The Day After Tomorrow...is this actually possible?

[Wheatmaster]

i was just curious because of the real news clips they have on their website that say our weather is getting a bit rough.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

That's the one with the magnetic polar shift or something, right?

Edit: Oh, it's global warming. Hmm...I suppose it's possible, but it's awfully unlikely.

 

[Looney]

Huh? The Day After Tomorrow, the movie about the day after the nuclear attack?

EDIT: ooh, i was thinking of The Day After. I just did a google search for the movie you mentioned, and it looks awesome!

 

[loup garou]

I saw them putting up the poster for that in Times Square the other day and I looked up the trailer when I got back to my office. Looks absolutely awful.

 

[Wheatmaster]

Text

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

Well let me explain it to you this way...

Lets say you have a credit card, a Capital One No Hassle Card for example. You have a credit limit of $500 on this card, as you have no credit history. You go to your favorite store(Best Buy, Wal-Mart, whatever...)and, being as they have some particularly good deals on some products, you now have a blance of $500. Generally what the credit card company does is, every two weeks you will get whats called a statment detailing the purchases you made in the last two weeks. You then have a choice to make. Do you pay it off by sending a check for the minimum ammount, incurring a huge interest penalty being as you have no credit history? Or do you pay off the entire thing so that you avoid the interest but ultimately defeat the purpose of having a credit card? The choice is yours....

I hope that answers your question.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: HelloDeli
Well let me explain it to you this way...

Lets say you have a credit card, a Capital One No Hassle Card for example. You have a credit limit of $500 on this card, as you have no credit history. You go to your favorite store(Best Buy, Wal-Mart, whatever...)and, being as they have some particularly good deals on some products, you now have a blance of $500. Generally what the credit card company does is, every two weeks you will get whats called a statment detailing the purchases you made in the last two weeks. You then have a choice to make. Do you pay it off by sending a check for the minimum ammount, incurring a huge interest penalty being as you have no credit history? Or do you pay off the entire thing so that you avoid the interest but ultimately defeat the purpose of having a credit card? The choice is yours....

I hope that answers your question.

WTF?

 

[Wheatmaster]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: HelloDeli
Well let me explain it to you this way...

Lets say you have a credit card, a Capital One No Hassle Card for example. You have a credit limit of $500 on this card, as you have no credit history. You go to your favorite store(Best Buy, Wal-Mart, whatever...)and, being as they have some particularly good deals on some products, you now have a blance of $500. Generally what the credit card company does is, every two weeks you will get whats called a statment detailing the purchases you made in the last two weeks. You then have a choice to make. Do you pay it off by sending a check for the minimum ammount, incurring a huge interest penalty being as you have no credit history? Or do you pay off the entire thing so that you avoid the interest but ultimately defeat the purpose of having a credit card? The choice is yours....

I hope that answers your question.

WTF?

that's what i was thinking...

 

[Anubis]

this woudl be cool without the Text on it

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/153/817566.jpg

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: HelloDeli
Well let me explain it to you this way...

Lets say you have a credit card, a Capital One No Hassle Card for example. You have a credit limit of $500 on this card, as you have no credit history. You go to your favorite store(Best Buy, Wal-Mart, whatever...)and, being as they have some particularly good deals on some products, you now have a blance of $500. Generally what the credit card company does is, every two weeks you will get whats called a statment detailing the purchases you made in the last two weeks. You then have a choice to make. Do you pay it off by sending a check for the minimum ammount, incurring a huge interest penalty being as you have no credit history? Or do you pay off the entire thing so that you avoid the interest but ultimately defeat the purpose of having a credit card? The choice is yours....

I hope that answers your question.

Well, one of the most important purpose of having a credit card is to build up your credit history.

 

[opticalmace]

Originally posted by: HelloDeli
Well let me explain it to you this way...

Lets say you have a credit card, a Capital One No Hassle Card for example. You have a credit limit of $500 on this card, as you have no credit history. You go to your favorite store(Best Buy, Wal-Mart, whatever...)and, being as they have some particularly good deals on some products, you now have a blance of $500. Generally what the credit card company does is, every two weeks you will get whats called a statment detailing the purchases you made in the last two weeks. You then have a choice to make. Do you pay it off by sending a check for the minimum ammount, incurring a huge interest penalty being as you have no credit history? Or do you pay off the entire thing so that you avoid the interest but ultimately defeat the purpose of having a credit card? The choice is yours....

I hope that answers your question.

You are my hero.

 

[Wheatmaster]

wow i just realized i'm a platinum member

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Wheatmaster
wow i just realized i'm a platinum member

Escape now before you're old and bitter.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Sifl

Originally posted by: Wheatmaster
wow i just realized i'm a platinum member

Escape now before you're old and bitter.

too late.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: Wheatmaster

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: HelloDeli
Well let me explain it to you this way...

Lets say you have a credit card, a Capital One No Hassle Card for example. You have a credit limit of $500 on this card, as you have no credit history. You go to your favorite store(Best Buy, Wal-Mart, whatever...)and, being as they have some particularly good deals on some products, you now have a blance of $500. Generally what the credit card company does is, every two weeks you will get whats called a statment detailing the purchases you made in the last two weeks. You then have a choice to make. Do you pay it off by sending a check for the minimum ammount, incurring a huge interest penalty being as you have no credit history? Or do you pay off the entire thing so that you avoid the interest but ultimately defeat the purpose of having a credit card? The choice is yours....

I hope that answers your question.

WTF?

that's what i was thinking...

He's trying to draw comparisons between the current state of affairs in the environment, and using credit cards... Basically that scientists know there's a big problem and instead of fixing it 100%, they're just slowly trying to help fix it... but it's not enough.

Not that I agree, but that's what he's thinking....

I think...

Of course, I could just be a fool...

which some people have told me.

 

[LordJezo]

Originally posted by: HelloDeli
Well let me explain it to you this way...

Lets say you have a credit card, a Capital One No Hassle Card for example. You have a credit limit of $500 on this card, as you have no credit history. You go to your favorite store(Best Buy, Wal-Mart, whatever...)and, being as they have some particularly good deals on some products, you now have a blance of $500. Generally what the credit card company does is, every two weeks you will get whats called a statment detailing the purchases you made in the last two weeks. You then have a choice to make. Do you pay it off by sending a check for the minimum ammount, incurring a huge interest penalty being as you have no credit history? Or do you pay off the entire thing so that you avoid the interest but ultimately defeat the purpose of having a credit card? The choice is yours....

I hope that answers your question.

So is it better to get airline miles or cash back during Armageddon?

 

[StageLeft]

Not sure, but should be awesome. Post-apocolyptic movies are the best.

 

[Amused]

Nifty little story on this piece of eco-propaganda bullsh!t:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115203,00.html

Global Warming: The Movie

Coming to a multiplex near you on May 28 is the global warming disaster movie, ?The Day After Tomorrow.? I?ve only seen the trailer, but my money is on the movie, not global warming, being the disaster.

Featuring sensational but implausible weather phenomena -- such as tornadoes ripping through Los Angeles, a blizzard in New Delhi, grapefruit-sized hail pounding Tokyo and a single day sweltering-to-freezing temperature change in New York City -- the movie?s unmistakable purpose is to scare us into submitting to the Greens? agenda: domination of society through control of energy resources.

This column has addressed Green extremism and global warming many times in the past - "Eco-Imperialism's Deadly Consequences" ; "Global Warming not a WMD"; and "Global Warmers Admit No Solutions," for example. So suffice it to say that there?s no credible evidence humans are altering global climate in any measurable way and, to the extent that global climate is changing -- as it always has and always will -- there?s nothing that humans can do about that change except to adapt.

The oldest movie marketing strategy in the world is to tie in to some swirl of controversy -- it sells tickets. These filmmakers go one step further by pointing an accusing finger at each one of us with their plea to go ?carbon-neutral.?

The film?s producers say they discovered that they were actually contributing to global warming by making the movie. To compensate for putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, they decided to go carbon-neutral -- a mix of energy conservation and tree planting, they claim, helped make up for their eco-error.

?It?s a small part of a very big problem, but it?s a start,? the producers reasoned. For what the rest of us can do, we?re directed to a Web site called futureforests.com, where you?ll learn that you (unfortunately) produce carbon dioxide, ?well, just by living.?

Futureforests.com says you need to ?make a commitment to reduce your emissions and have that published? and ?buy products, which will compensate for every ton of carbon dioxide you produce, or buy gifts which neutralize a friend's emissions.?

Futureforests.com also features a celebrity section where you can learn about what celebrities are doing to go carbon-neutral. The rock band Foo Fighters, for example, is also planting trees as their personal contribution to fighting global warming.

?We measured the amount of carbon dioxide? created by the production, manufacture and distribution of [the band?s latest album] and [we are] planting enough trees in the Tensas River forest and wildlife reserve in Louisiana, to re-absorb that carbon dioxide over their lifetime,? said the band.

But if global warming were a real problem and planting trees were the answer, forest products giant Weyerhaeuser would seem to have already solved a good part of the problem with the 130 million trees it plants every year.

The filmmakers? nauseating elitism, ignorance and politics are displayed on the Web site, which features personal responses of the filmmakers to dopey questions such as ?One last day, where on Earth would you spend it??

Director Roland Emmerich said he's spend his in ?my house in Puerto Vallarta.? Editor David Brenner said, ?On Kauai ? as soon as they get a Starbucks.? VFX supervisor Karen Goulekas said, ?Having a party on the beach in front of my house in Marina Del Ray.? Actor Jake Gyllenhall said ?On Martha?s Vineyard, with all my friends.?

?Your message to the world, given a billboard for one final day, what would you put or say on it?,? is another deep question asked of the filmmakers. Writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff said, ?Out of 20 million species, why is there always one who has to go out and ruin it for the others?? Emmerich said ?No more Bush.?

Many of the cast and crew have yet to respond on the Web site to these and other penetrating inquiries -- I can hardly wait to learn more about why we should take global warming seriously. So far, global warming appears to be just an excuse for Hollywood hedonism, human-bashing and electing John Kerry.

The movie?s undeniable political overtones verge on the irresponsible, especially in an election year. Aside from the director?s acknowledged anti-Bush sentiment, the actor who plays the evil U.S. vice president has more than a coincidental physical resemblance to Vice President Dick Cheney.

The film is not rated yet, but perhaps the Motion Picture Association of America will consider a new rating for The Day After Tomorrow -- a zero.

 

[dangereuxjeux]

Ahhh... yes. Luckily there is FAUXnews to come show us the way, pointing out that movie makers don't care about science while also throwing in about 47 unjustified jabs at environmentalism. I'm so glad that the party that runs that station is also running the country. Coming soon, the dismantling of the EPA entirely. We don't really need clean air or water as much as a factory owner needs an extra $100k, do we?

This movie, on the other hand, is based on a rather wild interpretation of the effects of global warming, very unlikely and posed by two unscientists, I believe. Of course, like most movies, it's not focused on the science at all, but on making an action story... It wasn't for this movie, but there was another "sci-fi" type blockbuster coming up where I remember the director saying "We didn't really ask any scientists, we used the internet to look up some stuff..."

However, it is wild to think that the first consequence of global warming might actually be significant cooling effects for Northern Europe. Melting ice caps could decrease the salinity of ocean waters, decreasing or shutting off the thermohaline circulation of the oceans (part of the Gulf Stream) which brings warmer waters to the North Atlantic and elsewhere. Wouldn't be an Ice Age or anything, but it would be rather devestating to the region. Kinda crazy how one thing leads to quite the opposite... In fact, I think the book might relate to this... but way exaggerated and stupidly. Check out Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, that's where I originally read all this stuff.

 

[Modeps]

Crap, I'm breathing too much... I better go plant some trees.

What can I do to counteract the bad stuff found in my own flatulance? I've gotta do that too.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: dangereuxjeux
Ahhh... yes. Luckily there is FAUXnews to come show us the way, pointing out that movie makers don't care about science while also throwing in about 47 unjustified jabs at environmentalism. I'm so glad that the party that runs that station is also running the country.

Actually, it's a reprint from JunkScience.com. Steven Millroy has been spot-on when it comes to bullsh!t like this.

But then, poisoning the wells is always easier than addressing the facts, isn't it?

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: dangereuxjeux
... Luckily there is FAUXnews

Please tell me you realize that it's not pronounced "Fox".

 

[LordJezo]

Wait.. so this whole movie is about global warming and some tree hugger group's agenda?

BAH!

I was just hoping for a movie with lots of special effects and death and destruction.. not a movie that is supposed to teach me a lesson about not driving SUVs and buying stuff with CFCs in them.

 

[Maverick]

I'll still watch it just to see the special effects death and destruction

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Not sure, but should be awesome. Post-apocolyptic movies are the best.