malva00
Smash Master
^^^ Laughawaffa jk
So I think I'm growing to grow my goatee back
So I think I'm growing to grow my goatee back
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Skrlx
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earthadept
Smash Lord
no shave november?
DMoogle
A$
Shaving is sooooooooooooooooo overrated.
I only do it because of peer pressure (well, that and the extra hair can make my face hotter).
I only do it because of peer pressure (well, that and the extra hair can make my face hotter).
earthadept
Smash Lord
I can't handle the itchiness. I lasted 6 days without shaving... Back to my old itch-free self. ahhhh
DMoogle
A$
It doesn't cause any itchiness for me. On the contrary, my stubble is great scratcher for when my hands/arms get itchy. 
earthadept
Smash Lord
Haha, you're a lucky man. I usually feel like I have a porcupine clinging to my face around day 5
WOTG
Banned via Warnings
So I watched the 2012 movie today. Good action scenes, rest of the movie is pointless.
House
Smash Journeyman
2012 = The Day After Tomorrow
ballin4life
Smash Hero
lol at "people will be disappointed when nothing actually happens in 2012"
Dylan_Tnga
Smash Master
We're allllll gonna dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Skrlx
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I know, right?
earthadept
Smash Lord
y2k failed to please
Dylan_Tnga
Smash Master
did you buy 10 million cans of corned beef and are still eating it? lol
Superstar
Smash Champion
Beef in a can? Why not.
Indeed it does dood.
Indeed it does dood.
Frogles
Smash Ace
i hear that. ill be really disappointed when i dont die in 2012. or whatever supposed to happen on that date.
asianaussie
Smash Hero
The Mayan calendar is based off a concept of time that is...four years ahead of our system, IIRC. So, if we follow that chain of logic, the world should have ended last year...
maybe the world did end and we do not know it
x After Dawn x
Smash Master
more like late 08, but that didn't end the world
us canadians weren't really affected by it =/ we just sat here and laughed with our beer and polar bears
us canadians weren't really affected by it =/ we just sat here and laughed with our beer and polar bears
Blue Yoshi
Smash Master
The stock market crash did affect Canada, but nowhere near to the extent it affected other places. We're pretty lucky.
I've heard stuff about Yellowstone in 2012. It erupts aprox every 600,000 years, and the last eruption was about aprox. 600,000 years ago.
http://io9.com/5122615/yellowstone-due-for-eruption-that-could-obliterate-north-america
http://io9.com/5122615/yellowstone-due-for-eruption-that-could-obliterate-north-america
post 2000 w00t
Blue Yoshi
Smash Master
using approximately 600,000 years ago to argue for something that happens approximately every 600,000 years... you could always be over 9000 years off in either one of those estimations.
Also in response to Nixxxon's post, hurray for being over 1000. But what was my 1000th post? lol
Also in response to Nixxxon's post, hurray for being over 1000. But what was my 1000th post? lol
Humanity will probably kill itself in a nuclear war. All it takes is one crazy politician to press the button, and the world promptly self-destructs.
Our only hope is to branch out into space, but that seems unlikely especially considering the republican opposition to all things science-related.
Our only hope is to branch out into space, but that seems unlikely especially considering the republican opposition to all things science-related.
JaimeHR
Smash Ace
Project Venus anyone? http://www.thevenusproject.com/
asianaussie
Smash Hero
America isn't the only government in the world, you know...if China takes to space, everyone will follow
WOTG
Banned via Warnings
It erupted in a scene in the movie. It doesn't show anything else about it after the family escapes it. Experts say the movie is inaccurate, because the real eruption would be much larger.
And yeah, I watched a Documentary about Yellowstone. It said that an Eruption would wipe out about 3/4 of USA, and 1/4 of Mexico and Canada. Us Americans on the Far East are safe =)
China will be the first power in like 25 years, with nearly 1400 million people, it will make USA look like an average country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Venus
Those are cool projects that are prob. even more impossible I suspect
Sounds good, although i can't see it happening..JaimeHR said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Venus
Those are cool projects that are prob. even more impossible I suspect
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No offense, but that doesn't seem feasible in any way.
First off, they claim we need to remove all money from a society (a "resource-based economy") yet they don't outline any plan on how exactly we would do that. If we removed money, what motivation would there be for the production of good and services? People aren't going to haul *** to their job for 40 hours a week only to not get paid for it. A completely socialistic economy doesn't work.
This is wrong. As the world population grows to incredibly high numbers the resources are going to be used up incredibly quickly. Currently, for America, it costs approximately $100,000 just to raise a child to age 18. Our resources are definitely finite; we can't continuously pillage the earth and expect there to always be stuff.
There's also other problems with that idea, such as the environmental destruction that all that resource-gathering would cause, but that's for a different time.
Oh. This was written by conspiracy theorist nutjobs who probably visit prisonplanet.com. No wonder why this doesn't make sense. I stopped reading here.
As much as i hate it, we must face it... USA/Europe will be dwarfed. Most of the chinese work 10-12 or more hours a day, and they are already the main industry of the world. Their economy grows several times faster than ours. Their population is bigger than USA/Europe combined. Once their income per capita is big enough, we should expect something like japan but 10 times biggerLMFAO
JaimeHR
Smash Ace
A book doesn't make sense if you start reading it from the climax...
The resource-based economy is more than just "removing the money". It suggest to change our culture first and the way we "power-up" our world.
we are still using Oil and making weapons of mass destruction when we could invest on alternative energy sources that don't harm the planet as much as Oil does, we could invest more on reforestation projects to at least try to heal our planet, instead of better and deadlier weapons that only destroy the environment.
I think we do have enough resources but we are using them wrong, we invest on death rather than life, destruction rather than creation, the personal needs rather than the common good.
Sadly, countries need weapons and military for security purposes.
And yes, those ideas are great, but there are some major problems. For example, oil would be cheaper than alternate energies, so there always will be (sadly again) people who will want to save money. Same for teh trees. Why do a reforestation when you can get paper and other stuff from already existing trees?
Money and capitalism destroys this world
So we need to change our super capitalist mentality or we are doomed. Starting for the usa of course, the most extreme capitalist country in the world.
earthadept
Smash Lord
Will there still be smash after 2012? :S
ballin4life
Smash Hero
You don't know anything about capitalism. It's a lack of capitalism that squanders resources. The whole point of the free market is that prices will settle at an equilibrium where benefits are equal to costs. Government subsidies, taxes, and so forth distort this.Sadly, countries need weapons and military for security purposes.
And yes, those ideas are great, but there are some major problems. For example, oil would be cheaper than alternate energies, so there always will be (sadly again) people who will want to save money. Same for teh trees. Why do a reforestation when you can get paper and other stuff from already existing trees?
Money and capitalism destroys this world
So we need to change our super capitalist mentality or we are doomed. Starting for the usa of course, the most extreme capitalist country in the world.
If oil is cheaper than alternate energy, then people are justified in using oil. If oil becomes more scarce, it will go up in price and alternate energies will become more attractive. I'm just trying to say that running out of resources will be reflected in the market.
If you are concerned about pollution externalities, the real problem is that the government is not enforcing property rights. Someone polluting on your land should owe you damages for aggressing on your property. But in the world today too often the government doesn't enforce these rights and allows companies to pollute.
Remember, the government is lobbied all the time by these businesses, and the businesses get special treatment which allows them to get even more money that they can then use to lobby the politicians some more. That's not capitalism, that's corporatism, where the government constantly interferes in the markets to protect the big businesses.
Of the many things that we now enjoy in this world, remember that the vast, vast majority of them were invented due to capitalism, due to the profit incentives that people have. If you create something that other people want, they will give you money (which you want), and you will give them your product (which they want). BOTH people are better off. Take smash for example. Say you paid $30 for the game. You wanted the game more than you wanted the $30, and Nintendo/the retail store wanted the $30 more than they wanted another copy of the game. BOTH PEOPLE BENEFIT. Even if you disagree with me about some of the other stuff in this post, you absolutely cannot say that "money and capitalism destroy this world".
How will using oil ever be less expensive than using sunlight? I'm pretty sure than sunlight will never run out, and if it did, we're all screwed anyways.
Capitalism forced many wrong mindset into people such as greed and self worth. There are a lot of people who have a hell of a lot more than they need to have. Every resource besides oil to my knowledge is renewable. Oil can be renewed too but it takes millions of years underground of pressure.