Good day boys & girls. So which of the following you think is likely to happen sooner or later? And based on what you voted, why you think it may occur?
zandiago 115 Nearly a Posting Maven Featured Poster
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
WW3 is happening, its the WoT ;)
The stock market is likely due to rising intrest rates, governmenty debt, personal debt and the subprime scandal
I predict a new cold war, either between russia (again) and the USA or russia and china or china and the USA
sneekula 969 Nearly a Posting Maven
Things get hot in Pakistan, the islamists take over. The US is panic-stricken and attacks to neutralize the nuclear weapons. The islamists within the Pakistan army manage to get off a few nukes into India in desparation.
India retaliates with nukes, accidentally killing a score of US soldiers fighting there. Then all hell breaks loose.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
the US wouldnt nuke anywhere near india - too close to china.
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
A big rock from outerspace will strike the earth and destroy all human life.
nav33n 472 Purple hazed! Team Colleague Featured Poster
lol.. You forgot to mention Global warming in the poll.
jwenting 1,905 duckman Team Colleague
#1 happens periodically.
#3 never went away since 1944.
#2 is quite possible. In fact given historical record of major wars (wars involving all or most of the largest global powers fighting each other) we're several decades overdue for it.
Brad.Soung 0 Newbie Poster
why are there some people think china and US may have a war ???
I really disagree with that
scru 909 Posting Virtuoso Featured Poster
So all of this is going to happen this May? Who needs summer flicks? This is going to be fun!
vegaseat commented: very funny observation +7
jwenting 1,905 duckman Team Colleague
why are there some people think china and US may have a war ???
I really disagree with that
History shows that war between the major powers in any region (and in a global system like we have today that's the entire world) is pretty much inevitable.
The only question is what will trigger it, which historically can be pretty much anything.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
yes
china and the usa are world biggest industries and miltary forces - war (cold or hot) at some point is inevitable
invisal 381 Search and Destroy
Sorry, I cannot vote any of them because I don't want any of them to happen.
MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster
As government keeps stealing more and more of the economy, the economy will crash. This will definitely happen if any of those promising national health care is elected.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
national healthcare works
vegaseat 1,735 DaniWeb's Hypocrite Team Colleague
As government keeps stealing more and more of the economy, the economy will crash. This will definitely happen if any of those promising national health care is elected.
If you have a healthy workforce, then productivity goes up. It's productivity that drives this economy. You should have taken Economy 101.
jwenting 1,905 duckman Team Colleague
national healthcare works
it works to bring population numbers down, increase taxes on the survivors, and guarantee decent incomes for bureaucrats working the system.
It does NOT work to provide healthcare of any quality to the people it's supposedly designed to provide such healthcare for.
Prime example is the NHS in the UK. Canada and many European countries have similar (though not as bad, because not as much centralised) systems in place which are also disaster zones.
When you hear you're on a 6 month waiting list for critical surgery without which you won't survive for more than a month or 2 you start to realise something's very wrong with the system.
That's pretty much what happened to my mom in 2002. She got lucky, someone in front of her on the list died and her doc pulled a lot of strings to get her moved up so she only had to wait a month in agonising pain, with a massive and rapidly growing tumour (it was thought, turned out to be harmless though no less painful) in her bowel, with a cathether directly into her bladder.
Or when you spend several hours on a gurney in the ER without anyone looking in on you after a heart attack because there's no room in the ICU and people are unable to find a hospital that will take you closer than an hour's drive away, as happened to my father.
Or spending a decade going from doctor to doctor before one makes the right diagnosis, as happened to my sister.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
wosks fine for me in the UK
jwenting 1,905 duckman Team Colleague
most UK people are afraid to go to a doctor, as the chances are better than even that you'll end up worse before than after...
Dani 4,595 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member
I think that in a decade from now, high school textbooks are going to be referring to the War on Terror as WWIII.
EnderX 352 Posting Shark
If you have a healthy workforce, then productivity goes up. It's productivity that drives this economy. You should have taken Economy 101.
Define 'healthy', please.
The larger the tax bite is, the less there is for new investment...and, from what I understand, a smaller percentage of that will be actually used, as a large portion of that would also be subject to governmental confiscation/taxation. As a result, new products or services will most likely not be developed; the risk would likely be greater than the expected return would justify.
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
I think that in a decade from now, high school textbooks are going to be referring to the War on Terror as WWIII.
WWI was supposed to be the war that ends all wars. It was the beginning of the end for the UK. Are we now writing our own destiney with this War on Terrorism? Will we (or are we now) going down the tubes because of this undeclared war? At a cost of $1Billion/day it won't take long before we're bankrupt.
vegaseat 1,735 DaniWeb's Hypocrite Team Colleague
Define 'healthy', please.
The larger the tax bite is, the less there is for new investment...and, from what I understand, a smaller percentage of that will be actually used, as a large portion of that would also be subject to governmental confiscation/taxation. As a result, new products or services will most likely not be developed; the risk would likely be greater than the expected return would justify.
A mentally and physically healthy workforce comes to work on time and does a very good job.
The trouble with the just lowering taxes to turn on the economy is that much of the money gets invested overseas and doesn't help this country a bit. Now we have less taxes to spend on wars and improvements and still have no investements in the local economy.
vegaseat 1,735 DaniWeb's Hypocrite Team Colleague
I think that in a decade from now, high school textbooks are going to be referring to the War on Terror as WWIII.
I think you are right. As we gradually bomb every country on earth because we suspect a few terrorist there, the war will be world wide and therefore can be called WW3.
As to spending a billion Dollars per day on it, don't worry, we just charge it on the Bank of China credit card.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
america could have a national health service if they didnt have the war on terror
Serunson 413 Posting Maven
I would have to say WW3 would be the most plausible choice, seeing as UN forces have been in the middle east for so long now. It could be described as a 'war', but i think the bigger war is the war on terrorism as a whole throughout the globe. Which no one knows when it will end....
Ezzaral 2,714 Posting Sage Team Colleague Featured Poster
Which no one knows when it will end....
It can't end until those waging it decide to end it, as the definition of terrorism is subjective and malleable, rooted in ideology. Any violent act with which they disagree can be deemed "terrorism" and thus targeted. Violent actions which they find agreeable are given the nod of acceptable insurrection against evil tyranny and allowed to continue either explicitly through aid or implicitly by a lack of action.
jwenting 1,905 duckman Team Colleague
I think that in a decade from now, high school textbooks are going to be referring to the War on Terror as WWIII.
I do hope so. But I fear they may instead refer to it as the Great Jihad.
vegaseat 1,735 DaniWeb's Hypocrite Team Colleague
Treating a terrorist as a mental case might be a solution, then we can write the whole "war on terror" thing off as a medical expense.
ZZucker 342 Practically a Master Poster
the US wouldnt nuke anywhere near india - too close to china.
In Snee's scenario the US will not nuke Pakistan, but Pakistan desperados will fire off some nuke tipped missiles into India before they are captured by US conventional forces. The destruction in India would be huge and India will retaliate massively.
sneekula 969 Nearly a Posting Maven
In Snee's scenario the US will not nuke Pakistan, but Pakistan desperados will fire off some nuke tipped missiles into India before they are captured by US conventional forces. The destruction in India would be huge and India will retaliate massively.
Thanks, you are correct. Just that exchange alone would put US soldiers into harms way. On top of that China would face a large radioactive fall out. All hell breaks loose could be an understatement.
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