D'Juhn Keep on 9/5/2006 at 10:54
Quote Posted by Blackjack
I do wonder what my county, let alone the world, may be like when my daughter is my age.
I hear cold places are uninhabitable :(
RazorBlade79 on 9/5/2006 at 11:00
Global warming is talked about a lot, but perhaps not in the US or other countries. Although I like the thought of like 4-5 more degrees over the year, it's not so nice about all the starving and people fleeing from drowned land or other stuff which is already happening.
It's like those 10000 kids which starve every day, noone cares about because it's not on tv. (repeating news = boring.)
Or less dramatic, the oldest forest in the world (like >100 million years) is going to be transformed into a chair called Björk soon.
I think if you don't want to go insane or give up your normal life, you have to be an ignorant bastard sometimes.
Quote Posted by Ko0K
Yeah, and we're all going to freeze the day after tomorrow.
So we all die on wednesday? At least dennis quaid will save the day.
Kolya on 9/5/2006 at 11:28
Quote Posted by RazorBlade79
So we all die on wednesday?
Does this mean I can stop learning and get drunk? :D
Convict on 9/5/2006 at 13:05
Quote Posted by 37637598
OK!!!! LISTEN UP PEOPLE!!!
The thing is... THIS.
We all know its happening, we all know global warming is starting, yet we still are waiting for the news to tell us before we actually do anything about it, or before we start actually worrying. WORRYING DOES NOTHING!!! The government knows too but they're not gonna report much about it because that would cause PANIC!!! And we dont want panic because then riots start, suicude's happen, and all of that bullshit excuse my french.
BUT!!!
If it gets close enough, and walmart isn't selling enough ,THEN they'll tell us to prepare so we will all fill our closets with canned food, pop tarts, and water thus increasing walmarts income, and rasing the ammount we pay in taxes for the year. the truth is, they KNOW we'll panic. After roswell, they're never gonna announce something extreme EVER AGAIN!!! until like... 3 days before its gonna happen. If you know, do something. O don't know what but wining, and worrying wont do SHIT!
I think that this is a bit of a far-fetched conspiracy theory IMO.
TheGreatGodPan on 9/5/2006 at 21:36
Quote Posted by Blackjack
Maybe, but more and more wars now have environmental factors at their heart.
I beg to differ. I think that since the French Revolution wars have had less and less to do with geography and more to do with ideology.
37637598 on 10/5/2006 at 01:30
Quote Posted by Convict
I think that this is a bit of a far-fetched conspiracy theory IMO.
well look at Y2k! That was all a big scam so we'd go buy hundreds of dollars worth in canned and sealed foods to boost the economy
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37637598 on 10/5/2006 at 02:07
ok. here's one reason why i think it to be somewhat true. I went to walmatr the other day and there were multiple displays of hurricane preperation tools, flashlights, books, batteries, etc. and im in mon-freakin-tana! I dont need to prepare for a hurricane! But most people are convinced that they do so they go buy safety rafts, lamps, flashlights, well... maybe not lamps:cheeky: , but sleeping bags, bottled water and SO MUCH MORE! Montana is the LasT place there would be a hurricane. we dont even get tornados, or ice ages! walmart even reported that it was a money making year and said that year they sold more (
http://bssandbrninalain.blogspot.com/2005/09/hurricanes-walmart-and-pop-tarts.html) strawberry poptarts then ever before.
THIS IS A QUOTE FROM (
http://www.thecorporation.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=490&)
A week ahead of the storm's landfall, Linda M. Dillman, Wal-Mart's chief information officer, pressed her staff to come up with forecasts based on what had happened when Hurricane Charley struck several weeks earlier. Backed by the trillions of bytes' worth of shopper history that is stored in Wal-Mart's computer network, she felt that the company could "start predicting what's going to happen, instead of waiting for it to happen," as she put it.
The experts mined the data and found that the stores would indeed need certain products - and not just the usual flashlights. "We didn't know in the past that strawberry Pop-Tarts increase in sales, like seven times their normal sales rate, ahead of a hurricane," Ms. Dillman said in a recent interview. "And the pre-hurricane top-selling item was beer."
Thanks to those insights, trucks filled with toaster pastries and six-packs were soon speeding down Interstate 95 toward Wal-Marts in the path of Frances. Most of the products that were stocked for the storm sold quickly, the company said.
Such knowledge, Wal-Mart has learned, is not only power. It is profit, too.
END OF QUOTE
Walmart LOVES natural disasters!
PigLick on 10/5/2006 at 07:24
Quote Posted by TheGreatGodPan
I beg to differ. I think that since the French Revolution wars have had less and less to do with geography and more to do with ideology.
how the fuck do you figure this?
