we're definitely not shrinking the military. It's just that a lot of the money gets shunted over to the private contractors. more than what goes to the troops themselves probably. The contractors get to buy homes in Dubai, while the troops themselves are stuck in the trenches.

Probably because EA isn't allowed to use slave labor, unlike the companies that built Dubai.

I used to live in Dubai.. Great place except for the whole Islam part.

@oritteropo, split dubai into a separate tag.

The U.A.E. are fans of excess, control, and psychosis passed down for many generations. May Dubai burn in my lifetime.

Dubai will serve the failed future as testament to the ridiculous impracticality and excess cascading into the failure once again, of humanity's insanity.

All for a 40 days and 40 night sandstorm of biblical proportions to completely cover Dubai up to the first observation level of this ugly monument to engineering waste and the complete failure of the United Arab Emirates to approach the pace of the 21st century.

May Dubai disappear in my lifetime.

Dubai is amazing. End of.

>> ^Yogi:

It's an eco-disaster? I wouldn't think it could be that bad seeing as it's in a horrible wasteland of a desert. It makes sense it would harm the ocean near it though. I was more concerned as you said about the human rights aspect and the slave labor used to build it.


Wastelands are a result of an imbalance in a biosphere. They are usually a result of human interaction within an ecosystem, or occasionally large asteroids/meteors. Deserts are not wastelands, they have some of the most diverse and adaptive lifeforms on the planet.

Yes, fucking up a desert is still considered causing an Eco-disaster.

As for the slave labor... 95% of our goods in North America are from sweat shops over seas. Who are we to pass judgment on ethical practices overseas when we endorse those same practices in every consumer product we purchase?

There is a good reason I find it harder to sleep as each new night approaches.

Edit: dammit that made me bitter. It's a good video of people having fun.

>> ^EMPIRE:

Dubai is such a fucking eco-disaster (and also human rights disaster, considering the conditions and pay most construction workers have over there), but at the same time, it also like humans are shaking their angry fists at nature, shouting: "Damn you nature! We will have what we want, when and where we want to". And that's kinda cool I guess.
edit: also, I'm playing Spec Ops: The line so....


It's an eco-disaster? I wouldn't think it could be that bad seeing as it's in a horrible wasteland of a desert. It makes sense it would harm the ocean near it though. I was more concerned as you said about the human rights aspect and the slave labor used to build it.

Dubai is such a fucking eco-disaster (and also human rights disaster, considering the conditions and pay most construction workers have over there), but at the same time, it also like humans are shaking their angry fists at nature, shouting: "Damn you nature! We will have what we want, when and where we want to". And that's kinda cool I guess.

edit: also, I'm playing Spec Ops: The line so....

gwiz!

>> ^gwiz665:

Diablo III?

Hope they are teaching him Mandarin and Cantonese as well! Later, a double degree in International Economics and Finance straight to a masters of Finance, investment management. 22 yrs old and playing ping pong in Dubai.

>> ^Hybrid:

promote Dubai
Note: Its official name is the Burj Khalifa


Thanks! I changed the video info to reflect this...

*promote Dubai

Note: Its official name is the Burj Khalifa