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Quick list of hotel rooms per city that I could find: Las Vegas: 151,000 Orlando: 111,000 New York: 80,000 Dubai: 62,000 (93,867 by 2016) Maybe because Americans usually just go on holiday in their own country instead of abroad? It's not so impressive if that's the case. The MGM hotel in Las Vegas has 5,000 rooms... Who would want to stay in it? How do they do breakfast? MGM swimming pool:

I'll get one as soon as downloadable GB/GBC games are confirmed.

QFT.. The Wii is the most successful console of this generation. I also think that Shigsy is getting less and less interested in making games. He has done Pikimin because he is into gardening and has turned the Wii Remote into a banjo because he loves his banjo.. What's next?

Yep, I had a Wii and sold it, because when I had it, there were no good games on the horizon and I found the controller really difficult to use. I didn't like aiming at the sensor bar instead of the screen and having to sit 2 metres away from my 20 inch TV in order to get the remote to work with the sensor bar. There are other things I didn't like about the remote and I really wondered whether it was just me or not and I don't think I'll ever find out if things have improved unless the Wii drops below £100 and comes with Motion Plus. I would be really disappointed if I bought another Wii to then find out that the new games coming out now still have dodgy controls... Argghh!!! It's too much money to make the risk and it really really sucks for me, because I'm a huge Nintendo fan and I'm having to skip a home console generation. I wouldnt mind the graphics if the console wouldn't cost so much. The Wii controller was originally being developed for the GameCube and I think we would be in a much better situation now if the Wii Remote was the actual controller for the Gamecube launch (yep, the idea wouldnt have been around then, but it would have been great if it was). If that was the case, hardcore gamers would have chosen 3rd party games on the GameCube format back when Nintendo actually had 3rd party support because the gaming experience would have been unique and by now, we would have a more refined controller and a GameCube repacement with decent specs. The GameCube would have had the Xbox market all wrapped up.

Playing the Wii is like making love to an..... incredibly ugly, facially disfigured woman. What's next for the Wii? A replacement that has graphics that don't make you feel like being sick all over your lap. Any of my favourites like F-Zero are simply wasted on the Wii, because the hardware is obsolete and the Wii Remote doesn't work. - Get the Wii remote to actually work - Upgrade the console to 4 year old technology - Pay developers as much as it takes to replace their gamez with games - Develop an in house 1080p 130fps (Sony style) F-Zero with lasers and 50 player online deathmatches.

13- What is the most slippery substance in the world? Answer: A banana skin

Do their souls get beamed up to the mothership, like in Battlestar Galactica?

It's amazing how people's weights can vary so much even if they are the same height. I am 6ft 2 and weigh 88KG (13.9 stone?) the last time I weighed myself a year ago. I am pretty slim and my body can't get any fat at all.. If I eat too much over a few days, I just get a fat belly which looks really ridiculous. It takes me a couple of days to get rid of. I do a 15 minute run each morning and usually do 50 push ups in one go and however many crunches I can do just before bed. If I do start getting pregnant, I just starve myself until it goes.

and you can't be a martial arts master without the ability to fly... People would simply laugh at us if we couldn't master that. For that, I suppose we need to find a Taoist immortal to teach us The Way. I'm not aware of any around the Basingstoke area.

I'd really like to take up martial arts this year, although I have no idea where to start. I'm very bad at punching people, so I'd like to improve on that and blocking other people's punches. I'd like to learn lots of neat throws and also how to fight with a cudgel and other weapons, like an axe.

hehe, that's me! I think plain rice on its own can be really delicious.

I've never had a "Chinese" take away before and doubt it's even proper Chinese food anyway. I've gone to Chinese restaurants and usually have a set meal, but I can never remember what I've had. I like those Chinese soups that are just water based. I remember having one with a (dead) baby cuttlefish floating around in it. I do like you tiao. Dan chao fan is always nice. I went to one Chinese restaurant in KL and they had lots of fish tanks with fish in them at the front of the restaurant waiting to be killed. Awful... I'm a vegatarian and like fish.

Went to order my foreign currency today and had to order more than I could afford for this month. I'm losing £350 with the current exchange rate... Could have bought a new bike with that. It will only get worse so Im not going to risk ordering it any later. Im buying USD travellers cheques, so if the USD gets weaker than it currently is, I'm going to be furious. Has anybody noticed the constant increases in prices on Yes Asia? The actual USD price is going up on the products Im after. The price for one TV series was $79.99 when I ordered it a couple of weeks ago and now it's $98.99.. I ordered another DVD boxset a couple of months ago and it was $58.99 and its gone up to $67. It's much cheaper to buy Western TV series boxsets now, when you used to be able to get a boxset from Yes Asia for around £20.

What's in Pikachu's vagina? Pokeballs?

lol, Canand, dont reply to this post.

I'd first like to apologise about my previous posts. I got the name of 2-3 things slightly wrong because of it being late and having a cold. Yeah, I knew this, but thanks for posting it here for others to see. Note my enthusiasm for the further development of the European Parliament. Oh yes, the executive being the legislative = bad idea. You seem to be fine about relegating the British population's power over its own country to that of a single MP in the House of Commons... The UK is a country and it has its own issues and problems that aren't shared by other EU countries. A 60,000 strong constituency of British people in Britain isn't that dissimilar from Britain as a whole as Britain is from other European countries. We are talking about totally different languages, cultures and history instead of different local football teams and shopping centres. You have a problem with First Past the Post and so do I. Although Majoritarian electoral systems have their advantages, proportional electoral systems will at least make your vote worth something amongst a Conservative majority. Labour and the Conservatives don't want this as the current system suits them very well. There is direct democracy and representative democracy. The EU is less representative and more indirect than what we have in the UK even though we don't have direct democracy. If all countries in the world united, we would only have a 1% say about how our country should be run. British MPs are accountable to British citizens/subjects. China actually has the 2nd largest level of defence spending in the world. The official figure of spending is not correct and its believed to be something like twice as much as officially stated. The Eurofighter is not the best fighter in the world. The American F-22 is close to invincible unless you want to go into passive IR tracking and not much is known about that in public and I'm not that sure about matching that technology with our missiles. The French Mica is better suited for opposing radar stealth. Countries will pick the F-35 over the Eurofighter despite the delays, because the F-35 is LO and everything about it is a generation ahead of the Eurofighter, despite its A2A capability that is thought to be lacking. The French produced the Rafale on their own and not much if thought to separate it and the Eurofighter. The Rafale is far better at A2G and can be operated from aircraft carriers. You should google "EAP" and look at the Eurofighter's origins. Britain could have produced a fighter as good as the Eurofighter on its own in far less time and for far less money. The Germans made a mockery of the programme and we had to give work share to countries who were nowhere near as good as us when it came to radar, engines and other avionics. German politicians were responsible for most of the delays and increases in price and now us Brits are doing the same thing by begging the other partner nations to cancel our order for Tranche 3 (88 aircraft) without being hit by a big fine. Saudi Arabia's first delivery of fighters will be ones meant for the RAF and Austria did everything it could to cancel its order for Eurofighters, but was contractually obliged to take delivery of the ones they ordered, only managing to cut 18 to 15. EADS is a consortium between 3 different European countries. Combined, they have a expenditure greater than Britain's (in fact, Wikipedia says that French military spending on its own is slightly higher than the UK's, but I don't like Wikipeida and don't want to babelfish France's official websites). The majority of BAE's trade is outside of the UK and I believe that they get most of their sales from the US. Airbus was believed to be a great European success story, but the company is in ruins despite government funding and subsidies and they've had to drastically scale back their operations at the defeat of Boeing. Newspapers are for people who need others to tell them how to think. I'd never waste my time reading any newspaper. The CAP pays farmers to produce food, whether its needed or not and that is a waste of economic resources, especially when that food is being sold at a loss to other countries that actually produce cheaper food. Nobody will listen unless you carry a big stick. I don't speak Latin. I also don't believe in religion, but that's beside the point.

I am very proud of my life and I know more than enough about political ideologies than to label either myself or others. With representive democracy, MPs are accountable to the British population. With legislation passed amongst the Council of Ministers, foreign leaders are not accountable to the British population and we have no power whatsoever to remove them from power. To say such laws are as democratic as those passed by MPs in the House of Commons is wrong because we don't have the right to vote in other EU elections. Laws can be passed with simple 50% majorities or 70% majorities with or without our country's presidential PM agreeing to them. We don't have an EU army simply because 27 different countries unanimously agreeing with eachother over important issues is quite unlikely. Shared European projects like the Eurofighter, Project Horizon and the Airbus A400M have proven to be collosal wastes of time and money. Speaking of Airbus, the poop has really hit the fan there.. Look at how BAE systems is far more successful than the European consortium EADS. Effective at wasting huge amounts of resources on food that didn't need to be made so we could flood Africa with cheap food (at a loss to ourselves) and aid in destroying their economies and livelihoods? Not bad if you're a French farmer. How? We are already a trade organisation and have been for decades. That's what they say about people who resort to personal insults.

That's interesting considering the fact that the UK isn't a nation state. Not the pound? Ok, deal! I''ll add to this post in a bit.

Happy Christmas (for those that don't have to spend it with complete strangers and your sister's husband's nutcase family from hell. )

It will be interesting in the future when the US and the English language are no longer as important as they once were. I bet it will push us Brits to take foreign languages a lot more seriously. Well, at the end of the day, it is our country. We haven't give it all up to foreigners just yet. With the state of the EU now, things are already a bit messy with EU legislation. We have lost a lot of our power to set our own laws and with the Euro, we will lose even more power when it comes to managing our own country. Do you want a United States of Europe? I don't think Britain needs that yet. I don't think that the EU will be all that effective on the international stage. I used to be pro EU and pro Euro, but I am just not sure these days... I don't think that the structure of the EU is as good as it could be, but I don't have any easy answers for how to improve it. Perhaps strengthening the European Parliament and unifying the type of electoral system in place with every European country would be a good start. I personally dont like First Past the Post and I HATE party whips... IMHO, the UK's political system is not that compatable with the EU.

Umm... GDP growth rate amongst the big 4 since the adoption of the Euro: 2002 UK: 1.6% France: 1% Germany: 0.4% Italy: 0.4% 2003: UK: 2.1% Italy: 0.5% France: 0.1% Germany: -0.1% 2004: UK: 3.2% France: 2.1% Germany: 1.7% Italy: 1.3% 2005: UK: 1.8% France: 1.4% Germany: 0.9% Italy: 0.1% 2006: UK: 2.7% Germany: 2.2% France: 2.0% Italy: 1.6% 2007 UK: 3.1% Germany: 2.5% France: 2.1% Italy: 1.6%

Sorry, but I think its quite clear that it's the other way round here. There is no sense in joining the Euro and people who want to join the Euro bandwagon have nothing to support their arguements. I used to be pro Euro, but I'm not anymore because joining the Euro will simply breed inefficiency with the running of our economy. When things start to go wrong, you're going to want as much power as possible to try and manage things and I can't see how losing the right to manage our own currency is going to help us. Inflation is on its way down and I'm sure that they are just trying to free up credit. If you want a strong pound, you simiply raise interest rates. The Bank of England has lowered interest rates because they think that's best for our current situation. I think they know what they are doing (ok, they are probably crapping themselves). If the UK can't control its own interest rate, it will have very little power over its own economy. Britain has been doing better than the EU over recent years anyway. We're only suffering a recession now because of the GLOBAL economic downturn that has hit us. Just because foreign products are more expensive AT THE MOMENT, I'm not going to cry like a baby.

How is a strong pound that good? At the end of the day, a country needs to export more than it imports or at least have a balance of trade. With a strong pound, imports are cheap, so our country will just get into more and more debt as time goes by... Once we are at a stage where we are unable to pay off our national debt because we've all been spending our money on foreign products, the country will collapse. I dont think we've had a trade surplus for...10 years? A lot of people here are saying that British people don't want to adopt the Euro because of national pride... Thats very ironic considering the fact that the Euro has no point to it other than European pride. European countries don't have the status in the world that they used to have in the past and all have to huddle together. Perhaps Britain's time for that hasn't happened just yet. We are still an important country in the world, unlike most European countries.

If we lose the pound, we lose the ability to set our own interest rates and would depend on the EU to control our monitary policy. Interest rates are low at the moment for a reason and a weak pound will only do good in the long run with cheaper exports. If we lose the ability to look after our own economy during times like this, we could be screwed. I'm going to Malaysia in February and it sucks because Im not going to be able to get as many RM and USD that I was hoping for. I'll have to get by on 5000RM compared to the 7000RM that I would have got a year ago. No 5 star hotels for me... ok, just the 1 or 2.: peace: