Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.
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Aside from the plentiful and excessive corruption. There’s a shitload of inane bureaucracy and licensing that needs to be done which can take months if not years depending on the scale. And any delay to the project such as a redesign necessitates more reports and fresh licensing. Not to mention bloat among project managers. You can’t run a project or operation by committee. Yet the Government runs off the assumption you can when setting this shit up.
The Construction/Trade Unions take their pound of flesh as well. And the Unions criminal connections also take a piece of the pie.
Then there’s a segment of NGOs and Activists whose sole purpose for existence is to frustrate, delay, and kill infrastructure projects in the courts with retarded legal challenges.
And then there’s the crime and problems of the societal underclass that steal anything and everything. Even if you nail it down. So both Security for the construction sites and the costs of materials and tools getting stolen gets factored in as well.