Crumbling U.N. Seeks $1 Billion for Renovation

[Carver]

Originally posted by Chris 62
That was the authorization, Annom knows it, you know it, or are we going to see hundreds of more idiotic posts about how "wrong" the 40 nations were to take out Hitler jr.

Hitler lead a campaign of genocide . Genocide is fundamentally different, and far more severe, than other types of political oppression. Regarless of what you think of Saddam, he doesn't deserve to be likened to Hitler.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I thought that was funny too Dan... 'interest-free loan' by the US . Like that will ever happen .

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Sounds like it would be cheaper to tear it down and start over.

It always is, in terms of construction costs. Relocation of personnel, communications, IT and support infrastructure adds a bundle, too, although NYMEX had their comms/IT infrastructure set up to do that very nicely, and it got them up and running very quickly after 9/11. Trouble is, what NYMEX spent on mobile emergency IT infrastructure probably exceeds the total IT asset base of the UN by far, plus NYMEX rebuilt their comms/IT infrastructure from the ground up several years before 9/11, specificallly to handle rapid emergency relocations.

[St Leo]

We'd love to have the UN headquarters here in Toronto.

[Drake Tungsten]

(more seriously, I don't know the meaning of "let them eat cake" - care to exmplain please ?)

You don't know what "let them eat cake" means? I thought you were French?

http://www.easternecho.com/pg_ConFr_ArchiveFiles/2002_Fall/edition%2011_11_02/dims/phase.html

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
Why haven't they been doing improvements over time, instead of waiting for everything to go to ****?

Probably because certain member states voted against giving a budget for said repairs...

[Spiffor]

double penetration

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
You don't know what "let them eat cake" means? I thought you were French?

Thx for the link. The French expression is "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" (actually, it translates into "let them eat cake", but not vice-versa: a more immediate translation in French would be "laisse les manger du gâteau"), so I didn't make the connection.

[Nubclear]

Come now, lets just move the UN. The New Yorkers dont want it (nor do they deserve it), and it could get some neat architecture in Vienna.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by ixnay
They should hold a bake sale.

It would be a great day...

[Sikander]

Originally posted by HershOstropoler
Hell, maybe UN toilet seats are even more expensive than in the US military.

Seems possible, they certainly produce a lot more sh!t.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by 123john321


Why not Toronto? Vancouver? London?

Montreal already has a number of large UN buildings (civil aviation administration to name one...)

[The Mad Monk]

How well behaved are they?

[Odin]

The building woulden't be in such bad shape if the US would of payed it's dues. Then again most americans want social programs but don't what to pay taxes. The US has a "I want it but I don't what to pay for it" Complex.



Honk if you hate tax hikes!!!

*HONK-HONK-HONK*

Then get off this publically funded highway!!!

[The Mad Monk]

Oh please, that's such a weak answer. If they could afford wine vending machines, they could certainly afford to patch the roof.