Disney World, not Disneyland.

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The stuff of nightmares, mon ami.

Next time my son asks me to take him to Disney World, I'll show him this video. That should bring his incessant requests to a grinding halt.

It's just a fisheye lens MG, you could change the lens and then it will lose its "lameness" neat technology though, there was a something similar at Disney World except that it was on like a rodeo horse ride or something. I remember it being pretty cool, even if I was surrounded by 200 sweaty people.

Using a dramatic combination of music, water and light, the Bellagio delivers spectacular performances with its majestic fountains.

Every evening, time briefly seems to stop in front of the Bellagio. Running every 15 minutes or every half-hour, depending on the time of year, the animated fountains are impossible to simply walk past. Cleverly orchestrated to a variety of songs -- from "One, Singular Sensation," featured on Broadway, to "Fly Me To The Moon," written by Bart Howard and made famous by Frank Sinatra -- the fountains appear to come to life with every note.

Spanning across the quarter-mile-long lake in front of the Bellagio, the free show generally lasts between five and 10 minutes. However, performances are hindered by inclement weather.

The fountains were created by WET Design, a Southern California firm responsible for other well-known displays of water and light, including the LeapFrog Fountain at Disney World's EPCOT, the Sky Rockets at Chicago's Navy Pier and the Universal CityWalk Fountain.

The $40 million Bellagio fountain show is equipped with 1,200 nozzles and 4,500 lights, making it the most expensive and ambitious water feature the company ever has done.

The Bellagio fountains have been made famous through appearances on the silver screen. The fountains were most notably highlighted in the remake of "Ocean's Eleven," starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts.

To complement the fountain design, provided by WET Design's Claire Kahn, the Bellagio brought in outside professionals to develop the show, including composer/conductor Gerard Schurmann ("Lawrence of Arabia") and choreographer Kenny Ortega ("Dirty Dancing").

The range of movement across the lake is varied; some of the movement is continuous, responding to the smooth passages of music, while other water jets are rapidly pulsing, reaching heights as high as 240 feet.

With a wide array of musical selections and choreography, you could easily sit in front of the fountains all night and never see the same performance twice. Even those in passing cars on the Strip feel compelled to pull to the side and take in the show.

-- Review by Noelani Jones

http://www.bellagio.com/pages/attrac_highfountain_noflash.asp#

Let's admit that both conflicts suffer from a distinct lack of understanding of the situation on the ground. Being South East Asia and Iraq. Bush Snr. knew this back in 1991, and halted at the border of Kuwait. Overthrowing Saddam then would have been easier but would still lead to the Sunni, Shiite and Kurd problems we see today in Iraq.

Actively sending more troops into the region would only make the arab population think that this is a larger scale invasion force. It doesn't help that mentions of going after Syria and Iran were at least alluded to by the administration to the press. This would only make Sunni, Shiite, terrorist resistance join together against the foreign invader that is the US. Iran could step in and again we have a worse situation then before.

Furthermore blanket force increases would not translate to a increased security baseline as you mention, this is a different war then the US army has been training for. It would only become even more entrenched and we'd have the equivalent of what the Russians faces against the Chechen rebels. The larger force presence would just mean the population would feel even more like its American imperialism. The Vietnam war could have been won by the US by further drafts and increases in forces, but it would have cost America alot of credibility internationally as a gung-ho state.

I think the disadvantages of sending more troops are just as bad as the disadvantages of pulling out. There needs to be a radical change in the way the administration deals with it, concessions will have to be made internationally. If it becomes a humanitarian crisis then it's easier to drag the rest of the UN in, with the US. Disruption of oil markets? I don't think so considering the supply has been stable since the war has began, the price movements being only speculative on possible supply shortages.

It's clear that going at it alone would only make the US suffer more.

And Empire, wake up to the real world from your Disney world reality. We can all make normative statements that this good and that is bad but clearly that is not what drives real world events, ++ for Scotishmartialart's comment.

This song is coming up on 10 years old now, which puts it pre-Dubya - but one could argue it's taken on a completely different meaning now.

Bowie, then:
"It's not as truly hostile about Americans as say 'Born in the USA': it's merely sardonic. I was traveling in Java when the first McDonalds went up: it was like, 'for fuck's sake.' The invasion by any homogenized culture is so depressing, the erection of another Disney World in, say, Umbria, Italy, more so. It strangles the indigenous culture and narrows expression of life."