From: buzzard554@fastmail.co.uk   
      
   On 12/2/2018 7:56 AM, Eric Stevens wrote:   
   > On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 07:45:56 +0000, Martin Edwards   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 12/1/2018 7:07 PM, Oh so rich & successful JTEM wrote:   
   >>>    SolomonW wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Indeed, many of the others are silly too. We could make better steel,   
   >>>> concrete, water irrigation systems, etc if we wanted to. These are   
   economic   
   >>>> issues not technical   
   >>>   
   >>> Labor wasn't so much an issue in ancient times.   
   >>> And there was little or no concern for the well   
   >>> being of the workers. OSHA wasn't going to come   
   >>> after you...   
   >>>   
   >>> Time wasn't as big of an issue. Things took longer.   
   >>> Even when I was a kid I remember going to school   
   >>> with someone from "The Old World," talking about how   
   >>> it took five years to build a house over there. And   
   >>> that was when I was a kid, not 2,000 years ago.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> In that case things have changed.  I live in Birmingham and houses are   
   >> thrown up in a few weeks here.   
   >   
   > How many months of planning/permissions before the builder is allowed   
   > to start?   
   >   
   It varies.  Some vacant lots stay like that for years.   
      
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