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In 90 days! Lol Asians...

http://m.gizmodo.com/5962070/china-will ... st-90-days
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will collapse within the week
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That is going to be very interesting. I am going to follow this quite closely to see if they can pull it off. I can only assume there will be an army of cheap labour working 24/7 for the 90 days.

Also it doesn't say if that’s just built or its built and habitable. Either way, it’s going to be interesting to see how it develops. Also 220,00 tonnes of steel – fark!
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manufacturing the prefabs should be considered part of the building process... so it won't be anywhere near 90 days ... that's cheating....just sayin.
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It will be full of morons living in it...

That 30 story building they built in 15 days is still going strong...
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Tsakali wrote:manufacturing the prefabs should be considered part of the building process... so it won't be anywhere near 90 days ... that's cheating....just sayin.
Like you can do better...pffft.
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Greeks: They build it, we bankrupt it.
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wow neat ey
it is about time!
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MKJ wrote:will collapse within the week
Doubtful. Understand that 99.999999% of all construction "issues", scheduling and delays are due to dishonest construction companies...a large percentage of them owned and run by organized crime. The reason the Chinese will build it so quickly is because the construction company won't be wasting time trying to figure out how to overcharge for materials and undercut build quality to save a few bucks. It's no coincidence that most structural collapses are due to sub-par construction.

I've said it many, many times: the reason why nuclear energy isn't really viable (when it bloody well should be) is because of dishonest construction companies cutting corners in every.single.thing.they.do...the fucking assholes. If they built the thing the way they were supposed to (and paid to) you'd never hear of the dangers facing nuclear energy production.

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GONNAFISTYA wrote:overcharge for materials and undercut build quality to save a few bucks.
I get your point and China does have the "benefit" of having no worker's unions and little in ways of safety regulations so workers can build structures at [cough]breakneck[/cough] speeds. However, saying that they don't overcharge and undercut is a mistake, China now has plenty of privatized construction companies who pull worse scams and take advantage of their lack of building standards and paid off inspectors.

Remember that earthquake in China a few years back where most of the city remained undamaged but a school collapsed and killed a bunch of kids? They later found that the construction company cheapened out and used concrete mixed with too much aggregate and not nearly enough rebar steel. So the whole building crumbled with a relatively mild earthquake.

This wouldn't have happened under [strike]Steve Jobs[/strike] Mao Zedong.
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I hear in China they take dishonest construction workers (usually those "Sargepa" types in charge of 20 underlings) and flog them in the street.
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I'm guessing this is going to be one of those empty shells with nothing in it but the guts and when someone wants to buy space they go in an build that space for them? Otherwise I can't see this being feasible.
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You're not one of those pricks who wants everyone's apartment in the building to have the same fitted kitchen are you? Kracus...
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Κracus wrote:I'm guessing this is going to be one of those empty shells with nothing in it but the guts and when someone wants to buy space they go in an build that space for them? Otherwise I can't see this being feasible.
You are always fucking wrong dude...
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GONNAFISTYA wrote:I hear in China they take dishonest construction workers (usually those "Sargepa" types in charge of 20 underlings) and flog them in the street.
It's the construction bosses who are dishonest, actually. And no, nothing happens to them. The police or privately hired thugs come and beat the shit out of the construction workers who are owned 1-2 years of wages. The boss runs away to another province with all his money, and the workers never get paid.
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scared? wrote:
Κracus wrote:I'm guessing this is going to be one of those empty shells with nothing in it but the guts and when someone wants to buy space they go in an build that space for them? Otherwise I can't see this being feasible.
You are always fucking wrong dude...
lol that should be the standard reply to everything he posts
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feedback wrote:
GONNAFISTYA wrote:I hear in China they take dishonest construction workers (usually those "Sargepa" types in charge of 20 underlings) and flog them in the street.
It's the construction bosses who are dishonest, actually. And no, nothing happens to them. The police or privately hired thugs come and beat the shit out of the construction workers who are owned 1-2 years of wages. The boss runs away to another province with all his money, and the workers never get paid.
So...."free market" business as usual?
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More like "economic growth at any cost, whether real or cooked" as usual. Allah willing the communist state will collapse and take half the population with it.
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anyone else notice that feedback has been making less and less sense as time goes by?

I'm worried about you brah.
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eeyy fuck that perfect sense all day everyday!
it is about time!
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bro!
it is about time!
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HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:anyone else notice that feedback has been making less and less sense as time goes by?

I'm worried about you brah.
He probably got hit in the head by a Palestinian bottle rocket.
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SAY NO TO ISREALI NAZIS RA RA RA
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China owns feedback...he's just jellus...
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