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Most of the investors are NOT from the emirates. So it isnt the "oil money" thats funding the "crazyness".
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"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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So when will the west unite against this threat? US and EU should spend much more of their budget on cranes!Dubai is said to currently have 15-25% of all the world's cranes.
We have to win the crane race!
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Arabs taking over those buildings for fundie religious activities :Originally posted by Albert Speer
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They need to put a cap on that Dutch dredging.
Nothing quite says nouveau vulgarity like a suite of artificial islands shaped like the world's landmasses.
I hear that some of the Dubai island developments are being snapped up by footballers.
How appropriate.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
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Won't that make good TV when the fundies start blowing things up."I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003Comment
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Why would they blow up dubai, when new york and london are still around?Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse
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That freaking city looks amazing and will be even more ridiculous soon. Damn, maybe I'll have to visit one day.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Damn is it going to be painful when that real estate bubble pops...Stop Quoting BenComment
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Corrected. (though they shouldn't, it pays us nice bucksOriginally posted by molly bloom
They need to put a cap on that Belgian dredging.
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Exactly my thoughts. I'd love to see what the vacancy rates are now already.Originally posted by Bosh
Damn is it going to be painful when that real estate bubble pops...
If you look at the world's succesful cities, there's always a solid foundation on which its succes rest: Singapore astrides the world's busiest shipping lane, aside of being a manufacturing powerhouse of its own, Hong Kong is the gateway to China, New York used to be the gateway to America and is now the financial heart of the world's biggest economy... but Dubai? The most tangible explanation there is for their succes is a build-and-they'll-come strategy + marketing themselves as "hot". They don't seem to have enterpreneurial or technological prowess of their own. They can't even count on a stable region.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.Comment
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I think this requires a lot of imagination to pull off. There have been growth spurts for skyscrapers and infrastructure in the US too, like the Roaring 20s.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Office space apparently is hard to find in Dubai, even though capacity is expected to double in the next several years to ~ 30 million square feet (compare to Washington DC metro area office space @ 400 million square feet). The amount of space is modest, even though it's growing quickly.
Asking rates for Class A office space are about the same: $40 - $60 per square foot per annum -- although of course it's skyscrapers in Dubai and 14 floor buildings in downtown DC.
Last edited by DanS; June 26, 2006, 11:15.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Originally posted by molly bloom
Nothing quite says nouveau vulgarity like a suite of artificial islands shaped like the world's landmasses.
Predictive science fiction-wise, Larry Niven predicted such things in Ringworld Engineers. (He also predicted lots of interspecies sex.)Blog | Civ2 Scenario League | leo.petr at gmail.comComment
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And look at how that ended...Originally posted by DanS
I think this requires a lot of imagination to pull off. There have been growth spurts for skyscrapers and infrastructure in the US too, like the Roaring 20s.Stop Quoting BenComment
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