Nah. I am saying that instead of letting private interest make money off a limited resource we should let people benefite from it. Like in Norway.
Just look what can be done with such money. Much more constructive projects could be done for society with such riches.
Maybe, but then I would get the chance to start a thread about high tech clouds.
I would prefere high tech socialists.
But then environmentalist would copmplain that all this high-tech socialism is creating too much waste and destroying the environment.
High tech socialist is green!
Nah. I am saying that instead of letting private interest make money off a limited resource we should let people benefite from it. Like in Norway.
Just look what can be done with such money. Much more constructive projects could be done for society with such riches.
The people are benefiting. The clouds provide shade. It's hot there. Shade is good when it's hot and it protects you from the benevolent sun's rays of cancer-y doom.
How they qualify as 'air conditioning' - as the nation promised in its bid - I have no idea, but they're still pretty cool. Heh, 'cool'. I'm so funny.
Meh. Instead of investing in soccer stadiums and artificial clouds, investing in schools and social programs will do more good to people.
YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH.
What?
Is somebody saying that one shouldn't be allowed to spend wealth that one has earned because someone else has decided it would be better spent elsewhere?
Wait...
What?
Is somebody saying that one shouldn't be allowed to spend wealth that one has earned because someone else has decided it would be better spent elsewhere?
Those are people put into power by the western world to asure stability so we could pump oil without giving the people who actually live above the oil their fair share to imporve their quality of life. So yeah, they have earned nothing.
I most also add that this is royalty so they are born rich, they haven't earned anything.
I believe the articles below completely refute what you just said.
What you just said is your own opinion formed of ignorance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar
www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5437.htm
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-wor... (click on Economy and then scroll down to Poverty %)
Sure, there are poor people everywhere, but I don't think the Qataris are suffering.
The entire country enjoys the wealth of the nation, and there is no evidence that the leaders of Qatar are Western puppets put there by the Evil Capitailist Conservative Nazi War-Mongers so they could plunder the wealth of the nation, pollute the environment of Qatar, and make the people slaves.
Sorry, no evidence of that.
I know how terribly sad and dis-heartened that makes some of you. It would just be so much easier if there was evidence of this, I know, but there just isn't.
So did you read what you linked?
Like I said, this is a monarchy (not a democraty), the Brits put the royal family in power. Now If I am not mistaken those aren't conditions for proper free market capitalist environment you are willing to die for. No?
Do you think it is a favorable environment for the elite in power to put all the money it can in it's pocket since no counter power exist to denounce such abuse? Do you think the US would have more poor people would if no elections were held and only the GoP was in power?
And check the povrety line. It says NA%.
"Qatar has been ruled as an absolute monarchy by the al-Thani family since the mid-19th century and has since transformed itself from a British protectorate noted mainly for pearling into an independent state reliant on enormous oil and natural gas revenues. In 1995, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani became Emir when he seized power from his father in a peaceful coup d'état.[7]
Qatar has the world's largest per capita production and proven reserves of both oil and natural gas. In 2010, Qatar had the world's highest GDP per capita, while the economy grew by 19.40%, the fastest in the world. Qatar has the highest human development in the Arab world after the United Arab Emirates."
"Oil and gas have made Qatar the second highest per-capita income country – following Liechtenstein – and one of the world's fastest growing."
"Now the country has a high standard of living, with many social services offered to its citizens and all the amenities of any modern state."
"Qataris’ wealth and standard of living compare well with those of Western European states; Qatar has the highest GDP per capita in the Arab World according to the International Monetary Fund (2006)[19] and the second highest GDP per capita in the world according to the CIA World Factbook.[13] With no income tax, Qatar, along with Bahrain, is one of the countries with the lowest tax rates in the world."
"In recent years Qatar has placed great emphasis on education. Citizens are required to attend government-provided education from kindergarten through high school. "
This is just from the Wiki article.
Again, it seems to refute the opinion you posted previously.
... not really sure what you guys are arguing, but it doesn't sound like a very nice place, however rich it may be.
Meh. Instead of investing in soccer stadiums and artificial clouds, investing in schools and social programs will do more good to people.
Not if you want to host the World Cup it won't.
And you're talking about Qatar like it's Nigeria. Let's be real, here. Some oil countries take all of the money and give the people none. Others do not. If we want to get into Sharia law and human rights stuff, that's a very different kettle of fish than how much money the people make off of the resources they're sitting on. Is Qatar a nice place? I dunno but likely not. Does Qatar take all of the oil money solely for those in power? No. Very different questions.
I'm curious what they will be using to power these flying clouds. What are they going to do if one of them goes out of control and flies off or falls?
Hopefully radioactive hamsters running in carbon fiber hamster wheels. And if they fall, the people will be too busy goin' 'aww, how cute!' and 'damn, them 'sters got some high tech wheels' to notice that they're either about to be crushed by technology or irradiated by cuddly rodents. Win-win.
I'm curious what they will be using to power these flying clouds. What are they going to do if one of them goes out of control and flies off or falls?
Hopefully radioactive hamsters running in carbon fiber hamster wheels. And if they fall, the people will be too busy goin' 'aww, how cute!' and 'damn, them 'sters got some high tech wheels' to notice that they're either about to be crushed by technology or irradiated by cuddly rodents. Win-win.
I approve of this.
I'm curious what they will be using to power these flying clouds. What are they going to do if one of them goes out of control and flies off or falls?
Viewer ratings will sky-rocket, I think.
We should boycut any sports event held in a none democratic country!
Agreed! Damn the commie bastards!
You are less fun then RH.
I'm ... sorry?
We should boycut any sports event held in a none democratic country!
Agreed! Damn the commie bastards!You are less fun then RH.
I'm ... sorry?
You should be.
I'll simply take that as a compliment... of sorts... I suppose...
sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/dirty-tackl...
Sounds like a great invention for farming in all those unused lands of the saharra, etc ...
I'm curious what they will be using to power these flying clouds.
solar power, I recon.
(if the sun shines, it can work. if the sun doesn't shine, it doesn't need to work)
We should boycut any sports event held in a none democratic country!
Qatar isn't really lying awake from the money they could lose from a boycot, I recon
solar power, I recon.
(if the sun shines, it can work. if the sun doesn't shine, it doesn't need to work)
I don't know how much a country that gets its money from oil wants to demonstrate the possibilities of using alternative fuel sources. I would think they would want to have it powered by oil. Besides, what are the chances that they will actually use this tech outside of stadiums. Ther emay be problems with it's use around cities or even farmlands. Even if these high-tech clouds don't come crashing down, they do create air traffic that has to be accounted for by other flying vehicles such as helicopters and airplanes. Quatar gets a lot of international business, and it is safe to assume they have many flights comming in. It may be a problem to have these clouds floating around other places. the stadium isn't that big. It is also very limited in where the cloud would be.