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- DuxDucis, on 04/24/2008, -2/+67Anyone else feel a golden-era of design on the horizon?
- pinchduck, on 04/24/2008, -0/+41Why would the title say "Too Elegant for Dubai"? TFA didn't have any judgment calls like that. It looks like a fantastic piece of architecture, and if the investors in Dubai can afford it, more power to them.
- aphexconspiracy, on 04/24/2008, -3/+41Try stopping some $400 billion dollar wars and maybe the cashflow situation might change.
- insanebrain, on 04/24/2008, -1/+28blame your government .. not dubai.
- justrapidshare, on 04/24/2008, -1/+28Stop winging... in the UK we pay $8 a gallon, if it pisses you off get an electric car?
- AndrewDB, on 04/24/2008, -1/+26In Dubai, maybe. Everywhere else? .. Not a chance.
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -2/+21it looks great...
- govsucks, on 04/24/2008, -0/+19WOW, that is wicked. Stupid question in the thread title, I say more power to them. Maybe it will get us off our asses and spur some competition.
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -0/+18what a stupid thread title.
- ShoGunX900, on 04/24/2008, -3/+20amazing. They should allow parachuting off the top into the water
- Jenadae, on 04/24/2008, -1/+14Dubai's GDP is only 10% fuel exports.
- HenvY, on 04/24/2008, -2/+14It's $8 for a US gallon. Maybe you should have checked before the lecture.
- rebotfc, on 04/24/2008, -2/+13Hey you're funny, but not in the way you think.
- apexified, on 04/24/2008, -3/+14The whole world is an oppressive *****, we're stuck.
- dbz253, on 04/24/2008, -0/+11a lot of it already has
- coolbru, on 04/24/2008, -0/+10When I lived there you had to have a drinks license to buy alcohol. It limited you to $200US per month, which combined with the fact that it's about the cheapest place in the world for booze, was hardly a limitation. Every hotel, bar and restaurant there serves alcohol. I think you may be mixing it up with Saudi Arabia which is far more strict.
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -1/+11Wtf do you mean by 'too' elegant for dubai? they cant be elegant?
- blumpyX, on 04/24/2008, -1/+11exactly. I love it on digg when numbskulls come making comments blaming dubai for their high petrol costs. And then get upset that they are spending it on buildings and infrastructure. They should blatantly be spending it on a big army IMO
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -1/+10you need alcohol to have fun? I guess your girlfriends are ugly.
- Schul983, on 04/24/2008, -1/+9Outrageous to say the least, but beautiful architecture.
- KaiUno, on 04/24/2008, -0/+8It's been 75 comments already and the first has yet to appear. Besides yours that is.
- scuzzmonkey69, on 04/24/2008, -0/+7http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7092144.stm - check the image along side with that article, closest I can get without actually going outside and taking a picture.
And that is price per litre, so, now to use google to convert...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?&q=1+us+gallon+to+l ...
1 US gallon = 3.78541178 litre
So, let use petrol as the example, 101.9p or £1.019.
1.019 * 3.7854117 = £3.8573345223
now to xe.com!
3.8573345223 GBP = 7.6154615077 USD
so no, not quite $8 a gallon, but close enough. - niczar, on 04/24/2008, -1/+6Gas taxes are great, you only pay it if you want to. No gas tax on my bicycle. Little on my motorbike. But plenty for the USian wannabe and his oversized penile replacement SUV.
- theghoul, on 04/24/2008, -0/+5Home of the filthy rich! (Halliburton) , I heard some oil magnets live there as well.
- afterlife23, on 04/24/2008, -1/+6thats stupid these towers are designed to withstand anything, even a boing 747 filled with jet fuel
- afterlife23, on 04/24/2008, -0/+4its on the water
- bobdigi, on 04/24/2008, -0/+4Too bad if you have a microscopic grain of marijuana leaf on you, you are going to the slammer.
- mandregorax, on 04/24/2008, -0/+4citadel 17 anyone?
- makemoneynotart, on 04/24/2008, -0/+3that's what hollywood hills and vegas are for.
- 11oops, on 04/24/2008, -0/+3I had an oil magnet once but it got stuck to the side of a passing car and I lost it. But I suppose you meant to say magnate?
- coolbru, on 04/24/2008, -1/+4Nah, definitely magnets - that's why all the oil collects there.
- lateralus, on 04/26/2008, -0/+3Dubai is a tourism based economy, not oil. Idiot.
- pixelate, on 04/24/2008, -1/+4*magnates
- Duositex, on 04/24/2008, -0/+3I'll second that. Dubai is starting from scratch in 2008 with cutting-edge technology. The rest of the world is faced with trying to accomplish development in cities that have existed for hundreds or thousands of years. Building something like this not only would *never* be approved in any city in the United States (for example), but the infrastructure to support it just wouldn't exist. The same goes for all of these architectural visions in Dubai.
- jwolcott, on 04/24/2008, -0/+3Easy there, tiger.
- edwartica, on 04/24/2008, -0/+3Let's take Stephen Hawking's advice and move to the Moon or Mars.
- ryancalderoni, on 04/24/2008, -0/+3Building a tower in the ocean, good idea, will be great for tropical storm winds and surges especially.
- jews1own1USA, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2yeah like saving it and bombing the ***** out of america
- makkaveli19, on 04/25/2008, -0/+2this is whats wrong with kids these days. sense of entitlement. it's their gas and they are selling it as high as they can.
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2Too ***** elegant? What a stupid title, the OP should be given the appropriate title too, "Too Stupid even for Digg", congratz.
- scuzzmonkey69, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2HenvY: yea i wasn't criticising you matey, just proving that ***** was being as his name suggests.
- 11oops, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2Thanks for the spelling lesson on billion, with two L's.
- dammerung, on 04/24/2008, -2/+4For more on this project, go to: http://www.a-cero.com/
Click on "PROJECTS", then "TOWER IN DUBAI". - fatlip, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2http://www.a-cero.com/imagen/imagenes/web/11429.jp ... there, digg butchered your link
and btw, its a higher-res rendering, not photo. - inactive, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2What do people have against Dubai?
- eihwaz, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2You know you a problem when you've seen every single page that has been on digg.
- inactive, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2more power to them... maybe saudi arabia and yemen can take note. If we're building *****, maybe our people will be too busy and won't blow ***** up...
- HenvY, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2Well yeah, it's going to depend on the fluctuating exchange rate. But it's been around $8 for a pretty long time, I remember it being just above $8 a few months back when I checked.
- SpudgeBoy, on 04/24/2008, -0/+2You ever heard of the 9/11 Comission Report?
Well, in that document it states that Dubai helped finance the 9/11 highjackers.
That might have something to do with it. - mohammadahsan, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1they got to much money to throw around... one of these days all the foreign money is just gonna vanish
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