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PeterAlt

PeterAlt

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alissafalco said:
Just wait until you see his movie!
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You know, when I was a kid, I had this obsession with designing the "perfect" city. All my designs had concentric circles with monorails and people movers with a central environmentally-controlled center with a skyscraper in the middle. The similarities to Walt's EPCOT is uncanny. I didn't learn about Walt's EPCOT until I was 13. My thoughts then were, "Wow, he had the same idea!" So, yeah, that's kind of odd...
 
PeterAlt

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I have new ammunition for my argument that there will be or should be a rail link between EC and HS.

Read:

http://touch.orlandosentinel.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-78958800/

USO actually plans to raise prices on park hopper tickets. If they succeed in increasing revenue, Disney would have to do the same thing and build their own system between EC and HS. Or they can open a monorail station inside the gates of EC and have the line end within the gates of HS. This is only a 3/4 mile run, comparable to the length of HogswartsX.

Here's to hoping USO succeeds... Cheers!
 
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PeterAlt

PeterAlt

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My coffee just kicked in, so I'll elaborate some more in this empire subject. Simple answer. We are an empire, but we're not. Confused? You should be because it isn't organized like traditional empires are.

If you take the 50 states plus DC by itself, this is a true republic and not an empire. Add Puerto Rico as it is now as a commonwealth, and the begins of a very transparent empire start to emerge. As a commonwealth, Puerto Rico gets to keep its national identity, while loosing their sovereignty, gaining the rights and privileges of American citizens, but also they loose any right to vote or be represented on the national level. They are effectively and constitutionally a client state, something only empires have. If you believe that the US mustn't get into the business of empire building, then you should support just two options for Puerto Rico: full statehood or independence.

Puerto Rico is the only black and white example of true empire building. The rest of the US isn't so transparent. I'll get into that in my next message.
 
Goofyernmost

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PeterAlt said:
My coffee just kicked in, so I'll elaborate some more in this empire subject. Simple answer. We are an empire, but we're not. Confused? You should be because it isn't organized like traditional empires are.

If you take the 50 states plus DC by itself, this is a true republic and not an empire. Add Puerto Rico as it is now as a commonwealth, and the begins of a very transparent empire start to emerge. As a commonwealth, Puerto Rico gets to keep its national identity, while loosing their sovereignty, gaining the rights and privileges of American citizens, but also they loose any right to vote or be represented on the national level. They are effectively and constitutionally a client state, something only empires have. If you believe that the US mustn't get into the business of empire building, then you should support just two options for Puerto Rico: full statehood or independence.

Puerto Rico is the only black and white example of true empire building. The rest of the US isn't so transparent. I'll get into that in my next message.
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What about Guam?
 

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