Dubai - what is happening
Oct 12th 2015, 8:36 am
#121
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Re: Dubai - what is happening
err well
fact : a bid for a major security overhaul project for the AD guys was told 'thankyou but we dont have the money we are at war right now'
it took 4 weeks just to make the bid so it wasnt small chips and the bidding people were approached by them to start with
fact : a bid for a major security overhaul project for the AD guys was told 'thankyou but we dont have the money we are at war right now'
it took 4 weeks just to make the bid so it wasnt small chips and the bidding people were approached by them to start with
Oct 12th 2015, 12:48 pm
#122
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Re: Dubai - what is happening
Not so much the countries but the individuals. I've been writing for a regional bank recently and there has certainly been an increase in GCC nationals buying in more secure, developed property markets such as London.
Oct 13th 2015, 7:14 am
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Re: Dubai - what is happening
err well
fact : a bid for a major security overhaul project for the AD guys was told 'thankyou but we dont have the money we are at war right now'
it took 4 weeks just to make the bid so it wasnt small chips and the bidding people were approached by them to start with
fact : a bid for a major security overhaul project for the AD guys was told 'thankyou but we dont have the money we are at war right now'
it took 4 weeks just to make the bid so it wasnt small chips and the bidding people were approached by them to start with
Oct 13th 2015, 8:40 am
#124
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Re: Dubai - what is happening
oh no, it was important enough allright
its the money mate, there is none
its the money mate, there is none
Oct 13th 2015, 10:39 am
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Re: Dubai - what is happening
Oct 13th 2015, 2:18 pm
#126
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Re: Dubai - what is happening
Good luck!
Oct 14th 2015, 3:21 pm
#128
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Re: Dubai - what is happening
ofcourse it will be completed before 2020, just like everything else
Oct 14th 2015, 7:16 pm
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Re: Dubai - what is happening
A train at the speed of sound... hummm.
Oct 15th 2015, 9:02 am
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Re: Dubai - what is happening
"one of the world's pre-eminant engineering brains, the idea could be a possibility." Eminant? Is that a cross between Emirati and eminent? "could be a possibility"... double potential: does that make it twice as likely, or twice as unlikely? And the names involved read like something from a Douglas Adams script: Fortune (ok, he's just the dumb hack), Diamandis, Brogan Bambrogan, Elon Musk, Dirk Ahlborn... Then there's the hyperbole, non-sequitors and nonsense: mobile telecoms reinventing the world many times over; "You are completely managed by a computer - there is no human factor, which is the most common cause of accidents like this." (nobody mentioned accidents); coast in a frictionless environment (so the pumps are going to create a vacuum--really? And I doubt the train's going to coast...). I worked on the first operational maglev project, in Germany. Was interesting.
