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Anything Goes guys. Prediction can be good or bad, involve life and death, politics and war. The environment, or assinatins of leaders.

1. I predict Bin Laden will be killed or captured.
2. A re-election for the WA state governorship.
3. Someone from the Star Trek TOS series will pass away. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif
4. SE V will be delayed until 2006.

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5. I will graduate. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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6. I will finally finish a game of Space Empires IV.

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7. I will get me another nice GF.
8. The world will see another year of violence in the middle-east.
9. Our little country (Holland) will experience the beginning of a serious seperation between right and left (political ideas) and between western religions and islam.
Not very cool I might add.

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10. Assassination attempt on bush? Too many wacko's hate him to just sit there....

11. Arrested developement, Scrubs, and any other witty comedy will get cancelled cause TV execs suck. Lost will drop in the Ratings, it will get axeed and replaced by "Farm Swap", where famillies exchange their spouses with barnyard animals, letting us see how a sheep tackles the day to day problems of the modern housewife, and what kind of noises a modern housewife makes when hooked up to a milking machine..... ok... to far... BUT YOU KNOW IT WILL HAPPEN SOONER OR LATER, WATCH THE FOX LISTINGS.http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

12. Episode 3 will not live up to the hype of the OT and fans will ***** and refuse to have fun and enjoy the damn movie for some stupid trivial reason.

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13. The Firefly Movie Serenity if released on time will blow previous Sci-Fi movies out the water.

14. Labour will win the British General Election and Tony Blair will remain in power (this is good when "Dracula" leads the opposition) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Yes, first there will be massive protests at his innauguration, but then there will be a very real and continuing danger of assassination attempts from both 'foreign' elements and Americans who feel they were robbed (again) of a fair election. Given how many different interests must hate him by now, his chances of serving out the full second term are not good.

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Disney World will seceed from the U.S. and join England as "The United Magical Kingdom". Free Tornado and Harrier rides for the kids! A new section of the park will open called Belfastland.

seriously: A "crew" off a foreign freighter will walk off their ship and go on a random crime spree with smuggled weapons at some North American port.

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Someone will invent Samus Aran's Powersuit and attempt to kill all the jellyfish in the world, then repent and adopt the Last one alive as a pet...

Well, OK, the first part sounds plausible... powered armor HAS been discussed http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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A plague will break out similar to the ancient Black Plague, but this one will be world wide. 75% of the world's popululation will die or be disabled.

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Ahhh... Nice to see youthful Optimism is still alive and well these days http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Plankton will FINALLY steal the recipe for a Krabby Patty!!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Seriously:

The US will establish a 'permanent' presence in the Middle East. Probably occupy Bahrain or some other Persian Gulf island but think Okinawa...

Oil will drop below $35 US / barrel. (What? you say!)

California will experience another large earthquake (>7.0 on the Richter).

The US and China will strain relationships taking each close to military conflict (involving Korea in some way).

A US passenger airliner will be shot down by terrorists (not blown up but shot down).

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LOL!! Optimism is over-rated, Cynicism is so much more fun! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif Hope for the best, expect the worst.

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The UN will kick out the United States, calling it a "rogue nation", and President Bush will say something to the effect of "so piss off, I never liked you folks anyway" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Over 1 million American citizens will defect to Canada http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

Probes will find extraterrestrial bacteria on one of the moons of Saturn or Jupiter.

I will be incarcerated and possibly tortured by the CIA in an undisclosed location as a threat to national security. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

A Chinese scientist will successfully clone a human... and promptly have the clone (and possibly himself) executed by whoever supposedly goes around enforcing the one-child-per-family law (is that law really enforced or is it just an urban legend? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif)

The Hubble Space Telescope will be used to discover a tenth planet orbiting the sun, thereby extending its life ANOTHER ten-plus years beyond its design parameters due to the immense publicity http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

Aaron Hall will come from 10 years in the future to give his present self the code for Space Empires X, thus saving himself years of work - OK, I lifted this one right out of the Last episode of Voyager, so sue me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Master of Orion IV will be announced - published by Microsoft, for the XBOX 2, to be released no earlier than 2009 http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif

Some starving graphic designer will invent something that revolutionizes human/computer interaction as much as the mouse did, only to have it bought up by Microsoft for $5,000 and a lifetime supply of upgrades to MS Paint http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

Wings 3D will go commercial http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

The lead developer of Stars! Supernova Genesis will go insane / commit suicide / do something completely wacko out of desperation at never getting his game published.

The GPL and LGPL will be declared illegal in much of the Western world. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

Washington DC will be nuked by terrorists during a joint session of Congress; in news polls, over 15% of Americans will call the event "not entirely bad" or "actually an improvement" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Doesn't the US already have a permanent presence in Kuwait?

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I'm not familiar with those acronyms. Can someone give the full name/phrase?? Thanks

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These acronyms are interpreted in slightly different ways by different people, but they refer to 'Open Source Software'.

Gnu/General Public License

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Lesser/Library Gnu/General Public License

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html

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Fidel Castro will die, either a new dictator will fill the power vacuum or there wil be riots and a civil war, US will send troops, chaos ensues, whoever's left forms a new crappy third world government, Elian comes back to the USA and plays XBOX withthe fisherman dude. Most likely the former

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Mostly all negative predictions.. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

I predict that the economy will continue to grow and I will make as much money as I did in the 90's. OH brother was that ever a ****load.

I predict that terrorism will loose some of its appeal and hopefully lesson

I predict that someone will set off a nuke in Mecca during the holly days of the pilgramage. Ok so this one is negative.

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Oh I know, I'm extremely Cynical http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif I think everyone will look back at our generation and probably class it as one of the hallmarks of our time http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif