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World's Tallest Building To Open Monday
dtmos writes "The Burj Dubai ('Dubai Tower' in Arabic) is scheduled to open to the public on Monday. Its height, claimed to be 824.55m (2,705.2 feet), but believed to be 818m (2,684 feet) — either way, more than half a mile — makes it far taller than Taiwan's Taipei 101, which had been the world's tallest skyscraper at 509m (1,670 feet)."
Wait a minute, building high-rises REDUCES the price of land? Sorry buddy, I'm not sure which alternate dimension you came from, but that doesn't happen in our shard of reality. Are you one of those "new urbanists" who think creating traffic jams is a great idea?
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
More than 4/5ths of a Kilometer too!
4/5 sounds more than 1/2. And Kilometers are the new metric system that everyone (except the USA - funny that) is adopting.
The first person to (successfully) BASE jump from this building is going to have serious bragging rights.
As a 49 year old feminist grandmother color me unimpressed. Dubai hasn't contributed anything to society, they've literally just found oil in the ground and there's no shame in that, but did they use it to educate their people? No of course not, they just spent year after year paying foreign technicians to do what they don't have the knowledge to do... build gigantic structures. The dictator behaves like a 6 year old kid in a toy store with a credit card from santa... no time for education, just another toy built by foreigners... just pay them to build it, don't pay them to teach our own illiterate population who hasn't made any contributions to science. Dubai resembles all that's what's wrong with humanity, the sooner they run out of oil and have to educate themselves or perish the better, fuck em.
Profane MuthaFucka is most certainly profane. But he is better than Republicans in that he is not a racist. Therefore, I am qualified to point it out.
Republicans, for some reason, are not ashamed to be called racists. They don't mind it at all. They'll actually stand there and argue with you about how signs depicting black people as monkeys aren't racist. It's not cute.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!