Re: [tlug] [OT] What's up with online Japanese<->Japanese dictionaries?

[Jim Grisanzio <jimgris@example.com>]

On 06/16/2010 06:54 PM, Martin Killmann wrote:
> Compare that to building codes in the US or in Germany. Home owners
> there might curse if they have (e.g.) to make their roof red and only
> red, but if you look at Japan you understand what it's good for.
>    

Well, it depends where in the US you are talking about. It's a big 
country and the rules are not evenly applied based on state and class. I 
used to build houses in New York, and one time I built a house that 
broke an offset spec by 1 inch. So, the house ended up encroaching 1 
inch into a required 100 foot offset (and it mattered greatly how you 
held the tape measure, too). The survey was correct, but the concrete 
contractor made a mistake placing the footing. Now, in the end no one 
can spot a 1 inch mistake within a 100 foot offset with the naked eye, 
of course, yet the response from the planning board upon final 
inspection after the house was completed was simple: move the house. 
That's one extreme. And at the other end I built houses in areas where 
there were very few planning rules at all, and of course it was obvious 
to everyone in the business so-called rules were obliterated for 
political purposes (this was New York, after all). :)

Jim