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Title: Burj Al Arab Dubai - World's Most Luxurious 7* Hotel
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URL Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5j27CrqrgI
Published: Apr 26, 2020
Author: GC Privé | Private Office
Post Date: 2020-04-26 01:06:23 by NeoconsNailed
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Views: 1922
Comments: 18

The distinctive sail-shaped silhouette of Burj Al Arab is more than just a stunning hotel, it is a symbol of modern Dubai.
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There are lots of great "how they did it" videos, yeah, but this planning and construction process show is just astounding. AS THE BURJ AL ARAB WAS BUILT, thirtysomething English architects designed it and solved massive problems while others engineered and decorated it etc.
It's the tallest and most luxurious hotel in the world, not the Burj Khalifa - - and sheesh, it took gumption!
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#1. To: NeoconsNailed (#0)
I'll watch it in segments, but only eight minutes has me hooked on this amazing project. Thank you.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Lod posted on 2020-04-26 9:28:19 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#2. To: Lod (#1)
Glad it's of interest. I don't actually like the bldg, speshly with its final garish inside decor, but what a saga!
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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-26 9:35:28 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#3. To: NeoconsNailed (#0)
BURJ AL ARAB

en.wikipedia.org/wiki /Burj_Al_Arab
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-04-26 10:15:12 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#4. To: NeoconsNailed (#2)
They are sand-niggers.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Lod posted on 2020-04-26 12:15:30 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#5. To: NeoconsNailed (#0)
When the gold comes out of the ground, you can hire the talent to build anything - marketing the space is another story.
Most of these places have more empty suites than could be sold in a really competitive environment.
'Take the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It’s impressive at 828 metres tall, but nearly a third of that (29%) is unoccupiable, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. The Burj al Arab, also in Dubai, is much worse in this respect, with 39% of the entire building unusable. In fact, Dubai has five towers listed as the tallest buildings in “vanity height” – unusable height for the sake of it. Across these five, some 31% of total space is completely wasted."
www.theguardian.com/citie...eb/03/skyscrapers-vanity- height-graphics-numbers

randge posted on 2020-04-26 12:28:07 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#6. To: BTP Holdings (#3)
I really don't see how that restaurant can go on clinging to the bldg forever. Think of them deciding to add it in mid-project! Via google maps. looks like they've added a huge fishtail to the island with 2 humongous swimming pools.
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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-26 13:46:21 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#7. To: Lod (#4)
Or are we dirt- and grass-niggers? They've never nuked anybody.
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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-26 13:47:52 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#8. To: randge (#5)
Isn't that disgusting -- and no surprise. The WTC became a white elephant and I don't know if it was ever fully occupied, one of the alleged reasons they did 9/11 (lucky Larry!). It's nothing new either. My ancestors built this textbook case of overreach
en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/Rosewell_(plantation)
BTW, does your Guardian link above work for you? Not for me, but I googled the article. Anybody else?
Most big ideas are disastrous -- ever noticed? ;)
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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-26 14:01:21 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#9. To: NeoconsNailed (#8)
Everybody with dough wants to build the tallest. It's like who's got the biggest swingin'?
Can't get that stupid link to work. Sorry. :- (

randge posted on 2020-04-26 14:35:51 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#10. To: randge, Pinguinite (#9)
THANKS FOR REPORTING. So it's not just an NN problem. Pinguinite, will you please consider changing it so the entire hyperlink appears at all times? This will enable another very valuable thing -- quickly copying complete URLs, no matter how old or even obsolete. I'm constantly doing such for various purposes.
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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-26 14:56:14 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#11. To: NeoconsNailed, randge (#10)
Pinguinite, will you please consider changing it so the entire hyperlink appears at all times? This will enable another very valuable thing -- quickly copying complete URLs, no matter how old or even obsolete.

The problem with that is some very long URLs forcibly extend the page borders left/right and then scrolling left/right is required to read everything on the page.
But even when the readable URL is shorted with the "..." in the middle, the entire URL is still copyable, or should be, by right clicking on the URL and selecting "copy link". I clicked on URL and it appeared to work fine. That can happen even if the whole URL is not readable.

Pinguinite posted on 2020-04-26 20:17:40 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#12. To: Pinguinite (#11)
Doesn't happen to be true with randge's above -- it's not a long URL, and right clicking it I can only copy the red part.
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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-26 20:30:50 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#13. To: Lod, Donnell of Dubai (#4)
They are sand-niggers.

Yes indeed.

Donnell of Dubai

Ron Paul - Lake Jackson Texas Values
hondo68 posted on 2020-04-26 20:32:39 ET (1 image) Reply Trace Private Reply
#14. To: Pinguinite, NN, randge, 4um (#11)
I believe that the request was to make the auto linking automatic with Preview just like it is when posting with source.
Please make it simple and automatic.
I'll mail you 50USD when you do that code work, thank you 4um
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Lod posted on 2020-04-26 20:35:54 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#15. To: randge, All (#14)
Get this -- the Shanghai Tower was supposed to be the ultimate skyscraper, but is a failure from every possible economic measure. Dummies!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgkgBZfLu2I
(6 min)
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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-28 0:25:56 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#16. To: Lod (#14)
I'll mail you 50USD when you do that code work, thank you 4um

Thank you very much, Lod. I'll take you up on that. I am a bit busy lately (being a telecommuter during a lockdown has it's advantages).

Pinguinite posted on 2020-04-29 16:24:30 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#17. To: Pinguinite (#16)
I'll send you 200 if you get us fully WYSIWIG.
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USA! USA! USA! Bringing you democracy, or else! there were strains of VD that were incurable, and they were first found in the Philippines and then transmitted to the Korean working girls via US military. The 'incurables' we were told were first taken back to a military hospital in the Philippines to quietly die. – 4um
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-04-29 16:32:07 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#18. To: NeoconsNailed (#17)
I'll send you 200 if you get us fully WYSIWIG.

That's a tall order. I appreciate it, but the problem is that this software is about the same age now as a high school grad. And my web development skills are about as old.
This site is perl CGI powered, which is reasonably obsolete, as the current standard which offers that kind of fanciness is PHP, which is web development software that requires rather sophisticated software to create. PERL CGI can be made with any basic text editor like notepad on windows. PHP has largely taken over the web development market, and with it, has developed in a rather sophisticated manner. And I've not followed suit with web development.
My impression, right now as I type, is that a WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get" for all you others reading this) text entry interface would probably most properly be done with a complete, modernizing web site rewrite. Not that that's out of the question as even that could be done, but it would be an expense of time & effort that would have to be covered by someone somewhere, and to do it right, I'd likely not be the best person to hire.
I may be a little bit wrong in that maybe there is some kind of self- contained WYSIWYG HTML/Java interface that could be packaged up inside of the current software, but I'd bet even money against such a solution, if it exists, being feasible.
Though it's older software, it's pretty simple to use, and as is clearly becoming a stronger plus these days, is advertisement free!
But.... if there might be serious interest contributing to give 4um a modernized facelift, then it could certainly be done. It could be outsourced to a PHP developer on the other side of the planet for maybe 10-15 bucks per hour. How many hours would it take? Great question.

Pinguinite posted on 2020-04-29 20:35:30 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
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