The New tallest building in the world

Yay! Wasting more oil money on pointless crap!

Funny. If 50 or so years when the oil is gone, or when we've switched to alternative fuels, the citizens of Dubai will probably revert to their previous way of life, and goats will be grazing on the 40th floor of a rusty old broken down heap of metal and concrete that used to the tallest building in the world.
 
Good. I hope that happens. It will show these dumbasses that the only thing they invested in was the worlds largest tomb to fit their bloated leviathan of an empire.
 
Actually, Dubai is doing this because they realized that oil money won't last forever. The irony is that they needed oil money in the end to bail them out.
 
Would be funny if they blew it up with all these fireworks by accident :D

Bloody hell, almost a kilometer!
 
how they say around here, in Dubai "they think its cute to be ugly". You gotta to be pretty stupid to spend so much money on such stuff and building like theirs.
 
victor said:
Yay! Wasting more oil money on pointless crap!

Funny. If 50 or so years when the oil is gone, or when we've switched to alternative fuels, the citizens of Dubai will probably revert to their previous way of life, and goats will be grazing on the 40th floor of a rusty old broken down heap of metal and concrete that used to the tallest building in the world.
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You think they don't use some of that money to prepare for the future?

And why is this pointless? They do spend their money (a LOT of their money) on pointless crap over there but this is not a golden statue of the sheik's penis; this is a building, which is an investment. They don't build tall buildings in western countries? I'm surrounded by skyscrapers right as I type this.

Also, this is not India with its poverty problem, they can afford this at the moment.
 
The thing is, Dubai never had Oil Money. They have a lots of sand and a coast. They conned people into thinking they had Oil.
 
maximaz said:
victor said:
Yay! Wasting more oil money on pointless crap!

Funny. If 50 or so years when the oil is gone, or when we've switched to alternative fuels, the citizens of Dubai will probably revert to their previous way of life, and goats will be grazing on the 40th floor of a rusty old broken down heap of metal and concrete that used to the tallest building in the world.
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You think they don't use some of that money to prepare for the future?

And why is this pointless? They do spend their money (a LOT of their money) on pointless crap over there but this is not a golden statue of the sheik's penis; this is a building, which is an investment. They don't build tall buildings in western countries? I'm surrounded by skyscrapers right as I type this.

Also, this is not India with its poverty problem, they can afford this at the moment.
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Indeed. But one has to ask the question from where to get all those people to live there. I mean Dubai is obvoiusly not build for the usual person or goat farmer. Probably not even the usual tourist from europe.

I see the reason for any nation that is to dependent on oil to spend time to get other earnings. But I am not sure if Dubai is the right way to go, it is that many if not most of the buildings are still empty.
 
By that time the angry oppressed masses of workers that live in ghettos outside dubai proper will have floded the city and taken over. And then we will have peoples workers republic of dubai.
 
Crni Vuk said:
maximaz said:
victor said:
Yay! Wasting more oil money on pointless crap!

Funny. If 50 or so years when the oil is gone, or when we've switched to alternative fuels, the citizens of Dubai will probably revert to their previous way of life, and goats will be grazing on the 40th floor of a rusty old broken down heap of metal and concrete that used to the tallest building in the world.
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You think they don't use some of that money to prepare for the future?

And why is this pointless? They do spend their money (a LOT of their money) on pointless crap over there but this is not a golden statue of the sheik's penis; this is a building, which is an investment. They don't build tall buildings in western countries? I'm surrounded by skyscrapers right as I type this.

Also, this is not India with its poverty problem, they can afford this at the moment.
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Indeed. But one has to ask the question from where to get all those people to live there. I mean Dubai is obvoiusly not build for the usual person or goat farmer. Probably not even the usual tourist from europe.

I see the reason for any nation that is to dependent on oil to spend time to get other earnings. But I am not sure if Dubai is the right way to go, it is that many if not most of the buildings are still empty.
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Well, their whole strategy has been to turn Dubai into Fhloston Paradise. That's the reason they go all out on these projects. They want to become less dependent on oil and the focus on tourism is part of that strategy. Even if an average tourist can't afford a room in this building, it's still an attraction (building is part of a bigger project. They're building a bunch of hotels around it).

It's a valid point that there aren't enough tourists for all these projects right now and there might not ever be but it's completely different than saying "stupid arabs are wasting their oil money." They are making an investment, which may or may not pay off.
 
Loxley said:
By that time the angry oppressed masses of workers that live in ghettos outside dubai proper will have floded the city and taken over. And then we will have peoples workers republic of dubai.
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Hehehe, communism will never die! :lol:

Anyway I wonder if the general negativity towards this would be the same if it had opened in Europe or US...
Also funny how people living in parts of the world that are also surfing on an oil-based economic tsunami are so self-righteous about this.
 
maximaz said:
Well, their whole strategy has been to turn Dubai into Fhloston Paradise. That's the reason they go all out on these projects. They want to become less dependent on oil and the focus on tourism is part of that strategy. Even if an average tourist can't afford a room in this building, it's still an attraction (building is part of a bigger project. They're building a bunch of hotels around it).

It's a valid point that there aren't enough tourists for all these projects right now and there might not ever be but it's completely different than saying "stupid arabs are wasting their oil money." They are making an investment, which may or may not pay off.
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Would you be a tourist in dubai? No drinks allowed. No public intoxication. no sex outside marriage. You got to be a radical religious to like it there methinks.

http://www.rights.no/publisher/publisher.asp?id=52&tekstid=3138
 
I think everyone is missing the point here! Dubai is being pre-emptive here so when their country eventually becomes a shit 3rd-world place like it once was, they'll have this nice building to house the whole population! No one will be homeless!
 
[...]shit 3rd-world[...]
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you can really offend lots of people adding 'shit' before 3rd world countries. Including me, since my country was for a long time considered a 3rd world country, and I definitely dont think my country is a piece of shit.

back on topic:

well, I think people who thinks that dubai's investments are pointless get kind of annoyed, by so much money spent in a wrong way. Ok, thats their investment, but you dont need to be a political science bachelor to know that this is like winning in the lottery and investing in Interplay, coz 'the game industry is growing and I have money to invest!"
 
Loxley said:
Would you be a tourist in dubai? No drinks allowed. No public intoxication. no sex outside marriage. You got to be a radical religious to like it there methinks.

http://www.rights.no/publisher/publisher.asp?id=52&tekstid=3138
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Dont be that silly. Obvously you face some restrictions but not really more compared to other places you can visit as tourrist, be it crotia, majorca.

From what I know you can get drinks in Arabian states as foreigner. Its just that you cant get food which requires booze. As said from what I know.
 
my cousin went there with her boyfriend and they were told not to show public affection. they even got a little broschure with rules on how to behave.
 
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