Univ. Of Florida is going to win the NCAA Championship
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[ March 25, 2006, 12:28 AM: Message edited by: kaioshin00 ]
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
I've got last post
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
quote:Originally posted by kaioshin00: Univ. Of Florida is going to win the NCAA Championship
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BUY BUY BUY. No one can beat the gators. They're just that good.
Buy or sell: Someone else will post on the thread.
Posted by martha (Member # 141) on :
Buy. Aspectre can't resist last post.
Buy or sell: Hillary will be the next president.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Sell. She rubs people the wrong way. And she spells her name with only one 'l'.
Buy or sell: The EG movie will come out before 2010.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Sell: HJO is already too old for it to work . . . he might play Graf in the TV series though...
Buy or Sell: We will be in Iraq in 10 years.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
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.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
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.
Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
Sell. But I put a game anyway
Buy or Sell: McDonalds will come out with a good commerical
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
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.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Buy. I don't watch tv but this seems to be the consensus about Fox.
Buy or Sell: OSC will ever vote for the Democratic candidate for President again. Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
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.
Posted by airmanfour (Member # 6111) on :
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.
Posted by Grisha (Member # 6871) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tatiana: Buy. I don't watch tv but this seems to be the consensus about Fox.
Buy or Sell: OSC will ever vote for the Democratic candidate for President again.
guess you've caught a few rants about that?
Sell. I think we will be okay, and anyway ireland is gonna be the curiouse exception if it does happen.
Buy or Sell: Flying cars will become a popular mode of transit within the next 12 years.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
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.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Sell! He claims he's already a Democrat, I think.
Buy or Sell: New Orleans floods again the next time a hurricane hits there.
Posted by Geekazoid99 (Member # 8254) on :
Buy: They have no chance of reparing it all before then
Buy or Sell: The Arab Israeli Conflict will end within the next 10 years
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
Sell. It won't end unless Jews or Arabs leave the entire place (or die), and neither of those are going to happen in 10 years.
B or S: Hip Hop will not be the mainstream music in 8 years.
Posted by Squish (Member # 9191) on :
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!
Posted by Geekazoid99 (Member # 8254) on :
Buy. by then some country will get the wits to get someone there even if it's not the US
Buy or Sell: Microsoft will either be an giant Monopoly all alone or gone in 5 years
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Sell. They'll still be hanging on, but open source will be gaining ground.
Buy or Sell: Miami Heat wins the NBA championship this year.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
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.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Buy: we already use wind power, in Minnesota, and in Massachusetts (in places Edward Kennedy doesn't object to the noise).
Buy or sell: Michael Jackson will move, away from his Persian Gulf home, within a year.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Sell: He will be executed for child moslestation before he manages to move away.
Buy or Sell: The Pats will win the next Superbowl.
Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
Sell: Vinateri kicks the winning field goal...for the Colts.
Buy or Sell: the next US presidential election will pit John McCain against Russ Feingold
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
Sell: Unfortunately, McCain is incapable of winning the Republican primary.
Buy or Sell: George Martin finishes A Song of Ice and Fire before Superstation can drive?
Posted by Raventhief (Member # 9002) on :
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.
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
Superstation is Papa Moose's child.
--ApostleRadio
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Sell. Printing presses didn't make it impossible for authors to be rewarded financially; they made it possible, for the first time.
Buy or sell: no ELE (extinction-level event) from asteroid collisions on Earth again, ever.
Posted by Grisha (Member # 6871) on :
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)
Posted by Raventhief (Member # 9002) on :
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,
Posted by Ginol_Enam (Member # 7070) on :
Sell: No they're not. I see 'em all the time.
Buy or sell: Commercial hard copies of music will be completely gone in 5-10 years.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
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.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
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.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
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.
Posted by Griffin (Member # 7166) on :
Sell: Ils n'ecoutent pas les jeunes. Buy or Sell: hatrack.com will have 10000 members in 2006
Buy. But only if we step up our recruitment efforts. Uncle Orson wants you!
Buy or Sell: Bigfoot conclusively proved as real within a decade.
Posted by Raventhief (Member # 9002) on :
Sell: "conclusively" is too strong. Maybe "good evidence for Bigfoot found but not believed by all".
Buy or Sell: A US president within 20 years who is either non-Christian, female, or non-caucasian.
Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
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.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Buy. And French Catholics will be fighting not to promote or allow their religion, but to help Moslems abolish it.
Buy or sell: a genetically engineered dog hosts a prime-time talk show by 2100. (Ruh-roh.)
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Sell. No way any country will allow an animal to become as smart as a human.
Buy or Sell: There will be a WWIII within the next 50 years.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
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.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Sell: No one will elect them, seing as Bush's approval ratings are lowe then ever.
Buy or Sell: China, India, or some nation in the middle east will cause WWIII.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
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.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Sell: Something better will be invented.
Buy or Sell: Hatrack will be around 20 years from now.
Posted by Raventhief (Member # 9002) on :
Buy. No comment, just buy.
Buy or Sell: Increasing property costs and decreasing job availability causes net emigration from the US within 50 years.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Sell: Won't happen. People own't abandon the U.S.; most don't like other languages, and are arrogant. I don't think that will likely happen.
Buy or Sell: Within 50 years, the world powers will try to industrialize Africa.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
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.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Sell: What is natural? If you're talking about obesity, it isn't going anywhere in the next five years.
Buy or Sell: Europe becomes a unified nation in 50 years.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
(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.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Buy! Baby boomers will dictate the demographics as they always do! And this is just a human rights issue.
Buy or Sell: Soon thereafter, polygyny, polyandry, and lineal marriages also become legal.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
Sell: Either people will continue to insist marriages avoid dicey questions of inheritance, lineage, and incest, or the notion of marriage bonds will dissolve altogether.
Buy or Sell: The ongoing conflict in Iraq will be the central issue of the 2008 election.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Sell: It has already subsided and by '08, it will be quite small. The real debate will be over what was done.
Buy or sell: The United States will be around in 500 years.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Sell: Not as a single nation state it won't be. I will have been absorbed by some larger nation.
Buy or Sell: In a few hundred years, earth, having been unable to sustain it's numbers, will be left by people heading out in search of a new solar system with tons of planets and dozens of moons which will be terraformed and colonized.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Sell: Earth's Population growth rates are getting lower and lower. It is starting to stableize.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
Sell: Before then, the Singularity Artificial Intelligence will have gotten disgusted with humans' genocidal treatment of other Earth species, and have shipped humans off to star systems on the other side of the galaxy in tamper-proof auto-piloted relativistic colony ships. Shortly thereafter, the EarthSingularity AI will learn how to prop open microscopic wormholes, and send nano-machines through them to terraform hundreds of planets and moons around various stars. By the time that a Chinese+American colony cluster is automaticly disgorged by their spaceships at their destination star, scores of newly habitable planets and moons will await them. Humans being humans, the leadership will rewrite history so that future generations will think that their Exodus was voluntary rather than tell the truth about humans being booted off of Earth. And since even a minor knowlege of physics and biology will prove that there ain't nothin' natural about one sun being orbited by scores of habitable planets and moons so finely tuned as to allow humans to survive without extensive life support systems, the government/history will also claim that humans terraformed the system. The government will outlaw the higher technologies that created the EarthSingularity and actively censor all research into areas that might lead toward a new Singularity. And create Operatives to enforce their suppression of forbidden technologies, as well as suppress a true reporting of history. So there will be a silly mixture of technologies such as no interstellar travel, high-acceleration interplanetary spaceships, and folks who fight with swords and Colt.45 pistols.
Buy or Sell: I've got last post.
[ March 30, 2006, 01:47 AM: Message edited by: aspectre ]
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Sounds like Battlestar Galactica meets Krull.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
SOunds like a damn good book.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
Did I mention that -- independent from government, even from government knowlege of their true origin or purposes -- there will be Shepherds whose organization will be linked through microscopic wormholes to the EarthSingularity AI, and through it to other Shepherd organizations in other human-colonized stellar systems?
Buy or Sell: JossWhedon would approve.
[ March 30, 2006, 01:39 AM: Message edited by: aspectre ]
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Sell. Somebody around here is bound to have more patience.
Buy or sell: Melting Greenland ice will expose the ancient city of the Lemurians, and we'll find out that they were lemurs.
Posted by Althai (Member # 9275) on :
Buy.
Buy or Sell: It will eventually be shown that no matter how powerful computers get, none based on binary logic can ever be truly "intelligent". Instead, someone will design an intelligent machine whose workings more closely resemble the workings of a human brain.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Buy or sell: I will get to sleep before midnight at least one night this week.
Posted by Althai (Member # 9275) on :
The "neural nets" described in that article seemed like a technique for programming computers rather than something fundamentally different at the level of hardware. And get some sleep!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I couldn't find a good article online, but neural-net AIs are fundamentally different -- on the hardware level -- than traditional computers.
And have been since the late '80s.
*looks a bit more* This article isn't bad.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Neural networks are software, and they're implemented using the same computers we're familiar with. It would be possible to build them from scratch in hardware, but no one ever does: the computers we have a perfectly adequate for implmenting them. (I'm an expert in this area.)
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quote:Buy or sell: I will get to sleep before midnight at least one night this week.
Sell. You won't be able to resist the lure of Denny's, which is open 24-7.
Buy or sell: once food processing (like Star Trek's "replicators," or super-Vegemite) gets developed enough we can make convincing steak from veggie-burger stuff . . . it will become immoral to eat meat.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote: You won't be able to resist the lure of Denny's, which is open 24-7.
*laugh* Unlikely.
I'll take your word on the NNs. Either I misunderstood when they were explained to me 15 years ago (by someone who was researching them at the time), or what he was doing is not what is commonly done. Posted by Althai (Member # 9275) on :
Sell. However, meat will become prohibitively expensive, because by then land values will be very high, and it takes vastly more land to raise one pound of beef than it does to raise 1 pound of soy.
Buy or Sell: Orson Scott Card will eventually write a mystery novel.
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
Sell: Meat is delicious and people will never be able to resist it.
Buy or Sell: Genetically engineered pigs that are healthier for human consumption will lead to bacon becoming the all time favorite food worldwide.
Posted by Althai (Member # 9275) on :
Sell. However, meat will become prohibitively expensive, because by then land values will be very high, and it takes vastly more land to raise one pound of beef than it does to raise 1 pound of soy.
Buy or Sell: Orson Scott Card will ever write a mystery novel.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
Buy, but probably not until he gets tired of the Enderverse.
Buy or Sell: Sid Meier will eventually mis-step with the "Civilization" series and deliver a bomb.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Sell: He doesn't do it anymore, and they would never release a bad one.
Buy or Sell: Democrats will win the next Presidential election.
Posted by Raventhief (Member # 9002) on :
Buy: already done. Civ 3 was not a fun game. Of course he redeemed himself with Civ 4.
Buy or Sell: society eventually recognizes that professional athletes and actors don't deserve more money than professors and doctors, and salaries adjust accordingly.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Sell: He doesn't do it anymore, and they would never release a bad one.
Buy or Sell: Democrats will win the next Presidential election.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Buy, unless they make a really stupid nomination choice.
and
Sell: professional anythings get paid what the market will bear. As long as entertainment makes money (which will likely be forever) then the ones who do the entertaining will continue to get paid well. If mass media is ever destroyed, then it's possible that the paychecks to entertainers could shrink, but I don't think that's very likely.
Buy or Sell: In the next 100 years Christianity will see a downturn in popularity such that it will sink to the #3 religion in the world, usurped by islam and buddhism in that order.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Sell: Christianity might fall, but it probably won't be taken by Islalm. The western world wouldn't accept it. Buddhism maybe, though. Everyone would love to eat a lot.
Buy or Sell: China will invade Taiwan within 15 years.
Posted by Althai (Member # 9275) on :
Sell: Taiwan is less important to China than it's image internationally, which would be very much harmed by such an invasion. However, the two countries will eventually reunite by peaceful means, after China abandons communism and becomes a democracy.
Buy or sell: In the year 3000, atheism will be more common than christianity or islam.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Sell: It may in fact be true that the majority of people will be atheists, but surveyers will find it impossible to add 'atheism' to the list of choices of religion. Instead, the vast majority of those surveyed will be 'Undecided'.
Buy or Sell: Within the next 50 years, the apostrophe will revolt due to continued abuse and remove itself from the english language entirely. This will lead to no end of confusion for the few people still alive who value punctuation, but in general, netizens will find it a huge relief. OTOH, German speakers will be very upset to discover that the English-abandoning apostrophe has taken over German to the point that virtually every word is peppered with it. Americans will find this very amusing.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Se'll: a'postrophe's are al'ready t'aking ov'er!
Buy or sell: A glue remover that will get that @#$%!! glue off my wall without eating the paint off will be available in our lifetimes.
Posted by Althai (Member # 9275) on :
Well, that depends on the type of glue... If it's rubber cement, you can rub it off. If it's superglue, nail-polish remover works well. If it's PVA glue, it should come off easily with any mild detergent. If it's epoxy, you're probably going to have to sand it off and repaint.
Buy or Sell: In 500 years, fewer than 50% of the population will regularly sleep 7-9 hours, at night, on a 24 hour cycle - the sleep cycle considered normal today.
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
Buy: And the popularity of zombie movies will have grown to epic proportions. Not that there's any correlation.
Buy or Sell: In the next 10 years, movie musicals will make a huge comeback, prompting a revival of all forms of formation dancing, including ballroom, square dancing, and folk.
Posted by SenojRetep (Member # 8614) on :
Sell: Musicals and dancing are at the apex of their popularity now (cf Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Red Hot Ballroom, Dancing with the Stars) and will only decline over the next 10 years
Buy or Sell: The former talent of Pixar will produce a phenomenally mediocre picture now that they've been absorbed by Disney.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Sell: Disney may not be very intelligent, but I don't think they'll be dumb enough to screw it up, seeing as their buts are on the line.
Buy or Sell: Technological advancements will allow the average person to live 100, by 2100.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
quote:Buy or Sell: Technological advancements will allow the average person to live 100, by 2100.
Buy: I actually am quite sure that aging will be preventable altogether within the next 100 years. Cancer cells do not age because their telomeres do not reduce in length over time like the rest of our cells do. There's nothing that says the rest of our cells can't be changed to prevent telomere decay as well. The rest of aging appears to be DNA decay, and perhaps we can "refresh" our DNA every 35 years or so. I believe that scientists will invent a process which can stop our cells from aging, allowing them to replicate indefinitely, stopping us from ever growing old. When will this happen? Right as I am too old for the process, or right after I die from old age.
Buy or Sell: If this process is developed, would we require that someone be sterilized before administering it to them? Or would it be banned altogether?
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
Sell. People won't have to be sterilized, because you will have to be filthy rich to afford the operation. This will create large numbers of children born to rich families, thereby dividing the amount of money available to them exponentially. This will cause the families to become poor and unable to afford the treatment. See, it all evens out, sorta.
Buy or Sell: Nickelback puts out one more album, then are assassinated by a deranged Cobainite.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
Sell: Nickelback is too generic and mediocre for anyone to feel that strongly about them, one way or another.
Buy or Sell: One of these days, mauve will be "the new black".
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Buy or Sell: The U.S. will make it to Mars first.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
Buy: Yes, but not until some other country get's a space program close enough to ours so that we have competition. Especially if that country is China.
Buy or Sell: This thread goes for 10+ pages.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Buy: It's just like begging the question, only it will last longer.
Buy or Sell: Indiana Jones IV will be a huge hit.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
Sell: Ford hasn't been in a lot of unqualified successes of late, he's getting too old for believable intense action, and George "sand is rough" Lucas has script approval rights.
Buy or Sell: By 2010, only niche PC entertainment software will be anything but console conversions.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Sell: No comment.
Buy or Sell: Steven Spielberg will have another Jurrassic Park hit before he dies.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Sell! He's over the hill.
Buy or Sell: Someone pulls a successful April Fool's joke on hatrack this year.
Posted by Squish (Member # 9191) on :
Sell: Seeing as how it is April 1st and no one's reportedly played any pranks on Hatrack... well, none that I came across anyway.
For Sale: One 5'11" Japanese-Caucasian male, intelligent, handsome, witty, and goes by the name of Juxtapose.
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
Sell. Who'd want that.
Buy or Sell: Democrats take one of two houses of congress this year.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
Buy. This summer, a meteor wipes out life on earth. People are bound to blame whoever controls the White House.
Buy or sell: old age is outlawed by 2010, absolving insurance companies from having to pay for it, and saving Social Security from bankruptcy.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Buy: Brilliant plan. Inhumane, but brilliant.
Buy or Sell: Selling.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Sell: For selling is bad.
Buy or sell: Due to rising demographic problems, and human rights protests, Communist China will have a revolution by the people by 2050.
Posted by Blaise (Member # 9327) on :
sell: it'll be way sooner then that if things keep progressing the way they are, with all of the child restriction laws
buy or sell: A serious epidemic will ravage throughout the world if its population keeps increasing the way it is.
Posted by Reticulum (Member # 8776) on :
Sell: If it happens, it will only affect nations with very large populations, ones with high growth rates, or developing ones. (Crap. The U.S. is screwed in all ways but the last.)
Buy or Sell: The U.S. population explosion will be solved by 2025, and we won't have a population of 420 Million, ( A 122 million jump from now) by 2050.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
Sell. We demand the right to reproduce ourselves into extinction as free=-thinking, independent Americans! Now could you move your elbow? I'm gonna inhale.
Buy or Sell: Misguided intellectual property and patent laws will cause someone's very birth to be an infringement in the next hundred years.
Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
Sell: Business always needs new customers.
Buy or Sell: The 'personal use' exemption from licensing fees on patents will be revoked. And parents will have to pay huge fees for their child's right to use each of the multitude of corporate patents on breathing, looking, gurgling, crying, drooling, sleeping, sucking, swallowing, grasping, wetting, pooping, smiling, teething, turning over, scooting, crawling, etc...
[ April 09, 2006, 07:43 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]
Posted by Althai (Member # 9275) on :
Sell.
Buy or Sell: The actor playing Ender wins the Oscar for best actor, beating the previous record for youngest best actor decade by well over a decade. The new record survives until the year 2489, when it is beaten by a combination of great direction, bribery, and genetic engineering.
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. . . he might play Graf in the TV series though...![[Dont Know]](graemlins/dontknow.gif)
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The U.S. is screwed in all ways but the last.)