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- inactive, on 07/12/2008, -7/+259for those who doubt the legitimacy of this photo, here are more stunning shots: http://www.funnychill.com/media/698/Foggy_Dubai/
- inactive, on 07/12/2008, -3/+210if you want to die of old age.
- NathanCH, on 07/12/2008, -8/+163Dubai kicks some serious ass.
I demand wallpaper sizes. - XenoSNK, on 07/12/2008, -7/+150Looks like a good day to jump...
- btschul, on 07/12/2008, -6/+143holy *****
- chkdg8, on 07/12/2008, -8/+142"Split up and head back to the surface. And see if you can get a few of those TIE fighters to follow you."
http://dynamiceye.net/gallery/starwars/Cloud-City2 ... - inactive, on 07/12/2008, -21/+124Obviously an Iranian photoshop...
- Foliot, on 07/13/2008, -4/+87Well done, sir.
- Evermin7, on 07/13/2008, -1/+82They ARE ants, Michael!
- RSS14, on 07/12/2008, -10/+69Humanity: ***** epic!
- Noein, on 07/13/2008, -2/+60"Imagine a huge city built in the middle of the desert." Hmmm, you mean Las Vegas?
- randomguy132, on 07/13/2008, -2/+55Bravo indeed.
- gavorkian, on 07/13/2008, -2/+44....and send them back into a coma!
- OmarOmar, on 07/12/2008, -4/+45Take someone who has just woken up from a 20 year coma to look at that view and blow their minds.
- AgincourtDB, on 07/13/2008, -0/+39Yeah, that would make a great Desktop.... anyone? Anyone? ....Bueller?
- caltheos, on 07/13/2008, -0/+35Kinda looks like a really good SimCity layout. The building style is right up their alley too.
- nonstop87, on 07/13/2008, -3/+36I like turtles.
- mrASSMAN, on 07/13/2008, -0/+33Thoroughly impressed.
- wrathofg0d, on 07/13/2008, -2/+33This is all completely true. Asian immigrants come to find work in order to send money back to their families, and end up working for wages that barely cover their cost of living. They can't leave due to their passports being withheld by UAE authorities. ***** Dubai.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/11/dark_s ... - Netrilix, on 07/13/2008, -0/+28One of the best I've ever seen.
- gambl0r, on 07/13/2008, -0/+21Someone's not up on current events... or just doesn't get jokes.
- EWaldron, on 07/13/2008, -1/+19Or I bury you and it just goes away.
- NecroSexy, on 07/13/2008, -1/+19He then realizes there's no hoverboard and he plunges back into a coma.
- Halsfield, on 07/13/2008, -0/+17So did evermin7...from your window. sleep tight sunshine.
- charmaniac, on 07/13/2008, -17/+34Dubai is gonna crash. They are in a real estate bubble that is ten times worse than what California or Florida experienced. Imagine a huge city built in the middle of the desert. Speculators are buying properties, then selling them only to repeat the process on the exact same property. Its basically a bunch of skyscrapers surrounded by dirt.
Also, they have used what almost amounts to slave labor to help build all these structures. - GawtMilk, on 07/13/2008, -5/+22http://flickr.com/photos/our_dubai_property_invest ...
http://flickr.com/photos/playing-with-light/239911 ...
Uh, it's not CGI. Nice try though! - idbjoshm, on 07/13/2008, -2/+18"Coruscant… the entire planet is one big city."
- DesdinovaEL, on 07/13/2008, -0/+16Hes not a nerd but he knows what Bespin is.
- dlllb, on 07/13/2008, -0/+16...Digg*
- boojoy, on 07/13/2008, -0/+16Where are you getting $4 gas? That's pretty damn cheap.
- djKianoosh, on 07/13/2008, -2/+18FYI. Here's the flickr url for the photo:
http://flickr.com/photos/playing-with-light/239911 ... - wejmahtin, on 07/13/2008, -0/+15That's Dubai.
- dinostabOMG, on 07/13/2008, -2/+17I know! They're really planning for the future. When they run out of oil, they will be in a great position to harvest tibanna gas.
- vsujohn2, on 07/12/2008, -3/+18They do have a *****-ton of money, so i wouldnt put it past them
- Napalmhaze, on 07/13/2008, -0/+14Tourism, trading and banking, well thats the plan anyway. It is obvious that the oil money is going to run out, in fact the oil almost has. Dubai may have gotten rich on oil but most of its money now comes from banking. The plan is to build the most awesome financial and tourism city in the world and continue being uber rich well into the future, long after all the worlds oil has dried up.
- MrTito, on 07/13/2008, -0/+13Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.
- stinger666, on 07/12/2008, -7/+20Dubai is not a normal city. I don't think there are a lot of industrial parks and plants polluting. Plus, 99% of the construction workers live in camps outside the city and get there by bus. It's not like an american city where everyone drives a hummer to commute.
- cheech454, on 07/13/2008, -20/+33That's what our $4.00 gas is paying for....
- ddawggin, on 07/13/2008, -3/+16Yes, everyone in America owns and drives a Hummer.
- ha3er0, on 06/16/2009, -4/+16rule#1: Don't call yourself an expert. Specially when you are wrong!
- SLockhart, on 07/13/2008, -2/+14Why would anyone doubt it? It's just fog, it happens all the time. Cool shot though.
- ogre2112, on 07/13/2008, -0/+11Yea, buildings look a little too "polished"
- ha3er0, on 06/16/2009, -3/+14Rule#2: Don't call yourself hilarious. Specially when you are not! :)
- waydee, on 07/13/2008, -0/+11Dubai is a souless polished nightmare of a city, and thats if you're white. If you're Indian you'll be lucky to make it out alive.
- Maximilian000, on 07/13/2008, -0/+11oh, you must be one of the slaves. Back to work!!
- srt4b, on 07/13/2008, -2/+13Their economy is extremely diverse now, The uae has the third-largest non-oil GDP, behind Egypt and Morocco, as of 2005.
- Di0genes, on 07/13/2008, -0/+10Incidences of exploitation are usually illegal, if ignored by law enforcement historically. The problem is that the UAE is rather far away from a lot of the countries that it borrows labor from, and the money necessary for transportation, lodging, and the like are often (and illegally) loaned out to be paid back. Since wages are so paltry for unskilled labor in Dubai (though still attractive enough to procure the labor in the first place), it can take a worker years of back breaking work to free himself from the debt.
As a way to insure that debts do in fact get paid off, employers have been known to hold paychecks, papers, and even threaten violence until workers comply. There are also some rather unfair laws in Dubai that exist specifically to make life harder for the temporary worker. Immigrants cannot, for example, change jobs without permission from a former employer, and labor organization of any kind is illegal.
Southeast Asians are still compelled to work in Dubai by the prospect of upward economic mobility, despite its notoriously exploitative treatment of workers. Much to their credit, I think. The UAE has at least in recent years made efforts to reform labor laws, and things seem to be getting better. - NoDisk, on 07/13/2008, -2/+12This thread is an almost geometic model of comment politics.
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Quick, someone freeze this thread to preserve its precision! - MforMike, on 07/13/2008, -2/+12As someone who lives in Dubai, I can assure you its not as great as many of you believe it to be.
- Scaryclouds, on 07/13/2008, -1/+10@gambl0r
I think he's just retarded -
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