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Buy! We'll be hitting the cool tourist spots with "cradle of civilization" vacation packages. The war will be over by then, though.
Buy or Sell: The human species or our descendants will not yet be extinct one million years from now.
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Sell. I'm not sure we'll make the 100,000 year mark, the way we kill each other.
Buy or Sell: this thread will fall off the front page, never to be seen again over the weekend unless kaioshin puts (a game!) in the title.
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Buy. Pretty much every company has got to get a good marketing director eventually - and McDonalds is going to be around a long time.
Buy or Sell: the next great TV show is going to come out on Fox, but Fox is going to cancel it within two years.
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Sell. The Democratic Party will split in two, because Zell Miller and Howard Dean are like matter and anti-matter. The Dean side gets to keep the word "Democrat."
Buy or Sell: By 2100, research will consist of trying to understand what superintelligent computers have already discovered.
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Sell. Research will become redundant, we'll have computers understand the discoveries of the superintelligent computers for us.
Buy or Sell: The bird-flu will decimate the population of the earth, with the curious exception of Cuba.
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Sell. People have enough trouble navigating in two dimensions.
Buy or Sell: Mr. Card will buy me a pony once I make him see the errors of his ways and convince him to register as a Democrat.
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Sell. Hip Hop hasn't been mainstream since the early nineties, and even then questionable, besides notable exceptions. What they're calling "Hip Hop" is some sort of bastard mutant lovechild that was born when the Platonic MC dropped a mic into a pile of dookie.
Buy or Sell: People on Mars by 2025!
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Sell, sell, sell. Mourning's out, so their depth behind the Big Coaster is zilch. Antoine Walker is a basketball black hole, and J-Will can shoot them right out of any game he plays in.
Buy or Sell: We'll have a viable alternative fuel source in ten years.
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Sell: I don't know Superstation, but there's no way Martin will finish in the next ten years at the rate he's publishing.
Buy or Sell: the recording and/or movie industries accept that pirating is no more destructive to them than the printing press was to the literary industry within 5 years.
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Sell: duck and cover folks. (if it ever happens, they will find this post and think i was psychic)
buy or sell: sleep will become obselete once special vitamins are made to allow for the body to recover while still awake (however there will be a number of spas that offer sleep as a luxury)
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Sell: the circadian rhythm is deeply embedded in the human psyche as well as our physical need for sleep (ie, we'd go mad).
Buy or sell: the personal automobile is outlawed or severely restricted in major US cities due to a combination of air pollution and overcrowding,
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Sell. The RIAA will fight tooth and nail with all their money and all their cold, flinty little hearts against any trend that threatens to make them irrelevant. Give it twenty, maybe we're talkin'.
Buy or sell: The winner of the Republican primary succeeds in courting away Karl Rove (either before or after that victory), but in the process makes himself completely unlikable.
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Sell....there isn't really any difference between the two groups, they just devide into a red group and a blue group to appear to provide a choice.
Rove really only works for one person, and will always....himself.
Buy or Sell: Cars will run mostly on altFuel within the next ten years.
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Sell: I'm betting on "Mr. Fusion" (from Back to the Future).
Buy or Sell: the French government backs down on the plan to liberalize employment law, based on the protests.
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Buy: Certainly non-caucasian and probably female. Atheists will be the distrusted minority for years to come.
Buy or Sell: France's political secularism (read, government antagonism of religion) will be overturned within 20 years by a coalition of Muslims and Catholics.
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Buy: Some would argue that WWIII has already happened or is already happening. But human history has shown the world doesn't usually go a hundred years without a major world wide conflict.
Buy or Sell: Another Bush will live in the White House one day.
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Sell: Who "caused" a conflict is determined by the winners of the conflict, and if there is a WWIII, it will likely go nuclear, and the only winners will be the cockroaches.
Buy or Sell: Cell-phones will replace stand alone MP3 players as the mobile music players of choice within 10 years.
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Buy or Sell: Increasing property costs and decreasing job availability causes net emigration from the US within 50 years.
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Sell: It is not in the world powers best interest to industrialize Africa. Rather, it is in the best interest of the people, who will have to insist and fight for it.
Buy or Sell: Waist lines for girl's jeans are going to go back to their natural waist line in the next 5 years.
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(Lyrhawn, I just meant that the drop waist fad that's been going for the past 7 or so years will finally creep back up to the natural waist line. I wasn't saying anything about what the waist looked like. )
Buy: No real comment, just buy.
Buy or Sell: The pendulum will continue to swing toward a more socially conservative US for another 10 years, then swing back again toward social liberalism. In that time, homosexual marriage will not only become legal, but it will be socially accepted as well.
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. . . he might play Graf in the TV series though...
