Now I'm anti American Empire as much as any hippy, but this guy suggested we're the "so-called victors" of the Cold War. Yeah sorry but we won that shit...you can argue a lot of things about the Soviets being much MUCH weaker than we were anyways but we still won.

Now as an Empire I think it's almost inevitable to go down the Soviet path. I mean baring a mass exodus of the major cities (Mayan Empire) mostly Empires go down the path of ridiculous patriotism and corruption while they die horribly.

This is why I wanted to elect someone like Newt Gingric or Donald Trump...to hasten the process so we can start the rebuilding sooner rather than prolong our death throws for decades.

2012... The year we find out all the people who make crappy, mindless, cookie-cutter movies figured the Mayans were right and didn't bother making any movies. Leaving us with the crazed ramblings of every acid-addicted crackpot to hop behind a Panaflex camera.

Oh what a joy it is to be alive!

That's just poor spelling.
>> ^messenger:

Also "calendar" is misspelled in the title. Unless that too is a sarcastic joke that I somehow missed.

That's a poor attempt even by the low standards of sarcasm since neither a literal nor sarcastic interpretation gives it any scientific weight since a Hollywood movie bears low scientific credibility with or without an Oscar.>> ^eric3579:

What I think you missed is.....it was said as a joke. Someone back me up on this.
>> ^messenger:
Nope. I mean, from 5 minutes of research I don't turn up any evidence that 2012 was ever nominated for any Oscars, let alone winning any. I started here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)#Accolades and continued on to the lists of Oscar nominations from 2008 to 2011. What have I missed?>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^messenger:
"2012 ... swept the academy awards..."???? Wasn't even nominated, as far as I can tell.

Your sarcasm meter must be malfunctioning.

It was sarcasm - backed up! Seriously though, early in the clip he says people are predicting the end of the world in 2012 based off of ancient Mayan calenders "obviously". Pretty sure that's sarcasm. So one might assume he would use more sarcasm throughout his spiel. >> ^eric3579:

What I think you missed is.....it was said as a joke. Someone back me up on this.
>> ^messenger:
Nope. I mean, from 5 minutes of research I don't turn up any evidence that 2012 was ever nominated for any Oscars, let alone winning any. I started here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)#Accolades and continued on to the lists of Oscar nominations from 2008 to 2011. What have I missed?>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^messenger:
"2012 ... swept the academy awards..."???? Wasn't even nominated, as far as I can tell.

Your sarcasm meter must be malfunctioning.

What I think you missed is.....it was said as a joke. Someone back me up on this.
>> ^messenger:

Nope. I mean, from 5 minutes of research I don't turn up any evidence that 2012 was ever nominated for any Oscars, let alone winning any. I started here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)#Accolades and continued on to the lists of Oscar nominations from 2008 to 2011. What have I missed?>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^messenger:
"2012 ... swept the academy awards..."???? Wasn't even nominated, as far as I can tell.

Your sarcasm meter must be malfunctioning.

Nope. I mean, from 5 minutes of research I don't turn up any evidence that 2012 was ever nominated for any Oscars, let alone winning any. I started here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)#Accolades and continued on to the lists of Oscar nominations from 2008 to 2011. What have I missed?>> ^brycewi19:

>> ^messenger:
"2012 ... swept the academy awards..."???? Wasn't even nominated, as far as I can tell.

Your sarcasm meter must be malfunctioning.

>> ^messenger:

"2012 ... swept the academy awards..."???? Wasn't even nominated, as far as I can tell.


Your sarcasm meter must be malfunctioning.

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/10/10/19/1359252/2012-mayan-calendar-doomsday-date-might-be-wrong -- off by 60 days

http://www.natutech.nl/00/nt/nl/47/artikel/26050/Balen:_%272012%27_is_pas_over_twee_eeuwen.html -- off by 100 years

but the 2012 date gets close to matching up for other things, like Moore's law:
wiki: "Moore's law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware: ... 2005 sources expected it to continue until at least 2015 or 2020"

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/moores-law-meets-its-match

http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2008/02/moores_law_ends_in_2010_cadence_cto_predicts.php

or will it ..

http://www.tgdaily.com/trendwatch-features/40515-new-research-suggests-moores-law-will-not-cease-around-2020

Thanks dude!

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*quality

Long Version of this video. A bit more explanation.

1) iPad 3 will definitely come out this year with a retina display.
2) Apple will flirt with idea of making apple TV into a playstation with iPad 3 innards, controllable by ipad/iphone and make a contender to console gaming. (Natural progression of Airplay).
3) Ron Paul will do better than ever in the polls, but won't win.
4) Obama will win.
5) SOPA will not pass.
6) SOPA-light will pass and will be almost as bad.
7) Esports, primarily Starcraft2, will continue to grow. (2011 was HUGE)
The mayan calendar will end and no one will notice. (Wave hello to Harold Camping)
9) God will continue to recede into obscurity as our common knowledge grows.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Those are some damn good ones. Let's see who does better. As for December 21st, @Boise_Lib - I predict that nothing will happen å la Y2K, but some people will still freak out and the media will fan the flames. There will be a big anti-climax let-down feeling when January 2013 rolls around. But there will be a large natural disaster in early 2013 that will be ascribed to the Mayans. By crazy people.>> ^longde:

1. The Koreans will start a kerfuffle that will define the 2012 elections like the Iranian Crisis defined the 1980 election.
2. The Chinese economy will contract, adding tension to the growing US/China trade war.
3. Putin will attempt to increase the autocratic controls in Russia, because next year's Russian elections will badly weaken his party.
4. To keep the Euro afloat, the EU countries will move closer to a federal system.
5. Mugabe will die. The western powers will attempt to install a figurehead and let foreigners confiscate the land.
6. There will be a major terrorist attack within the 3 months leading up to the US election. It will be instigated by domestic terrorists.
7. If the election starts to looks like a blowout weeks early, like last time, Obama or his family will be attacked on the campaign trail by domestic terrorists.
8. The Amazon tablet family will erode Apple's market share. Amazon will announce a smartphone.

1/3 mayan religion
1/3 Star Castle
1/3 Spirited Away

Never have I been so glad the world is going to end in 2012. Thank you Mayans, for killing us all before this awful movie can be released.