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China's corruption is almost all a byproduct of rapid growth. Italy's lacks that growth right now so their corruption is coming from somewhere else, perhaps intrinsic.
Did you just say that Italians are intrinsically corrupt people? I hope that's not what that meant.
This is just par for the course in China. It is all about money laundering and not real mismanagement, the reasons are all "unclear" because these buildings are not built to be actually used...lots of corners are cuts and pockets are padded. So having an excuse not to open works out, and places the inevitable outrage into the next or next next administration.
If this is true, then they need to learn about software - doing a fake project to build a new government website is a much easier laundering effort. And foreign hackers are always there to be blamed for the system not working!
Reminds me of the Prora, a weird Nazi hotel compound on the Baltic Sea that was never finished: http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/01/the-10000-bedroom-nazi-...
Reminds me of the Prora, a weird Nazi hotel compound on the Baltic Sea that was never finished: http://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/01/the-10000-bedroom-nazi-...
> "Strength through Joy" ("Kraft durch Freude," KdF) Interesting that kraft is analogous to both strength and skill in German. Similarly in old Norse it's both strength and virtue. In English craft is defined as skill, i.e. in making things, yet Northwestern European languages place an emphasis on strength. I wonder if it's because as the language developed it was a time when making things required more strength than…
What's astounding is that the regional government can fund something to the tune of millions of dollars, then red tape it to death. Almost makes me wonder if the project failed due to the vicissitudes of political climate. Those sorts of politics happen in companies too, which makes me wonder if there are similar "almost done, could be great, but never quite finished" pieces of software.
The only red tape issue i see is the one were they forgot to ask for the funds. The drainage thing reminds me of a recent story about an airport in Germany (iirc), or for that matter how many highrises in Dubai are without a sewage connection, so each day 100s of tanker trucks transport sewage to a dump.
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/09/12/germanys-star-building-pr...
http://istderberschonfertig.de/
Machine translation works quite well with the last link.
This is just par for the course in China. It is all about money laundering and not real mismanagement, the reasons are all "unclear" because these buildings are not built to be actually used...lots of corners are cuts and pockets are padded. So having an excuse not to open works out, and places the inevitable outrage into the next or next next administration.
>It is all about money laundering If this is true, then they need to learn about software - doing a fake project to build a new government website is a much easier laundering effort. And foreign hackers are always there to be blamed for the system not working!