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2007-08-07 Arabia

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-08-07 08:08|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Achievement:

You can do anything you set your mind to when you have vision, determination, and an endless supply of cheap, expendable labor.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-08-07 08:45|| 2007-08-07 08:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Certainly an attractive enough target for almost any group seeking its 15 minutes of media frenzy....

Posted by RWV 2007-08-07 08:48|| 2007-08-07 08:48|| Front Page Top

#3 The wise man built his house on a rock. The foolish man built his on sand....

The History Chan or Geographic (I forget which) recently had an article about building big in that country. It seems they didn't hit bedrock after 1500 feet of building for some high bldging our other so they just pounded zillions of 100 ft piers into the seabed then made a cement cap and an island around the cap. One good quake and its domino time.

Posted by 3dc 2007-08-07 09:56|| 2007-08-07 09:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Yet more commentary on the noble followers of Allan and the Raisins. Slimebags + oil money = still slimebags.

Posted by OyVey1 2007-08-07 11:32|| 2007-08-07 11:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Taken cumulatively, the condition of the Pakistani, Indian, Sri-Lankan and Bangladeshi workers who make projects such as Burj Dubai possible expose the ugliest and most repugnant face of supposed progress in the Gulf States.

Ummm ... no. That "honor" belongs to the persistence of shari'a law but far be it from any editorWestern or notto point out such a glaring fact.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-07 14:31|| 2007-08-07 14:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Lets be sure they let us put a couple nice big radars on top of that puppy. Probably have a hell of a horizon.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-08-07 16:43|| 2007-08-07 16:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Do you think it'll be rigid enough to be a good mount for a phased-array radar?

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-08-07 16:47|| 2007-08-07 16:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Minor quibble with Ms. Zakaria: current thinking is that the pharaonic workers were not slaves, but free men working during agricultural slack periods and permanent tradesmen living in their own towns. There have been numerous examples of graffiti found indicating pride of accomplishment in the work squads.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-08-07 16:58|| 2007-08-07 16:58|| Front Page Top

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