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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #25 on: January 31, 2011, 09:03:03 AM »
Somalia is full-on anarchy without anybody to enforce laws. Not quite libertarianism. 

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #26 on: January 31, 2011, 09:09:40 AM »
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8Dcxa3JBWAMJ:www.mrlevek.com/northkorea.htm+%3Ca%20href=

What a crap hole

But for many Western Academic types and other easily brain washed people, communism is/was something to strive for . . . their excuse for things like North Korea was that they just weren't doing it right.


this is like saying Somolia is an example of a properly functioning libertarian society. 

No, not really.

It's more like using the Nazis as an example of why capitalism doesn't work.

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #27 on: January 31, 2011, 09:11:19 AM »
let's keep this thread on topic of that ridiculous 100 story hotel that is now getting glass paneling but not insides to make it look less amazing.  I'm anti-glass panels fellas.  Do you think orphans live in it?  I do.

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #28 on: January 31, 2011, 11:06:37 AM »
let's keep this thread on topic of that ridiculous 100 story hotel that is now getting glass paneling but not insides to make it look less amazing.  I'm anti-glass panels fellas.  Do you think orphans live in it?  I do.

I'm betting there are pandas in there.  And I'm betting they are very smart.

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #29 on: January 31, 2011, 12:00:30 PM »
let's keep this thread on topic of that ridiculous 100 story hotel that is now getting glass paneling but not insides to make it look less amazing.  I'm anti-glass panels fellas.  Do you think orphans live in it?  I do.

I'm betting there are pandas in there.  And I'm betting they are very smart.

I would guess it is full of virgins and the top part is an escape pod for all of the Kim Song Jongs Ils in case they piss of the wrong country.

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #30 on: January 31, 2011, 03:06:37 PM »
The hotel thing is some kind of rocket ship full of pandas that are dumb and virgins.

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #31 on: February 04, 2011, 10:00:47 AM »
I think it is hilarious that anyone is worried about this country attacking anyone given they can't even finish a rough ridin' hotel.

I will say that the hotel looks elite.  However, who is going to stay there?  They don't let anyone in and the Russian d00d said that bikes are rare and expensive.

Put that hotel in vegas and you got a winner.  The penthouse levels were amazing looking.


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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #32 on: February 04, 2011, 10:15:44 AM »
I think it is hilarious that anyone is worried about this country attacking anyone given they can't even finish a rough ridin' hotel.

I will say that the hotel looks elite.  However, who is going to stay there?  They don't let anyone in and the Russian d00d said that bikes are rare and expensive.

Put that hotel in vegas and you got a winner.  The penthouse levels were amazing looking.



So you must also believe Iran with a nuke is no big deal.

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #33 on: February 04, 2011, 11:32:56 AM »
I think it is hilarious that anyone is worried about this country attacking anyone given they can't even finish a rough ridin' hotel.

I will say that the hotel looks elite.  However, who is going to stay there?  They don't let anyone in and the Russian d00d said that bikes are rare and expensive.

Put that hotel in vegas and you got a winner.  The penthouse levels were amazing looking.



So you must also believe Iran with a nuke is no big deal.

Iran has oil.  I imagine they would have no troub building a hotel.

Pfft.

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #34 on: February 08, 2011, 02:46:33 AM »
yeah, tons of people just begging for communism.

:lol:

When you've got nothing, use hyperbole.  Where did I say "tons of people"??   :ck:

To be fair, I think most people living in Detroit would jump at the chance to move there right now.

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #35 on: February 08, 2011, 09:55:40 AM »
yeah, tons of people just begging for communism.

:lol:

When you've got nothing, use hyperbole.  Where did I say "tons of people"??   :ck:

To be fair, I think most people living in Detroit would jump at the chance to move there right now.

Do you mean most people living in Detroit would jump at a chance to live in North Korea?  Because that is just dumb.

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #36 on: February 08, 2011, 10:07:47 AM »
NPR had a deal on Detroit yesterday.  Sid that 1 out of 2 adults are below a 6th grade literacy level.   :surprised: 

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #37 on: February 08, 2011, 10:27:36 AM »
People say a lot of things about Detroit that just aren't true.

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #38 on: February 08, 2011, 10:29:46 AM »
yeah, tons of people just begging for communism.

:lol:

When you've got nothing, use hyperbole.  Where did I say "tons of people"??   :ck:

To be fair, I think most people living in Detroit would jump at the chance to move there right now.

Why would they leave Detroit?  They get all sorts of free entitlements.  Isn't it the liberal utopia?

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #39 on: February 08, 2011, 11:00:47 AM »
People say a lot of things about Detroit that just aren't true.

I was in Detroit for work a couple times.  sd thoughts on Detroit: 
-nice baseball stadium
-new Northwest (Delta) airport termy is very nice
-lots of boats for sale
-everyone complains about houses for sale
-the lake is, like, huge.  bigger than you think from the air.  wow. 

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #40 on: February 08, 2011, 11:00:53 AM »
People say a lot of things about Detroit that just aren't true.

A vendor of mine offices out of a suburb immediately west of Detroit.  She told me last week that 80% of murders in Detroit are unsolved.   :surprised:  It came up while she was telling me that her neighbor killed his wife and kids two weeks ago.  :surprised:

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #41 on: February 08, 2011, 11:03:03 AM »
It came up while she was telling me that her neighbor killed his wife and kids two weeks ago.  :surprised:

well, she solved the eff out of that one :dunno:

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #42 on: February 08, 2011, 11:08:26 AM »
It came up while she was telling me that her neighbor killed his wife and kids two weeks ago.  :surprised:

well, she solved the eff out of that one :dunno:

Suburb to Detroit, not actually in Detroit.  It came up because she said that if he just took them into the city, odds are no one would have ever caught him, then he wouldn't have had to kill himself in their Wal-Mart parking lot. 


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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #43 on: February 08, 2011, 11:09:08 AM »
It came up while she was telling me that her neighbor killed his wife and kids two weeks ago.  :surprised:

well, she solved the eff out of that one :dunno:

looks like the 80% unsolved thing has been debunked now as well. next.
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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #44 on: February 08, 2011, 11:11:09 AM »
Is it true that I can buy a house in Detroit with loose change that I find in my couch?

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #45 on: February 08, 2011, 11:15:38 AM »
yeah, tons of people just begging for communism.

:lol:

When you've got nothing, use hyperbole.  Where did I say "tons of people"??   :ck:

To be fair, I think most people living in Detroit would jump at the chance to move there right now.
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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #46 on: February 08, 2011, 11:37:21 AM »
I don't like this thread any more.

1) People in Detroit don't want to move to N. Korea. Most people still in Detroit are there by choice.

2) People in Detroit can read.

3) "suburbs of Detroit" is dumb. Just say the name or just say Detroit metro.

4) "the unions" aren't like the only reason for the collapse of the big 4. The management was awful, the budgeting was awful, the product was awful for a number of years, the response to consumer demand was poor. "The unions" were a part of a poor strategic decision on the part of management. There are countless stories from machinists, tool and die shops, drafting shops, all of the specialized work that was outsourced by the Big 4 about the incredible mismanagement and overruns. Literally every shop had a "GM account" that they dumped losses on and GM did not care or notice. Ford for a quarter century measured their invoices with a pound scale.

5) the murder rate is bad, but that clearance rate is not accurate without a link pls

6) the opportunity in Detroit is/will be incredible. Hating on Detroit is passe. It is a Larry the Cable Guy joke. It is proudly and profoundly ignorant. The only thing that is nice about it is it keeps the fearful and ignorant driving to Branson. On the highway, in their car, too dumb to comprehend the irony.

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #47 on: February 08, 2011, 11:47:18 AM »
I agree on the oppy in Detroit.  Huge workforce just waiting for jobs.  Lots of cheap real estate for fabrication/manufacturing.  Lots of existing infrastructure for shipping.  Basically all it needs is money and someone with a good idea and balls.

Not hating, just repeating what I have heard recently.

As for reading:

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What is the functional illiteracy rate in Detroit?
47% of metro Detroiters are reportedly functional illiterate.

http://www.detroitliteracy.org/faq.htm

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #48 on: February 08, 2011, 11:51:53 AM »
I agree on the oppy in Detroit.  Huge workforce just waiting for jobs.  Lots of cheap real estate for fabrication/manufacturing.  Lots of existing infrastructure for shipping.  Basically all it needs is money and someone with a good idea and balls.

Not hating, just repeating what I have heard recently.

As for reading:

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What is the functional illiteracy rate in Detroit?
47% of metro Detroiters are reportedly functional illiterate.

http://www.detroitliteracy.org/faq.htm


Do we need to review your literacy?

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Re: Rare Photos of North Korea
« Reply #49 on: February 08, 2011, 12:00:53 PM »
47% is just shy of 1 out of 2.  Also, that is from a separate source.  I initially heard the stat on NPR yesterday.  I pulled the above stat off of a diff site. 

Again, not hating on what is obviously your beloved city, just repeating what I have heard recently.