, Department of (U.S.) (HHS-OIG)[13]
Homeland Security, Department of (DHS-OIG)[31]
Housing and Urban Development, Department of (U.S.) (HUD-OIG)[32]
Interior, Department of (DOI-OIG)[33]
Justice, Department of (DOJ-OIG)[34] inline
Labor, Department of (DOL-OIG)[35] inline
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA-OIG)[36]
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC-OIG)[37]
Office of Personnel Management (OPM-OIG)[38]
Railroad Retirement Board (RRB-OIG)[39]
Small Business Administration (SBA-OIG)[40] inline
Social Security Administration (SSA-OIG)[41] inline
State, Department of — Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) (DOS-OIG)[42]
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA-OIG)[43] inline
Transportation, Department of (DOT-OIG)[44]
Treasury, Department of the (Treasury OIG)[45]
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) of the Department of the Treasury[46]
Veterans Affairs, Department of (VA-OIG)[47] inline
Designated federal entity inspectors general
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)[48] inline
Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC-OIG)[49]
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC-OIG)[50]
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC-OIG)[51]
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPD-OIG)[52]
Denali Commission, The[53]
Election Assistance Commission (EAC-OIG)[54]
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC-OIG)[55]
Farm Credit Administration (FCA-OIG)[56]
Federal Communications Commission (FCC-OIG)[57] inline
Federal Election Commission (FEC-OIG)[58]
Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB-OIG)[59]
Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA-OIG)[60]
Federal Maritime Commission (FMC-OIG)[61]
Federal Reserve Board (FRB-OIG)[62]
Federal Trade Commission (FTC-OIG)[63] inline
International Trade Commission, U.S. (USITC-OIG)[64]
Legal Services Corporation (LSC-OIG)[65]
National Archives and Records Administration[66]
National Credit Union Administration (NCUA-OIG)[67]
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA-OIG)[68]
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH-OIG)[69]
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB-OIG)[70]
National Science Foundation (NSF-OIG)[71]
Peace Corps[72]
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC-OIG)[73]
Postal Regulatory Commission (formerly Postal Rate Commission) (PRC-OIG)[74]
Postal Service, U.S. (USPS-OIG)[10] inline
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC-OIG)[75]
Smithsonian Institution[76]
Special inspectors general
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)[77] - appointed by President
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) - appointed by Secretary of Defense in consultation with Secretary of State
Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP)[78] - appointed by President with Senate confirmation
Legislative agency inspectors general
Architect of the Capitol (AOC-OIG)[79]
Capitol Police, U.S. (USCP-OIG)[80]
Government Accountability Office (GAO-OIG)[81]
Government Printing Office (GPO-OIG)[82]
Library of Congress (LOC-OIG)[83]
Other federal inspectors generalDirector of National Intelligence, Office of (ODNI-OIG)

U.S. military[edit]

Within the United States Armed Forces, the position of inspector general is normally part of the personal staff serving a general or flag officer in a command position. The inspector general's office functions in two ways. To a certain degree they are ombudsmen for their branch of service. However, their primary function is to ensure the combat readiness of subordinate units in their command.

An armed services inspector general also investigate noncriminal allegations and some specific criminal allegations, to include determining if the matter should be referred for criminal investigation by the service's criminal investigative agency.

The Air Force Inspector General Complaints Program, described in the Airman's Guide by Boone Nicolls, was established to address the concerns of Air Force active duty, reserve, and Guard members, civilian employees, family members, and retirees, as well as the interest of the Air Force. One of the first responsibilities of the Air Force inspector general is to operate a credible complaints program that investigates personnel complaints: Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA) allegations; congressional inquiries; and issues involving the Air Force mission. Personnel complaints and FWA disclosures to the IG help commanders correct problems that affect the productivity, mission accomplishment, and morale of assigned personnel, which are areas of high concern to Air Force leaders at all levels.[84]

See:
Naval Inspector General, established by the U.S. Navy in 1942.
Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense established 1978.



Obamacare is not listed

[Oceander]

I do not know if Obamacare has an IG but most parts of government have IGs. If it does it would be part of HHS IG.

You're missing the point.  But I'm not really interested in flogging that point so I'll just drop it.

[Oceander]

I listed all the IG's above and Obamacare is not listed

Let's get back to EMP, cosmic rays, and their effects on electronics.  What about cars?  Would a greater incidence of cosmic radiation, in the absence of a strong magnetic field, play havoc with today's electronically controlled cars?

[SPQR]

Let's get back to EMP, cosmic rays, and their effects on electronics.  What about cars?  Would a greater incidence of cosmic radiation, in the absence of a strong magnetic field, play havoc with today's electronically controlled cars?

A Gamma ray from outer space will do significant damage because its a focused narrow beam...  It would significant have harm to the environment.The major Ordovician-Silurian extinction event of 450 million years ago may have been caused by a GRB.

[rangerrebew]

The sun is obviously racist for flipping on Obama's watch.  Does this mean the sun was for its position before it was against it?

[240B]

The sun is obviously racist for flipping on Obama's watch.  Does this mean the sun was for its position before it was against it?

There is no such thing as 'upsidedown' in space. It is upsidedown relative to what? 'Up' is a human mental construct and in fact means, 'the opposite way that gravity is pulling'. If you are on the equator and point 'up', you would actually be pointing sideways, according to the mental construct of the human universe.
 
The magnetic flip of the sun is obviously the result of policies put in place by George Bush well before der Fuhrer II rose to power. We have to stop this. It is rampant 'climate change' that we caused. We have to give Al Gore and the U.N. another couple hundred billion dollars immediately, to get this under control.

[DCPatriot]

There is no such thing as 'upsidedown' in space. It is upsidedown relative to what? 'Up' is a human mental construct and in fact means, 'the opposite way that gravity is pulling'. If you are on the equator and point 'up', you would actually be pointing sideways, according to the mental construct of the human universe.
 

Actually, since the earth is tilted as it revolves on its axis, pointing 'up' while standing on the equator would not necessarily be pointing sideways.

...but your point is well taken.   

[Oceander]

Actually, since the earth is tilted as it revolves on its axis, pointing 'up' while standing on the equator would not necessarily be pointing sideways.

...but your point is well taken.   

But again, it all depends on what the term "sideways" means.  If you're on the equator, then you're at a point where you're perpendicular to the axis of rotation, and so can be said to be pointing sideways when you point in a direction that is perpendicular to the axis of rotation - which would be pointing straight up at the equator.

Since the Earth's tilt has to do with its orbit around the Sun and not with its own rotation, "sideways" would appear to mean something like "in the direction of the neighboring member of the Solar System."  Since the Earth's axis is tilted, you would not be pointing "sideways" in this sense if you pointed up from the equator because you would not be pointing at a neighboring member of the Solar System.

It's all about context.

[EC]

Don't go dragging frames of reference into it and confusing everyone! 

[GourmetDan]

Since the Earth's tilt has to do with its orbit around the Sun and not with its own rotation, "sideways" would appear to mean something like "in the direction of the neighboring member of the Solar System."  Since the Earth's axis is tilted, you would not be pointing "sideways" in this sense if you pointed up from the equator because you would not be pointing at a neighboring member of the Solar System.

It's all about context.

Actually... since equivalent coordinate-systems are physically indistinguishable under GR, it's all about belief...