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Akvod on 21 October 2009
highwaystar101 said:
Akvod said:
highwaystar101 said:

Vikki Luya, Sony's publicity director, said: "It is very clear that this site is connected to a fictional movie. This can readily be seen in the logos on the site, including the Sony Pictures Digital copyright line and the reference to the '2012 Movie Experience'. It is also evident in the user-generated videos, as well as the numerous online references to this marketing campaign."

XD

Have you been on the site? it's hard to tell. She's saying that to try and avoid conflict.

 

Anyway, I didn't really mean this thread to be about just the movie, more that people actually believe that 2012 will be the end. I once wound up chatting to a friend of a friend in a pub once about 2012, he was 100% convinced that it was going to happen. It was one of the most surreal conversations from a surreal individual I've ever had.

IDK, I was just thinking back to all the viral marketing that were so obviously laden with corporate imagery.

 

Look at all the EA Logos XD



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dtewi on 21 October 2009

WILL the world end though?

What proof is there to deny or support 2012?



Kimi wa ne tashika ni ano toki watashi no soba ni ita

Itsudatte itsudatte itsudatte

Sugu yoko de waratteita

Nakushitemo torimodosu kimi wo

I will never leave you

sc94597 on 21 October 2009
CaptainPrefrences said:
Hasn't it ever occured to some people that the Mayans stopped continuing the calender because Hernan Cortes and his band of thieves wiped them out?

I have to admit, this made me laugh. You make it sound much more interesting than an Empire conquering another one. Instead, a band of theives, conquered an Empire. Quite impressive.

 

Also I want to correct you on your statement. The "wiped out" finished thier calendar far before Spain was even a unified country. They were actually dwindled into City-States whent he Spanish arrived. I think the civilization you are looking for are the "Aztecs".



Kasz216 on 21 October 2009

So did that asteroid change course then? I mean that was the one "scary" thing about the mayan prediction. There was something that very well crash into earth around 2012.



Orca_Azure on 21 October 2009

Come 2012, I guarantee an american pundit will say that a rival party candidate will eventually be the cause of the 2012 curse XD



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ironman on 21 October 2009
Avinash_Tyagi said:
ironman said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
halogamer1989 said:
No, it is not the end of the world. I can tell you one thing, though. It is the end of Obama--that much is almost a guarantee. Mitt Romney 2012.

Actually Obama will likely win reelection easily, the state of the economy in 2012 will pretty much guarantee it

lol what? his numbers are dropping, he will easily get creamed...unless the GOP pops out another John Mcain *shudders

his numbers dropped because of rising unemployment, but that's nearing the peak, unemployment will begin dropping next year, by October 2012, three years from now, unemployment will be back around 4-6%, at which point his numbers will be back in the 60's, minimum, lol

Doubtful, unless he creates a bunch of pseudo government jobs...which I believe he is planning on doing, meanwhile, the private sector will shrink even more. I don't see him getting a second term.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 21 October 2009
ironman said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
ironman said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
halogamer1989 said:
No, it is not the end of the world. I can tell you one thing, though. It is the end of Obama--that much is almost a guarantee. Mitt Romney 2012.

Actually Obama will likely win reelection easily, the state of the economy in 2012 will pretty much guarantee it

lol what? his numbers are dropping, he will easily get creamed...unless the GOP pops out another John Mcain *shudders

his numbers dropped because of rising unemployment, but that's nearing the peak, unemployment will begin dropping next year, by October 2012, three years from now, unemployment will be back around 4-6%, at which point his numbers will be back in the 60's, minimum, lol

Doubtful, unless he creates a bunch of pseudo government jobs...which I believe he is planning on doing, meanwhile, the private sector will shrink even more. I don't see him getting a second term.


  ROFL, even if they started creating government jobs it wouldn't matter, think for a minute, the main engine of the economy is consumption, and consumption is based on people having disposable income, even if you have a government job you spend money on goods and services, when companies sell more goods they expand their production to meet demand and hire more workers, so it doesn't matter, at the end of the day the economy and private companies grow and employment rises, thanks for playing.



 

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ironman on 22 October 2009
Avinash_Tyagi said:
ironman said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
ironman said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
halogamer1989 said:
No, it is not the end of the world. I can tell you one thing, though. It is the end of Obama--that much is almost a guarantee. Mitt Romney 2012.

Actually Obama will likely win reelection easily, the state of the economy in 2012 will pretty much guarantee it

lol what? his numbers are dropping, he will easily get creamed...unless the GOP pops out another John Mcain *shudders

his numbers dropped because of rising unemployment, but that's nearing the peak, unemployment will begin dropping next year, by October 2012, three years from now, unemployment will be back around 4-6%, at which point his numbers will be back in the 60's, minimum, lol

Doubtful, unless he creates a bunch of pseudo government jobs...which I believe he is planning on doing, meanwhile, the private sector will shrink even more. I don't see him getting a second term.


  ROFL, even if they started creating government jobs it wouldn't matter, think for a minute, the main engine of the economy is consumption, and consumption is based on people having disposable income, even if you have a government job you spend money on goods and services, when companies sell more goods they expand their production to meet demand and hire more workers, so it doesn't matter, at the end of the day the economy and private companies grow and employment rises, thanks for playing.

Of course you forget that government jobs are funded by the private sector. The system that he wants to put into place is unsustainable. I'm suprised you don't know that.



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Seece on 22 October 2009

This movie would be best aired in 2012, preferably around December 12th (that's the date right)

Oh but then they wouldn't profit from DVD sales!



 

Avinash_Tyagi on 22 October 2009
ironman said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
ironman said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
ironman said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
halogamer1989 said:
No, it is not the end of the world. I can tell you one thing, though. It is the end of Obama--that much is almost a guarantee. Mitt Romney 2012.

Actually Obama will likely win reelection easily, the state of the economy in 2012 will pretty much guarantee it

lol what? his numbers are dropping, he will easily get creamed...unless the GOP pops out another John Mcain *shudders

his numbers dropped because of rising unemployment, but that's nearing the peak, unemployment will begin dropping next year, by October 2012, three years from now, unemployment will be back around 4-6%, at which point his numbers will be back in the 60's, minimum, lol

Doubtful, unless he creates a bunch of pseudo government jobs...which I believe he is planning on doing, meanwhile, the private sector will shrink even more. I don't see him getting a second term.


  ROFL, even if they started creating government jobs it wouldn't matter, think for a minute, the main engine of the economy is consumption, and consumption is based on people having disposable income, even if you have a government job you spend money on goods and services, when companies sell more goods they expand their production to meet demand and hire more workers, so it doesn't matter, at the end of the day the economy and private companies grow and employment rises, thanks for playing.

Of course you forget that government jobs are funded by the private sector. The system that he wants to put into place is unsustainable. I'm suprised you don't know that.

No, actually its covered by deficit spending and tax revenue, which is sustainable in the short term, other countries continue to cover our deficits, and will for the next decade or so, as US is still the most important single market WW.  Actually a lot of private companies rely on the government for their funding, government contracts, so you've got it backwards.

Once we get out the the recession and our economy is churning along, at that point we'll need to cut spending and raise taxes and begin paying off debts, but that is a while off.



 

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