Dubai and Ski Dubai

Where's the tallest building in the world? It should come as no surprise that it's in the realm of Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and unlikely poster boy for globalization. When the Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower) is completed next year, the 160-plus-story spire of offices and luxury apartments will be the latest jewel in the impressive crown that Sheik Mohammed, 58, has been steadily assembling for a quarter-century.

Working first as a deputy to his father, the late Sheik Rashid, and since 2006 ruling the country on his own, Sheik Mo (as some of his subjects fondly call him) has transformed the petroleum-poor desert emirate into a major global hub for business, finance, trade and tourism. Sheik Mo has made Dubai an internationally recognized synonym for success in a Middle East that has been plagued by war, civil discontent and religious extremism.

His pursuit of excellence extends from business to sports: a champion equestrian, Sheik Mo owns leading stud farms and hosts the world's richest horse race. And it has made him a role model for a new generation of Arab leaders. Last year he set up the Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum Foundation with a $10 billion endowment; it aims to inspire knowledge, ideas and innovation among the builders of tomorrow's Arab world. Dubai's visionary wants young Arab minds, too, to reach for the skies.

Dubai and its excessiveness like having an indoor ski slope in the desert is the same reason why we will not have REAL skiing in REAL mountains one day. Its things like this that contribute to global warming. This planet wast just NOT meant to have skiing in some places, golf courses and massive air conditioned buildings in the desert. I dont even want to know how much energy that ski resort wastes. And for what? So some tourist can say, OMGZ I went skiing indoors on my vacation! The skiing will be shit anyways.

I personally will never go to Dubai, because I do not support the idea. Anyways, thats my rant. 

not even remotely funny.

welll maybe someone could find it funny if they were a prejudice dumbass, also living in the past who thinks everyone's parents meet their feonce after a wedding preposal.

I love this guy, saying all this shit about our oil when his home country are blowing people up in Iraq BECAUSE of oil. And seriously, do you really think a rich oil arab is going to look at this thread and go, oh shit, ive done the wrong thing, we must stop, i mean hey is a rich oil arab guy gona look at this forum any? NO. Does anyone esle on this forum care about the shit your talking about, NO. Ok back to the skiing, yeah they have a bigger kicker a bit further up after the quater pipe but there are not any pics of it, and yeah someone hit the roof when pretty much straightlining it from the top and hitting it, broke afew ribs or something like that i think.

Hé we pay like 11 dollar a gallon (1.55 euro for a liter) so 4 dollar is nothing...

"Oil and gas production has been the mainstay of the economy in the UAE and will remain a major revenue earner long into the future, due to the vast hydrocarbon reserves at the country’s disposal. Proven recoverable oil reserves are currently put at 98.2 billion barrels or 9.5 percent of the global crude oil proven reserves. As for natural gas, the proven recoverable reserves are estimated currently at 5.8 billion cubic meters or 4 percent of the world total. This means that the UAE possesses the third largest natural gas reserves in the region and the fourth largest in the world. At the current rate of utilization, and excluding any new discoveries, these reserves will last for over 150 years. The UA E ’s oil production is limited by quotas agreed within the framework of OPE C to 2 million barrels per day (mbd). Production capacity, however, will rise to around 3 mbd in the year 2000. There are plans to boost that level to 3.6 mbd in the year 2005 and 4 mbd in the year 2010."


I don't care that the UAE exports oil, they're just lucky that god forsaken desert is filled with black gold. But don't try and let the west get fucked again spending ridiculous amounts as tourists in a fake city, that would unethical.

The place just reminds me of Nazism. They do not allow any Jews. They build ridiculous buildings for the main purpose of outdoing the world, very similar to the ridiculous buildings Hitler had planned for the 3rd Reich. Like I said in the other thread, Dubai would be Hitler's dream vacation destination.

What the fuck even goes in those gaudy buildings? Office rooms? I can''t imagine they're receiving enough tourism already to fill them all with hotel rooms.

your not seeing the bigger picture man. obviously its not this one air conditioner that is the problem, but it is the entire concept of Dubai. Of trying to conquer the earths barriers by putting perfect golf courses in the desert, skiing in 40 degree climates and making man made islands. I just hate how the regular joe blow is so impressed with this when you can go elsewhere where things are natural and 10 times better.

You know, if you don't know what you're talking about; don't bother telling your discrimination.

I live in Dubai, I'm Canadian and I've been all around the world now.  If one thing's constant, it's that every country has organized crime/terror, racism [like the 'guy' in this thread.], 'human beings' and everything you can imagine.
Ski Dubai is a great place.  I'm big into skiing, and it's nice to be able to practice all year round.  Then, if you get tired of skiing on the indoor slope, you can walk out to the beach.  The place is for tourism, just like Cairo, Niagara Falls and so on... that point doesn't mean anything if you're trying to demoralize the place.  The structures here are holy, there are no taxes [a nice plus].  In fact, if you want to know another way to promote this place, show some pictures of where TGI Fridays is man lol, people will love that in relation to the slope.  Do you know how fun it is to have windows in TGI to the slope and watch the noobs fall :D  Then I must argue that some guys/girls [locals to] who go off the jumps are pro... to the point where they even scare me.  Still though, I live 2 minutes from the mall it's in and my school is 1 minute from the mall, that's freakin awesome.
Anyways, I want to go on, but I know some peeps here are just going to be negative.  I'm in an international school with Muslims and guess what, they don't have bombs.  Just stop with this generalization bullshit.  It's like me saying that a kid brought a gun to school in the USA and therefore no school in the US is safe, it's plain stupid.  I've had so many good experiences here with the locals helping me out and lending a hand like you'd come to expect in any country.

Btw, everywhere is meant to have skiing.  It's not a western thing, and now that it can be spread to the most unexpected places, hotdamn lol.