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    Image of GuardianOfChaos GuardianOfChaos
    04:05 AM

    In reply to Actors Reprise Their Iconic Roles, Without Costumes
    Lawrence Fishburne's makes me feel like I'm meeting my girlfriend's father for the first time and I accidentally dinged his prize mustang on the way in.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/04/09

    In reply to Futuristic Buildings Dubai Will Never See
    Proof that every cloud has a silver lining -- sure, the world economy's screwed, but at least Dubai will stop polluting and exploiting so much.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    12/04/09

    In reply to Futuristic Buildings Dubai Will Never See
    Well, at least when the entire civilization of the planet is wiped out and aliens find the concept art of our architecture, they will at least think we were pretty awesome.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    12/04/09

    In reply to Futuristic Buildings Dubai Will Never See
    I want only to live long enough to see Dubai in 100 years...when there is no oil and the desert takes it's own back.
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    Image of Faustroll Faustroll
    12/04/09

    @goldfarb: 100 years? Try 10. 20 tops. Just look at sections of Detroit, overgrown with weeds and trees or the towns around Chernobyl, reduced to ruins in just two decades. Dubai, as said, is just desert. A few good-sized sandstorms would scour that place from the face of the Earth in just a few years.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    12/04/09

    @goldfarb: it would make one epic game of manhunt.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    12/04/09

    @Faustroll: I mean when it's no longer a viable place to live (when the $$$ runs out) and everyone leaves...
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    Image of Faustroll Faustroll
    12/04/09

    @goldfarb: I still don't see that taking more than 20 years, tops.
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    Image of lazyeight lazyeight
    12/04/09

    In reply to Futuristic Buildings Dubai Will Never See
    A bit of a shame. The epic projects they had going were cool looking, especially the peninsulas (Palm Jamirah) and 'the world' islands. Been a while since things on that scale were built. At least on your planet.
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    Image of Faustroll Faustroll
    12/04/09

    @lazyeight: Yeah, too bad they were poisoning the water and built with slave labor. But at least they looked cool.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    12/04/09

    In reply to Futuristic Buildings Dubai Will Never See
    So goodbye Dubai gold road
    Where the dogs of finance howl
    You can't build up spinning hotels
    I'm going back to my plough
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/04/09

    In reply to Futuristic Buildings Dubai Will Never See
    Ah... the vagaries of the financial market. When will people learn that moderation is the key to long-term success?
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    12/04/09

    @Roklimber:
    Eating too, but try telling them at the nearest Chinese Buffet or Costco.
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    12/04/09

    @Roklimber:
    Screw moderation. The banks will keep giving low interesst loans and never fold... what they did? When?
    Nevermind, my bad
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    12/04/09

    @Roklimber: Screw long term, I want to eat (and shit) gold now!
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    Image of DraconisXC DraconisXC
    12/04/09

    @ManchuCandidate: SIR. SIR. You can take my guns, but you will never take my All-You-Can-Eat Chinese Buffet. That's my right as an AMURICAN.
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    12/04/09

    @Roklimber: *Diversification* is the key to long-term success.

    Bubbles are natural occurrences-- it's just that only diversified economies can weather them when they occur.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    12/04/09

    @Roklimber: I vote for lots and lots of moderation.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/04/09

    @Daveinva:

    "Bubbles are natural occurrences"

    I'm not sure that's true. In my admittedly non-professional opinion, bubbles wouldn't occur with moderation in place.

    Having said that, I agree that diversification allows people and institutions to adapt more quickly to the ups and downs of the market.
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    Image of birdtongue birdtongue
    12/04/09

    @Roklimber:
    whoa, whoa, whoa . you guys are completely ignoring the fact that these buildings look awesome. focus on the important things, people.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/04/09

    @birdtongue: That the buildings look awesome is obvious. I was going for a different angle. :)
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    12/04/09

    @Daveinva:
    But I thought the Invisible Hand aka "the 'free' market" was perfect and incapable of making a mistake?
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    12/04/09

    @Roklimber: bubbles aren't just natural, they're necessary. when a new product or service enters the market how does anyone know what it costs? bubbles are the logical conclusion to a product gradually increasing in price over time as people begin to reguard it as increasingly valuable. once the trend starts it's difficult to get the price to come back down again. how does the market know when to stop rasing the price and keep it steady? it doesn't it just keeps climbing past equlibrium and to the lags inherient in the system doesn't get price corrected until it's significantly overvalued i.e. a bubble.

    the obnoxious thing about it is that, because of generational differences and human psychology, this happens with a lot of products that aren't new. credit markets have gone through this cycle every 30ish years like clockwork with occasional smaller bubbles poping inbetween the really big ones.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/04/09

    @tetracycloide:

    Ok, I defer to your analysis. Truth be told, I know next to nothing about economic theory, but what you just said makes sense.
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    Image of n3onkn1ght n3onkn1ght
    12/04/09

    @Roklimber: The people we're talking never think ahead of the next Fiscal Year.

    Unless they're talking the gold plated toilet they hope to have installed by 2015.
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    Roklimber promoted this comment n3onkn1ght was starred n3onkn1ght was unstarred
    Image of Chip Skylark of Space Chip Skylark of Space
    12/04/09

    In reply to Seafaring "Space Station" Could Ride the Oceans
    Looks like something I would have drawn in junior high. That was a long time ago, and I've moved on.
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    Image of Dorilys Dorilys
    12/04/09

    In reply to Actors Reprise Their Iconic Roles, Without Costumes
    I'm creeped out by Daniel Radcliff's v-neck shirt.
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    12/04/09

    @Dorilys: me too... glad i wasn't the only one
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    12/03/09

    In reply to The Designer Who Creates the User Interfaces of the Future
    I know they use the Hollywood Operating System for copyright reasons, but it still makes me twitch when I see it.
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    12/03/09

    In reply to Actors Reprise Their Iconic Roles, Without Costumes
    damn you Sam Neil. you're classier than Jeff Goldblum (Damn him!) when you fight dinosaurs!

    seriously, it looks like he's about to tell me to drink a Zima or something.....
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    12/03/09

    In reply to Bizarre Re-interpretations of Star Wars in Art from Dagobah to the Death Star
    The 501st New England Garrison trooped the opening of this.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    12/03/09

    In reply to Bizarre Re-interpretations of Star Wars in Art from Dagobah to the Death Star
    Coz i'm Ewok
    Ewok like a Sunday Icecream
    Yeah i'm Ewok
    Ewok like a Sunday Icecream
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    12/03/09

    In reply to Actors Reprise Their Iconic Roles, Without Costumes
    Well played Empire magazine, I now want to own this issue.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/03/09

    In reply to Bizarre Re-interpretations of Star Wars in Art from Dagobah to the Death Star
    I really like this one too.
    Stupid edit ate the picture, see below...
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    Edited by Ruthless, If you let me at 12/03/09 3:53 PM Ruthless, If you let me was starred Ruthless, If you let me was unstarred
    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/03/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me:
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