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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 11:39 AM
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Halliburton Solves Global Warming (SurvivaBalls)


http://www.halliburtoncontracts.com/about/


SurvivaBalls save managers from abrupt climate change

An advanced new technology will keep corporate managers safe even when climate change makes life as we know it impossible.

"The SurvivaBall is designed to protect the corporate manager no matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way," said Fred Wolf, a Halliburton representative who spoke today at the Catastrophic Loss conference held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Amelia Island, Florida. "This technology is the only rational response to abrupt climate change," he said to an attentive and appreciative audience.

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At today's conference, Wolf and a colleague demonstrated three SurvivaBall mockups, and described how the units will sustainably protect managers from natural or cultural disturbances of any intensity or duration. The devices - looking like huge inflatable orbs - will include sophisticated communications systems, nutrient gathering capacities, onboard medical facilities, and a daunting defense infrastructure to ensure that the corporate mission will not go unfulfilled even when most human life is rendered impossible by catastrophes or the consequent epidemics and armed conflicts.

"It's essentially a gated community for one," said Wolf.

Dr. Northrop Goody, the head of Halliburton's Emergency Products Development Unit, showed diagrams and videos describing the SurvivaBall's many features. "Much as amoebas link up into slime molds when threatened, SurvivaBalls also fulfill a community function. After all, people need people," noted Goody as he showed an artist's rendition of numerous SurvivaBalls linking up to form a managerial aggregate with functional differentiation, metaphorically dancing through the streets of Houston, Texas.

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"The SurvivaBall builds on Halliburton's reputation as a disaster and conflict industry innovator," said Wolf. "Just as the Black Plague led to the Renaissance and the Great Deluge gave Noah a monopoly of the animals, so tomorrow's catastrophes could well lead to good - and industry must be ready to seize that good."

Goody also noted that Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society was set to employ the SurvivaBall as part of its Corporate Sustenance (R) program. Another of Cousteau's CSR programs involves accepting a generous sponsorship from the Dow Chemical Corporation, whose general shareholder meeting is May 11.
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are you prepared for a cat 6 storm or event? without a survivaball

so they have corrupted Cousteau

so they have believed in global warming all along but worked to protect themselves first.


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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 11:41 AM
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1. Ya gotta see the pictures of these things....
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 12:21 PM
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8. I hadn't seen these pics - I was snookered.
nt
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 11:47 AM
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2. This is a joke, right?
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tatertop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 11:51 AM
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4. Yes, it is a joke. Read the "Guide to Basic Functions"
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 11:54 AM
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5. Yes, it is. The Yes Men have struck again.
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tatertop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 11:50 AM
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3. That's a farce
"It is possible to drain power from any living creature to
power the suit."
A very well done joke.
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 12:13 PM
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6. Hilarious, but they forgot to say who's left to manage.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-13-06 12:16 PM
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7. Totally Bizarre, Whacked Out, Wierd
I thought this had to be a joke!

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