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Dubai Is Building a Refrigerated Beach
dataxtream writes "The world's first refrigerated beach is to be built at a luxury hotel in Dubai, located along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf. The beach will include heat-absorbing pipes under the sand along with large wind blowers, which will keep tourists cool and guard their feet against the hot sand. Half of me says these guys need a reality check, the other half wants to go there." I believe I've just thought of a way we could solve this whole global warming thing I've been hearing about.
"second, if the Netherlands wants a skating surface (I'll assume you meant rink) outside, it wouldn't take any electricity, unless they used electricity to clean the snow and smooth the surface. The Netherlands is quite far north you know. More north than all of the Great Lakes. (assuming a seasonal rink, which is only logical)"
Jezus, telling me what weather we are having, you cannot get much more stupid than that. Yes, we are well North, but winds are normally from the south west. And we are living in a soft sea climate.
The last time we had a good winter was years and years ago. Most skating groups have already stopped. Yes, we're rather far north, so this says a lot. We've had some wet snow this year, but Christmas is likely to have a 10 degree Celsius rating during the day.
But if you think that getting water hot in Dubai is a problem, well, I'm already arguing with a total and complete twat, aren't I? Think desalination plant. Check your brain and your sources before arguing.
The world is in a global depression because everybody's listened to Milton Friedman (Pinochet's best buddy), and it turns out the creep was just completely bonkers; even 'bubbles' Greenspan admits it.
Turns out that traders are as useless as they seem to be, that the whole finance system is just a collection of Ponzi schemes.
This has'nt got much to do with central banking, because here those banks that failed (Lehman and friends) were creating money (borderline illegally), through what the bozos called "leveraging."