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Dilbert_X wrote:

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

lol

China's hands ain't clean in regards to devaluing currency either though

You're funny.

youre not

Kmar wrote:

KuSTaV wrote:

http://www.businessinsider.com/giant-chinese-infrastructure-projects-2011-6?op=1

steady on, china

Its like they've just said 'fuck it, we'll do it all'.

It's hard to imagine a government sustaining that type of expansion indefinitely.

The state assisting businesses model worked well for Japan, for awhile. They had a pretty meteoric rise then stagnation. It's funny reading old articles from the 70's and 80's regarding Japan and how they were going to "overtake the West" and how " the 21st century will belong to Japan''. I'm sure the Chinese are smart enough to know the risk of their economic policy but then again
$760 MILLION: China Central TV Headquarters is a loop of six horizontal and vertical sections covering 1,551,837 ft.

Stuff like that won't give them an edge over the U.S., that's the sort of mismanagement that brings emerging economies down.


It's also ugly.

Last edited by Macbeth (2011-06-12 16:19:27)

Dilbert_X wrote:

11 Bravo wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

You're funny.

youre not

I'm not fat at least.

apple hipster?  wut?

Inb4 death threats.

Macbeth wrote:

Kmar wrote:

KuSTaV wrote:

http://www.businessinsider.com/giant-chinese-infrastructure-projects-2011-6?op=1

steady on, china

Its like they've just said 'fuck it, we'll do it all'.

It's hard to imagine a government sustaining that type of expansion indefinitely.

The state assisting businesses model worked well for Japan, for awhile. They had a pretty meteoric rise then stagnation. It's funny reading old articles from the 70's and 80's regarding Japan and how they were going to "overtake the West" and how " the 21st century will belong to Japan''. I'm sure the Chinese are smart enough to know the risk of their economic policy but then again
$760 MILLION: China Central TV Headquarters is a loop of six horizontal and vertical sections covering 1,551,837 ft.
http://static7.businessinsider.com/imag … 837-ft.jpg
Stuff like that won't give them an edge over the U.S., that's the sort of mismanagement that brings emerging economies down.


It's also ugly.

I remember seeing that from my hotel room and asking our guide "WTF is that thing?" (OK, I left out the 'TF' part). All I could think was how much it must've cost to build. However, one thing I noticed while there was the amount of construction that was going on--both major and minor--regardless of location. Beijing, Zhengzhou, and Guangzhou. In the countryside on the way to Shaolin. In the countryside outside of Beijing. Didn't matter. Don't know if it's a works program, or if there's really something behind it. I suspect the former...because there were also a lot of partially complete, empty buildings out in the middle of nowhere, as well.

Blue Herring wrote:

Macbeth wrote:

Vilham wrote:

God I fucking hate left wing people, they literally have no arguements, becuase it all revolves around captalism.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

sounds like you hate stupid people.

The sad thing is that the stupid people are the loudest and tend to control the discussion.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced a pilot program on Thursday that would allow private companies to run public schools in some of the state's chronically underperforming school districts.

The public-private partnership would authorize school management organizations to operate five schools, and would target some of the 100,000 New Jersey students now enrolled in 200 chronically failing schools, the governor's office said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/1 … 75262.html
Read the comments. /wince
I did not read a single comment that was worth the bandwidth. Maybe I'm overreacting, but my confidence in democracy and the likelihood of this country ever properly reforming itself is dies a little every time I read the comments on news articles.

I'm not seeing any comments but yeah, the Huffington Post community is terrible.

The idea itself seems somewhat interesting though I'm curious how it will improve school performance.

I didn't just mean HP. All of the big three political blogs ( drudge, hotair, HP) are infested with mouth breathers. Same with the CNN and Fox communities. If anything I have some respect for the HP community since they make an effort to get involved rather than just sling shit all the time. 

And this won't have an effect on the schools all that much. This is just another chapter in The Christie-NJEA war of 2010.

Read some of the comments on MSNBC.com

If you need some comic relief.

you won't need the muslim vote for a good 10 years or so. and that will only be in cities like new york, chicago and detroit. i would focus more concerned about the latino vote.

McCain.

This is funny to watch, I'm hoping Palin runs as an independent or something to give Tina Fey more material.

DesertFox- wrote:

I, for one, congratulate President Obama on his second term.

He ain't elected on his second term, yet.

13urnzz wrote:

War Man wrote:

DesertFox- wrote:

I, for one, congratulate President Obama on his second term.

He ain't elected on his second term, yet.

heh, you obviously didn't watch the debate last night . . .

Watched a bit of it. So what? Just a fucking Republican debate.

11 Bravo wrote:

13urnzz wrote:

War Man wrote:

He ain't elected on his second term, yet.

heh, you obviously didn't watch the debate last night . . .

lol wait until the dem debate.  should be fun.

okay . . . i'll bet you the beer of your choice there won't be any of 'dem' debates. the incumbent won't have any challengers and outside of TV ads you won't see obama until the convention.