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Old 10-19-2010, 09:00 PM  
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Originally Posted by Redrob View Post
I was just in Shanghai last May for the opening of the World Expo. Just about every country in the world was there kow-towing to China. Shanghai is awesome and it changed my view of how we live here. They opened 5 subway lines on the same day and all worked flawlessly. We can't get a train to run part-time on existing tracks in Austin.
regardless of how fucked up they are, they are definitely on the path that the US was after world war 2...

the thing i have always admired about china is that they think in terms of thousands of years and the US cant seem to think past next week...





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