Dubai ...Could they become the next superpower VS USA?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:35 am

What do you think about what’s going on in Dubai and it’s surrounding?
I mean, a skiing resort in the middle of the desert and some hundreds islands representing every countries up for grab, the highest skyscraper in the world… No taxes.
Would you move there?
One of their prolific architects is from here, yes, a Quebecer.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:41 am

i think its old news and they r blowing all the oil money on shit that won't last...

Post by **seremtan** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:54 am

then again, they'd blow their oil $$$ on plane tickets to val d'isere and crans montana or some other ski resort otherwise

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:55 am

Freakaloin wrote:i think its old news and they r blowing all the oil money on shit that won't last...

For once I didn’t get a Fuck off. Could you elaborated thought?
One of the 5Th billionaires of the planet has just bought some of our most prestigious chains of hotels last week.
Not afraid about they could own the majors soon? They can if they want to.

Post by **Dark Metal** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:55 am

You just watched History Television.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:56 am

pete wrote:
Freakaloin wrote:i think its old news and they r blowing all the oil money on shit that won't last...
For once I didn’t get a Fuck off. Could you elaborated thought?
One of the 5Th billionaires of the planet has just bought some of our most prestigious chains of hotels last week.
Not afraid about they could own the majors soon? They can if they want to.

fuck u...

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:57 am

I used to live near Dubai for many years when I was a kid. A couple years back I went to see it - the place has no soul imo.

It is a fascinating phenomenon though - and no doubt will function as a testing ground for the latest in extravagent luxury technologies.

For anyone that's seen the episode "Trash" in firefly - there's a shot of these luxury accomodations floating hundreds of metres above the ocean. I can totally see Dubai being the first place to implement this sort of thing.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:58 am

Freakaloin wrote:i think its old news and they r blowing all the oil money on shit that won't last...

I don't think Dubai's economy is oil dependent. I may be wrong, but I think it's transcended its dependence on oil.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:59 am

Dark Metal wrote:You just watched History Television.

No, I don't even received that channel, just read it on CNN and the like. Did I missed something?

Post by **stocktroll** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:22 am

middle easterners are noobs who just happened to live on some oil
cant wait to LOL at them when they run out of oil

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:29 am

What I am thinking about is that, if they are richer than the USA, shouldn’t we be worried about their superpower$? They won’t just fanfares around, playing who has the biggest skyscrapers and the like, it is may be just a diversion and soon they will say …We have better technologies and better weapons than yours, but it might be far too late.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:50 am

stocktroll wrote:middle easterners are noobs who just happened to live on some oil
cant wait to LOL at them when they run out of oil

When they run out of oil it's the rest of the world that's fucked.

Post by **blakjack** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:14 am

3/4 of dubai's population arent natives

Post by **Tormentius** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:50 am

stocktroll wrote:middle easterners are noobs who just happened to live on some oil
cant wait to LOL at them when they run out of oil

Why's that? Your own country would be in some serious trouble without those oil imports.

Post by **Grudge** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:07 pm

European engineers are constructing their cities, and asian labor is doing the menial labor. They bring nothing themselves, except their oil money, hence they will never achieve anything by themselves.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:29 pm

Grudge wrote:European engineers are constructing their cities, and asian labor is doing the menial labor. They bring nothing themselves, except their oil money, hence they will never achieve anything by themselves.

yea it's pretty depressing. Dubai's pretty much built on slave labour - the very idea of a dubai national working in construction is beyond their imagination.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:16 pm

FUCK OFF PETE

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 12:56 am

SplishSplash wrote:FUCK OFF PETE

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