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Topic Started: Dec 26 2011, 05:08 PM (2,704 Views)
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Dec 28 2011, 02:41 AM
We know the economy will get small boost from all the idiots spending at the end of the year. Moreso than normally.
Or they'll buy a million things using credit cards, not thinking they'll ever have to actually pay, leading the country to go into more debt. But then again my understanding for economics doesn't go far, so I don't know.
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No you have it about right, people "borrowing" money into existence and then not paying and so inflation appears.

Anyway, I look forward to MEIN CARNIOLANS this upcoming April, they will be lovely hopefully. Either that or they will poison me to death, either way I'm fairly happy.
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Dec 27 2011, 12:04 PM
Iamna- Yeah The Natural History Museum. I applied last year but their program was closed for the Summer so I have applied again :)
The London one? I think I've been there before, it has a sauropod skeleton in the front entrance and this one room full of dinosaur bones that always has a ridiculously long line and ends in an animatronic T rex, right? Now I'm kind of tempted to go there and scrutinize the interns, but from what I remember it's a pain to get there from where I am, and I hate public transportation almost as much as I hate linguistic conservatives.

I remember buying into the whole 2012 end of the world thing, but then life got complicated, things happened, I forgot, and now that I remember that 2012 still hasn't come, I know better than to be scared of the supposed end of the world. What I am however scared of is the fact that I'll be in the first year of college when it'll supposedly happen, and I fear people will do a bunch of stupid shit under the impression that it'll be the last stupid shit they'll be able to do.
Yeah the London one, Im hoping to be in the Anthropology department :) or mammals. I figured if I apply for dinosaurs, I doubt they will even look at me since so many apply for that. Helps I do Latin and Advanced Biology though ;)

Its great the museum, you need to see the Darwin Centre, its awesome!
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Dial, and anyone else getting it, want to team up for the Multiplayer parts of Mass Effect 3, assuming that we are using the same platform /it's cross platform?

Apparently what you control in Multiplayer affects your ending and the campaign.

I'm one of those people who plays for the story, you should probably just stick me with krogan and cross your fingers.
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Yeah Im up for that! Turians all the way, nothing like a semi facist military species! With reference to the roman empire!
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Yeah, I'm definitely excited for "The Hunger Games." Gonna be awesome!

As for new wars, the Middle East is going to explode like a power-keg. Just when we thought we were out, they pull us back in!

But I'm also excited for 2012 because that's when I get to go up to Hanover College and interview with them about getting a full ride for academics alone! Gonna be awesome! Nerd, unite!
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I swear that if the Middle East starts a new set of wars because they butthurt over being the victim for the past millenium, I'm going to start a petition to allow the utter annihalation of it with Saturn rockets with nuclear reactors strapped to them.

Because even if I am the Lord of Chaos and Disharmony, even I need some time for peace. That and I want to see my cousin more often. *sniff*

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Hanover College? Presumably not in Hanover, or whatever the Germans think they can call it these days.

War in the Middle East is only slightly behind the sun rising in east what it comes to things likely to happen next year. But hopefully they will be good wars, Turkey invading Syria, Israel bombing Iranians reactors and so forth.
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Irans not going to be fighting any wars, why would it? Sure Armadinner Jacket (I cant spell his real name) blags about destroying the West but he has no real power. He has to answer to his superiors who quite frankly would like business back with the West. The sanctions have actually made things worse, my dad used to work out in Tehran a lot and he said because of all the trade in the West Iran was very rapidly becoming less and less Islamofacist. Its only after the sanctions did things start to go backwards. Also Irans nuclear reactors were almost wiped in an American cyber attack which destroyed years of research.
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But hopefully they will be good wars, Turkey invading Syria, Israel bombing Iranians reactors and so forth.
So a conversion of Turkey to fascism and a full on nuclear war?
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Nuclear war? Iran is working on nuclear weapons, even if it has finished a few, it has no real way to deeply them offensively. And how would intervention in Syria turn the Turks fascist.

Cyber attack or not, while they have the hardware it's still a threat. The Israeli's did the same thing in Iraq back in 1981 and Syria in 2007. Armoured Dinner Jacket has very little power, but there are plenty of people worse than him in Iran. Israel tends to err on the side of you can't hurt us if everything you own is on fire.
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Yes but those with power are pretty much pro-western. They might have nukes but they arent going to use them.
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Nukes are generally used as empty threats nowadays. There's only a few people that I can think of that would be insane enough to launch nuclear weapons at anyone. The main example of that is Kim Jong-Il, but he's dead. I wonder if Kim Jong-Un (Don't know if that's how you spell it) is just as insane...
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Kim Jong Il wasn't insane and didn't use nukes. Not that he had anything to deploy them with, sort of strapping one of their bombs to a truck and making a run for the border.

They were probably built to be sacrificed. You prove you can make a nuclear weapon, get prestige, then get rid of them (officially) for food and economic aid.
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Yes but those with power are pretty much pro-western. They might have nukes but they arent going to use them.

And the rest of the Iranian government aren't really pro-west. They are pro-not being so isolated the Russians can force us to pay anything to buy their junk.

Besides, as we saw this year, governments can come crashing down quickly. The balance of power in the middle east is based on Israel unofficially having nuclear weapons, and nobody else having any. If Iran gets them, Saudi Arabia has to get them. Then Egypt has to get them, then Syria and pretty soon the place is full of nuclear weapons. Israel's ace in the hole is gone and then things could get messy.
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So then the desert wasteland becomes an inrradiated desert wasteland?

I never got why Bagdad didn't just rebuild after Genghis Khan destroyed all their aquifers n' shit. After all, which is better for your people? Being butthurt for around 600 years or rebuilding after that Monogolian is done making you his citizens?
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